Chapter 217: Death Tomb
The figurines' sharp nails pierced into the walls, and they were much faster than humans because they were lighter, and the four dolls climbed to the top of the tomb and slammed the ceiling with their hair wrapped around a steel shovel.
"It doesn't seem to work, it's rock formations on it!" Luke shouted at us after hearing a knock overhead, kicking a lizardman away.
"The walls of the burial chamber are compacted soil, maybe only the cap is rock, try to get a little lower." Fei Hao cut down a lizard that was about to open its mouth to inject venom at him, quickly looked up at the tomb wall and said.
I asked the puppet to retreat two meters and dig through a shallow hole in the wall, where the original corpse fell and fell into bones.
The earth dug up by the corpses rained down on everyone's heads and bodies, but no one paid attention to them at the moment, and they were all fighting with the lizardmen who pounced on them.
"Be careful not to let them touch your central nervous system!" Hu Sanmao crawled to avoid the lizardman's attack, and did not forget to remind everyone loudly.
"What is the central nervous system?" The strong man in black fell to his knees, dodging a lizard that pounced on him.
"Spine!" Hu Sanmao panicked into a corpse cave without a dark hole and squeezed a corpse bone down.
"Don't you just say don't turn your back on the enemy?" Someone complained in the scuffle.
"Okay, I'll try to use easy-to-understand words!" Hu Sanmao shrank in the hole, his figure hid in just right, and the last word was changed by his shout, because a lizard wanted to crawl into the hole where he was hiding, and he stabbed the lizard out with a thigh bone that he didn't know when.
Everyone is trying their best to get alive, and Sanjiu's feet are even more 'corpses all over the field', but the number of lizards is still increasing.
Seeing that the people in the tomb were rushed to one place by the lizards that could not be killed, so that they could be eliminated in a centralized manner, Sanjiu opened a gap. It will be quickly filled by the lizards that pour out from all around.
Hu Sanmao, who was hiding on the wall, was isolated, and more than a dozen lizards were approaching him, clutching the leg bones in his hands and desperately shrinking back.
If this continues, all flesh and blood will be buried here, and the question is whether there is an Iron Man among us who is not flesh and blood?
Sanjiu's speed and strength can indeed crush most humans, but he is also draining energy. Not to mention others. After a few rounds of fighting, some people couldn't hold it anymore, and their reactions and movements were significantly slower than before.
When the crowd is enclosed in the center of the tomb. The lizardmen stopped attacking, and we wouldn't be naïve enough to think that they were trying to spare outsiders who had invaded the territory, and after a short silence, it was bound to be a more violent attack.
The people in the tomb had a premonition that real danger was coming. Everyone held their breath and prepared to fight to the death.
Oops, an exclamation broke the balance between the two sides of the confrontation. Becoming the fuse of the war, the lizard army besieged in groups, and the people in the encirclement quickly approached, leaving their backs to those who could be trusted. Fight with a knife at the lizard.
It was Hu Sanmao who screamed, he somehow fell into the hole and disappeared immediately, but the lizard group seemed to be pressed the pause button. Frozen in place, but their eyes still rolling.
The pause lasted only a few seconds. As if they had heard the order to withdraw, the lizards immediately gave up their attack and swarmed back through the holes they had entered.
At the same time, the ground under our feet began to slowly move to the sides, and everyone ran to the wall, picked the nearest corpse cave to the ground, dragged out the bones inside, and squatted into it themselves.
The ground is completely absorbed into the wall, and a pyramid-shaped stone platform gradually rises from the ground, and a vertical coffin is placed in the center of the platform.
That is to say, the coffin is standing upright in the center of the stone platform, and the coffin body is surrounded by a chain that flashes with cold light.
"Hey Lei, no wonder the guys in the hole in the wall don't have burial goods, it turns out that the status is not enough, guess who is in this coffin? I bet it's a king! Luke propped his hands on the edge of the cavern, his eyes fixed on the coffin in the center of the stone platform, but the words were spoken to Thunder Ming, who was squatting in the cave next to him.
"Not necessarily, just with the tight spell you wear on your head, ten of the ** in this coffin are filled with white bone spirits!" Fayho, on the other side of Luke, said.
When the stepped stone platform rose to the height of the corpse cave where everyone was, everyone jumped down from the cave and stepped on the stone steps to get closer to the coffin.
Its appearance has solved the lizardman crisis, and the pomp and circumstance of this person undoubtedly proves that he/she is the real owner of the tomb, and perhaps the information that reveals the identity of the tomb owner is in the coffin.
My mind is not on the coffin, and my mental power has been manipulating the corpse puppets to continue digging holes, but my mental power reserves are not enough to support them to dig through the entire 'thief hole'.
When I felt that the space they had dug up could fit a person, I ordered them to put down their hair, just like the 'Rapunzel' in the fairy tale who picked up her lover to meet her, and they also drooped their long hair like a rattan ladder, but they only took the people below to go up and be 'coolies'!
A man in black was pulled up to continue the unfinished business of the corpse, and the people below were around the coffin and discussing who was standing inside.
The strong man in black spoke amazingly, and after touching the coffin and the chain, he told everyone that the coffin and the chain were made of meteoric iron.
Meteorite is a meteorite, just looking at it with your eyes, it is no different from ordinary black iron, Luke admires him very much for being able to quickly identify the material of the coffin, Lei Ming is very cold to the people in black and the guards because of the big k, he always keeps a distance from them, standing behind the crowd.
A bold man in black knocked on the lid of the coffin, but no one expected that there would be a response from his knock!
There was a dull knocking sound inside the coffin, and the people who had been surrounding the coffin hurriedly retreated in all directions like frightened fish.
"Deceived corpse!"
"Zombies!"
"The dead are alive—"
The different shouts came from the fleeing black-clothed men and the guards, who were not even afraid of killing, but were they afraid of the corpses that popped out of the coffins?
It's funny to think about, the tapping in the coffin continued, and Luke was the first to notice something, and he didn't retreat, but put his ear to the lid of the coffin and listened carefully.
I noticed that his fingers mimicked the frequency of tapping. was also knocking on the outside of his thigh, and Sanjiu said loudly: "It's Morse code." ”
Luke gave him an affirmative look, then straightened up and said, "I—I am...... I... In the ......"
He stumbled to translate the contents of the password, probably because he had been learning this password for a long time, and he was not sure how to translate it for a while.
Sanjiu simply interrupted him and said directly: "I'm Hu Guodong." I'm in a coffin. ”
As soon as the people who ran away heard that it was Hu Sanmao in the coffin. They all stopped, turned their heads and stared at the coffin in surprise.
I absolutely believe Sanjiu's words, even though what he translates is incredible. But he is even less likely to lie or joke.
Sanjiu soaked his own blood with a short sword, cut off the chains that bound the coffin, and the people who gathered around him again joined forces to bring down the heavy coffin.
After the coffin is laid flat. A round hole at the bottom of the coffin is exposed, which is just the size of the vertical coffin. Hu Sanmao crawled out of the bottomless coffin, still holding the thigh bone in his hand.
The man in black who was in charge of protecting him asked him how he got to the coffin, and Hu Sanmao just wanted to speak, habitually touching the three hairs on the top of his head. As a result, this touch is one less!
He wailed, and his face was about to crumple into a chrysanthemum. The only remaining three hairs became two hairs, and I could no longer comb my hairstyle in the future. Don't be sad!
"Behind the hole was a stone slab, and I squeezed it down to avoid the lizard's attack, and then fell into a deep pit. However, fortunately, the bottom of the pit was mud, and I didn't get hurt by falling, and the pit was so high that I couldn't climb up, and there happened to be a passage below, so I climbed along the passage and climbed into this coffin. ”
"What about the body in the coffin?" After listening to Hu Sanmao's story, Luke hurriedly asked.
I knew that he didn't care about the corpse at all, but the funeral goods in the coffin, but Hu Sanmao didn't understand the nature of his work, and replied very seriously:
"No, no body, the coffin is empty!"
The word 'empty' darkened Luke's eyes with excitement, and everyone lost interest in the coffin and returned to the wall to continue resting.
Only Hu Sanmao squatted on the side of the coffin with great interest and looked left and right, and from time to time he had to reach out and touch it, and people who didn't know thought he was engaged in archaeological work!
After studying for a long time, he beckoned to me and motioned me to come over, I jumped out of the resting corpse cave, stepped on the stone steps and walked to the coffin, Hu Sanmao pointed to the hole at the bottom of the coffin, and said to me mysteriously:
"Look at this hole, do you see it?"
I didn't understand what was nice about a hole, and he didn't take my dullness to heart, but pointed to the hole in the ground and asked:
"What about this? Do you see it? ”
I crouched down and looked closely at the round hole in the ground, and suddenly, my eyes narrowed, and I leaned closer to the hole at the bottom of the coffin.
At first glance, the edge of the round hole looks neat, but if you look closely, you will see that it is not a neat cut left by a tool, but a hole that is buckled out little by little with a fingernail!
Hu Sanmao was very curious about what was originally in the coffin, and when he saw that I understood what he meant, he smiled happily, held his mobile phone to illuminate it, and got into the coffin again.
After a while, he stopped moving, and I was a little strange, so I asked him what was wrong, if there was a new discovery, and he gave a vague 'um', and said no more.
I heard a 'click' shutter sound coming from inside, which was the phone's camera function mimicking the sound of the camera's shutter.
Obviously, Hu Sanmao must have found something in the coffin, most likely words or pictures, so he took pictures of the contents.
After Hu Sanmao came out, I asked him what he saw in the coffin, but he insisted that it was an unknown text, and when I wanted to borrow his mobile phone to look at it, he said that the mobile phone was out of power and turned off.
When he spoke, his eyes fluttered, and he looked uneasy, and I didn't continue to force him, anyway, as long as everyone can get out, I don't have to know about the cat in the coffin.
The passage to the outside world has been replaced by a third wave of people, and according to Lei Ming's calculations, in about three hours, the foundation of the tower can be dug through.
"The contents of the coffin dug through the bottom of the coffin and ran out, in your opinion, will that thing still be in the ancient tomb?" I went back to Sanjiu and talked to him in a low voice.
"If the tomb owner can avoid the mechanism in the tomb, it won't be a problem to get out, according to what you said, this person's nails can dig through the meteorite iron coffin, then the stone door should not be able to stop it."
"Of course, the owner of the tomb will know all the mechanisms in the tomb, no, if such a heavy tomb road is repaired first when the tomb is built, wouldn't the person who carries the coffin in have to carry the heavy coffin to 'break through'? It's kind of unreasonable. ”
"The grave road is reserved for tomb robbers, and there should be another road here for the people who transport the coffins and corpses."
"And it has to be able to go straight to the main burial chamber!"
"The way to life is right under our noses."
The more I talked to Sanjiu, the more certain we became, and after spending half a day's effort, it turned out that there was a shortcut that we ignored!
But then I thought about it further, the light of hope that had just risen seemed to be not so bright, so many corpses in the tomb could not all die at the same time, and there must be convenient shortcuts to enter and exit the tomb frequently for a long time.
But the exit of that road must have been opened from the outside, and who would leave an opening mechanism for the inside of the tomb?
Do you expect the bones in the tomb to come back to life one day and open the door and go out by themselves?
I sighed softly, and then I heard a thud, and one of the guards, who had been resting in the cavern, fell headfirst down on the stone steps of the high platform.
People near him jumped down to check on him, only to find that he had lost his breath and died!
"How did he die?"
"Is it a lizard attacking again?"
I didn't pay attention to the person asking these questions, but ran a few steps to the corpse, which showed no signs of being injected with venom by a lizard, and his demeanor was very peaceful, and he passed away quietly while closing his eyes and recuperating.
After Hu Sanmao finished inspecting the body, he scratched the only two remaining hairs with a puzzled face, and muttered: "It's strange, except for a little abrasion, there are no fatal wounds on his body, how can he ......?"
Unable to find out the cause of death, we had to put him back in the burrow, and after about half an hour, I had just closed my eyes to recuperate when I heard another thud.
The second person fell from the hole where he was sitting, and died exactly like the first, and the others could not sit still.
The first time can be said to be accidental, the second time is inevitable, and there is an inevitable cause of death in this tomb!
The strong man in black suddenly said loudly: "He, they have all dug the passage, it is the one above!" ”
He pointed to the passage under construction at the top of the burial chamber, and I thought for a moment that it was true, that the first deceased was the first person to be sent to dig the passage!
According to the order of digging the passage in turn, now the first and second people died inexplicably, and the third person's face suddenly turned pale. (To be continued.) )