The strong and pungent smell in the cave made Shen Qing frown in disgust, and she raised her hands to cover her mouth and nose.
"What a crappy place! How can we live here?" She couldn't help but mutter.
Going a little deeper inside, in addition to the foul smell, there was also a pungent smell of smoke.
Shen Qing suddenly remembered that Qin Wanming was still setting off fireworks in front!
"Ahem!" She coughed a few times due to the smoke. "Qiufeng, go to the front and tell Qin Wanming to lead his men to retreat."
All the people have been arrested, but they forgot to notify that innocent person.
"Yes." Hua Qiufeng took the order and left quickly.
Shen Qing raised his hand and vigorously fanned the smoke in front of him, trying to make his vision clearer so that he could look at the cave carefully.
The cave was in a mess. A mess of herbs were still burning in the furnace on the ground. The rising smoke, with a foul smell, filled the air.
The black cloth cages placed on the high floors around them caught Shen Qing's attention. She raised her hand and called the people around her, "Move all the cages down."
"Yes." The men responded and took quick action.
Shen Qing came to the furnace, narrowed her eyes, and kicked it hard. In an instant, sparks flew everywhere, and the people behind her hurried forward to put out the fire.
She squatted down, picked up a dead branch, and carefully picked up the unburned residue, trying to distinguish the ingredients, but she couldn't recognize what kind of herbs they were.
"Take it back and ask someone to check what this herb does." She stood up and ordered with a serious expression.
Shen Qing turned her head to look at the cage that had been moved down. She took a deep breath, calmed herself down, walked over, reached out and grabbed the curtain, and lifted it up with force.
A corpse covered with lividity appeared before his eyes. A heavy chain was tied around its neck, its lips were black, and its nails were extremely long. It looked very scary.
Without hesitation, she opened the other curtains and saw the same tragic scene.
Shen Qing took a step back, suppressing the churning in his stomach, "Open it and move the body out."
Corpses were placed in front of her. She looked at them one by one. There were indeed a few familiar faces from Qingshan Temple among them, but only two or three.
"Your Majesty, all the cages are here."
"Take people to search and see if there are any other secret rooms."
The man took the order and left, while Shen Qing squatted down to examine the bodies.
The corpse's wrists and ankles were tightly tied with heavy iron chains, which seemed to have been deeply embedded in the flesh after a struggle.
Their lips were as black as ink, and sharp fangs seemed to be faintly visible in their mouths, which was eerie and terrifying. The backs of their hands were covered with winding black lines, and their nails were very long and sharp.
Shen Qing frowned slightly, his expression solemn, and carefully lifted the hand of a corpse with a dagger. He could see a faint trace of dark red flesh between the nails, emitting a nauseating fishy smell.
"The puppet developed by Heipao was successful? And it hurt people?" Shen Qing muttered to himself, falling into deep thought.
Just as Shen Qing was thinking, the corpse suddenly opened its eyes. There was only a pale white in the eyes, without a trace of black pupils. He bared his sharp fangs, let out a low roar from his throat, and pounced towards Shen Qing.
Shen Qing's eyes flashed, and he dodged sideways, swinging the dagger in his hand and cutting off one of his hands. However, the puppet seemed to have no sense of pain and continued to attack.
The soldiers behind him also reacted quickly, drawing their weapons and protecting Shen Qing in the middle. One of his men, holding a long sword, stabbed at the puppet's leg, chopping off its leg. A rotting smell emanated from the broken leg.
The puppets' speed was astonishing. Some soldiers' chest armor was scratched by their long nails before they could even react.
Seeing this, Shen Qing leaped up and thrust his dagger straight into the puppet's throat. The puppet tilted its head back to avoid the blow, its fangs biting towards Shen Qing's arm. Shen Qing twisted his wrist, redirecting the dagger and piercing the puppet's shoulder.
With a smooth stroke, he chopped off its arm.
The puppet without arms quickly collapsed as if its spine had been pulled out.
"The vital point is on the arm, just cut it off." Shen Qing reminded.
Once the flaw was found, it was easily solved. Soon, all the puppets that came back to life had their arms chopped off and collapsed to the ground.
Black Robe successfully refined these corpses but did not release them. Instead, he locked them in a cage.
Shen Qing thought about it and realized that it was probably because he himself could not control these puppets.
Without any warning, it suddenly wakes up and attacks people. It should be a partial target, attacking anyone it sees.
But how did he make the corpse able to move again?
Shen Qing was really shocked.
This is no longer scientific.
"Your Majesty, we found a secret room over there, but it's locked and can't be opened."
Upon hearing this, Shen Qing followed the man to the huge stone door.
Standing in front of the stone gate, she felt a chill. She walked forward, stretched out her hand and gently touched the stone gate, and a cold touch instantly came from her fingertips.
Shen Qing narrowed her eyes slightly and looked around carefully. A small, inconspicuous stone on the right wall caught her eye. She stood there, thinking for a moment, then raised her hand to touch the stone.
Unable to press it, she frowned slightly and twisted it left and right, but still no response. She gritted her teeth and, with one last push, actually managed to move the stone.
There was a loud rumbling sound as the stone door slowly opened. A biting cold breath blew in the face, making people shiver.
Shen Qing didn't hesitate at all and stepped in. But at this moment, the stone door slammed shut with a dull sound, and the soldiers behind him had no time to react and were locked outside.
Shen Qing turned his head to look at the door behind him, hesitated for a moment, and continued to walk in. There were night pearls on several lampposts around. Apart from the fact that the temperature was a little low, it was much cleaner and brighter than outside.
After walking along a short path, what comes into view is a huge pool with many huge ice blocks in it, emitting cold air.
Surrounding it were a circle of beds made of ice, each with a corpse on it.
The one in the middle was the body of Xu Ping, whom she was familiar with.
Why would Black Robe place these corpses in the ice chamber? Is there something special about them? Have they already been refined?
Shen Qing walked over. These corpses were covered with frost and surrounded by herbs, but they were different from the puppets outside. Their corpses looked like fresh corpses.
"How could this happen?" Shen Qing murmured.
"Chen Qing."
The seventh point, which had disappeared for a long time, suddenly appeared in front of her, floating in the air and looking at her.
"Seventh?"
She thought it had left without a word.
"Do you want them to come back to life?" it asked in a serious tone.
"That joke isn't funny."
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