Chapter Twenty-Five: Corpse Beetles
"Hehe, it's this urine that saved your life, are you ready, ready to press it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info" I was very apprehensive in my heart, I don't know if this button is the key to opening the secret passage, the fat man also looked at me nervously, "click" a sound similar to the shaft rotation came from the lotus platform, at this time I heard the sound of different gears hitting from inside, the yellow spring flowers on the lotus platform slowly moved, from the state of just budding to be released, slowly began to open the petals, and the original solid position in the middle of the petals, slowly began to move like both sides opened a small opening, saw here heart happy, Know that your guess is right.
"It turns out that after the Huangquan flowers bloom, they will turn on the switch in the petals," the two of us looked at them dumbfounded, the Huangquan flowers that continue to bloom, when the petals open to the limit, they don't seem to stop, the petals are still separated to both sides, at this moment the lotus platform and the Huangquan flower seem to be split by someone, and a hole with a width of about one meter appears in front of us out of thin air.
I shone a flashlight at the entrance of the cave, and stairs appeared in the hole, "It's a stone ladder, I found the exit, fat man, I will be blessed if I don't die." The fat man and I hurriedly packed our backpacks and prepared to run towards the stone staircase at the entrance of the cave.
"Squeak" "Did the fat man hear anything?" ”
"I haven't heard anything, Wang Wu, are you hungry and hallucinating."
I don't know when there was a mouse-like cry, I looked back in the direction where the sound came from, only to find that I don't know when the lotus platform was separated, there was a hole like a face plate at the bottom of the lotus platform, and at this moment some black reptiles kept running out of the hole, these reptiles were not small, some were the size of a lunch box, some were only the size of a bottle cap, these insects looked like a golden beetle, covered with black armor, and there was a long beard at the corner of the mouth. The exposed teeth looked cold, like hacksaws, and the squeaking sound was probably from the flapping of wings on its back, and if the cockroach-like limbs and feet made it crawl quickly, it could be clearly seen that those limbs and feet were covered with barbed spines.
"This, this, what the fuck is this." I looked at the dense rush of insects in front of me and my scalp was numb, and I couldn't help but gasp.
"Pit master, I have seen this thing in an ancient book, called the corpse beetle, which was fed by the beetle with human corpses, but this corpse beetle is only the size of a coin in the legend, and the smallest one is the size of a bottle cap, and these are too fat, is there a lot of oil and water in this cemetery, but the legend is that this corpse beetle only eats rotten corpses, and does not eat fresh ones, so it should not attack us."
Before the fat man finished speaking, he saw a black tide rushing towards us, only to see the dark green liquid flowing from the corner of the corpse beetle's mouth, a rancid smell came to his face, and he couldn't help but feel sick to his stomach. Seeing that the fat man on one side had taken out a few changes of clothes, lit them and threw them into the corpse beetle, at this moment countless corpse beetles had emerged on the floor of the tomb, where the fire ball landed, there was immediately an open space, "This guy is afraid of fire" The fat man hurriedly called, no need for the fat man to say, I immediately took out the clothes of the backpack, wrapped it in a sapper shovel, and walked towards the lotus platform after ignition, at this time, the corpse beetle separated the two sides like an obedient soldier, and the nerves that had just been tense relaxed a little, At this moment, the entrance of the lotus platform was already crawling with corpse beetles, holding the sapper shovel in his hand, lifting the flame above and sweeping towards the entrance.
Within a few minutes, the torch in the fat man's hand was burned out and extinguished, and at this moment, those corpse beetles rushed towards the fat man like wolves seeing meat, "Oh, oh my god, your uncle." The fat man's wail screamed like a pig, I looked back at the fat man behind me and found that he was holding a sapper shovel and kept slapping to the ground, every time the heavy blow made a dark green wave, and after a while the fat man was covered with beetles below his waist, I saw that the situation was not right and immediately raised a torch and swept towards the fat man's body, and in an instant those beetles fled, at this moment the fat man had already killed red eyes, kept panting, holding the sapper shovel like rushing towards the corpse beetle, I grabbed the fat man, blocked in front of him, Raising the torch, the corpse beetle saw it and retreated, only to see that the fat man's little feet were already blurred with flesh and blood, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he pulled the fat man and rushed into the center of the Huangquan flower.
Rushed to the stone staircase, laboriously closed the entrance, and found that the fat man on the side was lying weakly on the stone staircase, the steps were covered with sweat left by him, at this moment the fat man's face was pale, and his whole body kept twitching, I saw that the fat man was wrong and immediately asked, "Fat man, what's wrong with you, where are the injuries." At this time, the fat man closed his eyes tightly and seemed to be in pain, and did not answer me.
I tore open the fat man's pants, the picture in front of me made me look like falling into an ice cave for a moment, just outside only saw the fat man's calves on the flesh and blood blurred, now I found that the fat man's skin below the thighs is red, like a roasted lobster, the wounds on the legs are large and small more than a dozen, I helped the fat man check the wound, took out the alcohol to help him disinfect, and suddenly found that the fat man's thighs seemed to have something wandering around in it, at this time my hands were a little trembling, nervous and scared emotions made my brain confused, But reason told me that I can't be stunned now, took a deep breath, stabilized my mind, quickly held the fat man's thigh wandering things, and shouted loudly, "The fat man can't stop it," took out the dagger in his hand and slid it in the direction of my hand, "squeak" A corpse beetle with a bottle cap was pulled out by me with a dagger, I immediately stepped on it and ended its life, after helping the fat man clean the wound, I found that the fat man's injury fortunately did not hurt the muscles and bones, just a skin injury, after a little rest, after calming down, Seeing that the fat man on the side was still asleep, I looked down the underground staircase, the staircase was very long, and there was no end in sight at a dark glance, and I couldn't help but wonder where I was now.
There was still a "squeak" sound outside the stone gate from time to time, and I felt numb in my heart, and I had a big question in my heart, since the fat man said that this corpse beetle likes to eat carrion, but this tomb has been over for thousands of years, even if there were many people buried at that time, but after thousands of years, why are these corpse beetles still alive, what do they eat, and they are much bigger than the average corpse beetle, what do they rely on to live under this for thousands of years, and there are so many of them, there are a string of questions in their minds.
Seeing that the fat man's breathing on the side has slowly stabilized, and the hanging heart has slowly relaxed, from the beginning of the tomb, he encountered a series of strange things, first of all, he was hallucinated by the zongzi wearing a golden mask on the roof for no reason, and at the same time, the hole in the roof disappeared for no reason, and then why there are Huangquanhua here, and there are so many corpse beetles sealed under the lotus platform of Huangquanhua.
"Second master, second master, where are you now, your eldest grandson can't bear it" I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart.