Book 3: Chapter 56

Book 3: Chapter 56

This didnt make any sense.

My brain couldnt comprehend what was going on but my hand was still holding the lighter up to the group of children.

Other than drooling, they didnt move at all, but their faces were all dark and ashen and they were clearly looking at me with ill intentions.

I had been so confused ever since I set foot on this grassland. Over the past few decades, I had encountered many strange things, but they had never been as strange as what I was seeing now.

I had also encountered paranormal situations, but most of the monsters didn't harass us like this. The final outcome was ambiguous and I couldnt tell what was going on, but at this time, I was definitely certain that these children werent in the food box just now. If they werent ghosts, then what were they?

I suddenly thought of the Wanshi Meat wrapped in those sackcloth bags. They had all been in the shape of children, so was it possible that these children were made into dishes, their souls were trapped in this box, and now they had manifested?

I stared at the kids as they stared right back at me. Did Poker-Face know what Id face when he locked me in here? I asked myself. Lets just focus on figuring out whether its more dangerous inside or outside this food box. But when I looked carefully, I found that something was wrong.

The childrens drool turned out to be coffin liquid. It was hard to see clearly with the lighters dim light, but I plucked up the courage to look closer and then heaved a sigh of relief.

These children were actually stone statues hanging down from the coffin lid. As it turned out, a group of these statues had been carved on the underside of the coffin lid. The childrens heads were on the coffin lid, so when it was closed, their feet would press down on the Wanshi Meat below.

It almost looked like a bunch of children sitting on a pile of meat. These children might have been carved from stone, but they were wearing clothes and appeared so lifelike that it was really scary.

It was a very simple line with very small Chinese characters engraved on it.

Ignoring the stench, I used my fingers to try and clean the words off.

I won't talk about ancient Chinese here, but Ill tell you what the meaning of these words was. It was very clear and simple: I was captured and ordered to build this place. There are terrible secrets here. Anyone who comes here must take the secrets out.

The rest was cut off, so I immediately went to see where the second child's eyes were looking at. I found another lime-covered coffin wall and scraped it clean, revealing the next paragraph of text.

All the places where this craftsman had recorded information were in the exact same spots where the statues were looking. So, as long as the statues looked different, that meant that this person had designed them. Plus, there was information hidden in their eyes.

I followed them one by one and counted six paragraphs in total, with four paragraphs like this.

The third paragraph said: There is a thing buried here that can't be disclosed. I don't know what it is but it doesn't feel like a human being. Before it was buried, it still lived for a while. It just couldn't move. After the corpse was buried, it affected the atmosphere of this place and strange things started to happen.

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I don't know about you guys, but this was basically my face watching the first 2 episodes of Heavenly Palace:

The guy playing Poker-Face looks like he's about to burst into tears any second. I think he's trying to go for indifferent but he just looks like a kicked puppy (poor guy). And he's like weirdly chatty? Wu Xie's being a dick to Fatty for some reason and I just don't understand what's going on. Honestly, Fatty's actor is the only thing motivating me to keep going because the script writing sure as hell isn't lol. Hope you all enjoy it more than I am so far~~