Volume 3: Miao Jiang Gu Realm Chapter 58: Overlord in the River (1)
Although Professor Tong knew that my choice to cooperate with the fourth master was only superficial, and it was really a matter of not getting tired of deceit, he was still a little reluctant, and it was not until the fourth master took out the cooperation chips that his attitude eased.
The fourth master's bargaining chip is the ciphertext on the Ba Ren Demon Jade Jade Bracelet, but he is not stupid, so naturally he will not give us the jade bracelet directly, but will rub the ciphertext prepared in advance to us, but this has made Professor Tong gladly accept it.
After the fourth master handed over the ciphertext of rubbing, our cooperation with different ways but conspiring with each other began.
The fourth master also called out the second son and the second king who were hidden in the shadows, but he didn't see the demon rat who was psychic, and the treacherous and cunning fourth master really kept a hand.
After the large army is assembled, it continues to march towards the destination on the map.
Before leaving, Professor Ouyang and the others still did not let go of the stilted building hidden in the cave wall, digging three inches into the ground, so as to conduct in-depth archaeological research, which had to be delayed for more than half a day on the trip.
But this is understandable, this time it was originally for the excavation of archaeology, this is the first important thing, as for those of us who have a little ninety-nine mind, we can only do it secretly under the premise of cooperating with archaeology.
During this period, I interrogated Second Uncle Liu Niu, and it was because Uncle Yan was in a hurry to chase his mother-in-law that the interrogation that should have been delayed.
Originally, the plan was to wait and see what kind of wind and waves could arise from these two fake back pockets, but now that it is on this, there is nothing polite to do, break the casserole and ask in the end.
When the fat man and I went to the cave wall to explore the situation, Uncle Liu Niu had been tied up by the ghosts and their flowers, and he gagged with a cloth.
I always suspected that these two people were only afraid of the mercenaries who escaped in the Night Cry Cave before, so they deliberately covered their faces, and directly ripped off their masks one by one at the moment, but the result was unexpected.
The two of them really had a large scar on their faces, and after Lao Jin's examination, it was very likely that they were injured by the explosion, which was also in line with their previous description.
Although I have always been suspicious of their identity, there are no obvious flaws now, plus they have not done anything against us along the way, and they have confirmed that they are not mercenaries, so I will press my suspicions for the time being, after all, we do need to carry pockets with so much equipment.
Although Uncle Yan hasn't found his mother-in-law yet, at least we can confirm that she is alive, and the only way we can go out of the cave is the only way to go, so the biggest possibility for her mother-in-law is that we have to continue to move forward, so it is not out of control as before.
They took out their thin coats and put them on the women in the pigsty, and forcibly pulled them out of the pigsty, and went on.
This strange cave was much larger than we had imagined, and it should have been the same as I had guessed before, that the whole group of mountains had been hollowed out by nature, and its size could not be estimated, and it was less than a hundred miles away, and there was a river.
The people walked along the bank of the river, but this was a dead end, and they walked downstream along the river, and the width of the river continued to widen, and finally the river swallowed up both banks, and the land route was cut off.
Or can only take the waterway, but because there is no bamboo forest to make a bamboo raft in this ghost place, you can't always swim to walk, this is too impractical, not to mention whether there is anything in the water, let's say how long this river is, we don't know.
He Weiguo held the 95 style in his hand and asked me, "Team Wu!" Now what? ”
Since we fell into the trap of the blue-faced ghost ray earlier, He Weiguo realized that this place was hiding a murderous machine and was full of dangers, so now the Type 95 has never left his hand.
I didn't answer him, but just looked at the river with the ghost, and saw that it was upstream in the direction we came, and it should be a branch from the place where we went ashore to chase Uncle Yan's wife, and our bamboo rafts were still tied to that place.
So he said to He Weiguo, "Team He! Send three quick-legged soldiers to the place where we have just landed, and drive our bamboo raft down the river, and we will be here! ”
"Yes!" He Weiguo saluted with a gun, and was ready to arrange manpower at the sound of a sound.
I stopped him, "Wait! I'm afraid of danger, or me, the fat man, and the ghost, let's go for ourselves! ”
As soon as these words came out, the ghost and He Weiguo objected in unison.
He Weiguo said: "Team Wu! You can't be leaderless, you stay, if there is any emergency, you can take care of it! ”
"Team He is right! Lao Wu, you better stay, I'll take two soldiers with me!" The ghost said, and was about to go to order soldiers and generals, when he suddenly heard the fourth master say, "Don't worry, those ghost surnames with blue faces have just been so frightened by the Russians, and they will leave the stilted building early, and there will be no more danger, but here Russia feels more dangerous, just now Russia saw those ghost surnames fleeing to this side." ”
After listening to the words of the fourth master, there were suddenly three
A soldier volunteered to complete the task.
He Weiguo looked at them, and then at me.
I thought about it for a while, and felt that what the fourth master said was not unreasonable, and I also remembered that those blue-faced ghosts also rushed to the stilted building from our direction before, maybe their lair was in this area.
So he nodded to He Weiguo, and He Weiguo immediately turned around and explained a few words to the three little soldiers, and let them go.
After the three soldiers left, everyone rested in place, and Professor Ouyang and Professor Tong did not waste a little time, so they took advantage of this gap to find a place where sunlight was shining into and sat down, and began to study the ciphertext given by the fourth master.
And those women were also quietly squatting in the dark, watching by the big man and the second dog.
The fourth master and a group of them also found a place to sit together.
During this period, Lao Jin looked at me from time to time, and the fat man kept staring at them, so to speak, his eyes never left, and when he saw this, he said disrespectfully, "Grandson Jin!" What do you see? Are you going to pay any bad attention again? Tell you, fat man, I can stare at you, don't touch your little Jiujiu's bad intentions. ”
"Dogs bark everywhere!" Lao Jin and the fat man met two years ago, and they have never been waiting to see each other, they belong to natural enemies, and it is good that these two people don't speak, but there is a smell of gunpowder when they talk.
As soon as the fat man heard Lao Jin's words, he lost his temper, and immediately put the 95 style behind his back, rubbed his fists and palms, spat it, and said provocatively, "What! Is your skin tickling again? Pack it up! ”
Seeing this, Lao Jin stood up, with an expression of devotion to the end, and said, "Do you really think that Lao Tzu is afraid of you?" ”
As soon as these words were spoken, the fat man took advantage of the unpreparedness and kicked over first, Lao Jin was defenseless and ate a square, but he dodged a little, so although he was kicked, it was not serious.
Lao Jin's temper is not much different from that of a fat man, how can he suffer such a loss, he immediately drew his fists at each other, and everyone didn't have time to rush forward to stop them, these two people were already scuffling together! Fighting, I heard a plop, the two of them turned into the water together, and when we rushed over, we saw the water boiling, it seemed that the two were ready to go ashore, I reached out with the fourth master to pull!
Pull up is Lao Jin, he is not good in water, as soon as he grabbed my hand, as if he grabbed a life-saving straw, desperately fluttering upward, the moment he pulled up, the helmet spotlight on my head just shone on Lao Jin's shoulder, and I was taken aback, only to see that Lao Jin's back was hooked with a hand, which was a white Sensen's skeletal hand.
At this time, the fat man also poked his head out of the river, breathed heavily, and said intermittently, "This...... There is a ...... under this river There is something. ”
The most cautious thing about the skull and white bones hooked on Lao Jin's back is that he is both human bone and non-human bone, and I saw that the fingers of this skeleton are extremely slender, and it is impossible for a normal person's hand to look like this, and there are twelve fingers, one hand has six fingers each, and two are very small, completely uncoordinated, like his mother's chicken feet.
The head of the skeleton looks even more bizarre and weird, the head is pointed and the face is convex, the upper and lower forehead bones are abnormally protruding, and the whole skull seems to be elongated, which looks weird and abnormal, not to mention that I can't see who this is, even Xiao Kai shook his head, claiming that he was surprised, and he couldn't see why.
Or maybe it is not known if it is human or not, but except for some special features, the rest are no different from human skeletons.
The skeleton was originally scattered, and the ribs and skulls of the upper body were all underwater, which were fished up by the fat man when he came up, so we were not sure if this was what it was supposed to be, or if it was accidentally put together by us, but the lower body was missing, and in order to find out the real body of this weird-looking skeleton, the fat man and I had to go into the water again.
The helmet spotlight and wolf's eye flashlight naturally can't be used underwater, so the fat man and I changed the glow stick lighting, and the light stick lighting effect is naturally not ideal. But with the help of all the people on the shore lighting the river with wolf-eye flashlights, we can vaguely identify what is in the water!
I don't know if I don't go into the water, I was stunned by the water, and the fat man was shocked, the two walls under the river were inlaid with dense human bones, and the bones were twisted in a posture that ordinary people could not complete, maintaining the appearance of opening their mouths and roaring, sealing the two walls under the river, dazzling, layered, and making people feel numb.
The bones were almost the same as the one on the shore, basically petrified, completely integrated with the rock wall, and at first glance, it looked like a huge relief of a hundred people buried in a pit.
What surprised me even more was that I had to say that these human bones embedded in the wall were the same as those in the secret room of the ancient sewer of Miao Zhai before, and it was obvious that there was some kind of connection between them, mysterious and weird!
However, judging from the degree of petrification of the skeletons, the time of the secret room here is earlier than that of the ancient sewers, and it should be that the ancient sewers imitate here, and the skeletons of the ancient sewers are not yet petrified, at most hundreds to thousands of years, and the skeletons in this place are at least thousands of years old from the perspective of the degree of metamorphosis.
The fat man and I groped the bottom of the river, but we couldn't find the skeleton of the lower body we wanted, the river was flowing, and it was estimated that the lower half of the body had long been washed away.
Originally, we only went into the water to look for it out of curiosity, but at the moment, there was little hope, so we gave up!
After going ashore, I still told Professor Ouyang and Professor Tong about the situation at the bottom of the river, and I heard that the two of them wanted to go down to see what was going on, after all, this was a rare archaeological opportunity for them.
These two archaeological maniacs, it's good not to let them know that there are monuments, but once they know, they can't pull them in!
Professor Tong's physical fitness was obviously inferior to Professor Ouyang, and he was defeated by the icy river without tossing twice, and ran to the area where the sun came in, drinking the two pots brought by the fat man to ward off the cold.
Since Professor Ouyang and Professor Tong did not have the same water nature as me and the fat man, they could not stay in the water for a long time, and they did not have diving equipment, so Professor Tong retreated early, but they still found something.
Together, it is preliminarily inferred that the remains under the river may be a product of the slave society, but there are two possibilities, either a burial pit or some kind of ancient sacrificial area of the ethnic minorities, but in either case, it can be concluded that there was no river here, and it may have been formed by an underground river gushing later.
As soon as it was said that it might be a burial pit, everyone present couldn't help but show more or less joy on their faces, which showed that our direction was right, and it was not possible that the tomb of Fan Manchi's demon lord was near here.
Only Xiao Kai, who has studied biology, has a worried face, he thinks that this is not necessarily a good thing, according to his reason, this skeleton should be some kind of artificial adaptation creature, and is aggressive.
However, Erhanzi didn't care, and said indifferently, "What are you afraid of, this is all a stone bone, even if it is a thousand-year-old zongzi, it can only be used to bluff people." ”
Everyone basically agreed that this was reasonable, so they didn't pay attention to this matter, but were concerned about whether this would be the tomb site. It's a pity that although the terrain here is open, but after all, it is in a cave, and you can't see the whole picture of the mountain, so it's not good to show the Xiangdi technique, and you can't see the feng shui, so you can only wait until the bamboo raft comes, and you can only observe the dragon vein of the whole environment along the river out of the cave.
Speaking of the bamboo raft, the three soldiers sent by He Weiguo have been gone for some time, why haven't they come back? Didn't it mean that the three sent were all quick with their legs and feet, but they didn't return for a long time, which is not a good sign, and it vaguely made me feel that something was wrong.
After waiting for another ten minutes, they still did not return, and they could not wait any longer. And just as the fat man and I were about to go to see what was going on, we heard the sound of the river in the direction of the direction, and through the faint light in the cave, we vaguely saw three bamboo rafts connected in a line, slowly drifting towards us, and on each raft there was a vague silhouette of a person standing.
"Little bunnies! It's finally back! He Weiguo looked at the direction where the bamboo raft was floating, muttering to himself, and his tense face eased.
"That's not right! How does Russia feel that there is a problem! The fourth master also stared at the direction where the bamboo raft was coming, and suddenly muttered to himself.
I also felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't say it! After looking at it for a while, I was suddenly shocked in my heart, and I only felt shocked in my heart, how could the people on the bamboo raft not move? It's like three scarecrows, and although the water is flowing and doesn't need people to slide on poles, it doesn't stand motionless! It's like three dead people.
When full of doubts, a bamboo raft slowly floated along with the flowing water to a place where the sun penetrated in, which could scare each of us a lot, my whole scalp was suddenly numb, and all goosebumps crawled all over my body, only to see that the bamboo raft was indeed standing on a person, but it was a headless corpse.
Dingqing looked at the bamboo raft behind again, and sure enough! The same is true of the humanoid silhouette on the second bamboo raft, which is a headless standing corpse! What's even more weird and terrifying is that the figure on the third bamboo raft is actually gone, at the beginning, there was obviously such a figure standing on the bamboo raft, but at this moment it is gone?
When the bamboo raft approached, He Weiguo and all the soldiers were crazy, desperately trying to get the bamboo raft to the shore, but the horror was that the waves were not settled, and the headless corpse on the second bamboo raft was obviously not one of the three soldiers who went before.
It speaks for itself in his clothes! He was not wearing a camouflage uniform, but a worn-out piece of clothing that was completely unrecognizable, but it was certain that it belonged to ancient times, and the corpse had dried up, alive and dry.
This unexpected, sudden scene, made everyone seem at a loss for a while, never expected that there was no danger over there, but who knew that the danger was on the waterway we did not pass, and the ghost knows what happened on the way they came?