Chapter 16: The Tomb Beast in the Dark
After these contents were scanned, they gave us a lot of directions, which made my thoughts not stop for a moment, and the thoughts appeared one after another.
First there was the great migration on the frescoes, then the opening of the doors to the tomb, and the builders of the tomb, how much time they spent here.
And, how did they get the help of the bone sealer during this time, and how were they inextricably linked?
I think there are too many possibilities, and I don't even know if the information obtained in these skeletons can solve my doubts.
I thought absentmindedly, and before I knew it, the old bell had swept away most of the bones here.
But suddenly, he stopped moving, as if thinking of something, and immediately looked back at me.
I was stared at by him suddenly, and I didn't come back to my senses, and immediately asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"Didn't you notice anything wrong?" Lao Zhong's expression was solemn, as if he meant something.
I was so engrossed in thinking about what was written on this bone that I forgot about it, and I didn't understand what he meant for a while.
Scratching my head, I brought myself back to my senses, looked at the scanner in his hand again, and said, "Is there something wrong with this skeleton?" ”
The old bell didn't answer, reached out and grabbed the flashlight in my hand, and shone it straight behind me?
"You really didn't notice it being too quiet in here, did you? What about the others? Following his gaze, I looked straight over, and saw that in this burial chamber, except for the two of us, only those human bones remained.
What about the others?
We were all busy with each other just now, and I didn't even notice when they disappeared, and if it weren't for the fact that Lao Zhong felt that he hadn't heard movement for so long, and looked back, I guess I wouldn't have cared about it at all.
In this space of less than 30 square meters, three big living people disappeared for no reason, we can't not be unaware, even if they left by themselves, but what they found should tell us, and we shouldn't be left here without saying hello.
We've checked most of the skeletons here, it's not a short time, but it's quiet, and we're all very focused, when did they disappear?
Thinking like this, Lao Zhong and I both focused on the remaining skeletons, which were all fine when we checked them before, which means that the reason for their disappearance is related to other skeletons.
Old Zhong didn't have time to scan the contents anymore, and finding someone else was the key at the moment, so he immediately put away what he was holding and walked with me to the rest of the skeleton.
They are indeed different from the other skeletons we have found, which are all half-leaning against the wall.
The cause of their death and the death of the state of death made us feel very entangled, and the only thing we found unusual was the gestures.
These skeletons were leaning against the stone wall, their arm bones hanging in the air due to the support of their bodies, but their fingers were pointing diagonally upwards on the opposite side, intentionally or unintentionally.
Lao Zhong and I glanced at each other, and we all thought of this possibility—they had found this clue and disappeared.
The flashlight immediately swept back to the other skeletons, and we saw that the skeletons we observed along the way were all in the same posture - half leaning against the stone wall, the body was flat, and the hands were hanging low on the ground, even the skulls were in a natural low state.
Compared to these skeletons around us, those skeletons are very normal.
Going back again, we first looked at the rest of these skeletons; Other things that are different from other skeletons.
The skeletons were large, and one of them was missing three bones.
When I found this skeleton, I was reminded of the story in the file we received.
Bone Printer! Strange extra bones? And the monster that crawled out of the body? and the words engraved on the skull.
Is it all connected? I don't know yet, the only thing I'm sure of is the pile of bones I see in front of me, with strange writing on them and missing places.
As for whether these words are the same as those mentioned in the archives in the memory of that Dun Cheng, it is not known whether this crucial clue is valid.
"What's wrong with you?" Lao Zhong saw me staring at the skeleton in a daze, thinking what had happened to me, so he asked.
I shook my head, not telling him what I thought, "It's nothing, do you see the inscriptions on these skeletons are the same as those on other skeletons?" ”
"Different!" Old Zhong said, and then stretched out his hand to the throat of the skeleton, "Look at the marks on their bodies, they are not neat, they are completely different from what we found before, so much so that they seem to have been deliberately added later. ”
"In addition to this, there is also a great suspicion of their death, these people existed before the others, because they were killed, and there is a distinct black color near the sternum, which is a symptom of death by poisoning."
Hearing Lao Zhong say this, I also nodded, "But these people who were killed were earlier than others, but the time to engrave the words was later than others, what is the situation, can it be said that there are more than one back and forth here?" ”
Old Zhong frowned and thought for a moment, and then replied, "Maybe they are the later intruders, and not like the other skeletons, which have been kept here from the beginning as burial companions in this tomb." ”
As he spoke, Lao Zhong shone the flashlight along the place pointed by the skeleton, and above the opposite diagonal was a feng shui diagram.
The sixteen symbols that represent the doctrine of Feng Shui are grouped together to form a counterbalance that brings all the luck together in one place.
Moving further up along the diagram, above the burial chamber, we find that in the case of the feng shui diagram, there is a circular device at the top.
The thing looked like metal, and the sixteen signs corresponding to the feng shui diagram were the heads of sixteen beasts, namely wolves, bats, leopards, owls, snakes, dogs, jackals, lynxes, toads, crows, and more.
Most of these animals are nocturnal, and I can't name a few of them, but they are probably all nocturnal.
Surrounded by these beast heads in the middle is a circular totem, like some ancient texts entangled together.
I took this picture with a portable camera, but the moment I pressed the shutter, I felt that things in front of me were changing rapidly.
After a moment of trance, it finally returned to normal. I rubbed my eyelids and looked at the totem again, feeling like something was missing now.
Putting away our cameras, we're ready to head to the beastheads, and maybe the mechanism that led to their disappearance is up there.
While we're not sure they'll leave us off and leave without making a sound, we can't sit still.
I calculated the height of the place, which was about three meters, and then decided to let the old clock ride on me to check the device on it.
Lao Zhong's body bones are not very heavy, so I pushed him up with a little force.
"How? Can it be reached? I said as I looked up.
The old bell bit the flashlight in his mouth, slowly sat up from my shoulder, pulled the heads of the beasts with both hands, and slowly propped himself up.
Through the flashlight of the old clock, I can see more clearly that these beast heads are depicted very expressively, especially those eyes, every stripe is vivid, if you lose your mind, I am really afraid that those creatures will come to life and jump down from above.
After the old bell stood up completely, he stretched out his hand and tried to weigh the beasts hard, and after seeing that there was no problem, he handed over the strength of his whole body to these beast heads.
After leaving me, I rubbed my shoulders and gave him a flashlight from underneath.
Under the light of the flashlight, the old bell groped along the stone wall around the heads of these beasts, and then took out the flashlight from his mouth and beat the light through.
"There are a lot of hollows here! Appears to be a teleporter of some kind of mechanism. As he spoke, he slowly shook his body hanging in mid-air to the stone wall, and used his strength there to keep himself balanced for a while.
At Lao Zhong's age, it is not easy to have such skills, which is related to the reason why he is busy outside all year round.
His arms were very thick, with bruised tendons bulging on them, and his fingers slowly moved over the heads of the beasts, looking for the conditions for the mechanism to function, and at that moment, I suddenly felt something move around me.
A slight grinding sound echoed in my ears, and when I subconsciously shook off the light and looked for the source of the sound, I skimmed not far away, and a small black thing slowly crawled out of a skeleton.
The light flashed, and I didn't see it clearly the first time, so I turned the flashlight again, and this time I finally saw what it was.
This is a small black-shelled scorpion, it crawled over a skeleton with a blackened throat bone, and was illuminated by the flashlight, and the poisonous needle raised high behind it emitted a slight black glow.
I took a step back, ducked to the side, and reached for the dagger in my leg.
But at that moment I felt a suction coming from behind me, and as I chased the metal dagger in my hand, I saw a swarthy thing crawling out of the head of the owl that the old bell was holding in his right hand.
"Be careful, you've got something crawling over you!" I yelled at him and turned the flashlight on.
Hearing this, the old bell was about to look at the beast head in his hand, but his eyes were stopped by the light that I suddenly threw over.
"What are you doing?" After the old bell muttered, his fingers suddenly trembled.
Under the white pillar of light, I felt goosebumps on my body, because the worm crawling out of the beast's head had many legs, like centipedes, but no, the black body reflected bright light.
"Don't move yet!" I said one more word, and hurriedly went to my backpack to find the white powder that Dong Shuchen gave us.
Because of the difference in light and position, the old clock couldn't see the strange insects hiding in the shadow of the sales head, so he didn't dare to move when I said these words.
Seeing me rummaging through my backpack again, he couldn't help but ask again, "What are you doing, what do I have on hand!" ”
"I can't say, maybe you've triggered some mechanism, I saw a strange insect crawling out of the mouth of a beast's head."
Finally, I found the white powder, and when I reached for it, I realized that it was unprocessed sulfur powder.
It was strong, and I grabbed it with one hand, and I felt a strange tingling sensation on my skin. I gritted my teeth and threw myself at the skeletons.
But when the strong smell of sulfur spread rapidly, Lao Zhong's hand slipped, and the flashlight immediately fell to the ground.
In an instant, the old clock fell into darkness, and I cursed to hell! Immediately freed up his hand and hit the flashlight.
But under the flashlight, all I saw was the beast heads—the old clock, which was gone.
I can't believe that the darkness just now was only a few tens of seconds, and the old clock triggered some mechanism before it disappeared.
The flashlight shone several times overhead, and everything on it was normal except for the old clock.
I immediately pulled the flashlight down and shook it between the surrounding stone walls, but I still didn't find the old bell, he didn't fall from it.
My eyes fell into the darkness under the light of the flashlight, as if the moment the flashlight fell, the heads of the beasts hiding in the darkness swallowed the old clock whole.