Chapter Forty-Eight: The Dying
In a matter of minutes, his backpack was so bulging that it couldn't drum anymore. We thought he was finally satisfied, but we never thought that he took out a big square cloth from the things he had just poured out, spread it out flat, and put it on the cloth one by one.
After loading the square cloth, the fat man was still looking around to see if there was anything else that could be used to load it, until he bumped into our eyes.
"Why are you all looking at the fat man? What a daze, hurry up and pretend. ”
"Uh-oh." The four of us hurriedly drew the gourd in the same way, and poured out the contents of the bag, "Find more jade to put inside, don't put gold, it's too heavy and not cost-effective." Aged jade is worth more than gold. I reminded the three of them as I pretended.
"Hmm."
Soon, the backpacks of the four of us were also full, but fortunately, with the selection, it was not so difficult to carry.
"Great harvest, great harvest. How, retreat not? The fat man was carrying two bags, and asked with a happy smile, "Hey, where did you go to that door just now?" ”
Following my gaze, I hurriedly turned around and looked, where else was there a door, there was only a wall, what the hell, how did this door disappear inexplicably.
"Big head, did you notice what's going on?"
Only then did the big head come back to his senses, "Ah, what's wrong?" ”
"The door, the door is missing?"
Hearing me say this, the big head realized the problem, but instead smiled and said, "Whatever?" It's impossible for us to go back the way we came, the stairs down are all destroyed because of the collapse, not to mention the arrow array outside, let's keep going, maybe there will be a way out ahead. ”
This is really a typical person who will look for optimism in a desperate place.
Unfortunately, what is said is the truth,
"Mosquito, don't you wonder where the people you see on the stairs who use flashlights to light us have gone? The whole burial chamber is almost finished, except for the two corpses that have been dead for many days, but there are no living people to be seen, which is too weird. ”
To be honest, there is another thought that the big head is anxious to move forward, that is, according to the records on the stone wall of the front hall, the tomb owner is indeed a descendant of the Golden Country, so there is a lot of information about the location of the Golden Country in his coffin. I think this is the message that the big head wants most, not the vulgar gold and silver treasures of the earth.
After walking forward for a while, Taro suddenly shouted, "There seems to be a person under that pile of jewels" After speaking, he ran to the side in small steps, quickly removing the jewelry covered on the surface, and the big head heard that there were people, and his depressed mood was immediately mobilized, and he ran over with Taro.
"Hey, there's more than one, there are three corpses here, and the time of death is about half a day later than the person in the ear chamber of the front hall." Taro examined and told the results, "Wait, these three people really thought they were poisoned and died after being bitten by something, you see." All three are missing arms and legs, and the fractures are all tearing marks, strange and strange, this kind of wound is generally like being bitten and torn by a wild wolf or bear-like beast. But here, how can there be those beasts? ”
During the interval between Taro's words, Big Head had already involuntarily examined the three remaining arms and legs, and found no signs of spider tattoos.
"Taro, let me ask you, if you are bitten by a spider, will it cause this phenomenon?" I asked, with speculation.
He shook his head again and again, "How is it possible, the spider's mouth is very small, not to mention that its habits are too different from those of wolves." ”
"I mean, if a spider is so big that it can't have this effect?"
"Well, if it's big enough for a mouth to easily bite down on a thigh, it should be okay. Stop, you wouldn't mean? Taro finally understood what I meant, and immediately looked around in fear.
"If a spider wants to reproduce, there must be a male and a female, and if there is one in the stone chamber above, there must be another."
"Damn, there's a spider ancestor?"
The big head raised his head, "If there is, it should be the last layer of protection for this tomb." ”
"It's a good time to eat, this room is so large, if that thing suddenly appears, we won't even have a place to hide." The monkey wept with a sad face.
"Hurry to the apse and see if there is a way out." Big Head said.
The monkey behind him whispered to the smoker, "Do you think that thing is on top of us right now, but no one has paid attention to it until now." ”
"Don't talk about touching the head, and don't look up without knowing whether you are alive or dead, people are afraid because they know too much. The ignorant are fearless, understand or not, hurry up and follow, and it has arrived. ”
Walked in, it is indeed the apse, the space in the hall is much larger than the nave, there is no decoration on the surrounding walls, on the contrary, it also shows a chilling atmosphere that makes people hairy, it is pitch black, and all the mining lamps must be turned on to illuminate the whole hall. The field of vision brightened, only to see, from the middle of the apse to the back of the hall, neatly placed dozens of coffins, in turn into a ladder, from the bottom to the top, the position of the last end, but also specially built a boxy high platform, on the high platform placed only one coffin, it seems, that should be the location of the main body.
I looked down and saw that there were a large number of messy footprints on the thick dust on the ground, which had not yet been covered by the newly fallen dust, and it seemed that the people who left the footprints were probably the same as the dead people outside. There are four footprints one after the other have been marching to the high platform, and the other pair of footprints have continued to the nearest coffin to us, there is no sign of coming back, the big head bowed his head and followed the footprints to the coffin, close to see, the coffin has been pried open, "Fatty, come and help push the lid of this coffin open." ”
"Ahem." As soon as the words fell, a sound similar to a cough suddenly came from the coffin.
"So unlucky? Why are the coffins we are going to open, and all of them look like there are living people. The monkey said nervously.
"Hurry, there are survivors in there." The big head tried to push it away by himself as he spoke, and the fat man hurriedly took his hand. Seeing that he was in such a hurry, we hurriedly ran over and pushed together.
"Holy, what's going on? Just buried? The fat man was surprised: "Huh? No, this man's eyes are still open. The living dead? "This coffin has only one layer, after pushing it open, I saw a thin and tall middle-aged man inside, his eyes were slightly open, his face was like earth, and his throat intermittently made a series of coughing sounds, after seeing us, his trembling right hand still wanted to raise the pistol, the smoker reached over and took his pistol neatly, looking at him indifferently.
"Quick, get him up." After the taro helped him to sit upright, the big head saw that he was not dead, so he hurriedly took out the kettle, broke his mouth, and poured a small mouth into it, the man's lips were already dry and purple, but at the moment of touching the water, they trembled, and greedily enjoyed it, and the Adam's apple rose and fell, and he drank for a few minutes before he closed his mouth, and his eyes were finally stronger, and he opened them completely, his mouth moved, and a hoarse voice came out of it, "Thank you." Seeing that he was able to speak, the big head anxiously asked, "Who are you?" Is there anyone else alive? ”
The man shook his head and tried to get up, but suddenly he took a cold breath and his face wrinkled in pain, and then I noticed that there was a large wound on his left leg, which had begun to rot. I looked at the taro, and he stared at the wound and shook his head inadvertently, indicating that he couldn't save it.