Destroy the corpse and eliminate traces

"how so……"

Li Heng looked inside the iron coffin with the light on, but his face showed an extremely rare and incredible color.

He thought about many possibilities - there was a mummy inside, or a skeleton, or there was nothing at all, just an empty shell. He could even accept it even if it was a lifelike corpse that didn't decay.

But he never expected that it would be such a scene.

A pile of corpses, a large number of corpses piled inside this coffin!

But it's not a human corpse, it's a rat corpse!

It’s unclear whether the number is dozens or hundreds, but a large number of rat carcasses have been decomposed and mummified.

Are the great immortals worshiped and worshiped by the fucking White Lotus Sect a bunch of rats?

There must be something fishy in this!

Li Heng dug directly into the pile of rat carcasses, and a stench suddenly surged up, but fortunately he could no longer smell it at this moment.

He had already taken a deep breath of air, enough to last for more than ten minutes.

When digging through the pile of rat carcasses, Li Heng also noticed something was wrong.

Do things like rats still have a purpose?

"I'm afraid I'm not the first person to come to this place after it was abandoned by the White Lotus Sect."

As a kind of rodent with a mouth that can't stop, the most disgusting thing about rats is their chewing and destruction.

But fortunately, this place is underground without being exposed to the sun, without the influence of wind, rain and environmental changes, so the traces of many years ago can still be preserved.

"The movements of rats are regular, and the movement of large groups of rats will leave specific traces..."

Too big.

These dead rats were too big. I didn't notice them at first because the rat carcasses had weathered and shrunk, and their size had shrunk to a certain extent.

"These are dried rat droppings..."

If this kind of irregularly shaped break is not caused by man-made tools, it can only be caused by biting it!

But thinking about it this way makes my scalp feel numb.

Now it seems that these mice obviously have abnormal body shapes, and are much larger than ordinary field mice and mountain mice.

Imagine this scene. An overwhelming number of rats came over, climbed onto these coffins along the stone beams and iron chains, and then desperately gnawed on the iron sheets of the coffins, making a bone-searing sound. Finally, bit by bit

A hole was created in a weak spot, and then they got in. Countless rats began to crazily eat the corpse in the coffin until they completely tore it into pieces!

And after eating the corpse, a large number of rats died suddenly on the spot and became these dried corpses left in the coffin.

After holding in his breath for a long time, he stood up and left the coffin, exhaled the remaining waste air in his lungs for a long time, and then took another breath of outside air.

Everything happens here, deep in the Qinling Mountains, in the land of Dragon Veins.

Li Heng looked up at the remaining iron coffins hanging. If nothing unexpected happened, the other coffins were in a similar situation.

However, he is not too worried that he will get lost down here. With his mental strength and enhanced physical perception, even the slightest fluctuation of body hair caused by air flow can be captured and sensed by his nervous system.

With the long-lasting lighting directly on his head, he measured and searched the mountain cave step by step like a bottom-exploring miner, looking for the little clues like a firefly in the dark.

Until he found the powder hidden in the cracks in the rocks in another darkness. These remaining materials formed a path extending back and forth in the dark underground.

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

Li Heng continued to search, and as his movements became more detailed, more clues were discovered.

Suddenly, he remembered that story.

He tore off the dead rat, revealing a gaping hole with jagged edges, which made him frown.

Li Heng is really too curious now. The geomantic topography of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the place where Yi Xian was forbidden to become an immortal, the legends before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the ancient religious secrets of more than a hundred years, the abnormal biological behavior...

When he took his second breath, the evidence for this argument was soon found. He found a gap in the corner of the side of the iron coffin, and a shriveled rat corpse was stuffed in the gap.

And there was no sense of direction at all down here, and Li Heng didn't know where he should be on the ground now, or whether he was still near the entrance where he came down.

Going deeper, the artificial traces began to decrease sharply, and what Li Heng saw was filled with pristine and natural cave landforms. It was obvious that even the White Lotus Sect was unwilling to go deeper.

But this also means that the road behind is more difficult to walk. It is rare to see large cracks in the rock formations torn apart by geological changes.

The location of this gap was tricky and it was too dark here, so it had never been discovered before.

He dug out more and more bone fragments from the coffin and put them aside.

But this was the first time Li Heng had seen a rat that could chew through iron.

This is a small piece of human bone, which has nothing to do with the corpses of these big rats. It has just been chewed up very much and is very damaged.

And judging from the conditions at the scene, these wooden tribute platforms and tablets have not been gnawed or even disturbed. What does this mean?

This means that the rats seem to be coming for these coffins!

In other words, the so-called "immortals" he cherished so much have been destroyed long ago.

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 traces that might indicate a large-scale movement of rats, even though these traces may have been traced many years ago.

So he finally chose to pursue it in reverse direction, heading deeper and darker underground.

Li Heng could only pursue it on his own and continue to open up these disgusting rat carcasses to look for clues until he found something inside.

What's more, it's very strange for a natural mouse to grow so big, and it's hard to explain all the weirdness.

Rat, huge rat, is there any relationship between the two?

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

"This group of rats came here earlier than me and devoured the important things here."

Turning a blind eye to everything else, just for these iron shells hanging here, or rather for the corpses placed inside.

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

He twisted a dead bone with his right hand and put it under the light to examine it carefully. For a moment, his brows and eyes narrowed slightly.

But compared to where these mice ended up, Li Heng was more concerned about where they came from!

This couldn't help but make him a little disappointed, but after just a moment of disappointment, he suddenly thought of something.

As long as there is gas flowing underground, it means that there must be an opening connected to the atmosphere, so he doesn't have to worry about not being able to get out. Unless he senses a completely stagnant space, then he will not be in danger.

In the winding rock passages floating up and down, Li Heng felt like he was walking in the esophagus of a giant beast.

Until he encountered another man-made creation again, at the end of this dark and narrow stratum, he encountered another man-made creation that could not have appeared here.

He saw a well.
Chapter completed!