Chapter 10 on conversation

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I couldn't describe what I was seeing for a moment, but I could vaguely tell from the outline that it was a person. The kind of hospital-specific single bed with white sheets is covered with a plastic mat, a bit like a tarpaulin for baking.

I can barely find the characteristics of this "person" lying on the plastic tarpaulin. He was covered in **, almost every inch of skin showed a kind of red, with ulcers of different sizes distributed, the skin became very thin due to excessive ulceration, blood vessels and bones could be seen in many places, and the fat was gone. I especially did not dare to look at his head, for all his hair was gone, because of the repeated festering and pus, his head was like a rotten and spoiled watermelon pulp, and the rot left many holes in his face, and the yellow-green thick water was flowing everywhere. When he died, his eyes were closed, his eyelids were thin enough to see the eyeballs, the eyeballs were yellowish, the nose was completely missing, and the mouth was only a large hole deep into the throat.

He smelled fishy all over his body, and even though there was enough strong disinfectant water in the room, the smell still lingered. I felt less like a person, more like a bunch of garbage caught in a stinky gutter that I didn't know what it was made of, and I remembered the scene in "The Mermaid in the Sewers" in my mind. I felt my breakfast omelette and ham churning in my stomach, clutching the plastic bag Dae-cheol had given me tightly in my hand, closing my eyes and standing facing the wall, trying not to think about what was behind me.

After about ten minutes, I think the waiting process is very long, although I don't know this Captain Chen, but the person who looks beautiful in the photo is still very uncomfortable to become like this. I can't help but be a little scared, I don't know if my death will be this virtue.

Feeling the strange shaking of the air, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, and when I opened my eyes again, I saw Ji Ziyang standing not far from me, and "Captain Chen" stood next to him.

I recognized him at a glance, because he had just turned into a ghost, his body was translucent, but it would not be long before he would become a near-entity like Thistle, he was exactly the same as in the photo, but more energetic, he looked at himself lying on the bed, and then looked at me.

"I'm sorry, Captain Kui, I may have scared you." He was apologetic and polite, and I felt even more sad compared to the one in front of me and the one on the bed. "I didn't believe in ghosts or gods before, but now—" He looked down at his translucent body and smiled self-deprecatingly.

"You still call me Yin Yin, I just want to ask you about the situation underground, you know, this ability of mine is more convenient, calling you in this way will disturb your sleep."

"Haha" Captain Chen laughed loudly, "What's there to disturb, I'm afraid I'll have to sleep for a long time this night." ”

I nodded at him, feeling that he must have been a very open-minded person when he was alive.

"Ziyang, how long can Captain Chen stay here?" I asked.

"I froze for a while, almost two hours. Hurry up. After Ziyang finished speaking, he turned around and walked out through the wall. As soon as he left, Captain Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

"The one just now... Is it your friend? He asked cautiously.

"Well, yes, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, he's a sexist that scares ghosts too... I always feel terrible..."Captain Chen said as he walked up to me and stood side by side behind the curtain with me, thinking that he might not want to face his death all the time.

"Captain Chen has limited time, let's get down to business, what happened at the archaeological site that day?"

Captain Chen was silent for a moment, and then said slowly, "It's terrible." His body shook a little, apparently still haunted by what had happened. Then he calmed down and began to narrate the situation of the day to me, the matter was not complicated, but Captain Chen described it in detail, I sorted out my thoughts according to his description, what happened that day, roughly like this.

About a month ago, the villagers of Chengxin Village found some fragments of porcelain jars when repairing the village road, which was a remote path around the back of the village, the terrain in this area is relatively flat, most of the villagers went out to farm, and the road behind the village was generally not walked.

Originally, the village was also mainly agricultural, but a large vacant lot next to the path behind the village was a wasteland, and nothing could be grown. Several agriculturists came and said that it was because of the excessive heavy metals, which were not suitable for farming. After the other lands in the village were divided among the families, the land area of each family was not enough, and the peasants could not earn money, so they chose to go out to work.

Shandong was originally a large agricultural province, and it is actually rare for such a whole village to go out to work.

In order to prevent the leakage of the news from attracting the looting of ignorant villagers, Captain Chen led the archaeological team of Shandong Province to arrive at the scene in the shortest possible time and contacted the local armed police to protect the area. After preliminary exploration, the unearthed are the Qing Dynasty Qianlong period porcelain, are the quality of the folk workshop, should be a small area of collapse formed by the age, after the surrounding field investigation, Captain Chen They found the entrance to the cemetery, and determined that the cemetery is a simple "1" shaped cemetery, should just be an ordinary middle peasant class cemetery, with a small number of funerary goods.

The biggest difference between archaeology and tomb robbery is speed, tomb robbery is fast, the shortest time, stealing the most valuable things, archaeology is not, it is necessary to restore the original appearance of the ancient tomb, even if it is a brick to seal the number, all have archaeological value. So after finding the entrance, they carried out meticulous cleaning work, and finally ten days ago, they opened the gate of the collapsed cemetery.

Considering that the previous exploration work did not find danger, and most of the team were young people, most of them were college graduates, Captain Chen thought about it again and again, and decided that 22 people from the 30-person archaeological team would enter the tomb, leaving only eight older comrades to study the cultural relics that had been excavated.

Captain Chen blamed himself, he said that it was because of his decision that he harmed the whole team.

"Don't be so pessimistic, maybe they can still be saved, medicine is very developed now." I comforted him. Captain Chen shook his head.

"Do you know why I'm here? All the twenty-two of us who went to the grave were all here, one room each, do you know why we didn't go to the hospital? Didn't you notice that there wasn't any healing equipment in the room? "I suddenly realized that there was no treatment equipment in a room where the seriously ill were lying in the house?! There is only one ECG monitor. No ventilators, no infusion poles, nothing.

"We're actually here to die." Captain Chen's voice was weak, and my mood was as desperate as his tone.

Finally got to the point, that day the archaeological team of 22 people, all lightly armed, they had done air quality tests beforehand, the air quality in the tomb was good, everyone carried the necessary items, excavation equipment, medicines, gas masks, lighting equipment, etc., almost foolproof.

After going down to the cemetery, there were brick walls on both sides, Captain Chen said that he had noticed, the temperature of the brick wall was lower than the usual wall, and the entrance to the cemetery was a very small burial room, which had a small number of burial items, which had been cleaned out, and it should be the main burial chamber after passing through the burial room. Captain Chen led everyone inside, but he didn't expect that there was a very long tomb road inside, much longer than everyone had predicted, and finally walked almost 200 meters, and a door appeared in front of him.

The tragedy happened at this time, a college student surnamed Jin, the first time to go down to the tomb, saw the tomb door was very excited, rushed over and wanted to push the tomb door open, he just touched the door, something happened, a large amount of toxic gas sprayed out from the cracks in the wall, I didn't find that there was something behind those brick cracks.

"I only took one breath, and I felt that my throat was hot, and I couldn't speak, so I quickly took out my gas mask and put it on my face, but it didn't work." Captain Chen said.

After that, everyone decided to evacuate, but everyone was poisoned, and not only that, but not only that, but also the body began to fester, blistering. There is no way to use the communication equipment, and it is hot to hold it in your hand as if you have held a piece of hot coal. The most important thing is that everyone can't make a sound, their mouths and throats begin to foam, and their hair is smoking.

Everyone began to run towards the exit, but soon they couldn't run anymore, and began to walk out in twos and threes. Captain Chen said that he didn't know what was going on, the last scene in front of him was the white light at the entrance of the tomb, and then he lost his instincts, and until the moment he died, he didn't know how he got out of the cemetery and how he got here.

"I think I must have been blind in the cemetery, but we didn't feel it, we just ran out on instinct." Captain Chen spoke calmly, but I could feel his grief. "There must be something strange about that door, you must be careful."

At this time, Ji Ziyang floated in and signaled that my time was up, I nodded, and looked respectfully at him and left with Captain Chen. I didn't leave the room immediately, maybe because I had a good impression of Captain Chen's personality, I even felt that his body was not so terrifying, I was waiting for Ziyang to come back, and there were some things I had to ask him.