This is already a cave space recessed into the stone wall, and if the main hall is compared to magnificence, the cave is much more primitive and simple, and the stone walls are carved out of the plane everywhere, shaping the rough lines of gluttony.

The stone wall in the center is carved with a huge gluttonous head, protruding from the stone wall for half a meter, the beast's mouth is angry, the teeth are terrifying, the fangs on both sides just form a lamppost, it can be seen that two lamps are held on the top of the tusks, bypassing the lamp, the gluttonous mouth forms a semi-arched porch, looking at the appearance of the left and right door knockers, it can probably be pushed away from the outside.

Yue Guanchao took Song Siyuan to the porch, there were a lot of blood marks on the door, there were several layers of dried blood, and a very strange smell began to pour into the nostrils.

"It smells of flesh and blood."

Yue Guanchao sniffed his nose carefully, his eyes became vigilant, this is the vigilance that mountain and forest hunters have, as long as they smell blood, it proves that there are living creatures nearby that are injured or killed.

At this moment, everyone picked up the dagger machete, or even the shotgun, and looked straight at the grotto behind the hall in front of them.

Song Siyuan opened the backpack and took out the chain with the lock and put it into one of the door knockers, Yue Guanchao asked puzzledly, "What does this mean, you don't want to lock us all in." ”

"How is that possible? Don't you see the blood marks and nail scratches on the door panel, which means that the things behind the door are terrible, and when there is no body outside, it is probably caught by something, I will prepare the chains first, and if there is an accident, we will immediately come out and lock the door panel. ”

The heart of guarding against people is indispensable, Yue Guanchao nodded, pushed open the door panel and walked into it with a flashlight.

The flashlight shines on the stone wall, and there are a lot of gluttonous dark lines on the surface of the stone wall, and in each dark pattern gully, there are many rattan embedded in it, and the mucus secreted on the surface makes the wall look slimy.

Through the glow of the flashlight, it can also be seen that this is a narrow corridor, and it is probably a person walking side by side with his arms outstretched, extending forward into the mountain.

After about five minutes of walking, the smell in their noses became stronger and stronger, and at the same time, they could feel the warmth and moisture rushing over their faces, as if someone was breathing hot air into their faces.

At the same time, the dark stone wall has also changed!

Many mycelial clusters in the form of human bodies began to appear on the stone wall, as if people were clinging to the wall, and then the body burst open, and all the tendons, meridians, bones, and flesh were all flattened, turning into colorful mycelial flowers, like splashing paint on the wall.

Some of the mycelium flowers, and even the intact human face, can be seen in the colorful mycelium, there is a face constantly breathing and breathing, under the light, there is an extremely strange beauty, as if these creatures do not belong to this world at all, and the back of the person is straight.

The heat and blood they felt had an answer now, probably because these mycelium flowers and trees themselves would devour flesh and blood, so they would emit a bloody aura, and at the same time, due to the breath of human faces, there was a lot of heat here.

"What the hell is this?"

Yue Guanchao approached to observe, and there were only human faces and traces of human beings in this flower cluster, but they were only similar to human beings.

The pale skin and bloodless lips basically confirmed that the man was dead, but the muscles and lines on the human face were still shaking irregularly, as if some insect had been drilled under the skin, and the eyelids trembled and blinked, sometimes closed, sometimes opened, revealing lifeless pupils.

"Is this dead or alive?"

Yue Guanchao didn't know anything about this, if they were dead, how could they move casually, but if they were alive, it would be even more terrifying, after all, a person only had one face left, if he could still live, what kind of monster would he be.

Song Siyuan turned on the flashlight and shone on these faces, the mycelial flowers kept opening and closing in the light, and even the faces began to tremble frequently.

"This face is from the ghost side."

After that, she motioned to the old lady Kui to take a step forward, and when the old lady finished reading this face, she nodded at everyone: "There is a special mark on the eyebrows of the ghost people, which was planted since childhood, and it is true that the ghost people, could it be that all the disappeared ghost people have become like this here?" ”

Song Siyuan's face became serious: "If they were really killed, it is estimated that they have become food now, and they can appear on the wall, which just means that they are still alive, but they will never be human beings, but puppets of mycelium." ”

"Still alive?"

Elder Kui was surprised, if these ghost people were still alive, how much they had suffered in the past few decades was equivalent to being tortured for fifty years.

Song Siyuan nodded: "When I say alive, I mean that I want to live like mycelium and low-level plants, they have no consciousness, and they don't know that they are human, and the only feeling they retain should be the desire to eat flesh and blood." ”

With that, she motioned for the group to look at the teeth of the human face, which showed that the blood had coagulated, at least proving that the face could consume flesh.

"How did this happen, but these people have no digestive organs, what are they devouring flesh for?" Mrs. Kui was puzzled, and her face was full of questions.

Song Siyuan shone the flashlight nearby, and one of the human-shaped mycelial flowers was obviously shrunk, as if it was dried and wilted flowers, and the human face in it was even more dry and shapeless, as if it was a shrunken apple due to lack of water, wrinkled and full of dark wrinkles, and it could only be seen by the position of the eyes and nose that it was already a human face.

Compared to the living human face I just saw, it looks like it has withered and died!

Song Siyuan observed the relationship between the mushrooms and explained: "I see, these mushrooms are interconnected, and if I guess correctly, these mushrooms are bloodthirsty not to feed themselves, but similar to predatory organs, grabbing prey and devouring flesh and blood, in order to feed something at the end of the road." ”

"And the remaining human remains will be assimilated into new mycelial flowers, and at present, two situations can be inferred from the difference between the two faces."

In the first case, these doughs are dead, and when they lack prey, they will die because they can't eat, and eventually become the shrunken state they see now, which confirms that these things do devour flesh.

In the second case, these legions of faces are not dead, they are just dormant after the lack of prey, like plants in the dry season, they will shrink as much as possible to preserve themselves, and as long as the rainy season comes, they will stretch their bodies again and start foraging.

Song Siyuan looked at the withered mycelium: "The first situation is okay, no one has been to these places for fifty or sixty years, which shows that these dough mushrooms are constantly losing nutrients and gradually withering and dying, which is the second situation that we see, the real horror!" ”

Her face became solemn: "There have been no living creatures here for fifty or sixty years, so most of the human dough mushrooms have entered a dormant state due to the lack of prey, and even deliberately withered themselves to maintain nutrients, leaving only some human dough dough to remain normal to protect the population." ”

"It's like a dry season plant, it doesn't mean that they are dead, their withering is just a strategy for the group to protect themselves, as long as they wait for the rainy season to come, they can return to normal from the withered state, in this case, the plants are waiting for the rainy season, these people are waiting for the fungus dough, probably the prey that took the initiative to go to this road."

"That means, we're in trouble!"

After that, Song Siyuan scanned the road they hadn't finished walking with a flashlight, and within the visible range of the beam, many withered human dough mushrooms seemed to smell the smell of prey, and they were already waking up.

"Let's go!"

Yue Guanchao gave an order, and everyone ran towards the exit.

I don't know if it was this violent running that disturbed the dormant mycelium, and these mycelial flowers quickly woke up, constantly sticking out of their mouths, implicating each other into pieces, and the whole head came out of the wall and attacked everyone.

Looking backwards, it was as if countless grimaces were suspended in the air, supported by the mycelial network, rushing towards them.

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