In the cave that winds downward, everyone is silent. They have been walking for a while and have not yet reached the bottom. Maybe there is no bottom in this place. Maybe.
Fortunately, as you go down, the hole is getting bigger and bigger, and it is no longer as depressing as when you first came in.
"Wait, stop." This was what Li Huowang said. He knelt down on one knee and looked at the footprints on the ground with a slight frown.
"These are not the footprints of a child, but the footprints of a normal adult. It seems that besides Sun Baolu when he was a child, someone else has been in this cave."
"Nothing, let's go on." Li Huowang stood in and continued to drill down the hole. In fact, he was more taboo about meeting people than evil spirits.
If someone can freely enter and exit a cave full of evil spirits, it means that his strength is absolutely impressive.
The cave began to turn, but Sun Baolu stood at the corner and stopped. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva nervously and said: "Just after turning this corner, one of my playmates suddenly disappeared." p>
Sun Baolu's fear began to spread to everyone's heart, and everyone was very energetic at this time.
Li Huowang put his hand on Sun Baolu's shoulder, pulled him back hard, and took the lead in crossing the curve in front.
He stood there with the hilt of the sword in his hand, looking around at everything outside. But Li Huowang, who had been prepared for a long time, did not receive any attack.
"Are you sure this is here? There is nothing else on the ground except two dead sheep."
"Dead sheep?" Sun Baolu and others cautiously came behind Li Huowang, holding the glowstone in their hands high, and looked inside.
In front of the darkness, there are really only two dead sheep and nothing else.
Judging from their shriveled faces and dusty but still intact bodies, they must have been lost and trapped in this cave.
With a "click", two dried sheep carcasses on the ground were instantly torn in half by Li Huowang's sword, and the dry internal organs, which were as dark as briquettes, rolled out.
Li Huowang didn't give up and stepped on it directly.
He had no intention of leaving these two mummies behind him. It would be too dangerous. It would be dangerous if they suddenly got up and attacked him.
Although this was too cautious, Li Huowang felt that in this environment, he could not be too cautious.
After thoroughly crushing the bones of the two sheep and scattering them into ashes, Li Huowang put the long sword in his sheath and continued walking inside.
The entire cave became deeper and emptier as we walked, but Li Huowang couldn't see what was in the dark distance.
The darkness here is darker than other places. The fluorescent light in their hands can only illuminate the immediate area, and even with Li Huowang's eyesight, it can only be farther away.
Not long after leaving, there were sheep carcasses on the ground again. This time Li Huowang couldn't cut them down because they were all on the ground. There were too many, and they were densely packed with as many as eight hundred if not a thousand.
"One or two may be said to be lost, but so many of them are man-made. They are driving a group of sheep here to die. Who did it?" Li Huowang looked at these sheep and thought.<
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Moreover, the carcasses of these sheep were very complete, and there did not appear to be any signs of chewing or devouring.
It can be judged from this that Hei Taisui should not be nearby, otherwise Hei Taisui, who eats meat, would not be able to let go of these foods easily.
Li Huowang thought again for a while, took out the dead skin of Hei Tai Sui from his arms, and placed it in front of the steamed bun again.
"Steamed buns, smell it, go see where there is this smell around here."
"Woo~" After licking the bun, he raised his feet and walked forward with some hesitation.
As Li Huowang waved his hand, the others quickly followed. "Follow closely, don't fall behind here."
"There's a small short circuit ahead. It's okay. In just half a stick of incense, we'll reach the place where I encountered the brush. That's where I finally arrived." A very nervous Sun Baolu continued to remind him.
The dead sheep on the ground still haven't disappeared, and they are densely spreading inside.
Finally, after two cups of tea, it was no longer a sheep, but something new appeared in front of it. It was a huge bronze tripod, which seemed to be as high as a story.
The huge bronze tripod is covered with green rust and dust. It looks like this thing has been there for a long time.
"This...when I came here, there was no such thing." Sun Baolu's words made Li Huowang frown.
He first looked at the cauldron, then turned to look at the densely packed dead sheep behind him. He always felt that they were connected together. As far as he knew, something like the cauldron should be an important ritual tool for worshiping gods.
Li Huowang slowly circled around the giant cauldron. When he saw the white jade plates placed behind the cauldron and the rotten animals with only bones left, Li Huowang found that he was right. Someone was really offering sacrifices here.
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"Isn't it said that this place is the territory of evil spirits? Why is there such a solemn worship ceremony? Is this all done by evil spirits? If it is true, then what are they worshiping?"
Li Huowang cautiously approached the giant cauldron and looked inside the cauldron. There was nothing inside except some ashes.
"Ah!!" A woman's scream made Li Huowang's scalp numb instantly. He quickly turned his head and saw a panicked Bai Lingmiao hugging Ershen, who was covered with a red hijab.
"What's wrong! What did you see?" Li Huowang rushed over and asked hurriedly.
"Sheep! Sheep!" Bai Lingmiao pointed tremblingly at the darkness on the left. She hugged the two gods tighter with both hands.
As Li Huowang walked towards that side vigilantly, the fluorescent stone in his hand illuminated something in the darkness. Some sheep corpses.
But the sheep corpses here are completely different from the previous sheep corpses. The mummies here are all half-human and half-goat deformities!
An old man fell at Li Huowang's feet, with spiral-shaped horns piercing his cheek. Before he died, he desperately tried to touch his face with those two hooves, but in the end he died at the end of the struggle.
moment.
Next to him is another sheep corpse, or rather a human corpse. The upper body is a skinned lamb, but the lower body is a deformed body that has been twisted in circles. The bent hooves move forward with twisted kneecaps.
One stretches backwards, like a branch.
And this was just the beginning. As the fluorescent light passed by, more disgusting and terrifying corpses were everywhere. With such a weird scene, it was no wonder that Bai Lingmiao was so frightened before.
As the light illuminated these half-human, half-sheep, Li Huowang subconsciously thought of the previous sheep corpses.
"No! Those are not sheep corpses, those are people! They were transformed into sheep by others, and they are all sacrifices for worship!"
Li Huowang quickly rushed to the cauldron and stared at the rows of sheep carcasses with wide eyes in shock.
After realizing that these sheep are all human beings, the whole nature is completely different. Someone killed thousands of people here just to worship something!