Chapter 37: The Mystery
Jiang Shan grabbed a huge ruby and put it in front of him, and looked out through the ruby, everything in front of him turned bright red like blood.
When his hands hung down weakly, his eyes were already red with his own blood, and the world was still red.
The sound of Jiang Shan falling finally attracted the attention of the people who had fallen into madness.
They looked in amazement at the man in front of them with blood dripping from his hands and a beastly growl from his mouth.
To be precise, it's just a humanoid creature, his **** upper body is like being scalded by boiling water, full of large and small blisters, black and green pus flows out of the broken blisters, its facial features are like a melted wax man, all fused together, and can only barely see a mouth and two slit-like eyes.
The thing stepped over Jiang Shan's corpse, slowly walked towards the people who were already frightened, and stretched out his palm that was already dry bones.
"Da Da Da!"
The assault rifle in Qi Dapeng's hand spewed out a tongue of fire, and the powerful bullets all hit the monster's body, and black-green pus splattered everywhere.
At the moment when the monster fell to the ground, more than a dozen things like the monster appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and the monster that had just been defeated actually got up from the ground again and let out a terrible roar.
"Run!" Qi Dapeng's voice suddenly sounded, and those who were stuffing gems into their bags immediately grabbed their backpacks and ran towards the entrance of the cave.
"Damn, throw the bag away!"
The weight of the gems slowed them down, and the monsters leaped nimbly up and down the ditch wall, cutting the distance to within ten meters in a few breaths.
But those men turned a deaf ear to Qi Dapeng's warnings, greed obliterated their humanity, and those who ran in front pulled out their pistols and turned around to knock down those who were slower than themselves, leaving those wounded teammates to the ferocious monsters.
The entire valley turned into a human purgatory at this moment, and the monsters instantly tore apart the wounded members of the expedition, and blood and scraps of flesh flowed down those beautiful gems.
Zhang Ling did not go deep into the ravine like those people, he was not far from the entrance of the cave when the accident happened inside, and he witnessed this tragic scene with his own eyes.
Guan Min and Lu Mingxuan, who were standing beside him, were also stunned by the terrifying scene in front of them, their Adam's apples squirming up and down, and their eyes were full of horror.
The Kachin brothers reacted much faster than they did, and their years of experience in the jungle allowed them to rush to the entrance of the cave first.
They turned around and half-knelt on the ground, raised the shotgun in their hands, and with a burst of bright gunfire flashed, a beast that was about to rush to Qi Dapeng's side was immediately shot in the head.
The headshot monster didn't get up from the ground again, it just twitched a few times and then stopped moving.
"Hit the head, aim at the head!"
Hearing Qi Dapeng's shout, those expedition members with assault rifles in their hands turned around and fired back.
And the two brothers at the entrance of the cave took turns to launch, forming a powerful firepower network with those people below, blocking those monsters in an instant.
Kang Jian, the doctor of the team, was the first to rush to the edge of the cave, he was not as greedy as the others, he only picked up a few gems that were easy to carry, so his speed was much faster than the others.
"What the hell are those, those things?"
At this time, Kang Jian was already frightened, and his originally handsome face was pale with fright.
However, there was no one to answer his question, and Zhang Ling was sure that these monsters were definitely not ghosts, because he could not see a trace of yin qi on these monsters.
When Qi Dapeng fired the last bullet, the battle was over, and all those monsters were killed in the ravine.
And those who tried to save their own guys with the lives of their teammates were not spared, and died under the claws of those monsters without exception, this is really the answer to that sentence, don't believe it, look up, who is spared by the sky!
……
After burying those corpses, Zhang Ling walked to the corpse of a monster, to be honest, although he knew that this thing was dead, he was also hairy in his heart when he looked at it like this.
The corpse of this monster was not **** like the others, but hung with tattered clothes, although the clothes were already torn, but Zhang Ling still saw that this monster was wearing the uniform of the expeditionary force back then.
This discovery shocked him, he didn't expect that the survivors of the expeditionary force would turn into this terrible monster!
He looked at Kang Jian on the side and asked, "Under what circumstances will people mutate?" ”
Kang Jian shrank behind him and thought for a moment, "This...... I am afraid that the only thing that can mutate people into such a virus is radiation! ”
"Radiation?"
His words reminded both Zhang Ling and himself, and he hurriedly took out a hand-held radiation monitor from his backpack to monitor the direction of the ravine.
Soon the readings on the screen changed, and he took a few steps deeper into the ravine with the monitor, and the readings on the monitor began to increase, and as he went deeper, the readings on the monitor began to climb sharply.
"There's an overdose here, get out of here!"
Kang Jian's words startled the rest of the survivors, and they hurriedly withdrew from the ravine and returned to the cave, where Kang Jian did a radiation test for everyone, but fortunately they were not contaminated with radiation.
"I finally know what this inscription is!"
Guan Min, who had been silent, spoke again, he looked at the huge stone tablet erected at the entrance of the cave and said, "This is not a spell, nor is it a curse, but a warning. ”
Zhang Ling didn't say anything, he was pondering the meaning of Guan Min's words, and after a while he stood up and walked to the murals again to look at them, this time he looked very slowly and carefully.
After a long time, he let out a sigh of relief and said, "I think I know what's going on here!" ”
Zhang Ling's words drew the attention of the remaining survivors, who watched Zhang Ling, waiting for him to reveal the mystery.
Zhang Ling got up and pointed to the first mural and said: "I think this so-called Emerald Valley should be a huge extraterrestrial meteorite, which fell in this valley many years ago, and these natives who live here see these gems and think they are gifts from heaven, so they take these gems and sing and dance." ”
Then he walked to the third painting with a few hideous monsters and a black stone and said, "I think this black stone must be the source of the radiation, and those natives who strayed into the depths of the ravine have become monsters under the influence of this stone." ”
"The stele painted on this mural and this strangely dressed guy should be this stele, the inscription is a text that communicates with the dead, but also a text that communicates with the gods, they are praying for the heavens not to send another calamity, and at the same time warning the people not to trespass here!"
After saying that, he walked to the last mural, pointed to the little ones lying on the ground and the marching procession, and said: "This inscription did not bring them peace, their people kept dying, and he had to abandon this place and go away!" ”
Guan Min did not refute Zhang Ling, it seemed that he and Zhang Ling's thoughts coincided, and Lu Mingxuan, who had been listening from the sidelines, continued: "Then the expeditionary force broke into here by mistake, because they went too deep, they were radiated by the strong radiation energy and turned into monsters, and the owner of this diary is the only survivor. ”
Zhang Ling nodded and said: "I think it should be Old Man Du who tore out the second half of the diary, they must have encountered these monsters back then, he thought that these monsters were the source of the curse, he was afraid that we would not dare to come if we knew the truth, so he said that there was a problem with this stone tablet." ”
Lu Mingxuan nodded and said, "It should be like this, but there is one place that doesn't make sense!" ”
"What?"
"What the hell is the curse, why did the people who came in with Du Chong die strangely and violently, and it also harms their families, if they are lightly irradiated, then they will only get sick themselves, if they are heavily irradiated, then they will be like the monsters inside."
Kang Jian stood up and took out a gem and looked at Lu Mingxuan and said, "I'll explain this, it's not a curse, it's these gems." ”
"These gems from outside the earth all carry a faint amount of radiant energy, and they will not have any effect on the human body for a short time, but if you stay with these gems for a long time, they will be eroded by the accumulated radiation."
Kang Jian's words made Zhang Ling immediately remember that when Du Ziming fell, the emerald pendant the size of a baby's palm hanging on his chest, I am afraid that the emerald should have come from here.
As soon as those people heard what Kang Jian said, some of them immediately threw out the gems they had brought out, with a hint of horror in their eyes.
But some people didn't move, because they didn't plan to keep the gems with them, but to sell them when they got back.
Zhang Ling played with a thumb-thick pink diamond and smiled bitterly: "It's true that the more beautiful things are, the more dangerous they are." ”
After saying that, he threw the diamond out, then looked at Qi Dapeng and said, "Dapeng, check everyone to make sure they don't take a single gem here, we're going home!" ”