Chapter 65: The Strange Tree with a Human Face
Chu Tianlu thought of this, the roots of his teeth itched, and he didn't care if the person was still alive or not, he cursed in his heart that the person who drew the picture had sores on the top of his head and didn't have a child.
After the two discussed it, they decided to move forward, and after Chu Tianlu left an obvious mark at the Yongdao crossing, he and Qiu Yu walked into a Yongdao they chose.
The silence in the corridor was terrifying, as if there was some kind of huge crisis hidden behind the dead silence, which cast a shadow on the hearts of the two of them.
They could even hear each other's heartbeats, only the bright light emitted by the miner's lamp in Qiu Yu's hand was a little angry, but that bright light was as faint as a firefly in this pitch-black corridor, as if it was swallowed up by the darkness in front of him at any time, which couldn't help but make Chu Tianlu worried.
I don't know how long they walked, the two of them returned to the marked fork in the road twice, and after they entered the third road they chose, they never returned to the previous position, Chu Tianlu knew in his heart that they were lost.
As the current Yongdao moved forward, Chu Tianlu found that this Yongdao was not the same as before, there were obviously a lot of green plants and moss on the wall of the Yongdao, and even just now he was scratched on his arm by a branch the thickness of a little finger, judging from these signs, there should be plants in this tomb, which made Chu Tianlu think of a strange story that he had heard from his father before.
It was when his father had just started working, and they had been instructed by their superiors that a villager had discovered an ancient tomb and asked them to take care of the site and dig it up as soon as possible.
When his father arrived in the starry night, he realized that the information was not provided by the so-called villagers, but by a group of tomb robbers, who were covered in blood and had begun to lose their spirits. This group of tomb robbers is a family of tomb robbers, there are seven of them, and when they enter the tomb, they find that the tomb is surprisingly large, which makes them ecstatic and think that they must be going to make a fortune this time.
However, just as they fantasized about the gold and silver treasures in the tomb, strange things happened.
They walked along the tomb road, and when they came to the door of the main burial chamber, they actually saw a huge old tree, the bark of this old tree seemed to be a human face, and there was a tree hole on that face, which looked like a human being, and scattered bones were scattered under the tree hole, and from that mouth from time to time came a ghost-like cry, which made people shudder as if they had stepped into hell.
At that time, the old man in charge felt bad, thinking that this tree was too evil, and that it should be a means of guarding the tomb, and if they entered the main tomb and offended the tomb owner, it was very likely that they would anger the strange tree.
At that time, he decided to stop working, but his son was carried away by greed, saying that after the tomb was robbed, the whole family could wash their hands and go in.
The old man couldn't resist his son, so he had to start prying the stone door, and at the moment they started, the human-faced strange tree seemed to come to life, and the branches that were originally still began to shake from side to side.
At that time, several people were working together to pry the door, and they didn't notice the strange appearance of the strange tree, only to see that the branches of the strange tree quietly extended and quickly filled the space where they were, leaving only a little space where they stood.
At this time, the old man noticed something strange and shouted: "Not good, run." When they heard the warning, they ran away, but it was too late.
The branches were as thick as a baby's arm, nimble as snakes, like an eagle catching chickens, and one by one they wrapped themselves around them, and hung on the tree unable to move.
After all six people were trapped, the branches that filled the entire space quickly returned to their original state.
Originally, there was a family of seven, and six of them entered the tomb and left the youngest one outside, the one who reported later.
He waited outside until the middle of the night, and did not see his family come out, and he couldn't help but worry that they would encounter poison gas or accidents in the tomb, so he decided to venture into the tomb to find his family.
When he bravely entered the tomb, he found the marks left by his family.
Tomb robbers usually leave marks in their own unique ways wherever they walk in the tomb, firstly to make it easier for their accomplices to find themselves, and secondly, to prevent themselves from getting lost in the tomb. Because if you encounter a large tomb, the terrain in this tomb is quite complicated, and if you don't leave a mark, it is impossible to go back the way you came.
He followed the mark to find the human-faced strange tree, and found that the trapped family members were wrapped motionless in the treetops, and couldn't help but shout loudly.
But there was no response, seeing his loved ones killed, he was also red-eyed, pulled out the machete at his waist, and was about to go up to cut down the tree, when he came to take a closer look, he couldn't help but gasp, he found that the end of those branches was inserted into their bodies from their spines, and the branches were like straws, sucking the nutrients in the bodies of those who were trapped.
He picked up the machete and was about to cut down the tree, the old man trapped in the tree suddenly raised his head, opened his eyes suddenly, and stretched out his limbs at the same time, he saw the old man's limbs trembling in pain, and the green tendons on his arms burst out, as if they might burst at any time, and it looked like the last struggle before the unwilling to swallow the last breath of a person who died in vain.
And his face is even more terrifying, a pair of eyes seem to be squeezed to the limit, and they may fall off from their sockets at any time, not to mention, the blood vessels on his face that have been twisted bulge, stretching the skin on the entire face tightly, as if they are about to tear.
This scene made him realize that this human-faced strange tree was eating away at the lives of those relatives on the tree little by little, and he wanted to go up and stab him immediately, so that he would die a painful death and no longer bear the torture from hell.
The old man still retained his last consciousness at this time, his mouth moved slightly, and he said intermittently: "Hurry up...... Run......" At the same time, the tree seemed to be aware of his presence, and suddenly the branches of the whole body also moved, and he quickly turned around and ran when he saw this.
Rao was still entangled in a branch stretched out at the very front, but fortunately it was only the end of the tree that was entangled, and he picked up the machete and cut it down hard.
After the treetops were cut off, he ran out desperately, until he reached the mouth of the cave only to find that the branches had long since retreated, and the branch that had just wrapped around him had now penetrated deep into his flesh, and he felt the branches sucking his flesh in his body, and flowing out of the end of its exposed body.
He quickly picked it out with a knife, and the branch fell to the ground like a headless snake, wriggling in pain on the ground.