Chapter 288: Masks

At this moment, closing my eyes means death, not only my own death, but also Mu Qiang.

The feeling of being shrouded in death, even when consciousness is no longer clear, is still constantly flickering in the imagination. I've seen a lot of death, but it's impossible to explain this feeling when I haven't experienced it.

What does death represent? I don't know, what I do know is that I'm dead, Lao Wang, Zhang Momo, and Ning Xiaomei, maybe I won't be saved. They will be tortured for a long time in their lives, just like Lu Fangding, until they are tortured to death.

I'm not afraid of death, because the decay of the body doesn't actually mean real death. But I didn't dare to take risks, and I didn't dare to try.

I can't die.

When my subconscious, shaking Zhang Momo and Tiantian's faces all the time, my body seemed to explode. The eyes were closed, and there was no possibility of opening them again, however, under the premise of this absolute impossibility, a miracle happened.

My eyes opened a slit, just a slit, my vision was still blurry, and I could vaguely see that the huge spider had crawled in front of my eyes, and if it got a little closer, it could leave a kiss of death on my face.

Boom!!!

I subconsciously raised my hand and knocked the big spider to the ground. The Heavenly Maiden Sanhua was still in her hand, and I didn't have time to think, so I raised my hand and fired two shots in a row.

After the two shots, I didn't have any strength, just two shots, I had exhausted all my potential. I don't know if the big spider was hit, and my eyes immediately closed.

It was a dream-like fainting, and I seemed to have seen and experienced a lot during the period of fainting.

I dreamed that I was walking on an endless road after experiencing something that ordinary people would never experience in their lifetime. There is no end to the road, because the distance of the road is hidden in a darkness that cannot be seen by the naked eye.

I don't know how long the fainting lasted, but when I woke up, the miner's lamp and the flashlight that Mu Qiang had thrown on the ground were still shining. The surroundings are very quiet and there is a fishy smell spreading.

I turned my head to look at it first, and Mu Qiang was lying in the same place, motionless. I struggled to crawl towards him, probing his nose, his breathing was still there, maybe Mu Qiang hadn't suffered any external blows since he fainted, but he hadn't woken up yet.

Immediately after, I turned my head to look to the side, and under the bright light, I saw the huge spider, half of its body was beaten to pieces.

I let out a sigh of relief, feeling that the fright I was suffering before I fainted, and the potential I stimulated, were not in vain, at least I relied on myself to let the two of us survive the catastrophe of life and death.

Mu Qiang is still in a state of drowsy, and there is no better way to do this situation than to wait for him to wake up. I took off Mu Qiang's backpack and put it under his head so that he could lie down more comfortably.

The huge spider must have died, and was blown away by the scattered flowers of the Heavenly Maiden, and around the half-rotten body of the big spider, there was a stream of green water slowly flowing, and the heavy fishy smell was emanating from the big spider. There is no air convection in this space, and the smell dissipates very slowly. I couldn't stand the smell, so I took out my mask from my pocket and put it on.

I watched for about five or six minutes, and after making sure there was no danger, I slowly walked towards the corpse of the great spider, trying to see what was on its back.

I carefully flipped the half-cut body of the spider with a crowbar, and suddenly the pattern on its back, which resembled a monkey's face, came into view.

It can be said that the monkey face pattern on the back of the big spider is very clear and can be seen from a long distance. Now that you get closer, you can see it more clearly.

When I looked at the pattern on the back of the big spider, my eyes suddenly froze, I thought that this pattern was composed of colorful colors on the big spider's body, but now, I feel that this is not the case.

Before I could take a closer look, Mu Qiang moved over there. I quickly dropped the spider and ran over to take a look. Mu Qiang woke up, but it was very difficult to wake up, just like a person who had drunk too much, and after barely waking up, he still had a headache and no energy.

I slowly helped him up, and after a while, Mu Qiang felt better.

"Are you alright?"

"It's okay." I turned around and pointed at the big spider: "You Heavenly Maiden scattered flowers, this time you have made a great contribution." ”

Mu Qiang also breathed a sigh of relief, took out the water and drank a few sips. According to my judgment, there should be only one such big spider, maybe a long time ago, there were many such spiders, but with the passage of time, only one remains. In fact, the Great Spider should have died a long time ago, just because it had immortal bronze on its body, and it had lived for so long like that strange thing in the underground ancient city.

The two of us had a feeling of the aftermath of the catastrophe, sitting in place and drinking water and smoking, waiting until Mu Qiang was almost recovered, packed up his things, and then walked to the corpse of the big spider.

I then went to observe the pattern behind the big spider, and the pattern was colorful and green, and it looked very three-dimensional from a distance. I changed the knife and scratched it lightly on the pattern behind the big spider, and immediately noticed that it was a piece of bronze.

The big spider has been smashed in half, I want to take off the bronze, but for a long time, this piece of bronze and the body of the big spider seem to be connected, Mu Qiang is helping next to him, pressing the bronze with a crowbar, and I use a knife to slowly scrape everything that sticks to this bronze.

In the end, the bronze was taken off completely, and Mu Qiang rinsed it with water.

The fineness of bronze, as well as the degree of rust, and the state of rust, have a certain relationship with the proportion of alloy. The general bronze grows green rust, and a small number of them will grow red rust, and the bronze taken from the back of the big spider has green rust and red rust, and the pimples are pimpled.

I myself feel that this is not a piece of bronze, this piece of bronze is relatively large, and it is a whole, and it may be like this when it was cast, without breakage and disintegration. I carefully scraped it with my knife again and rinsed it with water.

After cleaning it twice in a row, as I slowly flipped over the bronze, I suddenly realized that it was like a mask.

I'm not sure if it's a mask or not, but at the very least, it's something like a mask. The mask is a monkey's face, and even if the bronze rusts like this, the concave and undulating outline of the monkey's face can still be seen at a glance.

It was this mask that was fastened to the back of the big spider, and when it emerged from the water, it looked like a monkey's face floating on the water.

This bronze mask must also be immortal bronze, and I feel that this underground ancient city, as well as many things in the space connected to the ancient city, seem to have the shadow of immortal bronze. From what the strange thing told me before, it can be analyzed that even if the people of Xiangxiong were not the original owners of this underground ancient city, they must be very familiar with this ancient city.

I realized that these immortal bronzes belonged to the Zhangxiong people.

This is not the first time I've seen a monkey at the Zhangxiong site, and I still don't understand what the monkey means to the male. It stands to reason that there is no monkey species in the territory of Zhangxiong, which rises in the southwest plateau, but the Zhangxiong people have an indescribable respect and fear for monkeys.

Or even a faint hatred. If the Zhangxiong people used the monkey as a totem or as a kind of sacred object, then it would have been impossible for me and Xiaomao to find those iron cages containing monkeys when we explored before. The monkeys were put in iron cages when they were alive, and then sunk into the ditch where water had been running all year round.

The emotions of the elephant people towards monkeys should be very, very complicated.

This monkey mask should be brought back and pondered again. I pulled out a canvas bag that I usually use as a sandbag, carefully put the mask inside, and folded the bag a few times. Immortal bronze has to be well kept, if you carry it with you and accidentally let the bronze collide with each other, it is self-inflicted.

When I put the bronze away, Mu Qiang was looking for any other bronze fragments. He really could do it, the big spider was already half blown away, and when the bronze mask on its back was removed, it simply became a mess. Mu Qiang held a crowbar, and slowly turned over the mess in this puddle, which made me admire very much.

"Aren't you disgusting?"

"It's more disgusting than this, and at the beginning, I definitely couldn't stand it, it's still the same old saying, habit becomes natural." Mu Qiang turned his head and smiled at me: "No matter how beautiful or ugly something is, when you see it too much, you will actually feel nothing." ”

"Makes sense." I wore a mask, but I still felt that the fishy smell was unbearable, so I lit a cigarette, stuffed one for Mu Qiang, and kept smoking the cigarette in my mouth, letting the smell of smoke dilute the fishy smell.

Before he finished smoking a cigarette, Mu Qiang used a crowbar to turn out a thing, which was a little smaller than an egg and very hard, and when it was pulled out by Mu Qiang, this thing was sticky with colorful mucus, and he couldn't tell what it was.

Mu Qiang opened another bottle of water, pushed the thing aside, and slowly rinsed it with water. The water washed away all the mucus, and at this moment, Mu Qiang's hand holding the water bottle suddenly stopped.

"What is it?" I turned my head to look.

"Mr. Lian, don't talk to me, I'm going blind." Mu Qiang twisted the miner's lamp on my head, and he came back to his senses at this time, smacked his lips, and said: "If I usually pick this up, I might be very happy, but now, I can't be happy, it's too strange." ”