The cave really smells of corpses. For Manda, the smell is not pungent or even unpleasant. In his previous life, he has eaten all kinds of rotten meat, and some rotten meat tastes much worse than this.

The entrance is very narrow, followed the only light in front for tens of meters, like entering the gourd belly from the gourd mouth, and the surrounding immediately widened.

It was not only open, but also bright. There were torches on the wall, candlesticks on the table, and a bare wooden bed without blankets or quilts, with red and green spots on it.

This is blood. The reason why some places are green is that they are moldy. Manda is curious about the purpose of this bed. Suddenly, a burst of old laughter came from behind.

"Hey, what a nice boy."

Manda looked back and saw an old lady standing behind him. As a 12-year-old boy, his height was less than 1.5 meters. Since he came to the world, Manda spent most of his time looking up at the adults around him (except Kunta), but now he can easily look down on the old lady.

The old lady stooped as if she were not a meter high and leaned on a crutch taller than her.

He was wearing a gray linen robe, very old, but very neat.

Her head was wrapped in a dark brown silk scarf, and the shadow of the silk scarf just covered her face under the shadow of the candle light.

Manda kept looking for an angle to see what the old lady looked like. Unexpectedly, the old lady suddenly raised her head.

"What do you want to see? What do you want to do? What do you want from me?"

This time he saw the old lady\'s face. Her skin was rough like bark, crisscross wrinkles were dotted with pimples of different sizes, her lips were almost the same as brown and yellow skin, a huge nose was like a dried garlic hanging on her face, her sparse eyebrows were as gray and white as her hair, and only her eyes were very cloudy, but very divine.

"You\'re Portia, I\'ll take my body." Manda looked at the old lady calmly with no fear on her face. For him, an old woman had nothing to fear, even a little kind.

But the old lady didn\'t want to be too kind. She put her face in front of Manda, grinned her toothless mouth and said with a ferocious smile, "so you\'re here to die?"

After staring at the old lady for a while, Manda suddenly stretched out her little hand and touched the old lady\'s face.

The old lady raised her crutch with a sword eyebrow. Unexpectedly, Manda stretched out her mouth and kissed her on the forehead.

"Beautiful lady, I want my body."

The old lady\'s cheeks were red, and she held her crutch and shook into a ball.

After a long stalemate, the old lady returned to calm. She came to the stone wall with a crutch and a candlestick.

"Don\'t pretend to be so brave. I know you\'re going to pee your pants."

She thrust her crutch on the ground, a piece of dust fell, and a large rock wall shrank aside like a curtain.

Behind the rock wall hung dozens of bodies, including men, women, old people and children.

When Manda came near, he had a cold war.

"You know, I\'m afraid?" the old lady sneered. "See which is your body?"

Manda looked for a while, pointed to a boy similar to him and said, "I want that!"

"Good eyesight. The child\'s body is very similar to you."

The old lady picked the body off the hook with a cane.

"Sensible children should be able to help the old man." the old lady looked at the wooden bed. Manda understood her meaning and carried the body to the bed with the old lady.

"There are always such unlucky people every year. When they come to a place where they shouldn\'t come, the Claudius family\'s bodies naturally have to be returned. Other people\'s bodies have to be disposed of separately. I like to eat their hearts and livers."

Manda looked at the old lady seriously: "does it taste good?"

The old lady frowned and said, "do you want to try it? If you don\'t want to have a nightmare, close your eyes!"

The old lady put the candlestick aside, took out a knife, cut open the belly of the body and skillfully took out the internal organs.

"This is the heart, this is the liver, this is the lung, this is the stomach, this is the intestines, almost, there are only a few pieces left..."

The internal organs were thrown into the barrel under the bed, and Manda stood by, looking at them expressionless.

The old lady changed another knife and dug out the eyes of the body. Instead of putting it in the barrel, she put it in a small wooden box.

"This is the most precious thing, you must stay, and this..."

She pulled out several teeth of the corpse with a pair of pliers: "just stay to make a new set of false teeth. Anyway, it\'s the corpse. They won\'t care if they lack these teeth."

After pulling out her teeth, she shaved the body\'s hair and made sure there was nothing to take away. The old lady wiped the blood channel on her hand: "this is yours."

Manda was stunned: "I just took him to the valley? They\'re not fools. They can see at a glance that it\'s not me."

"I thought you were a fool!" the old witch smiled, took out a pottery pot from the dark grid under the wooden bed, scooped out a spoonful of turquoise powder with a wooden spoon and put it into a cloth bag.

"Sprinkle this thing on the corpse. Don\'t touch your hand. The corpse will soon become bones and won\'t leave any flesh."

Is this the legendary corpse powder?

Manda was excited. She picked up the cloth bag and was about to sprinkle the powder, but she saw the old lady hit Manda\'s hand with a stick.

"What do you want to do? Melt the body now? Do you want to carry a pile of bones outside the valley?"

"What\'s wrong with that?" Manda rubbed her hands. "Bones are lighter."

"Can you spell him completely? Aren\'t you afraid of being seen? Dissolve the body outside the valley, you stupid boy!"

Manda struggled to carry the body and came to the entrance of the mountain. Below is a cliff dozens of meters high, almost straight up and down. Climbing down with a body of dozens of kilograms on her back is tantamount to a fool\'s dream.

"I can\'t get down!" Manda shouted into the cave.

"Shall I carry you?" the old lady\'s voice came out.

"If I fall to death, you have to carry me up, take out all my internal organs, and then carry me out. Isn\'t that more troublesome?"

The old lady was amused. She raised her crutch, ran up with two steps, and threw it out like a javelin.

The crutch penetrated Manda\'s clothes, but it didn\'t hurt Manda. It took him directly outside the cave. After a while of gliding, he landed on the ground smoothly.

The crutch retreated from the hole in his clothes and jumped back into the cave.

"I kissed your face, but you wouldn\'t give me another ride. It\'s a hard woman to please."

Manda complained a few words, carried the body on her back and walked to the valley mouth in the evening.

The body was almost as heavy as Manda, but it didn\'t make much difference to carry a schoolbag.

Physical strength has improved, much better.

Manda couldn\'t help trotting, and her speed was very different from before.

There was a rabbit eating grass in the valley ahead. As soon as Manda bent down, she caught it and threw it out again.

The rabbit got up, cocked up an ear at Manda, and then continued to eat grass.

Manda\'s physical quality has been greatly improved, which is the change brought by the blood of the gods. With such a physique, combined with the fighting skills of previous lives and dinosaurs, Manda can easily deal with three or four adult men.

He ran quickly to the mouth of the valley, and the sentry didn\'t stop him. There was no one around. He put the body on the open space outside the valley and poured the powder in the cloth bag on the body.

I thought I would see a violent chemical reaction, but the scene was calm at the beginning. The body slowly turned into water like jelly, without sound or smoke, and there was no blood left on the smooth bones.

Manda didn\'t think the position was very good. He wanted to make the body more conspicuous, but he didn\'t dare to move easily for fear of scattering the skeleton. In the tangle, he suddenly saw two lights in the distance.

He hurried into the valley and saw two men walking to the bones, as if he had found their long lost father, shouting excitedly.

These two men are the servants of Baron Claude Sai. Manda knows them. One of them stays to see the bones of the guardian, and the other goes back to report. Manda can confirm one thing. Nominally, the illegitimate son of the Claude Sai family has died.