Chapter 340: It’s like purgatory on earth, full of blue and purple nobles
As soon as they entered the underground palace, a strong stench hit everyone.
This is a complex odor that combines the smell of blood, rotting corpses, and the sour smell formed by the fermentation of gastrointestinal contents.
Surrounded by this stench, everyone was made to feel nauseous and had difficulty breathing.
Even the eyes were so painful that they shed tears, making everyone very uncomfortable.
Ye Zhiqiu immediately made a secret and cast two spells on everyone in succession.
One is the Qing Qi Spell, which can purify the air around everyone and make the smell less irritating.
The other is a night vision spell, which can improve people's vision in dark environments and gain a certain degree of night vision.
Before everyone climbed the rope to the seventh floor of the underground palace, they put out the torches to avoid burning the rope.
After entering the underground palace, it was completely dark inside. If you continued to use torches for lighting, it would be too conspicuous. Not only would it be easy to alert others, but you would also become a living target.
So Ye Zhiqiu cast a night vision spell to solve the problem of people's vision without lighting.
Qin Shaoyou looked around and found that although it was still dark inside the underground palace, visibility was greatly improved after using the night vision spell.
Although the clarity is not high, it barely allows them to get rid of the situation of being blind without seeing anything.
After Zhu Xiucai and others entered the underground palace, they were cautious and looked around. They were observing the situation inside the underground palace and adapting to the night vision spell.
According to Ye Zhiqiu's introduction, there is a process of adapting to the night vision spell. Once you are completely adapted, your visibility will be further improved.
During this process, although Zhu Xiucai and others did not speak, they all took the time to cast a look at Cui Youying.
As if to say: Look at you, look at Ye Shibaihu!
Cui Youyou snorted in his heart and didn't refute, just pretending that he didn't see everyone's eyes.
He doesn't know many auxiliary spells, not to mention that the spells used by Ye Zhiqiu were obviously systematically sorted out and learned after joining the Demon Suppression Division in response to the various situations faced in the investigation. He is indeed better than
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At this time, a night watchman exclaimed in a low voice, attracting everyone's attention and resolving the situation for Cui Yougui.
"So many corpses!"
No need to be reminded by this person, after everyone adapted to the night vision spell, they all saw that this underground palace was densely packed with corpses.
All the corpses were incomplete, some were missing arms and legs, and some were disembowelled, with all their internal organs and intestines scattered out.
Some of these corpses were still very fresh and still had blood flowing out, so they were obviously dead not long ago.
But some of them were rotten and turned into piles of rotten meat, and even had a lot of weird white hairs.
In addition, the ground is full of blood and filth, just like hell. No wonder it produces a stench comparable to biological and chemical weapons!
After making sure that these corpses would not move, Shan Daonian stepped forward to inspect several mutilated corpses and made a judgment: "These people should have been kidnapped by the corpse-raising demon and used as food for the corpse king - I am here
Traces of being bitten to varying degrees were found on their bodies."
"Feeding zombies with living people, this corpse-raising demon is so damn inhumane!"
"Those who practice this kind of sorcery want to destroy human nature and use all living beings as tools for their practice."
The night watchmen gnashed their teeth and cursed in low voices, eager to find the corpse-raising demon and the corpse king immediately, kill them, and avenge these people who died in vain.
Cen Biqing closed her eyes.
When she reopened her eyes, her pupils turned into brown vertical pupils, and the tongue in her mouth turned into a slender, forked snake letter, which she kept swallowing.
This is her special ability. The vertical pupil allows her to see many things that ordinary people cannot see, and the snake letter allows her to collect and distinguish the remaining odor factors in the surrounding environment.
It was precisely because of these two things that she gained the reputation of being good at finding people and things in the Yizhou Demon Suppression Division.
Previously, she disguised herself as a bride and attacked the Corpse King. Not only did she severely injure him, but she also memorized his scent factor.
But before Cen Biqing could collect the scent factors to identify the Corpse King in the smell of blood and corpses, Qin Shaoyou had already strode towards the depths of the underground palace and called to everyone: "Follow me, be careful!
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Zhu Xiucai, Monk Ma and others did not hesitate and immediately followed Qin Shaoyou.
Monk Ma also raised his shield to protect Qin Shaoyou.
Ye Zhiqiu and his team hesitated for a moment.
Because Qin Shaoyou walked very quickly and did not order a search along the way, it seemed as if he knew the whereabouts of the Corpse Raising Demon Way and the Corpse King.
But how did he know?
Is it again relying on martial arts intuition?
Several people turned their heads and looked at Ye Zhiqiu, waiting for him to make a decision.
Ye Zhiqiu himself was a little hesitant, but he quickly remembered Zuo Qianhu's instructions before leaving, and made a gesture to follow him.
Although Cen Biqing followed Qin Shaoyou, he frowned slightly and looked at Qin Shaoyou's body with his vertical pupils.
She couldn't understand why Qin Shaoyou had discovered the smell factor of the Corpse King before she even found it?
Is the warrior's intuition really so strong? It can be used not only to sense danger, but also to find the enemy's traces?
Then why don't the warriors in Yizhou Town Demon Division have Qin Shaoyou's ability?
If the current environment and situation hadn't allowed it, Cen Biqing would have really wanted to ask Qin Shaoyou.
Everyone followed Qin Shaoyou through the piles of corpses and came to a main hall.
Judging from the appearance of this main hall, it is not like a temple, but rather looks like the main hall of the palace where the emperor went to court to discuss matters!
Because here there are not only coiled dragon cloud-patterned pillars and nine-dragon gold lacquered thrones, but also a group of civil servants and generals dressed in blue and purple official robes.
These civil servants and generals were divided into two rows, in the order of the previous dynasty, standing silently facing the Kowloon gold lacquer throne.
Although these civil servants and generals had no reaction to the arrival of Qin Shaoyou and his group, the night watchers did not take it lightly and immediately took a fighting stance.
Monk Ma and his warriors immediately lined up in front with shields. Zhu Xiucai and Shan Daonian huddled behind their shields, with their weapons unsheathed and ready to fight at any time.
In comparison, they were not too surprised that there was a royal palace, civil servants and generals here.
Because from the moment he saw the human zombies and the nine-story underground palace, the night watchman expected that the person who built this underground palace was definitely very ambitious.
Therefore, it is not surprising at all that the man created a small court in the underworld in the underground palace.
The night watchers soon realized that this hall was not the place where the corpse-raising demon and the corpse king were hiding.
Because Qin Shaoyou did not stop after arriving here. He immediately asked Ye Zhiqiu and Cui Youyu to check the situation of these civil servants and generals. Apparently, he planned to continue going deeper into the underground palace.
Ye Zhiqiu and Cui Youwei immediately cast spells to check, and after a while they said: "They should not be zombies. We did not sense evil spirits in them. As for their bodies not rotting, it is probably because they have undergone some special treatment..."
Qin Shaoyou nodded and immediately led everyone to prepare to walk through the hall and go deeper.
The night watchmen quickly followed.
When Zhu Xiucai passed by a civil servant, his eyes swept across his face.
It was just a casual glance at first, but when he saw the face of this civil servant, he was suddenly startled and exclaimed in a low voice: "This is... Mr. Xu?! He... why is he here?"
"What, you know him?"
Qin Shaoyou stopped and turned around, asking in a low voice.
Zhu Xiucai nodded and quickly replied: "I know. When I took the college examination to examine talents, Mr. Xu was the examiner. He was the academic advisor of Yizhou at that time. Later, he was dismissed because he wrote a letter against Long Live Lord's obsession with cultivating immortals and wasting money and people.
Officer...why did he appear here? He was a fourth-grade Confucian scholar, and he was also killed by the corpse-raising demon?"
Hearing what Zhu Xiucai said, other night watchmen also carefully looked at these civil servants and generals wearing blue and purple official uniforms.
Then a few more people shouted:
"This is General Ma of the Northwest Frontier Army. When I was still in the Frontier Army, I was a soldier under him, but didn't he die in battle and have his bones buried outside the desert? Why is his body here?"
"I know this man. He is the former prefect of Bacheng. I met him when I went to Bacheng to assist in the investigation!"
Hearing the night watchman's exclamation, Qin Shaoyou had a rough idea of the identity of these blue and purple nobles in the hall.
They were all civil and military officials of the Great Xia Dynasty, and their official positions were not low. They were either promoted to official positions, dismissed from office, or died in battle.
But for some unknown reason, the body did not sleep peacefully in its own grave after death, but was transported here.
Who pulled them out of the tomb and brought them here?
Is it the corpse-raising demon path?
Or is there someone else?
Just when Qin Shaoyou was filled with confusion, the civil servants and generals standing in front of him suddenly opened their eyes.
Those pairs of eyes were gray and pale, showing a creepy hollowness and indifference.