Chapter 122: Blood oozes from the coffin
As soon as he said that, everyone was nervous, we were not the only ones in this barren forest, in addition to the Li people who were chasing us all over the world, there were also the guys from the Rand Corporation, no matter which group of people we encountered, our situation would be very bad.
Ge Zhuang said, "You can see clearly, it can't be the footprints we left ourselves, right?" Lao Zhong shook his head, he couldn't be wrong, two people, one walking towards the southeast, their boots left tooth marks are different from ours, this kind of footprints are easy to distinguish, you can see at a glance.
I said, should you hide first? Lao Zhong said no, this deep mountain and old forest, it's the same wherever you hide, why don't you take the initiative to attack when they don't find us?
I thought about it and decided to stand up and do what Lao Zhong said, since everyone's goal is the same, sooner or later we have to take a picture, and the RAND company arrived before us, maybe we have already harvested, and then give them a halfway cutoff, maybe we don't need to continue walking.
Pay attention to the decision, decided that I, Lao Zhong and Ge Zhuang took a piece of footprints into the mountain to see, as for Chen Yun and others, they stayed in charge of guarding the equipment, we accompanied Lao Zhong to sneak in the deep mountains, after unloading the bags, everyone walked briskly, and no longer felt tired, but in time, Lao Zhong took us around a mound, and waved his hand, so that Ge Zhuang and I stopped our footsteps.
I saw the old bell squatting on the ground, pried out some sand with a dagger, rubbed it on his hand, then stood up and said to us, "There was a fight here, and some people shed blood, and the sand on the ground smells of blood, which proves that the fight did not happen very long." ”
I wondered, "Aren't the people from the RAND Corporation the only ones walking in front?" Who are they fighting with, and the Mophili people have already caught up with us by cutting corners? Lao Zhong said that this is unlikely, hasn't this place always been known as the forbidden land of the Li people? They shouldn't dare to walk in at will, I guess, it's probably that Uncle Liu.
"Uncle Liu?" Ge Zhuang and I were both taken aback, and then we remembered that we hadn't been seen since the last time Uncle Liu rescued us from that grotto.
The old man kept saying that the purpose of entering the Ten Thousand Snake Ridge was to rescue Professor He, but Professor He had been trapped in the Li tribe before his death, but he had never been seen, but he found clues of his activities in the back mountain, proving that this old man had hidden a lot of things from us.
I have reason to believe that the purpose of Uncle Liu's trip was not for Professor He at all, and it is very likely that he also set his sights on the ancient Yelang ruins here.
"Look, there's a sunken pit in front of you, it looks like there's a tomb!" Just as Lao Zhong and I were in a deep groan, Ge Zhuang suddenly pointed to a small dirt pit in front of him and said in a low voice.
"Where?" The old bell and I turned around, and we both saw the small raised mound in the barren forest, and hurried up to find that on the other side of the mound, there was a collapsed hole in the ground, about two and a half to three meters deep, and there was a coffin in the middle of the mound, and there was a tomb in the pit, sprinkled with some burial goods that had been damaged by falling stones.
"Damn, it's really enough to do evil!" Ge Zhuang looked at the destroyed terracotta figurines, his heart was about to break, since this tomb pit appeared in the ancient Yelang ruins, it means that the things under the tomb must be antiques of great historical value, but unfortunately it was broken, and I don't know if it can't be glued together with 502 glue.
Ge Zhuang couldn't wait to jump into the dirt pit, so I quickly dragged him, and said You really want to die, don't you, such a deep pit, you jump without any preparation?
Ge Zhuang said that the fat man was distressed when he saw the things below, and he was desperate, and he had put life and death out of the way, there are many treasures in this pit, and if you are lucky, you may be able to pull out two relatively well-preserved ones, little pumpkin, are you not in a hurry?
I said that even if Lao Tzu is in a hurry, he will not joke with his life, the soil here has collapsed badly, what if you just go down and this tomb collapses again? Hurry up and bring Lao Tzu back, and put on the lifeline first.
I tied a rope to Ge Zhuang's waist, and then Lao Zhong came over to help me tie a lifeline, the depth of the sinking grave is about three meters, we must leave a person to guard it, one is to prevent emergencies, and the other is to facilitate me and Ge Zhuang to climb out at that time, the rammed earth layer on the surface of the pit has weathered, very brittle, one foot stomp on it, the mud dots "swooped" down, there is a danger of collapse again at any time, and it is not enough to support me and Ge Zhuang to climb up.
In order to prevent the tomb from collapsing twice, before going down, we also found a big tree nearby, cut off the trunk as a fixed support, tried not to touch the tomb wall, and slid down along the trunk. ”
I was then hoisted into the pit by the old bell, the fat guy had already grabbed a small shovel, squatted on the ground and shoveled a small shovel of soil, the tomb wall bricks collapsed greatly, almost all the funeral items were destroyed, even the coffin lid was filled with a lot of mud, we were very careful in every action, digging in the soil for a long time, the bottles and cans that were pounded out were not shaped, and they could not be glued together at all.
Ge Zhuang looked dejected, and said that it was all to blame for us coming late, this is God's punishment for us, if we could get the news of Yelang Ruins earlier, the things in the ancient tomb would be enough for us to squander the rest of our lives.
I asked Ge Zhuang not to be discouraged, although the burial goods in the tomb have not been preserved, but the coffin is still intact, and generally valuable things will be placed close to the owner of the coffin.
Ge Zhuang's eyes lit up, and his mind became lively again. In this broad daylight, there is natural light shining overhead, the top floor of the ancient tomb has collapsed, and the air convection has already been completed, so there is no need to light the candle on the lamp, I saw that half of the wall of this wooden coffin has rotted, and there are many holes carved out by insects on it, presumably the corpse gas inside should have been almost discharged, so I didn't stop Ge Zhuang anymore.
There is basically no danger in this kind of "open pit" formed by soil collapse, but I still asked Ge Zhuang to move lightly, so as not to cause a collapse and bury us alive.
Ge Zhuang put on his gloves and hurriedly approached the coffin, but before he could get closer, the coffin lid jumped up with a 'poof' at this time, which scared us both at the same time.
", for most of the day, there must be a zongzi that can jump out!" Ge Zhuang's face jumped, and he grabbed the crowbar horizontally in his hand.
I crouched down and looked at the bottom of the coffin, and found that the soil was of a different color, and that the soil in the grave was either black or brownish, but there was a thick layer of blood on it, as if it had flowed down the cracks of the coffin.
This grave pit, let's not discuss how long it has existed, first of all, since the coffins have begun to decay, it is absolutely impossible that they have just been buried, since this is the case, why is there still blood flowing out of the coffin, could it be that the person in the coffin has just died?