Chapter 120 Corpse Cave

After a night's rest, we received a message from the headquarters the next day, requiring our exploration teams to continue searching for blood sacrifice sites like corpse pits, and then destroy them. After destroying the altar of Hanwan City, we will go directly to the city center and concentrate fire on abnormal units.

After receiving the order and taking a brief rest, we cremated the bodies together and buried the ashes separately.

After the ashes are naturally degraded, these innocent people who sacrificed their lives will return to dust.

After doing this, Lord Steel arranged for the pilot to return to the camp and guard it with the other two pilots.

We still need to continue installing the detection equipment and continue moving towards the mountains to search for other blood sacrifice sites.

"Hey? What is this?" Jiang Wang suddenly exclaimed "Huh" when he climbed up the tree to continue installing the antenna.

Hearing the sound, Song Nanxing quickly climbed up the tree.

"Look, it's obvious that this was carved by a knife, but why is there a '4' carved on it?" Jiang Wang said, taking a photo and sending it to us.

Rather than the number "4", the symbol looks more like a vertical bar drawn across the horizontal line of "2".

"This is not a number, it's a planet symbol, representing Jupiter." The person who said this was Song Nanxing.

"You even understand this?" Jiang Wang asked in surprise.

"I'm a doctor. In the Middle Ages, doctors even knew astrology." Song Nanxing emphasized speechlessly.

Well, after fighting alongside him for so long and getting used to his strength-based abilities, I almost forgot that this guy was originally a surgeon.

"But what does this symbol mean? Is it related to blood sacrifice?" Song Nanxing was a little confused.

"Oh, they're all charlatans, so it's normal for them to draw some weird things. Maybe this is part of the plan of that believer just now."

"Since it's a planetary symbol, if we just follow certain rules, we might be able to find other blood sacrifice sites."

I have to say that although Jiang Wang often looks a little unreliable, he is really very smart. As long as there is a little clue, he can think of many possibilities.

Everyone thought what he said made perfect sense. However, finding other blood sacrifice sites was no easy task. Our discovery of this one was purely accidental, and aside from relying on the stench of decaying corpses to explore, we had little other means.

Such a blanket search is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.

Thinking of Jiang Wang’s previous reaction, I looked at him specifically. His face looked better than before.

"Jiang Wang, do you feel better? Do you still feel depressed?" I turned to ask him.

Jiang Wang nodded slightly and replied, "I feel much better after dealing with those corpses."

Jiang Wang's condition seemed to have improved because the corpse pit had been destroyed. It seemed that his condition was indeed related to the location of the blood sacrifice.

It's no wonder. The source of pollution that caused Jiang Wang's mutation mainly came from the one from Apocalypse. It's not surprising that he would feel it in the sacrificial site set up by Apocalypse.

It's just that I have also been contaminated by the apocalypse, but why not me?

There are so many strange things happening, and this one is no exception. Perhaps after figuring out other secrets about me, this matter will be solved.

After thinking about it, I suddenly had a good idea.

Thinking of this, I turned to look at Jiang Wang again, and a smile unconsciously appeared on my face.

"What are you doing? You're staring at me and smiling so horribly... It's creepy."

Jiang Wang caught my eye and was startled.

Several other people also came over after hearing the sound.

"You just said that you felt much better after dealing with those corpses, right?"

"Yeah, how come..."

Before Jiang Wang finished speaking, he suddenly realized what I was going to do. He widened his eyes and took a step back.

"Ji Ling! You don't want to use me as a human radar, do you?"

"That's right!"

I really thought so. Since Jiang Wang feels depressed when he is close to the pile of corpses, we can use his feelings to judge our distance from the corpse pit. This is better than searching aimlessly.

Seeing that the others were still confused, I repeated my thoughts to everyone.

After hearing my idea, others also showed expressions of agreement.

"Don't mention it, don't mention it! It's indeed a good idea."

Even Jiang Wang himself thought this method was very feasible, but he still symbolically expressed his dissatisfaction with being used as a radar, and then walked to the front with a bitter face.

It turns out that this method is indeed effective.

Not long after entering the mountains, Jiang Wang felt depressed again.

"This direction."

He closed his eyes and felt for a while, then pointed in a certain direction.

After circling around this area for a few times, Jiang Wang finally stopped at the edge of a cliff.

"The feeling in this place is the strongest." Jiang Wang rubbed his chest and frowned.

"Here? Are you sure?" Song Nanxing asked with some doubt.

"This is a cliff, we can't dig randomly. If the soil isn't solid enough, the house might collapse."

What Song Nanxing said made sense. No one dared to dig in such a place easily.

But it is impossible to just stay here like this, the mission must be completed.

"Let's try digging a little further inward and test the soil quality here at the same time." Gang Jue said.

This is the only feasible method so far, and no one has any objection, so they all pick up their tools and start digging.

After digging about half a meter, there was still no harvest.

"Isn't this method a bit unreliable?" Song Nanxing glanced at me and asked his question.

To be honest, I am also unsure. After all, the fact that Jiang Wang's condition is related to the blood sacrifice site is just my guess, and there is no direct evidence to prove it.

Just as I was hesitating whether to speak, Chen Yubing stopped at the edge of the cliff, squatted down and touched the edge of the cliff, frowned and beckoned us over:

"Come and see!"

Everyone heard the sound and walked over.

On the edge of the cliff, there are some traces of ropes and several prints of outdoor hiking shoes.

We looked at each other.

"Perhaps, not all blood sacrifice sites are buried." Gang Jue said thoughtfully.

After thinking of something, Steel Lord took out a drone.

He piloted the drone and flew down the cliff.

In the images sent back from the drone, a dark cave appeared.

After seeing the cave, Chen Yubing put forward his own guess.

"It seems the body should be in this cave."

After hearing this, Gang Jue nodded and said.

"Let's mark this place first and continue searching other places. We'll bring ropes and climbing gear to explore this place tomorrow!"

…

After a day of exploration, it was getting dark. Apart from the cave we had found during the day, we didn't find any other places, so we went back to the camp to pack up our equipment.

The next morning, we returned to the cliff.

After all the equipment was installed, we decided to send two people down first.

Lin Hanning and I were the lightest, but Lin Hanning had no direct means of attack, so it was Chen Yubing and I who came down together on the rope.

"Be careful. If anything happens, signal immediately. Don't act recklessly."

"Yeah." Chen Yubing and I nodded and followed the rope down from the cliff.

Chen Yubing rolled over very skillfully, and the safety rope on his body seemed to be non-existent.

After walking a distance, she looked up at me, then slowed down and waited for me.

I looked down and saw that the mountain was not the kind that you couldn't see the bottom of. Instead, because you could see below, it seemed a little scary how high it was.

But this isn't the first time I've done this.

On the first day of the mutation, I was still climbing down from the fifth floor of my house along the bed sheet. At that time, I didn’t even have a decent protective equipment.

Although this place is higher than the fifth floor, at least we are fully equipped and have adequate protective measures.

After adjusting my state, I concentrated on going down. With the experience of escaping from the fifth floor before, even though I had no experience in rock climbing, I was not too embarrassed.

There were some protruding rocks on the cliff, and it wasn't too difficult for Chen Yubing and I to step on the rocks and fall down.

After going down about a few meters, I suddenly felt my feet go empty.

Obviously, Chen Yubing also felt it. I looked at her, grabbed the rope directly, and slid down a distance with the help of the rope.

What comes into view is a cave.

The cave is on a cliff, and we wouldn't be able to get down without our climbing gear.

As soon as I landed at the entrance of the cave, a strong smell of decay and fungus wafted into my nose.

It stinks worse than the corpse pit in the woods.

Although we all wear gas masks, the gas masks themselves can only isolate harmful substances and do not hinder the sense of smell.

We tasted the flavor perfectly.

After turning on the flashlight, we could see the situation in the cave clearly.

The whole cave is not very big and is full of rocks.

"This smell is from here, yes, but..." But at the moment, no corpses were seen in the cave.

There were rock formations all around us, and they didn't look like they could be used to bury a body.

Chen Yubing took out his communication tool, took a photo and sent it to Gang Jue.

I shone the flashlight inside, walked forward a few steps and came to the innermost stone wall.

The smell comes from here.

"This stone wall is different from other rock bodies. It looks like it is made of stones and then hastily filled with mud and sand." I touched the stone wall in front of me and said.

Chen Yubing came over after hearing the sound, looked carefully at the stone wall in front of him, and then said.

"Get out of the way, I'm going to blow up this wall."

After saying that, Chen Yubing took out a bomb from his pocket.

After planting the bomb, the two of us retreated to a safe distance.

After Chen Yubing pressed the remote control in his hand, the stone wall exploded with a bang.

After the smoke and dust cleared, we both arrived in front of the stone wall.

I picked up the flashlight and shone it into the stone wall, only to see a large number of corpses piled densely inside.

Seeing this situation, I quickly contacted Gang Jue.

"Steel Lord, come quickly, this is indeed where the bodies are hidden."

"good."

After Gang Jue and the others received my message, he and Jiang Wang arrived at the entrance of the cave shortly afterwards.

The scale of the corpses in the cave is about the same as the corpse pits in the woods.

Many people still maintained the painful and twisted postures they had been in when they were sacrificed in blood.

Seeing the dense corpses in the cave, Jiang Wang couldn't help but spit.

"These damn charlatans, what on earth do they want to do?"

"Don't you know? This is to welcome their god."

Because of a fictitious god, so many people were captured for blood sacrifice. Now that the apocalypse has developed to this point, it is difficult to say whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster.

“These lunatics!”

Seeing Jiang Wang's indignant look, I sighed and patted his shoulder.

"Well, destroying these blood sacrifice sites as soon as possible will be an explanation to the innocent people who sacrificed their lives."

"Having said that, how to destroy this blood sacrifice site is still a problem." Chen Yubing pondered.

This place is not like the forest where we can burn things directly. The space in the cave is narrow, and if we burn things in a concentrated manner, some toxic and harmful gases may be produced and unable to dissipate.

Moreover, high temperatures cause the rock layers to expand, which can easily lead to landslides.

“Got it!”

Just when everyone was at a loss, I suddenly thought of a solution.

One of my abilities is object manipulation. Although I rarely use this skill in combat, it is actually a very practical skill, especially in situations like this where I need to move objects.

"I can manipulate the corpses to move them out." I said to the others

"With so many remains, can you handle it alone?" Jiang Wang frowned.

I took two steps toward the pile of corpses and tried to control it a few times.

"It's a bit laborious, but transporting them out in batches isn't a problem. However, if I concentrate on operating so many things in the cave, I won't have time to take care of the situation outside the cliff. Someone needs to take charge."

Gang Jue took out the drone and waved it in front of me and said:

"Don't worry about that. I can use a drone to take aerial photos of the situation outside the cave and show you the direction."

After finalizing the plan, I immediately started to operate it.

There are so many corpses scattered around, it's really difficult to handle them. I roughly estimated that it would take three attempts to transport all the corpses out.

It's okay, not a lot of times.

Gang Jue sent a message to Song Nanxing and the others, asking them to pay attention to the support upstairs. Then I raised my hand and lifted up a pile of bones in the air and slowly transported them to the cave entrance.

"Go out a little more...Okay, now go up...almost there, move a little to the left..." Gang Jue gave the command while looking at the drone's screen.

To be honest, I still underestimated the difficulty of moving these corpses. Just after transporting the first batch of corpses, beads of sweat appeared on my forehead.

If it was a whole boulder, it would be fine, at least it was intact and it wouldn't be too difficult except that it was a little heavy. However, these corpses had rotted to the point where the bones and flesh were separated, and they were in pieces, so they might be scattered all over the ground if you were not careful.

"How about taking a break?" Gang Jue also noticed the sweat beads on my head and suggested very considerately.

I nodded and told him he needed to rest for ten minutes.

In fact, I still have the physical strength to continue transporting, but I am afraid that if I run out of strength and lose control of my strength, the bodies will scatter directly below the cliff, and rotten corpses will fall from the sky... I dare not even imagine that scene.

After taking a short break, I continued to transport the remaining bones out in two batches.

Song Nanxing sent news that the bodies could be cremated collectively.

Gang Jue asked him to count the number outside first, while we continued to explore the cave.