It was a bad start, and he failed without even seeing the shadow of the coffin.
The two of them treated each other's wounds. The thorn on the fat man's body was easy to deal with, just remove it and apply some ointment.
The serrations of the big-mouth flower were very thin and dense, and there were three rows of arc-shaped blood holes on the fat man's shoulders. Although the holes were deep, they were not big, and the bleeding stopped quickly.
Wu Xie's case was a bit tricky. His right hand was swollen into a pig's trotter, and there were some very tiny burrs inside. He had to go to the hospital to use special magnifying equipment to see clearly and pull them out, so he had to wrap his hand into a rice dumpling.
The burrs in the palm of the hand are not very painful at all. They seem to have some kind of anesthetic effect, and the palm can only feel numb and swollen.
"What should we do now?" The fat man opened a pack of compressed biscuits and handed them to Wu Xie.
"Continue to move forward? It's better to exit first and then think of a way. When the blind man comes with a large force, he will directly use heavy firepower to level that thing, or lure the little bastard's grandsons to feed him.
Mouth flower."
Wu Xie took a sip of water and said, "This is the first time I heard you retreat in the tomb."
"What?" The fat man's tone seemed wrong.
"The blind man said that this trip is equivalent to the mission Muyu left for me. Only by getting out from here can I go to Medog." Wu Xie whispered, "He said that he brought me something from the desert, and it was Uncle San.
It was left to me, but now I’m not qualified enough to see it.”
The fat man almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, "If you didn't tell me about such a life-threatening thing, you'd still be no longer brothers."
Wu Xie said helplessly, "The blind man didn't go into detail. He just mentioned that the things here may be related to Medog. I need to preview them in advance. I just didn't expect it to be so dangerous."
The fat man put himself in his shoes and imagined that if his father or relatives were playing such a big game of chess to plot against him, he would definitely take the step of disowning his relatives, go up and throw two sharp slaps at that big face, damn it.
No matter who you love, I won’t do it!
"I really admire you." The fat man patted Wu Xie's shoulder sincerely, "Poor little boy, it's not easy to grow up so big safely."
"It's actually quite good if you don't have a long mouth." Wu Xie handed him a dead fish eye.
After taking a short rest, the two people put on their backpacks and continued walking forward.
This time they acted more cautiously, but this time there was no tree vine ladder in front of them, but it led directly to a dark cave. The sound of gurgling water echoed in their ears, as if flowing from the aerial root holes of the huge banyan tree.
All the water that comes in is collected here.
The air was very humid, and there were traces of water snaking down the stone walls.
A five- to six-meter-wide underground river appeared in front of them, blocking their way.
The range illuminated by the flashlight was too small, so the fat man fired a flare, and the entire space suddenly lit up.
Wu Xie covered his eyes in advance and waited for a few seconds, waiting for the blazing white light to dim slightly. Then he opened his eyes and looked around. He found many iron chains hanging from the mountain wall in front of them, connecting them to the top of their heads. There was a chain there.
A rope bridge over one meter wide.
There are two rows of slender stone pillars standing on both sides of the mountain wall, about one person tall, with patterns like snake scales on them. There is a round ball on the top of the pillar that looks like it can rotate.
An iron chain protrudes from each ball and is connected to the rope bridge above.
"Look over there." Wu Xie pointed to the rope bridge above, "We have to find a way to lower the rope bridge so we can cross over there. The mechanism may be on the pillars on the side. Let's look carefully."
The fat man was about to think that if it was so troublesome, why not just swim there? It was only a few meters in total. But as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw many unknown objects wrapped in white films floating in the underground river. The shapes were very irregular and some were lumped together.
Yes, there are also white bugs strung up like candied haws. If you look around, you can see that the entire river is densely covered with such things.
"Why are there so many dead drifters in this river?" After seeing the thing clearly, the fat man suddenly had a disgusted expression on his face, "The rivers in this area are not all connected, right? Then let's spend ten and a half days
Isn’t it true that what I drank every month was corpse soaking water?”
When Wu Xie asked him to say this, he couldn't help but feel a little nauseous, but he still comforted the fat man and said, "It's not a big problem. The water here is so wide and the waterways extend in all directions. Even if you pour a bottle of dichlorvos in it here and float it along the current, it will float in just a few minutes."
Once the dilution is gone, the fish and shrimp in the river will be fine."
It would be okay if they just drifted to death without any reaction. At most, their diaphragms responded a little, and all the live rice dumplings they had seen were gone into the sea. If they just paid attention to avoid them, they would be able to swim across smoothly.
But obviously, these floats are more than just rice dumplings.
The things wrapped in those floats seem to be alive. Those who are closer to the shore can see the red-purple blood vessels pulsating in the thin translucent membrane, much like the chicks in the eggs are about to break out of their shells.
Survival status in the past few days.
Wu Xie and Wu Xie looked at each other and immediately had a bad feeling.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry up, you and I, hurry up."
The two people immediately took action and tried to pull the chain hanging on the stone ball. When they found that the rope bridge above responded, they immediately stood beside the symmetrical stone pillars, holding the stone balls with both hands and turning them one by one in a clockwise direction.
Accompanied by the clicking sound of the chain, the rope bridge slowly descended from the sky. Wu Xie took a moment to glance at the river and found that the undulations in the membranes of the dead floats were even greater, as if there were countless insects squirming, ready to fly.
The membrane will rupture and come out from the inside.
A thin layer of sweat broke out on Wu Xie's forehead. Finally, he heard a creaking sound and the chain got stuck. The rope bridge was still half a meter away from the river.
But the two of them couldn't wait any longer. They rolled and jumped onto the rope bridge like their butts were burning, and ran over as fast as they could.
Insects have already broken through the egg shells and crawled out from the inside and swam into the water, shooting towards the shore like a water arrow. They looked like skinned crocodiles, covered with translucent mucus.
I immediately climbed up along the river bank.
When Wu Xie and Fatty took a look at this situation, they didn't dare to delay, so they immediately ran to the depths of the cave behind.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Fortunately, this thing slowed down after it landed ashore, and its crawling movements were very clumsy. Each of its four legs crawled in different directions. Wu Xie and Wu Xie took advantage of this to quickly escape from the darkness.
near the river.
Unfortunately, there is also an underground river in the cave at the back, which winds all the way to the deeper part of the back. There is a huge spoon-shaped lake with many luminous algae floating in the lake. Large areas are spread out on the water, soft and slender.
The tentacles are swaying on the water, and the blue light is shining, as if the stars are shining here, it is very dreamy and beautiful.
There was a high platform made of stones at the end of the spoon handle. They saw at a glance the bronze coffin placed on the coffin bed on the high platform.
Strangely, the totem patterns on the coffin are all red, as if someone has been pouring blood on it for hundreds of years, which is why the color on it is so bright.
The fat man looked left and right, put his engineering shovel into the water and stirred it up. He picked up some algae and looked at it. He thought it must be ordinary noctiluca, so he tentatively touched it with his fingers. The tentacles instantly curled up like mimosa.
The shape of a flower bud.
"Innocent, it seems those floaters haven't swam here yet. Let's move faster and swim over as soon as possible." The fat man said.
Although Noctiluca itself does not contain toxins, if the density is too high, it will block the respiratory gills of nearby aquatic organisms and make them starved of oxygen. This may be the reason why those insects dare not come here.
Wu Xie nodded, took off his shoes and tied them to his backpack. The material of their backpack was waterproof. After entering the water, it was like a life jacket. The two of them paddled hard, and in the faint blue light they looked like little elf fish swimming in the sea of stars. Soon
Swim to the edge of the high platform.
There were swarms of bugs chasing after me, but because of the blue lake, they just lingered on the shore.
"Innocent, there seems to be something under the water." The fat man climbed up the steps and took a deep breath.
Wu Xie pushed aside the blue algae in front of him and discovered that there was a stone door under the high platform. This was a double-layered hidden tomb, which meant that there was a layer of space below where a coffin could be placed.
"Tianzhen, which coffin do you think King Gu will be in?" the fat man asked.
Wu Xie pondered for a moment, "Not sure, just open it and take a look."
The tomb pattern here is too confusing. It seems that many elements are just piled here randomly, and there is a lack of murals that can most obviously reflect the situation here. All the tomb logic he knew before does not apply here.
Wu Xie took out the tool and was about to get started when he was stopped by the fat man, "Wait a moment, let the fat man take precautionary measures first."
The fat man turned around and rummaged through their backpacks. Wu Xie asked him what he was looking for.
"Look for a candle." The fat man said, "You have such a weird physique. Xiao Zhang and Lao Zhang are not around, and no one can tell us the truth. The fat man is a little flustered, so he should first follow our northern method of finding gold.
People light candles, ghosts blow out lamps, and roosters crow. When the candle goes out and it doesn't touch the gold, I have to light it first."
Wu Xie thought about it and felt that what the fat man said was very reasonable, but the problem was that they didn't seem to bring candles with them on this trip.
The fat man did not turn over the candle. He slapped his thigh in annoyance, "What a mistake. I'm used to fighting with my paws empty for a long time. I forgot such an important thing. I didn't even bring my donkey's hooves with me."
"What should I do if there are no candles?" Wu Xie asked, "Can I light a cigarette?"
"The flames of the smoke are too small, let's use a flashlight." The fat man took out the hand generator in his bag and began to charge the two flashlights.
"I watched the movie. Whenever those weird things appeared, the light bulbs in the room would keep flashing. It should be possible to work together."
Wu Xie didn't quite understand the principle of the Northern School's operation, but at present, a dead horse was being treated as a living horse doctor, so it would be good to seek some comfort.
So the two of them took turns clicking and shaking, and the insects on the other side of the lake kept drooling in their direction and staring eagerly.
An hour later, both flashlights were fully charged. The fat man clamped one of them between two cans and placed it on the southeast corner of the high platform. He also lit three incense sticks on the side, and pulled Wu Xie to rush into the coffin with him.
Goodbye.
The fat man clasped his hands together and held the golden charm hanging around his neck, muttering something to himself.
Wu Xie listened closely and found that what he was talking about was "Don't blame the ancestors in the coffin. There are seniors and juniors in the younger generation, and their lives are not bad. It is helpless to come here to disturb your sleep today. This person's face is on the side."
The young Qingtou is the junior brother. The two of us are here for another brother. So what, brother has something to do, so he will work hard to save his life. I hope my senior will be kind and tolerant. He is as urgent as the law. Piupiu grinds.
You big rice dumpling ghost..."
Wu Xie "..."
"Is it any use that you talk so much nonsense?" He felt more and more that the fat man's idea was unreliable.
The fat man said vaguely, "Yes, maybe it might be useful. If it doesn't work, let's pull a stumbling rope to stop it."
Wu Xie was speechless and choked up. I really believed you.
It’s a blessing, not a curse. If it’s a curse, let’s do it!
The lid of the bronze coffin was not very heavy, so the two of them pried and pushed it, and it took them a long time to get it open.
But what lay inside was not the two-headed, four-armed Gu King they thought, but a normal male corpse soaked in light brown water.
The corpse was wearing a navy blue gown, and his hair was very long, hanging down to his waist. His face in the water was very handsome and lifelike. If he hadn't been breathing, you would have thought he was just sleeping here.
It can be clearly seen under the long coat that the lower half of his body is not a python.
Wu Xie and Wu Xie looked at each other, and the fat man said, "I made a mistake. This person seems to be an outsider."
The half-tied Qilin blood tripping ghost rope that the fat man insisted on was of no use. Blind Wu Xiegang squeezed the wound again.
"That's weird. Could this place be some kind of Feng Shui treasure? This guy is so young, why is he buried here?" The fat man rubbed the stubble on his chin, "Or has the Gu King mutated again?"
Wu Xie shook his head, "No, this is indeed a person, and he may be a member of the Zhang family."
As he spoke, he put on his gloves, put his hand into the coffin water, held the left arm of the corpse, and showed the fat man, "His hand was taken away."
The fat man was startled and guessed, "This man is also left-handed and has long hair. Could he be Grandpa Fish?"
Then who is the Zhang family member who pretended to be Luo Wenbing before? Could it be one of Muyu's uncles? No, no, the Zhang family's appearance is very deceptive, and it doesn't count at first glance. Who knows how old he is.
"The growth of hair and nails does not stop after a person dies. The hair may grow later."
Wu Xie said, "The style of the clothes on this person is from the Republic of China, and the material is Hangluo, which was popular in silk and satin fabrics at that time. In other words, this Zhang family was buried here during the Republic of China."
"This bronze coffin originally contained the original Gu King, and the person who buried him took away his hand with the long finger mark."
The fat man clapped his fingers and began to calculate again, "This person died in the Republic of China, but he is not necessarily a person from the Republic of China. The Zhang family has a long life, and his face has basically been fixed after adulthood. We cannot rule out the possibility that he is from the Qing Dynasty."
"Let's look for anything on him that can prove his identity," Wu Xie said.
Because this person was from the Zhang family, the two of them didn't even think about scooping out the antiseptic water from the coffin to read the inscriptions on the coffin wall.
It took a lot of effort to maintain it so perfectly. It would be unethical to destroy it.
Thanks to Mr. [Ambiyo] for the reward, I would like to express my gratitude.