Chapter 13: The Cocoon

I've heard of it,

Jiaohua Dragon.

Ichthyosaurus.

I have never heard of the story of a humanized dragon, it is to the point of fantasy. Seeing my look of disbelief, he didn't get angry and continued to tell me an amazing story:

When Qin Shi Huang got a strange person to offer a strange treasure, he set up a heart for immortality, sent the warlock Xu Fu to take three thousand boys and girls to the East China Sea Penglai to seek the elixir, and then secretly sent a large number of people to find the news about the immortal tree, and this matter was handled by the close servant Zhao Gao, a vicious eunuch, he took people to search for ancient books, everything related to immortality, the useful ones were collected, and the useless ones were burned, in order to keep secrets, all the ancient books about immortality were killed, countless ancient books and classics, and the learned people were destroyed in one fell swoop. This is the origin of book burning.

Qin Shi Huang is a domineering person, and the world can only allow him to live forever.

Do you know why Zhang Liang assassinated Qin, the first emperor's third eastward trip in his later years was not to inspect the whole country, it was just a pretense, Xu Fu returned to the East China Sea, and he had asked for an immortal son to offer, so he had a third eastward tour, Zhang Liang didn't know where to learn the secret of Yingzheng's desire for immortality, and said angrily: Nuoqin Changsheng, how can I restore Korea?

So he also went to a certain place in the East China Sea, found a man named Canghai Jun, and asked for a strong man to prepare to assassinate Qin, but unfortunately he failed and fled, and the first emperor also got the eldest son and returned as he wished.

I couldn't help but ask, "Didn't the First Emperor die on the way back?" ”

Meng Jian said: "This is the great secret of Qin Shi Huang, he did not die at that time, and I don't know what happened after that." ”

"But what does this have to do with humanized dragons?"

Meng Jian said: "Of course it matters, you can go back to that secret room now and look at the male corpse, and see if his legs have begun to melt." ”

"Who the hell is that male corpse?"

I can't help but wonder, according to Mengjian's words, isn't the guy in the tree even better than Qin Shi Huang? Ying Zheng didn't have what he had gathered, but he actually got it together and began to show signs of turning into a dragon.

Meng Jian seemed to see what I was thinking, and said contemptuously: "I don't know who that male corpse is, but it definitely can't turn into a dragon, only the immortal tree is real, and I don't know anything else, anyway, don't think about turning into a dragon for thousands of years." ”

"Why is that?"

Meng Jian smiled contemptuously and said, "The immortal tree can rejuvenate and maintain a youthful appearance. The eldest child can make the body's internal organs last for a long time. Qin Shi Huang has already obtained two of them in addition to the immortal tree, will the character of the first emperor give the other two sacred objects to others? ”

A question popped into my mind.

"Qin Shi Huang wanted to turn into a dragon from the beginning?"

Meng Jian first shook his head, then nodded, and said with a confused look in his eyes: "I don't know the specifics, but Zulong's statement didn't come out of thin air, you can imagine that the emperors of all dynasties and dynasties had to call themselves the true dragon emperors." ”

I couldn't help but think of why the person in front of me knew so many secrets about Yingzheng, could it be that he had stolen the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang? Have you seen Ying Zheng's inscription?

But I never dared to ask him too directly about this question, and I couldn't tell the truth from the falsehood of what was said.

And why did the male corpse lie in the coffin knowing that it couldn't turn into a dragon? Even what was the black shadow that rushed out in the end, Meng Jian didn't tell me, maybe there are still many secrets behind this matter.

Meng Jian patted me on the back of the head: "Don't think too much about some things, the more you know, the more troubles will follow, let's hurry up and find your two companions, if it's too late, we will collect their bodies." ”

Speaking of collecting corpses, I couldn't help but shudder when I imagined the tragic deaths of Hu Yang and Yang Junjun. Hurriedly and Meng Jian got out of this small ear room, and continued to walk down with him, the corridor was full of the corpses of this mutant worm, all of which were cut open with a single knife, and dozens of knife marks could be seen on the wall.

Stepping on the crisp sound, walked through a section of 'worm blanket', not far from the left to see a rough stone door, I and Meng Jian looked at each other, decided to go and see, I was surprised to see him walk directly over and push open, the stone door made a dull noise, slowly slid inside, I found that there are two pairs of grooves under the stone door, just like the principle of sliding windows, I can't help but sigh the wisdom of the ancients.

The door opened, and a foul stench poured out.

Meng Jian and I hurriedly covered our mouths and noses, and the spicy stench choked our chests uncomfortably.

"This smell is like a stinky sock that hasn't been written for dozens of days, or the kind with stinky feet!" I held back my nausea, looked at the chamber, and asked him, "Do you want to go in again?" I'm afraid of poisoning! ”

Meng Jian was silent, covered his mouth and nose with one hand, and walked in with a steel knife in the other, I walked a little farther and exhaled a breath, held my breath and rushed into the tomb, and after a sentence, the dog thing played and disappeared, it was dark inside, and I couldn't see half a figure, I had to breathe the stench again, groping the wall in the dark, I didn't know that I was stepping on a long bone, and I picked it up and pinched it in my hand as a weapon, and silently said in my heart: No matter who you are, buddy use it first, and burn more paper for you when you go back.

Touching the other side of the tomb, there was actually a corridor, and slowly walked in, secretly cursing Meng Jian's grandson in his heart.

"You're scolding me, huh?"

In the darkness, a figure leaned against the wall, its eyes shining in black. I laughed dryly, and Meng Jian turned around with the knife in his hand and continued to walk forward, and when he was about to reach the end, he sighed.

"Miscellaneous?"

Meng Jian sighed and said, "If my guess is correct, there should be a burial pit ahead. ”

"It's all here, let's go and take a look, so let's take a look at the poplars and they are not inside." To be honest, I really don't want to go in, but if I don't look at it, I feel uneasy.

Meng Jian didn't say a word and took the lead to walk in, the inside was really big, about the same size as the secret room just now, the difference was that the ground dug down a deep pit seven or eight meters high, standing on it and looking at the dense meditating corpses in the pit, the stench was emitted from here.

"So many martyrs?"

I looked at the dried corpses below in surprise, roughly counting, there were as many as seven or eight hundred, which has exceeded the specifications of the princes and kings, who is the owner of this tomb? The corpse of the dragon in the tree outside? No, it doesn't look like the main burial chamber by any means. There is not even an epitaph that records the deeds of his life.

So who exactly is the owner of this tomb?

Just as I was thinking nonsense, Meng Jian jumped down and told me to come down and take a look,! It's so high, isn't it good for everyone to have martial arts like you, complain and complain, or slide slowly down on the side.

Meng Jianzheng stared at one of the dried corpses with a stern expression, saw me coming, and said, "Take a closer look." ”

"Found what?"

I squatted down and looked at the dry and disgusting corpse in front of me, my stomach twitched, and a small detail caught my attention, there were countless holes the size of rice grains on the corpse, densely covered all over the body, and I observed another dried corpse next to me, and it was the same situation.

I looked at Meng Jian in confusion.

I saw him get up and down, and split the dried corpse in front of him with a knife, and saw countless tiny insects crawling out of the corpse, I was shocked and trampled to death.

"Worms?"

I hurriedly stepped back, pointed to some dried corpses, and said, "These worms hatched from the dried corpses?" ”

Meng Jian nodded, glanced at the insects crawling everywhere on the ground, and said, "These corpses have all turned into human cocoons. ”

"Anyone else here?"

Meng Jian suddenly ran deeper, and within a minute he heard him shout: "Bamboo, come here!" ”