Corpse inside the wall

"The first one is not accurate, and the second one is even less accurate!" Yuanli said through telepathy.

Heng Jin did not answer her through telepathic communication, but just continued to act.

He said pitifully, "Stop looking at me like that, Tiger! If you're angry, just say it out loud. Don't bottle it up and get upset. It's okay if you don't want to forgive me now. I'll always wait for the day you're willing to come back to me. Even if you never want to, in my heart, I'll always be yours."

"Okay, stop talking. I forgive you."

Hearing this, Heng Jin instantly became like a well-behaved and obedient puppy, with his fluffy tiger tail appearing from behind him, swaying back and forth with joy.

The end of his tiger tail was bent into a hook, wrapping around her fingers and tickling Yuanli.

"Since the mountain lords have reconciled with each other, then this rare Feng Shui treasure land..."

"No matter why I married Kyuubi, marriage is a fact, and the rules cannot be broken."

Yuanli sighed and said, "Child, let's talk about it later. When the time is right, it will happen naturally. I just had that strange nightmare, and now I'm still a little scared. I'm praying for a child here... forget it."

"I, your husband, also find this place eerie. Since the mountain king is afraid, we won't pray for a child here. However, the mountain king was in danger just now, and the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox can't help him escape. For the next few days, I will protect him personally. There are only three days left this month, and next month it will be my turn. I will take three days from him and give him nine. He won't be at a disadvantage, and the others won't get angry with him. Is the mountain king willing to agree?"

After Yuanli nodded in agreement, Hengjin called Jiuwei and Xuanlian into the room. The two anxious people saw that Yuanli was fine and finally relaxed.

Do the whole act.

On the surface, Heng Jin pretended to tell them not to get jealous or angry about this, acting like a "doctor".

In secret, Heng Jin had already taken advantage of the pauses in her outward speech to briefly explain the whole story and her suspicions to them.

"The tiger is strangely sleepy and has nightmares. There must be something wrong with this room. However, we are staying with Lord Xiangyao, and Lord Caidai has kindly hosted us. We cannot make a fuss and change rooms, so we have to explore the room ourselves. We must find the strangeness of this room and not miss any clues. Only then can the tiger sleep peacefully at night. Do you understand?"

"clear."

"clear."

"Well, let's begin the investigation now. It's already night, so be careful and don't make any noise that might disturb the City Lord and Xiang Yao."

Heng Jin noticed that as soon as he finished talking about investigating the strangeness in the room, the dirty creature that was monitoring them immediately fled and disappeared.

To avoid accidents, Heng Jin asked Yuan Li to follow him closely during the investigation.

Taking the candle off the candlestick, Heng Jin took her to the corner.

The dark corner of the wall was illuminated by the candlelight, and sticky pus like dark green phlegm was slowly sliding out of the cracks in the corner.

There was a small hole in the corner of the wall that had been corroded by something unknown, about the size of Yuanli's thumb nail.

The dark green pus fell so slowly that if a mortal eye stared at it for half an incense stick, they probably wouldn't be able to notice it flowing slowly.

Unable to see the process, they were not sure whether the small pits on the ground were corroded by pus.

Yuanli took off a silver hairpin from her head and used the tip to pick up some pus.

In an instant, the part of the hairpin that touched the pus began to turn black, and many small bubbles actively emerged from the pus. Cricket pupae crawled to the top of the hairpin. At the same time, wisps of pungent and foul-smelling white smoke rose, and wherever the pus passed, it was corroded.

I saw that the pus was not decreasing at all, and it was still crawling on the cricket pupae.

Yuanli was still studying it carefully, but Hengjin quickly snatched the silver hairpin from her hand and threw it into the corner.

The silver hairpin fell to the ground and was quickly corroded. The ground where the pus came into contact with when it rolled was also corroded and left some marks.

"Cai Dai said that even a single drop of the white flower's sap can corrode through bone. This dark green pus in the corner of the wall also has a corrosive effect, and its potency is quite significant, though the colors are different. Could there be a connection? But why is it seeping out of the wall? Could there be something hidden within it?"

Yuanli stood up and knocked on the wall in the middle that was not permeated with dark green pus. "Behind the wall, it's empty."

The other three also knocked on the wall, but only the wall knocked by Yuanli and Hengjin was empty.

"Next to the wall that Heng Jin and I knocked on is a locked room."

Yuanli knocked on several more places and found that there were only five places where there was a thin wall about half a meter wide every one meter.

"Is there any way to get into the next room without breaking the lock and being discovered?"

"I have a way. The wall can't be completely dry and devoid of moisture. As long as there is moisture, I can sense the water feedback and see everything behind and inside the wall."

Xuan Lian spread out his hands and placed them on the empty wall that Yuanli had been looking at. He concentrated his mind and gathered his energy, using the power of the Huyu Demon Pill in his body to cast a spell.

When Cang Lian opened her eyes again, her face was full of disgust and aversion.

"Well? What did you see?"

"There's nothing behind the wall. It looks like an ordinary room, decorated and furnished just like this room. What's disgusting is what's in the gap between the walls."

Chuan Lian stepped back a few steps, measured the size and height, and continued, "There's a long gap here, about this high and this wide. Standing there is a rotting male corpse. His long hair is tightly wrapped around his palm, which is curled into a fist. He's holding the severed head in his right hand like this."

"The hair isn't even cut off? The scalp isn't falling off either. And the corpse is just holding its own head up like that? How decomposed is it?"

"Yes, there's no broken hair, and the scalp hasn't fallen off. The hair is very well preserved. In the gaps behind the other walls, there are also male corpses in similar stages of decay. The body is covered with fist-sized pustules. This dark green pus is a thick layer on his body, swollen and swollen, and it's hard to see his original appearance. There is a small channel under the wall. The pus flows slowly from the toes of the corpse to the path inside the wall, then gathers and flows underground. Some excess pus seeps out of the corners of the wall."

Yuanli was shocked and said, "Underground? There's a secret room underground?"

Chuan Lian supported herself on the ground with her hands and cast the spell again.

"The underground space isn't a secret room, but a tunnel. I don't have much demonic power to mobilize, so I can only see the tunnel beneath this room. I need to enter the tunnel and grope my way forward to find out where it leads."

Xuan Lian pointed at the wall behind Yuan Li and said, "At the moment, I can only see that the tunnel leads in this direction."

"Since we're here... let's go down the tunnel."

"Okay, I'll find the entrance."

Lian Lian continued to cast spells and grope around in the house, and soon opened the entrance to the tunnel.

The entrance mechanism was made with incredible skill, without any magic or magical artifacts. When the mechanism was opened, it was extremely quiet, without any sound, only a lot of dust falling.

There is also a thick layer of gray sand in the passage, and footprints are obvious where people step on them.

It can be seen that this passage has not been opened for many years.

After following Yuanli through the maze-like tunnel for a long time, they were all covered in dust and dirt. Yuanli felt a smell of stale and moldy sand in her nose and mouth before she reached the exit.

The exit is in the yard next to theirs.

Just like the gate of the courtyard that Caidai gave them for temporary residence, it was covered by an old black cloth painting.

Chan Lian carefully and slowly lifted the hanging painting, and looked through the gap, and saw a pair of eyes also looking inside.

A pair of women's eyes.

It was obvious that she was standing in front of the painting, close to it, and looking at it with her head tilted.

Having been discovered by her, Chuan Lian directly lifted up the painting.

The woman stepped back defensively, looking at them blankly.

In her hand was the wooden fish that monks used to strike when chanting, and the wooden fish had been rubbed until it was shiny and smooth.

The woman had a pretty face, a round face with lively features, and a kind look.

Look, she seems easy to get along with.

The loose black and red robe she wore was very similar to the flags on the city wall. The robe was embroidered with Psylocke characters and strange totems in black thread.

His robe trailed on the grass, and no shoes were visible.

Her long black hair was lying on the ground, not tied into a bun, but was loose, with an iron hairpin firmly inserted upright on her head.

Yuanli didn't understand how she managed to insert the hairpin securely.

Is it possible to put it in the scalp? Then is there any need to live?

"Are you new cultivators?"

The woman's tone sounded very friendly.

Yuanli avoided her question and asked, "Sister, how long have you been practicing in seclusion here?"

"I practiced in seclusion, not caring about worldly affairs, not caring about the time and year. I... can't remember. But I remember that when I came here, my hair was only waist-length, and now it's long enough to drag on the ground. Perhaps I've been here for decades."

Yuanli exclaimed in amazement, "Decades? Wow, sister, you're amazing. You've been able to maintain this practice for decades."

There was finally a smile on her face, but it was a forced and stiff smile, as if she couldn't fully control her facial expression.

"Miss, you are too kind. I am... not that great. There are many ascetics who arrived earlier than me. Are you here to visit me? Or are you here to live in asceticism with me? If you don't mind my slowness, I would be happy to share my ascetic experience with you."

"Of course I don't mind visiting. Sister is not slow at all."

"Little girl, you are so sweet. It would be very lively if you were to live with me in seclusion. Please follow me and I will show you around the cabin."

The woman walked lightly, taking quick, small steps, and her feet never showed outside her clothes.

As soon as she pushed open the wooden door, Yuanli smelled a strong stench of corpse.

Inside the wooden house, the walls and even the ceiling were covered with white flowers and green vines. Even under the stench of the corpse, one could still smell the fragrance of the white flowers.

The fragrance of flowers proves that the white flowers and green vines here are the same as those blooming in the courtyard where Yuanli is temporarily staying.

Yuanli was still a little hesitant to go in, fearing that the juice from the white flower petals would drip onto her from the ceiling.