I reached out and touched the water, caught a glimpse of the marks on the reef and said, "Don't bother, just let the sea monkey use his hook to make a circle here." ”

Bai Wuchang looked at me in disbelief and asked, "Are you sure?" ”

"Believe it or not, look for it or not." I replied coldly.

"You!" Bai Wuchang was so angry that I couldn't speak, and Old Man Liu glanced at the sea monkey at this time, and said, "You go and help catch it." ”

The sea monkey was taken out of his back, walked between the reef I had just pointed to, and threw the hook out with all his might, but in a moment, when he pulled the hook back, he brought up a blood-red arm.

The arm was blood-red, and the skin on it was gone, but there was a strange layer of mucus on it, and it seemed that it was this layer of mucus that did not let his blood spread on the surface of the sea.

The sea monkey frowned and said, "Let's come and fish together, the mucus on this corpse is too slippery." I've helped you find the location of the body, and the rest is up to you. ”

To put it bluntly, there is no difference between the sea monkey and the corpse, but they ask for money, and the corpse they fish up must belong to him no matter what objects they are carrying.

Bai Wuchang said coldly: "Come on, wrap the rope around his arm, and then drag him up." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the people of the Ghost Gate brought a long rope, put it around his shoulders from under his neck, and slowly dragged the corpse to the shore. The body had just been dragged out, and all those standing on the edge of the reef took a breath of cold air. The surface of the corpse looked as if it had been skinned alive, and it was covered in mucus like an arm, and there was no trace of blood except for the place where the sea monkey had broken it with a hook just now.

I looked at the corpse as if I were looking at a molten man, his whole body as if it was hidden in the slime, waiting for the right opportunity to burst out.

The people of the Ghost Gate dragged the corpse to the shore, and everyone took a few steps back, looking at the corpse very vigilantly, waiting for Bai Wuchang to give orders.

Bai Wuchang turned his head to look at Old Man Liu and asked, "Mr. Liu, what's going on with his corpse?" ”

Old man Liu frowned and shook his head: "I don't know very well, this method of death is like a punishment for mortals in ancient times, but I don't know what this layer of mucus is." Sea monkeys, do you know them? ”

The sea monkey also shook his head and said, "I have never seen this kind of death." Strangely, I just probed under the sea, and I didn't find his human skin. ”

Xu Xiaoyao opened his mouth at this time: "This person's death seems to be poisoned." ”

Bai Wuchang looked back at her and asked, "Where did you tell that he was poisoned?" ”

Xu Xiaoyao explained: "His death is very similar to one of the Gu poisons, called Ten Thousand Snake Venom. As long as a person is poisoned by ten thousand snakes, his whole body will transform into a snake, and if he does not take the antidote within five minutes, he will shed all the skin on his body like a snake, and the snake's mucus wraps his entire body in it, but the mucus is not like the skin can block sunlight and sea water, so when he falls into the sea, he will be soaked by sea water to the flesh and blood without skin, and thus die of pain. ”

"Si ......" Bai Wuchang gasped, "Who poisoned him?" ”

At this time, someone whispered, "Venerable, he seems to be alive." ”

I walked with Bai Wuchang to the corpse. Sure enough, looking at the corpse's chest as if panting, Bai Wuchang just hesitated, then took out a long knife and cut his arm, blood burst onto his clothes, Bai Wuchang pulled back the knife and said coldly: "Bury him." ”

Old man Liu, who had been beside him without speaking, suddenly spoke: "Look around where the corpse was found, especially on the relatively high reef, and take a good look to see if there is any human skin." ”

Bai Wuchang asked with a gloomy face, "What are you looking for human skins for?" ”

Old man Liu hesitated for a moment and said, "It's nothing, it's just a little suspicious." ”

Old Man Liu didn't directly say what he was suspicious of, but I took his words and said, "He is suspecting that the secret realm where we are located is the territory of the Punishment Rock. Your human death is exactly the same as the ancient skin of ancient times, and if you find human skin nearby, it proves our mind, and we are still in the Punishment Rock. ”

Lao Yu's face suddenly turned white, "You are talking nonsense, we have just walked out of the Punishment Rock, and where would the punishment in ancient times use such a thing as ten thousand snake venom." ”

It's not the first time I've seen Lao Yu's greed for life and fear of death, and it's reasonable for him to say this, and I don't want to argue with him, but I looked at the group of people who were looking for human skins.

After a while, I heard someone shouting, "I found a human skin here!" ”

We followed the source of the sound, and sure enough, we saw a full human skin resting on a reef. Although the human skin had no flesh and blood, it was still possible to clearly see the original appearance of the human skin.

Bai Wuchang said coldly: "Go and peel off the human skin." ”

"Can't be revealed!" Lao Yu shouted repeatedly: "This is skinning to show the public!" In ancient times, who dared to peel off the skin of the people who were skinned for public display, this is the same sin, the same sin! But don't touch it! ”

When Bai Wuchang hesitated, I had already jumped up, reached out and grabbed the foot of the human skin, and pulled him off the reef with a strong pull.

Lao Yu was suddenly frightened by my behavior: "You! What are you doing? How can this thing be moved? If you want to die, don't drag us down! Mr. Liu, get him rid of him, if this leads the torturers, we will all have to die here! ”

"Shut up!" Old man Liu scolded sharply: "Brother Zhengxin, why did you tear off the human skin? ”

I touched the surface of the human skin and said, "I just want to see if it's really torture and kill." Look at this human skin, it looks like it has just been peeled off. ”

Lao Yu screamed: "Don't talk nonsense here, who can't see that you just want to be prestigious!" ”

I ignored Lao Yu's nonsense, looked up at Old Man Liu and said, "Skinning and showing the public was not a punishment at all in ancient times. Even though there would be a certain punishment for criminals in ancient times, it would not be so cruel, after all, emperors in ancient times put benevolence and righteousness first, and punishments such as skinning would only be used on special prisoners. ”

Xiao Cheng nodded and said: "Zhengxin is right, the punishment of skinning was gradually implemented in the Qing Dynasty, and before that, the punishment of skinning was not used on the prisoners. And more often than not, I have seen this kind of punishment in troubled times. ”