Deities Are All Just My Food
Chapter 1075 - 509: Mysterious Stone Statue Head_2

Chapter 1075: Chapter 509: Mysterious Stone Statue Head_2

After a simple inspection, everyone discovered that it was a massive stone statue head, the face visible upon clearing away vines.

Yang Zhi, holding onto the vines, climbed on top of the stone statue head, followed by Auntie and a few others.

"I can manage on my own!"

Yang Zhi wanted to show off in front of Lin Baici.

"This head is lying face up."

Auntie examined carefully.

At the statue’s nose, there was a bulge, even nostrils were carved into it, and she began yanking at the vines.

The stone statue head slowly revealed its weather-beaten true form, its face marked with eerie, tribal tattoos.

Xie Yangchun knocked on the stone statue head.

Thud, thud!

"It’s probably just a normal statue, let’s keep looking!"

It was getting dark, and Xie Yangchun urged everyone to hurry.

Yang Zhi walked towards the edge of the stone statue head, intending to jump down, but as he reached the mouth area, the stone statue head suddenly opened its gaping mouth.

Auntie and the others, feeling the tremors beneath their feet, quickly scurried aside, eager to jump off the stone statue head.

"Shit!"

Yang Zhi fell into the mouth, panic-stricken, his face filled with shock as he tried to grab the nearby vines, about to cry for help, when the stone statue head’s stony teeth quickly clamped shut.

Bang!

Yang Zhi was bitten in two.

"Ah!"

Yang Zhi let out a shrill scream.

"Prepare for battle!"

Xie Yangchun shouted.

The group, including Auntie, jumped down from the stone statue head and quickly distanced themselves.

"Save me!"

Yang Zhi wailed.

After biting Yang Zhi, the stone statue head made no further movement.

"Probe attack!"

Xie Yangchun called out, and those with Divine Grace at range opened fire on the stone statue head.

For a moment, stone dust flew about, but no large chunks of stone fell off, and the stone statue head did not move again.

"Cease fire!"

Xie Yangchun halted everyone, then carefully approached and jumped back onto the stone statue head.

Xia Hongyao and Zhang Hao followed.

"Don’t come over here!"

Lin Baici saw Gu Qingqiu also wanting to come and told her to stay put.

On the stone statue head, only the upper half of Yang Zhi’s body remained as he struggled to climb away from the large mouth, his intestines dragging behind him.

"How did you inspect this?"

Xie Yangchun glanced over, realized Yang Zhi was beyond saving, and then irritably chastised Auntie and the few others who had previously climbed onto the stone statue head.

"Be careful with the facial features!"

Zhang Hao cautioned while ripping off all the remaining vines from there.

The facial features of the stone statue head were fully revealed.

"If it weren’t for one person dying, we’d never notice anything strange!"

Xia Hongyao stomped her foot hard, "Should we smash this thing?"

"Go find a live small animal to bring here!"

Xie Yangchun was about to test the mouth when, suddenly, the stone statue head’s eyes snapped open, the gray eyeballs inside turning to fix on him.

Just when Lin Baici and the others were captivated by these eyes, the stone statue head’s mouth opened again, a flexible stone tongue, resembling an anteater’s long, pliant tongue, extended from the mouth and coiled towards Xie Yangchun.

Swish!

Xie Yangchun swung his sword, striking at the tongue.

Ding!

Stone chips scattered everywhere, a powerful force pulled Xie Yangchun down from the stone statue head, then the tongue coiled towards Xia Hongyao.

"Everybody down!"

Lin Baici snapped his fingers.

Snap!

Some sparks appeared at the tips of Lin Baici’s fingers, followed by a burst of flames, forming a basketball-sized raven.

It zipped forward, striking the stone statue head’s large mouth at high speed.

Boom!

After the raven collided with the large mouth, it exploded like a grenade, flames and shockwaves rolling out.

Lin Baici, seeing the tongue unharmed, jumped down from the stone statue head.

Everyone distanced themselves by thirty meters, cautiously on alert.

"It seems like it won’t attack if we don’t climb on it,"

Zhang Hao analyzed.

"Could it be related to finding the Goddess?"

Gu Qingqiu speculated, "We need to figure out a way to make it talk or something!"

"Possibly!"

Xie Yangchun pondered.

"Why don’t we call Captain Pan over?"

An Yi Xian had just finished speaking when cries for help rang from the west, accompanied by the sight of signal fireworks shooting into the sky.

"Reinforcements!"

At Xie Yangchun’s command, everyone rushed over.

It wasn’t far, just over fifty meters.

A dozen people stood there, nervously watching another stone statue head.

"Another one?"

In the dim light of the forest, the stone statue head lay there, its vines like hair or a cloth covering a corpse.

"The stone statue head eats people!"

A Cao-surnamed examiner from Xijing was bitten in half.

Zhang Hao’s eyebrows twitched, and he immediately instructed, "You, two people in a group, go along the base of the mountain and see if there are stone statue heads every few dozen meters?"

Half an hour later, the teams returned to report.

Along the base of the mountain, there was a stone statue head every fifty meters, and more than thirty had been discovered so far.

"This must be a case of rule contamination!"

Yuan Jifeng stroked his chin, pondering the solution.

"As long as you don’t get on the stone statue heads, they won’t attack, so just ignore them!"

Liu Langqing had figured it out already, "Finding the Goddess is more important!"

"It’s getting dark; we might as well rest and continue tomorrow!"

Zhang Hao suggested.

Since entering Luoyang Seven Towns, everyone had barely had a proper rest, and next, they were to secure God’s bones, they should save up their energy.

"These stone statue heads must be related to the Goddess!"

Pan Yunxiang waved his hand, "You guys rest first; I’ll look around some more!"

Everyone felt as if they had been granted a pardon; with a Dragon Level big shot taking action, they could lie back and win.

"Xiao Bai, let’s go get something tasty."

Zhang Hao walked over to Lin Baici, muttering quietly, "Prepare a feast for Pan Yunxiang, it might catch the big shot’s eye."

"Hehe!"

Lin Baici laughed indifferently.

He didn’t care about that.

"Alumni, I’ll go take another look at those stone statues!"

Gu Qingqiu was tired but more eager to crack the rule contamination.

"Little Linzi, let’s go too!"

Xia Hongyao grabbed Lin Baici’s arm, pulling him along.

If they could solve the stone statue heads before Pan Yunxiang, what a face-saving feat that would be!

Just thinking about it felt exhilarating.

"Hurry up! Hurry up!"

Lin Baici was dragged away by High Ponytail.

"Dammit!"

Xu Wei was furious, because only with Lin Baici by his side did he feel safe.

An Yi Xian and the others, without hesitation, followed them too.

"Lin Baici’s influence is really big!"

Xie Yangchun remarked.

"If we can’t show outstanding performance, we’ll just be his stepping stones!"

Zhang Hao didn’t rest either and continued to research the stone statue heads, "Let’s go!"

This time, Zhang Hao didn’t look for Lin Baici but teamed up with Xie Yangchun.

"What should we do next?"

Xia Hongyao rubbed her hands, starting to think, "Should we climb a tree and look down at these stone statue heads from above? If they are connected, could they form some kind of symbolic message?"

"First, there are no trees tall enough to overlook them; second, the branches and leaves of such tall trees are dense, and you won’t be able to see anything."

Gu Qingqiu analyzed.

"So what do we do?"

Xia Hongyao habitually looked towards Lin Baici.

"Let’s check each one and find the differences!"

It would take a lot of time to go around, so Lin Baici wanted to leave it to Pan Yunxiang, but Gu Qingqiu had quite the addiction.

Half an hour later, Lin Baici and his group had checked seven stone statue heads.

"Is this one missing eyes?"

Xia Hongyao suddenly exclaimed.

"It should be said ’blinded’."

Gu Qingqiu corrected.

Both eyes of the stone statue head were covered with scratches, just like a blind man.

"Quick, let’s check the others; if the others have eyes, then this one is special!"

Xia Hongyao was excited.

"No need to go, let’s send signal fireworks!"

Gu Qingqiu smiled, "Zhang Hao and Xie Yangchun should have already checked a lot of stone statue heads; comparing them will tell us!"

"Aren’t they resting and cooking?"

Long Miaomiao was still waiting for dinner.

"Anyone with a bit of self-respect wouldn’t let Lin Baici use them as a stepping stone!"

Gu Qingqiu asked Xia Hongyao to send the signal.

"Trust you!"

High Ponytail launched the signal fireworks.

Soon, a group of people came over.

"What’s up?"

Xie Yangchun asked anxiously.

"Did you find anything when checking the stone statue heads?"

Zhang Hao scanned the group, noticing Pan Yunxiang hadn’t come.

"If a living creature goes near the stone statue’s mouth, it will bite."

Xie Yangchun, seeing Gu Qingqiu like this, had a realization; could it be that these people had found the key?

"Are they all with eyes?"

Xia Hongyao pressed.

"Yes!"

Xie Yangchun answered, and High Ponytail happily waved her fists.

"Oye, we found it!"