The outline of the grimace was very clear, and his eyes were fixed on the fat man below him, as if he was lying on the floor of the second floor of this hall, and poking his face down from the three-foot square opening!

While I was still in a daze, the fat man shouted eagerly for me to leave this hall.

At the same time, he picked up the sapper shovel in his hand, stretched the shovel and folded the handle at the root, and the stretched shovel plus his height of nearly one meter nine directly reached the roof of the main hall!

His crisp and unhurried movements were as decisive as after he hallucinated about treating me like a zombie!

Taking offense as defense, taking the initiative to attack and mastering the initiative in the case of being determined that it is impossible to avoid danger is vividly reflected in the fat man. His decisive style of action also had a profound impact on me in my future experiences.

A muffled sound came from above his head, the sound of the sapper's shovel making contact with a grimace!

With the appearance of this voice, the grimace that had been poked down deviated from its original position under the strong impact of the fat man!

There were no screams, no struggles, no attacks, just calm, just the same calm as when we entered the first floor of the main hall!

As if none of this had happened!

And the hair-like things hanging down from the three-foot-square opening, and the liquid that drips to the ground, show that all these things are real!

After the fat man made a series of preemptive moves, he jumped to my side from the original position as soon as possible.

Then he grabbed my jacket and dragged me to the door of the main hall with the same action as when he saw the flowers on the other side in the first building, and skillfully dragged me to the door of the main hall, shouting as he retreated:

I said, "Dr. Su", stop researching, this is not the time to engage in scientific research! ”

This time, instead of letting him drag, I broke free of his movements, jumped forward in the direction of his strength, and passed the fat man who was running at great speed. Then he glanced back at him.

At this moment, I was a little different from the first room with a burial pit, as if I had already advanced from a novice.

"Yes, Dr. Su, the adaptability has improved! ”

The fat man said in a complimenting tone behind me.

After we had completely exited the main hall, I stood at the entrance of the hall and gasped for breath as I looked back inside. The fat man frowned as he wiped the dirt from the sapper's shovel with the toilet paper he had taken out of his backpack.

I saw the sharp part of his shovel with something like the silky hair hanging from the gap, and some black liquid like broken blood.

I asked the fat man who was frowning, "What did you just see?" ”

The reason for asking this is to make sure that what he sees is the same picture as I am. If the main hall is the same as the buildings under the steps of the main hall, as long as you don't go inside, nothing will come out, then we are in a safe situation now, but everything has accidents.

After hearing my question, the fat man's expression became a little solemn, and after looking back at the situation in the hall like me, he said: "Xiao Su, there is a jargon in our industry called, "I'd rather touch hard zongzi than soft ghost corpses"! ”

I didn't interrupt him, but looked at him with inquiring eyes.

After a short pause, he seemed to organize the language of the narrative, and continued: "You should have never encountered zongzi, that kind of thing exists because ancient people liked to throw some strange drugs into the buried corpses, so that the corpses were completely combined with the drugs after years of precipitation, and then parasites were born!"

Under the action of the drug, the corpse can be preserved, but it can no longer be called a corpse, and it has become the host of these parasites, and has completely become a substitute for these worms!

"After thousands of years of exploration by our predecessors in this industry, we have finally summed up some things that can restrain these zongzi, such as the black donkey hooves I use to deal with you, and then glutinous rice!

Probably these parasites are afraid of the smell of these things! ”

The fat man said, not forgetting to pay attention to whether the situation in the hall had changed.

"What's the difference between a soft ghost corpse and a hard dumpling?"

I asked curiously.

"Zongzi is just a general term for corpse transformation, and some zongzi are not completely controlled by parasites, but through some accidental reasons without the action of drugs, the corpse transformation produced by itself!

However, whether it is controlled by parasites or the corpse itself, the zongzi that become are brainless and thoughtless things, they will only attack mechanically, and they are not particularly difficult to deal with! This goes well with their hard, mutated bodies!

And the reason for the formation of soft ghost corpses has always been a mystery! They could be some kind of sapient creature burrowing into a corpse, or something that could just be called a goblin! Unlike the brainless dumplings, these soft ghosts are capable of designing traps until they push people into a corner!

So there is a saying that "I would rather touch hard rice dumplings than soft ghost corpses"! ”

After the fat man finished speaking, he fell silent, as if reminiscing about the past when he encountered these things.

"Have you ever encountered both?"

I asked, now that I was completely fascinated by these two magical species that I had never come into contact with, and for a moment, curiosity came back to my mind.

"I've encountered zongzi a few times, but I've only heard of soft ghost corpses, and today is the first time I've encountered them!"

After receiving the answer, my imagination was completely piqued by his description, and I raised my flashlight to the location of the "ghost corpse" in the fat man's mouth, where there was no movement except for the ticking of the unknown liquid.

At this moment, the fat man sitting in the main hall took off the gas mask that we had improved, and the outermost hard shell of the mask was removed by us, leaving only the protective film inside.

If it weren't for our improvements, most of the time, we would have been able to communicate in mute! Because this hard shell will block our conversation, it will not be able to convey the meaning of what we want to express clearly.

A nervous movement made my face sweaty, and I simply took off my mask like a fat man.

"What do we do next?"

Without the stuffiness of the mask, I felt that my breathing was much easier, and I asked the fat man who was touching his chin and black beard in a thinking shape.

"It's impossible to retreat, you have to think of a way to deal with that soft corpse!"

As he spoke, he continued to touch the thick black stubble on his chin.

When we fell silent again one after another, I suddenly remembered what Aunt Ming had told me that had not yet been completed.

Glancing at the backpack behind the fat man, which was still intact, I said to him, "Fat man, give it to me!" ”

"Hey, you were so troubled by this unlucky ghost that you almost forgot the purpose of coming here!"

The fat man slapped his head and removed his backpack from behind him.

I took the "Zhenlong Sand" handed over by the fat man, and compared it to the marks on the map, ready to complete the mission here!

The hand-drawn map indicated the location of the "Zhenlong Sand" as a circle, that is, a whole circle around the entire hall.

I weighed the weight of the yellow cloth package, it was about five pounds, which didn't look particularly heavy, and it took a lot of physical strength for me to carry it all the way in my backpack. Fortunately, this kind of work was taken over by the fat man, and judging from his state, he didn't have any effort!

The hand-drawn map was placed by me on the corridor of the main hall, and in the middle of the position where we were sitting, under the spotlight of my flashlight, the fat man also saw clearly the position of the "Zhenlongsha" marked in this circle.

In the package that Aunt Ming sent to him that the fat man got, there was no such hand-drawn map, presumably Aunt Ming and the second uncle knew the fat man's "magical powers", or maybe they understood his character, and giving him this kind of hand-drawn map would discount his interest!

"What's the matter, Comrade Xiao Su, get down to business first?"

"Let's go!"

After we reached an agreement, we all got up and started from the door of the main hall, one person carried half of the yellow cloth package, and the soldiers were divided into two ways to lay down the "Zhenlong Sand" around the main hall.

It is said to be "Zhenlong sand", but in fact it is just a little finer than the sand on ordinary beaches, a bit like the texture of the sand inside an hourglass.

The two sides of the hall were dozens of meters wide, surrounded by a circle of corridors, and it took me a while to get to the back of the hall, during which I sprinkled sand while carefully observing the situation around me, and as soon as there was a change, I immediately followed the slogan that I had agreed with the fat man in advance, as a reminder.

Fortunately, there was no danger, and I went around the back of the main hall safely and smoothly.

When I turned to the back of the darker hall, I saw the fat man, who was already in place, looking up at it in a daze.

Behind the main hall was the very edge of the vast cavern space, and behind it was the stone walls of the cavern, similar in shape to the cress and cliff walls I had passed along the sling, and covered with moss.

Even on the second upper floor of the main hall, a large part of the wooden hall is attached to the stone walls of the cave, leaving only the bottom about one meter wide.

There was still some distance from the stunned fat man, I used the flashlight to trance the fat man, he raised the flashlight and gave me a slap in response, and I was relieved. I'm so scared that after we separated, he'll be in some danger or some kind of illusion.

"Xiao Su, I found the stairs!"

As I approached him, I heard the fat man say.

At the same time, the glow of my flashlight also made out what he called the staircase.

Where he stood, from the base of the cliff at the edge of the dungeon space to the border with the main hall above our heads, there was a row of small holes that had been carved out by hand, as if they had been prepared for rock climbers, and from which many iron chains hung down!

With great effort, the fat man and I finally climbed to the top of the chain.

For his body of more than 200 pounds of fat meat, it really took me the strength to pull him up!

The second floor of the main hall is now revealed in front of our eyes!