Chapter 50: Cracking
The laughter continued, and the shrill sound echoed around like a knife scraping into an eardrum.
Xiao Hai looked back and forth, as if he was wondering whether to go back the way he came.
Da Lei is not particularly afraid, he has already developed antibodies after so many experiences. Moreover, he had a hunch that he would not be able to die without putting the bracelet on the wrist of the tomb owner.
This is his mission.
Da Lei looked around, and in the boxy tomb, there was no way out except for the corridor behind them. This porcelain doll occupies more than half of the space, making it look even more oppressive.
There must be another way out.
Where? Could it be under the porcelain doll's butt?
It's not easy to move...... Good guys have to weigh a few hundred pounds!
Xiao Hai shrunk his neck, stood to the side, pulled Da Lei and said, "Brother, you come this way, don't stand at the Yongdao crossing." After a pause, he whispered, "I always feel like someone standing there blowing a cool breeze on the back of my neck..."
Da Lei suddenly shuddered when he said this, frowned and scolded: "Don't scare yourself day by day!" ”
Xiao Hai smacked his lips, and when he wanted to say something, he held it back again, and he didn't say anything more.
Da Lei stared at the porcelain doll for a long time, feeling something strange.
This laughter...
Wrong...
It doesn't seem like a laugh...
Listen carefully, it's more like crying ...
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and suddenly fell into pitch blackness, feeling his surroundings completely by his ears.
Sure enough, it is only by leaving aside all people that we can sense the truest essence.
It's crying.
The weird and eerie shrill laughter just now turned into a heart-rending cry.
"He's crying." Da Lei said.
"yes, I know." Xiao Hai nodded.
"When did you find out?" Da Lei was a little surprised.
"From the beginning, I thought his voice was more like crying than laughing. I wanted to tell you just now, but I'm afraid you'll say I'm suspicious again. ”
"I said you because you suddenly made me feel uncomfortable with a few inexplicable words. Alas... It's my brother's fault. Da Lei patted him on the shoulder, and said in a soothing voice: "Then have you noticed anything wrong?" ”
Xiao Hai stretched out a finger and said, "Look up." ”
Da Lei looked up and sat down on the ground suddenly.
Topmost...!
Above are rows of densely packed human heads! Leaking bloody flesh blurry neck ......!
It seems that the head that has been cut off by the knife is hung on the canopy of the secret room, and you can vaguely see that the incision is bright red, and the blood-coagulated minced flesh is wrapped in white bone slag...
Xiao Hai was puzzled: "Brother, are you okay?" "Stretch out your hand and pull him up.
Da Lei shook his head: "It's okay, I was startled when I saw it suddenly." Anyway, even if he just crawled out of the pool of blood, Leng Buding was still a little disgusted to see the dead man's head..."He slowed down and said, "Why don't you give me a preventive shot in advance?" All of a sudden..."
"What kind of dead man's head..."Xiao Hai looked above his head in confusion and muttered, "That's obviously a mural...... There are no dead people on the painting......"
"What!?" Da Lei was stunned: "What you see is a painting?!" ”
He quickly rubbed his eyes and opened them again to see...
Or heads... Hung on it... Their faces drooped, their bloody eye sockets without eyes...
That's seven in total.
"Xiaohai..."Da Lei swallowed his saliva and said, "Tell me, what did you see?" ”
Xiao Hai knew that what Da Lei saw was different from himself, he was afraid, but he still had the courage to squint his eyes, looked up and said, "Hmm... A huge painting of a woman... But I can't see the face clearly... She was lying on the bed as if she was giving birth... There were seven wizard-like people next to the bed... It seems to be praying for something..."
"Go on."
"The child was born and was lifted high by the seven men, and... It seems that his eyes have been gouged out..."After speaking, Xiaohai looked at the porcelain doll in front of him. I don't know when, the disturbing sound is gone.
"And then?"
"No more. Brother, what do you see? Xiao Hai asked.
Da Lei looked up and looked at the looming plant rhizomes in the wall above, thick and surging in the sand.
He seemed to know where the owner of the tomb was.
He felt it.
The rhizomes of Manju Sawa are crisscrossed and crisscrossed in a huge burial chamber, and they shuttle through the various corridors and secret chambers, permeating every grain of sand. Their feet, their heads, their backs, their fronts, could not escape the clutches of this flower of death.
And the owner of the tomb was lying in the center of that flower, surrounded by layers, waiting peacefully.
Seven heads hung from the top plate, rhizomes passed through their brains, sucking the brains, the blood.
Not only these seven, but perhaps more corpses.
Or a stump fragment.
There is no death here, no aging. No corruption, no time.
The rotten juice is offered to the tomb owner.
"Brother, what did you see?" Xiao Hai asked.
"I saw what the seven wizards looked like when they died. Seven heads, hanging on them. ”
Xiao Hai looked up at the mural, as if questioning whether what he saw was true or false.
How can the same thing become two scenes in their eyes?
"Still, I always feel weird." Da Lei thought for a moment and said, "The wizard must be performing some kind of ancient and mysterious spell. Chen Lao said that the 'people' here have their eyes gouged out in order to realize their wish to regenerate and rebuild Loulan. So wizards, including this porcelain doll, have no eyes. But why were they beheaded? If you didn't want them to live thousands of years ago, why didn't you just kill them and gouge out your eyes first? If you didn't want to kill them, then who had their heads cut off? Where are the remaining seven bodies? ”
Wait a minute...!
Da Lei suddenly remembered!
Shadow! That mysterious shadow!
At the beginning in the Octagon, the black shadow in the water of the stone statue, the black shadow who snatched his gun and led himself step by step to the tomb owner...
Da Lei faintly felt that the death of these seven wizards must have something to do with him.
Come to think of it this way...
The paintings I found on the patriarch's building, each of which had a black shadow on it...
Could it be him, too?
"What's wrong?" Xiao Hai couldn't help but panic a little when he saw Da Lei's serious appearance.
Da Lei told Xiao Hai his thoughts.
"Brother." Xiao Hai said: "You said that you put another bracelet on the hand of the auspicious princess at that time, and the entire tomb suddenly collapsed and turned into nothingness, right?" ”
"That's right." Da Lei nodded.
"The bodies in that tomb, including the tomb owner. Have their eyes been gouged out? ”
After thinking about it for a while, Da Lei said: "There are a total of eight corpses I saw in that tomb. Seven of them were companions of the sixth child before their deaths, and they were late intruders, so they were not gouged out. There is also a tomb owner. But she closed her eyes...... I didn't notice. ”
"Are you sure you actually saw the seven corpses except the tomb owner?" Xiao Hai asked.
Da Lei was choked by his question.
After a pause, he shook his head: "No, I saw six." However, the sixth and their group of eight people came to the tomb at that time, only the sixth escaped alone, and the remaining four were in the white jade coffin, each with a black knife stuck in their heads. There is also a corpse under the white jade coffin, and the flesh and blood are blurred. There is also the fifth master, who was hung by a rope and had a long tongue. ”
"But there's another one, you haven't seen, it's just a guess he's dead."
"What do you want to say?" Da Lei asked.
"The fifth master was hanged, but he was suddenly beheaded. Originally, these seven wizards only gouged out their eyes to protect the tomb master, but now they were also beheaded. There must be someone who can go in and out of the two tombs at will, and shuttle around all corners of the desert at will. Maybe the rest of the person is not dead. ”
"You mean, that person is the shadow?"
Xiao Hai nodded.
Da Lei collapsed on the ground
What Xiao Hai said is not unreasonable.
After all, there was a corpse that he hadn't seen himself, but thought he was dead based on intuition and speculation.
If that's the case, the priest in the tomb is still one missing...
Then you still have to die.
But if that's the case, how can you get out of the village? I couldn't even get out of the village before!
Also, for some reason, Da Lei actually thinks that the person who is alive will be... Eight flutes?
Da Lei remembered that the fifth master said that he was the most excited person among all the people who reacted to Loulan and his party.
Unusual......
But not necessarily...
After all, he got his gun, and in the white jade coffin, he still had a knife stuck in his head.
Wait a minute...!
That gun was snatched away in the end......
Snatched by a black shadow in the water...
The more Da Lei thought about it, the more messy he became, and his head was a mess.
He felt that all his previous speculations were wrong, and he was gradually overturned...
"Brother." Xiao Hai squatted down, looked at him and said, "Actually, what I really want to ask is, if everything sealed in the two tombs is for the hope of realizing the revival of Loulan again, why did the first tomb collapse?" Wouldn't it all be gone..."
Da Lei was stunned and looked up at him.
"Explain that this bracelet is the only way to break the curse." Xiao Hai glanced at the emerald green bracelet on Da Lei's wrist, which was mixed with some blood-like impurities.
That's right... Da Lei thought of the words engraved on the wall in the tomb of the Octagon: I can't swallow my breath, I just wait to escape.
They have no ** back, thousands of years of waiting.
They were waiting, waiting for someone to rescue them.
Nothing is accidental, it is inevitable! Everything that Da Lei and Xiao Hai experienced was destined!
They want to rescue thousands, tens of thousands of corpses buried in this vast desert.
Crack the damn curse of ignorance.
As long as it is cracked, they can go home.
Fuck the sea of death, fuck the sacrificial body, fuck the revival of Loulan...!
He can do it!
Absolutely!
It has to be done!
Thinking like this, Da Lei came to the spirit again.
He stood up and bit his fingers violently, looking like he was using a lot of force, and the blood was dripping down, penetrating the ground, and the meridians hidden in the sand seemed to have not tasted fresh blood for a long time, and the surge was extremely strong.
Da Lei walked up to the porcelain doll, stretched out his fingers, and the bright red blood droplets were painted in his eye sockets.
The sound stopped abruptly.
Instead, there was a "click" and "click" breaking sound.
The porcelain doll was cracking, crumbling into pieces and falling to the ground, turning to ashes.
Leaking out the small, shriveled body inside.
Dead babies.
After a while, it also turned into a pile of sand.
After the porcelain doll disappeared, the corridor behind Da Lei Xiaohai disappeared at some point and turned into a sand wall.
In front of them, the wall that had just been blocked by porcelain dolls slowly extended from the middle to both sides, revealing another black corridor.