Volume 1 Chapter 6: Blood Corpse
The breathing sound in the darkness did not belong to the second brother, nor did it belong to Master Cao and Dawu.
If it was one of them, someone would have responded to me just now when I called out to my second brother.
However, there were only a group of us in the tomb. If it wasn’t the breathing of the second brother and the others, then who was he?
Or rather, it!?
I quickly stepped back, and suddenly I bumped into a hard object, and it was very sharp, which made my back hurt. I touched it with my hand, and it seemed to be the edge of something. I followed it up and found that there was a bulge.
A piece of it.
This looks like a coffin?
But wasn’t I in the tomb passage? How could an extra coffin appear out of thin air?
Combined with the sound of breathing just now, this coffin just makes me feel creepy. Could it be that the lid of the coffin is open and the sound of breathing is coming from the coffin?
As soon as this idea came to my mind, I was so frightened that I jumped up suddenly and walked away from the coffin.
In fact, I don’t know whether this is a coffin or not. I just concluded based on my touch and impression that this should be a coffin.
I was thinking wildly in this darkness. The more fearful a person is, the more he will involuntarily think of scary things. Once these things come into his mind, he can't get rid of them.
At this moment, the sound of breathing was getting closer and closer to me, and I thought to myself, holy shit, this fucking thing is really alive!
I was so frightened that I quickly turned around and ran away, but I had no sense of direction at all in the dark. I ran very uncoordinated, and within a few steps I suddenly hit the wall. The collision knocked me out of my skin, and my whole face was twisted in pain.
Already.
I was breathing in the air-conditioning, and then the taste of iron came from my mouth. I knew it was a nosebleed.
When I saw the blood, I started to panic again, and the breathing suddenly became rapid and moved towards me faster.
The more frightened I became, the angrier I became. I was so frightened that I yelled "Your uncle" in the direction of the breathing sound, and then ran away, running as fast as I could.
After running a few steps, he suddenly seemed to be kicked by someone and flew straight behind him. The place where his chest was kicked felt like it was almost dented.
My throat was so sweet that I coughed up blood. I suddenly felt desperate. There was someone behind me who didn't know what it was, and there was someone in front of me who wanted to kick me to death.
Of course, the person in front of me is not necessarily a human being.
Then, before I could stand up, I heard the familiar sound of grinding teeth again. The thing in front of me was not a human at all, but a fucking tomb beast!
"Don't make any noise, grab my clothes and run!"
In the darkness, someone suddenly spoke, and then something was suddenly stuffed into my hand. According to the feel, it should be cloth.
Before I could figure out who was speaking, the person had already started running backwards. I didn't have time to react to the severe pain in my body, so I grabbed the cloth in my hand and ran behind me.
Compared to the unknown breathing sound after getting up, it must be the grave beast that can kill me more.
This person and I ran for nearly ten minutes, and the sound of the tomb beast chasing us gradually disappeared.
After running vigorously, I stopped and kept coughing. My throat couldn't help but feel sweet. The blow to the chest from the Tomb Beast just now almost killed me. Now I keep coughing up blood, which is probably due to internal injuries.
I coughed for a long time before I recovered, and said to the invisible person next to me: "Who are you?"
"White sand."
I was very shocked when I heard this name. He and Dawu were the only ones to survive at the hands of the Tomb Suppressor, and he was also the Mojin Colonel Dawu invited from Taoist.
I thought he was in bad luck after being separated from Dawu, but I didn't expect that he is still alive now!
Come to think of it, it is impossible for a gold-touching captain not to have some skills. As my grandfather said, as a native master, going to the tomb is like returning home.
I'm afraid my father has never seen a live tomb-slaying beast in all his years of being a peasant.
I quickly asked: "Are you not dead? Where are we now?"
"I don't know. I lost my flashlight when I was escaping, and Leng Yanhuo also lost it when I went to rescue you... But it's okay, now there is light that will attract the tomb beast."
Baisha actually knew that that ghost thing was a tomb-suppressing beast. If Master Cao hadn't explained it to my second brother, no one would have known that that thing was a tomb-suppressing beast. Unexpectedly, Baisha also knew.
But I immediately had a question. We were also in the dark and couldn't see anything. Why was it that the white sand seemed to be no different from usual, but it could be distinguished in the dark.
Otherwise, how could he know exactly where I was and accurately put his clothes into my hands?
I raised my question to Baisha. After a while of silence, Baisha said something that made me almost vomit blood.
"After I lost my flashlight, I lit up the cold fireworks in the tomb. As soon as I got here, I met the Tomb Suppressor, so I threw away the cold fireworks and ran away. You seemed to have heard me, and you kept shouting...
..The tomb-slaying beast was chasing after me, and I couldn't make a sound. Who knew you suddenly said, 'Your uncle,' and the tomb-slaying beast followed your voice and came over."
My head is covered with black lines. Damn it, it turns out that the sound of breathing in the darkness is like white sand.
This scared me so much that I kept thinking wildly and even bumped into the tomb wall.
Thinking of this, I felt a little embarrassed. Baisha must have thought I was a fool just now.
At this time, I suddenly realized that Bai Sha was Colonel Mo Jin, and he must be very aware of what happened under the tomb. He might also know why the second brother and the others suddenly disappeared.
I told Bai Sha what I had encountered along the way. Bai Sha didn't seem to be surprised. After listening, he just asked curiously: "You said that when you walked back along the tomb path, you closed your eyes."
Leaving?"
"yes."
Baisha nodded, and then fell into silence again in the darkness, as if he was thinking about something. But I couldn't stand the darkness, so I continued: "What should we do now, go find my second brother and the others?"
"It's very dangerous to search blindly. We don't have any lighting. There's no difference between searching in a tomb and seeking death. If you're not careful, you'll run into a trap."
"Then you mean to find lighting first?"
Baisha just heard a soft hum, and then he suddenly took out a lighter from nowhere, and it lit up briefly in the darkness for a few seconds, and then went out again.
I was surprised and said: "You don't want to use this lighter to find the flashlight and the cold fireworks you threw away, do you?"
"What if? Do you have a better way?"
I was immediately speechless. There really was no better way at the moment. Without lighting, if we just ran around in the tomb like this, we might not be able to get out in the next life.
Baisha gave me another lighter. I was surprised that he had so many lighters with him.
Baisha told me very calmly that he saw the tomb passage where we had blasted the armored corpses before, and he took away usable supplies from those dead guys.
For an unknown amount of time, Bai Sha and I used lighters to search for the flashlight he had lost on the ground bit by bit.
Because there was no watch, there was no way to know how long we had been looking for the flashlight. I was a little dizzy and very hungry.
I asked Baisha how long it had been since we had been fighting, and it took a long time for Baisha to reply: "Two days, it should be the second night now."
I was stunned. I always thought that we had only been fighting for less than a day, but I didn’t expect that so long had passed. This meant that I had not rested for nearly two days!
I didn't know the time before, and I didn't feel tired. After hearing what Bai Sha said, and having the concept of time, I suddenly felt tired, and a wave of sleepiness came over me.
"How about we take a break, I'm sleepy."
"I've slept before. If you're sleepy, go to sleep first. I'll keep looking... I can't find the flashlight. I'll never go out again in this life."
I found a flat place to lie down and fell asleep within a few minutes.
I had a dream. I dreamed about my grandfather and my father, telling me to get out of the tomb quickly. This tomb is an evil tomb. If I don’t leave, it will be too late.
In the dream, I asked them how to get out, but they kept repeating that it would be too late if they didn't leave.
Until I suddenly woke up, it was still dark in front of me, but there was no longer the light from the lighter that flickered on from time to time.
I called out to Baisha, but no one responded to me. I was still a little sleepy and suddenly woke up.
"Damn it, wouldn't that guy Baisha leave me behind?"
I stood up in a hurry. My chest hurt so much that I almost fainted. I coughed up a few more mouthfuls of blood. I began to worry that I would be hit directly on the chest by the blow from the Tomb Beast. It must be because I kept coughing up blood like this.
Suffered internal injuries.
Thinking of this, I became even more eager to find Baisha.
Fortunately, I shouted a few more times, and the response from Baisha came from about twenty meters to my left.
I hurriedly walked over and asked Baisha if he had found the flashlight. Baisha hummed, and then said, "I found it, but it's broken. Maybe the tomb beast came here before and crushed it."
I feel desperate. The only light source I can find is broken now. Is it possible that we have to stay in this endless darkness forever until we starve to death?
"Forget it, now I can only go to find your second brother and the others in the dark. It seems like something has been released from the tomb... If you smell it, do you find there is a smell in the air that you didn't have before you went to bed?"
I sniffed hard and found that there was a faint sour smell in the air, with a hint of blood in it.
I don't know why this smells like this. What does this smell mean?
"You have never been to a tomb, so naturally you have never smelled this smell, and you don't know what it is... In fact, many experienced local masters have not smelled it, because people who have smelled this smell will basically not be alive.
Get out of the tomb."
I was startled and asked him what he meant. Baisha just said two words softly.
"Blood corpse."
The so-called blood corpse is the product of corpse transformation, but it is different. The ordinary corpse after transformation is called Zongzi by the local masters, while the blood corpse is a more sinister Zongzi.
According to my father, if you are touched by a bloody corpse, your whole body will begin to rot.
Chapter completed!