Chapter 15 The Fourth Floor Tomb 1
When we rushed over, the archaeological team was surrounded by moths. Captain Zhao squatted on the ground with his right hand covering his face, his expression was shocked and scared.
I haven't exercised for a long time and I almost didn't rest any time along the way. As I ran, I couldn't keep up with my physical strength. Liu Sa, Erpang and Shang Qingyun's eyes were wrong, and the two of them slowed down.
Shang Qingyun suddenly accelerated, and he ran faster and faster. During the running, he pulled out a sword that was almost on the side of his legs from under the Taoist robe. I was curious where he hid the sword.
Shang Qingyun jumped, jumped onto the grass roof of the house beside the street, and saw Captain Zhao in the crowd, holding the hilt of the sword in his back hand and threw the sword out.
The sword edge was impartial and stabbed Captain Zhao's right hand with the tiger's mouth.
The human moths who were trying to attack the archaeological team suddenly stopped. Shang Qingyun took out a small cloth bag the size of a palm from his arms and threw it out in the direction of the Sansang Divine Tree.
The humans and moths turned around and flew towards the small cloth bag that was thrown out.
Everyone who left the archaeological team was gasping for breath in shock.
Captain Zhao stared at his broken palm with his eyes blanketed.
Liu Sa, I and Erpang arrived one after another. There was a senior in the team who had been working almost as long as I did. Before I came, she was responsible for coding and classification of cultural relics. This was also her first time to get to the tomb. When she encountered this terrifying encounter that could not express her mood, she was frightened to tears.
"What's this thing? What's this thing!" Several team members roared and stepped on the worm that was stabbed to death by Shang Qingyun on the ground with a sword.
"This is called worm removal. It is said that in ancient black Miao people often raised this worm removal for gu practice. There were also cases in the clay pots unearthed from Sanxingdui, but this was the first time I saw it alive." Professor Jiang, who was gray-haired, was the calmest among the group of people. He had never shown fear on his face from beginning to end. Even if he finally survived, his first reaction was to squat in front of worm removal to do research.
"How did you get here?" What I am more concerned about is whether they have encountered these things I have encountered along the way.
"We originally planned to walk through the hole in the mountain wall you mentioned, but the nearby villagers told us that they had found a tomb passage in the field. We followed there and didn't expect to meet you." A team member explained.
In other words, they did not experience the situation in the first two levels, so I breathed a sigh of relief.
"By the way! Professor, I..."
I opened my backpack and wanted to show the two notes I picked up, but Senior Liu Sa interrupted me first:
"We found it was a bit dangerous here, so it would be better for us to go back first."
Professor Jiang shook his head and walked into the nearby house alone: "It's very valuable to study here, so let's stay for a while."
"But..." Captain Zhao first expressed disagreement.
"Don't touch things randomly." Professor Jiang emphasized, "Look, there are traces of the life of our ancestors."
He used long tweezers to pick up a thread on the ground. After confirming that there was no problem, he twisted it with his hands and pulled it again and again: "It's very flexible. Other instruments here are also very pressure-resistant. You can use instruments to test it later. We will take a few back for research. If we can analyze the manufacturing process of the instrument, it will be quite inspiring to the technological development of modern people."
My monk Shang Qingyun, Liu Sa and Erpang came to another house and saw that there was no one around. I asked Shang Qingyun: "Why is Captain Zhao not like me?"
"He has not fallen into a cocoon." Shang Qingyun answered me.
I was puzzled: "What's strange about cocoon?"
Shang Qingyun pointed to the corner of the house where we were. I found that there were also some insect cocoons on the ground of this house, but these insect cocoons were old and had already shown signs of decay.
I turned over the insect cocoons piled up in one corner and found a relatively intact insect cocoon. I carefully observed the inside of the insect cocoon.
There was actually a human face inside the cocoon!
I was almost scared to throw the insect cocoon out. At the same time, I felt disgusted when I thought that there was such a human face in the insect cocoon that had bound me before, and it was close to me.
Under the abandoned insect cocoon, I found some human bones, including skulls, pelvic bones and leg bones. These bones were dismantled and broken in some places. Judging from the gap, these bones were damaged before their owners' lifetime.
In other words, this man was dismembered during his lifetime.
The skull is incomplete, and broken skull fragments are in its mouth, which means that there is a powerful tool to penetrate from the top of the head.
"It's the man from this country." Liu Sa judged, "The pelvic growth of men and women is different. This is a male skeleton. The face structure in the cocoon is also male, and the cheekbones are clear."
Combined with the previous relief, I suddenly realized why the men in the Ou Si Country suddenly disappeared, and the women turned into human-shaped silkworm pupa.
It was because the women in this country suddenly became human-eating monsters. They ate the men in the Ossi Country and then became puppets. The faces on the cocoon were the ones they had eaten.
However, the relief in the corridor obviously does not mean that.
Tracing the root of the origin, the changes in Ou Si Country were from Luo's sister, the woman who was sleeping on the stone platform of the Sansang Sacred Tree.
But now, we have only got a map with the entire underground tomb, and we have no other gains.
"Speaking of this, is there anything strange about the Sansang Divine Tree itself?" I asked Erpang.
He is the one who knows the most about the unofficial history of the Ossi country: "There are no records of what you want to say, but I have heard of something else."
"What else?"
"It means that when Tang Yao's son Danzhu visited the world on behalf of his father, he met a woman who claimed to be Sansang clan. Danzhu had a night of joy with this woman. When he woke up the next day, the woman disappeared.
Later, Danzhu led the Sanmiao to rebel against Yao, and was finally defeated and demoted to Danshui, which is now Danjiang."
"Ah~ I remembered it after saying this." Liu Sa clapped his hands, "I heard from the elderly in the family that our ancestors of Liu were Danzhu. It is said that he voluntarily went to Danshui after his defeat."
The three of them looked at me with inquiring eyes. I thought about it and expressed my thoughts: "Whether Erpang told me or the murals we had seen in reliefs before, the three mulberry trees should be very important, but in the actual story, the three mulberry trees are just ordinary big trees.
In addition, the reliefs are very different from the stories recorded in ancient books and documents, I always feel that behind the legend of the European Silk Country is to deliberately hide something."
Shang Qingyun didn't say anything, and Liu Sa, Erpang, me, and I were also in a deep thought.
Suddenly, the voice of an archaeological team member came from outside: "I found it! Come and see!"
We let go of our clueless thoughts and rushed in the direction of the sound.
In a corner of a house, silk on the ground was lifted up, and there was another cave below.
Below is a cellar with countless jars placed with covers on them.
Someone used the clip of a long pole to open the cover of one of the jars, and then shine them with a flashlight to see what was in the jar, and we all felt vomiting.
Those who have poor psychological ability can even vomit out on the spot.
The jars were not good wine, but creatures that were still squirming. Each jar was not very similar. Some were worm-relieving, some were centipedes, some were dead mice, and there were also things that were covered in blood and looked like catfish. Shang Qingyun said that was squirming.
I really can't imagine that this thing can shake the huge stone gate.
Professor Jiang came at the last time. After seeing this, he kept saying, "Cover it! Cover it quickly!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a black shadow burst out from one of the jars like lightning!
It was a worm-relieving body that was as big as a washbasin. The worm-relieving body no longer bites people's hands and directly pounced on the face of the archaeological team member holding a flashlight.
The archaeological team member wailed and shouted for help, but no one dared to approach.
Finally, with the low and dumb voice of the insect-removing insects, the archaeological team member's face was torn off alive!
Shang Qingyun waved the long sword in his hand and cut it into two halves along with the man's head and the insect.
The dead body fell to the ground, and the whole room fell into a dead silence.
A few seconds later, the dull sound of the door closing broke the damn quiet, and we were trapped in the room, with banging sounds coming from outside from time to time.
The overwhelming moths surrounded the house, with the windows filled with suction cup-like mouths and red compound eyes, and wings covered with strange spots and white hair.
Before we could wake up from the fear brought by the strangeness outside, we were even worse in the room.
The sound of impact came from time to time. As the stone slabs and silk covered on it were opened, the awakened snakes, insects, rats and ants crawled up from the cellar like springs.
I suddenly felt the tiger's mouth in my left hand itchy. When I went to see the flashlight, I found that the moving black scar at the tiger's mouth was gone!
After turning over my palm, I found that the black scar ran to my palm.
I, Shang Qingyun, Liu Sa and Erpang, were at the outermost part of the crowd, and at the innermost part were the girls of the archaeological team and Professor Jiang. We were forced to retreat to the corner of the wall on the west side. The insects did not directly face the face like before, but just forced us into a dead corner, but did not dare to get close.
Is it because of this black scar?
I tried to take a step forward. Liu Sa and Erpang were both nervous and asked me to go back, but only Shang Qingyun followed me forward.
The bugs indeed retreated.
I stretched my hands forward, and the bugs retreated, and I retreated, and the bugs advanced.
I can basically confirm that these bugs are afraid of this scar, but I don't understand why.
"Well~ It seems that you have a magic weapon for junior brother." Liu Sa said, "We can't go out anymore. Why not go into the cellar and take a look. Please be a shield for junior brother~"
Behind me, the insects were afraid of this scar and all retreated back to the jar of the cellar. I took everyone down the climbing rope to the cellar.
It turned out that these jars were just the tip of the iceberg of the cellar. In fact, below is not a cellar at all, but a corridor.
Going further forward is a downhill road. We were not sure what was ahead, so we decided to send someone down to check it out first. If there is any situation, we can take care of the people above.
Chapter completed!