Chapter 109: A Matter of Life and Death
Seeing that Zhang Shukai was attacked, Lu Jiahui hurriedly pulled out a pistol, and the first shot hit one of them in the back, but the other party did not lose his ability to move, but continued to bite Zhang Shukai frantically.
Seeing this, Lu Jiahui fired a second shot, this time hitting the man's head, and the man was shot in the head, and then he turned over and died.
Seeing that only by hitting the head could he kill the opponent, Zhang Shukai raised his arm and raised his hand and shot at close range, splashing the brain fluid of the other person.
Zhang Shukai had multiple bite wounds on his body, but after killing his opponent, he didn't bother to check his own injuries, and took advantage of Lu Jiahui's shooting cover, quickly changed into *, and returned to the fight.
The magnitude of the stone door was not large, Wang Xinran and the others occupied almost all the vacancies, Wu Zhongyuan couldn't get close, and he couldn't see anything in the stone room, but the three of them continued to shoot everywhere in the stone room, which showed that there were a lot of enemies in the stone room.
"What's inside?" Wu Zhongyuan shouted.
The three of them continued to shoot, and the gunshots came and went, maybe they didn't hear Wu Zhongyuan's shouting, or they heard that they were distracted, in short, no one answered.
At this moment, a corpse died at close range near the stone gate, and Wu Zhongyuan happened to be able to see the location of this person's death, looking at the person's clothing, he should also be a mercenary.
"The number of people is wrong. Wu Zhongyuan secretly wondered, after Zhang Kui turned himself in, he once said that five people had gone into the water, but as of now, six people have appeared.
The current situation is critical, there is no time for him to think, Wang Xinran and others are using pistols, which need to be replaced frequently*, Zhang Shukai had gone out on a trip before, and brought back a lot of ammunition, whenever Wang Xinran and Lu Jiahui* were about to run out, he would hand them out in time*.
Just when Lu Jiahui reached out to take *, a mercenary took the opportunity to bite her left wrist, Lu Jiahui was in pain, her right arm retreated, and the pistol was fired against the mercenary's head, killing the other party and taking it back* to unload and replace.
In the midst of her change*, another enemy rushed up, grabbed her by the ankles and dragged her into the stone chamber.
At this time, Wang Xinran and Zhang Shukai were blocking the enemy, seeing that Lu Jiahui was in danger, Wang Xinran reached out and wanted to drag her, but she was half a point slower and caught a miss.
Seeing that the two of them had no time to separate, Wu Zhongyuan hurriedly rushed up to help, and only then did he see the scene in the stone chamber clearly, there were five or six corpses lying on the ground of the stone chamber, and there were four or five alive, and the stone door leading to the eighth stone chamber on the north side of the stone chamber was ajar, and a black shadow was found to have entered the eighth stone chamber at a glance.
The situation was critical, Wu Zhongyuan didn't think much about it, he quickly stepped forward, and shot at the mercenary who dragged Lu Jiahui, he also hit the head at close range, and the mercenary was killed with one shot, and he took the opportunity to drag Lu Jiahui back.
"Thank you. Lu Jiahui gasped.
Before Wu Zhongyuan could answer, a sharp pain suddenly came from his leg, and he eagerly lowered his head, only to see a mercenary who was injured and fell to the ground but was not killed, taking advantage of the chaos to bite his right leg.
Wu Zhongyuan lowered his hand and shot the man, and then fired another shot to the left, killing the other one.
There was no illuminated fluorite in the stone room, Wang Xinran and the others relied on the headlamp lighting at this time, and the light flickered rapidly, which affected the aiming of the three people, but Wu Zhongyuan had night vision and saw clearly, so he fired two more shots and killed the last two mercenaries.
The gunfire stopped, and there was a dead silence all around.
The battle came to an end, and the four of them hurriedly retreated outside the stone gate, and Zhang Shukai brought a first-aid kit and took it out and distributed it to Wang Xinran and Lu Jiahui.
There is a syringe in the first-aid medicine bag, which may be antibiotic drugs, and after the two injected themselves, they took out the disinfectant in the first-aid medicine bag to disinfect Zhang Shukai's wounds.
It was only then that Wu Zhongyuan had a chance to speak, "What's the matter?"
"It's a trap. Wang happily poured disinfectant on Zhang Shukai's arm, and the wound would cause severe pain when it came into contact with the disinfectant water, but Zhang Shukai seemed to be unconscious, and kept tilting his head sideways, vigilant.
"Trap?" Wu Zhongyuan frowned suspiciously, and suddenly realized after thinking about it, "You mean they deliberately sent people to turn themselves in and provide us with false news to lure us down?"
"Yes," Wang nodded happily, "not only the false information they provided after they turned themselves in, but also the clues we got before were deliberately let us know, in order to lure us down so that we could ambush and arrest you." ”
Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan was still suspicious, Wang Xinran was a little anxious, "In order to mislead us, they deliberately left four sets of diving devices at the entrance of the mausoleum, and only five people shot when they attacked the bronze man, creating the illusion that they only came down with five people, but in fact, they came down with far more than five people, but they always carried other diving devices with them and did not stay outside." ”
"But the black Jiao did block them......"
Without waiting for Wu Zhongyuan to finish speaking, Wang Xinran interrupted him, "Why haven't you reacted yet, do you remember that when we interrogated Zhang Kui, I once took out a photo of your senior brother and asked him if there was your senior brother among the five people who went into the water, and he gave an affirmative answer, in fact, your senior brother and the black suit didn't come down at all, they just used your senior brother as bait to lure us down." ”
"What now?" Wu Zhongyuan asked eagerly, "How did they become like this? Were they bitten by zombies?"
"This is also what I'm worried about," Wang Xinran's face was solemn, "Just now I saw a fast-moving black-haired monkey in the stone room, which should be the same species as the host of the nematode, and this monkey is likely to be the culprit, but in the past cases of zombies, the zombies recorded in it are all dead people, and there have been no cases where monkeys can also become zombies." ”
"What if this monkey is really a zombie?" Wu Zhongyuan was very nervous.
"Whether it's a zombie or not, there's no essential difference for us," Wang Xinran helped Zhang Shukai's arm wrap gauze, "The reason why those mercenaries became like this is undoubtedly that they were scratched and bitten by monkeys, and that monkey must have some kind of germ on its body, and they were all infected by germs, and now we can only hope that this germ can only be directly infected by monkeys, and cannot be indirectly transmitted by these mercenaries." ”
After Wang Xinran finished speaking, Wu Zhongyuan nervously asked, "What if it can be transmitted indirectly?"
"Then we can only hope for antibiotics," Wang Xinran shook his head and said, "but those mercenaries should have brought similar medicines, and they don't have much hope of using them to kill germs." ”
"Let's go, hurry to the hospital. Wu Zhongyuan said, since Zhao Ying is not here, there is no need to continue to stay here.
Wang Xinran shook his head, "It's useless, the incubation period of corpse poison is very short, the longest will not exceed ten minutes, and it is too late to treat it." ”
Wu Zhongyuan was stunned and speechless.
Wang Xinran and Lu Jiahui helped Zhang Shukai treat his wounds, and the three of them refilled their ammunition, Wang Xinran said to Wu Zhongyuan, "The water flows out of the stone chamber inside, and there must be broken cracks in the dome and the four walls, but at present, the mausoleum should not collapse in a short period of time, let's go through the last two stone chambers as soon as possible to see if we can get the reward left by the old madman." ”
"If it's really corpse poison, is there any chance of curing it after the onset of the disease?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.
Wang Xinran didn't answer Wu Zhongyuan's words, but stuffed a pistol over, "Your pistol has been emptied, this one is for you, you are guarding outside, let's go first and kill that black-haired monkey." ”
Wu Zhongyuan took the pistol, "I'll go in with you." ”
"You stay outside!" Wang Xinran's tone could not be refuted, and after that, he entered the stone room, followed by Zhang Shukai and Lu Jiahui.
Wu Zhongyuan did not forcibly follow up, Wang Xinran and others received professional training, and they also had a tacit understanding with each other, and it was more likely that he would follow up to cause chaos than to help.
At this time, there was water flowing out of the stone room, his shoes were all wet, and there was no place to sit, so Wu Zhongyuan could only stand on one leg against the wall, lift his right leg, put on his trousers, and check the injury on his leg.
He also had a bite on his leg, which was injured when rescuing Lu Jiahui, and the guy who bit was dead wounded, and his teeth not only broke into the flesh, but even injured the fibula.
While he was examining his injuries, gunshots rang out from the stone chamber, and the gunshots were so dense that without questioning, all three of them opened fire.
The gunfire continued for more than ten seconds before it stopped, and after a few seconds, another gunshot was heard, this one was supposed to be someone to make up the knife to ensure the monkey's death.
"Safe. Zhang Shukai shouted.
"Come in. Wang said happily.
Wu Zhongyuan put down his trousers and walked into the stone room, and when he walked into the seventh stone room, the three of them were coming out of the eighth stone room.
Wang Xinran said to Wu Zhongyuan, "The main tomb is sinking, you have to hurry." ”
After Wang Xinran finished speaking, Lu Jiahui added, "There should be a mechanism connection between the main tomb and the eighth stone chamber, as long as someone induces the mechanism of the eighth stone chamber, the main tomb will begin to sink, and the previous violent vibration should be that the monkey inadvertently activated the mechanism." ”
"How long do I have left?" Wu Zhongyuan asked, the sinking of the main tomb was undoubtedly arranged by Zuo Ci a long time ago, Zuo Ci may allow him to walk around the courtyard, but he will never allow him to enter the house, the main tomb is Zuo Ci's resting place, he definitely does not want others to enter.
Lu Jiahui said, "As the main burial chamber sinks, the gaps in the stone walls will get bigger and bigger, and a large amount of lake water will pour in, and I don't think it will take more than half an hour." ”
Wu Zhongyuan nodded, dodging the corpse on the ground and stepped forward, looking at the stone platform, there is only one copper plate on this stone platform, not one ring nor five rings, but a complex nine-ring disc, Taiji, Liangyi, Four Elephants, Five Elements, Bagua, Nine Palaces, Ten Heavenly Stems, Twelve Earth Branches, and Sixty-four Hexagrams.
The upper part of the copper plate has the word "Xiaoyao", and the right side is engraved with "stealth illusion, poor road self-created research, can hide the body, can be transformed at will, and stay with Mr." ”
After reading the handwriting on the stone platform, Wu Zhongyuan raised his head and asked, "There is only half an hour left?"
"At most. Lu Jiahui said.
"What are you looking for?" Wu Zhongyuan asked, as the three of them were examining the mercenaries' backpacks one by one.
"There was a stone table at the door of the main burial chamber with a square indentation on it, and that thing should have been taken by them. Wang said happily,
Wu Zhongyuan didn't ask any more, and walked towards the eighth stone chamber, the time is limited, the copper plate is complicated, and it will definitely not be too late to crack two in half an hour, so he can only pick one of the remaining two questions to crack.
There was a black-haired monkey corpse in the eighth stone room, time was pressing, Wu Zhongyuan had no time to look aside, and walked straight to the stone platform, which was also a nine-ring copper plate, which was engraved with the word "king". Engraved on the right side is "Three fires and nine treatises, Ouyezi metallurgical treatises, can make sharp weapons to compete for deer, can cast gods and soldiers to compete for power, please accept." ”
These two questions, one is how to live freely, and the other is how to be a competent king, both are very profound questions, but the rewards are also very rich, and the other is a reward stealth illusion, which is a kind of magic that can not only be invisible, but also change the shape like Sun Wukong. The other is rewarded with three fires and nine theories, Ou Yezi is a master of sword casting, and his sword-casting attainments are unfathomable, and there is no one before or since.
Just when Wu Zhongyuan was hesitating which one to crack, Wang Xinran walked in from outside and handed over a square jade box, "This should be the thing that was placed on the stone table in front." ”
Wu Zhongyuan stretched out his hand to take it, only to see that this jade box was carved from white jade, the shape was relatively flat, the size was about the same as a large inkstone, and the lid of the jade box was engraved with four small seals, "The thing is returned to the original owner." ”
Just when Wu Zhongyuan wanted to open the jade box, Zhang Shukai's voice came from outside, "No. 9, it is a corpse poison that can be indirectly infected, and my vision has begun to blur......