Corpse Retriever.

Chapter 67

A person who has most likely been here for more than a hundred years can actually give you eye signals and mouth reminders.

At this moment, the shock caused by his action was even greater than that of the person sitting on the bed.

Not only Li Zhuiyuan, in fact everyone was constantly looking back and forth between the door and the bed, and naturally they all saw the man's guidance.

It’s just that Runsheng always listens to Li Zhuiyuan, while Tan Wenbin only takes the initiative to liven up the atmosphere, but never speaks too much during the decision-making process.

Only Xue Liangliang reached out and grabbed Li Zhuiyuan's arm, gently exerting a little force towards the bed:

"Xiaoyuan, make a decision."

Xue Liangliang secretly expressed his attitude and wanted to go to the bed side.

This is also Li Zhuiyuan’s choice.

Sometimes, all the dazzling complexity of human nature, intrigue, positive and negative logic can be discarded, and you only need to grasp the key points when reviewing the questions:

You have 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, and then they changed from corpse lifters to bed bearers.

In fact, there was no need for that person to remind him. When the four of them appeared in this image among the people carrying the bed, Li Zhuiyuan had already made a choice in his mind.

Waiting a little longer is like taking a few deep breaths before bungee jumping.

"Get under the bed!"

Everyone immediately started running and sprinting. This scene was very similar to the huge Shekou door when they first entered the underground palace and went up the stairs. It was like they were delivering themselves to other people's mouths.

In an instant, seven of the eight people carrying the bed turned their gazes towards the four people who were rushing up.

The golden curtain slowly rose up, and the long hair of the woman inside gradually parted to both sides.

Li Zhuiyuan saw her face. It was a human face, but the whole face was covered with snake scales, and the pupils in her eyes were also those of a snake.

Four of them ran to the bed, and the other three quickly bent down to avoid hitting their heads, with the exception of the boy.

While running under the bed, Li Zhuiyuan noticed out of the corner of his eye that there was a jade pendant hanging around the waist of the "Qing Dynasty reminder".

The boy subconsciously reached out and grabbed it.

The jade pendant may contain some identity information of this person. Although your reminder did not affect my choice, I still appreciate your kindness.

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

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

Li Sanjiang didn't teach the boy much about corpse recovery techniques, because most of what he knew was wrong.

But the boy learned one very important thing from Li Sanjiang, that is, the kindness of corpse lifters.

But this pull not only failed to pull it down, but almost made him stumble.

Li Zhuiyuan decisively let go.

There was no way he would stop or follow the bed just to take off the jade pendant.

Finally, the four of them crawled out from under the bed, ran a distance in one breath, and came to the edge of the pond.

The eight people carrying the bed and the statue on the bed just "looked" at them and didn't do anything to them. It was unclear whether they were not interested or had more important things to do.

"Ding……"

The jade pendant that had not been pulled down before fell from the waist by itself, then rolled all the way down and came in front of Li Zhuiyuan.

Li Zhuiyuan reached out to pick it up, blew on it, and saw five words engraved on it: "Fengdu Yinzhiwang."

Fengdu is also Fengdu, and now belongs to Fuling, Sichuan Province. It is not far from Wanzhou where I am now.

The surname Yin is relatively rare, and he is an orthodox corpse lifter. As long as he really has descendants, it should not be difficult to find him.

After putting away the jade pendant, he looked up and saw eight people carrying a bed to the front door.

"Giggle..."

The laughter still continued to come out from inside the door, and the woman's face behind the door kept poking out.

The edge of the bed hit the door, making a roaring sound.

Tan Wenbin was surprised and said, "No, the method of guiding people to ascend to paradise is so simple and crude?"

Xue Liangliang asked back: "Otherwise, do you really believe in the existence of ascension?"

Tan Wenbin shook his head: "No, no, I just think it should be at least a little more beautiful and romantic."

“Squeak…”

The door, which was originally half-closed, was slowly pushed open by the hard and powerful bed legs.

At the same time, a series of "crackling" sounds were heard from the pool behind the four people.

The four of them immediately looked back and found that the water level in the pool where the bed was originally placed and where the eight dead heads were hidden was dropping rapidly.

Xue Liangliang: "There is a switch below, which should be connected to the door above. We need to open them together."

As the gate gradually opened, the water level in the pool dropped further and faster, and soon it completely leaked out, leaving a hole at the bottom.

Tan Wenbin: "It seems like the bathtub plug has been pulled out."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Perhaps this is the real way out?"

Tan Wenbin was puzzled and asked, "But isn't it facing downwards?"

"Giggle..."

"Giggle..."

At this moment, the laughter behind the door suddenly became more frequent.

The four men looked back and found that the number of women's faces behind the door increased from one to two, then to four, and then to eight... Soon, both sides of the door, from top to bottom, were filled with women's faces.

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

Tan Wenbin swallowed his saliva: "So many?"

Li Zhuiyuan's ears trembled slightly, and he said, "More than that."

As the door was completely knocked open, the face that was originally hanging behind the door crawled out. Yes, it crawled, because behind this face was a body similar to that of a gecko, but its hands and feet were much shorter than those of ordinary geckos, and its body was covered with mucus. Its four legs had almost degenerated, and it simply relied on its body to crawl quickly.

It looks like a snake, but it is not a snake. I don’t know whether it has evolved or degenerated.

All the women's faces were very uniform, almost all in the same style.

Li Zhuiyuan suspected that this image should be the true face of the woman on the bed. She turned into a snake, and the snakes turned into her.

They came out.

At first it flowed along the door frame, then gushed out from above, so dense that it almost became a black torrent. In the torrent, countless identical human faces squeezed each other to form a hideous smile.

"Fuck me!"

Tan Wenbin couldn't help but swear.

The others had the same feeling. If they had chosen to rush through the door, wouldn't they have fallen directly into this thing's nest?

This scene makes my scalp tingle just thinking about it.

Most of the gecko snakes crawled along the upper part of the underground palace. As the bone fire "burned", a large number of fireflies gathered above. They devoured the fireflies. This was their feast.

Li Zhuiyuan suddenly figured out something. There seemed to be a life cycle in this underground palace.

Whenever the fireflies here reproduce to a certain extent, the gecko snake inside the door will make a sound, as if calling its mother to feed it.

Then the snake-faced woman sitting on the bed would control herself and lift up the bed, leave the pool, walk up the steps, and push open the door to paradise.

This is indeed the paradise, but it does not refer to people from outside who can enter, but to the things inside who can come out to eat.

The appearance of himself and others was more like a catalyst, which could be a flashlight, a torch, or just some man-made noise, which might wake up the fireflies early. The gecko snake inside the door, sensing the noise, also called out, thus advancing the dining process.

In a sense, this is also an anti-theft mechanism.

Because of the early triggering, the number of fireflies hatched is definitely not enough to feed such a large number of geckos. The remaining living things in the entire underground palace will naturally become their targets.

At this moment, the gecko snakes in the front had already dropped from above and pounced on the pile of bones and those animal specimens, specifically eating the fireflies inside. Some of the gecko snakes that came out from the back had difficulty finding food, and many of them were already crawling quickly towards the four people's location.

There is no need to hesitate. Even if the door under the pool leads to hell, I have to jump now. Going to hell is better than being eaten by these things, or even more terrifying... being parasitized.

"Go down!"

The four of them jumped into the pool together, and then jumped into the cave. There were steps below. This time, Runsheng walked at the end.

The first gecko snake that came in came out from the wall of the corridor with its tongue spitting out.

"boom!"

Runsheng swung a shovel at the opponent, but the opponent reacted very quickly, shrank his body, dodged the shovel, then quickly retracted his body and suddenly straightened up, leaped into the air, and rushed towards Runsheng.

The speed was so fast that Runsheng didn't have time to swing the shovel again, but when the gecko snake was about to pounce on his face, Runsheng grabbed it with his left hand.

"Hiss..."

It was painful, and the woman's face was full of torment. After observing closely, it was discovered that it was not a human face at all, but a strange appearance formed by the skin tags on her face squeezed together.

It is very similar to the origami that is very popular among students nowadays. Different patterns or words are drawn on each side. After supporting the four corners with fingers, the big mouth in the middle will open completely.

"Snapped!"

Runsheng slammed the gecko snake against the wall with great force, smashing it to pieces, with smelly juice splashing everywhere.

Next, the second and third ones came. Runsheng shot and retreated at the same time. He had to buy time for his teammates in the rear to cover them.

As more and more gecko snakes rushed into the tunnel, Runsheng gradually became exhausted. Two gecko snakes took advantage of the chaos to bite his left arm and right thigh. Another gecko snake went around his back, stuck to his back, opened its mouth, and sucked on him like a suction cup.

"Runsheng, come here quickly!"

Xue Liangliang’s voice was heard.

Runsheng immediately stopped resisting and focused on running backwards.

Xue Liangliang and Tan Wenbin stood on each side of the corridor. When Runsheng ran over, the two of them worked together to pull the two bronze plates out of the grooves on their respective sides, and they collided with each other.

"Bah!" "Bah!"

Several gecko snakes were crushed in this way.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

There was a series of banging noises coming from outside, and a large number of geckos hit the door, but fortunately the door panel was strong enough and successfully blocked it.

This gate has no bolt and cannot be locked. It can be opened from both sides, but the prerequisite is to apply sideways force. But obviously, the gecko snake outside does not have this ability.

Tan Wenbin looked at the geckos on the ground that were still wriggling and making "giggle" sounds even though their bodies were clamped off. He raised his feet and stepped on them one by one, crushing them completely.

On the other side, Runsheng tore off the two bites on his arms and legs, along with two pieces of his own flesh. He grabbed one in each hand and held them together.

"Snapped!"

Shoot both together.

Li Zhuiyuan wanted to come up and help him grab the one on his back, but Runsheng dodged by moving sideways.

"Xiaoyuan, don't touch this, get out of the way."

After saying that, Runsheng slammed his back against the wall of the corridor beside him, crushing it into meat paste.

"what……"

But I didn't feel much pain when the skin and flesh were pulled out before, but now when the one on my back was squeezed and burst, the pain seemed to go straight to the depths of my brain.

When Runsheng's back left the wall, he found that the gecko snake, which had turned into meat paste, was still hanging there by its mouthparts embedded in the skin and flesh of Runsheng's back.

This one is not eating meat, it is preparing to be parasitic!

Perhaps, this is the reason why the four corpse lifters of the Qing Dynasty were reduced to bed bearers.

Runsheng reached behind him and grabbed it.

"Brother Runsheng, no..."

Before he could finish his reminder, Runsheng pulled the thing off his back.

The mouthparts inside were not left inside because a piece of flesh the size of a mahjong tile was torn off.

"Well……"

Runsheng shivered and seemed to feel a little better.

This is probably a paralyzing effect produced by some substance secreted by the gecko snake when it is parasitic, just like pinching a mosquito bite with your fingernails.

Xue Liangliang was so anxious that he kept looking around. Everyone's clothes were wet and they couldn't find any suitable disinfectant or hemostatic supplies.

Runsheng took out the iron box containing the "cigar" from his pocket calmly. After opening it, he found that the thick incense inside was not affected by moisture. The iron box was made by Aunt Liu herself and had a good waterproof effect.

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

Xue Liangliang quickly reached out to scoop up some of the liquid and helped Runsheng apply it to the largest wound on his back.

"Is it useful?"

Runsheng shook his head: "I don't know."

Xue Liangliang observed it for a while and said in surprise: "Hey, it really works, it stopped the bleeding."

Runsheng sat down against the wall of the corridor, panting.

But soon, he supported himself on the ground and stood up: "Xiaoyuan, I'm fine."

"Brother Runsheng, you should rest for a while."

"No, I'm fine, just a little dizzy, a bit like being drunk, but not tired."

This should be the residual effect of the paralysis.

Seeing this, Li Zhuiyuan stopped being pretentious and said, "Then let's continue walking and have a good rest after we leave here."

The four of them continued to move forward. This time, Tan Wenbin and Xue Liangliang walked in the first row, letting Runsheng walk at the back.

Xue Liangliang: "Xiaoyuan, the gate just now seemed to be designed to target those things. Did we come down a little late?"

“In fact, it’s not too late. When the big door above is pushed open, the small door below the pool will open together. The corpse will be revealed after the water has drained out. At that time, the big door will also be wide open, and the things inside will have already jumped out.

The only time difference we could gain was to dive into the corpse water together when we noticed the pool was leaking, and when the small door was just opened enough for people to enter, we would dive in one by one.

But this is our first time here and the first time we see this situation, so it’s impossible for us to react so quickly.

Besides, this gate is not for outsiders like us."

Xue Liangliang: “Hmm?”

Li Zhuiyuan shone the flashlight upwards to the top of the corridor, where a mural appeared:
"This is for her personal use."

Xue Liangliang also looked at the mural above his head and nodded: "It seems that this is the living area she designed for herself."

Tan Wenbin: "No, does a tomb need to be decorated like this?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "This is not a tomb. The owner of the tomb never intended to rest here forever. In fact, she was not necessarily dead when she 'lived' here."

Tan Wenbin: "Buried before death, is there such a person in this world?"

"Yes, they pursue different things." Li Zhuiyuan paused, "Baijia Town is like this."

Xue Liangliang's expression remained unchanged. He looked at the mural above his head and said, "The scene recorded on the mural should be a scene from the ancient Yong Kingdom, right?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Well, the woman on the bed could be the ruler of the ancient Yong State, could be a secular power, or could be a religious priest."

The painting depicts a woman of noble status who is worshipped by everyone, and how she sets out to challenge the supreme faith in her heart. She was the one who commanded the construction of this place, selected the most ferocious beasts and the strongest warriors, and then walked up the highest ladder, at the top of which was the clouds, and above the clouds was a giant python.

In fact, it looks very much like a dragon, but it does not have the iconic features such as dragon horns, and it has a long tongue.

The python's head is the sun and its tail is the moon, which means that in her religious worldview, the python is the master of the alternation of sun and moon.

In the last painting, a woman leads the warriors and beasts loyal to her, walks up the ladder to the clouds, and comes before the giant python. This is bliss in her eyes.

"Wait!"

Li Zhuiyuan stopped and called a halt to the team. Then, he began to retreat, with his flashlight fixed behind the positions of the women in the murals.

"You see, in the previous murals, whether the woman was receiving worship or directing the construction of the underground palace, there was always this thinner and darker figure standing behind her. But in the last mural, the woman ascended to heaven, and there was no him behind her."

The way this figure is drawn is no different from the surrounding extras, it's just a little darker and thinner. If it were just one painting, it might have been a slip of the artist's hand, but with the exception of the last one, there is such a special "him" in every painting. It's not an accident, but a necessity.

Xue Liangliang: "Indeed, it seems that he was deliberately highlighted to prove that this person had a very high status at the time, or in other words, he was a person that women valued very much.

In addition, I don’t know if it was like this in ancient times, but nowadays, when it comes to a project, the full-time position is often just a figurehead, while the person who is truly responsible for the specific operations below, that is, the actual person in charge of the project, is the deputy.

The status of women in the murals is definitely prominent, probably because of the political correctness of that period, and the character behind the woman should be the one who truly led and helped the woman to ascend to a high position in the Yong State, built the underground palace, and guided her to ascend to heaven. "

Li Zhuiyuan: "But, that pusher didn't go to Paradise to see the python in the end."

After a brief silence, Xue Liangliang and Li Zhuiyuan said at the same time:
“She was deceived.”

It is obvious that the altar or ascension pond above is not the kind of blissful result that women want.

Now, she is more like a parasitic tool, like a key, responsible for opening and closing doors here, maintaining this cycle in the underground palace.

Tan Wenbin asked cautiously, "Well, brothers, I don't have any other intentions. I just want to know, shouldn't we hurry up and get out now? What's the point of discussing and analyzing this?"

Xue Liangliang replied: "If all this place belongs to that woman, then we are probably safe now. If not, then we have truly entered here now."

Upon hearing this, Tan Wenbin's mouth twitched.

Li Zhuiyuan shone the flashlight forward: "Let's go, we should be careful, it's not time to let down our guard yet."

Not long after leaving the area with the overhead mural, stairs leading upwards appeared.

This is good news. For the four people who want to leave here, every upward section of the road is worth trying.

As we walked, we saw a circular archway on both sides in front of us. It looked like the design of the attic in a tomb, but when we shone the flashlight inside, we found that it was empty and there was nothing inside.

Tan Wenbin: "Has it been stolen by a water monkey?"

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "No, a water monkey can't lick it so clean."

After scanning it again, Li Zhuiyuan confirmed: "I think it's more like after fooling the woman above, there's nothing here at all."

Continuing forward, two more pairs of atriums appeared, still empty, which further confirmed Li Zhuiyuan's guess.

Finally, a large arch appeared right in front of us.

According to underground construction customs, the main acupuncture point should be after the ear chamber.

On both sides of the arch, there were two men and women wearing leather armor kneeling, and their appearance was very similar to the two in the middle of the beasts in the underground palace above.

On the wall behind the two men, there was a small snake head each, with water constantly flowing out of it, dripping onto them.

Runsheng: "A very strong smell of corpse water."

How could the corpse not stink after being doused with water for so long?
Runsheng twisted his neck, took a deep breath, and picked up the shovel.

He was actually tired and in poor condition, but at this time, he had to go.

Tan Wenbin and Xue Liangliang each held a flashlight, ready to follow Runsheng after the corpse woke up. It was the last step, and if they wanted to get out, they had to fight for their lives.

The posture was set, but the two corpses had not yet awakened and showed no sign of falling dead. Perhaps it was because the four people were not close enough and the time had not come to trigger them.

At this moment, Li Zhuiyuan raised the flashlight and shone it upwards, and two more murals appeared above.

One painting shows a ship on the sea with a man standing on it. Both the ship and the man are very small and are located in one corner. The focus is on the diagonally opposite end, on the bottom of the sea, where there is a huge building. This building is very strange and looks like an underwater palace, but if you look at the whole thing, you will find that it has a head, horns and long whiskers, like a giant beast, and the sun and the moon are suspended above it.

This look and this scene reminded Li Zhuiyuan of the scene that Zheng Haiyang's mother had described to him in the mental hospital.

Could it be that the man who deceived the noble lady from Yong country had ever been there by sea?
In the second painting, a man is standing on a hill, surrounded by mountains, with a woman kneeling at his feet.

The connection between the two means that the man went to the mysterious place in the East China Sea, then returned to the ancient Yong State in the southwest, and then accepted the woman as his believer.

If he had been there, had he brought anything out?
Or...is the one who returned here still himself?
At this moment, Li Zhuiyuan sensed a sense of uneasiness that vaguely aroused his nerves.

If you do Yin practice too much, you will get another effect, which is that your sensitivity to certain aspects will be greatly enhanced. Of course, this is not a good thing. If it continues to be seriously enhanced, you will become neurotic sooner or later.

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

This time, he didn't mention the time, because if the problem couldn't be solved, it would be meaningless whether he could wake himself up or not.

The Yin move was successful.

Li Zhuiyuan raised his head and found that Runsheng and the other two had disappeared. In front of him, the man and woman were still kneeling on both sides of the archway, and a third person appeared in the center.

He was dressed in a golden robe and a snake-shaped mask, looking very heroic and mysterious.

The two people, one big and one small, just stared at each other.

After a while, the boy said:
"You are not a human being, you are dead."

Among the people on that ship who went to that place, the only ones known to have returned are Zheng Haiyang's mother and Zhu Changyong, but they all died.

As for the other people who stayed on the boat, they all went crazy.

Zhu Changyong finally jumped into the grinder holding the turtle. In fact, it no longer looked like a human being. Its body was badly rotten and swollen, and one of its eyeballs had already exploded.

The reason why the mysterious masked man in front of him wears a mask is probably to cover up the changes in his body.

He bewitched and deceived the noblewoman of Yong State into building this underground palace, but in fact it was also for his own sake. He wanted to survive and he wanted to regain his human form.

But the latter has clearly failed, and even whether the former was successful remains to be seen.

Because apart from the mysterious image, the other party did not give me much perceptual pressure.

Li Zhuiyuan still remembers the "good friend" of Wei Zhengdao who was buried under the peach tree in Da Huzi's house;
Even though that person had collapsed and was about to disappear, the oppression he gave him when he was walking in the underworld was difficult to describe in words. The twenty peeled and boiled shrimps led by Ding Dalin and Secretary Jin were the best proof of this.

Li Zhuiyuan later suspected that it was because of him that the tiger appeared near his hometown a few months later instead of dying. After all, there was already a tiger lying on the hill.

The only people who came out during this period were outsiders from the sea.

Since you are not that powerful and scary, I don’t need to be too afraid of you. You are just a poor guy who deceived "her" and is hiding in the underground palace she built to survive.

"The exit should be in the main cave behind you. When you designed and built this place, you must have imagined that you would be able to recover one day. I don't believe you would trap yourself to death here.

Let us pass, we want to leave here, and we promise not to touch anything in your main cave."

The masked man turned and walked to the kneeling male corpse. He raised his hand, and a bell appeared in his hand. He began to shake the bell.

The sound of eggs breaking was heard from inside the male corpse, and then a snake head popped out from the male corpse's mouth. The snake head danced to the sound of the bell, and then drilled back into the male corpse.

Then, the male corpse moved, picked up a sword on the ground and stood up.

Obviously, the masked man rejected the "non-aggression treaty" proposed by the boy and took the initiative to provoke.

In reality, Runsheng and the other two saw the male corpse stand up and face them.

Runsheng said: "Xiaoyuan is walking in the dark, you guys protect Xiaoyuan."

Xue Liangliang responded: "Well, Binbin, you protect Xiaoyuan, Runsheng and I will go together."

"I understand." Tan Wenbin turned his head to look at the boy leaning on his back. He was just checking on the boy out of habit, but he was immediately shocked when he saw him. "Fuck, Xiaoyuan's eyes are bleeding. A lot."

When Runsheng and Xue Liangliang heard this, they did not look back, but continued to stare at the male corpse walking towards them step by step.

If we can't pass this level, it doesn't matter whether Xiaoyuan is blind or not, we may all lose our lives.

"It's okay, we can do it!" Runsheng comforted, "He's not a mercury corpse, we can do it!"

Xue Liangliang could hear the reluctance in Runsheng's words. Given Runsheng's personality, if he could really solve the problem, he would say "I can kill him!"

Besides, there is more than one male corpse, and there is a high probability that the female corpse next to it will also get up soon.

At the same time, from Li Zhuiyuan's perspective, the masked man felt that it was not enough after waking up the male corpse, so he walked towards the female corpse.

The masked man raised the bell again, but this time, before he could shake it to hatch the snake eggs, the female corpse opened her eyes first.

The masked man was stunned.

The boy smiled.

In the underground palace, eight people carried the coffin, four of whom were mercury-refined corpses, who were extremely loyal to their masters during their lifetime and endured great torture when they died;

The other four were seniors in the same industry who had died. They were the most difficult to deal with among them. Even if Yin Zhiwang, who was lip-syncing, had a chance to try to control them, it was meaningless to fight one against seven.

Besides, the woman was still on the bed. She was almost a corpse demon, good at bewitching people. With her around, he had no chance to use Wei Zhengdao's black book.

Now, it's different.

There are two options for happiness. You choose one and I choose one too.

Just when he was talking and confronting the masked man, Li Zhuiyuan was already trying to synchronize with the female corpse, read her memory, and even completed the correction of her memory.

The latter is actually not that difficult, because what you need to do is not to weave lies, but to state the facts.

When she opens her eyes and sees the masked man who appears here, she will know the truth.

Because of him, he shouldn't appear in the master's underground palace!
"Your master was deceived and harmed by him. The snake took over his body and he has been suffering from pain. Go and avenge your master!"

In reality, the female corpse woke up, she grasped the sword at her side and stood up.

This scene made Runsheng, Xue Liangliang and Tan Wenbin feel very disappointed.

But soon, a scene that made them dumbfounded happened. The female corpse rushed forward, pierced the male corpse with a sword, then pressed the male corpse under her body and bit him frantically.

Li Zhuiyuan also opened his eyes at this time. The bad news was that his vision was full of blood. The good news was that he was not blind.

"Quick, rush into the main cave and find the exit!"

No matter who wins between the female and male corpses, they will eventually attack outsiders who do not belong in the underground palace.

Runsheng wanted to carry Li Zhuiyuan on his back, but saw Tan Wenbin took the boy on his back first.

Seeing this, Runsheng said no more and took the lead to rush into the main cave. Xue Liangliang and Tan Wenbin followed closely behind. The four of them "passed by" between the male and female corpses who were biting each other.

The decoration inside the main cave is very sloppy. To be precise, there is no decoration at all. It is almost a completely natural cave. In the center of the cave is a magnificent chair with a masked man sitting on it with his hands on the armrests of the chair.

In the rock above the chair, there are countless honeycomb-like holes, from which black and red juice keeps dripping.

The juice either dripped onto the masked man or fell to the ground and gathered at his feet.

Runsheng sniffed and said, "It's the blood of that thing."

It is the blood of the gecko snake, so the masked man is also a link in this cycle. The woman in the underground palace who dreams of ascending to heaven and seeing the snake god is just a chess piece of his, raising those gecko snakes for him in an endless cycle.

Behind the gate of the underground palace is the lair of the gecko snakes. When there is not enough food, they will kill each other. The blood will be collected, pass through the holes, and finally gather here at the masked man.

It is in this way that it has been delaying its own dissipation.

Even Li Zhuiyuan had to admire his construction ability. If those enthusiasts of small scenic ecosystems in real life knew of his existence, they would probably take an overnight train here in the hope of getting a chance to learn from him.

As for the big creature that attacked the exploration team above, it was probably the king that emerged from the infighting among the geckos. It stands to reason that it is impossible for such a large population of species to be born under the ecological environment of the exploration area. But who can blame the system built by someone below for producing one every few decades or centuries?

Li Zhuiyuan even suspected that the reason why Yin Zhiwang and his four companions found this place last time was most likely to deal with this big thing that was endangering the people.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, he was able to go out to sea, and after going out to sea, he could return to the southwest and seduce and manipulate a small country to do things for him.

If such a person had not died and had not locked himself up here, and if he had developed normally, his name would probably have appeared in history, and even in legends.

At this time, the masked man's chest kept heaving, and he was grabbing the armchair with both hands, as if he wanted to stand up, but his body was too weak, so weak that even if he fell to death, he didn't even have the ability to stand up.

No wonder he didn't take action himself before, but used a shady method to call the thugs at the door.

Seeing that he was still struggling, Runsheng hit him in the chest with a shovel.

"boom!"

His chest was brittle and caved in.

Even Runsheng himself was shocked by the result. It was the first time for him to encounter such an effortless death. However, he still did not hesitate to hit the masked man's head with another shovel.

"boom!"

The mask flew out and the head exploded like a bitter gourd.

Why bitter melon instead of watermelon? Because his body under his clothes was already very thin, like a shrunken mummy.

As a dead tree, it can't even retain water, proving that it has long been exhausted.

This time, he was completely quiet.

"Here, there is a dug stone staircase here, you can climb up." Xue Liangliang has walked behind the chair. There is a circular platform here, you can climb up.

Runsheng shouted, “Go!”

Li Zhuiyuan was carried on Tan Wenbin's back at this time, and then he watched Tan Wenbin come to the headless body of the masked man and put his hands to pull up and down his clothes.

Tan Wenbin was very scared, his hands were shaking. After all, even if he was dead, and in such a strange place, even if he had no head, it would still be scary to touch his clothes.

But Tan Wenbin was trying his best to overcome it, and soon he touched a bell: "Xiaoyuan, do you want it?"

"Ah."

The boy knew that Tan Wenbin was trying hard to find his own role in the team. No matter how fearful or disgusted he felt, he was also increasing his value to the team.

With one final touch, Tan Wenbin pulled out a handful of black paste from his waistband, which looked like rotten straw.

"Fuck, it can't be shit!"

Just as Tan Wenbin was about to throw it away, Li Zhuiyuan suddenly said in delight: "Keep it, Brother Zhuangzhuang!"

"what?"

Although I don’t know why, since it’s Brother Xiaoyuan who wants it, even Shi Zhuangzhuang will put it in his arms and take it out.

That was not filth... Li Zhuiyuan saw that it was rotten bamboo slips.

What kind of secrets are recorded on a bamboo slip that the masked man carries with him all the time?
The value of this secret is countless times more valuable than the bell.

The rotten bamboo slips can also be repaired and the texts extracted from them. Li Lan used to do this.

"Binbin, go!"

"coming!"

Tan Wenbin did not stop. He carried Li Zhuiyuan to the arc and began to climb the ladder. The ladder was quite steep. Xue Liangliang was the first one, Tan Wenbin was the second one, and Runsheng was supporting him from below.

Everyone knew that freedom was just above, so everyone burst out with great potential and climbed up desperately.

As he climbed, Xue Liangliang saw a shaking in front of him, and the entire upward passage began to tremble, as if something was trying to come out from inside.

"Climb! It's coming!"

After shouting, Xue Liangliang continued to move upwards, and the people below quickly followed. After the four of them went up for a distance, the side wall of the position they had previously passed was broken, and a huge long body came out from it, but it did not chase the four people upwards, but went straight down.

Because Li Zhuiyuan was being carried on someone's back, he could always look down. He counted the length of the body and sighed again...it's so long.

Soon, bursts of roars were heard from below. The thing entered the underground palace and seemed to have caused a collapse. This chain reaction was no less than a small earthquake. Terrible smoke and dust rose from below, completely enveloping the four people.

Fortunately, the four of them were not far from the top. With their last bit of strength, they finally climbed out of a rock crevice that looked like an ordinary thing in the outside world.

All four of them collapsed on the ground, facing the sky, breathing in the fresh air, looking at the sun and the blue sky:
"It finally came out..."

(End of this chapter)