Chapter 324: Buried Alive

Outside the coffin, the suona and gongs and drums were deafening.

But Wu Xian could still barely hear the voices of the coffin-carrying paper people talking.

There were two people talking, one with a rougher voice and one with a finer voice; their tone when speaking was very strange, as if the pronunciation of each word was cut and spliced together from a living person's voice.

The rough-voiced paper person said: "We can bring back nine longevity peaches today; the immortals will definitely be happy."

The fine-voiced paper person laughed: "Hey, I knew three days ago; that night this batch of coffins became heavy at the same time; clearly, some dead people took advantage of the moonlight to drill in..."

"Three days? That's not right!" The rough-voiced paper person became confused, "Normally it shouldn't be this fast; it should take ten days or half a month to reach the batch of coffins from three days ago."

The fine-voiced paper person's voice also became hesitant: "Hearing you say that, I suddenly feel, is the weight of these coffins a bit wrong?"

Listening to the conversation outside, Wu Xian widened his eyes suddenly.

"Bad!"

These coffin-carrying paper people were not just mechanically executing orders; they had the ability to think for themselves; if this continued, they would be exposed sooner or later...

Just when Wu Xian wanted to do something, the coffin was suddenly opened with a crack, and a strange fragrance drilled into the coffin.

Wu Xian's heart beat wildly, as if he had smelled the taste of death.

But soon he felt dizzy, his limbs were weak, and his consciousness gradually blurred; even if he tried hard to stay awake, it was of no use...

Before completely losing consciousness.

Wu Xian heard such a conversation outside.

"If it's not a longevity peach, it can only be an undying person who escaped the alchemy furnace!"

"Sigh, every year we can encounter such things; bury them in the garden and let the immortals deal with them personally at midnight."

"The immortals like these guys the most."

Wu Xian's eyelids could no longer support him, and he could only let himself fall into a deep sleep...

Slap, slap! "Young man... young man!"

Wu Xian's face was slapped, and Old Lady He's voice came to his ears.

"Young man, thank you so much; I have finally returned to the He family; if you have anything, just break this piece of pottery, and I will come to help you."

After hearing this sentence.

Wu Xian's consciousness gradually warmed up.

He could feel something the size of a finger crawling slowly on his body, and there was a tingling sensation coming from his feet, as if something was biting him.

Wu Xian barely opened his eyes, and then some soil debris got into his eyes...

"This is..."

He was lying flat at this time, and there was a touch of mud on his body, face, and mouth; just by breathing gently, he could smell the scent of soil, grass roots, and corpse stench.

"Bad... I've been buried alive!"

Fortunately, the soil was not buried very deep and had not been stepped on firmly, so Wu Xian could still breathe, just breathing very laboriously...

He shook his body bit by bit, squeezing the soil to both sides, so the space for his arms to move became larger and larger.

Finally.

After paying some effort, Wu Xian stretched one hand out of the soil, subconsciously grabbing something on the ground, so he held tightly onto the foot of a woman who was admiring flowers.

"Ah! Ah! There's a ghost, help..."

Listening to the shouting above, Wu Xian's scalp exploded, and he hurriedly used all his strength to struggle out of the soil, pressing the screaming woman to the ground, stopping the other party's call for help.

While pressing the woman, he observed the surrounding environment. At this time, he should be in the garden of a large mansion; this garden was very large, and the terrain was very complex; judging from Old Lady He's words just now, this should be the He family.

Wu Xian looked down at his shoes and found that the tips of his shoes had been bitten through, and a piece of his nail had fallen off; it should have been bitten by a rat; if he had woken up a few minutes later, he might have had a toe eaten by a rat.

As for this woman...

Her nose and mouth were covered by Wu Xian, and now she was rolling her eyes.

Wu Xian looked around, dragged the woman into the rockery, and sat beside her, breathing in fresh air, and his physical state started to gradually recover.

During the rest process.

Wu Xian gradually regained his calm.

When he was sprayed in the face with sleeping medicine before, Wu Xian was really panicked; at that time, the situation was completely beyond his control.

But after he crawled out of the soil, he calmed down for a while and figured it out.

Since the route to the Undying City was fixed, being discovered by the coffin carriers should also be something that would definitely happen, so although this matter seemed terrifying, in essence, it was just like the situation on the Three Immortals Bridge, a process similar to a cutscene.

After this process.

The nine of them were forcibly separated, and the coffins they had worked so hard to get were nowhere to be seen; the situation seemed to be a mess, but Wu Xian felt that they were getting closer and closer to victory.

"If there is a chance, I should thank those coffin-carrying paper people."

The paper people's conversation.

Filled the gaps in the situation Wu Xian had mastered.

Many of the Three Immortals' behaviors had reasonable explanations; everything Wu Xian and the others had experienced so far was the cycle of the Three Immortals refining longevity peaches.

This cycle started on the Three Immortals Bridge.

When Wu Xian and the others first arrived at the blessed land, they relied on drilling into the coffins to obtain a way to survive, but the coffin-transporting team itself was the biggest mystery.

Why did the coffin carriers send the coffins to the No-Funeral Village? Why did those paper people disappear after the moonlight appeared?

Why didn't the coffin carriers discover that the weight of the coffins had changed? Now Wu Xian finally figured it out.

Those coffins sent to the No-Funeral Village were actually not for the elderly to bury themselves, but traps like fishing cages; the coffin carriers parading the coffins through the streets were actually attracting the walking corpses on the road.

The disappearance of the paper people after the moonlight appeared was to make it easier for the walking corpses to drill into the coffins and urns.

The coffin carriers didn't fail to discover the weight change, but the weight change was within their expectations; what they wanted was for the walking corpses to drill into the coffins! The only accident was that on that night, the Lotus Juanren were also on the Three Immortals Bridge and snatched the position of the walking corpses!

Recalling the scene where the walking corpses were slapping outside the coffins, telling Wu Xian and the others to get out quickly, the meaning was completely different from before.

According to the normal process.

Only the relatively agile walking corpses could drill into the coffins; these coffins containing walking corpses would be sent to the No-Funeral Village, waiting to be devoured by the 'alchemy furnace', eventually having their essence sucked away to become longevity peaches, and their remains becoming part of the twisted underground passage...

As for the stronger walking corpses, they would be sent to the Undying City along with the coffins and buried in the He family's garden, waiting for the disposal of the Three Immortals...

These speculations made Wu Xian's understanding of this blessed land even deeper.

Next, he should consider how he should act.

"From the words of those paper people, it is known that the Three Immortals will only take action against us at midnight, which means I have to find other companions, find the coffins, find the mourning hall, and also find the burial goods and funerary objects before midnight... There are really quite a few things."

Wu Xian looked to the side.

The woman he had pressed unconscious had quietly woken up and was crawling on the ground, trying to escape from Wu Xian's side.

"Perhaps this woman will be useful."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 325 =====