Imperial Treasure

Chapter 562: Under the Corpse 363

The village chief stood up, wanting to climb up and take down his daughter’s head, but fortunately, although people remembered that he was not a good person and had plotted against them, he was still a father who had lost his daughter; his physical condition wasn’t great either, so Xue the Skillful Hand and Feng Sha both jumped up with a signal from Second Master Gong, and took down those heads one by one...

Although they were not good people, they ultimately couldn’t bear to let these poor souls’ heads hang there, exposed to the wind and rain...

There were a total of thirty-one heads.

They were placed some distance from the Ghost Cup Tree, to spare them the mental affections.

Thirty-one heads, neatly arranged, some still fresh, some completely decayed beyond recognition, some that were outright skulls.

The village chief’s daughter’s...was half decayed.

It was no longer recognizable, and it was unknown how this man could identify her, perhaps due to a blood connection.

The people didn’t speculate whether it was his daughter or not, as Feng Sha and others examined these heads...

Yhan Qingwu and Third Lady Yin, being perceptive women, stood up, and the former said, "There are thirty-one in total, twenty of which are still well-preserved and are the bodies we saw in that line the other day. They died recently and have not decayed yet, but the origins of the other eleven..."

The village chief took the initiative to confess, "My little girl was murdered two months ago because we couldn’t find anyone to offer sacrifices to the Demon God. After my daughter’s death, knowing it was the Demon God’s retaliation, I reluctantly had people set up some traps in the mountains. If it were a small group, they’d just perish; if it’s like you, they would surely come to our village looking for medicine... But the previous few groups were too formidable, either they didn’t come to our village, or they were too tough to deal with after arriving. I dared not provoke them, so I let them pass through peacefully... until you arrived, so excluding my girl, the other ten were not harmed by us."

It seemed unlikely that the old man was lying.

It must have been the doing of the Corpse Hover!

The people were quite certain that before their arrival, this person had also harmed some people...

"Have you noticed that the number of thirty-one heads here and the number of corpses stacked in the Corpse Pit don’t match?"

Of course, they didn’t match; many had already figured it out.

Second Master Gong, stroking his chin and lighting a cigarette, said, "There should be at least twice as many in the Corpse Pit... Where the missing heads went is anybody’s guess."

"And hanging heads on a tree, as Miss Yhan previously said, indicates either a psychopath or a special purpose... Hey, Miss Sui, why are you still under that tree?" Third Lady Yin called out from afar, and then people noticed that Sui Yi was still standing under the tree, with a Hou squatting next to her.

The ugly Hou and the stunningly beautiful Sui Yi standing together under that dreadful tree was a discordant sight.

So Third Lady Yin called out to her; Sui Yi leapt onto the tree in response... The Hou growled a few times from below... a moment later, Sui Yi jumped down and walked towards them, holding a small tree branch in her hand.

"Uh, Miss Sui, did you just climb the tree to break off that branch...? As the saying goes, don’t pick the wildflowers at the roadside, let alone from the trees..." The chubby man tried to crack a joke, but a glance from Sui Yi,

Uh, immediately silenced him.

"This branch smells,"

Sui Yi handed the branch over, and the others took it... Uh, actually, they all knew it was the smell of the decaying heads, none of them really wanted to smell it, but since Sui Yi was not someone to waste time on pointless acts, so...

Third Lady Yin didn’t need to touch the branch to turn her gaze towards the distant Hou.

The others also glanced in unison.

"Is it the Hou’s smell? Could it be this Hou..."

They had just begun to suspect.

Mount Mover sniffed it, frowned, and shook his head, "It’s a bit different, not like it’s from its body, rather it’s like..."

"Demon God," Yhan Qingwu and the village chief said simultaneously.

Sui Yi wanted to suggest it was Ao Yin, but considering she had no evidence, she chose not to frighten the others with that assumption.

"It’s the Demon God... I’ve been in that room, it’s definitely this smell," Second Master Gong also nodded, "It seems we haven’t come to the wrong place. If there are severed heads here, then the Demon God is the Mountain Ghost, and the Corpse Hover must be using these people’s heads to offer sacrifices to the Demon God... The missing heads and their skulls are not seen here, the ground is very clean, obviously the heads were directly taken by the Demon God... The Demon God’s nest should be here,"

When Second Master Gong mentioned the nest of the Demon God, he actually referred to the Warring States Ancient Tomb, and everyone instantly understood.

And Sui Yi also knew that their guess was probably correct, and it also aligned with Ao Yin.

Heads... wasn’t Ao Yin known for his fondness for consuming human brains?

Sui Yi and Yhan Qingwu exchanged glances.

But just as everyone was about to move and find the location of the Ancient Tomb, Mount Mover exhaled smoke and said, "No need to look... someone has already dug a tunnel for us."

"What?"

Xue the Skillful Hand and others had a flash of realization.

They all turned to look at the Corpse Pit!

Sui Yi glanced at this elder, privately thinking this man indeed had some capabilities, indeed, beneath was a tunnel.

The tunnel blocked up by piled bodies.

"Damn, that’s going to be troublesome... so many bodies..."

"Just haul them out, there’s no other way,"

"That’s the only option..."

It was a reluctant measure, but at least moving these bodies was easier than digging a new tunnel.

"Those corpses were rotting so vigorously, you poor things..."

The chubby man forced a laugh, and Second Master Gong smiled back at him, "You are quite pitiful too."

What the heck do you mean?

In a moment, the chubby man had put on gloves and a mask, and stood by the edge of the Corpse Pit with Gen Fengsha and a dozen other men.

His expression was bitter, since he had been the traitor, nobody was really going to speak up for him, so all he could do now was try to redeem himself...

Just as the chubby man was about to jump down, Sui Yi pointed at him and said, "Come here..."

Damn, even specifying where to move the corpse, huh.

But having a great beauty and a life-saver making the request, the chubby man happily ran over to Sui Yi’s side, then jumped into the pit... stepping on the corpses that were either squishy or stiff...

He also had to worry about accidentally stepping through the corpses, fearing that Altar Worms might crawl out...

That feeling, truly a bittersweet thrill!

Luckily, after an initial second of discomfort, a few seconds later, the chubby man and the others quickly adapted, swiftly dragging up the corpses, tying them with ropes, and having the people above pull them up...

Forget about flinging the corpses up, even if he had the strength, it would likely turn the bodies into a mushy mess.

That would be utterly disgusting.

So, the bodies were pulled up one by one with ropes...

The chubby man worked the fastest, even faster than Feng Sha and the others... Sui Yi watched him until he grabbed a corpse by the hand and chuckled, "This body does seem familiar... looks like..."

He looked at the face of the corpse... Its skin was pale grey, and the hair somewhat mottled, but though there was no water around, the corpse was remarkably well-preserved...

"Hehe," he chuckled nervously, then suddenly, his body jerked backward as he drew his long sword...

Swipe! The corpse also suddenly sat up, and the sudden move almost scared everyone to death, including Second Master Gong who was greatly startled, not to mention everyone else. However, their reaction was quick, the first reflexive action being to lift up guns and swords and so on...

But the corpse had already opened its eyes and swung its hand!

Two objects, unidentifiable, were flung from it, flying towards the people encircling from above.

Zoom!

It was counteracted even quicker, as Sword Qi wafted by, sending the two orbs flying further by Sword Qi, landing about ten meters away before bursting open.

Crash~

Twin dense clouds of black mist dispersed.

A buzzing sound, like bees, yet also like mosquitoes...

The village chief’s face changed quickly, shouting, "Not good, it’s Black Mambas!"

Black Mambas, sounds like a snake’s name, but hearing it from the village chief here was quite peculiar. However, Sui Yi could see within the black mist... countless minuscule creatures resembling snakes, shrunken a hundred or even a thousand times, with thin wings growing from their backs...

"Lightning Fire," having been previously pursued by such terrifying swarm creatures in the desert, Feng Sha made a decisive decision!

Several subordinates of the Tang Family immediately brought out flamethrowers, just like Han Gao and his team used before...

These creatures are highly toxic, but most are afraid of fire, perhaps fire is the innate fear of all beings, just like humans are actually afraid of fire.

But when Sui Yi’s gaze shifted, the Corpse Hover had already disappeared.

The chubby man, face twisted in distress, lips quivering, pointed at the gap left in the pile of corpses with a very uncertain tone, "He just... shrank down like that, then slipped inside... am I hallucinating? Can someone pinch me... is the Ghost Cup Tree still affecting me..."

Crack! A small stone hit his forehead, the Mount Mover above scoffed, "You idiot, that’s Bone Shrinking Skill... This guy is troublesome... This Bone Shrinking Skill is practiced to perfection. Plus, hiding among the corpses without making any sound, he’s probably also very good at playing dead and holding his breath. He didn’t kill you just now, probably because he saw that you’d somehow have had dealings with him..."

"Nonsense! My contact wasn’t him... I never met with him. Speaking of which, underwater I even stole something from his apprentice, and it got his apprentice killed. This is a huge grudge!"

Fearing being suspected of insincere allegiance, the chubby man blurted out everything about the past.

Sui Yi looked at him and said lightly, "That young man’s head is also among those twenty bodies... The corpse under your feet is his."

Holy crap!

The chubby man, weighing over 200 pounds, suddenly sprang up.

Although the Corpse Hover escaped, their curiosity about this well-ordered stack of bodies increased. The pile wasn’t just random; there seemed to be a pattern beneath, otherwise, a hole wouldn’t have neatly appeared, with a cavity beneath it.

About half an hour later, all the corpses were cleared away, totaling over two hundred... The reason there were so many was because Sui Yi and her team had miscalculated that further down there were not full bodies but skeletons, bones interlocking and stacked together, which took up far less space than entire bodies...

Thus, over two hundred carcasses were buried in this pit.

Perhaps not known, since some bones due to excessive pressure or being too old, had already crumbled to dust, indistinguishable as to how many people’s skeletons were there.

"It’s inhumane,"

"That Corpse Hover deserves to be executed a thousand times" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at Qidian (qidian.com) with recommendation and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)