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"Where are the dead, let me see!" Gray dragged me back, and he peered through the door. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"One, two, three, four, four, and a half!" he counted the corpses.

"What's the matter with half?" I asked.

"It's just a half-cut corpse, only the upper half of the body is visible, and the other half is not here!" Gray said, "These people have been dead for some years, and the 'thing' that killed them should be gone." ”

"Hard to say!" I gave a gentle push, and the door creaked open. After an unknown few hundred years, the gate still feels like new, making a very soft sound. I didn't push too hard, and the door was completely open.

One of the five corpses collapsed in the doorway, barely half a meter away. But this half meter became the last distance he could not reach in his life. I shone down with my flashlight, and the corpse's clothes were covered with a thick layer of dust.

I glanced at it, and the five bodies remained largely intact. It did not rot into white bones, but dried into dried corpses. The flesh becomes a dry skin that clings tightly to the bone. The hair was a mess of grass and almost parted with the scalp.

Gray circled around several corpses and asked, "This is an ancient tomb in our country, how can a gringo die here?"

I've been thinking about this since I saw the corpses.

When I was investigating the case, I happened to hear the legend of Wuliu Lake, in which the predecessor of the university town was founded by a foreign missionary.

At the time, I was a little curious as to why a school was built in such a desolate place. Now it seems that they may not have been real missionaries, and they may well have come for the catacombs.

"Makes sense!" Gray nodded and said, "No matter what these gringos want, it seems that they didn't succeed, and they lost their lives." ”

"I guess the pile of bones in the side hall may also have something to do with them. "I thought to myself that this group of people must have some means to get to this place, maybe they have something on them that can save their lives.

I said, "If you search the bodies carefully, you might be able to find something that proves these people's identities, or something that can save their lives."

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"Well, it's four and a half in total, and I see if you're hurt. How about two of you and two and a half of me?"

"Hurry up, with your talking, I've already finished looking for it. With that, I leaned down and carefully touched the corpse.

The bodies were lying on the ground on their faces, presumably killed by an attack from behind them while fleeing. It's been a long time since I died, and the smell of corpses has faded so much that I can barely smell it. After turning into a dried corpse, the corpse shrank a lot, and I didn't have to get too close to check my clothes.

I didn't find much on the first corpse, only a cross around the neck, wiped off the dust, and was shone by a flashlight, refracting a silver glow, which looked silver.

It was only found on the second corpse, which was clutching a box in its arms. It took me a lot of effort to get the box out, and to my surprise, it wasn't very heavy and I could pick it up with one hand.

Kuroko's surface was carved with a lot of strange symbols, and I only recognized two of them, one of the crusaders and the other of the magic pentagram. There are five others that have never been seen at all. There was not a single crack on the surface of the box, and I shook it a few times, and the inside was hollow. Can't be sure if it's something.

Only one thing was found on the second corpse, and he refused to throw it away when he was fleeing for his life. It must be very important to hold on so tightly when you die.

I thought the box might be a magic weapon, that's why he hugged it so tightly. It would definitely help us if we could figure out how to use it.

"What did you find?" said Gray, who walked over with a few items.

"A box, a cross, what about you?" I asked.

Gray shook the object in his hand and said to me, "A cross, a very old book, like the Bible." It's the half of the corpse that has more problems. ”

I took the cross from Gray's hand and compared it to the cross in my hand, it was exactly the same. It must have been the work of the same craftsman, suggesting that the group may have been members of a certain sect.

I took the book and flipped through it a few times, and the book looked like it was a few years old, and the cover was made of leather. I flipped through a few pages and couldn't understand what was written. I can't read a word. There are also illustrations on it, which are all abstract and also incomprehensible.

I carefully wiped the cross clean and handed it to Gray. "Put it on, maybe it will work. ”

Gray took the cross, but didn't wear it. He said, "I don't believe in this, can it be useful to wear it? This is the territory of China, can it work? Besides, if it really works, can they just die?"

After all, it's a dead man's thing, and it's a bit unlucky to wear it, so it's put in your pocket. Then he gave the box to Gray along with the book.

"Put these two things away, maybe it will be of great use. ”

"Done!" Gray opened his backpack and put the box inside.

"What happened to the half of the corpse you said just now?"

"Go and see for yourself. ”

I walked up to the half-cut corpse and saw that the half-cut corpse was not only a problem, but the half-corpse itself was a big problem. The corpse had no clothes on it, and it didn't look like a missionary.

Because of the angle, I could only see half of it at the door just now, like half of the corpse

。 You can see all of them when you get close, and when you shine with a flashlight, the upper body of the corpse is normal, and it still looks like a human. But when it comes to the waist, the pelvis is absent, and the vertebrae become very long, like the bones of a snake. There are no bones in the lower body except for the vertebrae.

"That's what you're talking about?" I asked.

"Isn't that a problem?" asked Gray rhetorically.

"It's a big problem, you should have called me over earlier. I pointed to the snake-like spine and asked, "Do you think it's human?"

Gray scratched his head and said, "At least half of them are human!"

"You shine a flashlight on me!" I crouched down to take a closer look at the corpse's vertebrae. There doesn't seem to be any gaps in this bone, so it doesn't look like a fake.

"Is there something you can pick up?" I needed to examine the body more closely.

"Use this!" Gray handed me the Luoyang shovel.

I used a Luoyang shovel to pick the vertebrae, I just wanted to try it, but I didn't expect to pick up the entire vertebrae.

"Do me a favor and go high. "I handed the Luoyang shovel to Gray.

He lifted it up, and his spine was separated from his head. The vertebrae, which was almost two meters long, looked like one with the bones, but it seemed to be able to be separated.

I pinched the top of my spine with my hand and saw that it didn't look like a human bone, there were two rows of sharp bones, and the tip was like a hook that could firmly hook the skull. I'm not a forensic doctor, but I can see that it's weird.

"It seems like this thing is chasing the missionary. "I restored the scene on the alarm clock, and the half-corpse must have fought a big battle with the missionary, and the missionary was defeated and fled. Fleeing to the door, they were chased by the half-corpse, and the missionaries resisted desperately, resulting in the death of both parties.

Gray didn't believe it, and touched his spine with his foot and said, "Just one thing can kill four people in a short time?

"Then I don't know. "Half of the corpse is dead, and the flesh is rotten. I can't imagine what it would have been like when it was alive.

Gray took the Luoyang shovel and turned over the half-corpse. We've made a new discovery. There were many small crosses under the half-corpse, some of which were embedded in the bones, and they could not be pulled off by hard work.

Half of the corpses were killed by these little crosses, and I picked up a few of them and put them in my pocket.

"Let's go, we're done here. Gray urged.

"Rest in peace!" Gray and I walked towards the inside of the main hall.

Once again, we should not believe in legends, which can provide clues, but not all of them. Legend has it that the missionaries who built the school were a group of good people, but behind the scenes they were robbing tombs. It's just that they all died here if they didn't succeed.

The legend is beautiful, the reality is even more cruel.

The inside of the main hall is very simple, and I saw a few bronze musical instruments near the gate, I only recognized the chimes and drums, and I had never seen the rest at all.

Further inside, murals appeared on the walls on both sides. In the painting, a woman stands on her side, with a high bun and a thin waist, wide sleeves and a long skirt, graceful and wealthy, and clasps her palms together in a prayer shape. On the woman's head, a phoenix is drawn in front of the left in the shape of a flying, and on the opposite side of the phoenix is a dragon in the shape of a soaring dragon.

I whispered, "This may be the owner of the tomb!"