Archaeological Notes

Chapter 4 The Cave of Thousand Corpses

Just when I was burning with anxiety, I never expected that a large black coffin suddenly surfaced from the bottom of the pool.

You must know that my personal ability to act is almost zero. It was the first time I came out with this group of people to meet the world, and all matters were changed from Scar to "CEO".Now that his life and death are unknown, I can only follow Tian Rui's lead, so I immediately looked at her, waiting to make up my mind.After all, she has been traveling with Scar all these years, and her ability to respond quickly is not inferior to mine.

But who would have expected that her eyes would stare straight at the water around the raft, and as time went by, her face would become more and more ugly. When I couldn't hold back and wanted to ask her, she made a silent gesture : "Shut up! Something is coming."

At the same time, I found that the water surface around the raft was constantly oscillating with circles of ripples, and it seemed that thousands of things were coming towards our direction.This person is in a desperate situation, and the most unbearable thing is not knowing what he is about to face. For a while, my slightly relaxed nerves became tense again.

Tian Rui didn't change her face and her heart didn't beat. I admired her unyielding spirit, but the situation had deteriorated sharply. stand up.In a hurry, I used a miner's lamp to shine a light on the water a few meters in front of us, and saw a huge black shadow coming towards the raft.

"What?" I looked at Tian Rui blankly. She shook her head and said she didn't know.In just a few seconds, the huge black shadow swam around our raft, and suddenly there was a burst of subtle vibrations, as if hundreds of silkworms were eating mulberry leaves, rustling.Looking down from the cracks in the raft, I felt goosebumps all over my skin. It was actually tens of thousands of dragon lice, with shiny black carapaces, scrambling to eat the bamboo raft.

I couldn't help thinking inwardly that it was bad, if this continues, the raft will disintegrate in a short while, and then it will become meat on their chopping board.Fortunately, at this moment, Tian Rui suddenly had a plan, "If you don't want to die, hurry up and climb to the top of the coffin. I think I can handle it for a while."

I looked at the pool with lingering fear, the densely packed area almost became a sea of ​​dragon lice, which made me break out in a cold sweat.Naturally, he didn't dare to slack off, and he didn't dare to put his hand into the water, so he had to use the penny to prop it there.But the development of the matter is completely beyond my expectation. There is no room for you to breathe at all.Damn it, the time was too late, just when I was about to climb up the coffin, I was not careful enough to notice that the surface of the coffin was slippery, and I fell into the pool without paying attention.

I just felt a buzzing in my head, and my whole body was completely stunned, so exaggerated that I seemed to see the pool of water taking me into the water like a slow motion.Fortunately, being stimulated by the water, I regained consciousness all of a sudden, and a terrible scene was instantly imprinted in my mind.That's the next step. If I don't take any action, a group of dragon lice will eat me to pieces, leaving only a skeleton.

Fortunately, the miner's lamp I was holding tightly in my hand was waterproof, so that I could see a small area clearly under the water. The water under the pool was very muddy, and the visibility was extremely low. I couldn't see anything clearly at a distance of three meters. up.All I saw was that the raft above the head was scattered in all directions, and all the equipment that was originally carried on it also sank into the water, sinking straight to the bottom of the deep pool.

And the coffin on the top of the head is actually empty from this angle!There was only an empty shelf left, and the corpse inside could not be seen at all.I couldn't figure out how Dao Scar and the others got this coffin up from the bottom of the pool. I was in a daze when I suddenly felt a dark shadow flash in front of my eyes, and a sharp pain came from my crotch.

I hurriedly came back to my senses, looked around vigilantly, and couldn't help but feel a sense of shuddering. Countless dragon lice wandered around me within a few meters of the water, each of which was the size of a walnut. Waving the pincers, he came to surround me with his teeth and claws.At this moment, I couldn't hold back for a long time, and I urgently needed to go up to the water surface to take a breath, but the severe pain from my crotch made me break out in cold sweat, and I hurriedly grabbed my pants with my hands, but it felt like I caught a ball of thorns , When I pulled it out, there was a huge eyeless dragonfly, the barbs in the pincers were deeply inserted into my flesh, and the whole palm was covered in a blood-red mass.

It was inconvenient to use strength underwater, and the pain made my nose sore, and suddenly, I pressed the dragon lice directly on the battery of the miner's lamp, and immediately stopped cooking, and the white slurry was sticky.But before I was allowed to rejoice, my whole body felt like being bitten by thousands of ants. Those dragon lice crawled all over my body and bit me, the pain was so painful that I sucked Breath, immediately a sip of water will be choked into the lungs.

I don't know how many corpses are rotting in this pool. I felt stinky when I was on the raft just now, but now I don't feel so lazy and disgusted. The top priority is to get out as soon as possible.For a moment, everything was in disarray, just scratching the dragon lice on his body, and trying to float to the surface of the water as much as possible.

As soon as he poked his head out of the water, he looked around and found that Tian Rui had disappeared. While he was confused, he suddenly felt something moving under the water.A 90-degree turn, and the head fell into the water again. I was surprised to find that Tian Rui had also entered the pool at some point, holding a short dagger in his hand, and was watching the surrounding water. The surrounding "dragon lice wall".

I wondered, and I thought, what if you give it a go or something?With so many dragon lice, can you handle it by yourself?Even if you have a short knife, water is no better than land, you can't stab it at all.Doubts abounded in her heart, but she saw that she rolled up the sleeve of her left hand, stretched out her bright wrist, and made a small cut in it.Immediately, a trace of blood mist scattered leisurely like ink dripping into clear water.

When she came out like this, I was really scared. If it's not good, there's no need to cut the pulse, right?However, what happened next was something I could never have imagined in my dreams, almost at the same time that her blood was seeping out.The densely packed dragon lice first froze as if they had been electrocuted, and then, as if seeing their nemesis, they immediately scattered and fled, scrambling to stay away from Tian Rui as much as possible, and disappeared within a moment.

I was deeply shocked by her move. I was so shocked that I couldn't even feel the pain on my body. I sighed that there were pesticides flowing in her blood vessels?That works?When I didn't react for a long time, Tian Rui turned around and swam over and made a gesture. It took me a long time to figure out that she wanted me to go down to the bottom of the pool.

Returning to the surface of the water and taking a deep breath, I dived into the water again. A piece of rope was floating in the water, which was the one tied around Scar's waist.The further I dived along the rope, the greater the water pressure, which almost made me lose my breath.Occasionally, a rotten flocculent thing floated in the water, and I didn't know what it was. Without diving glasses, everything in the water was blurry.

After going down for more than ten meters, I suddenly saw a person crawling on a stone wall.Judging by its size, and the rope tied around its waist, it looks like a scar.

I quickly swam over, but I saw Dao Scar lying motionless on the rock wall, with his head sticking out of a big rock crevice, not knowing what he was doing.I secretly became suspicious, but without thinking too much, I sneaked over and patted Scar on the shoulder, and immediately the man's stiff body turned around tragically from the stone wall.

That man was not Scar at all, but a headless male corpse! !

The strange thing is that the corpse's head seemed to be bitten off by some monster, and the head floated to nowhere. I looked deep into the crack of the cliff, and my heart jumped suddenly. I couldn't believe my eyes.

The corpse's clothes were rotten and shapeless, and I could vaguely recognize that they were decorations from the Western Zhou Dynasty.What is creepy is that there is something like a tortoise shell growing on the back of this ancient corpse. It is gray and looks like a huge group of blood scabs, which bulges high up. Only then did I realize It turned out that the corpse was not scarred.I was caught off guard, and was frightened by the sudden attack just now. I choked my lungs again with a sip of water, and I didn't come back in one breath. I almost passed out.At this time, a mist of blood rose from the cavity of the corpse, and the surroundings were instantly blurred.I was at a loss, my ankle seemed to be grabbed by someone, and my whole body sank.

I was horrified, completely confused, suddenly something was stuffed into my mouth, I opened my mouth to inhale, and a puff of slightly turbid air was poured into my lungs.When I opened my eyes, I saw the monk was close at hand, and the one who saved my life just now was the cowhide jug he wore with him to hold wine.

Only then did I find out that the current situation of the monk is not optimistic. A big hole was scratched out of the abdomen, and the blood was protruding. It may have been attacked by dragon lice in the pool.I saw him opening his mouth wide, as if talking, and gesticulating anxiously.

It took him a long time to figure it out, he wanted to say: "Brother Scar asked you to go down to help, there is something under the pool."

I had no choice but to continue diving. The monk's water bottle was of great use at this moment, otherwise my lungs would have exploded. Even though there is not much oxygen left in the bottle, it is better than no inhalation.Besides, when you are half-suffocated, you will be ecstatic even if you are given a mouthful of carbon dioxide.

I took a miner's lamp to shine towards the bottom of the pool, and gradually the situation below gradually became clear, it was a relatively flat place.Skulls, corpses, and pottery and tin cans were scattered all over the ground.I even saw two bronze tripods with hanging scales, with inscriptions engraved all over them, piled up randomly in the corner like that.

And in the middle of the bottom of the pool, there is a stone platform, which is actually carved from white marble. On it, there seems to be a person squatting, holding something in his arms, with his head buried in it as if he is eating something.

I didn't know why, so I hurriedly dived to the top of the stone platform, and when I got closer, I realized that the man was actually a knife scar, and in my arms, there was a turtle shell corpse!

Only then did I see clearly that there was a "giant turtle" the size of a millstone in Scar's arms!The turtle was really astonishingly big, with a head like a vat, claws like hooks, and long golden manes all over its body.But after a closer look, it was found that it seemed to be a human corpse, but at the position of its chest, such a pair of tortoise shells grew abruptly, which was indescribably strange.Scar saw the right time, raised the knife and dropped it, before the giant turtle could shrink back, the turtle's head was cut off abruptly.After a while, even though I was in the water, I also heard a baby-like cry, which was heart-piercing and tragic.Immediately afterwards, a small person the size of a walnut struggled out from the blood cavity of the giant turtle, like a ball of jade fat, the whole body was white.It has long facial features, a back with a turtle shell, and hands like turtle claws. It is really pleasing to see that it is fat and white, and it crawls out while crying.

Dao Scar couldn't help being overjoyed, his eyes were shining brightly, he pulled the little man out, raised his neck and swallowed the thing into his stomach.

All of this, I can see it all, if it is not in the water, I must have vomited.Everything happens for a reason, without such nonsense, wouldn't Scar be crazy?I looked at the monk, and the expression on his face was also strange, with an indescribable meaning, which was the kind of joy and a little bit of sadness.

Scar wiped his mouth, threw the turtle shell corpse away, and gave me a gloomy look on his face, showing no extraneous expression.He got up and swam away, and the stone platform was completely revealed, and immediately I saw something embedded in it that made me feel unbelievable.

A huge black shadow appeared in the middle of the white marble platform, as if it had such a shape, it was a strange eye.

Seeing this scene, I felt a little out of breath again, so I quickly took a sip from the monk's water bottle to calm down my wild jumping emotions.

Tian Rui had also swam down from above at this time, and Miaoman's figure was very beautiful. She pushed the water to the edge of the stone platform, and gave Dao Scar a color, Dao Scar nodded in agreement, and gestured to the monk.

Our equipment was scattered all around, the monk swam over to open it, and nervously took out a detonator, and if the scar didn't hit a single place, it would give him a bang.Then he took out a climbing pick from his bag, swam up to me, waved to me, and signaled me to turn around.

I was a little reluctant, but the monk turned his back to face the stone platform when he saw this, so he had to do as he was told.I thought to myself, could it be that the underworld is connected to the underworld, and there are ghosts coming out to seduce the soul?I looked at the monk next to me, and found that he had closed his eyes. What was he thinking, so nervous?
"Choke!" There was a muffled knocking sound from behind, and my heart tightened all of a sudden. Because I was in the water, the sound was unreal, as if it was a world away.

The knife scar and Tian Rui on the back seem to be beating something repeatedly, so mysterious that it makes my intestines itch.I am like this, I just like to get to the bottom of things, and get to the bottom of it. Once I enter this cave of thousands of corpses, there are enough question marks in my head.So I couldn't help but want to turn my head to have a look, and see what the hell appeared in the middle of the stone platform.

I didn't know that it didn't matter if I looked back, and I immediately regretted it.

I was surprised to find that in the middle of the white marble platform behind me, a strange giant eye suddenly opened!Scary red, staring at me.Dao Scar and Tian Rui next to me were bloodstained, staring at me with pale pupils, with a look of resentment on their faces.

It was at this time that everything around suddenly vibrated, and after a rumbling sound, the earthen pots on the ground, skulls, and everything else spun, and after a while, I didn't know anything.

(End of this chapter)