What makes me feel most uncomfortable is the mellow yang energy mixed with the corpse qi.

It is said that yang energy itself can be used to suppress corpse evil, and the evil corpse should not have such a qi field.

Lao Zuo took out the green steel sword, and made a cut on the shoulder of the evil corpse, and for a while, black blood overflowed, and an extremely strong stench floated in the air.

As if it could feel pain, the corpse retracted its shoulder and began to wriggle violently.

Lao Zuo gave me a look, I understood what he meant, and immediately took out an anti-poison pill from the waterproof bag, threw it in his face, he quickly opened his mouth, caught the pill in the air, and swallowed it on the spot.

When the effect of the medicine came up, Lao Zuo dipped a little bit of corpse blood with a green steel sword, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it carefully.

I raised my chin at Lao Zuo: "What do you smell?" ”

Lao Zuo was stunned and said: "There is a sweet smell, it should be the smell of toad oil, it seems that the people of Luofu Mountain originally planned to refine these corpses into copper armor corpses." Hey, it's not right, they inject yang energy into the corpse, and the bronze armored corpse can't become a corpse. ”

Li Huaishan interjected: "Luofu Mountain is also a famous mountain orthodox sect in the industry, why do you still raise a bronze armored corpse?" ”

I said, "This place has been around for many years, and I can't find many traces of living people, so I guess people in Luofu Mountain may not know that there is such a place in the mountain." ”

Lao Zuo waved his hand, signaling me and Li Huaishan to be quiet, and then he squatted down, looked carefully at the evil corpse on the ground, and rolled his eyelids and lips.

Fortunately, Lao Zuo didn't do this.

After about ten minutes, Lao Zuo stopped what he was doing, raised his head and looked at me: "It seems to be a yang array." ”

I didn't react: "What's that?" ”

Lao Zuo sank his breath and said: "The evil corpses under the water form a large yang array, and I can't see every mystery in this formation, but I can roughly see that the person who sets up the formation is likely to be an evil cultivator, and a decent person will not use the evil corpse to set up the array, but his purpose should be good, the formation composed of these evil corpses...... The structure of the Qi field is peaceful, full of yang energy, but there is half a bit of vitality left in the fierceness, if he guesses correctly, he is probably trying to use this array to suppress some kind of evil thing. ”

There is life left in the formation, but it is not to give the evil thing a chance to leave, it should be because of the fear that future generations will enter this place by mistake, so as to leave a way for those who enter the formation.

The person who arranged this formation was quite kind-hearted.

The so-called evil cultivation only means that the method he cultivates is more evil, but such a person is not necessarily an evil person.

I asked Lao Zuo: "You mean, there are still powerful evil things in the tomb?" ”

The old left-handed pouted: "Nine times out of ten." But I don't think this place is a tomb, it's more like a prison cell. ”

Just as Lao Zuo was talking, Huang Yuzhong flipped the flashlight and swept around.

On this isolated island under our feet, we can see many metal pegs of unknown age, and the pegs are covered with copper rings, which are wrapped in a thick layer of green rust due to perennial tidal decay.

Judging from the way the copper rings are distributed, they should all be handcuffs and leg cuffs with copper slings set on the ground.

Presumably, a long time ago, there may have been a special execution chamber here, and to this day, there is still a miserable and miserable atmosphere in the air, and if this field had been a little stronger, we might still be able to hear the mournful wails of the execution.

The scene in front of me reminded me of the dark room at the bottom of the water.

"There are cages underwater!" Liu Shangang suddenly shouted like this, and we rushed over to check the situation.

At that time, Liu Shangang's flashlight was facing the water surface next to the isolated island, and the light was directly pressed into the water, and at a depth of about half a foot from the water surface, the roof of a bronze cage appeared. Because the patina in the water is so muddy, we can only see the top of the cage at this point, and we can't see it at any deeper point.

Lao Zuo pointed to the water and said, "Pull it out and take a look." ”

It just so happened that I had this idea, so I didn't delay, stepped to the shore with an arrow, plunged my hands into the water, hugged the grating at the top of the cage, and pulled it upwards with all my might.

The cage weighed less than expected, and as soon as I pushed it hard, it was immediately pulled out of the water.

The cage is also 1.2 meters high, and because the damp rust is so severe, it is basically impossible to see its original appearance, only the outline of a circular cage and a section of sternum that falls at the bottom of the cage.

That's the sternum of a human being.

I guess there should have been a whole set of bones in the cage, but the cage came out of the water so fast just now that the other bones slipped off.

Lao Zuo took a closer look at the sternum in the cage, frowned and said, "Before this person died, a lot of life was injected into his body, which also caused his bones to undergo abnormal changes, and they have not rotted so far. ”

I was puzzled: "Inject life? ”

Lao Zuo explained: "This can make the person in the cage die at a very slow speed, normal people are soaked in water without eating or drinking, and they will die in a short time, but this person, even if all the skin on his body is soaked down, he can't die, until the moisture invades the heart and lungs and soaks the meridians, he will die, and this process will last at least two months." ”

Speaking of this, Lao Zuo was stunned first, and then he also mentioned the darkroom at the bottom of the water: "Do you remember the darkroom in Ghost Yin Mountain?" ”

"Of course I do."

"I suspect that this is probably also a place similar to a darkroom, and the person who built this water dungeon is even more inhuman than the Jinyi Guard during the Chenghua period."

Water prison, I think this word in Lao Zuo's mouth is really appropriate, this underground building surrounded by water is indeed a water prison.

After that, we swept down the water, and sure enough, the water on both sides of the island was filled with bronze cages of the same size.

The height of each cage is only one meter two, and the diameter is very narrow, so after a normal person is stuffed in, he can only curl up most of his body and stretch his legs out of the gap between the fences to barely ensure that his spine is not crushed in a short time.

Just curling up and sitting motionless in the cage is uncomfortable enough, coupled with the feeling of being gradually soaked in the heart, lungs and meridians by the moisture, the person who suffers from this kind of pain is simply worse than death.

It's no wonder that the resentment in this place has persisted for hundreds of years.

Originally, Lao Zuo asked us to check the underwater situation, mainly to see if there were other special arrangements in this area, but after investigating for a long time, we found only those bronze cages, which inevitably made Lao Zuo a little disappointed.

The person who arranged the corpse array did not seem to have walked on the island.

I have a big question in my heart, and I don't vomit or be unhappy: "Why is there such a water prison under Luofu Mountain?" ”

Lao Zuo shook his head.

Liang Houzai said: "This is indeed a big question, it is said that if someone builds such a water prison under Luofu Mountain, there will definitely be a big movement, and the people of Luofu Mountain will definitely notice it." The sects on the mountain are all famous and decent, if the disciples in the door find such a water prison, they will definitely try their best to stop the construction, no matter how bad it is, they will try to close the water prison, from the current signs, this water prison is not only very strong, but also put into use for a long time. ”

Lao Zuo probably felt that it was pointless to discuss this kind of thing now, so he picked up his flashlight, and walked towards the pile bridge at the end of the isolated island without saying a word.

He is like this sometimes, he suddenly thinks of something, and he does it directly without saying hello, and Liang Houzai and I are used to it.

Seeing that the old left front foot was on the pile bridge, I also beckoned everyone to follow.

The bridge was originally made up of stone piles that were rooted in the water, and the distance between the piles was irregular, and the size of the stone piles was not fixed, so we had to keep an eye on our feet to make sure we didn't fall into the water.

Some stone piles do not seem to be very stable, and when you step on them, there will be a slight shaking sensation, but no matter how you sway, it will not break or topple over, as if what is under your feet is not a stone pile, but a hardened rubber post.

The length of the entire pile bridge is about a kilometer, and by the time I got to the middle of the bridge, I could already see the scene on the other side of the bridge through ghostly eyes.

There was a stone platform floating on the water, the size of a third of a football field, with a half-open bronze arch on the earthen wall at the end of the platform.

At the same time, I also noticed that Lao Zuo was frowning vigorously, and I didn't know what he was thinking.

It wasn't until everyone climbed the stone platform that Lao Zuo quickly walked to the edge of the stone platform, leaned over and knocked on the nearest stone stake.

When he knocked on the pile face, he made a series of muffled "bang, bang" sounds, which did not seem to come from the stones.

Lao Zuo naturally heard that there was a problem, and saw that his fingers were violently forced, and he actually pinched a hole on the surface of the stone pile.

In terms of finger power alone, Lao Zuo is stronger than me, but no matter how strong the fingers are, it is impossible to crush the stone pile casually.

After a while, Lao Zuo said: "These piles are all pressed and bonded with bone meal, and some piles use too much glue to show elasticity similar to rubber products." ”

I said, "Bone meal? Made from dead people's bones? ”

Lao Zuo shook his head and said: "It shouldn't be a human bone, if it is a human bone, the color will be darker." There was some pure yin qi left on the bone pile, and it was speculated that it was made from the bones of evil creatures. ”

As he spoke, Lao Zuo stuffed the powder in his hand to me.

Through the experience of encountering various ancient artifacts over the years, I also tried to identify the composition of bone meal, from the graininess, the texture of these bones is somewhat similar to the thousand-year-old Xuanjia, but the delicacy is not as good as the Xuanjia, and from the degree of China Resources, it is a bit like pearl powder that has not been completely ground.

For a while, I couldn't deduce what kind of animal bones these bone meal were made from.

(End of chapter)