Book 3: Chapter 75: Dragon Vein Swallows the Corpse

Book 3: Chapter 75: Dragon Vein Swallows the Corpse

The atmosphere was very solemn as I pinched my brow and tried to recall everything. Even though it wasnt that long ago, the memory was a little fuzzy. I couldnt help but wonder if my memory was deteriorating.

In fact, the whole process could be divided into three stages. In the first stage, we realized that this incident was a simple rescue mission. Not only was Jin Wantang's goal very big and dangerous this time, but Poker-Face thought that it might involve the Zhang familys restricted area. So, we started a rescue mission.

The end of the first stage was in that small grove where we found that a bunch of people in Jin Wantang's team had died. But the way they had died was very strange. It seemed as if they had arrived at this small grove alive, buried themselves alive, and then died. But after they died, their bodies changed.

This mutation was very strange since they all sat around in a circle at a so-called banquet and used the wine cups and tableware they had brought out from this Corpse Country banquet. Then, the host of this banquet turned out to be a ceramic figurine.

In other words, this whole scene seemed to indicate that these people were controlled by the ceramic figurine after they died. It was almost like they were continuing the banquet.

Moreover, there was a strange stone in these corpses stomachs that was called Shigongs mole.

I already knew that this stones function was to absorb the scent of human flesh since such a scent was usually very weak. And once the smell of human flesh was absorbed into this stone, it would then become highly concentrated.

Based on this, I also knew that I had a very fragrant scent, but I didnt know if I should feel happy about it.

That small grove was also the first time I saw something that seemed to have either fins or two faces on the side of its head. But I was the only one who could see it.

What I could basically infer from this first stage was that the moving corpses and ceramic figurine were the work of a kind of strange figure that only I could see with my peripheral vision.

At this point, things were actually very simple. In other words, these invisible thingsI didnt know what they were, so let's just call them ghosts for the time beingliked playing with corpses and ceramic figurines and setting them up like they were enjoying a banquet. If we take that theory one step further, it was possible to believe that when these corpses entered the grove and buried themselves alive, they were already possessed.

This theory had no basis, but it could help fill in a big gap and enable us to simulate what had happened during that period of time.

First of all, we didn't see the peripheral vision monsters in the Corpse Country banquets underground palace.

But on the night we discovered the horse burial pit, we saw them driving things that appeared to be horse spirits. So, that kind of monster should exist on the grassland, especially in the area between the small grove and the Sea of Black Lights.

This brings up a very interesting idea.

When Old Bing and his team came out of the Corpse Country banquet with the things they had stolen and passed through the grassland, they were discovered by the monsters on the grassland. These monsters took control of them, ordered them to come to the grove, and then made them bury themselves aliveor at least go underground.

Maybe they manifested differently in different places, just like in Journey to the West. In the novel, ghosts were invisible, but you could see them clearly when you reached the underworld.

Although I still didnt know what these things were, I suddenly had a long-lost feeling of empowerment. So, do they transport the corpses back to protect the funerary objects?

No, that cant be it. I rubbed my face and then stated my conclusion, "Fatty, the worlds second most valuable tomb is a cover. All the grave robbers who come to steal will be killed in the end and then theyll be transported back by these things through the underground passage. But did you see the bodies? No, we didn't see the bodies here at all. So where exactly did those bodies go?"

"Where do you think they went?" Fatty asked me.

"They went to feed the dragon vein, I said. In other words, the Five Mountain Dragon Gods use corpses to create dragon veins. They attract grave robbers here and then feed them to the dragon veins. Thats the overall situation."

"But werent there some burnt ones outside?"

"Those are people who know whats going on. They don't want their bodies to be fed to the dragon vein so they burn themselves," I said.

Fatty looked at me, "Are you serious?"

"Yes."

"Then let me tell you a little bug in your theory, see if you can circle back around." Fatty spit. "If the bodies are transported back, then why was Jin Wantang able to dig up Guotang Fengs body? Did they forget to deliver the food that time?"

After thinking about it, I remembered one of my earliest doubts.

I felt that Jin Wantangs story was all nonsense, but I didnt think that he was someone who could set up such a scheme. So, he probably wasnt the one who came up with this idea.

There had to be another person who created this story and used Jin Wantang to attract so many people to the grassland to feed this dragon vein. But for what purpose?

If this dragon vein matured, what would happen?

I looked at Poker-Face and found that he still hadnt moved. At this time, I suddenly felt cold all over. Xiao Hua wouldn't let Poker-Face enter the worlds second most valuable tomb and this was the Zhang familys forbidden area. What would happen if Poker-Face died inside and was fed to this dragon vein?

Was this all a scheme to kill those in the Zhang family, or was it just a case of the Zhang family making up for a deficient and the dragon vein would change as soon as they entered?

Also, who was behind this? Was my reasoning even correct?