Chapter 277: People or Things
The camp was quiet, and no one knew what was going on. Hu Gaoshan sat there, meditating. I talked to him for a while, and when I saw that the time was almost up, I told him to go to bed.
"Mr. Lian, is there something wrong?" Hu Gaoshan looked confused, and discussed with me with the strength to break the casserole and ask to the end: "I always feel that there is something just now." β
"Can you sit here and talk to me about something? Roll the calves and go to sleep. β
Hu Gaoshan didn't dare to be verbose, and ran to sleep muttering, and I kept vigil here until the sky was bright. The people in the camp woke up before and after, and the Mediterranean slept with swollen eyes, and when breakfast was over, the Mediterranean went back and forth in the camp.
I thought he was exercising, but after a while, Mediterranean ran up to me and whispered while smoking, "I've been a little tired for the past two days, I slept so hard last night that I didn't wake up all night, did something happen?" β
"Why do you ask?"
"The three-eyed female corpse is gone." Mediterranean looked back: "I searched around, but I couldn't find it." β
"You're a chicken thief." I didn't want to hide it from the Mediterranean, so I told him what happened before and after.
"Tsk." Mediterranean smacked his lips: "It's a pity." β
"It's a pity, do you want money or death?"
"I must have wanted both." Mediterranean patted me and said, "That three-eyed female corpse, or the underground ancient city, do you think there is still a head?" β
"There should be." I thought about it, through the matter of the three-eyed female corpse, coupled with the bell tower that is not a bell tower, I have a strong desire to explore the underground ancient city, and there is still half of the ancient city left, and it is bound to be completed today.
After breakfast, neither I nor Mediterranean said anything about the three-eyed female corpse, Lao Wang and Ning Kitten They would not notice this, Mu Qiang was strict-mouthed, and even if he felt something, he would not ask. I summoned the three people from yesterday and discussed the matter of going to the ancient city, Hu Gaoshan didn't care, it was estimated that he went too smoothly yesterday, so that his vigilance was lost.
"You give me a little smart!" Mu Qiang slapped Hu Gaoshan on the head hard: "Don't take it seriously." β
"It's just fine, why scare yourself?" Hu Gaoshan didn't have Mu Qiang's experience, so he felt that yesterday was smooth, and there would be no surprises today.
"You kid, do you have to wait for your head to fall off, and then you will regret it?" Mu Qiang felt that Hu Gaoshan's attitude was very bad, so he suddenly lifted his shirt and pointed to a scar on his lower abdomen that had been healing for a long time: "This is the memorial I left when I was hanging my son and doing work, do you want to keep one too?" β
It has been a long time since the scar on Mu Qiang's lower abdomen healed, but now it looks a little scary, you can think about it, when he was injured, it was almost like disemboweling, and it was estimated that he almost hung up.
Hu Gaoshan didn't dare to say anything more, and honestly followed us to the small hole we found yesterday. After a night, the small hole was as calm as before, Hu Gaoshan prepared outside, and then drilled into the small hole and explored the way ahead.
We left the guy to guard the entrance of the cave as usual, and then entered the ancient city from the small hole. Hu Gaoshan found a good direction, chose a relatively wide place between the two rows of small houses and walked forward slowly.
Hu Gaoshan still didn't mean to be particularly cautious, it is estimated that nature is like this, Mu Qiang shook his head in the back, people's personalities are like this, and it is impossible to persuade others alone. Either you will completely quit the ancient line and find a normal job, or you will have to suffer a loss to remember it for a long time.
In fact, I also feel that Hu Gaoshan is not suitable for this kind of thing, although he is bold and clever, but at the same time, he is too bold and his heart is too big, and he doesn't take anything seriously.
We kept a distance of about five or six meters from Hu Gaoshan, and as we walked past these two rows of small houses, Hu Gaoshan looked through the window of a small house and saw a large piece of wood, or rather, a clumsy wooden box, that we had seen before.
Because of my previous experience, as soon as I saw this wooden box, I knew what might be inside. The three men made a detour, from the window of the small house to the main entrance. All the small houses in the ancient city were of that construction, but the bolt on the outside of this small door was completely rusted, and it took a lot of effort to get it open.
The heavy wooden box was dragged out by us, Hu Gaoshan flashlight helped us light it, and Mu Qiang and I opened the wooden box.
In the split second before the lid was opened, I seemed to suddenly understand what SchrΓΆdinger's cat meant.
Maybe because I found the three-eyed female corpse, I subconsciously felt that the one in the wooden box would be a very strange person. But before the box is opened, no one will know what is inside.
Mu Qiang opened the box, the light of the flashlight was very bright, and when the box was opened, my eyes paused.
"What is this?"
There was a little straw in the box, and inside the straw, there was something about a meter long. I couldn't tell what it was, the air here in the ancient city was damp, and the straw and the inside of the box were covered with gray-black mold, and this thing that was a meter long was like a large moldy winter melon, and it looked like a strange-shaped potato.
The Three-Eyed Female Corpse taught me a lesson, and I didn't dare to mess with this thing anymore. But one thing is certain, this underground ancient city is just as I guessed before, and it is dedicated to storing some strange things.
"This thing looks disgusting." Hu Gaoshan stood behind us, held up a flashlight and said, "Brother Qiang, what is this, is it worth it?" β
"Don't always worry about whether it's worth or not." I said to Hu Gaoshan without looking back: "Let's come here this time, not to look for goods, it doesn't matter if this thing is worth it or not, even if it is valuable, it can't be taken back and sold." β
"Mr. Lian, I just said it casually, don't take it seriously."
Hu Gaoshan quickly admitted his mistake, Mu Qiang lowered his head and didn't speak, and after a while, he looked up and said to me: "Mr. Lian, I don't think it's a thing." β
"What's that?"
"It's a person."
"People?" I feel indescribably surprised, the three-eyed female corpse is very strange, but it looks like a person, but it has one more eye than ordinary people, but the things in the wooden box in front of me are simply not human.
"It should be a person."
Mu Qiang pulled out a one-meter-long crowbar from his waist, and gently pushed aside the straw and sundries in the box, one end of the crowbar was smashed flat and sharpened, the same as the blade. Mu Qiang scratched lightly on this thing, and suddenly, a piece of dirt with mildew that seemed to be attached to it was scraped off.
Immediately afterwards, Mu Qiang put all the straw aside, took out a bottle of water from his bag, and poured it on this weird-looking thing.
The dirt residue that had been scraped off was washed away by the water, and at this moment, my eyes froze, and my head felt like a bucket.
Before this thing was cleaned, it seemed to be a round section, but after cleaning, I suddenly saw that on this thing, there were two thin arms like chopsticks, and two legs of the same thickness. The arms and legs, though dehydrated and dry, are only so thin that they are estimated to be seven or eight centimeters long.
If you don't see it with your own eyes, no one can believe that there is such a proportion of people in this world. Such arms and legs are actually of no real use, just like some degraded organs.
After Mu Qiang's cleanup, I saw that there were vaguely visible facial features on this one-meter-long thing, and the proportions of the human body grew like this, so don't mention what the facial features look like, what kind of facial features are installed on this person, they will be like ghosts.
"Three eyes." Mu Qiang pointed at this thing with a crowbar: "This is a vertical eye." β
"It's an outer-space creature." Hu Gaoshan was completely stunned, a person with this kind of appearance, based on his own imagination, could not come up with it at all.
"Mr. Lian, it seems that your speculation is very reasonable." Mu Qiang withdrew the crowbar and glanced left and right: "The things in this ancient city are strange enough. β
I didn't answer, just thinking about the events of the early hours of this morning, there was a very strange-looking bronze nail on the back of the head of the three-eyed female corpse, and I deduced at that time whether the strangeness of the three-eyed female corpse was related to the bronze nail.
And now, it's a chance to validate.
"Here, bring the crowbar." I took the crowbar on Hu Gaoshan's body, asked Mu Qiang to help, and used two crowbars to flip the thing in the box that made people have nightmares when they looked at it.
When you turn it over like this, some traces are more obvious. This thing, or rather, the person is already dehydrated, and we can see a whole vertebrae bulging out of its back.
This thing has no hair and is cleaner than a Mediterranean head. When I turned it over, I noticed that there was a button-like bronze nail on the back of its head that was almost identical to the top of the head of the Three-Eyed Woman.
And sure enough, it was!
The strange man also had bronze nails in the back of his head, and I slowly lifted the button-like bronze nails with a knife, and when the short nails were removed, one end of the nails immediately pulled out hundreds of copper wires as thin as spider silk.
It can be said that this scene is the same as the scene where I pulled out the nail on the top of the head of the three-eyed female corpse. These thin copper wires like spider silk have grown into the body of this strange man.
A lot of the copper wires on the bronze nails were broken, and I cut the rest with a knife. The nail cap of the bronze nail is all patina, but according to my observation, the pattern on the nail cap is not the same as the pattern on the nail of the three-eyed female corpse.