Murder

Chi Yebai fell into the bone village.

The moment Qing Yuanzi threw the fruit, he had already opened the door to the second floor entrance.This door is in the same position as the one he saw in the information, but it is much bigger than that: there is actually a flap under Chi Yebai's feet.

Because Qing Yuanzi and the others yelled for a while, it was too late when he realized that the flap under his feet was flipped.

Chi Yebai, who fell into the bone village, was silent for a moment, and he found that his reaction seemed to have become a little slow.

The inside of the bone village is not completely dark. Although the gaps between the bones are not large, some faint light can penetrate to illuminate the inside.Although the light was thin, it was enough for him.He stood where he was, looking around silently.

I fell from the second floor, so this is the first floor of the bone village.This spacious stockade is almost half the size of Jiezi's main building, but inside it is empty and there is nothing.

Chi Yebai raised his voice to call the people outside, but there was no response, only his own voice echoed repeatedly in this place, weakening and dissipating a little bit.

People outside couldn't hear him, and he didn't hear anything outside either.

Chi Yebai was a little surprised that this village built by someone had the ability to block sound.

The entrance is hard to find, and you need to move several bones in the organ in order to open it.No one outside has read the book that records the trap similar to the bone village, and Chi Yebai doesn't think they will know how to open it.Now that he is in the stockade, the people outside don't know what's going on inside, and it's impossible to destroy the stockade casually.Chi Yebai thought for a moment, then turned around and began to look for a way out.

The bone village has about five to six floors, and the highest part is obscured by trees, so it is hard to see.Chi Yebai walked around the wall cautiously, and walked around the first floor where he was.

Big, much bigger than it looks.Perhaps it was because the village was built on a stone beam, and they could only see one side from the side of the stone beam, while the three sides of the village were densely covered with trees and grass, making it impossible to see its size.Unlike the bones on the four walls, the ground of the bone village is made of bricks and stones.Chi Yebai squatted down, and carefully touched the bricks and stones for a while.

The bricks were intricately grained, about half an inch deep, but he had no recollection of them.

There were no steps here, and a hollow was exposed in the center of the ceiling, from which hung a thick rope.

Ropes hang from the top floor, and seem to be specially used for climbing, and there are knots attached to every other section of the rope.

As he approached the hollow, Chi Yebai smelled blood on his face.The smell of blood is not strong, it is emitted from the rope.

The rope was black. He tore off a corner of his clothes and rubbed it through the fabric. Sure enough, a lot of powder was easily rubbed off from it.It's clotted blood.

Chi Yebai shook off the powder, held the cloth in his hand, and looked down at his feet.

The rope hung down to a hollow in the ground, where the end was looped.This recess is slightly higher than the ground, like a bowl embedded in the ground.The rim of the bowl is a few inches above the ground, just enough to hold the rope.

Chi Yebai jumped directly from the hole to the second floor without touching the rope.

The ground on the second floor is different from the first floor, it is actually filled with bones.An astonishing number of human bones and animal bones were bonded together to form the floor of the second floor, bumpy and undulating.

Chi Yebai stood on the edge of the void for a while.The second floor was as empty as the first floor. He raised his leg and was about to walk around like before, but found that he kicked the bones under his feet.

The bones rolled around his feet, making a crisp sound.

He immediately squatted down, still pinching the cloth, and grabbed the bone.

This is a human bone, which should be the upper thigh.There are no scars on the bones, and the peeling is complete, and it can even be called beautiful.

Chi Yebai put down this bone, and then touched the rest of the bones under his feet.

The floor of the second floor is indeed made of bones, but above this floor, there is also a layer of bones.The bones were scattered everywhere, seemingly out of order, the more Chi Yebai searched, the more frightened he became, he didn't care about holding a piece of cloth in his hand, and went directly to grab it.

The floor was covered with human bones, each of which was completely dismantled and beautiful, with no scars or adhesions.

Although he had never done an autopsy, he had been with Sima Feng for a long time, so he was naturally very familiar with human bones.

There are leg bones, arm bones, spine bones, neck bones, and even tiny finger bones.But no skull.

Chi Yebai threw away the bone in his hand, walked to the hollow immediately, and still jumped up to the third floor.

The third floor is completely different from the second floor: it is slightly smaller than the second floor, but it is no longer empty.In front of Chi Yebai stood a wall, the wall was connected to the three-story ceiling, and the bottom was connected to the three-story floor, which was very dense.

He drew the sword on his waist and listened intently.

There was no living creature in the village other than himself.

What about the beast that got in by mistake?It suddenly occurred to him.

But there really was no sound other than his own breathing.He pressed his palm against the wall, not feeling the slightest vibration.

The wall was built around the void, leaving only a gap.Chi Yebai walked directly to the gap.

Walking in through the gap is a circular corridor, and the wall he just saw is on the side of the corridor.Because of these shelters, the light on the third floor was extremely dim. Fortunately, he had adapted and didn't feel uncomfortable.After walking a few steps, Chi Yebai saw a door appear on the other side of the corridor.

He didn't go in, but walked along the corridor at a very fast speed.

One side of this corridor is a wall, and the other side is evenly divided into dozens of rooms, all of which have no doors and are dark inside.

Chi Yebai stood in the corridor, panting slightly.

For some reason, he felt that this place was somewhat familiar.

The dark corridor, the entrance in the corridor—like a "room" that he hasn't entered for a long time, the corridor is the passage between the bookshelves, and the entrance is the gap between the shelves.This darkness is also very similar to that kind of darkness, and there is a strange atmosphere around him. He is in a man-made space, but he cannot see the creator.

"Sima..." He whispered two words and took a deep breath.There is no one to hold the lamp for him here, he can only act on his own.But Sima Feng is outside, just outside this stockade, so he doesn't need to be afraid.

Chi Yebai calmed himself down, raised his legs and walked into the door closest to him.

Although it is said to be a "door", it does not actually have a door leaf.It just opened a long opening in the wall, and you can see it when you walk through the entrance, and there is an empty space inside.

Directly opposite the entrance sat a headless figure.

Chi Yebai was still holding the sword in his hand, and when he was walking, he intentionally let the tip of the sword touch the bones on the ground, making continuous crashing sounds.

The sound kept him alert and awake.Following the voice, he slowly walked in front of the headless corpse.

The clothes on the corpse had almost rotted away, but the corpse was kept in a very clean state, and there was no smell.Chi Yebai told himself a few jokes in his heart before reaching out to touch the hands and feet of the corpse.

This is a mummy that has been dead for a long time, and he immediately made a judgment.

The cloth was no longer intact, and the skin and flesh of the corpse had lost moisture and stuck tightly to the bones.The mummy was leaning against the wall, and Chi Yebai could see the faint light coming in from the cracks in the bones behind him.There are already three floors here, and the outside is full of trees. Even if there is light, it is very limited.

Perhaps it is the special location and structure here that forms a condition that can preserve the corpse in good condition and prevent it from decomposing.Chi Yebai got up and went to check the other rooms. After walking through several rooms, he found that there were such headless mummies in the rooms.Some have only one, while others have two or three.

Chi Yebai didn't continue to observe, he directly retreated to the gap and jumped up to the fourth floor.

Such a stockade has existed in Tiansheng Valley for so long, and no one has come to inspect it?Jiezilou is nearby. Could it be that Tian Ku, who has always been very curious, has no interest in it?

Chi Yebai had countless questions in his mind.

The fourth floor was a circle smaller than the third floor, and the rope was pressed under a heavy stone platform, and that was the end.

The stone platform was beside him, with a strange shape, like a shrunken beheading platform.Chi Yebai stood on the edge of the stone platform, feeling dizzy for a while.

Hundreds of human heads were placed around the gap in the middle of the fourth floor, all facing him.

The place closest to the hollow is a withered human head, and the periphery is pale skulls.The light had almost disappeared, Chi Yebai used the blade of the sword to reflect a ray of light above his head, and looked around here.

This seems to be a slaughterhouse, but it is not an ordinary slaughterhouse.The placement of human bones, mummies and heads seems to follow a mysterious law, and it can even be said to be well-organized.Chi Yebai looked up at the ceiling on the fourth floor.

There is also a void here, and above that is the fifth floor.The fifth floor seems to have reached the top, and there is no way to go up.He vaguely saw something placed on the fifth floor, but there was no connecting tool from the fourth floor to the fifth floor.

This also shows that the fifth floor is a place that cannot be easily entered.

Chi Yebai didn't go up immediately, he squatted down on the edge of the fourth floor, groping for the ground.The ground is still made of bones, and a layer of blood powder can be rubbed off with just one rubbing.He stood up and wiped his hands carefully, looking down at the rope extending from his feet to the bottom.

The reason why the rope was full of blood was probably because the blood flowed down from the fourth floor.

Someone killed a person on the fourth floor, cut off his head and let the blood out, the blood pooled at the stone platform, filled the rope, and trickled down to the first floor.The depression on the first floor was slightly higher than the rest of the ground, and the blood flowed down along the ropes, and when the bowl was full, it would overflow and spread along the grooves of the stone bricks on the ground.This rope and blood connect the four layers with the first layer.The third floor is for mummies, and the second floor is for human bones. The content of each floor is different.

Chi Yebai changed his mind: this is not a slaughterhouse, this is more like a place of sacrifice.Taking lives, disposing of corpses, and cutting up flesh and blood in a fixed way, there seem to be some invisible rules hidden in it.

He clenched the sword in his hand and jumped to the top floor.