Chapter 45: The Thing in the Coffin (Part II)
I was stunned for a moment - why did Tenzin Kava die in a coffin?! We've just opened the coffin!
If the body in the coffin is Tenzin Kava, then who is with us all the time?
I suddenly looked around me, but I was even more frightened!
I saw that the person standing to my right was Gillila, who had already been frozen to death by the snow marrow in Borobudur, and this big man still maintained his appearance before death, his face was covered with hoarfrost and ice slag. [10,000 volumes, full text, hand-typed debut]
Looking at the others again—the first one on the left and right was none other than Siko, whose face was covered in blood, but wasn't he sucked dry by the Yaksha vine, and all that was left was a pile of bones wrapped in human skin?
In short, the people who stood next to the sarcophagus with me have all become people who have already died on the journey!
Among them were Tenzin Kawa's guards, mountain guides and porters, and even Farrado and Lobu.
However, Lao Dao, Shen Tangzhi and others who were originally with me disappeared.
In an instant, everyone suddenly turned their faces, and a pair of godless eyes were staring at me.
"Y-you-"
I took a step back and suddenly stood still.
For I felt a gust of wind coming from behind me, and immediately aroused my vigilance, I suddenly ducked down, and then the ice axe in my hand smashed towards the attacking enemy—
But my vision suddenly trembled, as if it were a black-and-white movie from decades ago, and suddenly there were countless snowflake-like noises, and the silhouette of the enemy who attacked me suddenly shook for a moment......
I stopped the ice axe that was slamming away.
Because I already understood what was going on in that moment.
I yelled, "Stop! What you're seeing now—"
Before I could finish my sentence, a gunshot rang out in my ears!
Immediately afterward, there was another sound of people screaming and howling in pain!
I have understood that things are out of control and that I must get to the root of the problem, or else we will all die here!
I took two steps back, then lunged forward, jumped onto the sarcophagus, my ice axe held high above the top, and slashed at the head of Tenzin Kava lying flat in the coffin!
At this moment, the corpse of Tenzin Kawa in the coffin suddenly opened its eyes, and the pupils of his eyes turned into a thin line erected - it was a snake pupil!
This trick couldn't scare me, and in the next second, my ice axe had smashed deep into the head of "Tenzin Kava"!
Everything around me suddenly changed subtly, and the scene in my eyes faded like a thick fog blown by a strong wind......
I turned around, and the dead people standing on the edge of the sarcophagus were still staring at me with blank eyes, but their figures were slowly torn off like pieces of paper pasted on top of the background painting......
I let go of the ice axe, stood on the edge of the sarcophagus with my feet, stood up straight, closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and shouted, "Don't move!" Everything you see is an illusion! Now close your eyes and open them slowly. ”
As I said that, I slowly opened my eyes.
Everything that caught my eye finally turned back to normal.
On the left side of the sarcophagus, Shen Tangzhi, Hyde, Lao Dao, Tenzin Kava and others all caught my eye, but they had all left the sarcophagus and stood scattered on the circular platform.
I was relieved to see that they were okay, but as soon as my eyes moved to the right side of the sarcophagus, my pupils shrank!
My worst fears came anyway-
That white Northern Irish man, John, fell on his back in a pool of blood!
Yali was half-lying on the ground, and Jia Jie, who was a little farther away, kneeling on the ground, clutching the M4 carbine in his arms, but with an ice axe that had been half-submerged in his back!
Beside him, Boche, with a frightened look in his eyes, crawled backwards and screamed, "It's not me! I didn't do it! That's not what I saw—"
"Old knife, stop Poche! Shen Tangzhi went to take a look at Jiajie and John's injuries, Sir, you come here. ”
I didn't go there because I had more important things to attend to—and I had time to see what was going on inside the coffin, and I saw that there was a huge head of a black ruba snake buried inside, and my ice axe was stuck in the head of the snake!
The head of the snake was a few points larger than a person's torso, the skin was black and shiny, and the eyes were open, but the pupils in the eyes were pale and completely lifeless.
There was nothing else in the coffin except this huge snake head, and there were no funeral goods at all.
"It's—" Tenzin Kawa glanced at it, surprised, "I first saw that it was ...... lying in it A friend who has been dead for many years, so I ......"
What Tenzin Kawa said was actually the illusion he said he saw, and the source of the illusion was the head of this giant serpent.
At this time, the voices of Shen Tangzhi and the old knife came almost at the same time.
Shen Tang said: "John is dead, the bullet hit his forehead, he should have died on the spot." ”
The old knife said: "Jia Jie can't do it anymore - the ice axe on his back seems to have been inserted by Boche ......"
I asked Yale-in-China to come and help us look at the snake's head in the coffin to prevent any further changes, while Tenzin Kava and I hurried to the old knife to check on the situation.
The ice axe on Jiajie's back, the tip of the pickaxe piercing through his chest, looked at me and Tenzin Kava, and wanted to speak, but he kept coughing up blood in his mouth, and he couldn't hear what he was saying.
"Don't worry about your family, I will take care of them, you deserve it. Don't worry, I know your wishes, and I will send your son to a good school so that he doesn't have to do those dangerous jobs......"
Tenzin Kava seemed to understand what Jiajie was going to say, and after listening to Tenzin Kava's assurance, a smile appeared on the corner of Jiajie's bloody mouth, and then he lowered his head and passed away.
And the old knife next to him suddenly shouted: "Yali, what are you going to do?!" ”
When I looked up, Yale-in-China had crawled into the sarcophagus!
I shouted a warning, "Don't pull out your ice axe!" ”
But it was too late, and with a movement of Yale's shoulder, the ice axe was already in his hand!
"Whew!"
A sound like a deflated balloon sounded, and a puff of black smoke erupted from the coffin, completely engulfing Yale-in's figure in an instant!
What frightens us even more is that the circle under our feet actually began to shake......
"It's over, Yali has destroyed the mechanism, and I'm afraid this temple is going to collapse." I feel a chill in my heart.
Tenzin Kawa said hatefully, "Why did he pull out the ice axe from the snake's head? ”
"Because the ability of the snake head to create the illusion has weakened, but it has not disappeared at all - it's useless to talk about it now, get out of here first!"
In just a few seconds, the shaking was so great that it was almost impossible to stand, and a few of us stumbled off the black brick platform where the sarcophagus was placed.
But the shaking of the ground has spread, and the huge stone pillars around it have begun to shake slightly, once these stone pillars supporting the top of this temple fall, the entire temple will collapse in an instant, and beyond the temple is a huge glacier hundreds of meters high, and several of us will be buried in the ground, and we may never see the light of day again.
The old knife hurriedly said: "Aji, if the temple collapses, won't we all be buried alive?" You've always had a good brain, think of a way! ”
"Don't worry, I'm not trying to figure it out?"
As we spoke, we saw Yali crawl out of the sarcophagus again, not only with a trace of black air on his body, but also all over his body that had turned black, and he stretched out his hand as if to ask us for help, but a beam of wood fell from the sky and landed on top of Yale's head, and instantly smashed him into meat sauce!
Watching Yale-in-Lema's tragic death, I gritted my teeth and said, "There's only one way...... Go back to the altar! ”
"Do you want to get out of there?" Shen Tangzhi thought of it in an instant.
"Farador can climb in from there, which means that the passage must be connected to the outside world, and it must be a dead end for us to stay in the temple at the moment, at least there is an opportunity."
Just think about it a little more, Tenzin Kawa and Lao Dao naturally understood that the escape place that Shen Tangzhi and I were talking about was the corpse cave next to the altar that was used by the ancestors of the ancient kingdom of Somol to dispose of the corpses that had been sacrificed!
"Boom—"
The huge stone pillars in the temple began to fall, and as the pillars fell, the beams of the iron wood and the black gold clay tiles on the roof of the temple fell like a torrential rain around us......
At the moment of desperation, no one had the slightest hesitation, and towards the black hole of the one-meter-square corpse hole, he jumped in-
Although the flesh and blood on the inner wall of the corpse cave were dry, it was still filled with a strong smell of corpse oil, and we slid directly downward, and I don't know how long it took, just when we were dizzy by the strong sense of falling, there was a sudden emptiness under our bodies, followed by a volley fall......
"Ahhhhh
The people in front shouted one after another, followed by the sound of "poof" and "poof".
Before I could react to what was going on, I just felt my body fall into a cold place, and then I was surrounded by water!
We fell into an underground river!
The underground river was not too cold, I splashed in the water a few times, and finally swam out of the water, spat out a mouthful of water, and I shouted, "Are you all right?" ”
Luckily, the flashlight we purchased was waterproof, and I could still see a few lampposts peeping through the dark water.
"I'm fine." This is Shen Tangzhi's voice
"Ahem, ahem...... Nest grass! I almost drowned Lao Tzu! I've lost my flashlight! "This is an old knife.
Shen Tangzhi had a flashlight in his hand, and the boss and I swam to her along the light.
Tenzin Kawa and Poche then showed their heads on the water, but Hyde was nowhere to be seen.
Shen Tangzhi suddenly remembered something: "Oops, Ace doesn't seem to be very good at water!" ”
"I'll go find him."
But before I finished speaking, Shen Tangzhi had already plunged into the water.
"When is it, pay you back, you and me, everyone will go and find it together - hey, you two can help too!"
The old knife beckoned Tenzin Kawa and Poche, and a fierce man also plunged into the water, and I followed and dived into the water.
There was no light in the underground river, and all we could rely on was Shen Tangzhi's flashlight, but then two more lights came on - Tenzin Kawa and Poche also dived.
The underground river was unusually wide and bottomless, and when we saw it, there was a flurry of panic, which meant that if Hyde was really drowning in a coma, we might not be able to find it in time - you know, the water in the underground river is flowing.
As time passed, Shen Tangzhi's movements in the water became more and more flustered, and I understood that it was because he was anxious.
I swam to Shen Tangzhi's side, took the flashlight from her, and gestured for her to go online to breathe, while I planned to dive deeper to find it.
Shen Tangzhi shook his head desperately at me, wanting to pull me up to ventilate, I was ruthless, brushed Shen Tangzhi's hand away, and then slammed into the dark water.
My water nature can only be said to be average, but looking at Shen Tangzhi's appearance, her water nature is worse than mine, the old knife will not talk about it, don't look at this old boy who saves people one by one, he is full of anger, in fact, he will do a few dog planing, it will be great if he doesn't drown himself, and he can't be expected to save Haide.
We don't know the roots of Tenzin Kawa and Poche, and in this kind of Jedi, I'm afraid that even if they are better than me, they won't be able to kill - in short, it's on my own.
This dive, I almost held the will of despair, and it didn't take long for me to hold my breath to the limit, and even began to appear in front of me, I understood that this was the body issuing a warning, and the blood oxygen level reached the lowest value.
But it was at this moment that I suddenly noticed a little light shining from the bottom of the water, and a faint shadow flashed by.
I was overjoyed, and I didn't care about holding my breath, and went downstream again—
But suddenly, the light came towards me very quickly!
The next moment, a scene appeared in front of me that made my scalp tingle!
A huge water monster appeared under my flashlight post, the water monster had a manned hydrogen balloon-like round and huge body, dozens of long tentacles spread out to cover hundreds of meters of space, directly enveloping me in it, and in the tentacle cluster, a grinding disc-sized mouthparts were being closed one by one, and a little light flashed in its mouthparts.
It dawned on me that the monster had devoured the glare of the old knife, and I thought it was Hyde who had found the flashlight and was approaching me.
With such a huge monster in the moment, I can't help but feel like I'm going to swim back!
But the water was the monster's home turf, and before I could turn around, the monster suddenly approached me again!
It turned out that although the water monster looked large and bulky, it moved in a similar way to an octopus, and in addition to its tentacles, it also had some tubes protruding from its body surface, which should be body tubes - the water monster relied on the strong water jet from the body tube to gain reaction force, so that it quickly moved in the opposite direction.
The water monster instantly approached me, and the tentacles shrank one by one, and immediately enveloped me overwhelmingly, and the next moment, I was entangled in the tentacles of the water monster into a zongzi, and I couldn't move!
In addition, I finally ran out of breath, and the strong feeling of lack of oxygen made me feel like my lungs were about to explode, but as soon as I opened my mouth, the groundwater rushed in.
I went into a state of drowning almost instantly......