Chapter 17: The Road to the Sand
"Stop, give me your knife, I'll get my mouth out first." Tianxiang stopped.
"What mouth?" I handed him the dagger.
I saw that after he took the dagger, he took off his pants and asked me to press his thigh with one hand on the part that had been bitten just now, and the other hand to help him press his thigh.
Only then did he see that the bite was swollen with a fist, Tianxiang took the dagger and slashed at the wound, although he didn't scream, but I could feel it, it must be extremely painful. Although the cut is not deep, it is very long, and each of the three bites is 5-6 centimeters, and the flesh on both sides is turned out.
At first, I didn't understand why Tianxiang had to make such a long cut, but I realized when he took out the vampire turtle's mouth. The mouth of the vampire turtle is even longer than this one, and the mouth is not pierced in, but grows inside, and it grows together in such a short period of time, which makes me very incomprehensible.
After Tianxiang finished processing, we walked all the way inside, and there was really a feeling of skiing, but the two skis still had to move left and right with their hands. This sand pit is indeed very long, and after walking for more than 20 minutes, I still haven't seen the head, and it is very tiring to pour these two planks back and forth.
"Shall we take a break?" I said to Tianxiang.
"Well, I'm tired too." After Tianxiang answered, I put the four planks together, and the two of us lay on the planks and rested for a while.
"Tell me what's going on with that turtle." I asked anxiously.
"Don't underestimate the vampire turtle, it's called a turtle, but it's not a turtle. On the surface, it lives by sucking blood, but it is not, it is a large parasite. Did you see my mouth just now? ”
I nodded and didn't speak, and Tianxiang continued: "There is something like a needle in that mouth, as long as it pierces it, it will secrete a super healing substance, which can grow the mouth and flesh together. It sucks blood once and lives for hundreds of years, so it's called a vampire turtle. ”
"Fortunately, it's just a parasite, not fatal." I rejoiced.
"Vampire turtles are not scary, but where there are vampire turtles, there will be man-eating turtles."
"Man-eating turtles, just listen to the name, you know that they are big guys who can eat people, they should be big, right?" I don't seem to understand whether I understand or not.
"It's true to eat people, but it's not big, the basin is so big, it only eats living things, once it is bitten, it is difficult to escape, the venom in the mouth can quickly anesthetize people, and then bite them to death one bite at a time."
After listening to Tianxiang, I felt a little chilly, not that I was afraid, but that thing was going to eat people to death.
Thinking of this, we decided to get out of this bunker quickly, and after getting up and walking forward for about 100 meters, this bunker appeared to turn a corner. Began to turn a 90-degree right angle to the inside, and two holes appeared on the left and right sides of the way, and there was no door, we were still one meter and a half high distance from the hole, and we couldn't see the situation in the hole clearly, so we could only observe it by climbing up.
Tianxiang and I discussed which side to take, and I analyzed: "The entrance to the cave inside the turn should be the direction of the tomb, this quicksand pit should be built to protect the surrounding tomb, and the hole on the other side should be similar to the hole when we fell."
I'd suggest going through the hole inside, after all, we've been going through so much and we've not even seen the real burial chamber.
Tianxiang did not object, and climbed up one after another, this passage was relatively wide, but it was extremely damp, and the walls around it were wet, which was in stark contrast to the place we had walked before. It seems that the structure here is very different from the place you passed when you entered, and there was a lot of moisture in the air.
I touched the water on the wall, smelled it, it wasn't seawater, and wondered if there was a dark river here. The further you go inside, the more humid it gets, and you can faintly hear the sound of ticking water.
Suddenly, Tianxiang grabbed me, turned around and ran out. Seeing Tianxiang running back, I didn't dare to delay, and I also ran back.
"What's the situation?" I asked as I ran.
"Man-eating turtles." Tianxiang replied breathlessly.
As soon as I heard about the man-eating turtle, I also started to run out with my life, I didn't want to be bitten to death. When I was about to run to the entrance of the cave, I saw a thing crawling over at the entrance of the cave, Tianxiang came to an emergency brake, but I didn't brake, rushed over, fortunately I was mentally prepared, the thing was not big, but the head stretched very long, and suddenly stretched out to my face, I dodged sideways, Tianxiang saw this and quickly pulled me back.
If you look closely, this thing is indeed the size of a basin, and it looks like a turtle, with a hard shell, but the head is not like a turtle, more like a snake's head, and its head sticks out more than a meter long just now.
I asked Tianxiang, is this a man-eating turtle? Tianxiang nodded. The two of us didn't move, but the man-eating turtle stretched out his snake head from time to time, and it seemed that it was a little difficult to get out of the snake.
"What to do? Does this thing have any Achilles' heel? I asked, apparently much calmer this time.
"I don't know what to do." Tianxiang's answer made me feel very bitter.
"The most powerful thing about it is its mouth, let's get its slender head off, and it won't be fine." As I spoke, I took out my dagger, and without waiting for Tianxiang to stretch out his hand, I walked over alone.
I thought I should be able to deal with this thing, and I also showed my skills in front of Tianxiang, so this kid is always high-minded and domineering. I told Tianxiang righteously: "This time I'll come by myself, you can just look at it, you don't need to stretch out your hand." ”
The operation was also given a code name: Operation Decapitation. Thinking of this, I was extremely excited in my heart, and without thinking, I went up with the Ugin dagger and prepared to cut the head of the human turtle.
The man-eating turtle moves slowly, but its head is so sensitive that I couldn't grasp its head at all, and I almost got bitten a few times. After some twists and turns, I was out of breath when I was tired, and my head was full of sweat.
The heart said: It's a big loss now, and the words are all out of the way, and after doing it for so long, the beheading operation has not been realized.
I saw Tianxiang behind me, a leap rushed over, the snake's head retreated sharply, it was this time, Tianxiang reached out and grabbed its neck, two hands in two directions, and then look at the head of the man-eating turtle, which was torn off by Tianxiang.
I looked stupid on the side, this action was too fast, I didn't expect Tianxiang to have such a good skill, and secretly erected the big mother and son in my heart, don't blame him for being crazy, people are really capable, I immediately switched from contempt to envy.
"You Y have a way not to kill it sooner, I'm tired and sweaty." I complained.
"Actually, I don't know anything about this thing, if I hadn't heard what you said about the decapitation operation just now, I wouldn't have known that I would have to attack its head."
After listening to him, I immediately felt that I had regained some face. "By the way, what did you run just now?"
"This cave is a man-eating turtle cave, we have to get out of here quickly."
"You mean, this hole is the nest of man-eating turtles?" I asked, confused.
"yes, don't say it, get out of here quickly."
After Tianxiang finished speaking, he walked forward and came to the entrance of the cave that he had just climbed up, fortunately the planks were still there, and we returned to the sand pit and continued to walk forward.
In order to get out of the bunker as soon as possible, we tightened the planks under our feet, and finally saw the dawn of victory, the sand pit in front of us came to an end, and a very wide platform appeared, which was a few centimeters higher than the bunker.
I saw a layer of sand on the road, which should have been scattered when the sand was transported. Tianxiang and I suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, according to past experience, there is no mechanism for transporting sand roads, because this road is only for workers to use, so it should be safe here.
After finding an open space, the two of us rested for a while and continued along the sand road. This sand road is not straight, there are several unscientific detours on the way, while walking and thinking, how can this sand road have so many bends, generally speaking, the ancients will build a straight sand road for the convenience of transporting sand, and there will not be so many bends here.
"Did you find that there is a problem with the sand road?" I asked Tianxiang, who was walking aside.
"It's not just a problem, it's weird." Tianxiang took a few steps back, pointed to the curved wall, and said, "Look at this wall, what's wrong?" ”
I looked along the wall that Tianxiang pointed to, and I didn't see anything, but the wall was much smoother than the ones I had just passed. I shook my head, meaning I didn't see it.
"You look up, you look at the connection between the wall and the top of the top."
I looked up, and sure enough, there was a problem, the connection between the wall and the top was very inconsistent, it was not integrated, and this wall was built later, which means that the bend here was man-made.
"Why do you want to make so many bends?" I asked, confused.
"I don't know, maybe I'm avoiding something, or maybe I'm trying to hide something."
"Could it be that there is a movable master here who is also sleepy, and I am afraid that it will come out and hurt the workers, so it is blocked inside?"
"You're nervous, where are there so many moving guys." Tianxiang looked at me with great disdain and said.
I said to myself, "It's kind of interesting, maybe there's something in there that can't be moved, so I have to take a detour." ”
"What you said is very likely, only the things that can't be removed force to repair detours and transport sand."
"What can't be moved in the tomb?" I asked myself in a low voice.
"Coffin," Tianxiang and I shouted out the answer almost at the same time.
If there is only a coffin that cannot be moved in the tomb, and this coffin is definitely not the tomb owner's, it was originally buried here, so it will be wrapped in the wall, but there are so many bends, and there are coffins inside, then this is not a tomb group.
Thinking of this, I wanted to go over and find out, but unfortunately the thick wall was in the way, and I didn't have any equipment in my hand, so I could only dry my eyes.
I still had to go on, and when I was still thinking about the question just now, the searchlight shone into a gap in the wall, and when I looked carefully, there were dense bones piled up, and I walked over quickly to see that there were thousands of corpses piled up here.