After Zuo Youdao landed, he couldn't help but complain: "The humidity is so heavy." ”

While speaking, Zuo Youdao turned on the flashlight and carefully lit the surroundings.

The underground rift valley runs from north to south, and where we now stand, it is precisely the highest point of the valley floor, and behind us is a steep slope that extends diagonally downward, and the top of the rock above us also extends diagonally.

The ramp was corroded by the damp air and the water droplets splashing from the top of the rock, and Zuo Youdao and I were now standing on top of a double-sided slide, sliding down the slope as long as we didn't stand firmly.

Zuo Youdao carefully swept the light forward, and then said to me, "The evil qi came from that direction. ”

I couldn't help frowning: "If we go in this direction, we should be able to reach the bottom of the lake, right?" ”

"It should be." Zuo Youdao responded, and his tone was a little dull.

Zuo Youdao is a smart person, and he should have realized that if we slide down the slope in front of our faces, we will not be able to encounter the corpse demon.

Corpse demons have always been difficult to deal with.

But now that we've come here, there's no reason to retreat.

I threw a backpack to Zuo Youdao, who slung the backpack over his shoulder, and I took the first step, sinking my body down, and sliding down the slope with my back against the wet and slippery ground.

The friction on the slope is a little more than expected, and the gliding speed is not very fast, because the backpack is in direct contact with the ground, and I don't know what kind of touch the ground will be, but I occasionally feel a little resistance in the process of sliding, and it seems that there is some kind of glue-like thing on the slope.

After about half an hour, the slope gradually slowed down, and Zuo Youdao and I stood up with each other's arms, and the road behind looked rough, with a lot of protruding stones on the ground, so we had to walk forward.

I wasn't in a hurry to go, I squatted down to check the situation on the ground, and when I lit the ground with a flashlight, I could indeed see a lump of soft glue, like the wet mud outside the rift, this special glue also had the smell of blood and rice fragrance mixed with it, but the blood smell was relatively lighter, but the rice fragrance was very strong, and even a little pungent.

What's even weirder is that if you don't put your nose on the grease and deliberately smell it, you won't be able to smell it.

Zuo Youdao muttered beside me: "The volatility of the smell is very weak, this thing may be some kind of spirit gastric juice." ”

I casually asked, "Could it be a corpse?" ”

Zuo Youdao shook his head: "It's hard to say for the time being." ”

I threw the glue in my hand and walked to the front with a flashlight, in fact, I can see the scene of 100 meters without a flashlight, and the reason why I walked in front of the light is just to provide some convenience for Zuo Youdao.

Once I noticed that there was an abnormality in front of me, I would hit the beam as soon as possible, so that Zuo Youdao could take precautions as soon as possible.

This rift did not take too long to form, and now you can still see the rubble scattered on the ground when the rock layer cracks, and you can often see cracks on the rock wall with less rounded edges, if the rift has existed long enough, the stones on the ground have long been corroded, and the cracks in the walls have been smoothed by dripping and damp at least if they do not form small karst caves.

It seems that the reason for the sudden disappearance of the river connected to the lake was indeed due to a large-scale change in the rock structure underground, and the current rift valley was also formed by that geological change.

I didn't go far, I saw a very large stone pillar about 500 meters in front of me, I visually checked, the pillar should be made of artificial stone bricks, the width of the column is at least about seven meters, the height of the column is less than five meters, under the pillar, it is considered to be paved stone slab, but connected to the top of the column, it is a natural stone top that is not regular in shape.

I could see the stone pillar, but I couldn't sense the Qi field inside, Zuo Youdao obviously couldn't see it, but he reminded me very early that the evil qi in front of me was very strong, and it wasn't until the flashlight lit up the pillar that Zuo Youdao said that the evil qi emanated from the brick cracks of the stone pillars.

At the same time, Zuo Youdao also said frankly that the evil qi of the nearby generation is not only in the stone pillar, but also in the back of the stone pillar, and there is also a thick evil qi floating from time to time, and the nature of the two evil qi is very different, obviously not the same source.

I leaned in front of the stone pillar and took a closer look, the stone bricks used to base it were reinforced with metal, and Zuo Youdao and I did not have tools for demolition, and wanted to break through the pillar to see the situation inside, but it was not operable at all.

Then Zuo Youdao and I carefully bypassed the pillar, and there was a tunnel directly behind the pillar that was artificially repaired, whether it was the pillar behind me or the four-edged blue bricks in the tunnel, there was a smell of the Ming Dynasty Chenghua period.

Wang Zhi, the dead eunuch who set up a dark room in Miaojiang back then, originated in the Chenghua period.

If I'm not mistaken, this tunnel deep underground is probably part of the entire darkroom structure.

I just don't know how much manpower and material resources were spent in order to build such an unsightly torture room. Just to vent his selfish desires, he dared to use such a big hand, no wonder the ancient literati often said that the internal officials misled the country, now that I think about it, this sentence does have some truth.

The tunnel was built straight, and there were permanent lamps every twenty meters on the flat ground, but after a long time, the lamp oil still remained a little, but the wick inside was rotten.

Zuo Youdao tried to light one of the lights with a lighter, but failed.

He didn't do it all on a whim, he wanted to verify whether there was any corpse oil mixed with the blood baby in the lamp oil, if there was, it means that the blood baby was probably raised here by the Jinyi Wei at that time, since they can raise the blood baby, they can also raise other things.

In many cases, the naturally formed spirits are not terrible, but the evil things that are artificially bred in captivity are more difficult to deal with, Zuo Youdao's worries are not completely unconfirmed, although he failed to light the lamp oil, but I still used the tooth to take a little lamp oil to smell it carefully, the grease does have a little blood and sweetness, but at present I can't be sure whether this smell comes from the blood baby, if the raw material of the lamp oil is fish oil, it will have a similar taste.

After that, Zuo Youdao and I were a little more careful, our steps slowed down a little, and the frequency of scanning around was much higher, during which I was looking for the traces of Huang Yuzhong and his party passing through here, and Zuo Youdao kept turning his flashlight, as if he was also looking for them.

It wasn't until the two of us were about to walk out of the tunnel that we found a rag in the brick crack in the wall of the road.

It was a piece of plaid cloth with a lot of elongated cotton wool on the breaks around the cloth pieces. This piece of cloth should have been torn off from Huang Yuzhong's shirt, it is estimated that Huang Yuzhong's body was close to the wall when he passed here, and a corner of his clothes was directly stuffed into the brick crack, and then I don't know what forcibly dragged him away, that thing was very powerful, and directly tore Huang Yuzhong's clothes.

The tunnel is very wide, why does Huang Yuzhong walk against the wall?

I was suspicious in my heart, so Zuo Youdao leaned over the brick wall, raised the green steel sword, and slammed the wall twice with the pebbles on the hilt, and immediately heard a hollow response from the other side of the wall, the space on the opposite side should not be small, and a slight echo could be faintly heard coming from the other side of the wall.

Zuo Youdao whispered to me: "There is evil qi on the other side. ”

I patted him on the shoulder, motioned for him to retreat, and then swung my fist into the wall.

The hardness and toughness of the quadrangular bricks are very high, and although I didn't smash the wall with this punch, I can still judge by the amplitude of the wall vibration, and the thickness of the wall is only about ten centimeters, and there is no other partition behind the wall, so it is empty.

Then I threw a few more punches, and finally smashed a hole in the wall.

Opposite the brick wall is a natural stone hall with an area of about 100 square meters, this stone hall should also be formed in the geological changes during the Yuan Dynasty, a lot of falling stones can also be seen on the ground, at the top of the stone hall 30 meters high, attached a layer of ten centimeters thick grease layer, a large number of loose corpses head down, feet up, were upside down and glued in the grease layer.

These corpses have long been dried in the shade, except for the bones, only a layer of dry flesh is left on the body, and there is a very regular round hole in the position of their chest, and the heart and lungs in the chest cavity have been taken out, and when you look into the hole, you can only see a piece of black.

To the northwest of the stone hall, there is a small pool of water, and the ghost's eyesight can barely penetrate the surface of the water and see that there is a deep passage underwater.

At first, I thought that Huang Yuzhong and the others might be imprisoned in the space behind the brick wall, but now when I look around, except for the waterway in the stone hall, it is surrounded by walls, and there is no other passage at all, and I didn't find anything like a secret door on the brick wall, and Huang Yuzhong and them can't be transported in.

Zuo Youdao wanted to get into it with a flashlight, but I grabbed his wrist and shook my head at him: "The stone hall is closed, and it is impossible for a few of them to be transported in." ”

"How did those bodies on top of their heads get in?" Zuo Youdao questioned.

I said, "They must have been here before Jinyiwei built this tunnel." ”

Zuo Youdao hit the flashlight at the water surface in the corner of the stone hall: "The evil qi in the water is very heavy. ”

I nodded, "The waterway is very deep, and even if there is something in it, we can't dive that deep." ”

Zuo Youdao moved the beam back, and after a short while, he said to me again: "This kind of thing is not possible for the corpse demon to do it, the corpse demon only has ** blood and soul, and has no interest in the flesh of the heart." There is indeed something else underneath the ground besides the corpse demons. ”

I said that now is not the time to think about these things, it is better to find Huang Yuzhong and them first.

(End of chapter)