Immortal Sand Sea Chapter 45: Dead Cat
Everyone hurriedly let go of his clenched hand and pulled it back, and no one knew what was wrong with Professor Yang at this time.
"Yu Jianhua, come here, ......" Suddenly, an unfamiliar voice came into my cochlea, and I looked around, and it wasn't the team members calling me.
"You come here......"
The sound came from the front of the burial chamber, and my body seemed to be uncontrollable, and I walked towards the front of the burial chamber.
A huge black vortex suddenly appeared in front of my eyes, and there swirled in bursts, as if I had entered the eye of the sea, and my whole body, including my thoughts, was sucked into it.
When I looked ahead again, a dazzling light suddenly appeared, and after the light dragged a long shadow to disappear, a standing wooden coffin appeared in front of me, and on this wooden coffin, it was engraved with the names of all of us: Tong Lidong, Yang Yaozhong, Tong Xiaowan, Sun Qiangzi, Chen Laogou, and even the names of Zhan Wen Zhan Wu and Wang Xiaogang, who had died, were also engraved on it.
Although there was no sound, a psychological suggestion made me open the wooden coffin that stood up, and at the moment of opening the wooden coffin, dense dung beetles poured out of the coffin and fled in all directions, when the black "water flow" quickly moved away, a person with a brass mask appeared inside standing upright, I took the mask away, and it was another "me" that appeared inside!
The other "I" suddenly opened his eyes, a smirk appeared at the corner of his mouth, and stretched out his hands to pinch my neck, and suddenly felt a sweet throat and couldn't breathe.
I tried to break free from the hands that were desperately clutching my neck, but the more I resisted this force, the stronger it became, and soon my head "buzz......ed" with a long "buzz", and I immediately disappeared into the endless void darkness in front of me.
Am I dead?
"Hadron? Dog? I shouted, but there was no response in the darkness.
It may be that he is really dead, without a trace of the weight of his body, it feels like everything is illusory but nothing exists, and I can't even see my own body.
Jianhua ...... Jianhua ...... "Another voice came, it was Xiao Wan's cry, and I ran forward with the light, gradually revealing a faint light.
I ran wildly, towards the light, there was only one point of light gradually became a slowly widening aperture, when I strode into the aperture, after a whirlwind I opened my eyes: at this time I was lying on the ground, Tong Xiaowan was calling my name.
"Wake up!" Tong Xiaowan called out with a smile, and Qiangzi's face immediately came over: "Did you kid fall into the evil spirit, and almost strangled himself to death!" ”
I sat up with the help of Old Dog Chen, and we were in front of the stone gate.
"What's going on? Didn't we go in? "I looked confused, at the end of the burial chamber I saw the coffin where I was buried, but why was I staying outside the burial chamber at this time.
"It's over, Comrade Yu Jianhua is really crazy!" Qiangzi slapped his thigh and turned around in front of me anxiously: "We have been staying here all this time and have never gone in, you touched the clay pot and nervously pinched your neck and fainted!" ”
Professor Yang came over and said that I might have planted mandala flower poison on a clay pot, which has a strong hallucinogenic effect.
Seeing that Professor Yao had a calm face, before he went crazy and grabbed me by the collar was my own hallucination? It wasn't that he was crazy, but that I almost hung up.
"What kind of flower is so evil that it almost fell off its own heroism?"
"Do you remember when I said that the river behind this is the Santu River, according to legend, there is a red flower growing on the other side of the Santu River, which is used to confuse the souls of the dead and fall into boundless illusions, it seems that this place is really carefully designed by someone to become the palace of Hades, and even the mandala has been found." Old Dog Chen returned.
I asked Professor Yang how he knew that the clay pot was smeared with mandala poison juice, and he said that this kind of thing was already pediatric for him, and he knew that it was the aroma of mandala when he smelled it, but fortunately, after such a long time, the hallucinogenic power had already been greatly reduced, otherwise even if the other members of our team did not touch it, they would fall into hallucinations when they smelled the fragrance of the mandala.
I broke out in a cold sweat, and despite the fact that I had accidentally touched the flower poison, we must all have to explain it here.
"By the way, you also touched the clay pot just now, and even touched the stone door, why are you okay?" Qiangzi asked Professor Yang, who took out a few sauce-colored pills from his bag, saying that they were made of ochre sedimentation and dispersion, which were made by drying and grinding the blood of ungelding adult boars into powder in the shade to avoid trace amounts of poisonous gas, and he had already taken one after entering the forbidden cave.
"Jiang is still old and spicy, this can't be accepted, if we braid, don't all the treasures here be cleaned for him." Although Hadron was quite complaining, he still took the pill into his stomach.
At first, my hands and feet were cold and numb, but after taking the medicine, they gradually improved, and when I was able to stand up, I decided not to delay my efforts and continue to walk, after all, Li Gouyu's symptoms became more and more serious, and the beads of sweat on his head seemed to have just been lifted out of the stove.
Since my accident, no one dares to touch the contents of the tomb again, and repeatedly formed a wall far away from the burial vessels, and these cultural objects have now become a time bomb that can take lives at any time in the eyes of everyone.
"Huazi is leaving, what are you doing in a daze!"
I stood in front of the stone gate, not daring to go inside, I was afraid that this would be another memory, and I would see myself in the coffin again, an infinite cycle of painful reincarnation.
Perhaps because I didn't move, the unknown Qiangzi dragged me into the stone gate, and the scene in the stone gate was exactly the same as what I saw in my hallucinations, including Professor Yang standing in front of the tomb wall, staring at the mural in a daze.
"Old Yang, what did you find?" Lao Tong opened his mouth, exactly the same as the scene that would appear in my mind, and at the same time, Professor Yang hurriedly opened his backpack and took out the parchment, and said excitedly: "Found it!" ”。
"You cultural people like to go around the bend, what's wrong?" Hadron asked repeatedly.
This scene and dialogue, even the facial expressions of the three people did not change in the slightest from my hallucination, my brain was dizzy and almost fell to the ground, could it be that I really entered the infinite hallucination?
As usual, Professor Yang introduced the mural and the origin of the parchment to Lao Tong and Qiangzi, but I knew the next sentence he was about to say, because I had "experienced it"!
When Professor Yang finished explaining, everyone stopped talking, as if they were waiting for me to take out the beads before moving on to the next link.
Naturally, I didn't want to do it all over again according to the script, because it meant that I would see my horrible self again in five minutes, so I didn't make any moves.
As expected, Professor Yang, who took the beads, showed a very shocked expression, he walked over to me in a trance, grabbed me by the collar and said, "Why you?" Why you? ”
Finished! I know I'm repeating what I've done before, and I'm really stepping into an endless loop!
Just as I was waiting for the next scene to come, Tong Xiaowan pushed Professor Yang away.
"Professor Yang, are you crazy?" Tong Xiaowan asked loudly.
This voice woke Professor Yang up, and he didn't seem to know what had just happened a second ago, and innocently asked, "What happened just now?" ”
"What's wrong? Damn, you almost strangled Huazi to death, return the beads! Qiangzi cursed, snatched the beads from Professor Yang's hand and handed them to me.
I don't know if it was due to psychological effects or because I was too tired, but the moment I took the bead, there seemed to be another unfamiliar voice, and although I couldn't hear what it was saying, I immediately understood that it was asking me to move on, to go deeper into the forbidden cave.
"Keep going, there is a smell of mandala flowers in this cave, and we may exceed the threshold at any time that our bodies can bear it." Lao Tong instructed everyone to continue walking, and he guessed that it should not be far from the main tomb.
This is the alchemy room that Lao Tong and Professor Yang talked about, why did the mandala flower appear, was it used to confuse the tomb and make it hallucinogenic or an important component of refining the elixir?
"Huazi, you didn't hit the evil spirit, did you?" As I was thinking, the hadron hit my arm, and everyone was already moving forward, and we had to catch up with the big army.
The exit of this alchemy room was still a hidden stone door, and since everyone didn't dare to touch it again for fear of being poisoned by the mandala flower, they walked into the crack of the door one by one, and when I was the last to pass through. The crowd stood in front of the door and did not move forward, because there was a trapezoidal tomb corridor as far as the eye could see, and the space became wider and wider the further they went, so that at last three branches of the road were formed in different directions.
"It's the first time I've seen this kind of tomb structure, Lao Yang, do you have a similar trapezoidal tomb in Inner Mongolia?" Lao Tong asked.
Professor Yang just shook his head and said no, if it weren't for Lao Tong's invitation, he would never have expected to see such a strange tomb structure in his life.
Now the question arises, the three forks are bottomless, which one should we take, according to the normal design, only one is the correct passage to the main burial chamber, and the other two are used to place important objects, similar to the ear chamber, and the other is a trap to confuse tomb robbers, which is equipped with many mechanisms.
There are no frescoes painted on the top or walls of the tomb, and there is not the slightest clue to the correct direction.
Everyone decided to use the elimination method to enter from left to right in turn, betting on luck, and at this time, Li Gouyu snorted twice.
"Teacher Tong, his breathing is getting shorter and shorter, I'm afraid he won't be able to support it for long." Li Bei observed Li Gouyu's injuries and said anxiously.
Since there was no room for delay, there was no time to waste, and we finally decided to divide our troops into three ways and enter different forks at the same time, and whatever we found had to assemble in the same place in ten minutes.
I, Qiangzi, and Tong Xiaowan entered the first road in a group, Lao Tong, Yuan Xiaomei, and Chen Laogou entered the middle road in a group, Xu Dong and Professor Yang entered the tail road in a group, and Li Bei stayed in place to take care of Li Gouyu.
"Old Dog Chen, be careful, this body can't stand you falling like that." I reminded everyone that they were going their own way to search.
"Comrade Xiao Tong, have you taken a fancy to our Huazi, why did you offer to join him in a team?" As he walked, he played a poor mouth, wanting to see us laugh.
Xiao Wan quibbled back: "Is it a group with you Comrade Huazi who has taken a fancy to him?" Then do you have a relationship that transcends comrades? ”
"We are different, those are old comrades-in-arms and old brothers who have overcome obstacles all the way, and we have to fight tiger brothers and father-son soldiers, and we can't do a big deal if we are separated." Hadron patted his chest with a smug expression.
"Son, don't talk, there's a situation ahead."
I took advantage of the hadron and told him to stop talking and pointed ahead with my finger, and I could see that something was faintly in the middle of the road.
"What the hell? It's over, if some monster is standing there, we won't be able to parry it with a few broken flashlights in our hands! Hadron lowered his voice and said.
"Shut up if you don't want to get its attention."
When I got closer, I found a false alarm, and it turned out to be a vermilion diamond-shaped coffin locked to the top of the tomb by four thick iron chains, and from a distance, it looked like a monster floating in the air.
"The coffin is in the way, let's retreat!" Qiangzi was about to turn his head and walk back when I stopped him: "Don't be in a hurry to go first, there is something strange." ”
This burial method is hanging coffin burial, which was used for burial in some remote areas of ancient China, in order to prevent moisture and prevent the coffin from being corroded.
But I can't think of a reason why there is a hanging coffin in the tomb here, and it is a diamond-shaped coffin, and there is not enough space in it to fit a human corpse.
"What to do? Shall we go around it or turn back? Hadron asked again.
But I was so fascinated by what was buried in this hanging coffin that I wanted to open it to see.
As soon as I told them what I thought, I was immediately opposed, and Wan Ying said that we had quickly found the right exit this time instead of opening the coffin for an autopsy, and that the three of us would not be able to cope with the trap alone.
It makes sense after thinking about it, in case a living corpse pops out of it, Qiangzi and I are not afraid of a fight, if Tong Xiaowan is injured, Lao Tong will definitely not spare me, or suppress the curiosity in my heart, and find the exit first.
After walking for less than 100 steps, it was a dead end, and a stone wall in front of it blocked the road, and it was impossible to continue on.
"It can't be that simple, it wouldn't be so much trouble if it was just a dead end." My guess is that there is something hidden in the fork in the road that we have overlooked.
Returning the same way, I came to the hanging coffin again, and this time I made up my mind to open the coffin to see what was inside that had to be buried in this particular way.
"Xiaowan, you go to the front, Qiangzi and I will open the coffin, this coffin has been standing in the air for many years, the corpse cannot be completely decomposed by the microorganisms in the soil, there must be a lot of corpse miasma, so as not to stun you." As I spoke, I covered my mouth and nose with a cloth, broke the buckle on the side of the coffin, and with a gust of air, the lid of the coffin was washed open, revealing a dead cat that had rotted inside!
The cat is a special animal since ancient times, its eyes can emit a ghostly green light in the dark, and it is regarded as an ominous object that summons yin, especially in the tomb, and it happens that the tomb robbery gang that encounters the wild cat must be more auspicious and less auspicious, and the danger is full of dangers, not for anything else, the simple psychological resistance is enough to make people mess up, and in short, it is really ominous to see the cat in the shadow!
Lu ...... Huazi ...... "Qiangzi was so shocked that he couldn't say anything, we naturally know how to be a little tired from the countryside, in fact, I was also a little shocked, even if I thought about what was hidden in this coffin, I didn't expect it to be a rotten cat."
"Let's go, it's not normal in this way!" I regret that I had to open the hanging coffin, and there was no other way at this time but to evacuate from the crossing in time, the sooner the better!
At that moment, the half-rotted dead cat suddenly opened its eyes and jumped at me.
I instinctively raised my arm to block it, but the dead cat's forelimbs wrapped around my arm, and the open nails dug into my arm, and there was a piercing pain.
The dead cat screamed weirdly and was about to gesture to my face, but fortunately, the strong man quickly took out his military knife and cut a wound on his neck along the cat's claws, and the dead cat jumped onto the coffin with a howl, and the blood in the neck flowed down his body to the bottom of the coffin.
"Why does this dead cat still have living blood?" Qiangzi looked at me with a puzzled expression and asked, I had never seen such a situation, so I could only respond with the same expression.
At this time, the blood flowing to the bottom of the coffin melted the coffin board, and directly penetrated the ground and piled up into a pool of foaming blood.