Chapter 535: A Funeral Procession of a Thousand Eerie Figures! Terror in Absolute Darkness!

The scene Ban Jie Li saw also startled the audience listening to the story inside the New Moon Restaurant.

Many malformed infants whose legs hadn't developed properly, and whose faces were terrifyingly hideous?

For so many people with such problems to appear, there was only one possible explanation.

This clan had been practicing large-scale, long-term intermarriage between close relatives!

But Ban Jie Li saw at least a hundred people gathering from all directions.

A tribe of malformed infants of such numbers would have caused a huge stir even in those days.

Yet the people here lived in perfect tranquility.

Once again, the audience began to question the identity of this group of forty-two.

"The people coming from all four directions were singing a strange tune, and Ban Jie Li could tell it was in the Borjigin language."

"Not only that, the content of the lyrics sounded familiar to him!"

"After listening carefully for a long while, Ban Jie Li finally realized that what these people were singing was exactly the same as what Chalegai had sung back then."

"The lyrics said: Genghis Khan's great army has come, they are going to the Land of Eternal Life, and everyone who blocks them must die."

"Now hearing this song sung by this group gave Ban Jie Li a completely different feeling."

"The crowds gathering from all directions, singing this strange tune, really looked like soldiers on the march!"

"Listening to them sing this song made Ban Jie Li feel strength surging through his whole body, full of fighting spirit."

"He grew increasingly certain this must have been a rallying cry used by Genghis Khan's army back then to boost morale!"

"Moreover, the tune this group sang was completely different from Chalegai's. When Ban Jie Li had heard Chalegai sing it before, it had felt like a unique exotic flavor."

"Now with the comparison, Chalegai's tune was instantly outshone, like a counterfeit meeting the genuine article."

"Ban Jie Li continued walking forward with the procession; he had no idea where he was heading or what would happen."

"Soon, he noticed that although there were many people in the darkness, those moving forward were perfectly orderly, not chaotic at all, and they advanced in formation."

"Several times he was shoved out of the ranks, clearly because they had a way of telling he wasn't one of them!"

"Because of this, Ban Jie Li grew more and more frightened as he walked. He deliberately fell behind a little, and whenever someone coming up from behind shouted at him, he learned to answer back, and only then was he not discovered."

"But as Ban Jie Li walked, he kept looking up at the sky, and then realized that after all this time it was still completely dark, not a single star to be seen—how could this place be so utterly black?"

Ban Jie Li's repeated doubts also left the audience puzzled along with him.

The audience had originally assumed this place was the tomb chamber excavated beneath that high ground.

After Ban Jie Li was drowned, by a stroke of luck he had entered the central area of the tomb chamber.

But now it seemed things were far from that simple.

The distance from the tomb ceiling to the ground beneath the high ground was only a few meters; the tomb chamber was not buried deep.

Yet Forty-Two had told Ban Jie Li that the Sea Curtain was a wall of water hundreds of meters tall!

Not only that, the Sea Curtain could even contain an entire Sea God Palace!

If this place were the ancient tomb beneath the high ground, it simply wouldn't make any sense.