Including me, three of the four of us were wounded, and our combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. With a simple bandage, the four of us gathered around the bell that rolled out of the belly of the dead water monkey.

This bell is not small, I don't know how it was placed in the body of this monster, and why. If you look closely, the intestines of the water monkey are embedded in the ears of the bell, as if the rope is tied to the bell. I covered my nose and stepped forward, looking inside the clock like a clock, and through the wall of the bell, it was pitch black inside, and I couldn't see what it was.

As he was watching, suddenly a thin crack opened in the wall of the bell, the crack grew bigger and bigger, and finally there was a bang, and the whole bell shattered in half, and purple liquid flowed out of it, and there was a chubby human baby corpse curled up.

Perhaps because of the long soaking in this purple liquid, the baby's corpse turned out to be as fresh as a newborn baby.

We gathered around and saw the baby with his eyes closed, his hands folded and his legs curled up. Compared to the average baby's head, it is a little large and a little disproportionate. The umbilical cord on the baby's body, which is always connected to the bell, has a lump of flesh at the very end.

"Is this a little rice dumpling?" The pit looked at the baby on the ground and asked Lao Zhao. Zongzi is used in the mouths of tomb robbers to refer to the corpse of the deceased.

Lao Zhao shook his head and said, "Yes, it's not." As far as I know, this is a Gu technique from Southeast Asia. ”

"Gu art?"

"This kind of Gu art is recorded in some local scriptures, because the methods are extremely cruel and almost never used. This kind of Gu is called "baby resentment", and when you go down to Gu, you have to find a pregnant woman who is about to be born in nine months of pregnancy, and take out the baby in your womb. Because it is already time to be born, the baby has already taken shape, and some babies are even breathing. After taking out the baby, put the baby in a special container and soak it in a special medicine solution to prevent the baby from rotting on the one hand, and put the container in a place where there are many children on the other hand. In this way, the soul of the baby inside the container listens to the children frolicking outside, but it is sealed in the container itself, and after half a year, it is finally refined. Lao Zhao explained to us.

"Awesome, you know these things." The pit said to Lao Zhao.

My main concern is not so much how this thing is formed, but what it is for, and why it is in the body of this giant water monkey. Lao Zhao pointed to the intestines of the water monkey on the bell wall and said, "This should be used to provide nutrition for the baby in the bell, so as to ensure that the baby can always be intact." You see, the baby's umbilical cord is also attached to the bell wall, which is used to absorb nutrients. Because it is sealed in this jade bell, the body will not grow, and the soul will not be able to leave the body. ”

"So what is this kind of thing used for, isn't it just an ornamental artwork, that's too perverted."

"Of course not, although the baby is smaller, but once there is resentment, it is more serious than the adult's resentment, because the baby itself does not have much meaning, once it realizes a little, it will not change, and the intention of the tomb owner to seal the baby here is to let the baby's soul guard the mausoleum for it forever."

After Lao Zhao's explanation, I knew that the small baby in front of me actually had such a tragic life experience, and I couldn't help but feel some sympathy, although I didn't know him at all.

"Alas, it's pitiful enough to be used as a Gu before you were born, may your soul be at peace in heaven." I folded my hands and bowed to the baby, how to say that this is also an ancient person hundreds of years ago, and I do not suffer to give him a salute.

"Why don't we bury this baby." I said to Lao Zhao.

"Well, it's a good thing, but where are the stones buried all over the place?" Lao Zhao agreed with me.

I pointed to the deep pit left by the water monkey slapping the ground and said, "Lay it here, and build a grave with stones." ”

After saying that, I put on my gloves and was about to hold the baby on the ground, but as soon as I moved, the umbilical cord that was even on the baby's belly was broken, and the baby that was still lifelike in my hand just now instantly dried up and became a dried corpse. I was so close, and changing so fast that I almost crouched on the ground. Since this is already the case, there is no other way, the pit said whether to take half an hour to come over as the baby's coffin, I thought about it or forget it, after the baby was taken out of the belly, it has been sealed in this jade bell again, and now that he is free, don't let him touch the side of this bell again.

I took out a thin blanket from my backpack, wrapped the baby's body in a simple coffin, and laid him flat in a stone pit and buried it with rubble.

After dealing with the baby, we took a short break, and a few of us deliberated and decided to move on. Although this tomb is full of dangers, we have to go down or we will be trapped here, decomposing with the corpse of this big water monkey, and it is disgusting to think about.

Relying on Lao Zhao's judgment, after we passed through the corpse of the big water monkey, we once again identified a changing crack in the wall. This time the wall cracks are larger. We walked through the cracks in the wall in turn, Song Jin walked in the front, followed by Lao Zhao and the pit, because the two of them had just been injured, so this time I was behind. I looked back when I passed through the gap, it was dark behind me, and suddenly there was a cry of a baby in the darkness, and suddenly there was a cry of a baby in this dark burial chamber. Or is it the baby's soul that wants to take out its anger on us? I pulled the pit in front of me and asked, "Did you hear anything, the child's cry." ”

The pit looked at me and said, "No, nothing, are you hallucinating?" ”

I asked Lao Zhao the same question again, and the answer I got was still negative, no, am I the only one who hears it, they can't hear it, and my hearing is not much better than theirs, this is not scientific. If I'm the only one who hears it, then why me and no one else?

The pit patted me on the shoulder and said, "Don't think about it, you're just too tired." "I snorted, maybe the pit was right, I was just too tired after tossing for so long, so I heard it wrong, how could there be a child crying in this tomb.

Under the guidance of Lao Zhao, we passed through several walls in a row, and finally came to a place surrounded by walls, let's call it a small tomb, this small tomb is much smaller, I say it is much smaller, because this tomb is so small that you can use a flashlight to shine on the edge of the tomb.

Pit looked around the burial chamber and said in frustration, "It's over, we're at a dead end." ”

After Lao Zhao came in, he looked around, and then walked to the middle of the tomb, which was different from the others, and the central part of this small tomb had a stone abutment, and on top of the abutment was a large stone tripod. The stone tripod is more than one person high, and the tripod body is engraved with gluttonous patterns, which is a commonly used pattern on the ancient tripod vessel, and there is nothing unusual.

The tripod was originally used as a cooking utensil, and was also used as a ritual vessel for sacrifices, so the abutment that suddenly appeared here, and the stone tripod, was it used for sacrifice? After seeing Shi Ding, the most excited thing was the pit, and he excitedly circled around Shi Ding several times.

"You say, is there anything good in this ding?" As soon as the pit was excited, even the accent changed to the Shandong accent of his hometown.

"If it's for sacrifice, it stands to reason that there will be." Lao Zhao replied to the pit.

"Great, I'll go up and have a look." The pit said that he was about to climb up the wall, so it can be seen that the injury just now is no longer important. If he wants to go up, I didn't stop him, in case there is anything good, we won't come in vain.

Once the pit is restored, the combat effectiveness is quite amazing, I saw him holding the Ding wall, three or two times I was afraid to go up, relying on the Ding Er to ride on the stone Ding.

"Anything?" I asked the pit.

"Damn, there's no chicken feathers, it seems to be a dings of water." The pit scolded, looking very disappointed.

"Water? What are you doing with water here, is this the water tank of the Yuan Dynasty prince's house? I didn't believe the pit's words, so I asked him.

"How do I know, I don't believe you can come up and see for yourself." As he spoke, he took a flashlight and shone it into the ding. "Zero egg, give me a tool, there's something in the water."

When I heard it, I was overjoyed, no matter what it was, we could only take jade first, of course, we could only take jade. I heard the pit say this, and I climbed up along the Dingbi and rode on the Dingbi. Looking into the stone tripod, sure enough, as the pit said, the tripod is a black tripod of water. I gave the probe to the pit, and I tied a grappling hook to one end of the probe so that it could easily hook up the contents of the tripod.

The probe gradually sank into the water, the pit shook the probe in the water twice, it should have grabbed something, and the hand began to slowly lift up, and we both stared wide-eyed to see what kind of treasure was lifted, but unexpectedly just grabbed a black mess, a mess. The two of us were a little disappointed, and the pit shook off the black stuff on the probe and stuck the probe into the water again.

His hand stirred back and forth a few times, and the pit smiled and said happily, "There is." As he spoke, he quickly lifted the probe up.

The two of us stared at the baby who was about to come out of the water, but unexpectedly, the end of the probe rod was caught, and it was indeed a white skeleton.

"Male-Gobi...... Scared my dad to death. The pit cursed and threw the skull back into Shiding.

I was even more miserable, because I was too attentive and defenseless just now, and I was so frightened that I fell directly from the ding wall, and a fart fell on the stone pedestal, and I screamed in pain.

Seeing me fall, Song Jin hurriedly came over and helped me up, I said thank you, Song Jin smiled embarrassedly and asked, "What is so scary." ”

"Skeletons." I'm back.

Song Jin didn't say anything when he heard it, but climbed directly onto the stone tripod and squatted on the edge of the tripod to look down. Seeing that Song Jin also came up, the pit asked, "Little brother, what treasures do you have in this Dingli?" Let's catch five or five, no, six or four accounts. ”

Song Jin didn't go back to the pit, but stared at it for a long time and said, "This is not water, this is oil." ”

When we heard this, our mouths opened wide and we were speechless in surprise.