Chapter 44: The Plague of Rats
"Xiao Wang, keep an eye on this waterhole."
Xiao Wang nodded to me, signaling that he understood.
I began to look around and pay attention to some details.
This is what Qin Lao told me, saying that in the tomb, the most important thing is actually to observe, the ancients were sometimes terrible, but no matter how terrible, after all, the people who designed and manufactured the tomb were all dead people, and the crisis in the tomb was often a game between the living and the dead.
I looked at the two bronze doors one after another, probably due to the preconceived influence at the beginning, when Xiaoqu and Lao Bai checked the door when we came in, they said that the door was tethered and could not be closed, so I took it for granted that the door here was the same.
But soon I found out that something was wrong, that is, there is a winch behind the bronze door with a chain outside, the chain is a rock wall, embedded in the rock wall, if you don't look carefully, it's really hard to distinguish, this is similar to the layout of the home decoration wires, will not let the wires be exposed outside otherwise it is too ugly.
There's chains, there's a winch, and while I don't know exactly how this thing drives it, it's at least not made by some gratuitous ghost, and it's definitely top-notch in terms of mechanics.
However, as if he was deliberately working against me, I had just entered this state of "scientist thinking" when suddenly the sound of "Xi Xi Suo" came from outside.
I wondered a little as the searchlight shone through, and the sound came from the location where Xiao Wang and I were before, in front of the bronze door.
It was dark at first on the other side of the searchlight, but soon I realized that it was not darkness, but rats, dense rats, who had come out of nowhere and were crawling towards the place where Xiao Wang and I were.
To be honest, last time I saw a fire snake in the tomb of the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I should have some resistance, but now this black pressure and dense rat tide still makes my scalp tingle.
Xiaoqu said that the tomb is below, and the feng shui is often extreme, and the pattern has not changed for a hundred years, so many creatures with dark attributes like to use this place as their nest.
Xiao Wang also noticed the sound here, and when he turned to look here, he actually shot directly.
"Click.................."
Standing next to the door, I was stunned for a moment, only to see the rats in front of me flying with flesh and blood, but the remaining massive rats all swarmed towards our position as if they had been beaten in an instant.
It can be seen that although they are approaching our side, it is more like an unconscious approach, which belongs to the general coverage, but now with Xiao Wang's burst of fire attacks, these rats seem to be provoked, and they begin to rush like a tide, and the back ones step on the front body, which is really higher than the wave.
"Help, close the door!"
I shouted to Xiao Wang.
Xiao Wang immediately ran to my side, and pulled the chain with me, and the winch began to move slowly, and the bronze door slowly closed at this time, and at the same time, I found that the bronze coffin, which was hung by eight chains, was actually slowly falling, as if it was about to fall back into the pool.
Is the chain of this door connected to this bronze coffin?
But at this time I could not continue to think about it, so I could only pull the rope with all my strength, and at the same time shouted, "Are you afraid of mice? ”
Xiao Wang's face was flushed, and he didn't answer me, but this was actually an answer, and he just saw that the group of rats outside actually shot directly.
Maybe it's people, you always have something to be afraid of.
However, despite my best efforts, Xiao Wang and I were still too slow to close, and the first rats had already crept in and pounced on us unceremoniously.
Have these rats become sperm?
"Hiss ............"
I was bitten by a rat at the ankle and the rest of the rats opened their mouths to bite.
These rats are so aggressive!
"Let's go, get into the water, it's too late to close the door!"
I shouted to Xiao Wang, and then turned and ran straight into the pool, I don't know if the rats here are afraid of water, but I know that this may be my only chance right now.
The rats encountered in other places ran away when they saw people coming, but here they were very excited, and it seemed that because Xiao Wang had shot their kind before, they were even more irritable and ferocious.
I don't know if there's any anti-rat medicine in the tomb there, but I know that I don't even have a bottle of Rokushin Lotion on me right now, and I swear in my heart that next time I go to the grave, I will definitely bring a big backpack and take everything I can with me.
This time it wasn't actually my negligence, because I went to the grave with Lao Bai and Xiaoqu, and who knew that they would be separated inexplicably.
"Puff ......"
I jumped into the pool,
"Puff"
It should be the sound of Xiao Wang jumping into the pool behind me.
I swam as far as I could towards the middle of the pool, which was very deep and I was glad that I could swim, otherwise I would have to choose between being bitten to death by countless rats or drowning.
It was only when I swam under the bronze coffin that I resurfaced to look outside.
One by one, rats gathered at the edge of the pool, but none dared to enter the water.
,
Bet right!
I breathed a long sigh of relief, and then I saw Xiao Wang next to me, his face was frightened white, as a person who is afraid of rats, it is estimated that it is sour enough to suddenly see so many mice.
I vaguely saw that among the countless mice, there seemed to be a larger one than a cat, this is the rat king?
I've only heard of Queen Bee, Monkey King, and Wolf King before, but it's the first time I've found out that there is a leader among the mice.
The rats outside didn't seem to be giving up on us, and continued to surround me, and I felt like I was in a zoo, except that I was an animal and the rats around me were tourists.
There's no way to do it now, even if I soak myself in the water, I will never go ashore, and we will stalemate with each other if it's a big deal.
However, at this moment, I suddenly felt as if something was pulling my leg from below,
I took a look at Xiao Wang next to me and found that he was one meter away from me, and it was definitely not him touching me.
I lowered my head, and the searchlight was in my hand, shining downward,
Just below me,
That is, in the depths of the pool,
The searchlight illuminated a human face with its mouth stretched in terrifying proportions,
It's the face I saw through the crack in the bronze door before,
he
he
He was really in the pool,
And right at my feet!!