Volume 2, Lost in the Sand Sea Chapter 177, The Dead Tatunan
"Everyone, be careful, there's someone up ahead!" Chen Tao lowered his voice and squinted his eyes and stared straight ahead.
His gaze passed through the secret passage, and in the darkness ahead, an upright black shadow was shaking.
"Where is the person? Why didn't I see anything? The fake Dragon Uncle Ye Rong dressed up looked ahead for a long time, but he couldn't see anything.
"I don't know how to explain this to you, anyway, my eyes can see farther than ordinary people, and there is something standing in the secret passage in front of it, which looks like a person!"
The sudden appearance of a person in this dark secret passage is really a little too weird. Several people in front of them raised their weapons one after another.
The passage is ventilated, and the light from the torches is quite clear here. After walking a few meters ahead, everyone saw a dark shadow appear in the darkness ahead.
The dark figure looked like a human, somewhat strong, and was standing in the darkness in front of him in an extremely strange posture.
A gust of wind blew, and the figure let out a series of strange whining sounds, which sounded a little creepy.
"It seems to be a dead man....... Chen Tao grabbed the torch in his hand, pressed his other hand on the submachine gun on his waist, and walked towards the black shadow with courage.
When he finally saw the appearance of the black shadow, the whole person froze.
It was really a dead man, and a dry corpse that had been dead for an unknown number of years.
The corpse was erect, wrapped in a wide cloth robe, revealing only a withered, blackened skeletal head, whose flesh had been dehydrated and shriveled, and which had taken on an eerie yellowish and purple color in the light of the torches.
What was terrifying was that the corpse's feet were standing on the ground in a very strange posture, two withered arms hung behind him, his face was extremely hideous, and a rusty spear pierced through its abdomen directly through its ribcage, piercing from its mouth to the top of the stone above.
This person seems to have been nailed directly in the secret passage, like a bacon jerky in this dark secret passage I don't know how many years, the corpse slowly slipped from the spear, and finally turned into this extremely strange posture now, shocking.
Faced with such a strange death, everyone's faces were a little difficult to look at.
"Is there a mechanism in this?" Hiroko looked at the spear that pierced through the corpse and shone it around with a torch, as if trying to find out where the spear came from.
Ballohad shook his head, "As far as I know, there is no mechanism here, and the cause of this person's death is not the mechanism, but the killing of someone!" ”
Balohad used the tip of his knife to pick open the corpse's clothes, revealing a broken hilt underneath.
Haozi tapped the butt of the spear, and the handle of the spear made a metal crash, and the dried corpse that was pierced on it suddenly slipped down, turning into a pile of broken bones on the ground. All that was left was the broken spear that had been pierced into the top of the stone was still buzzing and shaking.
"Damn, who can break the handle of a spear of such coarse metal?" Haozi exclaimed, and then shone the torch to the top of the stone.
I saw that the broken spear was deeply pierced into the stone slab above his head, and the spearhead was submerged in most of it, and the surrounding stone slabs were full of cracks, spreading out in a radial shape, and it seemed that the entire stone slab was broken.
"It's ....... Is it still human? Chen Tao couldn't help but be surprised.
How much strength does it take to break such a thick metal spear shaft and stare a person alive on top of a rock?
Looking at the broken spear that was still trembling slightly, a person suddenly appeared in Chen Tao's mind.
Yang Lixuan.......
Growing up so big, among all the people Chen Tao has seen, I'm afraid only he can do it.
Not only was his strength terrifying, but the two short spears on his back were so sharp that there was almost nothing he couldn't cut.
Could it be that Yang Lixuan's freak has also been here?
Looking at the age of the dried corpse, I don't know how long it has been hanging here, and it can be weathered and shattered by a touch, at least hundreds of thousands of years.
Although Yang Lixuan is eccentric, he is very young, no matter how he is, he will never be more than thirty years old, no matter how you look at it, it can't be him.
No one knows how that man died here, or who nailed him to the wall with strange force.
Chen Tao tried to pull out the broken spear, even if he used up his strength to feed, the severed spear still didn't move.
"I don't know what kind of monster can do such a thing!" Ye Rong looked at the spear, her voice became the same as Uncle Long again, and Chen Tao was in a trance when she heard it, almost thinking that the person standing next to her was the real Uncle Long.
"What, little brother, when you see your sister like this, isn't your heart crying in your sister's arms?" Ye Rong noticed Chen Tao's gaze, smiled strangely at him, and straightened her chest that she didn't know how she made into an airport.
"Don't disgust me!" Chen Tao glanced at Ye Rong, compared to Ye Ling'er, Ye Rong was simply a demon. I really don't know how the head of the Ye family was born, the difference in personality between the two sisters is so bad.
Ye Ling'er waved her fist on the side and glared at Chen Tao fiercely, her eyes full of warning.
Ignoring the big sisters, he put away his dagger and stepped over the pile of broken bones on the ground.
Even now, Chen Tao still thinks about what they are about to face from the perspective of ordinary people.
But what if they weren't dealing with people at all?
The strange corpse cast a shadow on everyone's hearts, and only Balohad led the way with a complicated look in his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
After that, there were no strangely dead corpses on the road, and under the leadership of Balohard, everyone quickly reached the end of the secret passage.
Unexpectedly, the exit of the secret passage turned out to be on an open stone platform.
Chen Tao poked his head out of the secret passage and looked around with a torch.
It appears to be a large bedroom, surrounded by painted stone walls and even some decorative reliefs. The four corners of the wall seem to be embedded with several huge pillars, of unknown material, carved with delicate patterns. On each wall there was a lampstand sticking out of it, on which were delicate oil lamps, and when the light of the torches shone through, the lampstand shone so brightly that it was golden.
Outside, the sun seemed to be about to rise, and a faint glow and sandy air filtered in through the high windows. In the niche there is a raised altar with stone boxes for baptism, and even baths and toilets.
Chen Tao jumped down from the stone platform, the ground was a layer of soft sand, and there was a stone slab in the center of the stone platform behind him that was pushed out from bottom to top by Ballohard, and others were climbing out from below one after another.
Looking at the shape of the stone platform, Chen Tao realized that this so-called stone platform turned out to be a bed, which looked a bit similar to the kang in the people of the north.
On one side of the bedroom lay several delicate stone tables, on which the contents were gone, and on the other side were several chairs, the legs of which had been carved into the shape of a leg of mutton, and the armrests were golden, as if plated with a layer of gold.
"I'll go, is this the bedroom of the local tyrant!" Haozi poked his head out of the secret passage, and before the person came out, his eyes were already straight.
Chen Tao extinguished the torch in his hand, and now he didn't need this thing.
Everyone climbed out of the secret passage one after another, Balohad resealed the exit, and the group came out of the bedroom, and as soon as they looked up, they saw a dried corpse lying on the ground in the corridor in front of them.
The corpse's clothes were tattered, but the ornaments on them were still recognizable.
"This should be the owner of this house......."
"When the storm came, people had just finished their day's work. Suddenly disaster struck, and no one escaped. "Everyone is buried here, and they are still as they were before they died. ”
Passing by another bedroom, Chen Tao saw a female corpse lying on the stone bed inside, and two children curled up next to her, both of which had been air-dried, and the hands of the female corpse were tightly holding the heads of the two children.
"Maybe he wanted to come to find his wife and children, but he was buried in the sand before he arrived......" Ye Rong looked at the dry corpse on the ground.
The group found the door of the house, but the outside was blocked by a collapsed boulder, so they had no choice but to return to the corridor and climb out of the window at the end.
Outside was a large garden, surrounded by remnants of flower ponds and a pond, many stone walls had collapsed, and boulders were scattered everywhere.
Chen Tao raised his eyes and looked around, and countless corpses appeared in his sight, all of them were people buried alive by the storm.
Some died by the pond, some were crushed under the boulders, and more were lying on the ground, their bodies showing a variety of strange postures, and the sudden storm directly swallowed everyone's lives.
The crowd climbed out of the collapsed stone wall, the sky was already white, the clouds were dyed orange and yellow, and suddenly a golden light pierced through the sea of clouds, and the sleeping city of Tatunan was clothed in gold in an instant.
The sun shines through a huge stone statue in the distance, there are crumbling and dilapidated stone walls and houses everywhere, the street in front is empty, the corpses are lying in the middle of the road, the bones are shining in the sunlight with a milky white luster, everything looks extremely desolate and tragic, only a few towering halls stand in the morning light, telling the glory of this ancient city.
"Is this Tatunan....... A place that has died. ”
The scene in front of him deeply stimulated Chen Tao's senses, and everyone was silent at this moment.
The crowd carefully avoided the bones on the ground, and used the cover of the ruined walls of the house to approach the highest of the halls.
"Ahead, it's the temple!"