The mountains of bones are piled up as far as the eye can see, with no end in sight.
Such abnormal shapes are scattered all over the plain, and it is like a hell on earth against the backdrop of gray and black clouds, making people's hair stand on end.
A swarm of scavenging insects flew around the hill of bones, trying to find some adhering carrion from the clean bones.
However, in such a dead world, there are still living things alive.
Just among the hills, you can vaguely see short figures wandering aimlessly, like scavengers in a garbage dump.
There are a lot of scavengers, and their looks are even weirder.
They wore shabby robes, and the exposed skin was translucent, and the internal organs, bones, and even blood vessels under the skin could be seen.
The scavengers do not know what they are looking for. They are aimless and no different from scavenging insects.
Occasionally, a few scavengers accidentally fell from the top of the hill. Even if they fell to the point of death, their peers did not react at all.
There was no sun or moon in the sky, but the sky gradually became darker.
The scavengers left the Bone Hill one after another. Most of them gained nothing and did not stay any longer. They walked neatly towards somewhere.
Bang bang bang...
The sound of bones colliding suddenly came from the mountainside, echoing continuously, which immediately attracted the attention of some scavengers.
They pulled the skeletal cart and quickly moved towards the source of the sound, not at all afraid of the danger they might encounter.
Obviously, the scavengers are not smart enough to understand that there must be monsters when things go wrong, and their behavior is more like being driven by instinct.
More and more scavengers gathered and soon reached their destination.
Unexpectedly, the sound came from an inconspicuous pothole, rustling like a rodent crawling upward.
The scavenger took out a tool similar to a mine manuscript from the cart and started digging into the hole. His movements seemed extremely stiff.
But their strength is surprisingly strong, even the beast-morphing monks in the semi-corpse state cannot reach this level.
Click...
A scavenger's hand bones couldn't withstand the shock of the mine scraps and broke apart. The bones suddenly broke into three sections, bone spurs pierced the skin, and dark red blood flowed down his elbows.
He looked at his right hand with dull eyes. He didn't panic, let alone cry out in pain. He actually walked directly towards the pile of bones beside him.
The scavenger forcibly pulled out a hand bone from the skeleton, compared it with the right hand, and then scratched the skin with sharp nails.
The translucent skin cracked and more blood spurted out.
The smell of blood immediately attracted a large number of scavenging insects, which eagerly rushed towards the wound and sucked the blood of the scavengers.
The scavenger allowed the scavenging insects to do their evil, and his expression remained extremely dull.
He removed the broken hand bones, then used the intact bones to make gestures, and then forcefully stuffed them into the skin and flesh of his right hand.
The wound heals instantly, and the nerves and blood vessels connect to new bones autonomously.
The scavenger moved his arms and continued digging expressionlessly. There was no sign that the bones had been broken not long ago.
The situation of the other scavengers was similar. Due to improper exertion of force, the bones all over the body were subjected to great torture.
But for scavengers, it seems that bones are just replaceable items. If they break, they can simply use local materials to replace them with new ones.
The most outrageous thing is that a scavenger accidentally smashed his companion's skull into pieces with a mine stick he wielded. As a result, the latter had a new skull pressed into his head, which had no effect at all.
Nothing could stop the scavengers from stopping until they dug up a strange, shriveled corpse and then put down the mine manuscript.
The skin of the corpse is covered with wrinkles, and the body is swollen, looking like it is made up of hundreds of skins.
The scavenger carefully placed the body on the cart, but then did not choose to leave. Instead, he picked up the mine manuscript and started digging again.
After spending five or six hours.
There were three more corpses in the cart that were almost the same. They were all covered in layers of thick human skin and were much larger than ordinary skeletons.
The scavengers looked at each other, not knowing how to communicate.
After a few breaths, they took the initiative to transport the body in groups of three, otherwise the bone cart would not be able to bear the weight of the body.
Bang bang bang...
Just when the scavengers were about to leave the Bone Hill, an arm suddenly stretched out from the pit.
The arm was covered with signs of decay, but it did not attract scavenging insects, and the flesh and blood had already shown signs of atrophy.
As the scavengers watched, a mummy crawled out of the hole. The foul smell killed more than half of the scavenging insects.
When the smell of the mummy subsided again, the body seemed to have regained some of its vitality, and a hoarse murmur came from its mouth.
"What the hell, I almost made the Tai Sui Jing go out of control."
The mummy was naturally Ren Qing himself. He muttered as he jumped onto the bone cart and found a corner to lie down.
It is difficult for scavengers to understand the behavior of mummies.
They were like puppets who were given certain instructions. They didn't care about Ren Qing at all, and they pulled the cart and headed down the Bone Mountain.
Ren Qing closed his eyes to check his own situation, and the corner of his mouth could not help but show bitterness.
Originally, he thought that the transformation of the corpse when the giant corpse Buddha's stomach sank into the ground was already extremely exaggerated, but he did not expect that the hinterland would be even more terrifying.
As soon as Ren Qing got close to the surface of the earth, he felt that all the water in his flesh and blood was being sucked out, and even his internal organs shrank to one-tenth of their size.
He almost fell into corpse form, but luckily he reacted in time and cast the Rebirth Technique.
The amount of vitality Ren Qing used to maintain was more than twice that before, so that he could barely prevent the corpse transformation of his body from deteriorating.
The transformation of the creatures in the world in the stomach also became more intense, so they had to slow down the flow of time to normal and use life to maintain it.
He couldn't help but feel fear, but luckily he didn't rush to bring the giant corpse Buddha, otherwise at least half of the monks in the Prison Hall would have died violently.
Completely opposite to Ren Qing are the three cocoon figures who emerged from their cocoons.
Although they look like corpses, their vitality is constantly recovering, but their souls are lost and it is difficult to regain consciousness.
Ren Qing had a bold guess in his mind. The ghostly shadow on the soles of his feet came into contact with the scavenger's body, and information flowed suddenly.
【Pijie】
[Age: three hundred and twenty-six]
[Shou Yuan: None]
[Skill: Corpse Refining (Pseudo Zombie)]
[Corpse Refining Method]
[Created by ***, cultivation requires that after the body has lost all vitality, the soul still remains, and it can only be completed by absorbing the corpse energy and reviving it for ten days. 】
As expected, the Dead Man's Forbidden Zone involves ***. Could it be that the Dead Man's Book was also created by the other party? Why does it feel like there is so much hidden in it?
If a non-existent person wants to make plans, no one in the world can stop him.
It’s hard for Ren Qing not to be concerned about the “pseudo-stiffness” displayed by the information flow.
Perhaps only zombies can keep his longevity at "nothing", allowing Ren Qing to live forever and become an immortal.
Ren Qing decided to obtain the corpse refining method, maybe it contained clues to the Book of the Dead.
His thoughts moved slightly, and the dream flower fell on the brow of a scavenger named Pi Jie. As a result, he noticed that the latter's three souls and seven souls were extremely weak, and his consciousness was so weak that he could not think independently.
Fortunately, Ren Qing still got some scattered memory fragments.
The memory fragments are all scenes of the scavenger during his lifetime, which made Ren Qing understand the existence of "stinging people".
Stinging people is very similar to jellyfish in the ocean. The translucent skin dominates the body, and flesh and bones are not important.
Although they use their internal organs to maintain their bodies, their bones to support their flesh and blood, and their brains to accommodate their souls, these organs are replaceable.
In this way, the stinging person theoretically has the ability to live forever, and as long as the organs age, they can be directly replaced with new ones.
But it's a pity that no matter how hard you try to replace the organs after stinging someone, death will never be avoided.
The lifespan of sting people is generally the same as that of cocoon people, about three hundred years, which is a very horrifying coincidence if you think about it carefully.
When they reach the end of heaven, they will secrete a viscous liquid to coat the skin, and finally turn into amber, sealing themselves in it.
In the records of stinging people throughout the ages, there are actually similar rumors about people emerging from cocoons and becoming immortals, but they are called "breaking stone into immortals".
The scavengers in the dead zone have actually experienced the transformation of broken stone into immortals.
Just like a man emerging from a cocoon, he can adapt to the environment of the dead zone even without the need for life, which shows that there is indeed a connection.
Ren Qing suspected that regardless of cocooning people, stinging people, or earthworm people with little contact, any living being involved in the forbidden area of the dead will become an "immortal" after their longevity is exhausted.
Ordinary monks like them, or cocooners who have not experienced immortality, are inevitably prone to corpse transformation in the restricted area of the dead.
It's like the difference between stowaways and natives.
etc……
Ren Qing was shocked.
After the corpse reaches the level of corpse transformation, it will want to enter dormancy. Is it possible that there will also be a different kind of enlightenment and immortality?
If we comply with the forbidden area of the dead, can the prison hall be adapted to the situation of corpse transformation?
Ren Qing immediately shook his head in denial. Although becoming an immortal would change his body, there is no doubt that his soul would be scattered as a result.
It is estimated that where the scavengers took the cocoon man, there should be a means for the latter to give birth to a soul, forming a similar pseudo-zombination?
Ren Qing looked back at this inconspicuous hill of bones. The giant corpse Buddha was buried a thousand meters underground.
What puzzled him was that the target of the Buddha's energy was clearly a restricted area for the dead, but when the giant corpse Buddha arrived, it fell into deathly silence again.
It gave Ren Qing a very strange feeling, as if the Buddhist spirit only knew that the contemporary Great Merciful Maitreya Bodhisattva was in the restricted area of the dead, but did not know the specific location.
He planned to clarify the situation before talking, and then restrained his sense of presence.
The scavengers faced the afterglow of the setting sun and walked on the plains strewn with bones. From time to time, the bones of their broken arms were replaced with new ones.
If there was an underworld in this world, it would look like this.
When the world was about to be shrouded in darkness, the scavengers came to a secluded foot of the mountain and stood there blankly without moving.
Ren Qing suddenly felt something was wrong, and there was malice floating in the darkness.
He looked behind him, his eyes were double-eyed to the extreme, but he didn't notice anything strange at all, as if it was just an illusion.
The howling wind was accompanied by the howling of ghosts and wolves.
Just when Ren Qing couldn't help but use his ghostly shadow to protect himself, a boulder of white bones was pushed away, revealing a bottomless cave.
The scavengers stepped into the cave, and the boulder of bones was moved back.
