novelonline Chapter 3402: The Road of the Dead
Chapter 3402: The Road of the Dead
Chapter 3402: The Road of the Dead
After Shad finished speaking, he took out Luvia's skirt and Carina's handkerchief and placed them in the groove on the word "living people".
"It's a very unique anchor point. I really appreciate the fact that I have to go home because of my emotional ties."
Miss Violet said this, and the sixteen-year-old girl took out a key:
"This is the key to my castle. There are still many people waiting for my salary. Speaking of which, it's summer now, and it seems that this year's summer subsidy has not been paid yet."
Teresa took out her unfinished investigation report. She was a very serious and responsible girl. Sister Belen first took out the piece of debris from the eye mask, but after hesitating for a moment, she replaced it with sparks.
Miss Liad took out her wallet, pulled out the banknotes, and put the wallet, the coins, and the photo of herself and her sister down. But after a moment's hesitation, she stuffed the banknotes back in and put the wallet down.
"what about you?"
Shade asked the mother and daughter hounds, and Miss Liad picked them up.
The older hound had already thought it through:
"Leave part of my body behind. My daughter died in the womb, and I want to return to the real world and watch our bodies be buried together. That's enough."
Of course, since Shade brought Mia with him, he would not forget the cat's "beacon". Shade thought that the cat cared about him the most, but he was also dying and could not act as a beacon.
Besides herself, Mia's favorite things include her home, Miss Gold, goat's milk every morning, and the warm sunshine in the afternoon.
Goat milk still didn’t seem important enough, and the sun was hard to catch, so Shad brought a key to his house—this was similar to Miss Violet’s idea, and this key could also serve as his beacon:
"Mia, here are the keys to the house, let's go home."
Patting the cat with its little head sticking out of its chest, Xia De put the key in. Nothing happened at this time, but it was not the first time Xia De had experienced such a scene, so he naturally knew what to do.
"Everyone, be prepared."
He cleared his throat and looked at the four people around him one by one. After getting everyone's confirmation, he read out the words on the stone platform in a clear voice:
"Praise be to the Lord of the End of All Things, the Recorder of Death, the Protector of the Dead."
The ancient runes on the stone platform lit up one by one as he read. Because Shade was reciting from top to bottom line by line in order, the light from the "holy emblem" stone groove at the top also spread to the stone grooves on the left and right sides below at the same speed as the runes lit up.
When all the runes on the stone platform lit up, the three stone troughs were also connected by light. The triangular light floated above the light of the runes, and then all the runes began to flow on the stone platform.
They were reassembled and reassembled, and most of the runes floated to the periphery of the triangular light, forming decorative patterns around the three rays of light. A few runes, however, formed short paragraphs in the common language of the Fifth Era within the triangle of light:
【Don't look back——
The shadow over there is watching your soul. 】
【Don't respond——
What you hear with your ears is not human speech. 】
【Only moving forward——
The heart is like a rock, the steps are like a vow, and they cannot be deviated. 】
Everyone stared at the glowing letters, trying to imprint them firmly in their hearts. But soon, wind blew from the front of the holy emblem, sweeping up the black mist and dispersing the light on the surface of the stone platform. Then the letters turned into glowing sand and rolled backwards, and then the entire stone platform turned into dust in the cold wind.
The five people raised their arms to block the strong wind and looked forward. The surroundings were no longer the temple in the wilderness. The empty darkness was endless. Apart from their souls glowing, there was nothing here.
A strong wind was blowing in from the front, sweeping up the black fog. The direction from which the strong wind was coming, the direction they were looking at at the moment, was the direction leading back to the world of the living.
"Don't look back, ignore the voice calling you, keep going straight ahead and don't go astray!"
Miss Violet's loud cry seemed to come from a very far place, but she was clearly beside Shade at the moment. This road from the world of the dead back to the world of the living had too many secrets, and what they had to do now was not to explore the unknown, but to move forward.
There were already problems with the propagation of sound, and then even the movement of waving his hands left large afterimages, making the movement look extremely strange.
But at least five people started moving. Miss Liad held the two hounds tightly, and the triple weight of their souls made her move the slowest. So the bigger hounds jumped to the ground with their children in their mouths, and the two hounds also moved forward with the power of their own souls.
When Xia De moved, he felt his body was heavy as if he was carrying a huge stone. He wanted to help his companions, but when he walked forward against the wind, he felt that they were right in front of him, but so far away that he could never reach them.
So all he could do was slow down and walk at the end so that he could see everyone.
Theresa and the beagle were the fastest, followed by the big hound and Sister Belen, and then Miss Violet and Miss Liad were moving at almost the same speed.
"So how is the movement speed here calculated?"
He thought about it in his mind, but he didn't expect to get an answer.
[Sins, the sins that I already have, plus the sins of robbing graves in the wilderness.]
[You were right not to dig up the grave at random at the end, otherwise the heavy sin would make it difficult for everyone to move at this moment. ]
"Her" voice is still gentle.
So it makes sense that the very young hound and Theresa are the fastest, the big hound and the nun are in the middle, and the tomb-robber Miss Liad and the witch queen Miss Violet are at the end.
In fact, Xia De could have walked faster. Although he had obtained a total of eight Sin Spirit Runes, perhaps because he had been in this world for too short a time, his sins were far less than those of the witches.
Theresa, who was walking in the front, didn't dare to look back, but she didn't want to walk too fast and fall behind the others, so she would slow down from time to time, and only speed up again when other people appeared at the edge of her field of vision.
Therefore, the group was divided into three columns and moved forward against the wind. After gradually adapting to the environment of this dark road, the urge to turn around and see what was behind them suddenly emerged, and then it made Xia De feel itchy like Mia tickling his heart.
His imagination was helping him to depict the "wonderful" or "horrible" scenes that might exist behind him, but fortunately the stranger had relatively strong self-control.
But he didn't hear anyone calling his name behind him. After all, the people he cared about were still alive or were walking forward. Even Detective Sparrow was unlikely to call him in death - Detective Sparrow didn't want to see Shade again.
But the calling from behind had an effect on others. Except for the beagle born from death, everyone else more or less heard the familiar calling.
The witches with stronger willpower, such as Miss Violet and Sister Belen, only paused for a moment before continuing forward. Even if they heard Shade asking for help from behind, they would never turn back. The demigod witch and the fire-wielding nun were not made by sheer luck.
The hound heard the call of its long-dead master, but it whimpered a few times and continued to move forward. Its daughter was still waiting for it in front; Theresa heard the voice of her best friend who drowned in her childhood, the voices of her teacher and Shad, the voice of the pet cat that died more than ten years ago, and even the voice of her mother who passed away two years ago.
She stopped for a moment. She was walking in the front, so everyone behind her could see her. Violet wanted to go to her and push her forward, but she and Shade immediately realized that the person in front of her seemed far away.
But what is worse is Miss Liad. She was born in a humble family and has seen more deaths. Many people who are hard to let go have passed away in front of her. Her parents, her sister who died of the plague, and her teacher who died of the curse.
Everyone at this moment made a sound to make her look back. Those sounds were inaudible to others, but to Miss Liad it was like arms that had materialized and appeared in the darkness behind her, grabbing her arms, shoulders and feet, making her stand still and unable to move.
The tears fell little by little, but were blown away by the strong wind that swept the black fog. Of course, Xia De noticed her current situation. He wanted to remind her but his voice could not reach her. He wanted to get close to her but he could not touch her.
The road from the world of the dead to the world of the living can only be walked by oneself. Death is a lonely road that one has to walk alone, and the same rules apply to traveling in the opposite direction on this road.
Xia De could help them with many things, but this time it was up to them to figure it out. The only thing he could do was to raise his arms to block the wind in front of him when he reached the same level as Miss Liad, and turned his head to look at her with concern.
The young former tomb robber also noticed that Xia De had stopped. She looked at Xia De with tears in her eyes. After noticing that Xia De's body with afterimage kept saying the word "sister" with his mouth, she wiped her tears:
"There are still people waiting for me ahead. Goodbye, everyone. I will come back. Maybe in decades or hundreds of years, I will walk this road again one day."
She whispered a farewell in her heart, and then bravely continued to move forward.
As for Theresa, who was at the front, she soon moved forward again. The young witches all had different feelings about this road. Everyone would walk on the road of the dead, but few could go against it.
Some people think it is difficult to go on, because there are too many things to be reluctant to leave in the world of the living. But in fact, it is not easy to go on, and taking a step requires not only courage, but also attachment.