Chapter Forty-Eight: The Human-Faced Bat
Gong Jue could only slowly raise his hand and keep pointing to the back, but Tian Ji didn't react when he raised his head.
"This thing is worth a lot, if you carry one out, it will definitely be more expensive than the Terracotta Army."
The samurai's chaotic eyes stared at Tian Ji's hand, which was dripping with the blood that had just been cut, and I suddenly realized that the awakened samurai seemed to be attracted to blood, and I opened my mouth and kept repeating in a very small voice, back, back......
Tian Ji estimated that my expression was strange, and after listening to it for a long time, I finally heard it clearly.
"Back? What's going on in the back? ”
Tian Ji turned around, and the samurai who opened his eyes was close to each other, the whole person jumped back in fright, as soon as he moved, the bronze sword in the samurai's hand slashed at him, Tian Ji fortunately reacted fast enough, raised his hand is a shot on the samurai's head, the samurai's head was half broken, something fell from the back of his head, and the samurai also fell to the ground.
"Thief your mother, thief your mother......" Tian Ji estimated that he was frightened, and shot indiscriminately at the fallen samurai while scolding.
I grabbed Tian Ji and finally calmed him down, Han Jin and his people were frightened around the guard, Gong Jue and I squatted in front of the warrior and poked a few times with a probe shovel, it was really a human, but it was not a living person, just like the ice corpse found before, the corpse was well preserved, but there was a wound with a round hole on the head, and there was no brain in the smashed head.
My flashlight shone on the side of something squirming, it was just dropped from the back of the samurai's head, Tian Ji slowly approached with a gun, and in the light we were surprised to see that there was a squirming face on the ground......
We could clearly distribute our facial features, but just one face changed all kinds of hideous expressions in front of our eyes, and suddenly the cold sweat on my back oozed out.
Tian Ji trembled and flicked the muzzle of the gun, and with the help of the firelight, we slowly saw that it was actually a thing shaped like a bat, but the pattern on the back looked like a human face, and the sharp and slender phalanges under the skin membrane of the thing were extremely sharp, and there was a tail like a tube underneath, and the end was shaped like a barb.
Tian Ji didn't kill this thing with one shot before, and he was still struggling disgustingly on the ground, and Tian Ji was shocked and fired several shots at that thing.
"What is this thing?" Gong Jue asked with palpitations.
"Human-faced bats."
I blurted out, I heard the general give me a general before, this is an evil monster that lives underground, the general has seen it once in an ancient tomb of the Zhou Dynasty, this kind of thing has long been extinct, it survives by sucking the brain and body fluids of the prey, once the prey is found, the sharp phalanges under the epithelia will easily penetrate the skull and kill instantly, and at the same time, the epithelia is wrapped around the head of the prey, which is the kind of wound we saw on the ice corpse before.
The most bizarre thing is that the barb on its tail pierces the spine, sucking the brain and body fluids while also controlling dead prey, because the back tattoo resembles a human face, so it is called a human-faced bat.
There are many ancient tombs of the three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou, the tomb owner used the human face bat to suck the burial of the living people, and used this to protect the mausoleum from being stolen and excavated.
The only weakness of the human-faced bat is that it cannot see sunlight, but in this ice palace, there will never be sunlight to shine through.
Gong Jue and Tian Ji's first reaction after hearing this was involuntarily squirming Adam's apple, this huge ice room is like a hunting ground for human-faced bats, and I saw a pair of blood-red eyes lit up above the dark ice room.
I moved the flashlight upward, Gongjue and Tian Ji both raised their heads, the entire ice room was full of upside-down human bats, this evil monster is extremely sensitive to blood, Tian Ji's palm was accidentally cut, awakening the human bats that manipulated the samurai's corpses, and the gunfire woke up all the bats in the ice room.
Tian Ji picked up the gun, and I lifted him and the palace lord from the ground, and were besieged by such a large number of human-faced bats, and the gun was useless.
"Run." I shouted.
As soon as we set out, we heard an uproar overhead, and all the human-faced bats were swarming towards us, and I told Tian Ji and Gong Jue not to look back, and to run towards the end of the samurai phalanx, where there should be an exit.
The piercing squeaks above my head came and went, and there were sporadic gunshots behind me, which should have been the people who were left behind and tried to resist by the siege of the bats, but the gunfire soon stopped, and I looked back, and the person who fell to the ground didn't even have time to scream, and was accurately stabbed into the back of the neck by the tail tip of the barb of the man-faced bat, except for the continuous convulsions on the ground, I couldn't hear any sound at all, and my scalp was numb when I looked at it.
There weren't many people who survived here, and in an instant, five or six more people fell behind Kung Fu, Han Jin and the other two rushed to the front, passing through the warrior phalanx and finally seeing the exit, which was a semicircular bronze barrier with a narrow passage in the middle.
Han Jin just ran over, his feet didn't know where to step on, with a click, many small bronze beast heads stretched out from the barrier, dripping with transparent liquid, the first two people instinctively rushed into the passage, as soon as they entered, they heard two screams, and the chaotic arrows fired on both sides of the passage penetrated the body in an instant, and fell to the ground like hedgehogs.
"There is a mechanism in the passage, and the palace lord will find a way to solve it." I picked up the guns that the two people had dropped on the ground just now, and asked Tian Ji to cover Gong Jue with me.
We blocked Gong Jue behind him and shot at the approaching human-faced bats, Han Jin also came to help, Gong Jue used something to stain some liquid on the beast's head and smelled it, saying that it was grease, these bronze beast heads should be able to spray oil, and after ignition, they will be intertwined into a fire net to block the puppet bats, but the premise is that we must first pass through the passage with a mechanism.
The oncoming man-faced bats are overwhelming, we don't need to aim at all, we just need to pull the trigger, and the hit human-faced bats keep falling, but it doesn't help at all, there are too many of them getting closer and closer, and the field chicken puts on the magazine, looks at me and says this is the last one.
"Come here!"
I heard the voice of the palace jue, and when I turned around and saw that he was already behind the passage, Han Jin hurriedly got up and ran over, without his firepower, the situation between me and Tian Ji was even more afraid.
"You go first." The pheasant yelled at me.
I dragged Tian Ji by the collar and pushed him into the passage, he was almost out of bullets, leaving a dead end behind, the palace lord saw that we couldn't stop it, picked up a gun and came back, the three of us fought and retreated and finally retreated to the back of the passage, the palace lord hurriedly pressed a mechanism, the passage was quickly closed, and the human bats that rushed in were all caught in it.
I panted and saw through the cracks, the beast heads sticking out of the bronze barrier outside, staggered with each other gushing out translucent liquid, the beast head ignited a fire, and in an instant the entire bronze barrier outside the raging flames, the sky full of human-faced bats burned in a scream, the rest did not dare to approach and retreated, the air was filled with a disgusting scorching smell of corpses.
We slumped against the wall and gasped, our heavy breath rising and falling with our rapid heartbeat.
"Follow...... You are not rich...... It's ......" Tian Ji was frightened, out of breath and leaning on me. "It's a matter of life."
Gong Jue and I smiled weakly, tilted our heads and said to Gong Jue: "Fortunately, I have you, otherwise I am afraid that I would have been left in it today." ”
"You really have two brushes, and you broke the mechanism before I finished firing a magazine." Tian Ji collapsed to the ground weakly. "How did you break it, tell me."
"The mechanism here is the most exquisite I have ever seen, in such a short period of time, I haven't even figured out the mechanism of the agency, and it will take a day or two to break the estimate." The palace lord gasped heavily.
"And how did you get here?" I asked, confused.
"That's right, how can you come here before the mechanism is broken, those two were shot as hedgehogs just now." Tian Ji also held up his body curiously.
Gong Jue said that there are hidden mechanisms under the ground of the passage, and only those who step on the right one can come over, and once they step on the wrong one, the consequences will be the same as those two, and there are mechanisms behind the passage to close the passage and defend against the wall of human bats.
"And how do you know what to step on in the passage correctly?" I asked.
"I feel ......," Gong Jue spread his hands, and his expression was more dazed than ours. Don't ask me why, I just feel like I should step on somewhere, I don't have time at that time, and I'm taking a hard gamble. ”
"You're so damn dead, it makes you feel right." Tian Ji lay on the ground and smiled bitterly.
I leaned against the wall and felt soft, I didn't want to think about it anymore, I was lucky to be able to lose my life, not to mention that now I don't even have the strength to think, I glanced at Han Jin who was sitting in the corner, he was loading the magazine, more than thirty people entered from the Kunlun Pass, and now there are only four of us left.
Suddenly realized one thing, Han Jin's more than 30 people were armed to the teeth with guns and ammunition, and they were all wiped out here, but forty years ago, the twelve people who came here, the two corpses found in the ice cave plus the one outside, only lost three people.
No other remains were found here, meaning that the other nine had passed safely.
How did these people dodge the attacks of the human-faced bats, and how did they delay the overwhelming human-faced bats without weapons, so as to unlock the mechanism here?
I slowly took out the group photo, and suddenly it dawned on me that there weren't twelve people here forty years ago.
It's thirteen!
There was also a person who took the picture that I ignored.
This person is supposed to be the recruiter mentioned in the professor's notes who sent invitations to the other twelve people, and the only explanation for them to avoid danger......
This mysterious recruiter had been to the Kunlun Golden Gate before and knew everything about the entire Ice Palace.