This is an octopus-like monster, but the tentacles are not so long, and the whole body is red, making a "boom" sound, like a baby crying, and a layer of hair oozes out of this environment.

"This is a corpse falcon, don't touch it, shoot it quickly." Professor Wu was shocked, picked up a gun and opened fire.

I didn't use a gun when I encountered the big snake with a long meat/crown before, firstly, the tomb was too small, and the snake jumped so badly that I was worried about injuring people by mistake, but now Professor Wu can't control it so much, and he can't even care if he will hurt people by mistake.

The corpse falcon was very fast, and with a "whoosh" jumped on the dog, which was half a beat slower, and the dog grabbed its head with its hand in horror and threw it to the ground, but the corpse falcon ran away again as if it was fine.

"Ahh The dog screamed, and the hand that grabbed the head of the corpse falcon became pitch black, the same as Uncle Ercai, and the black quickly spread to his body, Miss Luo was close to him, and wanted to tie the blood with a rope, but Professor Wu yelled: "I can't save it, don't let him touch your skin." ”

Miss Luo hesitated for a moment, and the dog grabbed Miss Luo's arm with his other hand and pleaded: "Help me, help me!" ”

Professor Wu decisively shot him in the forehead, and the dog fell weakly.

"You protect Xiao Zhang, whoever is touched by the corpse falcon will kill him!" Professor Wu changed his face and said hideously.

This is simply a careless life, the impression he left on me before was quite kind, but now I am afraid from the bottom of my heart, and sure enough, there is no one who is good at doing this business.

The corpse falcon jumped at Liu Sanyan again, Liu Sanyan had retreated to the corner of the wall, there was no way to retreat, and he quickly slapped the corpse falcon with the semicircular shovel in his hand, this time the force was not light, the corpse falcon fell to the ground and smashed a little, and Professor Wu beat it mercilessly.

Finally settled down, but everyone was in a heavy mood, if I could accept Brother Ying's death, but the dog's death made me unable to let go, this is a life, say kill to death, this group of people is too frustrated.

Uncle Ercai collapsed when the Corpse Falcon left his inner body, and it is unknown whether the Corpse Falcon was controlling him, or if he had become some kind of parasitic relationship with the Corpse Falcon, and he stopped convulsing when the Corpse Falcon was broken.

As if to see that I was preoccupied, Professor Wu walked over and said earnestly: "Xiao Zhang, I know that you can't accept this kind of thing for a while, but you have to believe Uncle Wu, the dog's immortality will only be a scourge, and soon you will know that I am right." ”

I watched at a loss as Professor Wu instructed Dahui and a few people to tie up the dog's corpse, thinking that they had a bad conscience and planned to take it out and bury the dog.

However, not long after, the dead dog's body suddenly twitched slightly, and then his throat let out a "Ho! Ho! The panting, followed by a violent struggle, lying on the ground staring at us like a beast, this look was the same as before Uncle Ercai, and the whole person became pitch black.

Seeing all of this with my own eyes, I couldn't understand in my heart that it was beyond human understanding, at least beyond my scope.

Professor Wu said: "The one in your Ercai uncle's stomach is called the corpse falcon, the corpse falcon is usually born in a place where the yin qi is extremely heavy, it grows up eating corpse carrion, and the body is full of corpse poison, and the eggs laid by the corpse falcon are like stones, only the size of the thumb can survive for a very long time, only when it finds the host it will break out of the shell, and then quickly parasitize in the host's body, and it can grow to the current size in a short time, which means that the host's essence has been sucked dry by it, as for whether your second wealth uncle is the original him, I can't judge, Even if it is, it can't be saved. ”

"The corpse falcon is extremely poisonous, and if you touch it, you will die, I encountered it once when I was young, a corpse falcon wiped out hundreds of lives in a whole village, and finally alarmed the army to shoot all the villagers infected with corpse poison, and then the national archaeological team found a Han Dynasty tomb nearby, and my companions and I were lucky to evacuate."

"Since ancient times, there is a saying that where there are corpses, there must be a tomb that is rare in a hundred years, and I don't know if we are lucky or ......"

In the end, Professor Wu shook his head and didn't finish, and the meaning was very clear.

"My third master never went to the ground in vain, but now I haven't caught a treasure, and I won't go out if I don't turn it over, I don't believe that Cai Geng's old man didn't leave any scum." Liu Sanyan said unwillingly, full of complaints.

After paying so much, it will be very unwilling to be taken first, and Miss Luo and the others have this expression.

"Life and death are fateful, since there is no reason to give up halfway after taking this road, I think I will go through the tomb and then plan to fight. And Xiao Zhang said that there was a soul suppression nail on the ground when he entered the tomb, and there must be this thing that the coffin has not been opened, and there is no need to stay in the soul suppression nail after it has been opened. The big head said with a humming voice.

Liu Sanyan agreed to continue walking, Dahui and Miss Luo obviously listened to Professor Wu, and after thinking for a while, Professor Wu also agreed to go on, Ajie smiled and didn't speak, didn't say anything to go or say back.

Brother Hemp hesitated, but agreed, he is also a restless person in his bones, only me, my second uncle and the Sichuan Yankee have not expressed their position, but it doesn't seem to matter anymore, even if we don't agree to continue, we don't have the ability to return to the ground by ourselves.

Daiki was very decisive and shot the dog several times, and finally the dog's body did not move, and they moved it to a corner.

This burial chamber is the same as the closed dark room, and there may be a secret door, but it is obviously not something that we can push open, so we have to climb back to the tomb and dig into it one by one in the same way.

Everyone symbolically searched, if they were lucky enough to get from the tomb to another tomb, it would be much easier, but after touching it all over and over there was no result, they were going to give up.

Seeing me sitting there in a daze, Liu Sanyan squatted on the side and asked, "Comrade Xiao Zhang, how did you practice this melancholy expression, tell me about it!" ”

"you." I glanced at him angrily and said, "I can't figure out how Uncle Ercai ran into the sarcophagus?" Did he run on his own or was he moved by those monsters? Did we trigger the Graveyard Mechanism to move forward or after/come in? ”

Liu Sanyan analyzed: "It stands to reason that your second uncle has never been here, so it is impossible for him to get in by himself, and there is no reason to lie in by himself, and it is more likely to be moved by monsters." ”

I said, "I think so too, if it was moved in, Niu Jiushi is so heavy, it must be not small to start quietly, and there will be some traces more or less, but we didn't notice anything abnormal, that is, it came before we touched the tomb mechanism." But why put him in the sarcophagus again? When food collection? ”

"That's not right!" Liu Sanyan seemed to think of something, hurriedly picked up a torch and ran to the sarcophagus, carefully inspected, and the others surrounded curiously.

"Look, this is Applejack's handprint when she removed the bell, right?" Liu Sanyan squatted next to the lid of the coffin and asked Applejack first.

Applejack nodded suspiciously, as he did hold one hand on top of the upturned bell when he removed it, looked down at the bell pendant and then stuffed it into the cotton cloth.

Then Liu Sanyan touched it in a place where there was no trace, although the coffin lid shook down and shook off a lot of dust, but it was still possible to see a mark at a glance, Liu Sanyan reminded us that there was no trace on the coffin lid when we first came in, otherwise we would definitely be able to see the abnormality at a glance.

Moreover, it is impossible to open the lid of a coffin of several hundred catties without leaving any traces, put a corpse in it, and then cover it back again. The only explanation is that the sarcophagus was faked and restored to its original appearance.

Could it be that the monsters in this tomb are psychic to this extent? Isn't that a refinement?

"The body was not put in from above the sarcophagus." Applejack speaks, then shines a torch on the inside of the sarcophagus.

There are many traces inside this sarcophagus, like sharp blades, new and old, but there is nothing inside.

Applejack knocks on the bottom of the sarcophagus with her tool, making a dull echo that is apparently empty underneath.

"This is the press coffin, open it quickly." Liu Sanyan said and took the lead in doing it.

Soon, everyone worked together to lift the coffin stone out, and a hole was revealed below, and an eerie cold aura emanated from it, making people shudder.

The walls of the cave were flat, and there were simple steps, and there were wooden handles of handrails a little down, but they were all petrified to rot, apparently built by hand.

Applejack tied a rope to her body and got into the hole with a flashlight, and soon the rope was about fifty meters away, and after a while, Applejack whistled underneath to signal safety.

Then everyone went down to the hole in turn, Brother Hemp helped me walk behind, and Miss Luo was behind.

The entrance to the cave is not large, and Daiki is a little reluctant to enter, but after a few meters down, it widens, and it is not difficult to walk.

I climbed down about ten meters, the cave became flattened, it seems to be dug temporarily, and there is nothing particular about it, but the space is larger, almost two meters high and three or four meters wide, I wonder if this is the craftsmen who built the cemetery secretly built it to escape? This is very likely, no matter how superstitious the ancient people were, the desire to survive is the same as that of modern people, who wants to be buried? If that's the case, then we just have to follow the secret path to get out? It excites me just to think about it.

Professor Wu and the others also think that it is good if they can leave safely, anyway, the tomb will not run away by itself here, and it is not too late to come back after going out to repair.

Fresh traces of dragging were also found on the ground, and there were many bones, most of which did not look like human bones, but were the skeletons of animals, and the smell was a little unpleasant.

Professor Wu observed for a while and said, "The corpses should have been dragged in from here, probably these animals like to eat carrion, and when the corpses decompose in the sarcophagus, they will be dragged here to eat." ”

Liu Sanyan covered his nose and said, "Let's leave here first, the smell is too bad." ”

It really smelled bad, and without much trimming, everyone walked forward.

It didn't take long to go forward, there was a fork in the road, one side up, one side down, we chose the one to go up, this is already in the mountain, and go down is not a lack of heart?

After walking for a few tens of meters, a stone staircase made of simple stone blocks appeared, and at the end of the stone staircase was water.

The entrance to the cave was small, and there were many rotting dry branches piled up on it, which were probably used by the animals as a disguise, and it was not easy to find them if they were not careful.

Drill out of the hole to see, this waterway is also artificially built, four or five meters wide, the opposite bank wall is carved every tens of meters to carve a jumping carp, the carp is normal size, there is a steady stream of water flowing out of the fish's mouth, but the wall is sloping, so you can't hear the sound of water.

Liu Sanyan looked at it and said, "I've been here before, and it's been here since I came in from the corpse pool, but I didn't see any holes, and there is a passage under the water to the gossip well in the ear room." ”

Sure enough, he was lying before, and he didn't go directly from the corpse pool to the ear room, and when he arrived here, he knew that he couldn't hide it, so he took the initiative to confess.

Miss Luo glanced at Liu Sanyan and saw that he was a little uncomfortable, but Miss Luo didn't say anything, and turned her head as if it hadn't happened.

It seems that Miss Luo has long been suspicious of Liu Sanyan, I don't know why she didn't let Liu Sanyan explain the truth, maybe there is some kind of law in their business, Liu Sanyan did not violate it.

There is a road two or three meters wide on the bank of the river on our side, built around the river, and there is a mountain wall behind it.

Walk to the right along the river bank, and after walking for a while, Liu Sanyan pointed to a place and said that he came in from there, and the entrance to the ear chamber was over there.

Sure enough, there was a hole in the place he pointed to, and there was a stone staircase to go down, and it was dark and he couldn't see what was in the cave.

That is to say, there are at least three layers of water in this tomb, one is a corpse pond, one is here, and the last layer is under the tomb, and the water area of the three layers is poured into the water according to the terraced method, and is not directly connected. Now we just have to swim to the other side, go up the stone stairs to reach the top level of the corpse pool, and then we can get out.

Liu Sanyan said that from the stone staircase to the corpse pond, at least about 20 meters need to dive over.

But we don't have diving equipment, Dahui is a landlubber, Professor Wu is so old, my second uncle and Sichuan Yan are not young, and I am also injured, this is probably not working. The only way to do this is to send the watery ones out first, and then bring the equipment to save us.

In fact, they can barely pass, they brought the kind of plastic tube for injection, there should be five or six meters, and there is a plastic bag that can hold air, first fill it with air and then enter the water with a plastic tube, and then inhale enough oxygen when it is out of the plastic tube, and then suck the air in the plastic bag after a certain distance forward, it is not difficult to reach more than 20 meters.

The difficult thing is that so many people are sure to alarm the corpse, and there is the big snake ghost in the tomb who knows where it is, whether there will be a corpse falcon, whether there are big horses and mud monkeys on the shore, these uncertain factors can kill people, who dares to take risks easily if they are not sure enough?

After discussing it for a while, we planned to take a walk through the other path in the cavern, and maybe that secret/cave would lead directly to the outside.

Back at that fork in the road, we went straight to the other road.

This road is much more difficult to walk, and in some places you can only barely pass it on your side, and in some places you even need to crawl on the ground, and it is still roughly down. This makes us more and more suspicious, could it be that this road is not the way out?

After walking for about five or six miles, the air in the tunnel was a little hot and foggy, and it seemed that it was really a way out, which made us even more excited.

However, after walking for a long time, there was no road ahead, and an abyss appeared, and the torch could not illuminate the bottom.

We were on a small protruding boulder, and the rocks were not flat, and we could fall if we were not careful. When we fired a flare, the illuminated scene shocked everyone.

The abyss is circular, the diameter is probably fifty or sixty meters, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, we are in the middle of the waist up, and in the center of the abyss, there is a stream of water flowing down from the top every ten meters or so, forming a circle in the abyss, but it is only five or six meters away from us.

I don't know how deep the abyss is, and Miss Luo can't hear the echo when she throws a stone, like a bottomless pit, which is absolutely impossible for people to dig out.

"What's that? Coffin? Liu Sanyan pointed to our lower left, about twenty meters away from us, and sure enough, there was a rectangular shadow, and the flashlight with it was obviously insufficient to see clearly.

The big head fired a flare again, this time we saw it clearly, and sure enough, it was a coffin, similar to the one in the burial chamber, also made of stone, and there were many such coffins around, some were iron coffins, some should be wooden coffins, but they were so rotten that they were almost a pile of mud. There was one at intervals, and one directly below us.

There is a plank road in the abyss, which is not far from us, and it should not be very difficult to think about the past.

Applejack climbed down with a rope, the coffin below was rotting into mud, and Applejack soon returned from underneath with a few things, a jade book, a gold lock, and a bronze wrench.

The jade book was engraved with the kind of text I saw in the first tomb, Professor Wu said that it was a bird seal, and I saw that many parts were painted like birds, but no one knew it here, so naturally I didn't know what was written on it.

Put away the things, everyone decided to go to the plank road first, Miss Luo tied the rope and easily climbed over, after the end was fixed, let us grab the rope and climb over in turn, because I was injured, Ajie pulled me to climb over.

This plank road is built along the abyss spiral, and it is not too narrow, it is estimated that it can pass a truck, but many places are broken, and you can still see the remains of wooden planks and other things, even if some places look intact, in fact, they will be broken when touched.

These can't be repaired during the Yue Kingdom period, and no matter how good the wood is, it can't withstand the corrosion of the years, only it is left when the tomb of Guo Tong was repaired.

I don't know how Cai Geng found out about this place at the beginning, and then opened the Yue Tomb and entered here smoothly.

Professor Wu said: "This should be a tribal group burial place in the Yue Kingdom, it is very likely to be the royal mausoleum of the Yue Kingdom, if the wrong branch was really to build the royal tomb, it makes sense that he did not want to inherit the throne, the people of that era regarded the royal dragon vein very seriously, and firmly believed that a good ancestral vein could protect the immortal." ”

Going down the plank road, there is the example of Uncle Ercai, no one wants to wait on it, so they all follow. It was still Ajie and Liu Sanyan who took the lead, with the big head protecting Professor Wu, and Miss Luo walking behind me, which should also mean to protect me.

I walked around several times tremblingly, and saw some bird seals carved in many places along the way, and there were more than a dozen coffins I saw. But not every coffin has burial goods, maybe it was taken away by later generations, at least we are in the third batch. The first batch is naturally Cai Geng, and the second batch is the skeleton in the tomb, but I don't know how many people there are, and whether they have entered this abyss.

But it's not that I didn't get anything, a bronze sword, the preservation is still very complete, but there is a lot of green rust on it, and two bird seals are engraved at the bottom of the sword body. A string of beads made of unknown material, smooth and smooth, a bit like pearls, but the size is a little large, and the thread has long been rotten - a total of nine, the same size, each quail egg is the size, it was originally contained in a wooden box, but the box rotted away.

Professor Wu looked at it for a while and said that this is the East China Sea dragon clam bead, with the lamp illumination, you can see that each one has a natural dragon shadow inside, which is very valuable, and now the dragon clam is almost extinct, and there are very few East China Sea dragon clam beads left in the world.

After walking like this for more than an hour, although it was difficult to walk all the way, I estimated that it was at least more than 1,000 meters deep from the original plank road, and I haven't seen it to the end.

And as we go down, the temperature gets higher and higher, the fog gets bigger and bigger, and we can even smell a faint smell of sulfur, could this cave really lead to the center of the earth?

If it's really volcanic magma down there, at least I don't have to worry about snakes and insects, and I didn't encounter any living creatures along the way.

After walking for more than ten laps, everyone couldn't stand it anymore, first, the fog was too heavy to seriously affect the vision, and second, the temperature was too high, all of them were about 30 degrees, and Liu San's eyes were almost bare-chested.

"Uncle Wu, you can't go any further." Miss Luo spoke.

Everyone sat down on the spot, eating some food and water to replenish my strength, I felt like my chest was going to explode, I had difficulty breathing, and I couldn't walk for a long time.

Professor Wu looked at me and knew that I had reached my limit, so he agreed.

Liu Sanyan took a sip of water and said: "That's right, let's go out to rest for a few days first, and then come back with all the equipment, the third master wants to see how deep this pit is, and what treasures are hidden underneath." ”