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Chapter 442 Frankenstein?

Inside the cave, there was a gloomy and terrifying scene.

In the dimming light, several figures stood there.

Liang Jin was surprised to find that these standing figures were not living people, but lifeless corpses.

Especially these dead bodies, which exude an indescribable weirdness that makes people shudder.

Liang Jin was just about to step forward to take a closer look when suddenly, Zhao Yiyi in his arms poked his head out.

She was much braver than ordinary women. After the sudden and intense shock at the beginning, she quickly calmed down and even dared to look at these horrible corpses.

Liang Jin looked down at the familiar face so close to him, and could clearly smell a faint fragrance of a woman in his nose. The elegant aroma lingered at the tip of his nose, and he could also feel her soft and slightly trembling body in his arms, which made him feel a strange feeling in his heart.

"Brother Liang, they all seem to be dead."

Zhao Yiyi spoke softly, as if afraid that a louder voice would wake up these dead people.

As she spoke, she turned her head and looked at Liang Jin, with traces of fear still remaining in her clear eyes.

When she turned her head, she happened to meet Liang Jin's focused gaze.

Liang Jin still stared at her, his eyes seemed to carry a hint of complicated emotions, and he slowly replied:
"Yes, they are all dead."

Zhao Yiyi felt uncomfortable when Liang Jin looked at her like this. At the same time, she was surprised to find that she was still in Liang Jin's arms, and a blush suddenly appeared on her face.

She hurriedly broke free from Liang Jin's arms and said in panic:
"I...I dropped the oil lamp. I have to pick it up."

Her voice was a little stuttered and she seemed extremely embarrassed.

Then, she leaned over to pick up the oil lamp that had fallen to the ground. With her fingers trembling slightly, she pricked the wick with her fingernails. The flame that was about to go out immediately became brighter as she fiddled with it, illuminating the surrounding environment a little.

At this moment, under the light, Zhao Yiyi's figure was fully revealed.

Her body is exquisite, with beautiful curves, and very attractive.

Liang Jin couldn't help but look at her unscrupulously for a while, until Zhao Yiyi was at a loss and the blush on her face became more intense, then he withdrew his gaze.

Then, Liang Jin refocused his attention on these strange corpses.

Zhao Yiyi held up the oil lamp and was about to go forward to take a closer look, but Liang Jin stopped her:
"Don't go over there, there's something wrong with these corpses!"

These corpses have been in this cave for at least ten years.

However, what is surprising is that these bodies did not rot.

You know, this cave is not a completely sealed environment. Although there are two large iron doors blocking the entrance, there are many gaps in the large iron doors and they cannot completely isolate the air.

Under normal circumstances, the corpse would have rotted away in such an environment.

If it were simply death without decay, it wouldn't be considered abnormal.

The most incredible thing is that... these corpses actually have internal energy flowing through them!
That's right!

Relying on his keen perception, Liang Jin clearly realized that each of these corpses was a warrior in their lifetime. Even now, the internal energy in their bodies is still circulating in the meridians like that of a living person.

Judging from the degree of operation of these internal forces alone, most of the corpses have reached the fourth level, and one corpse has even reached the third level.

But this completely goes against common sense!
Throughout history, whenever a warrior dies, his internal energy will dissipate along with his vitality. This is an iron rule with no exceptions.

I don’t know how many extremely intelligent and talented people have been trying hard to find ways to preserve the internal energy in living people, but in the end they all returned empty-handed.

So far, Liang Jin only knows one way - Soul Jade!
Using the soul jade as a container, one can store internal energy as well as some unique skills.

Even the Soul Jade is a mysterious object that most people know nothing about.

Now, it has been discovered that internal energy is flowing in the bodies of dead bodies. This situation is simply shocking and unbelievable.

"Stand here and wait for me. I'll go over and take a look."

Liang Jin said to Zhao Yiyi:

"If the situation is not right, protect yourself first."

Zhao Yiyi looked at Liang Jin's serious expression. Although she felt a little worried, she nodded.

Then she held up the oil lamp to light the way forward for Liang Jin.

Liang Jin took a step forward and began to walk into the cave.

After just a few steps, he keenly sensed something was wrong:
"This grotto is a mine!"

Liang Jin has discovered that both the ground and the walls of this cave are a deep black-gray color, obviously all minerals.

But this kind of ore is very peculiar. It is a bit like obsidian ore, but there is a big difference.

In particular, this kind of mineral can actually emit a chilling feeling, making the cave like a huge refrigerator. The cold air is so penetrating that people can't help but shiver.

Liang Jin couldn't figure out what this strange mineral was, so he could only endure the cold and continue moving forward.

Soon, Liang Jin came to one of the bodies.

The corpse was a man, his face a pale grey as if immersed in a cold pond, his skin speckled with spiderwebs of cinnabar. A carved copper tube was inserted into the Baihui acupoint on the top of his skull, and a three-edged magnetic needle protruded from the tube, piercing his brain.

The deceased's lower jaw was pierced horizontally with beef tendon, forcing it to bite at the position of the third molar. This seemed to be done to prevent the corners of the mouth from being torn due to muscle contraction when the corpse made large and violent movements.

The two eyeballs were covered with cloudy white film, but due to the stimulation of the magnetic needle, the pupils expanded into terrifying black round holes, as if staring straight at Liang Jin. The empty eyes made people shudder.

"Is this some kind of sacrificial ritual?"

Liang Jin was secretly guessing in his heart.

Today, the custom of human sacrifice still exists in Daqian and many neighboring countries.

Many superstitious people believe that offering human sacrifices to gods will bring them protection.

Liang Jin came to another corpse next to him.

It was a female corpse, a foot-long gash running from her collarbone to her navel, clearly the fatal wound. Inside the wound, a wire mesh had been placed in place of her ribs, covered with mothballs soaked in pine resin for preservation. The pungent odor, mixed with the decaying stench of the corpse, was nauseating.

Through the mesh, one could see the shriveled internal organs, and especially the heart, which was still trembling slightly, as if it could come back to life at any moment.

"strangeness……"

Liang Jin frowned and muttered to himself.

He looked at another dead body.

The corpse belonged to an old man, with indigo tendon wrapped around the joints of his arms. The skin on his wrists had faded to a pale white due to long-term friction with the ropes, exposing the dark blue blood vessels beneath the skin. The twisted blood vessels looked like wriggling earthworms.

The base of his right palm was covered with calluses from holding the sword in his lifetime, but now it was nailed to the hilt by twelve magnetic needles: the magnetic needles penetrated from the Hegu point, passed through the tendons to the Qingling point in the elbow, and the tails of the needles were attached with copper bells the size of rice grains, which swayed gently in the breeze, making a crisp yet strange sound.

Liang Jin frowned even more tightly.

He continued to examine the other bodies.

There were seven bodies in total, and he examined them all carefully.

Soon, he summarized the characteristics of these corpses:
All the corpses were pierced with at least seven copper magnetic needles into the Tianzhu, Dazhui and Taodao acupoints on the back of the neck. The needle tails were engraved with spiral grooves, and it seemed that some special medicine was injected into them. The medicine emitted a faint fishy smell.

Many of the corpses appeared to have been injured before death, but their broken tendons had been sutured posthumously with beef tendon silk soaked in fish bladder glue and a special potion. This artificial tendon was incredibly strong, even stronger than most warriors' tendons. Special copper bells were attached to the ends of the sutured tendon threads.

These are just external characteristics.

It would be difficult to find out what was inside the body until it was dissected.

Liang Jin was not in a hurry to dissect the bodies. He was not a professional doctor. Even if he cut the bodies into pieces, he probably would not understand why the bodies were made like this.

"Could it be...is this a laboratory?"

Liang Jin looked at this strange cave and these corpses, and a new guess came to his mind:

"There was a mad scientist who secretly built this secret laboratory under his own house."

"Here he is, trying to... create Frankenstein?"

Liang Jin has roughly determined that these corpses were left here not for sacrifice or the like.

Because apart from the corpse itself, there was no sign of sacrifice at all.

On the contrary, the more Liang Jin looked, the more he felt that these corpses had undergone a series of transformations, so that the internal energy in their bodies could still be preserved and circulated.

In this way, there might be a possibility that these corpses can move.

This kind of experiment is too shocking in this era.

If it were to be known to others, it would certainly be against etiquette and law, so he could only study it secretly in a secret room.

Liang Jin stretched out his hand and pushed on the chest of a corpse.

"Oh!"

The body immediately fell backwards with a dull thud, but there was no movement. Liang Jin stared at the body for a long time, confirming that it showed no sign of being able to stand up.

So Liang Jin kicked another corpse down.

But the ending was still the same, the body fell to the ground, motionless.

"Did the experiment fail?"

Liang Jin was puzzled:

"Or maybe they never intended to resurrect the dead, and were simply researching internal energy?"

"Or, do we need some triggering conditions?"

Liang Jin was also very puzzled.

Perhaps only the owner of this place knows all this.

However, this place has been abandoned for more than ten years. It seems that the owner here has never returned here through the secret passage. He is either dead or has gone to another place.

Or maybe everything here has already lost any meaning.

Liang Jin shook his head slightly. These had nothing to do with him.

His appearance here was just an accident.

If Zhao Yiyi hadn't brought him here, he wouldn't have seen all this.

Liang Jin didn't think that Zhao Yiyi brought him here on purpose with ulterior motives, nor did he think there was any conspiracy or trap here.

After all, any conspiracy, deception or trap needs to be profitable.

Liang Jin was too ordinary. He had no money and no status. He had absolutely no interests to seek.

If it were any of Liang Jin's clones, the situation would be completely different.

Liang Jin immediately walked out of the secret room.

Zhao Yiyi was about to go in and take a look, but was stopped by Liang Jin.

Afterwards, Liang Jin closed the two heavy iron doors again.

Because it had been opened once, many of the originally rusted parts of the big iron door had become movable, so when the door was closed this time, the sound and movement were much smaller, and Liang Jin basically did not have to spend much effort to close the door.

But despite this, Zhao Yiyi's strength was naturally unable to reopen the big iron gate.

"Why don't you let me in and take a look?"

Zhao Yiyi couldn't help but ask, curiosity revealed in his eyes.

Liang Jin said to Zhao Yiyi:

"You'd better not come to this place in the future."

"If the court finds out, you'll be in big trouble."

"Even if we are discovered by outsiders, I will follow you into this secret passage."

Liang Jin said this, pointed around, and continued:
"In this kind of environment, even if you cry out to heaven or earth, no one will answer. If you die here, no one will even know."

This secret passage is very deep, and the original designer made it particularly sturdy and has good sound insulation.

Even if you scream here, it won't reach the ground.

Zhao Yiyi is quite pretty, and if a man follows her here, anything could happen in such an unrestrained environment.

Zhao Yiyi was full of confidence:

"I'm prepared."

Zhao Yiyi walked to the edge of the stone wall of the secret passage, touched the gap, and a small knife fell into her palm.

"I have knives hidden in many places here. If I encounter bad guys, I can always find a weapon."

"Especially since my eldest brother-in-law is a martial artist. I secretly learned martial arts from him. I am not a weak woman either."

Zhao Yiyi held the knife and swung it twice. The blade flashed coldly under the dim light.

It can be seen that she does have some strength, and her moves are pretty decent. Although a little unfamiliar, they are well-organized.

Zhao Yiyi had obviously only been practicing martial arts for a short time and had not yet developed any formal internal strength, so he could not be considered a martial artist.

But she already showed signs of generating internal strength. It seemed that if she could practice quietly for a few more days, she would be able to become a ninth-grade warrior in the future.

Liang Jin shook his head:

"You still can't do it this way. If you meet an expert, you will only suffer losses."

In the capital, ninth-rank officials are as numerous as dogs, and eighth-rank officials are everywhere.

With only ninth-grade strength, he basically has no presence.

Zhao Yiyi was not convinced and said:
"Come and try!"

Her eyes were full of challenge, as if she was declaring war on Liang Jin.

Liang Jin smiled slightly.

The next moment, he disappeared from the spot, as if blending into the darkness.

Before Zhao Yiyi could be surprised, he felt a strong wind blowing on his face, bringing a chill.

She subconsciously wanted to hold the knife tightly in her hand, but suddenly realized that the knife had been taken away at some point.

Immediately afterwards, before she could even defend herself, her hands were grabbed tightly and pressed against the wall.

With his hands firmly controlled, Zhao Yiyi was now completely under Liang Jin's control, unable to move.

Liang Jin's hands were strong yet gentle. He held Zhao Yiyi's hands tightly, trapping her in front of the stone wall.

He leaned forward slightly, moved closer to Zhao Yiyi, stared at the pretty face so close to him, and asked softly:

"How's it going? Are you convinced?"

Zhao Yiyi's heart trembled suddenly. Liang Jin's warm breath gently brushed across her cheek, carrying a unique masculine scent, which made her heartbeat suddenly accelerate, and her cheeks instantly became extremely hot, as if burned by fire.

She subconsciously wanted to avoid it, and first turned her head away shyly, her hair fluttering gently, trying to hide her inner panic and shyness.

However, after a moment's hesitation, an inexplicable courage surged in Zhao Yiyi's heart.

She bit her lip, turned back boldly and looked straight into Liang Jin's eyes.

There was a hint of nervousness and anticipation in his eyes.

Her voice trembled slightly, and she said with a hint of earnestness:
"It seems that it's useless to learn martial arts from my brother-in-law. From now on... I will learn from you. Can you teach me?"

Her voice echoed in the silent secret passage, carrying a hint of a girl's innocence and persistence.

In the dim light, the flickering lights cast the figures of the two people on the stone wall, making them look particularly ambiguous.

Liang Jin's eyes were blazing, like two bright stars, flashing with blazing light.

He first released Zhao Yiyi's wrists, then he slowly stretched out his hands and gently held Zhao Yiyi's cheeks, his movements as gentle as if he were treating a precious treasure.

His palm was large and warm, with a slightly rough feel, but it made Zhao Yiyi feel a special sense of security.

"This face is so hard to let go."

Liang Jin's voice was low and magnetic, his eyes full of admiration as he carefully looked at Zhao Yiyi's face, as if he wanted to engrave every detail of her into his mind.

However, deep in that admiring gaze, there was a hint of sadness, as if this face evoked an unforgettable memory deep in his heart, making him unable to help but reminisce about the past.

Zhao Yiyi looked at Liang Jin's complicated gaze, and a wave of sweetness suddenly surged in her heart, and her heart was beating like a deer.

He must... like himself!
Otherwise, how could there be such an obsessed gaze?
Zhao Yiyi felt extremely confident.

Liang Jin became obsessed with her the moment he first saw her; after that, he often lost his mind whenever he looked at her.

At this moment, he was admiring himself even more, his eyes and expression were so intoxicated.

Liang Jin's unconcealed and naked gaze and words were like a raging fire, instantly igniting the passion deep in her heart, making her feel her soul tremble, as if the whole world only had the two of them.

Zhao Yiyi also didn't understand why Liang Jin was so obsessed with her.

Maybe it was fate, maybe it was destiny, or maybe there was some unique charm in me that attracted him.

But none of that matters anymore.

She only knew that Liang Jin liked her, and she was also very moved by the man in front of her...

(End of this chapter)