The next day, Qiu Yan came to my tent early and woke me up from my sleep.

Qiu Yan said that most of the equipment was left in the cave, and she wanted to find six people to go down again.

I know that the reason why Qiu Yan wants six people is because we only have six sets of oxygen masks.

I thought about it for a while, after those skeletons were released, there shouldn't be much danger below, Qiu Yan said that she would not give up, so finding six people to go down again was the only way.

"Okay, you go and choose someone, let's eat something and go."

Qiu Yan smiled at me, and then turned around to pick someone.

Today's canyon has no water fog and high visibility, and everyone is amazed to see this rare scenery.

After breakfast, Qiu Yan made some simple arrangements.

The people who went down to the cave were still the six people who had chiseled the stone gate before, and the others stayed in the camp, Qiu Yan said to Xiang Wei, if possible, let him find a way to get some supplies outside, especially oxygen masks.

Xiang Wei didn't argue too much this time, only said that he would try his best to find a way.

Qiu Yan and I each picked up a piece of ointment from Long Quan and stuffed it into our nostrils and set off, the cave was still cold, but when we came in again, the cave looked much weirder.

It wasn't long before we reached the edge of the square, where the earth-shattering water was still falling tirelessly into the abyss, and a pile of skeletons had been washed away without a trace, and I looked at the gap in the distance where the lights were still flickering, and I wondered what strange things would happen next.

We turned our oxygen masks out, put them on, packed up some glowsticks and stuff, and headed for the gap again.

After coming to the gap, Long Quan and I stepped forward and leaned in to check the situation.

What I didn't expect was that there was no spacious hall behind this wall as I imagined, but only a relatively wide passage behind the gate, which was about three meters high and more than three meters wide.

There are two small ditches on either side of the passage, which are connected to the lampstand outside the wall, and at this time there are oil lamps lit every few meters on the ditch, and it seems that Long Quan's guess is completely correct: we have lit these oil lamps outside the wall.

The passage spiraled downward, and after making sure that there was no danger, Long Quan and I beckoned Qiu Yan and them to walk in.

When we turned the first corner of the passage, we saw some dry bones lying on the ground, some of them wearing rattan armor, some of them wearing only ordinary clothes, but they all had weapons in their hands, knives and swords, hammers and spears, and it was evident that there had been fierce battles in them.

"This is a Miao warrior!" Long Quan said as he stood beside a pair of dry bones in rattan armor.

In fact, there is no need for Long Quan to say, I probably guessed that Peng Da Worm Keyi's strength back then was definitely not as good as that of Peng Yonglie, so he could only use external forces to make trouble, and judging from our various investigations along the way, the Miao people were a rare force in Peng Da Worm's hands back then.

"I said that your Miao people are also very ambitious, not honestly staying in their own villages, but also running out to stir up disputes with other people's families!" I said with a hint of sarcasm.

"Brother He, I know you're complaining about the family in Pujiling, but you don't need to do this to me! As far as I know, we Miao people have never intended to interfere with other people's affairs, there must be other reasons for this, and I think we should not jump to conclusions until we figure it out. Besides, even if this group of Miao people had a bad plot back then, it was hundreds of years ago, what does it have to do with me? ”

Long Quan's words suddenly made me a little embarrassed, I was indeed a little too involved in the play, and I regarded the family in Pujiling as my own.

"That's it, Zimu, we only know a little bit about the matter, and we have to investigate the reasons behind it to know." Qiu Yan also reproached at this time.

I smiled and patted the dragon on the shoulder:

"Hehe, that's what I said, just kidding!"

With that, I continued on my way.

As I had gone some distance, I noticed that the passage was spiraling downward in almost the same radius, that is, we had been circling in a huge cylinder.

This discovery made me wonder what I had in the first place: if it was naturally formed, how could it be so standardized!

As I continued to walk down, I noticed more and more bones lying on the ground along the way, indicating that we were getting closer to the center of the battle.

Qiu Yan asked behind my back at this time:

"Why didn't these people raise their bodies?"

Actually, I don't know, about the cause of the corpse, my codex did not mention it, the codex only said that the corpse is related to the "qi" in the human body, as for what kind of relationship it has, it does not say.

From the stories of my grandmother and grandfather, I only found that there was a musty smell in the place where the corpse was raised, and I am not sure if it was caused by this "musty smell", and I don't know exactly how the musty smell caused the corpse.

Long Quan turned around at this time and said:

"Actually, I've heard my family mention this matter.

In the past, most of the Miao Gu were poisonous, insect venom, snake venom, grass venom, etc., but there were also spores, such as the corpse rot fungus you said, I guess it must be a Gu made from the spores of this fungus.

Spores are different from plant seeds, they are very vigorous, and many of them can be parasitic.

In this case, I think the spores are parasitic on the corpse, which makes the corpse a puppet of the spores, so we look like zombies, but in fact, this is just the activity of the spores. ”

I was a little dissatisfied that Long Quan had stolen my limelight, and at the same time, Long Quan's words were indeed different from those in the Codex, so I said:

"I heard that the corpse is related to the qi in the human body, only if the qi in the human body is not dispersed, this person may be corpse, besides, your statement can't explain why most of them have become dry bones, while the other small part has been corpses!"

Long Quan smiled and said:

"I agree with the saying qi, we martial arts practitioners pay attention to qi.

You see if it makes sense for me to say that:

Although the spores of the corpse rot fungus can be parasitized, but also pay attention to the environment, and there are successes or failures, not to say that all corpses will be parasitic after being parasitized by corpse rotten fungus, I think that only after the spores successfully seal the qi in the corpse, can they continue to grow with the corpse, otherwise, once the corpse has dispersed the qi before the spores seal the gas, or for some other reason the corpse rot bacteria cannot parasitize in the corpse, then the corpse will not be able to raise the corpse. ”

Long Quan's words aroused a burst of admiration from the people behind him, Qiu Yan and the others nodded yes, and I myself had nothing to say.

Long Quan is right, many things in this world cannot be explained clearly, not to mention the mysterious and mysterious miracle of corpses, not to mention why spores can't parasitize on other corpses, if the corpses parasitized by spores are all corpses, then won't this world become a world of half people and half zombies?

Although Long Quan was right about all this, he once again deepened my suspicions about him.

Before Long Quan revealed his Miao identity, he was like a well-behaved subordinate, and he would only answer a few words when the boss asked, but now, he talked endlessly and conclusively, as if he knew corpses better than me, as if he had deliberately hidden it from us before.

Listening to Qiu Yan's unwary discussion, I can't wait to tell them that they have been fooled, but I know that Long Quan must have a deeper identity that has not been revealed, and playing grass at this time will only scare the snake away.

I resisted the urge to keep walking, but at that moment, I heard the sound of flowing water.

I estimated that we had walked about three or four hundred meters down from the square, and with the elevation from the canyon into the cave all the way down, we were almost a kilometer underground.

One kilometer underground! Hundreds of years ago!

It's unimaginable!

But it makes me wonder more and more about what people did under this ground hundreds of years ago!

After a few more laps, I finally found the source of the sound of the water.

It turned out that at the end of the passage, there was an exit two or three meters high, and outside the exit, on one side was the same square as above, and on the other side, it was an underground river, and the underground river passed under the square, and there was no source or end in sight, and the sound of the water came from a waterfall falling above our heads.

Seeing this, I understood that this waterfall was flowing down from the square above, and it turned out that the abyss we saw at the beginning was leading to this underground river, and it seems that the skeletons that were pushed down by us also ended up falling here, but because of the current, now these skeletons don't know where they are being washed to.

If this underground river only gave me some epiphany, the square next to it blew my mind.

The square is not as big as the one above, at most the size of a basketball court, but in this space the size of a basketball court, there are dense piles of bones.

And in the middle of the square, there was a black stone embedded with a blue glow, and this stone was surrounded by an unconventional circle of stone bricks, and for some reason, there were more than a dozen squirming skeletons attached to the stone.

The strangest thing is that in front of this blue glowing stone, there are two stone beds with carved patterns, and the stone beds are also crowded with bones, but there is nothing on the stone bed.

I couldn't help but swallow, and then I glanced at the people next to me, and I saw that they were all just like me, stunned by what they saw.

"Oh my God, this is ~~" Qiu Yan was the first to speak, but no one responded to her.

At this time, I noticed that the ditch that had been leading down from above had also led to this place, and several lampstands around the square had been lit, and it was because of these lights that I discovered the murals around the square.

Strictly speaking, this is not a mural, but some stone slabs inlaid around the cave wall, and the stone slabs have inscriptions, and the text is relatively small, so it is not clear from a distance.

I was so attracted by the words that I couldn't help but walk slowly, who knew that I had only walked a few steps, and I found myself being pulled by a force, and the direction of this force was the stone that glowed with blue light.

This scared me a lot, Qiu Yan and them were the same, I yelled for Long Quan to come and save me, but when they came out and wanted to pull me, they were also pushed over.

For a moment, the six of us shouted in the cave, causing a burst of echoes, and the louder the echo, the more panicked we became, and the more panicked we became.

Eventually, the six of us were all pressed to the stone, and the skeletons were coming towards us with their claws outstretched and their mouths open!