Chapter 318: Corpse Oil Street Lamp

Behind this glowing stone door.

Was a new unknown world.

But although Wu Xian was curious, he endured and didn't try to push the door.

For one thing, it was very likely that he couldn't push it open.

For another, his task was just to find a foothold after going into the water and find a road to move forward. Now he had completed the task.

The danger behind the door shouldn't be faced by him alone. Su Xuan and Wei Qinglan should also bear it with him.

Wu Xian pulled the fishing line on his body at a specific frequency.

This was to notify the other two that they could come down.

After the fishing line was retracted, there was a splash.

A stone fell into the water first, breaking the surface tension of the water.

Then Su Xuan jumped down from the wellhead with a dive. Since it was already confirmed that it was safe below, he didn't want to descend slowly.

"Refreshing!"

Su Xuan lay on the stone, soaked all over, and shivered.

With the progress of the Fudi, Su Xuan hadn't drunk alcohol for several days, and his state was getting better and better, only occasionally having symptoms of alcohol dependence.

While speaking.

Wei Qinglan also came down on the fishing line. After reaching the predetermined height, her body swayed left and right, and then she jumped lightly and landed on the stone. Except for her feet, almost no other place was wet.

After the three arrived.

Wu Xian spent two minutes telling the two about the situation under the well.

Then Wu Xian and Su Xuan worked together to push the light door on the giant stone. This door was too thick, and the two of them used all their strength to barely push open a gap that one person could pass through.

Because the place was narrow.

Wei Qinglan couldn't exert force, so she stood at the very back.

Accompanied by the door being pushed open, the things behind the door gradually became clear and visible. Although it was pitch black, at least it could be confirmed that there was a large space outside.

But she didn't have time to be happy.

She saw a blurry human-shaped black shadow in the darkness, pouncing straight at her with a speed that caught people off guard!

Poof! The black shadow hugged Wei Qinglan directly.

But Wei Qinglan didn't feel that she had touched a physical entity. Looking sideways, she found that this black shadow was composed of countless insects: scorpions, centipedes, various beetles, worms, flying insects...

Just looking at it made her almost faint, and these weird insects seemed to have a tendency to disperse...

"Ah..."

Wei Qinglan subconsciously wanted to scream, and her body couldn't help but retreat, almost falling into the water, but Wu Xian grabbed her hand and covered her mouth, not letting her make too much noise.

"Calm down, this thing is dissipating."

Wei Qinglan realized that this black shadow composed of insects, although it looked like it was wriggling, was actually slowly turning into black smoke and disappearing. They had almost no touch, just a formless phantom...

After a few seconds, the black shadow dissipated into thin air. Wei Qinglan didn't feel anything unusual except for feeling disgusted.

"The road ahead is unknown, and monsters may be hidden in the darkness. We three are just here to explore the road. Try to keep quiet and move forward, don't attract monsters..."

Wei Qinglan had also seen big scenes and soon calmed down. Su Xuan didn't need Wu Xian to explain too much. The three soon prepared and walked toward the unknown behind the light door holding the torch.

They moved very slowly.

Everything on the road was worth observing, and every place in the darkness was worth being vigilant about. Outside the stone door was very spacious.

What was even more surprising was that there happened to be an underground dark river on the side. The width of the small river was just right for placing the coffin. As long as it was pulled with a rope, the coffin could be moved easily. They could use this waterway to transport the coffin.

The road on land was a bit hard to walk.

The ground and walls were all uneven, making it very uncomfortable to step on.

Looking closely with the light of the torch, one could find that those twisted bumps were all ferocious human shapes, as if countless people were embedded in the rock walls and ground!

Wei Qinglan touched a human face lightly. The touch was exactly the same as rock, so she asked in a low voice: "Are these people on these rock walls real or fake?"

Su Xuan shrugged: "Let's try and we'll know."

He took out a small dagger, preparing to find a human-shaped rock wall to test.

Wu Xian stopped him and pointed to a human-shaped rock not far away: "No need to test, they are all people... or rather, they were once people."

Only to see that in the direction Wu Xian pointed, there was also a human-shaped rock, only this human-shaped rock was only half-petrified, and the head still looked like normal flesh and blood.

This half-stone, half-human thing discovered Wu Xian and the others, and its eyes stared straight at them, its mouth making a plea for help like a murmur.

"Save me, save me..."

"How should we save you?"

Wu Xian's finger pointed at his forehead,

So, this was a dead person! "How to save me... how should I be saved?"

The strange person muttered to himself in confusion, blood and tears streaming from his eyes, and then he just kept repeating this sentence. No matter what others asked him, he had no further reaction.

Wu Xian shook his head and led the two of them to continue forward.

The further they went, the more dead people were embedded in the rock walls. Perhaps with one step, someone might step on a person's face. The dead were activated one by one, emitting unconscious murmurs, and the entire space was filled with sounds like sleep-talking.

This sound could also be considered to have its benefits.

At least Wu Xian and the others didn't have to worry about being overheard by others when speaking in low voices.

Besides these guys embedded in the walls, occasionally one could see humanoid shadows composed of insects like the ones before. These things wandered aimlessly on the road; they would pounce when they saw people and then dissipate into thin air, occasionally condensing out of nowhere in the air...

These black shadows were perhaps the resentment left behind by the monster under the large pit that had been devouring insects for years.

This stretch of road was not very long, and it was a continuous downhill slope. The depth they were at now should have far exceeded the bottom of the well.

As they walked, the path ahead suddenly opened up, and bright firelight even came from the intersection. Wu Xian plunged his torch into the water to extinguish it; he shouldn't need the torch for the road ahead.

This was a very spacious underground road.

Su Xuan squatted on the ground, looking at the footprints left on the road: "This road should be frequently traveled, and always by people carrying heavy objects. It seems those people carrying coffins back and forth from here is not an occasional occurrence."

Wei Qinglan was looking at the lamps.

Yes.

This road had street lamps. The poles of the street lamps were petrified dead people, and in their hands, they held half a skull, inside which was an oil lamp.

"This smell and texture... it's corpse oil!"

Wu Xian touched the wall casually and found his hand was greasy.

"Those dead people will secrete some grease during the petrification process... for this underground road, the corpse oil should be inexhaustible."

"But this street lamp system needs constant maintenance. Who is adding the corpse oil on time?"

(End of chapter)