Imperial City Investigative Department

Wu Chen took the lead in walking up the stairs.

"You still say I'm noisy. Don't you talk as much nonsense yourself?" Xing Yun stood up and followed Wu Chen.

"I'm thinking, I can't hear anything, can they not hear what we say?" Wu Chen said as he walked up the stone steps.

"So what if they heard it? They thought we were going to go up the mountain path. If you plop, they would have to dodge. How could they react so quickly!" Xing Yun said.

"I thought it was the person from Thousand Buddha Temple who wanted to kill me, so he told her about the entrance of the cave. I gave her the mud pills on my body, and scared her that it was a unique secret medicine, but she didn't change her story. I thought she might What I want to see most is for both sides to suffer losses. If I die easily, it will not benefit her. On the contrary, with me here, she may have a chance to get rid of these tribesmen..."

Wu Chen suddenly stopped.

Xing Yun was following Wu Chen. When Wu Chen paused, Xing Yun almost bumped into Wu Chen: "You should stop and say, this... what are these?"

Xing Yun stuck his head out and looked into the air and shouted in surprise.

After Wu Chen walked up the last few steps, the people behind him also came up. Everyone raised their heads and opened their mouths.

This is a huge cave, so big that Wu Chen can't see where the top is now, and he doesn't have time to do it visually. He only sees a dozen coffins suspended in the air in the cave. It's said to be suspended because Wu Chen can't see it with the naked eye. Something was dragging or hanging the coffin.

Each coffin was lit with a blue flame, emitting a faint eerie light, so other people could also see these coffins.

But the light was very weak, and only the coffins could be seen, and the eyes were still dark.

Xing Yun only moved two steps before he almost tripped over. He lowered his head and couldn't see clearly what it was. He squatted down and took a look. He jumped up two meters and landed in front of the stone steps, which was quite clean.

Wu Chen frowned and looked over. There were mummies everywhere on the ground.

Was he killed after finding this place, or was it because of the hanging coffin above?
"You guys stand on the steps and I'll look around."

Wu Chen finished speaking and was about to leave when Xu Da asked: "There is no road in here. If we want to go up, where should we go?"

"He said he should go and have a look, why can't you wait? What can our eyes see?" Xing Yun said anxiously.

Xu Da nodded and said, "Be careful. I think this place is even weirder than the cave in Laojie Mountain."

Xing Yun asked curiously: "That cave in Laojie Mountain also has a coffin?"

"There is no coffin, but there are many ghosts, many people who are about to become ghosts, and... black bugs that can get into people's bodies."

Xing Yun had goosebumps all over his body. He bared his teeth and said, "Wu Chen's errands are all like this... aren't they done by humans? I thought I was here to fight and kill."

Gu You snorted and said:

"If we were just fighting and killing, how could it be Wu Chen's turn? I'm afraid there's no one in the world who can beat him. The only ones who can give him a headache are those who can't breathe."

"Chen Zhong said that ghosts can't do anything originally and need to be controlled by people." Xu Da said.

"Then Wu Chen must have time to investigate." Gu You said.These people were chatting on the steps, and Wu Chen had already flown up to check the situation around the cave.

Wu Chen discovered that there were grooves for climbing and stepping on both sides of the cave, and on both sides of the wall facing each coffin, there was a very thin line pulling the coffin.

Wu Chen was puzzled. How could he keep the coffin hanging in the air with just these two thoughts?
Wu Chen counted carefully. There were twelve coffins in total, divided into three layers, with four coffins on each layer. Each coffin was well-proportioned so that the fine lines were not intertwined.

The thin wire was inserted directly into the mountain and was not wrapped around any nails or iron rods.

Wu Chen wanted to cut off the thin thread to see if the coffin would fall, or slap it through the mountain wall to see why the thin thread seemed to grow out of the mountain.

But Wu Chen knew that he couldn't move now. He really had to touch some mechanism. The rocks were rolling down and they didn't even have a place to hide. The cave under the steps couldn't withstand the collapse here.

Wu Chen touched the mountain and it was cold to the bone.

The last time I had this feeling was under the Liu Residence. There was the Ice Stone there, but what about here?
Wu Chen wanted to look up to see how high the top was. Before he could cross the coffin, a scream came from below, and Wu Chen quickly returned to the steps.

Xu Da and Xing Yun were standing on the outermost side, pointing behind Wu Chen with their mouths wide open. Wu Chen turned around and saw that the mummies lying on the ground were struggling to stand up one by one.

There were only some rags covering the body of the mummy that had not yet rotted. Wu Chen could clearly see that the skin on the mummy was tight, especially on the face. Although there was flesh and skin, it was no different from a skeleton. Their mouths were open, their gums were exposed, and their eyes were like black holes. As if they could see where Wu Chen and the others were, their heads all turned to this side.

Wu Chen subconsciously turned around to block the crowd. In the darkness, the mummy that had stood up was mechanically and slowly walking towards them. The mummy at their feet was also bowing its back. It looked like it would be ready soon. Stand up.

Wu Chen didn't hesitate, raised his foot to pick up the hunched-up corpse in front of him, and threw it at the corpse walking not far away.

Wu Chen's original intention was to clean up the nearby mummies first. He had no experience in dealing with these mummies.

Unexpectedly, this time, I don’t know whether it was because the mummy was completely alarmed by the force, or whether the person controlling the mummy had predicted Wu Chen’s intention. In short, although this kick achieved Wu Chen’s purpose, the mummy flew out and hit him until he was already standing up. Several mummies fell apart immediately, but at the same time, other mummies seemed to be angry and stood up much faster.

Starting a fight in a cave would be detrimental to Wu Chen. He did not dare to use all his strength for fear of damaging the mountain, but if he held back his strength, he would not be able to resolve the battle quickly.

Wu Chen waved his palms from side to side, first knocking down the mummies in front of him, and then took a step forward to knock down the next group. He thought this would be a protracted battle, and by the time he knocked down all the mummies in the cave, he would probably be almost exhausted.

Unexpectedly, he had just taken a few steps forward when Xing Yun's gnashing of teeth came from behind: "You can't even die?!"

Gu You also consoled him: "They were meant to be dead."

Wu Chen looked back and saw that among the mummified corpses that had been knocked down by him and whose limbs were in pieces, several more stood up, walking lamely and with broken arms towards the people on the steps.

Wu Chen wanted to turn around and deal with it, but the mummy in front of him had already reached out and grabbed him...

"I think they just look scary, and they don't have any skills. They are far worse than those with hair! You hide, I will go meet them!"

After saying this, Xing Yun rushed up and slashed at the one-legged mummy with his sword. (End of chapter)