Chapter 244: The Flood
"He just said he knew the secret we wanted, what a secret."
The fat man turned his head to look at us, and the team in front of him had already become six people, but this new companion had not yet woken up, and everyone took turns carrying it for the time being.
"I think he might know what's going on."
Ganzi A in front of him suddenly spoke, and the accident that had just occurred made us forget the strange figure hidden in the darkness in front of us for a while.
I counted the distance traveled in the ancient tomb, and I didn't know how far this remote labyrinthine tomb was from Uncle Nine and the fat man.
If you collide with them, what will happen to you?
If something like this suddenly happened in a tomb more than 2,000 years ago, who would believe it if it was spread?
The team moved silently, and it turned out that the strange figure just now was a statue in the center.
The statue of the woman is vividly carved by the craftsman, but the expression on her face is blurred, as if it is an unfinished work of art.
She held a strangely shaped ancient mirror in her hand, and the two upper ends of the mirror extended out like palm-like tentacles to wrap around the mirror holder.
I looked at the stone mirror statue in her hand in front of me and almost didn't exclaim, isn't this the third mirror that the team is looking for right now.
The little white face looked at the statue in front of him and was a little excited, if he guessed correctly.
This stone statue should be the owner of the tomb of Concubine Jin.
I heard Uncle Jiu say that Concubine Jin was deeply favored by Emperor Qin during her lifetime, but she seemed to be a princess of the kingdom and often beat and scolded her servants, but the weirdest thing was that she would also curse.
"After reverberating in the tomb for so long, I finally returned to the theme again, seeing that the statue of the owner of the tomb is here, and it will definitely not be too far away from the coffin."
It turned out that Uncle Nine and I were all wandering around before.
I was so pleased that I observed the expressions of the rest of the team with my eyes, but I didn't expect that Fat Man and Ganzi A were not very interested except me.
It's as if they weren't here for the Third Mirror.
"This is the tomb of Concubine Jin, and the Third Mirror is Concubine Jin's favorite and most mysterious treasure, if they didn't come for the mirror."
And what is the reason for coming here, are they really not on the same timeline as us, and what are they looking for?
"Rustle..."
The screeching noise, coming from far and near from all directions, is all too familiar to me.
It's the big dark black centipede that is like a mutation.
When I first saw this thing, Long Tsai was still fighting with this group of things, and there must be a lot of voices to hear now.
The flashlight brushed around, and I saw a dense number of large centipedes crawling out of the cracks in the ground with the thickness of my fingers.
The whole body was dark red, like a blood frenzy sweeping towards everyone.
"How... Do. ”
"What to do, you resist me and Ganzi to find an exit."
The fat man threw the folding pickaxe in his hand at the others with a loud shout, and this call made my heart kind.
It's as if the real fat man has returned, but the fat man seems to have forgotten that there are two Ganzi in the team in front of him.
I don't really care which one he's referring to.
Large, dark red centipedes surged in the direction of the stone statue, and I picked up the folding pickaxe in my hand and kept smashing the nearest poison.
But the number of these centipedes is really too large, and they are killed one after another, leaving large red marks on the ground.
The next second, other people joined the team, but fortunately, although these centipedes were poisonous, they were very little poisonous and could only feel a little numb.
Several of us were bitten out of dozens of holes all over our bodies, and we were already drenched in blood in more than ten seconds.
The most terrifying thing is that these tentacles-covered centipedes almost burrow at the cracks.
One of them accidentally crawled into my face, and even got into my ears and nostrils, so I dragged it out and trampled it to death.
"Rustle..."
The sound left by countless arthropods crawling on the ground irritates everyone's tense nerves little by little.
"Found it."
The fat man exclaimed at us with joy on his face, it turned out that the mirror on the stone statue was a mechanism, and a closer look on it could reveal traces of someone breaking it before.
"Someone else to help me, why is this thing so heavy."
The fat man behind him almost tried to feed, he gritted his teeth and shook the mirror fiercely, but he still didn't move.
I thought to myself, is this guy going in the wrong direction? It's just that he didn't expect that the huge stone mirror was actually turned by him by two centimeters in the next second.
"Click."
The extremely harsh sound was accompanied by the writhing of the mechanism, irritating everyone's eardrums.
Immediately after that, the stone bricks on the left side of the statue actually cracked wide, and we thought we had finally found an exit.
Unexpectedly, behind the secret door triggered by the mechanism was actually a monstrous sea water, accompanied by a huge sound of water whistling.
"Not good,... Run back. ”
I don't know who shouted in the dim light, and then I felt like I was spinning in a whirlwind, and the turbulent water instantly swept away the team.
The huge centipedes were also soaked in the seawater and struggled desperately.
I don't know if it's part of the tomb itself, but I feel like the salty seawater soaking in the wounds on my body hurts a lot.
When I woke up again, everyone was sitting around the fire, my clothes were damp, and there were more than a dozen wounds on my body, so painful that I almost fainted again.
I endured the severe pain and got up a little bit to look at my surroundings, and I didn't know where a few of us were washed away by the flood.
In front of and in front of you are dimly lit ancient tomb corridors, and the light is extremely low.
Everyone in the group sat around a fire lit by clothing, their faces dejected.
Exhaustion was written all over everyone's faces, and the fat man leaned against the wall and snorted softly.
It seems that when I was unconscious, the fat man had already surveyed the place inside and out, and made sure that there was no danger and those centipedes chasing after me, so he rested for a while.
The other "me" in front of him was sitting across the campfire, the black mist from the burning of clothes drifting in front of him, and he was staring down at the campfire in front of him in a daze.
I don't know what I'm thinking.
I shuddered as I thought back to the murderous intent in his eyes before I entered the crack.
"Why is he hostile to me, does he think that I am doing all this?"
I closed my eyes and remembered how I had met the three of them, and the bags and backpacks on my body were exactly the same.
It's like living twins.
"Could it have something to do with the curse in the tomb?"
I seemed to suddenly remember something, when Uncle Nine talked about Concubine Jin, he was the first to say, but the second half of the sentence about the curse was cowering and didn't dare to explain everything.
also told an excuse that he forgot when he was old, and now that I think about it, there is definitely something wrong with Uncle Jiu.