I could never have imagined that a rifle with a wooden handle and a bayonet appeared in the burial pit of this mountain tomb of unknown age.

This gun is full of traces of time, and the rotten wooden handle is broken with a single pull.

It seems that this gun has been in this place for quite some time, but it is by no means an original item from the burial ditch.

Remembering what the second master said before, the bandits occupied Centipede Ridge to dig and rob the ancient tomb, and I was ninety percent sure in my heart that this gun was left by the group of bandits who robbed the tomb at the beginning.

The gun is no longer usable, but the bayonet at the front of it looks quite sharp, and the dagger that Liu Xiaojiao gave me before has been lost, so I just used this bayonet for self-defense at this time.

As for how the weapons of that group of bandits fell in this burial pit, it is not difficult to explain, since they are bandits, after entering this mountain tomb, they naturally play the true colors of bandits.

That is to say, people have kept money, geese have plucked their feathers, and bandits have not left anything when they enter the village.

Since they came for money, they would not let go of every place where they could hide gold, silver, and jewelry. This is especially true in burial ditches, where there are not only the bones of corpses, but also the objects used by the owner of the tomb during his lifetime.

Some things may have been useless in his time, but they are priceless now.

Because the bayonet was rusty, the soles of the feet were pierced by it, and there was a faint pain.

But I can't delay Yan Xiaoying's time because of this small injury, I have to leave this burial ditch, find the six-winged centipede, and take its demon pill to save people.

It stands to reason that the little red snake is not dead now, and it should have sensed it since I came here, why hasn't it come to me for so long?

And the second master, I don't know how he is now? Do you think that Yan Xiaoying and I have fallen into the abyss and are already dead?

calmed down, gritted his teeth and endured the pain in the soles of his feet, turned on a flashlight, and continued to move forward with Yan Xiaoying on his back.

After walking for more than ten meters, my brow immediately furrowed.

Because I smelled a pungent putrid smell wafting from the front, which was the stench emitted by the decomposing corpse, like a dead fish, it was very unpleasant.

Along the way, although the smell inside the burial pit was unpleasant, it was not so strong.

Because this burial ditch was formed many years ago, the dead livestock, including people, their corpses have completely decayed, leaving a pile of bones, some even the bones have turned into mud, and its smell has dissipated a lot.

But right now, the strong smell of decay proves that there are not only white bones ahead, but also rotting corpses.

In fact, in the light of the flashlight, I could already see the corpses, lying on the pile of bones, their clothes not completely rotten.

When I saw what they were wearing, I understood why there were still rotting corpses here, because these corpses were not the same ones that were in the burial ditch.

I took Yan Xiaoying on my back and looked closer, the smell of corruption was even stronger, and even Yan Xiaoying, who had been unconscious, was choked and moved.

When they came closer, they were all dressed in military uniforms, with high leather shoes on their feet, belts around their waists, and bags with guns.

Next to the corpse, several rifles could be seen, exactly the same as the one I had just picked up, in addition to the rifles, there were many ceramic shards, scattered among the white bones.

The musculature on the corpse has not completely decayed, and if you look closely, the white bones are stained with rotten flesh, some arms have become white bones, the other arm has remained intact, and some of the heads have become white bones, but the body is still healthy......

All in all, the scene looks as disgusting as it gets.

I resisted the urge to vomit and took a few steps away, but I had a doubt in my heart, didn't it mean that it was a group of bandits who occupied Centipede Ridge and dug up the mountain tomb?

How did he become a soldier in a military uniform now?

And if the group of bandits who entered the mountain tomb died here, at least decades have passed, why haven't their corpses been completely rotted by now?

You must know that decades is not a short time!

Perhaps some older people who have picked up the bones of their ancestors for a second burial should know. After the average person dies, within three to five years, the musculature on the corpse will completely erode into mud, leaving a pile of white bones.

Of course, three to five years is not an accurate number, because the decomposition of the corpse depends on the feng shui environment of the place where the ancestors were buried, and if it is a dry place and a stuffy tomb, the corpse will decompose quickly.

If it is a cold and damp place, that is, a place with heavy yin qi, it is possible that the corpse has not decomposed for ten years or even decades.

In fact, this is also the reason why after a person dies, the descendants will find the dragon to explore the cave and find a place with excellent feng shui to bury the ancestors, not just to seek the protection of the ancestors, superstitious feng shui metaphysics.

If you don't pay attention to the feng shui of the tomb where the ancestors were buried, you may be buried in a fierce place or a place where the corpse absorbs yin qi and does not decay for several years or decades, and it may become a legendary zombie and come out to harm the world.

These corpses have only decayed more than half of them over the decades, probably because of the cold environment here.

Some people may say that there are so many centipedes in the mountain tombs, and even if the environment here can keep the corpses for a long time before they decay, why didn't those centipedes devour their corpses?

In fact, although centipedes are carnivorous poisons, they don't eat everything, they only eat fresh food, and the rotting corpses are not touched at all.

Moreover, after the mountain tomb is opened, they can go out to hunt for food, so naturally they will not look down on these rotting corpses.

I think this is one of the important reasons why several corpses have been preserved, right?

Of course, all of this is just my own speculation, and I am not an expert on what is actually going on, so naturally I can't say for sure.

There is porcelain next to the rotting corpse, which should be the funerary goods in the mountain tomb, in the professional term of tomb robbery, that is, the underworld, the items that belong to the dead before their death, also called the Ming vessel.

Military clothes are generally more wearable, and it is not easy for the clothes on the rotting corpse to be preserved after such a long time. It's just that it's so badly damaged that you can't tell the number of their troops.

But I think about it, the second master said, the Hunan army who was ordered to come to suppress the bandits.

For what the Hunan army did during the war, it can be described as "half the merit and demerit", and they made certain efforts for the war of resistance, but ......

There are many bandits in Xiangxi, this is not without purpose.

In fact, the geographical environment of Xiangxi is full of lofty mountains and mountains, and there are many forests and caves, which is the most significant area of karst landform in China.

It is precisely because of such a geographical environment that so many bandits have come out, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and there are always some places that the king cannot control.

Almost half of the bandits operating in Hunan were military bandits.

The so-called military bandits are soldiers who have fallen into the grass, or colluded with bandits, or acted like bandits in the name of the War of Resistance, and these are all military bandits.

They disregard the lives of the common people, raid homes and rob houses, have no clear ideology, and fight wherever there is oil and water to be fished. Even the dead buried deep in the ground are not spared.

If you think about it carefully, maybe it was a group of bandits who stayed on Centipede Ridge before.

Otherwise, where did the ordinary bandits get the explosives to blow up the stone cliffs and open the entrance to the mountain tomb?

The second master's understanding of this bandit is not complete, and he can't be blamed for it, it is all a secret that has been handed down, and there is always some deviation from the real history.

The temperature in the funeral ditch is cold, and the yin qi is extremely heavy, I carefully looked at a few rotting corpses, judging from the experience taught by the second master, they should not have the possibility of corpse transformation.

In this way, I am a little relieved, although my strength and physique have improved after taking blood ginseng, I don't want to get entangled with this disgusting thing.

What's more, to deal with this kind of thing, it's more effective to murmur the Dharma.

A closer search revealed that most of their rifles were useless, and even if they worked, there were no bullets, but I finally found a pistol in the waist of a carrion corpse and tried to shoot it.

Bang!

The sound of gunfire echoed in the ditch, and I was overjoyed, and I could not imagine that this pistol would still work.

It's much better than a bayonet, and with it in my hand, I'm really at ease.

Putting away the gun, I wanted to get a pair of shoes or clothes to wear, but the rotting corpse was so disgusting that I couldn't do it at all, so I had to carry Yan Xiaoying on my back and continue to walk.

The more you go into the burial ditch, the more rotting corpses appear, some of them have completely rotten clothes, and some have half of their bodies, these people are all in a group, that is, the bandits who entered the mountain tomb at the beginning.

Along the way, there were less than twenty or thirty carrion corpses in sight, and there were still some in front.

This thing is a bit unusual, because there are so many people who died, and it's good to say that one or two bandits died here, but it seems very strange that dozens of people died in the burial ditch.

Why are so many people dying here?

How did they die?

It had been so long since they had been dead that it was impossible to identify the cause of their death from these rotting corpses.

But I had a bad feeling that these people didn't look like they had been killed by centipedes, because if they had been killed by centipedes, they would never have left their corpses.

In other words, there is something more terrifying than a centipede in this mountain tomb.

Of course, it is also possible that they were killed by the mechanism in the tomb.

Since it is an ancient tomb, it is impossible to do without a mechanism.

Just like the iron wire suspension bridge before, it was a trap at all, and as soon as a person walked over it, it would immediately be burned to ashes by the Netherworld Fire, and there were no bones left.

There are also centipedes in ancient tombs...... I suspect that the centipede was originally a thing from the tomb, and that they were kept in the tomb by the owner of the tomb to deal with the robbers.

No matter which dynasty it is, the tombs of all dignitaries and nobles will be set up with mechanisms to prevent theft.

The mechanisms in the tomb are mysterious and secretive, and the most common of them are several kinds.

The first is to give people the illusion that they cannot find the right direction of the soul ladder.

The second is the rockfall trap that was popular in the Tang Dynasty, or before the Tang Dynasty.

The third is the secret poison arrow.

Fourth, quicksand traps......

In addition to these common ones, there are stone piles, nests, heavenly fire glazed tripods, traps, etc.

Tomb traps are unpredictable, but I've never heard of people keeping poison or living creatures in their tombs to prevent theft, and this is a unique and incredible anti-theft technology.

Maybe...... When it was in the underground burial lake, the golden python that was trapped in the water dungeon by iron chains may have the same effect as the centipede in this mountain tomb......

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