Corpse Recovery Diver
Chapter 372 - 66_4

Chapter 372: Chapter 66_4

Li Zhiyuan: "But, that pusher, in the end, didn’t go to the paradise to see the giant python."

After a brief silence, Xue Liangliang and Li Zhiyuan said simultaneously:

"She was deceived."

Clearly, the altar above or the Ascension Pond, was not the kind of blissful outcome the woman desired.

Now, she seemed more like a parasitic tool, akin to a key, responsible for opening and closing doors here, maintaining the cycle within this underground palace.

Tan Wenbin cautiously asked, "That is, my brothers, I mean no offense, but shouldn’t we be hurrying to get out of here instead of discussing and analyzing this? Is it meaningful?"

Xue Liangliang replied: "If this place is all that woman’s, then we’re probably safe now, but if not, we’ve only truly entered here now."

Upon hearing this, Tan Wenbin’s mouth twitched.

Li Zhiyuan shone the flashlight forward: "Let’s go, we have to be careful, it’s not time to lower our guard yet."

Not long after leaving the area with the ceiling frescoes, they encountered a staircase going upwards.

This was good news for the four people wanting to leave the place, trying every upward route seemed worthwhile.

As they kept walking, circular arches appeared on both the left and right sides that looked like the ear chambers in tombs, but when they shone the flashlight inside, they discovered the chambers were empty, containing nothing.

Tan Wenbin: "Were they raided by water apes?"

Li Zhiyuan shook his head: "No, water apes couldn’t clean it out so thoroughly."

After another sweep, Li Zhiyuan affirmed: "I feel it’s more like they just fooled the woman above, and they never actually placed anything down here."

Continuing forward, two more pairs of empty ear chambers appeared, further confirming Li Zhiyuan’s suspicion.

Eventually, a large archway appeared directly ahead.

Following the tradition of underground constructions, once past the ear chambers, the main chamber should follow.

On each side of the archway, a man and a woman in leather armor knelt, resembling the two figures in the middle of the underground palace beasts fresco.

Behind each of them on the wall, a small serpent head was sculpted from which water continuously flowed, dripping over their bodies.

Run Sheng: "There’s a strong stench of water corpses."

How could the bodies not stink after being soaked for so long?

Run Sheng tilted his neck, took a deep breath, and grabbed a spade.

Though already exhausted and not in the best condition, he had to step up at this moment.

Tan Wenbin and Xue Liangliang, each gripping a flashlight, prepared to join Run Sheng as soon as the bodies awoke, ready for a desperate fight to escape.

The stage was set, but the two bodies showed no sign of awakening into corpses; it wasn’t clear if it was because the four of them weren’t close enough yet to trigger their awakening.

At this moment, Li Zhiyuan raised his flashlight again towards the ceiling, revealing two more frescoes.

One depicted a boat on the sea with a standing figure so small, situated at a corner; the focus was diagonally opposite, at the seabed, a massive structure resembling an underwater palace but looking like a colossal beast with head, horns, and whiskers, with the sun and moon hovering above.

This model, this scene, made Li Zhiyuan recall the image described by Zheng Haiyang’s mother in the psychiatric hospital.

Could it be that the person who deceived the noblewoman from Yong Country had been to that sea?

The other fresco showed a man standing on a mountain surrounded by mountains, with a woman kneeling at his feet.

Linking them meant that the man had been to East Sea’s mysterious place, then returned to the ancient Yong Country in the southwest, making this woman his follower.

Had he brought anything back from there?

Or... was the one who returned even the same person?

At this moment, Li Zhiyuan felt an unsettling presence, subtly stirring his nerves.

Traveling in the Underworld had granted him another effect: heightened sensitivity in certain aspects, though this was not necessarily a good thing, as continuing to intensify might eventually drive one mad.

Li Zhiyuan grabbed Tan Wenbin, resting his forehead on his back, and closed his eyes.

This time, he didn’t mention how long it would take because if he couldn’t resolve it, being able to wake himself up wouldn’t matter.

Underworld travel succeeded.

Li Zhiyuan lifted his head; Run Sheng and the others were gone, and the man and woman still kneeled at either side of the archway, with a third figure now in the center.

He was dressed in gold silk, wearing a serpent mask, looking both valiant and mysterious.

The two, large and small, stared at each other.

After a while, the boy spoke:

"You really aren’t human, you’re a corpse."

The known individuals who had been to that place and returned were Zheng Haiyang’s mother and Zhu Changyong, but they both had turned into corpses.

As for the others who stayed on the boat, they had all gone mad.

Zhu Changyong, who finally threw himself into a shredder with the turtle, was hardly human-like anymore, his body severely bloated and rotting, one eyeball already burst.

The masked man likely wore it to conceal the changes to his body.

He bewitched and deceived the noblewoman of Yong Country to build this underground palace, really for himself; he wanted to survive; he wanted to become human again.