Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 168 They Are Not Human

It's almost noon now, the fog in the mountains is not thick, and I'm a little nervous looking at the bottomless cliff!

It's not the first time I've done something dangerous, but except for the fact that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers when I was nine years old, I have never acted alone at other times.

I rubbed the sweat on my palms, and after I settled down, I started to slide down slowly!
I don’t know how long I’ve been skating. When the trees became more and more dense, I took out a flashlight from my backpack with one free hand and turned it on. Then I slid down and looked around.

Xiao Sheng threw down the body together with the shirt, so he might be hanging on a tree, which is why I said that I would help Ning Yuan find it, because it would not be too much effort.

But it was about to bottom out, and I still didn't see the shadow of the corpse.

I couldn't help but mutter a little, how could it be scattered when dropped from such a high height, not to mention that it happened to be all hung on the tree, after all, there would be a little bit of it, right?
But until my feet touched the ground, I didn't even see a trace of blood.

The sun is not strong in winter, and the trees under the cliff are lush, so I feel bitingly cold when I step down.

The light below was also a lot darker, so I held up the flashlight and rummaged around.

I came down along the place where Xiao Sheng threw the body. Even if there was a deviation, it was only about a hundred meters away.

I first made a mark where I came down, and then followed the mark and started looking in circles.

click...

After spinning for about half an hour, just when I was about to give up, suddenly, I heard a clicking sound.

I looked down and saw that my foot was stepping on a leg bone, and beside my ankle was a head with its mouth and eyes open!
boom!
When I first saw this, I backed away in horror, and didn't stop until my back hit the tree trunk with a bang.

I settled down, put the things in the backpack aside, then went to the head and squatted down, carefully wrapped her in the shirt scattered on the side, and finally stuffed her into the bag.

Putting the bag on my back again, I always felt a little uncomfortable, and I didn't dare to stay longer, so I hurried back.

During the running process, I always felt that there were two eyes following me, and I didn't dare to think too much. When I saw the climbing rope, I quickly climbed up.

I was relieved when I climbed to the top and saw the sun and Ning Yuan.

I don't know why, although nothing happened below and the process went very smoothly, but I always feel uncomfortable.

"How?" Ning Yuan asked hurriedly.

I unloaded my backpack and pointed.He immediately grabbed it, opened the backpack, and opened the shirt. He didn't feel relieved until he saw the head: "Ah Qing, you're finally back!"

"Brother Ning, then..." I said.

Ning Yuan put his head back like a jewel, then looked at me: "I'll take you to a place."

"Is it a burial pit?" At this point, I also knew that it would be pointless to hide it, so I just talked about it.

After Ning Yuan said that it was indeed you, he remained silent until he reached the entrance of the burial pit, and then he said: "No matter what you see for a while, don't be surprised, let alone do anything, or the consequences will be disastrous!"

I don't think so. Judging from the situation of following him, the rest of the archaeological team should live here. What consequences can there be?
But thinking so in my heart, I still responded straightforwardly.

Only then did Ning Yuan take me into the funeral pit.

Most of the funeral pits have been excavated, and there are still many undugs on the left side, and the entrance is also on the left side.There was a square hole dug out there, winding downwards, it should have been about to dig in this direction but something went wrong.

I followed Ning Yuan to the funeral pit, and Xiao Sheng found an excuse to leave when he came back, he seemed very scared.

The darkness below was not as dark as imagined. The emergency lights of the archaeological team were turned on, illuminating the area of ​​about [-] square meters below as if it were daytime.

And in such a big place, there are eleven people nestled there, all of them huddled in their respective corners, and they don't look different.

I looked at Ning Yuan suspiciously, he motioned me not to speak, and then led me to stand near the entrance and wait.

This waited until the sun set, and the people who were shrinking before all moved...

The first person to move was a 30-year-old bookish man sitting in a corner. He stood up slowly, turned around to face the tomb wall that had not yet been opened, raised his hands and began to scratch, mouth Also made a whining sound.

It was only then that I noticed that his hands were rotten, and every time he scratched, blood and flesh would be left on the wall, but he didn't seem to feel it, so he scratched like crazy, as if something was calling from the other side of the wall!
Following his movements, other people also moved, some scratched like him, some hit their heads, and some directly fell into their mouths...

Looking at this picture, I opened my mouth wide in surprise, and just about to step forward to stop them, I thought of what Ning Yuan said not to take any action.

Ning Yuan stared at them for a long time before motioning for me to follow him out.

"Why, how did this happen?" Those people could no longer be called human beings, they looked more like walking dead.

But didn't Ningyuan say that they just stayed with Ah Qing?
Ning Yuan glanced at me, then sat down on the ground with his backpack in his arms, staring at the burial pit, and said in a trance, "I used to never believe in strange powers and gods, but this time I can't help but not believe it."

"Did you see it? These people became like this overnight. If word spreads, this tomb is likely to attract forces from all sides. It will be hard to say whether we can protect these national treasures by then."

"But hasn't the news already spread?" I was noncommittal to his words, obviously Lao Yan received the news from other channels.

Ning Yuan glanced at me and said that you know a lot.

"Yeah, it's already spread. The news can't be hidden as early as when Professor Gu went crazy, not to mention so many people died." Ning Yuan's voice was a bit bitter: "You should have seen the garrison when you came. Are there armed police at the foot of the mountain?"

I nodded, and Ning Yuan let out a hey: "Professor Gu said, don't be afraid if the news spreads, as long as the armed police below don't know, it doesn't matter! So before I am taken away, let me settle the rest of the people. Once they show up The problem is hidden because they know what's going on."

"Brother Ning, don't fool me just because I'm young. Your words are contradictory, right?" I frowned.

At the beginning, Ning Yuan said that these people were left behind by him to protect Ah Qing, but now he said that Gu Shunzhang asked him to stay. Anyone who is not a fool can hear such an obvious loophole.

Ning Yuan smiled: "Do you think I have the ability to let them stay for Ah Qing?"

I was startled, I didn't expect that when he was in great grief, when Xiao Sheng and I almost thought he was going crazy, he would still maintain a sliver of reason...

But why did he say that then?
(End of this chapter)