Chapter 15: The Second Stone Coffin
We leaned against the wall and gasped, and for a moment neither of us spoke. www.biquge.info The back road has been sealed off, and we only have the first way to go. We don't know whether Yu Houtu is alive or dead now, and we are already exhausted.
It was almost dawn outside the tomb now, and we had been in the tomb for nearly four hours. We hadn't eaten or drunk for four hours, and now we only felt weak, and a sense of sleepiness swept over everyone in an instant.
Just as I was drowsy, I felt a sudden pain in my calf, and then I started to feel lightheaded. By the dim light of the fire, I noticed that a thumb-thick leech was burrowing through the pores of my calf, the front half of its body had already penetrated into my body, and the back half of its body had turned from black to blood red.
I saw a tingling sensation on my scalp at the back, and I immediately vomited again. Wang Lei wore gloves and pulled out the blood-sucking leech, and then fell to the ground and was about to step on it.
"Wait!" Sanniang screamed at Wang Lei, and Wang Lei only then remembered the terrifying regeneration ability of the vampire leech.
I leaned against the wall and swayed my body to the side of the group, slowly took out the dagger I bought when I came from my bag, and then stabbed the leech on the ground from the head to the tail with a single knife. Wang Lei and the others didn't know what I meant, but then they found out that the vampire leeches had not regenerated this time.
I picked at the contents of the leech with the blade of my knife, first cleaned up the blood and the like from the intestines, and then carefully slashed it along the opening. When I raised the dagger to show them, a thin, translucent layer of soft was hanging from the blade.
I pointed at the long-dead leeches on the ground with the blade of my knife and motioned for them to see what was different from before, but they couldn't see the reason for it for a long time. With a pale face, I used the blade of my knife to pick out the contents of the leech's body, which were piles of particles of various sizes.
"Cinnabar?" Wang Lei frowned a little at this time.
I nodded, I should have thought of it a long time ago. Cinnabar has two effects in our Chinese medicine industry, with several other Chinese medicines can clear the heart and calm the nerves, and soaking in water for a long time can stimulate the hidden functions of the body.
Historically, the utility pursued by every emperor in alchemy has not been the first, but the second. Hidden functions can be large or small, small is useless, and large is immortal. The so-called extreme thing must be reversed, it is a three-point poison, not to mention that it is equivalent to the cinnabar of the crane top red. Therefore, since the Xia Dynasty, almost every emperor has thought of the way of immortality, but in the end, he has harmed others and himself.
This group of vampire leeches is estimated to have lived in the cinnabar land for a long time, because they eat cinnabar all year round, so they are far larger than the outside world, and even the terrifying regeneration ability is also related to this cinnabar.
Wang Lei seems to be still deeply trapped in the previous scene, just in case, he picked up the fire fold and burned the vampire leech clean.
After four hours of not eating or drinking, we gradually couldn't hold it anymore, so we simply rested in place while replenishing our strength.
The fire in the cave just now burned too quickly, and the backpacks of Sanniang and the Wang brothers were rolled into it together. I sat on the floor and took it out of my bag, and I bought calorie-rich foods like compressed biscuits, sauce, and beef and distributed them to everyone. We were not idle when we ate, and Wang Meng, Sun Da and others analyzed our current situation in detail.
First and foremost, it's impossible to go back the way we came, we have to move on. Sometimes advance is retreat, if you find an exit or soft ground in front, everything should be solved. But if all that awaits us in front of us are some floor tile secret rooms, then we can only rely on our own creation.
According to Wang Meng, there should be only three holes in this mausoleum, and the place we are in now is the second one, that is to say, after walking through the previous hole, we will arrive at the patio. The patio initially thought that it was about three, but the exact number could only be known when we got to that place. After the patio is a small niche, and there must be a lot of small niches according to the identity of the owner of the tomb. After that, the road is the burial pit and the dormitory, the so-called thief does not go empty, everything we do is for these two places.
It is conceivable that the road ahead is definitely more difficult than it is now, but we have no way back, and only by moving forward can we have a glimmer of life.
"Alright, you're ready to work!" Wang Lei hiccuped.
Sun Da drank the last sip of water and said, "I don't know what the situation is before, everyone be careful."
We don't have any great desire to protect the environment, and after leaving a mess, Wang Meng led the team to continue to explore forward. The fire fold in Wang Meng's hand was also about to burn out, and only a little spark was left to reflect the road ahead. There was darkness behind us, and the left and right sides were blurry and invisible.
"What's wrong?" Sun Da asked suddenly, and when I looked up, Wang Meng, who turned out to be the head, suddenly stopped.
Wang Meng didn't speak, and shone the corner of the hole with only a glimmer of light in his hand.
We looked at the slight light and couldn't help but be afraid for a while, and we were almost pecked by the geese today!
I saw a stone coffin in the place where the fire folded past!
And it's exactly the same as the first hole!
I scanned my surroundings and saw that the hole was much larger than the first, and we had been resting on the other side and had not noticed that there was a stone coffin in the darkness. The mountain monkey in the sarcophagus left us so impressed that we still have lingering fears until now!
All of a sudden, we all stood in place, and none of us dared to do it lightly. A mountain monkey was enough for us to drink a pot before, and if another one pops up this time, I don't know who will fold here!
"Damn! Starve the faint-hearted and support the daring! What are we doing here? Aren't we here to get rich! Wang Lei took a sip and was about to open the coffin.
"Did you ask for money before?" I complained, I didn't ask for money, and I crippled myself.
"Isn't that too late?" Wang Lei looked indifferent: "I am willing to cut my whole body, dare to pull the emperor off the horse!" If there are really any mountain monkeys, the steel gun in the hands of the wild monkey brother is not an ornament. After Wang Lei finished speaking, he touched the side of the stone coffin with a gun.
Wang Lei's vigilant appearance infected us, and we all showed up the sapper shovel and quietly stepped forward.
But before we could get up, we found that Wang Lei had lost his soul and was on the edge of the stone coffin.
"Look." Wang Lei pointed to the stone coffin.
We looked along and didn't find anything wrong, but when Wang Meng brought the fire fold to take a closer look, we were surprised!
Although the fire fold has come to the end of the seemingly extinguished, we can still clearly see that the stone coffin has exposed a gap.
"Somebody has been here." Wang Meng said as he rubbed the marks left by the crowbar on the stone coffin.
"Could it be Yu Houtu?" He was the first thing I thought of. There were six of us in total, and apart from the five of us, only the vanished remnants of the earth could have come.
"Not sure, but this thing can't be lifted by one person." Sun Da lifted the lid of the stone coffin and said.
Having said that, I don't think so, Yu Houtu's brute strength is not comparable to us. On the contrary, I still hope that he has come, so as to at least prove that Yu Houtu is safe for the time being.
Wang Meng handed the fire fold to Sanniang, and the four of us stood in the corner of the stone coffin like last time. The previous crowbar had long been lost in the leech swarm, so we had to use the sapper shovel as a lever to slowly lift the stone coffin cover. Fortunately, the texture of the sapper shovel was relatively hard, and we worked together to lift the stone coffin cover to the ground.
I fanned the dust with a shovel and looked inside, the sarcophagus had been opened in advance, and there was nothing but a few burial goods.
None of us knew what was inside the sarcophagus before, but it was definitely opened. And he was in a hurry, otherwise he would not have let these treasures be covered in ashes in the stone coffin.
Wang Lei carefully took out the scattered funeral goods inside, and then took out a silk handkerchief from his pocket and wiped it carefully.
I saw that Wang Lei, a big man, actually took out a silk handkerchief from his pocket, and a layer of goosebumps suddenly appeared on his body. But then I suddenly thought of something and trotted over, and as I opened my backpack, I said, "I think it's better for us to put these things in our bags first." I couldn't help but smile at the corner of my mouth and asked, "What do you think?"
Wang Lei touched his head in disdain: "Brother Shanshui is right, now is not the time to be delicate."
I crouched on the ground and put the funeral goods in the sarcophagus into my backpack, thinking that I had slaughtered the old boy once.
I weighed the bronze shrine in my hand, and I could even feel the strong sense of history rushing to my face. I watched it for a while and put it in my backpack, and when I got out, I just got rid of it, and it was enough for me to eat and drink for a few years.
This time there was no surprise, and I followed them to the third hole with a heavy bag on my back.
The distance between the three passages is not too far, and we reached the third stone arch in about ten minutes.
At this time, the fire fold in Wang Meng's hand was no longer good, and after a few flickers, the last afterglow was extinguished. We are back in darkness in an instant, and everything around us is unleashing a heavy sense of oppression all the time. I felt my head buzzing, and when I closed my eyes, it felt like the world was spinning.
My eyes never opened, and then I heard a "poof" sound in my ears, and the sound seemed to warm up instantly.
In the blur, I seemed to see a glimmer of light light in the darkness, and then slowly walked towards me, closer and closer......
"What the are you doing!" I felt a heat on my face before I heard the sound.
"I mean, you can't be stupid by the mountain monkeys, right?" I opened my eyes to find that Wang Lei had walked up to me at some point with a rekindled fire fold.
Wang Lei saw that the anger in my eyes was about to come out, and he changed his surprised look: "Brother Shanshui, are you okay?" Brother thought you had summoned evil spirits just now! ”
After hearing this, I was also helpless, so I could only rub my red left cheek and don't overdo it.
Damn! This old boy's slap was definitely deliberate!