Chapter 35: The Endless Loop
Seeing the bulge that was moving rapidly under the skin, the rest of the onlookers subconsciously took a big step back, and they all became frightened and noisy, as if they were discussing what it was. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Jackie Chan, who was riding on the Egyptian, was quite calm, and when he saw the bulge, he knew that something must have gotten into it, so he grabbed the end of the Egyptian's arm tightly with both hands, and at the same time glanced at Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee next to him rushed to the front knowingly, pulled out the short knife on his waist with his backhand, and shaved the blade against the bulge against the flesh skin!
Under the gaze of everyone, a flash of white light was seen, and a black dot was picked out and fell to the ground a few meters away. The Egyptian arm was also missing a piece of flesh, and the blood flowed, and he was sweating profusely from the pain, and his whole arm was shaking.
After the black origin fell to the ground, the surrounding people immediately avoided it, for fear that it would jump on top of them again. Bruce Lee, just in case, turned his wrist and flew the short knife out gently, only to hear a soft 'pop', and the tip of the knife was accurately pierced on the black spot.
It was only at this point that a bunch of people dared to approach with confidence, and I walked through it to take a closer look.
Under the light of a few flashlights, I saw that the black dot was a beetle the size of a peanut grain, the whole body was pitch black, there were no legs and feet, only two and a half centimeters of sharp protrusions grew in front of the head, I don't know if it was teeth or touch. Bruce Lee threw a short knife right in the middle of its carapace, and the tip of the knife pierced through its body and pinned it to the ground. Some pale green mucus was running from the wound, and it looked disgusting.
Asked the Egyptian to bandage the wound on his arm, Bruce Lee came close and threw the beetle to the ground, then put away the short knife and made a safe gesture to Ouyang Feizhu, who was standing far away.
The bald head sneered in his eyes: "This Ouyang Feizhu is really not stupid at all, if there is any danger, he will hide the farthest, Lao Zhang, don't make do with it, be careful that the insect is not dead, and come back to life in a while!" ”
Although I don't know what type of bug it is, and no leg or foot can bounce up and burrow into the surface of human skin in the blink of an eye, I think the bald head is right. Normally, the more dangerous the bug, the more tenacious the vitality. Putting away your curiosity and staying away from danger may be the wisest choice.
With that in mind, I answered, got up and walked back.
Just as I was returning to Leng Qi and standing firm, the group of Egyptians who were still watching around the insects suddenly exclaimed in unison, and then one of them jumped into the air and fell heavily to the ground.
Jackie Chan heard the sound and said a word in Arabic, as if to ask what was going on, five or six Egyptians pointed to the ground and kept talking, I followed the direction they pointed to and looked at it, my back suddenly cooled, only to see that the body of the insect that was still lying on the ground had disappeared, and the Egyptian who fell to the ground was tearing his clothes while twisting and struggling in pain, screaming desperately. You don't have to think about it to guess, it must be that the bug is alive again, as the bald head said.
Jackie Chan immediately rushed forward after hearing the situation, holding the Egyptian on his body as before, looking for a bulge, but this time the situation was even worse, everyone could only see the Egyptian's painful expression, and he pulled out all his clothes and found no trace of insects.
This struggle lasted for three minutes, and the Egyptian, like a machine with a power cut off, suddenly became unresponsive, no longer struggling and no longer screaming. Both eyes bulged out of their sockets to an incredible degree, and their pupils had begun to dilate.
Jackie Chan touched his chest and neck, then took a deep breath, got up and asked the others for details, and then came to Ouyang Feizhu and said: "They said that the insect suddenly came to life and went directly into the person's chest, and it was very fast. ”
Ouyang Feizhu was very cautious, and pulled Ouyang Mu a few steps away: "How is it now, what about the bug?" ”
Jackie Chan shook his head slightly: "It's out of gas, the bugs should still be in his body." ”
A small beetle can kill a person in three minutes, such a terrifying thing that the other Egyptians did not have the courage to collect the corpse of their companion, so they had to pack up their things and hurriedly leave, in case the insect crawled out again to harm people.
Seeing that everyone was walking towards the passage at the other end of the stone room, his bald eyes rolled and shouted softly: "Lao Zhang, you wait for me for a while." As he spoke, he ran briskly towards the dead Egyptian!
We were all stunned, we didn't expect him to make such a move, and it was too late to remind him, so we had to raise the flashlight and light him to see what he wanted to do.
After more than ten seconds, the bald head ran back again, still carrying a submachine gun of unknown model and a small pistol in his hand, and smiled when he saw us: "Type 79 **********, UCP semi-automatic continuous shooting pistol, both are good things!" ”
I gave him a blank look and complained: "Dead bald, you don't want to die, I'm not afraid that the worm will jump on you again!" ”
The bald head grinned: "There is always a spirit of adventure, this slight rush belongs to me, your marksmanship is too bad, the semi-automatic pistol will be given to the cold woman." With that, he put the submachine gun on himself and handed the pistol to Leng Qi.
Leng Qi did not refuse, checked the pistol magazine and safety situation, and stuffed his backhand into the boot rim of his calf.
Then again, the bald head is risky, but it's worth it. Ouyang Feizhu found so many heavily armed Egyptians in order to find an antique, this situation has to make people suspicious, people who understand it can feel it, they must have another purpose. As the saying goes, knowing people knows their faces but not their hearts, although he is now extremely polite to several of us 'Touching Gold Captains', but the ghost knows if he will turn his face and deny people after finding the exit, and kill people.
There are two arms on our bodies, and if we really tear our faces by then, we have a better chance of winning.
Maybe because of that kind of fatal beetle, Ouyang Feizhu walked so fast that he didn't notice whether we were following at all. It wasn't until I left the stone room and re-entered the tomb that I stopped and breathed a sigh of relief, looked at me and frowned and asked, "Little brother Zhang Rui, what kind of insect was that just now, did you encounter it when you went to the tomb before?" ”
I shook my head: "In Chinese mausoleums, the most dangerous insect is the corpse, although it is also extremely deadly, but as long as you pay more attention not to touch it, nothing will happen." And the kind of beetle just now has no legs and feet, but it is extremely bounced, and after touching human skin, it can burrow into the body in the blink of an eye, and we have never seen this kind of worm. ”
The bald head also continued: "That insect has been sealed in the lotus, so it can be seen that someone must have deliberately put it in to guard the coffin." Boss Ouyang, this pyramid, like the mausoleum, is extremely dangerous everywhere. It's best to tell your subordinates that it's best to say anything in advance if you want to take something in the future, otherwise there will definitely be more than one death! ”
Ouyang Feizhu's attitude was very good, and he nodded with a smile: "That's for sure, except for this blood jade lotus, there is nothing I want, don't worry." ”
The next journey of the group walked very fast, although they also passed through many stone chambers and met a lot of coffins, but after what had just happened, Ouyang Feizhu and the others were all apprehensive and unwilling to take any more risks. And we have lost faith in the coffins in this pyramid, just like the bald head said, the two coffins are empty, almost all of them are empty shells, and they have no value.
After staying in the pyramid for so long, I have lost my sense of time, and my phone automatically shuts down because of the low battery, and I can only tell what time it is through my watch, and I can't even tell the difference between morning and afternoon.
In this way, the fast walking army walked for six or seven hours, and as they entered the passage again from a stone room, the map in Leng Qi's hand was finally drawn with the last stroke, and the front and rear lines were completely connected here.
Standing in this endless passage at this moment, I also feel somewhat familiar, this seems to be the first passage that the four people have passed through when they have just entered the pyramid.
Leng Qi's previous analysis was correct, the route in this pyramid was indeed composed of two intertwined passages, and when someone entered through the entrance, they would unconsciously trigger the mechanism, and the passage at the bottom would change and open automatically. When outsiders enter the tower completely, the passage automatically closes and connects to another route to the top of the tower.
In this way, it can give the intruder a sense of ghost hitting the wall, no matter which direction they walk, no matter what method they use, they will eventually return to the same place after going through a complete cycle. The reason why the archaeological team did not encounter this situation two months ago is that they did not explore deeper, and the most important thing is that there are always people in and out of the whole archaeological process, so that the mechanism is always open, and the archaeologists in the tower will naturally not lose their way.
If there was no Leng Qi's map, no matter how capable we were, we would never have thought of this ingenious dead loop mechanism, blind exploration and walking is the current result of Ouyang Feizhu and others, and they have shuttled back and forth more than a dozen times in half a month, and they have never found any clue.
Now that the complete map of the entire pyramid was in front of him, this ingenious design instantly lost its effect, Leng Qi drew the guessed exit with a dotted line, and circled a small area with a pencil: "The pyramid is made of huge stones, so there is no mechanism that can move the entire passage, and if you want to change the trajectory of people unconsciously, you can only work on the stone slab." And this one or more stone slabs that can be offset and the mechanism that can be activated are in this area! ”
The area circled on the map is about 20 meters, and the next thing to do is only one word: find!
So except for Ouyang Feizhu's father and daughter, the remaining more than 20 people scattered, holding a flashlight in one hand and searching for the surrounding walls inch by inch with the other, and began a carpet search!