"How can this be ......"

Li Heng looked at the inside of the iron coffin with the lights on, but his face showed an incredible color that was extremely rare.

He thought of many possibilities—a dried corpse, or a skeleton, or nothing at all, just an empty shell, or even a lifelike corpse, which he could accept.

But he never expected such a scene.

A pile of corpses, a lot of corpses piled up inside this coffin!

But not the corpse of a man, but the corpse of a mouse!

I don't know if it's a few dozen or hundreds, but a large number of rat corpses have been decomposed and dried up.

Could it be that the fucking White Lotus cult worships the enshrined Great Immortals as a bunch of rats?

There must be something strange in this!

Li Heng directly dug open the pile of mouse corpses, and suddenly a foul smell came up, but fortunately, he couldn't smell it at this moment.

He had already taken a deep breath of air in his lungs before this, enough to sustain him for more than ten minutes.

And when he opened the pile of rat corpses, Li Heng also sensed that something was wrong.

It's too big.

These dead rats are all too big, and they didn't notice it at first because these rat corpses have weathered and shrunk, and their size has shrunk to a certain extent.

Now these rats obviously have an abnormal body size, much larger than the average vole and mountain mouse.

Suddenly, he remembered the story.

It is the story of the Republic of China period that I heard from the old man not long after entering the mountain!

Rats, giant rats, is there anything to do with the two?

Li Heng naturally made a connection between the two in his mind, after all, such a coincidence could hardly be said to be accidental.

What's more, it's very wrong for natural mice to grow so big, and all kinds of weirdness are hard to explain.

Li Heng could only pursue it on his own, and continued to turn over these disgusting rat corpses for clues until he turned something out of it.

He twisted a dry bone in his right hand and put it under the light to examine it carefully, and for a moment his eyebrows narrowed slightly.

It's a small piece of human bone, and it has nothing to do with the corpses of these big rats, but it's eaten so badly that it's very damaged.

Li Heng continued to search, and as his movements became more and more detailed, the more clues he found.

More and more bone fragments were being dug out of the coffin and placed aside.

When the breath was over, he got up and left the coffin, exhaling a long breath of the remaining exhaust from his lungs and then another breath of outside air.

At this point, he was able to make a bold guess that there was a corpse in the coffin, but it had been eaten by the swarm of rats.

When he took a second breath, the evidence for this argument was soon found, and he found a gap in the corner of the side of the iron coffin, in which was a shriveled mouse carcass.

This gap is in a tricky location, and it is too dark here, so it has not been noticed before.

He ripped off the dead mouse, revealing a jagged hole that made his brow furrow.

If this irregularly shaped cut is not caused by a human tool, then it can only be - bite out!

But when you think about it, you feel a tingling in your scalp.

As a rodent with a mouth that can't stop, one of the most hateful things about rats is gnawing and destroying.

But rats that can gnaw iron, Li Heng is the first time he has seen it.

Imagine this scene, overwhelming rats rushing over, crawling along the stone beams and chains to these coffins, and then desperately gnawing at the iron sheet of the coffin, making a bone-chilling sound, and finally little by little they have to gnaw a hole in a weak place, and then get in, countless rats begin to frantically eat the corpses in the coffin, until they are completely torn apart!

And after eating the corpses, a large number of rats died violently on the spot, becoming these dried corpses left in the coffin.

And judging from the condition of the scene, these wooden tribute platforms and tablets have not been bitten, and they are not even passive, what does this mean?

It means as if these rats are coming for these coffins!

Ignoring everything else, just for the iron shells hanging here, or for the corpses inside.

Can something like a rat still have a purpose?

"After this place was abandoned by the White Lotus Sect, I'm afraid I'm not the first to come."

"These rats came here before I did, devouring the important things here."

Li Heng looked up at the remaining iron coffins hanging from them, and if there was no accident, the other coffins were in a similar situation.

In other words, the so-called "Great Immortals" in his heart have long been destroyed and destroyed.

This couldn't help but make him a little disappointed, but it was only a moment of loss that suddenly occurred to him.

"The movement of rodents is regular, and the movement of a large number of rats will leave specific traces......

Li Heng is really curious now, the feng shui topography of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the place where the remnants of Yixian are forbidden to become immortals, the legends and stories before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the ancient religious secrets of more than a hundred years, and the abnormal biological behavior......

Everything happened here, in the depths of the Qinling Mountains, in the land of the dragon vein.

He had a feeling that something key was the node of all this, and that node was what he was looking for!

He began to search non-stop for any signs that could be a mass movement of rats, even though it was probably many years old.

But fortunately, there is no light of day underground, and there is no wind and rain and environmental changes, and the traces of many years ago can still be preserved.

Directly pinning the long-lasting light overhead, he was like a bottom-digging miner to measure and retrieve this mountain hole step by step, looking for that bit of clue like a firefly in the dark.

"These are dried rat droppings......"

It wasn't until he found the powder hidden in the cracks of the stone in another darkness that the remnants formed a trail that stretched back and forth in the dark underground.

But Li Heng is more concerned about where these rats come from than where they end up!

So he finally chose to trace backwards and go deeper and darker underground.

Further down, the traces of artificiality began to decrease sharply, and the primitive and natural cave landforms filled Li Heng's sight, and it was obvious that even the White Lotus Sect back then was unwilling to go any further.

But this also means that the road ahead is more difficult to walk, and this rock fissure torn by geological changes is indeed rare.

And there is no sense of direction at all at this bottom, and Li Heng doesn't know where he should be on the ground now, and he is still near the entrance where he came down.

However, he was not too worried that he would get lost underneath, with his mental strength and the perception of his strengthened physique, even the slightest fluctuation of hair on the surface of his body caused by the airflow could be captured and sensed by his nervous system.

As long as there is still gas flowing underground, it means that there must be an opening connected to the atmosphere, then he is not worried about not being able to get out, unless he senses the space that is completely stagnant and stagnant, then he will not be in danger.

In the meandering passage of rock formations, Li Heng felt like he was walking in the esophagus of a giant beast.

Until he encountered another artifact again, at the end of this dark and narrow stratum, another artifact that could not have existed here.

He saw a well.

(End of chapter)