We dragged the boat to the shore, and then Xiaozhu and the monk picked up people on it. Zhang Houshou meant that I should wait on the shore. If there is something on the boat that they can't handle, they would let me pass. This would be safe.
Some. But I was really fed up with this guy, so I rejected his kindness very rudely.
With the help of the monk's hand, I came to the deck and was immediately frightened by the black spots on his body. It was as if someone had splashed ink on him. There were dark spots everywhere on his body. This kind of blackness looked very similar to
The black fingerprints on Ma Dad's ankles can't be rubbed away at all.
"How did this happen?"
"Let's not talk about this for now." The monk put on a coat and said, "Let's repair the boat and take the things away."
The hands were all separated on the ship, each doing their own division of labor. I looked at the ship. The people who built the ship must be experienced craftsmen. This ship does not need to be sailed, so many parts are omitted, but the craftsmen are building the ship.
They retained their working habits.
Someone stood on the side of the boat and shined a flashlight downwards. The shadow that was nailed to the side of the boat by the mustache and the monk was still squirming. When the flashlight was shined on it, it turned out to be a confused mass. The monk came over and told us that the thing was alive.
, but he couldn’t figure out what exactly it was.
After hearing this, I breathed a sigh of relief, and someone began to plan to get the thing up. They used a rope to lower the person down, and slowly lowered it to the top of the mass. The mustache and the monk had just fought to the death, and they used all their strength.
The pipe and iron claws were stuck deep into the side of the boat, and it took a lot of effort for the man to pull them out.
The thing was brought to the deck. It was indeed alive. It looked strange and hard to describe, but it looked a bit like a squid. It was so soft that it seemed to have no bones. It had three very thick tentacles, and the front end of the tentacles was as thick as four fingers.
The tentacles were nailed to a fatal position by an alloy tube, and an ink-like body fluid kept flowing out of the wound. The monk was very distressed, and was splashed all over by this body fluid.
"I told you a long time ago that there must be something in the water, and it's true." Ma Dad's face didn't turn red, and his heart didn't beat. He was boasting to others nearby. Maybe he had long forgotten that he was trying to pull the thing in the water towards the ghost.
.
The structure of this ship is very simple. There is a hatch at the stern of the deck that leads to the cabin. The hatch is very ordinary and has a lock, but there is no palm print. Zhang Monkey's people quickly opened the lock and the door creaked.
was pushed away.
The moment the door was pushed open, I stood behind the crowd and looked in. There was no unusual noise, but I felt a very sinister atmosphere coming out of the cabin.
The cabin is not big, and it is very empty. In the middle, there is a rectangular thing. This thing gives people an uncertain feeling, as if it is made of pig iron, like a small iron house, but it also looks like an iron coffin.
.The empty cabin, an iron coffin, and the dim light made me seem to see an ancient morgue.
By this time, I was already a little confused about the huge and complex underground cave in Hongshi'ao. For what purpose did the diggers of this place spend manpower and material resources to develop it? And judging from the final result, it is of no use.
Just to park a boat?
Several people on the deck had been in the pit before, especially Mustache and Monk, who were very experienced. They quickly judged that this was not a coffin. The rest of the people were speculating whether there might be something weird in the cabin. In fact,
According to common sense, there shouldn't be any surprises here. From the entrance to the end, there are many twists and turns. If it weren't for my blood that opened the three doors, it would be very difficult for others to rush through, and they would lose their hands.
Not necessarily successful.
Zhang Houhou's two guys went in first. We stood outside the cabin door and could see everything inside. My guess was correct. There was nothing weird about the cabin, but the small iron room placed in the middle always made me feel sad.
It's a very strange feeling.
After getting the safe signal, we entered the cabin one after another. It was certain that there was nothing else in the cabin. The only thing that could explain everything was the iron room that was two and a half meters long and one and a half meters wide. The iron room was very heavy.
It seems to be cast in one piece without any gaps. Three iron chains are wrapped around the outside, and a small iron door hangs with a large lock. With our manpower and equipment, we cannot transport the iron house away, so we can only move it on the spot.
Open.
"Only one lock?" Zhang Houhou looked at the iron house hesitantly. There were too many risks on the road. After reaching the end, the anti-theft device of the iron house he saw was too simple. It was too simple to be trusted.
Several veterans observed the iron house for a long time, and all possible mechanisms and other possibilities were eliminated. The final conclusion they got was that this was a dead iron house, and there was no mystery other than being heavy. So what was left
Everyone went back outside temporarily, leaving only two people responsible for opening the big lock. The monk took out a piece of wire and wanted to show his hand, but the keyhole of the big lock was rusted.
The lock was quickly opened. During the unlocking process, it could be judged that the iron house was absolutely hollow. Zhang Houhou directed outside and asked two guys to open the small iron door. The gap between the iron door and the iron house was also rusted.
It took a lot of effort to pull it apart. Ma Dad and the monk blocked me behind me. Although the distance was far away, they were still afraid of an accident.
As he opened the iron door, a non-issue emerged. This was definitely not a coffin, but almost everyone saw that there was a completely skeletal corpse lying flat in this iron room.
This was originally an iron house without any mysteries, but this corpse made me feel that it was full of unguessable mysteries. Xiaozhu and the others went over first, and Ma Dad protected me and followed behind. We didn’t dare to go directly
I got in and looked outside. The iron door was very small. Through the iron door, I saw a body without a head, lying quietly in the middle of the iron room.
Its two arms were folded across its chest. Just as the flashlight swept across it, a little bit of refracted light attracted us. The corpse held a Xixia bronze medal between its arms.
"It's a bronze medal!" Zhang Houhou couldn't help shouting, and immediately asked someone to carefully take out the body.
When the body was taken out, it was impossible to keep it intact. An accident caused it to almost completely fall apart. We first took out the bronze medal from the pile of bones, but during the process of taking out the bronze medal, my mind seemed to explode.
There was a thunder. The left hand of the corpse was completely preserved. At the little finger, there was a bone that was obviously different from ordinary people.
Six fingers!
There is no doubt that this corpse had six fingers when it was alive. Its six fingers were on the left hand and were ring-shaped.
Maybe everyone else was immersed in the joy of winning the bronze medal, but I was completely shocked by this headless corpse. In an instant, the corpse soaked in the unknown black water in Mazhan Town, and the two corpses in the Bantuo underground tomb
Bodies with their left hands chopped off appeared together.
As for the six-fingered corpse without a head in front of me, I came to two conclusions, one explicit and one implicit. It must be abnormal for it to be buried in this small closed iron room, and I highly doubt that it was buried before it was buried.
Before being stuffed into the iron room, he had already lost his head.
The hidden conclusion behind the phenomenon is difficult to understand. Who brought it here? Why should the bronze medal be placed together with this corpse?
I ignored other people's comments and thought alone. My thinking suddenly seemed to broaden a lot. I associated countless looming clues, as well as unknown pressures from all aspects, and even Lei Yingxiong's coercion. I suddenly thought in surprise that this body
The six-fingered corpse was stuffed into the iron room in such a weird way. It seems to have only one purpose. If my guess is correct, it seems to be a bait.
And what this bait is meant to attract, or rather catch, are people like me who have six ring-shaped fingers. Just imagine, who is the most shocked when they see this weird six-fingered corpse? It is undoubtedly me.
The most important thing is that no matter whether I am shocked, attracted, or want to find out the truth, the power from other people has forced me to have no way out, and I must keep walking along this line until the end.
If you think about it deeply, all this is a bit scary to be honest. This corpse must have been dead for many, many years, and the person who forced it into it should also be of the same age. But that person seems to have been dead for hundreds of years.
What may happen in the next year, borrowing countless seemingly unrelated details, and countless people, both overt and covert, have forced me onto this path.
Where is the end of this road?
The rest of the people only discussed it briefly and immediately left the cabin with the bronze medal. There was no problem with the bronze medal. Both Xiao Hu and Zhang Hou had seen it personally. The outside of the bronze medal was protected by a layer of film and had not been eroded in any way. It was in good condition.
Keep it, it's the real thing.
A few of us returned to the shore, and Zhang Hou sent someone to send me out from the iron rope first. Ma Dad refused to leave and insisted on finding some oil and water on the boat. I sat at the entrance of the cave, smoking and watching them go about their business.
The flash below kept lighting up, probably to take photos of the scene and bring them back to Lei Yingxiong.
After waiting for a long time, the people below were finally finished. For them, the bronze medal was the only value of Hongshi'ao. If they got the bronze medal, there would be no use here. Zhang Houhou gathered his people and immediately started to go back.
Before leaving, I took another look at the peaceful underground lake from above. Someone died here and will never go back.
We walked back much faster than when we came. We crossed the stone road and stepped onto the bank of the underground river. When we stopped for a while, Ma Dad quietly came over to chat with me.
"Master Wei." Ma Dad glanced at Xiaozi secretly: "Huzi and Lao Zhang are hiding something from us."
"How to say?"
"We haven't investigated anything on this boat at all, especially the body."