Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 32
"I'll open the door, Chang'an, show off the Nine Dragons tattoo on your back, and cover it with red sand for a while." Lao Yan stuffed the red sand into my hand, and did the same thing as before .

I didn't have time to complain about him, so I quickly exposed my back and stuffed the red sand to the poisonous snake beside me.

"It's really useful." The poisonous snake muttered.

I couldn't see what was going on behind me, I could only hear footsteps, which seemed to be getting closer, and sweated profusely, "Didn't it say it was useful? Why is it still coming this way?"

The poisonous snake said that the speed has indeed slowed down, and it should just be scruples.

The monster got closer and closer, and the poisonous snake also sprinkled red sand a few times, but it could only slow down its speed, and it was about to approach us.

Fortunately, the stone gate wasn't difficult to open this time. At the moment when the monster was about to pounce, Lao Yan waved his hand, and then he and Company Commander Chen got in first.

The poisonous snake spilled the red sand and dragged me into the stone gate.

The poisonous snake and I closed the stone door vigorously, and finally blocked it outside before it pounced.

Bang bang bang!
It slammed the stone door hard, and we waited for a while with concern before we heard it leave in the opposite direction.

"Huh..." I finally felt relieved, leaning against the stone door and panting heavily.

After waiting for a while, I asked where they went just now?Why did I shout for a long time and no one responded.

Lao Yan patted me on the shoulder and said that you are lucky, just now you were affected by corpse aura, so you didn’t shout at all. We searched for you in the dark for a long time, but fortunately you made a last sentence, otherwise you would be considered as a victim. No one knows that thing is gnawed into bones.

I couldn't help feeling a little scared when I heard that, Lao Yan laughed and said, "The thing that four girls stabbed in your back, ordinary things really can't kill you!"
Only then did I realize that he was scaring me just now, and the reason why I was able to yell from behind was that the monster bit my clothes, revealing the Nine Dragon tattoo, which made it not affect me so badly.

"There is light?"

After resting for a while, I realized that the environment I was in was very different from the previous one. Unlike the dark cave before, this passage was not only spacious, but there were also oil lamps hanging on the surrounding rock walls, making the whole passage as bright as day.

The poisonous snake leaned over the oil lamp and sniffed it curiously, then wrinkled its nose and said, why does it smell so pungent?

I pulled him away and said, "Don't push everything up."

The venomous snake asked me why, I pointed to the oil lamp and said that the oil in this kind of place is probably corpse oil...

Unexpectedly, after I finished speaking, the poisonous snake's eyes lit up, saying that he has been studying all kinds of poisonous things, and he has heard the rumors of corpse oil, but he has never seen it. He did not expect to open his eyes today.

After speaking, he took out a small can of water from his bag and drank it, then carefully poured the corpse oil from the oil lamp.

We looked at his movements and didn't know what to say, but fortunately, he just poured a little and then stopped.

"Let's go." Lao Yan waved after seeing him finish drinking.

The passage is not long, only about ten meters, and at the end is a stone gate that is wider than behind us, and there are words engraved on the stone gate.Lao Yan glanced at it and said that it was indeed the characters of the ancient kingdom of Changye, but he couldn't decipher them, he could only vaguely understand the words 'forbidden, tomb'.

He took out his camera to take pictures of the entire Shimen, and then stretched out two fingers to press on the side of the Shimen. The palace appeared before my eyes...

I looked at him in surprise and asked him how he knew the mechanism of this stone gate?Lao Yan smiled and said that he had seen this kind of stone gate a lot, and usually set up layers of defenses on the outside, but it was easier to reach the last layer.

"So that's how it is." I nodded. I also saw a lot of knowledge about ancient tomb organs in the Seven Killing Volume of "Star Official Secrets", but it was too cumbersome, and I haven't fully understood half of it until now. Now I can't help but feel a little envious of Lao Yan's easy-to-use appearance.

Lao Yan patted me on the shoulder and said that you are still young.

I smiled and said nothing, followed him into the rock palace.

The reason why it is called a palace is because of the magnificent style here. In fact, its scale is not large. It is about ten feet long and wide. A single coffin is placed horizontally in the center without seeing anything else.

"Is there someone beside the coffin?"

Company Commander Chen spoke suddenly, and I followed his gaze, only to see that there were indeed several figures lying in front of the coffin.

I was about to say something, but Lao Yan's expression changed, and he ran towards the coffin. We were afraid that something might happen to him, so we quickly followed.

"them……"

Company Commander Chen couldn't continue after only two words, because the scene before our eyes was too horrible: but seeing five corpses with their heads facing the coffin, forming a big circle like flower petals, they stretched out their arms before they died. He tried to climb into the coffin, as if something terrifying was chasing after him!And their bodies were full of dense blisters, with yellow jelly-like objects inside, some of which had flowed out, emitting a foul smell.

Lao Yan squatted down, his eyes seemed a little sad, my heart moved, and I asked him if he knew these people?
"Didn't I tell you before that I sent two teams of pioneers before I came?" Lao Yan's voice was a bit bitter: "This is one of the teams. Before I entered Lop Nur, I was lucky, but..."

We didn't speak, but Lao Yan opened up the conversation on his own, and said slowly: "This team can be regarded as the elite under my command. I thought they would at least survive. Now it seems that the other team may be There are more bad luck and less good luck!"

"Not necessarily..." I opened my mouth, and only said a few words.Because I know what Lao Yan said is right, we have lost three of them along the way, if we keep going, maybe the whole army will be wiped out.

"And their team consists of six people." Lao Yan said suddenly: "Did you just say that the monster outside the door is a half-rotten person?"

I froze on the spot, and said in disbelief, "You don't mean, can't it be that the monster just now is, is it one of them?"

Lao Yan glanced at me with a sad expression, but he obviously acquiesced to my words.

I swallowed, the passage was very dark just now, so I didn't see it clearly, I only knew that the monster was in the shape of a human, and I thought it was a rice dumpling, but I didn't expect...

"Everyone in our line of business has a destiny after all." Lao Yan said expressionlessly, but anyone could see that his heart was very heavy.

We couldn't think of any words to comfort Lao Yan, but fortunately he recovered very quickly.

He took out three cigarettes from his pocket and lit them, sticking them in the crevices of the rocks in the ground, as if paying homage: "Today, we will replace incense with cigarettes, and I will send all my good brothers for a ride!"

After speaking, he breathed out, took out his gloves and put them on: "Go and study first, I'll see if there are any clues left on them."

"Be careful." Company Commander Chen said worriedly, after all, the monsters we encountered before were also transformed by these people.

Lao Yan smiled wryly and said it's okay, he didn't know why that person before became like this, but the five corpses in front of him should be dead and can't die anymore, there won't be any abnormal changes.

With his words, we felt a little relieved, so we wandered around. After walking around, we found that there was really nothing here except the coffin, so we turned back.

The five corpses on the ground became even more disgusting. Lao Yan would inevitably encounter blisters on their bodies during the search, and the yellow liquid flowed all over the ground, making a sizzling sound...

"This thing is actually poisonous?" Enduring my nausea, I squatted down and studied it carefully, but I didn't know what it was.The poisonous snake looked at it strangely and said that it was very similar to a venom he had seen before, but the venom was caused by an insect, and there were obviously no insects in this cave.

"Let's take a look first." Lao Yan interrupted our discussion, holding up a black notebook with a waterproof bag in his hand and said.

We approached, and Lao Yan opened the book, only to see the words 'Travel to Lop Nur' written on the first page, presumably for recording.

Lao Yan explained that they would bring such a notebook with them every time they went on a mission, and write down some important things along the way. Leave a little valuable information.

The first few pages of the book did not record anything of value. It seemed that they were very peaceful when they first entered Lop Nur, but things got worse as they went on...

(End of this chapter)