The vibrations of the sarcophagus became more and more violent, and the entire secret room began to shake like an earthquake. The blood seeping from the gaps even flowed to the ground. Xiao Lou looked at the dazzling pool of blood and quickly took a step back: "Everyone, be careful!
"
He had read tomb-robbery novels before. The protagonists entered the thousand-year-old tombs and often encountered the legendary "zongzi".
The so-called "Zongzi" are actually zombies. The dead buried in ancient tombs mutate into zombies and attack intruders. They are generally very difficult to deal with. But... I have never heard that Zongzi can bleed?
Zombies have been buried underground for hundreds of thousands of years. Their bodies have long since rotted and dried. Where can such fresh blood come from in their bodies?
Could it be an illusion?
Xiao Lou looked around quickly.
In the cold stone room, there were only everlasting lamps in the four corners and a sarcophagus in the middle. No drugs that could cause hallucinations were found. Moreover, after falling into hallucinations on the spiral staircase, everyone became very cautious, and every time they entered a new
Before entering the secret room, everyone will pay attention to their breathing frequency to avoid inhaling poisonous gas or being intoxicated by incense.
The scene of the sarcophagus shaking does not look like an hallucination, but how to explain the blood seeping out of the gaps?
Xiao Lou was wondering. At this moment, the lid of the sarcophagus suddenly began to shake crazily, as if something was trying to crawl out. Yu Hanjiang immediately protected Xiao Lou behind him, holding the handle of the saber tightly with his left hand, his eyes sharp.
He stared at the sarcophagus.
Gui Yuanzhang's voice came to Xiao Lou's ears: "There is something in the sarcophagus, should it be kept or evacuated?"
Obviously, the same thing happened in Ye Qi's secret room.
Ye Qi said: "If a big rice dumpling appears, we should be able to defeat it, right? After all, we have cards in our hands."
Shao Qingge said with confusion: "Zongzi? Are they the ones eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival?"
Everyone: “…………”
Mr. Shao, can you be more serious?
Chu Huaying explained expressionlessly: "The thousand-year-old zombie in the ancient tomb is commonly known as Zongzi."
Shao Qingge, who had never read tomb-robbing novels, finally realized: "Oh... that is, does the dead man in the coffin want to fake his body?" After saying this, he quickly took a step back and hid very decisively.
In the Diamond Secret Room, the Insect King card cannot be used. He can't use stocks to deal with zombies. Next, he will rely on his teammates.
Xiao Lou suddenly said: "Everyone, be careful, it may not be Zongzi."
What is in the coffin is still unknown. If it is really the thousand-year-old Zongzi who pretends to be a corpse, it is equivalent to a high-level zombie. They have cards with them. They are not afraid of zombies and insect groups. Six against one Zongzi can still be dealt with.
Is there any need to be afraid?
What Xiao Lou is most worried about is... there may not be rice dumplings in this coffin.
The blood was telling him that things were not that simple.
After everyone communicated briefly on the voice channel, suddenly, the lid of the sarcophagus was pushed up with a strong force, and the contents in the coffin finally broke free, letting out a sharp, ear-piercing cry.
The door of the stone room closed behind them, and everyone was trapped in the secret room.
In the closed space, sharp screams began to echo repeatedly. The strange sound was like a spiritual attack, causing everyone's minds to buzz. Immediately afterwards, the lid of the sarcophagus flew toward the six people.
——
The saber in Yu Hanjiang's hand struck sharply, splitting the stone in half!
In another secret room, Gui Yuanzhang swung the brush in his hand, and the sarcophagus was stopped abruptly by him. Following the trajectory of the brush, it hit the wall with a "boom"!
Everyone looked behind the sarcophagus in fear.
The moment the lid was destroyed, everyone finally saw clearly what crawled out of the sarcophagus——
It was a woman wearing a red wedding dress.
Her gorgeous wedding dress looked as new as ever, with golden silk threads embroidered on it.
The woman's face was as pale as paper, and she still wore beautiful hairpins on her head. However, those hairpins were half hanging on her hair at this time, and her messy black hair was scattered down to her waist. Her slender hands were stained with blood.
Red, the nails seemed to have been broken when holding the sarcophagus just now, and the eyes were also glowing with blood.
The woman cast her hateful eyes on everyone, and Xiao Lou felt chilled in his heart when she stared at him.
Before she could react, the woman's bloody hand suddenly grabbed Xiao Lou!
Yu Hanjiang made a prompt decision and swung his saber to cut off her arm. However, the woman's movements were extremely agile and her body was very flexible. She retracted her arms, stepped on the stone wall of the secret room with her feet wearing red embroidered shoes, and suddenly jumped, which was embarrassing.
Avoiding Yu Hanjiang's blade, his claws suddenly grabbed at Lu Jiuchuan who was standing next to him.
Yu Hanjiang slashed the air with his sword. Seeing that the woman in red was about to strangle Lu Jiuchuan's throat, Lu Jiuchuan immediately pulled out the ice sword in his hand and swept it forward - but what surprised him was that the freezing effect of the ice sword seemed to be
Has no effect on women?
Lu Jiuchuan quickly retreated and turned to one side, narrowly avoiding her attack.
The woman failed to attack Lu Jiuchuan and turned back to fight Lao Mo. In desperation, Mo Xuemin directly erected a row of marble walls in front of him to stop her. But what shocked Lao Mo was that the woman's claws were actually on the marble wall.
Just take out a hole!
Upon seeing this, Liu Qiao hurriedly summoned the witch.
The witch in her hand is a card that can kill with one hit. If you give the designated target a bottle of poison in a dark night environment, you can kill the opponent immediately. However, Liu Qiao's witch spilled the poison, and the woman in red actually
No response?
Xiao Lou took out a compass, quickly drew a few circles, and controlled the metal rings to trap her from all directions!
Seeing that the two rings had been put on her body, the woman in red seemed to have the ability to "flash" and instantly moved from one corner of the room to the other. She ignored Xiao Lou's rings and headed toward Xiao Lou again.
Come...
The six people looked at each other.
At the same time, the moment the woman in red appeared in the secret room on the other side, Gui Yuanzhang quickly pointed at her with the brush in his hand.
Gui Lao's pen can control objects weighing up to 100kg to move in the air. The movement trajectory of the object will follow the trajectory of Gui Yuanzhang's brush. He originally wanted to throw the woman against the wall with one stroke, but the moment he started writing, he
He discovered that women are not under his control at all!
Ye Qi took out his flute and played the music.
The flute can put a single target into a deep sleep, which is a very powerful locking control skill. I thought that as soon as the flute sounded, the woman would fall into a comatose state. Unexpectedly, Ye Qi played the flute as if he was playing the harp to a cow, and the woman did not react at all.
?
When Chu Huaying saw this, the slender black shadow swept over like the wind. This was the first time that Ye Qi and others saw Chu Huaying take action. Her speed was as fast as lightning, and no one could see how she flew out.
, in a blink of an eye, she was behind the woman in red.
A cold light flashed in Chu Huaying's hand, and the blood-red spider dagger accurately hit the woman in red in the middle of her back.
However, Chu Huaying's dagger did not feel any "blocking feeling", as if it had stabbed a ball of air.
No matter what the opponent is, if the dagger is inserted into the flesh, it will definitely be blocked, but why...
Chu Huaying was slightly startled. The next moment, the woman in red suddenly turned around, her eyes filled with blood and tears. Two bright red tears kept sliding down her pale cheeks. Then, she stretched out her pale hand,
He grabbed Chu Huaying's neck.
Gui Yuanzhang shouted in a low voice: "Hua Ying!"
Ye Qi also shouted in shock: "Sister Ying, be careful!"
The teammates were about to help, but soon, Chu Huaying disappeared in front of everyone, as if being sucked into another space.
Ye Qi turned pale and hurriedly took out other instruments to control the field. Long Sen and Qu Wanyue also took action, using chameleon cards to blend into the environment, hoping to take the opportunity to attack the woman in red.
Shao Qingge retreated to the door and quickly reported the situation to Xiao Lou: "Xiao Lou, Chu Huaying is missing!"
At this time, Xiao Lou and the others also encountered an unprecedented crisis.
All the cards of the six people seemed to be ineffective. They could obviously release their skills, but they just couldn't control the woman in red.
Seeing that her sharp claws were about to attack Xiao Lou, Lu Jiuchuan shouted and stabbed the woman's neck with the ice sword in his hand!
The woman turned away and continued to attack Xiao Lou while screaming.
Yu Hanjiang's left hand suddenly pulled, bringing Xiao Lou into his arms, followed by Qinggong and flew up, stepped on the broken stone bricks just now, dodged the woman's attack with no chance, and struck her with a backhand knife
head!
The woman did not escape this time. Her blood-red eyes stared straight at Xiao Lou, with blood and tears constantly flowing from her eyes. Her messy hair flew everywhere with her movements, like a Shura from hell.
Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help but cursed: "Fuck, is this an upgraded version of Zongzi? Can it fucking fly?"
Tang Ci said: "Mr. Shao just said that Huaying is missing. What happened?"
Xiao Lou's heart tightened slightly when he was stared at by the woman, but he quickly calmed down and quickly thought of countermeasures.
In the tomb-robbery novels he has read, zongzi are usually produced by mutated corpses. Most of the mutated corpses have one characteristic - they move relatively slowly. Zombies and zombies will all follow this physiological law. After all, the internal moisture and blood of the corpse are lost.
, the muscles have also become shriveled, and it would be too unscientific if the mobility is still more flexible than that of humans.
However, the woman in front of me is extremely agile. She can also dodge everyone's attacks and even jump on walls?
Something so flexible and capable of flying is definitely not a zongzi.
Facing those eyes with blood and tears, Xiao Lou said in a trembling voice: "She... is probably a resentful spirit or a fierce ghost."
As if to confirm his idea, Yu Hanjiang's saber struck her head. Not only did it not crack her brain, but it seemed to hit a mass of nothingness. The sharp knife passed directly through the middle of her body, but she
Unscathed.
What would be like air?
They can only be disembodied resentful spirits or evil ghosts.
Almost at the same time, Ye Qi's nervous voice sounded again on the voice channel: "Professor Xiao, my musical instrument and Senior Gui's brush are completely useless to her, and all control skills are useless! Sister Ying's dagger can't kill her? This should be
It’s not Zongzi! I don’t know where Sister Ying is, and I can’t reach her by voice!”
Xiao Lou hurriedly said: "How did Huaying disappear?"
Ye Qi said: "This woman strangled her neck and then disappeared."
Xiao Lou thought for a moment, broke free from Yu Hanjiang's arm, took a deep breath, and walked up to the woman on his own initiative.
The woman suddenly flew over and grabbed Xiao Lou's neck!
Seeing this scene, Yu Hanjiang's heart trembled, and he reflexively wanted to protect Xiao Lou, but Xiao Lou stopped him softly: "It doesn't matter, don't resist." His voice was very calm: "This woman is not an entity, we can't touch her.
If we touch her or hurt her, she won't be able to really hurt us."
Everyone: "………………"
Yu Hanjiang's movements stopped abruptly.
The next moment, Xiao Lou also disappeared in front of everyone.
Yu Hanjiang's heart was shaken. He was afraid that something would happen to Xiao Lou, but if Xiao Lou died, wouldn't he not even be able to see his body? So, did Xiao Lou and Chu Huaying enter another dimension?
Thinking of this, he took a step forward without hesitation and took the initiative to contact the woman in red, but the woman grabbed her by the throat.
Then Yu Hanjiang also disappeared.
Lu Jiuchuan helplessly raised his forehead: "Then let's go together and see what the hell this thing is doing."
Everyone touched the porcelain together, and the woman in red had more and more blood and tears in her eyes, and her sharp claws kept grabbing everyone's necks...
It wasn't until the last person disappeared that everyone was shocked to discover——
The six of them returned to the original stone room.
The sarcophagus in front of him was motionless and not shaking. There was no dazzling blood on it, but only dark black blood stains that had dried up thousands of years ago. The horrific scene just now seemed to be just a temporary hallucination.
Xiao Lou was standing in front of the sarcophagus, looking thoughtfully at the charms on the sarcophagus.
Yu Hanjiang walked over nervously: "Are you okay?"
"It's okay." Xiao Lou pressed the voice earphone and said to his teammates: "This woman should be a disembodied resentful spirit. It can be understood as an illusion formed by a strong resentment. Just now, we were attracted by this kind of
Resentment is brought into the illusion."
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【Chapter 390, Wraith】
After hearing Xiao Lou's words, everyone's expressions became serious involuntarily.
In the secret room on the other side, everyone followed Xiao Lou's instructions and stopped resisting. They returned to the stone room together like them, saw Chu Huaying standing in front of the sarcophagus, and heard Xiao Lou's analysis.
Ye Qi quickly understood: "So, everything just happened was just an illusion? So, all our card skills are ineffective against her, and stabbing her with a dagger can't hurt her?"
Xiao Lou nodded: "This secret room has never changed. The sarcophagus stayed in place, no fresh blood seeped out of it, and nothing crawled out. However, we were affected by hallucinations as soon as we entered the secret room, so
You don't know that you are in an illusion. If you fail to discover this in time, fighting desperately against the resentful spirit will only consume your energy and be in vain."
Shao Qingge rubbed his temples and said: "Xiao Lou, what you mean is that when we entered the secret room, everything we saw was already an illusion, and we had to be strangled to death by this resentful spirit before we could return to reality. And
Under normal circumstances, when we see a resentful spirit, we will avoid and resist. The more fiercely we resist, the more ferocious the resentful spirit will be?"
"That's right, only by not resisting and being 'killed' by her resentment can you escape from the illusion of resentment she created." Xiao Lou paused and continued, "These two women were buried alive in the ancient tombs.
The resentment they felt before they died, and the resentful spirits condensed into them, may be able to give us some important clues."
Ye Qi's voice came to his ears: "Clues? What clues did the illusion just provide us?"
Xiao Lou asked: "Is the woman you see wearing a red wedding dress, embroidered shoes on her feet, and some jewelry on her head?"
Ye Qi nodded: "That's right, a bride with messy hair, blood and tears in her eyes, and her face is as white as a ghost... She is indeed a ghost, right? Is there any difference between a ghost and a ghost?"
Xiao Lou couldn't explain the difference between a resentful spirit and a ghost for a while, so there seemed to be nothing wrong with interpreting her as a fierce ghost?
Ye Qi's answer told him that the resentful spirits in the secret rooms on both sides were the same bride.
Xiao Lou looked at the coffin in front of him thoughtfully and said: "Since both women are wearing wedding clothes, it is very likely that they were put directly into the sarcophagus and buried alive on their wedding night."
Everyone gasped when they heard this.
The wedding night should be the happiest moment in many people's lives.
Women in ancient times were raised by their parents with great pains and were married at a young age. When they got married, they must have fantasized about how tall and heroic their husbands would be and how kind they would be to them. On their wedding night, they might even
Shy, nervous...
As a result, she got married in a wedding dress and was not sent to the bridal chamber, but was put into a sarcophagus?
The shock, fear and anger of the two women at that time can be imagined.
It’s no wonder that the resentment they felt after being buried alive persisted, even leading those who entered the stone chamber into an illusion.
When Qu Wanyue heard this, she whispered: "It's too cruel to bury the bride alive... Is this what Professor Xiao said, a priestly ritual?"
"Yes. I previously speculated that this ancient tomb was a live burial tomb, and it seems that I was right. The owner of the ancient tomb probably put the bride into a coffin and buried her alive in order to perform a living sacrifice ceremony.
He looked at the sarcophagus in front of him and said, "Currently, we have only found two sarcophagi. Maybe there will be more sarcophagi in the ancient tomb."
After all, it is a living sacrifice. After all the efforts and efforts were made to build such a large tomb, it seems unreasonable to only sacrifice two?
Xiao Lou leaned over and carefully observed the charms on the sarcophagus, and felt that they were somewhat familiar.
Suddenly, he thought of the scene where the woman in red strangled his neck forcefully——
On the woman's head, in addition to the hairpin, there is also a crooked comb with the same symbol engraved on it?
Xiao Lou turned around and walked out of the stone room, stopping in front of the mural.
The mural was a grand wedding scene. He found that many of the utensils at the wedding banquet and the dowry boxes also had similar symbols. However, in the huge mural, it would be more difficult to notice these subtle clues.
Xiao Loudao: "This symbol appears on sarcophagi, combs, and dowry items. It is probably the symbol of the woman's family."
Lao Mo came over to take a closer look and said, "This symbol looks a bit like... a grimace totem?"
Yu Hanjiang also came over and stood next to Xiao Lou. He looked at the symbols that appeared in the mural and whispered: "I heard that many villages and tribes in ancient times had their own gods. This totem is indeed like a woman and a mother.
The symbol of the clan.”
Xiao Lou pressed the voice earphone and asked his teammates opposite: "Look carefully at the charms on the sarcophagus, and then look at the murals outside. Can you find the same pattern?"
Soon, Ye Qi's excited voice came to his ears: "I found it! The dowry boxes at the wedding banquet are all engraved with the same patterns as those on the sarcophagus. It's a bit like... a wolf totem?"
Xiao Loudao: "What we found here is more like a ghost face."
When Guiyuan Zhang heard this, he analyzed in a low voice: "The women buried alive in the two stone chambers are obviously from different tribes. Could it be that the tomb owners wanted to marry women from different tribes and put them in coffins and bury them alive on the wedding day to achieve an agreement?
A priestly ritual?"
The more everyone listened, the more chills ran down their spines.
From the moment they entered this living burial tomb, everyone felt there was something strange and eerie about it.
It turns out that too many living people were buried? Or were they all buried on the wedding day?
Chu Huaying said calmly: "So, if we want to leave the ancient tomb, we need to find all the brides who were buried alive, and then draw a floor plan based on the location of the tombs where they were buried, and speculate on the exit of the ancient tomb?"
Xiao Lou suddenly remembered the priest ceremony in Liuxi Village.
At that time, the seven gems were placed in different corners of the village, arranged in the shape of a "human body" to represent the girl who was brutally murdered by the priest. How many brides were buried alive in this ancient tomb? They were buried in
Where did it go? What is the meaning of priest?
Xiao Lou took a deep breath and said, "We have to find the other brides slowly. Let's open the sarcophagus first and take a look."
Everyone: "..."
Why don't you open the sarcophagus and take a look? Why was Xiao Lou's tone so calm when he said this? He's just as slow as everyone else.
Yu Hanjiang understood Xiao Lou's thoughts: "Do you want to open the coffin and conduct an autopsy?"
Ye Qi thought of the woman who was shedding blood and tears just now, and goosebumps fell down his spine: "Professor Xiao, are you sure you want to open the coffin? Maybe a rice dumpling will actually pop out this time?"
Xiao Loudao: "The gatekeepers also have principles. They rarely use the same trick twice in a row. They just used the Wraith to scare us. There shouldn't be any Zongzi that is easier to deal with than the Wraith."
After saying this, he walked to the sarcophagus.
Just now, the lid of the sarcophagus flew up and the bride in red crawled out of it. It was all an illusion.
At this time, the sarcophagus was still quietly placed in place. Xiao Lou signaled Yu Hanjiang to open the lid of the coffin. Yu Hanjiang's method was simple and crude. He went over and slashed horizontally with his saber, splitting and lifting the entire lid.
As expected, there was a skeleton lying inside the coffin... wearing a red wedding dress.
It was so old that the body had long since rotted away, leaving only the white bones and the bright red wedding dress. This scene made people feel horrified from the bottom of their hearts.
Because she struggled wildly after being put into the sarcophagus, black and red blood stains were everywhere inside the sarcophagus. Both of her hands holding the sarcophagus were broken, and all the bones in her hands were broken.
But her wooden comb was lying quietly in the coffin.
Xiao Loudao: "Judging from the degree of bone development, this girl should be less than 18 years old."
Everyone: "..."
Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help but curse: "These beasts actually put such a young girl into a coffin and buried her alive?!"
Xiao Lou picked up the wooden comb with the ghost face totem engraved on it: "Take it first, maybe you will use it for the mechanism later."
Since Xiao Lou and others opened the coffin for autopsy, Guiyuan Zhang also opened the sarcophagus.
Inside were also white bones wearing wedding clothes. They found a bracelet in the coffin.
Ye Qi thought about it: "When the female ghost strangled Sister Huaying's neck just now, she was wearing this bracelet on her hand."
He carefully picked up the bracelet.
Xiao Lou said: "Let's continue walking deeper into the maze. There must be more than two people buried alive in this ancient tomb."