Chapter 339: The Disappearing Scorpion
This scene is familiar, I immediately remembered the time I went to the cave, the human form we sketched in the deserted village river, Lao Huang at that time also suddenly gave up, he is actually a person who knows how to advance and retreat, he realizes the danger, realizes that it is not good for us to find out the truth, and will take the initiative to give up.
What did he find this time? I looked up at the dried corpse's wrinkled and ugly face, and silently retreated to follow Lao Huang, he knew that this was the real corpse, the life of the real scorpion-tailed human body, so he gave up.
Lao Huang walked in the direction of the fake Ah Chuan took pictures, I walked a few steps to follow him, the murals here also have traces of weathering, but they are much more complete than on the ground, but the color is no longer bright, like dust, but there is almost no defect.
It seemed that Lao Huang was also thinking about the black shadow, only our footsteps in the empty hall, with a series of echoes, as if there were people walking in all directions, I looked back from time to time, behind me was a dead darkness, nothing.
It was indeed underground, and we had been tossing and turning for so long that it should have been dawn, but it was always dark, and we soon walked to the side of the mural, only to see a scorpion with a pitch-black body in front of us.
It was indeed a scorpion, but my eyes were attracted by the women above, the murals here were very different from the ones I was familiar with, the figures were indeed elegant and colorful, but the gaze made people chill for no reason, there was no sense of peace at all, no matter where you went, their eyes would be glued to you.
It was cold and weird, especially in this place where the light of day never dawned, and I felt a little more resentful, and my whole body became uncomfortable, but I heard a slight rustling sound from behind.
"Who?!"
Before I could speak, Lao Huang turned his head first, and the flashlight shone on the stone pillar closest to us, and the subtle sound came from behind the stone pillar.
The two of us held our breath and prepared to escape, but we saw a palm-sized black scorpion coming around behind the stone pillar, crawling on its own, completely ignoring us, and soon disappeared on the other side of the stone pillar.
It turned out to be a scorpion, but is this scorpion a little bigger? Lao Huang and I glanced at each other, and walked around the stone pillar left and right, but it was empty, and in a few seconds, the scorpion magically disappeared.
I just feel a chill on my spine, the patterns on the stone pillars are very shallow, the surroundings are also very empty, there is no place to hide at all, and the scorpion can't fly, how can I say that it is gone?
The only suspicious thing is the dried corpse of the scorpion tail near the stone pillar, we raised the flashlight and swept it up and down, and we didn't see the shadow of the scorpion, the scorpion with a big palm should be very conspicuous, it is impossible not to see it.
Compared to Lao Huang, I am much more afraid, after all, I woke up in the main hall, I don't know how long I slept before waking up, and I felt chills at the thought that there might be such a big and crazy cold-blooded animal crawling over my body.
"It's really," Lao Huang hesitated and walked towards the stone pillar, raising his hand to touch it, "Daze, we came here inexplicably, and this scorpion is also inexplicably gone, could this pillar have something to do with the way to get out?" ”
I also thought of this question, and at this moment I stepped forward and touched the stone pillar with Lao Huang, but it was cold and unresponsive, and we touched it around, like stupid/forced.
This place is too evil, I suddenly became a little irritable, I really shouldn't have come in, Lao Huang frowned when he saw me, and pulled me: "If it's gone, it's gone, just don't see it, let's go see the murals." ”
He was diverting my attention, and I hesitated to go with him, and as we drew closer to the end of the hall, we saw the giant scorpion-tailed figure in the distance.
My heart was beating like a drum, and so was Lao Huang, we raised our heads with a flashlight, only to see that in front of us was a column of steps nearly ten meters high, and above the steps was a round platform, where a tall female corpse was standing, the lower body was still a scorpion tail, and the black scorpion body was shining under the flashlight.
It turns out that she is not so tall, except for the height of the steps and the round platform, even a little shorter than the male cadavers below, her upper body is also *, the skeleton is slender, and the breasts/room are so shriveled that only a layer of skin remains, clinging to the torso, fortunately, it has been dried and blackened, which is not so uncomfortable.
Her face was so wrinkled that I couldn't see the original appearance, for some reason, I always felt that there was an indescribable evil aura in her, Professor Zhang once said that those statues of the scorpion-tailed human body were spiritual totems, their gods, but she was real, not a god at all.
They are too tall, they are monsters at all, the statue on it has indeed been enlarged, doubling her original height, there must be no steps below the statue outside, otherwise it will not match the proportions, even if it is reduced by half, it is also a behemoth nearly ten meters high, I dare not imagine what they looked like when they were alive.
The inhabitants of the ancient city are ordinary people, how could they let such a monster rule, I can't understand this worship, people naturally revere powerful forces, but in the face of this monster, are they really not afraid?
Is it because of the treasure that can bring the dead back to life? I thought about it and was relieved, if there really was such a treasure, maybe I would also regard her as a god, after all, gods must be different from ordinary people, but she is not a god, she has not been able to bring these people back to life at all, and even she herself has become a cold and shriveled corpse.
I can't tell what mood it is, think about the queen on the mural standing on her legs, there is no scorpion tail at all, so what the hell is this monster? Is it because the queen has mastered the monster that she became the queen?
"Let's go, don't look at it, you can't come back to tell us." Lao Huang was not interested, and he pulled me around the steps, and I was already able to see the entrance to the corridor on the wall behind me.
This place is really exactly the same as above, from the palace to the residence, from the mural to the layout, and the ground is almost the same, just like a copy, I can't help but wonder if this is the real Qingya ancient city, the above is just an empty shelf for outsiders to see.
The sudden thought made me shiver, the ancient city must be on the ground, but the water in the desert is precious, and living underground is cooler to save, think of the mural of the queen summoning the messenger, there are no steps under her throne, it must be executed in the main hall on the ground.
The dark corridor was extremely silent, and if you felt it carefully, you could see that the cool breeze was blowing from the corridor, and I always felt a sense of oppression coming from behind, and I couldn't help but look back at the scorpion-tailed corpse high above me several times, to make sure that she really wouldn't move again.
Lao Huang also looked a little cramped and uneasy, at this moment took the initiative to walk in front of me, and I was in a position behind, so it was uncomfortable to go forward and back, I walked up quickly and walked side by side with him, and he didn't stop him.
On both sides are familiar murals, exactly the same as those on the ground, although I can't remember the details, but I still remember the general things, but it was just what happened before going to bed, I was very impressed, I even remembered how many people were hunting in the forest, how they were distributed, and now I look at these murals are really exactly the same.
Just as there are no two leaves in the same world, and the same craftsman cannot make exactly the same work, I regret that I didn't bring a camera, and I can't remember the details for a long time.
The cold wind kept blowing from the front of the corridor, the wind was very small, but it was terrifyingly cold, we took a few steps forward, Lao Huang suddenly stopped, touched me, and whispered with a vigilant face: "Daze, what do you see in front of you that glowing?" ”
I was startled, and when I looked at him, I saw a golden thing on the ground in front of me, far away, not like it would glow, it should be reflected by our flashlight.
I have seen the weirdness here, I don't dare to take anything lightly, and at this moment I cautiously followed Lao Huang forward, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on my body.
We pressed against the wall all the way forward, its light also changed as we advanced, it seemed that it was indeed the light reflected by the flashlight, and there was no sign of activity, we boldly stepped forward to see, it turned out to be a pair of gold wire glasses, but unfortunately it had been flattened, one side of the lens shattered into a spider web, the other side shattered to the ground, the frame was completely deformed, could not be opened.
"Isn't this the old man Zhang's......" Lao Huang suppressed the shock in his voice and looked up at me.
I can't tell you what it feels like, I don't want anyone to be in danger, I imagined that the archaeological team might not have come in, but this pair of glasses shattered all illusions, the glasses are still there, but the person is gone, and it is still destroyed like this, and the thing that crushes it is certainly not small.
The atmosphere is very solemn, although there is no blood stains around, but there must be a large danger here, the archaeological team did come, and encountered danger, the more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, Professor Zhang was in danger here, so close to the main hall, if I woke up a little later, would I also encounter the same danger?
"Are you still going?" I looked at Lao Huang and retreated.
"Look at that mural, there shouldn't be anything here." Lao Huang said.
The mural is not far away, the front is still dark and there is no end, I answered, raised ten thousand vigilance, the mural is the same, I saw the familiar sabre-rattling scene again, and then look at the next one, but it is an unexpected scene.
I saw a strong light suddenly projected on the wall behind the queen, completely covering the queen's figure, and all the people standing in the hall covered their eyes, and then the next picture saw that these people with weapons all fell to the ground, and the strong light behind the queen also disappeared, and the queen sat on the throne again.
They must have fainted because of that bright light, but what the hell is it? I don't know why, the mural is not finished, and the next scene is even more strange, I saw that those people were all awake, but they knelt in the hall one by one, and they couldn't see their expressions, and the queen also changed, and became the appearance of a scorpion-tailed person.