Then he heard a "bang". Immediately after, a cold wind blew in.

He mustered up the most courageous courage and looked up—

So the last thing I saw was a skinny bronze hand with barbs on its knuckles, poking in through the hole in the window and grabbing her face.

It's so cool. He thought.

And then...... A large puddle of blood exploded, red, white flesh and brains splattered everywhere, and the crumbs of the skull fell into the hot pot on the induction cooker, splashing bright red chili oil everywhere.

Zhang Laohan's headless corpse knelt on the bed for another second before collapsing. And the whole window, and even the whole wall, shattered. The white-haired wind blew in with billowing smoke and dust, and the broken bricks and tiles were all over the house, smashing the TV into a cloud of green smoke.

The incandescent lights in the ceiling flickered, then went out due to a short circuit in the wires.

So the secluded moon sè ...... The skeleton stepped into the room.

It's different from the last time again. Although the muscles are still thin on the thick bones, they are protected by a layer of bronze skin. On the skin, the extremely fine and tiny scales shimmer slightly with moonlight, cold, slippery and greasy, which makes people involuntarily and heart-wrenching give birth to a chill.

It stood still in the middle of the house, then lowered its head slightly, and saw the steaming blood gushing out of the corpse of Zhang Laohan. So he stooped down and picked it up, pulled it over the quilt on the bed, and blocked the wound on his neck.

Next, it crouches on the ground and gently makes a "sniffing" motion.

Then, on his terrifying face, which was like a skeleton, there was an expression that might be "satisfied".

The next moment, it raised its hands and slashed at the floor of the room—the concrete floor seemed to have turned into loose earth, and a large hole had been gouged open by its sharp claws. The skeleton didn't stop moving, but picked up speed—and the canopy of dirt flew outward from the sides of its body, forming two mounds in less than a minute.

The frozen soil and hard stones beneath the ground were all turned into melted nǎi oil in front of it, and they were cut by the big hands that were harder than the golden stone, and they were thrown to the ground.

Fifteen minutes later...... The concrete floor of the hut was almost completely hollowed out. A large mouth opened diagonally to the ground below, revealing a faint cold air. The skeleton poked out a hand from the hole, groped for a while, and grabbed the flashlight of Zhang Laohan that had been placed on the ground by it before. This is a slightly worn portable flashlight with a light blue sè plastic case. However, in its hands, it is as small as a toy.

It used the sharp bone spurs at the tip of its finger to scratch the tip of the flashlight. After a soft "click", a bright light shone into the cavern.

So it took the light source in its hand, hunched over, and slowly walked in.

The whole scene seems strange and eerie.

A pair of giant horns scraped against the cave walls above its head, and the cháo's wet dirt staggered down. But none of this seemed to distract it, as the light had reached the bottom of the ten-meter-long cavern...... On a headless torso.

The torso seemed to have been buried in the ground for some years, emaciated and shriveled, with white skeletal ballast exposed on the neck and tail vertebrae. but his limbs and head were cut off.

However, it must have been tall and powerful in life. Even...... It will not be shorter than the "visitor" standing in front of it now.

Chinese have been working on this land for thousands of years, and the occasional mutilated corpse, or even a dismembered corpse, does not seem strange under the thick soil. However, the one in front of me is unusual.

Because it was originally placed on a stone platform. This stone platform has been buried deep in the ground for a long time, but the damage is still not too serious, and it looks like a stone bed. However, if you look at the corpse's chest, you will see that there are three black and green things there.

It looks like three thick buttons, embedded in the center of the torso.

The skeleton stooped forward, curled his free right hand into a claw shape, and carefully grabbed one of the "buttons" with three fingers.

Then he gently lifted it to the shang.

There was a slight cracking sound from the stone bed under the torso, and then ......

A brass nail the thickness of an arm was pulled out of its torso. The copper nail has long been covered with black and green rust, and if it were not for the contact with the fingers of the skeleton that was rubbed out of its original face, it would have looked like a piece of rotten wood. It tossed the brass nail aside, followed by a second, a third.

Eventually, the shriveled torso was completely freed from the stone bed. The skeleton "Adam" also dropped the flashlight, picked it up, bowed, and slowly walked out of the hole.

Outside the cave, the bitter cold wind had already covered everything in this room with a layer of hoarfrost. The skeleton put his torso on the ground, straightened up and grabbed the headless corpse that had cooled down Zhang Laohan, grabbed his shoulder with one hand and his thigh with the other, and twisted it hard-

There was a rattling of bones, and the warm blood poured down onto the torso. The skeleton waited patiently for more than ten seconds, and then tried hard—another large patch of blood.

This was repeated four times, and there was no more blood to shed in the corpse. And there was a layer of red and black ice on the torso.

It finally threw Zhang Laohan's body aside, and looked at the torso in a daze for a moment, and the dark eyeballs rolled strangely in the eye sockets several times. Then he leaned over and took it in his arms, strode out into the wind and snow outside, and waved his hand back from afar—

A huge flame burst into flames, enveloping the ruined hut in just a second. Then, the tongue of fire licked in all directions, and climbed up to the roof of the plastic greenhouse next to it, and suddenly the wind helped the fire, and the fire was long, and after a while, the long cotton curtain was ignited, and the whole building became a fire.

The ruins after the fire were discovered after three days. At that time, the house and the greenhouse were burned down, and even Zhang Laohan's corpse was turned into charcoal, and it was covered with a thick layer of snow.

The first to arrive was the criminal from the county public security bureau, and after discovering the abnormality of the body, he reported it to the city bureau. But even at the level of the municipal bureau, this major case still did not think about other aspects.

If it is interpreted by common sense, it is that this is a murder and treasure robbery case. The so-called "treasures" are the three copper nails left in the tunnel. By the time Xingjing arrived at the scene, the tunnel had collapsed. However, the mound in the ruins of the house still attracted attention, and after a simple excavation, the stone bed and three copper nails were revealed.

Therefore, the most reasonable assumption is......

Underneath this house, there is an ancient tomb. However, the frenzied grave robbers brutally murdered the old man before digging up the grave, emptied the treasure in the tomb, and accidentally left behind only three copper nails. In order to destroy the crime scene, before leaving, he, or they set a fire. The house was destroyed by the fire, and the falling building materials smashed the body of the old man, who had been beheaded and thrown away, with many fractures.

Such a conclusion is, of course, a bit far-fetched. But it is the most reasonable inference within the scope of ordinary human cognition.

After the experts identified the three nails and concluded that they were at least 5,000 years old, the focus quickly shifted to the stolen "treasure" itself.

The burial vessels with such a long history are bronze vessels, and any one of them can be called a national treasure. Therefore, the deeper clues hidden behind the incident were ignored, so that the local secret service department regarded the case as an ordinary criminal case.

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