Bang bang!
The whole pentagonal dining table was flipped to the ground by Gu Jun. The plates and food on the table toppled to the ground.
The room was silent for a few moments before another gasp came from the group. The Zoog jumped onto Gu Jun's head, Gold went to pick up Ma Feng from the ground, Gu Jun and Lou Xiaoning aimed their guns around them.
As soon as the fresh and fragrant food fell to the ground, it was as if an illusion had been shattered, quickly changing into something else.
The plump and smooth drumstick melted into a puddle of yellow pus, and the apple-like fruit melted into a puddle of bloody white pus. There were also other brown and black pus … sticky, as if they had just been squeezed out of a festering wound, and they flowed all over the floor.
An indescribable stench had already filled the secret room, polluting every single drop of air.
"God, this is so smelly." Kathlyn almost cried from the stench. If not for Peacock, she would have puked all over the place.
Not to mention Kathlyn, even Gu Jun, who was no stranger to the smell of formalin and the stench of rotting corpses, almost vomited at this moment. It was purely due to a physiological reaction and a sense of disgust in his heart.
The group tried their best to hold it in. Without fresh air, the stench intensified. It would not be long before they puked.
"This is worse than cat sh * t!" The Zoog patted Gu Jun's head bitterly. He could not imagine if he had swallowed this putrid food earlier.
"What the f * ck is going on …" Lou Xiaoning hissed through gritted teeth. She was a hot-tempered person, she was about to explode from anger. "Bastards from Lai Sheng Company, come out now!" Suddenly, the rationality assessment stone on her wrist reacted. Her mind was being corrupted.
"Calm down!" Gu Jun immediately drew out an Ancient Seal to help Lou Xiaoning clear her mind.
"F * ck …" Lou Xiaoning staggered back several steps before she regained her balance. The light from the stone dimmed and she recovered, "This stench is affecting one's mind …"
"I don't think it's the stench. It's the environment," Gu Jun said in a low voice. His severely depleted spirit was also swaying slightly.
The room was filled with malice, and the pus that gradually turned the floor into a foul swamp was just one of the things they could see.
As for those purple wall coverings and carpets … Gu Jun suddenly recalled some knowledge about colors. A few days ago, he had done some research on the color of the monitoring stone. In both the Eastern and Western civilizations, purple represented nobility, emperors, sages, and gods …
He scanned his surroundings. The people who set up this place were probably the cultists from Earth.
But according to the Zoog, these people were in dreamland so everything here was both real and fake.
This hall was not the same as the House of Worm. He had a feeling that this was just one of the rooms in the House of Worm, a room where the cultists conducted their activities.
"We need to find the exit as soon as possible." The Zoog patted Gu Jun's forehead in distress. "Or else we'll suffocate here."
"So please hurry." Peacock said, "You Zoogs are better at finding the cracks and crevices than we are." Lou Xiaoning added, "There are tunnels above each of the five fireplaces, why don't you climb up one by one to see what's going on?"
"This …" The Zoog stammered. His beady eyes stared at the dark fireplaces. His body shivered like he was staring at the gates of hell.
However, the sudden change made the group unable to blame the Zoog for his cowardice. Perhaps he had sensed something earlier.
After all the food on the ground dissolved into pus, a human body dangled down from each of the five fireplaces. They were tied up with thick rope.
When they checked earlier, these bodies were not there.
Instantly, Gu Jun's heart tightened. He was angry at this but at the same time afraid that it might be Uncle Dan's group.
Kathlyn, Tom, and the rest gasped in shock, but they were not Uncle Dan's group. They could not be, because the five bodies were all children. They were all the same size as the girl with braids in the fog, about six or seven years old. As for their faces …
"Ah." Kathlyn felt like vomiting. Peacock clamped her hand over her mouth, "Think of something else, think of something else!"
"Poor thing." Lou Xiaoning gritted her teeth. The opaline assessment stone flickered again, "So f * cking sad …"
"Is it because of some kind of disease?" Malachite asked chillingly.
"It should be …" Gu Jun narrowed his eyes to study the child's body inside one of the fireplaces. "The victim appears to be a leprosy victim."
He had not seen a leprosy victim in person. After entering the modern era, leprosy was gradually eradicated. It was in a low epidemic state and there were very few new cases every year. But leprosy had plagued mankind for thousands of years. Even now, there were still leprosy villages established decades ago to isolate the victims.
Leprosy was caused by Bacillus leprae. It would cause pathological changes to the victim's skin and peripheral nerves, causing them to become deformed and disabled.
The corpse in the fireplace was in the same state. Its upside-down face was twisted into a ball, and its neck and hands were covered in pustules.
Gu Jun was suddenly reminded of something. He turned to look at the other body inside the fireplace. Smallpox … That was a smallpox victim.
The skin of the corpse's face was covered with small, densely packed blisters. Some were still in the form of a white membrane, while others had already turned black. The exposed skin was covered in dense pustules like it had been scalded by boiling water. It was a classic case of smallpox.
He turned to the other fireplace. The eyes of the body were pustules and the skin was covered in pustules as well. The difference was that there were patches of black scabs underneath.
'Is that a patient of the plague … Plague, the so-called Black Death. '
Gu Jun's heart raced. He turned to the other side. The body was as thin as a stick and there were traces of feces on it. It was a patient of cholera.
Leprosy, smallpox, the Black Death, cholera.
These were all … plagues that had a huge impact on mankind. Cholera still ravaged countries with poor sanitation every year.
There was also a fireplace and a dead body. Gu Jun looked over. There was a sense of familiarity. It was a feeling he got from the patients at Jiang Xin Hospital … The skin was purplish, the lips were dehydrated, the face and body were covered in bloody phlegm … It was legionella pneumonia but it was hard to tell whether it was a new or old one.
"This is an altar." Realization dawned on Gu Jun. His heart shook with anger. "Those bodies are part of the ritual."
'Five different diseases, five different plagues.
What is the purpose of this ritual? Are the bodies of the patients a tribute to the House of Worm … '
"Ritual? Then that means the food is not for us. "The Zoog gasped." But that is also part of the ritual. "
What the believers who held the ceremony thought was one thing, but what the unknown being who accepted the sacrifice thought was another.
The group looked around. Standing back to back in the middle of the pentagonal hall, they could feel the stench and danger creeping up on them.
It felt like there were countless eyes watching them.
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