Imperial Treasure

Chapter 560 - 362: Ghost Cup, The Fear in the Heart

Sui Yi’s movement made everyone tense behind him, wondering if he had discovered some kind of clue?

It must be a dangerous clue, otherwise Sui Yi, such a composed person, would not have drawn Demon Que.

Actually, Third Lady Yin had already sensed it.

"There are corpse stenches, many bodies over there"

"Where? I don’t see them," the fat man was impatient. Despite his girth, he moved quickly, running to Sui Yi’s position in just a few steps.

By now, Sui Yi had already stopped at a spot. Beneath her feet was a slope leading down to a pit in front.

One glance nearly caused the fat man to faint.

"Oh my, such a strong smell of decay. This must be a Corpse Pit, right?"

A Corpse Pit? So it turned out there was a pit. No wonder they hadn’t seen the bodies before, and with their line of sight, they really couldn’t see the pit in front, thinking the corpses had vanished.

The fat man, after all, was brave. He turned back and looked, "female knight-errant, these bodies are the ones from before, right... ?"

"The Corpse Hover is gone," Second Master Gong, who had moved closer, also noticed the bodies below were numerous. The ones on top were fresh, not yet decomposed, their skin pale and blue, many with bloody wounds, but it was also possible to see the ones rotting underneath, as worms were wriggling at the edges...

This scene was horrifying enough, not to mention the unbearable stench.

If not for the fact that everyone present was battle-hardened, they might have been scared out of their wits...

"Judging by the depth of the pit, it’s at least four or five meters deep. With the bodies stacked up like this, there must be at least seventy or eighty beneath..." Skinny Waist had some experience with such matters. Killing was not something he would admit to an outsider, but those who were in his circle knew what he was capable of. His hands were stained with the blood of no fewer than five heads. However, compared to this pit, he felt he was damn near saintly.

"Such a tragedy. Hey, old man, do you guys drive corpses like this around here? With such a heavy taste, the heads are all gone, really..." Xue the Skillful Hand had always been about making money, and he actually detested violent and bloody deeds. The sight of dead people felt ominous to him, though he had tried to make a joke to lighten the mood, his expression turned strange as he spoke.

Heads?

"Right, how come there are no heads!"

"Just now, those corpses still had heads"

"This..."

Everyone started to react, taking a closer look at the haphazardly stacked bodies, indeed they were all headless.

The neck stumps were pale and red, but not much blood was present. After all, these bodies had been soaked in water, bloated, and by the time of death, the blood had mostly flowed out. A decapitation wouldn’t spurt blood, but if the person was alive, the blood would have sprayed onto the second-floor walls...

"Strange..."

They hadn’t been trailing the corpse procession for long, and besides, they had been walking quickly. They were faster than those bodies hopping around, so it could only be due to taking shortcuts through the forest. But even then, it couldn’t be by that much.

"There must have been at least twenty bodies in that row. For someone to drive the bodies here in such a short amount of time, decapitate them all and then take the heads away, there wouldn’t be enough time. So the heads of these bodies must be nearby..."

"But if they’re nearby, why not just leave them in the pit, and why decapitate them?"

As everyone discussed and analyzed, they also found it very odd. Yhan Qingwu looked into the Corpse Pit, turned her face, "Normally, Corpse Drivers show the utmost respect for the deceased, they’re very averse to mutilation of the bodies, and certainly wouldn’t decapitate the corpses they’re driving. Decapitation itself is a big taboo, unless there’s a special purpose or a psychological issue involved. Regardless of which, he wouldn’t have the time to take the heads away, nor is there any sign of them being burned. It’s most likely that the heads are still close by, and he wouldn’t just leave them anywhere, otherwise tossing them into the Corpse Pit would have been the most casual and trouble-free way to do it..."

A person does something driven by two motives, instinct or purpose. Regardless of which, few choose a complex and strenuous way to act. Therefore, since the perpetrator had decapitated the heads, there must be some use for them...

"Everyone split into small teams of three and search around, see if there are any heads," it wasn’t that they were busybodies, but such a strange incident if not clarified could very well harm them.

Especially since Corpse Hover himself was a very dangerous character...

Second Master Gong was an old hand in Jianghu, he understood these experiences, so he quickly gave the orders, and everyone quickly dispersed.

Sui Yi looked towards Yhan Qingwu, who was slightly pale but still composed. Sui Yi patted her shoulder lightly, "Let’s go check nearby."