A place to accumulate corpses
After listening to Li Qingyang's explanation, a question kept spinning in my mind: Why did Dan Island have to create a corpse accumulation area
This itself is inconsistent with common sense. Moreover, the alchemists on the island are proficient in elixirs and know every kind of medicine. Do they not know that there will be spiritual creatures in the corpse ground that can restrain the elixirs
While I was thinking about it, I heard Li Qingyang shouting: "That way... that's it! Go a hundred steps east and see if there are any tree stumps under the water!"
I hesitated for a moment before carefully walking in the direction he pointed. But Li Qingyang kept nagging: "Yes, it is in this direction... Put your hand into the water, touch this place, look carefully, it is here... Yes, it is here..."
Although I couldn't see the situation under the water, I touched a broken tree stump with my palm: "There is a tree here..." Before I could finish my words, a chill suddenly rose in my vest. I clearly felt something sneaking from under the water, quietly occupying the bottom of the tree stump, looking from bottom to top at my palm touching the tree stump.
My body suddenly tensed up, but Li Qingyang said: "Okay, okay, walk two hundred steps south along this tree stump, and you will see a cave."
Although I heard Li Qingyang's words, I didn't dare to get up immediately. I don't know what is hidden under the water. Once he suddenly launches an attack when I get up, I will be unable to avoid it.
Li Qingyang said at this moment: "You don't have to worry about what's under the water. If you don't touch it, it won't hurt anyone. Just stand up and walk through the water with your feet without stepping on anything."
I tried to raise my hand, but I felt that things under the water were slowly rising to the surface as I slowly straightened up. I clearly felt that the other person was looking at my face through the turbid sewage a few inches away from the water. I even felt that I could push through the sewage and see the other person's true face just by blowing on the water.
Li Qingyang said in a deep voice: "Don't worry about it, step back slowly. As long as you don't touch it and hurt it, it will be fine."
I tried to take two steps back, and a herringbone wave of water followed my footsteps and moved forward.
I took three steps back, and the opponent moved three times in a row. Each time, he stopped less than a foot away from me, neither taking action nor coming to the surface.
Li Qingyang said anxiously: "I told you, don't worry about it, it won't hurt anyone. Hurry up and leave. When it gets dark later, you won't be able to enter the corpse dump. The entrance to the corpse dump only appears at night. At dawn, If you don’t, you’ll have to wait another day.”
The sky is indeed getting brighter, but I haven't found the entrance to the corpse dump yet. In my desperation, I didn't care whether what Li Qingyang said was true or false, so I turned around and walked in the direction he pointed.
The water waves swimming under my feet are following me step by step. In an instant, I felt something break through the water behind me. The shadow raised by the other party suddenly covered me from behind, passed over my head, and was reflected in the water. The undulating shadows shaped like mountains were centered on me and expanded in all directions. I suddenly turned around and looked behind me, but there was nothing behind me except the quietly floating water waves.
Before I could put my mind down, my heel hit something.
That thing went around behind me again
I was shocked and subconsciously rowed back half a circle with my foot. I just felt like my heel touched someone's waist. The other person was obviously startled and quickly moved back a few feet.
A sound like a human hand paddling in the water suddenly sounded behind me, and I turned around again to look behind me. When I saw the water waves receding sideways into the distance, I almost reached out and drew my knife. Li Qingyang said coldly: "If you don't dare to leave, just wait here until dawn! I will tell you where to go when dawn comes, as long as you can wait."
"Shut up!" I held Li Qingyang's head and waded out of the water to walk quickly towards the south. A mountain wall hidden in the mist gradually appeared in front of me.
But the further I moved forward, the blurry my vision became. The thick fog rising from the bottom of the mountain wall covered half of the mountain. Looking at the mountain through the fog, I could only see the outline of the mountain peak, but nothing else could be clearly seen.
I said solemnly: "Where is the cave you mentioned?"
Li Qingyang replied: "It's right where the fog rises. Listen carefully. Is there any movement of water nearby? That's water flowing into the cave."
When I stopped, I heard the sound of thin running water. The water was not far away from me and not too fast. It sounded like it was pouring slowly into a certain channel.
After I followed the sound of water for a while, I saw a cave. At the entrance of the cave, a stone platform almost half a person's height was built with bluestone. The water flowing over the stone platform flows to the ground along the entrance of the cave, and the mist blocking the mountain wall also surges out of the cave. .
Li Qingyang said: "Have you seen clearly? The corpse poison that surges all year round in the corpse accumulation area is the reason why no one dares to approach it. Even Danshi does not dare to easily try to step into the corpse accumulation area."
I said in a deep voice: "Since no one dares to enter, why do you still let me come?"
Li Qingyang explained: "The Danshi cannot get close to the corpse place, but ordinary people may not be able to get in. The corpse poison here is different from other places. To put it more clearly, the corpse poison contains resentment."
"Alchemists are also from the Taoist lineage. They practice alchemy and practice Taoism. They are not afraid of corpse poison, but they are afraid that resentment will harm the Taoist heart, so they will not go deep into the place where corpses accumulate. But ordinary people are different, because you have no Taoist heart to speak of."
I said coldly again: "Are you not done yet?"
"Haha..." Li Qingyang smiled awkwardly, "Actually, the best way to enter the corpse place is to have resentment in your heart. The resentment of the living often overlaps with the resentment of the dead. In this way, you will be safe. You don’t even have to be afraid of corpse poison.”
Li Qingyang still didn't tell the truth. I've read stories about zombies. In all Chinese legends, zombies are supported by a group of lingering grievances in their chests. In other words, the corpse qi in zombies is a transformation of grievances.
According to legend, the four zombies formed in ancient times all became zombies because they were treated unfairly and became resentful.
The stronger the resentment in my heart, the greater the possibility of absorbing corpse poison and becoming a zombie.
I spoke slowly: "Can zombies maintain their original consciousness?"
Li Qingyang was silent for a while before saying: "That depends on how strong your willpower is. If you can come out of the cave before you are completely transformed into a corpse, maybe you can still remember what you want to do, otherwise..."
Li Qingyang's words have long been expected by me. According to legend, low-level zombies have no thinking and only know how to hunt and eat according to their own instincts. As for those mythical high-level zombies, it is still unknown whether they exist or not.
After I looked at the cave entrance again, I walked into the cave - for Si Ruo, I had to make a bet on whether I could withstand the corpse poison.
As I strode forward, I suddenly heard someone shouting: "Stop!"
When I followed the sound, I saw Xue Yulu standing a few meters away from me, with a whole team of Qing soldiers behind her. The corpse of the general stood behind Xue Yulu like a guard, holding a long knife in his hand, and looked at me coldly.
I glanced at Xue Yulu lightly: "I'm very busy, you'd better not disturb me."
Xue Yulu took a step forward and said, "I came here to stop you just because I knew what you were going to do."
While my eyes were slightly cold, Xue Yulu said in a cold voice: "Is a demon sect woman worth your efforts? Give up the place where corpses are accumulated, and I can pretend that nothing has happened. You are still the detective of the Blood Clothes Hall." Otherwise, don’t say it’s you Wang Huan, even the Blood Clothes Hall will be implicated.”
I looked coldly between Xue Yulu and roughly calculated the distance between myself and the cave.
If the opponent takes action, I should be able to jump into the cave before the Qing soldiers catch up.
Xue Yulu said coldly: "You don't have to think about how to escape. If you dare to jump from here, I will immediately lead my troops back to hunt down the demon girl. They are different from the trash you are holding in your hand."
My right hand holding the knife suddenly tightened: "You are looking for death!"
"The word 'seeking death' cannot be applied to us." Xue Yulu said proudly, "To provoke the strong is to seek death. For you, this word cannot be mentioned."
Before I opened my mouth, Li Qingyang said: "Don't believe her. The Faceless Woman is not that easy to deal with. The woods are all under her control. If they dare to go in, they will die or not."
Xue Yulu laughed and said: "What he said makes some sense. But, Wang Huan, do you dare to bet? You are not afraid. When you rushed back dragging the body that was about to become a zombie, what you saw was a Corpse?"
Xue Yulu's face darkened and she said, "After I kill that demon girl Si Ruo, I will also hang her head on a tree just to wait for you to come back."
The moment murderous intent burst into my eyes, Xue Yulu continued: "Wang Huan, you don't have to put on that face. Ever since you joined the Blood Clothes Hall, you have been the public enemy of the Five Meridians. Even if there is no demon girl, I will still do it." kill you."
"In the Palace of Punishment back then, many detectives who did not deserve to die were dealt with. They were merciless when killing people. Therefore, I will not have any sympathy for you. I just want to watch you in a dilemma and watch you being tortured. Tortured to death.”
"Go back! Go back and stay by your woman's side, watch her slowly die, hold her body and cry loudly, and then think about taking revenge on us!"
Xue Yulu said with a gloomy face: "However, you will never have a chance to take revenge. Because we will always be stronger than you. As long as you live, you can only look forward to when we will die of old age day and night, or hope for the illusory retribution to come."
Xue Yulu paused for a moment before waving her hands and saying, "Take him back."