Chapter 017: A Thousand Years of Incorruption

The passage below is obviously artificially built, and is neatly paved with large blue stones. It should be from the same period as the stone gate above. Preliminary judgment is that the ancestors of Yuling should have repaired this place and sealed the stone seams. Painted with red paint, the large square tiles on the ground are very smooth, rather like the corridor in an ancient tomb.

Although I have seen many burial pits for human sacrifices before, which were always filled with bones, but I have never seen such a large pile of bones. These bones were piled deliberately, not like a burial ditch. The purpose of burying it completely in the earth is obviously not as simple as offering sacrifices.

Chen Ziyue frowned and did not dare to look. There were skulls scattered among the bones. The three of us each held weapons and groped forward in the darkness. This space is very large, completely man-made, and it is completely silent. There are countless stalagmites hanging upside down on the dome, but a closer look reveals that these are not naturally formed carbonate crystals, but artificially polished rock spurs, which are very sharp. , the light of the flashlight shone on it, causing a faint reflection.

"Let me strangle it. If this thing is smashed down, it won't be enough for us even if we have ten lives."

After walking less than a few dozen meters, I suddenly noticed a cold, dim white light appearing in front of me, like a will-o'-the-wisp. Si Weiqi quickly waved her hand, and the three of us immediately stopped, turned off all light sources, and stared at the cold light like a will-o'-the-wisp in the darkness.

"This..." I was a little surprised. I saw figures standing in the place where the will-o'-wisps were reflected. They were all dressed in plain silk, ancient clothes and crowns, and they were all standing there with their heads hanging down.

"Ah!" Chen Ziyue was so frightened that she trembled all over, grabbed my arm, and buried her head in my body.

"Don't be afraid!" I patted her shoulder and said.

"Are these people alive or dead?" I asked in surprise.

"It must be a dead person." Si Weiqi walked over slowly.

I followed them and saw all those people standing at the edge of the grotto. They looked like the hanged men on TV. Their hair was messy, but luckily they didn't stick out their tongues. They stood in several rows, blocking the entrance of a cave. There were thousands and hundreds of them. Their bodies emitted a ghostly white light, and the originally dark cave was lit up by those will-o'-wisps. However, this bright light made people feel like they were falling into an ice hell, and they couldn't help but tremble all over their bodies.

"Lin Kun, I'm afraid." Chen Ziyue said tremblingly.

"Don't say it's you, I'm a little panicked." I squeezed her hand, and the veins on my forehead jumped.

Only Si Weiqi walked over without fear and walked among these corpses. I held my breath, not even daring to breathe out. I blocked Chen Ziyue's eyes and led her through the corpses step by step. Although I was also scared, I couldn't help but go back and take a look at these corpses.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, something happened at a glance. I just glanced at one of the corpses, but I was surprised to find that the corpse's hair was scattered and its face was fresh and tender. If it were said to be from thousands of years ago, How come the ancient corpse was so well preserved in the water, without decaying at all? Seeing that the beautiful face is almost the same as that of a living person, what is the reason for the cold green light emitting from the corpse?

"Sister Qi..." I was puzzled and my heart was beating wildly. I wanted to look for Si Weiqi for the answer, but when I turned around and looked, I found that Si Weiqi was also standing motionless in front of a corpse.

At this moment, apart from the increasingly rapid and restless breathing of Chen Ziyue and I, there was no other sound. All of this was happening in silence.

"Sister Qi, what's wrong with you?" I walked over and asked.

I saw Si Weiqi standing there with a solemn face, looking at the corpse in front of me. Out of curiosity, I lowered my head and looked under the hair of the corpse. Unexpectedly, I just took a look and couldn't help but tremble all over. It’s not because the corpse is so ugly, on the contrary, it is extremely beautiful, but——

I almost sat down on the ground, my whole body collapsed in an instant, as if I had lost my soul, and I actually uttered a crazy sentence, "Zi Yue, how could it be you?"

It turned out that what I saw on the face of the corpse was exactly the same as Chen Ziyue, with the same facial features, the same outline, and even the same height. I stood up suddenly and looked at the corpse next to me. Something even more horrifying happened. The corpse's face was exactly the same as Sister Fo's. Looking at the others, after some searching, I saw Cheng Yiyun and Sister Meng. , Da Di and Xu Qian.

"Sister Qi, what's going on?" I could hardly believe my eyes. The incorruptible corpses from thousands of years ago were so similar to the faces of modern people, and they were standing next to each other. "This is definitely not a coincidence. what is this?"

Chen Ziyue had been covering her eyes and did not dare to look at the corpses around her. When she heard what I said, she couldn't help but get angry and said, "Lin Kun, what are you talking about? I'm here, what's wrong with you?"

At this time, Si Weiqi said, "This is the gate to the Demon Kingdom. These people are the sages who are willing to sacrifice their lives to seal the Demon King."

"First Saint? Demon King? What on earth does this mean?" I asked.

Si Weiqi shook her head and said, "This is just a very old legend. It is said that the devil controlled the evil dragon to cause floods, and China was reduced to Zeguo. King Yu furiously killed the dragon and defeated the devil, but before he died, the devil killed himself. A ray of soul attached to King Yu's body. From then on, King Yu's descendants had the blood of the Demon King, but no one knew who would be the next Demon King. So, King Yu thought of a way. Imprisoning a demon dragon at the bottom of the Dragon Burial Pit, he attracted the descendants of the Demon King to come to rescue the demon dragon. Finally one day a young man came here and revealed his true face. Later, the ancestors worked together to besiege it. Inside. However, the ancestors could not bear to kill each other, so they let the tiger return to the mountain, and the devil established the demon kingdom inside. The ancestors used their souls to build a seal, sealing the door of the demon kingdom forever. "

"Then why them?" There was not only confusion in my eyes, but also deep fear.

"I don't know." Si Weiqi shook her head and said no more.

I searched among these corpses, and finally walked to Si Weiqi in despair and said, "Sister Qi, among all the people here, I saw Zi Yue, Sister Fo, Yi Yun, Sister Meng, Da Di and others. There is Sister Qian, but I haven’t seen you alone.”

"What do you want to say?" Si Weiqi glanced at me, "Am I or are you?"

At this moment, a stone suddenly fell straight down, making a sharp sound. In the quiet cave, this small sound was amplified ten times by the dome-shaped cave wall.

I looked at Si Weiqi in astonishment, and my heart trembled. Before I could speak, I knew that the rocks above would not fall for no reason. The mechanism must have been activated. The three of us stood there, not daring to move, let alone look over there.

I was thinking wildly in my mind. What Si Weiqi just said was just a legend, but it may not be without reason. I felt a faint worry in my heart. If the legend of this devil is true, then the new devil may be between me and Si Weiqi. Among the two. However, when I think about it more carefully, I feel that I am too worried. What's wrong with me? What kind of devil is it? If Si Weiqi becomes the devil, then I have nothing to worry about. I can't stop it at all. It's better The joy of death.

I immediately raised my ears to listen to what was happening over there, but there was always dead silence. I felt suspicious, so I gestured to Si Weiqi, ready to go over and have a look, but Si Weiqi gently shook her hand to signal me to stop moving. At this time, I suddenly felt a pinch on my arm by Chen Ziyue, and I immediately came to my senses. I only heard Chen Ziyue whispering, "Lin Kun, why do I feel like this descendant in this cave?"

"Is there someone?" I asked doubtfully, "Could it be the big devil who ran out on his own?"

"What is supposed to come will eventually come, it's just a matter of time." I felt a sudden change in my heart, turned my body slightly, and looked back.

Si Weiqi glared at me and said, "What are you doing?"

"Sister Qi, are you the devil?"

"Are you scared out of your wits!" Si Weiqi slapped me unequivocally, "I told you it was a legend, how can you take it seriously!"

I touched my cheek aggrievedly and said, "Why do you really hit me?"

Chen Ziyue smiled and said, "You deserve it. If it's me, I'll slap you too!"

"Go, go, I'm talking about business, Sister Qi, there is something going on behind you."

Si Weiqi ignored me and said, "Look in front and don't worry about the back." However, I heard the thin voice gradually approaching behind me. Si Weiqi could not have noticed it at this time, and thought to herself, "Could it be that Sister Qi is really the devil? She is trying to harm me on purpose!"

While thinking about it, I seemed to hear bursts of clanging sounds of armor, and thought to myself, "Could it be an ancient army?" At this time, I could no longer hold my breath, and suddenly jumped up from the ground, looked back, and raised my flying weapon. Hit with a knife.

Unexpectedly, when I turned around and took a look, I found that there was no movement at all behind me. I still didn't know what was going on, whether I was hallucinating or Chen Ziyue was hallucinating. When Si Weiqi saw that I was acting privately, she was naturally very angry. She dragged me back and shouted, "You kid is going to die!"

"Sister Qi, you are really not the devil. I believe it. Do you think it could be me? I just..."

"Idiot, I heard that footsteps too, but it was just the sound of the underworld!"

Si Weiqi glared at me a few times, and it was then that I suddenly realized, feeling ashamed and regretful, that I shouldn't have suspected that Si Weiqi was the devil. Unexpectedly, not long after, the standing corpses emitted strong green light, and the entire cave flickered, as if countless fireflies were flying rapidly in the darkness.

While the light and darkness were flickering, suddenly, pieces of rock thorns shining with cold light fell down like raindrops on the grotto. The three of them couldn't help being horrified, and quickly turned around and fled into the cave.