Volume 4 The Storm of the Sea Chapter 291 The Resurrection of the Clay Figurines
Bai Yang first approached the wooden coffin and took a look, and sure enough, as Tie Niu said, the lid of the wooden coffin was well closed on the coffin below.
It seems that the people from the county cultural relics bureau who came in before also knew that there would be no good things in this wooden coffin, so they ignored the wooden coffin and went directly into the inner tomb.
The two of them were afraid that the contents of the wooden coffin would suddenly come out, so they carefully walked around the wooden coffin and reached the doorway in the other corner.
When I looked inside, I found that it was just a passage more than one meter wide, the length of the passage was about ten meters, and the walls of the passage were no longer bare bricks, but had been painted, and some exquisite patterns were painted on it.
But Poplar didn't bother to look at the patterns, because the first thing he saw was another dead body in ancient costume in the aisle, leaning against the left corner.
It was precisely because of the sitting that the face of the dead body could be seen more clearly.
Poplar squatted down to take a closer look, and found that although this person had shriveled cheeks, his facial features were upright, and his chin was smooth and beardless, and he should still be a young man in his teens and twenties.
His hair and armor were also covered in mud, and even on his sunken cheeks, there was a patch of mud sticky.
Poplar's heart moved, and a thought suddenly came to him, and he was about to reach out and take the dirt off the corpse's cheeks, but suddenly, the dead corpse suddenly opened his eyes, and a pair of gray eyes stared directly at Poplar's face.
Poplar was taken aback and was about to retreat, but the dead body reached out his hands like lightning and grabbed Poplar's throat.
Tie Niu was standing next to him, and when he suddenly saw this situation, he exclaimed "ah" in fright.
But before the Iron Bull could come to his rescue, Poplar had already pulled out the dagger from his waist, as fast as lightning, and plunged the dagger directly from the top of the dead body's head, until it reached the handle.
If it was a zombie, no matter where it was stabbed by a sword, it would not let go of its hands that were holding Poplar's throat.
However, this dead corpse was obviously already a dead corpse, but the moment the poplar dagger was inserted into the top of its head, it actually showed some painful color, and its originally gray eyes instantly turned white. And its grip on Poplar's throat was still not released, but it was no longer straining.
Poplar breathed a sigh of relief, pulled the dead corpse's hands away from his neck, pulled the dagger from the top of the corpse's head, and thought about it, so he simply slashed the tip of the dagger on the back of the dead corpse's bare hand.
The skin on the back of the corpse's hand was immediately cut through it, but there was certainly no blood coming out, and no mucus oozing out.
"I'm sure it's not a live corpse, it's invulnerable, but this thing can't stand a sword!" Poplar opened his mouth to make a judgment, "though...... There may also be a part of this thing's brain that remains alive, much like a living corpse!"
"So to kill them, you just have to bayonet it from the top of its head, or cut off its head?" said Iron Bull.
"Yes!" Poplar nodded, "cut off its head, I guess its head may not die immediately, but its hands and feet are off its head, and it will definitely not be able to move!"
Poplar replied as he stood up and looked carefully at the floor of the passage, soon seeing that it was full of clods of dirt and mud.
Especially in the corners of the walls on both sides of the passage, there are four places where there are intersecting and scattered clods of mud.
Poplar stooped down and picked up a clod of earth to inspect it, and found that it was dry and hard, and the clod was in an arc, as if it were wrapped in something.
Poplar was thinking that his previous guess might be right, but Tie Niu blurted out, "How can this clod of dirt be like this?" It just so happens that those dry corpses are covered with mud on their heads, so they can't be ...... These clods of dirt were wrapped around those dry corpses before, right?"
Bai Yang didn't expect Tie Niu to think of this, so he nodded and said, "I think so too! I even think that these dried corpses were made after being tempered by people with demon methods...... A terracotta servant like a terracotta warrior!"
Tie Niu's eyes widened suddenly, and he said for a long time, "I remember...... You've seen the illusion of moving terracotta warriors and horses next to them before, will you ...... These are the same as the ones you see?"
"Quite possibly!" replied Poplar, gesturing his hand to the ground, "You can see that these piles of dirt on the ground are staggered from each other, and they should be four terracotta figurines standing separately." As a result, those people from the county cultural relics bureau came in, and when they saw such a realistic pottery maid here, they must have been surprised and delighted to investigate carefully, but they brought these four pottery figurines back to life, and those people were naturally so frightened that they couldn't flee for their lives!"
Tie Niu nodded again and again, and said, "Fortunately, this thing is not invulnerable, and the two of us shouldn't be afraid of them!"
Poplar nodded and said, "I don't know if there are other monsters inside!"
He looked closely at the murals on the left and right walls, but couldn't find anything of value.
Those murals are nothing more than some flowers, birds, fish, insects, birds and beasts, and there is no information about these four costumed corpses, nor does it reveal who the owner of this tomb is.
However, looking further, I found that at the top of the walkway, there were two closed stone doors, and on the stone doors, there were several lines of Qin Li font engraved.
Poplar read it out as soon as he recognized it. The meaning of those lines of Qin Li is: Those who trespass into this door will definitely die.
"We've seen a lot of threatening words like this, it seems that there must be a mechanism set up on the two stone doors!" Tie Niu said.
Poplar nodded, carefully looked at the two stone doors, and made sure that there were no mechanisms around the stone gates, and then approached the stone gates, and slowly groped on the stone doors with both hands.
Although Tie Niu had also read Ouyang Qi's "Secret Technique of Organs", he had never liked to spend his thoughts, so his understanding of mechanisms was still at the scratching stage.
Because of this, Poplar stepped forward to grope carefully, and he just stood aside to take strict precautions.
Just listen to the sound of "click", as the poplar gently pressed on a corner of the stone door, the foot of the stone door suddenly protruded outwards a small boxy section.
Tie Niu was overjoyed and said, "Found the mechanism?"
"Yes!" Poplar smiled and nodded, "It's a chain mechanism, as long as you push this small section in, the stone gate should be able to open, it's just ...... I'm worried that there will be hidden weapons or something like that that that will hurt people!"
As he spoke, he pulled the iron ox back and looked up and down the stone gate again.
Soon, he saw where the mystery was, and was about to tell Tie Niu about it, when he suddenly heard a loud "bang" behind him.
"What a noise!" Iron Bull asked, startled.
"It's probably that I activated the mechanism and woke up the things in the wooden coffin outside! No wonder there is a chain of mechanisms on this stone door, and the first mechanism is activated to wake up the things in the wooden coffin outside!" Bai Yang said.
He was afraid that he would not be able to exert himself in this narrow passage, so he spoke, and he had already rushed out of the passage to the outer tomb.
First of all, there was a very strange aroma around the nose, and then I saw the lid of the wooden coffin outside, and sure enough, it was lifted to the side, and a human body was sitting up from the wooden coffin.
It was also dressed in armor and had a helmet on its head.
Before the Poplar Iron Bull could gain a foothold, it had already jumped from the wooden coffin and turned to face the Poplar Iron Bull.
Two pillars of light on the top of the Poplar Iron Bull's head were all projected on its face.
Its appearance looked even more terrifying than the four dead bodies lying on the ground, its flesh was dull and dry, and it was truly skin and bones.
And its eye sockets are deeply sunk into two round pits.
But it was in these two round pits that there were two shriveled and scorched eyeballs that did not have the slightest charm and brilliance.
But these two shriveled eyeballs turned slightly in the sunken sockets, as if they were looking for the figure of the person who had invaded the tomb.
"Live corpse! This is a real live corpse! This scent is to ensure that a part of the brain of a living corpse remains alive!" Poplar immediately exclaimed.
Iron Bull was taken aback, grabbed the crowbar in one hand, and pulled out his pistol in the other to shoot.
Poplar hurriedly shouted again: "It only works if you shoot a bullet into its head, shooting it elsewhere will only waste bullets! And it is not like a zombie, it is conscious, and can know how to avoid danger!"
As soon as Iron Bull heard him, he immediately raised the barrel of his gun, wanting to shoot at the living corpse.
But before he could take a closer look, the corpse suddenly let out a shrill howl, raised his foot, kicked the lid of the sarcophagus that had fallen to the ground into the air, and crashed into the Poplar Iron Ox.
The kick was so powerful that Poplar Iron Bull had to separate to the sides to dodge.
(See Chapter 292 "Fighting Again")