Chapter 374 - 66_6
The juices either dripped onto the masked man’s body or gathered at his feet after hitting the ground.
Run Sheng sniffed: "It’s that thing’s blood."
It was the blood of the lizard snakes, so the masked man was also a link in this cyclical feeding system. The woman above in the underground palace who dreamed of ascending to meet the Snake God was just one of his pawns, endlessly circulating to nourish those lizard snakes.
Behind the doors of the underground palace was the lair of the lizard snakes. When food was scarce, they would also kill each other, and their blood would be collected, funneled through holes, and finally accrue at the masked man’s location.
He’s been postponing his decay in this way.
Li Zhiyuan had to admire his ingenuity; those hobbyists who enjoyed constructing small-scale ecosystems for viewing would probably rush here by train overnight if they knew of his existence, hoping for a learning opportunity.
As for that big thing that attacked the exploration team earlier on, it was probably the dominant ruler among the lizard snakes under their own vicious infighting. Logically speaking, it was impossible for such a large species to exist in an ecosystem like the exploration area, but who would have thought that there was someone building this system beneath it, one that would spawn such a creature every few decades or centuries?
Li Zhiyuan even suspected that the reason Yin Zhiwang and his group of four had found this place was likely to deal with this big thing that was harming the people.
Capable of sailing the seas even in the Spring and Autumn period and then returning to the Southwest to bewitch and control a small nation to serve his purposes.
Such a character, if he hadn’t become a corpse and had to hide here, would probably have made a name for himself in history and perhaps even inspired legends and tales under normal circumstances.
At this moment, the chest of the masked man heaved up and down, his hands clutching the armchair, seemingly eager to stand up. But his body was too weak, so weakened that even as a corpse, he lacked the strength to stand.