"It's true that it's not like a human being, and it can't be so fast for a person to scratch. Wu Zhongyuan said.

At this time, Lu Jiahui and Zhang Shukai were also close to the door, and they also heard the sound of scratching the door, but it only lasted for a short time before the scratching sound disappeared.

"Why is there no movement?" Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang Xinran thought about it, took the claw hammer in Lu Jiahui's hand, and knocked on the stone door twice.

After the knocking, there was another scratching sound from inside, and the speed of scratching was very fast, and there was a pause for about a second, and then there was a short pause, and then there was a momentary pause. The speed of scratching is fast, and the number of scratches is not the same each time.

"It's not the Morse code. Lu Jiahui shook her head.

Wu Zhongyuan glanced at Lu Jiahui, and then said happily to Wang, "How do you feel?"

"Judging by the frequency of the door and the volume of the sound, it must be some kind of animal with sharp claws. Wang said happily.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't ask again, and Wang Xinran's judgment coincided with his judgment.

"What could it be?" Lu Jiahui turned her head to look at Zhang Shukai.

"Could it be a pangolin?" Zhang Shukai guessed.

Wang Xinran said happily, "We are now under 100 meters of water, how can pangolins come here." ”

"Otter?" Zhang Shukai guessed again.

Wang Xinran shook his head, "It shouldn't be, these stone chambers are all airtight, and it is impossible for otters to get in, not to mention that otters should be afraid of people, but this animal inside obviously wants to attack us." ”

For the next few minutes, the four of them did not speak, as long as the sound of the door scratching inside disappeared, Wang Xinran would knock on the stone door, and after each knock, the sound of scratching the door would appear again.

Ruled out all kinds of impossibilities, even if the rest is incredible, it must be the truth, and now the truth has been revealed, the animals inside are not invaded from the outside, and it is impossible for Zhao Ying and others to bring it, no matter what it is, it was originally here.

Wang happily lit a cigarette and took a puff, "The speed of grabbing the door is so fast, the speed of movement must be very fast." ”

"Except for the sound of the door scratching, I didn't hear the sound of chains mopping the floor, it shouldn't be chained. Wu Zhongyuan said.

The two of them are actually worried about the same problem, that is, if the stone gate is blown open and the animal inside jumps out, how to deal with it.

"What is the animal inside?" Lu Jiahui frowned in confusion, "How did it survive until now?"

"If you don't open the stone gate, you will never know what it is," Wang Xinran finished speaking, turning his head to look at Zhang Shukai, "On the premise of being able to push open the stone gate, try to narrow the gap that was blown up as much as possible." ”

"I try. Zhang Shukai nodded in agreement, and then considered the angle and removed part of the gravel pressed on the gas cylinder.

After getting ready, the four of them retreated to a safe area, and Zhang Shukai asked for Wu Zhongyuan's pistol and prepared to shoot.

Zhang Shukai looked at the three of them one by one, and when the three of them were mentally prepared, he aimed at the gas cylinder and pulled the trigger.

After the explosion, there was a scratching sound at the stone gate, and this time the scratching sound was unusually clear.

Because the smoke and dust caused by the explosion had not yet dissipated, he could not see the situation ahead, and Wang Xinran did not intend to see the situation clearly before shooting, so he shot directly at the area under the stone gate, and continued to shoot, firing seven shots in a row.

The gunfire stopped, the scratching disappeared, Wang happily illuminated the area with a strong flashlight, and when the dust settled, everyone clearly saw that there was a black thing in the gap that had been blown out, a black head to be exact, only the head was drilled out, and the body was still stuck in it.

Wang Xinran changed into * and walked forward cautiously, Zhang Shukai and Lu Jiahui followed behind with guns, and Wu Zhongyuan walked last.

In front of the stone gate, Wu Zhongyuan saw the situation at the gap clearly, his stomach churned instantly, and it was indeed a head that came out of the gap, but it was not an animal's head, but a human head, Wang Xinran fired seven shots before, at least three shots were hit, and red blood and white brain fluid slowly overflowed from the bullet hole.

This kind of bloody scene Wang Xinran and the others should have seen a lot, and they did not show nausea and discomfort, the expressions on the faces of the three of them were more puzzled, according to the previous scratching sound, it should be an animal inside, how could it be a person.

The person who was killed was a small flat head, this hairstyle is naturally not ancient, and it is undoubtedly with Zhao Ying.

At this moment, a strange situation happened, and the head of the man who had been shot several times suddenly opened his eyes and looked up.

No matter how bold he was, he would be frightened when he saw this situation, and while he was exclaiming and retreating, Wang Xinran and Zhang Shukai fired a few more shots at the head.

Because it was shot at close range, the destructive force was even greater, and the whole human head was almost broken, but even so, the human head was still moving, violently arching forward, trying to drill through the stone door.

But the gap was very small, stuck in his shoulder, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get out, and after repeated attempts to no avail, he quickly retracted back into the stone chamber.

The four of them were stunned and looked at each other.

"How can this be?" Wu Zhongyuan was the first to speak.

No one could answer his question.

"Was he the one who caught the door just now?" Wu Zhongyuan said again.

The three of them still didn't say anything, the matter was too weird, none of them came back to their senses, and no one could give a reasonable explanation.

"How did he become like this?" Wu Zhongyuan said, he didn't ask Wang Xinran and the others, but more like talking to himself.

There is a reasonable explanation for everything, even weird things, Wu Zhongyuan's first thought was zombies, "You often deal with supernatural phenomena, have you ever seen zombies?"

Wang Xinran frowned and said, "The blood of a person who has been poisoned by the corpse will turn black, but his blood is still red. ”

After Wang Xinran finished speaking, Lu Jiahui added beside him, "Zombies are not undead, and attacking their heads can also kill them." ”

"Then what's going on?" Wu Zhongyuan pointed to the stone door.

No one answered.

Wang Xinran held a strong flashlight, leaned down, and shone through the gap in the stone door.

"What's in there......"

Wu Zhongyuan didn't finish speaking, a bloody half of the head suddenly drilled out of the gap, because the change happened too suddenly, no one was mentally prepared, the three of them instinctively dodged backwards, and Wang Xinran was the most frightened, hurriedly rolled and dodged, stabilized his body and immediately shot.

Due to the angle of the shot, these shots directly knocked the half of the head off the neck, and the moment the head was separated from the neck, a yellow serpentine creature came out of its cavity, exposed half a foot and then turned around and drilled back into the cavity, and the headless corpse retracted from the gap in the stone door again.

"Have you seen it?" Wu Zhongyuan looked at the three of them anxiously.

Judging by the expressions of the three of them, all three of them saw the serpentine creature, which was the thickness of a thumb, earthy yellow, had no obvious head, and did not look like a snake, nor like an eel or eel, but rather a bit like an earthworm.

"Like roundworms, but many times bigger than roundworms. Lu Jiahui said.

"Don't you have any information about this kind of thing at your headquarters?" Wu Zhongyuan asked, "That person may have died a long time ago, and it was that yellow thing that controlled him." ”

"It could be a creature like a nematode. Wang Xinran said, seeing Wu Zhongyuan's puzzled face, Wang Xinran knew that he didn't know about this creature, so he explained, "Clematode is a kind of parasitic worm, usually parasitic in the body of arthropods, this kind of worm has a great characteristic, can control the behavior of the host, make the host show strong aggression, when they want to change the host, will drive the original host to commit suicide." There are hundreds of known species of nematodes, but they are all small, as large as they were, and they have never been found. ”

After Wang Xinran finished speaking, Lu Jiahui said, "In addition to nematode parasitic worms, some fungi can also affect the behavior of the infected, such is the case of the well-known Cordyceps sinensis, the larvae of the bat moth infected by the grass fungus will maintain an upright form in the soil before dying, so that the grass fungus can germinate and grow from its head." ”

Wu Zhongyuan nodded at Lu Jiahui, lay on his side on the ground, and looked in from the gap.

Wang Xinran handed over a strong flashlight, Wu Zhongyuan waved his hand and did not answer, although he had been mentally prepared in advance, but the headless corpse did not appear again, through the gap you can see the general situation in the stone room, the first thing you see is a stone platform that is the same as those stone platforms seen before, there is a large four-legged bronze in the middle of the stone room, which is square, nearly two meters long and wide, about one meter high, and has ears on all sides.

He is no stranger to this style of bronze, this is a bronze Bingjian, which is an ancient water storage vessel, with a thermal insulation effect, and is also the prototype of a modern refrigerator, but the largest known bronze Bingjian is Zeng Hou Yi Bingjian, which is only half the size.

There were a large number of bullet casings scattered around the Bronze Ice Jian, in addition to the bullet casings, there were also large blood stains, and a waterproof backpack was left not far from the Bronze Ice Jian.

Changing the angle, continue to observe, found that there is a black animal in the northeast corner of the stone room, this animal is lying on the ground motionless, it should not be a living thing, because I can't see the head and face, I don't know what it is, just look at the body, some like a dog, some like a monkey.

There was nothing else in the other areas of the stone chamber, the headless corpse from before was not in the stone chamber, there were blood stains on the edge of the bronze ice jian, and the headless corpse should have crawled into the bronze ice jian.

"Knock on the stone door. Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang happily took the claw hammer and knocked on the stone door, but there was nothing abnormal in the stone room, and the headless corpse did not crawl out of the bronze ice jian.

After observing the situation in the stone room, Wu Zhongyuan stood up, and Wang Xinran didn't ask him what he saw, but leaned down and observed it himself by the light of the strong flashlight.

While the two of them observed the internal situation of the stone chamber, Zhang Shukai made a torch, he did not make a torch purely for lighting, he carried a gas cylinder behind his back, if necessary, he could release oxygen to help burn and burn the headless corpse.

Before pushing open the stone door, Wang Xinran fired a shot at the bronze ice jian, and the bullet hit the bronze ice jian, causing a dull echo, and the headless corpse did not reappear.

Carefully pushing open the stone door, Zhang Shukai and Lu Jiahui were on guard from the door, while Wang Xinran accompanied Wu Zhongyuan to the stone platform.

As he walked, Wang Xinran used a strong flashlight to shine on the northeast corner of the stone room, and this time he saw clearly that it was not a dog that died there, but a black-haired monkey.

There was a thick layer of dust on the stone platform, and there was no need to ask, Zhao Ying and the others had not tried to answer at all before, they were self-aware, and they knew that they would definitely not answer correctly.

There is no round hole on this stone platform, there is no stone ball, the stone table is inlaid with three gossip copper plates, three gossip plates are of general size, each gossip plate has five rings inside and outside, from the inside and outside are Taiji, two instruments, four elephants, eight trigrams, sixty-four hexagrams, above the three discs, each has two words, respectively, heaven, earth, humanity.

"What is this subject?" asked Wang Xinran.

"He wanted me to turn the five rings of Bagua and explain the three paths. Wu Zhongyuan said.

"Is there any hope?" Wang happily asked.

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, "This is for me to explain the meaning of the existence of heaven, earth and man, which is equivalent to asking a high school student to explain the Fermat conjecture in the mathematical world, the four-color conjecture and the Goldbach conjecture, do you say there is hope......