Chapter 226: The Mermaid
Until the surrounding stone lampstands are lit along the way, the faint ghost fire emits a green glow, and the air is rich in too much phosphorus powder, and the slightest accident may cause a fire.
"Plop..."
The sound of falling water came to my ears, as if something had come out of the central pool, and the hairs on my spine couldn't help but breed a chill.
The surrounding walls are also covered with decaying murals, but luckily two paintings are still intact.
This special dye made from ancient times can be preserved for a long time, and the traces of decay can be faintly seen, which is a fresco about the construction of a central pool by craftsmen.
"You... You see, what is this. ”
The little white face of the United States panicked first, and he stared at the silk threads gathered with white dye on the first mural in front of him, as if he suddenly remembered something.
"I... I remembered that the information shows that when Qin Shi Huang built the mausoleum, he prayed that all rivers would be accepted into the sea, and the coffin would eventually be gathered. ”
In order to be able to control the world after death.
I glanced at the fat man, listened to the very lame Chinese of the American white face in front of me, and said to myself, where did this kid get the information?
"However, looking at the lines on the mural, it should be made of mercury instead of seawater, and maybe the ancient tomb is now full of mercury gas."
"And we've absorbed more than half of it."
I looked at the mural on the wall with a cold face, and little by little I expressed my guesses and concerns.
The fat man lowered his head and was silent, and then went to see the second mural, which was much more silent than the guy used to be.
"What then..., or let's go back... bar. ”
The little white face of the United States in front of him showed embarrassment, and I said in my heart, why did you only say the words of repentance now, and the matter has come to this point and there is no turning back.
What's more, the section of the road behind him will never be extinguished for an hour, and now I only hope that the mercury in the ancient tomb has been diluted by the sea water for thousands of years.
Otherwise, we would never have made it here alive.
It wasn't until the fat man motioned for the two of us to look at the second mural that an eerie atmosphere that had never existed before spread rapidly between the three of them.
"Merfolk?"
The mural shows the Qin Emperor's procession to sea, and after the wind and waves subsided, a strangely shaped creature suddenly appeared on the ship.
The mural depicts its upper body covered with scales and armor, its appearance is ugly, and its lower body is blue-gray fishtail, which resembles the mermaid tribe who have known the mystery of human history.
The bloody wreckage was all around, indicating that this guy had a fierce temperament, and he didn't find out until someone was killed on the ship.
The third mural was too decayed to be seen, but it was vaguely discernible that it depicted a pool.
They kept the monsters they caught in a pond and fed them daily with the blood of fish, shrimp and slaves, and there were even bloody images of blood being collected on the murals.
It was a man standing on a cross-stake, covered in knife cuts, and blood dripping little by little down the pre-laid channel into the pool.
I couldn't help but swallow my saliva and said, "It seems that the ancients should have taken advantage of the bloodthirsty characteristics of monsters and used them as a mechanism to protect the mausoleum. ”
"No wonder Lao Tzu looked at the pool behind him with a fishy smell, after such a long time, this mermaid probably should have starved to death a long time ago."
"Mr. Gan, don't scare me, in the United States, the mermaid symbolizes a very evil thing."
The little white face in front of me couldn't help but take a few steps back, and I carefully studied the contents of the mural.
Who knows if this will be a psychological barrier set up to intimidate tomb robbers.
At present, the vast space here has been gradually explored, and only the central waterhole has not yet been explored, and maybe the exit is under the waterhole.
At the critical moment, the diving equipment purchased by Xiaobaiyan finally came in handy, and the fat man and I finally put on fishing suits to go to sea, but I didn't expect this guy to retreat again.
"Mr. Gan..., there seems to be something behind you."
I said angrily: "Don't fuck nonsense, if you don't want to pay for it, when our brothers get the third world mirror and resell it, it will definitely not be lower than 20 million yuan." ”
"No, it's true."
"Plop... Thump. ”
Until there was a sudden sound of splashing behind him, and when he looked back at the fat man, he saw that he had been dragged into the water by an unknown object.
An extremely fishy smell permeated the tip of my nose and almost knocked me out.
It wasn't until I got into the water that I realized that the visibility below was so low that it was almost the same as in the dark, and vaguely I seemed to be grabbing the fat man's ankle.
Immediately after that, the sound of the little white face jumping into the pool behind him also came.
The force of the water slapping was transmitted to my body, and I vaguely felt the location of the monster.
I clenched the folding pickaxe in my hand, and raised my hand to make a pickaxe.
I never thought that I would lose my head this time, and I just smashed it into the fat man's oxygen pipe impartially.
In an instant, there was a huge splash of water under the pool, and the fat man in the pond fell rapidly towards the bottom of the pool without the support of the oxygen tank.
And the monster also gave up the prey of the fat man, and tore it straight at me.
The first glance is enough to scare people half to death, the lower half of this guy's body has turned into carrion, and as the shaking in the sewage is constantly throwing off the flesh to reveal the horrific bones.
The upper body is very different from what is depicted on the mural, and it is even a hundred times more terrifying.
It turned out that the thing had hair on its head, and it wasn't as friendly as people imagined, with sharp fangs exposed and a pile of rotting flesh on its face.
I can't see where the eyes and nose are.
I'm even starting to wonder how this thing survived, the entrails must have rotted and broken.
At that moment, a whirlpool suddenly appeared at the bottom of the water, and I could vaguely see that the fat man had found the mechanism to lead to the next layer, which was a pair of iron rings hidden under the water.
As he pulled hard, the bottom of the entire pool split in two in an instant.
The whirlpool under his feet sucked everything in the pool in an instant, including the rotting "merfolk". ”
It was a strange feeling to fall from a waterhole, the monster was impaled by the blade mechanism that fell at our feet, and thanks to this scene, the fat man and I were wary and didn't dare to jump down.
Instead, he chose to hook the stone layer above with his hand, and shook it from side to side a few times before landing firmly on the ground.
And the little white face who came down in the end was not so lucky, and he landed on the mermaid who had been impaled earlier. I almost cut off my wetsuit.
Even so, the calf was cut open by a sharp blade, and blood flowed in an instant, and the entire wound rolled outward, which looked extremely scary.