Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 19 The Unintentional Mummy Cave

What the hell is this place?
Looking at hundreds of mummies, I didn't know how to react for a while.

These mummified corpses looked old at first glance, and their pink and white appearance looked like they could be torn easily. Some of them were still wearing red robes, which looked similar to the costumes of the ancient Western Regions.

What makes my back numb is that none of these corpses have a heart, and there is a black hole in the left chest...

"what happened?"

Lao Yan walked around and asked a casual question, then he was also stunned, asking how could this happen?
The rest of the people also gathered around, their faces turned pale when they saw this scene, they happened to hear what Lao Yan said, and hurriedly asked him what he meant.

Lao Yan didn't speak, but walked in slowly. The others didn't dare to move, so I gritted my teeth and followed up.

When I got closer, I found that the arrangement of these mummies seemed to be regular, and there seemed to be some meaning, but I couldn't tell for a while.

"Don't look at it, you two, let's go!" Hawkeye was really scared, and stood at the corner, not daring to go or come in.

The poisonous snake and Company Commander Chen on the side also looked a bit ugly. The red-tailed scorpions and sandworms they met before were at least within their acceptable range, but the black shadows and the current mummy they just met had already surpassed them. cognition.

"Lao Yan, do you have something to say?" I was studying the mummy closest to me, and turned to ask Lao Yan beside me.

He pondered for a moment, and said that the arrangement of the mummy seemed to be similar to some kind of ancient sacrifice.

Sacrifice?

I thought about it, but I didn't think of any kind of sacrifice that required the use of thousands of corpses.

Seeing that Lao Yan was already immersed in studying the mummy, I shrugged and turned back to continue thinking about the mummy in front of me.

When I saw this, I was stunned: Did the mummy raise its hand just now?

"Are you still leaving?" Hawkeye was so anxious that he was about to cry, but he really didn't dare to leave by himself, so he kept standing at the corner urging us.

I was engrossed in my thoughts, but I was taken aback by him, and I turned around and said, "Don't make noise!"

Hawkeye's eyes widened, he pointed at me with his right index finger, and said tremblingly: "You you you..."

"Shouldn't I just yell at you? As for the big reaction, that's fine, the footsteps must have a purpose for us to come in, and we will leave as soon as we finish our research." I smiled faintly.

Hawkeye suddenly roared, "It's alive!"

"What?" I didn't react for a while, and at this moment I felt my neck tighten, as if I was being strangled by something.

I lowered my head with difficulty, only to see a pair of skinny and shriveled hands resting on my neck, getting tighter and tighter.

clap la la...

The sound of intertwined iron chains followed, and Lao Yan, who was standing beside him, reacted quickly. He came up and smashed the hand holding my neck with a gun butt, and shouted at the stunned crowd: "Hurry up and run?"

Company Commander Chen wiped off his sweat, pulled Poisonous Snake and Hawkeye around and rushed out. Lao Yan and I fired guns to force the mummy back, while retreating slowly.

Company Commander Chen and the others ran a few steps, turned around to see that we were still almost in place, and told us to hurry up.

I waved my hand: "You just go, this thing is not slow, let's suppress it for a while, hurry up!"

Before I finished speaking, a mummy rushed to my side, grabbed my arm with a claw, and set off a bloodstain.

I became anxious for a moment, smashed its head into a hole with the butt of the gun, and then slammed it hard on the second mummy that rushed over, turned around and shouted: "I didn't see that Lao Yan and I were fighting for time, don't delay."

Only then did Company Commander Chen realize the urgency of the situation, and stomped his feet to run back and forth.

"What are these things?"

I changed the magazine, and saw the mummies breaking free from the iron chain one by one, and crawling mechanically towards us, I couldn't help but feel dazed.

Lao Yan leaned on my back and changed the bullets while quickly replying, these are sacrifices for the tomb owner.

Although he didn't know what kind of ancient country it was, many small countries among the 36 countries in the Western Regions had the custom of burial.

It's just that their burials are different from those in the Central Plains. The Central Plains are mostly to show authority, while the Western Regions are to create evil spirits.

They believe that using living sacrifices can arouse resentment to the greatest extent, and the concentration of these resentments on the tomb owner will create powerful evil spirits.

"You're right, kid. This tomb was built to create evil spirits. If I'm right, there's at least one thousand-year-old rice dumpling here. This time it's a gunshot wound." Lao Yan peeked out from behind me. I got out of the head and shot a mummy that was about to approach me.

I cooperated with him and raised my hand to sweep out a bunch of bullets, and then I realized what he just said: "You said these mummies are living sacrifices? And that big zongzi, is that kid just now?"

"That's right, according to my guess, these people should have their hearts dug out and hung on iron chains, but because of an ancient secret method, they didn't die immediately, but died slowly after all the blood in their bodies drained. , and was finally air-dried." Lao Yan took a breath, but didn't answer my kid's question.

I wanted to ask again, but he interrupted me impatiently: "When is this, why do you have so many questions, survival is the most important thing, even though they are afraid of bullets, how much do you have in stock?"

I touched my waist, and it was enough for a few shuttles, not enough to eliminate the odds and ends of these mummies.

"They should have almost run away, let's go!" Lao Yan beckoned, and we both opened fire to the maximum at the same time, forcing back the mummy in the front row, turned around and ran out.

The mummies rushed up, the scene was extremely spectacular!
Fortunately, the passageway is not wide enough. Although there are many mummified corpses, only three or four can be approached each time. Old Yan and I occasionally fired a few shots to knock them down for a certain distance.

They turned the corner and ran for ten meters, only to see Company Commander Chen and the others.

"Are you having a picnic here, why don't you run away? You're going to be a mummy's meal soon." Lao Yan roared anxiously.

Chen Lianchang turned pale and said that the stone gate could not be opened.

It was only then that I realized that the stone door that had just been pried open had returned to its original state, and Viper and Hawkeye were prying fiercely with crowbars.

The crowbar was deformed, but Shimen didn't move at all.

whee!

Familiar laughter came from the other side of the Shimen, it was obvious that the Shimen couldn't be pried open because of this thing.

Hawkeye, who was prying the door, trembled, put down the crowbar and hid beside Lao Yan and me.

"Nothing!" Company Commander Chen glared at him, picked up the crowbar to help the poisonous snake, but I noticed that his hands were shaking a little too.

Hawkeye pulled my arm back: "Don't, don't open the stone door, that thing is behind."

No one paid any attention to him, there were groups of mummies behind, and imps on the other side of the stone gate, anyone knew which way to choose.

There is still a chance of winning against the kid, but if surrounded by mummies, he will definitely be torn to pieces.

Lao Yan's face was heavy, and then he took out a handful of cinnabar from his bag and stuffed them to Company Commander Chen and Viper respectively, letting them throw it out the moment they pried open the door.

"Chang'an, go help them, Hawkeye, hold up your gun, and block the mummy with me!" Lao Yan exhaled, stuffed me with a bag of salt, and pulled Hawkeye around to set up a line of defense.

Noisy footsteps came, the mummy was already close at hand, I didn't have time to think, I took out the crowbar from the bag, squatted down and followed them to pry, grabbing a handful of salt from time to time and sprinkled it under the stone door.

"What are you doing?" Chen Lianchang asked.

(End of this chapter)