I Can Tell You're Not Human at a Glance

"Where are you from?"

"Have you eaten yet?"

The candlelight flickered. In the dim light, three corpses sat around the living room, asking Su Ti about his well-being.

If you didn't look at their decaying bodies, this scene would actually be a bit heartwarming.

But thinking about three corpses that had been soaked in water for a month, the overwhelming stench, coupled with the dim environment, instantly left only horror.

Su Ti smiled and answered the questions posed by these Yu one by one.

Judging from the conversation, they were likely playing the roles of a family of three: an old man, an old woman, and a young adult.

But none of that was important.

"I'd like to ask how many people are left in this village?"

"Not many. Besides us, there's only one household next door and one a hundred meters ahead, but we rarely interact."

One of the Yu started drooling as he spoke.

Like humans, they also had a greedy and selfish side. It was very rare to have such a large living person come to such a closed mountain village. Of course, they didn't want to share him with their other neighbors.

The first family Su Ti and the others encountered earlier was also in this situation. If they hadn't only had two Yu and couldn't eat Su Ti and his group, they wouldn't have wanted to notify their other companions.

Unfortunately, before they could notify their other companions, they were already killed by Su Ti.

"Oh, then I'm relieved."

Su Ti stood up with a strange smile on his face. The three Yu looked at his actions, looking confused.

"What are you relieved about?"

Boom!

A large hand, like a giant python, reached out and suddenly grabbed the head of the Yu in front of him.

Su Ti grinned hideously.

"Relieved to send you on your way!"

The Yu opened its mouth slightly, but before it could speak, there was a loud bang the next second. Its entire body, head down and feet up, made intimate contact with the floor.

After smashing through the floor and creating a hole, its brains splattered. Su Ti grabbed its body and threw it fiercely against the wall again!

Boom!

The Yu's body made intimate contact with the wooden wall again!

The powerful force caused it to directly smash through the wooden wall and fly out of the house!

The remaining two Yu opened their mouths wide, not reacting for a moment.

Only a roar was heard.

"You ghosts, I could tell you weren't human at a glance!"

Then two large, flushed fists grew larger and larger in front of the two Yu. With a bang!

The two Yu had no time to react. They were punched so hard that their feet stretched forward and their heads flew backward, hitting the wall heavily, directly breaking through the wall and flying out the door!

One of them had its head explode in mid-air and died, while the other lay on the ground with twisted limbs and a crooked neck, still struggling.

The violent commotion also disturbed the last household. A total of two Yu poked their heads out from the main door and saw this scene.

"Run!"

The twisted Yu stretched out its arm and shouted with all its might. However, before it could finish speaking, a large foot descended from the sky and stepped on its head.

With a crunch, its head was directly crushed like a watermelon.

"Run?"

The person with the large foot had a ferocious and strange smile on his face. He tilted his head and looked at the two Yu who had poked their heads out, their faces filled with fear.

"Can you run?"

This was the scene Xu Lao and the other four saw as they walked out of the room.

Two monsters resembling floating corpses screamed and fled back into the room. Then a black afterimage crashed through the house door with a bang and rushed in.

Accompanied by a series of loud bangs and screams, the house quickly fell silent after a while.

Su Ti, who had just walked in, came out carrying two Yu with broken neck bones and twisted limbs, and casually threw them onto the open space in the middle.

"Help me move the two corpses from the first house out too. Light a fire and burn these things. They stink."

Su Ti said.

At this time, he had already absorbed all the energy from these Yu. In his opinion, these corpses were now useless except for emitting a foul odor.

"Oh, oh," everyone was stunned for a moment before reacting and working together.

Ten minutes later, looking at the blazing bonfire in front of them, Xu Lao and his group were still a bit dazed.

This ended a little too quickly.

And keywords like mountain village, old people, corpses, illusions, and ghost domain were enough to make a horror movie!

However, Xu Lao and the others were experienced and well-traveled, and they quickly shook off this sense of déjà vu.

Ultimately, this was because their team's combat power had greatly increased with Su Ti's addition. If ordinary people encountered these Yu, it would definitely be a horror movie, but when these Yu encountered Su Ti, it was their horror movie.

Under the firelight, Xu Lao said solemnly.

"It seems my judgment was correct. This tomb is indeed very dangerous. We even encountered evil spirits outside the tomb, which has never happened in my previous tomb raiding career!"

"Because it didn't happen, we weren't prepared for it and almost fell into a trap. Fortunately, Brother Su was cautious and prevented a major disaster!"

The few people nodded slightly, all with lingering fear.

Although these Yu were not much stronger than ordinary people, and were even inferior to Tongli Stage martial artists, their strength did not lie in their physical bodies at all, but in the illusions that could even deceive Su Ti.

Once trapped in an illusion, they would be played around with, poisoned, defeated one by one, and even framed, accidentally killed, and other tricks could be used. This was the most terrifying aspect of the Yu!

"This place is very strange. We are new here. Although this group of Yu has been completely wiped out, it's hard to guarantee there aren't other evil spirits."

Xu Lao said in a low voice, looking around.

As soon as he said this, although everyone was sitting around the bonfire, they felt a chill all over, only feeling that in the dark mountain village, there seemed to be other eyes peeking at them.

"Many evil spirits have the means to create illusions, especially in this kind of mountain village and old forest. I believe you have also heard many legends and stories."

"Don't we have cooling oil?"

Su Ti shook the cooling oil in his hand. Before this incident happened today, he would never have thought that cooling oil could ward off evil spirits. He must buy two more bottles in the future just in case.

Xu Lao shook his head.

"Cooling oil is not a panacea. It can only target evil spirits that use smell to cast illusions. Many evil spirits don't rely on smell to confuse people."

"Like Skinning Monsters and Corpse Puppet Worms, the former can change skin and disguise themselves, and the latter can parasitize and take on the appearance of that person. These are not things that cooling oil can distinguish."

"So we can't separate anymore. The five of us must stay together for eating, dressing, living, and traveling. At the same time, I suggest using some special methods to verify identities."

Xu Lao said, taking out some props.

"First, we all have to tie a red string like this on our wrists. Second, I've made some secret codes. Come over and we'll compare them. Before making any crucial decisions, we must first verify the secret code before trusting the other person."

Previously, Xu Lao had relaxed his guard because they hadn't entered the tomb yet. Now that he knew there were evil spirits outside the tomb, Xu Lao's professionalism came into play, and he formulated a very detailed plan.

On the first night, everyone kept the bonfire burning all night, setting up tents and sleeping in the open space around the wooden house. Two people were on duty at night, taking turns standing guard.

This continued until the sun rose in the morning, and everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After everyone got up and gathered together, Xu Lao glanced at everyone and said.

"Most evil spirits don't come out during the day. Ghosts are afraid of sunlight, and while monsters won't be directly killed by sunlight, they are extremely averse to it."

"So it's quite safe during the day, and we can take the opportunity to investigate the surroundings of this mountain village."

Although it was daytime, everyone still didn't separate and conducted the investigation together under Xu Lao's leadership.

The mountain village was not large, and because of the big fire more than ten years ago, there were only three households left. Everyone quickly walked around the area and did not find any other houses.

Then everyone thoroughly searched the houses where the few Yu lived.

In the kitchen, they found a lot of smoked meat and sausage-like ingredients.

And when they opened the ground under the houses, everyone found many human skeletons.

"These skeletons are very old, the newest are seven or eight years old, and the oldest are more than ten years old. It seems that no one has visited this mountain village for many years."

"Yu don't build houses. I estimate that this house was originally inhabited by people, just as those few Yu said. The people living here were survivors of the fire, some old people who were unwilling to leave the village. Later, for some unknown reason, the Yu came, killed all the owners of these houses, and then occupied the place."

"The later skeletons could be young and strong people who returned to the village to visit the elderly, or they could be tourists."

"In short, they were all bewitched and killed by the Yu, and no news was spread."

Poking through the skeletons, Xu Lao said very professionally.

"Not all of that smoked meat and sausage is human. I estimate that the human meat was eaten long ago. These smoked meat and sausages are the meat of some animals."

"Do evil spirits also need to eat and drink like normal people?"

Su Ti asked somewhat strangely.

"Yes and no."

Xu Lao stroked his beard and began to explain.

"When they are on an Yin vein, they can survive by only absorbing Yin energy, but once they leave the Yin vein, many evil spirits must live by eating flesh and blood with souls. As for eating dried animal carcasses, it's probably their hobby, like eating snacks, not the main course."

Then everyone lit a large fire and burned down all three houses.

It wasn't that they didn't want to live inside, but these three houses had been inhabited by Yu for a long time, and they had a strong smell of decay. There was no other way but to burn them down.

After burning down the houses, everyone started on their way again.

They came this time to survey and raid the tomb, so the first thing they had to do was find the tomb, and this was left to professional personnel like Xu Lao.

Xu Lao took out a compass and map, as well as various special instruments that he couldn't understand, and began to measure.

"If I'm not mistaken about the direction of this Yin vein, our current location should be downstream, and it's already close to the end. Although there is still some Yin energy gathered here, it's not much."

"And ancient tombs built on Yin veins like this are generally built directly at the starting point of the Yin vein, which is the source of the Yin vein. The Yin energy is strongest at that location, and it's also the easiest place for evil spirits to be born."

"Let's go. Stick close to me. We'll go find the source now."

So everyone followed Xu Lao like tourists, starting to climb mountains and cross rivers.

Su Ti discovered that the tomb raiding industry was truly not simple.

Just measuring the approximate location of the Yin vein took Xu Lao a full week.

During this time, everyone hiked over mountains and through valleys near Mu Family Village, stopping and going, and even went down to the city once to replenish food and water before returning to continue measuring the location.

Finally, hard work paid off. At noon on the seventh day, everyone found the source of the Yin vein on a mountain peak about two li to the left of Mu Family Village.

This mountain peak was over two hundred meters high, shaped like a right-angled triangle. The sloping side had soft soil and was a dense jungle, which everyone climbed through to reach the summit.

The right-angled side was a steep cliff, entirely made of hard rock, where not a single blade of grass grew.

At this moment, everyone stood on the mountaintop. There was a large platform on the summit, with hard rock underfoot where no grass grew. The end of the platform was the steep cliff.

"If I'm not mistaken, King Mu's tomb is right beneath our feet now."

Xu Lao walked around the platform, finally stroking his beard and saying.

"Right beneath our feet? Xu Lao, give me the location. I'll start digging now."

Lao Li chuckled, shouldering his engineer's shovel. After measuring the location for so many days, he could finally officially start digging the tomb. His hands were already itching.

Lao Li's role in the tomb raiding team was that of a civil engineer specializing in digging holes, commonly known as a "ground dragon" or "pangolin."

He and Xu Lao, who had Yin-Yang eyes, were responsible for surveying and digging, respectively.

Xu Lao shook his head slightly.

"You won't be able to dig it out. The location of this tomb is very peculiar. It was buried inside the mountain using the method of cliff burial. If you were to dig straight down, you'd have to dig through hard rock for at least a hundred meters before you might reach it."

Hearing "a hundred meters," Lao Li quickly shook his head. No matter how confident he was in his digging skills, he wasn't confident enough to dig a hundred meters directly with an engineer's shovel. Even a drilling machine couldn't reach that deep underground.

Moreover, this place was so remote in the deep mountains and old forests, they couldn't even get a drilling machine up here.