Chapter 67

A person who has probably been submerged here for over a hundred years can surprisingly still give you eye signals and mouth shape reminders.

At this moment, his action brought a shock that even surpassed the one sitting on the bed.

Not only Li Zhuiyuan, but everyone was constantly looking back and forth between the big door and the big bed, naturally all saw that person’s guidance.

Only Runsheng always listened to Li Zhuiyuan’s words, and Tan Wenbin only actively performed when trying to liven the atmosphere, never interjecting during decision-making.

Only Xue Liangliang reached out to grab Li Zhuiyuan’s arm, gently adding a little force towards the bed direction:

“Xiao Yuan, make a decision ba.”

Xue Liangliang secretly conveyed his attitude; he wanted to go towards the bed.

This was also Li Zhuiyuan’s choice.

Sometimes, those dazzling human nature complexities, deceptions, positive and negative logic can all be abandoned. When reviewing the question, you only need to grasp the key point:

You need to know that these four Qing Dynasty people should have encountered the same situation back then and should have made the most normal choice to rush into the door. Then, they just went from corpse salvagers to bed lifters.

Actually, there was no need for that person to actively remind them. When these four people appeared in this image among the bed lifters, Li Zhuiyuan already had his choice in his heart.

The reason for waiting a little longer was just like a foolish pig taking a few more deep breaths before jumping down.

“Rush past from under the bed!”

Everyone immediately started sprinting. This scene was very similar to entering the huge snake mouth door upstairs when they first entered the underground palace, a voluntary act of delivering oneself to someone else’s mouth.

In an instant, seven out of the eight bed lifters all lowered their gaze, which was originally level, towards the four people rushing up.

The golden curtain slowly propped up, and the woman’s long hair inside also gradually parted to the sides.

Li Zhuiyuan saw her face; it was a human face, but the entire face was covered in snake scales. What flowed from her eye pupils were also snake’s vertical pupils.

The four people ran to the front of the bed. The other three all quickly bent down to avoid hitting their heads, except for the boy.

While running under the bed, Li Zhuiyuan noticed with his peripheral vision that the ‘Qing Dynasty reminder’ had a jade pendant hanging from his waist.

The boy subconsciously reached out to grab and hold it.

The jade pendant might contain some identity information about this person. Although your reminder didn’t affect my choice, I still accept this favor from you.

If I can still find your descendants or successors, I will return the favor to them.

At the truck driver Zhu Yang’s home, Li Zhuiyuan had already asked Xue Liangliang to transfer the money.

Li Sanjiang didn’t teach the boy much about the corpse salvaging technique because his set was mostly still wrong.

But the boy learned a very important thing from Li Sanjiang: a corpse salvager’s honesty.

However, this grab not only didn’t succeed, but almost made him stumble.

Li Zhuiyuan decisively let go and didn’t want it.

He couldn’t stop or follow the big bed just to solve the mystery of a jade pendant.

Finally, the four people drilled out from under the bed and, in one breath, smoothly ran another distance, reaching the edge of the water pool.

The eight bed lifters and the one on the bed just ‘looked’ at them and didn’t make a move. They didn’t know if they weren’t interested or had more important things to do.

“Ding……”

The jade pendant that wasn’t grabbed earlier fell from the waist by itself, then rolled all the way down and came to Li Zhuiyuan’s front.

Li Zhuiyuan reached out to pick it up, blew on it, and saw five words engraved on it: “Fengdu Yin Zhi Wang.”

Fengdu is also Fengdu, now part of Fuling, Sichuan Province, not far from where he was now located in Wanzhou.

The surname Yin is relatively rare and belongs to orthodox corpse salvagers. As long as there are really descendants, it shouldn’t be difficult to find them.

After putting the jade pendant away, he looked up and saw that the eight people lifting the bed in front had already reached the big door.

“Giggle……”

The laughter continued to transmit from inside the door, and the face of the woman behind the door was still constantly probing out.

The edge of the bed collided with the door, emitting bursts of roaring sounds.

Tan Wenbin surprisingly said: “No, the way to the ascension paradise, is it this simple and crude?”

Xue Liangliang counter-asked: “Otherwise what? Do you really believe there is such a thing as ascension?”

Tan Wenbin shook his head: “No, not that, I just feel it should at least be a little more beautiful, a little more romantic.”

“Zhi ya……”

The big door, which was originally only ajar, was slowly pushed open at this moment by the hard and powerful bed legs.

At the same time, in the water pool behind the four people, there was also a continuous “kacha……” sound.

The four people immediately turned back to look and discovered that the water level in the pool where the bed was originally placed and where the eight dead bodies were hidden was rapidly declining.

Xue Liangliang: “There’s a switch under here, it should be connected to the big door above, they open together.”

As the big door gradually opened, the speed of the water level decline in the water pool accelerated further, and soon seven or eight tenths were completely drained, revealing a hole at the bottom.

Tan Wenbin: “Looks like the bathtub plug has been pulled out.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Perhaps, this is the true exit?”

Tan Wenbin didn’t understand: “But it’s downwards?”

“Giggle……”

“Giggle……”

At this time, the laughter behind the door suddenly became denser.

The four people turned back to look and discovered that the woman’s face behind the door had gone from one to two, then to four, eight…… soon, the two sides of the big door, from top to bottom, were full of women’s faces.

They were all laughing, and their laughter was very strange.

Tan Wenbin swallowed a mouthful of saliva: “So many?”

Li Zhuiyuan’s ears trembled slightly and said: “Not only.”

As the big door completely collided open, the faces that were originally hanging on the back of the door crawled out. No mistake, they were crawling, because behind this face was a body similar to a gecko’s, just that the hands and feet were too short in proportion compared to ordinary geckos, and the whole body was full of mucus. Those four feet had almost degenerated, but it simply relied on its body to quickly wriggle.

It was like a snake, but not a snake, and he didn’t know if it had evolved or degenerated.

And all the women’s faces were very uniform, almost all of the same style.

Li Zhuiyuan suspected that this image should be the original true appearance of the woman on the bed. She became a snake, and snakes, in turn, became her.

They drilled out.

Initially, they crawled along the door frame, then surged out from above, densely packed, almost forming a black flood. In the flood, countless identical human faces squeezed each other, forming a hideous laugh.

“I fuck!”

Tan Wenbin couldn’t help but blurt out a curse.

The rest of the people had the same feeling. If they had chosen to rush into the door earlier, wouldn’t they have directly fallen into the nest of this thing?

This scene made people’s scalps numb just thinking about it.

Most of the gecko snakes crawled along the upper end of the underground palace. As the ‘ignite’ of the white bone fire pile occurred, a large number of fireflies gathered above at this time. They were devouring fireflies; this was their feast.

Li Zhuiyuan suddenly understood some things. There seemed to be a life cycle within this underground palace.

Every time the fireflies here proliferated to a certain extent, the gecko snakes inside the door would emit calls, as if calling for their mother to feed them.

Then, the snake-faced woman sitting on the bed would control the dead bodies to lift the bed, leave the water pool, walk up the steps, and push open the big door leading to the paradise world.

This was indeed a paradise world, but it didn’t refer to outsiders going in, but to things inside coming out to eat.

His and others’ appearance was more like playing a catalytic role. It could be a flashlight, a torch, or merely a slight human-made movement, possibly leading to the early awakening and recovery of the fireflies. The gecko snakes inside the door, aware of the movement, also顺势 (shùn shì) emitted calls, accelerating the meal process.

In a sense, this was also a kind of anti-theft mechanism.

Due to the advance trigger, the number of fireflies hatching was definitely insufficient, not enough for so many gecko snakes to eat. Then, the remaining living things within the entire underground palace would naturally also become their targets.

At this moment, the gecko snakes in front had already fallen and pounced towards the white bone pile and those hundred beast specimens from above, specifically eating the fireflies inside. The gecko snakes coming out from the back were already finding it difficult to find food, and many were quickly wriggling towards the location of the four people.

There was nothing to hesitate. Even if the door under the water pool led to hell, they had to jump down now. It was better to go to hell than be eaten by this group of things, and even more terrible… be parasitized.

“Go down!”

The four people first jumped into the water pool together, then jumped into the hole. There were steps below, and this time Runsheng walked last.

The first gecko snake that followed spat out its tongue and pounced from the tunnel wall.

“Bang!”

Runsheng slapped it with a shovel, but the other’s reaction was very agile. Its body shrunk, dodging the shovel, then its body quickly shrunk back and suddenly straightened, bouncing into the air and pouncing towards Runsheng.

Its speed was so fast that Runsheng didn’t even have time to swing his shovel again, but just as the gecko snake was about to pounce on his face, Runsheng grabbed it with his left hand.

“Sisi si……”

It was very painful. That woman’s face was full of torment. After observing it at close range, they discovered that this was fundamentally not a human face, but the excess skin on its face squeezed together forming a strange appearance.

It was very similar to the origami that is very popular among students now. Each face was painted with different patterns or written words. After using fingers to support its four corners, the large mouth in the middle would completely open.

“Pa!”

Runsheng fiercely slapped this gecko snake on the wall. The force was full, directly flattening it, and foul-smelling juice splattered.

Next, it was the second and third. Runsheng while slapping retreated. He had to cover the rear to buy time for his teammates.

As more and more gecko snakes rushed into the tunnel, Runsheng also gradually found it difficult to cope. Two gecko snakes took advantage of the chaos and bit his left arm and right thigh. Another one绕 (rào) to his back, stuck to his back, its mouth open, adsorbing like a sucker.

“Runsheng, quickly come over!”

Xue Liangliang’s shout transmitted.

Runsheng immediately stopped resisting and focused on running backwards.

Xue Liangliang and Tan Wenbin each stood on one side of the tunnel. When Runsheng ran past, the two together pulled out the two bronze plates from their respective side grooves and collided them together.

“Baji!” “Baji!”

Several gecko snakes were just like this, clipped broken.

“Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!”

A series of impact sounds came from outside. A large number of gecko snakes collided with the door, but fortunately, this door plate was sturdy enough and successfully completed the barrier.

This gate had no door bolt and could not be locked. It could be pulled open from both sides, but the premise was to exert force sideways. However, obviously, the gecko snakes outside did not possess this ability.

Tan Wenbin looked at the gecko snakes on the ground that were still wriggling and emitting “giggle giggle” laughter even after being clipped broken. He lifted his foot and stepped on them one by one, thoroughly crushing them.

On the other side, Runsheng tore off the two biting his arm and leg. Also torn off were two pieces of his flesh. He grabbed one in each hand and pressed them against his palm.

“Pa!”

Two together were flattened.

Li Zhuiyuan wanted to come up and help him grab the one on his back. Runsheng sidestepped to avoid him.

“Xiao Yuan, don’t touch this, move away.”

After saying that, Runsheng just used his back to collide against the side tunnel wall, directly pressing it into meat paste.

“Ah……”

But earlier when tearing off the flesh, he didn’t feel much pain. At this moment, squeezing the one on his back until it burst, the sense of pain seemed to go straight to the depths of his brain.

When Runsheng’s back left the wall, he discovered that the gecko snake which had already become meat paste was still hanging there, relying on a mouthpart embedded in Runsheng’s back flesh.

This one wasn’t eating meat; it was preparing to parasitize!

Perhaps, this was the reason why those four Qing Dynasty corpse salvagers became bed lifters.

Runsheng reached back and grabbed it.

“Runsheng bro, no……”

Before he could finish reminding him, Runsheng just tore that thing off his back fiercely.

The internal mouthpart didn’t stay inside because he tore off a mahjong tile-sized piece of flesh.

“Wu……”

Runsheng shivered. Looking at it, it was actually a bit chilling.

This was probably a paralyzing effect produced by some substance secreted by the gecko snake during parasitization, just like using a fingernail to pinch the mosquito bite.

Xue Liangliang’s anxious eyes continuously scanned. Everyone’s clothes were wet again and again. They really couldn’t find suitable disinfection and hemostatic supplies.

Runsheng, however, was not panicked or in a hurry. He took out the iron box containing the ‘cigar’ from his pocket. After opening it, the coarse incense inside was surprisingly not damp. Aunt Liu’s personally made iron box had very good waterproof effect.

He pulled one out, put it in his mouth, chewed it, spit it into his palm, and then applied it successively to the wound.

Xue Liangliang quickly reached out to catch a puddle of water and helped Runsheng apply it to the largest wound on his back.

“Is it useful?”

Runsheng shook his head: “Don’t know.”

Xue Liangliang observed for a while and then surprisingly said: “Hey, it’s really useful, it’s stopped bleeding.”

Runsheng leaned against the tunnel wall and sat down, panting.

But soon, he again supported himself on the ground with his hands and stood up: “Xiao Yuan, I’m fine.”

“Runsheng bro, rest a little more ba.”

“No, it’s nothing, just a little dizzy, a bit like being drunk, but not tired.”

This should be the residual effect of the paralyzing effect.

Seeing the situation, Li Zhuiyuan no longer acted pretentious: “Then let’s continue walking ba. Wait until we leave here and then rest properly.”

The four people continued to walk forward. This time, Tan Wenbin and Xue Liangliang walked in the first row, letting Runsheng walk last.

Xue Liangliang: “Xiao Yuan, that gate just now, it feels like it was prepared specifically for those things. Did we come down a little late?”

“Actually, not late. When the big door above is pushed open, the small door below the water pool will only open together. It will only be revealed after the corpse water drains out. By that time, the big door is also wide open, and those things inside have already run out.

We can only try to exploit the time difference, that is, when we realize the water pool is leaking water, dive into the corpse water together, and dive into the corpse water one by one when the small door has just opened enough for people to enter.

But this is our first time here, our first time seeing this situation, it’s impossible to react that fast.

Moreover, this gate is not for outsiders like us.”

Xue Liangliang: “Um?”

Li Zhuiyuan shone the flashlight upwards, hitting the top of the tunnel. Wall paintings appeared above:

“Here, it’s for her herself to use.”

Xue Liangliang also looked at the wall paintings on top and nodded: “Look, this is designed for herself, her living area.”

Tan Wenbin: “No, does a tomb need this kind of decoration?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “This is not a tomb. The tomb owner fundamentally didn’t plan to sleep here for a long time. Even when she ‘lived’ into here, she wasn’t necessarily dead.”

Tan Wenbin: “Not dead but buried? Are there such people in this world?”

“Yes, different pursuits.” Li Zhuiyuan paused, “Bai Family Town was just like this.”

Xue Liangliang’s expression remained unchanged. While looking at the wall paintings on top, he said: “The scenes recorded on the wall paintings should be scenes from the ancient Yong country ba?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Um, the woman on the bed is possibly the ruler of the ancient Yong country, possibly at a secular power level, or possibly for religious sacrifice.”

The painting describes a woman of noble identity worshipped by everyone, and the process of manually impacting the highest belief in her heart. It was she who commanded the construction here, selected the fiercest hundred beasts and the strongest warriors, then walked up the highest heavenly ladder. The upper end of the heavenly ladder were clouds, and above the clouds was a giant snake.

Actually, it was painted very much like a dragon, but it lacked the characteristic features of dragon horns and had a long tongue sticking out.

On top of the giant snake was the sun, and its tail was the moon, meaning that in her belief worldview, the giant snake was the master of the alternation of the sun and moon.

In the last painting, the woman led her loyal warriors and hundred beasts, walked up the clouds through the heavenly ladder, and came before the giant snake. This was the paradise in her eyes.

“Wait!”

Li Zhuiyuan stopped his footsteps and at the same time also called for the team to stop. Then, he began to walk back, focusing his flashlight on patrolling the area behind the woman in each of the wall paintings.

“You look, in the front wall paintings, whether the woman is receiving worship or commanding the construction of the underground palace, there is always a relatively thin and dark shadow standing behind her. But in the last wall painting, when the woman ascended to heaven, he is not behind her.”

The way this person’s shadow is painted is no different from the surrounding supporting characters, only a little darker and thinner. If it were just one painting, it might be a painter’s slip of the hand. But except for the last one, there is such a special ‘he’ in every painting, it’s not an accident, but a necessity.

Xue Liangliang: “Indeed, look, he is deliberately highlighted, proving that this person at that time had a very high status, or rather, was someone the woman valued very much.

In addition, I don’t know if it was like this in ancient times, but anyway, many times now, when targeting a certain project, the main position is often just a figurehead, while the person truly responsible for the specific affairs and operation below, that is, the actual project manager, is the deputy position.

The status of the woman in the wall painting is absolutely highlighted, probably due to the political correctness of that period. And this role behind the woman should be the pusher who truly led and helped the woman ascend to a high position in the Yong country, built the underground palace, and guided her ascension.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “But, that pusher, in the end, didn’t go to paradise to see the big snake.”

After a short silence, Xue Liangliang and Li Zhuiyuan simultaneously said:

“She was deceived.”

It was very obvious that the altar or ascension pool above was not the kind of paradise result the woman wanted.

Now she was more like a parasitized tool, like a key, responsible for opening and closing the door here, maintaining this cycle within the underground palace.

Tan Wenbin carefully asked: “That, two big brothers, I have no other meaning, I just want to know, shouldn’t we be in a hurry to get out now? What’s the meaning of discussing and analyzing this?”

Xue Liangliang replied: “If everything here belongs to that woman, then we are probably safe now. If not, then we have only just truly entered here.”

Tan Wenbin’s mouth twitched upon hearing this.

Li Zhuiyuan shone the flashlight forward: “Walk ba, let’s be a little careful, it’s not time to relax our vigilance yet.”

Not long after leaving the top wall painting area, upward steps appeared.

This was good news. For the four people who wanted to leave here, any upward road section was worth trying.

As they walked, arched doors appeared on both the left and right sides in front. They looked like the design of ear rooms in a tomb, but when the flashlight shone inside, they discovered that it was empty, with nothing inside.

Tan Wenbin: “Was it stolen by water monkeys?”

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: “No, water monkeys can’t lick it that clean.”

After scanning again, Li Zhuiyuan confirmed: “I feel it’s more likely that after fooling that woman above, there was fundamentally nothing placed down here.”

They continued to walk forward, and two more pairs of ear rooms appeared, still empty. This further verified Li Zhuiyuan’s guess.

Finally, straight ahead, a large arched door appeared.

According to underground building habits, after the ear rooms, the main burial chamber should be next.

On both sides of the arched door, two men and women wearing leather armor were kneeling. Their image was very similar to the two among the hundred beasts in the underground palace above.

On the wall behind the two, there was a small snake head each, with water continuously flowing out from inside and dripping on them.

Runsheng: “Very strong water corpse stench.”

Corpse soaked in water for so long, how could it not stink?

Runsheng twisted his neck, took a deep breath, and picked up his shovel.

He was actually already tired, and his condition was not good, but at this time, he had to go up.

Tan Wenbin and Xue Liangliang then each held a flashlight, preparing to follow Runsheng together after the corpses woke up. At the last step, to get out, they had to fight hard.

The posture was set, but the two corpses still showed no signs of waking up and becoming dead bodies. They didn’t know if the distance of the four people was still not enough, not reaching the time to trigger them.

At this moment, Li Zhuiyuan again lifted the flashlight and shone it upwards. Two more wall paintings appeared above.

One painting was of a ship on the sea. A person stood on the ship. The ship and the person were very small, located in one corner. The key point was at the diagonal end, on the seabed, there was a huge building. This building was very strange, looking like a seabed underground palace, but when looking at it as a whole, they discovered that it had a head, horns, and long whiskers, like a giant beast, and the sun and moon were still suspended above it.

This shape, this scene, couldn’t help but make Li Zhuiyuan think of the picture that Zheng Haiyang’s mother described to him in the mental hospital.

Could it be that this person who deceived the noble woman of Yong country above once went to the sea?

In the second painting, a man stood on a mountain, surrounded by mountains, and a woman knelt at his feet.

The connected meaning was that the man went to that mysterious place in the East Sea, then returned to the ancient Yong country in the southwest, and then this woman became his believer.

If he really went there, did he bring anything out?

Or… the one who came back here, was it still him himself?

At this time, Li Zhuiyuan perceived an uneasy aura vaguely stirring his nerves.

The more he walked in the Yin world, the more he gained another effect, that is, his sensitivity to some aspects was greatly strengthened. Of course, this was not a good thing. If it continued to be severely strengthened, he would sooner or later become neurotic.

Li Zhuiyuan grabbed Tan Wenbin with both hands, leaned his forehead against his back, and closed his eyes.

This time, he didn’t set a time, because if it couldn’t be solved properly, calling or not calling to wake himself up was meaningless.

Walking in the Yin world was successful.

Li Zhuiyuan raised his head. Runsheng and the other two were not there. In front of him, the man and woman still knelt on both sides of the arched door. In the center position, a third person appeared.

He wore golden silk splendid clothes and a snake-shaped mask on his head, appearing very heroic and mysterious.

One big and one small person confronted each other just like this.

After a while, the boy said:

“You are indeed not human, you are a dead body.”

Among the people who went to the sea on that ship and are known to have returned, only Zheng Haiyang’s mother and Zhu Changyong are known, but they all became dead bodies.

As for the others who stayed on the ship, they all went crazy.

Before Zhu Changyong finally hugged that turtle and jumped into the mixer, he was already no longer in human form. His body was severely rotten and swollen, and one eyeball had already burst.

Why did the mysterious masked man in front of him wear a mask? It was very likely used to cover his body changes.

He蛊惑 (gǔ huò) deceived the noble woman of Yong country to build this underground palace, actually also for himself. He wanted to live, he wanted to recover to being human.

But the latter obviously failed. Even whether the former succeeded is still to be discussed.

Because apart from the sense of mystery in his appearance, he didn’t give himself much perception of pressure.

Li Zhuiyuan still remembered Wei Zhengdao’s ‘good friend’ buried under the peach tree at big beard’s home;

Although that one had become a dead body and had almost dissipated, the oppression he felt when walking in the Yin world was indescribable. Ding Dalin and Secretary Jin’s twenty peeled white shrimps were the best proof.

Li Zhuiyuan later once suspected that it was because of his relationship that no dead bodies dared to appear near his old home for several months afterwards. After all, there was already a tiger lying on this mountain.

The only one who jumped out during that time was a foreign household that came from the sea.

Since you are not that strong and terrifying, then I don’t need to be too afraid of you. You just deceived ‘her’ and used the underground palace she built to hide and linger below.

“The exit should be in the main burial chamber behind you. When you designed and built this place, you definitely fantasized that one day you could recover. I don’t believe you would trap yourself to die here.

Let us pass. We want to leave here. We promise not to touch anything inside your main burial chamber.”

The masked man turned around and walked to the front of the kneeling man’s corpse. He lifted his hand, and a bell appeared in his hand. He began to shake the bell.

From inside the man’s corpse, the sound of an egg breaking transmitted. Following this, a snake head probed out from the man’s corpse’s mouth. The snake head danced with the sound of the bell, then drilled back into the man’s corpse.

Immediately, the man’s corpse moved. He picked up a sword from the ground and stood up.

Obviously, the masked man refused the ‘mutual non-aggression treaty’ proposed by the boy and actively initiated provocation.

In reality, Runsheng and the other two saw the man’s corpse stand up and face them.

Runsheng said: “Xiao Yuan is walking in the Yin world. You all protect Xiao Yuan well.”

Xue Liangliang responded: “Um, Binbin, you protect Xiao Yuan well. I and Runsheng will go up together.”

“I understand.” Tan Wenbin turned his head to look at the boy leaning against his back. Originally, he was just habitually checking on the boy’s situation, but after looking, he immediately surprisingly said, “I fuck, Xiao Yuan’s eyes are bleeding, flowing a lot.”

Runsheng and Xue Liangliang heard these words but didn’t turn back to look. They continued to stare at the man’s corpse walking towards them step by step.

If they couldn’t pass this hurdle, it didn’t matter if Xiao Yuan was blind or not. Everyone would likely not even have their lives.

“Nothing, can handle it!” Runsheng comforted him and said, “He’s not a mercury corpse, can handle it!”

Xue Liangliang heard the reluctance in Runsheng’s words. With Runsheng’s character, if he could really solve it, he would say ‘can kill him!’

Furthermore, there might not be only one man’s corpse. There was a high probability that the woman’s corpse next to it would also get up later.

At the same time, from Li Zhuiyuan’s perspective, after the masked man woke up the man’s corpse, he still felt it wasn’t enough, and he walked towards the woman’s corpse again.

The masked man again lifted the bell, but this time, before he could shake it to hatch the snake egg, the woman’s corpse opened her eyes first.

The masked man was stunned.

The boy showed a smile.

Inside the underground palace, there were eight people lifting the coffin, four of whom were still mercury-refined corpses, incomparably loyal to their master in life, and enduring huge torment in death;

The other four were the dead bodies of their predecessors, considered among the most difficult to deal with class of dead bodies. Even Yin Zhi Wang, who was making mouth shapes, himself had the opportunity to try and control them, but one against seven, it was meaningless.

Besides, the woman on the bed was still there. She was almost a corpse demon, good at蛊惑 (gǔ huò). With her, he basically had no chance to use Wei Zhengdao’s black skin book.

Now, it was different.

Happy two choose one, you choose one, I also choose one.

Just when he was having a dialogue and confrontation with the masked man, Li Zhuiyuan was already trying to be in sync with the woman’s corpse, and also reading her memory, and more importantly, correcting her memory.

The difficulty of the latter was actually not great, because what he needed to weave was not a lie, but a statement of facts.

When she opened her eyes and saw the masked man appearing here, she would know the truth.

Because he should not have appeared in the master’s underground palace!

“Your master was deceived and harmed terribly by him, her body was occupied by a snake, always enduring pain and torment. Go ba, avenge your master ba!”

In reality, the woman’s corpse woke up. She grasped the sword beside her body and stood up.

This scene made Runsheng, Xue Liangliang, and Tan Wenbin all feel a chill in their hearts.

But soon, a scene that made them dumbfounded happened. They only saw the woman’s corpse rush forward, pierce the man’s corpse with a sword, then press the man’s corpse under her body and tear and bite it like crazy.

Li Zhuiyuan also opened his eyes at this time. The bad news was that his vision was a一片 (yī piàn) blood red. The good news was that he was not blind yet.

“Quick, rush into the main burial chamber, find the exit!”

No matter who wins between the woman’s corpse and the man’s corpse, they will eventually make a move on the outsiders who don’t belong here in the underground palace.

Runsheng wanted to carry Li Zhuiyuan on his back, but saw Tan Wenbin抢 (qiǎng) him to it, carrying the boy on his back.

Seeing the situation, Runsheng also said no more, and led the rush into the main burial chamber. Xue Liangliang and Tan Wenbin followed closely. The four people just ‘passed by’ between the tearing man’s corpse and woman’s corpse.

The decoration inside the main burial chamber was very crude. To be precise, there was fundamentally no decoration. It was almost entirely a natural stone cave. In the center of the stone cave was a gold and jade in glorious splendor chair, and a masked man was sitting on it, his hands placed on the armrests of the chair.

In the rock above the chair, there were countless beehive-like hole structures, with black and red juice continuously dripping down.

These juices either dripped on the masked man’s body or, after landing, gathered towards his feet.

Runsheng sucked in a breath: “It’s that thing’s blood.”

It was gecko snake blood. So, the masked man was also a link in this cycle. The woman on the bed who dreamed of flying up and seeing the snake god in the underground palace above was just his chess piece, constantly cycling to raise those gecko snakes for him.

Behind the big door of the underground palace was just the gecko snakes’ old nest. When there was not enough food, they would also kill each other, and fresh blood would be collected and, through the holes, finally gather here to the masked man.

He just relied on this method to always delay his own dissipation.

Li Zhuiyuan had to admire his construction ability. If enthusiasts who play with small ecosystems in reality knew of his existence, they would probably take a night train to rush here hoping for a learning opportunity.

As for the big thing that attacked the exploration team above earlier, it was probably not just the king among the gecko snakes that killed each other. Logically, under that kind of ecological environment in the exploration area, it was fundamentally impossible to give birth to such a large species group. But who called someone below to build this system that would raise one every few decades or a hundred years?

Li Zhuiyuan even suspected that the last time Yin Zhi Wang and the other four found here, it was very likely really to solve that big thing that was harming people.

In the Spring and Autumn period, he could go to the sea, and after going to the sea, he could return to the southwest and蛊惑 (gǔ huò) control a small country to do things for himself.

Such a character, if he hadn’t become a dead body, he wouldn’t need to hide himself here. If he developed normally, he would probably have his name in history, even legendary stories.

At this time, the masked man’s chest continuously rose and fell, his hands grabbing the armrests of the chair. He seemed to really want to stand up, but his body was too weak, so weak that even though he was a dead body, he didn’t even have the ability to stand up.

No wonder he didn’t make a move himself earlier, but used the method of walking in the Yin world to summon the hitmen outside the door.

Seeing him still struggling, Runsheng directly smashed his shovel towards his chest.

“Bang!”

His chest was very brittle and directly caved in.

This effect even scared Runsheng himself. This was the first time he encountered such a fragile dead body, but he still didn’t hesitate and smashed his shovel towards the masked man’s head again.

“Bang!”

The mask flew out, and the head burst open like a bitter gourd.

Why was it a bitter gourd and not a watermelon? It was because his body under his clothes was already very slender, like a shrunk and dry corpse.

As a dead body, even water couldn’t be maintained, proving that it was already oil exhausted and the lamp was dry.

This time, he was considered thoroughly quieted down.

“Here, here’s a dug stone ladder, you can climb up.” Xue Liangliang had already walked behind the chair. There was an arc platform here, which could be climbed upwards.

Runsheng shouted: “Walk!”

Li Zhuiyuan was carried on Tan Wenbin’s back at this time, so he just saw Tan Wenbin specially come to the headless corpse of the masked man, reaching out to grope up and down on his clothes.

Tan Wenbin was very scared, his hands were trembling. After all, even if it was a dead dead body, and such a strange guy in this place, even without a head, it was very scary to touch his clothes.

But Tan Wenbin was trying to overcome it. Soon, he touched a bell: “Xiao Yuan, how about it?”

“Um.”

The boy knew that Tan Wenbin was trying to find his own role in the team. No matter how fearful and disgusted he was in his heart, he was also adding value to the team for himself.

The last touch was at the waist of the pants. Tan Wenbin took out a handful of black paste, like rotten rice straw.

“Fuck, it won’t be shit ba!”

Just as Tan Wenbin was about to throw it away, Li Zhuiyuan suddenly rejoiced: “Put it away, Zhuangzhuang bro!”

“Ah?”

Although he didn’t know why, since it was what Xiao Yuan bro wanted, even if it was shit, Zhuangzhuang would stuff it into his bosom and bring it out.

That was not filth… Li Zhuiyuan could see that it was rotten bamboo slips.

Bamboo slips that a masked man always carried with him, what kind of secrets would be recorded on this?

The value of these secrets might be countless times more precious than the bell.

And rotten bamboo slips could also be repaired and the words on them extracted. Li Lan had done this before.

“Binbin, quick walk!”

“Coming!”

Tan Wenbin no longer stayed and carried Li Zhuiyuan to the arc place and began to climb the ladder. This ladder was relatively steep. Xue Liangliang was first, Tan Wenbin was second, and Runsheng was below providing support.

Everyone was clear that freedom was just above, so each person burst out with extremely strong potential, desperately climbing upwards.

As they climbed, Xue Liangliang saw the position in front begin to shake. As the entire upward channel began to tremble, it seemed like something wanted to drill out from inside.

“Quickly climb, it’s coming!”

After shouting, Xue Liangliang continued upwards, and the people below also quickly followed. After the four people climbed a little further, the side wall of the earlier passed position was broken, and a huge long body drilled out from inside. But it didn’t chase the four people upwards, but went straight down.

Because Li Zhuiyuan was carried on someone’s back, he could always look downwards. He counted the length of that body and sighed again… it was really long.

Soon, bursts of roaring sounds came from below. That thing entering the underground palace seemed to also cause a collapse. This chain reaction was no less than a small earthquake. Terrible smoke and dust surged up from below, completely enveloping the four people.

Fortunately, the distance between the four people and the top was not far. Everyone拼 (pīn) their last strength and finally climbed out from a very ordinary rock crevice outside.

The four people all collapsed on the ground, faces upwards, breathing fresh air, looking at the sun and the blue sky:

“Finally out……”

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