Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 812 Barritu Torture

I was thinking about something in my mind, and when he interrupted me like this, I suddenly felt my mind was muddled, so I gave him a look and told him not to talk nonsense.

Yazai shrugged, and with just a few casual strokes with the diamond pen knife, a small circular hole appeared in front of my eyes.

"Sister Qiu, give me the jug." I shouted to the back without looking back.

Miss Qiu said dissatisfiedly as she handed it to me: "You haven't returned the wine you borrowed from me last time."

"I'll give it back to you this time!" I smiled.

I still didn't look back, took the wine and sprinkled it around the hole, then held the throwing knife in my hand, and told the others to back off.

Lao Yan took a look at me and told me not to mess around.

But there was no time, and the first snake had already come out of the hole with a mouthful. I spotted it seven inches away, and the throwing knife flew directly over it.

Unbiased, snake blood splashed around the coffin, and then died.

This snake is a scourge here after all, and we will still shuttle in this tomb in the future. If we encounter it again, it must be a very difficult matter, so we might as well solve it now.

Lao Yan knew what I was doing in an instant, and rushed over directly. After glancing at the snake, his face became pale immediately: "Retreat!"

what?
I turned my head to look at him, because the second snake blocked, no snake came up behind me.I was about to pick the snake away when I heard Lao Yan's terrified voice, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

Lao Yan looked at me and said bitterly: "Chang'an, are you dying?"

I'm a little innocent, but he has already blocked the entrance of the cave with some gold and silver treasures with quick eyesight and quick hands, but he still dare not touch the snake.

I looked at him puzzled, but he had already pulled us back into the passage on the side of the tomb. He didn't ask me angrily until we had run about five or six meters.
Where?
Of course I know, it was the snake pit I saw when I ran down, how could I not know?

Lao Yan breathed out: "Is the snake pit you saw about five square meters, the surroundings very smooth, and there are many types of snakes in it, but each one is highly poisonous, and they are all sleeping?"

I opened my mouth wide, why did he act as if he had seen it before...

"Baritu Poisonous Snake Pit?" Professor Xu answered suddenly, and then he leaned over and looked me up and down, asking if I had touched a snake, or been bitten by a snake underneath?

I opened my mouth nah, then shook my head, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense body softened.

He patted me on the shoulder: "Chang'an, it's better to be more cautious in the future."

"What the hell does this pit mean?" I frowned.

Lao Yan determined the name of the pit just by looking at the color of the snake, which meant that he must have known it in detail, because the first snake that came out was nothing special at all, it was just a very common five-step snake. The rankings inside are not so high.

Lao Yan hesitated to speak, and then said that this place is not very safe, and he will explain later.

"Let's talk about it." Professor Xu's thinking was the opposite of Lao Yan's. He looked at me and praised me for reacting so quickly even though I didn't know the origin of the snake pit. Otherwise, we would be in danger now.

I smiled, somewhat embarrassed, because I didn't know what the Baritu Snake Pit was, but it was determined based on the color of the snake.

Lao Yan looked at Professor Xu, and said a little irritably, "Since you want to talk, you can talk to him, but you must finish speaking within one minute. That coffin can't stop these snakes."

Professor Xu stopped playing charades, but looked at me and explained seriously: "Balitu snake pit is the name of a poisonous snake pit."

I refrained from complaining about this nonsense explanation, because I know he won't talk nonsense, it should be for a better explanation.

One minute is not long. Except for the first sentence which seems redundant, Professor Xu's other words are very concise.

It turns out that the Balitu snake pit is actually a kind of torture!
Those who are familiar with history know that Daji, the beloved concubine of King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty, set up a torture method called "the pot". Those who insulted him were thrown into the snake pit, and they were eaten alive by ten thousand snakes to death.

Daji has a vicious mind, and there are almost no poisonous snakes in those snakes, so those who are pushed down can only be bitten to death alive. s reason.

Because there are too many tortures that she can think of, such as the famous torture of being burned.

The same is true for the Baritu Snake Pit, except that the snakes inside are all poisonous snakes collected from all over the country.

These snakes are not all in peace, they bite each other, some die, some survive, some even mate, and then give birth to mutated offspring, the poison on those offspring has no cure at all .

So once a person is thrown down, he will die of poison the moment he is bitten.

Of course, although death is instantaneous, the body of the deceased will still be chewed until only bones remain.

And before being pushed into the snake pit, they will also be arranged to watch the snake pit for a full five days.

In the past five days, the prisoner who was about to be sentenced knew what he was about to face, and the fear in his heart was getting bigger and bigger. By the time he was pushed down, his whole body was probably frightened.But it was useless, the moment he was bitten by the snakes, he would wake up instantly, and then thousands of different poisons would attack at the same time, and there was not a single victim who was not twisted when he died.

"So... the so-called scholar-bureaucrat whom Liu went to pay attention to, died of this kind of torture?" I said in a nasty voice.

There was no corpse in the coffin, so could it be that the corpse was in the snake pit in Balitu?

Professor Xu said it was very possible, and since the snake pit was not sealed, it meant that the snakes had been forced to hibernate after the 'scholar official' was pushed down.

"If my guess is right, it must be very cold inside, right?" Professor Xu looked at me.

I nodded and said that it was indeed very cold, but... there was still some hot and dry feeling.

When Professor Xu said this, I really realized it. I didn't expect that the icy cold feeling was because the snakes were hibernating.

But what about the dryness?What's going on again?

"Hot?" Professor Xu obviously didn't think of this.

I nodded and said yes, it was hot.

Although the hotness is not particularly obvious, I can really feel it.

Professor Xu looked at Lao Yan, as if he wanted to ask him if he knew what was going on?The latter seemed to be letting go, and it took a while to react, and asked me to describe what kind of dry and hot feeling it was.

"This..." I just thought it was weird to ask, what else could it be like to be hot?
But Lao Yan insisted that I speak out clearly, including the degree of hotness, and my true thoughts at the time.

I groaned, but when he mentioned this, I remembered: "At that time, I just felt upset. I didn't want to see what was in this pit, but I already wanted to go back. I don't know why I was so hot , and then I went down, and then I felt the coldness."

I did ignore the heat at the beginning, because the heat on the stairs is not obvious, but I just remembered now that I can't feel the coldness at all when I am on the stairs.

only hot...

Lao Yan touched his chin, and then had a quick conversation with Professor Xu, some of which I couldn't even understand.

"They're awake." Lao Yan looked at me strangely, and said slowly, "When you entered, the snakes had already woken up."

what?
I felt my scalp go numb for a moment, but I didn't believe it. I just thought it was ridiculous. If so many snakes had awakened, would I still be able to come up alive?

Lao Yan pointed to the blood jade on my body, and said that after all, I have the blood jade body protection, plus... and because they had just woken up at the time, they were not particularly aggressive.

Is that right?

I looked at Lao Yan, who nodded slightly, and then looked even weirder: "Let's go back to the tomb."

Back to the tomb?
I looked at Lao Yan, he was the one who led us to run just now, and now he is the one who let us go back to the tomb.

"Is there something wrong with me?" I'm not stupid, so I can naturally guess why.

(End of this chapter)