Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 199 The Centipede Wearing a Mask

Compared with the cave I walked through just now, the cave in the middle is relatively dry, with a layer of fine sand on the ground.

We walked cautiously in the cave, and Li Tienan, who was walking in the front, suddenly squatted down and stared at the ground with his wolf eyes, not knowing what he was observing.

"Captain, what are you looking at?" Lin Wei asked.

Li Tienan pointed to the ground, there was a trace of dragging on the ground, and the trace was relatively new and very shallow, so it was not easy to find without looking carefully.

Li Tienan stretched out his hand to measure the size of the mark: "This drag mark is very similar to that left by that yellow skin. I speculate that the yellow skin may have been dragged into the cave by something!"

"Could it be some big snake and giant python?" Han Xu asked.

Li Tienan shook the pistol: "This possibility cannot be ruled out!"

As soon as Li Tienan finished speaking, he heard a strange roar coming from the depths of the cave: "Roar——"

We were shocked: "What is that sound?"

The roar was very low and somewhat chaotic, like the cry of a wild beast, or the roar of a devil.

What's so weird in the depths of the cave?
Are there unknown scary beasts?
Or are there scary ghosts?
Our hearts gradually tightened, and even our breathing became short of breath.

When everyone was still hesitating whether to move forward, Li Tienan had already gone far ahead.

Lao Yang was worried that Li Tienan would have an accident, so he hurriedly called his team members to follow.

In fact, this cave is not as deep as we imagined, and it will end after walking more than ten meters.

Thankfully, this road is not a dead end. Behind the cave is a bigger cave. After walking out of the cave, we immediately felt a lot easier to breathe.

We held up the wolf's eyes and looked around, and found that this is a very empty space, with a vertical height of at least tens of meters. The wolf's eyes can't even shine on the top of the cave, and we can only see the thick darkness floating above. like a heavy mist.

Roar--

There was another strange howling sound in front of them, everyone was startled at the same time, subconsciously raised their wolf eyes, and shot towards the source of the sound.

We were horrified by the scene in front of us.

Standing directly in front of tens of meters away, a large bronze pillar is extremely thick, with a diameter of at least five meters, and a layer of light blue light on the surface, just like standing in the underground world. The magnificent pagoda, the bottom is stuck on the ground, and the top is estimated to have reached the top of the cave, submerged in the darkness above.

The strange thing is that the big bronze pillar is embedded in the hard and thick rock wall, and the glowing light illuminates the rock wall faintly, making it look ghostly and strange in the dark.

The surface of the bronze pillar is not smooth, but densely covered with all kinds of strange symbols, like some kind of ancient spell.Those incantations are like reliefs, standing out on the surface of the column, very three-dimensional.

And at the bottom of the big bronze pillar, there is actually a bronze iron chain as thick as a calf, and the iron chain is also engraved with spells.One end of the iron chain is fastened to an iron ring at the bottom of the column, and a huge monster is tied to the other end.

Centipede? !
We gasped.

The monster bound on the iron chain turned out to be a giant centipede with a body length of more than five meters!

I grew up in the countryside, and the biggest centipede I've ever seen was only an inch long, and the colorful colors were enough to make my skin crawl.

But the centipede in front of me now is five meters long. My goodness, what kind of centipede can grow like this?Was this centipede mutated?
This is no longer an ordinary centipede, but a centipede monster, which is a monster!
What's even weirder is that the whole body of the centipede is blood red, and the hard carapace glows with a demonic blood.There is actually a huge bronze mask hanging on the face of the centipede. The shape of the mask is very hideous. It looks like a mask worn by a wizard in a primitive tribe. It looks like some kind of ghost or some kind of evil spirit, revealing that A cold, cold, very uncomfortable feeling.

The edge of the mask was deeply embedded in the centipede's head, and it had grown together with the centipede's head, so it couldn't be removed at all.

For this perverted behavior, we can't understand it even if we think about it. Why put a mask on the centipede?

The thick iron chain penetrates the centipede's tail and connects with the centipede's body.Due to being bound by iron chains, the centipede's activity site is only within a range of ten meters in front of it.At this time, this blood-red monster was quietly dormant in the fine sand, and the strange roar was made by this centipede.

Oh my gosh!
After a moment of silence, the team members finally came back to their senses, let out a low exclamation, held guns, and couldn't help taking a big step back, wishing to get as far away from this giant centipede as possible.

We have also guessed what kind of monsters are hidden in the depths of the cave before, but we never dreamed that there is such a huge centipede monster in the depths of the cave. It goes without saying.

Who erected a large bronze pillar in the depths of the ground?
What is the purpose of doing this?
Is it just to bind this demon blood centipede?

Then why did they tie up the demon blood centipede here?
Is it for suppression or to feed this centipede?

Is this centipede a mutated species or an ancient monster?
Also, this bronze pillar must have a history of hundreds of thousands of years, that is to say, this demon-blood centipede has also survived underground for hundreds of thousands of years?Didn't it all cultivate into a centipede essence?

"Why...how could there be such a huge centipede?" Li Yuwen was so surprised that he couldn't speak.

Fang Weiran said: "Could it be that you have been exposed to nuclear radiation?"

Cao Yibai gave Fang Weiran a look: "Idiot! How is it possible? Will the country test nuclear weapons on the ancient Yellow River Road? Also, this centipede is tied to the bronze pillar, which means it is from the same age as the bronze pillar. That bronze pillar is at least a few hundred years old." Years of history, that centipede is naturally a monster that has survived for hundreds of years, did nuclear weapons exist hundreds of years ago?"

"Could it be some kind of ancient creature?" Han Xu said, "I've read a lot of natural science. According to science, many creatures ten thousand years ago had a very large body size. For example, mosquitoes in the Jurassic period had a body length It exceeds an astonishing one meter. The natural world is amazing. Until now, human beings have not understood all biological species, but the natural science community has discovered that there are ancient creatures that exist on this earth. So I guess, will this centipede also be a What about ancient creatures?"

"Hearing what you said, it makes sense!" Li Tienan said.

"Xiaogu, you are well-informed, and studying these weird things is your strength. Do you have any opinions?" Lao Yang turned to me and asked.

I pursed my lips and didn't speak. In fact, Han Xu's argument just now was very reasonable, but I always feel that things are not as simple as they appear.That weird bronze mask made me feel very uncomfortable, and I had a faint feeling that there must be something strange about that bronze mask.If the centipede is simply an ancient creature, why put a mask on it?This is so puzzling!

Everyone turned their attention to me, hoping that I could come up with a reasonable explanation.

I tried my best to search for those strange information in my mind. Suddenly, I caught a strange word that flashed in my mind, and I couldn't help blurting out: "Hernia surgery!"

Hernia surgery? !
Everyone looked at me with puzzled faces, the word was so foreign to them, no wonder they looked at me like that.

In fact, I am not very familiar with hernia surgery. I only heard about it once in my life, and that time I heard it from Fan Shuai.

Hernia, first popular in the Northeast area, is a kind of ancient witchcraft, and it is a very evil witchcraft.

Later, with the integration of various tribes and nationalities, this terrible ancient witchcraft spread to the Central Plains.

There was also a saying in Jianghu that "North hernias South Gu".

As the name suggests, the north is good at using hernia technique, while the south is good at using gu poison.

When Fan Shuai mentioned hernia surgery to me, it was not long after I became his assistant.Once I invited him to eat Haidilao, we shared the same temperament and had a great time drinking. Later, I pestered him to tell me stories.At that time, Fan Shuai was still Professor Ye Sheng, a well-known figure in the archaeological circles of Northwest China. Many strange and exciting things must have happened in his archaeological career. I was very interested in this, so I asked him to chat with me. Take a look at my knowledge.

Fan Shuai told me a story at that time, and that story was about hernia surgery, so my memory is very deep.Although it has been several years, I can still recall this story.

When Fan Shuai told me the story, he said it was the story of the archaeological team. Now that I know Fan Shuai’s identity, I think what he told at that time should be the story that happened in his career of tomb robbery.

Fan Shuai was a master tomb robber back then, and took a few colleagues to the Northeast, and found a tomb of the Empress Dowager Liao in the Xiaoxing’an Mountains. A majestic mausoleum is called "Da Dou" in the jargon of their tomb robbers.

In the line of tomb robbers, the tomb is called "Dou".

Because the structure of the ancient mausoleum is very similar to the kind of bucket used for rice, the mausoleum is called a bucket, and the tomb is called an inverted bucket.

Fan Shuai and the others are indeed masters, breaking the mechanism all the way and going deep into the main tomb.

But just outside the main tomb, they came across a herniated turtle.

The common corpse turtle is a kind of bug that lives inside the corpse. It is very small, about the size of a little finger.But the corpse turtle that had been herniated grew wildly, reaching three meters in length, like a beast guarding the tomb, blocking the door of the main tomb.

Fan Shuai's story ended abruptly here, so I don't know whether they defeated the corpse turtle in the end, or retreated despite the difficulties.

When I asked him, Fan Shuai just smiled and didn't continue talking.

(End of this chapter)