The attack by the two wax corpses had already put me under immense pressure. Faced with the increasing number of wax corpses awakening in the deep pit, none of us could afford to linger and all ran towards the exit.
"Young Miss, watch out!"
I had just run to the front of the exit when I suddenly heard a whooshing sound behind me.
Turning her head, she saw a wax corpse frantically lunging at Wei Shengnan, while her bodyguard stepped in front of her to protect her.
However, he clearly underestimated the strength of the wax corpse. He flew out like a kite with a broken string, crashing into Wei Shengnan and falling into the corpse pit together.
"Shengnan!"
Upon seeing this, Qu Ruilin, who was originally following behind me, turned back without hesitation and jumped directly into the pit of corpses.
Wei Shengnan's accident caused everyone in their group to be slowed down. Song Laosan even took out a bundle of explosives from his bag and took out a lighter to light it.
"Don't light the fire!"
I had already turned back by then, and seeing Song Laosan's actions, I shouted, "The corpses here are all sealed with wax. There aren't many of them yet, but once the high temperature and vibration cause the other wax corpses to shed their skins, the trouble will only increase!"
Upon hearing my shout, Song Laosan kicked away a wax corpse that was charging at him, and as he retreated, he asked, "Is there any way to deal with these guys?"
"The Two Realms Blade might work!"
As I shouted, I picked up the travel bag from the ground and swung a rope toward Wei Shengnan: "But we didn't come here to rob tombs, so we didn't prepare those things!"
"We brought them!"
Qu Ruilin, standing in the pit of corpses, used brute force to resist the wax corpses, shouting, "It's in the travel bag!"
I heard Qu Ruilin's voice and continued searching through my travel bag. Sure enough, I found a long knife wrapped in burlap.
"Squeak!"
At that moment, another wax corpse rushed in front of me, spreading its arms and lunging at me.
In the blink of an eye, before I could even remove the burlap from the knife, I slashed down.
To my utter surprise, the Two Realms Blade actually worked.
The wax corpse, which was just moments ago impervious to blades and spears, was like a red-hot cleaver cutting butter when facing the Two Realms Blade; I cleaved off half of the corpse puppet's head with a single strike.
"Squeak!"
After the corpse puppet fell, a rubbing sound came from its head, and then a huge spider crawled out.
The spider that crawled out of the wax corpse's head was as big as an adult's palm, and as it crawled out, its body dragged a long, spiderweb-like thing behind it.
Before I could even raise my knife to kill the spider, it struggled on the ground for a few moments and then went silent.
At this moment, I had no time to investigate the secrets of the wax corpses. I saw that Qu Ruilin had been tackled and tied a rope around his waist before jumping into the pit of corpses: "The Two Realms Blade can be effective against these wax corpses. Use the blade to deal with them!"
Hearing my shout, the others also took out the weapons they had prepared and began to fight back.
When I rushed to Qu Ruilin's side, he was already pinned down by a wax corpse. His face was purple from being choked, and he had no strength left to resist.
I held the knife in both hands and slashed down hard on the wax corpse's neck, severing its head in one stroke. Then I pulled Qu Ruilin up and said, "Take Wei Shengnan and leave first!"
Qu Ruilin coughed a few times and kicked one of the wax corpses away: "Together!"
"We can't get anywhere if we delay any longer! Hurry!"
I ignored his shouts, grabbed the Two Realms Blade, and began hacking wildly at the wax corpse that was charging at me.
With a suitable weapon, I was like Sun Wukong with his magic staff, standing firmly in front of the two without retreating an inch.
Although these wax corpses had not turned into mummies, their blood had long since dried up, and after I stopped a few of them, I also discovered their weakness.
These creatures are all controlled by the giant spider inside their heads. It's estimated that the web the spider drags is what controls the nerves of the corpses. However, there are no records of this kind of spider in historical documents, so they are likely to be bred venomous insects.
Although Wei Shengnan and her group had prepared two-dimensional swords, not everyone had one. Fortunately, there weren't many wax corpses up there. Song Laosan quickly cleared a path, pulled Qu Ruilin and Wei Shengnan up, and shouted at me, "Xiao Duan, we can retreat now!"
I severed the leg of the wax corpse in front of me with a single stroke, turned around and roared, "Manjing, pull me up!"
"Squeak!"
In that brief moment of relaxation, several more wax corpses pounced on me, while Manjing, holding onto the rope tied around my waist, sprinted away and quickly pulled me over the pit of corpses.
Seeing me climb out of the mass grave, Song Laosan, clutching the explosives, shouted, "You guys go first, I'll stay behind and seal off the exit!"
"We can't use explosives here; that passage is too narrow, it'll collapse from the shock!"
As Qu Ruilin ran, he shouted again, "Blow up the Buddhist temple outside and bury them underneath!"
As we spoke, we scrambled and stumbled into the passageway and squeezed our way into the Buddhist hall. After entering the hall, Wei Shengnan pointed her short-barreled shotgun at the passageway and said, "You guys go first!"
"We don't need to run anymore!"
Song Laosan, who was at the back of the group, turned on his flashlight and shone it into the passage: "Just as we approached the entrance of the passage, I noticed a problem: the wax corpses inside didn't dare to come near this passage!"
Seeing that the passageway was indeed empty, the monkey asked in surprise, "Could it be that this Buddhist hall really has the effect of suppressing those corpses?"
"Those things inside aren't spirits at all, but Gu! Or rather, these corpses are just vessels for raising Gu!"
I recounted what I had seen: "The heads of those corpses were all implanted with Gu worms, similar to the corpse puppets in the Demon Monk's Tomb. They are large spiders that drag webs... If I'm not mistaken, the wax on those corpses wasn't used to seal the bodies at all, but to seal these Gu worms. Once these Gu worms are awakened, they will feed on the corpses. So the corpses in the pit didn't have a gap; the mummies deep inside are all corpses that have already been awakened!"
"If that's the case, then the purpose of these wax corpses is definitely not for theft prevention, but rather as some kind of weapon!"
Qu Ruilin frowned and said, "The practice of Taoist priests raising corpses has never been new. It seems that the people of Ping'an Village also know this method. The reason why those wax corpses dare not approach the entrance is probably because the problem lies in this Buddhist hall. There must be an ingredient in the materials used to make these Buddha statues that can suppress those Gu worms."
Looking at the deep passage, Wei Shengnan said with some dejection, "It's just a pity that my disciple died in a place like this, and we can't even get his body back."
Although no wax corpses appeared in the passage behind, the terrifying scene I had just witnessed still left me with lingering fear: "This is not the place to talk. Let's leave first."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com