Chapter 64: Corpse Rain
Fan Wu left the bottom of Longtan and entered the spring, and went down all the way down the underground water veins, passing through many forks, and carefully counted no more, no less, just eight, plus the waterway in Longtan, it is estimated that it is the nine yellow spring water leading to the nine ghost gates in the world.
He did not enter any of the forks, but went all the way against the main waterway, and it took him about a day to come to a place that might be the source of the Yellow Spring, which was a huge quagmire, the Yellow Quagmire.
Fan Wu felt that the water was getting thicker and thicker as he walked all the way along the Yellow Spring Waterway, and when he finally approached the quagmire, he already felt like he was in the muddy water, and finally broke away from the waterway after going against the current for a while.
When he pulled out the yellow mud and came out, he was startled, the source was really a quagmire, a huge yellow mud pool, what frightened him was that the whole quagmire was full of bones, and thousands of bones floated on the yellow mud like a mass grave.
Most of the bones in the quagmire are only bones, but there are still a small number of bones that are still stuck to the flesh that has not completely rotted and melted, there is a corpse next to Fan Wu that is only half decomposed, when he came out, he just saw the half-rotten head looking at him closely, I don't know if he was fascinated by the yellow mud and had an illusion in his eyes, as if he still winked at him.
Fan Wu hurriedly used both hands and feet to help his body get out of the thick yellow quagmire, and quickly flew to the sky above the quagmire to look down, the quagmire was about the size of three or four football fields, and it was covered with various corpses.
Many of them have fallen apart and you can't tell what kind of creature the bones are, and some have not fallen apart to see the structure of the skeleton, humanoids account for the majority, but there are also many strange-shaped skeletons, long strips, round, three-headed, six-headed, nine-headed, six-handed, eight-legged, and nine-tailed.
I don't know if it's a creature from the underworld, anyway, Fan Wu has never seen it when he was in the world, there are strange beasts with similar shapes in myths and legends, but it shouldn't be possible to die here, and there are so many of them.
When Fan Wu was still in the air observing and distinguishing the species of creatures, he heard a loud sound of breaking the air in the distance, as if a huge object was flying over, he quickly observed the surrounding terrain, and saw a small forest not far to the right, quickly lowered the height and flew over against the surface of the pool.
As soon as I hid my body, I saw a flying object like a cruise ship flying in the air, three stories high, above the surface of the ship like a modern cruise ship, but below the surface of the ship is flat, not like the modern V-bottom boat in the world, more like the ancient flat-bottomed boat.
The nondescript ship flew from a distance, not fast, but there was a huge sound of breaking the air, and the rumbling finally hovered directly above the yellow mud pool, and there was no movement, not even the sound of breaking the air.
Fan Wu, who was hiding in the trees and watching the ship through the gaps in the leaves, did not see any power devices on the hull of the ship, no propellers, air currents or anything, and was a little curious about how it was suspended when it was not a living thing.
After stopping for a while, the bottom of the spaceship suddenly opened to both sides, and a large number of objects continued to fall out of it, falling into the yellow mud like dumplings.
Fan Wu squinted his eyes from a different angle, and saw clearly that what fell was a corpse, and it looked like they should have just died, because there was blood like rain falling from the corpse.
It took a while for the corpse rain to finish, and Fan Wu couldn't help but wonder if the ship itself was a space magic weapon, otherwise how could it hold so many corpses.
After the spacecraft unloaded the corpses, it made a loud rumbling sound of breaking the air again, leaving the quagmire and flying into the distance, and after it was out of sight, Fan Wu left the forest and flew over the pile of corpses that had been unloaded just now.
The corpses piled up into a hill are estimated to be thousands, and the ones pressed on the lowest layer have sunk into the quagmire, and they still look like most of them are humanoids above the surface of the pool, but this time because they are fresh corpses, Fan Wu can see clearly, although they are humanoid, they are definitely not human.
At least not the modern humans on Earth, because they are all more or less different from the humans he knows, some have fewer eyes, some have more arms, and even have more heads.
As for those non-humanoid creatures, they were even more bizarre, a one-legged cow, a two-headed snake, a fox with three tails, and a half-snake and half-turtle creature that resembled a stone god statue were also pressed in the middle of the corpse mountain.
Seeing that there were no pure human beings in these corpses, Fan Wu felt a little better, when he climbed out just now, he knew that the yellow spring water he absorbed was actually the corpse water after the bones had melted, and he was so disgusted that he wanted to vomit, although he also felt disgusting now, but he knew that it was not a human corpse, so he finally accepted it psychologically.
Fan Wu thought that if the source of the yellow spring water was corpse water, then how many corpses would it take for so many years to maintain the continuous flow of the spring water, and where did the corpses come from?
Fan Wu, who was contemplating, heard the sound of the spaceship breaking through the air again, and hurriedly flew back to the woods at a low altitude again, this time it was the same style of spaceship, and it unloaded a lot of corpses, but it was just a place to move.
Next, according to the frequency of about ten minutes, Fan Wu saw one after another spaceships come to the Yellow Mudpool to unload the corpses, a total of twenty ships, according to the calculation of 3,000 corpses each, more than 60,000 corpses have been transported here in this small half a day.
Although there are no spaceships coming after waiting for a long time, but this number is scary enough, I wonder if there are so many corpses transported every day, if so, it will be terrifying, is there a big battlefield nearby?
The corpse ship no longer appeared, Fan Wu did not go to look at the corpse again, sat on the tree and thought about it before he found that the tree he was in was a locust tree, it turned out that this was a locust forest, look around, not only here, there is a locust forest in the four directions of the east, west, north and south of the Yellow Mudpool.
There are actually four locust forests on the edge of the yellow mud mass grave, which don't look like they grow naturally, Fan Wu patted the locust tree where he was with his palm, and faintly heard a faint murmur.
And so it was. ”
Legend has it that the locust tree is the favorite place for lonely souls and wild ghosts, and Fan Wu guessed that these four locust forests were specially planted here to prevent the remnants of the thousands of corpses in the yellow mud pool from leaving.
Although the corpses must have been cleaned up before they were abandoned, there will still be times when they are missed, even if there is only one remnant soul in a thousand corpses, after so many years, it is estimated that every locust tree here has a lot of remnant souls attached to it.
Fan Wu wanted to be able to grab some remnant souls from the tree and ask where they came from, but after catching several of them, he found that they either had a confused memory, or they had lost their memories at all, and they couldn't ask for any useful information, only that they were not creatures of the earth.
The unwilling Fan Wu tried to change the locust forest, and the result was the same, the four locust forests were all asked, and he didn't remember anything.
Fan Wu, who returned to the first locust forest again, decided to wait here for the arrival of the next spaceship, thinking of following to see where the corpse came from, and during the time of waiting, the bored Fan Wu continued to ask the remnant soul one by one, and spent half a day asking all the trees in the locust forest, but there was still no information.
In the end, he was a little 'annoyed and angry' and took away a locust tree, in fact, he changed his mind this time and did not go to 'return the gift' for the time being, and came to the underworld for two purposes.
The first purpose is to temporarily leave the big conspiracy and big mud pit in the world, find a place that no one knows to think about it, improve it, and wait until when you feel that you have figured it out and your strength is enough, and then go back to have a good 'courtesy exchange'.
The second purpose is to go to the Netherworld Mansion to find the legendary judge surnamed Cui to check the book of life and death, and check his life experience, as well as the life history of those 'good friends', he doesn't want to be led by the nose like this again, and his future fate must be clearly in his own hands.
As for whether you can find Judge Cui, and whether you can check the book of life and death smoothly after finding it, then let's talk about it then, if not, bribe, don't all the people in the official family like this set.
But if you want to bribe, you have to have something you can get your hands on, Fan Wu thought that in the future, he would have to learn to scrape the ground along the way, and if he saw anything that could be taken away, he had to find a way to take it away, even if he didn't know if it was valuable for the time being, but maybe he would be able to use it when he would.
So he decided to start here, so he took a locust tree with him, not directly with a ring, and his ring didn't have such a big space at all, but staying at the bottom of the pool for three more days allowed Fan Wu to finally figure out the true effect of that painting skill.
That is, you can ban the things in the picture into a real painting, combined with the solid properties of the Soul Ring, you can take the things in the painting away, but after taking it out again, it will return to its original state, and if you want to take it away again, you must re-paint it.
Now he has dozens of paintings of yellow spring water stored in his ring, which is equivalent to bringing a large amount of yellow spring water with him in disguise, which is used to support his consumption of future paintings.
There are two ways to completely take away the painting, one is to draw all the surface details of it, and the other is to convey the spirit and draw the verve, which is too difficult.
According to Fan Wu's current level, he must observe closely to paint the surface details, which is far from the level of expressiveness, so he can only take the first way, and he can only paint one thing at a time.
This time, I spent the energy of a painting of yellow spring water to paint a total of ten trees, and took away nine of them, and the third one was not painted well, and the painting paper dissipated with the wind and could not be taken away.
I also wanted to paint a few yellow clay paintings, but I couldn't stand the nausea caused by the floating surface of the bones, so I only took away two yellow clay paintings.
The ability of this trick is really more cheating than the Vulcan gun, and it is also against the sky, and it is a pity that the current Fan Wu can only draw static dead things, and he has not drawn characters or animals for the time being, so I don't know what the effect is.
If the creature is drawn with the same effect, then it will be much easier to fight the enemy in the future, in modern terms, this is a dimensionality reduction strike, but unless you are secretly drawing without the other party's knowledge, it is too difficult to draw it in an instant when you want to fight it, even if you don't consider whether it looks like it.
There is a fixed number of locust trees planted here, and any one of them will have a gap, which will affect the collection of remnant souls, and there may be wandering spirits fleeing from this place in the near future.
Fortunately, because of consumption this time, Fan Wu did not take the entire locust forest away in frenzy, and only took nine trees away, so the impact is not very great, but it has also brought irreversible changes to the operation of the Yellow Mud, as for whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, it will be known later.
The next day, he finally waited for another corpse rain, and after the corpse rain, Fan Wu followed the last corpse ship to leave the Yellow Quagmire.