Chapter 102: The White Cloth Shroud
In the stone hall, there are many wooden bed frames that have rotted and festered, and they are covered with wooden planks ten centimeters thick, about one meter and two meters wide, and the spacing between the upper and lower bed boards is very spacious, with a total of three floors from top to bottom.
Rui could see that the wood of these bed frames was uniform and neatly arranged, just like the large dormitories that were forced to move because of haunting in the early years, and there were thousands of them.
It's already deep underground, and it's very cold in the stone chamber. A guy rubbed his arms and couldn't help asking, "Is this the Zhangjia Ancient Building?" Why does it look like this, it's like Yizhuang in a horror movie. ”
"It's not." Xie Yuchen shook a flashlight on the side of one of the wooden beds, and on the edge of the top bed was a very strange symbol written in white color, followed by a string of numbers,
“1032”。 Further down, the numbers became
"1031", the symbol does not change.
"What is this? It looks like a bed number. "When Pan Zi used to be a soldier, he lived in a large dormitory with hundreds of people, and their names and numbers were written on the bedside.
For example, Li Goudan, who is in x row x and x class, has a series of numbers. Rui Xie Yuchen walked to the next bed frame and read it softly,
"1326", the symbol here has changed slightly, and he does not recognize it, because it does not belong to any kind of writing he has ever seen in his cognition.
It looks more like a symbol made up of words.
"This may be a special ideogram formulated by the Zhang family themselves." Xie Yuchen said,
"The numbers that follow are the numbers of these beds." Solve the three puzzles,
"Could it be that people have lived here before? That's too cowhide, living in such an eerie and haunted place. Pan Zi wiped a handful on the bed board of the lowest bunk, put the dust on his fingertips under his nose and sniffed it, his face was a little unsightly,
"It's right to say that people have lived, but it's people who can't breathe." He smelled it on the bed, and there was a faint smell of corpse in the rotting wood.
"What do you mean?" Rui Xie three dodged a little frightened,
"Pan Ye, you mean that all the people who lived here before were dead people?"
"It's really like an ancient morgue, and it's so cold that it's good for storing corpses." Xie Yuchen slowly analyzed,
"This place may just be a temporary storage place for the bones of the Zhang family when they were buried and migrated, and you can see the specifications of these bed boards and bed frames, which are enough to put down a coffin and be easy to move." A large family like the Zhang family must have many branches, and the special symbol in front of the number is likely to be used by them to distinguish each branch.
There were no special clues here, and the group stopped and walked through row after row of wooden bed frames towards the center of the stone hall.
The light in his hand flickered, and Pan Zi suddenly saw a gray shadow, and immediately shouted,
"Who's over there?" Everyone became alert, and flashlights shone in unison. Rui then noticed that a large white cloth bag was placed on the bed board of a wooden bed at the end of the stone hall.
It looks a lot like a body bag on the outside!
"Could it be that there are still the bodies of the Zhang family that have not been transported here?" Someone speculated.
"Let's take a look." Xie Yuchen raised his chin slightly over there, and a person walked out of the guy, cautiously leaning over there.
When he walked in, the guy had the courage to step forward and first inspect the white oxford cloth that was nearly two meters long and half a meter wide, from beginning to end, and made sure that it contained something inside, and it was a little heavy.
The guy poked tentatively, and his fingers felt cold, as if he had poked on a piece of bacon with a shriveled skin.
"Boss, it looks like it's a dead man." As soon as he heard this, Xie Yuchen subconsciously covered his nose with the back of his hand,
"Open it and take a look." Fern
"Okay." The guy found the zipper at one end of the bag, and the moment he opened it, a strange, indescribable scent wafted out of it, like the smell of essential oils wafting from a lit scented candle.
Looking in again, he was stunned when he saw the corpse's face, came back to his senses and jumped away, pointed to the bag with a trembling hand, and shouted: "Mom - this, this, this is a zongzi!" "It's not just a zongzi, but it's also a little familiar.
These people under Xie Yuchen were not stunned for the first time to go to the tomb, and suddenly this reaction, Xie Yuchen suddenly had a bad conjecture.
He walked over quickly, turned on the lamp and took a look, and when he saw the pale and emaciated corpse inside, his face suddenly changed.
The guy stammered on the side, "Boss, this ...... Suddenly...... Why did the head of the Huo family come here, and she ...... like this" Xie Yuchen naturally recognized this corpse as Huo Xiangu, but to his consternation, there seemed to be some kind of abnormality inside Huo Xiangu's bones.
Rui didn't know if it was because of the lack of vitality and moisture, her facial bones seemed to be elongated, and the muscles of her whole body were atrophied and shriveled, as if they had been hung in the shade and dried.
And the most important thing is that on her slender skinny neck, she wears a colorful ancient jade ring.
As soon as Pan Zi heard that the man lying in the body bag was Huo Xiangu, he hurriedly stepped forward to recognize it, and looked at it carefully for a while before contacting the corpse in front of him with the graceful and luxurious old lady Huo in the photo.
Since Huo Xiangu's body is lying here, where did they go? Xie Yuchen put on gloves and briefly examined the corpse, and said softly: "Granny Huo died of alkali poisoning, cardiac arrest caused by respiratory failure, and her lungs are empty. "The old lady was already weak, and the cause of death was normal.
"The old lady's body, could it be that Muyu and they transported it here, after all, this is the Zhang family's morgue, and it is easy to preserve the body." Panzi guessed.
Fern
"Possibly." Xie Yuchen sighed, he had a little headache, no matter who put the body here, it was a problem for him, he could already imagine Xiuxiu devaluing after knowing that his grandmother was dead.
Just as he was about to cover the corpse, Yu Guang suddenly caught a glimpse of something, paused, and then reached out and took out a small gray-white cloth bag from under Old Madam Huo's hair.
When I opened it, there was a small white porcelain bottle inside, and a black flip phone, and a blue jingle cat with a cool expression on its arms attached to the front.
Pan Zi's eyes lit up, and he immediately said: "This is Muyu's mobile phone, I saw him use it." At that time, Zhang Qi went to Changsha to find him, and it was this jingle cat that he took it.
"Open it up and take a look, the wooden fish must have left us a clue inside." He urged.
Xie Yuchen took off his gloves, took out the mobile phone, and found that it was turned off, and there was no response after pressing the power button for more than ten seconds.
Rui's screen lit up this time, Xie Yuchen clicked on the memo first, it was blank, then he quit and clicked on the album, and found several videos in it.
The video quality is very unstable, and the phone seems to be used as a camera, pinned to the neckline. First, there was a series of pictures of rushing in the dark green jade veins, the camera was aimed at the line of sight, turning two corners, and a roaring Milota suddenly appeared in the lens, and most of his body had been squeezed out of the jade veins.
The video stopped suddenly, and a cold light crossed in front of him, and Milota was instantly cut off by Qi Tou, and was hacked to death along with the black-haired snake inside.
The owner of the video coughed twice, took a few shallow breaths, slowed down and continued to walk forward with the knife, and began to talk as he walked, his voice was a little mixed, but he could barely hear it clearly.
“…… If you can get this phone, it means that you are indeed following the map I drew and have come to a morgue-like place......"
“…… You should be Xie Yuchen, or Pan Zi, or maybe both of you are there, but it doesn't matter, after all, if you can get the map, it means that you are both people that Wu Xie can trust at this stage. Rui Xie Yuchen raised his eyebrows lightly and continued to read.
"The location you are in now is the most central hinterland of the mountain set up by the Zhang family back then, and it is also a temporary shelter."
"As long as you don't go out, this place is safe for the time being, and Milota can't get in here because the walls are made of volcanic rock." In the video, Zhang Qixun turned his footsteps and came to a stone cave with a slightly larger space, he put down his backpack, took off his mobile phone and fixed it to the side, and the camera was on his side face.
The face that used to be white and refined was also gray at the moment, the collar of the jacket on his body was tightly locked, and the white fabric was stained with a lot of slimy green water.
Panzi knew that this kid Muyu had a habit of cleanliness, and it was obvious that the current situation was so urgent that he didn't even have time to change into a clean dress.
Zhang Qixun took out the bomb from his backpack and planted it, and said: "What I want to say next is a reminder to you, and it is also a warning, whether you want to believe it or not, the choice is up to you." "Rui
"You should have checked the situation in Old Madam Huo's corpse, this is what it looks like to keep the whole corpse after being hit by the strong alkali of the ancient building. Because we didn't clash with alkali gas head-on, otherwise it wouldn't take 30 seconds for the human body to burn and fester, and finally the corpse would be corroded into water by the strong alkali. ”
"Don't worry about wearing protective clothing, it's useless, when the alkaline gas is the strongest, the most advanced equipment in the world can only be prevented for three minutes, when the time comes, the alkali poison invades the body, the skin will fester, respiratory failure, and die after two minutes of struggle, but fortunately we found a temporary shelter."
"But that place can only be used for about three or four days for us to stay, during which alkaline gas will still slowly penetrate in, this is how Mrs. Huo died, her body is too weak, and the effect of alkaline gas on her is fatal."
"Actually, you shouldn't come in, coming in is equivalent to sending you to death, this is a mistake in my plan, I didn't expect that this time because there were too many people coming in, and there were also many Milota, the time for the release of alkaline gas was three times longer than the budget."
"This also leads to you being surrounded by Milota and unable to enter, and we are trapped by alkaline gas and unable to get out."
"Even if you come in, you will still be trapped by alkaline gas, which will only increase the number of casualties." After Zhang Qixun planted the bomb and gunpowder, set the time, got up with his equipment, and pinned the mobile phone to his neckline again, his pace was significantly faster.
He spoke into his phone as he dealt with the occasional Milota.
"The one in the old lady's neck is called the corpse, the function is to prevent the corpse from changing, Xie Yuchen, you are good at disguise, you must have discovered the changes in the old lady's body, this is related to the largest tomb robbery in the Nine Gates, all the people involved in it will have a terrible mutation after death, in order to ensure that her corpse will not change on the way out, I found a jade ring from the ancient building and put it on her."
"After the old lady died, I came out of the temporary shelter with her body and equipment, and I was supposed to pick you up, but in the process of shuttling through the jade veins, I found that the danger in the mountains near the ancient building is not only Milota, there is something more terrifying than Milota, and their only natural enemy is strong alkali."
"I'm still not sure what it is, but I can feel that they're already on me." Zhang Qixun's voice was suddenly lowered, and in this environment, the terror effect multiplied.
The countdown to the bomb planted before ended, and after a loud bang, countless creepy sounds of Milota running were heard in the video.
Everyone outside the video was taken aback, and the picture on the video was also plunged into darkness at this time.
I thought it was the phone that fell to the ground, and the camera was covered so the screen was black, but after waiting for a long time, the video still didn't respond, and I pressed the start button, only to find that it was playing from the beginning again.
Fern
"Gone?" Pan Zi said anxiously,
"Lord Hua'er, hurry up and play the next one." Xie Yuchen clicked on the second video stored in the album, and the first picture was always black, but he could hear the incessant sound of fighting and collision inside, as well as the roar of Milota, and the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.
When the progress bar was more than halfway through, the picture finally changed, and the mobile phone was picked up from the ground by Zhang Qixun, and the corpse of Milota flashed through the camera.
“…… They're already eyeing me. Zhang Jixun planted the bomb, lowered his voice and spoke, and continued to move forward around Milota on the ground.
But he didn't say what was staring at him, but from the tone of his voice, Xie Yuchen and the others could clearly hear that he had a deep fear of that unknown thing.
Obviously this
"They" were very, very tricky, and even Zhang Qixun, who was comfortable in the face of the siege of Milota, thought that he could not handle this matter.
"There are more and more Milota besieged by me, it's the reason behind them, they're more like a kind of conscious control, I've been tricked once, they took me deeper into the mountain, there is a very, very strange Milota, no, it shouldn't be called Milota anymore." Fern
"I speculate that it may be a new species that has evolved and mutated, the highest level in this space, it can control all Milota, as long as there is a jade vein, it has its eyes."
"It's a devouring evolution, it eats not only people, but also Milota of its kind, and it moves very fast......"