Chapter 2422
Chapter 2422 Scarlet Eye
Night Wind’s face was tight and worried, and he had also brought a video back with him .
When that video was played, Han Sen understood Night Wind’s expression .
The beginning of the video showed a stone path, which must have been the road that had been dug up .
Han Sen didn’t know how they chose where to start digging, but it clearly wasn’t a random decision . They had somehow figured out exactly where to start digging .
The Hell had controlled large-scale dig sites . When Miss Mirror and her people arrived, they quickly reduced the scale of the operations . Now excavation was being conducted in three locations, and the one in the middle had to have been where they began .
As the video went on, it revealed many complicated stone paths that branched off until the stone road opened up to reveal a large room . There, Han Sen found himself looking at the statue Miss Mirror had mentioned .
It was ten meters tall . It wasn’t very big when compared to some of the statues Han Sen had seen before, but it was pitch-black, and it had the same texture as the rocks around it .
The statue featured a man sitting with his legs crossed . His arms were crossed, as well, making an X shape . The eyes of the man were just as Miss Mirror had described . There were two pupils in each, and they were red .
Behind the statue were many arms and hands . They formed together to create the large shape of a torch . Every hand also featured a red eye with two pupils .
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Looking at the statue was disconcerting . It was like there was an endless tide of weird eyes were staring out of the screen . Han Sen was only looking at them through the video, but even so, he got goosebumps . A chill passed over Miss Mirror and Night Wind as well .
The video didn’t hang around the statue for long . It moved forward, revealing something that was even more surprising .
Beyond the statue, the stone path vanished into a cave . It was a rough hole that looked like it had been dug by bare hand or claws .
The walls of the stone tunnel were smeared here and there with blood . Claws and talons were carved into the surface of the tunnel . As the video progressed, more and more blood was revealed .
The blood slowly took over every surface, turning the black cave red . The sight made Han Sen’s stomach crawl .
“That cave couldn’t have been dug by hand, right?” Han Sen couldn’t help but ask .
Although the Extreme King didn’t give much respect to the workers, they only hired people who were at least Marquises . Those people were considered strong within their own races . Their weapons might not have been legendary treasures, but they should have been decent . Even if they didn’t bring their own tools, the Extreme King would have provided them with xenogeneic treasures . They wouldn’t have had to use their hands to dig that tunnel .
But based on the marks and scratches left behind, the tunnel was obviously the work of claws and hands . It hadn’t been dug out with tools .
Miss Mirror and Night Wind looked at the video with perplexed stares . They didn’t answer Han Sen’s question .
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Han Sen knew it was true even without their confirmation, though . He looked at the video for a bit longer, and he soon saw a dead Marquise with the head of a cow . Instead of hands, there was only a twisted mass of gore at the end of the man’s arms . Bits of bone protruded through the scraped flesh .
Seeing this scene, Han Sen couldn’t stop his imagination from replaying what had happened . The cow-headed man had dug frantically with his hands, injuring its fingers on the hard stone . And yet, it didn’t stop . It kept on digging and digging with frenzied energy . Eventually, the man’s hands had been ground to nubs . He had bled out and died .
The video didn’t stop there, and the gristly sight replayed itself over and over . Han Sen saw more and more dead bodies scattered throughout the cave .
They were all in the same position . They leaned forward, pressing their destroyed hands against the walls . Some had shredded their palms, whereas others were missing entire arms .
Despite having died, they still maintained their digging positions . Their faces looked very passionate as if they were excited about what they were doing, but amidst that passion, there was also the presence of fear . It was a terror that lay deep in their bones .
Han Sen couldn’t explain all the emotions he saw etched across those dead faces, but his stomach clenched and a cold sweat beaded across his back .
The eyes of the dead workers were all open, exposing their dual red pupils .
The stone path was no longer really a path . It was like a long grave dug out with blood . So many Dukes and Marquises had died up and down that stone path . And the further the path went, the worse the sights were .
At the end of the video was a stone door . Just as Night Wind said, the double door looked like the entrance to a city . Both sides of the door were crimson, like they’d been made of solidified blood . There were also many semi-circular marks across the door—scrapes left behind by fingernails .
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The door was ten meters high, and because they had dug right up to the surface of the door, only rock surrounded the doorframe . It was impossible to see what was beyond those doors .
But what lay before the door gave Han Sen chills .
Many of the workers were stretched out before the door like people trying to escape from the demons of hell . Their dead arms were extended painfully in front of them, trying to reach some non-existent salvation . Their nails were broken and their bones were chipped . The blood on their hands had dyed the door, but none of them had been able to open the door .
The workers had lasted so long, but they had all died before this door . Blood pooled around the bodies before the evil door . The door stood solid and unmoving, like the entrance to hell itself .
Night Wind’s face looked terrible . “They are all dead . No one is left alive, and they had all gone insane by the end . They just kept digging and digging . Those rocks are hard, and they are incredibly difficult to dig, even with tools . When they used their fingers to dig, they began bleeding quite quickly . But when the blood touched the stone, it was almost as if the stone softened . They could dig it up, but it still hurt them . They kept digging until they bled out . ”
Night Wind’s voice trembled, even though he was a deified that had witnessed many life and death scenarios . What he had seen would give even him nightmares .
“This place is cursed . ” Han Sen felt sick . He had the urge to just grab Bao’er and flee .
Although they had the red bird with them, there was something that was simply wrong about this place . Even Miss Mirror, who was a strong deified, had been affected . There was every chance the red bird might not escape whatever power was doing these horrible things .
“Run! We must run! We cannot stay in this horrible place any longer,” Han Sen decided . He was going to leave this place, no matter what . He would leave, even if Miss Mirror sought to stop him .
“Your eyes!” Miss Mirror suddenly whispered in dread, looking at Han Sen’s eyes . Fear filled her face .
“What happened to my eyes?” Han Sen’s heart jumped . He knew this was bad .
With no hesitation, Han Sen waved his hand to cast a water mirror so he could look at himself .
At that moment, Han Sen felt like fear had sunk deep into his bones . His black eyes had turned red, and furthermore, a fissure was running down the center of each pupil . The circular pupils became gourd-shaped, and they were slowly splitting in half .
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