"It's so evil." Huang Qishan pretended to be mysterious. He waved his hand to ask Li Yi to get closer to him, and then said slowly: "I saw a big pit over there, and it was full of human sculptures."
Li Yi glanced in the direction where Huang Qishan had just come, somewhat disbelieving. Li Yi felt that Huang Qishan had lied to him. After all, Huang Qishan was not very courageous and would not be so calm when encountering such a thing.
"Really? Don't scare people here."
Huang Qishan clicked his tongue and patted Li Yi on the shoulder.
"Why am I lying to you? I was so scared by the sculpture over there that I almost had to hold my urine back."
"Then let's talk to Su Qiqi and the others. It's not a good thing to encounter such weird things in the last days."
After Li Yi finished speaking, he was about to stand up, but was pulled back by Huang Qishan.
"What are you doing?" Li Yi really didn't understand what Huang Qishan meant, scratching his head and looking at Huang Qishan with a smile on his face.
"Why are you in such a hurry? Don't forget where this is? Hanging City." Huang Qishan sat on the ground and patted his thigh.
"What happened to Hang City?"
"The Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou is right next to us. It shouldn't be strange to have some sculptures, right?"
The smile on Huang Qishan's face became heavier. He was here to scare Li Yi. Li Yi usually seemed quite bold, but how could he become so timid after seeing someone like this?
Li Yi did not become angry because of this, but thought for a while, looked at Huang Qishan, and then looked to the northwest.
Huang Qishan patted Li Yi and said, "What are you thinking about?"
"Something's wrong."
"What's wrong?"
"The Academy of Fine Arts is still some way away from us. Why are the sculptures placed here? And why do we need to dig a hole." Li Yi thought while rubbing the ax in his hand.
"Yes." Huang Qishan felt something was wrong when he heard this.
He scratched his head, looked at Su Qiqi who was looking at Hang City in a daze, and said to Li Yi uncertainly: "Why don't we talk to Sister Su?"
Li Yi nodded and went to Su Qiqi to talk about the matter.
As soon as Su Qiqi heard about this, she went with the two of them to the place where the sculpture was, leaving Yang Lulu and Chang Duoer to set up tents in the open space and guard the supplies.
Su Qiqi and the others had not walked long before a small pit appeared in front of them. It was only about 3 meters in diameter, but it was indeed densely filled with humanoid sculptures. If Leng Buding suddenly saw such a scene in the wilderness, he would probably be surprised. Scare yourself to death.
Only a neurotic person like Huang Qishan thought it was normal, and even mentioned this to Li Yi as a way to scare people. Fortunately, Li Yi was not stupid, otherwise they would not know about the dangers lurking around them.
Su Qiqi glanced at Huang Qishan who was following behind, and Huang Qishan lowered his head in embarrassment.
Su Qiqi withdrew her gaze, walked to the edge of the pit, summoned the blue flames, and stretched her head to look into the depths of the pit.
Su Qiqi frowned.
This pit is very deep. There are at least a hundred sculptures in it. Everywhere you can reach is filled with humanoid sculptures. Moreover, each sculpture is very complete, with no missing arms or legs. Each one wears different styles of clothes. Most of them look like they are around 20 years old, some are male or female.
"This scene is a bit like the horror novel I read before the end of the world." Li Yi walked behind Su Qiqi and took a breath of air when he saw the dense sculptures.
"The kind of story where there are people inside the sculptures?"
Su Qiqi has also read such novels.
"Yeah." Li Yi looked at the sculpture in front of him and unconsciously took a small step back.
"Then let's see if this is the case." Su Qiqi raised her hand and grabbed the thigh of the humanoid sculpture closest to her.
Good weight.
Su Qiqi gritted her teeth and worked hard, and with the help of Li Yi, she pulled the sculpture out of the pit.
"You do it." Su Qiqi glanced at Li Yi's ax and motioned for him to open the sculpture.
Li Yi's right hand trembled, he held the ax tightly and chopped off the hand of the human sculpture.
As for why not beheading? He was afraid that there was really a person inside!
Li Yi's ax was indeed a load-bearing object, and was much sharper than the real ax. Li Yi cut open the seemingly solid sculpture with just one strike.
Everyone looked at the incision, and as expected, there was a person inside the sculpture!
Li Yi cut off the wrist, and the cut palm fell out of the sculpture and landed at Su Qiqi's feet.
The palms were not rotten, and even exuded a faint fragrance, without any rotting smell of corpses.
"These... aren't they all people?" Huang Qishan looked at the pit and the densely packed sculptures inside, feeling his scalp numb.
"If nothing else, it should be." Su Qiqi also looked at the big pit, full of doubts: "What exactly happened here?"
"Aren't these all students? They all look young." Li Yi guessed as he looked at the sculpture's face.
"Cut open the outer sculpture and let's see if the person inside looks the same as the sculpture."
Su Qiqi knelt down and looked at the sculpture. It was a young girl with her eyes closed, her eyebrows tightly knitted together, her not-too-thick mouth tightly pursed, and a small mole on the lower right corner of her mouth.
"Okay." Li Yi asked Su Qiqi to step aside and held the ax with both hands. In order not to split the corpse in half, he deliberately controlled the force.
As the cold wind brought by the ax blew by, the sculpture made a cracking sound, revealing the girl inside.
"Exactly the same!" Huang Qishan covered his mouth and roared in a low voice. Then he stretched his neck and took a closer look. His legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground. He pointed at the corpse with excitement and said, "Even the expressions are the same!"
Su Qiqi also saw it. The girl even frowned and pursed her lips, her expression was exactly the same as her sculpture.
This is obviously not something that humans can do, not to mention there are so many sculptures in this pit.
"Let's go, you can't stay in this place for too long." Su Qiqi felt that this place was too weird. In order to prevent danger, she quickly asked Huang Qishan and Li Yi to leave.
When they trotted back to the open space, Yang Lulu and Chang Duoer had already set up two tents.
The two of them saw the heavy looks on Su Qiqi's and the others' faces, so they quickly stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Something's wrong here. Let's go back a little bit. We should try to avoid this place when we go to Hangzhou tomorrow." After saying this, Su Qiqi went to pack her luggage and prepare to retreat.
Seeing that the situation was urgent, Yang Lulu didn't ask any questions and ran over to take down the tent that was set up.
They quickly left this place and retreated for about two kilometers before they dared to stop.
"What's wrong? There's something wrong with the sculpture over there?" Yang Lulu said.
"Yeah." Su Qiqi nodded.
"There are people inside the sculptures, and they are all around 20 years old. Huang Qishan said there is an academy of fine arts here. I suspect they are all students of the academy."
"There is no such monster in Hangcheng's information." Yang Lulu lowered her head and thought for a moment, then raised her head and asked Su Qiqi: "Is the body inside intact?"
Su Qiqi nodded. After they separated the girl from the outer shell, no wounds were found.
"Either it is a high-level monster that can control the desire to eat. Or..." Yang Lulu suddenly paused, leaving Huang Qishan, who was listening attentively, scratching his head and ears.
"What if it's not that?" Huang Qishan couldn't help but ask.
"What if the sculptures were not made by monsters, but by humans like us."
