Dragon & Tiger

I quickly waved my hand at Shinley Yang, don't say any more, if I hadn't eaten anything serious today, I would have had a stomach and vomit.

But the fat man didn't think about those things: "If a woman doesn't give birth to a baby, how can she give birth to worms?" That's a bit of a mishap. ”

Shinley Yang ignored the fat man, looked at the pile of corpses, and sighed softly: "It's really miserable." Wei Yi Chen Yin, or decided to continue to find out the truth, took out a rope, tied a live rope sleeve, aimed at a "dead drift" floating on the surface of the water and threw it over, and immediately put it on the right, just locking the head of the "dead drift".

When the fat man and I saw her move, we helped each other by the side, standing by the water and using a "mountaineering pickaxe" to hook the female corpse that was trapped by Shinley Yang.

"Dead floating" in the water has a lot of strength, compared to the big fish in the river, it usually looks no different from a floating corpse, but when it is touched by an external force, it jumps and jumps, and there are dozens of catties of strength, of course, this is the cocoon on the back of the female corpse with broken limbs, that is, the huge fetal worm chrysalis inside to move again.

The fat man and I stepped on the "dead drift" caught with our feet so that it would not flutter on the ground, and the three of us gathered together to watch it, and found that this corpse was indeed different from the black female corpse that was eaten by a giant insect and spit out.

The "dead drift" that has just been caught, the body is densely wrapped with a layer of meat maggots, although these things look like maggots in appearance, but we can't draw conclusions, because first of all, these "maggots" are too big, thicker than ordinary people's big fingers, and if the body is translucent, it is not appropriate enough. The degree of transparency is close to 70%, and it is not at all like the "water bees" we have seen in the living figurines before, which are simply lifeless things.

It looks gray and gray, and it makes people dare not look at it at first glance, and it is different from when we look at it in the water. When the floating corpse is soaked underwater, it will emit a strange glimmer of gloomy and cold, and the ability of a single "dead drift" to glow is very limited, but when many female corpses gather together, the amplitude of that cold blue light seems to increase exponentially. The jade-like red rock wall of the "gourd cave" is reflected as if it is shrouded in a layer of dark cyan demonic energy, this strange and terrifying atmosphere, if it is not for the immersion, personally experienced all kinds of cold-haired events in the cave, it is unimaginable.

Shinley Yang asked me to help drag the two female corpses, one black and one white, together, side by side, and repeatedly compared, the blackened female corpse, the "fat maggots" on the body, have probably been eaten clean by the "Huo's undead worm".

I used a paratrooper knife to scrape off the fat maggots adsorbed on the surface of the female corpse, revealing a layer of black transparent hard membrane, which was exactly the same as the corpse vomited by the "Huo's undead worm".

The fat man and Shinley Yang and I were relatively silent, connecting the clues one by one, although I dare not assert that this must be the case, but no matter how stupid a person is, he can estimate that he is not far from ten at this moment, and this is indeed the evil "poison production line".

This is a large-scale "sacrifice" hidden in the shadow of history, and we have no way of knowing the identities of these women. They may be slaves, captives, local repressed people, or more likely the dependents of craftsmen who have been made into "human figurines", but they must all be for one thing, that is, to provide a steady stream of energy to the "poisonous mist" set up outside the king's tomb, so that they died for the same reason as some kind of "ritual" of "sacrificing the king".

Shinley Yang has recently studied the historical materials about the "Ancient Dian Kingdom", and the mysterious and ancient "scabies" in various historical records are all passed by, and there is no detailed description, even if there is, it is just a few words, but in the wild history, it has been mentioned that the use of "scabies" to make women pregnant and produce insect eggs, must wait until October when the baby is conceived and delivered, and torture the woman to death, so that the fear and hatred when she is dying will pass through her body and penetrate into the eggs she laid when she died, so that it is toxic, This is one of the most powerful types of "poison".

Shinley Yang saw these records before, and felt that this was probably a fabricated wild history distortion, and did not believe it to be true.

Probably because the king occupied the territory near the "Worm Valley", he felt that it was a place with excellent feng shui and unparalleled fairy wisdom in the world, and found the "mountain god" worshiped by the local people in the "gourd cave", that is, this semi-petrified giant worm.

The most important thing is that the king knows that this insect is far bigger than human imagination, and a certain part of its body is exposed in the valley, so the king of Xian will include this "gourd hole" into his mausoleum area, and prohibit the locals from offering the toad to the mountain god master, and when the giant insect has dispersed the poisonous gas and is powerless to resist, he put it into a set of heavy "dragon scale bronze armor", and put on a "golden six beast mask" with a certain religious color, and maybe there are some unknown mysterious means to put this only surviving insect in the world, Tortured half-dead, "bronze heavy armor" and "gold mask" These items are engraved with dense spells, in fact, the spells of the magic are not unusual, Taoist ghost hunting and soul suppression, there are similar things.

Then these Yi girls or slaves, in the womb planted "scabs", and when they give birth to eggs, first break the limbs of the slave girls, but hold the "scabies" that have just been laid and have not completely separated from the mother's body, and immediately there is a kind of hot pine resin similar to burned, or boiling tree sink, that kind of thing, poured alive on the slave girl, together with the "scab eggs" behind her, made into transparent "living amber", and after cooling, engraved on the surface of the case with the "soul charm", which is equivalent to the fear, sorrow, and hatred of the slave girl when she diedAs for why such a strange posture was taken, the limbs of the slave girl had to be broken, we have limited knowledge of "scabies", and it is difficult to speculate out of thin air, it may be to increase the suffering of the dead, or it may be related to the worship of faith.

However, the "scab eggs" that had just been born by the slave girls had strong vitality and would not be easily scalded to death by the boiling trees. The cocoons are pierced with fine holes, and they are all sunk into the deep pools of this cave, and the "eggs" pass through those honeycomb-like places to attract mayflies in the water to eat, and they survive in that inexplicable resentment. Rather than some kind of worm, perhaps it would be more appropriate to describe it as a plant with a nerve reflex, they have no consciousness at all, these large meat pupae only act on nerve reflexes. All eating, reproduction, and so on are done in the cocoon-like egg, in order to keep the resentment of the deceased from abating. They never break eggs, they excrete excrement in the body, which is a special substance, like fish eggs, and like meat fungus plants, after being excreted from the hive, they are attached to the shell of "dead drift", and gradually grow into the appearance of transparent maggots. And the "poison" in the body of the female slave is also preserved in these maggot-shaped objects.

These "flesh fungi" themselves have some kind of "ghost fire"-like bioelectricity, which can emit blue light in the water, making it seem that the female corpse is wrapped in a halo. When we are in the water, as soon as we see those "dead drifts", we will have an inexplicable feeling of sadness, which may be the effect of some kind of bioelectricity, and it should not be the "meat fungus" rupture, the toxins in it flow out, in that case, we would have been poisoned to death, now in retrospect, there is really a bit of luck, so many "meat fungi", we were not poisoned, thanks to the blessing of the ancestors, it seems that it deserves this "tomb of the king" should be broken.

The old insect that is almost the same age as the "gourd hole", the bright red mist emitted by its body will attract these meat fungi to get closer to it, and it will feed on these female corpses, and after swallowing it, those meat fungi will be digested by the old insects, and the "poison" formed by the resentment of death will pass through its body and transform into the perennial white "mountain miasma" in the valley.

The female corpse wrapped in a layer of dura, it can't bear it, and it can't be excreted directly, so it has to vomit back into the pool as it is, and the "scab eggs" in the corpse of the female slave will continue to be as they are, intermittently sucking mayfly creatures, excreting meat fungi, surfacing the water, being eaten and vomited by the old insects, vomiting and eating, and constantly reincarnating.

The three of us have a understanding of the "Dysphoria", always staying at the level of speculation, lack of further understanding, I have since I entered the "Shalong Mountain", until I came to this "gourd cave", along the way I continued to see things related to the "Dysphoria", a large number of corpses, people from the bottom of their hearts to the king tomb not far in front of a fear, the sharp spirit of the ten pavilions, here has been folded seven pavilions.

If you haven't entered the ancient tomb, you will be a little scared, then this trip will definitely not go well, I am worried that the fat man and Shinley Yang have no bottom in their hearts, so I had to cheer them up and said: "That King Xian killed Yingchuan, heinous, and he was good at thaumaturgy during his lifetime, and his evil way is not something ordinary people can imagine, it is really difficult to deal with, but comrades, what we are best at fighting is this unprepared battle of Sichuan, if not, how can we show the ability of Sichuan to touch the gold captain, I think this trick of offering the king is nothing more than that, they are all *** paper tigers, like the monster queen of the exquisite country, no matter how powerful she is when she is alive, she is not at our mercy after death. ”

The fat man pursed his lips and said with a heavy and serious face: "I have said everything, the responsibilities of the comrades are heavy, and the resentment of women is deep, although it is said that in ancient times Hua Mulan went to the army for her father, and now there is a women's army to shoot for the people, but as a man, the fire of hatred in Lao Tzu's chest is also burning, and there is thunder and lightning in his ears, and he has made up his mind, when the red signal flare rises, we will capture the last supreme point, and the Ming weapon dedicated to Wang Lao'er, regardless of size, will be rolled up and packed, and what should be sold when returning to Beijing will be smashed, Otherwise, I'm sorry for so many women who died with grievances. ”

Shinley Yang listened to the fat man's more and more boundless, so he interrupted him and said to us: "The hard membrane on the outside of the female corpse is like amber, which is difficult to be corroded by gastric juice, and it is natural that it cannot be digested, but according to the body shape of the Huo's undead worm, it is not difficult to expel such a large object as the female corpse through the intestines, but why does it vomit again after eating?" ”

In other aspects, we have speculated eighty or ninety, but when it comes to this problem, we can't help but be a little embarrassed, could it be that this big bug is too old and has a bad stomach? Otherwise, it usually doesn't spit out, but today it was beaten hard by us, so it's ......

Speaking of this, the three of us thought almost at the same time, and we all moved our eyes to the thing that was finally spit out from the mouth of the giant worm, could it be because it was stuck in the big boxy copper box in its stomach, so the slightly larger things could not be eaten, and we could only spit out the shell again after digesting the "meat fungus" on the surface of the shell?

I beckoned to the fat man and Shinley Yang: "The big and small things here have been investigated, now it's time for us to see what secrets are in this box, take them if they are useful, and destroy them if they are useless." ”

The fat man immediately came to the head of the spirit, and told me: "Old Hu, I just looked, this box is full of big copper plates, and the one is sturdy, and I can't open it alone, let's try it together, and if it doesn't work, we will put explosives on it." ”

On the square copper box, there was still a thick gastric juice of "Huo's immortal worm", so we had to use groundwater to clean it first to reveal its original appearance.

After removing all the dirt on the copper box, I found that I couldn't tell that this was a box, a large copper block, a copper coffin, or something else, it seemed to be an artifact that had never been seen before.

This square object, each side is exactly the same, it is impossible to see which side is up and which is down, and it is not known which side is positive and which side is negative, and there are forty-eight large nail caps on each side, but there are no gaps on six sides, as if they can be opened.

I wondered, "Don't be a big solid brass again?" "I took out the small geological hammer and tapped it lightly a few times, but the sound it made was muffled, not brittle at all, not like copper, and I couldn't tell whether it was hollow or solid.

The three of us pushed the square of copper so that we could see that the bottom of it was not as heavy as we thought, so that we knew that it must be hollow inside, but how to open it, and it may not be possible to blow it up with explosives.

I took a deep breath and looked carefully, on the bottom side, there were two small holes, which were blocked by the yellow gastric juice of the giant worm, so it was not easy to find.

I shook my head and said, "These two holes are strangely shaped, there are no rules at all, how can they be keyholes, and if they are keyholes, where is the key?" Do you still have to rummage through the worm's belly? ”

Shinley Yang compared the hole in the large copper block with his hand, and suddenly had an idea: "Try it with the dragon head and tiger head short staff found in the Great Sacrifice Jade Coffin, the size and shape between them seem to be very close."

As soon as she mentioned it, I immediately found that the beginning of these two holes was a dragon head and a tiger head, and for some reason, I suddenly had an agitated emotion, and I couldn't hold back it, and said loudly to the fat man: "Great, my dear Comrade Konstantin Petrovich, today is the holiday of the Bolsheviks, go and invite the party representative, as soon as he arrives, Nikolai's door can be opened for us proletariat!" “