Human skin mask
The black bull was stunned for a moment, quickly retracted his hand, and dodged to us at great speed.
I pressed my fear and listened, but I didn't hear anything.
"Did you hear it wrong?" Gu Yixin asked in a low voice.
The black bull made a silent gesture to her, pointing to the lacquered coffin parked on the agate bed. I saw a glimmer of light shining through the cracks of the coffin lid, and the bright light was green and shining, reflecting on the heavy curtain, which was particularly penetrating.
This stone room was very different from the others, the layout of the room was already a little weird, and now, it was even more weird: the copper nail on the coffin lid was inexplicably pulled out, and the vermilion lacquer coffin suddenly sounded, and a few faint traces of green light were reflected.
I looked at the extremely strange red coffin in front of me, and instinctively wanted to run away, but because Gu Yixin was still standing aside, I had to pretend to be calm and said in a tone as smooth as possible: "I'm afraid that the master in this coffin is awake, let's withdraw slowly, don't disturb her." ”
Then he turned to the black bull and said, "You put the things on the table back as they are." ”
The black bull glared at me and said reluctantly: "Let's retreat, why do you want to return the things!" I'm not in the habit of picking up money! ”
As soon as the words fell, there was another "click" sound from the vermilion lacquer coffin, and the beam reflected on the curtain immediately changed an angle, and the previous charm green instantly turned demon red.
"You've already upset this young lady!" As I spoke, I reached out and pulled out the paratrooper knife from my waist, ready for the mutation that was about to happen.
"Gotcha! I put it back, can't I put it back? The black bull stood in place and bowed to the lacquered coffin, reached out and took out a bronze statue from his backpack, and retreated to the front of the screen.
"Wait." Gao Moli said, carrying the three-edged sword and walking towards the lacquer coffin.
"Come back! There's no need to mess with her! I shouted to stop Gao Moli.
Gao Moli ignored me, walked to the vermilion lacquer coffin in a few steps, stretched out a single palm, and pushed it towards the coffin lid without hesitation. The heavy coffin lid suddenly slipped onto the agate bed, and with a "poof" smashed, the guardrail behind the bed.
As the lid of the coffin was pushed open, a red light appeared in the coffin, and the curtain reflected in the red light was red.
I'm afraid I'm going to get a corpse! I secretly said in my heart that something big was not good, and I ran to the coffin to pull Gao Moli.
Gao Moli had already stretched out the three-edged sword into the coffin and picked out a semicircular thing from it.
The semi-circular object had a smooth surface and a spotlight on the front. I recognized it at a glance, it turned out to be a mountaineering helmet!
The spotlight on the helmet was a bit bleak, apparently low on power.
I immediately understood that the "click" sound just now was actually emitted by the helmet falling to the bottom of the coffin. The beam of light is refracted by the paint on the inside of the coffin, which gives off a different color depending on the angle of the fall.
"Damn, a false alarm!" I shouted at the black bull.
The black bull quickly walked back from the screen, stuffed the bronze statue into his backpack again, and asked, "Have you opened the coffin?" Hey, let me see who is lying inside, pretending to be a ghost to scare her. ”
Gu Yixin and Hei Niu gathered around the agate bed together.
Seeing the mountaineering helmet that Gao Moli was carrying on his sword, Gu Yixin frowned and asked, "Old Su, how could the helmet be in the coffin?" This helmet, it seems...... It seems to be the same as ours. ”
Indeed, as Gu Yixin said, the mountaineering helmet in the red coffin belongs to the same model as the one we wear on our heads, both of which are light aluminum composite helmets, which are small in weight, strong in resistance, and have front-mounted tactical spotlights, especially suitable for use in dark underground.
Due to its special practicality, many outdoor adventurers will choose this helmet, such as Zhang Xuefeng and his party's equipment.
The black bull took the helmet in his hand and looked at it, threw it on the bed casually, and said: "There are many exactly the same things in the world, and eighty percent of this thing was put in it by the person who followed you just now." ”
Gu Yixin asked puzzledly, "But, why did the person who followed me open this coffin?" ”
I shook my head, "Who knows, let's see what's going on in the coffin first." ”
As he spoke, Gao Moli had already jumped on the bed, went around to the end of the lacquered coffin, opened the wolf's eyes and shone into the coffin.
I climbed up and looked inside along the coffin.
This sight frightened me so much that I almost fell off the agate bed.
"Damn, look at your reaction, isn't the Miss of the Western Han Dynasty lying inside ugly and a little miserable?" The black bull said as he climbed up.
I slowed down and said to myself, "The person in the coffin, we seem to know each other!" ”
I couldn't believe my eyes: inside the vermilion lacquer coffin lay a corpse with a bulging belly, dressed in red, with arms hidden in wide sleeves, its sideburns like clouds, and its face beneath it was so white that it looked like it had just died.
It's this face that looks a little familiar.
The black bull looked at it for a while, looked up and asked me, "Damn, this, isn't this a fat mercenary?" ”
The face was indeed that of a fat mercenary, especially the mole next to the chin, which couldn't be more eye-catching.
Without waiting for me to answer, the black bull asked one after another, "Why did he die in the coffin?" And, the belly is still bigger? ”
Although the words of the black bull were a little unserious, they also expressed the doubts in my heart. I can't tell if it's the mercenary with a big belly, or if the ancient corpse has a mercenary's face.
When he was puzzled, Gao Moli hummed and said, "This face is fake." ”
With that, he reached for the corpse's face, pulled it from behind his ear, and tore off a mask as thin as oiled paper.
This mask is extremely realistic, from the outline of the facial features to the textured hair, all of which are very realistic.
I took it in my hand and touched it, and it felt like I was touching my own face. I felt a little infiltrated, so I threw it to the black bull.
The black bull exclaimed: "Damn, this is the legendary human skin mask!" With this thing to disguise, ordinary people can't tell the real or fake. ”
"Fat mercenary's human skin mask? Could it be that mercenary ......! Gu Yixin looked at me incredulously and asked.
"Yes, that mercenary is fake!"
I've also heard of human skin masks, which are said to be extremely complex and difficult to preserve. Once the wrinkles appear, the entire mask cannot be worn again, and it is completely useless.
Looking at the human skin mask and the mountaineering helmet on the bed, I roughly understood what was going on: there was a person who had been disguised as a fat mercenary from the beginning and had infiltrated Zhang Xuefeng's team. He found that Gu Yixin followed Zhang Xuefeng into the mine, so he secretly followed Gu Yixin in turn.
The reason why that person opened the lacquer coffin and put the human skin mask on the ancient corpse's face was to prevent the mask from wrinkling and affecting him to wear makeup again.
Hei Niu thought for a moment and retorted: "Old Su, this doesn't seem to make sense, since that person is going to wear this human skin mask again, why did he take it down?" ”
"She probably wants Xiao Gu to know who she is." I glanced at Gu Yixin and continued: "Of course, this is just my personal guess, what is going on, let's go back and catch that guy and ask." ”
The black bull echoed: "Yes, the structure of this ancient tomb is complicated, she can't run away for a while, let's hurry up and get down to business, and then we will arrest her." ”
With that, he threw the human skin mask aside, rolled up his sleeves, and turned the Great Black Eagle upside down to salvage the contents of the lacquered coffin.
After taking off the human skin mask, the ancient corpse revealed its true face: the muscles of her face had shrunk to black and purple, her eyes were closed, and her mouth was wide open, showing a painful and distorted expression.
"Lao Su, did you say she died in childbirth? Look at this belly bulging like a leather ball, alas! The fertility conditions in ancient times were too damn backward, and one corpse had two lives. The black bull said, using the big black eagle's shooting port to hook the jade bracelet on the ancient corpse's wrist.
The jade bracelet was too slippery, and the black bull didn't hook it off a few times, but instead tore off half of the sleeve of the female corpse. The woman's forearms were revealed: sporadic patches the size of fingernails scattered across her yellow, wrinkled skin. The corpse spots were purple-black, presumably poisoned.
"It wasn't a difficult birth, it should have been poisoned." I shone a spotlight on the corpse spots and said, "These corpse spots are black and purple, seeping from the skin to the skin surface for a long time, which is a typical sign of arsenic poisoning!" ”
"Arsenic?! Who the hell lacks virtue and poisons a pregnant woman with a big belly. The black bull tugged at the jade bracelet, but it had no effect, so he had to put the big black eagle away. scolded indignantly: "This family is simply an iron rooster, and they haven't even purchased funeral goods." ”
Looking at the furnishings in this tomb, we originally thought that the owner of the tomb should be a girl waiting in the pavilion, but now the coffin was opened, but we found a young woman lying in it who was pregnant for ten months.
The mother and son have not met, the fetus is stillborn, more than 2,000 years, has her resentment ever dissipated?
A wave of sadness welled up in my heart, and I didn't want to look at that face in agony anymore.
Gao Moli noticed the change in my mood and said lightly: "It's fate." ”
I don't know if he is enlightening me or sighing to himself.
After that, Gao Moli raised his hand to lift the heavy coffin lid on the side, preparing to cover it on the coffin as it was. only to find that the black bull had already poked half of his body into the coffin.
"What the are you doing!" As I spoke, I turned and tugged at the black bull's belt, for fear that he would sink headlong into the coffin.
"It's time to get off, Lao Su, you drag me a little!" The black bull said as he stroked the mutton fat jade bracelet on the wrist of the female corpse.
"You are really lacking in virtue!" I scolded, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a blood stain on the belly of the black bull's thumb, and hurriedly changed my words and asked, "What's the matter with the blood on your hand?" ”
Hei Niu Feng said lightly: "When I entered the door, I was scratched by a broken mirror frame, but this small injury is nothing to a model worker like me who works on the front line of the inverted bucket, and I can't stop ......it."
I whispered in my heart: It's broken. Hurriedly pulled the upper body of the black bull out of the coffin.
At the same time, the originally chapped skin on the arms of the female corpse in the coffin was slowly plumping, and a dense layer of white hair was also growing.
Look at that situation, the corpse is about to rise in the blink of an eye!
The black bull didn't know what to do, and was just about to open his mouth to scold me, when he suddenly saw the transformed female corpse and shouted: "Run!" In a hurry, he took out two fire folds, lit them and threw them into the coffin.
We jumped down from the agate bed, and the fire in the coffin behind us instantly burst into flames, igniting the curtains on the bed together.
In a moment, the agate stone chamber was reflected in a miserable red, like a fire burning in hell, and the undead who had been wandering for thousands of years were overtaking.
The lacquered coffin and the ancient corpse crackled as it was burned.
I silently recited Amitabha, and secretly said in my heart: Rest in peace, may your mother and son let go of the grudges of the next life and die early.
"Damn, this fire is a bit fierce!" The black bull said and beckoned everyone to retreat outside the stone room.
I walked over to the screen and glanced back at the coffin, which was burning with fire. Suddenly, in the light of the fire, a bare-bottomed child crawled out of the vermilion lacquer coffin and walked towards me with trembling arms......