The burly man claimed it was pork, but anyone could see it was clearly not pork. Bian Lang didn't believe Sun Wuse couldn't tell.
Sun Wuse was a man of considerable experience and knowledge, so it was impossible that he couldn't see it. He probably just thought the meat was edible and delicious, which was why he was so eager to roast it.
Bian Lang and the others, who had planned to take a nap, simply sat down to the side and watched Sun Wuse keep busy.
But even after the meat had been roasting over the fire for a long time, it still didn't release any aroma.
Sun Wuse found it strange and, upon closer inspection, discovered that it was not meat at all, but a stone.
Enraged, Sun Wuse strode up to Bian Lang and demanded, "Boss, is it fun to play games with me like this?"
Bian Lang laughed and said, "It seems this pork doesn't suit your taste."
“It’s all rocks,” Sun Wukong said angrily.
Bian Lang took the meat from Sun Wuse and found that it really was a stone. He laughed and said, "It seems that the food that those creatures eat is not suitable for us."
"What kind of creature eats stones?" Liu Yi asked.
Shangguan Hongyu laughed and said, "Perhaps this is not a stone at all, but it just turned into a stone when it came into our hands."
"You mean the people living in that town aren't humans, but..." Sun Wuse wanted to say monsters, but the things monsters eat seem similar to those of humans, except that monsters prefer to eat humans.
Bian Lang asked, "Little monkey, is there anything unusual here?"
“It’s very quiet,” Sun Wuse said.
During the time Bian Lang and the others were away, not a single ant approached the remains of the nine-headed monkey.
Sun Wuse was full of energy and took the initiative to take on the important task of protecting the remains of the Nine-Headed Monkey, so that Bian Lang and the others could get a good night's sleep.
They originally planned to sleep in the town, but because the town was too eerie, they felt more at ease staying near the remains of the nine-headed monkey.
I slept very soundly, and when I woke up it was already the afternoon of the next day.
Sun Wuse picked many wild fruits in the forest. He tasted each one to make sure they were not poisonous before leaving them for Bian Lang and the others.
But for Bian Lang and his companions, eating only fruit was not enough to fill their stomachs.
Liu Yi took out the meat from her storage bag. Sun Wu Se had collected a lot of firewood last night, so now was the perfect time to eat roasted meat.
Sun Wuse didn't mind that the others didn't appreciate his offer. Besides, those wild fruits were exactly the kind of food he liked, so he could save them to eat slowly on the road.
Every place has its own wild fruits, and you can't find fruits with this flavor anywhere else.
After eating the barbecue, it was getting dark, and soon we would be able to transport the corpses on our way.
Bian Lang then arrived at the place where the body was hidden, where the nine-headed monkey's corpse lay motionless.
Because the corpse was so large, to avoid attracting attention, Bian Lang would always let it lie in the woods when they stopped to rest.
Even so, it was still difficult to completely conceal the corpse of the nine-headed monkey.
Bian Lang shook the Soul-Capturing Bell and shouted "Rise!" several times, but the nine-headed monkey's corpse did not move at all.
"Husband, what happened?" Shangguan Hongyu found it very strange. She had never seen a corpse that Bian Lang could not get up from, let alone the nine-headed monkey corpse that they had traveled thousands of miles to.
Bian Lang frowned slightly, a bad feeling creeping into his heart. He suddenly waved his hand, and the corpse of the nine-headed monkey in front of him turned into a huge rock.
"A stone?" Liu Yi asked in surprise.
“Just like the pork from last night…” Sun Wuse was also dumbfounded.
Sun Wukong guarded the nine-headed monkey's corpse the whole time and found nothing unusual.
It's simply impossible to remove the nine-headed monkey's corpse without anyone noticing.
Bian Lang laughed and said, "For those incredibly strange creatures, they might be able to do things that we think are impossible."
"Husband, how can you still laugh?" Shangguan Hongyu was speechless.
Liu Yi said, "If we don't find the body quickly, those guys might tear it to pieces."
Bian Lang said, "You're all too nervous, so nervous that you've forgotten I'm a corpse driver."
To transport a corpse, the first thing a corpse transporter needs to do is establish some kind of connection with the corpse, and through this connection, the corpse can be found very easily.
Previously, when the nine-headed monkey's corpse was hidden, Bian Lang could find it. Now, no matter where the nine-headed monkey's corpse is sent, Bian Lang can sense it and simply go there to retrieve it.
Hearing Bian Lang say this, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But Bian Lang's expression quickly turned very strange.
"Can't sense it?" Liu Yi asked, frowning.
Bian Lang said, "This is very interesting."
“I didn’t find it interesting,” Shangguan Hongyu said.
Sun Wuse was quite annoyed, after all, the accident happened while he was guarding the corpse. If he had been more vigilant, perhaps this would not have happened.
Bian Lang was also very anxious at this moment, but he couldn't show it.
Last night in that small town, I overheard the butcher say that quite a few people were eyeing the corpses being transported by the corpse-drivers who were passing through.
Bian Lang didn't take it seriously at the time, after all, there was no hope of successfully snatching the body from them.
But when the body truly disappeared, leaving them with only a boulder, Bian Lang knew that the body snatchers they encountered this time were different from those before.
To find clues, we need to go back to that small town.
But the town never actually existed.
The once bustling town is now overgrown with weeds and littered with random stones.
"It's stones again. Could those people we saw last night have all turned into stones?" Liu Yi felt a headache coming on whenever she saw stones.
Shangguan Hongyu said, "The problem is that the corpse of the nine-headed monkey has also turned into stone."
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