Chapter 11: The Pit of Ten Thousand Corpses
"Cai Wen.... I was around me just now, why did it suddenly disappear! "My face has turned pale, and a living person has disappeared without a trace... And I didn't even notice it!
"How is that possible?" Tie Zhu blinked in surprise, "Could it be that you accidentally fell into the water?"
"It shouldn't be," I shook my head, "I didn't hear the loud sound of water at all." ”
Old Uncle Li's face was extremely gloomy, and the lantern in his hand released an even stronger light to dispel the surrounding fog.
In the midst of the mist, suddenly, I faintly saw the vague outline of a human face facing me in the crater!
"There's someone in the cave!" I shouted hurriedly.
Hearing this, Tie Zhu turned on the flashlight and shone it on the pothole....
Dark eyes like a bottomless abyss, dark white bones... It turned out to be... A skull!
"Why are there dead people here?" I looked nervously at the dark cavern.
Old Uncle Li's eyes narrowed into a slit, "I heard that there is a custom of cliff burial in some places. ”
"What is a cliff burial?" I asked, puzzled.
Uncle Li said: "The so-called cliff burial is to rely on natural hazards to place the bodies of the dead in caves on steep mountain walls to avoid the intrusion of tomb robbers. ”
"In other words, the pit here is a cliff burial tomb!" Tie Zhu continued to scan with a flashlight....
"This is indeed a good place for cliff burials..."Old Uncle Li stretched out his thumb and gently scrubbed his stubble chin, "but..... Why didn't you see the coffin?"
The boat continued along the mountain wall....
"Look!" The iron pillar tiger's body trembled violently, and pointed to the mountain walls on both sides.
Iron Pillar's voice was distinctly trembling, he had always been bold, and I couldn't help but wonder what could make Iron Pillar tremble.
Through the white mist mixed with red light, I could vaguely see the potholes in the mountain wall..... It's stuffed with bones!
Gray-white skeletons, narrow arms, slender leg bones, and ribs that stand upright... Horizontal and vertical piles full of potholes..
Their deaths are extremely bizarre, some of their leg bones are hanging down next to their necks, some of their heads are completely twisted behind their backs, or their arms are folded three hundred and sixty degrees behind them.... And as the boat progressed, there were more and more potholes filled with bones...
"It seems.. This is not a cliff burial..."Old Uncle Li said softly, "They were obviously killed first, and then forcibly stuffed into a hole."
Every skull represents a person dying here. There are few dense potholes here.... Thousands of people were brutally killed, and then their bodies were casually stuffed into pits! I gasped.
"Why.... To kill so many people?" I asked, trembling.
"Who knows...."Old Uncle Li shook his head, he coughed violently a few times, and the lantern in his hand became fainter and darker...
The white mist gathered again like a drifting ghost, tightly wrapping around the boat...
"Boom!"
The boat shook violently, and I nearly fell out.
"Grab the edge!" Old Uncle Li shouted at us.
In the turquoise water, a gloomy silhouette floats through the bottom of the ship...
"There's something underneath the ship!" Iron Pillar shouted, drawing the sharp knife he had bought in the village.
Old Uncle Li put the lantern on the bow of the boat and also found a short axe in his backpack.
"Boom! Boom! ”
There was a sudden thud from the bottom of the boat, and our bodies shook.
"This beast is crashing into a ship." Old Uncle Li said hatefully.
I can't help but worry about how long this broken ship will last.
"What the is this!" Tie Zhu has nowhere to exert his brute strength, and he is very aggrieved.
The flame in the bow lantern shook violently.
"Huh!"
The flames were extinguished abruptly in a single impact, and the white fog drowned us little by little.... Once again, I was consumed by fear. Cai Wen's whereabouts are unknown, and he doesn't know what monsters are hidden in the water... I can't help but wonder if the choice made by Uncle Li is too bold....
The figures of Old Uncle Li and Tie Zhu blurred....
"Babies! Don't scatter! All leaning together! Uncle Li's voice exploded in his ears.
"Good!"
The boat shook so hard that I hurriedly moved to Uncle Li's side.
My nerves tensed to the extreme, vaguely, as if I heard the sound of water gurgling in my ears, and a series of bubbles seemed to be gushing out of the water...
"Ahh
The heart-rending screams of the iron pillars suddenly sounded in his ears, and there was a violent fight.
"Pillars! What happened to you! ”
The boat shook again, and Old Uncle Li struggled to stand up and stretched out his hand to dispel the white mist in front of his face.
"Pillars!"
Now... All that remained on the ship was a pool of dark red blood...
Iron pillar .... It's gone....
At this time, the air seemed to have frozen, and Uncle Li and I fell into a dead silence...
The successive disappearances of Cai Wen and the iron pillar made me close to the brink of collapse, and the danger here seemed to be beyond Uncle Li's expectations, and he stared at the ripples on the water with a pale face...
Suddenly, a blue dorsal fin with a barb pierced the water and wandered around the boat...
I'm sure... It's a creature I've never seen before!
"Sure enough..."Old Uncle Li snorted coldly, "This is a ghoul." ”
"Ghouls are... What's that?"
"Ghouls are monsters that specialize in eating dead bodies, I only knew that there were them in the tombs before, but I didn't expect this thing to be able to go into the water, it's really a long experience..."
I stared at the surface of the water uneasily, could it be that Cai Wen and Tiezhu had already been eaten by it...
Who's next?! It could be me! No way..... We must get out of here quickly!
I quickly picked up the oars and paddled forward desperately, the wood chips stirring the lake quickly, but what made me fall into the abyss of despair... I didn't feel the movement of the wooden boat in the slightest!
Fear.... That monster is under the boat!
"Calm down! Don't be afraid! Uncle Li glanced at me and took out a harpoon from his backpack, "I've been prepared." ”
Looking at the calm lake, Uncle Li said: "If it doesn't come out of the water, we can't do anything about it." "Old Uncle Li gave me a look...
This is... Are you going to let me be bait?!
After a brief hesitation, I calmed my fears. Maybe this is the only way, otherwise everyone will die here.
I moved my feet and slowly moved to the side of the boat, looking at the calm water, I couldn't help but swallow and spat at the old Uncle Li stood behind me, holding a harpoon in a throwing gesture, staring at the water tightly.
The mist drifted across the water, severely affecting my vision, and I could vaguely see the water in front of me beginning to ripple...
"It's coming out." I nervously reminded Uncle Li, and Uncle Li behind me nodded slightly, "Don't be afraid." ”
"Gooo
A series of bubbles gushed out of the water, and the shadows in the water slowly floated up....
My body began to tremble slightly, and Uncle Li's breathing behind me became heavy. If Uncle Li had taken a step slower, maybe my arm or leg would have been bitten off... In case Uncle Li misses, I can only accompany Tie Zhu and Cai Wen...
"Boom."
What black thing was about to surface, and Uncle Li was about to throw a harpoon, I was slightly stunned, "Wait a minute, that's a... Wooden stakes. ”
Suddenly there was a sound of rushing water behind him, and a blue figure suddenly jumped out of the water!
"Poof!" The boat shuddered.
"Not good! In the back! "I was just about to turn around when I stumbled and almost fell into the water.
The ghoul who jumped onto the boat collided head-on with Uncle Li, and Uncle Li and the monster immediately scuffled together.
The ghoul bit Uncle Li's arm and twisted desperately, blood gushing out, Uncle Li gritted his teeth and stabbed the harpoon into its abdomen.
I hurriedly pulled out the dagger from my backpack and flew over and stabbed it hard into the ghoul's skull, but my hand hurt, and the dagger only pierced the scalp!
The monster was about two meters long, with a crocodile-like head and a dark blue back with shark-like fins, but with barbs and four gecko-like claws.
I swung my knife and was about to stab again, but its dinosaur-like tail tore through the air and swept me down on the plank, and I stabbed at it without hesitation, but it was covered in crocodile skin, and my attack could hardly pose a real threat to it.
The ghoul bit Uncle Li's arm and pulled it hard, wanting to bite it off!
Uncle Li couldn't pull out the harpoon that pierced the ghoul's abdomen, so he had to clench his fists and slam it in the face.
Seeing that Uncle Li's face was distorted in pain, I hurriedly hugged the ghoul's tail and pulled it back.
"Ahh Ahh Don't move! Dagger to me! Uncle Li struggled and said.
Hearing this, I hurriedly handed the dagger to Uncle Li.
A cold light appeared in Old Uncle Li's eyes, and he clenched the dagger and stabbed it into the ghoul's eyes.
Dig hard, "Zila!" "The egg-sized gray-black eyeballs broke out of their sockets and rolled down to the bottom of the boat with filaments.
"Wow!"
The ghoul screamed, its body struggled frantically, its tail kept sweeping, the planks on both sides of the boat were smashed by the thick tail, and the boat swayed violently...
Uncle Li held the dagger and plunged it into the ghoul's jaw, cutting it inward with all his strength.
A long wound was cut open, and the green juice splashed on Uncle Li's face, Uncle Li frowned and squeezed the dagger along the wound towards the ghoul's head, and the dagger stirred in the ghoul's brain.
The ghoul's frantic kicking limbs drooped down, and a green viscous liquid gushed out of his nose... The body finally collapsed weakly.
I hurriedly helped pry open the ghoul's mouth and pulled out Uncle Li's bloody and bloody arm.
Old Uncle Li's face turned pale, he took out the gauze in his backpack and wrapped his arm briefly, and said in a low voice: "Ghoul's saliva is very easy to cause infection..."
"What then?!" I anxiously asked, was that crazy old man just bitten by a ghoul? In case Uncle Li becomes like that, I will definitely not be able to rely on me alone.
Old Uncle Li said indifferently: "I heard that the soul mushroom that grows in a dark place can detoxify. But don't worry, we still have time. ”
I didn't expect this monster to be so cunning, it completely saw through our tricks, and used a wooden stake as a cover to sneak attack from behind.... Could it be that it already has human intelligence, and I can't help but feel creepy when I think about it...
"Goo-toot!"
A strange sound sounded, and I subconsciously lowered my head, only to find that a big hole had been broken in the bottom of the boat! The water from the lake is pouring into the cabin...
"Quick! Kick this ghoul down first! ”
Uncle Li and I desperately scooped out the stagnant water in the boat with our hands, but it didn't help at all, and the boat was still sinking slowly...
"Find something to plug the hole!" Old Uncle Li hurriedly shouted.
I hurriedly opened my backpack, but after searching for a long time, I didn't find anything that could come in handy.
At this moment, I raised my head, my face suddenly turned to ashes, and my heart was desperate...
On the water around the boat .... More than a dozen blue dorsal fins swim on the surface of the water!!