PS: The work of asking for tickets is the same as the update, it will be carried out every day, and Lao Bei continues to ask for monthly passes, collections, and recommendations. Here, thank you for the reward and monthly pass of "Sister Miyu's highest". This is the first monthly ticket in Lao Bei's life, and the mood is indescribable, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who collects, recommends, clicks, and comments on "Loess Chronicle". We have just hit the road, and Lao Bei will definitely take everyone to fight to the death.

The black fur of the giant rat was full of finger-sized maggots wriggling, and its bones could still be faintly seen in the decaying places.

The monster looked exactly like a rotting corpse, but it stood alive before my eyes, waving its long tail and roaring.

I was horrified by its terrible appearance, and it took me half a minute to notice that the giant rat's body seemed to be curling up little by little, and the back that had been high above the bone pit was getting shorter and shorter.

At the same time, there was a strange sound from its body, accompanied by the sound that seemed to be a dislocation of bones, the giant rat raised its head, its blood-colored eyes widened, and its whole body trembled.

At first I thought something was wrong with this thing, but then I realized something was wrong. Its head and body are getting shorter and shorter, as if they are shrinking little by little.

Although I refused to accept such a thing, in less than a few tens of seconds, the giant rat's body shrank to one-third of its original size, and it continued to get smaller.

I said to myself, will this monster shrink its bones?

And I soon realized that everything the giant rat was doing now might have come at me.

After another moment. I couldn't see the body of the giant rat anymore. However, its claws were still firmly embedded in the floor of the doorway. There was no shrinking, no movement.

There was a sudden silence around them. But it's a frightening quiet, and I don't have to think about it to know that nothing good is going to happen next.

However, I was extremely curious to see what the thing had shrunk into.

At that moment, someone suddenly grabbed me by the shoulder.

I shuddered, and when I turned my head, I saw a man covered in smudges standing next to me.

His face and clothes were covered in dust, and I couldn't tell what he looked like, but I could tell he wasn't very old.

"Don't stand stupid. Run. Without saying anything, he wanted to pull me down the road.

"Who the hell are you?" Seeing a stranger here, of course I would be wary.

The man seemed to be in a hurry, "Oh, I don't have time to explain now, it's too late if I don't leave." ”

"What the hell is going to happen?" I looked back again.

Suddenly, my expression froze. When I looked back, I saw a figure standing outside the corridor.

It was half as tall as me, with a slightly bulging belly, a very huge head, and two hands. It turned out to be the two unchanging claws of the giant rat.

The claws hanging at its sides were so large that when it came over, it could only drag them to the ground behind it.

I suddenly realized. The thing standing in front of me was the giant rat just now. But how could it shrink itself like this? Size is one thing, the point is, it's still standing like a human being. Walked towards us.

However, its crimson eyes and wagging tail behind it told me. It's the giant rat.

I'd like to move the flashlight a little more, but. The guy next to me grabbed me.

"Don't take a picture, you're scared to death." After he finished speaking, he pulled me back again.

Do I have a heart? However, I didn't dare to meet the thing, so I turned around and ran down the alley with the man.

As soon as we moved, there was the sound of hurried footsteps from the thing behind us. I looked back and saw that it had already run into the corridor, only more than ten meters away from us.

"Don't look back, keep running. That thing's claws are too heavy to run fast. The man in front of him looked back and said.

Is that so? I don't think it's about to bite my ass. But there was no time to speak, so I tensed my muscles and ran after the man.

After running some distance, a 90-degree corner appeared on the straight road, and there was a fire shining through it.

When I ran inside, I saw a room with several large wooden boxes, a torch stuck in the wall, and a faint light.

Under the brick wall opposite where we entered, there was a low doorway, square, with polished corners, which had been deliberately built there.

But I couldn't figure out why I had to open a small door there that looked like a dog's hole.

I thought he would take me through the doorway, but at the end of the day, the man told me to turn off my flashlight and hide behind the big wooden boxes on the side.

The wooden box was quite large, but I thought it would be easy to be found by hiding in it, but he still dragged it behind the wooden box.

I tried to ask him something, but the man made a quiet gesture at me. Immediately after, the sound of chasing footsteps came to the door of the room.

The thing seemed to stop outside the door, and I heard his heavy breathing, and the sound of the pair of claws dragging on the ground.

After a few seconds, the thing slowly walked in, and the torches on the wall immediately printed a huge black shadow.

It walked slowly around the room, looking for any traces we might have left behind like a ghost. The stench almost made me vomit, and I kept my mouth shut, trying not to make a sound.

Then, through the gap between the two wooden boxes, the thing appeared in front of my eyes little by little.

The giant rat's body was as broken as before, and its hind limbs became like the two legs of a kangaroo, supporting it to stand. Once inside the room, the giant rat walked straight to the opposite brick wall without turning his head.

The moment it left my field of vision, I suddenly noticed that something seemed wrong with its face.

Because now I can only look through the gaps. So it was just a fleeting feeling. But I'm at least sure of it. The giant rat's face is not black now.

I turned my head in confusion. Look at the stranger.

The man curled up and stared at me with a very strange look in his eyes.

I could see something strange in his gaze, as if he was staring at me somewhere. I pondered back and forth for a while, and then I realized that I was holding a gun in my hand. So, I quickly moved my pistol to the other side.

At this moment, the footsteps turned back. I focused to see what had happened to the giant rat's face.

After waiting for a while, its figure finally reappeared outside the gap. My eyes widened and I looked hard at its head. When I saw the face of the giant rat shake before my eyes, I immediately shook with horror, and my knees made a noise on the wooden box.

The man hurried over and reached out to cover my mouth and motioned for me to stop moving.

But it was too late.

The giant rat suddenly stopped, and then slowly turned to the side of the wooden chest.

The man's face was very ugly, but now I stared at the giant rat's face in a daze, and my mind was completely blank.

On the head of the giant rat, it turned out to be a human face. And it seems, still, my own face.

I'm kind of the more narcissistic type in private, and I used to wake up in the morning. I don't feel comfortable not looking in the mirror, so I know exactly what I am.

And at the moment. Seeing my own face on the head of a monster made it impossible for my brain not to fall into astonishment and confusion.

Little by little, the giant rat came towards us. In the firelight, the face became clearer and clearer.

I almost collapsed on the spot. It's as if I see my head cut off. And then casually put it on the neck of a monster. And it won't be long before that face of mine opens and bites me to death.

The thought of this made me tremble. Slowly, I tightened my grip on the pistol, and suddenly I made up my mind that if this thing took three steps further, Lao Tzu would jump up and smash its face with a gun. Damn, even if I die, I can't die under that face of myself.

"One" I counted in my heart, and cold sweat began to break out on my head.

However, just as it was about to take the third step, it suddenly turned to the door, and then it turned and left the room.

The person on the other side and I were puzzled for a while, but the two of them still didn't dare to move. It wasn't until the footsteps outside had faded away and disappeared that we finally let out a long breath.

After a moment's pause, I immediately asked the man, "Did you just see its face?" ”

The man nodded, "You don't have to be afraid, that youkai will transform itself into the people it sees, we were very scared before, but as long as you know its habits, it is still easy to avoid it." ”

"What's that thing's habits?"

"It can only see what is in front of its own eyes, and you were standing outside, and its eyes are exactly the height of your head, so you will be spotted by it."

I nodded noncommittally, "Doesn't it smell us?" I've heard that rats have a great sense of smell. ”

The man looked at the door gloomily and said, "I don't know what I said, what I said was also what we paid for with our lives, but I don't feel like it is a living thing. Maybe it's a Stygian. ”

It's the Underworld again, how can he know about the Underworld.

I was stunned after hearing this, "You, you are from the archaeological team?" ”

The man nodded, "By the way, looking at your equipment, you're also from the archaeological team, right?" How did you come here alone? ”

I shook my head, and then said, "You can't be one of Professor Chen's three missing students, right?" It seems to be, it's called Ah Wei or something? ”

When the man heard Professor Chen's name, he was also shocked. "Yes, you were with Professor Chen, where is he now?"

When I found one of the three people that Professor Chen was talking about, I was also excited and told him what had happened. Of course, there are some things that I didn't elaborate on, but I just told him that Professor Chen was also looking for them.

"By the way, what about the other two?" I asked in the last place.

The man suddenly lowered his head and said, "Dead."

His name is Wei Lin, and he disappeared from the main tomb with two other people, Ah Wei and Qi Hui, and he said that he couldn't remember the specific process, but as soon as the three of them woke up, they lay in the bone pit outside. For the rest of the time, the three of them kept going around with the giant rat outside, and in the end, Ah Wei and Wei Lin both died under the sharp claws of the thing.

I was silent for a while, and then asked him, "Then how have you survived these few days?" You've got all your gear out there, but I don't think you look like you haven't eaten or drunk. ”

Wei Lin stretched out his hand and pointed to the low door, "There is an underground ditch in there, and there are some fungi growing on the side, eating moss, eating wild mushrooms, drinking spring water, hum, it can be regarded as a fairy." ”

As he spoke, he smiled wryly.

I smiled bleakly, and then I took out the compressed biscuits and cans in my bag and handed them to him, and opened a pack of cookies myself.

Seeing Wei Lin's gobbling up, I can also imagine how hard he has been working these days. (To be continued......)