Read Novel Full Chapter 1667: Chapter 999: Beneath the Blood River
Chapter 1667: Chapter 999: Beneath the Blood River
The blood-colored water flowed turbulently as Liang Yuan brought Gu Feng and Shi Haizhu to the water’s surface.
The bones floating on the water remained still, but the dense appearance was truly frightening.
“Do you think these bones will assemble into skeletons to attack you?”
Liang Yuan asked Gu Feng and Shi Haizhu.
Both nodded quickly, Shi Haizhu said, “Yes, we don’t know what’s going on either.”
“Why aren’t they moving now?” Liang Yuan asked.
Shi Haizhu shook his head, “No idea, and we don’t know if there was something we did back then that ‘resurrected’ them.”
Gu Feng thought for a moment and suddenly said, “Mr. Liang, I suspect that someone among us was injured and bleeding back then; perhaps these skeleton bones go crazy when they encounter fresh blood or the like.”
Upon hearing this, Liang Yuan immediately took out a Mutant Beast from his portable space.
It was a living Mutant Chicken, and he waved his hand, directly slicing the Mutant Chicken in half.
Suddenly, fresh blood spurted and spilled onto the water’s surface.
As the first drop of chicken blood dripped into the blood-red water.
The floating bones suddenly trembled.
The sound of bones colliding echoed, and the next moment, the bones on the water surface began to ‘crawl’ up.
They seemed as if they could stand on the water, quickly forming into massive skeletal beasts.
Then, frantically competing for the blood-soaked Mutant Chicken in their grasp.
Liang Yuan casually tossed the Mutant Chicken far away.
Immediately, these skeletal monsters swarmed towards the Mutant Chicken, completely ignoring Liang Yuan and the others.
Liang Yuan, lost in thought, said, “It seems that these skeletal monsters are indeed easily stimulated by fresh blood to ‘awaken’.”
“However, they don’t seem to have a special response to living people.”
“I said, why did these monsters keep attacking our ship back then? It turns out it’s because there were injured on board!”
Shi Haizhu couldn’t help but slap his forehead and exclaimed.
Liang Yuan looked at the blood sea below and said, “Those bones have been attracted away, let’s dive down for a look.”
With that, he raised a protective shield and directly flew underwater.
Gu Feng and Shi Haizhu quickly followed.
The three of them dove swiftly, descending about three to four thousand meters, and below it was pitch black, with nothing visible.
There seemed to be terrifying giant creatures lurking in the depths.
Liang Yuan and the others activated their protective shields, Gu Feng and Shi Haizhu closely followed Liang Yuan, not daring to move away.
Liang Yuan raised a finger and pointed sharply at the dark water ahead.
A blindingly intense light exploded from his fingertip, shooting forward.
In an instant, the pitch-black depths were illuminated as if it were broad daylight.
The blood water remained red, but the underwater surroundings became visible.
The three were situated in a muddy area.
All around were deepwater weeds.
Under the intense light, many four-limbed, merfolk-like creatures emerged from the weeds, screaming as they fled from the light.
A string of bubbles gurgled up, and Liang Yuan and the others quickly scanned their surroundings.
They saw that in the distance, there were many elegant pavilions and terraces, with an architectural style somewhat reminiscent of ancient times.
However, due to being submerged in water long-term, these pavilions and terraces had begun to decay.
Yet, some stone-carved structures still retained their magnificent and exquisite appearance from before being submerged.
Liang Yuan maintained the illuminating light, observing the underwater ancient city.
“What are those creatures?”
“They look kind of like Merfolk?”
“Creatures living underwater could very well be Merfolk.”
Gu Feng and Shi Haizhu whispered in discussion.
The sudden emergence of a large number of organisms had startled them both.
Liang Yuan said, “Let’s go over there and take a look.”
He pointed at a relatively intact-looking structure ahead and instructed.
The two quickly followed Liang Yuan’s steps, swiftly accelerating towards the relatively intact-looking building.
It was a palace-like structure, comparatively well-preserved among all the surrounding architectural complexes.
Which was why Liang Yuan selected it.
The three entered the palace.
The interior of the palace was not as expected, rotted and filthy, but surprisingly clean and tidy, as though someone had just cleaned it.
Liang Yuan and the others were taken aback.
“Did someone clean up here?”
“No silt at all? How can it be so clean?”
“Who would clean here?”
“Could there be someone alive?”
Shi Haizhu and Gu Feng kept discussing, showing astonishment at the clean surroundings.
Liang Yuan also furrowed his brow slightly; the traces here indeed seemed to indicate someone’s presence.
He continued forward and soon reached the center of the hall.
There, the hall center actually held many sarcophagi.
Green-black wooden sarcophagi, likely over fifty.
“Coffins!”
“There are coffins here!”
“Mr. Liang, the coffins have tadpole-like characters!”
Gu Feng suddenly pointed at a coffin and shouted.
Liang Yuan also saw, not just that one coffin, all the coffins had similar runes.
Liang Yuan immediately looked down at the floor.
Sure enough, the floor had several slender chains extending deep into the ground.
“Are these chains connected to that Floating Island’s chains?”
Liang Yuan pondered thoughtfully, looking at the sarcophagi with a contemplative expression in his eyes.
“What might be inside these sarcophagi?”
Shi Haizhu immediately said, “Mr. Liang, should I open them up and take a look?”
Liang Yuan nodded slightly, “Be careful.”
“Haha, don’t worry.”
Shi Haizhu laughed loudly and immediately ran forward, knocking on one sarcophagus and shouted, “Is anyone there?”
His antics elicited a smile from Liang Yuan.
Gu Feng laughed, “Captain Shi, if someone responds to you, they might be resurrecting!”
Shi Haizhu laughed heartily, raising his hand to push open the coffin lid.
At that moment, suddenly a roar echoed inside the hall.
“#￥@%!”
The next moment, a shadow suddenly rushed down from the beams, and before it landed, a terrifying blood-colored sword image coldly slashed over.
Shi Haizhu was startled and without a word, triggered his internal superpower.
In an instant, his skin turned to stone, transforming rapidly into a Stone Man.
Shi Haizhu crossed his arms and raised them to shield his forehead.
Clang—!
The sword shadow collided with Shi Haizhu’s arms, producing a sharp clanging sound.
Shi Haizhu felt a severe shock in his arms, a crack appeared on his stone skin.
The enormous force made him stumble back several steps.
He immediately raised his head, looking at the attacker.
The attacker’s figure was ghostly, like an ethereal shadow.
Appearing like a translucent Soul Body.
To everyone’s astonishment, this figure was dressed in ancient clothing.
Wearing an upper body gown and a lake-blue frock, with a pale apricot belt hung with tassels.
She seemed like the image of an ancient noblewoman.
But now, with cyan skin and sharp teeth, her face fierce and wielding a blood-red long sword, she appeared truly frightening!
Even Shi Haizhu was startled at this moment.
“Ghost!”
He exclaimed in surprise, his first thought being a female ghost!
This woman’s appearance and condition truly resembled a ghost from movies!
Even Liang Yuan and Gu Feng nearby felt the same.
For a moment, the three were stunned, rooted to the spot, none of them moved.