After Song Laosan finished telling his story, Qu Ruilin was the first to speak: "So the real secret of Ping'an Village is that there are Gu masters here, and they use their own bodies to raise Gu. All the dead clansmen are materials they use to raise Gu! Then the wax seal on their bodies is... a method to seal the Gu worms?"

Qu Ruilin's speculation gave me a jolt: "Placing Gu in the corpses is very likely a method used to prevent tomb raiding. Everyone, get out of here! Quickly!"

As soon as the words were spoken, we all quickened our pace and ran towards the exit.

"Squeak! Squeak!"

Our movement amplified the sounds within the burial pit.

Immediately afterwards, countless corpses surged toward this side.

I saw a corpse blocking my way and kicked it.

"Bang!"

With a muffled thud, I kicked the corpse back into the pit, but the force of the impact made me frown.

Something's not right!

Based on my recent discovery, the corpses here should all be hollow, and their interiors should be controlled by a Gu (a type of magical insect).

Although those Gu creatures were disgusting, they were not very big and weighed less than ten pounds.

The corpse I had just kicked back was extremely heavy.

Before I could figure out what was going on, another wax corpse rushed towards me.

I dodged to the side and slashed at the other person's neck with my knife.

"when!"

My knife struck the wax corpse's neck with a crisp sound.

The feeling was like cutting into dried meat that had been dried for many years. Although my knife left a cut on the neck of the wax corpse, the dent was less than a centimeter long.

This isn't the kind that was just wiped out by Manjing.

In the short time I was stunned, the wax corpse had already pounced on me.

At this moment, I was less than fifteen meters away from the exit. I had no interest in getting entangled with these wax corpses and just wanted to get rid of them as soon as possible.

With the wax corpse clinging to me, it was no longer possible to use my knife, so I tried to push it away with my hands.

The moment my palm touched the other person, a bone-chilling coldness shot through me. It didn't feel like I was pressing down on a corpse, but rather pushing an ice sculpture.

To my surprise, this wax corpse was incredibly strong. Not only was I unable to push it away from behind, but I was also pinned against the wall.

The scene was extremely bizarre. In front of me was a stiff, lifelike old man whose skin was already frozen. When he attacked me, he didn't even open his eyes, and he didn't use any skill, just brute force, pressing my body down firmly.

When Manjing saw me being attacked by the wax corpse, he rushed over and kicked the monster.

His original intention was simply to pass the wax corpse down from me. He clearly didn't expect this thing to have such great power. With one kick, he sent both me and the wax corpse flying.

After I landed, I rolled over and kicked the wax corpse, trying to push it away, but it was obviously faster than me. After getting up from the ground, it dragged me towards the pit of corpses.

"ah!!"

As I was being dragged along, a scream came from my right. A bodyguard from the Wei family was being torn apart by two wax corpses, his intestines spilling out all over the ground.

Seeing the man's horrific state filled me with shock. I desperately tried to break free from his control, but the dragging of the wax corpse gave me no time to react.

In the blink of an eye, I had been dragged to the edge of the pit of corpses.

"Young Master Duan!"

Seeing what was happening to me, the monkey mustered all its strength and rushed over, grabbing my wrist with one pounce while its other hand flailing wildly at the ground.

Even though the incredibly strong wax corpse was dragging both of us, it didn't seem to be struggling at all. I saw that the monkey's palms were scraped raw and covered in blood on the ground, so I yelled at him, "Let go, or neither of us will be able to get away!"

The monkey clung to me like a kite swaying in the wind, gritting its teeth and yelling, "Don't talk nonsense! How could I abandon you?"

Our persistent efforts have had no effect whatsoever in the fight against the wax corpses.

The wax corpse dragged me to the side of the pit, bent its legs slightly, and made as if it was about to jump into the pit.

"Stop the fucking thing!"

When Manjing saw that both I and the monkey were being dragged away, he rushed forward frantically and pounced on the wax corpse.

"Gulp!"

The wax corpse finally came to a stop amidst the impacts of the well.

Seizing this rare opportunity, the monkey, disregarding its bloodied and mangled hands, began to hack at the wax corpse's arm that was gripping me, trying to help me escape.

The wax corpse was preserved in some unknown way, and it was exceptionally hard. Even though the monkey kept waving its arms, it only left a few dents.

After Manjing tackled the wax corpse, he smashed his huge fist into its head, but to little avail. The wax corpse felt no pain at all, and even when pressed down by Manjing, who weighed over 200 pounds, it still had the strength to struggle, causing Manjing to bounce up and down.

Seeing that Manjing was about to give up, I drew the pistol from my waist and pressed it directly against the wax corpse's arm.

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out, and the wax corpse's arm was half severed by a bullet. The monkey seized the opportunity and, with several consecutive slashes, finally severed the arm.

I had just escaped when Manjing was also overturned by the wax corpse and pounced on him.

"Bang!"

As the wax corpse was running, I suddenly stood up and kicked him in the leg, finally sending him flying back into the pit.

As I watched the wax corpse being kicked back into the pit, I was about to continue running when suddenly a hand reached out from the pit and grabbed my foot.

Seeing that I was being controlled again, Manjing was worried that I would be dragged into the pit, so he cleverly bent down and lifted the wax corpse out.

Get out of the way!

Just as I was worrying about how to deal with the wax corpse, Wei Shengnan's shout came from the side. Then she rushed to my side and pointed a short-barreled shotgun at the wax corpse's head.

Thump!

A deafening roar echoed through the space, and then the wax corpse's head exploded like a watermelon falling from a great height, falling motionless to the ground.

I glanced down at the remains of the wax corpse, and it was indeed different from the paper doll from before.

This is a real corpse.

By this time, I had figured everything out.

In the mass grave, we saw three types of corpses: mummies, wax corpses, and paper figures controlled by Gu poison.

The mummified corpses and wax corpses mentioned are actually the same thing.

These corpses sealed in wax are capable of resurrection; once the wax seal is removed, they will attack any intruders who appear here.

Those mummies were likely wax corpses that had been used.

As for how these corpses gained the ability to move, I had no time to think about it, because looking down into the pit, there were at least twenty or thirty awakened wax corpses rushing toward us.