webnovelfull Chapter 767: Borrowing a Debt
Chapter 767: Borrowing a Debt
He decided to go down and take a look. When he walked under the locust tree, he was horrified to find that a small purple hand stretched out from the roots of the tree!
The little hand tightly grasped a dice covered in dirt.
Three months later, Jinding Entertainment City celebrated its anniversary.
The entertainment city was decorated with lights and crowded with guests. Chen Yile was also invited to participate in this grand event.
There was a new dealer in the casino. She had a string of silver bells tied around her wrist, and every time she shook the dice cup, the bells would make a crisp sound.
At this moment, the dice cup suddenly opened automatically, and all the gamblers were stunned.
The dice rolled on the table a few times and then stopped. The three dice were neatly arranged together, all showing sixes.
The entire casino fell into silence, and suddenly, all the lights flickered at the same time.
In the surveillance video, people saw two overlapping shadows, one large and one small, passing through the center of the casino.
Chen Yile stood at the door of Master Zhang's house, holding the hot dice tightly in his hand.
He knew he had to find someone who could break the curse, otherwise everything would be irreversible.
Master Zhang is a highly respected Yin-Yang master, and his reputation is known to everyone in Yunyang City.
Chen Yile explained his purpose, and Master Zhang nodded. "This is an ancient curse that requires a special ritual to resolve."
The next morning, Master Zhang brought Chen Yile to the abandoned church.
The church was filled with an eerie atmosphere. The moonlight shone through the broken stained glass windows onto the ground, casting mottled light and shadows on the ground.
Master Zhang took out a copper bell and began to chant the mantra.
Suddenly, the copper bell exploded into countless bone fragments, which flew in the air and made a sharp sound.
Chen Yile was horrified to find that the bone fragments actually formed a strange symbol.
Master Zhang's face turned pale. "Oh no! The curse is too strong."
Before he could finish his words, Master Zhang suddenly fell to the ground and died.
His palm was tightly grasping an umbilical cord soaked in amniotic fluid. On the wall behind him, the words "one life for one life" were written in blood.
Master Zhang’s death plunged Chen Yile into deep fear. He knew he had to find a solution as soon as possible, otherwise he might be the next to die.
That night, Chen Yile came to Jinding Entertainment City again.
The entertainment city was still bustling with people, but there was a strange atmosphere in the air.
Suddenly, the dice rolled out of the dice cup automatically and formed a strange pattern on the gambling table.
A sticky liquid began to drip from the ceiling. It was amniotic fluid. The air was filled with a fishy smell that made people feel nauseous.
What shocked Chen Yile even more was that a blue baby handprint appeared on the wrists of all the guests present!
Those handprints seemed like living things, slowly wriggling on the skin.
After Chen Yile returned home, he found the ancient book "Yinminglu" left by the old man.
On one of the pages, he found a record about borrowing a Yin debt.
"Borrowing Yin Debt is one of the most ancient forms of sorcery. The caster must harness the power of a pregnant woman and her fetus, binding their spirits together through a ritual. Once the ritual is complete, the caster gains immense power, but the price also comes at a terrifying cost."
He decided to follow the clues in the book to find the spellcaster's hiding place.
The next morning, Chen Yile came to a barren mountain on the outskirts of the city.
The mountain was overgrown with weeds and looked gloomy. He followed the instructions in ancient books and found a wild grave under an old locust tree.
A rusty iron chain was wrapped around the grave, and at the other end of the chain was tied a black dog that had died many years ago.
Chen Yile's heart beat faster. This was Zhou Wenyuan's secret!
He carefully dug up the grave, and a foul smell hit him in the face.
There was a female corpse lying in the coffin. It was his wife who died in the fire when she was eight months pregnant!
The corpse held a charred swaddling cloth in its arms, and three dice were embedded in her spine! The coffin lid was engraved with talismans representing debts owed to the underworld.
At this moment, Zhou Wenyuan suddenly appeared in the cemetery.
Zhou Wenyuan, who was trapped in the sea of fire at that time, did not die!
He had a strange smile on his face: "You finally found it."
Chen Yile's heart was in his throat: "What on earth did you do?"
Zhou Wenyuan didn't answer, but laughed wildly: "I still have three more bets to go."
He rushed forward and tried to snatch back the bones in the coffin, but Chen Yile held on to the coffin tightly and the two men wrestled with each other.
"Let her go!" Zhou Wenyuan's voice was hoarse and low.
Chen Yile knew he couldn't let Zhou Wenyuan succeed. He pushed Zhou Wenyuan away and rushed to the woods outside the cemetery. Zhou Wenyuan chased him frantically.
When Chen Yile escaped from the woods, it had already started raining.
The rain flowed down his cheeks, mixed with sweat and tears, and he knew that this curse was far from over.
He looked back and saw Zhou Wenyuan standing in the rain, holding the charred swaddling clothes in his arms. His voice sounded particularly desolate in the wind and rain: "Let me stay with her."
Chen Yile knew that he had to find a way to lift the curse as soon as possible.
But at the same time, he also felt an unprecedented fear, because he realized that in this strange game, he might just be a pawn...
the next day.
The lights in the casino were dim and hazy, red curtains hung low under the crystal chandeliers, and the air was filled with the smell of cigar smoke.
Chen Yile's fingers trembled slightly. He could feel a subtle sound coming from the dice cup. It was not the sound of the dice colliding, but the rhythm of some kind of life beating.
"The last hour." Zhou Wenyuan's voice seemed to come from hell, and his shadow was stretched very long, swaying on the ground.
He and Chen Yile were the only two people left in the casino; everyone else had been kicked out.
Chen Yile knew that this was a life-or-death moment, and Zhou Wenyuan wanted to use his relatives and friends as bargaining chips.
The sound in the dice cup became clearer and clearer, like the heartbeat of a newborn baby.
Cold sweat broke out on Chen Yile's forehead. He could feel a certain ominous aura in the sound of this heartbeat.
Suddenly, a tiny crack appeared on the surface of the dice cup, like an open eye.
With a "crack", the dice cracked completely.
A sticky black liquid oozed out and condensed into a translucent figure in the air. It was a baby!
The baby's whole body was shining, as if it was made of moonlight, but its eyes were full of resentment.
"Daddy." The baby's voice seemed to come from far away, but it was so clear that it made people feel creepy.
It stretched out its small arms and drilled straight into Zhou Wenyuan's body.
Zhou Wenyuan's expression twisted. He opened his mouth to say something, but suddenly let out a scream.
The ground of the casino began to shake, and a black liquid gushed out from the ground like a fountain.
Chen Yile saw countless babies' arms stretching out from a pool of blood and waving in the air.