It is very ordinary, empty and deserted. At a glance, one can only see the rugged ground and the many protruding stones on the surrounding stone walls.

However, when their flashlights flashed and they looked up inadvertently, they saw a lot of dark things hanging down from above.

At first glance, it looked like a human! It existed coldly in the darkness, quiet and strange, which made their hearts skip a beat.

The next moment, the three of them looked carefully and saw clearly that those were not people, but stone figurines similar to human figures. Each of them was in an upside-down position, with tightly tied knots on their feet, and the other end was immersed in the stone body above.

“Oh my god, what are these?”

Ren Ke stepped forward.

Those stone statues were hung not very high, about two meters from the ground, and some were only about one and a half meters above the ground.

When Ren Ke approached, he just raised his head slightly and was able to see them clearly from a close distance.

"Lin Wu, come here!" Ren Ke called out to Lin Wu, "These things not only look like people, but their heads and faces are also lifelike. If I didn't look carefully, I would have thought it was a real person hanging here."

Lin Wu and Guan Chen also stepped forward and looked around.

Ren Ke was right, these stone figurines were made to be very lifelike, it was as if they were living people, just covered with a layer of stone mud.

Ren Ke's nose twitched suddenly, as if he noticed something. He immediately took a big step back and turned back to shout, "Stay away from them!"

Lin Wu asked her: "What's wrong?"

Ren Ke said: "They are not simple stone figurines. No, this may not be made of stone, because I smell a faint smell of traditional Chinese medicine from it. They are definitely not right."

Guan Chen frowned: "Did you smell it right?"

Ren Ke rolled his eyes, "If there was something wrong with my nose, I, you, and everyone else wouldn't be here and would have been trapped outside a long time ago."

After hearing this, Lin Wu took out the dagger he carried with him and walked to the nearest terracotta warrior.

She bit the flashlight and carefully scraped the head of the terracotta warrior with the tip of the knife, and actually scraped off some dust.

She caught it with her hand, took the flashlight, and leaned in to sniff it.

"It's the smell of sedge." She said suddenly.

"What grass?"

Ren Ke and Guan Chen looked at her at the same time.

Lin Wu observed the terracotta warriors here and estimated that there were about forty or fifty of them at a glance.

She thought for a while and answered them, "I traveled in Lingnan for a while before, collecting materials for making agarwood. I came into contact with many rare and exotic herbs in Lingnan, and I also learned a lot about the strange and little-known ones. Among them is the porphyra grass, which is a rare item in the ancient Yao village among the thirty-six villages and is often used to refine poisonous insects."

"Because it can affect the mind, has strong control, and can paralyze the nerves, no matter how severe the pain is, it is as if there is no pain at all, so sometimes the ancient Yao village also uses it as a numbing powder. But its destructive power to the mind is too strong, the ancient Yao village dare not use it on humans, fearing that a poorly controlled dosage could kill people or drive them crazy, so it is generally only used to practice Gu control."

"Is this thing used to make poisonous insects?? Then why is it here?" Ren Ke was confused and pointed at the figurine, "Don't tell me that this thing is filled with poisonous insects."

"It's not impossible. This area is the location of the Thirty-Six Villages. It's not surprising that the Poro grass from the Ancient Yao Village would appear here. But," Lin Wu paused and took a step back, "the figurine may not contain a Gu worm. I was quite interested in Gu worms at that time and learned a little about them. There was no Gu worm directly refined in this figurine."

Guan Chen thought of something and his face changed slightly. "Could it be that there is a person in here? They used a special method to seal the person in there. Maybe they did something else during the process, which would make the person very painful. They used the Poro grass when they sealed the person up, which not only controls the person to lose consciousness and not struggle, but also relieves the pain?"

After these words were spoken, Lin Wu and Ren Ke's expressions also changed.

It's not impossible.

Ren Ke was puzzled: "But why do they want to seal people like this?"

"I don't know, but it will definitely be trouble."

Ren Ke and Guan Chen nodded and walked towards the cave entrance together.

If they encountered someone being hung particularly low, they would bend down and avoid him from underneath.

"Wait a minute!"

Halfway through the walk, Ren Ke's ears moved slightly and he suddenly stopped.

Lin Wu and Guan Chen looked at her, "What's wrong?"

Ren Ke looked around suspiciously, "Did you hear any dripping sounds, like liquid falling on the ground? And I didn't even get close to the figurines, how come I could smell a faint scent of the sedge in the air?"

It’s true, when Lin Wu heard Ren Ke’s words, he seemed to have smelled it as well.

She was a perfumer and was naturally sensitive to smells. Although her other senses might not be as good as Ren Ke's, her sense of smell was not that bad.

"I smelled it too. What's going on? Why is the smell of the sedge getting stronger?" Lin Wu looked around in confusion, "Is there any other sedge?"

Hearing them say this, Guan Chen also stopped and watched.

But after a moment, he found something wrong: "It's not going anywhere, it seems that the smell emitted by the figurines themselves is getting stronger and stronger. And look at that figurine, its nose seems... deformed? The face is also... melted?? It's different from the other figurines."

Guan Chen pointed to a terracotta figure hanging high up a few steps to the right.

Lin Wu and Ren Ke went over to take a look and found that it was true.

The facial features of this figurine were a little blurred, and the exterior did not seem to be made of pure stone. There was liquid left on it like candle wax. A drop of black liquid ran across its face and quickly fell to the ground.

"Oh my god, there are so many human figurines, how did you discover its abnormality?" Ren Ke couldn't help but ask Guan Chen.

She felt that these human figurines all looked similar and were so densely packed together that it was dizzying at first glance, let alone picking out the different ones.

"Are you sure you want to discuss this kind of observation issue with a policeman like me?" Guan Chen said indifferently.

Ren Ke turned his head immediately.

Guan Chen frowned again and said, "But how could this terracotta warrior appear like this..."

"More than that!"

Lin Wu suddenly spoke.

The two looked at her.

Lin Wu said calmly, "These are the human figurines we approached, and they all showed this condition!"

"What?!"

Guan Chen and Ren Ke were slightly startled and subconsciously turned their heads to look around. They really saw that many terracotta warriors were beginning to melt, and the melting speed was visibly accelerating.

The first figurine they noticed had half of its face exposed, with dry human skin inside, and dark red and black blood vessels clearly visible. It was actually not human skin! Glancing at it, Lin Wu's mind flashed with a light, and it became clear in an instant.

"It's our body temperature! The temperature here is originally very low, which is suitable for storing terracotta warriors. Once the temperature rises, the layer on its surface will begin to melt!"

"Melt... real people... without human skin... I remember that there is a forbidden Gu worm in the ancient Yao Village, called the Blood Man Gu! It uses a living person as a host, injects Gu worm eggs into the body, and then peels off the human skin. The smell of blood stimulates the Gu worm's activity and ferocity, and it eats into the human flesh and blood, living inside and growing together with the human."

"Finally, seal it up. After enough time, when you open it, you will get an extremely ferocious blood man. Because it is controlled by the poisonous insect and soaked in the Poro grass, this blood man will not feel pain or fatigue, has strong attack power, and is very difficult to kill!"

Lin Wu shouted, "What are you still standing there for? Run! Not only are they blood-stained, they have also been dead for too long and have already developed corpse poison. It will be very troublesome to fight them!"