And when entering the basement, Mulder dripped a drop of blood onto the barrier.

In other words, this barrier can only be opened with Mudd's blood.

As soon as you enter the barrier, the smell of rotting flesh fills the air, making it impossible to open your eyes.

Go down the stairs.

A dim light gradually appeared in the dark basement.

The further down we went, the stronger the smell of rotting flesh became, and we gradually began to hear weak breathing and faint sobbing.

Gong Yu and Mu Nian looked at each other.

It seems that the outbreak of the poison is more serious than they imagined.

Perhaps, many people have died here.

Suddenly, after turning a corner, Gong Yu and Mu Nian finally saw the situation in the basement clearly.

Even though both of them had crawled out of a pile of dead bodies before, they couldn't help but gasp when they saw the tragic scene before them.

What came into view was a large circular hall with more than a dozen corpses lying in a disorderly manner in the hall.

The smell of rotting flesh emanates from these corpses.

Among the corpses were more than a dozen dying people.

The flesh on their bodies began to rot, and some people even had maggots growing on their bodies.

In the center of the hall, a road separated by a barrier was formed for people to pass through.

When these people heard the noise, they all looked over to them.

When they saw Mudd's figure, hatred filled their eyes.

But even with such hatred, they had no ability to seek revenge and could only lie powerlessly on the ground and die from the torture of the poison.

They will also end up rotting in this dark basement like those corpses.

After death, the soul will be drained and eventually become the nourishment that drives the barrier of the Free Continent.

These people have been poisoned and abandoned by Mud.

Just when Mu De was about to lead Gong Yu and Mu Nian towards the passage, two people in protective suits came over from the other side of the passage carrying a person.

When they saw Mulder, they first greeted him, then threw the people in their hands into the corpses without any emotion, leaving them to fend for themselves.

This person's body, like the people inside, has begun to show signs of festering.

In other words, this person has been poisoned and there is no way to save him.

Gong Yu was not a compassionate person, but when she saw the miserable plight of these people, her heart ached for no reason.

She wanted to save them, but she currently had no way to save them.

As Gong Yu followed Mude forward, Gong Yu released a wisp of white smoke and glanced outside the barrier.

Now she could only hope that Uncle Nong could find a way to save them.

Following Mudd all the way inside.

After passing the hall, there are small rooms that look like cells.

Each room has a door with a small window on it. Through the window, you can vaguely see that there are seven or eight people huddled in each cell.

There was no life in them.

Although still alive, the heart is already dead.

If there is no way to suppress the poison, they are just waiting to die.

Finally, Mulder led them to the innermost cell.

Although the cell door was closed, there was still a slight smell of rotting meat coming from inside, which made it different from other cells.

Does this mean that the people in this cell have also been poisoned?

Then why weren't the people inside abandoned?