Chapter 68: The Island at 30 Degrees South (3)
If he had a choice, Shi Shaoying would definitely turn around without hesitation at this time, leading everyone to leave this island full of strange aura immediately, and never come back.
Shi Shaoying suddenly shouted: "Squint, come here!" ”
Squint all the way forward 45 degrees trot, when the squint jumped over a wooden stake, that kind of action, no matter how you look at it, it is like a person running at high speed, was tripped by a dog to gnaw mud, but after the squint on the ground, but continued to run forward without sluggishness, this kind of picture that is close to "destroying the three views" looks indescribably weird.
Shi Shaoying's pupils suddenly contracted slightly, as he noticed that with so many people in the whole team, after entering the "sloping layer" of the island, the squinted eyes, which had always been in the position of dragging oil bottles among them, seemed to be the least affected.
Shi Shaoying handed the rifle fragment to Squint, and then pointed to the corpse at his feet, "You are an expert in counterfeiting, I need you to use your professional eye to analyze these fakes and find out their flaws!" ”
Squint took out a magnifying glass from his pocket and looked closely at the rifle in his hand, "This is a perfect fake." ”
Shi Shaoying blinked, still tasting the meaning of this sentence, and squinted his attention shifted his attention to the corpse, he reached out and picked up the corpse, squinted his eyes directly broke the lower jaw of the corpse, and pulled out a gold tooth from between the two rows of teeth, wiped his chin on his clothes twice, and squinted his eyes and put the gold tooth into his pocket. This kind of ability to scrape the ground and not grow grass everywhere you pass by makes the corners of everyone's eyes jump. Squinted-eyed but calm-looking, he reported: "This fake is even more perfect." ”
Squint took out the bayonet hanging from the corpse's waist, gently swept away the rust on the knife body with a small brush, found three ring-shaped marks from the knife body, and then tested the current hardness and sharpness of the blade with his fingers, and Squint began to sigh softly: "This is a fake imitation of the Japanese Nagoya Arsenal 30 bayonet, the master who made this fake, no, the great master who made this fake, fully considering that the cowhide scabbard has a certain protective effect on the blade, the oxidation degree of the blade and the handle has been partially adjusted." Even the Japanese soldiers had received the most rigorous assassination training, and they still practiced hard with trees when they ran to a small island in the Pacific, so the wear and tear of the tip of the knife was higher than that of other parts. These details have been taken into account and carefully tweaked, and this is a piece of the world's top counterfeiting artist, which has taken countless painstaking efforts to produce. A super fake that is infinitely close to reality. ”
At this time, Shi Shaoying had the urge to scold his mother. I don't think there will be any great master in the counterfeiting world who will be bored to get a few corpses from decades ago to scare people, and the squint of this girl is obviously satirizing Shi Shaoying's "proposition composition".
Squinted his eyes threw the bayonet back to the ground, patted the rust off his hands, and looked back at Pei Tongtong and Shi Shaoying. Suddenly, he said: "Two captains, would you like to listen to a little nonsense from me, a counterfeit cultural relics dealer?" ”
Shi Shaoying nodded, at this time, the slanted eyes still have enough confidence and courage to make fun of Shi Shaoying, there must be some kind of confidence.
"If you want to mix in the antique world, you can't survive just by relying on high counterfeiting skills. Even if it is a fake, it is only fake but not real. In the end, he can only be a bitter craftsman. It's no different from the craftsmen who burn clay pots and knead clay figures. Therefore, if you want to be successful in this industry, you must have channels to get some genuine treasures, so that it is difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake, so that those who claim to be experts will still pay the money even if they know that they may be deceived. Buy the goods from me. ”
Squinting when it comes to the industry he is best at, although no matter how you look at it, it has nothing to do with five talks, four beauties and three loves. But his eyes shone brightly, his look and his attitude. Even more so that Shi Shaoying couldn't help but think of those 38 Red Flag Bearers standing on the podium: "In addition to fraud, I am also a genuine 'Golden Captain'!" After forty-eight months, I will visit the tomb again and remove all the cultural relics in Licheng, including the fakes I put in, and those fakes have been carefully built by me and placed in the tomb for another two years, and they will be more difficult to distinguish between real and fake, and even look more real than the real thing. ”
Shi Shaoying can understand the move of squinting eyes to put fakes into the tomb and let the fakes get a little "tomb gas", this behavior is estimated to be similar to the counterfeiters of cultural relics, burying fakes near the pit and using them to increase the oxidation reaction of fakes, and it is more advanced and more obscene without a lower limit, but what Shi Shaoying can't understand is that Squint, which finds a corpse and doesn't forget to pull out people's gold teeth and take it away, why after visiting the tomb for the second time, he will politely leave two percent of the funeral items. Even if most of the two percent of the funeral goods are fakes made of slanted eyes, this behavior is too strange.
"Going to the tomb to touch gold to do this kind of work is inherently against the harmony of heaven, it will damage the longevity, and it will hurt the yin virtue, so the real captain who touches the gold will always leave something for the owner of the tomb, which is to leave a line of life. If after I am gone, a new grave robber will come and roll up the rest of the goods, it will divert the resentment of the tomb owner, and I will be able to take advantage of the opportunity to get out. At the same time, it can also make the fakes I make more difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake. ”
Shi Shaoying has seen it for a long time today, squinting at this master of fraud, even numerology, and even the grievances of the "tomb master" and the way of heaven, can move the water eastward through fraud, this is really a fucking industry that is good at specialty.
Shi Shaoying blurted out, "Have you ever encountered zombies?" ”
Squinted and shook his head, "Captain Touching Jin has an ancestral method to deal with zombies, even if there are real zombies, I have been mentally prepared, I am even very much looking forward to meeting zombies, if there is really such a thing, catch one and tie it with an ink fountain line and bring it back, sell it to national scientific research institutions, let them study how to make humans as immortal as zombies, I can immediately get a large amount of bonuses, maybe I can go down in history." It's a pity that I've been working for nearly ten years to touch the golden captain, but I haven't seen a single zombie, and I wasted the two Heavenly Master talismans I received from the antique market. ”
Squint picked up a necklace from his neck, and under this thick necklace, there was a small flat metal box, open the metal box, "Boss, instructor, you see, the exorcism talisman drawn by Zhang Tianshi himself, the holy water I brought back from the Vatican by my friend, the pocket version of the peachwood sword." Plus the most murderous pre-Qin town corpse money! ”
Squint raised his left hand and wore a colorful bracelet on his left wrist: "A tortoiseshell bracelet with four opals strung in the middle." It can drive away all evil things, especially being good at resisting Gu arts, so that any Gu poison cannot spread. ”
Squint and lift the hem of his right foot again, to the ankle of his right foot. Tied to a string of red stone beads: "Dzi, also known as the nine-eyed stone shale, is regarded by the Tibetans as a divine thing, which can break all curses." ”
Shi Shaoying sincerely gave a thumbs up to his slanted eyes, wanting to catch a zombie to leave his name in history. To become a milestone figure in humanity's overcoming of death, the nerves of the squint are really not ordinarily strong. But what makes Shi Shaoying even more admired is the preparation made by Squint Eye to catch a zombie, if measured by the equipment of a professional soldier, Squint Eye is tantamount to having reached the standard of the 2030 US Navy SEAL. It can be seen that the ancients often said that opportunities are prepared for those who are prepared, and this is honest and does not deceive me.
"As the saying goes, the prosperity of antiques is gold. The more stable the country is, the more developed the economy becomes. The higher the value of antiques, in order to get rich overnight, I don't know how many people have joined the tomb robbery industry, coupled with the archaeological team equipped with professional instruments, there are fewer and fewer tombs that can be excavated, and you want to find huge wealth underground. It is necessary to enter the inaccessible poor mountains and rivers to excavate the tombs that ordinary people dare not go. Captain, you probably think. I made so many things to ward off evil spirits, purely to be a thief. I want to try a psychological comfort ......"
Speaking of this, the squint suddenly shuddered, and his face showed a palpitating expression, he subconsciously reached out and stroked the bracelet on his wrist that was connected with tortoiseshell and opal, "Seven years ago, I and a group of masters took a treasure map into the mountains on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Tunxi section of the Xin'an River in Huangshan Mountain, Anhui Province, where there have been 36 ancient grottoes, which have a peculiar structure in the caves, known as the ancient strange caves. And the map in our hand, which marks the location of the 37th ancient grotto, according to our judgment, this grotto is likely to be an ancient tomb group of the Qin and Han dynasties, and the burial goods in it are of immeasurable value. ”
Although they are now in danger, Shi Shaoying is still attracted by Squint's previous adventure experience, looking at the expression of Squint, their expedition and treasure theft are destined not to end in comedy.
"With that map from the stone wall, we really found the entrance to the thirty-seventh grotto."
The squinted-eyed body trembled slightly: "What we found was a huge underground grotto with a space of tens of thousands of square meters, and that grotto was full of water, forming an underground lake, and there was a small island in the middle of it. It took us another day to prepare, and we finally landed on two rafts that were like a small island covered with huge stone pillars. It was only a few minutes after we got to the island, and when we turned back, we couldn't find the raft parked on the shore, and it was only then that we realized that the island was spinning! ”
A spinning island!
Shi Shaoying's eyes suddenly widened.
"The water in the underground lake is so deep and icy that none of us can guarantee that we will swim out alive, and it was suggested that, for whatever reason, since the island will rotate, we will naturally be able to retrieve the raft when it turns for a week, and in the meantime we can leave two people to wait while the others go deep into the center of the island to find the grave. The people who do our job are all bold people, and although they think that this underground island is very evil, everyone still agrees to this suggestion. As a result, I stayed with a man nicknamed Xiao Si and waited for the boat, and the other four people were responsible for going to the island to visit the graves......"
At this point, Squint abruptly stopped narrating.
Shi Shaoying did not urge, but only made a gesture to the other team members to stand on standby. Shi Shaoying suddenly had a hunch that what he was going to say behind his squint would have some kind of connection with the small island they set foot on, maybe accidental, maybe inevitable.
Squint will never forget what you saw on that day on the island in the middle of the underground lake.
Squint and Little Four Eyes sent the four companions through the stone pillar to grope for the center of the island, after they walked forty or fifty meters away, the squint suddenly saw that the bodies of those companions were leaning forward in unison, maybe the darkness affected people's visual judgment, maybe this rotating island also had other secrets, Squint was stunned to find that the four companions who walked into the island were walking forward in a way that leaned forward forty-five degrees without realizing it.
Squinting eyes subconsciously shouted loudly, logically speaking, they were in a semi-enclosed underground, and the distance was not even fifty meters. The people in front of him must have heard his shout, but no matter how loud and hard he screamed with his squinted eyes. The companions in front of them were unaware, as if they were in two parallel dimensions.
Squint subconsciously jumped up and rushed a few steps, just as he wanted to catch up with his companions and tell them what he had seen. He felt as if he had hit something invisible but slightly tactile on his skin, like standing in front of an old television and turning it on, and the slight heat wave that came with it.
Squint suddenly felt a pain in his right ankle, which was at the forefront, and he fell to the ground without being caught off guard. As he struggled to pull open his pants and look at his right foot in the flashlight, his squint froze.
It took half a year and a huge price to find a way to buy the red dzi from a border man who was in urgent need of money, and at this time, it was like a fire, revealing the dark red that is unique to coal burning, and this dark red is not the appearance. They really seem to be burning. A string of blisters appeared on the slanted ankles of the slanted eyes from the high temperature of the dzi, and even the smell of burnt flesh came from the air.
"Smack!"
Before Squint could figure out what was going on, one of the opals on the bracelet he was wearing on his left hand had split in half.
In the face of this abnormal vision, the squinted eye, which has always been good at judging the situation, reacted most directly in an instant. He crawled back and retreated more than ten meters away, looking at the four companions. In an absolutely eerie way of leaning forward forty-five degrees, in the flicker of the flashlight. Step by step, it disappeared into the depths of the island.
A squint-eyed and shuddering thought suddenly and naturally came to mind from the squint-eyed brain: I am afraid that these people will never come out of it again.
Squinting and struggling to get up, he suddenly saw Xiao Si, who had stayed with him and waited for the island to rotate around so as to retrieve the rubber raft, was like a zombie, his eyes were glazed, and he moved his body step by step towards the depths of the island in a slow rhythm. As he walked, Xiao Si's throat still made a gurgling sound like a ghost cry, and he didn't even notice that saliva kept flowing from the corners of his mouth.
The squint eyes still can't be described in words, and at that time, the hairs all over his body stood upside down in horror, and the squint eyes roared wildly: "Little four! ”
Hearing the roar of the squint, Xiao Si stopped and turned his head a little bit, under the light of the searchlight on the top of the squint, Xiao Si's face was constantly distorted, he looked like he was having a terrible and long, unable to struggle out of the dream, no matter how hard he tried, the pupils of his eyes were still frightening indifference.
The fear of losing the last companion in such a strange environment made the squint rush up and hugged Xiao Si, and then shook it vigorously.
The effort of squinting finally made Xiao Si's eyes regain a trace of sanity. Xiao Si stared at the squint blankly, he muttered to himself: "Squint, did you hear it, this island is calling me in, you go quickly, this island is going to kill us......"
"Smack!"
In the bracelet worn by Squint's left hand, another opal was broken.
Looking at the bracelet that broke two opals in a row, Squint suddenly understood that he had not lost his mind until now, and he was not cursed by the island, which was inevitably related to the fact that he carried too many evil things on his body. If he insists on not letting go, once the four opals on the bracelet are all shattered, maybe even he will be like Xiao Si, become unconscious, like a wandering god and a wild ghost, step by step into the depths of the island, never see the light of day again.
The squinted hand finally let go, and before Xiao Si turned his head and walked back to the island, tears suddenly gathered quickly from his eye sockets, but before the tears flowed out of his eye sockets, Xiao Si's eyes completely lost the brilliance that belonged to the human soul. He turned mechanically, moved his steps mechanically, mechanically stepped on the invisible but real boundary in front of him, his body slowly leaned forward, and then slowly walked away.
Squint retreated to the edge of the island step by step, and even he didn't know how he spent the remaining hours.
When the squint finally saw the rubber raft quietly moored in the lake, he desperately pounced on it, grabbed the oars and rowed desperately, when he rowed out dozens of meters away, maybe it was a biological instinct, maybe it was the telepathy between each other, the squint subconsciously turned back, and fell into a dark island in the distance, a position that could be a hillside, and in the distance, the squint saw a few flashing lights, which should be the searchlight they wore overhead.
One, two, three, four, five......
Five searchlights, in the dark, flickered constantly.
Vaguely, vaguely, squinting seemed to see that five companions who had walked into the center of the island were standing side by side, waving goodbye to him. Every time their arms swept in front of their faces, blocking the searchlight on their heads, the light would flicker once.
Looking at the constantly flickering lights, I don't know why, Squint's frightened heart actually regained its calm, at that time there were no companions around him, so no one told Squint, he actually grinned and smiled.
"Smack!"
In the vagueness, it seems that something is broken, but if it is broken, it will be broken, so what does it matter?
"Hmm...... What is it, so hot?! ”
Squinting his eyes and subconsciously lowering his head, the string of dzi under his feet emitted a dark red light again, which made him almost cry with his head, and the bracelet on his left wrist was originally strung with four opals, but at this time, three of them had been broken.
Squint shook his head vigorously, and when he finally came to his senses, and saw everything in front of him through the searchlight above his head, Squint froze......
I don't know why, he actually rowed a rubber raft and turned to the island just now, if it wasn't for the dzi burning him to regain his senses, he might have re-landed on the island... )