Chapter 44 The Informant of Coco Village

  After proceeding forward for about a minute, the water flow accelerated, and the water level seemed to drop, accelerating downward in a torrent.

  No waterfall, but the water just suddenly - dropped!

  There seemed to be a huge suction force drawing them in.

  Everyone felt a strange change and rushed to lie on top of the fish head, fearing that the swirling waves would shake them off.

  The suction grew stronger and stronger, they only saw that the red water was like being sucked by some kind of monster with great force, accelerating its flow backwards, and the fish head they were on also stuck to the surface of the water, sinking rapidly, and everyone's hands rose unconsciously.

  Soon they found themselves passing through a dark opening, and then they felt themselves flying up into the air, swept upward by this tremendous suction.

  "Boom...... crack...... Ah hoo-ha!"

  A string of sounds rose, and they were sucked up by that huge suction force, along with the water flow that was also sucked out, like fireworks bursting in mid-air scattering everywhere. Fortunately, they were lucky to be thrown onto a protruding platform.

  Everyone was suddenly knocked seven this and eight that, especially Professor Zhou Tao, whose old bones almost fell apart.

  Liu Yi stood up and looked down at the water pool, only to see that the water inside had fallen back down after rising once, but not long after, it gushed out again. Looking at this working principle, it seemed a bit like a fountain.

  The location where they were was a platform protruding from the stone wall, with the road on the left side being impassable and fragmented. On the right side was a long road, with countless thick and large Kunlun jade stone pillars that penetrated the platform, connecting the upper and lower parts of the platform. These stone pillars were probably the supporting pillars for the entire massive underground palace.

  On the stone wall, lanterns were embedded, with one lantern every few hundred meters. Although they weren't very bright, they could still illuminate their path forward.

  Liu Yi pointed to the distant square stone chamber suspended in the air with gems inlaid, shouting: "Look, that's the whole appearance of Shibei Temple we passed through..."

  The crowd heard the sound and looked forward, only to see that the outer wall of the square temple was also inlaid with many precious stones, shining brightly. Those gems seemed to be scattered randomly, but they actually hid the logic of the Big Dipper Seven Stars Nine Palaces numerology.

  This was not what surprised them the most, but what surprised them was that they found a huge stone chamber connected to the temple, which was where the one who rushed out earlier came from. Previously, because it was inside the stone chamber, no one knew what shape it was, and this time, looking at it from the outside, everyone suddenly exclaimed: "What a big heart!"

  Professor Zhou Tao said: "Is this Goat Palace actually built according to a part of the internal structure of a real sheep's body?"

  Liu Yi nodded in agreement: "It's very likely that the sheep's head is on the ground, while its entire body is underground. But I have no idea how our ancestors managed to complete such a massive project!"

  Professor Zhou Tao listened to Liu Yi's words and said, "I was just wondering why there was a sudden suction force, like water being sucked out, if it's the working principle of the heart, it would be easy to explain! I estimate that we have already entered the thoracic cavity of the sheep..."

  Lu Zonghan nodded on the side: "I'm afraid the mechanism inside this heart has been destroyed, that's why we passed through so easily, otherwise... hehe..."

  He didn't continue speaking, but everyone knew what he meant, and suddenly fell silent.

  Kexi seemed to know about this and didn't look as shocked and puzzled as Liu Yi, still closing his eyes slightly, nodding his head and chanting mysterious incantations.

  As the crowd was immersed in admiration for this magnificent project, Korksi suddenly pointed to a shadow not far away and shouted: "Sheep-headed human-bodied guardian of the Yangtze River!"

  Upon hearing Korksi's shout, Lu Zonghan and Malacca moved in perfect sync, swiftly drawing their pistols and assuming a combat stance.

  They looked at a stone pillar about 100 meters away, where a monster was leaning against the pillar with its back to them, only half of its body exposed, showing half of a sheep's head and one leg. The dim lamp light shone on the monster's body, and on the ground above appeared a motionless shadow of a sheep-headed human sitting upright...

  The two nodded at each other and walked forward slowly in a pincer movement, one on the left and one on the right.

  Malacca shouted loudly again: "Don't move, or I'll shoot, got it?"

  Lu Zonghan shook his head as usual and was extremely speechless about Malacca.

  The two men moved forward, one on the left and one on the right, sandwiching the strange creature in between.

  "Hey, stop pretending to be dead!" Ma Liu Jia muttered and kicked the motionless sheep-headed monster.

  "Ah..." A sheep-headed human monster let out a human voice.

  Lu Zonghan looked at him carefully and saw that there were five or six bullet holes on his body, from which fresh blood was slowly seeping out.

  Malacca grabbed the monster's horn on its head and pulled it upwards, wanting to take a closer look at this guy. If there was a mobile phone, taking a selfie would be even better.

  Who would have thought that the sheep's head was not a real sheep's head, but just a sheep-headed mask, and it wasn't tightly connected to the person inside. As a result, he pulled too hard and suddenly found himself holding nothing, taking two steps back and almost falling over: "Damn it, you're wearing a sheepskin condom, you big-headed sheep!"

  At this time, Liu Yi changed into a bloody garment and also came around.

  "Despicable informer!" Korksi exclaimed, raising his foot to kick the man in front of him. But after lifting it, he hesitated and didn't kick him, instead letting out a deep sigh like an old man and muttering, "Forget it, forget it..."

  That person should have been resting and nursing his wounds here, but as a result of Malacca's turmoil, he woke up. He looked at the crowd in front of him with confusion, and finally fixed his gaze on Koxing, with an excited look in his eyes, and smiled at the latter. But Koxing didn't want to pay attention to him, turning his head to the side.

  When Keke Xi saw that, the person's excited expression suddenly wilted and turned into a sorrowful color!

  Liu Yi knew who was in front of him when he heard Koxinga shout "Despicable informer". So he said: "Are you Koxinga? Aren't you with that foreign black-robed wizard? How did you fall to this point? And why are you wearing a sheep-headed mask?"

  "Cough...cough..." Kork star coughed twice, covering his chest with his hand, as if afraid that the "inner energy" would run out.

  "He faintly said: 'Dead, dead, all dead! The entire Guardian Army is dead!'"

  "Hmph, you still have the face to say that if it wasn't for you bringing those people to our village, how would they have come here? How would the Guardian of the Flock have died?" Kexi shouted sharply from the side.

  After being scolded by Kexi, Kexing hung his head in shame: "I'm not wrong, I'm not wrong. When a secret is a secret, it will eventually attract people to steal the secret. I just wanted to make the secret public, as long as the secret becomes an open secret and everyone knows, no one will come to bother us..."

  He became more and more agitated, and when he finished speaking in one breath, as if he had used up his last bit of strength, his head fell to one side, and he actually died. Koxi saw this and suddenly burst into tears: "Uncle, uncle!"

  Professor Zhou Tao saw him crying sadly and walked over to comfort him: "Life and death have their own destiny, don't be sad!"

  The rest of them were secretly puzzled and thought: "Since Koxi was so unwelcome to Koxing, why did he become so sad after Koxing's death?"

  Kirk gazed at the dead Kirk star and said quietly to everyone:

  Kekexing treated me like his own son, and when I was very young, he had already promised his daughter Kekexue to me. He and my father were as close as brothers, never having any conflicts, but two years ago, the two of them had a falling out over something - there is a rule in our village that when a man reaches 30 years old, they have to go outside to do something, I don't know what this thing specifically is, but previously those who went out never returned, now it seems that those legendary Guardians should be the men from our village.

  Kekexing is a person who yearns for the outside world and freedom, disagreeing with this matter, the two had a big fight. Afterwards they ignored each other, but later they fought again, this time over whether to make public the secret of the sacrificial grounds. He was scolded by his father, saying he was unfilial. In a fit of anger, he left the village, and afterwards...the village massacre happened...

  Liu Yi thought to himself, "No wonder most of the villagers who died that day were women and children. It turns out all the men came here to serve as the Guardian Herd Army? I had expected a grand battle with the legendary Guardian Herd Army, but instead it's...".

  He said, "You didn't see that Kork finally put on the sheep-headed mask, which proves that at the last moment he had already joined the sequence guarded by your clan, so he is worthy of respect!"

  "Hmm!" Young Korkxi nodded vigorously after hearing this and said: "Perhaps what he said makes sense, if the secret of Guqiang is made public to the world, perhaps it's a good thing..."

  Liu Yi suddenly remembered the dead wives and children who had been left behind, and looking at Korksi, who had raised doubts about the clan's rules, he sighed and said: "The village's future hope lies with you, you are the future Shibi master, you can make your own rules, go for it, young man!"

  As they spoke, the crowd walked a long distance forward, with bullet holes all over the wall and many dead bodies of Coco villagers wearing sheep-headed masks on the ground. Korksi walked with his head down, muttering to himself: "Let them guard here like this, perhaps for their mission, this is the best destination..."

  The further they walked, the higher the temperature rose. Slowly, they saw a faint flame light appear in front of them, and soon that light grew larger and more scorching. Everyone's body began to sweat...

  As they approached the edge of the platform, Ma Liu pointed ahead and shouted: "How come it's like arriving at Flame Mountain? Is there a huge pit of fire ahead?"

  Kerker murmured: "Golden Fire Refining..."

  They walked to the end, turned around, and came to the end of the platform...

  No bridge, no road...

  Below was a sea of flames, boundless and endless, with no walls to climb, no passage to cross over, it seemed like this was a dead end...

  Only two miles away from the platform, a gigantic white torch-like altar stands there.

  It is quiet and silent, as if waiting for something.