Chapter 042: Ant Nest
At close range, the surface of this copper snake key is very dark, and it looks like it is very old, but it looks like it was from the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The patriarch gently picked up the key in the linen, the key carved a green snake is very unusual, the snake tightly wrapped around the round end of the key, if you look closely, the lines on the copper snake are also very clear, pieces of diamond-shaped snake scales inlaid together, is carved lifelike.
"Patriarch, how can there be a key to this tomb?" Xiao Jian on the side was very puzzled, because this tomb was buried by his own hands, how could a key appear for no reason?
The patriarch was also stunned for a moment, and did not speak.
"Could it be that someone buried him again?" Trumpet pondered.
"No—" The fat man was momentarily surprised.
"It's quite possible, or where else is this corpse?" The masked man explained.
If that's what they say, that's great, but what if not? So where did the corpse go, and how did the key get here? Chen Xie thought to himself.
"Damn, this copper snake key is very bizarre," the trumpet on the side said.
I saw that the patriarch wrapped the key of the bronze snake in the sackcloth again and put it in his pocket. Probably, no one noticed, for at this time they had already focused on the bronze serpent key, and the tomb had paid no attention to it.
At this time, I don't know who shouted,
"Under the hole! Water! The voice came from Xiao Jian's mouth, and for a moment everyone looked towards the hole that had just been dug.
Nima, what the hell, the villagers on that side almost didn't get to their feet and fell into the hole. At this moment, the scene was quiet again, and the silence was so terrible that they all stared with wide eyes
"How can there be white liquid in this cave? What is this liquid? The horn said, very puzzled in his heart.
How can there be a white liquid in this cave? Could it be that the bones of this corpse have melted, and it shouldn't be a reason, could it be that another guess suddenly came to mind in Chen Xie's mind, but even he didn't dare to think about this guess.
The patriarch looked at this hole, he frowned, his eyes condensed, and a kind of unknown and waiting was revealed from his eyes
"Patriarch, what's going on?" Xiao Jian on the side asked softly.
At this time, the white-haired old man spoke,
"This could be a cemetery down here."
"Graveyard!" The trumpet was stupid for a while, and he didn't believe what he said.
"I think it's probably the bones melted," Chen Xie said, saying that even he didn't know what was going on.
Immediately afterwards, the cave was accompanied by a corpse stench, which was very strong.
"The bones are melting, it's not so evil!" The fat man is not very convinced.
In other words, I don't know who to believe now, the big guys are all at a loss.
But what was puzzling was that the white liquid did not have a rising trend, but the liquid continued to sink, and at this time, everyone just stared at it, not daring to blink at all.
In just two minutes, the white liquid had completely disappeared, could it be that it was completely sunk into the soil at this moment, but just when everyone was puzzled, a white object crawled out of the soil underneath, and I don't know what it was, everyone was amazed.
The trumpet on the side couldn't hold back any longer, and asked again,
"Damn, what's going on here?"
This also made all the villagers anxious, they had never seen a white object like this before, let alone what it was, Chen Xie was also a little stunned for a while.
"Mom, it's a living thing, it's moving," Xiao Jian on the side suddenly shouted.
His scream instantly frightened everyone, Chen Xie also shivered behind him at this time, and somehow, this thing looked very much like a group of maggots, if it wasn't maggots, what would it be?
"Hand lamp!" The patriarch asked Xiao Jian beside him, Xiao Jian was stunned at this time, and he really wanted to laugh when he saw him like that.
Taking the lamp, the patriarch shone into the tomb,
"Mom. What is this—" shouted the fat man.
For a moment, too, their scalps exploded with fright, and they saw that the white object was indeed a worm, but not a maggot, and it was very agile and crawling in the soil.
"What is this, like a bug," said the fat man.
"Is it an antworm?" The man with glasses, who had been silent, said suddenly.
"Ants, you mean ants?" Chen Xifa asked.
At this time, the patriarch suddenly laughed,
"In my opinion, it's probably termites, maybe it's their nest under the dirt."
"But then, what's the matter with the body disappearing," Xiao Jian on the side asked again.
"Yes, could it be that the disappearance of the corpse has something to do with them," Chen Xie said for a while.
"That's right, the disappearance of the corpse is indeed related to them, if the guess is correct, the termites themselves can produce a kind of formic acid, and this acid is very corrosive, it can corrode some steel pipes, stones or something, as for the corpse, I think it must have been corroded by them. I really didn't expect that there was an ant nest hidden under this corpse. ”
"Hey, it really scared us, it turned out that it was all termites doing the trick," Xiao Jian relaxed and smiled again.
It was a false alarm, and at this point, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Patriarch, how did the white-haired old man say that there is a cemetery down there," Trumpet suddenly thought of the question just now.
The patriarch was stunned for a moment and did not speak.
"Haha—we've come across this before, and there's a cemetery underneath the grave," the white-haired old man laughed for a moment.
It is not impossible that there is a cemetery under the tomb, and when the ancients built a cemetery, they would consider that there would be tomb robbers to dig the tomb, so in order to cover up, they built a tomb under this tomb.
"Damn, this is really evil!" The trumpet shouted.
"Patriarch, the key looks like it's in the open box?" Xiao Jian on the side said.
Box, this really reminded Chen Xie, should this key open the key to the treasure box? Chen Xie thought to himself.
"Isn't that a treasure box?" The trumpet on the side suddenly shouted, and he thought of something for a moment.
"What crate?" The patriarch asked, his eyes fixed on the number.
The trumpet's eyes were very cold when he looked at the patriarch, as if a murderous aura was coming, he exhaled at this time, looked away from him, and his speech was a little stuck.
"It's -- we're -- -- -- -- --
"Yes, but there's a lock on the top of the treasure box, and we've tried it, but ordinary keys can't be opened," Chen Xie explained.
"I see, it seems that there must be some secret in this treasure box," the white-haired old man beside him pondered.
"Mom, look at this day, it's not good, let's hurry first," the horn looked at the sky, and said from time to time.