In front of me, the three mutated water monkeys who had come back from the dead were walking out of the thick white mist with their backs hunched.

They are very short in stature, their skin is covered with black scales, and each monkey is dragging a bloody corpse.

They looked back from time to time, as if something in the white mist was giving them orders.

What are these monkeys doing?

Why drag the body out of the maze?

With strong doubts, I observed the three corpses dragged away by the water monkeys.

I found that the corpses were not wearing any clothes, and their bodies were covered with dense scratches. There was a huge bloody hole in the belly of each corpse. It was obvious that the internal organs had been removed by water monkeys.

The crawling sound I just heard was the three mutated water monkeys dragging corpses around in the white mist, right?

Thinking of this, I felt sick to my stomach and almost vomited out my overnight meal.

But soon my eyes widened because I could vaguely see that behind the water monkeys, there seemed to be a person actually directing them.

Although I couldn't see the person's face clearly, I could see the person's hands clearly.

That's a strange hand, with only four fingers!

When I saw this hand, it was as if my brain was struck by a bolt of lightning. I was completely confused and couldn't say a word.

In my impression, only Cao Si Zhi and Si Miss, father and son, have four fingers.

And Cao Sizhi died twenty years ago. Even if I don’t look at the person in front of me, I already know who he is...

Only four girls!

The fourth girl who suddenly appeared with her grandfather.

For a moment, many unclear ideas emerged in my mind. I paused for several seconds before taking a deep breath.

Zhang Sanpao seemed to notice my emotional instability and kept pressing my shoulders to signal me not to get excited.

Although I have countless questions in my mind at this moment, I also know that I cannot reveal my whereabouts right now.

So I could only continue to lie under the wall and carefully stare at the figure in the white mist!

The three mutated water monkeys clapped their hands from time to time, and made shrill and shrill laughter as if they were crazy. It was exactly the same as the sound of children playing when we first entered the ancient temple.

However, as the four girls wearing baseball caps walked out of the mist, the three water monkeys all seemed to have encountered natural enemies. They closed their mouths obediently and stood in a row, like children who had done something wrong.

The fourth girl didn't speak, she just stared at the three water monkeys coldly, then stretched out a finger and pointed in a direction outside the maze.

Faced with the domineering eyes of the fourth girl, the three water monkeys shivered in fear, and then without even daring to raise their heads, they picked up the corpse on the ground and walked towards the place pointed by the fourth girl.

I took the opportunity to take a look at the three corpses. Fortunately, they were not Wang Yuanchao and Fatty. They were probably foreigners who had been attacked before.

The place that the fourth girl pointed to was not far from my current location, so I could see it. There was a door there, covered with green rust, and it looked like it should be made of bronze.

It's just that the whole door is wet, and some parts are still dripping, as if it's been soaked in water all year round.

And what’s even stranger is that the shape of this door is surprisingly similar to the door in Li Si’s tomb, both of which have a weird and spooky sheep’s head!

The carving of the sheep's head is lifelike, especially the eyes that are so alive. Looking from a distance, it looks like a huge goat looking down at you. No matter where you hide, you can't avoid those straight eyes.

Googly eyes.

I broke out in a cold sweat just looking at it.

Seeing that all my attention was on the Sheep Head Gate, Zhang Sanpao quickly reminded me to look at both sides of the door. Only then did I discover that nine strange-looking bronze lamps were inlaid on the left and right sides of the Sheep Head Gate.

The reason why the shape is weird is because these nine lamps are held up by bronze branches like hands.

I know that the number nine was very important in ancient times. The ancients often regarded nine as the number of heaven and the end of all things. Many dynasties built ancient tombs and put nine lamps on, because this allowed the owner of the tomb to stay forever.

Rest in peace, so I don't pay any special attention to these nine lamps.

However, under each lamp, there is an ancient stone tool, which is a bit like a millstone for grinding corn in the countryside. I don't know what it is used for.

At this moment, the three water monkeys had dragged the body to the stone tool, and then threw the body in without any explanation.

With the faint light, I found that the stone tools were covered with blood stains. Some of the blood stains had solidified and turned black. At first glance, they looked like things that had been stained with blood all year round.

I immediately turned to look at Zhang Sanpao and wanted to ask what on earth were these water monkeys doing?

At this time, Zhang Sanpao looked like he had suddenly realized something. When he saw me looking at him, he came over mysteriously and said something in my ear.

"They are refining corpse oil!"

"Corpse oil?" My heart suddenly skipped a beat, and I once again locked my eyes on those ancient stone tools.

Corpse oil is no stranger to local people. Anyone who has been in the soil, even if they have never seen it, will have heard it more or less. It is the fat that overflows from corpses at high temperatures, just like the lard we eat.

It's a truth.

In Southeast Asia, especially Thailand, wizards often cut open the chin of obese babies, and then use a torch to roast the baby's chin. The roasted corpse oil is used to make perfume and love potions, and the effects are quite good.

.But this is just hearsay, no one has actually seen anyone using corpse oil to make perfume.

I also wanted to ask Zhang Sanpao why he thought of corpse oil, but I found that one of the water monkeys turned like a human, pushing the millstone-like stone tool to rotate. As the stone tool rotated, I actually heard bursts of bubbles.

Voice.

"It's a hot spring! The hot spring that creates the white mist is hidden under these stone tools." Halfway through my words, I quickly covered my mouth for fear of being discovered by the fourth girl not far away.

At this moment, I understood what Zhang Sanpao was talking about about the corpse oil.

Corpse oil cannot be refined from a newly deceased person, but after being heated to high temperatures, it will definitely speed up the decomposition of the corpse, so corpse oil can naturally be refined.

Of course, with the appearance of hot springs, my two previous questions were also answered.

In Chencang Road, the strange sounds of ringing bells and the sound of knocking wooden fish that I heard were actually the turning of these millstones. And the screams of women, I think, are probably those who are not completely dead yet.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a chill. They actually used living people to refine corpse oil.

Now that things have happened, I am absolutely certain that it was the fourth girl who released the white mist in the temple and put everyone in danger!

He can even control these ferocious water monkeys to capture people and then throw them here to refine corpse oil.

Why?

Why did the fourth girl do this?

Is he still the fourth girl from before? Is he still the man who licks his fingers even when eating White Rabbit toffee?

No wonder, from the very beginning, many people quietly warned me. Grandpa, Kathleen, they seemed to have discovered something was wrong with the fourth girl a long time ago, and I was the only one who was kept in the dark.

Damn it! Why did the fourth girl deceive me?

I clenched my fists tightly, tears streaming down my face, and I was ready to rush out at any time. But before I could draw my gun, Zhang Sanpao next to me suddenly trembled with excitement, and even his listless eyes burst into tears at this moment.

A ray of light came out.

Zhang Sanpao's emotions immediately affected me. I suppressed my emotions and continued to focus on those water monkeys.

Sure enough, after the millstone rotated more than ten times, the corpse was crushed into meat residue, and streams of dark yellow corpse oil exuding an extremely foul smell flowed into the nine lamps along the bronze branches!

It wasn't until all nine bronze lamps were filled with corpse oil that the fourth girl, who had been staring closely at the three water monkeys, finally took off her baseball cap, took out a box of matches from her pocket, and slowly walked towards the sheep head in front of her.

Giant door.

"So that's it..."

Just as I was waiting attentively for the fourth girl's next move, Zhang Sanpao suddenly said to himself.

Before I had time to ask, I saw the fourth girl polishing the match, then raising her two slender white fingers, twisting the match, and lighting the nine bronze lamps in front of her.

It looked so delicate.

A few seconds later, I felt a flash in front of my eyes, and the light in the entire space began to shake violently. Then blue flames spurted out from the bronze lamps, soared into the sky, and instantly illuminated the entire temple.
Chapter completed!