Chapter 37: The Mask
The old sheepskin's language ability is limited, and he said it upside down, the fat man and I were confused, but finally we roughly understood what he meant, in the old sheepskin's hometown, there is a sandy land, this area is dry and has little water, but the soil in the middle of the sandy land is indeed very moist and gloomy, since ancient times it is said that there is a place to raise corpses, and the corpses can be buried in it without rotting, in fact, there are some strange plants growing in that land. /.Qb⑤、cOМ
Legend has it that this plant was introduced from Yuansha City in ancient times from thousands of miles away from the Western Regions back to China, this thing is extremely poisonous, the whole body resembles a human shape, a bit like a large ginseng, but it is more than ten or hundreds of times larger, it itself has nothing to do with ginseng, the mainland has no accurate name for it, only called corpse ginseng or ghost ginseng, and the ancient Hui Hui called it "Zhu Bulu".
This thing breeds in the dark and rotten soil, some damp eroded tombs, or silt accumulation of ancient riverbeds, are very suitable for its growth, its roots can go deep into the ground, say it is a plant, but it can stretch its roots and strangle people and animals for food, like a huge man-eating grass, if you dig up the ground to dig out this plant, no matter human or animal, once it touches its poisonous gas, it will definitely die.
The method adopted is mostly to confirm the location of the growth of the reed, around it to dig four earthen ditches, the depth of the ditch to the large water tank that can accommodate the countryside shall prevail, from the bottom of the ditch with the grave bricks piled up into the shape of a brick kiln, even the top is completely closed, before the closure in the inside of a few vicious dogs, and then completely with the tomb bricks to form a secret room.
The vicious dogs in the brick room are unable to breathe, and after a roar, they instinctively dig in the mud with their paws to dig a trench. Once the poisonous plant is removed, the vicious dog is infected with poisonous gas and dies instantly.
There is also a way to press the dog leg and the poisonous root together with a leather strip, people hide in the distance of the upwind outlet to set off firecrackers, the dog is frightened and flees will pull out the roots, although this method saves time and effort, but is not safe, often will make the excavator poisoned and died, so it is not as widespread as the first method.
After the "Tsubu Lu" was unearthed, it would not be long before it lost its soil and its toxicity was completely eliminated. At this time, people went to the dog corpse that died of poisoning, together with the huge poisonous "Zhai Bulu" and buried it back in the pit, and after a year of excavation, the dog corpse and the roots of "Zhai Bulu" grew into one, although the corpse was rotten and stinky. In a place where there is no sunlight, it can still squirm like a life, cut it and expose it to dry, and it can be sold as a very valuable medicine.
A little grinding wine can paralyze a person's body, as if he were in a half-dead state. Even if he cut off his hands and feet with a knife and axe, he would not feel anything, and in a few days he would be poured an antidote. It is said that in ancient times, Hua Tuo could dissect and break the abdomen to treat diseases, and this anesthetic was used, and there were records of use in the imperial hospital of the Song Dynasty.
The old sheepskin is in his hometown in the northwest, and he has seen someone dig up this humanoid poison when he is digging up the grave. That digging could unearth a long list of dead bodies, all of them villagers who had inadvertently passed by nearby villagers who had been killed at night, and after it rolled up people, the toxins were transferred to the corpses, although the dead were already dead. But the dead corpse is like a corpse, the hair and nails are still growing, and they are latent by the yin qi for a long time, and they move when they encounter the yang qi, no matter what live humans and animals are caught, they will be poisoned and become part of the nutrients of this strange ginseng.
We speculated on the situation of the brick room, it seems that it was a place specially built by devils to cultivate back paralyzing nerve drugs, according to legend, the zombie meat buried in the corpse raising ground is called "stuffy incense", which can be used as medicine, and these carrion corpses that have almost grown into plants are also a strange medicine, but its cultivation method is really outrageous.
I was about to ask the old sheepskin, is there any way to completely destroy this monster, otherwise it will not be a game after all, but the words are all on the lips, suddenly remembered a fatal thing, and the body suddenly became half cold, I and the fat man entangled with those rotting corpses for a long time, and splashed a lot of fishy and unpleasant juice on the body, I am afraid that I am also poisoned.
The fat man and I quickly looked at our bare hands, our hands were mixed with too many things, and they were so dirty that we couldn't see anything, but there seemed to be a small pimple on the back of the hand, and there was a slight tingling sensation, and there were no other symptoms for the time being, although I don't know if it was a sign of poisoning, but most of it was not a good sign.
Ding Sitian's oyster poison has not been treated, I can't imagine that I and the fat man have also been on the road, my mood is very complicated, but one thunder is the top, two thunder is also resistant, there are more lice do not bite, more accounts do not worry, this is originally a messy situation, and it is not a big deal to add some trouble, it is a big deal that the three of us will go to see Marx together.
The young people of our time did not have too complicated thoughts and feelings, and the education we received since childhood made us not know how to write difficult Eryu, is there anything in the world that can be difficult to win revolutionary fighters? Therefore, I did not take the worries of the world too seriously, and I quickly put the worry of whether I had been poisoned or not, and asked the old sheepskin if there was anything I could do.
The old sheepskin shook his head and sighed, what can be done, the poison that returned to China will die when it leaves the soil, and when the yin qi dissipates for a while, it probably won't move, and now I can only learn from the land lord to squat here and wait, but who knows how long the roots of that thing are, if there is still a part of the earth's qi, we will have to be strangled and poisoned by it as soon as we go out.
Just when we were helpless, we suddenly heard a movement above our heads, the fat man and I raised the sapper lamp and looked up, at the interface between the wall and the ceiling, there were several narrow windows that communicated with the corridor, and the roots of the demon ginseng outside the basement door were strung into the window, and they were trying to get in and sneak attack, the fat man slashed the knife to chop the roots that had stretched into the basement, only to hear the sound of cutting the leather bag, the rot splashed where the knife fell, and the roots like the tentacles of the corpse ginseng quickly retracted.
Only then did we find out that although the door wall of this basement is solid, it is not tight, and there are many air holes and air windows, which is easy for the other party to take advantage of, this basement seems to be a data storage room, there are many iron cabinets and wooden boxes containing documents such as archives, and the fat man and I pushed the iron cabinet to block all the gaps on the outside.
There was a very thick iron cabinet in the innermost part of the room, which was supposed to be the best defense object, but no matter how hard the fat man and I pushed it, it would not move a bit. As if it had taken root underground, I adjusted the light pillar of the sapper lamp, and carefully illuminated the iron rejection, suspecting that there was a secret door here, which needed to be opened and closed, which was the kind of plot that we had in most anti-special movies at that time.
The fat man and I speculated, but this time it was really clouded, and when I moved the light to the corner along the edge of the iron cabinet, I saw it in the gap between the iron cabinet and the wall. Stuck in a human hand, the claws were dry and purple, and they were covered with animal hair, and like most of the dead bodies in this institute, they were dead and some kind of sudden, unknown cause. After death, due to the special environment around this Hundred Eyes Cave, this abnormal sign of corpse transformation was caused.
There seems to be a lot of space behind the gap where the corpse is stuck, but I can't see clearly after looking at it with a light tube for a long time, and now the door of this basement is blocked by the corpse that grows into one with the zombie. If there is a passage behind this iron chest, maybe you can leave from this secret passage, and this secret passage is strangely cultivated. If we can't keep it, it's stored with what we need to play with.
The fat man and I were convinced of this exciting speculation, and the fat man immediately fumbled around to find the mechanism to open the iron cabinet, I was not busy with my hands, I felt that there was something wrong with the secret door of the iron cabinet, but I couldn't think of anything wrong for a while, I took a breath and let my emotions be as stable as possible. His mind was spinning rapidly, and he thought that the corpse stuck in the gap between the iron cabinet and the wall might have been planning to escape into the escape room in an emergency, but because he died suddenly, he had just opened the camouflage subway cabinet and entered the secret passage. He died immediately, not as if he had been caught alive by an iron cabinet, but that his body was caught by the iron cabinet that automatically returned to its place.
Also, this research institute is heavily guarded, and it seems that there is no need to create such a hidden secret door in the already very hidden underground facilities, unless the space behind this door is a secret in the middle of the secret, it is likely that even most of the personnel in the Japanese military research institute will not know, only some heads of this institution are in control of the things inside, and the corpse that is stuck after death should be the head of this demon cave, but why is the arm of this dead corpse exposed, is it normal to die in such a posture? Isn't it that you are escaping into it, but that you are about to escape from it? The secret room of this secret room......
My mind is going around, is guessing, the fat man has touched a protruding floor tile under a table, the position is very hidden, and inconspicuous, if it is not for the row of bricks and bricks, there is no way to find it, he uncovered a few stripes and did not move, and then used his feet to step down, this foot pedaled with a lot of power, the floor tiles were stepped on by him and sank a centimeter or two, and with a rumbling iron cabinet was closed to the side, flashing out of a narrow aisle, probably due to the force he made too much, Or maybe I stepped on the trap over my head, and the moving iron cabinet retracted into the wall, but it didn't recover again as I expected.
There was a secret door in this passageway, the door was wide open, and in the depths was a larger basement, and the fat man thought that this secret room was used to store medicine and food, and was about to step into it in a hurry, so I hurriedly blocked the entrance of the passage, and said to the fat man and the old sheepskin: "You see this zombie caught in the aisle, his head and arms are facing outward, this posture probably shows that he fled from the secret room in the moment before he died, not to hide in the secret room for refuge, and there is ...... inside."
As soon as I said half of my words, I heard a loud noise, the wooden chair at the top door was suddenly knocked into several pieces, the old sheepskin sitting behind the door was taken aback, dragging Ding Sitian and hurriedly retreating, I held the lighting tube and looked over, only to see the iron door open, an old woman-like strange face poked in from outside the door, this alien plant is shaped like ginseng, but its form is far more hideous than ginseng ten thousand times, this time I see it very real, the face of the demon ginseng is full of wrinkles, two huge eye bags are particularly obvious, I don't think it is a pure plant, Rather, it is more like a half-creature that lives in the dirt and feeds on the juice of corpses.
Not to mention facing its long ugly strange face, just smelling the damp and smelly smell of the grave on its body, it already makes people feel a burst of scalp swelling and drowsy, and now we have to retreat step by step, I and the old sheepskin set up Ding Sitian, the fat man used a long knife to cut the tentacles that kept stretching out, and the four of them were forced to helplessly, and gradually retreated into the secret room behind the iron cabinet.
I was worried that the fat man would be killed alone, and after entering the secret room, I couldn't take care of the surrounding environment, so I directly handed Ding Sitian to the old sheepskin, and then turned around to the secret door to meet the fat man, wanting to close the secret door and resist the coming of the demon ginseng, but in the panic, where could I find the mechanism inside the secret room.
The fat man was in a hurry, and pushed the zombie in the aisle out, and one of the tentacles of the demon ginseng immediately wrapped it in the dense roots, I took this opportunity to close the door in the secret room firmly, and together with the fat man to find everything I could find behind the door, only then did I see that there were some large cabinets with specimen bottles everywhere in this huge hidden secret room, and we knocked down many glass bottles, in which human organs and strange-shaped animal dead bodies flowed all over the ground, and the basement suddenly emitted a strong smell of embalming potion.
We were close to hysterical busyness, the body was close to prostration, seeing that the portal was temporarily blocked, the tense spirit relaxed slightly, and suddenly felt that there was no root under my feet, the pain in my shoulder wound was unbearable, I took a few steps back, trying to find a place to sit down and catch my breath, there happened to be a stone platform behind me, I didn't look carefully in the dark and sat up, I sat down and felt surprisingly cold behind me, I touched it back, and found that my fingers touched a cold and concave metal object, and when I touched it, it was a metal mask in the shape of a human face, I was startled, and immediately remembered the big Xianbei female corpse with a mask on the mural, and quickly turned around to take a look at the sapper lamp, on this dissecting table-like stone platform, there was indeed a female corpse in ancient costume with a golden mask face, and the metal mask glowed with a burst of silence in the dim yellow light of the lighting tube.
The fat man and the old sheepskin also noticed that something was wrong, and they both came to watch, the invisible deterrent from death, made our whole body tremble, and the sapper lamp hanging on our chests, with the rapid rhythm of breathing, also rose and fell, maybe for a moment I was dazzled, the light of the lamp moved, the mask of the female corpse was shaken by the flowing beam of light as if the child had been resurrected, and the face on the mask, which was originally calm and solemn without the slightest expression, seemed to move towards us.
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