Chapter 18: Desperate Situation
The appearance of Li Yutao made everyone present scatter and flee, Wei Lai led Huo Meng and others into the Shengmen, and put down the black charm at the entrance of the Shengmen, hoping to prevent Li Yutao's living corpse from entering.
Wei Lai was terrified at this time, his black talisman could restrain the remnant soul and wild spirit, but for Li Yutao's strange living corpse, Wei Lai did not have any courage to resist, the living corpse is a particularly terrifying thing in the ancient tomb, and experienced tomb robbers will run away decisively when they encounter a living corpse.
Shengmen, in the ancient tomb means life, Wei Lai's choice of this stone gate is purely blind, but according to the literal meaning, Shengmen is an auspicious omen, and there is the greatest possibility of surviving when entering it.
The structure inside the Shengmen is simple, a corridor leads straight to the tomb, when you reach the tomb, you see a sarcophagus parked in the narrow tomb, the moment you see the sarcophagus, Wei Lai's face is suddenly blue, because the sarcophagus does not exist at all.
"No, this is not the main burial chamber, get out of it quickly." Wei Lai hurriedly shouted, turned around and was about to run out.
Wei Lai found that something was wrong, this ancient tomb is the prince's tomb, even if it is simple, it is impossible to lay it out like this, the lonely sarcophagus is placed in the center, it is not the royal pomp at all, and this life gate is an auspicious omen, most of the main tomb will be designed in the life gate, if not, someone is ruthless, want to harm the tomb owner, let him suffer from bad luck.
When Wei Lai and the others wanted to escape, a roar sounded, and the corridor when they came fell stone slabs, completely blocking the way back.
At this moment, the sarcophagus in the tomb shook violently, the heavy coffin lid was constantly lifted, a low roar came from the coffin, and the fishy smell slowly spread, enveloping the entire tomb, and the gloomy and cold breath made people tremble.
"Wei Lai, what should we do?" Huo Meng hugged Wen Xiu, his legs trembling terribly, looking at the shaking sarcophagus, and asked Wei Lai in horror.
Wei Lai forced himself to calm down, now trapped in the tomb, panic can't solve anything, only calm down can deal with the danger in front of him, Wei Lai pinned his last hope on Liulipei, hoping that Liulipei could expel and suppress the contents of the sarcophagus.
Wei Lai took out the glazed pendant, at this time the glazed pendant emitted a strong blue light, indicating that there was danger, the glazed pendant has a good effect on driving away evil spirits and avoiding evil, but it has little effect on the ancient corpses in the ancient tomb, when Wei Lai put the glazed pendant on the coffin lid, although the sarcophagus shook the amplitude became smaller, but it was still shaking, obviously the things inside were trying to struggle, trying to break through the shackles of the sarcophagus.
"It's a zombie or a living corpse, it's hard to deal with." Wei Lai could determine the contents of the sarcophagus, and seeing that Liuli Pei had little effect, he had to give up the method of suppressing the sarcophagus.
Zombies and living corpses are both corpses mutated, which is commonly known as corpse transformation, at the level of metaphysics, because the place where the corpse is buried has a peculiar feng shui and excessive yin qi, so that the corpse constantly absorbs the yin energy of the earth's leylines to achieve the effect of nourishing the corpse, but whenever it touches the yang energy, it will give birth to corpse transformation.
But there is also an essential difference between the two, zombies are also known as dry corpses, there is no soul, but the body becomes stiff after death, and the body is nourished by yin qi at the same time as a large amount of dehydration and oxidation, and it will bite the living person after being spawned by yang energy, the whole body is as hard as iron, the face is hideous, and the movement is a little slow, and even can only beat and move; The living corpse is a person who is buried without death, so that there is a yang energy in the body, this yang energy and the yin energy of the earth's leylines blend with each other, deriving signs of demonic life, belonging to the category of the living dead, in a state of sleep all year round, if the yang energy is prompted after the corpse changes, the action is agile and fast, the temperament is fierce and tyrannical, and there will even be signs of thinking activities.
Wei Lai wasn't sure if the sarcophagus was a zombie or a living corpse, but no matter which one of the two was one, it wasn't something they could deal with, if it was a zombie, the chance of survival was relatively high, and if it was a living corpse, they might all have to be explained here.
"Remember, if the zombie comes out of the coffin, we still have a chance to live, we try to escape as much as possible in the tomb, but we must remain calm, try not to let ourselves gasp and agitate, and we can't walk in a straight line, which will make the zombie easily distinguish the breath, and need to constantly change direction, because the zombie is stiff all over, the movement is still slow, in the case of our physical strength, it is still possible for us to save our lives." Wei Lai took everyone to the corner of the tomb and carefully explained Zhang Qiang and Huo Meng.
Huo Meng tightened his hug to Wen Xiu in front of him, and said suspiciously: "What if it's a living corpse?" ”
Wei Lai smiled bitterly: "Living corpse, then pray to leave you a whole corpse." ”
Wei Lai stretched out his hand and took out the black talisman and pasted a few on the backs of several people, not asking for it to drive away the monster in the coffin, as long as it can play a small role, when everything is done, Wei Lai is looking for the exit of the mechanism in the corner, if he is trapped in the tomb, there will always be a time when he is exhausted, and only finding the exit is the root of life.
The sarcophagus shook even more violently, the lid of the coffin was lifted and fell, and seeing that the contents of the coffin were about to appear, Huo Meng's thighs trembled continuously, and he asked tremblingly: "Wei Lai, if it is a living corpse, will the fragrance of the ever-bright lamp have an effect?" ”
As soon as Huo Meng's words were finished, Wei Lai's mind flashed, his eyes lit up as he looked at Huo Meng, and said excitedly: "Why didn't I think that living corpses have thinking activities, and the effect of the everlasting lantern will also have an effect on them." ”
Wei Lai slapped his face in surprise, if the sarcophagus was a zombie, as long as they kept a good breathing rate and didn't let the zombies get close to them, they could live, and if the sarcophagus was a living corpse, they could light the everlasting lamp, so that Huo Meng and the living corpses fell into a sluggish state, with the poison repellent effect of Liulipei, they would not be affected by the fragrance of the everlasting lamp at all, and they had enough time to find the exit of the mechanism in the tomb.
Wei Lai was extremely excited, under Huo Meng's suggestion, he could not only deal with the current predicament, but also open a smooth path for future exploration and tomb robbery, as long as he took this ever-bright lamp oil out to study, he could restrain the living corpse in the process of robbing the tomb in the future, which was definitely a killer existence.
Wei Lai's heart was hot, he walked to the ever-bright lamp beside him, took out the plastic bottle from the package, filled it with a whole bottle of lamp oil, and waited to go out to study it, Wei Lai felt that it was a little inappropriate, so he filled two bottles respectively and handed them over to Huo Meng and Zhang Qiang for safekeeping, in case they were in danger and lost.
"Boom."
The lid of the sarcophagus fell into a brief calm, and then suddenly bounced up and fell to the side of Wei Lai and others, and a corpse stood up straight in the sarcophagus, wearing ancient Qing Dynasty costumes, with a withered and hideous face, two fangs exposed in the mouth, and the nose kept sniffing left and right, trying to identify the location of the living.
"Stiff...... Corpse. Huo Meng was frightened by the sudden appearance of zombies and shouted in a lost voice.
The zombie's nose sniffed, and he could distinguish the direction where Huo Meng was, his hands were stiff and stiff and thrust back and forth, his fangs were even more exposed, and he pounced towards the place where Wei Lai and the others were, but because the zombie was inside the sarcophagus, his stiff legs could not be bent significantly, so that he tripped over the sarcophagus and fell outside the sarcophagus.
"Poof." Zhang Qiang laughed out loud, the zombie's behavior was very funny, which made the fear in his heart subside a lot.
The zombie didn't seem to feel any pain, and after falling, it stood up and jumped in the direction of the crowd, swinging its hands forward, trying to pounce on the living people in front of it.
"Do as I say, keep the curve going, and try not to look back and talk." Wei Lai whispered, because turning back and talking will make the yang energy aggravated, the zombie will smell the smell and quickly identify the direction, maintaining the curve can increase the difficulty of the zombie's action, turning and changing direction are the weaknesses of the zombie.
Wei Lai saw the zombies jumping and approaching, and took the lead in escaping from the corner, the route of travel continued to curve, Huo Meng behind him hugged Wenxiu, followed Wei Lai's footsteps, and finally Zhang Qiang maintained a steady breathing and increased the amplitude of the curve.
The zombie's body is stiff, its nose is constantly sniffing left and right, and after distinguishing the breath of Wei Lai and others, it will jump and chase after it, but when it follows the breath, it will involuntarily get out of the curve, and when it turns or changes direction, the stiff body will be inflexible, allowing Wei Lai and others to slowly pull away.
Although they kept a safe distance for the time being, the zombies behind them made several people's hearts suffer, as long as there was a slight mistake, they would be buried under the fangs of the zombies, and if this way continued for a long time, their physical strength would also be affected.
"Huo Meng, hand over Wenxiu to me to hold, you try your best to find the exit of the mechanism, whether we can survive depends on your ability." Wei Lai and Huo Meng swapped places and held Wenxiu in their arms.
Although the zombies were terrifying, after seeing that there was no danger to his life, Huo Meng's courage increased, and while maintaining a curved route, he continued to look for clues in the tomb, and sometimes even slapped the bumps of the wall.
When Huo Meng was searching hard, the backpack behind him trembled violently, Huo Meng was driven by a huge force, his body instantly lost his balance and fell to the ground, Wei Lai behind him reacted quickly, and bypassed Huo Meng out of protection for Wenxiu, but Zhang Qiang behind him was tripped by Huo Meng and fell to the ground.
"Oops, I ......." Zhang Qiang screamed as he fell, but then immediately covered his mouth.
However, the footsteps behind him disappeared, a fishy smell came from his ears, and it was getting closer and closer, Zhang Qiang took the flashlight to shine it, his withered face was expressionless, the messy corpse spots were all over his face, a pair of sharp fangs were biting towards his neck, a chill from the bones rose from his heart, and a feeling of weakness was derived.
"Get out of here." Seeing that Zhang Qiang was about to be bitten off by a zombie, Huo Meng stepped forward at a critical moment, overcoming the fear in his heart, and his sturdy body jumped up from the ground and crashed into the zombie's waist from the side.
Although the zombie's body was stiff, it was still stumbled by Huo Meng, biting Zhang Qiang's fangs and deviating from the direction, but Huo Meng fell to the ground, and the zombie turned to attack Huo Meng, and the oily green nails covered with corpse poison waved and poked at Huo Meng's body.
The package behind Huo Meng vibrated again, making his action to dodge stagnate, the zombie's nails approached his body, Huo Meng had an idea, used all his strength, and rolled a donkey from the feet of the zombie, narrowly avoiding the zombie's attack.
"You two, face to the ground, don't breathe." Wei Lai hugged Wenxiu tightly, loudly reminded Huo Meng and Zhang Qiang, and hoped to distract the zombies.
"Grandson, grandpa is here, come to chase me." Wei Lai saw Huo Meng and Zhang Qiang holding their breath, shouting loudly, attracting the attention of the zombies.
The zombie's attack was dodged by Huo Meng, and he wanted to search for Huo Meng's location with his breath, but because Huo Meng held his breath, the zombie's nose couldn't smell the yang energy of the living, and he kept wandering in place to find it.
Wei Lai shouted again, and after successfully attracting the attention of the zombies, he kept the curve and continued to walk, and Huo Meng and Zhang Qiang behind him survived in a thrilling way. Huo Meng was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but was awakened by the vibration in the package behind him, which contained the eggs of the human-faced giant ant, and now that it was so shaking, it was obvious that the human-faced giant ant was about to start hatching.
Huo Meng shuddered when he recalled the human-faced giant ants, the guy who could drive the ant colony must be extremely ferocious, plus there was a human face, if it was really allowed to hatch successfully, Huo Meng couldn't imagine the consequences that would happen.
Huo Meng slammed the spirit, this human-faced giant ant is behind his back, if the hatching is successful, he will first have to eat himself, I am afraid that there are not even bones left.
Huo Meng took off the package behind him and put the package on the ground, the eggs inside kept wriggling, and the signs of life became more and more vigorous, Huo Meng raised his feet and wanted to step on the eggs hard, but when he remembered the appearance of the human-faced giant ant, he couldn't muster up the courage in fear.
Huo Meng swallowed and spit, taking advantage of the zombie being lured away by Wei Lai, picked up the package and walked towards the sarcophagus, when he walked to the edge of the sarcophagus, he threw the package into the sarcophagus with force, intending to seal the human-faced giant ant in the sarcophagus.
"Click."
When Huo Meng was about to move the coffin lid, there was a strange sound inside the sarcophagus, and the package hit a certain part, and a crack appeared at the bottom of the sarcophagus, and then the crack continued to grow, showing a downward staircase passage.