Chapter 18: The Tomb Without a Coffin

Under the light, I dragged my body, rested against the stone wall, closed my eyes and hid in the darkness, recalling the process of entering here.

What we are looking for is completely different from what we have found so far, and this place is not the same as we thought it would be at the beginning.

It is said to be an ancient tomb, but there are doors and locks on the sealing stone, and it is said to be the remains of certain ethnic groups, but there are still many bones here.

The recorded migrations and the mysterious exercises discovered by Liu Qingchun have made this place special, perhaps the people who built this place are a special group of people, just like the two mermaids we saw on the door.

Their intelligence, their appearance, and their way of thinking are so different from ours that we are amazed when we discover their civilization; It feels counterintuitive.

Maybe it's just because, unlike them, we don't use their methods to interpret what we see.

Perhaps I should think that this is a unique kind of human history that they have preserved.

In this way, thinking in my heart, I slowly rested, only to feel that my body was almost recovered, the original weakness in my body was because in that narrow space, the air flow was not smooth, resulting in my lack of breath, but now after a while, it has been much better.

When I got up, I poured myself a few more sips of water, moved my body briefly, and rummaged in my backpack, in addition to water, there were also a few pieces of special dark chocolate in the backpack, which were used to replenish my stamina and vitamins.

After zipping up, I put on my backpack and flashlight, and began to search the place I was currently in.

Looking at the stone wall above my head, I probably fell from a height of more than three meters, but fortunately, I had protective gear on my body, except for the pain when I just fell, there were no serious injuries.

I shook the flashlight to other places, and I found that there was a lot of space here, and I couldn't see it at a glance.

The light shone along the darkness around him, and the ground here was so flat that there was nothing special to see.

Following the flashlight, I cautiously walked forward and came to the edge of a stone platform, looked at it with the flashlight, and found that it was a rectangular stone platform.

Along this stone platform, I found that it was covered with rattan inscriptions, such that the ancient characters were linked to each other, as if they were some kind of green; Plants that grow on the walls completely cover all four sides of the platform.

The provenance of this script is very wide, I am not sure what dynasty they are, and the vine script that I see in schools is very limited.

Taking a step back, the aperture of the flashlight enlarged, enveloping the entire stone platform, and I noticed a skeleton flat on the stone platform.

The skeleton was laid flat on the stone platform, as if lying in its own coffin, but the stone platform was a little smaller against the background of the skeleton's thin body.

If this was its coffin, those rattan inscriptions would have been epitaphs or even last words that recorded his life.

It makes sense that these words are not the same as the ones we have found on the bones before, because they were translated by the bone sealers, and these are the ones left by the deceased long ago.

If it is different from the skeletons that were deliberately left here to preserve history, these skeletons resting here make us think of them as an ancient tomb.

The skeleton's bones are pale yellow, and in the white light, they appear very peaceful, and the bowl bones of the hands are placed flat on the chest.

Seeing this, I feel more like an ancient tomb, but until now, we haven't found half a coffin in the tomb.

If the first batch of people who came here with Liu Qingchun looted the burial goods in the tomb, this is really normal, but they will not be so ruthless that they will not even let go of the coffin of the deceased!

Although the funeral goods in the coffin are much more valuable than other things, no matter what, you should leave a coffin for others!

I thought about these details repeatedly, and I paced back and forth beside this stone platform, but after thinking about it, there was no accurate basis, and just as I was about to go to the vicinity to look for other clues, I suddenly caught a glimpse of the bones lying on the stone platform and moved.

Startled by my own indistinct thoughts, I took a step back and focused my flashlight on the skeleton.

Under the snow-white pillar of light, there was a faint sound from the skeleton, like the sound of a chick pecking rice, the sound was so small that I needed to be quiet to barely be able to hear it.

When I held the flashlight and carefully leaned over to check, I saw a small black bug slowly crawling out of the skeleton's body.

This bug, I've seen, was found in an ancient book, and they're also a poisonous bug, and the toxin can corrode directly into the bone.

Their food is the organic matter in human bones, and their bodies have a strong digestive system and circulatory ability to balance toxins and sustenance in the body.

It's a lot of sight in abandoned cemeteries or near deserted graves, and I don't remember exactly what I read about in that book, but the only thing I can remember is their toxicity.

The lifespans of these species are generally very short, some even only about a few months, and most of this is due to the fact that they do not have sufficient access to nutrients, and it is not impossible to live longer if food is abundant.

The toxicity of the bugs also depends on what they eat, and the organic matter on the bones is a discarded trace element that can be broken down by the bodily fluids of these bugs to become an extremely deadly toxin.

By its habits and the way it produces toxins, the book gives it the name of the bone-eater.

Finding this kind of bug on the skeleton, I immediately took a few steps back in a row, and said in my heart Look at this bug and its size, as well as the skeleton here, I'm afraid it must be quite poisonous, and it's better to dodge.

As soon as I thought of this, I immediately turned on my flashlight and walked to other places, but after a few steps, I found a second identical stone platform, with almost the same vine script and a flat skeleton on it.

There are no coffins, but they are quietly parked here, like a burial pit for many people, but looking at them, it doesn't feel like a burial companion, and it looks like this place was originally built for them.

This idea was rejected by me as soon as it appeared, if this was the main burial chamber, there should be only one main burial person, and even if it was a joint burial tomb, there should not be so many people.

The flashlight flickered at the distance between the two stone platforms, and I looked at the same distance again, and sure enough, the third stone platform shone under the pillar of light.

This was followed by the fourth, fifth, and sixth......

They were arranged neatly in this burial chamber at the same distance, and when I searched along a stone wall, I found that there were thirty-six stone platforms scattered throughout the burial chamber.

As I walked past them, I felt empty eyes, and the skeletons were slowly crawling out of their bodies with worms that looked like eyes.

Here I looked for a way out, and after a circle along the stone wall, I finally found a passage, the entrance of which appeared in a corner, very close to this stone platform beside me, and as I entered the passage, I heard a creaking in the darkness; It sounded like chewing bones.

The sound echoed through the quiet crypt, and I slammed the flashlight, only to see a skeletal head tumbling off the stone platform.

As I leaned sideways inside, I couldn't help but look back to see that there were a few bugs crawling out of the skull in the light.

As the light hit them, I saw that they were crawling towards my position.

I immediately turned around, and as I walked briskly into the passage, I fumbled for the sulfur powder in my backpack, but in the darkness I suddenly felt something that moved.

At this moment, I felt my scalp tingle, and immediately withdrew my hand, and suddenly remembered that there were also that kinds of bugs in the tomb we entered at the beginning.

It's not a good thing, it's not like a bone eater, I was so scared that I didn't have time to care about it, could it be that they crawled into the backpack at that time.

Thinking of this, the mouse that appeared in the stone cave also flashed in my mind, could it be because of the bugs on my body that I found out that this mouse could not succeed.

In the dark, I didn't have a chance to think about anything at all, so after pulling the zipper, I ran briskly forward, ready to leave here and find a way to get the bugs inside.

This passage is not long, about ten meters long, but the sound of those bone-eating insects behind me makes me dare not take a single step.

After leaving the passage, he immediately took off his backpack and fell to the ground, only to hear the sound of metal colliding inside.

The flashlight immediately shone through, and I first fumbled outside the backpack for movement inside, and the crawling sound of bone eaters sounded in my ears.

While groping in my hands, I raised my head and shone my flashlight towards the exit, where I heard a few noisy sounds.

Sounds like a lot of them, and they're getting closer.

The material of my backpack is very thick, and I pulled on it for a while before I finally pinched a long strip.

I subconsciously thought about what it might be, and I felt a little resistance inexplicably, and the thing was still moving, and I could feel the countless feet on the thing struggling in the backpack, and the body was gradually curling.

I waved my hand to wipe the cold sweat from my head, and the moment I let go, I stepped on it.

After feeling the squirting beneath my feet completely squashed, I slowly unzipped the zipped to avoid the dead centipede's corpse and turned out the sulfur powder from inside.

But at this moment, a bone-eating insect had already crawled out of the passage, they moved quickly, and they had lived here for many years, and the cold qi in their bodies had already been integrated into the venom.

When I hit the flashlight, the bug's body jumped up and swished! Climbed up my legs, and was about to climb up through my pants.

The moment the light swept over them, I didn't even think about it, picked up the flashlight in my hand and smashed it.

I can't imagine the feeling of a bug crawling up from a skeleton touching my skin, it feels creepy to think about.

The flashlights we bring are all military supplies, and the material is not the kind of hard plastic, but metal, so that its durability can be guaranteed, and secondly, it can be used to protect itself in an emergency.

Although this thing is not very heavy to pick up, a hammer in my urgency is enough to open a bloody hole in a person's head, let alone be hit on this bug.

I feel that my strength is not small, no matter how much that insect is a small thing with poison, where can I be restrained from this.

In the dark, I didn't have time to bother with anything, because another bug crawled out, and I pulled back as I tore open the plastic bag that sealed the powder.

I had already torn it open the last time, but then it was a hassle to put it in, and all the sealing tape on it was very troublesome, and I finally had to pull it from the side, and most of the bag of powder was spilled.

Now, I didn't care about saving anything, so I grabbed another handful and threw it at the entrance of the passage with feeling.

Immediately after this one, I sprinkled around myself again.

The air was filled with the choking smell of sulfur, and I tried to hold back my breath so that I wouldn't suck the powder of sulfur that hadn't completely dispersed in the air into my nose.

Slowly, the surrounding movement disappeared, and I picked up the flashlight from the ground in the dark and tentatively shone it towards the exit.