Chapter 57: Is It the Tomb of the Ancestors?
Unknown things are often accompanied by fear and danger, but people's exploration of unknown things has never stopped, it can be said that people's curiosity about unknown things, to some extent, is far greater than the fear in their hearts, which is why they know that there will be danger, and so many people will go.
Because it was the same day and night here, if it weren't for the watch, Li Bing and the others didn't know what time it was, so they walked forward for half an hour, and when they reached the end, they turned right and walked for more than ten minutes, and they finally walked out of the narrow passage and came to a hall.
As for why it is said to be a hall and not a cave, because it is obviously arranged here, the surrounding stone walls are very flat, and there are portraits of some people carved on them, and there is a large wooden box in the center of the hall, and there is a stone tablet next to the box, and the stone tablet is engraved with some strange symbols.
After the innocence came in, he first walked around the hall, and then focused all his attention on the portraits of the people on the stone wall, while Xiaopang and the master Qisatu squatted in front of the big wooden box, discussing what would be inside, whether it would be gold and silver treasures or something,
Li Bing also paid attention to the big wooden box at first, but when he walked in and saw the symbols on the stone tablet, his heart was as shocked as a monstrous wave, those symbols may be just some symbols in the eyes of others, but in his eyes, they are recorded words, because those symbols are exactly the same as those symbols recorded by their Li family.
Why is the symbol on this the same as the symbol of our Li family's written text!
Li Bing thought at first that maybe it was left by his grandfather and father after they came, but he stepped forward and groped and observed the stele for a while, but found that it was impossible, because the signs of dissolution and oxidation on this stele were very obvious, and it could be crushed with a gentle pinch of his hand, and the stone was not oxidized in more than ten or twenty years, and this stele was oxidized, not to mention hundreds of years old, or even longer, so it could not be left by his grandfather.
He didn't know much of the symbols on the stele, and he couldn't recognize the words represented by the symbols on it unless he had a translation book of the symbols he found from his antique shop.
Li Bing stared at the stone tablet in front of him, and a bold guess popped up in his heart, "Could it be that the female corpse that came alive before is the ancestor of our Li family......!" ’
It is not completely unreasonable for him to think so, this special way of recording words of their Li family is unique to their Li family, and it was invented and passed down by the ancestors of the Li family, and it is impossible for outsiders to know it, let alone write the words of this symbol, so it cannot be completely ruled out that this underwater tomb is the tomb of Li Bing's ancestor.
Of course, even if this underwater tomb is not the ancestor of his Li family, it may also be established by the ancestor of his Li family, and it must be related to their Li family.
In order to find out what was written on it, Li Bing took out his mobile phone and took a few photos around the stone monument, and then took pictures of the portraits of the people depicted on the stone wall.
Just as he was about to take a picture of the portrait on the last wall, Xiaopang and the master Qisato, opened the big wooden box, and instantly a pungent smell emanated from the box, they were afraid that the smell was poisonous, so they covered their mouths and noses at the first time, and then brought oxygen masks.
Li Bing also brought an oxygen mask, and he saw that he was innocent and seemed to be unmoved, so he stepped forward to remind. Naively shook his head, pointed to the big wooden box, and said, "The smell of the corpse is not poisonous", and then continued to stare at the stone wall in front of him.
Li Bing was a little skeptical about this, how could he know what it was when he smelled it, but when he walked over and looked inside the box, he found that as naïve said, it was indeed a corpse, but it was not a human corpse, but a bunch of palm-sized insect corpses, and the pungent smell emanated from them.
"The owner of this tomb is too good at playing with people, and he actually put a bunch of bugs in the box." Chubby took off the oxygen mask and complained as he looked at the bugs inside.
However, in the hall, they did not know the surface of the water that led to them here, but suddenly countless small bubbles appeared, and not long after, several insects they had seen crawled up from the water.
At first, just a few of them came out of the water and climbed up, but then they climbed up one by one, and the dense looks like they can't help but make people's scalps tingle, and almost endless insects crawled out of the water one after another, crawling towards Li Bing and their place in groups, and they crawled very fast, almost as fast as human jogging, and after a while, they came to the corner of the passage, and it didn't take a few minutes to climb to the hall where Li Bing and them were.
This insect is called water fish, is an underwater carnivorous organism, often appears in groups, they are also called underwater termites, the speed of gnawing is much faster than termites and piranhas, there are almost no natural predators in the water, even if sharks are huge fish, in front of so many water fish, I am afraid that it will not last a few minutes, and it will be eaten only a pile of white bones, and it is even possible that the white bones will be eaten at all.
It is rare to see such a large group of tens of thousands of water fishers at the same time, for the people who enter here, it is simply a nightmare existence, if anyone is caught up by them, it can be said unceremoniously, that person is going to die, and even the bones are left.
There are two passages in the hall, one left and one right, Li Bing and they are now discussing which way to go, their naïve hearing is different from ordinary people, after hearing the sound of sparse lala insects crawling, they immediately ran to the passage when they arrived and glanced inside, at this glance, he was as cold-blooded as a robot, and he couldn't help frowning at him, ran back and grabbed Li Bing's arm and rushed into the nearest left passage.
"Run!" Naively turned around and shouted at Xiaopang and the master Qisatu, ignoring Li Bing's struggle and inquiry, he almost forcibly pulled him forward.
Xiaopang and the master Qisatu didn't understand what was going on, and they also heard the sound of a commotion coming from the passage when they came, and the two of them walked over to take a look, and the entire passage was blocked by the kind of insects in the wooden box, and they were so frightened that their souls were gone, and there were already a lot of water fishers crawling towards the passage where Li Bing and them went, and they had to spread their legs and run towards another passage when they saw this.
They didn't know how far they had run, and finally they couldn't run, and seeing that the insects hadn't caught up, they sat on the floor of the passage panting and breathing air.
A few minutes later, Xiaopang glanced at the passage behind him in fear for a while, and asked, "Uncle Satu, what are those things just now, and where did they come from?" ”
The master Qisatu calmed down and thought about it carefully, and finally remembered what the insect was, and swallowed his saliva, "They seem to be a kind of insect called Hailaozi, a carnivorous underwater creature, which is more terrifying than termites on land." ”
"If it's really like what Uncle Satu said, fortunately they didn't chase after us, otherwise we probably wouldn't have even bones left." Xiaopang took out the water bag, took a sip of the mare's milk wine inside, looked at the other end of the passage very worriedly, and said Brother Bing, don't have an accident!