Just then, I heard voices coming from the other end of the castle. I thought Bai Lu and Ling Shang were about to come back, so I quickly pulled Yunwen up and buried the soil that needed to be buried, and piled up the stones that needed to be piled. I could only speed up the work in my hands as I heard their footsteps and voices getting closer. I had calculated that it should take about the same amount of time to cover it, bury it, and restore it to its original state. After all, burying the soil is much faster than digging it up, but because I had wasted a lot of time just now, this advantage is now gone.

In addition, Bai Lu and the others were afraid that we would get impatient waiting for them, so they walked very fast, which gave us even less time to work. According to my estimation, they only had more than ten seconds left, which was not enough time to recover. Fighting hard would not be beneficial, so I said, "Yunwen, listen to me. Next, try not to talk and let me talk."

Yunwen looked at me with worry in her eyes, but still nodded.

Sure enough, not long after, Bailu ran over in a panic. When she saw us pushing away the stones piled on Yingchun's tomb, she was particularly angry. After all, she had piled them up by herself to make a better place for Yingchun, but they were destroyed by me and Yunwen. How could she accept this? After all, Yingchun was only our former teammate, but to Bailu, she was her own sister.

"The dead are the greatest. What are you doing? Is this what you have to say? She is already dead. Don't we even have the right to build a tomb? Even if she was terrible during her lifetime, she shouldn't be unable to rest in peace after her death." Although Song Bailu was forbearing, she was still very emotional.

I sighed and said, "There is a custom in my hometown that tomb sweeping usually involves repairing the graves of deceased elders. Song Yingchun is our sister after all, so Yunwen and I plan to push down these rocks and make a new one. At the very least, we need to build it with earth, rocks and mud, so it won't be afraid of spring rain or strong wind, right?"

As soon as these words came out, Song Bailu's eyes changed immediately. From the slightly angry expression just now, it became a little relieved, and said: "Sister Yunwen, do you really think so?"

Yunwen glanced at me with a look that was meaningful and thought-provoking.

"Of course, Sister Bailu. Just now, we two saw some stones blown down by the wind. We couldn't bear it, so we decided to use some cement technology to reinforce them to prevent the deceased from resting in peace here. We were just waiting for you to come over to arrange it together, right? Zhou Bo." Yunwen said.

What a quick reaction! I nodded seriously at once.

Bai Lu knew that we were doing this out of "good intentions", so she turned her anger into joy and said immediately: "Actually, I also want to repair it, but I was afraid that you would think Yingchun was not worth it, so I didn't dare to mention it."

After saying that, she walked towards me, her eyes filled with tears, hugged me tightly, and kept saying thank you. The familiar warmth of her arms reminded me of the incident in the watchtower, but now when I think about it, it is no longer the guilt I feel towards Yunwen, but a special kind of intimacy, an indescribable intimacy.

Fortunately, no trouble was caused, but we have to keep our word, so we really came to sweep Song Yingchun's grave and repair the place where she would be buried after her death.

"In order to save time, we will split up. Yunwen and I will fetch water, Bailu, you dig some soil here, and Lingshang, you help keep an eye on the situation and make sure that no wild animals attack Bailu." I said.

The girls nodded, so I took Yunwen to the castle, picked up two iron buckets, and went to the underground river to fill one bucket and half bucket. Yunwen carried the half bucket, and I took the big bucket. Then we went to Bailu. Bailu had already dug out a lot of soil with an engineering shovel, which was enough for the time being. I dug a hole in the ground, poured water in it, and then put soil in and stirred it. The water and soil became viscous, which was temporarily usable.

The next step is to pile up the stones, spread a layer of mud and cover it with a layer of stone. Although the stones are of different sizes, lengths and shapes, they are all arranged as neatly as possible and pressed down as much as possible to make the stones and soil fit more deeply. Then, mud is poured again to stabilize the stones below and to connect the upper and lower layers so that another layer of stone can be covered and fixed, and this cycle is repeated.

Throughout the whole process, Hu Lingshang was amazed and kept saying, "Wow, you guys know this kind of witchcraft, it's really magical."

Until everything was done, it was roughly shaped into a mound of earth that was round on top and square on the bottom, about as high as my knees, with a diameter of about 80 centimeters, and a little more than the length of one stride, and it was considered finished. During this process, the three of us were working together non-stop, so the efficiency was quite fast, and it was finished in about an hour. The earth and stones are relatively solid, and after they are dry, they can stand up unless there is an earthquake or flood. This is the best burial method we can give Yingchun at present.

Although it was a helpless act and I did all this to cover up the lie, I still felt a sense of accomplishment after completing it. Besides, after all, I had just destroyed her tomb, and now I have to give an explanation to both Yingchun and Bailu. Building a new one is the best way to compensate.

But Yunwen and I both knew that underneath was already a pile of ashes that had been burned to ashes by the Yin Fire, and Yingchun's body was no longer there.

Afterwards, Bai Lu and Hu Lingshang said they didn't find any candles. I remembered that I could go to the hyena black market to buy some fish-man cream, which is a kind of dragon birthday. If I offer that, it will probably burn longer than incense, so wouldn't the incense be more prosperous? So I asked everyone to follow me to the hyena territory to take a look.

The two iron buckets were good stuff, so they were accepted for the time being. Hu Lingshang happened to be very interested in these things, so she was asked to hold one, which was enough for her to study along the way. Bai Lu was asked to hold the other, which would free her hands to put the tribute fruits and some fish-man cream in it later.

We washed the mud off our hands in the underground river together. I asked Bailu to look after Hu Lingshang to prevent her from playing around. Bailu accepted the mission and went up. Then Yunwen and I followed the underground river cave all the way to the hyena people's territory, to take a closer look at the black market there, and also to pay attention to the current situation of the hyena people.

I remember that before, the dead were abducted by the curser for no reason and used as sacrificial animals for the Linghe River to attract the antelope witch. I don't know whether the hyena people have been more affected by it since then.

With the help of the light from the Golden Palace, we moved forward, holding the tiger-head token, which was dropped from the black knight monster and was originally used to command the hyena people. Although it was called a tiger head, the bronze token was actually engraved with the totem of the Wuwu Rong tribe, Qiongqi. But for the sake of convenience, we just called out like this. After walking for a long time, we came out of the river cave and came to the familiar arch bridge. After crossing the bridge, we thought there would be hyena patrols, but unexpectedly, we didn't see any when we went in.

Then we continued to go inside, and Yunwen and I felt more and more that something was wrong. We had begun to cross that narrow passage. Logically, we should be able to hear the sounds of the bustling black market, but from now on, there were no such sounds. We could only hear the whirring sounds coming from the valley, which was particularly empty.

"That's not right. They usually receive guests during the day. Why is there no sound now? Besides, even if they don't receive guests, it shouldn't be so quiet that only the sounds of birds can be heard." I said.

"That's what I mean. The atmosphere is too weird. I feel my skin crawling. It's an ominous sign." Yunwen said.

"Your sixth sense has been quite accurate lately. If you feel something is ominous, there might really be something special going on," I said.

In a blink of an eye, we passed the narrow passage, but saw that the gate formed by the iron fence in front of us was swinging in the desert, with no one guarding it. When I pushed open the gate, there was a lot of dust on it. It must have been a long time since anyone moved it. Then Yunwen and I walked through the gate, and the scene inside really scared us!

Not to mention the black market, things here have changed a lot and it is no longer the place we imagined.

"How could this be? This, this is simply insane!" Yunwen couldn't help but scream out in shock.