Imperial Treasure
Chapter 373 - 258: The Man in the Stone Pier_2

Chapter 373: Chapter 258: The Man in the Stone Pier_2

A row lined up against the wall, as if they were deliberately placed this way..

Zuo Wei squatted down and took a close look, then suddenly her eyebrows twitched, this is..

With a swipe of her finger, she brushed off a tiny bit of black powder from the side.

She took her water bottle and wet it with a drop of water..

"What’s wrong?" Gong Jiu, uninterested in the eerie noise, walked over to Sui Yi and saw the smear of black powder on Sui Yi’s pale finger, which faded to red as it was moistened with water.

"Is that blood?!" Gong Jiu exclaimed, her eyes wide.

It was indeed blood. Sui Yi gave her a look before forcefully twisting the stone stool to reveal another side.

As that side came into view, Sui Yi’s breath tightened, and Gong Jiu swiftly drew her gun.

Hearing the sound of the gun being drawn, everyone, who had been listening to that strange noise, looked over in unison to see the stone stool in front of the squatting Sui Yi..

A ghost face with a green complexion and fierce fangs.

Its mouth covered in large patches of dark stains..

"Goodness gracious, what on earth is that?!" Han Gao and the others were all startled.

If those previous noises could be imagined as terrifying, then this green-faced and fiercely fanged stone was truly ghastly and malevolent!

"Sui Yi, back away," Gong Jiu warned Sui Yi.

Sui Yi stood up and took a step back, while pouring some water from the water bottle onto the stone stool..

The flowing water washed down, and the black was instantly rinsed away, revealing an even clearer face with a green complexion and fierce fangs.

"It’s a malevolent ghost stone head... This couldn’t be a temple, could it?"

"It does seem that Xinjiang has quite a few strange customs."

"Is this a deity that’s been worshipped? It looks more like a demon!"

The group became both suspicious and tense. No matter the place, such ghostly and divine matters always unsettle people, even if they are staunch atheists. In these circumstances, they felt the need to be extra wary.

"There’s still blood on top."

This blood took their wariness to the highest level, and they each took out their weapons, vigilantly scanning the decrepit area..

Liang Qing, Shen Di, and Feng Sha were quite skilled and, with a group of people covering them with machine guns, they weren’t very scared. They immediately stepped forward, ready to investigate the malevolent ghost stone head..

It was then they suddenly heard Brother Ma mutter, "Hey, did any of you feel like the eyes of the stone head moved a bit?"

Shen Di and Liang Qing, who had leaned in, paused for a moment. Liang Qing turned her head and gave him a glance, "Brother Ma, are you trying to scare us on purpose?"

"I wouldn’t dare, Sister Qing," Brother Ma chuckled.

Just as Liang Qing was about to sneer, suddenly, both she and Shen Di were yanked by the arms and flung aside by Wei Feng and Flower Demon!

Their movements were so unexpected, and the two reacted quickly, instinctively standing their ground and drawing their guns!

On the other side, Sui Yi had already stepped forward through the gap where the two were pulled apart, drawing Demon Que!

Cold light flashed!

The malevolent ghost stone head was cleaved by a sword strike from Demon Que!

Surprisingly sharp.

One sword strike.

The entire stone was cleaved in an instant.

The lethality left Liang Qing and the others’ faces taut with tension.

What kind of sword is this, so powerful!

If it’s not like slicing through iron like mud, then surely it’s like slicing stone like mud!

"The stone is hollow!" Wei Feng said, looking at the cracked stone statue head as it gurgled out a large amount of liquid.

Bright red, like blood, with an extremely pungent acid smell beyond the scent of blood.

"What is that!"

Among the flow of liquid, there was a white object inside the head of the statue.

Soft, clear... a clump of material folded together

Pure white.

"It’s human bones!"

"Damn, it’s a whole set of adult human bones!"

Why say it’s adult bones, well, because the body signs of adult and children’s skeletons are different. Han Gao was brought here by Gong Jiu because he has some expertise in this area, and it seems that Wei Feng’s side also has talents in this field. They could tell at a glance that these were adult bones but were puzzled why the bones had become so small.

It wasn’t the first time the group saw a dead person, but how could such a small pedestal possibly fit an entire adult skeleton?

"This liquid is hydrochloric acid!" Han Gao suddenly frowned, "The bones become soft and shrink after being soaked in hydrochloric acid, and they could be stuffed into this pedestal."

To stuff an entire skeleton into a pedestal? What kind of psychopath would do such a thing?

Everyone gripped their guns tighter, their gazes sweeping over the nearly twenty pedestals lined against the wall.

Could they all be filled with dead human bones?

Those with guns silently pressed their fingers against the triggers, and the air became utterly still. Wei Feng and Sui Yi exchanged a glance. The two of them were the leaders, so naturally, they had to play the most critical roles at this moment. Therefore...

Taking a step forward, they both walked toward the pedestal that had just been split open.

They were determined to see what kind of secrets this pedestal was hiding!

Apart from the white bones and the acidic liquid with its sour smell, there was nothing else, just the jagged, fierce marks on the inner surface of the stone’s cut...

"That person has a problem!"

Sui Yi and Wei Feng both took a step back and shouted at the same time!

Click clack!

Gong Jiu and Xiao’s guns were simultaneously aimed at the man lying on the ground being tended to, and just as the guns were pointed at him...

The man’s eyes suddenly flew open!

Pop, pop!

His eyeballs sprang out like they were on springs, ejecting a foul-smelling blood toward Gong Jiu and Xiao’s faces!

As they all took a step back, the man’s mouth opened, his tongue long gone; only deep red chunks of bloody flesh oozed toward the corners of his mouth, as two long, blood-red things shot out!

Bang bang!

They pulled the triggers! The bullets raced out!

Crack crack!

The two finger-wide things burst apart midair!

Blood spatter scattered, splashing onto the bodies of those around. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)