Chapter 220: The Burial Pit
It was as if the island was playing tricks on us, refusing to give us a glimpse of comfort, forcing us into the water when our clothes were dry, forcing us to walk up to land when we were soaking wet, and human figurines in front of us, I became so accustomed to their presence that I can't remember how many I saw along the way.
I'm getting numb, and I'm forgetting that every human figurine was once alive, and how many people died here. Thousands? Tens of thousands?
People are really affected by the environment, and if they are in a terrifying atmosphere for a long time, they will gradually lose their fear, we have been walking for too long, when the maze is soothing, when it is intense, we have to run desperately to avoid danger, I just feel that my legs are constantly trembling, we haven't rested for a long time.
Now that I finally saw the bare rock again, this is a relatively gentle cave, and the activity of the maze is just in the soothing period, Brother Shen stopped, turned his head and said: "Take a break, continue the next activity of the maze." ”
It was like hearing the amnesty, I sat down as soon as my feet went limp, I ate something casually and leaned against the rock wall in a daze, it had been at least eleven or twelve hours since my last sleep, and my biological clock couldn't do it.
It's a pity that I can't sleep for six or seven hours like in Guizhou, and the longest activity cycle of the maze is only about two hours, and forty or fifty minutes is the most common.
I almost fell asleep in seconds, I experienced so many terrible things, and I slept very soundly, I knew that Brother Shen would definitely not sleep, and if there was danger, he could wake me up as soon as possible.
I don't know when the up and down shaking of the floating island can no longer affect me, the "bang" sound that has been lingering in my ears can also be selectively blocked by me, the rocks under me are moving slowly, can not arouse my alert, I am extremely tired, the organs of the whole body do not belong to me.
It seemed that after only five or six minutes of sleep, I was woken up by a hand, and we opened my eyes suddenly, and it was nineteen who pushed me, and when he saw me open his eyes, he whispered, "Go." ”
I got up on my bones, this time the rest worked, I recovered most of my strength, the maze really entered the active period, we continued to follow Brother Shen, I saw the cave behind me shrinking little by little, and the stone walls on both sides slowly closed again.
"Can A-Qing see here?" I asked in a low voice.
"It should be possible, but he's asleep now." Nineteen spoke.
Also, now it's almost a day and a night, and delivering the news is a very mentally draining thing, and A-Qing's situation will not be easier than ours.
We passed through five or six more crevices in the rocks, and suddenly there was a chaotic sound in front of us, as if there were many things bumping and bumping, but there was no smell, only the smell of the sea and the faint smell of seaweed from the sea life.
It was supposed to be an open place, and the chaotic sound of collision echoed, and I became alert, but Brother Shen's steps did not slow down, and after two more turns, a huge cave appeared in front of me.
This is a radius of more than ten meters of almost circular hole, the bottom of the cave has accumulated more than ten centimeters of deep seawater, we are standing on the edge of it, condescending to look at it, I see the cave densely packed with white bones, they are intertwined in one place, as far as the eye can see, impermeable, countless.
They have been soaked in the sea all the year round, they have turned black and yellow, they have become fossil-like things, firmly attached to the bottom of the cave, completely integrated with the labyrinth, countless sea creatures have made this place a paradise, growing in clusters on the bones, there are many eyes hidden in the cracks of the bones, the flashlight shines brightly, ancient, heavy, decadent, but full of life, I can't find the right word to describe this scene.
This is a relic that has passed through thousands of years, but it is cast by a lot of white bones, these white bones have been eroded by the years, and there is no one intact, all kinds of small creatures are scurrying between the bones, here is a three-dimensional giant bone net, and it is a good place for them to survive.
There are still no traces of artificiality in the cave, but the accumulation of white bones has said everything, these people cannot die here en masse, they were killed and piled up here, this is a burial pit, this island is indeed a mausoleum.
I squatted down and looked closely, Brother Shen would see the cause of death based on the injuries on the bones, but I couldn't see anything, they were so badly corroded, almost completely petrified, and they were covered by the secretions of various creatures, and they couldn't even tell their original faces, and occasionally some of them exposed their necks, and they couldn't see injuries, but they were definitely not poisoned, and the color of the bones was normal.
I saw from a distance that there were four or five wide crevices in the opposite rock wall, the rocks behind me were still moving, the top of the cave was also moving like a wave, the bone net made a bumping sound in the movement of the rocks, at first glance it sounded like whispering, the little creatures hiding in it were alarmed, and every now and then a few unknown small things suddenly burst out and quickly disappeared on the other side.
The cave was about two or three meters deep, but it was filled with white bones, and we only had to jump half a meter to step on it, and Nineteen casually dropped a few shellfish, and smashed them on the bones with a crisp sound, something was alarmed, and there was a series of gurgling sounds under the skeleton, and they shook and quickly calmed down.
Brother Shen tentatively stepped on it, these bones have been petrified, they are surprisingly hard, and they are not broken, Brother Shen squatted down and picked up a skull casually, frowned and glanced at it, and then turned his body to look at the other.
"Their fatal wound is in the eye." Brother Shen stood up and spoke, his eyes looking into the distance, as if he had found something.
"Eyes?"
Nineteen said this, and jumped down as well, and I jumped down to look closer, and it was indeed the eyes, and I saw that there were obvious wounds on the bones on the sockets of their eyes, small incisions that only a sharp blade could make, and by looking at the wounds, I could imagine the scene at that time, and the person who killed them must have used a slender knife to insert it into the eye and put people to death.
I looked at several skulls in a row, and the scars were either smoothed by years of friction, or cracked from them, and the cracks extended all the way to the skull, and on closer inspection, the skulls that were broken in half were almost all broken from the position of the eye socket, which should have been a very hard place, and it was difficult to have this situation unless it had been injured in the first place.
I stood up and rubbed my arms, how cruel I thought about this scene, there was obviously a more convenient way to kill, why piercing the eyes, it seemed that I was deliberately trying to torture people for fun, you must know that it is a terrible thing to have a sharp blade facing the eyes, our body always reacts to the eyes with a lot of protection, and when we encounter danger, we will reflexively close our eyes first, this behavior is much faster than the feedback of the brain, it is the instinct of the body.
"I'm afraid it's not as simple as being fatal, they have wounds on both sides of their eyes, and I guess the man is trying to gouge out their eyeballs." Nineteen spoke.
I felt a chill all over my body, and when I looked closely, I realized that this was the case, if it was to kill someone, it would be enough to stab it, there were injuries on both sides, and no matter how I thought about it, I would draw an inference of nineteen.
Is this tomb owner a pervert?
I felt creepy, a cool breath rushed from under my feet, like stepping on an iceberg, there are countless bones here, how many eyes did the tomb owner gouge out? Where were these eyes taken and what were they used for?
This is not a mausoleum at all, but a large* factory, first human skins, then human eyes, what kind of place is this, and will there be a human flesh workshop in it?
I can't help but feel sick when I think about it, it's too weird, those unknown dangerous monsters are trivial, and the owner of the floating island is the most terrifying, seeing his kind of torture so miserable, won't he feel uneasy? I feel as if he is a higher-dimensional being, just like we look at ants, we can crush them to death casually without psychological burden, if he is really a person, the psychology must be distorted to an unimaginable extent.
The cruelty and gore are indescribable, even the most famous perverted murderer is not as vicious as his methods, he is taking pleasure in it, no wonder this floating island has left no evidence of its existence, I am afraid that the people who built the labyrinth have all become ghosts.
We were approaching our destination, even the burial pit had appeared, the main burial chamber was not far away, and I looked up at the top of the cave again, there were no patterns, no edges and corners, we could not combine this place with a certain era, it belonged to a lost history.
Brother Shen walked to the rock crevice on the other side, and we followed, and from time to time something rushed under our feet, with the sound of rushing water, and the white bones "gurgling" like bursts of sinister laughter.
Even if it has been petrified, it is not very strong, the number of white bones around is small, but the more you go to the middle, the more difficult it becomes, and there is a "creaking" sound under your feet from time to time, and I don't know if it is shellfish or human bones that are broken.
I walked like a thorn, my feet were like pins and needles, I didn't expect that I would still be walking among the bones of a mountain, this is not a movie, but reality.
The bumps underfoot, the crackling sound in my ears, the skulls polished to the brim and the thin hairy seaweed, which had returned to nature and been turned into a real grave by the ocean.
I hardly dared to look at my feet, and I had to pay attention to the fact that there were hollows everywhere, and it was easy to step on them, so I finally walked to the other side tremblingly, but suddenly there was a rapid drum beat in my ears.
The sound appeared so suddenly, I was so startled that I almost fell, my heart was so frightened that I was "thumping", nineteen of them were all stagnant, it was the drumbeat, the familiar drum beat I had heard, it would manipulate the resurrection of the human skin figurines, I thought it would not sound again, but I didn't expect it to appear again.
The sound was coming from under my feet, deep and loud, but I still couldn't hear the source, I thought someone had touched the mechanism, but it didn't seem to be the case.