Chapter 529: See the Corpse Pig Again

"If that's the case, the shrine in front of you is the product of Li Tang's creation of the Soul Palace, but what's the purpose of building these? Just to scare us?"

Xu Xiake didn't understand the purpose of sewing twelve arms on a corpse and then placing it in a shrine in such a humiliating posture.

"It should be more than just scary."

After speaking, Song Siyuan took out the red gold and copper slips and explained with a flashlight: "Let's see if the slaves on the red gold and copper slips look like these people."

Under the illumination of the flashlight, a golden halo appeared on the surface of the gold slips, and the totem color on the front of the copper slips became clearer. They focused their attention on the slaves in the third part, and then compared them with the corpses in the shrine. Once compared, it was all clear - the copper slips. The hands and feet of the slave were bound, and he was sitting on his knees on the ground. Even his expression of crying and howling was almost the same as that of the corpse in the shrine.

Song Siyuan returned the gold slips to Yue Guanchao and already knew the identity of these corpses: "I guess the paintings on the copper slips are actually the tragic scene of slaves being led into the cave entrance. As for the broken walls, they are more like construction materials before the project was completed. They look scattered everywhere. If my guess is correct, those slaves have turned into the multi-handed corpses we see after their death."

"These corpses are probably the tens of thousands of slaves who were sacrificed alive in the Soul Palace!"

Song Siyuan knew that they were sacrificial slaves and not wild gods, so she became bolder and kept getting closer to the corpses to observe the details.

The corpse appeared gray-green, as if it was mercury poisoning, with blue-gray markings of varying shades. The surface was not considered dry. It was covered with a transparent layer several millimeters thick, completely covering it from head to toe. You could feel the water when shining a flashlight on it. The light shines brightly.

"This corpse exceeded my expectations. I thought it was just a mummy. Judging from the situation, the skin is covered with a layer of translucent oil. Could it be that the corpse has other uses besides being a living sacrifice?"

When Song Siyuan lowered her head to think, there was a rustling sound in the shrine. Yue Guanchao and the others hurriedly stepped aside for fear that there might be some trap.

But in the blink of an eye, black gray worms flew into the hole and circled around the corpse. Then all these worms lay on the corpse, as if the corpse was covered with a layer of black cloth and wrapped tightly.

Song Siyuan knew that flying insects would not lie on the corpse for no reason, so she asked everyone to extinguish the lamps and only kept the flashlight to observe Gray Worm.

They look no different from swarms of insects in the river. They use their sharp mouthparts to bite the skin of corpses and greedily suck the oily water layer on the surface of the corpse. When the oily layer is completely exhausted, they flap their wings and fly away outside the cave.

After they left, Song Siyuan looked at the body again and saw that the grease layer had been exhausted.

"It turns out that these corpses are food for flying insects."

Song Siyuan really had never thought of this function of the corpse. He only thought it was used by Li Tang to sacrifice to the ancient gods. Seeing the grease layer on the corpse disappear, his eyes were shocked, and at the same time, some memories in his brain were gradually awakening.

As early as in Changbai Mountain, she had already seen the Yin corpse fish under the wild forest of the Dragon King Temple. Although the situation she saw was different from the Yin corpse fish, in terms of method and logic, it seemed to come from the same clan. Her eyes lit up: "Yue Guanchao, the wax corpse in the cave of Jiaolong Temple seems to be the same?"

Yue Guanchao looked at the corpse and thought that was what happened: "If you understand it this way, it is indeed all these strange things. Li Tang's bloodline seems to have Xianbei blood. Isn't the Xianbei tribe also a branch of the Sushen tribe? It makes sense to have such a thing, but it’s a pity for these good men who have been chewed like dishes for more than a thousand years.”

"Let's see again, how do corpses produce these things?"

The corpse was sitting on its knees in the doorway. The doorway was only slightly larger than a dog hole and was blocked tightly by more than a dozen arms, leaving only a small gap for flying insects to enter and exit. Yue Guanchao had no choice but to pull Xu Xiake up and use a hemp rope. He tied the legs and feet of the corpse and dragged the corpse forward for half a meter. When he tried to drag it forward, he already felt resistance.

"Song Qianjin, there is something pulling behind this body. There may be something on the back. Be careful."

Song Siyuan was eager to find out the truth. Before she finished speaking, she walked around the body and looked at the door with a flashlight.

The houses behind these slaves are filled with all kinds of Ganoderma lucidum. These Ganoderma lucidum are as big as an umbrella cover and as small as the mouth of a bowl. They are extremely colorful and exude a sweet smell that makes people want to take a bite. It can be seen that there is something in the smell to numb the taste buds.

They are like mushrooms growing on the walls of the shrine. All the roots extend through the hole in the center of the shrine, and they all pierce the arms and back of the corpse. Presumably, they produce nutrients and turn into corpse wax, which is then fed in the hole. These flying insects.

"No wonder it can't be pulled. Its back is covered with Ganoderma lucidum and vine whiskers."

Yue Guanchao and the other two walked up to her and looked at the doorway. The vines had already filled the hole. The vines as thick as their wrists were pierced into her back and wrapped around her wrists. As the Ganoderma squirted, they used the vines to continuously exchange nutrients.

It didn't take long, but the surface of the corpse had changed from dry to moist, and gradually a thin layer of grease continued to appear!