Chapter 18: The Bone Master, a Thousand-Year-Old Living Corpse

The stone walls on either side of my body grew narrower and narrower, and my arms were clamping my upper body tightly to barely touch, and I bent my body at an eerie angle. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

With his head hanging low and his legs half-curled, he first took broken steps, walked to the middle, and began to crawl forward. I don't know how much I have left, but I can't go back. Just because it is too difficult to turn over, as long as you retract your legs, your arched back can touch the top of the corridor.

This corridor has a strange shape, at first it was obviously artificially built, and then gradually became smaller, if it was built on the basis of the mountain cracks as it was at the beginning, it can also be said to be in the past.

The prostrate posture of "Hu ......" is very tiring, and it is always overly depressing in a closed space. Lying down and resting for a while, I am now in a posture like a gecko stuck in a pipe. If it weren't for the bad lighting, I would have liked to take a selfie.

Then he climbed forward, feeling that the air was better, it should be almost the end, and he pulled out the exit with both hands, and with a hard push, his head stretched out.

The biggest difference from the original place is that there are no silkworm chrysalis here, and there is no stone wall overhead, but a canyon that is obviously sealed by vegetation, like a ray of sky.

Outside the stone wall is lush vegetation. Probably because of the yin, the growth is very good.

Thinking about it this way, this is an exit.

It's strange why there is such a passage that is clearly connected to the outside world.

This tomb is really strange.

Regardless of the pile of bugs that look like prehistoric creatures, the weird Shinto wall carvings, and the elusive corpse puppets, the spirit is complete. If it is to raise corpses, it is too extravagant and wasteful.

Now I'm in a position about a few dozen meters above the ground, and I won't be willing to go down and take a look.

Plug the crack with a pickaxe, thread the rope through the bracelet of the pickaxe, and slowly descend the tied rope. The body could not avoid the scraping of the vegetation, and was scratched in several places. Fortunately, the distance is not long, and it will be completed quickly.

The place where the feet are stepped on is not only uneven, although it is dim, but you can still see the kind of tentacles full of vines, intertwined with each other, and there are parasitic vegetation on them, which are intricately intertwined, one after another, thick and thin, it is difficult to distinguish.

I don't know where to put my feet, but I always feel that there will be some unguardable insects, snakes and ants under the pit.

It's hard to figure out whether to go forward or backward. Of course, I'm only referring to the terrain, and if it's too similar, you won't be able to tell the direction. I've tried, and whenever the compass is in this area of the tomb, the compass doesn't always work, and the needle is in a wobbly state of madness.

I chose a random direction and started to walk, which was strange, because of the vines, I was bouncing with every step, up and down, left and right, and sometimes my arms had to dance with me to avoid being scratched by the leaves of the vegetation.

It was a strange rhythm, and I tried to pick up the pace.

Jump to the left, close your feet, raise your knees, bend over, and swing your hands behind your back......

That's right, this posture, almost every step magically fits the pattern carved on the Shinto wall.

Sometimes there are some mistakes, I vaguely feel that I can't step on it, and follow the rules to copy the movements on the pattern, four in a cycle.

To put it nicely, now I am dancing alone in a mountain stream, and in the eyes of others, I am like a monkey that has been electrocuted and is dancing wildly with all kinds of strange movements.

Faster and faster, until I saw the body wrapped in vines at the end of the road.

There are not only vines on her body, but also chains the thickness of fingers, the material is special, I don't feel like it's a common metal, it's close, and there is an obvious feeling of nausea and nausea.

Holding back the discomfort and dragging the chain closer, the woman's face had shrunk, the size of a palm, but it was rare that her facial features were still very clear. Joan has a red nose and red lips, and her eyes are closed, but according to the outline, it should not be small.

Further down, the clothes are old-fashioned, wearing an ankle-length coat on the upper body, crossed collars, long sleeves, wide waistbands and knee coverings. A large scarf wrapped around the front of the garment is used to cover the knees, and the knees are narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. The color has receded, and it is blurry and lumpy, and it is difficult to distinguish it. Her head was chained and lifted upwards, and her neck was pulled slightly longer with strange bulges inside.

I reached out and touched it, but I couldn't feel anything other than the stiff, dry skin and the visibly dropped throat.

Could it be that something is hidden in the mouth? I don't know, but I'm not mad enough to open her mouth and go in.

In fact, we quickly recognized her at the beginning, she was the owner of the bones, and she was the one who led us out of the cavern full of flesh. But what she had been trying to tell me, I couldn't guess.

In this case, such a good opportunity, I am even more prepared to rummage for clues on my own. I once heard a well-known forensic doctor say that his life's research told him that dead people will never deceive people.

The courage to affirm her identity so categorically is mainly due to her right hand. The entire index finger of the right hand is broken into a strange cotton wool shape, which is due to the backwater soaking, but the disordered contact surface is obviously caused by the bite of the teeth, and the edge of the flesh teeth is irregularly distributed.

It doesn't matter if she bit it herself.

It's still a dead end.

I lifted her injured fingerless hand to see that her middle and index fingers were wearing agate rings, and her wrist was covered with an ancient ring, on which was engraved a kind of writing that I had never seen before, densely packed, small and obscure.

There must be some kind of message conveyed in it, take it off and carefully carry it into your arms.

The four fingers were slender, but the gaps between the fingers were dark and blue, soaked in the sap of some kind of plant, and the nails were still growing because of the living corpse. The so-called living corpse does not mean that he is the same as a living person, but for thousands of years, it has not completely decayed, and hair and nails have been growing. It's not easy to maintain this state, let alone in such a wilderness, where the wind and the sun are blowing.

A thousand years, no matter what, is not too short, but very long.

"When are you going to see it? Aren't you ready to die? ”

The person who spoke suddenly hung from the side of the corpse in a head-down position, and I turned my eyes to see an enlarged face, and I retreated with a scream, but accidentally stepped on the rattan and slipped down.

"Mu Xiaoyu! How did you end up here! ”

The tail vertebrae hurt from the fall, and there was no way to get up immediately, so I simply sat on the ground.

His body was hanging down and doing a handstand, his legs and the rattan above him were stirred together, maintaining this position, and it was normal for me to suddenly look at his upside-down face and be frightened.

"Don't you feel sick? It's so close to this metal chain. He tugged at the chain with his hand.

"Don't you feel sick when you're hanging like this?"

Hearing me answer this, he was stunned for a moment. Then let go of your feet, take off and jump, and land steadily.

Looking at the chain, he said, "It's made of meteorite, and it has strong radiation." ”

"How did you get back here?" I don't care much about the chain, it's just strange to meet him here.

"For the bracelet." He looked at the place where the bracelet was in my arms and said lightly, "But now, we have to get out first." ”

As he spoke, a handful of dust was thrown behind my back.

In order to avoid something behind me that made Xiao Yu feel that she needed to dodge, I was forced to start running, the direction of running was exactly the way back, I had two feelings, one was that the feeling of gagging began to weaken as I moved away from the chain, and secondly, I would unconsciously repeat those movements, the movements on the mural, maybe the posture was not standard, but it was smooth.

Some are glad that the whispers are ahead of the curve. For some reason, I didn't want him to see my current posture, not because of ugly movements or anything like that, but because this set of movements seemed to contain his own emotions, and he didn't want to be understood by others.

So, instead, I became a passive interpreter.

In fact, Mu Xiaoyu's speed is extremely fast, every time he walks, the pace of exchange is extremely fast, according to my original speed, it is impossible to catch up with his back. But according to that set of movements, I was only an inch away from his back. This surprised even me.

He didn't look back, but I was confused.

Won't go unnoticed, why?

I attribute all this unreasonableness to the weirdness of this place.

Instead of going back to where I had come from, we ran all the way to a cave.

He doesn't move around anymore. I didn't feel tired either. Looking at his back, there was only a faint sound of breathing in the entire cave.

After a moment, he turned to look at me, then reached out to me and to, "Give it to me." ”

"What are you hiding?" It's useless for me to keep the bracelet, and I can't crack the text on it.

"There's something behind that living corpse, I can't see clearly, but I instinctively feel that I can't deal with it, so I pull you away." He replied calmly, still holding out his hand.

There is some helplessness. But he still handed it to him obediently.

Behind him, there was a sudden sound of wings fluttering, and I just wanted to look back.

"Don't look back." He covered my mouth and nose, and I almost missed my breath.

Imitating his movements, the two men faced the stone wall in the cave, holding their breath and not moving.