Chapter 17: The Corpse Bride

The woman sat motionless, as if she had been waiting for us for thousands of years. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe moment I saw her, the inexplicable sadness in my heart reappeared, and I felt like my heart was pinching all the time, and the intense sadness made me feel the urge to cry......

In such a strange place, the sudden appearance of such a woman in a red wedding dress, people with a lower tolerance in their hearts will definitely be frightened, but Uncle Li and Luo Hai are not ordinary people, they are naturally very calm, they all watched carefully one by one, and did not dare to act rashly.

As the minutes ticked by, I noticed that the woman was still motionless, unresponsive to our presence, and that she was covered with a red hijab that made it impossible for us to see her at all.

"She's not supposed to be alive. Luo Hai was the first to break the silence.

Uncle Li nodded, "It's true that there is no trace of popularity on her body, but this dress is too weird, everyone should be careful." ”

After all, Luo Hai is a master of tomb robbing, what kind of dead corpse has he never seen? He took out a throwing stick from his body, threw the head of the stick out forcefully, and slowly walked towards the strange bride......

Everyone was holding their breath because they were so nervous, but the heartbeat of several people was much faster because of this, and in such a quiet space, I could clearly hear the heartbeat of the big guy gradually accelerating.

I really couldn't stand this atmosphere, so I wanted to follow Luo Hai to see the woman. But as soon as he moved, he was stopped by Ding Yi, "The situation is unknown, it's better not to rush forward with your skills." ”

I gave him a blank look, although I was somewhat unconvinced, but reason told me that what he said was right, at the level of my five scum, if I really encountered any danger, I would definitely become cannon fodder in an instant.

Although Ding Yi grabbed me, he himself and Luo Hai slowly approached the strange woman in red......

"Be careful. "Watching them get closer and closer, my heart began to become uneasy.

At the same time, just as Luo Hai was about to pick up the woman's red hijab in his hand, a hurried voice suddenly came from behind him, "Don't touch her!"

Everyone was shocked, and quickly looked back at the source of the sound, and found that it was not any of us in the group!

Among the several people, Uncle Li's eyesight was the most poisonous, and he saw at a glance that a black figure was standing in a corner beyond the reach of the light......

"Who's there?" Uncle Li shouted.

The figure froze, obviously hesitating, but finally slowly walked out of the darkness. When I saw this person's appearance, I was extremely shocked! So I immediately turned my head to look at Uncle Li and found that his expression was similar to mine.

It was a middle-aged man with glasses, wearing a blue-gray canvas overalls, his face was slightly pale, and his skin was a little chapped due to dehydration.

"Who are you?Why did you appear here?And why didn't you let us touch her?" Zhao Qiang asked cautiously.

The middle-aged man said in a weak voice: "I am a member of the scientific expedition team, and I got separated from the members of my team in the process of going out to find water, and then I lost my way when I encountered a super storm, and finally came here, I wanted to find some water supplies to drink here." ”

Zhao Qiang and the others seemed to be a little wary of him when they heard this middle-aged man say this, but I still looked at Uncle Li in shock, but he shook his head and motioned for me not to act rashly first.

I was shocked to the extreme, but on the surface, I still had to pretend to be calm and say, "This uncle, may I ask why you said that this woman can't be touched?"

The middle-aged man pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, then stretched out his finger and pointed to the side of the woman in red and said, "Look at ...... from this direction"

Luo Hai immediately shone the wolf-eyed flashlight on the woman's side, and found that an unknown plant had grown from the woman's body, and the thin vines had spread all the way to the woman's face covered with a red hijab.

"What is this?" Luo Hai asked in surprise.

The middle-aged man took out the notebook in his bag, looked down and flipped through a few pages, then looked up and said to us, "This is a very ancient spore plant from the Cretaceous period, which completed its entire life cycle by parasitic in animals. You see, the vine that sticks into the woman's hijab should be a dormant spores, and if an object touches the hijab, it will immediately eject spores, and once the human body is infected, it will die within 12 hours, and then the corpse will not decay for thousands of years like this female corpse, until other animals appear, touch the corpse again, spew out new spores, and complete the entire life cycle. ”

Everyone was scared when they heard this, fortunately Luo Hai didn't touch the red hijab just now, otherwise no one should be spared from the distance where we are standing now.

"How do you know that this plant kills?" Zhao Qiang asked with a puzzled expression.

The middle-aged man pushed the glasses on his face again and said, "I am a biologist, this is my profession, although it is the first time I have seen this plant in reality, but judging from the murals here, my guess must be correct." ”

When he said this, everyone looked at the wall, only to realize that there were many beautiful murals carved on the black-looking wall. Although each mural is very detailed, it was difficult for me to connect them one by one.

I saw that there was a guy in the first mural who was neither a mermaid nor a fish, and it seemed that he had just come out of the sea, but in the second mural, this guy was wearing human clothes and began to farm!

At this time, I saw Uncle Li frowning and staring at the mural, so I asked him, "Uncle Li, can you see what the mural on this wall means?"

Uncle Li didn't answer me, but turned around and asked the middle-aged man politely, "Can you understand?"

The middle-aged man nodded, "I can probably understand seven or eight points!"

So he told us what was described in the fresco......

These murals say that the ancestors here were all mermaids who lived in the sea, and later the sea dried up due to some geological changes. Therefore, in order to survive, these mermaids can only come to live on the shore, and later they gradually integrate into the human race, and on the surface they are no different from humans.

But although these mermaids went ashore, they still could not leave the water source, so they found the earliest location of this ancient city with great difficulty, because there was an underground vein here.

But just when the mermaids were glad to have found a water source to survive, the first few mermaids who went to fetch water suddenly died, and the mermaids who went in later were fine.

This phenomenon occurred every seven years, and later they believed that this underground water vein was controlled by a "water god", and if they wanted to get water, they had to sacrifice a living person every seven years.

Later, there was a sudden rain of fire in the vicinity, and the whole land turned into a sea of fire, and the sharks survived because they hid in the only source of water to save their lives. The fire rained for seven days and seven nights, and when the fire was finally extinguished, the mermaids found that many large and small black stones appeared on the ground.