Chapter 526: Ghostly Peach Charms
Chapter 526: Ghostly Peach Charms
The so-called underground space is actually only five meters in radius and looks more like a cellar.
But who in a normal family would dig a cellar dozens of feet underground?
Tian Lin glanced at the zombies buried on the ground, and finally his eyes fell on a dozen coffins against the wall.
He had once done a mission in a mass grave, and he suddenly understood after seeing the coffin.
This is clearly the corpse well used by corpse drivers to raise corpses.
Sure enough, Tian Lin saw a well hole not far from the underground space that led directly to the outside ground.
Above the well, there was an iron chain that was rotten but not completely broken.
Such iron chains are naturally used to lift coffins.
It’s a pity that after the village was destroyed for some unknown reason, the iron chain was naturally no longer useful.
"What's going on? Is it Brother Tian?"
A voice was heard above the well, and it was clearly Wang Yanyu's voice.
Apparently, the fight between Tian Lin and others underground had spread to the upper part of the well, and Wang Yanyu, who heard the fighting below, also found the well mouth. But she didn't dare to go down rashly, so she asked questions from above.
"Don't worry, Senior Sister Wang. This is a corpse well. I have already suppressed the zombies in the well."
Wang Yanyu above heard this and said, "Since there is a corpse well, it will be convenient for you to set up the formation."
Obviously, she and Tian Lin had the same idea, which was to set up a formation in the open space under the corpse well, which would save Tian Lin the effort of digging a hole.
After making sure that Tian Lin was fine, Wang Yanyu left the wellhead and went about her own business.
But Tian Lin was not in a hurry to set up the formation. Instead, he took a look at the ten coffins first, and then put away the Earth Sealing Technique.
As the Sealing Earth Technique was retracted, the ten zombies buried underground all pounced towards Tian Lin.
With Tian Lin's current strength, he is naturally not afraid of the joint attack of these zombies.
He used talisman paper to seal these zombies one by one while fighting and then looked at these eleven zombies.
Unfortunately, due to the passage of time, most of the clothes of these zombies have been completely weathered. Only a small amount of clothing has been transformed into Yin objects under the influence of Yin Qi and corpse Qi, but it is still in tatters.
These zombies include both male and female, and fortunately their limbs are intact.
On the other hand, corpse chasers generally don't look for incomplete corpses. Because corpses raised in that way are obviously not useful for personal use, and they can't be sold for a good price. So it's not surprising that these corpses are intact.
Tian Lin moved away from the curvy bodies of the female corpses, but his brows furrowed.
He had discovered earlier that the eleven zombies underground did not match the ten coffins and trees.
Logically speaking, since it is a corpse, it is impossible to just throw the body into the corpse well and be done with it. It must be sealed in a coffin.
Then there should naturally be eleven coffins corresponding to the eleven zombies, but there are only ten underground.
Could it be that time has passed so long that the coffin has rotted into ashes?
However, the coffin used for keeping corpses is a Yin object, not an ordinary piece of wood that will be eroded by insects and ants as well as time.
Looking at the coffins around, the thick dead air in them showed that the large amount of Yin energy did not cause any damage to them. On the contrary, due to the precipitation of time, they showed signs of turning into red coffins.
"So these eleven zombies are not all raised by the corpse raiser. One of them must be from outside - but the corpse well has been sealed. Not only can the evil spirits below not get out of the well, the evil spirits outside the well cannot come in from the outside either."
Tian Lin was not in a hurry to set up his formation. He walked to one of the female corpses and used his sword to tear through her clothes. In an instant, the clothes and underwear of the female corpse all fell to the ground, revealing her graceful body.
He walked to the second zombie and tore its clothes again.
This process was repeated over and over again. When Tian Lin finally removed the clothes of the last female corpse, Wang Yanyu and Mei Xiangu above had already finished setting up the formation.
As soon as the two girls entered the corpse well, they saw Tian Lin picking clothes for the female corpse.
Wang Yanyu didn't say anything, but Mei Xiangu said with a dark face without disguising it: "I was wondering what you are doing down there. So you have such a habit? I think you shouldn't join the Wendao Sect. Instead, it would be more appropriate for you to join the Xiangxi Sect."
Tian Lin ignored Mei Xiangu's teasing and picked up a wooden sign from the pile of clothes and said, "This is a zombie. It looks like one of them is a living person."
"What kind of living person turned into something?"
Mei Xiangu did not understand what Tian Lin said, so she heard Tian Lin say, “When Jiaonan Town was hit by a catastrophe, some people knew they were powerless to escape, so they hid in their own corpse well.
Unexpectedly, he could not leave the corpse well, and eventually died in the corpse well. Over the years, this man's body turned into a mummy in this corpse-raising place, and finally all the corpses he raised turned into zombies. "
"How did you know?"
Facing Mei Xiangu's questioning, Tian Lin said, "I guessed it!"
Mei Xiangu was not interested in the truth of Tian Lin's guess. She turned around, glanced at the eleven naked zombies and said:
"I am not interested in the history of Nanjiao Town. The most urgent task is to quickly carve the formation."
Tian Lin nodded, and when he raised his hand, the eleven zombies instantly caught fire. The talisman on the zombie's forehead burned up first, and after the talisman burned up, the zombie resumed its movement.
But before, Tian Lin alone was able to suppress their eleven walking zombies, not to mention that they also had to deal with Wang Yanyu and Mei Xiangu?
In just a few moments, the eleven zombies were completely turned into ashes and charcoal.
Tian Lin and his companions cleared the field and began to arrange the array pattern together. In just a quarter of an hour, the thirty-six array flags underground were arranged. As Mei Xiangu took out the engraved array stone and placed it at the center of the array, spiritual energy filled the sky and the ground of Nanjiao Town in an instant.
Now that the formation is complete, ordinary evil spirits naturally cannot enter Nanjiao Town. And when disciples of the Asking Dao Sect pass by and see the formation, they will know that this place has been occupied by their fellow disciples.
Once the sect's Deacon Hall has inspected it, Nanjiao Town can be inhabited again.
"I have used up the battle flags in my hand. Now I am just waiting for the people from the Deacon Hall to come over and check them out before recording the credits. But you two still have no credits, so let's go to the next place right now."
Tian Lin watched the two people fly out of the corpse well one after another, but he was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, he took out a piece of white cloth from his storage bag, went to the south stone wall and copied the ghost-painted peach charms on the south stone wall.
Frankly speaking, he himself was not interested in how the people in Nanjiao Town died.
But he was very interested in how Nanjiao Town appeared in the secret realm.
Tian Lin himself couldn't understand what the ghostly painted peach charms on the wall under the corpse well meant.
However, although the ghostly painted peach charms looked messy, they were definitely not made by a corpse, nor were they the work of a bored child's graffiti.
Tian Lin felt that the ghostly painted peach charms probably held some secret - most likely they were left behind by the person who took refuge in the corpse-raising well and eventually died there.
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"There is another small town on this map that has been cleared by the Monster Hunting Division. Let's hurry up and see if we can put up a battle flag there as well!"
When Mei Xiangu saw Tian Lin coming out of the corpse-raising well, she immediately spoke.
(End of this chapter)