Chapter 125: The Raft of Corpses
We have always drunk the water in the river, and now that I think about it, I can't spit it out, I understand that Brother Shen and Lao Huang don't want me to explore, and some truths should be buried forever.
It's just pity for the villagers and the people who strayed into it, if I saw such a monster coming out of the water and spewing worms to take people's lives, I would definitely be scared crazy.
I turned my head to look at Shimen again, the real scene must be more terrifying than I imagined, there are so many people in the village, it is impossible for one of them not to escape, these insects may be extremely fast, or they may have other abilities, I dare not think about it.
The sound of the water came to their ears, the wind outside was cool, the space was so large that they turned on all the flashlights.
It was a narrow and deep canyon, the widest where we stood, it was carved out by force, it was a "concave" shape in the valley, very similar to the deserted village.
In front of us is not high but very wide stone steps, the stone steps have been downward, very long, I vaguely see that there seems to be flowing water at the bottom, there are two Gu King stone carvings on the left and right sides of every three floors of the stone steps, the stone carvings are very exaggerated, even taller than me.
At first glance, I thought it was the real Gu King, but it didn't have any spicy smell at all, Ah Chuan walked up to look at it with great interest, and reached out to touch two handfuls.
Except for the Gu King stone carving, the rest of the stone steps are lined with the lotus corpses we saw, all of them are men, none of them are wearing clothes, they are open, looking at us with eyeballs full of small holes, like the gaze of the god of death.
They must be inhabited by worms, and I don't want to explore them at all, I just want to stay away from them.
We walked down the stone steps, and the bugs noticed us and began to maneuver the corpse to walk slowly, this time we didn't stop, they were too slow to catch up with us.
We have reached the middle of the stone steps, there is indeed a dark river below, the river is very deep, I can't see anything inside, I can only see the stone steps stretching into the river, close to the dark river more than ten meters, the stone steps are full of traces of water washing.
I saw the fragments of the Gu King's stone carvings, they were piled up on the stone steps in a mess, and the lotus corpses, some of which were half exposed in the stones, and some of them fell crookedly on the stone steps, these broken stone carvings and the fragments of the washed out stone steps were mixed together, pouring into the river like a mudslide.
We walked below, there was a rustling sound behind us, I couldn't help but turn my head to look, only to see a group of lotus corpses following behind and slowly moving, their eyes were hollow and strange, like surging waves, advancing towards us little by little.
There were dense figures under the flashlight, and I quickly turned my head, even if I smeared the worm medicine, I was still afraid of seeing them spray worms from my body.
Ah Chuan stepped on the pile of rocks, glanced into the dark river, turned around and spread his hands to us: "It seems that we are walking through the back door." ”
I didn't understand what he meant, and Brother Shen also walked up, and then I saw the situation in the dark river, and immediately gasped.
I saw that there were all blue-gray corpses inside, and they were lying on their backs at the bottom of the river, like statues, across the water from us.
I understand what Agawa meant, the upper reaches of this river is the canal we saw, according to the normal road, we should come here through the canal, this is the main entrance of the tomb, but we encountered a ghost spider, and by mistake broke into the labyrinthine back door.
If it were from here, there wouldn't be so much collapse and despair, I looked at the sunken corpses at the bottom of the river, and I didn't regret it, all the roads were forced to go, we could successfully get the jade, everyone was still alive, we should be content.
It was the only place where I could stand, and when I looked at the sides of the canyon, I could only see the knife-like cliffs, and the canal was also built according to the topography, and somewhere upstream that we could not see, there must have been a natural dark river flowing in.
The current here is so fast that it fills the bottom of the canyon, and the river is nearly ten meters wide, and there are all dead bodies below, and it is impossible for us to swim out.
The cliff is not too high, but it is also more than 20 meters, there is no passage on it, and the top is full of uneven huge stone ridges, which is completely natural.
We couldn't get out, the water here was too fast, the rocks on both sides were sharp and abrupt, not to mention that there were Gu worms at the bottom of the river that could kill people, and there was no exit from it.
Those lotus corpses are getting closer and closer to us, I'm not very afraid, I just feel disgusting, they can't do anything to us, at most they just look at it and go back.
"What should I do?"
Lao Huang said, sat down and took out the beef and began to gnaw, speaking of which, it is much better here than in the cemetery, and there must be an exit to this dark river.
The torrent that flowed through here washed out some of the lotus corpses, which would kill the villagers, and we just had to go down the water, but unfortunately the mountain walls on both sides were too steep, unless we could fly the eaves and walk the walls, we would definitely fall into the river.
Ah Chuan also sat down, Brother Shen found a flat place to put me down, I was facing the dark river, a few meters away there was a lotus corpse diagonally inserted in the rubble, staring at me.
My stomach also screamed in a small voice, but it was still heard by Ah Chuan, who turned his head and smiled at me, holding the food and dangling it.
I ignored him and turned my face to the other side, and he seemed bored, called out to me, and threw me the food from a distance.
I munched on the beef, there was no sense of time in the dark underground, my body was in disarray, I was in a constant state of hunger and thirst, I couldn't even notice the discomfort now, my nerves were no longer sensitive to pain and hunger, I don't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing.
Everyone sat down to rest, ignoring the approaching lotus corpses, and I didn't care at all when I saw them approaching, and my psychological lower limit was getting lower and lower.
The last few sips of water were all drunk by us, and I was not worried at all, there was a river in front of me, and although there were Gu worms and corpses in it, my instinct could suppress the disgust.
I couldn't imagine how those people in desperate situations could survive by drinking urine, but now I also understand that all the impossibilities are not being driven to a dead end, and the instinct of life can suppress everything, what kind of Gu worm corpse, just use it as a stone.
The large crowd of lotus corpses dragged their feet like zombies, and they walked on the gravel, staggering and squeaking, and I couldn't move, I could only watch them approach.
They surrounded us, no one stood up, we just watched them silently, and they were also poor people, who would want to become a hive of worms, wandering among the ancient tombs for thousands of years?
Ah Chuan was still nibbling on the beef, oblivious to the approaching group of corpses, I saw three people surrounding him, they were hunched over to his face, but he did not react, the faces of these corpses were almost attached to the beef, he just gnawed on himself, as if he could not see them.
I couldn't help but smile bitterly, I was still far behind Ah Chuan's realm, and the corpses also came to me one after another, and the dense holes made me very uncomfortable, I simply closed my eyes, and if I couldn't see it, it didn't exist.
As on that night, they soon left, and when I opened my eyes, I saw them shuffling up the stone steps again, but as if they had lost their way, they scurried around like headless flies, and did not return to where they had stood.
It was the most filling meal I've ever had, and I always had a feeling in my heart that I was dead, and I now saw every second as the last second of my life, and it was a strange feeling, and I seemed to have lost some kind of hard work.
"Get up, raft up." Ah Chuan jumped up, raised his foot and kicked Lao Huang who was lying down.
"Stone-pierced?" Lao Huang replied angrily.
"So many ready-made materials can't be seen?" Ah Chuan smiled and pointed to a lotus corpse lying crooked in the rubble.
"Isn't it, using this?" Lao Huang showed a look of disgust.
"You think I want to? It's good to have it, make the best use of it. ”
Everyone took action, I could only sit here and watch, Ah Chuan seemed to have already figured out how to deal with it, the insects in these corpses seemed to have abandoned them, and they had become real empty shells.
Ah Chuan pulled the nearest corpse out of the rubble, he pinched the corpse's neck, like pulling a turnip, he didn't wear gloves, he directly touched the skin of the corpse, as soon as I saw those small holes, there was a strange uneven touch in the palm of my hand, as if I had kissed *.
"Hey, it's quite light, and it's really hollowed out."
Ah Chuan muttered, dragging the corpses to the river, so rude dragging did not deform the corpses, these corpses were really as hard as stones, he raised his hand and threw the corpses in, the corpses did not sink, they floated on the surface of the water like foam, and soon disappeared from our sight with the turbulent water, I looked at the bottom of the river, and the sunken corpses were also very quiet.
"Not bad."
Ah Chuan muttered, Xiao Qi also dragged a body when he saw this, Lao Huang glanced at her, and also stood up to move, there are many corpses here, don't worry about not enough.
I can't help, I can only try to reduce my sense of existence, they are moving the corpses in full swing, Lao Huang was originally disgusted, but now it is as natural as dragging wood.
People are really changing, and there was a restless noise around me, it was a stone fetus, it was still alive, trapped in a copper cauldron.
I raised my hand and patted the copper cauldron, I didn't have much strength, but it didn't move anymore, I don't know what method the Mo family would use to deal with it, this guy too, knowing the danger, he still has to grab this piece of jade, its intelligence is not low, why choose to take risks?
I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I thought about it, I still had the heart to think about it, and I didn't do the same myself.
"Daze, are you alright?" Lao Huang heard me laugh and said something.
Before I could answer, Ah Chuan answered: "What can he do?" It's stupid, and no matter how stupid you are, you can't go anywhere. ”
I wanted to scold him, but I suddenly felt bored, so I simply shut up, but Ah Chuan was strange, looked at me several times, and didn't know what bad ideas he was thinking.