It turned out that the loosening of the soil in the stratum was due to the fact that the corpses had been opened and buried, and this ten-meter-long and wide stratum room was simply an underground burial pit.

"Thousands of corpses? ......" Hearing Zhang Liang say that there were thousands of dead lives buried underground, Mulan's expression instantly darkened. Her pupils constricted as she looked at the headless corpse lying on the ground, and the heavy rancid smell washed away the earthy smell around her, rushing straight into their nostrils, and a heavy feeling of nausea immediately welled up in her heart.

Mulan frowned and looked at the cruel head of the corpse, and then looked at the dozens of hands and feet sticking out of the pit, and suddenly shouted to the gray-haired wolf: "Two ashes! Dig a few more corpses up and take a look. ”

The gray-haired wolf raised his head and looked at Mulan, blinking his eyes and whispering. Living with people all year round, although I don't understand human language, I can still understand the meaning that humans want to express...... So it deflated all of a sudden, and its gaze was quite complicated. (Here the gray-haired Kui wolf psychological shadow: it!) These things are scary like dogs, can you stop digging them! ）

But when Mulan said so, the gray-haired wolf could only bury himself pitifully in the pit full of corpses' hands and feet, wrinkling his nose and continuing to dig up.

Ten minutes later, the gray-haired wolf dug out seven or eight more rotting and terrifying corpses from the pit, and then lay down on the ground with four paws in his hands, sticking out his tongue and panting...... It looked like a tired and paralyzed dog......

Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan looked at the seven or eight corpses that had been turned out of the pit by Erash with solemn faces, and found that they were all ordinary people dressed in rough cloth, adult men and women in their twenties and thirties, their cloth clothes were tattered, and their bodies that began to decay had more or less purple scars that had been whipped, however, the most shocking thing was that they had no heads.

The nine corpses before and after these were all headless corpses without heads!

"Both...... No head? Mulan frowned and exclaimed, "Why did you cut off all the heads of the corpses?" She looked at the brutal corpse and thought that these people were adults who had been forcibly recruited from the country by Yingzheng.

Looking closely, Mulan soon found that these people were all extremely thin and weak, and it was obvious that they had been suffering from hunger for a long time. It seems that Zhang Liang has been calculated, and the lack of food is indeed the biggest problem, so these people are starving to death after all...... Thinking about it this way, I'm afraid there are few of those millions of people alive, but what Mulan can't understand is why she is so cruel, even though people have starved to death, they still have to cut off their heads!

"Maybe it's not after a person's death is cut off their heads...... From the corpses alone, it was not clear that they must have been starved to death, and there were no other lethal wounds on their bodies, the only fatal wound was a broken neck...... The real way they die may also be to die with a severed head! Zhang Liang thought for a while, and said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid the corpses buried in the ground are all headless corpses......

"Decapitation? Why use such cruel and troublesome means, and...... Why do you have to kill these innocent people! Mulan couldn't help but ask rhetorically, at this moment, looking at these miserable and pitiful headless corpses, she only felt a nameless anger burning in her heart.

"I don't know, it's just a guess,......" Zhang Liang shook his head and said. But no matter what the truth is, it is very cruel to turn these innocent ordinary people into headless corpses, and the initiators behind the scenes are extremely evil.

"Let's go......" Zhang Liang said to break the silence, "we still have to continue to explore, and the man wearing the mask doesn't know where to go......"

So the two didn't stay any longer and left the room, and the gray-haired Kui Wolf naturally didn't want to stay in this weird place for a long time, and immediately followed Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan out.

After leaving the soil room, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan returned to the silent and long earth tunnel, and the light of the ancient book of words and spirits in Zhang Liang's hand swept forward, illuminating the tunnel that stretched far away, as well as the pitch-black hole doors lined up on both sides of the tunnel.

Behind each of those pitch-black cave doors were the same earth layer rooms that Zhang Liang had just entered, and in each earth layer room was fluffy black soil, and under each piece of black soil were thousands of headless corpses.

Looking at the silent and long tunnel and the dense doors on both sides of it, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan both subconsciously imagined that countless headless corpses were buried in this layer of soil beneath their feet. Unspeakable horror and misery spread in their hearts, and at the same time, a silent anger swelled in their hearts.

That man, the man who sat on the throne with the eyes of the dragon—Ying Zheng—he was clearly the author of all this, killing thousands of people, leaving them without leaving them all, turning them into a cruel headless corpse, and he was bound by the sin of thousands of lives!

"Let's go......" Zhang Liang said softly, so the two of them did not hesitate, and walked towards the depths of the soil tunnel, the gray-haired Kui wolf seemed to be afraid, and no longer wandered around, but followed closely behind Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan, moving forward.

"Liangliang, have you found any trace of that unknown person......" No longer deliberately thinking about the burial caverns on both sides of the tunnel, Mulan said suddenly as she walked.

"Hmm...... It feels like it's not far from us, but I don't know where he is," Zhang Liang said in a deep voice, "Now stretching out of the ground, there are sedimentary earth and stones on all sides, and it is difficult for my soul perception to spread out on a large scale, so I can't detect his traces......"

"Actually, there is a little bit of ...... I don't think the unknown person is hostile to us. Zhang Liang suddenly thought for a while and said, "And we are all intruders who infiltrated Afang Palace, our positions are not opposite, in fact, there is no need to be too hostile to each other." ”

"But after all, we are in a trap and we have a task on our shoulders, so we have to be cautious." Hua Mulan said in a deep voice, "The people you meet are either friends or enemies, and you can't be careless. ”

"Hmm......" Zhang Liang agreed softly, and the two continued to move forward, and soon, under the light of the fireflies released by the ancient book of words and spirits, they saw the end of the tunnel.

"There's no way out?" Mulan looked at the closed port in front of her and pondered, "Is that all......"

“…… Perhaps, there is another secret path......" Zhang Liang thought and said.

At this moment, the gray-haired wolf suddenly passed through the gap between Mulan and Zhang Liang and ran to the end of the tunnel. Then he sniffed carefully on the ground at the end of the tunnel, and suddenly screamed "whoa".

Hearing the gray wolf's roar, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan were a little surprised, but immediately, the gray wolf raised his head, pointed to the ground where it was lying with his nose, and yelled at Zhang Liang and Mulan.

"Two Grays, this is ...... Did you find anything? Mulan was puzzled and walked towards the gray wolf.

"I'm afraid I found the man's traces...... Two Gray had sniffed the man's scent before. Zhang Liang said as he followed.

After walking over, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan saw the gray-haired Kui wolf half-crouching, pointing at the hard soil ground with the tip of his nose, and then poked out his paws and touched them lightly.

I didn't want the gray-haired wolf to touch his claws, and the black ground immediately rippled like water, and in the blink of an eye, a black shadow with a radius of one meter appeared—another secret passage.

Seeing this dark shadow-like secret passage, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan couldn't help but glance at each other. They still came to the stratum of Afang Palace through such a secret passage, thinking that the secret of Afang Palace was hidden here, but they didn't want to see the same secret passage here again.

"This passage should be connected to the lower strata." Mulan stared at her.

"Hmm...... That unknown person has obviously gone down......" Zhang Liang said in contemplation, "It seems that that person has explored the situation here better than us, and I think that following his trail should be able to reach the deepest hidden place of Afang Palace......"

"Let's go—we're all here!" Hua Mulan looked at Zhang Liang and said firmly.

Zhang Liang also looked at Mulan and nodded, and decided to take a risk, so the two jumped from the black shadow again.

When the gray-haired wolf saw them as well, he jumped into the shadow, blinked his eyes, and then silently followed.

After passing through the secret passage again, Zhang Liang, Mulan, and the gray-haired Kuiwolf fell to the next layer, that is, the second layer of soil space.

It's the same pitch black, the same silence, the same mystery as the previous formation.

Zhang Liang opened the ancient book of words and spirits as always, and as soon as the glow of the fireflies shone brightly, the surrounding darkness was immediately dispelled.

In this second layer of soil space, there is also a quiet and long tunnel, and on both sides of the tunnel are also layers of holes with black and silent cave doors - it is exactly the same arrangement as the previous layer, if it is not for the impact of the body falling dozens of meters, they will simply wonder if they are still in place.

But obviously not, so Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan glanced at each other before continuing to walk forward.

Moving forward, neither of them naturally noticed the pitch-black doors open side by side on both sides of the tunnel.

Zhang Liang subconsciously cast the light of the ancient book of words into the cave door along the road, and in the slight light, he saw the soft black soil on the ground inside the cave door at a glance.

"Sure enough......," Zhang Liang sighed softly. In the pitch-black cave doors along the road, there are also burial pits like the previous layer.

Hua Mulan naturally saw it, frowned, and really didn't want to stay in such an environment for a long time, so she said to the gray-haired wolf: "Er Gray, go and find the traces of that person, follow his breath, go!" ”

Being shouted by Hua Mulan like this, the gray-haired wolf, who was originally lying next to Zhang Liang and Mulan, had to stand up, hold his nose, and carefully explore the tunnel illuminated by the fireflies.

Ten minutes later, the gray-haired wolf followed the scent of the unknown person and found another dark shadow passage in a hidden place.

This time, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan didn't hesitate too much, they jumped in directly, and the embarrassed gray-haired Kui Wolf could only be forced to follow......

So they entered the third layer of earth space, the same tunnel, the same cave door, the same burial pit, and then they followed the unknown person's scent and found the dark shadow passage to the next layer.

In this way, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan searched and tracked down in the gray-haired wolf land, and found one black shadow passage after another, layer after layer of deep down, until they dived to a depth of several hundred meters below the ground, but this stratum space seemed to be endless, there was always one layer under the other, and each layer was exactly the same covered with corpse pits.

Until the seventh floor.

It took almost an hour for Zhang Liang and Mulan to finally come to the seventh layer. According to the calculation of time, it should be dawn outside, but for them who are now in the stratum space, the environment is still as dark as night, or even darker than night......

In fact, the moment they entered the seventh layer, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan obviously felt that the feeling of this layer was completely different from the six layers above.

There is no earthy smell, the air is smooth, and although it is dark and invisible, you can feel a sense of silence and emptiness, and obviously, there is a lot of space on this level.

When Zhang Liang opened the ancient book of Yanling again and shone the light of fireflies, he discovered the situation in this layer of space.

They were still in a stratum tunnel, but the width of the tunnel was much wider than the previous six-story tunnel, and it was a very wide tunnel with a cross-sectional diameter of ten meters. And it meanders and stretches diagonally.

Seeing the extremely strange realm, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan couldn't help but be shocked, it seems that I, they have finally come to the deepest layer of the underground space, and down this huge tunnel, they will be able to see with their own eyes the secrets buried hundreds of meters deep under the ground in Afang Palace.

"It seems that this road is finally coming to an end." Mulan looked at the huge tunnel that was partially illuminated by the glow of fireflies, and said with a piercing gaze, "Let's go, all the secrets are waiting for us at the end of this tunnel." ”

"Wait a minute, Lan Lan." Zhang Liang stretched out his hand to stop Mulan, who was about to move forward, and said, "Let me use my soul perception to inspect it first." ”

After speaking, Zhang Liang closed his eyes, and the powerful soul perception immediately extended from his body, perceiving everything mysterious in the depths of this tunnel through the darkness that the glow of the fireflies could not dispel, and then, in the depths of the tunnel covered by darkness, a man wearing a dragon mask and a white robe stood quietly and silently.

"Did you find anything?" Hua Mulan saw that Zhang Liang stared at him for a long time without speaking, so she asked, "Is there any danger?" ”

"I saw the man in the dragon mask...... He's in the depths of the tunnel......"

"Okay, then let's catch up and find out his true face!" When Mulan heard this, she immediately said. Along the way, they were able to dive to the deepest part of the underground space on the seventh floor without any effort, so Hua Mulan was very curious, who was that man, who also infiltrated Afang Palace, but he could feel the terrain here so clearly.

However, just as Mulan was about to walk down the tunnel, Zhang Liang's hand was once again in front of her.

"Wait a minute...... Lan Lan, it seems that something is wrong......" Zhang Liang didn't open his eyes, but stopped Hua Mulan again and said in a low voice.

- In the depths of the tunnel, he stood silently, wearing a menacing dragon mask and carrying a clean white robe. Obviously, a few steps further can pass through the end of the tunnel and get a glimpse of the hidden secrets of Afang Palace. But here he stopped.

There was a little surprise in the man's light blue pupils, and in this silent and deep tunnel, he actually heard a burst of low breathing, and it was by no means the sound of human breathing.

What's even more strange is that the man has not applied lighting tools, and has been blindly following the judgment of hearing and touch in the vast darkness, however, at this moment, he found that there are many faint starlight spots on the rock walls around the tunnel.

Obviously, he was in the formation hundreds of meters down now, how could there be these strange points of light? Although it is only a glimmer of light, in the thick darkness beneath this layer, the slightest glimmer of light will make people feel extraordinarily bright.

Of course, at this time, the man's heart was more uneasy about these starlight classes.

The man stood still, and the starlight spots on the surrounding rock wall became brighter and brighter, and gradually the light became stronger and stronger to cast light on the man's white robe.

The man stared slightly, and the light emitted by the countless starlight classes on the rock wall around him fell on him, lighting up bright spots of light on him, making him feel as if a sword shaped like light was pointing at him.

The man knew he couldn't stop any longer, so he tentatively stepped forward.

But something strange happened, when the man walked forward step by step, the rock walls on both sides of the road quickly lit up countless starlight spots, although he kept moving forward, but there were always new starlight spots around him emitting light, through the thick darkness in the formation, projecting on the man.

Sensing that the situation was not good, the man immediately sped up, he was already deep in the depths of the tunnel, under the light of countless starlight points, after a few steps forward, he came to the end of the tunnel.

However, there were still flecks of starlight all around, and the light cast on him was dotted with countless spots of light—and he didn't avoid it.

And most bizarrely, when he reached the end of the tunnel, he was greeted by two points of light larger than a lantern and brighter than fire—and they were staring at the man.

It was also at this moment that the man realized that the starlight spots that flickered along the road were all staring at him!

Then, without warning, the entire huge tunnel shook violently under the action of inexplicable force.

——The loud sound of the earthquake alarmed Zhang Liang, who was perceiving the situation in the depths of the tunnel, and he immediately withdrew his extended perception and opened his eyes.

Hua Mulan just wanted to ask Zhang Liang what she sensed, but found a violent vibration from the ground - oh no! The whole tunnel was shaking violently.

Zhang Liang didn't say anything, in fact, needless to say, the vibration of the ground had already appeared in front of him, and the man's breath was also retreating along the tunnel, approaching them, of course, what was even more terrifying was that there was a very terrifying aura following the man behind, not leaving an inch.

Zhang Liang subconsciously shone the light of the ancient book of words and spirits into the tortuous tunnel, and at this time, the vibration of the tunnel became more and more violent, and the gray-haired wolf lying on the ground also felt something existing, and was strongly uneasy, and roared in a low voice with his head bent. And Mulan always condensed her pupils slightly, and in the vibration of this distance, she could clearly feel a strong murderous aura.

At this moment, a man in a white robe and a dragon mask appeared in the light of fireflies, and he was seen running up and down the tunnel.

However, a behemoth beast was following behind the man, chasing frantically - as it gradually approached, Zhang Liang and Hua Mulan clearly saw - it was a giant python, its whole body was as black as iron and stone, its two eyes were as big as lanterns, and the most bizarre thing was that its frantically swaying body was full of stars and flickering starlight spots, which were thousands of points—no! Those are not simple points of light, when the vision is clear enough, everyone can see clearly-the thousands of starlight that the giant python flashes all over its body, but it is actually a shining eye-it is full of eyes!