Chapter 101: Notes of the Dead
The man was buried in the sand, and I pulled him out little by little, but I only dared to pull at its clothes, but carefully avoided its skin.
The unknown pattern made me feel like death, as if it would be contagious to me.
The first thing I noticed was its upper body, so I started with its collar and pulled its shoulders, arms, arms, and body...... And finally, the feet.
The texture of the garment was hard enough to support me in pulling him out from under that layer of sand, and I was about to take a break as I panted and put it aside, when I accidentally aimed at the man's backpack.
In fact, when I first saw this man, I also felt that he was very thin, and from the almost unclear face, I also found that he should not be more than thirty years old.
According to these, it is enough to dispel my previous uneasy thoughts, this person is not Liu Ran and Baizhou, then the last person may be Li Sansi.
They must have brought a lot of equipment with them, but why did this person die here, did they also have an accident?
With that in mind, I was going to rummage through this man's backpack, both to see what could prove his identity and to determine how he had died here.
The backpack is indeed heavy, which is one of the indirect causes of this person's death, and it is no wonder that when I pulled him before, I felt dead.
I finally untied the backpack from this person, and as soon as I opened the backpack, I felt a strange smell hit me.
Subconsciously turning my face away, I waved my arm in front of me a few times, and after snorting the smell, I looked back into my backpack again.
Inside, I found a lot of bronze objects, and as I slowly approached them, I felt as if the smell was coming from them.
I frowned slightly, carefully checked my backpack, and after sifting through the items, I found that there were sealed things underneath, including flashlights, dry batteries, soft rubber gloves, a first aid kit, and a gas mask.
Further down there are tools and well-packed food, like paratrooper knives, hollow tubes, stone hammers, disconnected soil explorers, and the kind of whirlwind shovel that is designed for digging.
Although the appearance of this shovel is not different from that of other shovels, the tip of the shovel is very sharp, and it can be used as a weapon in an emergency.
Looking back at the shovel prints we found before, they must have come from the hands of this kind of shovel.
In addition to these, I looked down and found a lot of tools made of metal, most of them excavation and exploration tools, and even some of them had electronic components.
They can be used for a variety of purposes, and as I looked down as I carried them, I noticed a small amount of food and water at the bottom of the backpack.
Looking at these tools, he should have been the first person to dig the thief hole, maybe he accidentally dug the pit above, and then fell from it and died here.
Is he Li Sansi's person? Thinking so, I frowned again, if the cave hadn't been dug up, wouldn't they have entered the tomb yet?
Also, if the first group of people in charge of excavation had an accident, they should send a second or even a third group down to continue the work of robbing the cave and looking for the previous group.
I looked up again, but there was only one dead person here, which also showed that their excavation was being analyzed in stages.
In the event of an accident, the others will immediately retreat, so when they discover the trap, they will clear the way by those behind them and dig in other directions.
Remembering the forked thief cave we entered earlier, it was also one of the thieves they found, and they stopped because they were sure that there was a trap there.
Thinking so, I shook my head, it seems that we are not thinking about it enough, and we are also controlled by our own subjective thoughts.
Thinking that Li Sansi had a drawing of the tomb, it was easy to get in, and everyone didn't find other robbery caves nearby, which showed that it was very easy for this group of people to enter, but they didn't know how to hit it along the robbery hole, only to find that they were like entering a huge grotto.
Among them, from the inside to the outside, there are almost all kinds of hollows, large and small, once people enter, there is no correct route, and it is impossible to enter and exit here.
As long as you fall into one of the pits, the quicksand around you will be like water, burying everything here and sealing the people who fall into the trap in the sand.
With a wry smile, I withdrew my gaze, blaming myself for thinking too simply, and I didn't look around carefully at that time, if I didn't believe Elder Song's words, I would look carefully when I came down, and I might find some clues to avoid such a situation.
But there is no time, we must race against time to stop Li Sansi before he can go down to the tomb and get the mask of the God King.
The sand was still falling, and I shook the sand off my feet before I turned my attention back to my backpack.
In addition to the tools, there were two special things that caught my attention, and I shone a flashlight on them before reaching out and taking them out.
Patting the sand on it, I found that one of them was a black iron box with a large palm, with clear stripes carved on it, and on closer inspection, it seemed to have some kind of symbolic meaning.
The painting is glossy of a snake perched on a pattern that resembles a caisson, surrounded by stripes of varying lengths.
The stripes seem to be bricks and stones, and they also look like some kind of decoration, which makes people feel very surprised when they look at it, maybe the explanation in the painting is not clear.
Aside from these, I groped for the lines on the box, looking for a way to open it, but the lines were so special that they seemed to completely seal the box together, and no matter how hard I broke or smashed it, it would be to no avail.
I shook it a few more times, but I didn't hear any movement, maybe it was an iron plate, but looking at the lines on it, and then at the person on the ground, it didn't feel so simple.
I couldn't figure out the meaning for a while, so I didn't bother to pay attention to it, and after putting things aside, I went to look at the other one.
It was a notebook with a black cover, heavy to the touch, and it should have been used for a while.
I flipped through my notes, and a line of conspicuous words came into my eyes - "He appeared again, from now on!" ”
This line seems to be a revelation, and I don't know if the author wrote it to himself, or to the person who might have seen it.
I hesitated for a moment before turning it back on.
"I need to be sure of my identity, this result is unacceptable to me, and I even suspect that they are cheating on me!"
It's a record of him, I can't investigate, maybe he's talking to himself, maybe he's telling our own story.
"I need him to prove it all, I need to see those things with my own eyes, and those murals, and the origin of the world's serpents?"
"World snakes? What he said was centered around it, and he said that when I was born, this power was planted in my body, and it was everything that was destined for us, and none of us could interfere with it. ”
"I'm going to be a part of the snakes of the world, and they show me a picture of the cells in my blood under a microscope, and convince me with everything that is real."
"What is the world, they were once one, like cold serpentine creatures, they were lodged on the surface, they were once the only creatures in the world."
At this point, a few empty pages appeared, and I felt strange, and I flipped back to finally see what he was saying.
"It's just incredible, and I have absolutely no way to refute them, because in the body, I also found another kind of cell."
"As a single-celled human being, I should have died from the beginning, because of the appearance of the World Snake, I survived, because I was implanted with new cells, this kind of cell is like a plant in the body, their growth cycle is shorter than that of humans, but through the supply of the same kind, they can continue to stretch life, just like borrowing life."
This page is very long, as if to make up for what was not recorded in previous days.
"I once doubted that I was different from others, but standing in the mirror, standing in the sun, I am also a normal person, and the only difference is my lifespan."
"I, as this multicellular symbiote, can do a lot of strange things, and the kind of cell in the body is enough to restrain any virus as long as it is within its life cycle."
"It's not the same as not dying, because as long as the kind of cells in my body die, I will also wither as quickly as a tree, but this is not based on the life cycle of a single cell."
"Fate is the eye of the world snake, it can see the direction and place, save us at the same time, but also control us."
"When I know all this, I understand what I have endured, and I am also recalling whether when I was born, I should have accepted the judgment of this world that I would die, instead of being guided by the serpent of the world, and lived for the sake of not myself."
"This question has made me hesitate for a long time, and I may never know the answer, just like in the story, when everyone sees you as a demon, you either die obediently, or you become a demon to fight against it and protect your unwilling self!"
The long meditation will eventually pass, and just behind the third blank page of paper, a firm record finally appears.
"I chose the latter, I accepted their invitation, I wanted to know everything about myself, I wanted to find my family, I wanted to see more companions, even if it was a catastrophe!"
In the last few pages, I was surprised to find that the note mentioned another person, another person who was supposed to have nothing to do with it.
"That person can lend me a longevity! His name is Jiang Yuchen, but he is not my companion, he said that I must kill him, this may be an innate rejection, I have tried my best to contact him, but I have not succeeded, until finally this time, I may find a way to deal with him. ”
This is the content of the last page, and it is very clear that the purpose is directed to a person, this person is Li Sansi's apprentice.
And in the words, it seems to show that there is an indescribable relationship between the author and this person, could it be that Jiang Yuchen, he is also the kind of person the author said.
I held the notebook, unsure if it was the words of a madman or a contemplative person's doubts about the world.
I am puzzled by multicellular organisms and snakes in the world, which sounds incredible.
Putting all of this aside, I finally focused all my attention on the last few pages, not to mention that he himself had anything special, but it can be seen from the purpose of his trip that he did not come here entirely to help Li Sansi.
Could it be that his arrival was aimed at this apprentice of Li Sansi, Jiang Yuchen, but what is the relationship between the two of them?