"Master Yiyun, what do you think of the Laughing Corpse Village?"
The soul is wandering.
There are more than a dozen morgues running through the wall.
Jin An asked thoughtfully.
"Shouldn't exorcism and catching evil spirits be your special skills, Taoist Master Jin An?" Mr. Yiyun looked at Jin An with a meaningful smile.
Jin An laughed: "Then let's break into this dragon's pond and tiger's den. Let's go and see the residences of those veterans."
With that said, the souls of a man and a woman floated to another place with fire in Laughing Corpse Manor.
When he came to the abbot of the veterans and saw firelight leaking from the crack in the door, Jin An sneered: "It's so late, haven't these veterans rested yet? They are more diligent than mice at night."
The two souls drifted into the house through the wall. The furnishings in the house were very simple, as simple as this barren land. However, the two searched the entire house and found not even a single figure.
"no one?"
"If you don't stay in the house to sleep so late, it will be extremely cold at night in this desert winter. Where can the weak bodies of those veterans go?"
Jin An frowned and looked at Mr. Yiyun.
"When I came here, I noticed that there was smoke rising from the kitchen of Xiaoshi Manor. Maybe these veterans were slaughtering camels in the kitchen to prepare the camel meat for us tomorrow morning." Mr. Yiyun floated directly from the roof. , eyes staring in the direction of the kitchen.
At this time, Jin An also floated out from the roof.
Sure enough, I saw smoke curling from the direction of the kitchen.
So, the two of them braved the cold wind and drifted toward the kitchen. When they arrived at the kitchen, they found a fire burning on the stove and hot water in the pot, but there was no one there.
The two souls wandered around the Laughing Corpse Manor, but they still could not find the veterans, who seemed to have suddenly disappeared from the Laughing Corpse Manor.
In fact, the two of them circled the outside of Laughing Corpse Village and searched for more than ten miles without finding any clues or seeing any sneaky figures.
"Is it really true that the Laughing Corpse Manor is not in the Laughing Corpse Manor?"
The two regrouped in the kitchen.
Mr. Yiyun tilted his head and thought, "If they weren't in Laughing Corpse Manor, where could they go in such a cold night?"
"With their weak constitutions, they would probably freeze to death in the desert within a few miles of walking in this desert winter."
Jin An floated to a high place, overlooking the silent and empty Laughing Corpse Village in the dark night, his eyes kept scanning, and he snorted: "If they really came out of the Laughing Corpse Village, we have already searched around the area before, no. Maybe no clues were found."
"Perhaps the hot water that has been boiling in the kitchen is a suspicious clue..."
"If they are really not in Laughing Corpse Manor, who is this hot water for? Why bother to light a fire on the kitchen stove and boil hot water? Mr. Yiyun, don't you think the kitchen itself is full of doubts? !”
Jin An looked at the kitchen chimney that was always smoking, and his soul sank. At this time, the soul of Mr. Yiyun also flew into the kitchen.
"After Taoist Master Jin An said this, there are indeed many doubts about this kitchen."
Mr. Yiyun is a smart man. Confucian scholars must learn six arts: "ritual, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics." With his fame and fame, Mr. Yiyun immediately understood the meaning of Jin An's words: "Taoist Master Jin An, are you suspecting that there is another mystery underground in this kitchen?"
The kitchen is not big, so there is no way to hide any secrets.
Since I suspect there is something wrong with the kitchen.
If you want to hide any secrets, you can only hide them underground. For example, there is a cellar under the kitchen.
There is a cellar for pickles in the kitchen, and it is not difficult to guess the cellar for storing grain, dried meat, and vegetables.
The two of them were stunned.
It sank three feet all the way,
five feet,
eight feet,
Nothing out of the ordinary.
On the contrary, Jin An and Mr. Yiyun both looked at each other in surprise. They both looked at each other with admiration. They didn't expect that the other could easily dive so deep into the earth. The expressions on their faces were always calm and calm, and their souls were always firmly guarded.
Because the underground is filthy soil, a cold and evil place that harbors filth and human evil and is the most nourishing place for snakes, insects, rats, and ants. Normally, it is impossible for the Yin God to dive so deep after leaving the body.
First of all, the soul cannot stand the pollution of the filthy soil and turbid air, and the soul is weakened and dimmed. Then, like a stone cow sinking into the mud, the mind is muddled and unable to extricate itself. If it is forced to dive further, it will only bring disaster.
To say that the one who was most surprised was Mr. Yiyun.
They hadn't seen each other for more than half a year, and Jin An had surprised her too much.
The two people did not give up and continued to dive. There was only darkness in front of them. When the soul dived all the way to about fifteen feet, suddenly, the dark field of view suddenly widened, and they had appeared in a tomb.
At the same time, the sound of gurgling water was also heard.
"There is a sound of water here. As expected, Taoist Master Jin An, you are right. There is something else going on in this Laughing Corpse Village. There is a hidden life in the seemingly lifeless Laughing Corpse Village!" Young Master Yiyun frowned.
Jin An looked around at the specifications of the tomb in front of him and said: "Many supplies of the tomb owner are placed here. It should be the ear chamber. The ear chambers are usually located on both sides of the main tomb. We should also see another one after we go out. The ear chamber, and then you don’t need to walk too far along the tomb passage to see the main tomb chamber where the owner of the tomb is buried.”
Looking at Jin An, who is as professional as a tomb robber, Mr. Yiyun's lips curled up: "It seems that Taoist Jin An's tomb robbing skills have improved a lot in the past six months. Taoist Jin An really just went to the tomb of the Lord of Teng Kingdom." And the Taoist Yin Tomb?"
"Hey, the temperature here is so high. There is indeed a big problem with this ancient tomb that appears under the Laughing Corpse Village!" Jin An deliberately changed the subject, and his soul drifted out of the tomb to look for the main tomb.
Young Master Yiyun looked at Jin An's back with a smile, and followed him out of the tomb without asking any further questions.
After floating out of the tomb, I saw another tomb with exactly the same size on the opposite side. Indeed, as Jin An said, this is the ear chamber.
There is a spacious main tomb passage outside the ear. There is a fire burning at the end of the main tomb passage, which smokes the main tomb chamber blood red. Those scorching temperatures are coming from the main tomb chamber.
The two looked at each other and drifted directly towards the main tomb chamber.
As they got closer to the main tomb, the two began to hear some conversations. In these conversations, Jin An heard the voices of a tall, thin old man and a fat old man.
The veterans of Laughing Corpse Manor are hiding in this underground tomb like rats, hatching some conspiracy.
The tomb passage is not long. As soon as the soul floats into the main tomb chamber, it sees a stone coffin that has been knocked to the ground. The body of the tomb owner in the coffin has disappeared. The main tomb chamber has been artificially modified and transformed into an adobe brick coffin. It is a crematorium with a large chimney that goes straight to the ground and then merges with the kitchen chimney on the ground.
And the purpose of so much trouble is to conceal and burn the corpse?
At this time, the veterans were busy, throwing corpses into the alchemy furnace one after another and burning them. There were still many corpses placed at their feet that had not had time to be burned.
When they saw those corpses, Jin An and Master Yiyun both looked surprised, because those corpses were too fresh and had not yet been dried into mummies. There were Han Chinese and people from the Western Regions, all of whom had just died.
Those frail old men who looked like they were dying outside were now burning the corpses. Without any slowness in their hands, they lifted up each corpse and threw it into the alchemy furnace.
From time to time, they would throw an earthen jar into the alchemy furnace to aid combustion. After those earthen jars were smashed in the alchemy furnace, a strong-smelling black liquid would be poured out, which would accelerate the burning of the corpse.
These black liquids are fire oil.
As the fire oil fueled the combustion, the corpses in the cremator were quickly burned. After the billowing smoke passed through the long and narrow chimney, it gradually cooled and solidified, and then dropped drops of extremely smelly corpse oil.
"These guys are killing people in the desert and then burning corpse oil in this way?"
Jin An was startled, and then felt disgusted: "No wonder the camel meat outside is so fragrant. Could it be that they use the corpse oil as a condiment?"
Mr. Yiyun was also disgusted by the dripping black corpse oil. He frowned and said: "They put so much effort into refining corpse oil. I don't think they are specifically using corpse oil to roast camel meat for us to eat." Yes, because we haven’t yet.”
At this time, the veterans were still silently burning corpses and refining corpse oil. The old faces covered with deep ravines were constantly changing under the light of the corpse cremator. , revealing a sinister and creepy look.
While these veterans were still busy refining corpse oil, Jin An began to look at the main tomb in front of him. The four walls of the main tomb were painted with colorful murals. Those murals seemed to tell the life of the tomb owner, but those murals had already It was completely destroyed by the thick smoke coming out of the crematorium, and was blackened by the smoke.
"Looking at the smoke marks on these murals, it seems that this crematorium has been around for a few years. It is estimated that they used this crematorium to burn many corpses." Jin An pondered.
Mr. Yiyun was also looking at the murals. After listening to Jin An's words, she nodded and said: "Yes, these murals were definitely not destroyed by smoke in a short period of time. Look at the thick residue left after burning by the fierce fire oil on them." It’s black and ash, and bodies are often burned here.”
When they said this, the two looked at each other. Jin An lowered his head and guessed: "This is the deepest part of the desert, without rain or water, isolated from the world. In the past thousand years, only two groups of people have found the holy mountain of Guchi Kingdom. This is the Black Rain Country, and we are among the first group... Judging from the fact that this place has been here for many years, before we came, they should have been using this corpse cremator to burn the aborigines of Xiaoshi Village. They burned it down from generation to generation. It will leave such deep black and gray marks on the wall.”
Jin An continued to speculate: "Only in this way can we explain why there is such a corpse crematorium in this ancient tomb deep underground. Because this corpse crematorium cannot be built in a short time. With the meager resources here, we would never be able to build such a concealed corpse crematorium in less than ten years or even five or six years."
"It seems that Mr. Yiyun is right. These corpse oils are not used on us. They have been plotting for so long, so they must have another purpose."
The two have a tacit understanding and both agree with each other's considerations.
Between guesses, we are gradually getting closer to the truth.
It's just that they haven't figured it out yet. What does the Laughing Corpse Village want to do after it has spent generations of effort refining corpse oil?
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Jin An screamed in surprise.
Young Master Yiyun came to Jin An out of curiosity.
At this time, Jin An floated to the stone coffin that had fallen aside. He pointed at the carvings on the coffin and said with a slightly solemn expression: "These coffins were heavily smoked. I didn't notice it just now, but now I realize that these coffins are so smokey." The patterns carved on the coffin seem familiar to me... They are telling the end of the world prophecies about the kingdom of the immortal god, the black sun, the ghost mother, and the two suns in the same sky."
"So it turns out that this place was once the site of another desert guardian clan. No wonder there is a water source here. Now everything makes sense."
Jin An saw that Mr. Yiyun was a little confused, so he told him about the desert guardian clan and the ghost mother he had discovered underground in the old Sadik village.
Young Master Yiyun's beautiful eyes were filled with surprise when he heard this: "I didn't expect that there are so many secrets about the Kingdom of the Immortal God. The existence of this ghost mother, the guardian clan of the desert, is older than the Guchi Kingdom, the Wu'er clan, and the Baizu Kingdom. .”
"So, the leader of the Black Rain Kingdom found the ruins of the desert guardian clan and already knew the secret of the Kingdom of the Immortal God."
While the two were talking, the veterans who were busy in the crematorium on the other side did not notice at all that there were two transparent souls floating around them.
The worldly human body cannot see the spirit of human beings leaving the body.
It's a pity that the two of them have not yet reached the third realm, where they can travel around to control objects, break the boundaries between yin and yang, and use their Yin souls to lift objects in the yang world. They cannot wipe away the black dust on this coffin and study it in detail between this coffin and the previous one. What's the difference between coffins and coffins?
While Jin An and Master Yiyun were still studying the details of the reliefs on the coffin, voices came from the veterans of the crematorium.
