An An led the way in front, Yuan Meng and I followed behind, in order to save power, we only turned on a flashlight, which was illuminated by An An.

As we walked, An An explained to us the origin of the "devil's bug" we had just met.

In fact, as early as the Middle Ages, there were wizards who would cultivate some evil bugs for themselves to drive and harm others. The "Devil's Worm" is one of the more powerful ones.

The name sounds scary, but to put it bluntly, it is actually a variant of a wild poisonous bee, which is large and extremely poisonous, and two can easily kill a bison. And it is day and night, and the habit is very weird.

This poisonous bee must lay eggs in the carcass of the mammals it kills, and the incubation period is several years, but the corpse that has laid eggs is difficult to decay before the eggs are fully hatched, and it may be that the poison of the poisonous bee has an antiseptic function. In addition, if the eggs are placed in a low temperature and humid place, the eggs may not hatch for more than 100 years.

It was not uncommon in the Middle Ages. Many of Europe's magnates had the experience of cultivating devil worms to extract venom to harm people. Elizabeth of the year. The Countess of Bathory was extremely obsessed with black sorcery, and had bred many devil bugs with her own hands, but she had only one purpose, to drive the bugs to bite the poor maid to death for fun.

It's just that later she felt that the maid died too quickly and was not stimulating, and after playing a few times, she got tired of it, so she gave up this cruel game. The corpses of the maids who had already laid their eggs were discarded at will. An An didn't expect that the countess's servant would throw the body here. After 400 years, there are still adults breeding here. I have to say that it is not a small miracle.

Hearing this, I couldn't help but understand a little more about the cruelty of the bloody countess I was about to meet, and at the same time the hatred was a little more aggravated. It seems necessary for me to take her blood and throw her into the dark sarcophagus as it is. That's where she belongs.

The tunnel was really long, we walked more than two miles, and there was still no end in sight.

This underground tunnel is dark and damp, and the mud is not shallow, and it is very sticky, that is, sticky shoes and slippery, very hateful. And the dark passages are unusually hot, unknown beetles are everywhere, and you must shake them off as soon as possible, otherwise they will soon take a bite on your bare skin, and the bite will be unbearable, and a big red bump will be scratched.

Yuan Meng and I were bitten badly. There were red bumps all over her arms and neck, but An An didn't do anything at all, as if she knew the insects, and only bit us. Of course, this is a joke, but the real reason for this is that the poisonous insects in the pit are afraid of her for reasons we don't know.

We walked more than a mile with difficulty, and suddenly there was a noticeable downhill slope in the tunnel, extending deeper into the ground.

An An turned around and encouraged us, "It's almost here, the dawn is coming." ”

When I heard that I was finally about to walk out, I was shocked and my mood improved, so I smiled and said, "The darkness before dawn is even worse, so let's be careful." ”

An An smiled knowingly and said, "That's nature. ”

We walked down the slope with great energy, probably because we went deep underground, the more we walked, the cooler we felt, and the annoying poisonous insects gradually disappeared, which made Yuan Meng and I suddenly feel like entering heaven. It's also a lot easier.

Although the downhill road of the underground tunnel is slow, it is so long that I can't estimate how deep the straight line has been, and after a rough estimate of how deep it will be more than ten meters, the dark tunnel finally ends up and becomes a smooth road.

When I arrived here, it was like being in a very deep cellar, it was very cool, but the air quality was not good, the flashlight was shaking, and I could see a light smoke and dust floating in the tunnel. However, there is not a lot of flying dust here, and there is only a thin layer of floating earth on the stone slabs and masonry walls under your feet.

But in the corners of the tunnel, some purple fungi have taken root in this shallow layer of floating soil, and although the fungus is small, it multiplies in patches and is also very numerous. People can't help but sigh at the tenacity of life.

I saw that the air here was muddy, so I took out a simple torch from my backpack that I had found on the Internet. This thing, in fact, is a very large lighter, the fuel is natural gas, and it can continue to burn for more than an hour. And the operation is extremely simple, press the off, it will automatically ignite, and the flame the size of the fist will burn, which is better than the flashlight in the narrow tunnel, after all, it shines comprehensively, and the flashlight shines far away, but the area is only a small piece.

I saw that the flame of the small torch was very good, which means that there is enough oxygen in the tunnel, so we don't have to worry.

An An took the small torch from my hand, inserted the flashlight back into the slip pocket on the side of the travel bag on my back, and continued walking.

But after walking less than 200 meters, there was no road ahead. When we got closer, we realized that the path of the pit was sealed by a heavy oak door.

I squeezed forward, only to see a large keyhole in the oak door, mottled with rust and almost blocked by dust. But even if it's not blocked, it's useless if we don't have a key.

An An was very puzzled when he saw this door, and muttered in his mouth, "I remember that this secret passage is very smooth, how could there be multiple doors all of a sudden, what is going on?" Could it be that it was added later. ”

I saw that the oak door in front of me was a long time old, so I wondered, "Is it because the Count of Turso is afraid that someone will sneak in through the secret passage to save Elizabeth?" Countess Bathory, just as a precaution, installed this portal. ”

Yuan Meng shook his head and objected, "If that's the case, then just seal this secret passage directly, or destroy it, why bother." ”

As soon as I thought about it, sealing or destroying the tunnel is indeed once and for all, since it is installed in the door, then it is necessary to enter and exit, so who will enter and exit this door? It's puzzling.

An An also said that he couldn't figure it out, I said, "Since you can't figure it out, don't waste brain cells, no matter what use it is, anyway, it's in the way of our business now, just kick it and finish it!" ”

Saying that, I asked An An and Yuan Meng to take a step back, and they were ready to do it!

But I underestimated the medieval oak door, and slammed it down, and the heavy wooden door reflected only a dull thud, and the dust flew everywhere, but not a single crack appeared in the door.

Now my face is a little unbearable. was about to continue to be ruthless, but Yuan Meng grabbed her arm, and she said coquettishly, "Do you have the strength to do anything?" They don't use their brains, like pigs. ”

"No, I used to be smart, but I'm a pig idiot, you know!" I laughed wickedly.

"Die!" Yuan Meng smiled and squeezed me aside, unloaded my backpack, and pulled out a bottle of whiskey from inside.

An An looked at us flirting with a smile at first, and when she saw Yuan Meng take out a bottle of spirits from her bag, she asked puzzledly, "Why are you still carrying this?" ”

Yuan Meng was a little embarrassed to be asked, "He likes to drink it a lot lately, and this whiskey is sterilized, isn't it?" ”

Of course, this reason is very far-fetched, I know that her main purpose is for me to come up with alcohol addiction and take a sip, although my alcohol addiction has not reached the point where she thinks, but with such a careful girlfriend, will you not be moved, not in love?

I took the whiskey, unscrewed the lid, and took a big sip, the liquor went down my esophagus and into the diaphragm, forming a downward line of fire, which was very spicy and exciting. I reached out to sweep all the dust off the oak door, and saw that the wood was very dry, so I carefully sprinkled the wine on the wooden door, and then took a small torch from An An's hand and lit it carefully.

Dry wood and liquor were easily ignited, and because of the narrowness of the tunnel, the smoke from the burning wood filled the tunnel, and we had to retreat more than 20 meters. When I saw the fire, I threw the wine bottle directly into the fire, and with a bang, the wine bottle exploded, and the remaining wine in it splashed everywhere, making room for a larger gas fire.

When we returned again when the smoke had cleared, the oak door had been burned beyond recognition, and I kicked the remains of the door panel, which was still faintly blazing, and this time finally tore it apart, breaking a crack that could fit one person through.

I made the rift a little bigger, and shone a flashlight inside, and the dark behind the door was very deep and seemed wide.

I stepped in, and found that there was a downward staircase, but it was very shallow, that is, seven or eight steps, I walked down the blue brick steps, and then took a flashlight to shine around, and found that this place was actually a huge underground warehouse, the dome was several meters high from the ground, and the width was more than ten meters, but out of the pile of black soil and smoke floating in the air on the brick floor, there was nothing to see here.

At this time, Yuan Meng and An An also came to me one after another.

Yuan Meng was amazed at the emptiness of this place and said, "This looks like an air-raid shelter?" ”

Actually, I feel the same way, but it was impossible to bomb by planes in the Middle Ages, so it was like an underground warehouse for storing supplies, and of course it could be a private wine cellar.

When An An arrived here, he just glanced around, and he recognized what kind of place this was, listening to Yuan Meng's speculation and me, he shook his head and said, "What you said is not right, this is actually the place where the countess hides the dead body." She had killed too many people, and blatantly throwing corpses would cause trouble, so her countess's servants would store the dead here first, and then dispose of them quietly in batches, so that they did not know it. It is said that when there were the most corpses, not only the ground, but also the dried corpses hung on the top. Later, after Count Turso captured the castle of Chakhtis, more than a thousand female corpses were found in this cave alone. ”

Yuan Meng and I were taken aback, we couldn't imagine that the huge space was once filled with corpses, what kind of appalling scene it should be, we really couldn't imagine.

"You see the walls here are all black, do you know why?" An An sighed, "Because there are too many corpses, Count Turso has secretly disposed of them, and they are directly burned here, and those black ones are smoked and burned corpse oil. ”

I raised my flashlight and shone it around, and sure enough, both the floor and the walls were all black, and I thought that it had been covered by dust for a long time, but I didn't expect it to be caused by the burning of corpses. It's horrible!

When I was about to put away my flashlight, I suddenly found something strange in the dark dome, and I couldn't help but wonder, "Did the Count of Turso burn all the corpses?" ”

An An said, "Of course! ”

I pointed to the dome of the corpse cave above my head and said in a trembling voice, "If the corpses are all burned, then what is it!" ”