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"What is this?" Huang Kun asked. However, no one replied him. He saw that Shen Dexu's forehead was drenched in sweat and his face was pale.

"Bah!" Xu Yunfeng spat twice, "I thought it was some good stuff, but it's really f * * king unlucky, the more I busy myself the more chaotic it is."

Shen Dexu told his subordinates, "Immediately contact the cow farm in the suburbs and get a cow here."

One of his men started to make a phone call. The signal was bad, and even after a few words, the other party couldn't hear him. He was about to go to the door and call.

"You can't leave!" Shen Dexu appeared to be extremely nervous, "Everyone stay put and wait."

The man on the other side of the phone quickly backed away, but the signal was much better. He said into the phone, "I need a cow from your dairy company. Come to No.15 on Victory Road, someone will contact you. "Don't ask me what company I am from. Someone will explain it to you. Yes, we will buy it. We will buy it no matter how much it costs!"

"Are you done speaking!?" Shen Dexu released his aura and shouted to his men, "There's no time to waste with them. Call the deputy mayor of the light industry and tell him my name. "

His subordinate immediately followed his instructions, "Hello mayor, I'm Shen Dexu, an assistant of the Water Department's Gao Gong."

Shen Dexu indicated for everyone to not walk around carelessly. He waited for Wang to finish his call. He then said to everyone, "Everyone, control your breathing, sit down slowly, and sit cross-legged. "Okay, okay, that's it. Don't move."

Under Shen Dexu's command, everyone sat cross-legged on the ground. Silence reigned in the warehouse. After this silence, everyone understood why Shen Dexu was so nervous.

There was a sound in the air that could not be heard in the environment just now. However, no one said anything and the voice came out.

A man was crying. Moreover, there was a word for this cry. It was only a crying word, and no one could understand it. The man's throat sounded hoarse, but he was still doing his best to cry. He didn't stop and kept crying out word by word.

Huang Kun only understood one word, "— — wuu.

After all, he was a university student, so knowing this word was an infuriating aid to ancient Chu language writing. At the end of every sentence, it would end with "xi".

Xu Yunfeng and Shen Dexu leaned in and looked at each other, biting their lips tightly.

The voice lasted for more than ten minutes before it ended. Xu Yunfeng heaved a sigh of relief and said to Shen Dexu, "A witch."

"That's right." Shen Dexu said, "I never thought that there would actually be such a thing."

"Bastard understands." Xu Yunfeng said, "Unfortunately, he's not here."

"My leader is Sun." Shen Dexu looked at Xu Yunfeng, and seeing that he did not have any violent reactions, he continued, "I've been searching for a long time in the Three Gorges generation, I never thought that this thing would float downstream."

"More than two thousand years," Xu Yunfeng said. "This distance is normal."

"Can you tell me what it is?" Huang Kun interrupted their conversation.

Shen Dexu took the initiative to answer Huang Kun, "The Chu State believes in magic, so there are many Magi who are hanger-ons for the nobility. "Ordinary Magi are fine, but if they are capable Magi who have offended nobles, they will be executed in an extremely cruel manner."

"For example, I put it in the coffin of the poplar tree and it's sinking into the Yangtze River." Huang Kun asked.

As magicians have a high status, their funerals are to be buried in wood. is to put it in the trunk of the tree. " Shen Dexu said, "Even a Magus who had committed a grave mistake would have to undergo such treatment. However, sinking into the river after burial is also a part of the punishment, and it's to prevent a mage's soul from exceeding the limit on the bayou tree.

"The most vicious thing isn't Chenjiang." Xu Yunfeng opened his mouth, "It's the turtles and the silk inside."

Shen Dexu and Xu Yunfeng slowly narrated until Huang Kun finally had a general understanding of the corpse's origins:

This Magus must have a very high status, but was sentenced to death by a noble with a Chu State. As for what crime they had committed, no one knew. All he knew was that this criminal law was extremely terrifying and extremely inhumane.

First of all, he had to control the wizard so that he could not cast any spells. He then found a bubble tree, cut it open, and placed the Magus inside. Before putting it in, he bound the Magus' body tightly with the golden silk threads. This kind of golden silk was a special product of the Chu State, it just could not rot. Moreover, it could not struggle, the more it struggled, the more the golden silk shrunk and the tighter it was bound. The purpose of the gold foil was not to suffocate a Magus, because when the gold foil was affixed, the Magus' nose would be left open so that he could breathe.

The use of gold foil is to keep the tortoise away, because the tortoise is afraid of gold foil. This protected the wizard's brain.

It was obviously a death penalty, so why did they need to protect the head of the Magi? This was the cruellness of the criminal law, because they did not want the Magi to die too quickly.

But how long do they want the wizards to live, at least a hundred years? In the ancient times, the Paulownia Tree was a divine tree. This was also the reason why magicians used it after death, because it could maintain a mage's life. Of course, this was also related to the fact that the metabolism of the human body would greatly decrease under the closed environment.

Now, the key factor was the turtle.

This kind of turtle, as the staff had said earlier, could live for at least a few hundred years. Based on the situation before them, it appeared to be true. And the tortoise is a predator. Carnivore must eat. It was one thing to eat the food, but the key point was that the eating speed of these turtles was very slow. They could only eat food once a year.

This is why eighty-one turtles were let in. When Huang Kun heard this, his hair stood on end.

The matter was already clear.

Because the Magus in this coffin had committed a very serious crime, he bound his body to it with golden silk and placed it in a paulownia coffin that could extend his life. His face was plastered with gold foil that could drive away turtles. Then, they put in eighty-one turtles.

In the end, he sealed the tree and sank into the river bottom. Most likely, he had used a metal chain to wrap around the tree. The marks of the chain could now be seen on the dark, potholed surface of the wood.

Afterwards, the Magus who was unable to move was sealed within the narrow coffin. However, he could not die. Because he was tied up by the golden silk threads, he could not move. After that was a long wait. Many years later, he would die. There was no way a Magus would starve to death or suffocate to death.

After a few months, the turtle inside was hungry and wanted to eat. What was there to eat? It was, of course, a Magus' flesh. But the wizard has gold foil on his head, so the tortoise doesn't eat the wizard's head. It was obvious that after eating the head of a Magus, the Magus had immediately died. However, if one ate a Magus' body, the Magus would not die.

What kind of criminal law could make a prisoner feel their body being slowly eaten in the dark was more terrifying and cruel?

What's more cruel is that turtles eat very little, so the process is very long. As for the Magus that was eaten, it seemed like he had cast a spell. As long as his brain was not eaten, he would be able to survive and experience this pain.

This process had lasted for at least a few hundred years. Because the turtle's lifespan was this long, if the turtle didn't die, he would slowly eat the Magus' flesh.

Until the Magus' brain was all that was left, and from the looks of it, even if the Magus' head was all that was left, he had not died, and could still feel pain. However, it seemed that something unexpected had happened.

This accident was when the Magus' arm had broken free of the golden silk threads. It should be his right arm.

This was a spell.

By the time this Magus, who retained the utmost hatred, broke free, his body should have been devoured by the tortoise for hundreds of years, and the torture he suffered lasted for hundreds of years as well. It was hopeless, but it would not die.

So what could he do?

Inside the coffin, where he could reach it, he drew his incantation, the most vicious incantation. Therefore, once this spell was discovered, it would have extremely terrifying consequences!

Then the tortoise ate his body, including the arm he used to draw the spell. Then there was only the head. Then the turtles ate each other. Therefore, when they opened the coffin now, they only saw the remains of the turtle. And a skeleton.

"So," Shen Dexu finally said, "if, what I'm saying is if, there should be a surviving turtle in this coffin, if that turtle can live for two thousand years."

"That's also possible," Xu Yunfeng added on an even more terrifying guess, "What if that head isn't dead yet?"

Huang Kun's heart suddenly tightened, that man's wailing voice came out again. No one in the warehouse dared to make a sound. They could clearly hear the faint sounds of chanting. Only Xu Yunfeng's expression was different. He closed his eyes and frowned deeply. Huang Kun realized that he was trying his best to understand every word.

The voice finally stopped and everyone heaved a sigh of relief. Shen Dexu looked at his watch and said to Xu Yunfeng: "This time, the voice will continue for a long time. It will last for three minutes."

Xu Yunfeng nodded, he touched his forehead, and saw that his forehead was covered in perspiration.

"I can understand what he's singing." Xu Yunfeng laughed bitterly, "Wang Ba is right, I can't avoid it."

Shen Dexu asked: "What exactly do you mean by the lyrics you heard?"

Huang Kun and Shen Dexu asked at the same time, but the question they asked was actually: "Have you heard of this before?"

"I am different from others. I can not only hear, but also see things that are not normally seen." Xu Yunfeng squinted his eyes and slowly started to speak.

"In 1998, there was a security guard at a shopping mall in Three Gorges. At that time, a very strange thing happened at Wangjia Village in Three Gorges. Everyone knew that there was a ghost incident in the Three Gorges region …"