endless route

Chapter 356 126. Demon ghost Ling Feiling

The tomb of the underground palace was dark and silent, with only the slight sound of the friction of the slings. Many Yin soldiers stood on the edge of the underground palace, pulling the ropes, and lifting the sarcophagus from the high platform to the top of the fairy gate.

Others kept their distance and watched remotely.

The black hair inside the coffin overflowed from the coffin surface and hung on both sides of the coffin like kelp. It was horrifying for anyone to look at it. It was hard to imagine that these hairs actually grew from living people.

There was no movement from the living creatures in the coffin.

As if they were really stunned by Zhen Xuanyin, under everyone's fearful eyes, the sarcophagus was carried by the Yin soldiers, no demon bells rang, and there was no abnormality from beginning to end.

Not long after.

The sarcophagus arrives at the Immortal Gate.

The Yin soldiers removed the rope and took off the sarcophagus, put it on their shoulders and stepped forward, carrying the sarcophagus towards the Immortal Burial Valley. In an instant, they entered the Immortal Gate and disappeared in front of everyone.

It’s still the same method as before.

After hanging the sarcophagus in the Immortal Burial Valley, first ensure that the living things in the coffin cannot cause harm to the surroundings or pose a threat to the Heavenly Palace, you can then pull the sarcophagus back and study the contents carefully.

"Finally moved."

Kedester raised his head and glanced. He didn't know where the demonic mother bell had gone. As the bells disappeared, the strange black light that kept flashing in the tomb no longer appeared.

It seemed like that was the end.

But it makes people feel a little uneasy. They moved the sarcophagus and the fairy tower without even seeing the true form of the evil thing guarding the sarcophagus. Could it really be so smooth?

"Chief, all live broadcast equipment and equipment that can transmit signals to the outside world have been shut down and sent to the secret realm. How should the Royal Expedition deal with it?"

Jias Irene walked to the edge with the searchlight, pointing downwards, to observe the expedition members in the tomb.

The black smoke slowly dissipated.

The Royal Expedition was lying on the cold tomb floor. The area around the surveillance research platform had been cleaned. There was no molting tentacles or excrement around. It looked decent.

Some of them are holding magical objects, and if they are delayed for a few seconds, they will be activated, and they will have to pull a few backers to death.

But they didn't expect that the 'ghost in the tomb' didn't follow martial ethics and directly attacked them with sonic magic, knocking them all unconscious.

"Pull it up first and put it aside."

Zheng Yun glanced at it. This was their first large-scale conflict with the Western expedition team. Fortunately, no big mistake occurred.

There were also a hundred people in the Royal Expedition Team. First, they used various methods to scare away many of them, and then the two calming voices of Ji Dao and Xian Zhi made the final decision before the situation got out of control.

I expected them to be quite aggrieved.

Our side took advantage from start to finish.

The expedition team had already had a life-and-death fight in the tomb, and suffered a lot of casualties while dealing with the tentacles. Later, he and others were lurked in the team and pretended to be a ghost.

From the beginning to the end, they didn't even see the enemy, and they had to take care of the research of the living creatures in the coffin. They saw a series of ghosts and ghosts happening frequently, and finally everything ended when they heard the fairy sound.

It's really not easy.

It is difficult for anyone to do better.

So bring all these people up and deal with them properly. There are simple camps and tents in the underground palace. Send them to the tents and send Yin soldiers to guard them one on one until you leave.

Wait until they wake up naturally.

Everything should be over here.

But don’t want their technological equipment and magical items. All those things must be sent back to the secret realm for processing.

Especially tech equipment.

If Garth Erin and Kedester hadn't been familiar with the use of those devices and immediately sent them to the secret realm for complete isolation, things would have been in trouble, and everything here would have been broadcast live.

"Yes."

Kedester, Xichang and others took action immediately. They were members of the Royal Expedition and could deal with these people better. They could also make up excuses afterwards.

Or no explanation at all.

There was nothing to say originally.

The remaining Yin soldiers began to repeat the previous work, dismantling and transporting the fairy tower from the cavity under the sarcophagus, and at the same time using simple cameras to take pictures of the structure of the fairy tower at all times.

Two hundred Yin soldiers acted separately, making the tomb as hot as a construction site, recreating the scene when this place was built hundreds of years ago.

"Separate people to look at the top."

Zheng Yun called on Kedester to keep an eye on him.

Those members of the Royal Expedition who evacuated this place may also return here to try to rescue them after losing contact with their teammates. Although the possibility is not high, they must be prepared.

"I'll keep an eye on the intercom."

Kedester nodded and made a note of it.

"Master Immortal, look here, there is indeed something wrong with these sarcophagi." Jidao's voice suddenly sounded.

Zheng Yun looked down.

Ji Dao dragged the immortal corpse to the bottom of the tomb, and at some point he reached the vicinity of the high platform. In front of him were two sarcophagi that had fallen from the high platform. He was using a long sword to pull out the molted skin and excrement.

The two sarcophagi are full of doubts.

They should have been placed on a high platform at first, side by side with the last sarcophagus, but they fell off the high platform at an unknown time and flew eight or nine meters in the air and hit the ground.

Judging from the traces on the scene.

The sarcophagus has fallen for hundreds of years. Its surface is rough, corroded and uneven, and it is also covered with fungi.

The two sarcophagi were mostly submerged in tentacle molting and excrement. There was no trace of the two sarcophagi being placed on the high platform. Only part of the iron ropes were still sealed on the outer layer of the sarcophagus.

"what have you found?"

Zheng Yun squatted on the edge and observed carefully.

Ji Dao kept pulling and peeling off the skin in order to clean out one of the sarcophagi. Part of the sarcophagus was broken. Although it was tied up with iron ropes, there were huge holes in it.

"It's empty inside. The contents of this sarcophagus have escaped. There are no traces of black fur or living things."

Ji Dao lowered his head and put the flashlight inside.

It can be clearly seen that there is only molting and excrement in this sarcophagus, but there are no corpses or black hair.

Something is obviously wrong.

The sarcophagus was actually empty.

Was it empty initially, or did the contents escape through the breach? Went somewhere else?
"Completely empty?"

Kedester exclaimed.

The royal expedition team had already scanned the sarcophagus and knew that there were no living things inside, but they did not know that the sarcophagus was filled with molted skin and other debris, and these were the only debris.

"I have suspected before that the Demonic Mother Bell and the Demonic Child Bell are related. Master Immortal, just now the two bells rang one after another, like two ancient people having a conversation."

Nobuyoshi touched his chin and expressed his thoughts.

He felt that this detail must be the key, but it was difficult to connect. It was not that he couldn't think of it, but that he didn't dare to think about it.

"Is the relationship between mother and child a mother-child relationship?"

Kedester interjected and asked. He didn't know much about the ancient Eastern mother-and-son ornaments, and the question was relatively straightforward.

"The Zimu Bell can represent the relationship between superiors and subordinates in the metaphysics of gods and ghosts, but it can also represent nothing at all. The demon and ghost Zimu Bells here actually just have different sounds."

Ji Dao shook his head and did not elaborate.

Our ancestors' mystical knowledge of gods and ghosts has too many ways. Some things have certain formulas, but there are also a large number of counterexamples. If you know more, you won't dare to make conclusions easily.

"Perhaps there is a possibility that the demon and ghost bells are all in the same living creature. The demon and ghost bells accidentally escaped from the sarcophagus, but the demon and ghost bells did not have this luck."

Zheng Yun looked up at the ventilation shaft.

Just as Ji Dao said, there must be some kind of connection between the demon, ghost, son and mother bell, and the two have a special relationship.

The mother bell is outside.

Zi Ling is in the coffin.

There are also empty sarcophagi in the tomb chamber. It is easy to speculate that perhaps the demon bells are not related to each other at all. All demon bells are the same, and they were all originally imprisoned inside the sarcophagus.

But one of them ran away.

Others cannot escape.

That's why today's situation is formed. The demon mother bell is wandering in the outside world, and the child bell is still trapped in the coffin. The two can only talk to each other through the air and communicate through ringtones.

"Then something goes wrong."

Ji Dao slapped his head and said seriously.

At first they believed that the demon bell was attached to some kind of swamp creature that could swim in the mud, and that it was probably left deliberately by the ancients near the underground cable bridge.

But something is obviously wrong now.

If the Demonic Bell is part of Qili's strange dream, and was deliberately left in the mud to move freely by the ancients, it is incompatible with the suppression of the sarcophagus. Why use iron ropes to seal it if it wants to be free?
So this could be an accident.

At the beginning of the design, the ancients did not want to let the demon bell be free. The demon bell accidentally escaped from the sarcophagus after being abandoned in the ancient city of Nanze, which means that it has completely lost control.

"Master Immortal, actually I had a feeling just now. Maybe this ghost bell is not an ancient bell at all, but the sound of some kind of ghost. It sounds like a bell..."

Ji Dao made another shocking statement.

Hearing his words, everyone in the room broke into a cold sweat, because no one could refute Ji Dao's guess.

He was the one who proposed the Yougui Bell.

He was also the one who objected to Yao Gui Ling.

Now he suddenly said that the demon bell was actually the cry of some kind of demon, which completely subverted everything just now, making the scene here even more terrifying and making people shudder.

And everything matches up.

No one has seen the true form of the demon bells, and no one knows whether they are bells, but they may indeed be sounds, the sounds of some special creature.

If that's the truth.

The demon and devil bells were ringing one after another just now. It was probably two strange creatures having a conversation.

The sarcophagus of Yao Guizi Ling was pried open, causing Yao Gui Zi Ling to cry out for help, which attracted Yao Gui Zi Ling to rescue...

"Where's the other one?"

Zheng Yun frowned and looked to the other side.

Another sarcophagus was also partially broken, but the breach was very narrow. The situation may be different from this one.

"Let me see."

Ji Dao immediately started to pull away.

The molted skin near the high platform was piled up like a mountain, enough to flood a person's chest. Ji Dao stood among them and shot his bow from left to right. The scene made Kedester and others feel a little worried.

What a bold artist.

The sarcophagus is more than two meters high, with the vicissitudes of life lying in front of it, and it is heavily blocked by iron ropes. At first glance, it looks like a strange and dangerous thing, but Ji Dao seems to be swimming in a pile of ocean balls in the children's playground area, trying to find toys from the plastic balls. …

"I'll pry it open and take a look."

Ji Dao's search failed, so he drew his sword and pried the coffin open.

Click.

The crack in the sarcophagus was pried open, and Ji Dao immediately stepped forward and shone a flashlight into it to observe carefully.

"Fuck."

Jidao suddenly exclaimed, and without waiting for Zheng Yun to ask, he immediately described: "Master Xian, there are dead people here, but not just one, but at least ten or twenty."

"what?"

Zheng Yun's heart skipped a beat.

There are ten or twenty corpses stuffed in a sarcophagus? This is too weird, it makes my scalp numb just thinking about it.

"Master Immortal, these corpses are withered and rotting. They are dressed differently from the generals of Hunumu Camp. They look very strange."

Ji Dao put his eyes to the opening of the gap and looked again.

The sarcophagus is six in length, three in width and two in height, with a volume of thirty-six cubic meters. It is similar to three double beds joined together. It is very empty inside, with ten or twenty corpses piled in the corners.

There is no water in the tomb, but this place is underground in a swamp environment after all, and the humidity is very high, so all the corpses in the coffin are rotten and exposed, and there are many fungi growing there.

The remains were definitely human.

Ji Dao saw several human skulls.

In addition, there were remains of clothes on them, which looked like they were not strips of cloth, but the skin of something, which was rotten and black and stuck to the bones, making it difficult to identify their original appearance.

"So the living things in the coffin are many people? Why didn't the Royal Expedition discover it? They didn't test it?"

Kedester looked at Jia Si Aileen.

Since there are ten or twenty dead people in this fallen sarcophagus, are there also ten or twenty people in the black-furred sarcophagus on the high platform? And he's still alive...

No wonder there are so many black hairs growing out of the sarcophagus. If there were ten or twenty living people, everything would make sense.

But this is too weird.

There are actually ten living people in the sarcophagus? Why did the ancients do this? What should we eat and drink to survive today?
"They don't have time to do X-rays on the sarcophagus. How can they know that the coffin is full of people?" Jiasi Irene shook her head.

"Wait a minute, they're not all humans. Master Xian, there's another kind of creature here. What do you think it is?"

Jidao suddenly reached into the sarcophagus, pulled out a small bone from inside, and shook it towards Zheng Yun above to show it.

This bone is extremely weird. There are three special depressions on it. It looks similar to the structure of human leg bones, but it obviously does not belong to humans and should belong to some small animal.

"Is this the skeleton of an alien? Isn't it too small? Does such a small animal need such a large coffin?"

Kedester subconsciously walked towards Ji Dao. He was already transporting members of the expedition team in the tomb and was very close to Ji Dao.

"Not necessarily. Maybe this small creature uses the sarcophagus as a nest. The human bones in the coffin are thieves from all ages. After being killed by the tentacles, they were dragged into the coffin and eaten by the small creatures."

Zheng Yun calmly proposed another solution.

There are many and confusing clues in front of you. You must calmly analyze and eliminate useless clues, otherwise it is easy to guess the wrong direction.

The ancient city of Nanze has existed here for hundreds of years and was discovered by Westerners as early as the early 18th century. From then to today, it may have attracted many tomb robbers.

Tomb robbers cannot be underestimated.

Especially the Eastern tomb robbers.

This profession has been around since ancient times and has a long heritage. Some of them have exploration experience that is no worse than that of the Royal Expedition Team, and they have skills passed down from their ancestors.

Just because Western explorers can't get in doesn't mean that Eastern tomb robbers can't get in. The difficulty for them to find and enter the ancient city of Nanze is definitely much lower than that for Western explorers.

Perhaps during these hundreds of years, tomb robbers from all dynasties visited this place and left corpses forever.

"Master Immortal is right. This is not a heavenly palace after all. Since it is in the human world, how can it not be visited by thieves?"

Jidao threw back the bones, then returned to the empty sarcophagus, looked around and said, "This sarcophagus has a large hole, and tentacles can penetrate it, so it is not used as a nest."

"This sarcophagus is empty, and this sarcophagus has many corpses. The combination of the two should be able to find clues."

Kedester came up with the idea.

The last sarcophagus must contain the remains of living creatures in the coffin. After sifting out the human bones, we can find the final answer, pick out the bones belonging to aliens, and speculate on the appearance of the aliens.

The conditions of the three sarcophagi are different, just like a puzzle game. If you solve the puzzle, you will know all the answers.

"In the last sarcophagus, there were only human bones and bones of small animals. There was no third kind. We can only draw one conclusion: the aliens are human beings."

Ji Dao shook his head and continued to think hard.

In fact, it's easy to know the truth. You can just go to the Celestial Palace to open coffins and see the living ones. You can get the answer directly, but it's a bit dangerous and you may see trouble.

dong dong dong.

Right now.

The demonic bell rings again...

(End of this chapter)