Is it getting closer? ”

I gently stroked Qiqi's head, looking at the darkness in front of me with some distraction.

"A lot of people died in front!"

Soon, the carpenter came out of the darkness and beckoned to me.

"How many?"

I asked as I walked.

"A lot!"

The carpenter's tone was a little strange, unlike before, he carried an oil lamp in his hand, and the face reflected in the dim light was cloudy.

As before, I kept a certain distance from him to make sure I had enough time to react.

As the carpenter walked inside, about thirty meters, I saw the first body.

The moment I saw the corpse, I knew why the carpenter's voice and expression were strange.

The corpse was in a large shape in the middle of the corridor, with no strands on its body, and there was a small incision on its arms, thighs, neck, and every artery.

Blood flowed outward through these small openings, forming a blood-colored pattern around the corpse.

This man died of blood loss.

This method of death, compared to hanging and other methods of death, is relatively mild, and judging from the knife edge, he doesn't even feel much pain.

Although the pain is not much, the mental destruction is many times more serious than hanging and waiting for death.

But looking at the corpse's face, there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, which was the weirdest part.

Not only that, but there were many deliberately outlined blood troughs around the corpse, and after the blood flowed out, it flowed outward along the blood trough, some into the river and some into the surface.

"This is the first one!"

The carpenter walked around the corpse and continued on his way.

After walking less than five meters, a second body appeared in our sight.

The posture of the second corpse is almost exactly the same as the first, but there are no inches on the body, and the arteries in the arms, thighs, neck and other places have been cut with a knife.

This man also bled to death.

Not only that, but there were blood troughs on the ground, and everything was the same as the first corpse.

There was no clothing at the scene, and there was nothing to prove the identity of the corpse, so it was impossible to determine the occupation of the corpse.

"There's still one ahead!"

The carpenter waited for me to examine the body, and then continued with the oil lamp.

After walking about five meters, a third corpse appeared, and everything was the same as before.

All the way forward, every five meters or so, there was a corpse, and less than fifty meters or so, a total of nine corpses appeared.

These nine corpses, all died in the same way, and they all had faint smiles on their faces.

"The smell of blood in front has faded!"

Standing in front of the ninth corpse, the carpenter said with a frown.

"And corpses!" Qiqi said lightly.

The carpenter glanced up at Qiqi and didn't say anything!

I stared at the corpse, silently thinking about the similarities.

Nine corpses, all died in the same way, all of them died of blood loss, and there were blood troughs under their bodies, through which their blood seeped into the ground and into Hanoi.

I glanced sideways at the Yinyang River, and from the first corpse, the river began to retract, and the corridors on both sides began to widen.

Nine corpses, only fifty meters away, nearly half of the river is closed.

Not only that, but the color of the river has changed.

The river quietly turned black and red, and a faint cry of unwillingness could be heard coming from the river.

The carpenter didn't know what he was thinking, and stared at the corpse for a long time before stepping forward.

As before, I followed the carpenter and followed him forward.

Qiqi also began to be silent, his green eyes showed a hint of thought, and he didn't know what he was thinking!

After walking about ten meters, the carpenter stopped, lifted the oil lamp in his hand, and shone it in front of him, and the tenth corpse appeared.

Unlike the previous nine corpses, this corpse was dressed and had no obvious wounds on its body, but a look of horror on its face.

The body looked scared to death.

However, the specific situation needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.

None of the people who can come underground are ordinary people.

Just like the carpenter said, almost all of the people who come underground are from the Xuanmen, and they are used to seeing all kinds of supernatural events.

So, being scared to death, it's almost impossible.

It's not scared to death, but how did you die?

I have a headache, judging from the nine corpses before me, these people were deliberately intercepted and killed and then put in that strange pose.

And that posture is not necessarily a posture, but rather a formation.

It's a pity that the light underground is too dark, and some things can't be seen clearly, so you can only guess.

In fact, when I saw the third corpse, I already understood that this was a kind of blood sacrifice, and some people used these people for blood sacrifice.

The purpose of holding a blood sacrifice here is mostly impure, and in my opinion, nine times out of ten, it is to break the seal here.

I don't know who it is for the time being.

"There's something under the corpse!"

The carpenter agrees with me, and it is not easy to see how he looks.

"Something?"

I was surprised by the sudden arrival of the carpenter.

At this time, the carpenter will not lie to me.

"Hmm!"

The carpenter placed the oil lamp next to the corpse and crouched down.

The carpenter's move is not only to prove to me that he didn't want to deceive me, but also to say, I'll do it, you come to warn.

To do so is to keep the danger to yourself.

To be honest, I don't quite understand this person.

Judging by the carpenter's account of the past, this is a man with a clear grudge.

However, judging from his attitude towards the deceased, this person is a bit perverted, and he has an attitude of enjoyment towards death and killing.

It is difficult for normal people to rest assured of cooperating with this kind of person.

"Corpse Cockroach!"

I was looking at the carpenter, who had turned the body over with a file.

The moment the corpse turned over, a large pile of bugs was revealed.

The insect has a pitch-black body, nails on its back, teeth on the side of its mouth, and sharp arthropods.

This is a corpse inch, a type of beetle that feeds on corpses.

I thought it was the corpses eating the corpses, but when the carpenter set one aside and I found that the corpses were dead.

"Dead?" I wasn't quite sure, so I asked.

"Dead!"

The carpenter pulled out a corpse cockroach, pressed it with a file, and made a click, and the corpse cockroach shattered, but no juice burst out, this is an empty shell.

When the carpenter saw this scene, his eyes shrank, and he picked out two more corpse cockroaches, and then smashed them with a file.

Click!

Click!

A crisp sound echoed through the cave, and the corpse moths were just empty shells.

I squinted, unable to understand the meaning of doing this.

Why do you kill people and put some shriveled cockroaches underneath the corpses?

There are a lot of corpse cockroaches under this corpse, densely piled together, and there are hundreds of them.

I was disgusted to watch, and even more uncomfortable, I didn't know what I was doing it for.

The carpenter stood up and looked at the corpse cockroaches with a frown.

After a moment of silence, he pushed the corpse cockroach away with his foot, revealing what was below.

Underneath the corpse cockroach is a strange pattern in the shape of a lotus flower, which I look very familiar with.

After looking at it for a long time, I remembered, isn't this pattern composed of those blood troughs before!

At this moment, I reacted to what the other party was going to do.

As I guessed, he was going to push it when the lockdown was about to be lifted.

The previous nine corpses were made by blood sacrifice.

And starting with this corpse, it may be a soul sacrifice.

The carpenter and I looked at each other, and we both saw what was going on in each other's eyes, put down the body, and moved on.

As expected, we came across eight corpses in quick succession with the same death.

These corpses were all wide-eyed, with a look of horror on their faces, and there were dried dead corpses under them.

I know very well how tenacious the vitality of the corpse cockroach is.

I don't know how many years this thing can survive, according to the statement given in Grandpa's notes, this kind of corpse cockroach, without eating or drinking, can survive for more than 150 years.

The note says that corpse bugs can fall into a state of suspended animation, which is a method that consumes less than hibernation.

After entering a state of suspended animation, the corpse worm is no different from dead.

However, the corpse roach here is not a fake death, but a real death.

These corpse cockroaches have been hollowed out inside, and there is nothing left, only some shells.

"Look at the river, do you see something wrong?"

At this time, the carpenter was no longer as easy as he had been at the beginning.

"Found it!"

I nodded, but I didn't need to say it to the carpenter, I had already found out.

The color of the river is getting darker, at first it was black-red, now it is ink, and it is impossible to see what color it is.

Not only that, but the river is still bubbling up with small bubbles.

At first, the bubbles weren't too noticeable, but by the time the carpenter and I got here, the bubbles were already noticeable.

There are individual positions, as if a pot is boiling.

"Let's go!"

The carpenter seemed to be about to say something, and finally stared at the river for a while, bent down to pick up the oil lamp, and continued on.

I didn't say anything, and quietly followed.

This time, after walking for nearly five minutes, I didn't meet a single person, let alone a corpse.

This struck me as a little strange, not only that, but the river was further constricted, and when I got here, the river was less than a meter wide.

This width, very problematic.

I was a little skeptical that if I continued to go inside, the river would not be able to receive.

"There's a corpse again!"

Just then, the carpenter spoke again.

"Oh!"

My reaction was much weaker.

When I came down, I saw too many corpses.

And I also have some questions now, is it possible that these people in the Xuanmen were deliberately caused by Wuweizi's release.

It's not that this possibility, the guy I met before said that he would come three days ahead of me.

If everything is as usual, after the dragon vein is unsealed, the Xuanzi disciples who come here will be able to get benefits, which is not bad.

But the result is completely opposite, the children of the Xuanmen who entered the underground may have died more than eighty percent by this time, and they are still dead.

Not to mention anything else, the one that Qiqi and I are encountering now already has eighteen corpses.

I seriously suspect that Wu Weizi released the news and brought a group of Xuanmen disciples here in order to use them for blood sacrifices.

It's working well, at least for now.

Most of the Xuanmen disciples who entered the underground have already died, and the remaining ones are not much better, unless there is a backer behind them.

Everything is easy to do with a backer, but without a backer, you can only wait for your own death.

The carpenter must have thought of this as well, which is why he brought it up at the last minute.

The nineteenth corpse soon appeared in front of us, this time the corpse was sitting dead.

Unlike before, the body was sitting in the river.

The river is now very narrow, only about a meter, and the corpse sits in the water, almost blocking the river.

The corpse was dressed and did not have too much expression on its face, so it was impossible to tell whether it was joy or sorrow, and the key was that there were no obvious injuries on the body.

The carpenter circled the corpse twice with an oil lamp, but he didn't see anything!

I also don't see anything, and I don't understand, what is Wuweizi going to do?

"There should be corpses up ahead!"

The carpenter thought for a moment and moved on.

I stared at the corpse sitting cross-legged in the river, thought for a moment, and followed the carpenter.

It was similar to the previous situation, and after walking less than ten meters along the river, the twentieth corpse appeared.

Like the corpses in front of them, the corpses sat cross-legged in the water, without any injuries on the surface of their bodies, and their expressions were flat.

It's a little weird, how did they die?

"There's still one ahead!"

The carpenter reached out and pointed forward.

"Hmm!" I didn't ask too much and followed the carpenter.

As expected, there were nine more of the same corpses.

"They're probably hypnotized!"

Qiqi's voice remembered at this time.

"Hypnosis?"

Qiqiyi said, I have come back to my senses a little, and there is really such a possibility.

If nothing else, Chen Jingyi will be hypnotized, and she is still a hypnotist.

"Also, these twenty-seven corpses are all for sacrifice, do you feel that it is getting more and more cloudy here?"

Qiqi looked around and said vigilantly.

Qiqi didn't say it, she didn't have an idea about it, but as soon as she said it, I really felt a little cold.

The carpenter, who thought the same way as me, nodded his head.

"Blood sacrifice, soul sacrifice, human sacrifice!"

Qiqi looked at the depths of the cave with some distraction, and muttered: "I heard that the integration of the three sacrifices can trigger some unknowable changes, and he really believes in these!" ”

"What can't be believed, it's all come to this point, what does the other party dare not do!" I said.

Qiqi's words proved my guess, that Wuweizi just wanted to use the blood of the Xuanmen disciple to break the seal.

So far, the calculation has succeeded.

I have to say that Wuweizi's calculation is quite deep.

Or from the beginning, it was all a game he laid out.

From the fire in the Beishan Mental Hospital, to the legends of the top ten weird places in Dongyang, through these legends, he made the Xuanmen disciples discover that changes began to appear, and let Wen Xinyue and the forces behind him come here.

When everything is ready, it's time for the harvest to begin.

What is especially important is that Wu Weizi let some Xuanmen disciples enter the underground three days in advance.

I can now be sure that those who went underground three days early basically became cannon fodder.

From this point of view, Wuweizi is not bad to me, at least he didn't let me come over and die like those Xuanmen disciples.

"I smell them again, it's strong!"

Qiqi suddenly sniffled, got up from my arms, stood on my shoulder, and looked into the distance.

"There, hurry up, it's too late!"

The next moment, Qiqi stretched out his claws and pointed at him.

"Hmm!"

I snorted and ran out.

The carpenter was a little surprised, as if he didn't expect me to rush out like this.

At a time like this, rushing out at my speed is not much different from looking for death.

At the same time, there was a gurgling sound from the surface of the river, and bubbles rushed out of the bottom of the river, shattering in mid-air, turning into bits of mist that enveloped the entire river.

The sound of bubbles breaking sounded one after another, and the cave, which had not had much light, was covered with a layer of fog, and it was even more difficult to see.

I could only rely on instinct and rush forward under the guidance of Qiqi.

The carpenter was once again impressed by me, and instead of being thrown away, he chased after me, and a dim light of an oil lamp lit up behind me.

"Awesome, this can all keep up!"

I muttered a word and ran forward with Qiqi again.

Just as I was out of breath, the fog that permeated my surroundings seemed to be sucked away by some kind of suction.

When the fog cleared and I saw what was happening in front of me, I was a little confused.

Directly ahead, about thirty meters away from me, the lights were bright, and I saw a lot of acquaintances.

For example, Chen Hui three, such as Cheng Fanghua, for example, the zombie, and the green ghost, and the three partners in Qiqi's mouth.

All of them are in front.

I hesitated, and instead of moving forward immediately, I glanced back, and the carpenter arrived just then.

The carpenter's expression was similar to mine, but he quickly regained his composure and looked at everything in front of him indifferently.

I looked at the carpenter, at the heavy man who had been waiting for me for a long time, and I walked over.

As I got closer, I could see what was going on inside.

By this point, the river has been confined to about half a meter!

Oil lamps hung on the walls around the cave, illuminating the cave as if it were daylight.

In the middle of the cave, there was a bulge in the ground, and this bulge stretched for nearly ten meters, a bit like a back.

The strength of the uplift is a rock about one meter high, and the rock is pressed against the uplift, and chains are hung on it to bind the stones.

I looked closely, and the chains were nailed to the ground at one end and wrapped around the stone at the other, and I couldn't see the purpose of doing so.

Chen Hui and the others did not stop my observation, and even deliberately let me see some conditions, such as nails on the bulge.

Every twenty centimeters or so, a nail was driven into the bulge, half of which was driven into the bulge and half of which remained on it.

This section is bulging, densely nailed with a row of nails.

This thing is like a soul-locking nail, but the soul-locking nail locks the soul of a person, and these nails lock the leyline nodes, which are commonly known as dragon veins.

By this point, I've seen it completely.

This is probably where it all began, Wu Weizi and they have been designing for so long, and what they have been waiting for is this day, unlocking the dragon vein.

I glanced around and went through each of them, and what made me different was that I didn't find Wuweizi.

Chen Hui, Wang Yuxia, Chen Jingyi, Cheng Fanghua, Blood Fox......

My gaze swept over their faces in turn, and I was more puzzled, at this point, what else would I have to wait for?

The twenty-seven corpses in front, the nails here, they just need to lift the nails, and everything will be over.