After the nine-tailed white fox disappeared on the city gate, I sighed, then pushed open the city gate and led the team inside.

Just like in the photos, there are many old and deserted ancient buildings here. The streets are made of stone slabs, which now have many cracks. Small trees have grown in some cracks, and some have been directly replaced by tree trunks. These have strange shapes and are not very similar to the Central Plains architectural style. Instead, they look like the structures of some ethnic minorities.

It is a structure that is flat on top and round on the bottom. Although the house also uses wooden pillars as beams, the structural method is quite different. It is shaped like a yurt, but it is not a tent but a house built of wood and earth. There are two layers of structure. The wooden doors and windows of each household are engraved with strange totems. As we continued walking, we arrived at a place similar to a market square, where there was a towering bronze statue.

At first glance, one might think the statue is a ram, but when one looks closer, one discovers that it is a god with a goat's head and a human body, holding a wizard's staff, with a solemn expression, and wearing sackcloth. There are snakes and scorpions on each shoulder, and its pupils are bright, as if it were a living thing, and its face is ferocious and angry.

"The totems outside the doors just now are the Candle Dragon totems worshipped by the Blood Eye Clan. This statue is the high priest of the Witch Clan in the Blood Eye Clan's legend. According to the legend, he was chosen to be a sacrifice when he was born, and the phantom fire burned him to black ashes. However, he relied on his own magical powers to revive himself and grew up gradually in the body of a sheep. Later, he actually grew into a human form. As a result, his reputation increased greatly. Everyone admired his boundless magical powers and regarded him as the high priest to preside over the Witch Clan's ceremonies." Yunwen said.

"It's quite interesting, but this is also a trick used by the feudal and superstitious ancient people. They made up some stories about ghosts and gods so that everyone would worship and admire them, in order to win the hearts of the people. To be honest, it feels like a strategy to fool the people. It's just an attempt to control their spiritual orientation." I said.

"The origins of various treasures are mentioned in the Tiancan Scroll. It also mentions this half-goat, half-human high priest. His real name is unknown, but later generations called him Antelope Witch. He is also the creator of the Blood Eye Clan's Yin Shi Pot and the living corpse refining to prolong life. Before that, human sacrifice was just a ritual for the Blood Eye Clan to worship the heavens. After the creation, the Blood Eye Clan began to truly refine living corpses. So when you say that this person is just Du Zuan, I don't know whether it is right or not." Yunwen said.

"Maybe this person exists, but he has been demonized or deified. After all, it is not scientifically possible for a sheep to grow into the appearance of a human. The DNA sequence of humans is very different." I said.

Yunwen smiled, and then we stopped discussing the topic.

Not far from the square, there is a river in the city with a solitary bridge over the river. It is very crude and you have to lead a horse and push the wooden ox and flowing horse across it, and you have to wait for the people in front and behind to pass. After crossing the bridge, there is an open space. It is estimated that it was also a market used for transactions in the past. However, there is a lot of vacant area here now, and it seems a bit empty. Looking more closely, you can vaguely see some objects here that are out of place.

I walked over to investigate, and for example, I saw something dropped somewhere on the ground, which turned out to be a deck of playing cards. The surface had become seriously rusted and faded after being exposed to wind and rain, and when I picked it up and looked at it, I was immediately very confused. These playing cards originated in Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries, and this kind of paper could not have appeared in ancient times. Judging from this, it must have been from later times, and the only possibility was that they were left behind by the dead soldiers.

I looked around and realized where I was. I remembered the 49 photos of the dead left on the ground in the pocket of the "City of Death" project in the underground factory office. Almost all of them were taken in this area. I recalled the various photos in my mind, and now I can match them, the perspective focus brought by the angle, the surrounding scenery and road layout, and everything that can be seen...

At this time, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the little sunlight was blocked out. This is what is meant by "blocking out the sun".

"Why do they have to kill people here? Why did they all die here?" I couldn't help but ask myself in a low voice.

Until then, I saw Yunwen squatting down to check, and I immediately understood that there were four cracks in the middle of the stone road. The left and right spans were longer, and the up and down spans were shorter, but the spans of each were very neat. It was said that there was a large object placed on it before, and it had four legs, and judging from the length and width, it looked like!

"This seems to be where you place the bronze tripod." Yunwen said.

My head buzzed!

If it is true as Yunwen said, this vacant area is not used for buying vegetables in the market, but is specially used for sacrificing living people and refining corpses to prolong life, otherwise why would the bronze tripod used for sacrificing people be here? Therefore, this is the sacrificial area, and the fifty Black Skull Organization soldiers died because of this!

"Run!" I shouted.

Yunwen was surprised, but when she saw me like this, she turned her horse around and prepared to go back to the other side of the bridge with me. But at this time, something strange happened. The simple lonely bridge was actually suspended high. How could this mechanical method be exactly the same as that in the post station? I heard a sound not far away. It was the sound of someone turning the gear shaft to start the rotation.

After listening for two or three months, I have already memorized this sound.

Yunwen's face was pale, and she was about to pull Sanfu to hide behind me, but Sanfu was frightened and began to run and struggle restlessly. Yunwen couldn't hold him back, and I hurried over to help. Unexpectedly, the horse was so strong that it suddenly broke free, leaving Yunwen and the supplies behind, and ran away at full speed. No matter how I shouted, I couldn't stop him.

"Sanfu!" Yunwen wanted to chase after him, but I stopped her.

"Don't go. The horse runs faster than us. We will have to catch up with it for a long time. Even if we catch up, we won't be able to control the frightened horse. Besides, we can't protect ourselves now. Letting it stay here might just kill it." I said.

Yunwen calmed down a lot after listening to my analysis, but she was still very nervous and held me tightly, trembling, and said, "It's getting dark, our mission is going to fail. I'm sorry, it was my bad idea. We didn't find the red-eyed monster, and we entered the city. It seems that we are doomed."

I hugged her, let her lean on my chest, and said, "You can't live if you're going to die, and you can't die if you're going to live. Don't be afraid, I'm here, Zhou Bo is with you."

Yunwen looked at me, her trembling body eased a little, and she nodded seriously.

At this moment, there was a banging sound nearby, and my nerves immediately tensed up. It was the sound of something shuttling across the roof. I quietly performed the Eight Hands Gestures, "Lin, Bing, Dou, Zhe, Jie, Zhen, Lie, Zai, Qian". Then I asked Yunwen to look after the wooden ox and flowing horse, and I held the Jinque sword. My left hand reached into my left pocket, which was a bunch of wooden pieces of Tianshi talismans. I pinched one piece with my left hand as a sword finger.

"Be careful." Yunwen said with concern when she let me go.

"I will," I responded.

I immediately stepped forward. At this moment, there was a loud bang. Before it arrived, the pair of scarlet blood pupils had already appeared in the gray-black environment under the dark clouds, which was particularly abrupt. I was very nervous. I didn't know if I could deal with it, nor did I know what the opponent was. I just fought with him once two days ago, and I was crushed even though I tried my best. If it weren't for the howling of the nine-tailed white fox to distract it, I would have been bleeding from all seven orifices and scared to death by hallucinations.

At this time, dong, dong, dong, dong...

The sound of footsteps continued to be heard, and the huge figure slowly walked out from behind the buildings. When I saw it appear, I immediately opened my mouth in surprise.

I saw an ape in front of me, wearing animal skins, but its appearance was almost the same as the Bigfoot I had seen before, with big feet, covered with black stiff hair, a face that looked like both a human and an ape, and cunning eyes. The only difference was that this Bigfoot was smaller than the first one, so I could look it in the eye, and it was not as strong as the first one.

Moreover, the sharp eyes have longer eyelashes, and the animal skin is slightly protruding below the neck bone, which is obviously some kind of female feature!

"Damn it, are you the female Bigfoot who uses living people as mates every day? You come to kill me, not to avenge your husband!" I shouted in shock.

However, the strange thing is that her walking posture is quite strange and a little stiff, which is much different from the strange posture of the male Bigfoot I saw on the top of the mountain before...