Chapter 872 Rats
"Which bastard did this!" Li Qing scolded viciously, then ran forward along the cliff, rushed out more than ten meters, and sure enough, he saw another rope also falling.
"That bastard up there! I-you're uncle!" Li Qing raised his head and roared loudly, then gasped twice, turned his head and left. The other party has already made it clear that he wants to cut off everyone's back road, even if Li Qing shouts his throat here, it is useless, it is better to leave as soon as possible so as not to get angry.
Li Qing walked forward with his head borrowed, and suddenly there was a pause under his feet, and when he looked up by the light of a flashlight, a large-scale building appeared in front of him.
The long staircase stretches upward, and the stone statues on both sides are lined up, like soldiers guarding the imperial city, with different postures, but their faces are full of hideousness.
Li Qing walked slowly up the steps, and in the distance where the flashlight could not be projected, the shadow of this ancient building was still hidden in the endless darkness, as if it was quietly waiting for someone to lift its mysterious veil.
There was a thick layer of gray-white bone powder on the stone steps, Li Qing could see clear messy footprints on it, the number of people should be small, and it was not surprising to think that Zhao Qili and his party had already entered it first.
Walking up the last staircase, you are greeted by a stone door that has been opened with a gap. Li Qing found red blood stains and fresh minced meat under the stone gate, perhaps having had an accident when opening the stone gate.
There was a relief on the stone door, Li Qing shook it with a flashlight, and he could only see that it seemed to be a monster, as for what it was, since Gu Yue and Xie Yuyan were not around, Li Qing naturally had no way of knowing. On his left and right sides were two bronze lanterns more than one person high, which stood at both ends of the stone door, and the anointing oil inside had long been burned out, covered with a thick layer of ash. There was a faint handprint on one of the lamps, and it was hard to tell which guy was the work of boredom.
Li Qing stabilized his mind, raised his hand and patted on the stone door, and after making sure that there was no danger, he went sideways and went in.
There was a faint cold air in the main hall, it was still dark, but there was a faint fragrance. Scanning on all sides with a flashlight, I saw rows of bronze pillars stretching into the depths of the main hall. These bronze pillars are as thick as three people hugging each other, supporting the entire building, and the surface is like a ghost painting, densely covered with strange patterns, and like earthworms crawling in a row.
The stone floor was missing the bone meal from the outside, but it was still covered with a lot of ashes. When they arrived, the footsteps on the ground became more and more messy, and there were footprints in all directions, and it was chaotic, as if something terrible had happened here, causing everyone to flee in all directions.
Li Qing frowned slightly, and after walking forward for dozens of meters, he suddenly paused. At this moment, there was a large pool of blood in front of him, which had already shown a semi-coagulated black state.
Li Qingchu estimated that such a large pool of blood, if it came from the same person, the blood in the whole body should be drained.
Taking two steps back, Li Qing raised his head and struck the flashlight upward. An elderly man was hanging upside down in mid-air, his eyes wide and his face darkened. His mouth was wide open, his long tongue poked out, and a drop of black blood condensed on the tip of his tongue, and the whole person had obviously been dead for some time.
This scene was so shocking that Li Qing was also startled, and couldn't help but stumble back two steps, only then did he stabilize his mind and look at the corpse again.
A wrist-thick copper hook pierced his abdomen from behind, and the surface of the copper hook was stained with patina in addition to the strange blood light.
Li Qing followed the chain that hooked the end of the copper hook and looked up, only to see that the chain stopped at the top of a circular hole about ten centimeters in diameter, which should be a rather complicated device. Obviously, this elderly man died in the domineering mechanism inside the ancient building.
Presumably, the man inadvertently triggered the mechanism, and the copper hook fell down and penetrated the body, and then because he felt the gravity of the fall, he automatically pulled up under the action of the mechanism, and finally hung the whole person in the air.
"O the wisdom of the ancients. Li Qing sighed softly. This elderly man should be a member of Zhao Qili's party, so Li Qing didn't stay too long, and cautiously continued to go inside.
A thick dizziness surged up, Li Qing raised his hand and patted his forehead, and the corners of his mouth flashed with a hint of helplessness: "I was too seriously injured before, and now I am still dizzy..."
Thinking like this in his heart, Li Qing suddenly felt that the scenery around him was gradually blurred, and he shook with his body, only to feel that the world was spinning. The fragrant fragrance in the stone hall became more and more intense, and Li Qing's tiredness became stronger and stronger, until he stepped on something under his feet.
Li Qing twisted it with his toes, the thing had a rather soft touch, and he struggled to open his eyes and look carefully, it turned out to be a person's palm.
Hurriedly taking half a step back, Li Qing looked around, and then saw dozens of corpses lying on the ground, daggers and guns scattered all over the ground.
Stepping over the corpse in front, Li Qing took a few steps forward, and then saw a rather familiar twisted cheek. It was a young man in his early thirties, with a palm-sized birthmark under his left cheek, and Li Qing was more impressed by this person, remembering that he was a man under the old gunman.
At this moment, the young man's body was curled up with an indescribable look of horror on his face. A dagger pierced him in the chest, and the handle of the dagger was clenched in his own hand.
He actually died by suicide!
"How can this be..."Li Qing stumbled under his feet, and inadvertently kicked a bullet casing out, making a small jingling sound on the stone floor.
Li Qing looked at the other corpses around him, and finally came to a conclusion that even he didn't want to admit that these people had either died by suicide or at the hands of their companions, and there was no external force to threaten them!
A pale flush on his cheeks, Li Qing's whole heart lifted, and he examined all the corpses in turn, before finally breathing a long sigh of relief. There was no Xie Yuyan, no Gu Yue, and no colorful clouds among these corpses.
Among the dozens of corpses on the ground, only five or six corpses belonged to Xie Yuyan's group, and the rest of the losses were all on Zhao Qili's side.
Li Qing half-knelt on the ground, gasping softly, feeling that it was becoming more and more difficult to breathe, and the strong feeling of dizziness surged in his brain again.
There was an extremely subtle "click" sound in my ears, like the sound of rats gnawing on the beams of the house. Li Qing blinked, turned his head to follow the sound to see, in the dim flashlight light, a huge black shadow appeared on the beam, two eyes glowing with green and faint light, staring straight at him.
The corners of Li Qing's eyes twitched fiercely, and he quickly got up and pulled out the dagger on his waist, and threw it with a raised hand.
The dagger brought a buzzing sound of breaking wind in the air, slashing diagonally above the black shadow, and instantly resounded a terrible scream, which continued to echo throughout the stone hall.
"Squeak!"
"Squeak!"
Suddenly there were bursts of harmony in all directions, at first the sound was extremely weak, and then the sound became louder and louder, and countless voices were mixed together, and only the scalp of people was numb when they heard it.
Li Qing's face turned pale, he moved his body nervously, swept around with a flashlight, and suddenly saw a swarthy little thing wriggling on the corpse.
"Mouse?" Li Qing's eyes widened in astonishment, and then he saw more than a dozen round black-haired rats running out, gnawing at the corpses on the ground. Immediately after, more and more rats crowded together, densely surging, rolling and wriggling in all directions, surrounding Li Qing in the middle, and getting closer to him.
Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands...
The squeaky sound, the click of gnawing bones, and the rustling sound sounded in Li Qing's ears, his face became more and more ugly, and finally he couldn't control it, screamed with all his might, directly picked up a submachine gun on the ground, and shot wildly at the surrounding rats.
"Ah!" Li Qing's eyes were red, his face was pale, and the sound of gunfire echoed endlessly in the stone hall, and a piece of skin and flesh flew where the bullets reached.
When the submachine gun ran out of bullets, Li Qing pulled out the pistol on his waist to shoot, and after the pistol ran out of bullets, he picked up a semi-automatic rifle from the ground.
At this time, a black shadow suddenly swept down from the roof, directly pounced on Li Qing's cheek, and pushed him to the ground.
The fur scraped against his cheeks, and he only felt a sharp pain. Li Qing was shocked at the size of this mouse at first, and then felt a deep nausea, and a wave of vomiting came up from the depths of his abdomen, mixed with a strong sweet smell, which jumped in his mouth.
"Ahh
The rat let out a terrible squeak, twisted its body on the ground with great effort, and then kicked its two hind legs on the ground, and rushed towards Li Qing again.
"Get out!" Li Qing roared, kicked the mouse out with another kick, and then got up from the ground, turned around and ran.
After running a distance of more than ten meters, Li Qing's body suddenly stiffened, and the whole person was stupid.
The corpse was still lying on the ground, blood still there, and there was nothing around.
"Just those... What about mice?" Li Qing was stunned when he suddenly saw a corpse's abdomen bulge, and then it opened with a bang, and the internal organs mixed with red blood gushed out together. Immediately after, a little mouse with pink white skin came out of it, shook its head and looked at Li Qing, and kept "squeaking" at him.