CHAPTER XLIV

Chapter 126 >

The fat man nodded and said, "Yes, yes, let's get out of this ghost place quickly, the fat man I hate the most now is snakes, naïve, should we smash these song snake eggs, so as to eliminate harm for the people?" ”

I said, "Don't have anything to do, be careful to lure the snake mother and snake father over and swallow you in one bite." The fat man touched his nose and began to look around with a lighter.

Behind us was the passage where we came, with walls of loess mixed with rubble on the left and right, and snake eggs piled up to the top, leaving only a gap the size of a human at the top.

Everything in the cave is clear at a glance, and I don't know what this place was originally for, it was so strangely repaired, look at the weapons in front of it, it is about the arsenal of the magnates of the ancient Western Regions, and the scale is estimated to be not small.

After looking around, the fat man pointed to the snake wall and said, "There is no other passage, it must be blocked by these snake eggs, or what the fat man said is right, it has to be smashed!" "So far, it has to be like this, but this is obviously a snake nest, the snake's sense of smell is extremely sensitive, I and the fat man's smashing egg, I don't know if it will lead to a big snake, this snake nest is not far from the totem pole above, if I guess correctly, maybe it is the nest of the black python on the earth in those two days.

After the fat man finished speaking, he put the lighter on the raised stone on the side, stretched out his feet and prepared to kick the egg wall, I was about to help, and suddenly found that there seemed to be some mark on the wall where the fat man put the lighter.

I quickly pulled the fat man and said, "Wait." Then I walked over to the lighter and lit the plastic lighter in my hand, and all of a sudden, the surroundings became brighter, and at this time, the faint traces on the loess wall also appeared.

The traces are already very blurred, painted on the loess wall, and if you are not careful, you will ignore the past.

The fat man hissed and said, "What is this, the cross?" Jesus? ”

On the wall is a man-made cross pattern, black paint, as if it was a mark, and I don't know when it was painted. As soon as the fat man said the cross, I couldn't help but think of the skeleton in the back, could it be the mark left by that person?

Why did he die here?

The place where the fat man and I came down was a road we had kicked open, and the skeleton brother had apparently come in from somewhere else, and the only passage was the snake wall in front of us, that is, there were no snakes here before, and it became a snake cave only after the skeleton entered.

So, what did he do with this mark?

Are there any other clues?

I quickly lit the lighter and said, "Look for it again, maybe there are other things." "The two of us had a lighter, and we looked at the walls and floors like a carpet search, and when I was in the middle of it, I suddenly noticed that at the bottom of the snake egg, there was a black thing, which seemed to be some black cloth.

I lit my lighter and made a closer look, and where the fabric was exposed, there was a half-rotten zipper, and there was a sign under the zipper, and the words 'zojp' were faintly recognizable.

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I felt that these letters were somewhat familiar, and after thinking about it, I remembered that this is an old German hiking bag brand. I used to lose my equipment, so when I had nothing to do at home, I always liked to search for some equipment brands, and I once saw the introduction of this company in a piece of information, which was the best mountaineering company in Germany in the last century, and rarely exported to China, but now this company has closed down 30 years ago.

It seems that this half-exposed thing should be an equipment bag, but at the moment it is all pressed by the snake egg, I quickly beckoned the fat man to get it out, and as soon as the two of us pulled it, the snake egg on it swayed, and it was best for me to grit my teeth and say, "Anyway, I have to smash, pull!" ”

The fat man smiled, and with a big hand, the entire equipment bag was pulled out by him, and the snake eggs on it suddenly crackled and smashed down, and the ground was full of sticky and greasy light-colored egg yolks, and the snake egg yolks were lighter than the color of egg yolks, and the fat man and I were full of the smell of snake eggs, and the palms of our clothes were sticky.

With the massive collapse of the snake egg, a swarthy passage was revealed behind it, and due to the limited light of the lighter, the light could not penetrate the past, and I don't know what it was.

The fat man weighed the bag of equipment he pulled out, and said happily: "Hey, it's quite heavy, it seems that we have supplies again." With that, he went through the stinking and rotten equipment bag. Then, a bunch of ropes, daggers, and even guns were pounded out of the gear bag by the fat man.

The fat man held the gun, his eyes lit up with excitement, and said: "There is no endless road, fat man, my character, even Hu Da and his old man have been moved, this is really timely rain in the dry land." As he spoke, he was busy checking the guns and ammunition, the guns were still usable, but because they were old, there might be a risk of misfire, the daggers and the like were in good condition, the ropes were rotten, there was a mess of food, there were rotten travel tents, there were not many things that could really be used, among them, we also found a notebook.

As soon as I saw this notebook, my heart fluttered, because the notebook in the fat man's hand at the moment was exactly the same as the notebook on the German corpse on the Gada Oasis.

It was a notebook with a black leather bag, and there were several letters in the center, which were supposed to be white before, but now the color has faded and blended in with the black of the notebook.

The style of this notebook is exactly the same as the one in Dr. Zhang's hand.

Could it be that this notebook was left by the skeleton brother? He was also part of the German expedition sixty years ago? I quickly opened the notebook, the handwriting in it was not flooded, so it was well preserved, but it was still densely packed in German, and the fat man and I stared at each other, and I couldn't understand it at all, but there were a few numbers on it, so it could be roughly judged that this was also an expedition log.

I flipped through it cursoryly, and when I reached the end, I suddenly saw a large crosshair. The cross-shaped mark, which took up the entire page, was painted very thickly with a pen.

It's a cross again.

I couldn't help but look at the mark on the wall, what is the special meaning of this cross?

The cross type can be seen as a plus sign, or as a Chinese number, and can also be used to imply God, it can represent many meanings, so what does this cross in front of me mean?

The owner of the equipment bag is likely to be a German, and they generally believe in God, so will the meaning of this cross be religious? Could it be that the skeletal brother, before he died, saw something that needed God's help and drew these crosses?

I was thinking that the fat man had sorted out the useful equipment, threw me a short dagger, and said: "Comrade naïve, what are you thinking about again, hurry up, let's smash the snake egg, maybe the big snake will follow later, and it is important to escape." ”

The fat man said again, I felt that I put away the investigation diary, and the fat man lit the lighter, stepping on the egg liquid on the ground and walking forward, not long after, there was no way in front of us again, this time, in front of us, it was snakeskin.

The black oily snake skin, formed a ball and blocked most of the passage, a strong fishy smell, the person who rushed almost vomited, the fat man made a gesture, motioned me to look at the wall, I held the lighter to see, and found that this passage was not completely sealed by the snake skin, and the place against the wall could be passed.

I nodded, took a deep breath, and followed the fat man, like a crab, against the wall. My whole chest is against the wall, and the back is snakeskin, every step I take, those snakeskins rub on my back, because I burned my coat with the fat man before, at this moment, we are both wearing only a thin short T-shirt, the touch of snakeskin is clearly transmitted to the skin through the fabric, that feeling, not to mention how disgusting.

Although the road blocked by snakeskin was not long, it was difficult to walk, so the fat man and I moved very slowly, like two drunken crabs, staggering. Since we had to hold the wall with both hands, we didn't have extra time to light the lighter, and finally the fat man was in front, and I beat the light, and after walking a distance, the fat man was light, and I waited for me to move over.

At this moment, I was lying on the wall, lighting the lighter to light the fat man, the fat man moved very hard, only more than two meters after half an hour, and gradually walked into the place where the light could not penetrate, the lighter was already a little hot, I was about to turn off the lighter, ready to wait for the fat man to light me, but the back of the neck suddenly felt a wet and cold feeling, my hand shook, and the lighter almost fell to the ground.

Something is licking me.

As the wet and cool feeling passed, the place where the neck was licked immediately came from corrosive pain. The image flashed through my mind, I was being held down by the fat man's head, something was licking my ear, and then, too, the pain was like this, and then the fat man told me that it was a human head snake, a human head snake that looked exactly like the stuffy oil bottle!

Could it be that at this moment there is ...... behind me

Almost instantly, I broke out in a cold sweat, but the sharp pain in the back of my neck reminded me that now was not the time to be afraid, and I almost immediately pulled out the dagger from my waist, and then turned my head violently, and in an instant, I felt my muscles twitch.

In the snakeskin, there is a human face, not the face of a stuffy oil bottle, but a fat, pale face, a fat man!

At this moment, the face spit out the letter violently, the scarlet letter licked straight towards my eyes, my whole brain was almost stiff, and I could only reflexively dodge, but fortunately, I had practiced well in the past few years, and I dodged it all of a sudden, and then, the face rushed towards me, but behind the head, it was a snake body.

I can finally understand the fat man's fear at that time, even the most nervous person will be frightened when he sees his brother become like this.

The space was so narrow that I had almost no way to escape, and the moment it pounced, it stabbed its backhand indiscriminately, the dagger tightened, and then, a stream of hot blood sprayed onto my hand.

At this time, the fat man in front of him had heard the movement, and immediately lit the lighter, at the same time, he was obviously frightened, stared wide-eyed and gasped, and then reacted, and then he didn't care to avoid those snake skins, holding a dagger and pounced violently, the snake was inadvertently pierced by me, bleeding a lot, it was furious, and the side head bit me, I looked at the snake against the fat man's face, but the mouth was bigger than the human head, that feeling, not to mention how terrifying.

At this moment, the dagger was still trapped in the muscles of the snake, it was copper, the muscles were clamped very tightly, I couldn't pull it out, the snake bit me, so I had to let go of the hand holding the dagger, and fell back violently.

Just when the snake's head was only half a meter away from me, a string of blood flowers burst out on the top of the snake's head, and then, the fat man used his huge body to pounce the snake's head to the ground, pulled out the dagger that was inserted into the snake's head, and thrust it in, with that hideous expression, as if the snake had eaten his father.

The big snake was in pain, and the body still buried in the snake skin writhed violently, driving the snake skin to tremble, I saw that the fat man was struggling, and quickly pounced, pulled out the dagger and thrust it, and I don't know how long, my face was full of ** spicy, and the snake finally stopped struggling.

The fat man and I gasped against the wall, and we couldn't avoid the fishy smell, and after a long time, the fat man turned on the lighter again, and gasped, "I'm here to see how this thing looks like me." ”

The lighter was rekindled, and at this time, I looked at the snake's head again, and found that it was still the appearance of a fat man, but at this moment, it seemed that there was no longer that kind of living feeling.

I found that it was not a human face in the true sense of the word, but a layer of skin, and the scales on the skin were extremely similar to the color of human skin, so fine that at first glance, it looked like the skin of a real person.