Chapter 5: The Scarlet Corpse
The voice in the coffin came so suddenly that it really startled us.
Atsuko clenched the dagger and said, "Is there a live zongzi in it?" ”
I said, ", what the hell." ”
Knock Knock...... Boom......
"That's not right." Atsuko was so bold that he carefully attached his ear to the coffin lid, listened for a while, and said, "Could it be a cat inside?" ”
I thought for a moment and said, "It's possible, but it's not right even if it's a cat, this place has obviously not been visited for a long time, how did the cat get in?" Even if someone put it in, it should have died a long time ago. ”
Atsuko said, "I have no choice but to open it and take a look." ”
I said, "If it's really a rice dumpling, then it's going to be a problem." ”
Atsuko said: "It's unlikely, the coffin lid is not nailed, if it was really zongzi, it should have jumped out a long time ago." ”
I thought about it too, and stepped forward with a dagger.
Atsuko lit a cigarette and stood in the southeast corner of the chamber.
I said, "What the hell is going to do?" ”
Atsuko said: "When the heart is known, Master Zu will not blame." ”
I smiled and said, "Your ancestor is a Xieling Lux, what are you doing to me to touch the golden captain?" ”
Atsuko said: "Don't worry about this, Lao Tzu is happy." ”
I think it's a little funny, every time I encounter some unknown event, Atsuko and I will subconsciously fight a few words, and we have developed this habit over the years, maybe to relieve the tension!
There is no tool to open the coffin, so the coffin can only be opened with bare hands.
Fortunately, these coffins are made of wood, and with Atsuko's physique, it is not a big problem to lift the lid of the coffin by himself, and I, standing on the sidelines, are on guard.
The knocking in the coffin stopped, as if waiting for us......
Atsuko spat into the palm of his hand, stood at the end of the coffin, clasped the lid of the coffin with both hands, glanced at me, and shouted: "Raise the coffin and make a fortune!" ”
The lid of the coffin was lighter than I had imagined, and in an instant it was lifted by Atsuko, who flipped it to the side and flipped it to the ground.
I immediately shone my flashlight into the coffin, and suddenly a black shadow burst out, and a furry thing pounced directly on my face.
I panicked and yelled, "Holy, what the hell ......"
Before I could finish speaking, I felt a gravitational force hit me in the face, followed by a strange scream, and the thing that jumped on my face was knocked to the ground, and I was hit with gold stars all over my eyes.
Atsuko yelled, "Oh my God, why are there so many dead cats? ”
I shook my head, rubbed my face with both hands, and when I looked up, I saw that it was a skinny black cat that had jumped on my face. At this time, the black cat had been hit to the ground by Atsuko, and it seemed to pass out, and Atsuko was staring intently at the inside of the coffin at this time.
When I saw the inside of the coffin, I couldn't help but cry.
Before the coffin was opened, we speculated that there was probably a cat in the coffin, and this idea has been confirmed.
But to my surprise, in addition to the cat that jumped out and was knocked unconscious, there were at least dozens of cats in the coffin, but these cats were all dead, some were riddled with holes, some were dried and hardened, and some were only a pile of bones......
Among the dense cat corpses, there is also a human skeleton, but the skin and flesh are missing, and the intact white bones remain.
It seems that there is no danger inside this coffin.
Atsuko took a careful look at it with a flashlight, and then turned over the cat bones and human bones in the coffin with a dagger, and said, "There should be a hole under the coffin, and these cats came in from below." ”
I was stunned and said, "Why are you all dying here?" ”
Atsuko flipped it with the dagger again, and said in surprise: "It's strange, how can there be so much sand?" ”
"Sand?" I felt inexplicable, so I went forward to check it, and found that the bottom of the cat bones and human bones was indeed filled with fine sand, and these sands were by no means the so-called wind sand, they must have been deliberately put into this coffin.
I've seen countless coffins, but I've never seen one filled with sand.
Atsuko thought for a moment and said, "Although I didn't know that there would be sand for the hair, it was already clear that the cat dug a hole from under and entered the coffin, and then the sand in the coffin fell and blocked the hole, and finally they all died here." ”
I looked at the black cat that had passed out on the ground and said, "The other cats starved to death after eating the owner of the coffin, but this cat survived by eating the corpse of its companion." ”
Atsuko gave me a thumbs up: "You kid has a future. ”
I said, "It's, but it's possible." ”
Atsuko looked around and said, "There are a total of nine coffins, the appearance is the same, if the inside is the same, then the owner of this villa must be a corpse bearer, yes, it is this sand that makes people confused." ”
I said, "It's possible that the corpses here are all carried back from the desert, forget it, don't care, find a mask!" ”
Atsuko nodded, then walked over to another coffin.
We have no other way, to find the masks, we have to open all the coffins here.
Luckily, a few more coffins were opened in a row, and the situation was basically the same.
There was sand piled up in every coffin, and the corpses were all bones! And in each coffin there are cat's corpses, more or less, but there are no longer survivors......
……
People like Atsuko and I open the coffin from the outside to the inside. At this moment, only the coffin in the middle remains.
We approached and shone it carefully with a flashlight......
Atsuko said: "Maybe I was dazzled, but I always felt that the color of this last coffin was more vivid. ”
I looked closely, and I felt that what Atsuko said was that the paint on the exterior of this last coffin was really blood-red, as if it was dyed red with blood.
Atsuko walked to the end of the coffin and made her final preparations.
I stood aside with my dagger in my hand.
The two of us looked at each other and smiled, both of us looking a little nervous.
Atsuko snorted and lifted the lid of the coffin with all her might......
My flashlight shone in instantly......
At first glance, the two of us were stunned again!
In this last coffin, there is no cat's corpse, no human corpse, and the sand inside is piled up, covering up everything inside the coffin.
That's not the point, it's the sand in the coffin, not gray-yellow, but blood-red, as if the sand here was all stained with blood.
The two of us looked at each other, completely unsure why.
Atsuko muttered, "What the hell, scaring people?" ”
Before I could answer, I suddenly noticed that the center of the coffin began to loosen, and gradually a rotating hole appeared, and the blood-red sand was slowly flowing downward......
I gestured to Atsuko, and we stepped back a bit.
The sand flowed faster and faster, and in just three or two minutes, the owner of the coffin was gradually revealed.
To my surprise, it was not an adult corpse in the coffin, judging by the body, that is, a half-grown child. The child's head was twice as large as that of a normal adult, and the emaciated corpse was attached to it, which looked extremely weird.
When the whole body was revealed, I couldn't help but gasp.
This corpse is really ugly, too ugly to describe......
Atsuko said, "I'm dying, why is this corpse also red?" ”
I was surprised before, but then I found out that this strange corpse with a big body and a small body was as if it had been stripped of a layer of skin, and its whole body was red with blood, and I even felt that its corpse was still oozing blood.
Atsuko coughed suddenly, out of breath.
I was curious, but I coughed too......
I smelled a strong smell of potion, incomparably pungent, emanating from this bloody corpse.
Atsuko yelled, "Be careful of poison. ”
I covered my mouth and nose with a mask and said, "No matter,." ”