Prologue
"Bang!"
With an explosion, large pieces of rubble burst out, billowing smoke.
Three lights hit the hole that had just been blown up, illuminating scattered dust.
An iron cage containing roast chicken and an oxygen meter was lowered little by little, and then several people turned off the miner's lamp.
A howling wind was blowing in the dark night sky.
After half an hour, the cage was pulled up, the roast chicken inside was complete, and the value on the oxygen meter was normal.
The three of them immediately tied up the climbing rope, put on an oxygen meter and gas masks, and went down the hole one by one along the rope to the end.
In the damp and seeping holes, they leaned against each other's backs and poked around with lamps.
It was empty, nothing but moss growing on the walls, and the ground was a little slippery, but there was no standing water.
The three men put the lamp on their heads, raised their double-barreled shotguns, and walked deeper step by step, and after walking for a while, a half-man-high boulder blocked the way ahead.
They looked at it for a moment, and took out hammers and chisels, as well as a packet of earth powder.
Not long after, a muffled thunder sounded, and the entire stone cave shook, and the dust wrapped in the rubble fell down.
The three disgraced people did not stop, stepped on the broken stones, and continued to go deeper.
Behind the big rock with the opening is a stone chamber, only about fifteen square meters in size.
The stone chamber was very clean, and there was not even a trace of water seepage on the surrounding walls.
A small dusty jujube box was placed on the innermost ground, and the three bright lights were instantly aimed there.
Someone whispered: "Sure enough, there is something!" ”
"It's too obvious, be careful with the hook, pick the lock, and put the rope on it."
They were busy for a while, and then they withdrew again, and one of them slowly pulled the string in his hand, and the rope tied to the keyhole of the lid tightened upwards with the improvised pulley, and pulled the lid open.
There were no poisoned arrows in the box, no scattered poisonous smoke, and no explosions, and it was extremely quiet.
The three of them waited for a while before they walked in and stopped two meters away from the box.
In the box was a neatly folded embroidered red dress, a piece of red cloth, and a small gray white jade pendant.
"What? A red dress? What the? ”
The contents of the box disappointed them greatly.
A flashlight moved away and shone to the side: "Don't worry, look for it again, there must be something." ”
The landslide just exposed a man-made hole, they were the first to find it, and they were the first to come down, so there was absolutely no reason to go out empty-handed.
The other two flashlights followed suit, but someone walked over, and after a few random turns, grabbed the gray white jade pendant.
They quickly searched all over the stone cave, and finally stood in front of a stone wall, looked at it for a long time, then took out the earth explosives, put the lead, and blew the stone wall through with a bang.
Another hole was exposed, and the miner's lamp shone into it, illuminating several beast-shaped sculptures, and the three of them were immediately overjoyed and hurriedly got in.
Behind the stone wall, there was a cave, a huge round pool of water occupied almost half of the entire stone cave, with white mist floating on it, surrounded by a circle of beast-shaped stone statues of different shapes.
They were all stunned.
One person whispered, "Don't look at it! Hurry up and find the baby, we don't come to travel to this place where birds don't! ”
The three miner's lamps suddenly moved away and shone elsewhere.
When a lamp shone on a clothed bone, they immediately walked around the pool and looked around the bone.
Someone whispered, "What age are you?" ”
"I don't know...... someone rummaged through his clothes and said in disappointment: "It's just a pile of bones, no baby!" ”
"Look for it again!"
The three of them immediately dispersed, and in the dark cave, only three lamps were dangling back and forth.
In the darkness, the mist floating above the pool suddenly became much thicker, tumbling silently, spreading outward little by little, and in the flickering light, a shadow emerged from the water, becoming clearer and clearer.
Suddenly, someone shouted: "Second brother, fourth brother, there is a dark room here!" It seems to have gold in it! ”
The two people who hadn't harvested it immediately ran over, and one of them even shouted: "Li Sheng'er, it's your fucking sharp eyes!" ”
They all huddled in front of the secret room, and together they took the lamp and shone it inside, and at a glance they saw a half-rotten wooden box on the ground in the deepest part, the box was not important, but the golden light reflected through the hole.
The eyes of the three people suddenly showed ecstasy, and they strode in, and roughly pulled the rotten wooden box open, and pieces of gold ingots the size of a baby's fist immediately rolled to the ground.
The sound of landing made the three of them tremble when they heard it.
"Get rich, get rich!" In the monstrous ecstasy, they desperately grabbed into their bags.
After picking up the ground and cleaning it, a man was impatient to lift the box, which had already decayed, and after a few pulls, it fell apart completely, and all the contents rolled out, including gold, broken silver, and a few rolls of animal skins.
But the three of them only had to bury their heads in the gold and silver, and only after they had scraped the ground for three feet, did they have time to take care of the rolls of sheepskins.
A man reached out and picked up a roll, untied the rope on it, and spread it out.
It seems to be filled with dense small print of flies.
"Second brother, what is written on it?"
"I don't know, it's a bunch of ghost-drawn talismans...... "The man with the sheepskin in his hand looked at it carefully.
At this time, the voice that had just spoken sounded again: "Huh? Second brother, why is Li Sheng'er gone. ”
The second brother lowered his head suddenly, and the three bulging backpacks were still on the ground.
He relieved himself and replied, "It's okay, I guess I went out to pee." ”
After speaking, he wanted to continue to read the parchment roll, but suddenly felt that something was wrong, and subconsciously shouted: "Fourth? ”
No one answered, he subconsciously turned his head sideways, and the dazzling light pierced through the mist and hit the stone wall.
"Goo Goo ......"
The strange sound of smashing his mouth and chewing suddenly sounded from behind him, accompanied by the sobbing of a woman who seemed to be out of nowhere.
He suddenly turned around and turned the power of the lamp head to the maximum, and the secret room suddenly brightened as day, and the light pierced through the white fog and illuminated a fluttering embroidered red dress.
He felt a chill in his heart, threw away the parchment roll in his hand, and reached for the shotgun.
But the cold touch suddenly came up from his back again, and he was a little stiff with the cold.
Immediately after, the coldness pierced his clothes, cut through the skin, and burrowed into the flesh little by little, and continued to penetrate until he pierced his chest, and he watched in amazement, and his life passed quickly.
The blood-stained claw.
In the mist, there were streams of baby-thick black air that couldn't stop burrowing into the corpse, and the corpse's shriveled chest swelled up again.
Suddenly, a cold wind poured in through the blasted opening.
The mist and black air currents that were slowly closing in the sky suddenly stopped, and then the cave shook violently, and the water in the pool boiled, and with a bang, countless black gases gushed out, wrapped in the vast mist, and rushed outward, and soon filled the entire cave, and then poured into the boundless night along the hole where the rope was hanging.
The corpse on the ground was still twitching, and when everything had calmed down, his chest suddenly rose high, causing his whole body to stand up.
It twisted its limbs and stumbled out, its dark pupils and large sodlets of saliva dripping from the corners of its mouth, and it looked up at the night with a strange growl from its throat under the blasted hole.