Chapter 35: The Lich

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Everyone looked forward in the direction of Binzi's finger, and couldn't help but be stunned, only to see a huge stone platform in the middle of the water in front of them, on which was placed an incomparably huge black and purple sarcophagus. All the planks were moving closer to the sarcophagus.

In addition to the one we are on, we can see on our left that another tributary is converging here. The two tributaries converge here in the shape of the word "Yi", and the location of the sarcophagus is the location of the point of the word "Yi". Behind the sarcophagus is an open square-like place, and at the end of the square there is a huge grotto that leads to nowhere.

What is even more surprising is that the planks that drift in the river are scattered here. In other words, the planks that were originally drifting on the left side changed to the river on the right after passing through the sarcophagus, and the planks that were drifting on our side changed to the river on the left. They are so staggered that one after the other is astonishing at how much wisdom the ancients were able to reach.

Because at this time, I can already be sure that this is not an underground river at all, because the force of nature alone cannot achieve such a perfect diversion. And, looking at the direction in which the planks are drifting, it seems that after they pass through the sarcophagus, they will go through the cycle again, forever running underground. If this is the river, then nothing can change the simplest laws of physics that water flows downward, and since the planks can rotate in a circular manner, there is only one possibility, the water here is still stagnant, but it is driven by some mechanism in the ground to keep flowing so that the corpses lying on the planks can patrol the graves back and forth to prevent anyone from intruding.

However, we have been here for so long, and we don't feel that the corpses lying on the wooden planks show any signs of corpse transformation, and they can't become zombies, so how can we protect the burial pit?

I was completely immersed in this strange scene, but I didn't expect Binzi and Zhang Hefang to suddenly turn off the flashlight. Binzi reminded me again, "Don't make a sound, the sarcophagus seems to have moved just now." ”

I was surprised, I thought that there would be no more zombies here, because along the way, there were corpses of ancient people everywhere along the coast and on the river, but they didn't have any corpse transformation, so I unconsciously relaxed my vigilance.

I listened to Binzi's words, and I didn't dare to make a sound at all, but just looked in the direction of the sarcophagus in the dark. What is surprising is that the sarcophagus is the same as the hexagonal coffin in the stone chamber before, and it is also sprinkled with green light.

I held my breath and gradually realized that the sarcophagus was indeed moving. It's just that the lid of the sarcophagus moves very slowly, not like in the movie at all, and the coffin lid is suddenly lifted by the zombies inside. The zombies in this sarcophagus must have been woken up by the sound of our shouting.

Gradually, the lid of the sarcophagus made a roaring grinding sound, and after a while, the lid of the sarcophagus was pushed open halfway. Suddenly, a hand with a faint halo on the skin poked out of the sarcophagus and snapped onto the wall of the sarcophagus.

Seeing the changes taking place in the sarcophagus, and the fact that our planks were still approaching the sarcophagus, my heart suddenly rose to my throat, and I felt a strong urge to jump into the water.

However, if you jump into the water in the current situation, it will cause a louder noise, and the situation may get worse.

Just as I hesitated, the contents of the sarcophagus suddenly sat up. As soon as he sat up, I suddenly realized that the height of the thing was beyond my imagination, and judging by his clothing, I could be sure that he was sitting in a sarcophagus at the moment, but even so, his upper body was enough to rival the height of the average adult. Could this be the ancient giant wizard?

Soon, the plank under us was floating to a distance of less than twenty meters from the sarcophagus, and the distance was constantly shortening.

Fortunately, the guy who sat up from the management didn't make any other drastic moves. He was dressed in a fat purple robe, as if he had been asleep for a long, long time, and no one or any living creature had been able to disturb his sleep all this time, but our presence had shattered the peace that should have existed here.

The thing sat up, staring forward with a blank eye, unaware of our presence. After a while, the thing's neck suddenly turned, and he heard a "quack", which sounded like the sound of joint movement, and his face suddenly looked at the river on our side.

Zhang Hefang and I, including Bu Jin, were all scared, and hurriedly lay on the wooden plank and pretended to be dead bodies, motionless. I thought to myself, this thing is still a zombie anyway, and no matter how sensitive it is, it is impossible to detect our existence in such a dark environment.

But, even so, I was shocked when I saw the face of that thing. The creature's face was almost identical to the rough stone statue we came in, with two eyes protruding more than a dozen centimeters outward, and there seemed to be a third eye between the creature's eyebrows.

Apparently the thing had already found our five planks, but, as I expected, he just thought there was something unusual about our five planks, but it didn't make it clear that we weren't corpses. He tilted his head, as if to wonder if he was overthinking, and after thinking for a while, just as our plank was about to approach him, he slowly lay down in the sarcophagus again, and our hanging hearts finally let go.

Zhang Hefang was at the front and pointed to the open space behind the sarcophagus, which meant that we should not stay on the plank anymore, but let us climb to the open space.

When we pass by the sarcophagus, we can clearly hear the "boom" friction sound when the lid of the sarcophagus is closed. I was so nervous that when I jumped from the plank to the banks on both sides, my legs went weak and I almost fell into the river, but fortunately, Binzi quickly pulled me by the hand.

I wanted to say thank you, but Binzi immediately made a silent gesture to remind me.

I wanted to say something in a very small voice at first, but Zhang Hefang was more careful, he simply shook his head, not letting me take the risk, and he pointed to the grotto at the end of the clearing in the distance, as if to say that something was there.

I nodded, actually, what I want to say is whether this person lying in the black and purple sarcophagus will be the Six Imperial Attendants.

We cautiously walked around the sarcophagus and walked to the back, halfway through, and there was no movement in the sarcophagus, and at this time, I just had the courage to breathe a sigh of relief.

However, at the moment when we relaxed, suddenly, the sound of radio waves "bang-la-la-la" sounded suddenly, although the sound itself was not loud, but because the sarcophagus was originally very quiet, coupled with the echo effect presented by the mountain, this sound echoed around us like thunder.

Zhang Hefang snorted: "Oops, careless!" ”

The radio walkie-talkie "bang-la-la-la" just rang twice, and suddenly, something even weirder appeared, the voice of Bao Ye appeared on the walkie-talkie, and his voice somehow seemed a little enchanting: "I'm here." ”

As soon as Bao Ye's words fell, a huge sound suddenly came out from the huge black-purple sarcophagus.

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