What do you mean by saying that the corpses I sew are all ominous creatures?

Lu Yan gritted her teeth and shouted into the walkie-talkie: "01 Call the command center and immediately dispatch a medical team to the old city area in the north."

All available members of the special operations team are being redeployed to provide support! All exits within a five-kilometer radius are to be sealed off!

After saying that, she turned to Fang He and asked, "Are you sure you can stay here and take care of the wounded?"

Fang He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and nodded: "Don't worry, Director Lu, I'm tough. This little injury won't kill me."

You can take this. I've cast a spell on it, and it will continuously guide Zhou Yuanshan's direction for twenty minutes.

"Go after them quickly, don't let those beasts get away!"

After saying that, he handed the bronze plate to Lu Yan.

After Lu Yan took the bronze plate, I looked at Fang He, and then at the brothers on the ground whose fates were unknown.

This debt should be settled with Wandie Valley.

"Let's go," I said to Lu Yan, my voice calm, but the murderous intent in my eyes was almost overflowing.

Without waiting for reinforcements, the two of us plunged straight into the depths of the alley.

Lu Yan clutched the copper plate left by Fang He tightly in her hand. The red light on the plate flickered eerily in the darkness, pointing to a huge cast iron manhole cover at the end of the alley.

The manhole cover was lifted open with a crack, and a few strands of black cloth were still hanging from the edge.

"They went into the sewer."

Lu Yan lowered her voice, her brows furrowing into a knot.

I walked to the manhole cover, squatted down, and ran my fingertip along the edge of the cover.

There was a layer of sticky liquid on my fingernail; it wasn't blood, but rather the slime left by some kind of insect crawling over it.

"The people from Wandie Valley really like to sneak into these kinds of secluded holes."

I said it softly, my voice sounding somewhat hollow in the empty alley.

Lu Yan didn't speak, but instead took out a talisman that emitted a faint golden light from her pocket.

With a flick of the fingertip, the talisman transformed into a soft ball of white light, hovering in mid-air.

This is the Taoist "spiritual light technique." Although it has little destructive power, it is more effective than a flashlight in this kind of place, at least it won't suddenly go out because the battery is dead.

"I'll go first." I stopped Lu Yan as she was about to make a move.

"Let me do it; I'm more sensitive to this kind of scent than you are."

Before she could object, I braced myself against the edge of the well with my left hand and jumped down.

"Clatter".

The sound of footsteps hitting the puddles echoed through the enclosed utility tunnel.

The space here is larger than I imagined, probably more than two meters high.

The walls were made of a mixture of blue bricks and cement, and covered with damp moss.

A foul stench hit me, making my head feel slightly heavy.

I closed my eyes and activated the mysterious, cool sensation between my brows.

In an instant, my five senses were magnified infinitely.

Darkness is no longer an obstacle.

I could hear the "thump-thump" of water droplets falling into puddles dozens of meters away, and I could feel the subtle fluctuations in the airflow.

You could even smell a very faint medicinal fragrance hidden beneath the stench.

That's the unique flavor of Wandie Valley.

Lu Yan jumped down immediately after her, landing lightly on her toes, her movements very graceful.

But upon smelling the odor from below, she couldn't help but show a hint of disgust on her face.

"The energy field here is chaotic, and the direction indicated by the bronze plate is becoming unstable."

She lifted the bronze plate, and saw that the pointer on it was swinging wildly in several directions as if it were drunk.

"That's normal. The yin energy is heavy down there, and the other side must have set up some interference measures."

I pointed to the pipe on the left that looked even deeper.

"Follow the smell, they went that way."

We walked deeper into the pipe.

The water was up to my ankles, and it took a lot of effort to take each step.

Just as we passed a crossroads, my heart skipped a beat.

"Lu Yan, stop!"

I grabbed Lu Yan and I was thrown backward.

"Whoosh—!"

A thin, dark shadow streaked across the void in front of us and slammed into the brick wall to the side.

Upon closer inspection, I realized it was a long, black beetle that was still wriggling slightly, with sharp barbs at the end.

"What is it?"

Lu Yan instantly held the peach wood sword horizontally in front of her chest, a wisp of lightning crackling on the blade.

"I don't know, I've never seen this kind of method before."

I answered truthfully.

Although I had fought against the people from Huilongzhai and Wandiegu, my understanding of them was limited to their mastery of Gu techniques.

As for what kind of Gu it is, I really can't tell.

Before we could catch our breath, a series of rapid clicking sounds suddenly came from the gaps in the pipes above our heads.

By the faint light of the aura spell, I saw countless beetles, each the size of a walnut and with human face patterns on their backs, crawling out from the cracks in the bricks.

They were like a black waterfall, cascading down towards us.

"Fire Talisman, activate!"

Lu Yan reacted extremely quickly, releasing two talismans that exploded in mid-air, transforming into two intense balls of flame.

As the beetles with human faces were burned, they emitted piercing screams, and a pungent, burnt smell instantly filled the air.

But these insects didn't seem to be afraid of death; the insects behind them continued to charge forward, stepping over the corpses of their companions.

Some insects even spontaneously explode before being burned to death, splashing out a pool of green, strong acidic liquid.

"laugh--!"

I dodged a puddle of green liquid, which landed in the puddles on the ground and actually burned, causing white smoke to rise from the surface.

"These things are strange, don't let them get close!"

I gave a low shout, and my right hand wielded the willow-leaf dagger with impenetrable precision.

The blade was infused with malevolent energy, and each strike was accompanied by the sound of wind being cut.

Those beetles with human-shaped faces that approached were instantly reduced to dust by the blade's energy.

But this kind of war of attrition is very disadvantageous to us.

The oxygen level is already low down there, and the burning flames are consuming it even faster.

"Charge with me!"

With a sudden wave of my left hand, the black bone needle, under the control of the Qi manipulation technique, transformed into a stream of light, forcefully carving out a path in front of me.

Lu Yan understood immediately and followed closely behind me, occasionally flashing a bolt of lightning with her peach wood sword to clear away any stragglers that tried to escape from the side.

After breaking through the swarm of insects, we were both a little out of breath.

Lu Yan's forehead was covered in a fine sheen of sweat.

Looking at the pile of still-wriggling insect corpses behind her, she said, "The methods of Wandie Valley... are far more disgusting than I imagined."

These things don't seem like normal living beings; they're more like puppets created using some kind of evil magic.

"This is just an appetizer."

I gazed into the deeper darkness ahead, my body swirling with malevolent energy.

"I wonder how long they've been operating here. If they've had enough time, this sewer system has probably been transformed into a giant Gu nest."

After that, let's delve deeper.

However, in the next half hour, we were attacked three more times.