Chapter 20: Make a decision at the right time
The other tomb robbers looked at this posture even if they were flustered, and probably didn't dare to say more, I looked at the man in black, and sure enough, as Tian Ji said, he should have been trained, and he knew that he should make a decision at the right time, and his heart should not be chaotic.
I gave Tian Ji a look, the tomb robbers trapped here, now the dragons are leaderless but a rabble, the most tricky is the man in black standing behind, just in case, I asked Tian Ji to pay attention, Tian Ji understands, and his finger has been put on the trigger.
"This shell tomb was built according to the burial system of the Warring States period, and this should be just the front room." I said to the palace lord beside me. "Keep an eye out for any other mechanisms here, and I'll see if I can find a passage."
The palace lord nodded and looked around, I looked at the tomb again, I saw such a beautiful tomb door outside, I thought that this tomb should be quite luxurious, but the tomb in front of me disappointed me greatly.
There was no decoration or furnishings, but a large space was excavated in the ground and filled with shellfish, but the walls of the tomb were clearly reinforced with masonry on all sides, and there were traces of excavation on them.
It was supposed to be a tomb repairer trapped here, trying to dig up the tomb wall to escape, but the tomb wall was closed by a single stone, and it was difficult to dig it up with tools, let alone with bare hands.
The most disturbing thing was that in this dry burial chamber, I didn't see the passage to the back rooms, only a curved sink on the opposite side.
The whole burial chamber was densely packed with stalagmites of varying heights, and the temperature in the burial chamber had risen significantly due to the ignition of fish oil, and I suddenly heard a tomb robber next to me exclaiming.
"There's something moving in this stone!"
I hurriedly walked over and saw a white viscous liquid slowly seeping out of the top of a stalagmite, and I suddenly remembered that the same slime had been found on the corpses, and it was surging more and more, and it was shocking that the stalagmite was slowly melting.
I asked for a knife from the field chicken, cut it on another stalagmite, and found that white mucus immediately gushed out from the place where the blade was cut, and I was shocked, this is definitely not a stalagmite!
Just as I was about to warn the others to be careful, a yellow-green wet flesh worm suddenly emerged from the melted pillar, about six or seven inches long, the size of a fist, I had never seen such a disgusting worm, wriggling like a snake, but without eyes, erecting its body to reveal a round mouth, like a sucker, but it was covered with countless sharp teeth like the tip of a knife.
Seeing such an insect in a closed underground burial chamber, it is estimated that everyone has a creepy feeling, and the field chicken stepped on the insect when he went up, bursting out of the internal organs and slime splashed all over the ground.
Gong Jue came back from the investigation and saw the corpse of the insect on the ground, he was stunned for a moment, took the knife in my hand and picked up the insect and looked at it for a long time, and suddenly his face changed greatly: "Quick! Extinguish all the fires in the tomb! ”
The other tomb robbers all stood in place, not because they didn't want to extinguish it, but it was not easy for the fish oil to be ignited and wanted to extinguish it again, not to mention that I guess the others didn't want to stand in the underground burial chamber with a black light.
I asked Gong Jue what was going on, and he stood up and said with a panicked face that the insect that was trampled to death by the field chicken was called a corpse eel, a kind of insect that lived in underground graves, but it had been dead for thousands of years, and he still heard Gong Yu say it.
The corpse eel had a brief existence in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but I don't know why it quickly disappeared, so that there is no literature at all, the corpse eel needs to rely on the yin qi of the dead to survive, so at that time the corpse eel was the best anti-tomb robbery mechanism, once it was disturbed, it would immediately attack it, as long as it was bitten by the corpse eel, countless sharp teeth in its mouth would fall into the body like a barb, until the flesh was sucked dry, otherwise it would never let go.
Moreover, the corpse eel likes warmth and is afraid of water, and has a very long lifespan, and after a meal, it will wrap its body with secreted mucus like hibernation, and the corpse eel can live for hundreds of years in it until the next time it is alarmed to eat again, so there is no better anti-tomb robbery mechanism than the corpse eel.
Hearing what the palace lord said, the other tomb robbers should have realized the seriousness of the situation and hurriedly wanted to extinguish the fire, and I finally knew why there was blood everywhere in this tomb, and those tomb repairers who were trapped here should have ignited fish oil like us and wanted to escape, who knew that the corpse eel was released, and hundreds of people were forced to the tomb door and had no way to retreat, and all of them were sucked dry flesh and blood by the corpse eel and died.
But it was too late to extinguish the fire, and before everyone could do anything, all the dormant eels in the tomb crawled out of the melted cocoons, and they were surprisingly numerous, and they moved faster than expected, swarming at us from all directions.
At first, we were able to trample a few to death, but soon we were surrounded by a dense mass of corpse eels, and the burial chamber was filled with chilling and rustling squirming sounds.
A tomb robber next to him didn't pay attention, he was bitten by the corpse eel and screamed in pain, and fell to the ground and was covered by the corpse eel in an instant, I saw countless corpse eels with sharp teeth biting the man's body, he didn't even scream again, his body twitched a few times and then stopped moving, I watched in horror as his bare hands slowly dried up, until the flesh on them also rotted into blood and dripped to the ground.
Gong Jue said that the body fluids of corpse eels can easily corrode the flesh and skin, making it easy for them to suck, and if it is contaminated with the flesh, it will quickly fester.
We and the other tomb robbers huddled in a circle, but in an instant we were besieged by countless corpse eels, and four or five people had already fallen, and in less than half a minute, a good living person was sucked by a group of corpse eels and only the skeleton remained.
Tian Ji wanted to shoot with a gun, but was held down by Gong Jue, and said loudly to everyone: "Corpse eels live underground for a long time, they have no vision, but their perception is extremely sensitive, they will only attack moving things, everyone stands still, corpse eels can't perceive static things." ”
Tian Ji and I hurriedly did according to Gong Jue's words, and the corpse eels surrounding us really stopped attacking, slowly erected their bodies, and opened their mouths to reveal countless sharp teeth to probe around.
"It's not a way to stand like this, if you don't get eaten by this group of monsters, you will have to starve to death sooner or later, not to mention that I will definitely not move until I starve to death." Tian Ji slowly squirmed his lips and said.
"The only weakness of the corpse eel is that it is afraid of water, and the master said that the corpse eel will solidify when it encounters water." Gong Jue said slowly without moving. "Which of you brought water?"
I'm here tonight to take revenge, and whoever takes revenge will bring water......
However, my eyes suddenly fell on the curved pool on the opposite side of the tomb, no wonder I couldn't find a way to the Backrooms, the entrance was just below the pool, which was supposed to be specially designed to keep the eels out of the Backrooms.
As long as you can jump into the pool, maybe there is a glimmer of life, next to a tomb robber heard what we said, want to save his life in a mess, probably want to gamble, rushed out and wanted to jump into the pool, just moved the surrounding corpse eel rapid siege, did not take five steps, the foot was bitten by the corpse eel quickly festered, painfully fell to the ground, mouth opened before the time to scream, tongue was bitten by a corpse eel, instantly, I only saw the wriggling corpse eel like quicksand drowned.
"Take off your pants!" I said to Gong Jue and Tian Ji while taking it off.
"Huh?!" The two of them were a little dazed.
"If we don't bring water, we'll release it ourselves." The corpse eels in front of us were all attracted to it, just to buy us time.
Tian Ji reacted and took it off together, but the palace lord didn't move, and our actions immediately attracted the attention of the corpse eel, and we were about to surround it again.
"Take it off!" I urged.
"I don't take it off." The palace lord turned his face away and replied very simply.
"Why?" I glared at him, anxious. "It's all dying, who cares about your size."
"The master said that if you are incivil, don't move, even if you die, you can't lose your courtesy, righteousness and shame." Gong Jue turned his back to me and Tian Ji, and his voice was very resolute.
"You ......" I knew that I should have buried him in the first place, and I ran for my life and taught etiquette and righteousness, I really don't know what Gong Yu taught him, I pushed Gong Jue and said to Tian Ji. You go to the front, let this elm pimple go in the middle, and I break the back. ”
The three of us walked towards the pool in strange formations and movements, and the rest of the grave robbers seemed to have forgotten the danger and looked at us with amazement, which in retrospect was indeed a joyous scene.
As Gong Jue said, urinating on the corpse eel can really make these monsters freeze instantly, Tian Ji and I used urine to make a way, he and Gong Jue jumped into the pool, and when I arrived, I just finished urinating the last drop.