I can't play this game

After landing smoothly, he looked left and right, and whispered:

"No problem, you can come down, but you still have to go to the central stone. It's not convenient to move in the water."

Looking at the faint white smoke floating on the circular pool below, Eggplant breathed a sigh of relief:

"It's a bit like a paradise."

Chen Ke Sha Scenic Road:

"Brother Egg, is there a paradise that needs to be surrounded by Buddhist scriptures?"

"Okay, stop talking, go down and talk."

Only then did Ji Han and the three of them swing past one by one. With the experience of the previous few divine pillars, everyone has become more cautious now.

"Thank you Song Qian, didn't you find anything?"

Song Qian, who was on the central stone platform first, made a silent gesture, then pointed to the ground on the other side of the stone platform, and whispered:

"Brother Han, look over there."

I saw eight corpses piled up on the ground on the other side of the central stone platform, arranged in groups of two on the ground.

The skin and flesh have been highly corroded, leaving only clean bones, not even clothes.

The four of them also had experience, and their first reaction after seeing the bones was to look around vigilantly, but there was no movement at all.

After confirming that there was no danger, the four of them carefully went over to check the bones.

Among the four, Chen Ke was the one who knew more about the corpses. He put on his gloves and stepped forward to inspect the eight corpses briefly.

Looking back:

"Looking at the bones, the eight should all be adult males, and there doesn't seem to be any trace of poisoning or injury to the bones."

Eggplant was surprised when he heard that:

"Eight men?"

Ji Han asked back:

"What happened to the eight men?"

Eggplant laughed:

"Look at the eight corpses on the ground, two pairs overlapping each other. At first I thought they were four couples. This is the first time I've seen eight men die like this."

Ji Hanxin said that Eggplant's observation angle is really tricky.

But it was indeed as he said, all the bones that Chen Ke had briefly inspected were put back in their original places, and the corpses on the ground could be clearly seen in pairs.

Even the bones of each pair were mixed together, as if they were deeply hugging before they died. It is really incomprehensible for two big men to make such a gesture.

At this moment, Chen Ke picked up another round object from the ground and added:

"There is a prayer bead here. It seems that they may be the same group of people who wrote scriptures on it."

Eggplant took the beads and said:

"It seems that these masters have failed in defeating the devil."

Ji Hanxin said that the eight monks were in pairs and hugged each other when they died, which seemed even more difficult to understand.

But looking at the surrounding cliffs, Ji Han added:

"I think what's even more strange is the cause of their death."

Song Qian immediately understood what Ji Han meant, nodded and said:

"The eight adult men were neither poisoned nor injured. Although the walls around the tiankeng are steep, there are also places with gentle angles. It doesn't mean that they can't escape, but they all died here."

"Yes, that's what it means."

It's not that Ji Han and the others are addicted to solving puzzles, but the eight corpses in front of them may indicate the danger they may encounter next.

The other four people have new insights into life and death. Since time is not so urgent and safety is the first priority, they try to think twice before taking every step.

Chapter 371 The Cause of Death

Eggplant lit up the flue:

"Fuck, I still have to deduce the cause of death, there is a script to kill that smell."

Ji Hanxin said that a few months ago, he really thought this was a virtual reality script killing.

Chen Ke first thought of the bones he saw at the bottom of the Jushan Mental Hospital:

"Brother Ji, could there be some insects that eat people?"

"It doesn't seem like it. The bones are too clean, and there are no traces of insect bites."

It doesn't look like he failed to climb the cliff and fell off, otherwise there would definitely be scars on the bones.

Song Qian said:

"Maybe we are thinking too much. Maybe they were directly pierced through the heart or cut off the throat by people or monsters."

Eggplant shook his head and said:

"The operation of killing without hurting the bones requires high precision for a killer, let alone a monster, and it can't explain their posture."

Encountering problems and having no idea, Ji Han began to list them one by one:

"Eight skeletons, without any wounds or poisoning on their bodies, and there is no sign of fleeing to the sinkhole, why did they die here? And they are hugging each other two by two?"

Besides, the eight of them must have had a rope when they came down. How could they be trapped here and die without any struggle?

The first thing Ji Han could think of was starving to death, but they could climb up the not so steep side of the tiankeng, which was better than sitting down and waiting to die, and they wouldn't starve to death here.

However, after Ji Han listed them one by one, he gave Eggplant an idea.

"Hey, I seem to have thought of a possibility."

All three turned their heads to look at Eggplant, but Eggplant didn't say anything immediately, but looked at Chen Ke first.

"Brother Ji, what do you think I am doing? I didn't kill him."

Eggplant laughed:

"I want you to be mentally prepared, because in this case, I think the most reasonable explanation is: all eight of them were scared to death."

When Ji Han, Song Qian and Chen Ke heard this, they were shocked at first, but then they understood what Eggplant meant.

If the eight of them were scared to death, wouldn't they be able to leave their bones unharmed?

The most important thing is to see extremely scary things, and it becomes reasonable for two people to hug each other.

Chen Ke swallowed when he heard this, and moved closer to the eggplant:

"Come on, brother eggplant, don't scare me."

"Grass, I didn't intend to scare you. This is just a normal guess according to common sense."

What Chen Ke said was even more frightened, and he directly hugged Hyakkimaru in front of him.

Song Qian continued:

"This is a bit unbelievable, isn't it? Just now Chen Ke said that these eight may be monks, let's not talk about their Taoism. On the one hand, they are also people who have practiced. On the other hand, since they are here, they may be here to slay demons and catch monsters." , and ended up being frightened to death, doesn’t it seem unreasonable?”

Song Qian was right. Under normal circumstances, few people would be scared to death.

Ji Han had heard of a horror writer before. When he was writing about a ghost knocking on the door, his family members came knocking on the door, and he was scared to death.

But later it was also refuted that it was just hype.

Although tangible fear is scary, it is generally not enough to scare people to death, unless there is some congenital disease such as heart disease.

If you have to say it, unless it is some incomprehensible fear.

For example, in the mythical plot of Cthulhu, people are often scared to death because it is an incomprehensible fear.

The fear of Cthulhu seems to be that bugs can't understand humans, but this kind of place doesn't look like Cthulhu exists.

Chen Ke reminded:

"Brother Ji, why don't we move on? It's not an option to stay here, what are others attracting?"

In order to comfort Chen Ke, Ji Han also expressed his guess:

"I think there is another possibility. They may have been drugged or have some kind of hallucination, just like we circled in the tomb of King Zhao, so they couldn't get out on this stone. As for hugging each other It is very likely that I saw something in the illusion."

When Chen Ke heard it, the fear in his heart dissipated a lot, and he hastily affirmed:

"Brother Ji, I think your conjecture is very reasonable! It should be like this, maybe it's a drug, or eating some hallucinogenic fungi around here."

Ji Han also knew that there was a big problem with his guess, because even if it was hallucinogenic, it would not last so long to starve people to death.

Besides, these monks are not ignorant of the local problematic fungi, so the possibility of what I said is not high.

But continuing to discuss too much here will only make everyone more fearful, so Ji Han stopped in time:

"Okay, let's move on, everyone, be careful, take out the anti-psychedelic medicine I gave you in advance, and take a little in advance if you feel something is wrong."

The four of them stepped over the bones and walked forward. On the west side of the tiankeng, outside the circular pool, was a huge cave tunnel.

Looking up, it looked like a small air-raid shelter, and the four of them immediately recognized that this was the cave tunnel that appeared in the Nine Star Mirror of the Pre-Qin Dynasty.

Song Qian said:

"Although the three mountains above have disappeared, the tunnel doesn't seem to have changed much."

Ji Han frowned and said:

"I don't understand this even more. At first, I guessed that the disappearance of the three mountains would be the same as what we encountered before. The black stone mountain fell from the sky and completely changed the landscape here, but now the tunnel has not changed. , it means that the mountain outside may have indeed disappeared out of thin air, let’s go and have a look.”

For the sake of caution, the four of them did not touch the surrounding pool, but directly ejected the spider silk to the opposite bank, and directly blocked it.

The stone under the feet is not smooth, but there are obvious traces of artificial treatment in the entire cave tunnel.

The temperature inside the tunnel was slightly higher than outside, but there was no wind blowing out.

Relying on the light coming in from the tiankeng, we can barely see that the inside is extremely empty.

Chen Ke threw the lighting sticks to the sides, and Eggplant put on an infrared detector in advance to try it out:

"Let's go, there doesn't seem to be anything alive here."

Just like the scene in the nine-star mirror in the pre-Qin period, as the four of them moved inward, the entire valley tunnel became narrower and narrower.

All the way to the end, the space has shrunk to the size of a normal expressway tunnel entrance, and the traces of artificial excavation here have become more obvious.

The mouth of the huge tunnel at the end is so dark that it is hard to see clearly inside.

Just as Chen Ke was about to throw a lighting stick inside, Eggplant grabbed him, then pointed to the two big stones in the corner with the flashlight and said:

"Wait a minute, look here first."

As he said that, he walked over first, and saw a broken stone tablet thrown at the corner of the tunnel, with three words vaguely engraved on it.

Chapter 372

Ji Han recognized the three characters by relying on the quantum fluctuation reading method:

"Dizu Village."

Eggplant kicked the broken stone tablet on the ground and said:

"Grass, it's still a sign, the ghost place is quite human."

Ji Han replied:

"It's strange, it takes a lot of money owed outside to build the village here."

Song Qian continued:

"Or there are some unqualified secrets."

Chen Ke pondered those three words, and said slowly:

"Earth Ancestor Village, Earth Ancestor? Have you read "Journey to the West"? Isn't this place where the ancestor of the Earth Immortal Zhen Yuanzi lived?"

Ji Han said:

"This is a big joke. Who dares to smash Zhenyuanzi's signboard? The place names in the past were all beautified. Maybe it's a landlord's village. Don't worry about it."