Chapter 216: Trapped
Compared with Hu Sanmao, who is obsessed with academic research, we have a fight with bandits and robbers, and when Xiucai meets soldiers, he naturally does not dare to say more.
In the ancient cemetery, the people who walk in front are often the most dangerous, and not long after the arrow rain wall receded, Sanjiu and I stepped on a flip trap.
This trap is composed of three layers of stone slabs, which cannot be found when you first step on it, and the balance of the pedal will be destroyed when you go about a third of the way.
There are two layers under the first layer of pedals, and when a person steps on the first layer of stone slabs, the two staggered stone slabs below will cleverly block the gap between the top layer of stone slabs, so that people have no chance to climb up.
But Sanjiu's speed was far beyond ordinary people, and the moment he felt the stone slab under his feet sink, he threw out the flying hook on his wrist, hooked the relief on the wall in front of him, and with this force, he lightly jumped over the movable stone slab with his toes.
And I was right next to him, and the second the accident happened, I reflexively hugged him, so I crossed the last mechanism without danger.
Fei Hao, Luke, and Lei Ming were less than a meter away from us, and they were also stepping on the same stone slab when Sanjiu stepped into the air.
Their years of adventure experience were not fake, and at this time it played its due role, realizing that Sanjiu had stepped on the mechanism, and the three of them quickly jumped backwards and retreated to an absolutely safe area.
With the example of me and Sanjiu, the advantage of the unguardable mechanism has been exposed, and the people behind have jumped over the trap according to our method and have not caused new casualties.
The last line of defense in front of us was the wall that was gradually closing in Hibiscus, and when everyone found that the walls on both sides were beginning to close to the middle, everyone ran with all their strength to be the first in the game and the second in friendship.
Running out of the range of the wall trap, the tomb road also came to an end, and the arrow rain wall sank into the ground, revealing a stone door.
Lei Ming pressed the instrument on his wrist twice, frowned, and said, "The rangefinder shows that behind the door is the base of the tower." ”
When I got the news that I could go out, everyone's nervousness eased a little. Sanjiu was looking for a mechanism to open the door, and Thunder stood next to me, saying in a tone that only I could hear, "Be careful, there's something nearby." ”
I listened to him. didn't look around immediately, calmly fixed his gaze on Sanjiu, and observed left and right with the corner of his eye.
The light of the flashlight shone near the stone gate, and everyone gathered in front of the door, and at first glance there was nothing wrong with it. But after my eyes swept back and forth on both sides twice, I finally found the 'thing' that Lei Ming said.
To the right of the door stood the black-clad men and guards who had escaped from the experimental center, and one of the guards standing at the back of the door was the focus of my attention.
Like the others, he was all focused on the stone door, completely unaware of the strangeness in himself, and I lowered my gaze to the ground, and in the shadow caused by the flashlight, I once again confirmed that there was something wrong with the man.
I also whispered back to Thunder, "Tail." ”
Lei Ming looked at me, as if to ask, 'what to do?', and I gave him a look. Tell him not to act rashly and leave this matter to me.
My puppet could appear out of thin air, so I placed the puppet in the dark corner behind the person, and at that moment, Sanjiu opened the stone door.
Everyone eagerly raised the lighting tools in their hands, like entertainment reporters waiting for celebrities to break the news, holding up cameras with flashes, all looking forward to getting the scoop immediately.
But the 'material' behind the door was a little fierce, and they all looked stunned, and then they all looked at the thunder in unison. Because he is the one who says that behind the door is the foundation of the tower.
Lei Ming turned on the miniature rangefinder and stepped into the door first, Fei Hao and Luke protected him left and right, and behind the stone door was not the foundation of the tower. It's a burial chamber.
There are countless vertical holes in the walls, all of which are shallow enough for only one skeleton to sit upright, but not every hole contains bones.
The ancients did not popularize cremation, in fact, this burial chamber is the same as the ashes storage place of modern people, the 'Thousand Corpse Cave' in front of us. It is estimated that it is the 'ancestral grave' of the ruling class of a certain country in ancient times.
Luke pulled a gold ring from a low-lying skeleton, wiped the dust off it with his sleeve, and put it on top of his head.
"Man, do you see, do I look like a king?" As he spoke, he raised a dagger in one hand and put the other at his waist, posing in a copycat version of Lady Liberty.
"It's like Sun Wukong's mantra." Fei Hao complained.
"Don't make a fuss, the tower is on top of this tomb." Lei Ming said with his head tilted and his eyes fixed on the zenith of the burial chamber.
"What? Do you know how tall this is? Hu Sanmao shouted.
"Yes, 21:6 meters." Lei Ming replied solemnly.
"Don't you think it's strange to have a tomb?" The one who spoke was a strong man in black who had never been left behind.
"Eighteenth floor." Thirty-nine ways.
Luke pointed to the wall with interest and counted them, each of the vertical holes where the bones were stored was about a meter high, and the positions of the upper and lower vertical holes were staggered from each other, and the higher up, the fewer the vertical holes, because the shape of the burial chamber was a spire type with a width at the bottom and a narrow at the top.
Sanjiu's flying hook was only five meters to his head, and Fei Hao and they did have a rope, but the flying claw was used when crossing the pedal mechanism.
Now if you want more than a dozen people to climb up, someone needs to reach the top first to fix the rope, and since the walls of the tomb are inclined inward, the possibility of climbing up with bare hands is equal to zero.
I thought about it, the best way at the moment is for the corpse puppet to climb up and dig through the top of the tomb, but the mental power consumed by the sonic attack has not yet recovered, so I have to take a break and try again.
The others were also tired, and there was no better way for the time being, so they sat down on the side of the tomb to rest, and Sanjiu and I stood against the wall, and I knew that it was okay for him to climb up alone, but it was really difficult to dig through the top of the tomb, and he did not take the lead in this matter, and quietly accompanied me to recover my spirits.
"Expert, tell us, what kind of ancient tomb is this, and it is so poor that it doesn't even have a decent burial goods!" Luke asked Hu Sanmao.
"This... I'm not an expert in history or archaeology, so I can't tell, but I've been here for a few years and I've never heard of a large tomb in Oman! Hu Sanmao's white coat couldn't see its true colors, and he wiped the sweat on his face with his dirty sleeves.
If you want to say that you are familiar with the ancient tombs in this group, who will you say?
He has entered the ancient cemetery and underground palace, about more than archaeologists have entered in their lifetime, but I asked him when I came in, and even he couldn't tell the age of the tomb, this tomb is really mysterious.
However, one thing is certain, there are towers and A in the relief, and the owner of this tomb should be a contemporary of A, as for which country. I am afraid it is difficult to find the answer, because there is no known legend in various countries where the stone is controlled by song.
Thunder leaned against the wall diagonally across from me and winked at me quietly. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the farthest hole.
The lowest vertical hole in the wall is only 1.5 meters above the ground, which means that the bones in the hole are right in front of us when we stand.
In the cave where Lei Ming wanted me to see, there was a headless corpse. The skeleton was draped with a piece of linen, and all the bones in the cave were draped with a cloak of linen, which was their funeral custom.
It's just that although this headless skeleton has no head, it has a tail!
The stone door opened, and everyone entered the tomb, but I forgot about the tail, and looked at the man with the long tail, and there was nothing unusual about him now.
The tail of the corpse is hidden in the folds of the linen, and it is difficult to detect it without special observation, and its color is clearly different from the color of the linen cloth and the bones. Something must be hiding behind the bones.
Hu Sanmao was closer to the cave, I leaned close to Sanjiu's ear and explained a few words to him, and then pretended to talk to Hu Sanmao, walked to the side closest to him from the corpse cave, and stood with his back to the corpse cave.
Hu Sanmao was stunned by me, he didn't expect that I would take the initiative to chat with him and actively look for topics, but his mind was full of academic terms and research topics, and no matter which one he said, it didn't seem appropriate.
Finally he talked about the guinea pig in the lab with great interest, and my attention was on manipulating the corpse puppet. The corpse cave is not big, and with only one corpse puppet, I am 90% sure that I can catch the 'tail'.
Lei Ming and Fei Hao nodded at me together, indicating that they were ready to provide support at any time. Sanjiu looked nonchalant, but in fact, his body was already ready to go.
The corpse puppet suddenly appeared at the entrance of the cave, and the black hair of the cloud tightly wrapped around the bones inside, and something struggled between the thick black hair, and was dragged out of the cave by the corpse puppet.
Fei Hao, Lei Ming, and Sanjiu rushed up, and the head of the thing came out of the chest cavity of the corpse. A pair of golden eyes stared at them coldly.
"Lizardmen!" Only then did Hu Sanmao come back to his senses from the sudden situation, and opened his mouth wide and screamed.
The head that came out of the ribcage of the corpse was indeed the head of a lizard, but this head was not as sharp as a lizard, but similar to a human, and although the five views were vague, it was complete.
In particular, its eyes are completely different from those of animals, glowing with the essence of intelligent creatures, but its eyes are full of malice and coldness, which makes people's hearts chill.
Lei Ming stepped forward and killed it with a dagger, this thing has been following us, absolutely not at ease, the corpse puppet let go of the dead thing, it fell to the ground, and everyone gathered around to watch.
It was the size of a child of three or four years old, but the head was the size of an adult, with short limbs and a long thick tail behind it.
"There's a hole here." Luke's interest was not in the lizard, he stood by the cave where the headless bones were kept, and when the bones were removed, a small round hole was revealed in the hole.
"It's the way it gets in and out." Fei Hao glanced at the small round hole, and his gaze fell back on the lizard's corpse.
"There must be more than one such hole." Lei Ming looked around the entire tower-shaped tomb and said.
The size of the burial chamber is about the same as the pagoda of country Z, and there are thousands of corpses in such a tall burial chamber, if there is such a hole hidden behind each corpse, it means that there will not be only one dead lizard.
Both animals and humans are territorial, and if the entire tomb is considered their territory by the lizardmen, we will be in big trouble for the rest of the day.
Just thinking of this, there was a scream behind me, and when I looked back, I saw a guard wiping the neck of the person next to me with a dagger.
The cannibalism spread rapidly like an infectious virus, and the eyes of the attacker turned cloudy and yellow, and the suspicious height behind him bulged as if it had turned into a Luo Guo'er in an instant.
The people who reacted subdued these people and cut their clothes, and saw that they seemed to have a huge sarcoma growing on their backs.
A man in black snapped the neck of one of his subdued companions with swift hands, and the man's head was drooping and lifeless.
But just when he thought that the trouble had been solved, the corpse lying on the ground suddenly 'poofed', the sarcoma on his back exploded, and the foul-smelling thick water erupted, splashing on the bodies of the people around him, and the clothes were immediately corroded into holes.
The quick-handed man in black was closest to the corpse, his hands and face were sprayed with corrosive liquid, and his eyes were bleeding from his screams, and he was afraid that he would be hopeless.
Hu Sanmao squatted next to the lizardman's corpse, he took the dagger of the man in black, and used the tip of the knife to pick open the corpse's mouth, and the lizardman's mouth was pried open.
I saw a spiky mouthpart on the roof of its tongue above its tongue, and Hu Sanmao also saw this strange long thorn.
After reading it, he walked up to one of the subdued men in black, examined his back, and then said to us:
"These lizards inject their prey with venom, and I'm not sure how it works, but their madness must have something to do with venom."
"Let's go, get out!" Sanjiu picked me up and left, but the stone gate suddenly fell, blocking our way.
"Who moved the mechanism?" Fei Hao asked angrily.
The people present are all some distance away from the stone gate, and the people who escaped are basically familiar with each other, and everyone who should be there is here, so the one who closes the stone gate is not the person in the team.
The retreat was blocked, and the only way to survive was the top of the tomb, and just as I was manipulating the puppet to climb the wall, Thunder found another lizardman with its head out!
"Be careful, everyone, don't get bitten by it!" Hu Sanmao reminded everyone who was ready to do a big job.
"Give them a treat!" Sanjiu looked coldly at the few poisoned people who had lost their minds, and said to the black-clothed people beside them.
These people have completely lost their minds, let them go, they will inevitably be attacked, take them, and wait for the cancer behind them to burst, and it is still us who will suffer.
How to choose is obvious, the man in black is not stupid, not to mention that there are more and more lizard heads in the tomb, and the enemy is currently important.
The corpse puppet crawled all the way up, not attacked by the lizardmen, and the cold light flickering in the darkness was a pair of lizards' cold eyes staring at us trapped in the tomb.
Whether the corpse puppet can succeed or not is the key to everyone's survival, so this time, it is still Fei Hao, Lei Ming, Luke, and the extra strong man in black who uses a quadrangular phalanx to protect me in it, so as not to disturb me from the lizard man manipulating the corpse puppet.
Sanjiu's speed is fast, and he is responsible for making the first barrier on the periphery, trying to prevent the lizardmen from approaching me. (To be continued.) )