"It's true that it's not like a human being. People can't scratch so quickly." Wu Zhongyuan said.

At this time, Lu Jiahui and Zhang Shukai were also pressing against the door. They also heard the sound of scrambling the door, but it only lasted for a very short time and disappeared.

"Why is there no movement?" Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang Xinran thought about it, took the claw hammer from Lu Jiahui's hand and knocked it twice at the stone door.

After knocking, there was another sound of scratching the door inside. The scratching speed was very fast, pausing for about a second, swishing, swishing, and a brief pause, and then another swishing, swishing, swishing, swishing, swishing, and swishing. The scratching speed was very fast, and the number of scratches was different each time.

"It's not the Morse code." Lu Jiahui shook her head.

Wu Zhongyuan glanced at Lu Jiahui, then said to Wang Xinran, "What do you think?"

"From the frequency and sound of the door grabbing, it should be some kind of animal with sharp claws." Wang Xinran said.

Wu Zhongyuan did not ask again, and Wang Xinran's judgment coincided with his judgment.

"What will it be?" Lu Jiahui turned to look at Zhang Shukai.

"Can it be a pangolin?" Zhang Shukai guessed.

Wang Xinran said from the side, "We are now underwater a hundred meters deep, so how could the pangolins come here."

"Otter?" Zhang Shukai guessed again.

Wang Xinran shook her head, "It shouldn't be that these stone chambers are closed, and it is impossible for otters to get in, not to mention that otters should be afraid of talents, but the animal inside obviously wants to attack us."

In the following minutes, the four of them didn't say anything. As long as the sound of catching the door inside disappeared, Wang Xinran would knock on the stone door. After each knock, the sound of catching the door would appear again.

Eliminate all kinds of impossibility, even if the rest is incredible, it must be the truth. Now the truth has emerged. The animals inside were not invaded by external forces, and it is even more impossible to be brought by Zhao Ying and others. No matter what it is, it was originally here.

Wang Xinran lit a cigarette and took a sip, "The door is grabbed so fast, and the movement must be very fast."

"Apart from the sound of catching the door, I didn't hear the sound of chains mopping the floor. It shouldn't be locked by chains." Wu Zhongyuan said.

What the two of them were worried about was the same problem, that is, how to deal with the animal inside jumped out if the stone door exploded.

"What exactly is the animal inside?" Lu Jiahui frowned in confusion, "How did it survive until now?"

"If you don't open the stone door, you will never know what it is," Wang Xinran said, turning to look at Zhang Shukai, "With the ability to push open the stone door, reduce the gap that explodes as much as possible."

"I'll try my best." Zhang Shukai nodded and agreed, then took the angle and removed part of the gravel pressed on the gas cylinder.

After getting ready, the four of them retreated to the safe area. Zhang Shukai asked Wu Zhongyuan's pistol and prepared to fire.

Zhang Shukai looked at the three of them one by one, and when the three of them were mentally prepared, they then pointed the gas cylinder and pulled the trigger.

After the explosion, there was a scratching sound from the stone gate, and this time the scratching sound seemed extremely clear.

As the smoke and dust caused by the explosion had not yet dissipated, the situation ahead could not be seen. Wang Xinran did not intend to see the situation clearly before firing. She directly fired at the area below the stone gate, continued to shoot, and fired seven consecutive shots.

The gunshot stopped and the scratching sound disappeared. Wang Xinran shone the area with a strong flashlight. When the dust settled, everyone clearly saw a black thing in the gap that was blown out. To be precise, it was a black head, only the head was drilled out and the body was still stuck inside.

Wang Xinran changed into * and walked forward carefully. Zhang Shukai and Lu Jiahui followed with guns, and Wu Zhongyuan walked at the end.

When he arrived in front of the Deshi Gate, Wu Zhongyuan saw clearly the situation in the gap, and his stomach churned in an instant. It was indeed a head that came out of the gap, but not an animal's head, but a human head. Wang Xinran fired seven shots before, and at least three shots hit, and the red blood and white brain fluid slowly overflowed from the bullet holes.

Wang Xinran and others should have seen many such bloody scenes, but did not show any disgust or discomfort. The expressions on the three of them were more confused. According to the previous scratching sound, there should be only animals inside, so why could it be an individual?

The man who was shot dead was a little flat-headed person. Of course, this hairstyle was not from ancient people, and he was undoubtedly from the same group as Zhao Ying.

At this moment, a strange situation happened. The man who was shot several times suddenly opened his eyes and looked up.

Even if he is brave, he will be frightened to death when he sees this situation. While screaming and retreating, Wang Xinran and Zhang Shukai shot the man a few more times.

Because he was shooting at close range, his destructive power was even greater, and his entire head was almost broken. Even so, the head was still moving, and he rushed forward with force and tried to drill out of the stone door.

But the gap was very small, jammed his shoulders, and he couldn't get out of it no matter how hard he tried. After repeated attempts failed, he quickly retracted back to the stone chamber.

The four of them were still in shock and looked at each other.

"How could this happen?" Wu Zhongyuan was the first to speak.

No one can answer his question.

"Is he the one who caught the door just now?" Wu Zhongyuan said again.

The three of them still didn't say anything. The matter was too strange. No one came to their senses and could not give a reasonable explanation.

"How could he become like this?" Wu Zhongyuan said. He was not asking Wang Xinran and others, but more like talking to himself.

Everything has reasonable explanations, even strange things are no exception. Wu Zhongyuan first thought of zombies, "You often deal with supernatural phenomena. Have you ever seen zombies?"

Wang Xinran frowned and said, "The blood of those who are poisoned by corpse will turn black, but his blood is still red."

After Wang Xinran finished speaking, Lu Jiahui added next to her, "Zombies are not undead, and attacking their heads can kill them."

"Then what's going on?" Wu Zhongyuan pointed to the stone gate.

No one answered.

Wang Xinran held the strong light flashlight and leaned down, illuminating it from the gap in the stone gate.

"What's inside..."

Before Wu Zhongyuan finished speaking, a bloody and half of his head suddenly emerged from the gap. Because the accident happened too suddenly, no one was mentally prepared. The three of them instinctively dodged backwards, and Wang Xinran was the most frightened. He quickly rolled and dodged, stabilized his body and fired immediately.

Due to the angle of the shooting, these shots directly knocked out half of the head from the neck. The moment the head and neck separated, a yellow snake-shaped creature came out of its cavity. After being exposed for half a foot, it turned around and drilled back into the cavity. The headless corpse shrank back from the gap in the stone gate again.

"Did you see it?" Wu Zhongyuan looked at the three of them anxiously.

Judging from the expressions of the three of them, they all saw the snake-shaped creature. It was as thick as a thumb, yellow as a yellowish color, and had no obvious head. It was not very much like a snake, nor like an eel or an eel, but a bit like an earthworm.

"Like a roundworm, but it is many times larger than roundworms." Lu Jiahui said.

"Doesn't there any information about such things at your headquarters?" Wu Zhongyuan asked, "That man might have died long ago, it was that yellow thing that was controlling him."

"It may be a kind of creature like the iron nematode." Wang Xinran said. Seeing Wu Zhongyuan's face showing doubts, Wang Xinran knew that he did not understand this creature, so she explained, "Iron nematode is a parasitic worm, which usually parasitizes in the bodies of arthropods. This type of worm has a great characteristic, which can control the behavior of the host and make the host show strong aggressiveness. When they want to change the host, they will drive the original host to commit suicide. There are hundreds of known iron nematodes, but the individuals are very small, as big as before, and have never been discovered."

After Wang Xinran finished speaking, Lu Jiahui said, "In addition to the parasitic worms of iron nematodes, some fungi can also affect the behavior of infected people. This is the case with Cordyceps sinensis. Bat moth larvae infected by grass bacteria will maintain an upright shape in the soil before dying, so that grass bacteria can sprout and grow from their heads."

Wu Zhongyuan nodded at Lu Jiahui, lay on his side, and visited the inch from the gap.

Wang Xinran handed over a flashlight with a strong light. Wu Zhongyuan waved his hand and didn't answer it. Although he had made mental preparations in advance, the headless corpse did not appear again. Through the gap, you can see the general situation in the stone chamber. The first thing you see was a stone platform the same as those I saw before. In the middle of the stone chamber, there was a large four-legged bronze ware, square, nearly two meters long and wide, about one meter high, and ears on all sides.

He is not unfamiliar with this type of bronze ware. It is a bronze ice magazine, an ancient water storage vessel, has a thermal insulation effect, and is also the prototype of a modern refrigerator. However, the largest known bronze ice magazine is Zeng Hou Yi's ice magazine, which is only half the size of this.

A large number of shells were scattered around the bronze ice arc. In addition to the shells, there were also large blood stains. A waterproof backpack was left not far from the bronze ice arc.

Change the angle and continue to observe, I found that there was a black animal in the northeast corner of the stone chamber. The animal was lying motionless on the ground. It should not be a living creature. Since I couldn't see my head and face, I didn't know what it was. Just looking at the body, it looked like a dog, and a little like a monkey.

There was nothing else in the other area of ​​the stone chamber. The headless corpse was not in the stone chamber before. There were blood stains on the edge of the bronze ice magazine. The headless corpse should have crawled into the bronze ice magazine.

"Knock on the stone door." Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang Xinran took the claw hammer and knocked on the stone door. There was nothing unusual in the stone room, and the headless corpse did not crawl out of the bronze ice arc.

After observing the situation in the stone chamber, Wu Zhongyuan stood up. Wang Xinran did not ask what he saw, but instead lay down and observed it personally with the light of the strong flashlight.

While the two were observing the situation inside the stone chamber, Zhang Shukai made a torch. He did not just make the torch for lighting. He carried a gas cylinder behind him. If it was really necessary, he could release oxygen to help burn the headless corpse.

Before pushing open the stone gate, Wang Xinran fired a shot at the bronze ice magazine. The bullet hit the bronze ice magazine, causing a dull echo. The headless corpse did not appear again.

Carefully pushed open the stone door, Zhang Shukai and Lu Jiahui were cautious from the door, while Wang Xinran accompanied Wu Zhongyuan to the stone platform.

While walking, Wang Xinran used a strong flashlight to illuminate the northeast corner of the stone chamber. This time he saw clearly that it was not a dog who died there, but a black-haired monkey.

There was thick dust falling on the stone platform. Without asking, Zhao Ying and others had never tried to answer before. They knew that they must have answered correctly.

There are no round holes or stone balls on this stone table. There are three Eight Trigrams copper plates embedded on the stone table. The three Eight Trigrams plates are the same size. Each Eight Trigrams plate has five rings inside and outside. From the inside and outside, they are Tai Chi, Liangyi, Four Symbols, Bagua, and Sixty-Four Trigrams. They are above the three round plates, each with two characters, namely the Heavenly Dao, the Earthly Dao, and the Human Dao.

"What is this question?" Wang Xinran asked.

"He wants me to turn the five rings of the gossip and explain the three paths." Wu Zhongyuan said.

"Is there any hope?" Wang Xinran asked.

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, "This is to let me explain the meaning of the existence of heaven, earth and man. It is equivalent to letting a high school student explain the Fermat conjecture, the Four Colors Conjecture and the Goldbach conjecture in the mathematics world. Do you think there is hope..."
Chapter completed!