Chapter 53 The distance from the beast

Flames were still spraying out in the cave, and the temperature of the originally cold and damp tomb passage suddenly began to rise, becoming damp and stuffy. Every drop of water vapor in the air began to become warm, making it difficult to breathe.

It's getting harder.

I know it's because the oxygen is decreasing.

This tomb is just for suppressing demons. It doesn't bother to pay attention to the preservation of the corpse. The sealing is not good and does not affect breathing. But after all, it is underground dozens of meters away from the ground. The air circulation speed is not fast. Under such a violent burning

, this point is obviously insufficient in oxygen.

Before long, all the oxygen here will be consumed!

"Let's go! Leave this place first and wait until the fire goes out!"

I wiped my face vigorously, but due to the high temperature, a layer of greasy stuff adhered to my skin. It wasn't sweat at all, I thought it was simply human oil.

"Burn! Burn well!"

Brother Yaozi stood up with the help of Zhang Xinya, and said with a gritted teeth: "It's been a wild ride all the way, this fire is burning so fast, it will burn it to ashes, no matter what is in the tomb, if this fire goes down,

It’s time to get clean!”

We retreated quickly, but Lao Bai smashed the ground repeatedly in frustration, and spat out the feces in his mouth. That scene... It’s hard to understand. This is the first time in my life that I know that spitting feces from the mouth is.

It looked like this, but in the end, Lao Bai's mouth was dry and his breathing became more difficult. He was choking and coughing repeatedly. He didn't dare to grind anymore and rolled and crawled to catch up.

We retreated all the way to the organ door, which was far enough away from the tomb, and then we all stopped.

"Damn, this is all baked!"

Old Bai Mao irritably picked at the stains on his body. The stench was overwhelming. He frowned and muttered: "Didn't you say that this place has been covered in dust for thousands of years? Even if there is a cesspit in the tomb, it should have been dried long ago. How can I spray it?

Everything that comes out is just shit, so there can’t be anything alive in the tomb. After thousands of years, there has been no food or drink in there, so it should have starved to death!"

"It's impossible to say for sure. Ceremony officials always have some unthinkable tricks. Who knows what's going on in that tomb? Besides, it's not like you didn't see the water burial tomb. Didn't there be no food or drink there? You still survived?

Watery scorpion.”

Brother Yaozi teased: "If you ask me, this is purely retribution. Are you a noble person who forgets things and forgets about Old Man Dong? Back then, you drooled over his skill at pasting paper figures. It's a pity that Dong

The old man's craftsmanship is passed down from generation to generation, and it is passed down from male to female. If you want to learn from an artist, they won't accept you. As a result, you feel resentful. In the summer, when someone is in the latrine, you lean on the wall and throw away a bundle of two kicks.

Those who were bombed in the cesspit would be much worse than you are now..."

Lao Bai glanced at Brother Yao Zi with red eyes. He was very dissatisfied with Brother Yao Zi for mentioning the evil and smoking things he had done back then. However, he couldn't say a word to refute and looked at Brother Yao Zi angrily.

, buried his head and continued to pick at the dung residue on his body.

We really didn't have the energy to laugh at him anymore, so we each chose a place to lie down and rest.

The fire kept burning and getting bigger and bigger.

Only the devil knows how big the tomb is and how much methane gas accumulates in it...

In the dark tomb passage, there is no sense of time. The only criterion we can use to measure time is my changes.

From paper figures to people, and then from people to paper figures...

I remember myself changing four times!

In other words, four days passed just like that.

Hunger is like a nightmare that erodes us full of holes. I was born in New China and grew up under the red flag and lived in a peaceful and prosperous age. How have I ever experienced this in my life? I was so hungry that I felt dizzy, my limbs were weak, and in the end I couldn’t even feel myself.

My heart beat faster, and it was only then that I realized how happy I had been living before. No matter how hard it was, I could at least have a full stomach.

There was a burning smell in the air, and the fire made the tomb passage in front of it as hot as a red-hot pan. The corpses left behind by the corpse soldiers were roasted to stink. This smell would probably be smelled by any well-fed person.

I feel sick every time I go there.

I actually feel a bit fragrant for no reason...

This is the scary part. I instinctively reject this knowledge, because I feel that this thought alone is enough to turn me from a human into a beast. After all, it is a corpse, and it is the corpse of the same kind, but it is accompanied by hunger.

My sense of smell continued to erode, the burnt smell smelled more and more fragrant, and a certain idea in my mind became stronger and stronger, and I continued to resist.

It turns out that the distance between man and beast, without food or drink, is only a few days at most.

We rummaged through our backpacks and only found most of the leftover chocolate bars.

Lao Bai was the meanest guy. He said he wanted to test whether it was poisonous, so he stuffed the entire chocolate bar into his mouth at once. The thing was at least ten centimeters long, and it made him vomit.

He rummaged around in his mouth and took it out, and shamelessly said it wasn't poisonous. He asked us if we wanted any more, but if we didn't, he ate them all.

My special girl jumped up and slapped him to the side. She managed to grab a big piece. At this time, she didn’t care to dislike him anymore. She swallowed hard looking at the thing, but after a moment of hesitation, she still snatched out the little bit.

They separated, leaving only a little for themselves, and the rest was given to Brother Yaozi and Zhang Xinya.

My master had been meditating, and his face turned pale from hunger, but he was calmer and calmer than the rest of us. He just touched my head and said with a smile that he was not hungry, then squeezed my mouth open and took the remaining bit.

It was stuffed into me, and at that moment I almost cried, but I held it back.

We really couldn't hold on any longer, and together we had no choice but to go back the way we came to see if we could find the things we left behind.

Lao Bai had the most physical strength, so this job naturally fell on him.

He was gone for four or five hours. When he came back, he was dripping wet and his face was desolate, but he was carrying a large bag of things in his clothes.

He said that all the water in the pool had filled up, blocking our retreat and almost turning it into a swamp. He once tried to swim across it, but unfortunately, he was not physically strong enough. It took a lot of energy to swim in the water, and he almost lost his life.

drown...

In other words, with our current situation, we can’t even retreat!

Bang!

Lao Bai held the package in his arms fiercely and threw it on the ground. The thing instantly spread out, and inside were pieces of white and bluish hard lumps.

Isn’t this mother-in-law white plaster mud?

But these white paste muds have now been baked and dried.

"Eat this!"

Lao Bai sighed, picked a relatively clean piece and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Eatable."

Brother Yaozi looked at me and Zhang Xinya a little dumbfounded and said with a smile: "This is kaolin clay. People in the old society also called it Guanyin clay. When there was a famine, people often ate this..."

He wants to talk about Guanyin soil, but I have actually heard of it.

This stuff is okay if you eat it in small amounts, but if you eat too much it will stretch you to death. It is not nutritious, but it can relieve hunger.

However, eating dirt is more acceptable than eating rice dumplings, even though the dirt is dug out from the coffin board.

My eyes were green with hunger for a long time, so I started to think hard about what it was, grabbed it and stuffed it into my mouth, choking and rolling my eyes.

Not to mention the taste of this thing, it makes a "click-click" sound when chewed, and we haven't drank any water in the past few days. The coating on the tongue is as dry as a file. The Guanyin soil is put in the mouth and cannot be swallowed at all. It is chewed up.

As soon as I took a breath, white flour came out of my mouth...

To put it bluntly, I ate two fist-sized pieces and I really didn’t feel hungry, but my limbs were still weak and I often saw double images.

After all, we are not people of the old society, we have not grown up in suffering, and we do not have the body to withstand suffering. Guanyin soil entered the stomach, and it didn’t take long for the reaction to occur. It hurt like hell, and the belly was hard.

It's like there are rocks stuffed inside, and I can't even pull it out...

Lao Bai is more comfortable with it. After all, he has been exposed to a big and thick tube. He eats and defecates a lot. He feels very uncomfortable. His butt is a little bit damaged. I can see that the bleeding has not stopped.

Relying on these Guanyin soil, we lasted another whole day. When I turned into a human again, the fire in the tomb was finally extinguished.

"Let's go!"

Brother Yaozi struggled to stand up. After a few days, despite the harsh environment, his wounds healed and he was much better than me. He helped me up and walked forward: "Since you can't retreat, then move forward.

Well, whether we can survive depends on whether our brothers can survive it!"

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