The first example given by Lu Shan is a baculovirus called the dance moth, which, after invading the caterpillar's body, can cause the caterpillar to lose its control and climb to the top of the tree on its own, instead of hiding in the shade under the leaves like a normal caterpillar.

When climbing to the top of a tree, caterpillars can easily be attacked by birds by exposing their targets. Some of the caterpillars that are not completely eaten by the birds, and the remaining caterpillar carcasses will eventually decompose, and the virus particles that live in their bodies will be able to absorb the nutrients, and after they have been absorbed, they will run out and hide behind the leaves, waiting for the opportunity to infect the next host.

The second example given by Lu is the zombie ant, a fungus of cordyceps that can release a chemical similar to a hallucinogen. This substance attracts ants and allows the fungus to invade its body.

Infected ants leave their nests and then look for a leaf away from the ground to perch, where they are slowly killed by the fungus.

Over the next year, these fungi will slowly devour the ant's corpse, multiply, and use the ant's corpse as a place to release spores, while the isolated new spore individuals will continue to attract new targets as mature fungi.

After listening to Lu Shan's example, I really felt a little numb in my scalp, I originally thought she would say hermit crabs or something, but I didn't expect that fungi can indeed turn creatures into zombies.

The feng shui bureau and corpse raising place created by the ancients are nothing more than creating a humid and warm environment, using the corpse of a person after death to propagate some kind of fungus that can lodge and control the human body. To put it bluntly, it is to build a greenhouse and grow mushrooms, but this kind of mushroom is planted on dead people.

As for what kind of environment is suitable for the survival of that kind of green-haired fungus, I am afraid that only people like Yu Tarsus and Cao Cao will know.

Zhao Tiesuo pointed a flashlight at the square hole that should have been a waist pit, and shone it downward, and did not see the corpse that was burned to black charcoal, but saw the floor below. The lower floor is two meters away from us, and the floor is all bluestone slabs, which looks very solid.

There are no other exits and secret passages in the tomb, and if you go up, you will return to the eight-character Yongdao, and then meet those people, but you will not have as good luck as before, everyone has a gun, and we have this one, if you fight hard, you will definitely suffer a big loss. They seek money, and we find our way, so it is better not to interfere with each other.

And if she can use a gun, I'm afraid that Zhao Tiesuo is the only one who plays with guns, I originally thought that Yan Qiu was also a gun, but I didn't expect that when she confronted people with a gun, she didn't even open the insurance, but at least it can prove that she is not a bad person.

Then there is only one way to go, we jump down one by one, or Lu Shan is behind, and the fat brother finishes.

Below is a large stone room, which Yan Qiu judged to be the architectural style of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the middle of the stone room, there is a spiral staircase leading down, similar to the previous one, and it seems that it should be a spiral staircase on another floor. I don't know how many eight-character corridors are distributed in the underground here, and each corridor is probably connected to the spiral staircase to go down.

The stone chamber is about twenty meters square, and the walls can only be faintly seen by the light. Because the area of the stone chamber is too large, it seems that the roof is very low, which makes people feel a sense of depression from the heart.

We first look for the fallen zombie, and we must make sure that all the fungus on its body is burned, otherwise it will always be a hidden danger, and we will not be able to continue to look for a way out.

I said to everyone: "Let's start from this point, scatter to find, when the zombie falls, it is almost dead, it will definitely not be able to climb far, find the corpse first, make sure that it is completely immobile, and then we will continue to walk." ”

Everyone began to scatter to search, walked a few steps, I found that the bluestone floor is very slippery, as if waxed, this place is flat and big, like a roller skating rink, now if there is a pair of roller skates, a few laps here, it should also be very pleasant.

God is so understanding, I didn't take a few steps, I felt like I was pressing a wheel under the floor, my feet slipped forward, my body fell backwards, and I lay down and fell under the floor. When I was about to fall, I tried to hold Yan Qiu to maintain the balance of my body, but I didn't expect to pull her down with me.

I landed directly on my back and fell into a large iron cage, followed by Yan Qiu, who sat on my face with my butt and sat with snot and tears.

Then I heard all kinds of screams, and several other people were not spared, Lu Shan, Fat Brother, and Sister Hua fell into the same cage, and Zhao Tiesuo fell into a cage by himself.

It turns out that the floor of the stone chamber above is a gusset mechanism, and rollers are installed under the bluestone slab, as long as you step on it, you can slide it away directly, and drop the person standing above into the cage below, and after it falls, the upper floor is closed again, leaving no traces.

I yelled the names of the other people to make sure we hadn't attrition, and then asked Zhao Tiesuo to look around with a flashlight.

With the light of his flashlight, I could see exactly where everyone was now. It turned out that under the floor of the stone chamber above, there were large cages made of iron sheets, which were thick and wide and looked very strong. The cage is connected to the upper floor and hangs in mid-air, and the floor below is about 50 centimeters from the bottom of the cage.

The cage is about one meter square and less than three meters deep, although there are gaps, but it is difficult to climb up, and I tried for a long time without success.

Many of these cages have the bones of dead people, and they are not in the mood to judge the age, it is estimated that there are in every dynasty, and they should all be the bones of tomb robbers trapped in cages.

There are three people in the cage, and the fat brother is burly, so now they are on their side, with strange postures and painful expressions. Because there were bones in the cage, Lu Shan screamed in fright. The three of them were like a passenger on a crowded bus, surrounded by gas, and they didn't know what to do.

It's okay on my side, Yan Qiu is very thin, so the two of them are not crowded inside, and there is also a layer of human bones piled up at the bottom of the cage. It's just that the smell on our side is not very good, a stench of burnt pork, I followed the direction from which the smell came from, and saw that in the cage next to us, it was the blackened corpse, which was already motionless, in stark contrast to the white bones in the cage.

I said to the people, "Hurry up, we have to go out first, we have been trapped here for a long time, and if a tomb robber comes, we will become turtles in the urn." ”

The fat brother tried to lift Sister Hua up first, but their cage was too crowded to be opened at all.

Immediately, I decided to put Yan Qiu up first.

As soon as I grabbed her waist with my hand and was about to exert my strength, I was stopped by Zhao Tiesuo. Zhao Tiesuo said: "It's useless to lift the girl up, who can she pull up?" Don't fall off on your own. ”

As soon as I heard that it made sense, I reluctantly took my hands away from my slender waist. I asked, "Brother Zhao, what can you do?" ”

Zhao Tiesuo said: "I have more bones here, not far from the top, you bring me the bones in your cage, I will be able to touch the top if I raise it higher." ”

As soon as I heard that this method was not bad, I felt a little uncomfortable just thinking about using my hands to take the bones of dead people, but this was also the only way, so I gritted my teeth, picked up a piece of human bones, and stretched it out from the gap in the cage to the fat brother.

It took a lot of effort for the fat guy to stick his arm out of the crack in the cage and take the bone I handed over. But the fat brother couldn't turn around, and it happened to be Lu Shan on the other side of Zhao Tiesuo's cage, and the fat brother had to hand the bone to Lu Shan's left hand on the outer wall of the cage.

Lu Shan made a lot of determination before he took the human bone with an embarrassed expression, then poured his left hand into his right hand, and then handed it to Zhao Tiesuo with his right hand.

We transported the human bones in my cage to Zhao Tiesuo little by little, and saw that the human bones under his feet were raised.

Suddenly, there was a sound in the iron cage containing the big zongzi beside me, and I thought that the big zongzi was not dead, so I went to see that the blackened corpse was still lying in the cage, but the floor above the cage had been slid open.

A large monster was squeezing through the crack in the floor into the iron cage.