Chapter 634: Coffin Forest on the Rock Wall
The nearly vertical rock wall looks like a road with no end.
They didn't know how long they had been climbing down until the sunlight went from dazzling to dim, and they still couldn't see the bottom. Wu Xian even missed the eagle eyes he had obtained in the last blessed land.
With the addition of the step of using the rock wall to stabilize the body, everyone's physical energy consumption increased sharply, and everyone's muscles were sore.
In the game, the character is as agile as a monkey on the rock wall, but in reality, everyone is as clumsy as a snail, even Yuan Buyai who is good at rock climbing.
Fortunately, there is not enough sunlight and the temperature is low, so no one has symptoms of dehydration for the time being...
Although he couldn't see the condition of the bottom, Wu Xian vaguely saw some slightly larger protrusions appearing on the rock wall below.
No matter what those bumps are, they provide everyone with a space to rest!
Therefore, the sixteen people were excited and climbed down much faster, but when they were about to touch those bumps, everyone's expressions became solemn again.
Those protrusions were not rocks or steps, but coffins!
Some of these coffins are brand new and painted red, while others have been weathered from being hung on cliffs for a long time, with cracks appearing in the wooden boards, revealing the shriveled corpses inside.
Perhaps it was because the coffins were located deep enough, or perhaps it was because the sun had set. When everyone climbed to the cliff coffins, the visibility was already quite low, even darker than when the moonlight was bright.
To Wu Xian's left were Fan Qingyue and the rock climber Yuan Buyai, and to his right were the quarreling couple Liu Chen and Qu Ying. He couldn't see clearly the people further away.
However, everyone has a clear green dot on their waist. It should be some kind of small light with its own battery. It always maintains this brightness. Even if it is a button battery, it can last for a long time without going out.
Boom!
Wu Xian put his feet on the coffin board, and felt an indescribable sense of security in his heart, and even tears appeared in the corners of his eyes.
Although these coffins looked scary and eerie, Wu Xian knew that there might be deadly dangers hidden here, but he still felt that it was great to have some coffins here!
Only the sixteen people who had just been hung on the cliff could empathize and understand this feeling of being down to earth.
Some people even had the idea of staying here and not moving forward.
Everyone rested on the coffin for a while and recovered some of their strength.
Wu Xian stood up and began to observe the coffin below. Through the gap, he found that there was no body in the coffin, so he tried to open the coffin lid under him.
There might be useful items hidden in this coffin, such as food, drinking water, fire, etc.
But what surprised Wu Xian was that the coffin lid was easily pushed open and fell straight into the rift, which meant that the coffin was not nailed shut.
There was a foul smell coming from the coffin. Although there was no human body, there were the corpses of several dead birds and a pair of half-weathered shoes.
Seeing Wu Xian start to search in the coffins, the others followed suit. After confirming that there was no corpse in the coffin below, they opened the coffins to search for supplies.
Even finding just a small stick can help increase everyone's chances of survival.
But judging from everyone's feedback, it seems that there is nothing useful in the coffin on the top level.
Wu Xian smiled helplessly. It seemed that it was not very realistic to find food and water in the coffin...
He climbed out of this coffin and was about to check out another coffin, but when Wu Xian saw the coffin lid of the other coffin, his expression suddenly froze!
On the coffin lay the corpses of two birds, one of which looked like an eagle, and the other was a small bird like a tit.
In the rift valley, seeing dead birds was nothing. But the problem was that there were too many dead birds. There were several in the coffin just now, and there were still some on the coffin board. Guo Xiake, the distraught family member, had also killed one before.
Do birds die so easily in the canyons?
Or is there some poisonous gas in this canyon? But if it was poisonous gas, Wu Xian and his group would have been infected long ago, so is it normal to see so many dead birds?
The other thing was the shoes in the coffins. When Wu Xian first saw that there was no corpse in the coffins, he thought that these coffins were just for decoration.
But the shoes looked like they had been worn. If there was no one buried there, why would a pair of shoes be put inside?
Could it be a cenotaph?
There should be at least one set of clothes in the cenotaph!
Maybe there was something in this coffin before, but it just crawled out without shoes and never came back!
Wu Xian then warned loudly: "Everyone, be careful when searching for supplies. If it is not an empty coffin, do not approach it."
Just as he finished speaking, he heard another whoosh and something fell beside him.
It was no longer possible to see what had fallen, perhaps a person or a bird, but this falling object made Wu Xian think of a possibility.
He swallowed, picked up a shoe from the coffin and threw it away.
As a result, the shoe fell straight down just after it was thrown less than one meter. According to the force with which Wu Xian threw it, the shoe definitely should not have fallen straight down!
Think carefully about the people Wu Xian and his team had seen jumping off cliffs. Although their postures were varied, they all fell straight down without the slightest deviation!
"Could it be... that there is something wrong with the gravity in this rift, or that there is a force that prohibits jumping or flying?"
After figuring this out, Wu Xian suddenly felt a chill.
He was in a good mood before because he had the Jiao Li in his hand that allowed him to fly, but if he couldn't fly in this canyon, then the Jiao Li would be useless!
If he had discovered it later and used the Jiaoli, he might have fallen straight into the canyon like those shoes!
Now, he has no flying trump card and he is in the same situation as everyone else!
While Wu Xian was thinking.
Strange changes also occurred in the coffin forest. Clusters of green phosphorous appeared out of nowhere, providing light for the dark space.
With the help of the light, Wu Xian looked around and soon saw something very bad.
The coffins here were stacked on the rock wall like a thousand-layer cake, with more than a dozen layers. Most of the sixteen people who had just fallen were on the top layer.
The coffins on this floor were all empty and quite dry inside, not like there had been a corpse there for a long time.
However, with the help of phosphorescent light, Wu Xian saw that many of the coffins on the lower level were also empty. However, those empty coffins were extremely damp, and there were wet handprints on the edges of the coffins...
There were dead bodies in those coffins, and they had just crawled out!
As Wu Xian realized the presence of a monster, the attack began. A emaciated corpse crawled from the top of the rock wall in a strange posture towards the tall retainer Huang Yuanjiang.
General Huang Yuan was not afraid of this at all. He simply took out a spell and released it at the corpse.
But Wu Xian, who saw this scene, immediately felt something was wrong: "Wait a moment, don't look upwards..."
But it was too late for Wu Xian to speak!
(End of this chapter)
