Chapter 7 6. Cry of the Corpse City

Next, we continued to walk deep into the royal city.In a few moments we were in the nave. A series of stone steps appeared in front of him, leading directly to the nave.Seeing that there was no danger, several Western mercenaries volunteered to rush across the steps first and entered the nave.Naturally, Hu Chunlai and I would not stop them, we waited for their report under the stone steps. These people went in quickly, and ran back even faster, and when they came back, they all turned pale and vomited. "Dead people, there are a lot of dead people inside!" A mercenary said with a pale face while spitting.

dead?I raised my eyebrows and walked quickly along the stone stairs. The sacrificial area is different from the front hall. It was so dark inside that even the windows were not open. Fortunately, I had a five-section flashlight made in Germany in my hand.At a glance, I froze and my face turned pale.I traveled all over the world in the early years, claiming to be a person who has seen the world, I have seen dead people no matter how horrible their death looks, but this is the first time I have seen a place with so many corpses gathered here. A deep pit was dug in the entire sacrificial hall. The pit was filled with a blood-red liquid, which sank or floated, and there were well-preserved corpses everywhere.These corpses may be men or women, old or young, their clothes have been corroded, and their faces and bodies are swollen, but judging from their expressions, they all look extremely peaceful.I roughly estimated that there were no less than two or three thousand corpses that I saw alone, and I don't know how deep this big pit is, and I don't know how many corpses are buried under it and can't be seen.

I couldn't help but exclaimed: "What kind of sacrificial custom is this? Why are there so many corpses, and they have not rotted for two thousand years?" Hu Chunlai quietly appeared beside me. He frowned and said, "I don't know what kind of sacrificial customs this is. After all, the sacrificial customs were different in different places during Qin and Han Dynasties. It has been lost. But these corpses have not decayed for thousands of years, I think it has something to do with the blood-red liquid, and, have you smelled it, there seems to be a strange sandalwood scent here."

After being reminded by Hu Chunlai, I also discovered that there is indeed a very strong sandalwood fragrance permeating the sacrificial hall.Just now I was overwhelmed by the spectacular scene of thousands of corpses piled up in one place, but I didn't notice it for a while.Looking along the scent, one can see a small raised flat ground in the center of the pool of corpses. There is a tripod on the flat ground, and green smoke can be faintly seen curling up from the tripod.I can't help wondering, what kind of spice can burn for two thousand years without extinguishing? "If the description in the manuscript is correct, it is called corpse-suppressing incense. It is said that a palm-sized piece of corpse-suppressing incense can burn for more than a hundred years. It is a pity that the raw materials are difficult to find, and special methods are needed to extract it from corpse oil. Moreover, the corpse-suppressing incense that can be extracted from one hundred corpses is less than ten grams."

It was Hoffman who solved my doubts, and standing behind him was a row of Western mercenaries holding submachine guns.Standing in front of Hoffman was Huang San, and a pistol was placed on Huang San's head, and the one holding the gun was Harper.My brows twitched, and Hu Chunlai quickly pressed my hand before raising the gun. I understood what he meant. Although both of us are good at martial arts, martial arts can't stop foreign guns. "Mr. Hoffman, if you want to lose our salary, you can find a better way. You don't have to be so tense." I said lightly. After two Western mercenaries came and searched away all the weapons on me and Hu Chunlai, Hoffman smiled and bowed and said: "I'm sorry, please forgive me, I didn't want to do it so early. But in the past few days I was always being reported that the three Chinese were gathering together again and discussing plots furtively in a dialect we didn't understand. So, I had to take a little precaution."

Hu Chunlai narrowed his eyes: "Who are you?" "Me? Am I not Richard von Hoffmann? Doctor of Archaeology, professor of Tsinghua University, and... the former colonel and section chief of the Asian Section of the German Army Intelligence Agency." In Hoffman's narrative, we finally understand the whole origin of the matter.It turned out that Hoffman was originally a German spy. Later, after Germany was defeated in World War I, he retired and became an American citizen.However, this person is often brooding about Germany's defeat, and he is extremely hostile to the United States, Britain, Russia and France.

A few years ago, by chance, Hoffman got a residual manuscript of the first king of Burma, Anuruddha, which stated that Anuruddha created all his life by the evil method of refining living people into walking corpses. The undead soldiers are the vanguards, and this is the only way to be victorious in all battles and finally unify Myanmar.Hoffman believed that Germany's defeat was not due to lack of national power, but to the depletion of soldiers. If a large number of invincible soldiers who do not feel pain and fear death are refined by this evil method, then Germany will surely be able to win the next war. prevail.As a result, Hoffman became very interested in this kind of magic.

It's a pity that after several years of searching, it can only prove that this evil method has been lost for a long time. Fortunately, it is not in vain. Finally, Hoffman spent a lot of money to pry open the mouth of a wizard. The law was first spread from the lost city.Hoffman believes that although this evil method has been lost, there should be records in the lost city, so Hoffman focused his attention on finding the lost city. Three years ago, Hoffman finally determined the approximate location of the lost city by consulting historical documents. He excitedly organized an expedition team to enter the virgin forest of Myanmar, and the result was the same as what he once told us. The expedition team Attacked by monsters, only Hoffman escaped from the jungle alone.After several unsuccessful searches, Hoffman had to look for foreign aid. It happened that Hu Chunlai and I were well-known in digging for gold, and Hoffman knew about it, so he offered a lot of money to lure us both to work for him.

Hearing this, I finally realized suddenly.Hoffman contacted his former subordinates to obtain the evil method of refining walking corpses in order to defeat Britain, France and other countries. He was unavoidably sneaky and sneaky in his actions. In our eyes, it became a malicious conspiracy.However, Hoffman and others were afraid that the plan would be known to Western powers such as Britain and France. Seeing that we were on guard against them, they mistakenly thought that we were in collusion with Britain and France, so they finally became murderous.Along the way, Hoffman deliberately provoked the golden retriever gorilla and others to find out the strength of the three of us. Then we talked in dialect, which was misunderstood by Hoffman as a conspiracy.So as soon as we entered the sacrificial area, Hoffman saw that our use value had lost, so he couldn't wait to order the three of us to be captured.

After realizing it, Hu Chunlai and I could only look at each other and smile wryly. We just wanted to get some benefits in the Lost City and entrap the foreign devils, but in the eyes of Hoffman, it became a mysterious conspiracy. Now With such a situation, how can it be possible to get over it with a few words of misunderstanding.And even if he can really explain the misunderstanding, Hoffman has already told us all the ins and outs, and he will definitely not let us leave alive. But fortunately, both Hu Chunlai and I have our trump cards and haven't used them yet. Hu Chunlai winked at me, and I sneered knowingly and asked, "Then Mr. Hoffman, what are you going to do with the three of us now?"

Hoffman seemed to shrug his shoulders regretfully, "I and the future German government must thank you for your help. Without you, I would not be able to get here. According to ancient Chinese customs, I am sure that the secret method of refining walking corpses will be engraved on the burning town. On the cauldron of corpse fragrance, I only need to decipher the words on the tripod, then I can master this secret technique. Then... your existence is useless. I'm sorry..." Hoffman was waiting for an order, when I flicked my feet vigorously, the large pile of sand flew towards the Western mercenaries.Hoffman and the others couldn't react in time, and subconsciously pulled the trigger with one hand, but involuntarily covered their eyes with the other hand.What we want is this chance, busy and Hu Chunlai used the kung fu of ground punching, and rolled in front of Harper.I pulled Huang San to the ground at once, and Hu Chunlai tapped the pipe in his hand, only to hear Harper scream, the bones of his hand had been smashed, and the Colt pistol in his hand fell to the ground. Hu Chunlai stretched out his left hand and pulled the string of the grenade around Harper's waist, and I kicked Harper's thigh with a "jump kick".After being hit so hard, Harper couldn't stand still anymore, staggered back a few steps, and fell into the crowd.White smoke came out from his waist, and everyone in Xiyang was so frightened that their livers and gallbladders were torn apart. They had no courage to save him, let alone shoot us.At the sound of the explosion, there was smoke and wailing. Hu Chunlai yelled: "Enter the apse!" Taking advantage of this great opportunity, Hu Chunlai and I each grabbed Huang San's hand and ran backwards. Western mercenaries led by Hoffman intercepted in front.Although we caused them some trouble, but with the elite of these former German Army soldiers, they can quickly react, then the only way for us to survive is to run backwards. Just now we have observed the terrain, the corpse pool is almost full of corpses next to each other, as long as we use lightness kung fu, we may not be able to step on these corpses and rush into the apse of the king city.As long as we rush into the apse house, with the terrain cover there, even if these Western mercenaries rush in, we are confident to finish them off. Hearing the sound of bullets plunging into the soil behind us, the three of us just ran with our heads buried in the apse. Hoffman and the others didn't dare to chase after them, so they just fired a round of bullets into the hall with their guns, and threw two more grenades.But at this time, the three of us have already found our own bunkers, so we can't hurt a single hair of us.Hoffman had no choice but to yell and curse loudly, and ordered people to guard the gate of the palace, and went to get the ancient tripod himself. Hu Chunlai said triumphantly to me: "How is it? At critical moments, the elders have to be reliable, right? You need to know that the things passed down by the ancestors always have some truth..." Hu Chunlai wanted to start nagging again, but I didn't like to listen, so I retorted: "Tomb robbery and gold is a very bad thing, and it's the same if you put gold and powder on your face." Hu Chunlai pointed at me with a trembling finger and said, "Good Zhang Dayong, I thought you were quite clever, so I wanted to pass on everything I've learned. Let's stop talking about this matter from now on. This blessing is your master." Huang San wailed and smoothed things over and said, "My lords, why don't you see what time it is, why are you arguing? If you want to have so much free time, your lords might as well get rid of those ghosts behind me first. " As soon as I turned around, a dry zombie face appeared in front of me. The most frightening thing was that not only was that zombie face hideous, but it also kept grinning at me and growling in low voices in protest.I screamed strangely, jumped out backwards, bumped my head against the wall, and fainted for a long time. When I regained my senses and looked carefully, I saw that the dozen or so zombies were just about to pounce, but all of them just stood still, as if something was tied under their feet.Only then did I feel relieved, and pointed at those zombies with a smile: "My good fellow, I have seen a lot of black and white evil in my travels all these years, but I have never seen such a zombie. Look, these The zombies are not tall but they are very strong, and they have long yellow hairs on their bodies, their eyes protrude and their fangs protrude fiercely, I don't know if they also looked like this when they were alive." After looking carefully, Hu Chunlai shook his head and said, "These are not humans, but baboons. And if my guess is correct, these baboons are monsters that attacked and killed elephants!" I was shocked again when I heard the words, and when I looked carefully, I found that the ten fingers of these baboon zombies were as sharp as claws, and some of the claws still had blood stains that had just solidified.You must know that no one has set foot in the lost city for nearly two thousand years. Why are there blood stains on the claws of these baboons zombies?There is no doubt that it must have been contaminated from the elephant that was dismembered last night. Hu Chunlai suddenly asked without thinking: "What time is it now?" Although I didn't understand what it meant, I still took out my pocket watch and answered, "It's a quarter past twelve." Hu Chunlai rubbed his forehead with a long smile: "I see, it really is so. It's noon now, and the yang energy is the most vigorous. However, these baboon zombies must have been cursed. Although they are much more ferocious than ordinary zombies, but You can only act when the yin is flourishing and the yang is declining." Hearing this, I started to have a headache.Although these baboon zombies are temporarily unable to move, if it is night, it will be no wonder that the three of us are not torn apart by them.Now we can only count on Hoffman and others to move away from Gu Ding early and exit the Lost City, so that we have time to escape. Huang Sanyi heard that these baboon zombies couldn't move, so he felt relieved and said with a smile: "Anyway, I will come anyway, so I can't come here for nothing, right? Don't worry about the future, why don't we look around first?" Look, it is expected that since the apse is the residence of the city lord, treasures must be indispensable." Hu Chunlai and I looked at each other and thought it was a good idea.Immediately turning on the flashlight, the three excitedly crossed the defense line of the baboon zombies and walked inward. The apse does not occupy a large area. Presumably, the city lord does not have many wives and concubines, so he did not build too many palaces.It's a pity that after two thousand years of erosion, most of the objects placed inside have rotted into mud. Even Huang San often boasted that his eyes were as bright as a torch, but he didn't find any interesting things. Huang San hated him so much, he punched the wall, and cursed uncleanly: "This city lord is too poor, and he doesn't have any interesting things in his house, which made me, San Ye Huang, go all this way for nothing. " When Huang San knocked, I immediately discovered it, and exclaimed in surprise: "Look, this city lord is really good at enjoying himself, these walls seem to be made of gold." Huang Sanxi was overjoyed, looked carefully and said, "That's right, these walls are indeed made of gold. Damn, even the Forbidden City is not so luxurious. Not only are the walls made of gold, but there are also murals on the walls." I followed Huang San's point of view, and I saw that there were various patterns engraved on the wall. There were scenes of soldiers fighting with spears, and portraits of farmers planting seedlings and farming. The only thing in common was that these patterns were all beautifully depicted. Incomparable. Huang San took a closer look and said, "My good fellow, this city must have been established by the Chu people who came here in exile. Look at the people in these portraits, both male and female, with long robes and long sleeves. Typical ancient Chu costumes." Hu Chunlai has been looking at the murals carefully, and said slowly for a long time: "Look here, these murals seem to record the origin of this lost city..." More than 2,000 years ago, Qin Shihuang led an army to sweep across the six countries, among which Chu was the most heavily resisted, and in a rage, Qin Shihuang ordered the massacre of the city.The surviving nobles of the Chu State swore to the sky: Although there are three families in Chu, Chu will die if Qin dies.At that time, witchcraft was prevalent in the state of Chu. A sorcerer named Xian led a group of soldiers and civilians of the state of Chu to flee for thousands of miles, and finally sailed to the sea.Under the leadership of the wizard, the survivors defeated the local aborigines in Myanmar and drove them to establish this lost city. These exiles never forgot their hatred of subjugation, but at that time, Qin State was in its prime, and the prestige of Qin State's iron cavalry was well known in the world. With their few troops, how could they compete with Qin State for supremacy? It took Wu Xian more than ten years, hard thinking and meditation, combined with the technique of lowering the head spread in Burma, and finally created the technique of refining the living into an invulnerable evil corpse.In order to avenge their country, the exiles were not afraid of death, regardless of age, everyone died generously. In just a few years, Wu Xian put together an army of walking corpses of up to ten thousand people. But just when he was about to lead the army of walking corpses to restore the country, news suddenly came that the Qin State had been destroyed and the Han Dynasty had been established.Seeing that the decades of hard work were all in vain, Wu Xian was both happy and sad. He was happy that the Qin State was finally destroyed, and sad that many exiles died in vain, but they could not destroy Qin State with their own hands. The Qin State was destroyed, and Wu Xian's lofty ambitions were also wiped out.He didn't want to destroy the corpses of the survivors of the Chu Kingdom, but he was afraid that these corpses would harm the common people after his death, so he built a corpse pond and used the corpse-suppressing tripod and incense to suppress the corpses, and changed the feng shui of the king's city to suppress the corpses, and then put other residents in the city. Evicted all.Maybe he was still not at ease later, and captured baboons to make vicious zombies, and carved a spell on the baboons so that they could move freely at night.In order to prevent the baboons from escaping from the city, Wuxian also set up formations around the city with banyan trees and broad-leaved vines to delineate the range of action of the baboons. Seeing this, I couldn't help but marvel: "This Wu Xian is really an outstanding person, and the layout is intertwined with each other, and it is really incomparably precise." Huang San smiled and said, "We're not archaeologists, so what do we care about so much? Let me tell you, it's more important to quickly find tools to pry the gold off." After speaking, Huang San turned back to those baboon zombies He scolded: "What are you yelling about? Some kind came and bit me, it made me almost deaf from the noise." Hu Chunlai shook his body, and his complexion turned white: "Dayong, do you know what day it is today?" I replied, "Today is the fourteenth day of the fourth lunar month, and the ninth day of the fifth month in the Western calendar. What are you asking?" Hu Chunlai slapped his thigh hard, and repeatedly complained: "Ah! I just said why these zombie baboons are getting louder and louder. According to the calculations, today is the moment of the solar eclipse at noon and the end of the day. The yang energy between heaven and earth is declining. It's cloudy, and it looks like the baboons won't be around for long before they can move." When Huang San and I heard the words, our faces changed color.Seeing that the baboon zombies were able to move their hands and feet little by little, although their mannerisms were still sluggish, they had gradually regained their ability to move.Suddenly I thought of another thing, and I couldn't help blurting out: "It's hard! It's hard!" Huang San and Hu Chunlai hurriedly asked what was going on, and I said, "Since the ancient tripod was used to suppress corpses, if Hoffman moved it..." Thinking of the scene where tens of thousands of walking corpses were resurrected together, Huang San's hands and feet were so weak that he almost knelt down on the ground.He asked in a crying voice: "Then what should we do? Could it be that the three of us are going to confess here today?" Hu Chunlai gritted his teeth and said, "No way! Although those foreign devils are not good people, we must remind them not to move the corpse suppressing cauldron anyway, otherwise all the big guys will be stuck here together." Just do it.The three of us immediately ran to the nave, hoping to prevent Hoffman from moving the tripod at this critical moment.Fortunately, the baboon zombies were still immobile. We quickly passed by them, and the baboon zombies roared angrily, but they could only watch us slip away. I don't know if we offended some kind of god, although we were hurrying, we were still one step too late. Before we could utter a word to stop, we heard a series of loud and deep roars. "Gulu kcha, guru kcha, guru kcha... ho..." The walking corpses who were lying quietly in the corpse pool opened their eyes one by one, with the expression of the dead's extreme hatred for the living on their faces, and slowly crawled out of the corpse pool one after another with grinning grinning.Oh my God, there are walking corpses and baboons later, are you still letting people live? Although those Western mercenaries were all experienced in many battles, they had never seen such a strange situation. All of them were so frightened that they couldn't move, and several of them even peed their pants.The walking corpse who climbed out of the corpse pool first jumped forward, jumped in front of a Western mercenary, and pierced his stomach with his hand.The mercenary was hit hard, but he couldn't die for a while, he rolled and howled on the ground.The rest of the walking corpses swarmed up, or bit or scratched, and cut the Western mercenary into several pieces in a short time. Seeing that the situation was not good, I rushed a few steps to the side of the frightened Hoffman, grabbed the submachine gun in his hand and pulled the trigger, and the bullets were swept out. To be honest, if it were two thousand years ago, ordinary bronze swords would not be able to pierce the hard skin of these walking corpses.But with the powerful submachine gun and special dum bullets in my hand, no walking corpse can stop me.But seeing a swarm of bullets sweeping past, the walking corpses walking in the front were all cut into two by me. When I made a move, the others also reacted, and each raised their guns and fired continuously.However, there are so many walking corpses, and they don't know what to be afraid of, so they keep rushing forward.Within a few minutes, several more people were thrown down by the walking corpses, screaming one after another. I yelled anxiously: "Quick retreat, quick retreat, I can't hold this place anymore, and there will be more powerful things coming to kill me after a while." In fact, if I didn't say anything, everyone was thinking about retreating and moving forward. After hearing me say that there are more powerful things coming to kill, they became more determined to retreat.In all fairness, the quality of the German soldiers was really good. These retired officers and soldiers knew that staying behind to block the corpses was a narrow escape, but there were still a few who voluntarily stayed there to block the walking corpses to cover the retreat of the rest. But never expected that these walking corpses seemed to be proficient in the art of war.Before taking a few steps, we were shocked to find that at some point, a group of walking corpses had sneaked around the blocking line and blocked the stone staircase between the front hall and the nave. I raised my arms and shouted: "Shoot! Go out! If we don't go out, we will die here today!" Taking advantage of those stubborn Western mercenaries screaming and rushing forward, I ran to Hu Chunlai and asked in a low voice: "What should I do? There are too many walking corpses, and we don't have enough ammunition, so we can't rush out." .” Hu Chunlai looked up and looked around and said: "Look, there is a platform more than ten feet above the ground on the southeast stone wall. Let's go there and hide." "Success!" Although these walking corpses are extremely powerful, I guess high jumping is not their strong point, so hiding there can be a temporary escape. The plan has been decided, the three of us ran two steps quickly, each using means to climb up the platform. Seeing us like this, those Westerners also reacted-there are so many walking corpses, no matter how hard they fight, they won't be able to kill them all, so let's hide first.But it was too late for them to react, and the walking corpses pouring in like a tide swallowed them one by one. Occasionally, a few persisted for a little longer, but once they finished shooting and were shot, there was no time to change the magazine. Who can resist the swarm of walking corpses? The boy Hoffman was the quickest when he saw the opportunity. When he saw us on the platform, he immediately ran over, jumping to climb up.I turned around and glanced at Hu Chunlai. Hu Chunlai sighed and said, "Saving someone's life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. Pull him if you can." "Well, count him lucky." I lay down on the platform and extended a hand of friendship to Hoffman: "Come here, I will pull you up." Hoffman was overjoyed, and quickly jumped up and pulled out my hand. I pulled hard and pulled his body halfway up.The smile on Hoffman's face hadn't froze yet, and he suddenly screamed again and again.It turned out that a walking corpse also ran over and grabbed his legs and pulled them down. Hoffman hugged the platform with his arms and shouted at me: "Help me! Help me!" Hu Chunlai and I grabbed one of his hands, and Huang San grabbed both of us by the belt, and we started a tug-of-war with the walking corpse.There was only a scream, and my hand lightened, and I fell back on the ground, barely falling off the platform.I smiled wryly, pointed at half of Hoffman's body and said, "Yes, we haven't built the seven-level pagoda." After the walking corpses wiped out all the Western mercenaries, they all gathered under the platform, wanting to jump up.Fortunately, their jumping ability is really not strong, and they won't be able to jump up for a while. Even a few of them jumped higher, and we kicked them down one by one, and they can't threaten us yet. But it won't be a problem if it goes on like this, if there are no accidents, we will have to be trapped to death on this small platform.We three cobblers discussed and discussed, but we couldn't come up with any good solution. I was so anxious that I scratched my head and frowned. Just at this most critical juncture, the mutation happened again. There was a strange cry of "嗤嗤", and the dozens of baboon zombies we saw just now rushed out from the apse.The IQ of the walking dead is low, and they cannot distinguish between the enemy and the enemy without command, and the IQ of the zombie baboons is even lower.As soon as the two sides met, it was really bastard who fell in love with Mung Bean—they met each other's eyes, and started biting each other without even saying hello.The zombie baboon was specially refined by Wu Xian to restrain the walking corpses. It was extremely powerful and agile. It tore up several walking corpses with one strike, but it couldn't stand the large number of walking corpses.After a while, two baboons were bitten into pieces, and hundreds of walking corpses were lying on the ground at the same time.Judging from this exchange ratio, it is true that there are too many ants to kill the elephant, and it will be a matter of time for the walking corpse side to win a big victory. Huang San has a fat body and a broad heart, as if he was watching a trick on the bridge, he watched it with great interest, and even shouted from time to time to cheer for both sides.I said coldly, "Huang San, what are you so happy about? No matter who wins the battle, we won't have any good fruit in the end." Huang San made a bitter face when he heard the words, "Brother, can I not know this? It's just to have some fun for myself before I die. Why are you more serious? I've thought about it. If walking corpses or baboons attack later, I plunged headfirst into the pool of corpses, drowning is better than being torn apart by walking corpses." "Pond of corpses!" Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I pointed to the pool of corpses and said, "If this pool of corpses is a pool of stagnant water, then after more than two thousand years, it would have evaporated. Jump into the pool, maybe the water in the pool is leading to the moat outside the king's city, and we can escape with our lives." Hu Chunlai spat and said, "What a bad idea, the water in this pool of corpses is as red as blood, who knows if there is any poison in it. And what if the water in this pool does not pass through the moat? If you want me to say, let's take advantage of the time Now, look around for escape mechanisms." Huang San supported my idea: "Master Hu, you see that there are bluestone walls all around, so there is no secret passage. Even if we find it, if the secret passage is too far away from us, how can we escape the walking corpses and baboons?" In the past. As the saying goes, drowning is better than being torn apart, and I also agree to walk from the corpse pool." Hu Chunlai was stunned for a while, then patted his legs and said, "Come on, I've always made plans before acting, and today I'm in this desperate situation, so let's be reckless with you." I said: "The three of us know how to swim. We will take a few deep breaths before we go into the water. After we get into the water, we will have no breath to breathe. We have to hug each other, including the half of Hoffman's body. Once it sinks to the bottom of the pool, find the water inlet." After speaking, we took a few deep breaths, hugged each other and nodded to each other, and jumped into the pool at the same time counting one, two, three.