Tomb raiding: It all started with shocking the archaeological team.

The interior of the entire Corpse Tower is octagonal in shape and its area is at least half the size of a football field.

As soon as he stepped inside, even though he was wearing a rosin mask, Chen Yibai could clearly smell a fishy odor.

It's not a fishy or foul smell, but simply a fishy smell, similar to the smell of fish.

In addition, the ground of the entire corpse tower was covered with a semi-transparent slime that felt sticky underfoot. Chen Yibai's first thought was that it was the secretion of some kind of substance, and the fishy smell in the air must have come from this semi-transparent slime.

Looking around again, there were many black mummies lying haphazardly in the corpse tower, some piled up, all with expressions of pain, limbs twisted in extreme contortions, and chests thrust upwards, as if they had experienced some great suffering before their deaths, and their bodies were also covered with a lot of slime.

However, Chen Yibai noticed a common detail among these mummies: they were all female.

Don't ask how they determined they were all women, because none of them were wearing clothes, and their abdomens had been ripped open.

"A monkey!"

Chen Yibai immediately remembered that among the seventeen murals in the passageway, the first one depicted the Gu clan launching its first war against neighboring tribes, using all the captured women as tools to reproduce Gu monkeys.

And this happens to be the first level of the Corpse Tower.

This makes perfect sense; all the mummies here died after giving birth to the monkeys.

Perhaps all those monkeys were born here back then!

But what is this translucent, pungent-smelling slime underfoot?

Just as Chen Yibai was wondering what was going on, a strange "cooing" sound suddenly came from above, like something squeaking in a pinched throat.

And they were very close, the echoes still reverberating within the corpse tower.

The dozens of people in the Heavenly Dry Group were already feeling a bit scared looking at the mummies inside the Corpse Tower, but when they suddenly heard the strange noise above them, they were all so frightened that their hair stood on end and they instinctively looked up.

The first level of this corpse tower was estimated to be over three meters high. The top was like an empty honeycomb, only not as dense. It was full of holes more than half a meter in diameter, and some of the holes were dripping with translucent slime. Obviously, the slime on the ground was flowing down from these holes.

Because Chen Yibai reacted the fastest by looking up, he suddenly saw a pair of scarlet eyes hidden in the hole the instant he looked up. The eyes seemed to be carrying a wicked smile, and then with a 'whoosh', they quickly disappeared.

Something is hidden in the holes on it!

"What's going on inside? What's that sound?"

At this moment, the few 'old silver coins' at the entrance of the Corpse Tower seemed to have also heard the commotion inside, and Guan Yunlong asked loudly.

It seems that even so-called 'experts' can be sneaky when the situation is unclear.

"President, we only heard strange noises, but we didn't see anything..."

Someone quickly responded.

After another few dozen seconds, Guan Yunlong, Yan Xuefei, and Wu Daoshan's group cautiously walked in.

The first thing the three of them did upon entering was to warily look up at the ceiling.

The pair of scarlet eyes with a sinister smile that Chen Yibai had just seen only appeared for a fleeting moment and then disappeared.

At the same time, the shouting stopped, and the atmosphere at the scene became eerie, as if the shout had just been a polite greeting to everyone.

"President Guan, what are all these things?"

Yan Xuefei looked down at the slime under her feet and the pile of dried corpses, and frowned, feeling nauseous, as she asked.

Guan Yunlong also frowned and turned to look at Wu Daoshan beside him.

Guan Yunlong is a descendant of the Xieling lineage. Most of the Xieling lineage members are brutes. Before the Republic of China, nine and a half out of ten were illiterate. Therefore, the descendants of Xieling only know about blasting and do not understand feng shui. Their knowledge of ancient tombs is also only superficial.

Wu Daoshan is a descendant of the tomb raiders, sharing the same lineage as the tomb raiders. He is well-versed in both ancient and modern knowledge and possesses extensive expertise.

However, Wu Daoshan was also deflated when faced with this place. He frowned and shook his head, while thinking to himself, "Why are you looking at me? If you ask me, take the gold and go up. You don't know anything, why did you have to come in? You're really out of your mind!"

Even Wu Daoshan was starting to regret it. If he had known it would turn out like this, he would have made up an excuse not to come.

"President Guan, there are no stairs here, how are we supposed to get up?"

Then Yan Xuefei frowned and asked another question.

Guan Yunlong turned his head again, silently throwing the question to Wu Daoshan.

Wu Daoshan almost couldn't hold back: "Don't look at me, everyone. I'm not an expert. If you don't know anything, why did you insist on coming in? Should I call Captain Chen now and ask him to help explain things to you?"

Captain Chen, who was standing nearby, said he didn't understand it either.

It's normal not to understand the situation here, but Chen Yibai found it quite funny to see the three of them looking completely bewildered from afar.

"Cuckoo..."

Just as everyone was wondering what to do, the same voice suddenly came again.

Chen Yibai wasn't sure if it was because there were too many holes on the top of his head that the sound was being transmitted through a deceptive sound, but he always felt that the sound was coming from right above him.

But when he looked up suddenly, he saw out of the corner of his eye that a thick, white arm suddenly stretched out from the hole above his head, more than ten meters away. The black hand was as big as a fan and grabbed the head of a member of the Tianqian Group, pulling him up like a spring up from dry land.

That white arm was more accurately described as being covered in white hair, and it moved incredibly fast.

"Small……"

Guan Yunlong roared, but before he could utter the word 'heart,' the unfortunate Tianqian group member was also caught off guard and dragged into the black hole above his head.

Then came extremely miserable screams of pain coming from the holes, like heart-wrenching cries, coming down from every hole above.

Although we can't see what's happening inside, just hearing those screams makes it seem like an unbearable tragedy.

Is this a random selection of a lucky person?

Hearing the continuous screams coming from above, everyone's hearts were pounding in their throats. Holding their wolf-eye flashlights, they shone them into the black hole above, not daring to blink, for fear that the arm might suddenly stick out from some other hole.

How do we solve this?

"Miss Yan, let's retreat quickly! This seems beyond our capabilities!"

Wu Daoshan finally couldn't hold back any longer and shouted loudly at Yan Xuefei.

"Shut up! Chairman Guan, I'll tell you the truth. This is the tomb of a Gu King, holding the secret to immortality through Gu magic. It's definitely at the very top of this tower. You have to find a way to get up there no matter what..."

Seeing the situation, Yan Xuefei finally revealed her little secret.

Otherwise, I'm really afraid Guan Yunlong might quit at this point...