"There was a major accident and so many people died?" I immediately realized something when I heard this. The scene seemed to be exactly the same as the Shaanxi Ancient Tombs, except that more people died that time in Dingling.

"Professor, didn't something happen to your grandfather at that time?" I vaguely felt that this incident was related to the brain corpse worm. Maybe Professor Tan knew something, which is very important to us now.

Professor Tan seemed to know that I would ask this question. He glanced at me with an indescribable taste in his eyes.

They say the eyes are the windows to the soul, but at this moment I don’t understand what Professor Tan’s look means.

"My grandfather was fine at the time, and the entire excavation of Dingling was stopped. My grandfather and several surviving experts were sent back to their hometown. Later, the entire Dingling Underground Palace was permanently sealed."

Hearing this, I felt something was wrong and immediately said: "Professor Tan, if I remember correctly, Dingling was only excavated in 1956. It is now fully open, and the underground palace can still be visited? Why did you say Dingling?"

The excavation is permanently blocked."

Professor Tan smiled and said: "You are right, but only the upper floor of Dingling is open, and the real lower floor is not open. The real entrance was blocked long before 1956."

"It's so! So this lower level has a secret? Professor, are you telling us that this matter is related to the Dingling Tomb and the ancient corpse in our school?"

From Professor Tan's various behaviors, I boldly guess that this matter must be related to this ancient corpse, otherwise he would not need to spend so much time talking about these things.

Professor Tan's smiling face immediately turned cold when he heard what I said. He stood up and slapped the table hard and said: "Chen Hexuan, you are very smart, very smart. I know you must know something. Now tell me."

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"Professor, it seems that you know more before, why don't you tell me first." I did not answer directly.

Professor Tan looked at me for more than ten seconds, then he nodded and said with a smile: "Three days ago, the school suddenly announced that the morgue would be managed by Teacher Zhao alone, and the teacher rotation system was cancelled. I felt like something was wrong at that time

, and in the past three days, I found that there are many fewer students in the department."

At this point, Professor Tan looked at the three of us and said: "I counted the missing students. There are 20 people in total. I have recorded the names of all 20 people. Three of them appeared on campus yesterday, and

You three showed up today."

At this point, Professor Tan threw a small book over. On the first page were written the names of twenty students, and the first few names belonged to the three of us.

"It turns out that the professor has noticed that we are missing a long time ago. It seems that the professor has always been very concerned about things in this school. If my guess is correct, the same thing as the student just now must have happened to your grandfather, professor." I said.

The secret was revealed directly.

Professor Tan took a deep breath. He suddenly turned around and looked at me, his eyes suddenly becoming extremely sharp.

"Professor, your eyes are a bit scary." I was actually not afraid. The purpose of saying this was to tell him that he had lost his composure.

After hearing what I said, Professor Tan immediately withdrew his sharp eyes, then took a deep breath and said: "Chen Hexuan, I found that you are smarter than I thought. I have been teaching for so many years, and you are the smartest student I have ever taught.

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"You guessed it right. My grandfather was exactly the same as the student who was beaten to death just now. I still clearly remember the weird smile he showed me back then. He died not long after, and his death condition was worse than before.

That student was even worse."

"Worse!" I really can't imagine any other way to die that is worse than the person just now! But Professor Tan said it and I believe it is true.

At this time, Professor Tan's eyes were a little angry: "I saw this smile again today, and I also found that you have been paying attention to Song Zhe, and I just saw this weird smile from Song Zhe, so

I'm sure you know something."

"Professor, do you want to know the cause of your grandfather's death?" I finally understood why Professor Tan asked us to come. It turned out that he wanted to know the cause of his grandfather's death.

I don't doubt Professor Tan. It is impossible for him to make up this kind of story, because he explained every detail in too much detail. If it was made up, it would definitely be exposed.

No matter how perfect a lie is, there are always flaws. At least I didn't hear the flaws in his words, so I judged that what he told was the truth.

Because what Professor Tan said is true, I can be sure that he and the principal are not in the same group. Since he and the principal are not in the same group, he can become our ally.

And we are in need of a senior archeology professor. If Professor Tan can help us, it will be more helpful for us to find the origin of this brain corpse worm, and we will have more hope to deal with the problem in our own heads.

Corpse worm.

Now Professor Tan's grandfather also died from the brain corpse worm. That is our best breakthrough point, so I decided to tell him everything. Only in this way can I completely gain Professor Tan's trust.

Although it is a bit risky to do so, I believe in my own judgment. Besides, there is no way to catch the tiger's cub if you don't enter the tiger's den. Sometimes you can't do things first and last, and you must be decisive.

I made up my mind to pay attention, so I told all about the night we visited the ancient corpses, how those classmates were locked in the morgue, and our subsequent dreams without any concealment.

After hearing these words, Professor Tan's face instantly turned pale, and at the same time his eyes became more and more angry. He murmured to himself: "Brain corpse worm! Brain corpse worm!"

"It turns out that the thing that killed my grandfather is called a brain corpse worm, and it has existed since the Tang Dynasty. It seems that these things exist in ancient tombs."

Professor Tan suddenly stood up straight. He hurriedly ran behind him and found an old notebook on the bookshelf.

Liu Hao and I looked at each other. We didn't know what he wanted to do, but soon the notebook was spread out in front of us.

I looked down and saw that the notebook had been opened to the middle position, and a strange-looking insect was drawn on it. This insect was exactly the same as the corpse insect I had seen before.

"Professor, what is this?" I did not explain directly, but looked up at Professor Tan.

"This is my grandfather's notebook. Before he died, he locked himself in the study for two full months and left a lot of notebook materials. This is one of them. I have found this worm.

I have a friend in biology, but he said that he has never seen this species before and suspects that it is a creature imagined by the ancients and does not really exist."

Then Professor Tan looked at me with extremely expectant eyes and asked: "Is this a brain corpse worm?"

I glanced at Professor Tan and nodded helplessly and said, "Professor, it seems that your grandfather already knew that he had this thing in his mind. It's a pity that he never found a way to crack it until his death."
Chapter completed!