Even Gao Kai and Jing Kaiyu, and even Ye Ling, looked at Zhao Lei lying on the ground with expressions of extreme shock.
"All that this kid bragged about in front of us every day was just talk!" Jing Kaiyu muttered softly.
But in the silent environment, everyone heard him clearly.
At this moment, Zhao Lei's body trembled slightly. No one noticed, but how could it escape Chu Tian's divine sense, which was constantly being projected outwards.
Originally, he had been scanning the space since he entered. Seeing Zhao Lei's movement, he knew that this guy had woken up when Xu Duoduo called him a virgin.
This guy pretended to be unconscious to avoid embarrassment.
Chu Tian did not give him any face and kicked him, saying:
"If you're awake, get up quickly. Stop pretending to be dead. Get up and get bandaged, or you'll really die later.
What's wrong with being a virgin? It's not like none of us have been virgins before."
Zhao Lei was kicked and opened his eyes with a resentful expression, looking at Chu Tian.
As he slowly got up, Ye Ling asked, "How old are you?"
"Huh?" Zhao Lei was stunned.
"He's 26!" Jing Kaiyu replied instantly.
"Oh..." Ye Ling smiled meaningfully and turned to leave.
Zhao Lei, who was about to stand up, stumbled and almost fell to the ground again.
His expression at this moment was one of utter despair.
At this moment, Chu Tian knew that they should be inside the mountain.
It should be the mountain west of the village.
He didn't expect the interior to be hollow.
The entire mountain was hollow. What kind of massive undertaking would it take to achieve this?
The reason Chu Tian didn't think it was naturally formed was that his divine sense detected many traces of artificial excavation.
Moreover, there was a force here that suppressed his divine sense.
His divine sense, which could originally scan a thousand meters, was now reduced to only a hundred meters.
Chu Tian led everyone in this direction because at the edge of his divine sense range, he saw the night tanuki.
It walked and stopped, as if waiting for them.
Everyone followed Chu Tian and reached a turn.
After walking a few steps around the corner, the front became brighter, and an altar appeared in their sight.
There were actually perpetual lamps lit here.
Chu Tian counted, there were a total of nine perpetual lamps refined with whale oil.
The altar had nine corners, corresponding exactly to the nine perpetual lamps.
At the nine positions on the altar, eight of them had the skeletal remains of a tanuki.
The night tanuki was currently lying beside one of the remains.
The group walked over curiously. The tanuki looked up at Chu Tian, then stood up.
"Aowuu..."
It let out a cry and then pawed at the remains beside it.
Then it walked around the altar, stopping at each set of remains, "Aowuu..."
Then it continued walking, finally reaching the position where there were no remains and lay down.
At this moment, it actually put on a pitiful expression.
Chu Tian frowned and said, "You mean, this last position is yours? You're going to die here too?"
When the tanuki heard Chu Tian's words, it seemed to understand. It stood up and nodded.
Then it walked up to Chu Tian, suddenly knelt on its front paws, and pressed its forehead to the ground.
"What does this mean?" everyone asked.
"Could it be that it wants the boss to take it away? It doesn't want to die here?" Zhao Lei asked in surprise.
As soon as Zhao Lei finished speaking, the tanuki actually raised its head, looked at him, and nodded repeatedly.
Zhao Lei's eyes widened: "Damn it... this thing has become a spirit! Didn't they say that animals after the founding of the country are not allowed to become spirits?"
"How did they all die?" Chu Tian ignored Zhao Lei and asked the tanuki. He didn't have much hope of getting an answer, as the question was too difficult to describe.
The black tanuki tilted its head, thought for a moment, walked to the remains it had been lying beside earlier, pointed with its paw, and then pointed to its own belly.
Then it lay down there and stuck out its tongue.
"It's your mother, who gave birth to you and then died here?" Chu Tian tentatively asked.
The black tanuki nodded very intelligently.
The crowd exchanged glances.
This was too strange. If that were the case, the eight sets of tanuki remains here were passed down from generation to generation.
Then why did they all have to die here?
Ye Ling asked, "Can't you not return here?"
The black tanuki shook its head, then came to the center of the altar and dug a few times with its claws.
Chu Tian and the others were curious and prepared to go up and take a look. Suddenly, Xu Duoduo stopped everyone.
"This altar is very strange. It's better not to go up. What if some mechanism is triggered..."
Her words were not finished, but everyone understood her meaning.
"Let me take a look!" Chu Tian concentrated his attention, compressed his divine sense, and covered the entire altar.
At the same time, he discovered that after compressing his divine sense, it could penetrate underground.
However, it consumed a lot of soul power.
A few seconds later, sweat was already on Chu Tian's forehead.
He quickly withdrew it.
"How is it?" Xu Duoduo asked.
Chu Tian's figure swayed slightly and said, "The altar should be fine, but underground..."
As he said this, he frowned and thought carefully, continuing, "I can't say for sure. There seems to be something underground, but I can't see it clearly."
Hearing Chu Tian say it was fine, Zhao Lei was the first to run onto the altar. He had been curious for a long time.
In the center of the altar, the black tanuki was still digging.
Seeing Zhao Lei approach, it didn't dodge.
Zhao Lei reached behind his back and took out his shovel.
Seeing his posture, he was about to help the black tanuki dig something.
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Zhao Lei swung his shovel and almost sprained his back upon hearing this.
"What's wrong, Kai Ge."
Gao Kai said angrily, "Didn't you f***ing hear Xiao Tian say there's something below?"
"I heard. Aren't we just going to dig out the things below?" Zhao Lei had an innocent expression.
Jing Kaiyu pushed him aside and said, "If you want to court death, we won't stop you. Dig by yourself when we leave."
Chu Tian also walked up, looked at the black tanuki, and asked, "What is that thing below? I saw it looked like a jar. What was inside?"
When the black tanuki heard Chu Tian's question, it raised its head and thought for a moment. Suddenly, it saw Xu Duoduo.
It immediately pointed at her with its paw, then pointed at itself, and then started digging the ground.
At first, everyone didn't understand. Zhao Lei said, "Your soul... is stored inside the jar?"
The tanuki actually rolled its eyes at him, shook its head, then pointed at itself, pointed at Xu Duoduo, and continued to dig.
Everyone was stunned, as if it meant the same thing.
Seeing that everyone still didn't understand, the tanuki anxiously spun in place.
Finally, it came to Xu Duoduo's side, pointed at her, then pointed at the ground, and then pointed at the shadow of Gao Kai's feet beside Xu Duoduo.
Then it lay down on the ground, turned onto its back, and pointed at its belly with its paw.
At this moment, everyone realized that its belly was bulging.
"Holy crap, this cat is pregnant!" Zhao mumbled.
As he said this, everyone also noticed.
"Are you saying, she has no shadow? And he has a shadow?" Chu Tian tentatively asked.
The tanuki immediately nodded, then pointed at its belly, and then continued to dig hard in the center of the altar.
The group looked at each other. Finally, there was a clue related to shadows.
But what was the relationship between the shadows, the tanuki's child, and the jar underground?