Although the little apprentice sister is weak, she can fight

Bang! Bang—

The wooden man chopped down the last blow of the axe with all his might, and finally a black hole was carved out in the iron door in front of him, big enough for one person to pass through.

"We're already at the third door." Ning Boyan took the axe back from the wooden figure. "Are we heading downwards? Is it really okay to just break through the door like this?"

"There's no other way. We've tried the circle of stone walls that fell off before, and only that one part can be moved." Gu Xu helped Ning Boyan replace a severely worn part of the wooden figure and reassemble it.

"That waiter disappeared after we fell in. He must have been swept away by the undercurrent at the bottom of the pool. The underwater situation is unknown, so we can only go this way."

Fortunately, this passage is quite spacious and has air flow, which means it is not a dead end.

"Look at these walls." Luo Dai suddenly reminded.

Li Yue raised his hand and felt the marks on the wall. "They look like scratches from human fingernails."

This reminder made Su Tingyu, who was holding a torch, move the fire closer to the wall.

As the firelight shone, the group of people all gasped involuntarily.

All I saw were messy scratches on the surrounding walls, some of which were so deep that they left some black, unidentified blocks.

Du Shuangjiang, who was a little shorter, couldn't see the wall above, so he could only lower his head. As a result, he found many thin, flake-like objects in the corner of the wall.

"What is this?" He said as he gathered a little spiritual power to illuminate it. He was shocked at the first sight. "This is... human fingernails? How can there be so many?"

"Fingernails? Let me see." Shang Mian squatted down and saw that the concave cracks in the corner of the wall were almost full of broken nails.

Zhang Zhi at the end of the team lowered his torch after hearing the voice.

"It's in the cracks on both sides, as if it had been swept to both sides."

The passage is designed to be high in the middle and low on both sides, and is paved with stone slabs all around. It looks like it was obviously specially carved out.

While several people here were discussing the nail issue, Zhu Yu, who had stepped through the iron gate to explore the way ahead, stood in this new space, rubbed a cluster of flames with his fingers and looked around.

Ever since entering this passage, the group has smelled a foul odor, and now that the door has been broken open, the odor is even more obvious.

He couldn't help but cover his mouth and nose and continued to walk forward a few more steps. As a result, when he walked about ten meters, he was suddenly blocked by something on the ground.

"...?"

He shone the flame downwards, and his face turned dark when he saw what was blocking the way.

Li Yue, who was standing at the door and hadn't entered yet, saw the flame move forward and then stop. Guessing that he must have discovered something, he asked, "What's wrong?"

"...body parts." Zhu Yu always spoke briefly and without any obvious emotion, but Li Yue could hear some forbearance in his words.

"Corpse?"

Li Yue simply stepped in through the hole. When he walked about ten steps to where Zhu Yu was standing, he took a look, only to turn his head away with a dry heave.

"I'm sorry for that." She covered her mouth and patted Zhu Yu, who had been motionless for a long time, sympathetically, and reminded the people outside, "Everyone, don't worry about that little thing on the wall. There's a more complete one here."

After hearing this, a group of people immediately walked over one by one, and after seeing what was happening, they all had the same solemn expression.

There were many more human remains in this corridor than in the previous ones. If they were ordinary bones or mummies, it would be fine, but these had already begun to rot. This one looked like a human arm, with some muscles on both sides of the broken end, as if it had been torn off by external force. The outer layer of skin was white and slightly swollen. If Zhu Yu had stepped on it directly, the scene would have been even more "tragic".

And the rotten smell that I had been smelling before started to become stronger from here.

"The environment here is humid, and considering the current temperature, it won't last more than a week." Shang Mian suppressed the urge to vomit and squatted down to take another closer look.

"But... I always feel like there's a very faint medicinal smell. If it's been soaked in a specific potion, then the time is another matter."

Looking at the scattered remains in front of him, Gu Xu's expression was solemn. "Keep going. I want to see what other eye-opening things can appear in the land of Xiyuan."

......

"What a powerful preservation technique. Also, the workmanship of this coffin is very exquisite, the pinnacle of Xiyuan craftsmanship." Shen Qiao couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the corpse in the wooden coffin.

"And it's a coffin made of fragrant wood." Mu Jiu was also a little surprised. "Fragrant wood is usually used as a medicinal material. This is the first time I've seen it used to make a coffin. Maybe this fragrant wood has other benefits that are not fully recorded."

Zhang Qiyan, who was hiding far away, looked at the two people praising the coffin and said, "Is this the point? The person inside still has his eyes open! He died with his eyes open, is he trying to come back to life?"

Shen Qiao fixed his gaze on the face of the person in the coffin.

This is a young man. There must be some way to keep his body from decaying. The man's face looks like that of a living person, with natural skin color and handsome features. He is probably in his early twenties.

"Judging from his clothes, he seems to be of high status." Shen Qiao searched the information he had read before in his mind thoughtfully.

"Due to limited conditions in Xiyuan, it was difficult to dye colorful fabrics. Therefore, the more different colored fabrics a person used in his clothes and the more embroidery patterns he had, the more noble he was."

She looked at the clothes on the corpse and asked, "Perhaps... this person is from the ruling class?"

This statement succeeded in making Zhang Qiyan take a few steps closer and take a look, but he didn't dare to look at the corpse's face again. "Don't tell me, don't tell me, there's not even a rotten smell on him. There's even a floral scent. It seems that only the ruling class you mentioned has these sentiments."

"The scent of flowers?" Mu Jiu looked at Shen Qiao in confusion. It was obvious that neither of them smelled the scent of flowers that Zhang Qiyan mentioned.

"Huh? Didn't you smell it? It's... that flower with a very obvious smell, like... jasmine?" Zhang Qiyan couldn't help but sniff it a few more times as he spoke, but soon he sneezed because of the choking.

She rubbed her nose and raised her head again, only to see Shen Mu and the other man looking at her with serious expressions, no, behind her.

"...The look in your eyes makes me feel like something is going to happen in the next second."

"Just walk over here slowly." Mu Jiu said slowly, "Don't look back."

Zhang Qiyan has always known the principle of "listen to advice and have a full meal", so when Mu Jiu spoke, she ran towards the two of them without saying a word, and only dared to turn around and look over after standing with Shen Qiao.

Then the whole person was stunned.

"Oh my goodness...what a huge face!"