Chapter 231: Nest
They didn't seem to notice, and I didn't have the heart to tell them such an inconsequential thing, but through this rock crevice, we could stand on the bottom of the water and walk, and I saw seven or eight dark red skulls floating on the water in front of me, and I suddenly had a bad feeling that there should be more ahead.
I noticed the abnormality of that one, I couldn't treat them as ordinary lacquerware, I twisted my head to look at them one by one, and sure enough, each of them was made into a different appearance, and the hole was opened in a different place, and the size of the hole was also different, I became more and more puzzled, what exactly did the people who made these lacquerware want to do?
If he wanted to make a vessel for holding things, the underside of the skull was already empty, so why bother to plug the hole in the top of the head, the skull was very hard, and it was not easy to make a hole in it, not to mention that although these holes were large and small, they were all round, not like they could be drilled by hand alone.
The more I thought about it, the more terrifying I felt, as if I was being targeted by a demon when I walked past them, especially the faint red, which really looked like blood that had just congealed.
My hunch became a reality, there were more and more skulls in front of me, floating densely on the water, it was like walking into hell, we could no longer hide, we could only pass through them, skulls hit our bodies, floating like empty gourds.
Gradually, I didn't get scared anymore, because I knew it was lacquer, and if I had changed to white bones, I might have been even more afraid.
I don't know where we walked into, the number of skulls is getting more and more, the water is getting shallower and shallower, we are like walking in a mountain of corpses, watching them descend from the chest all the way to the knees, there is no more water under the feet, replaced by an endless sea of skulls, there are so many of them, just like the ocean ball pool in a children's paradise, it seems to represent not a life.
Life is so worthless here, I see too many dry bones and human skins, and I can't stir up waves when I see them again, and I feel more and more numb, and I can walk in the pile of skulls without changing my face.
It's all lacquerware, each one of which has been sealed with the original gap, and a hole has been opened in the skull again, and Brother Shen has also found it, he picked one up and looked at it carefully, and then threw it away and picked up the other, repeating it several times, I saw that he put light into the skull to see, and I also looked at it, and it was empty, unpainted, and had turned yellow-white, and it was well preserved.
Brother Shen didn't say anything, we walked through two caves with a pile of skulls, and saw that there was a larger cave in front of us, but it was still much smaller than the human skin workshop, only sixty or seventy square meters, and it was full of skulls.
They were supposed to be stored in an orderly manner, but they had been left untended for too long, and the floating islands were floating up and down, causing them to be scattered all over the ground, and I saw something like a clear storage shelf, metal, probably bronze, and very rusty, the same material as the strange furnace.
But they were almost all rotten, and I could only see the outline, and I raised my hand and pushed it, and the metal frame fell crookedly, and smashed into the pile of skulls, and several round skulls were smashed out, and hit the rock wall, and rolled down again.
We walked towards the crevice on the other side, and with each step we sank into the pile of skulls, they were polished so smooth that they rolled to the side, and I could imagine the empty crunch of their rolling, and the echoing crash.
Thankfully, I couldn't hear it, but it wasn't so uncomfortable, the metal shelves were all placed on the edge of the cave wall, but they were empty in the middle, and the skulls under my feet rolled with my footsteps, and another one hit my feet, a little heavy.
I was startled and stopped, this one was different, unlike the other empty ones, it was very light, I bent down and picked it up, only to see that this skull was completely sealed, there was no hole in its skull, and it was heavy as if it was really holding a human head.
"Why don't you see this one has a hole?"
I handed it to Nineteen, and Brother Divine took it from Nineteen's hand again, and his expression became strange, as if he sensed something, and quickly threw it out.
He said something, I didn't see it, my eyes were still on the skull, it rolled to a flat place and stopped, and just as I was about to ask, I saw it move suddenly.
I felt the hairs on my whole body stand up, and when I looked closely, I found that it moved again, and the position was obviously very stable, it was moving on its own, to be precise, there was something alive moving in this skull lacquerware!
"What?!"
I grabbed Nineteen, my heart was beating fast, Brother Shen suddenly accelerated and walked to the other side, I quickly followed, my eyes were fixed on the skull, and I didn't take two steps before I noticed that it moved again.
The pile of skulls under my feet seemed to come to life in an instant, not only where we stepped on, but also so many others in front of me that began to shake slightly, and I was taken aback, and when I looked closely, I found that most of the skulls in front of me were sealed and had no holes.
They were all moving, the skulls under their feet were squirming like waves, bumping against each other, as if they were suddenly alive, Brother Shen ran up, and the dark red skulls were shaking under his feet, and I was dizzy to see it, and Nineteen took my wrist and strode forward, and we soon reached the other side of the cave, and turned our heads to see the mountain of skulls shaking.
They were disrupted by our footsteps, and the bones rolled down from the heights, and one of them landed at my feet, and I didn't pay attention, and kicked it, and it flew out more than a meter and hit the ground.
It's moving, too! I saw Brother Shen shout "Hurry up", and quickly ran over in three steps and two steps, and turned my head only to see a cluster of thick liquid spurting out of the skull, which made me scream in fright, and Nineteen also turned his head to look, and I saw that a hole had been made in the skull, and three black hairy legs were sticking out of it!
Sure enough, there's something in there!
A heavy rancid smell came, the skull shook more and more violently, the hole was too small for it to come out completely, and I saw the three legs covered in weird slime fluttering incessantly, trying to get out of the skull!
Not far away, a few more liquids squirted out, and Nineteen quickly pulled me forward, I couldn't hear anything, and I ran around with the round skull under my feet, obviously only less than ten meters away, like a thousand mountains and rivers, I didn't dare to look back, only to see that the skulls at my feet were shaking violently.
They are all alive, the monsters hiding inside are about to break out of their shells, I am disgusted like eating cockroaches, these skull lacquerware are not ornaments at all, they are nests, they are sealed by lacquer and are not breathable, and the owner of the floating island has raised something unknown in it.
They were originally just a human head, and those things were grown up eating human brains, and my scalp tingled when I thought about it, but I didn't expect them to be alive after so long.
The mountain-like skulls began to crumble, there were so many of them that we couldn't step on solid ground at all, it was very difficult to run, climb two steps and take a step back, Brother Shen had already reached the edge of the cave, he bent down and reached out and fished me up with all his might, nineteen and eleven were agile, we got into the crevices and escaped from the cave.
There was no sound, but it was even more terrifying, I didn't dare to look back the whole time, the first to break out of the shell must have been drilled out, I seemed to have escaped death, I didn't even know what it was, but I knew they would eat people.
We ran quickly, and it was full of skull lacquerware, and every foot would sink into the pile of skulls, but it seemed that there was no more movement, and there were holes in the skulls as far as the eye could see, and the things that lived in them had already crawled out.
My fear has not diminished at all, where did these things crawl out and go? I don't think they're going to die, maybe they're waiting for us ahead.
I couldn't tell if we were stepping on the ground or bones, it was the first time we had run so fast since we entered here, there was no sound behind me, I panicked, I turned my head to look, and I saw that Eleven was running last, we were already far away from the cave, and those things didn't seem to be chasing after me.
Brother Shen's speed is still so fast, I don't dare to slack off, when I think of a group of man-eating monsters chasing behind, my feet don't feel sore, we ran all the way forward There are seven or eight rock crevices, and we haven't seen their shadows, they may not be chasing, or the speed can't catch up, we don't know the situation can only continue to run forward, I always feel that they are not so easy to get rid of.
There was no skull lacquerware, we stepped on the rock, the speed of the god brother did not decrease in the slightest, but I was a little overwhelmed, my legs and feet were weak, running as if it were not my own feet, I was indeed frightened, the moment the three legs covered with black hair jumped out of front of my eyes, I couldn't help but imagine the scene of it coming out of my head.
What the hell is this place!
The holes in the skulls were still vivid, and I closed and opened them to chase them away, and at least we ran out of dozens of crevices in the rock, and they didn't come after me.
Brother Shen's speed gradually slowed down, my heart beat fast, panting like an old cow, Nineteen said something to Brother Shen, as if asking what it was, but I saw Brother God shaking his head.
He didn't know, I looked into Brother Shen's eyes, I saw a flash of helplessness in his eyes, my heart tightened, I think Brother God knew, but he didn't want to tell us, maybe he knew it when he was tempted by boat.
Indeed, it is useless for him to tell us, we will only be more afraid, I always feel that he is very familiar with this place, obviously there is no Ah Qing to guide the way, and he can't detect the jade, but he can lead us to the right route.
Just like that time under the snowy mountain, he didn't know the way, he could find us, find the tomb, he seemed to have an innate sense of perception, I can't say the specifics, but he seemed to be able to "see" everything.