I, Stone Golem, only want to forge.

While Murphy was building things, Sri also arrived at the mass grave.

Despite being called a mass burial ground, this place is not actually gloomy.

From a physical perspective, the temperature was pleasant, and the air was surprisingly fresh.

There were no menacing or terrifying trees rooted there, and the sunlight during the day was quite good.

What's even stranger is that the graves and tombstones were all arranged neatly, and could even be described as orderly.

When Sri saw this scene, he was quite amazed.

He had actually heard of this phenomenon.

Some nobles or people who were particular about etiquette during their lifetime would be buried together in the same place.

This situation may occur.

It is extremely rare, especially in the north.

So he was still somewhat surprised to see this scene.

Siri walked into the mass grave and looked around.

All they could see at the deepest part of the mass grave was something that looked like a pavilion.

Inside the pavilion, a skeleton was writing and drawing something with a pen and paper.

Upon closer inspection, Siri recognized him as Old K, with white hair and a black body.

He quickly stepped forward, shouting loudly as he went:

"Mr. Ke, what are you writing in broad daylight?"

Old Ke looked up and saw Sri coming over and shouting something at him. He quickly held up a finger and put it in front of his mouth.

He then pointed to the nearby graves, signaling him to be quiet.

Siri paused, glancing around at the graves. The soil on the graves was sparse and bright in color, clearly indicating that they had been frequently disturbed.

These graves must be inhabited by skeletons or zombies.

They just can't go out during the day, so they gather downstairs to rest.

Although theoretically, undead creatures like skeletons and zombies do not need rest.

But undead creatures always retain some of their habits from their previous lives, and sleeping is one of them.

Sri immediately realized what was happening, lowered his voice, gave a few apologetic laughs, and then quickly went to Old Ke's side:

"Please excuse my poor appearance. This is the first time I've ever seen a place like this; it's truly quite unusual."

He paused briefly after saying that.

Then, whether to satisfy his curiosity or to get closer to her, he casually asked another question.

"I wonder what the person buried here was like in life? Perhaps some kind of nobleman?"

Old Ke waved his hand, then put away his notebook and pen, his gaze slowly sweeping over the mass grave.

The firelight flickered slightly in his eyes, and he tapped the notebook on his knee a few times with his knuckles.

He spoke after a moment.

"These people, in their lifetimes, were nobles who died in battle... nobles in the truest sense of the word."

Siri naturally sensed something unusual in Old Ke's words.

After hesitating for a moment, Srui thought that since the other party had given him a starting point, he must want to say something.

He then picked up the conversation.

"Mr. K's words are rather peculiar. How do nobles distinguish between genuine and fake? By bloodline?"

Old Ke shook his head, then let out a chilling, grotesque laugh. Perhaps he laughed like that when he was alive, or perhaps it was just due to his physical condition after death.

But all in all, his smile was very eerie and creepy.

"These guys really have the arrogance of nobility in their bones. They think they are superior to others and disdain letting commoners rush ahead of them and steal their credit, so they do everything themselves."

After saying that, Old Ke chuckled again.

"Doing everything himself with an arrogant attitude."

"So they're lying here?" Srid said.

Old Ke didn't answer, but instead tapped his notebook and changed the subject.

"So, Mr. Sri, you didn't call me just for casual conversation, did you? Could you please be more specific about your requests?"

Seeing this, Sri didn't bother with formalities and went straight to the point.

Do you know anything about cave giant spiders?

But to his surprise, Old Ke's first reply took him by surprise.

"I vaguely remember, I even slept with their queen."

After falling into deep thought, the skeleton uttered this sentence in an incredibly eerie way.

"what?"

Siri remembers the Spider Queen; even if she can anthropomorphize, it seems she can't completely do so, right?

At least the lower half of the body should still be in spider form.

hiss……

Sri gasped in shock, and could only sigh inwardly.

This legendary powerhouse is terrifyingly powerful!

Seeing Siri's reaction, Old Ke coughed awkwardly and gave a vague explanation.

"Ahem, that's all in the past, that empress has long since passed away. Please continue, please continue."

Sri took a deep breath, forcibly putting the matter aside, before continuing:

"We discovered that a large number of these spiders live in the mines near us, and they have even slaughtered many humans and Mr. Murphy's fellow stone men."

Old Ke immediately guessed it.

"Were they driven here by the cold wave?"

Sri shook his head slightly.

"That's uncertain, but after we went deeper into the cave, we found that there seemed to be a bunch of things that looked like ice elemental crystals, but were also possessed by something different, and they were also cursed."

After saying that, he took a small piece of ice crystal from his pocket and handed it to Old K, then continued...

"So I'd like to trouble you to help me figure out what kind of curse this is, who cast it, and how to break it?"

Old Ke took the ice crystal and examined it carefully.

After a long while, he got up, forcefully pulled the pavilion out of the ground, and used it as an umbrella over his head. Then he got up and walked towards a spot in the mass grave.

Sri raised an eyebrow. He knew he wasn't afraid of the sun, so this umbrella was definitely not for him, but for someone else.

Could it be that some other powerful figures are buried in this mass grave?

Thinking it over, he quickly followed.

The man and the skeleton soon arrived at the smallest tombstone.

Old Ke forcefully planted the umbrella in the ground, perfectly covering the grave mound, and then dug up all the soil on it.

He revealed the coffin lid underneath; the wood was dull and yellowish, only a thin layer, with splinters and mostly rotten.

However, when Sri looked through the coffin lid, he could see a beautiful woman lying beneath him with long golden hair, snow-white skin, and exquisitely beautiful features.

Her skin has a delicate, jade-like texture, and her hair has a bright luster.

And the long, curved eyelashes above her slightly closed eyes, her delicate willow-leaf eyebrows, and even her lips that shimmered with a captivating glow.

All of this made the corpse look nothing like someone lying in a coffin.

However, with Siri's knowledge, he was able to discover at a second glance that the body indeed had no life force.

It could even be said that he died decades earlier than Old K?

But just as Sri was wondering who the person in the coffin was,

Old Ke lifted the coffin lid and gently patted the face of the beauty inside with his bone hand, even making a bouncy patting sound.

Then he said something that shocked Sri.

"Don't die yet, Dad, get up, I need to talk to you."

"What the heck?"

Siri glanced at the beautiful corpse inside the coffin, then at Old K.

They even spoke in their northern dialect as if they had seen a ghost.