Chapter 24 Tomb Raiders in Bailuyuan (2)
Suddenly, someone said something was pierced. He pulled out the rifle with a bayonet. It turned out to be a strange creature. At first glance, he looked like a three-year-old child, with black all over his body, red eyes, wind-catching ears like an elephant, but his arms were slender like monkeys.
Everyone was so shocked that they couldn't speak, and then they realized that the thing was a living creature, slowly squirming on the gun, but blood was not flowing out.
Xiaomu shouted: "Don't move!"
The soldier holding the rifle was so scared that his legs became weak. Just as he was about to fall, the monster had jumped off the bayonet, climbed onto his head, and bit it down. In an instant, blood flew everywhere, almost half of his head disappeared. Everyone's faces were covered with blood and brains. Looking at the monster, he was eating the soldier's brain with relish.
The battalion commander's face turned pale, but his hands were not vague. After all, he killed countless people, and he just shot his hand and exploded the monster.
But more monsters emerged from the water and were all behind them. Xiaomu shouted: "Run forward quickly!"
A few soldiers who ran slowly or who had already scared their limbs were entangled by monsters. They bit their chests and dug out the internal organs of living people. Suddenly, there was a scream in the tomb passage. The other soldiers ran forward and shot the guns behind. Even if they killed their own people, it would be better than their companions tragically died in the hands of monsters. Xiaomu saw it clearly that these water monsters loved to eat the two parts of the human body: the liver and the brain.
I don’t know how long it took to run, but I realized that the water was gone. It turned out that it was the lowest point of the tomb passage, but now the terrain has gone up again, so it naturally became dry. The battalion commander was still in shock and counted the number of survivors, and almost half of them were left, and the rest were all scattered by the water monsters.
"This is Wang Xiang!" Xiaomu looked pale and squatted on the ground to breathe. "It was the first time I saw it. It was the legend of the Tushizixing. This is a kind of water monster, which is specially lurking under the cemetery. She loves to eat the liver and brains of dead people. She will not be polite when encountering living people!"
“How can we restrain them?”
"It is said to be pine and cypress. You see, cypress trees are planted in the cemetery. This is the reason. The tomb of Qin Shihuang at the foot of Mount Li next door is also covered with pine and cypress."
"The white deer plain is full of farmland and wilderness, and there is almost no pine and cypress tree, so there is a nest of water monsters."
Xiaomu thought about it and added: "There is another thing, and it is a tomb-controlling beast."
"Tomb-suppressing beast?" The battalion commander scratched his head and filled the pistol with bullets again, "What are the stones at the gate of the grave?"
"No, that's Weng Zhong of the Shinto Monument, stone man and horse, they are just used to decorate and show their majestic style. The real tomb-suppressing beasts are only in the underground palace of the tomb. But I have never seen them-it is said that none of the tomb-robbers who have seen the tomb-suppressing beasts come out alive."
"You said—Is there any tomb-suppressing beast in this tomb?"
"It's hard to say."
Xiaomu shook his head and continued to walk into the tomb passage. After a disaster of ignorance, everyone's courage was stretched out. The road in front of him became wide and flat, and the murals became more and more dazzling.
The Vajra Wall and the Tomb Door have arrived.
A pair of deer carved on the door of the tomb.
This is something Xiaomu has never seen before. Usually, warriors, Bodhisattvas, beasts or even carvings are carved on the door of the tomb, but no one has ever carved a deer. Does it have anything to do with the white deer? The pair of deer in front of him is unique, with exaggerated antlers, almost piercing the auspicious clouds.
The battalion commander urged beside him: "Don't be too slow! Open the door quickly!"
Everyone was ready to rub their hands, and Xiaomu took out a special tool and inserted it through the gap in the tomb door. The tool was like a fork and a wire ring, which could move the stone on the top door. This was only done by a veteran tomb robber. Xiaomu had tortured for more than half an hour and was sweating profusely, which made the tomb door loose.
He carefully pushed open the door and a large stone fell on his head. Fortunately, Xiaomu was ready and dodged in time, otherwise he would be killed. A burst of black smoke rose from the underground palace, and the soldiers put on gas masks. They looked at each other like monsters.
The battalion commander joked: "Don't end up, it's not that the zombie is scaring people, but that the person wearing a gas mask scares the ghost to death."
As usual, Xiaomu walked in front and used candlelight to find out the way to confirm that the oxygen was enough. The underground palace was narrow and long, with Tang Dynasty murals on both sides. It seemed that there was a complicated plot, but it was not too late to read it carefully. He only remembered one thing that there was a woman in the emperor's clothes in the mural. She was painted in disproportionately tall, probably the Queen Wu Zetian.
There are many pottery jars in the underground palace, stuffed with decaying ancient books. The Tang Dynasty had just invented the woodblock printing technique, and it should not have been popular yet. The book volumes are hand-written scrolls. There are also many calligraphy and paintings. I wonder if there are any original works of Wang Xizhi? Most of the soldiers were ignorant of the eyes and felt that these broken papers were worthless.
Xiaomu saw a pair of stone Go, made of two colors of jade. There was also a pair of wooden chess, with all the carriages, horses and cannons, just like now. Strangely, this chessboard had a strange endgame, and it seemed that it had already reached the most critical moment, as if there were two ghosts playing chess. It happened that the battalion commander was playing chess, and he shined the board with a horse lantern and said, "Is this red side going to be killed?"
A soldier shouted, "Look at what these are?"
In another pottery jar, there are rattles, tumblers, small stoves, hexagonal windmills, small flower baskets, small fences, bells, gossip plates, bamboo snakes, masks, kites, small bamboo chairs, clappers, long-handled hammers, gyro balls...
"Hey! They are all toys from our childhood!"
The soldiers whispered: "Look at these little dolls."
It turned out to be a lot of Tang Sancai's child figurines. Xiaomu judged from this that the owner of the tomb was a child, at most a teenager.
A scream suddenly rang out, and many gunshots were heard. In an instant, bullets flew everywhere, and the little wood was so angry that he jumped into the jar and hurriedly hurriedly hurriedly into the jar and hid.
A crystal clear fireball flew out from the depths of the underground palace. From a distance, it looked like burning glass, spinning and hitting the invader, instantly igniting the whole body. The flame seemed to be extremely hot, and within two or three seconds, without the help of a bellows, it had burned the human body's flesh and blood, leaving behind clearly visible bones, which were burned into charcoal, leaving only a piece of ashes on the ground. The fireball flew up and down, as if it was accurately controlled by someone, and it rotated several times, burning the soldiers in turn, and screams one after another were all swishing by.
The battalion commander shot into the darkness without any target, turned around and fled to the gate of the underground palace, but the fireball had been penetrated by the back, and the fireball flew out from the front chest again. He took off his gas mask and found that a large hole was burned out of his chest, which was bright in front and back. What heart, lungs, and spine were all gone. The battalion commander seemed to be alive, his head was hanging upside down, and he looked back in horror, and saw a tomb-controlling beast coming from the underground palace behind him.
From a distance, it looks like a fierce dog, emitting golden light all over, and it looks like a young buffalo. Four thick legs were stepping on the bluestone floor tiles, but there was no sound, as if floating in the air. Several horse lanterns were scattered in the underground palace, gradually illuminating a pair of horns above the monster's head. It was not a simple horn, but several branches were divided like branches, more like deer antlers. An indescribable monster face was revealed underneath.
This is the last thing that the battalion commander saw in his life, and then fell to the ground and died.
Chapter completed!