Chapter 117: The Face Tree
The aisle on the left was in a slightly better condition, so we rushed in without thinking, but after a while, the twisted and stumping limbs on the wall soon came out, and one by one the stumps flew towards us, I don't know how to describe the scene, in short, no one with a little reason would believe what we are going to happen to now.
At the end of the line, Moson and the others turned around from time to time to fire two shots, and the stumps that had left the dirt seemed to have no ability to heal again, and the bullets had an effect on them, and the arms and broken legs fell to the ground one after another, but there were too many of them, and the power of just a few guns was a drop in the bucket, and it didn't take long for me to suddenly hear a scream.
I looked back, it turned out that Mitaka at the back of the team fell to the ground, within a few seconds, his body was already full of twisted stumps, the black axe wanted to save him, dropped the gun and pulled those stumps with his bare hands, but the stumps were like being smeared with stickers, tightly attached to Mitaka's body, completely unable to tear off, Mosen saw that the three eagles were no longer alive, so he took a grenade from his waist and put it on his back, and whispered: "God bless you!" Then he pulled up the black axe and shouted, "GO! GO! ”
The stumps in the back attached themselves to Mitaka's body as if they had been naturally attracted, which bought us precious time to escape, and when we reached a certain distance, Mossen turned around sharply and fired several shots at Mitaka's back, detonating the grenade.
Seconds later, we heard a loud explosion that shook the entire corridor, debris was everywhere, and Mitaka was covered in black smoke, and although the flashlight couldn't shine there, we knew that he must have been shattered along with the stumps.
At this time, we still did not dare to relax, and ran desperately along the road for more than ten minutes, and everyone was silent along the way, only hearing the rapid gasps of people and the sound of chaotic footsteps.
Thinking about it carefully, the dead Mitaka just now actually doesn't have much to do with me, I haven't said a few words since the day I saw him to just now, and even I should be happy, because his death weakened the strength of Professor Wu's side, and in the end, if I really broke up, I would have one less opponent, but maybe out of pity for my fellow kind, maybe out of fear of death, my heart is still full of frustration and sadness.
Thinking that just a few minutes ago, he had fought alongside us, but now he was already in pieces, and I couldn't help but feel that my situation had reached an extremely dangerous point. Whatever extremely dangerous things he encountered along the way before, Nangong Han came forward to settle them, but now he has disappeared inexplicably, and we, mortals who are not self-sufficient, have suddenly become fish and meat to be slaughtered.
In the midst of my grief, I suddenly felt a cool breeze blowing on my face, and the feeling of this wind was not at all as desolate and strong as in the desert, but with an extreme cold from the undercurrent of the earth.
"It's windy, it looks like we're going to get out of the grave!" Professor Wu was sure.
At this time, I thought it was very strange, from the time we entered the tomb to the present, we have not even seen a coffin, nor have we seen any valuable burial goods, as if this is just a passageway, if this is the case, then the owner of the tomb has gone to great lengths to build such a costly tomb?
Just thinking about it, we have already gone out of the way. The moment I breathed in the fresh air of the outside world, my whole mind felt much refreshed, and what appeared in front of me was a very large space, which looked very similar to the poplar forest we were in before, the difference was that it was daytime when we came in just now, but now it was dark, and if there was no flashlight to light it, we could not see the surrounding environment at all.
"Strange, did we stay in that tomb all day?" The fat bear scratched his head in confusion.
"No way, my watch says it's seven o'clock in the morning." Elanlyn shook her head and pointed to the watch on her wrist.
"I see! That passage must be a space-time tunnel, we just managed to travel through time-space! Zheng Tian's mind was opened.
No one paid attention to Zheng Tian's nonsense, I took a few steps forward, and hit the flashlight upwards, and my heart suddenly chuckled.
It turned out to be a closed rock wall.
"We ...... We didn't even get out of the tomb, but came to a huge underground cavern. I muttered.
"Who are you, how do these trees grow without sunlight......?" Zheng Tian didn't finish his words, and shut up very knowingly the moment he looked up at my flashlight.
"Could it be that these trees were planted by the owner of the tomb?" Professor Wu muttered to himself, then walked over to the trees and took a closer look.
We followed, and what we saw was a surprise to everyone.
These withered poplar trees were neatly arranged in a dozen rows, and there was a black wooden coffin in the gap between every two trees, and the formation was quite huge, and what surprised us even more was that each poplar tree was covered with dense human faces, large and small, all of them had been distorted and deformed, and at first glance I thought they were carved, but if we looked closely, we would find that they seemed to have some kind of weak vitality.
Urat said he saw human faces growing on trees...... Could it be these ......?" Zheng Tian asked fearfully.
Not only what Urati said, but also the ghost story that Fat Bear showed us about the human face on the tree, is it all a coincidence? I don't think so, there must be some kind of inevitable connection between them.
"If that's the case, then Urati must have also been down to this ancient tomb." I replied.
"I'm afraid those stumps that grew on the earthen walls just now have some connection with the faces of the people on these trees." Professor Wu said thoughtfully.
Then Professor Wu made a move that surprised us all, he put on his gloves, took out tweezers, took some facial tissue samples from the tree, put them in the container prepared by John, and began the sampling experiment on the spot.
"Did he do that before? Dedicated enough," Fat Bear asked, patting John.
"Well, professors don't care about time and place when they do experiments." John replied as he watched the changes in the sample in the container.
A few minutes later, Professor Wu took off his gloves and said, "There are human tissues in it. ”
"So these faces were peeled off by living people? It's the same as in my ghost story. Fat Bear was surprised.
Zheng Tian put his hand in front of us and shook it and said, "Your hearts are really big enough, when are you still chatting here, aren't you afraid that these people's faces will be resurrected like the stumps just now?" ”
As soon as Zheng Tian's words fell, we heard a strange sound from the Yongdaokou just now, which sounded a bit like the roar of a beast.