Book 3: Chapter 54: Into the Coffin?

Book 3: Chapter 54: Into the Coffin?

Naturally, it was because of Shen Qianjue's narrative that we thought this Corpse Countrys banquet hall was the underground palace itself. Plus, it was very normal to have murals on every wall of this underground palace.Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

But Fatty was saying that this was all an illusion and we werent actually in the underground palace at all. In fact, three of the four walls around us werent walls but the sides of three huge outer coffins.

It was because these outer coffins were too big that they looked like walls. The three coffins were placed according to the positional relationship of the "goods" and the edges were joined together seamlessly to create an enclosed space, which was the Corpse Countrys banquet hall where we were currently located.

And at the apex of these goods was the area where we and this food box coffin were located. There was a mural behind us, or rather, a huge outer coffin wall with a big hole in it. We could even see rubble on the ground from where it had fallen out from the inside. It was obvious that something had come out of the outer coffin.

"Whats your theory?" I asked Fatty. Truthfully, when I looked at the murals here, I couldnt tell that the walls were actually the sides of huge painted coffins.

"You know that some of the outer coffins in large tombs can weigh up to a thousand tons, right? Although these outer coffins are big, its not unusual," Fatty said. "And something obviously crawled out from the inside and took a bite of this Wanshi Meat. Have you ever heard of a wall burial? As far as I know, theres no such burial system. So, the only reasonable explanation I can think of is that this wall is actually a coffin and a transformed corpse came from inside of it."

I looked at the hole and then up at the height of this banquet hall. If this really was an outer coffin, then it mustve been composed of several layers of wood and mud.

When did this hole come into being? Was it after Shen Qianjue left or after we entered this place?

I couldnt tell because Shen Qianjue didn't say too much at that time.

The three of us immediately realized that there was water falling from the ceiling and looked up.

The first thing I saw was that the giant Buddha statuewhich had been hanging high in the airhad come down. Its mouth was wide open and it was looking at me with a strange smile while drooling.

No, it wasnt a Buddha statue at all but a humanoid thing crawling on the Buddha statue. That thing was dressed very similar to the Buddha statue, but its ancient clothes were rotten and blackened and its face was covered in white hair.

It was drooling so much that there was no doubt that the water on the ground was its saliva. Fatty looked between it and me and mouthed, Mr. Nave, you smell so good that it's coming for you.

"Do something!" I mouthed back.

At this time, the thing suddenly opened its mouth, revealing a row of teeth that had bits of cloth and hair stuck in them.

So, you really did eat the fish head.

As I backed away from the mouth, I saw that there were two human heads near this things ears.

They looked just like two fins.