Chapter 437: Terrifying Illusion

Gold!

Again, gold!

All the statues on both sides are mostly made of gold.

If you look closely, you'll find the statues' surfaces are polished smoother.

At first, if someone entered and shone a light, the whole cave would certainly be glittering gold.

The ground slopes downward; the further you go, the lower the terrain.

After walking a few more meters, a corpse appeared on the ground.

It was not an ordinary corpse.

Even Liu Erwa could tell the age of these corpses.

"Brother Feng, Professor Qi, this is a foreigner, probably from several decades ago?"

Liu Erwa squatted in front of a corpse, scratching their head and said.

This is a desiccated corpse leaning against the stone wall with its head tilted to one side.

Wearing a leather jacket, carrying a Backpack, and with a pistol holstered on the belt.

The right hand grips a rusted Left Revolver, the left hand holds an iron tube, clearly a flashlight about to rust away.

Lin Feng glanced and guessed it was someone from over seventy years ago.

The desiccated corpse's mouth is wide open, its face looking somewhat ferocious.

After Qi Yao leaned in for a closer look, she analyzed: "When this person died, they must have been extremely frightened, as can be seen from the facial muscles..."

Besides this corpse, further ahead there are another four corpses.

All are desiccated corpses: two foreigners, two herders in attire, but without exception they all appear to have been frightened to death.

Lin Feng, puzzled, asked Qi Yao: "The environment here is rather humid; there shouldn't be conditions for forming desiccated corpses, right?"

As soon as the words fell, Liu Erwa's teeth started chattering: "Could it be, could it be a... Zombie!"

Qi Yao glanced around.

Then she walked up to a wall and examined it carefully.

Next, she picked up a Scalpel and scraped the wall a few times.

A metallic scraping sound rang out.

Qi Yao calmly said: "This place often has thunder, or rather, this area has a magnetic field that attracts lightning; I've encountered a case like this."

Lin Feng curiously said: "Tell me!"

Qi Yao said: "In a remote mountain village, during a road construction that required relocating graves, they needed to move all the graves on a Hillside. When the villagers dug up their family graves, they found that relatives who had been dead for years looked as if they had just been buried."

Later investigation revealed that whenever thunder struck this Hillside, many bolts of lightning would hit the hilltops nearby, within a few tens of meters.

The rotting of corpses is actually a process of microbial decomposition; if an electric current kills all the microbes, the corpse will not rot. Using electrical energy to kill bacteria is a non-thermal sterilization technique...

Lin Feng nodded.

Qi Yao's explanation makes sense.

He also discovered this space because of the thunder.

"So that's how it is! I've learned something again!"

Liu Erwa let out another sigh.

Qi Yao again said: "Don't underestimate the ancients; although they didn't understand the principle of electricity, they were very skilled at using natural forces to create miracles."

"But..."

Lin Feng frowned and asked: "These people were frightened to death; what could have frightened them?"

Qi Yao calmly said: "Just keep walking ahead and you'll find out."

Lin Feng turned his head to glance at Qi Yao.

When it comes to professional matters, Qi Yao tends to talk more than usual.

This is related to her profession.

When encountering a case, one must always explain things to the police, right?

Gradually, this became a habit.

At this moment, Qi Yao seemed like she was solving a case.

In Qi Yao's eyes, the ancient mechanisms are full of flaws everywhere.

If not a mechanism, from a superstitious standpoint, the House Guarding Divine Beast with its fiery eyes and golden pupils would have scared away all the evil spirits in this cave.

Actually, Lin Feng would rather believe the latter.

Some things simply cannot be explained by science.

Last night when we came here, and tonight, the feelings are completely different.

Last night this place was gloomy; even though Liu Erwa was brave, they still got scared like that.

When going up, the rope suddenly snapped; the break looked like it had snapped apart.

But Lin Feng's vision is better than average; it was clearly something that had severed it.

And now?

There's not the slightest feeling of gloom.

Lin Feng felt that Qi Yao was emanating a strong light.

It is a miraculous energy formed by the combination of science and strong self-confidence.

Who knows if this has anything to do with quantum mechanics?

For example, the famous double-slit interference experiment!

Qi Yao is undoubtedly that observer.

He walked forward another few dozen meters.

Suddenly, Lin Feng felt a momentary dazedness.

The scene before his eyes changed dramatically.

Qi Yao had vanished, and Liu Erwa, who had been following behind him, was also gone.

Then Lin Feng found himself lying on a hospital bed.

This ward was all too familiar to him.

Wasn't this the ward he had stayed in before he died in his previous life?

A middle-aged doctor approached Lin Feng and asked, "Mr. Lin, how do you feel now?"

Lin Feng said, "I'm not dead, am I?"

The doctor said, "You were just asleep a moment ago, Mr. Lin; you don't have much time left..."

A wave of fear washed over Lin Feng's heart.

It turned out that the whole time-travel experience was just a dream!

Huh? Not right!

Suddenly, a flood of memory fragments surged into Lin Feng's mind.

All the memories appeared as clear movie scenes in his mind.

The fear disappeared instantly.

Everything before his eyes was the illusion.

His brain from his previous life certainly did not have such powerful memory ability.

The only thing Lin Feng feared was that all of this was a dream.

Oh no!

"Yao Yao..."

Lin Feng was greatly startled.

Then he came to his senses, and the scene before his eyes shifted back to the cave.

Beside him, Liu Erwa's face turned pale, his eyes widened, and he looked terrified.

Lin Feng raised his hand and tapped Liu Erwa on the back of the neck, causing him to pass out.

He then looked at Qi Yao.

Her eyes also widened.

However, her face showed no fear, only curiosity.

She gazed curiously at Lin Feng.

"What are you guys doing?"

Qi Yao asked.

Lin Feng sighed, "There's something wrong here; it seems something is able to affect our brains and cause hallucinations."