Chapter 22: Trapped
"Burial pit?" Everyone was stunned.
"In ancient times, there was a punishment for stabbing in the water prison, that is, to drive the slaves into the water prison, and to place fine fangs on top of the water prison, and when the mechanism was opened, the whole dense piece of fangs was pressed down until the thorns touched the ground." Pei said suddenly, squatting down, his hand aside, pointing to the skull cover of a person exposed in it.
Everyone saw that there were many holes in the bone, and at first they thought it was caused by time, but now combined with the words just now...
Everyone stiffened, looked up at the stalagmites above, and then looked at the white bones on the ground, and suddenly felt that the whole body was cold from head to toe.
"Yes, these people may have been the craftsmen who built the tomb, and after the tomb was completed, they were brought here, and they were killed with water stabs, and when the water receded, the bones were buried in a thin layer of sand and stone."
Uncle Zhao said, pointing to the dark waterway behind him, and continued, "Think about those tyrant leeches just now, those are clearly raised with blood, no, maybe those are not tyrant leeches, but mutants. ”
The crowd turned blue when they heard this.
I couldn't help but ask, "Then what is the yin and yang road you just talked about?" ”
"The water prison thorn is a kind of torture that is no less than Ling Chi's execution, the spike will not immediately pierce the person, but slowly, little by little, the body will be pierced, during this period, the deceased's grievances will be raised to a height, and then melt into the blood water, if the living creatures are left in it to devour the flesh and blood, and the grievances are dispersed, the water Huangquan Road and the land Yin Yang Road will be formed."
"Ho, don't say it." I clasped my hands, goosebumps all over my body, and turned my head to look at Uncle Zhao pleadingly, "Uncle Zhao, let's go quickly." ”
"Don't be afraid, these are just the whimsical products of the ancients." Lao Li hurriedly comforted everyone.
I gritted my teeth, whether these things were real or not, but now standing on the bones made him feel uncomfortable.
Uncle Zhao wrinkled his eyebrows.
Now they don't know if there are any mechanisms around here, and if they accidentally touch them, they will probably have to explain here.
At this time, Li Wen, who had been silent, suddenly said, "Come up." ”
Everyone was stunned and didn't react for a while.
I was also stunned for a moment, and reflexively asked, "What's coming up?" ”
"It's Blood Gu! Walk! Uncle Zhao immediately grabbed my wrist as he spoke, and walked forward quickly.
"Wait, there is a mechanism ......," Lao Li hurriedly called.
Uncle Zhao ignored it.
I knew Uncle Zhao's ability, so I naturally believed in him, and hurriedly grabbed Pei before leaving.
Although the rest of the people didn't hear clearly what Uncle Zhao said, they were also a little hairy in their hearts, what came up, where did it come from, it seems that there is only a waterway here, right?
Thinking of those black-pressed leeches, all of a sudden's faces turned blue, and when they saw that we were all right, they hurriedly followed.
The people who left didn't see it, just behind them, on the waterway, a big black thing that looked like a leech but didn't look like a palm was slowly climbing up, and something huge was also floating up from the water.
The passage wasn't very long, and when they ran around a forty-five degree corner, they saw the end, and there was a mesh iron wall at the end.
Behind the wall is a stone staircase as wide as the hole, with mottled ash and weathering marks on the top.
Everyone looked at the wall, and they were even more sure that this place might have been recorded as a water prison.
The walls are rusty.
In order to avoid the mechanism that might hide the water thorn here, Uncle Zhao asked Pei and Li Wen to weld out a door, and the rest of them held guns on guard.
I looked around, and the elemental composition in my eyes didn't convey that there was a mechanism or anything like that, but the things of the ancients were always so weird, and the trigger might not be a mechanism, but it could also be a formation or something.
However, I see that Uncle Zhao is just staring at the dark passage in front of him, and he doesn't seem to care if there are any mechanism formations around.
Thinking of what the other party said just now, I couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "What did you just say?" Leech? ”
When the rest of the people next to him heard his question, they couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Uncle Zhao.
Uncle Zhao retracted his gaze, turned his head to look at him with a look of curiosity, a flash of light flashed in his eyes, and he said lightly, "That's a blood Gu, one of the Gu worms, living on blood, no food will automatically enter dormancy, once it encounters prey, it will wake up, this kind of blood Gu will enter the human body, take people as the host, start to suck flesh and blood from the inside, only to become a dry corpse, and then manipulate, so it is also called an immortal Gu." ”
"Ho!" Everyone gasped when they heard this, and their hair almost exploded.
"Are you sure?" Lao Li's eyes constricted, staring at Uncle Zhao.
"I've also seen this kind of Gu worm from the records of Miao History." Lao Li suddenly said, "You also know that in ancient times, Miao Jiang was good at Gu, whether it was saving people or killing people, it was mainly Gu, this kind of immortal Gu is said to be a kind of Gu worm fed with the flesh and blood of a living person, with estrogen and androgen in the body, which can reproduce on its own. ”
It's just that Lao Li didn't like people to associate Miao people with Gu worms when he studied Miao history, which was a representative of evil, so he didn't study this aspect much.
I didn't think of this side when I saw the leech before, and when Zhao Li said the Blood Gu, he only had a vague impression in his mind, and he didn't remember it until he heard the Immortal Gu.
"Is there really such a thing!?" I took a breath and my eyes widened.
Uncle Zhao shook his head, turned his head to look at me and said, "I have only read it occasionally in ancient books, and it is said that immortal Gu can live the dead, and it will not die or die." ”
"Heh, if you can control the dried corpse and reproduce on your own, you are indeed immortal." Li Wen's face was full of disgust.
"Uncle Zhao also has research on this?" I'm more concerned about how he knows.
"Yunnan used to be a Miao region, and I occasionally read it when I read the information before." Uncle Zhao replied indifferently.
Glancing at Pei, Pei shook his head. In fact, for everyone, no one thoroughly understands the details of Zhao Li.
The others were similar, thinking that they had just walked in front of the ghost gate, they almost became white bones, and they all looked at Zhao Li solemnly.
Zhao Li frowned slightly, and while following his back, he untied his backpack with one hand, and was about to find a water bladder.
Li Wen's eyes were quick, and he had already turned out the water bladder and opened it and handed it over.
There was another person who also took out a water bladder and handed it over, it was Lao Li.
Uncle Zhao didn't look at Li Wen, raised his hand and took the water handed over by Lao Li and handed it to Pei, "Drink saliva first." ”
"Eat something." Uncle Zhao took out a pack of chocolate chip cookies and opened them and handed them over.
I took it and ate it with a click, replacing the sour nausea with a sweet and greasy taste.
Uncle Zhao looked like no one next to him, and the rest of the people around him scratched their cheeks.
"Uncle Zhao, when are we leaving?" Li Wen really couldn't bear it and came to Uncle Zhao's side.
"Are you panicking to find death? Don't you see me figure it out? ”