Chapter 41: The First Test
"There is no evil spirit." I said to Master Cao.
"Help me look around." He put his bag down, took out his sapper shovel, put on his gloves and began to try to dig out the earth from the exit.
Although I knew that there should have been no evil in this place for a long time, and it still made me creepy to do such a thing, after Master Cao buried his head in digging for a while, I took the initiative to take the shovel and began to dig hard.
Master Cao smiled, turned around and took out the compass and other utensils, and began to check the surrounding situation.
The soil had probably fallen into it a long time ago, and it was like a stone that was not very hard, and my hands were already so good that I still felt a little stinging when I did it through protective gloves, and my fingers were a little wet, as if they were broken again.
But these things were secondary, and as I dug in, the contents of the hole gradually came to light, and my movements involuntarily slowed down.
"Master......" I couldn't help but exclaim.
You can see the coffin inside through the sunlight.
"Are you scared?" Master Cao took the shovel and asked me with a smile.
"It's not!" I said hurriedly. "I wanted to ask you how you're going to dig next!"
At that time, they must not have the sharp weapons such as pickaxes and explosives used on the construction site now, and the surface of the Sanhe soil was only cracked a not too big opening, and it was barely possible for a person to climb into it with a cat waist, but it was impossible to get the coffin out.
With this small shovel in our hands, it is impossible to break through the thick three-layer soil.
Master Cao quickly widened the opening a little more with a shovel and handed it to me.
"Bring my camera and flashlight." He said to me.
The bright light of the high-energy flashlight immediately illuminated the tomb, and there were still three very rotten coffins, black and eerie, without any funerary objects or ornaments.
The space is cramped, and it seems that its entire function is to hold these three coffins.
Master Cao looked around the inside of the tomb, and like the previous one, there were no markings or ornaments.
He began to study the three coffins carefully.
"Master Cao, beware of corpse insects!" I saw him try to touch the cracks in the coffins with my hands, and hurriedly reminded him.
"Help me get that red ointment." He said to me.
The two of us started wiping this stuff desperately on the bare parts of our bodies, it stinked, greasy like rubbing it on our own faces with a piece of rotten lard.
"What is this?" I finally couldn't help but ask.
"Corpse oil." Master Cao replied.
My first reaction was to jump up and desperately wipe them off with my sleeve, but Master Cao laughed.
"Don't worry, it's plant-based, but it does smell like corpse oil." He said this, picked up his camera and reflexively climbed back into the tomb.
I hesitated a little, what the hell is this, it's really suspicious, but when it comes to the end, I can only believe his later words.
"Give me the crowbar and help me with the flashlight." He said, handing the camera out.
The space inside was not large, and the three coffins occupied almost most of the position, and Master Cao used the crowbar to smash and pierce for a long time before finally opening the coffin lid.
"So many nails......" I heard him muttering to himself inside, and then pushed the lid of the coffin hard to the side.
The cotton wool wrapped around the corpse was revealed.
I don't know how to describe how I felt at that time, sometimes people's fear doesn't come entirely from fear, and disgust is also a very important reason.
It's like you won't be afraid of being bitten by maggots, but normal people will never hold them in their hands.
I instinctively tilted my head to the side, and soon I heard Master Cao say, "Where is it?" ”
I could only stubbornly look at the thing, and Master Cao handed the crowbar out, took a lot of pictures with the camera, and then asked me to hand him the multi-purpose pliers.
On the side of the pliers was a pair of scissors with a curved shape, and with the movement of his hands, the cotton wool was quickly cut open, revealing the terrible face of the corpse.
Some of the corpse worm larvae writhed on his face, and more of them were red adults, but the kind of ointment that Master Cao had used before was really useful, and some of the corpse worms crawled around on his gloves and pincers, but they didn't mean to attack him in the slightest.
He continued to cut downward, revealing the whole body.
I could barely stand it, but Master Cao scolded me harshly and told me to take the flashlight well.
"A lot of ghosts are much more disgusting than this thing, if you can't even accept that you can't move, then you better stop doing it as soon as possible!"
I was speechless, but after he scolded me, the intense discomfort lessened imperceptibly.
The larvae of countless corpse insects were writhing on the corpses, and people with dense phobia would definitely faint immediately when they saw such a scene, but Master Cao only took a breath, then put his hand in it, and groped in the pile of insects.
Finally, he climbed out with a piece of jade pendant.
"Did they get this jade pendant before?" He asked me as he patted off the corpses that had crawled on his clothes.
If it weren't for the glove, I wouldn't have had the courage to take it over.
Its shape is the six-legged and four-winged kobold monster we have ever seen, the carving is as simple as those things but very vivid, the thick green seems to overflow, placed in the sun, crystal clear, but not as warm as ordinary jade. Even through a layer of gloves, I could clearly feel the cold, biting aura emanating from it.
It's not evil, but it's definitely not a normal jade.
"It should be." I replied with some uncertainty.
I was so far away that I could only speculate through common sense.
"Okay, you look in the other two coffins to see if there is the same jade pendant."
His words hit me like a thunderbolt on the head.
"Master Cao?" I felt like my voice was distorted.
"If you can't overcome it, I'll find a way to help you close the Sky Eye." He sat down on a mound of dirt next to him and said to me solemnly. "it, it's the smallest pediatric thing. A corpse that doesn't move, you can't stand some bugs, what are you going to do when something more terrible and disgusting appears in front of you? If this is your weakness, those things that can see through people's hearts will definitely expand it a hundredfold and a thousand times more, so as to defeat you! What do you do? Just close your eyes and wait to die? The slightest hesitation on your part could kill yourself or someone else, and if you can't accept it, it's best to leave now. ”
"This is the most basic test." He pointed to the tomb. "Open the coffin, take a picture, and find the jade pendant."