Chapter 18: Silkworm Baby
After doing these things. Wu Feifei and I analyzed it. When Feng Lao Nong disappeared, Wu Feifei leaned against the wall at the entrance, and I looked at the mural to the right of Wu Feifei. With a figure like Feng Laonong and a backpack on his body, it is impossible for him to run away from me quietly. In this case, he could only quietly extinguish the flashlight from Wu Feifei's left side, and then quickly ran away. In this case, Wu Feifei and I should also start from the left side, after all, this is the direction of Feng Lao Nong's escape, even if we can't meet him, if there is any danger on the road, we should also be met or resolved by Feng Lao Nong.
The discussion has been decided. Turn off Wu's flashlight and put it in your pocket to save battery. Then Wu Feifei and I each held a steel pipe, and I turned on a flashlight and walked to the tomb on the left. The dim, yellowed flashlight can only shine at a distance of two meters. Except for the footsteps of the two of us, all that was left was the dim light reflected off the pitch-black and smooth blue slates.
The tomb was not deep, and about ten meters away, a corner appeared, and we walked cautiously along the road. I'm afraid that I will touch some mechanism and shoot myself into a hedgehog.
Just after walking a few steps, Wu Feifei suddenly stopped, and then pulled me. He put his finger in front of his mouth and shushed at me. Then he whispered to me, "Listen carefully, there's a rustling sound."
I held my breath and listened carefully for a moment. Sure enough, I heard a small rustling sound coming from not far away. I suddenly became nervous. It is reminiscent of the quicksand tombs set up by the ancients to prevent tomb robbers. This kind of tomb is built with quicksand, huge stones, layer by layer. If a Tomb Robber triggers the trap, the quicksand will slowly flow down, sealing the tomb completely, thus burying the Tomb Robber alive underground.
Just as I was thinking about whether to move forward or retreat, I suddenly felt something squirming in my pants. This feeling is all too familiar, when I was a child in the countryside, I often had bugs crawling into my pants in the summer, and this is the feeling. But what could be crawling in this ancient tomb?
I was startled, then screamed and jumped up. Throw the steel pipe aside, and there will be a few slaps to the wriggling place in the pants. Wu Feifei was taken aback by my actions and hurriedly turned on his flashlight and shone it at me.
I saw white molluscs the size and thickness of cigarettes hanging from my pants below my knees. One by one, they were trying to climb up their pants. Ignoring the nausea and fear, I swung them to the ground with my hand. At this time, I found that the ground was densely covered with this kind of white insects. Squirming in a scramble. Like a sea of white insects, it ripples with the wind.
I hurriedly ran back a few meters away, standing in a place where there were no bugs. Shining the flashlight at Wu Feifei, he was about to call him over. I saw that Wu Feifei was also like me, desperately waving the insects on his body to the ground, and then ran towards the position where I was standing like the wind.
The two of us converged in one place, and ran through the hole where our legs had been. Wait to run to the entrance of the cave. It was found that the bugs did not chase them. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief. I rolled up my pants and cleaned up the few bugs that had been swatted to death. I found that three insects had been slapped by me, and the yellow-green viscous juice wrapped a gray-white insect skin, and the skin was covered with dots of patterns and more than a dozen large and small feet.
Resisting my nausea, I tore a few strips of my clothes and wiped the yellow-green juices clean. I suddenly remembered this bug.
I remember when I was a child, I saw this kind of insect at the house of Luo Zhuang's cousin Lao Hai. They kept a lot of large foils in their homes, which were round containers woven from reeds that grew along the river. Each has a diameter of one meter and a depth of twenty centimeters. Put them inside and pick fresh mulberry leaves to feed them. Then when it grows up and forms a cocoon into a pupa , you can also fry it in oil and eat it as a snack. This worm is a silkworm baby. I just remember that the silkworm babies seem to grow on mulberry leaves at home or in the wild, but I don't know why there are so many silkworm babies in this sealed ancient tomb.
Thinking of this, the nausea in my heart is gone. Because when I was a child, I used to eat this kind of thing in the countryside. After frying, it is still delicious. I briefly told Wu Feifei about it. Then he decided to continue from this road, one is to look for Mingqi and Feng Laonong. The second is to take a look at why there are so many silkworm babies. Could it be that the owner of this tomb used to be a large silkworm farmer.
In order to prevent the silkworm baby from getting into the pants, climb up along the legs. So he tore his shirt into strips of cloth and tied them firmly to his trousers. After you are ready. Wu Feifei and I still turned on a flashlight. Then proceed to the cemetery on the left. I walked all the way around the corner, and there was still not a single bug on the ground. But after turning the corner, I found that the silkworm baby on the ground was already gray. As if this corner was a forbidden area for them, they didn't dare to cross the thunder pool for half a step. I think this may be the anti-insect measures set by the ancients. In ancient times, when the tomb road was built, the building would be mixed with cinnabar, sulfur and other insect repellent things. to prevent the burial chamber from being infested by insects underground.
Stepping around the corner, the ground is already full of silkworm babies, and there is no open space to put your feet on. We had to bite the bullet and step on these silkworm babies. As soon as I stepped down, it felt soft, followed by the sound of popping bugs being trampled. I flashed my flashlight and looked down. I saw that the insects under my feet were all trampled into a skin, mixed with yellow-green juice. I couldn't help but feel sick to my stomach. I simply didn't look at it, pulled Wu Feifei and strode forward.
There were more and more insects in front of them, and the tomb wall was dotted with silk threads and protruding bulges. When I walked in, I found that the walls were all silk and cocoons like spider webs. It seems that these silkworm babies really regard this tomb as their home. After walking forward for a distance of more than ten meters, I found a fork in the road, in the fork on the left, there are many silkworm babies, but you can see clear footprints, the silkworm babies in the footprints are already juice flowing, obviously trampled to death. And the one who trampled on the silkworm baby in this tomb can only be the old farmer Feng who escaped first!
Needless to say, we naturally had to take this fork in the road on the left. It is still reassuring to follow Feng Laonong, a slightly experienced veteran of tomb robbing.
The two of us carefully walked into the tomb, and after walking a few meters forward, we found that the tomb was suddenly narrowed, only one meter wide on both sides, and only more than two meters high. On the wall of the tomb, there are impressive paintings of woods by the river. And there seem to be countless silkworm babies on the tree. After groping for a distance, I found a large hole in the tomb wall on one side. I turned on my flashlight and looked inside. The cave is only 50 centimeters wide, and it curves diagonally upward, while the entrance to the cave is broken bricks and rubble, but the inside of the cave is damp earth. Obviously, this is a thief hole.