For a while, neither Li Huiyan nor I spoke.

Both of us are well aware of Li Huiyan's new discovery, and the risks involved are too great.

After all, these strange tree roots are completely out of our control, and it is true that they can restrain the corpse poison, but if one accidentally lets them suck the blood on Xiao Yue's body dry, I am afraid that when the time comes, if they fail to save people, they will become harmful.

"Although these roots can restrain the poison of corpses, I always feel that it is better not to do it. I checked Xiao Yue's breathing status before, although it was very weak, it looked stable, and there should not be too many problems in a short period of time. After thinking about it carefully, I said my thoughts to Li Huiyan.

"I see what you mean, and I'm just casually mentioning it." Li Huiyan nodded and said.

As soon as Li Huiyan's words fell, my eyes were attracted by the blood stains on the stone slab of the altar.

If these strange roots in the stone crevices of the altar can restrain the corpse poison, will it have something to do with the blood in these roots?

I secretly measured that when I broke these roots, I also had a lot of blood on my arms and bones, and the blood flowing from these roots didn't seem to be harmful.

Thinking of this, I immediately crouched down and wiped it on the ground with my palm.

"Zhang Sansan, what are you doing?" My sudden strange behavior made Li Huiyan a little confused, so she stepped forward and asked.

"Oh, I'd like to see if this blood can also restrain the corpse poison." I replied, and raised my palm at her, which had been dyed crimson.

"You don't want to smear this blood on Xiao Yue, it's too disgusting." Seeing this, Li Huiyan was so frightened that she hurriedly took a step back, and said with a pale face.

I have to say that most girls are naturally timid, even if they have a character like Li Huiyan, they can't help but be a little scared when they encounter these things.

In fact, I also felt extremely disgusted by the fishy smell of blood, but the situation was urgent, and I couldn't care about it.

I walked to the wooden coffin, glanced at Xiao Yue, who was still unconscious, hesitated for a moment and reached out to wipe the blood in my palm on her arm.

At present, I can only do this, and whether this blood has any effect or not is left to fate.

"Does it work?" Li Huiyan also came to the wooden coffin, glanced at Xiao Yue, and then turned to me and asked.

"I don't know, even if it works, it shouldn't be so fast, I'll find out later." I looked intently at Xiao Yue's somewhat blackened arm, and said with some uncertainty.

The waiting time was undoubtedly an ordeal, and five minutes was as long as five days.

Five minutes later, I thought it was time to test my guess, and that was probably the same amount of time it had taken for those strange roots to burrow into the coffin.

I directly took off my already wet shirt and used it as a rag, carefully wiping off the blood that had been wiped on Xiao Yue's arm before.

While doing this, I was a little nervous, a little afraid of what would happen if things didn't go as I expected.

Li Huiyan also watched nervously from the side, her breathing was a little short, and it could be seen that the nervousness in her heart was not much worse than mine.

The blood was gradually wiped away, and when Xiao Yue's white lotus root-like arm appeared in front of me again, my tense heartstrings were also loosened.

I saw that Xiao Yue's originally faintly blackened skin had an extra piece of white pink skin, and the skin of the two colors looked particularly eye-catching compared to each other, and this piece of skin was the place I had smeared with blood before.

"The blood really worked, Xiao Yue was saved." I can't express the excitement in my heart, all the hard work has not been in vain.

"Well, you're a boy, it's a little inconvenient, so I'll do the rest." Li Huiyan said.

I have no objection to Li Huiyan's words, after all, men and women are different, and some things still have to be avoided.

Although she was a little afraid and afraid of blood, Li Huiyan then endured her discomfort and began to use the blood on the altar to help Xiao Yue remove the corpse poison.

Out of boredom, I jumped off the altar and began to wander around the bottom of the pool, looking for an exit.

After a few more glances at the ancient and mysterious words and symbols carved on the stone slab of the altar, I finally had to shake my head and leave, and I really couldn't understand these words.

Then I looked around the stone wall at the bottom of the pool.

Due to the passage of time, the stone walls at the bottom of the pond have long been covered with a thick layer of moss, and I did not notice anything unusual on these stone walls at the beginning.

However, when I casually touched the stone walls, I found something that I hadn't noticed before, and there were some ancient murals with simple lines carved on the moss-covered stone walls.

This unexpected discovery immediately aroused my curiosity, and I simply took advantage of the fact that I had nothing to do now, and wiped the moss from the stone wall with my hands.

Moments later, the first complete mural came into view. I looked at the mural for a moment, and I roughly understood what it depicted, which was a group of people in big robes and big hats kneeling on the ground and kowtowing.

What struck me a little strange was that the object of these people's kowtows was not a human being, nor a god stone statue or anything like that, but a large bare tree with no leaves.

Although the lines of this painting are very simple and obscure, it still gives people the illusion of being there, as if they can feel the devotion in the hearts of these people when they bow down to the trees.

Such a strange mural aroused my curiosity completely, and after seeing the first mural, I couldn't wait to wipe the moss off the stone wall next to it, revealing the true face of the second mural.

The content of the second mural is not as complex as the first mural, and there are only fifteen or sixteen figures carved on the picture, but the second mural shocked me more than the first.

The reason is simple, because the carvings on the second mural are just too bloody.

It's still the tree in the first mural, but this time it shows a man and a woman hanging upside down from a tree, and two soldiers with halberd-like weapons stabbed into the chests of the two men on the tree. Drops of blood dripped down the hair into the soil at the base of the tree, as if watering the tree with the blood of a living person, so that the blood became the nourishment for the growth of the tree.

Around the roots of the tree, there are also some dead twisted and horizontal skeletons, as if to tell such a bloody and cruel truth.

After seeing this scene, my heart couldn't stand it.

History records that many nobles before the Qin and Han dynasties did not regard commoners as human beings at all, and it was not groundless to think about it.

In many ancient tombs that have been excavated by archaeology, you can also see the remains of many martyrs, all of which are indictments of the evil of feudal rule.

"What is this?" I looked intently at the murals on the stone wall, not noticing that Li Huiyan had come to my side, she looked at the two murals that I had wiped out, and asked with some curiosity.

"Just look at it." I didn't answer her directly, but said.

I believe that with Li Huiyan's cleverness, it is easy to understand the meaning depicted in these two murals.

Hearing this, Li Huiyan didn't say much, and walked up to the first two and began to observe the two murals carefully and carefully.

"These people are really hateful, they don't take human life seriously at all." Li Huiyan looked at the murals very quickly, and in less than a minute, she finished reading the two murals and understood what was depicted in the murals, and said with some indignation.

"That's true." I didn't know what to say, so I had to reply.

"By the way, how is Xiao Yue? Have you already done it? "I suddenly remembered that Li Huiyan was not supposed to use blood to help Xiao Yue clean up the corpse poison, why did she come to me, and I couldn't help asking.

"Well, I've already smeared Xiao Yue's whole body with blood, but ......" Li Huiyan nodded, and continued with some hesitation: "But we may not be able to completely clean up the corpse poison on Xiao Yue's body, unless the wound on her back can heal." ”

I frowned, Li Huiyan's meaning was already obvious.

The corpse poison on Xiao Yue's body was caused by the wound poked by the fingernails of the female corpse in the bronze coffin, and we can use this blood to temporarily remove the corpse poison that spread to Xiao Yue's body.

But treating the symptoms is not the root cause, as long as the wound on Xiao Yue's back still exists, the corpse poison may spread throughout the body at any time.

"Anyway, as long as she can temporarily clean up some corpse poison, it is also good, at least it can buy her more time, otherwise with her previous physical condition, she will last for another four or five hours at most." Seeing that Li Huiyan's mood was a little lost, I comforted her.

"Let's take a look at these murals first, maybe we can find some other clues in the murals." Hearing my words, Li Huiyan's face finally looked a little better and said to me.

"Hmm." Li Huiyan's words hit the heart of my heart, and I immediately responded and began to clean up the murals next to me.

As I did this, I watched the altar from time to time out of the corner of my eye. With the previous lesson, I was very jealous of those strange tree roots on the altar, for fear that they would take advantage of our inattention and sneak into the wooden coffin again to the detriment of Xiao Yue.

Fortunately, my worries were a little unnecessary, and these tree roots seemed to have become a little cowering because of the violent actions of Li Huiyan and me, and they all shrank in the cracks of the stones, and they didn't dare to come out at all.

Ten minutes later, all the murals on the stone wall were cleaned up by Li Huiyan and me.

None of us spoke, but we slowly looked along the murals, and finally saw the meaning of this whole set of murals clearly.

The frescoes roughly depict a great general, who is supposed to refer to the owner of the tomb, who was attacking a city and encountered a strange tribe whose people did not worship the gods or the heavens, but were extremely devout to a tree.

Eventually, the general ordered the tribe to be slaughtered and the corpses were thrown around the tree, only to find that the tree was different from ordinary trees in that it could absorb flesh and blood for its own nourishment.

That's the general idea of these murals, but the last one is a little strange. The last mural is divided into two parts, the first of which appears to depict the scene of a funeral with not only a huge coffin, but also dozens of people carrying a large tree into the burial chamber.

In the end, there was another tragic scene, countless people were buried, and their blood was built into a huge crescent-shaped pool of blood, and in the pool of blood were placed the big tree and the coffin.

"This ...... Could it be that these roots have something to do with the tree in the mural? ”

After looking at the mural, I was a little dumbfounded, glanced at the crimson roots on the altar that were shrunk in the cracks in the stone, and said to Li Huiyan.