Chapter 22: Parasitic Vine Attack
I followed the light and saw that there was a man lying there! When I got closer, I realized that it was not a person anymore, it was a corpse, a highly decomposed corpse, with parasitic killer vines in the eyes and mouth, and a lot of black liquid like ink coming out of the nose.
Behind him was a stone wall, which was made of bricks and stones, and looked like it had been made of cement, and it was very strong.
"This man sealed himself inside?" I asked.
"Hey, being young is simple-minded." The bald man looked down on me, "People are sick, seal yourself inside and wait for death?" What do you think he will do with his own wine? This person must have been sealed inside by someone else, because he couldn't find the exit, and he accidentally touched the killing vine, so he was poisoned. ”
I didn't speak, and I felt that I was really thinking too simply, and I didn't even understand logic.
"Don't talk about him, you also have tofu in your head." Just when I felt embarrassed, the wolf lord said to the bald man: "Look at this wall, it is obviously made of cement, if the cement wants to dry thoroughly, it is not a matter of time and a half, if he really wants to go out, he can definitely tear down this wall before the cement is dry." ”
The wolf master is right, this cement wall is solid, it is no problem, but it takes a long time to dry, and the people inside want to knock down this cement wall that has not dried, and the people outside can't stop it at all, and there is not a single wooden board to use.
"Unless...... "I said cautiously," I said, "he was a dead man, and someone else wanted to hide the body so they sealed it with cement." ”
I have heard of this method of hiding the body twice, once in Kaifeng, there was an eighty-year-old lady, their family had four suites, the whole family lived on the rent, and then a tenant and her daughter-in-law got along, and after her son found out, her son killed the tenant on impulse, and the old lady built the body with bricks under her bed in order to prevent her son from going to prison.
This thing is not far from the community where I live, and it was so popular at the time that even I, a person who is not very lively, can almost memorize the complete plot.
Another time, it's more terrifying. It's about the old madman in our village.
He was only thirty-four that year, and there was no land in the mountains, so he went into the city to tell stories and beg for food. When he was young, not to mention how handsome he was, the people who listened to him were there to see him, and his book was not bad, it was all stories that no one else had heard. For a while, it was more popular than today's four little flowers. Relying on this, he also earned some silver in a year or two.
But this man is afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and after he became popular, he had the idea of a thief to beat him and wanted to get some money from him to spend. As a result, that night, the old madman came home and happened to bump into him, and he hit him, never expecting to smash the thief to death on a bench with one miss.
At that time, he had never experienced anything, but now he was very scared, and he was afraid of a lawsuit, so he put the thief's body in the corner of the wall with a brick. The rest of the story is terrifying, it is said that when he returned the next day after finishing the book, he found the thief sitting on his bed, holding a kitchen knife in his hand and trying to find him desperately. He thought it was a haunt, so he hurriedly grabbed the door and fled, and went around with the thief for more than ten miles, until both of them had completely lost their strength. Later, he learned that the thief was not dead at all, and he somehow held his breath again.
"Don't care about these living and dead people, let's quickly find a place to go out, there is little space here, those murderous vines are hanging on it, if we hang down the roots and whiskers, we have to walk in and float out." After the bald man finished speaking, he stopped discussing the corpse with us, and took a flashlight and surrounded the space we were in looking for another exit.
I still didn't quite understand, and I felt that asking him bluntly might not necessarily say, so I deliberately took a detour and pointed to the cement wall and asked the wolf master, "Do you still have cement with you when you come down to rob the tomb?" ”
"Tomb robbing? Scold! Lord Wolf's tone was mocking.
The bald man laughed next to him, "Little rabbit, you won't come down to rob the tomb, will you?" Look at your stupid look, I guess if you really touch a tomb, you will have to become a burial companion. ”
Although I said this on purpose, they still blushed from laughter, and they wanted to find a bag of cement to bury me.
But I can't be blamed for this, first, in my cognitive field, this kind of person who begs for a living underground is either a coal miner, a pit worker or something, or a treasure digging and robbing graves. There don't seem to be any coal mines around us, and they all carry guns, so they are certainly not serious ordinary people.
Second, this side is very close to the Trick City, and these people are likely to have the same purpose as us. If I'm stupid and show that I'm their peers and have a common purpose, I'm going to have to be killed in a minute. In addition, I had such a bad attitude towards them before, and now that I am alone, I can't casually expose our purpose.
I touched my head, showing embarrassment and modesty, and said, "Listen to you two, isn't this a tomb?" It looks like it's been in vain, alas, I thought I met my peers. But you're not here to rob the tomb? How did you end up underground like me? ”
The wolf master and the bald man didn't want to pay attention to me, maybe they were afraid of revealing their purpose, or they might look down on me and didn't bother to say anything to me at all.
I was bored with myself, I only sighed silently, and then I realized that Mo Ranchen and Kong Xian were not there, and I didn't even have the confidence to be horizontal.
Thinking of Mo Ranchen, I suddenly realized that the end of this road was the space we were in, but we didn't see any forks in the road along the way, so where did Kong Xian and Mo Ranchen go? Is it still disappearing out of thin air?
"Eh, Master Wolf, you guys are running ahead, do you know where my friend has gone?" I asked.
The wolf lord shook his head with his back to me and replied: "When I ran on the road above, I looked carefully, and there was no fork in the road on that road, I'm afraid it ......"
"I'm afraid of what?" My heart tightened, and I asked.
"I'm afraid I'm already queuing up in the underworld to register." There was a hint of ridicule in the bald man's tone, but there was a hint of bitterness in the ridicule.
The wolf master didn't wait for me to open his mouth to argue with the bald man, and waved his hand at me, "Although the fifth master said it is not good, it is also a matter of nine times out of ten, there is no fork in the left and right of that road, then he must have gone to the place where we came." ”
Between the words, the bald man and the wolf master have already inspected the space we are in, and have not found any useful finds, nor have they found an exit.
"Phew!" The bald man kicked on the stone wall and yelled, "Fuck, this place of the hell! If we really can't help it, we'll have to think about it. ”
Seeing that I was anxious, the wolf master sighed, sat in the corner, and made a gesture to me for cigarettes.
Luckily, I had put the pack in my pocket before, so I quickly handed over the whole pack and waited for him to speak.
He lit a cigarette with a calm expression and seemed to be talking about something very ordinary.
"You may not have noticed, but there is actually a round hole with a diameter of one meter at the top of the passage. That's where the three of us came down. But...... It's not so much down as it is about escaping. ”
Speaking of this, his expression changed slightly, "There is a cemetery of the living up there, and almost all of our people died on it. ”
"What is a living cemetery?" I asked, puzzled.
The wolf master's expression suddenly became hideous.
The bald man was not far away, turning his back to us, and said in a gloomy tone: "Those people are dead, but they are as if they were alive......"
I could feel the deep fear in his tone, but I couldn't empathize with them, and what he said piqued my curiosity.
"You're from here, I wonder if you've heard a story?" The wolf master said, flicking the cigarette ash on his hand, "It is said that there was once a rich town, prosperous, and deeply liked by the prince of the court......
As soon as I heard the beginning, I knew what he was going to say, because I had already heard it countless times, so I hurriedly said: "I have an impression of this story, and then the prince's family went down to escape the summer, and after coming back, everyone became dumb. I told me this story. ”
After listening to me, the whole person suddenly trembled, and the bald man rushed over and asked incredulously: "Do you know Jin Eryan, Jin Ye?" ”
Seeing their reaction, it really scared me, these two people won't have a grudge against Kong Xian, right? Then why didn't you react when you looked at Kong Xian before? Do they know only names, but not people? I knew that I didn't mention Jin Eryan and directly said that I was a little Kong Xian, and now that a few of them are not here, don't come here to seek revenge on me.
"Don't get excited...... Don't get excited...... I wanted to calm them down first, and before I could say more, these two people took my arm and asked in a somewhat trembling voice, "Where is Jin Ye now?" ”
"I ...... I'm not here for him, but I don't know where he is, really! But...... But he's definitely underground. "I'm making up this nonsense, but it's not too blind, I don't know where Kong Xian went now, and he's really underground.
The wolf master calmed down a little, and his face suddenly became much better for me, and I suspected that if it was at his house, he would have given me a seat to serve tea.
"Girl, we don't know each other, since you are a friend of Jin Ye, you are naturally also our friend, it is a kind of fate to meet here."
I haven't reacted from the wolf's 180-degree turn attitude, and the bald man also patted me on the shoulder with a smile, "It's all a misunderstanding before, a misunderstanding, but I don't know how the girl is sure that Jin Ye must be underground?" ”
"Didn't I hear the wind too, so come and look for it, it's right that reliable information is underground." I think I'm getting more and more comfortable with my words.
Not wanting to wait for them to ask, I continued, "You haven't finished talking about my friend, so I wonder if you can tell me more about it?" What does this prince's story have to do with the living tomb above? ”
"I wonder if the girl really doesn't know, or pretends not to understand? This is the ruins of the thriving town, which was buried later due to geological changes, and then collapsed and was buried. "After the wolf master finished speaking, my whole body was shocked, could it be that we really broke into the ruins of the strange city by mistake? If this is the case, it is only one step away from solving the problem and going back to life.
"At the entrance where we came in, there was a Sphinx with a map of the city engraved on its back." The wolf master continued, "According to the analysis of the location on the map, this living tomb should be the backyard of the palace!" ”
As he spoke, Master Wolf took out a map drawn on the cloth with a pen from his bosom and pointed it to me.
I took a closer look, but found that his picture was different from the map of the city in my hand, completely different. The map in his hand is planning some underground palace structures, similar to imperial tombs, while the map of the strange city is more of a street scene structure.
"Lord Wolf, did you copy this picture from the back of the Sphinx?" I asked.
Lord Wolf nodded affirmatively.
I can't figure it out, why are there different maps for the same location? However, I pondered in my heart, it is not completely impossible that this map is different, maybe the map in the hand of the wolf master is a part of the area, and the map that Bai Zechen gave me is another area. Or, maybe the wolf master is looking for the wrong place and mistakenly thinking this place is a strange city. However, another possibility is not ruled out, and that is ...... The wolf master is lying.
My current identity is very embarrassing, these people know Jin Eryan but don't know him personally, and Kong Xian doesn't know a few of them, to put it bluntly, whether my life is being threatened by them now, I don't know myself.
There was more sympathy on the bald man's face, and he didn't know if it was true or pretended, "If the three of us weren't cautious at that time, we would have to finish the game." If your friend were alive, there was still a chance that he would save us, but that was too unlikely. ”
"Can you tell me more about what the living tomb looks like on it? My friends are very good, and you've all seen it, and if they live, we have at least half the chance of survival. "I said Mo Ranchen and the others so awesomely, just to hear the truth from the wolf master's mouth, and I also hope to arouse their interest.
Sure enough, when the wolf master and the bald man listened to me, they were suddenly silent for a few seconds, and the expression on their faces changed for a moment, as if they were considering whether to cooperate with us.
In an instant, I found that under the shaking flashlight, I could see the joy in the eyes of the wolf master.
The wolf lord glanced at the bald man, who nodded and began to rummage through all the equipment around us.