The Wolf King also felt very strange.

Most of the Turan epics, due to being passed down by word of mouth and anecdotally, do contain some elements of glossing over, exaggeration, and extravagance.

But the epic battle between the Stomachless King and the Abyss Demonic Insect, because of the unprecedented fighting method and the fact that it was witnessed by a large number of ligers and tiger warriors, many details appear in different epics.

Even the priests of the Bear Clan deliberately exaggerate the prowess of their ancestors.

There is no need for the warriors of the liger and tiger tribes to stand up for a strong man from the bear tribe.

"I have seen the details of the fierce battle between the No-Stomach King and the Abyss Demonic Insect in at least four war epics from different sources. Two of the war epics mentioned that the No-Stomach King was spit out by the Abyss Demonic Insect; one

A war epic from the tiger tribe mentions that the No-Stomach King was rescued by ligers and tiger warriors who cut open the belly of the abyss demon worm; another war epic from the Bear tribe mentions that the No-Stomach King was bitten through by himself

The belly of the abyss demonic insect is forcibly protruded."

The Wolf King pondered, "But no matter how he came out, in order to defeat the abyss demonic insect, the stomachless king paid the price of his limbs and facial features. The flesh and blood around his body was almost completely eroded, and his internal organs were directly exposed to the air.

"Three of the war epics also use thick and colorful brushwork to describe in detail King No-Stomach's huge stomach and intestines that are thicker than those of a python, to demonstrate his martial prowess.

"It is said that his intestines kept making thunderous peristaltic sounds. Even after his death, this terrible thunderous sound lasted for three days and three nights. It was as if it was not his brain that controlled the King of Stomachs, but his brain.

His intestines are the same.

"So, your suspicion is very reasonable. If this is really the body of the King without a Stomach, it shouldn't be so complete at all. At least, the internal organs should be exposed.

“No, it’s not just King No-Stomach, but also ‘Fist’, and almost all the strong orcs standing here.

"It stands to reason that the legendary heroes who are qualified to stand here are all beings who value honor far more than life. They are never willing to let time slowly take away their strength, and let wrinkles be like the snare of death, slowly destroying themselves little by little.

hanged.

"According to Turanze's practice, when their strength reaches its peak and they foresee that they are about to enter the aging stage, just like the shining sun at noon, which is about to stumble into darkness, these legendary heroes will attack the most powerful enemy.

issue a challenge.

"They can either go alone and rush towards the lair where the totem beasts gather.

"Or, take the lead in the Battle of Glory and charge towards magicians, night watchmen, elven archers and dwarf artillerymen that are a hundred times more numerous than you.

"In short, a legendary hero of Turanze would neither let young people see his old appearance, nor would he tolerate his body remaining intact.

"It is common for people to have their heads and body parts missing. Broken limbs and cuts in the waist barely meet the standard. Only when they are torn apart or even burned to char by the magician's fireball can their souls hold their heads high, step into the temple of the Holy Mountain, and go to the temple with more people.

The ancient ancestors chatted and laughed happily.

"Measured by this standard, the corpses here are indeed too complete.

“Although many of the corpses were covered with bruises, the bones and internal organs deep in the flesh could be faintly seen, and many of the corpses even had half their heads chopped off.

"But most of their limbs remain intact, and the split skulls are also covered with a layer of periosteum as thin as cicada wings, as if they have been repaired ingeniously.

"This is really strange. I have explored so many lost temples. Since the Holy Mountain Temple was sealed three thousand years ago, many ordinary temples have become the burial places of Turan warriors.

"But I have never seen such a weird burial method and such weird... corpses."

"Perhaps these things are not real corpses."

Meng Chao approached the corpse of "Fist", using his extraordinary vision to the limit, his pupils kept zooming, and he carefully studied the corpse like a microscope, no, the surface of this "thing".

By constantly adjusting the magnification of his eyes, Meng Chao was very sure that there was no dander on the surface of this thing like ordinary mummies.

The seemingly thick hair also has a faint metallic luster.

His "flesh and blood" does not have any organic characteristics at all, but is perfectly integrated with the fragmented armor.

I don't know whether the armor grew out of the flesh, or whether the flesh grew out from underneath the armor.

"I think this is not a corpse, but rather a statue made of some unknown material."

Meng Chao had come into contact with thousands of monster corpses.

Including its own "Super Star Group", because it monopolized the supply market of low-end monster materials in Dragon City, it even became the contractor of the Red Dragon Army's military monster meat compression cans, in order to extend the shelf life of monster flesh and blood and lock in the nutrients.

Substances have also been introduced, including several rapid dehydration and quick-freezing assembly lines.

Meng Chao knew very well what the monster flesh and blood looked like after being quickly dehydrated, frozen and refrigerated, and injected with various preservatives and even high-energy substances.

The monster's flesh and blood, which has been rapidly dehydrated, is as frozen as a lump of ice even in an environment of dozens of degrees below zero.

With Meng Chao's extremely keen perception, he could still easily tell the difference between them and inorganic substances.

The things in front of me are completely different from the dehydrated and refrigerated monster flesh and blood.

Although Meng Chao could faintly sense extremely weak magnetic field activity from the bodies of these things.

But he still couldn't imagine that these weird statues were once some kind of life.

"If... they are really statues, then there will be even more problems."

The Wolf King frowned deeply and murmured, "Who shaped and carved them, and for what purpose did they place them here?

"Besides, don't you think that the carving style of these statues is too...realistic?" Gu

Indeed, Meng Chao also saw it.

The Turan Orcs are not without artistic talent.

However, like most of the brave and fierce barbarians, the artistic style of the Turan Orcs also follows a simple, crude, arbitrary, "Fauvist" approach.

For example, what the two of them saw in the corridor before was a mural that seemed to be scratched out on the wall with the claws of a vicious beast. It was full of abstract colors and extremely rough and bold.

These "statues" in front of us have reached the end of their road to realism.

On each statue, the hair is perfectly visible, the folds between the skin are completely in line with the texture, the slightly protruding blood vessels and nerves are faintly glowing with different lusters, and even the large pores have been carefully carved out.

You know, Turan orcs are famous for their thick and unkempt hair.

Even with Dragon City's animation virtualization technology, it is not easy to create a Turan orc that looks just like the real thing on a computer screen.

Not to mention, using such insane finishing techniques to carve out one, no, thousands of lifelike statues in reality.

Although the snakemen, crocodiles and lizardmen of the Darkmoon clan have no hair.

But their scales, as well as the unique scratch marks on each scale, are more difficult to carve than hair.

What is a hundred times more troublesome than hair and scales are wounds.

Whether chopped with knives and axes, pierced by swords and spears, bitten by ferocious beasts, burned by magical flames, or penetrated by magical lightning... wounds caused by different reasons all have intricate and unique presentation forms.

Masters of corpse reading such as Meng Chao and Wolf King can tell at a glance the angle of a certain wound, whether it is a fatal wound or a fake wound cut after death. They can even deduce the entire process of a fierce battle by reading the wounds.

But they "read" dozens of statues, but they didn't see any flaws in the wounds.

Even after Meng Chao carefully observed the statues of "Fist" and "Big Stomach King", he found that the distribution, depth and shape of all wounds were roughly consistent with the records in the war epic that the Wolf King told him.

This was also the main reason why the two initially regarded these statues as mummies.

When a cold dead object is carved into a vivid human form by incredible technology, but the material used to shape it is completely different from the real person, it is easy for the real living person to feel a chilling fear.

Experts and scholars on Earth call this phenomenon the "uncanny valley effect."

At this moment, Meng Chao and Wolf King felt like they had fallen into a bottomless valley of terror.

"Who exactly made these statues, what tools, techniques and materials were used, and for what purpose?"

The two looked at each other.

They all saw the confusion in the other person's eyes and the slightly twitching muscles in the corners of his eyes.

at this time

"Boom!"

Deep in the silent group of statues, there was suddenly a soft sound, and it was unclear whether it was the sound of footsteps or drums.

The pupils of Meng Chao and Wolf King simultaneously shrank to their limit.

"Did you hear it? Was it really a sound coming from deep within the phalanx, or was it my auditory hallucination?"

"I heard it. To be honest, I don't know whether it's scarier if everything in front of me is an illusion, or if everything in front of me is real."

"Wait a minute, do you feel... there has been some kind of change in this place? I can't tell you. I always feel like something is wrong. It's different from when we first climbed onto this high platform."

"Yes, it's at your feet!"

Meng Chao and Wolf King looked at their feet at the same time.

Originally, the high platform was covered with a layer of extremely sticky black substance similar to the humus in the primitive jungle.

When they stepped onto the high platform, their feet sank slightly into the "black humus".

However, the black humus at the beginning was extremely dense and viscous, with almost no fluidity and only covered the insteps of the two people.

Even though they kept moving forward on the black humus, they didn't make a single ripple.

But now, the stickiness of the black humus is disappearing.

As the two of them moved, ripples appeared on the black humus around their feet.
Chapter completed!