Chapter 281: The Tree of Shame
The mysterious team in front of him suddenly became the biggest suspicion in the ancient tomb, wearing this strange black costume.
With rifles in their hands, they proved that they were once organized troops and soldiers.
I repeatedly assumed and pondered the motives of these people, but I still couldn't figure out why they appeared in this tomb of Concubine Jin.
Just looking at the age of the clothes, you can guess that they have been dead in the tomb for more than a few decades, and everyone is standing in a neat line with their backs to us, as if they have quietly lost their lives without defense.
As for why there was a strange heartbeat in his chest, Uncle Nine dissected several corpses in a row but couldn't find the reason why they could move.
Perhaps it was the effect of the Gu poison in their bodies that the meridians in their bodies, including the heart, still had a trace of vitality, which had been beating in the tomb for decades.
This seems to be the most reasonable explanation that Uncle Nine can give us.
At the moment, we can't get too far into the nitty-gritty, after all, getting out alive is the biggest task at hand.
Just as I was about to follow the trap above my head to leave, the fat man behind me suddenly saw an extremely large and strange shadow in this dim space.
It was like a tall giant with vertical arms and branches, like both an old tree and a man.
I looked back and couldn't see the strange shadow that the fat man had said, until I smashed the figures of several corpses in front of me with a torch.
The broken corpses flew like dust in the turbid air, and in the direction where the fat man was standing, he really found an extremely strange figure in front of him from a distance.
It was exactly the same as the fat man's description, and even a little weirder, and it scared everyone out of nowhere.
In the end, I couldn't help but call the dragon boy down, looking at the corpses in front of me, which had been dead for decades, but still exuded the breath of the living.
From the bottom of my heart, I couldn't help but have some thoughts of wanting to retreat.
"I have a sense of foreboding, there may be danger ahead, and it's too late to retreat."
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to express the worries in my heart, but the fat man and the little white face thought that this was an opportunity to escape.
So many people died here, apparently looking for or getting something, and the fat man was convinced that we were getting closer and closer to the exit.
Otherwise, how could the corpses of these troops suddenly appear here, the biggest hypothetical possibility is.
The exit must have been near here, and the mysterious army without a number had the most detailed drawings of the entire tomb.
Then they used equipment and manpower to dig into the tomb from the weakest part of the island, as for what they were looking for.
It is no longer possible to investigate.
In the past few days, I have faintly found that Xiao Baimian and Uncle Nine have gradually rekindled their desire for the Third World Mirror.
Uncle Nine is different from the others, he followed us here for the so-called secret of immortality, until he abandoned the idea after he found that the price was too great.
Now he is bent on seeing what the legendary Qin King Zhibao III Mirror looks like, and if it can be stolen smoothly, it can be regarded as a legend in the inverted bucket industry.
This old guy is also good at washing his hands, and he can live for a long time.
And the purpose of Xiao Bai'er's trip was to simply come to the Third World Mirror, although this time he encountered many obstacles, and even wanted to give up the idea of finding the treasure mirror.
But after solving the mystery of the sarcophagus, his concern seems not to be able to escape alive, but to confirm whether there is reincarnation.
I looked at the resolute gaze of the little white face, and the figures of the others who were determined to find out, and there was nothing to stop me.
At the end of the day, Fat Man and I are just in an employment relationship with him, and as long as he pays us to do whatever we do, we will do whatever we want.
With this in mind, I couldn't help but sigh slightly.
I thought that after I escaped alive, whether he paid us or not, I would take Xiaoya out of this place of right and wrong and find a peaceful place to live alone.
Until he raises his daughter as an adult, it can be regarded as the completion of the mission.
"I have a hunch that this time we seem to be getting closer and closer to the Third World Mirror."
The fat man walked at the front of the line, but suddenly such a sentence came out, which made me and the little white face feel a little unbelievable.
As soon as I passed the tide of corpses beside me, I couldn't help but think of what the little white face with a mole on his face had said.
He said that he had hidden the Three World Mirrors in a place where no one would ever find them, and said that the reason why there was an infinite number of unknown spaces here.
It's all from that treasure mirror, and if someone does it without permission, it may even cause a catastrophe, and the island and all the creatures on it may be completely wiped out by the dimension.
Although I may not believe this statement, it seems that the places we have experienced along the way have long since gone beyond the confines of the island.
Coupled with all the weird and strange things that happened, the impossible things seemed to be possible little by little.
I couldn't help but pull out the Mauser pistol stuck in my waist, and threw the curly bladed dagger to the woman in yellow to protect herself.
The woman in front of her, who has a strange background and looks almost exactly like the statue of Concubine Jin, has always followed the little white face inch by inch.
Even the gaze that looked at him in his eyes was faintly different from the others.
At the moment, I don't have time to chase these inconspicuous strange things, but I feel that I am getting closer and closer to the strange shadow of the tooth and claw in front of me.
It also revealed its face little by little under the light of the torch in the fat man's hand.
It's an extremely weird tree.
The roots of the trees coiled into the ground, and the trunks on the surface were extremely thick, and it seemed that they did not need the nourishment of the sun in this dimly lit ancient tomb.
The withered branch did not even have a leaf, and the vague shadow that the fat man had mistaken for the palm of his hand was the branch that it had grown wildly.
I don't know why, but I always feel that this monster is a little familiar and unfamiliar in my memory.
Until I couldn't help but take out Wu Laogou's notebook from his chest and rummage through it, a painting pattern of a person who is not like a human tree and a tree appeared on a page of the diary.
This is the only tree that grows in places with extremely heavy yin qi, its roots can burrow into the ground to find carrion corpses as nutrients, and although it will not actively attack, it can secrete an extremely hallucinogenic substance.
This is what I only discovered after I encountered the ashamed tree when I was 800 meters deep underground, and I escaped from there.
I frantically looked up information about the plant family, but finally found this figure of a ashamed tree living in tombs and places with extremely heavy yin qi in ancient books that recorded history.
It is rumored to have been born from the resentment of the dead and the cultivation of seeds, and the first tree was found under the foundations of a wealthy man in ancient times.
It turned out that when the house was cast, there was an ancient battlefield full of bones below.
Eventually, the owner of the family had a nightmare and killed his servants, his wife, and his pregnant wife.
He strangled himself to death with a rope until he lost his breath, and his hands did not let go, and no one knew what kind of hallucination he was in.
Of course, this is just folklore, and I never believed it to be true, but the ashamed tree that I encountered with Wu Laogou underground did give me an indelible impression.