As teammates disappeared one after another and in the dark underground maze, the sudden appearance of the saint's remains was quite creepy.

It just looked at Lu Ban, motionless, like a cat observing its prey.

After a moment's silence, Lu Ban felt that he couldn't continue like this.

He reached into his backpack and pulled out an energy bar.

"Do you want to eat?"

The remains of the saint just stared at Lu Ban's hand, his eyes fixed on it. Well, there were no eyes in his eyes, only his head moved around like an owl.

It didn't answer.

Lu Ban unpacked the energy bar and approached the other party cautiously, placing the energy bar, which exuded the aroma of oil and nuts, in front of the remains of the saint.

It tilted its head, as if it didn't understand what Lu Ban did.

"It looks like he's not eating..."

Lu Ban originally thought that it might be very hungry as it hadn't seen humans for over a hundred years and there didn't seem to be any food here, but now it seemed that it had no interest in food.

Does this mean that people will no longer feel hungry after they die?

Lu Ban felt that he had made a discovery worthy of a Nobel Prize.

Looking at the energy bar in his hand, Lu Ban thought for a moment and decided that if he put it back like this, it would definitely be crushed in the bag if he did any strenuous exercise later, and it would be very troublesome to clean up.

So he ate it himself.

Click, click, click——

The sound of chewing echoed in the ancient passage.

The remains of the saint also imitated Lu Ban, chewing the air in his hands with a crunching sound.

"You have lived here for so long, do you know where my companions are?"

Lu Ban asked.

"＊＊＊＊＊＊"

The saint's remains answered.

"Oh, can you help me find them?"

"＊＊＊＊＊"

The saint's remains answered again.

"Well, if you help me find my teammates, I'll treat you to pumpkin. Delicious pumpkin."

Lu Ban refused to give in.

"＊＊＊＊"

The saint's remains tilted their head.

Then, it disappeared from its original position, as if it had been erased by something.

Then, the white figure appeared in a deeper passage, as if waiting for Lu to pass by.

"Then I can only move forward..."

Lu Ban walked forward, and in his [Real Vision], the paintings on the wall gradually became clearer. Perhaps it was because the closer he got to the depths, the less interference he would receive from the outside world.

He couldn't help admiring the paintings.

Lu Ban had probably read about the several stages of human painting in some casual book. The painting on the wall had a strong religious color, and the characters had formed a fixed paradigm with obvious symbolic characteristics. To put it simply, several signs were used to show that this thing was a person, rather than the primitive painting style that relied purely on lines and resembled whatever it was.

Therefore, such paintings can tell a certain story.

There is nothing special about the story. It is nothing more than some fragments of kings' conquests, development, and governance. Only due to the emergence of crystal core disease, these people have more or less crystals in their bodies.

Lu Ban noticed that the kings and priests were not depicted with crystals, which meant that they might not have the symptoms of crystal core disease?

He thought of the remains of the saint. Judging from the appearance, there were indeed no crystals to be found.

Maybe the saint found some way to suppress his crystal core disease, which allowed him to live so long.

As Lu Ban continued to move forward, he saw that the painting began to change. An altar appeared frequently and scenes of sacrifice emerged in the painting.

First, the passage to the underworld needs to be opened, and then all the sacrificial offerings need to be driven into the passage. Then, Hades, who is hiding in the underworld, will wake up, and he will wander around his kingdom, looking for sacrificial offerings, and leave after being satisfied, giving treasures to people.

A very primitive belief story. In ancient society, people often personified natural phenomena and turned them into various gods, with death being particularly prominent.

When some gods with abstract concepts appeared later, it was already the period of religious belief.

"Is this the kingdom of Hades?"

"Could it be that you are Hades?"

Lu Ban glanced at the remains of the saint standing by the wall.

The murals have come to an end, and those rather primitive and cruel scenes have come to an end in darkness.

Lu Ban came to the end of the passage and saw a circular hall.

He walked into the hall and saw a man standing not far away.

It's Iron Fist.

His clothes were a little tattered, and the crystals on his right fist formed an arm armor that extended to his shoulders, making him look like a powerful warrior.

It looked like Tiequan had been through a fight, with some blood of an unknown creature still on his body.

Next to Iron Fist was Faceless, with a scar on his cheek and the crystals covering half of his face were jagged and angular.

Everyone else, including Echo and Flash, arrived in the circular hall.

Except for Shia.

Lu Ban took a look and saw that this circular hall was connected to ten roads, while the other roads were dark and did not seem to have any people.

"I was halfway there when you disappeared, and then a bug appeared. It took a little while to deal with it."

The crystal on Iron Fist's hand gradually shrank back and turned into an ordinary fist again.

It seems that the extraordinary people in the wasteland will spread the crystals on their bodies when they use their abilities, which is why the crystal core disease will be aggravated.

"Me too."

Wumian said something.

The other two nodded.

"Where are your companions?"

Iron Fist asked, implying that Shia might have died in the attack of those bugs.

"She should be fine."

Lu Ban responded.

He felt that Xia's fighting ability must be stronger than his. He was lucky not to encounter any monsters. Even if Xia encountered a bunch of bugs, she would probably be able to escape.

The only thing that could restrain her was to prevent her from using too much force and causing the entire underground passage to explode.

Boom——

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of explosion, and a cloud of ash rose from the passage next to Lu Ban, and then Xia ran out.

She saw the person, but before she could see clearly, she rolled over and subconsciously raised her hand wearing the steel glove. Only then did she see clearly that it was Lu Ban.

"Are you real?"

Shia asked.

"Three handshakes."

Lu Ban replied with a casual word, which made her feel relieved.

"I just encountered several bugs. I was worried that the magic power would be too strong and cause this place to collapse, so it took me a while to get rid of them."

The armor on Xia's hands was covered with dirty insect slime, but her face was spotless, giving her a perverse beauty.

"Where is this place?"

Shia asked.

“It’s the altar.”

Lu Ban pointed to the center.

“A real altar.”

In the center of the circular room, a huge pool was filled with blood, and the blood came from the ceiling, where there was a funnel-like thing that was constantly oozing blood.

"Where did all this blood come from?"

Wumian was slightly confused.

boom--

At this time, the sound of heavy objects hitting each other came from the passages. They hurriedly looked back and found that the road had been blocked by stones.

"These roads are the paths that the original sacrifices would take. They would come here, be imprisoned, and finally become sacrifices to the gods."

Lu Ban told what he saw on the mural.

"God? What god?"

Shia asked.

"In the pool."

Lu Ban pointed, and everyone saw that there was a sound of a mechanism turning in the pool of blood, and a small platform gradually rose from the pool of blood. On the platform, there were several round objects.

Those are eggs.