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"But," Ye Xi still felt that something was wrong, "How do you know that there is a mechanism to open the secret door on the lotus flower?"

"I do not know."

Just as Ye Xi showed a look of "I believe you are strange", Luo Ke said again, "I just feel like I have seen a similar device somewhere before."

Ye Xi opened his mouth wide again.

"Maybe I saw it in some ancient books." Luo Kehun said indifferently, "You know, I like to read those things very much. It's just that I can't remember which book it was written in. .”

He shrugged, took out two flashlights from his backpack, and handed one to Ye Xi, "Forget it, it's not important anyway. Go in and have a look, it should be the lair of the blood corpse."

After he finished speaking, he stepped into the cave first.

A cold breath suddenly hit his face.

Ye Xi widened his eyes curiously, and the walls of the dome-shaped cave were covered with slippery dark green moss.

In the humid air, there was a smell of musty and rotten seed plants, which was very pungent.

The bottom of the feet is also wet, and in some places, water is still seeping.

Luo Ke also held his breath, thinking that everything here has existed for thousands of years or even longer, and he felt a surge of emotion.

Not just awe or wonder, but an eerie excitement, as if there was some secret worth digging for.

The further you go into the cave, the dimmer the light becomes.

The beam of the flashlight is only concentrated in front of the eyes, and if it is farther away, it will not be effective at all, as if it has been completely swallowed by the darkness.

Under the feet, there is a wet and slippery road with potholes.

Showing a gradual downward trend, as if slowly sinking into the ground.

On the cave walls on both sides, stalactites of various shapes emerge.

Some are like bamboo shoots, some are like mushrooms, some are like vases, some are like crowns, and some are like ladies in ancient costumes...

Ye Xi couldn't help but be amazed when he saw it. He remembered the photos of human faces sent back by the US "Pirate One" Mars rover, which shocked the whole world at that time.

Many people speculate that it was a long, long time ago, and the building similar to the Egyptian Sphinx built by the "Martians" is a historical relic left by the ancient civilization of Mars.

And actually?The clear faces in the photo are nothing more than rocky mountains.

Sure enough, the uncanny workmanship of nature is the most incredible.

Ye Xi leaned closer to the cave wall and carefully looked at the stalactites.

Not only are they different in shape, but their colors are also colorful, including yellow, blue, reddish brown, black, and green.

He is good at chemistry and knows that the mixing of various metal elements or organic matter and clay minerals may affect the color of stalactites.

For example, the blue ones are copper salts, the reddish brown ones are iron oxides, the black ones are carbides, and the green ones are chlorides...

The colorful stalactites are very, very beautiful, Ye Xi became more and more engrossed as he looked at them, his eyes suddenly met something in the cave wall, and he screamed "Oh my god" in fright.

In extreme panic, he even threw away the flashlight in his hand.

It was a skull in relief.

Standing abruptly on the stone wall, the carvings are lifelike, and there are two black and white spheres in the eye sockets, like living eyeballs.

Of course, it can't be a naturally formed stalactite, which is more vivid and more like a skeleton than the skeleton they encountered just now.

Is it really a skull (Note: 1)?

But how could it be embedded in the stone wall?

Since the flesh and blood have rotted away, how could the eyeballs still exist?

Ye Xi's hairs stood on end, his legs went limp, and he almost collapsed on the ground.

"What's the matter?" Luo Ke heard his cry, turned his head and asked.

Ye Xi was at a loss for words, and tremblingly pointed at the opposite skull, his fingers trembling.

"Look at your talent, what did you see that scared you into such a ghost?" Luo Ke sneered contemptuously.

Ye Xi looked directly into the eyes of the skull.

Luo Ke came over, took a closer look, and said nonchalantly, "Oh, it's made of sheep fat jade and Hui ink, not to mention, it's quite realistic."

It turned out to be fake, Ye Xi heaved a sigh of relief, and wiped his forehead, covered in cold sweat.

He collected himself, and suddenly remembered something, then changed his face carelessly, and asked in a trembling voice: "Luo Luoke, you just said that the reliefs outside the cave have a history of at least thousands of years."

"Well."

"It's been only a few hundred years since Hui ink came into being, right?" Ye Xi was about to cry. It's too unscientific for stone carvings with thousands of years of history to appear at the same time as artworks with hundreds of years of material.

Luo Ke was also puzzled by this contradiction, and shrugged: "You failed me in the exam, and I don't know what happened."

The more they walked into the cave, the more strange they felt.

At regular intervals on the cave wall, there will be carefully carved skulls, all of which are inlaid with vivid eyes. Jade, pearl, agate... There are various materials and different ages.

Because of learning Taoism since childhood, Luo Ke has always been fond of history, and has studied antiques and ancient books.

In his view, these eyeballs seem to mark the change of human civilization and skills for thousands of years.

He frowned in confusion: "It seems that every hundred years or so, someone enters the cave, carves skulls on the cave wall, and inserts eyeballs of different materials.

What's even more strange is that looking at the carving, layout and brushwork..." He paused before he could speak.

"What?" Ye Xi asked.

"It was obviously done by one person." Luo Ke said slowly.

"Could it be that someone has lived for thousands of years? Still keeps leaving marks in the cave?" Ye Xi felt that this kind of statement was too unbelievable, almost to the point of absurdity.

"It's fine if you don't believe me." Luo Ke rolled his eyes at him.

It's not that Ye Xi doesn't believe him, but from a rational point of view, it's really unacceptable.

The two of them walked another 40 to [-] meters, and the cave gradually became spacious, almost as large as a room of more than [-] square meters.

There is a three-meter-long stone coffin in the middle.

Seeing it suddenly, Ye Xi called out "Wow!": "Luo Ke, there is a coffin here!"

Luo Ke held the flashlight and cast the beam on the coffin lid.

I saw a red flower in the shape of a sun disc painted on it, without leaves, I vaguely saw it somewhere.

Ye Xi was still tilting his head to remember, but Luo Ke had already whispered: "It's a piranha, this is indeed a place for raising corpses."

"The piranha?" Ye Xi was taken aback, and blurted out, "Could it be related to Lu Fei again?!"

"It's hard to say." Although Luo Ke said this, in fact, Luo Ke was convinced that the piranha on Luffy's body must be related to this blood corpse cave.

Piranhas are not Chinese cabbage in the vegetable market, they can be seen everywhere.

Handing the flashlight to Ye Xi, he walked to the coffin, chanted the spell silently, bit his index finger, and drew the Dao Ding Soul Blood Talisman on the coffin lid, then took out a steel crowbar from his backpack, and inserted it into the gap between the stone slabs.

"Hey! What are you doing?" Ye Xi asked in surprise.

"We've all come in, of course we have to open the coffin to have a look." Luo Ke said nonchalantly.

Ye Xi's face turned green: "We are neither archaeologists nor grave diggers. It's not good to just open the coffin of the dead?"

Luo Ke patiently explained: "The skeleton disappeared near this cave, and this cave is a breeding ground for blood-breeding corpses, the two must be related.

I want to open the coffin to see if there is a blood corpse inside. "

Hearing that what he said made sense, Ye Xi fell silent.

On the coffin, the stone slab used as the cover was only four or five centimeters thick, but Luo Ke tried hard to pry it open for a long time, his brow was sweating, but he couldn't pry it open.

Seeing this, Ye Xi put the flashlight on a relatively flat stalactite beside him, and came over to help.

The two of them put all their effort into breastfeeding, and the coffin finally made an ear-piercing sound of "cackling", a gap was embedded, and a cold breath came out from the gap.

Ye Xi shivered from the cold, and the two of them worked together to move the stone slab away little by little, and pushed it aside with a "slap".

I saw a black lacquered iron coffin horizontally inside the coffin. On the top of the coffin was an inconspicuous earthen urn with a narrow mouth and a round belly, which was half a meter high.

The mouth of the urn is sealed with a mud seal mixed with cinnabar, which is dark red in color and looks very creepy.

"What is this?" Ye Xi asked curiously.

"It's probably a kind of Gu technique, don't touch it." Luo Ke knew that this kind of soil urn was mostly used to raise Gu in Miaojiang, and cinnabar is indeed one of the nemesis of Gu insects, so he hurriedly warned him.

The iron coffin lid was only left empty, and was not sealed with wax paint. Luo Ke easily moved the coffin lid to a gap of more than ten centimeters wide.

Since it is said to be a "blood corpse", it must look very miserable and terrifying, Ye Xi dare not look at it, and looks away at the stalactite diagonally opposite.

At this time, the urn in the coffin suddenly made a strange rustling sound, and then trembled, as if something was struggling violently inside.

Luo Ke lowered his head and glanced, suddenly changed his expression, and hurriedly shouted: "Ye Xi, get out of the way!"

Before Ye Xi could react, a blood-red bug jumped out of the urn, pierced through the mud with a clatter, and flew straight towards him.

In the blink of an eye, Luo Ke didn't have time to think, jumped up, threw Ye Xi down violently, and at the same time raised his hand to chop at the insect.

The worm touched his palm, like a water drop meeting a sponge, it quickly melted into it, and disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye, leaving no trace.

Ye Xi's brain was numb at the time, and he almost fainted. He grabbed Luo Ke's hand, with a pale face, and stammered, "It, what is it?"

"It's the Miao family's Gu," Luo Ke pulled him to stand up, looked into the urn, and cursed in a low voice, "It's the most vicious man-eating Gu. It is said that the recipe has been lost for a long time."

Ye Xi also glanced at it curiously, and suddenly his stomach turned upside down, and he almost vomited out again.

There is a snow-white skeleton in the urn, which is cleaner and more thorough than the skeleton specimens used by the Department of Medicine of University B, not even a bit of meat remains.

He was worried and afraid at the same time, tremblingly rubbed Luo Ke's palm, and asked in a crying voice: "What is cannibalism? It has entered your body, how do you get it out?"

Luo Ke stared at his undisturbed palm, and slowly said: "Miaojiang's Gu technique is to put poisonous insects—such as snakes, scorpions, lizards, etc., into the same container, let them gnaw and kill each other, and finally the remaining The only surviving one becomes Gu.

And cannibalism is to put the last surviving poison in the urn and feed it with living people.

In this way, while it eats the flesh and blood, it also devours that person's resentment at the same time, so it will become more vicious and ferocious. "