Book 1: The Cave of Snow Ridge Chapter 30: The Tomb (4) Headless Dead Body
Since it was the first time I had robbed a tomb, my mood at this moment was like knocking over a five-flavor bottle.
Although the main purpose of this operation is to find the mother body of the ghost corpse blood Gu, but how can I leave without bringing anything when I come, this tomb is a once-in-a-lifetime thing for me and the fat man, it is estimated that it will be just this once, maybe there will be no one in the future, so I have to take some treasures anyway, of course I am measured.
Since we entered from the side of the tomb, we directly avoided the anti-theft mechanism of the tomb, which made me very happy, so I talked to the fat man.
The fat man's mood is similar to mine, although I can't see my fingers in this tomb, I can still feel the fat man's excitement.
The fat man said, "Ngawang! I think that our operation is commemorative, and we should also give our operation a code name to commemorate our extraordinary operation. ”
I think it's good, because it's very hard to talk with a gas mask, and you have to work hard, so I coughed twice, pulled my throat and said, "Then what do you call it?" ”
The fat man said, "You usually have a lot of ghost ideas, and you read more books than me, you come." ”
I'll come, I'll come, I thought about it, and finally I casually said "Looking for Gu and touching gold", which is simple and easy to understand.
The fat man paused and said, "Ngawang! You are so down-to-earth, do you dare to be more vulgar? ”
When I was about to refute the fat man, Uncle Jiu, who was walking in front, turned to me and the fat man and said, "You two boys, are you still in the mood to chat, concentrate, beware, this is a deep ancient tomb, we can't be sloppy at all, not to mention that we are all first." ”
The fat man and I quickly shut up, nodded in agreement, and then took a look around with a wolf's eye and observed carefully.
We were now in a passage in the tomb, all paved with stone slabs and swallowed up in endless darkness, visible only through the pillars of light of the wolf's eyes, and the passage was unusually quiet, and the sound of my own breathing and heartbeat was clearly audible in my ears.
There are reliefs carved on the walls on both sides of the passage, I looked at the reliefs on the wall one by one with wolf eyes, the reliefs should record the deeds of the tomb owner during his lifetime, judging from the clothing and text of the characters on the reliefs, it should be the general of the Nanzhao Kingdom in the Tang Dynasty, especially the inscriptions on the reliefs make me more sure, because in addition to the influence of the culture from the Tang Dynasty, the Nanzhao Kingdom also uses the inscriptions.
I started with the first relief, the relief records how the tomb owner became a general step by step, I looked at it one by one, and when I saw one of the back pieces, I found that something was wrong with the relief, I took a closer look, it was four very deep damaged marks, like the paw prints of some kind of creature, and there were dried blood stains on the paw prints, I immediately called Uncle Nine to come and see, but Uncle Nine couldn't see what the creature did.
I looked at the paw prints and felt uneasy in my heart, what kind of claws could scratch such deep marks? Seeing that this paw print is clean and neat, you can see that it is done in one go, and you can catch it out at once, without dragging mud and water.
I used to major in stone carving in college, and I know a little bit about the large and small stones that can be carved, you must know that this is the granite, granite is the underground part, formed under high pressure, so the texture is much tighter than the rock formed after the surface is sprayed, so it is very hard, and it is difficult to hit it with a machine......
"Look over there." Suddenly, a fat man's cry interrupted my thoughts.
I looked at the pillar of light in the fat wolf's eyes, I was startled, and I couldn't help but be shocked in my heart, only to see a headless corpse lying a few meters away in front of me, everyone approached and took a look, and found that the place where the neck and head of the corpse were broken was still bright red, and the blood stains on the ground were still bright red.
After inspecting the headless corpse, Uncle Nine sighed and said, "I didn't die for long, that is, I died in the past few days." ”
Listening to Uncle Jiu say this, each of us became uneasy, from the paw prints just now and the number of days the corpse died, it can be seen that there are fierce monsters waiting for us in this tomb, I saw the bean-sized beads of cold sweat on Uncle Zhang's forehead, Uncle Zhang was probably frightened, looking at the corpse blankly, his eyes were very wide.
I asked with concern, "Uncle Zhang!" Are you alright? Uncle Zhang came to his senses, "No...... It's okay. He wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Uncle Nine said to everyone, "Don't be afraid, with me, we have to find a place to practice ghost corpse Gu as soon as possible, and then leave as soon as possible." ”
Uncle Nine said that he put away his wolf-eye flashlight and asked me to help him illuminate it, and then dragged the compass in one hand and held the copper coin sword in the other, this copper coin sword was the one that almost killed the smoke and rain last time, no matter what demons and monsters I met along the way, I have never seen Uncle Nine use it, it seems that this time I should have met a strong enemy, which also makes me wonder if Uncle Nine is really sure what he said just now, or is it just to give us reassuring medicine?
The fat man saw Uncle Nine holding a compass and asked curiously, "Uncle Nine!" What are you doing here? Uncle Nine proofread the compass and said, "Find the place where this tomb gathers yin qi and corpse qi, and the ghost corpse Gu is there." I stood beside Uncle Jiu to illuminate him, but I couldn't understand the compass at all, this belongs to Feng Shui, and I don't know anything.
The compass led us to a dead end, to be exact, the road in front of us had collapsed, blocking the road, and it was a little strange to look at the obstruction of the collapse, it felt different from what was in this tomb, and it wasn't even from a dynasty.
I took a closer look, one of the stone slabs buried in the soil was carved with reliefs, and I used a wolf's eye flashlight to shine it, it belongs to the theme of the Yuan Dynasty, strange? How could there be things from the Yuan Dynasty in this Tang tomb? The Tang Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty have experienced the Song Dynasty in the middle, and they are all hundreds of years away, how can the elements of the two dynasties appear at the same time? These eight strokes can't be hit.
After I told everyone that the relief carving at the collapse was from the Yuan Dynasty, the fat man said, "It seems that Ngawang, your class on "World Sculpture Art Appreciation" in college was not in vain. ”
"Who the hell is like you, as soon as you take a sculpture theory class, you go fishing with Zhou Gong in your dreams. Do you remember one time in class, you fell asleep in class, and your snoring was so loud that it affected the teacher's class, and the angry teacher asked you to write an essay of no less than 10,000 words, and I wrote it for you. I took my eyes off the relief panels of the Yuan Dynasty and responded to the fat man.
"Hehe" The fat man laughed embarrassedly twice, then changed the topic and asked Uncle Jiu, "There is no way, what should I do?" Uncle Nine! ”。
From Uncle Nine's expression, Uncle Nine didn't know what to do, just when everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and no one was at a loss, I patted my head, "My pig brain, how did I forget" As I spoke, I took out the leather map in the waist bag of the dead body at the bottom of the waterhole just now, and this map should be the floor plan of the general's tomb.
Everyone compared the environment in the tomb, yes, it is the map of the tomb, and everyone was overjoyed, if you follow the map, the passage on our left can bypass the collapse in front of us.
Without further ado, Uncle Nine put away the compass and changed it to a wolf's eye, and the flashlight took the lead to walk to the left passage, we followed closely, and after walking for a short distance, the fat man suddenly tripped over something and yelled "I'll go!" Fucking fell to death fat brother me. The fat man scolded, and then used his wolf eyes to shine a picture at the thing that tripped him, and I read the word horror in the fat man's eyes, and even though the fat man was wearing a gas mask, I could still feel the fat man's distorted expression, and before I could ask what was going on, the fat man said, "Look at it, this is so fucking scary." ”
Everyone looked at the thing that tripped the fat man, and when I saw it, my scalp suddenly went numb, and my whole body was terrified. It is a human head, the mouth of the human head is open into an O-shape, the eyeballs are gone, there are only two blood holes, the blood can still be seen to be red, it should have happened recently, the most frightening thing is that the human head Tianling cover has been bitten, a big hole has been broken, and the brain marrow inside has been sucked empty.
Just when Uncle Nine and I were still checking the head, the fat man shouted, "This is also there!" Immediately afterwards, Uncle Zhang also shouted: "And this!" "The four of us used wolf-eyed flashlights to explore the surroundings of the passage, and saw that the corpses were densely piled up around the passage, like a mass grave, a dead man's cave, I gasped when I saw this, and my spine couldn't help but feel cold.
Some of the corpses have decomposed to the point that only a pile of white bones remains, and some can still see the flesh and skin, but a few of them have just died, these dead corpses that have just died are the same as the headless corpse in the relief passage in front, and it can also be seen that the neck and head are broken is blood red, including the clothes are almost the same, they should be accomplices who went to the tomb together, and the most strange thing is that all the corpses are decapitated.
And on the other side of the corpse there are scattered human heads, all the brain marrow of the human head has been sucked empty, and what is even more strange is that there are several animal corpses, the same as death, the head is broken, the brain marrow is sucked dry, how can there be animals in the tomb? It baffled me to see that these animals weren't creatures of the ground.
"Uncle Nine! Do you think this could have been done by some creature, or could it have been a ghost? Seeing this, I hurriedly asked Uncle Nine. I couldn't see Uncle Jiu's expression clearly in the dark, but I heard Uncle Nine sigh and said in a heavy tone, "At present, it is very likely that the "Tomb Monkey" did it?"
"What...... What monkey? Grave ground monkeys? The fat man couldn't believe his ears and asked, then pushed me and asked, "Awang!" You have a wide range of knowledge, have you ever heard of this monkey? ”
"Seriously, I'm also in the clouds, it's really unheard of, unseen" I replied to the fat man with a blank face.
When Uncle Zhang learned that he had a strong desire, he waved to me and the fat man, telling us to shut up: "Don't talk about it!" Let Uncle Nine tell us about it. ”
Uncle Nine made a long story short: "Seriously! I haven't seen it either, but there is a record of a primate monster called the grave ground monkey in the "Hundred Ghosts and Evil Arts" chapter of the beast, they live in the catacombs for many years, mainly feed on the brain marrow of vertebrates, and are extremely fond of the human brain, especially the brain marrow of the dead. Occasionally, they also eat rotting corpses, because they have lived underground for many years, their vision has deteriorated, and their sense of smell and hearing have evolved, because they look like monkeys and mainly live in tombs, and they feed on corpses, so they are named tomb corpse ground monkeys, also called brain-eating monkeys.
They have long, sharp claws that can be used to dig holes or attack targets, and they also have a protective shell like a pangolin on their backs, and the ground monkey's sense of smell is extremely sensitive, more powerful than that of dogs.
The fat man muttered to himself after hearing this, because he was wearing a gas mask, so he couldn't hear clearly, I pushed the fat man and asked, "Fat!" Are you scared stupid, asking the Buddha for blessing in the scriptures? ”
The fat man raised his voice and said loudly, "Fuck it, I said, this is really fucking retribution!" Usually human beings always eat monkey brains, and they are regarded as a delicacy in game, but now it's okay, the monkey buddies are not happy, and they also come to taste what the human brain tastes like. Ay! ~What the fuck! ”
"Yo! The fat brother is now more and more conscious, and he really has a lot of comprehension. "I applaud the fat man's statement.
Uncle Zhang was obviously the most nervous of all, and when he saw me talking and laughing with the fat man, he said, "I said, you two, why are you still in the mood to pull calves here?" Don't hurry up and leave, wait for your brain to be eaten. ”
I saw that Uncle Zhang was so nervous and wanted to adjust the atmosphere, so I habitually played tricks, patted Uncle Zhang's shoulder and said, "Don't be afraid!" We are all good people, we don't eat game, we don't eat monkey brains, and the monkey brothers won't eat us, and the ninth uncle and his old man's family are monkeys, this is all related to the family, the monkey brothers don't look at the monk's face but also look at the Buddha's face! ”
Uncle Nine heard me tease him, so he said, "Then it seems that I am going to kill my relatives today." ”
Everyone was stunned, especially me, who would have thought that Uncle Nine also had such a humorous side, we chatted for a while, and after relieving the tension, we continued to set off according to the map, although the light pillar of the wolf's eye flashlight can shoot out more than three hundred meters, but the end of the light pillar in front of me is still swallowed in the dark, nothing else can be seen, the black pressure is overwhelming, and this passage seems to have no end.
But when we came to the darkness, I realized that the darkness at the end of the pillar of light was blocked by the earth because of a landslide, and we had been in the tomb for too long and our vision was too tired to tell the difference.
The fat man shoveled the soil of the collapse with a sapper and asked, "Ngawang!" Your broken map is not accurate, why is it a dead end? ”
I used a wolf's eye flashlight to shine on the map, and yes! It's this road, from the thief hole we dug in, it's just in the main passage of the tomb, there are only two left and right ear chambers on the main passage, the right ear chamber is blocked by the first cave-in, and only the road leading to the left ear chamber can be walked, not a map problem, but a landslide blocking the way.
The fat man took out a relief board from the earthen fence at the collapse and showed it to me, and asked me, "Ngawang!" Do you see that this board is the same as the one from the Yuan Dynasty in front? ”
I really look at it, and it seems strange why there are two Yuan Dynasty things in the tombs of the Tang Dynasty at the same time?
Uncle Jiu observed the surrounding landslide and gave the answer: "If my estimate is correct, this is a tomb within a tomb, directly above us should be the tomb of the son of the rebellious prince in Yunnan of the Yuan Dynasty, and it should be the Wenchuan earthquake, the impact of the aftershocks caused the tomb collapse of the Yuan Dynasty." If that's really the case, it's troublesome, the tomb is the most taboo tomb pressing the tomb, once the tomb is pressed against the tomb, the suppressed tomb owner will gather resentment in his body, and refuse to reincarnate into a ghost. ”
Uncle Jiu's explanation can be said in the past, the earthquake zone of the Wenchuan earthquake in 08 had a wide impact, and the affected areas were Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Chongqing, Henan, Hubei, including Yunnan and other places.
At this time, Uncle Zhang squatted alone on the side of the collapse, as if he had found something for us to go over and see. It turned out that there was a hole on the side of the cave, and the size of the hole was just enough for an adult male to drill through, and it is estimated that this hole runs through the landslide.
After discussion, everyone agreed to drill through this hole, before entering the hole, I saw that the entrance of the cave was full of paw prints, and used a wolf's eye flashlight to shine into the hole, and the cave was all paw prints, I estimated that nine times out of ten it was dug out by the ground monkeys, but there was no other way to go, so I could only take risks, and try to take this road.
For the sake of safety, I proposed to let Uncle Nine take the lead, Uncle Zhang and the fat man walked in the middle, and I broke off, and I was crawling backwards, because I was afraid that there would be a monkey from behind, because the sapper shovel was too long, and it couldn't be waved in the hole, so I put away the sapper shovel and used a scimitar instead.
There is not much space in the cave, and there is basically not much extra space after an adult male is installed, and the cave is very humid, and the moisture invades the skin unscrupulously, which makes me feel particularly uncomfortable, if my estimate is correct, there should be an underground river near this tomb, which is why the soil layer is so wet.
Moreover, there are many bloodstains in the cave, and the blood stains cannot be dried up due to the fact that the soil layer has been particularly humid for many years, and when you accidentally touch it, it will get on your hands, and you will be disgusted and half dead.
This also made me feel faintly uneasy, thinking that this cave could not be a trap deliberately arranged by the grave monkeys, waiting for the prey to take the bait, right? Because in such a narrow space, there is no way to fight with the ground monkeys, if there is really a ground monkey suddenly attacking, then we are not like a fish on the cutting board, let the monkey slaughter.
Because I can't see the road when I climb backwards, I rely on the fat man to remind me every time I encounter a corner, which greatly affects our forward speed, especially when I bump and bump along the way, I shout "Fat!" to the fat man when I get angry! How did you guide this broken navigation, you want to kill me? ”
The fat man also felt aggrieved and retorted to me, "I'll go!" Grandma's! You can't do it yourself, and you blame me, don't you? May I ask you how you spent your second subject? ”
Me and the fat man are like this, we have been bickering since our freshman year, but our relationship is getting more and more iron.
Just as I was about to refute the fat man, I heard the sound of something jumping in front of the cave, but because there was a bend in front of me, I couldn't see what it was, but the sound kept approaching me and was getting faster and faster, accompanied by a piercing strange scream, my palm of the scimitar broke out in a cold sweat, and I yelled to the fat man in a hurry, "I grass!" Hurry up, the brain-eating monkey is coming! ”
As soon as I finished speaking, a brown shadow appeared around the corner, half a meter away from me, and whoever made the first move at such a distance would have the upper hand, so I didn't have time to see what it looked like.
As a result, the two knives angered the ground monkey, the ground monkey waved its long claws and grabbed me, I just used the scimitar to block, the moment the scimitar collided with its claws, I only felt a burst of paralysis to the palm of my hand, fortunately my knife was held tightly, otherwise the knife was knocked down by it, and then the ground monkey claws attacked together, at this moment I didn't know what was caught on my feet, I thought to myself, "It's over!" You won't be caught in the front and back, will you? ”
Then he dragged me with a force, just enough to dodge the ground monkey's claws......
ps: Since I have to go on a long business trip at 7 o'clock, I rushed to a chapter overnight. Friends who like this novel can support it, and the ruffian is grateful.