All the torches were mysteriously extinguished at once, and people's vision suddenly darkened.
Then the raft sank.
Something is aboard...
All this happened in a short moment.
There was absolutely no chance of an emergency.
It smells like blood!
The blood is so rich that it makes you sick!
"Little brother!"
"Sharpen the sword!"
"Are you guys okay?"
In the blinding darkness, the urgent low shout of the old Taoist priest came from the stern of the boat.
However, when a person suddenly enters darkness from a bright place, the human eye cannot adapt immediately in a short period of time. The old Taoist priest only feels that in front of his eyes, there is still darkness in addition to darkness.
He was immediately blinded.
"I'm fine, old man. There's something on board. Just hide and don't make any sound!" Jin An's response came immediately from the darkness.
Jin An finished speaking.
There was a hot red horse that lit up in the darkness. It was Jin An who took action decisively.
He swung his knife directly in the vague direction of the thing boarding the ship in the darkness.
When the red sword light struck out, it also illuminated the raft in a circle.
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Jin An's sword struck the air and only hit the air. The red sword light in his hand only illuminated the two red faces of him and the old Taoist priest in the darkness. The sword was sharpened and disappeared.
When the torch light was lit again, only half of the body was left standing on the raft where the sword was originally sharpened. The intestines and blood flowed all over the raft. Only the lower body and the body above the waist and abdomen disappeared.
It looked like something on the top of his head had bitten off half of his body.
The smell of blood in the closed cave became even stronger.
"If you sharpen your sword, you will die miserably!"
The old Taoist priest's eyes turned red, and he burst into tears immediately, and he went to hug the half corpse in grief.
But as soon as the old Taoist priest approached half of the corpse, he cried: "Little brother, that's wrong. The clothes on this man's body are not sword-cutting clothes. Why are they a dark gray long coat?"
"He's not sharpening the sword, old man, look above our heads." Jin An held up a torch and shined it at the top of the cave, as if he had made some important discovery.
When he heard that it was not a corpse with a sword, the old Taoist wiped away his tears and nose with the sleeve of his Taoist robe, and looked up at the top of the cave by the light of the torch in Jin An's hand.
"!"
The old Taoist priest was stunned.
The statue of the Tomb Beast that was hanging above their heads before disappeared, revealing a hole the size of a person.
The entrance to the cave was so dark that even with a torch, it couldn't illuminate what was inside.
Because it was blocked by the Tomb Beast before, I didn't realize there was such a hole above my head.
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There is airflow blowing out of the hole, which should be connected to the outside world.
Just now, their torches were blown out by the wind blowing from the entrance of the cave.
"No wonder we went so deep into the cave and never felt that the air was stuffy or uncomfortable. The Cave of Thousand Corpses is still connected to the outside world. The torch was extinguished by the wind just now."
"Old man, I just thought I saw a ghost blowing out the lamp..."
When he learned that the person who died was not a sharp sword, the old Taoist breathed a sigh of relief, and then he also leaned his head to look at the hole above his head.
"Old Taoist, the body with only the lower body, if I guessed correctly, should belong to one of the Yin Yang Masters or Feng Shui Masters who came together with the people crossing the river. You see there is blood near the entrance of the cave. It was obviously taken away by a sneak attack.
He killed someone, dragged him into a cave, killed him, and was eaten."
Jin An held up a torch and carefully observed the entrance of the cave and said.
"It seems that we are not going wrong. We are taking the same correct route as the people crossing the river."
"The people crossing the river were walking ahead of us, and they also encountered a series of strange things exactly like us, and they also saw people and beasts suppressing tombs."
"Then, just like us, the torch was extinguished and we were attacked from above."
"As for the extra half of the corpse on our ship, it should be something hiding in the hole above our head. When they attacked us in the dark, they left behind uneaten human bodies."
The old Taoist priest was worried about the safety of sharpening the sword. He looked anxious and said: "Doesn't that mean that the person who took away the sharpening sword is the same murderer who ate the upper body of this man? Sharpening the sword is dangerous!"
"The Renxi Tomb Beast eats people. Sure enough, there will always be unknown strange things happening in the big tomb of the Renxi Tomb Beast. Isn't the sharp sword already eaten by the Renxi Tomb Beast..."
The old Taoist priest became even more worried about the safety of sharpening his sword.
Wandering around in a hurry on the raft.
Jin An frowned.
Now even he is in a dilemma.
The hole above his head is very large, and it is not difficult for him to enter alone. But now the sword has disappeared, and his life and death are unknown. If he enters the hole rashly, leaving the old Taoist priest alone in the Cave of Thousand Corpses, if another accident happens to the old Taoist priest, Chi
If the sword is not missing, he will regret it for the rest of his life.
Sharpening swords and old Taoist priests are both important.
None of the three of them can have any accidents.
After pondering for a moment, Jin An said to the old Taoist priest: "Old Taoist, please wait for me for a while. I will go into the cave to see if I can find a sharp sword. If the hole in the top of the cave above my head is very deep, I will not be able to finish it in a while.
I will withdraw in time and then think of another way to sharpen the sword."
After hearing this, the old Taoist priest had no objection and hurriedly urged Jin An to find something to sharpen his sword.
Let Jin An not worry about his safety.
He has traveled alone in the world for so many years and knows how to protect himself in dangerous places.
Although the roof of the cave is a bit high from the raft, it does not affect Jin'an at all.
He jumped up lightly and already grabbed the entrance of the cave with his hands.
Use both arms hard.
The person has successfully entered the cave entrance.
As a result, just after entering the cave entrance, Jin An was almost suffocated by the smell in the cave, including the smell of blood, the smell of rotting corpses, and some other strange and unspeakable smells.
The cave is very dark and the space is so narrow that only one person can crawl forward. He cannot even turn around, he can only move forward or backward.
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The old Taoist priest was the only one left on the raft.
He did not sit still and planned to draw spells on the raft.
It can be said that the old Taoist priests have nothing to do with copying, except that they are familiar with it.
But before the old Taoist priest could copy a few spells, Jin An, who had just entered the hole above his head, quickly retreated.
"No, the cave entrances above extend in all directions. Just like the Cave of Thousand Corpses, there are many forks. People can easily lose their way in it." Jin An returned to the raft and shook his head at the old Taoist priest.
The old Taoist priest was worried about the safety of sharpening the sword. The longer it took, the more dangerous it would be to sharpen the sword. Jin An thought for a while and decided to try to leave the body.
Just when the two were discussing countermeasures and how to find a sharp sword, suddenly, they were alone in the silence, and in the dark cave of thousands of corpses, there was a splashing sound and splashing water.
The sound of falling water was particularly harsh in the empty silence and darkness, and echoed far away.
"Little brother! This time it's coming from behind us again!"
The old Taoist priest and Jin An turned around and looked behind them at the same time.
"Shh, listen carefully, there seems to be some movement!" Jin An made a silent motion toward the old Taoist priest, and then listened carefully to the movement in the darkness behind him.
The old Taoist priest immediately held his breath.
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The water waves pressed against the water waves, and there was a quick sound. This time, the Cave of Thousand Corpses was not peaceful anymore. Something was swimming toward them from the water!
"Old Taoist, stand in the middle and protect yourself, something is coming towards us!"
Jin An held a torch in one hand and a tiger sword in the other, and shouted to the old Taoist priest in a low voice.
The old Taoist priest had already hurriedly taken out a few treasures from his Tai Chi Bagua bag, and stared at the darkness behind him with his muscles tense.
In his hand he grabbed a handful of glutinous rice to use against evil corpses, and a mahogany sword for self-defense.
If there was something in the water that wanted to board the boat, he would directly stab it into the water with his sword. The muscles of the old Taoist priest's whole body were tense and he was staring at the darkness behind him.
The movement under the dark water surface is getting closer and closer, and the sound of water waves is getting faster and faster.
"Such a big movement, a big guy is definitely here this time!"
The old Taoist priest looked nervous.
But when the torch was shining on the water, nothing could be seen, except black, it was still pitch black.
suddenly.
The sound of water waves suddenly disappeared.
Disappeared under the raft.
Just when Jin An and the old Taoist priest were preparing to be hit from under the raft, the two of them were just ready. Bang, the raft shook. A man's arm was placed on the raft, and someone jumped onto the raft from under the river, all wet.
Water dripping down.
"Sharpen the sword!"
"Sharpen the sword!"
Jin An and the old Taoist priest spoke in surprise.
The person who boarded the boat was Xiejian, who had disappeared for a short period of time, and he was holding a strange corpse in Xiejian's hand.
Bang.
With his sword soaked all over, he threw the monster corpse in his hand onto the raft.
"Master, my disciple caught this. It was this thing that attacked us just now."
Yin Deyi.
The familiar feeling of the avenue comes again
It's still the sharp sword that Jin An is familiar with, it hasn't changed at all.
It turned out that at the moment when the torch was blown out, there was something above the head, which immediately attacked Xiejian. However, Xiejian, as a thief, was very alert and immediately launched a counterattack.
In panic.
The thing that had attacked and sharpened the sword escaped back into the hole above his head.
He sharpened his sword and launched a pursuit.
There is another universe in the hole above the head, which can reach everywhere in all directions. He is brave enough to sharpen his sword and keeps chasing that thing.
What he caught after sharpening his sword was a strange corpse of a tomb beast carrying a man on its back.
This strange corpse is dead and does not decay. It looks lifelike and looks like a living person. But it is strange to say that this person's skin is as white as wax. It is different from the weird evil corpses that Jin An has encountered in the past.
no the same.
On the back of this monster corpse was a stone statue of the Tomb Beast.
But this man’s stone statue of the tomb beast is connected with it in flesh and blood.
It turned out that through special techniques, the stone statue of the tomb beast and the skin on the back of the person were bonded together.
Even if this person dies, he will not be able to live in peace.
You have to carry your own tomb beast on your back for life after life.
Unable to rest in peace.
"Little brother, be careful, don't touch this corpse yet." The old Taoist priest frowned solemnly and stopped Jin An.
"Little brother, look at the surface of this corpse, the skin, the flesh and blood are waxy white. This is a body that was forcibly poured with mercury to kill it while it was still alive. It is a specially made incorruptible corpse that was buried with the owner of the tomb. Because after death,
, blood cannot circulate, so if you want to embalm a corpse, you can only achieve the most perfect embalming effect by forcing the person to drink highly toxic mercury while he is still alive, and allowing it to flow throughout the body through the blood."
"This corpse is not as simple as an ordinary evil corpse. This person was buried alive. Before he died, the skin on his back was glued to the stone statue alive and used as a tomb beast to replace the owner of the tomb.
Guarding the entrance to the tomb."
"After the human skin and the tomb beast are glued together, and the wound on the back is healed, and it has completely grown together with the tomb beast, then the human body is filled with mercury to keep the body incorruptible for thousands of years, forever.
If you don’t enter the reincarnation, you will have to carry people on your back, suppress the tomb beasts, and guard the entrance to the tomb for eternity.”
"This tomb owner has a gangster heart and used such vicious methods to create a tomb gatekeeper for him!"
As the old Taoist priest talked, he couldn't help but cursed the owner of the tomb for disrespecting human life.
Mercury is highly toxic.
That's why the old Taoist priest just stopped Jin An from touching the corpse.
The reason why he is not afraid of these poisons when cutting a sword should be related to his status as a corpse collector. Each corpse collector has a very special training method, and he can no longer be classified as a normal person.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is immune to all poisons.
At this time, the gatekeeper had been killed with a sharp sword, half of his chest was missing, and the wound was sharp, as if cut by a sharp blade.
The cut half of the chest revealed waxy white fibrotic lungs.
These are the mercury that was forcibly fed to me while I was still alive. The mercury flows through the body through the blood and then settles in various organs of the body.
"Chi Jian, is this the only gatekeeper in the hole above your head?" Jin An asked Chi Jian.
Xiajian nodded.
The gatekeeper's body was covered in mercury, which was highly poisonous and could not be taken with him. Although they felt sorry for what he was going through, Jin An and the old Taoist priest decided to seal the man back into the cave above his head.
After finishing these tasks, the raft started to continue on its way.
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Along the way, we didn’t see any more human beings suppressing the tomb beasts.
Peaceful journey.
And with the sharp sword leading the way, the cave of thousands of corpses, which is like a trance formation, has minimal impact on Jin An and the others.
You can always find the right path.
People have been in the dark for a long time. Without reference points, the concept of time has become increasingly blurred. No one knows how far they have traveled in the Cave of Thousand Corpses.
No one knows how big the Cave of Thousand Corpses is.
Has the entire mountain range been hollowed out?
When people are in the dark, they always feel that time passes extremely long...
After walking in the darkness for who knows how long, green light began to appear in the originally dark Cave of Thousand Corpses, and more and more stars began to appear.
These green lights are actually phosphorus fires that are only found in cemeteries.
The presence of phosphorus fire indicates that there are a large number of corpses here.
As the raft moved forward, there began to be more phosphorus fires on the road, and the water channel began to become narrower.
At first, Jin An thought that the water channel was narrowed due to the terrain, but as the water channel became narrower and narrower, when he took a torch and shined a light around him, he saw a corpse!
Countless corpses!
A lot of densely packed corpses!
It’s piled up here!
There were so many corpses that they piled up into mountains on both sides of the waterway, even blocking the waterway and narrowing it.
These corpses had been soaked in the river water all year round and turned white, but none of them rotted.
They entered the place of corpses.
These corpses include men and women, some dressed in the Kangding Kingdom, some dressed in other eras, some ordinary people, some soldiers. They are the corpses of drowned people who have been washed away by the river into the Cave of Thousand Corpses over the years.