Chapter 8 Chapter 8: The Mummy Warrior

Just when I closed my eyes and waited to die, I found that I had no feeling of being burned at all. I just felt the flames flickering in front of my eyes. When I opened my eyes, there was still a room full of blue flames. No, occasionally a little flame hits my face, and I can't feel the sting of high temperature. Soon, the blue fire disappeared like a hallucination, and there were only the two of us in the corridor illuminated at that moment.There was also a change on the ground, those sparkling white bones were completely burned by a big fire, only two mummified warriors didn't know if they were deformed by the fire, and they bent their bodies and leaned against the wall.

The originally crowded corridor suddenly became empty, and Lao Zhong was obviously "blinded" by the sudden fire, squatting on the ground not knowing what to look at.There was a thick layer of white powdery objects on the ground. "Damn, the snake repellent has been burnt out, and it has to be rearranged, hold on for a while!" I almost turned my nose when I heard this sentence. Just as he was arranging the snake repellent, I suddenly felt chills, as if a cold wind was blowing past my neck.I looked up, mother, I don’t know when a python with a head as big as a bucket appeared on the top, spitting out a red core, trying to suck me to its mouth.

"Old Zhong... old... Zhong..." I felt my vocal cords trembling. I had seen this thing in the zoo before, but I had never directly faced such a thick boa constrictor, and I felt the cold wind mixed with the fishy smell. scrape across my face. "It's okay, it won't come down." Lao Zhong reassured me while spreading snake repellent with his hands.But I feel that there are more uncertain elements in his words. I calmed down when I was next to the snake's mouth. When I was in elementary school, the teacher told us that snakes are almost blind and rely on vibrations to judge the position of their prey. The more they move, the more they can attract its attention.While giving myself reassurance, I held my breath and my muscles tensed up, hoping that the knowledge sold to me by my elementary school nature teacher would allow me to return to the ground alive.

Obviously, elementary school is too far away from now, and that knowledge has been devalued.I saw the big anaconda cruising towards me without hesitation.It was too close to me, it was impossible for the old Zhong to rush to save me in the first place, and the blood-red core almost licked my eyes.According to the authoritative program Animal World, the usual trick of this big snake is to entangle. As long as it entangles me, the tense body will suffocate me to death in a few seconds. The hateful old clock let me hang like this, I can't even fight.Just when I hoped that the paratrooper knife in Lao Zhong's hand could cut off the big snake's head before it finished winding, a strange phenomenon happened.The big snake suddenly stopped cruising forward, a little hesitant, and slowly, the snake's head gently lay down on the stone wall, as if it was worshiping me.When I turned around, I almost fainted.Right on my shoulder, there was a small snake coiled up. It was red and white, with two ruby-red eyes emitting a chilling gleam, and a small red-yellow horn on its snow-white head.

"Snake! Old Zhong, there is a snake!" I yelled with a changed voice, and the voice of the old Chinese doctor in the hospital seemed to ring in my ears: poisonous weeds must have antidote within ten steps, and vice versa. The detoxified spirits are generally not too far away from the poison.Then the appearance of this red-horned snake that is feared by the boa constrictor means that the golden corpse of the Warring States Period that has always existed in legends is around us. With a bang, the paratrooper knife in Lao Zhong's hand had already sunk into the big boa's head, and the big guy, almost two meters long and with thin arms, was flying fiercely with a gust of wind. It fell at my feet, and a stream of blood spurted out with a bang.The white ash brought up by the giant anaconda's struggle suddenly filled the entire tomb passage, and Lao Zhong and I both held our breath at the same time.

After a while, the white dust gradually began to settle down from the air. Because my hands were locked in the beanie ring, I couldn't put on the oxygen mask. Then I sneezed hard twice, and the moment I closed my eyes when these two sneezes sounded, I seemed to see a face appearing on the stone gate directly opposite me. When I opened my eyes again, I saw that there was still a stone gate with cloud patterns in front of me, and there was nothing unusual about it. When I was wondering, I felt the two wrists loosen, followed by the two "click, click" With a loud sound, the beast's mouth that was clasping my wrist was released, and my body, which had lost its support, suddenly softened, and sat down along the stone door.

Grandma's, too scary.I tore off the pair of gloves, twisted my sore wrists, and carefully observed the surrounding situation. Only then did I realize that the red-horned snake on my shoulder had slipped away without a sound.This sudden guest made my heart tense up. Although it accidentally saved me, there was still an inexplicable chill rising from the bottom of my heart. What was it that made me so uneasy, and my thoughts were chaotic for a while, like this stone road filled with white dust and mist, with no direction, and I couldn't see anything clearly.And the giant python hunter, Comrade Zhong Zhong, was still nervously chopping down the big white snake with the knife in his hand. I think he was also afraid of the moment just now.If it wasn't for the red-horned snake that appeared in time, then I might have become a pile of broken bones wrapped in meat.

"Old Zhong, don't chop it off." I grabbed his hand vigorously.He looked at me in amazement that I had managed to break free from the ring without help. "Didn't you find anything different?" Following the guidance of the old clock, there was a "human"-shaped groove at the place where I was tied up just now, and the animal's mouth poked by the two hands were respectively There are two smooth stone paths connecting this groove, and there are actually a group of thin honeycomb-like eyes on the two legs and feet of the groove, connecting the two dark holes on both sides of the tomb path.

It turns out that this stone gate is a human-shaped sacrificial altar. As long as I put the hands of the sacrificial offering—that is, me—into the animal’s mouth, the mechanism in the animal’s mouth will pierce my wrist. It will flow from the groove of this human figure into the thin eyes similar to water pipes on the two feet, and the dark holes connected to the thin eyes will activate something after containing a certain amount of blood. Let go, then the person hanging in the animal's mouth at this moment is already a "human being" whose blood has been drained. Fortunately, I don't know whether it was raised deliberately by the owner of the tomb or the boa constrictor that the later generations got into to become refined. Its blood flowed into the blood hole of the sacrifice, triggered the mechanism, and let me go.More importantly, the two animal mouths that were originally closed slowly opened at this time.This means that this stone gate has been opened.

Lao Zhong seemed to be a little excited, such coincidences that hit the right spot don't happen every day.After we added two chocolates, we decided to rush into the main chamber before the blood dried up. I walked two steps back to the other side of the tomb passage to pick up the backpack I had thrown away, and when I was about to greet Lao Zhong to go forward together, I suddenly remembered that something was wrong, so I quickly looked back, and sure enough, the thing was gone. Just as he was about to issue an alarm to Lao Zhong, he saw Lao Zhong staggering back a few steps, staring at the front without saying a word.

Right at the stone gate, in the white dust mist, two warriors with swords were guarding the stone gate, one on the left and one on the right. These two well-dressed warriors who fell from the sky extinguished our joy at once, and a sentence from the great father of the country suddenly appeared in my mind: "The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still have to work hard." Old Zhong and I recognized at the same time that these two guys were the warriors crouching in the tomb.Now they are standing so gloomy not far from us, moving constantly at a speed that can be seen by the naked eye. Although the speed is not fast, it really frightens us.While Lao Zhong was busy saving me, the two ghost warriors had moved silently from the huddled position in the tomb passage to the side of the stone gate and made a guard with their swords drawn. "It's so fucking evil, aren't these two mummified corpses? I want to take it back and study it as an oriental mummy!" Old Zhong clenched the military tool shovel in his hand. "Is it..." I swallowed, "Is it the Golden Corpse of the Warring States Period?" Lao Zhong is still speechless, but I can feel his tension.After all, no one has ever seen the Golden Corpse of the Warring States Period that only appeared in legends. The two sides faced each other silently like this. When the blue flames rose from the tomb, Lao Zhong and I both turned off the tactical spotlights. In the darkness, fear began to slowly spread in our hearts, a piercing feeling. The coldness crept up my body quietly.I couldn't help my teeth chattering slightly, and at this moment I still couldn't forget my mouth: "Damn it, it's so cold!" We can only keep the current posture still, and no one knows whether the next action will anger the two monsters who woke up from their deep sleep.Old Zhong seemed to have made up his mind suddenly, and suddenly turned on the tactical spotlight on his helmet, and a beam of white light immediately shrouded the two mummy warriors.When we got used to the dazzling light, we were suddenly speechless by the sight in front of us. The two egg-thick eye-catching blood grooves are particularly conspicuous in the burned tomb passage. The two mummified warriors moved slowly along the blood grooves to the stone gate.At this time, the two monsters just happened to gather in the pool of blood of the giant anaconda. What was even more frightening was that the dead flesh that was shriveled like black rubber and attached to the bones was now slowly expanding.As the muscles gradually plumped up, the originally dry skin regained its elasticity as if alive, and the originally empty eye sockets looked weird and terrifying as the surrounding flesh filled. "Damn it, it's too insidious!" Old Zhong said softly, "Now I know what is connected to the secret passage of the human-shaped sacrificial trough!" In fact, he didn't need to say, my tactical spotlight had already swept back and forth along the tomb passage.Now those bones have been burned clean by a handful of blue fire, and the overall shape of the tomb passage can be seen more clearly.The small hole in the dark channel connected to the ankle part of the human-shaped sacrificial trough at the exit stone gate is just connected to two blood troughs, and the blood trough extends along the wall of the tomb passage to the place where the two mummy warriors were originally curled up. When the time comes, the blood from the sacrificial offerings in the human-shaped sacrificial trough will flow down the blood trough to the two mummy warriors, and the sufficient blood will "moisturize" and "awaken" the two mummy warriors who have been sleeping for nearly two thousand years. After listening to my narration, Lao Zhong suddenly burst out laughing: "It turns out that the figure of Bi An at the first gate alludes to these two guys. The person who designed this tomb must be a magic stick, or an ingenious mechanism craftsman. See It’s really bad luck to come this trip, I really regret bringing you down this time and letting you take such a big risk for nothing.” Facing Lao Zhong's provocative dialogue, I am surprisingly calm at the moment.The words "mechanism craftsman" hit my thoughts like lightning, and I suddenly thought of this series of tomb passage mechanisms, which are very similar to the tomb of the warlord that Lao Zhong said before. Did we also encounter the predicament back then? As soon as I said this idea, it was rejected by Lao Zhong: "Our archaeological team entered the tomb rashly according to the narration of some old tomb robbers before liberation, and almost couldn't get out. Your grandfather relied on your ancestors' True Chuan rescued all the people in the tomb of the warlord, not to mention that you have never learned the skills of family tradition, even if your grandfather is there, it may not be able to solve the current predicament." I was silent for a while, but still He stared unwillingly at the two mummy warriors who were constantly expanding. At this time, according to the height ratio, the two guys have swelled into a big man of nearly two meters, and the muscles of various parts have begun to explode uncontrollably like blowing balloons, and the armor that has hung on their bodies for nearly two thousand years is falling off like pieces of paper Falling, as the body grows, we can see clearly that there is something slowly popping out from the eye sockets of the mummy warrior. Things, it seems that the samurai had his eyeballs gouged out and replaced with two jade stones to plug the eye sockets. "I only heard that in the past people used jade to stuff their mouths and assholes, but I never heard of people stuffing things into their eye sockets!" I was about to make fun of it, but found that Old Zhong was pointing at the warrior in front of him with a gloomy face. . Looking back hurriedly, what is even more surprising is that two balls of jade-like things protruding from the nostrils of the two guys are quietly pushing out, suddenly looking like two balls of white boogers. I felt nauseous, and only heard two "bang, bang", two balls of meat suddenly grew out of their ears, and then their mouths opened, and a milky white ball on a shriveled tongue was slowly facing outwards Turn it out. "Damn it, this is..." Before I could exclaim in surprise, Old Zhong covered my mouth and motioned for me to put on the gas mask quickly, but I was completely dumbfounded when I took out the gas mask, because , Just when I entered the tomb passage and was smashed in by the stone door, my gas mask has completely turned into Zorro's decoration, and it was split from the nose down. Old Zhong, wearing a mask, waved his hands anxiously, motioning for me to hold my breath, and covered his mouth with his hands. Before I understood what was going on, I heard a few "thump, thump", and all the seven orifices on the warrior's face were pushed out of the jade-like plugs.Dare to feel that this is a lead seal. I saw puffs of green smoke slowly flowing out of their nostrils, eye sockets, ear holes, and mouths, covering their heads in a short time. The green smoke was as tight as a living object. Wrapped tightly around the head, at this time, several strands of green smoke were curling up from below. It turned out that green smoke also came out from the navel and the place of excretion, tightly surrounding the entire mummy.In a short while, the mummy was covered with green smoke from top to bottom, and the smoke was still wriggling regularly.The two mummy warriors were like two giant orangutans covered with green and long hair, dancing up and down with some unknown rhythm, as if they could pounce on them at any time. Old Zhong looked at me and gestured to me a few times. It turned out that he was speaking dumb.It seems that doing more good deeds is beneficial, and some sign language learned when I was a volunteer at the Xinzheng School for the Deaf and Mute in my freshman year has come in handy now, although it was originally intended to be used in a romantic scene to express my love to my crush—— For a while, MTV in South Korea was quite popular with this scene. Lao Zhong is obviously also a novice lover of dumb language, but his comparison is concise and practical. He asked me if I can persist now, and I replied that you had better find a way quickly, or you will soon see me fall in front of you because of suffocation, I continued gesticulating that I couldn't take it anymore and wanted to catch my breath.I was just about to open my mouth to inhale, but the situation in front of me made me stick to it no matter what. The green smoke had slowly left the mummy warrior's body, leaving from the head first.The moment Green Mist left the mummy warrior, I was dumbfounded. The mummy's head, which was tightly wrapped in black skin just now, is now a white and flawless skull. "Damn it, what the hell is this? It's stronger than sulfuric acid!" I quickly gestured at the old clock. Old Zhong gave me a hard look and told me to shut up, or to put down my hands and reduce my oxygen consumption.But at this moment, I couldn't resist anymore, the oxygen content in my blood dropped, and my eyes were already full of little stars. Immediately I couldn't hold it anymore, and at the moment when my legs gave way and I was about to fall to the ground, Lao Zhong pulled me over and put the mask on my face, and I quickly took a greedy breath. Just these two simple actions have driven the flow of air, and the green object that was originally entwined with the mummy warrior has begun to leave its original host indistinctly, and is slowly rising from the corpse. Two distinct white skeletons remained. Just when I swallowed my saliva again, Lao Zhong tore off the mask and put it on his own face. It seemed that he couldn't stand it any longer. This must be a creature similar to a waxworm, sealed in the bodies of two mummy warriors, and when fed with blood, it will quickly hatch and eat the host's body.And now it may be their growth period, and what they need most is of course food.I secretly speculated in my heart. The green mist rose up like this, as if looking for something, suddenly part of it fell on the bones and the pool of blood, and after a while, the green mist fell on the bones and the pool of blood next to the bones. The green mist quickly dissolved on the blood and bones, and then some strange green twigs grew crookedly from the bones and blood, like the golden corpse mushrooms we have seen in the Warring States Period, but they are different. Just like that, there was a cloud of green mist floating in the air, with some strange green branches growing underneath, and some green smoke and dust bloomed from the tops of the branches from time to time, and then quickly rose up to meet the green mist in the air.In this way, a cross-section of a tomb passage was blocked up and down in a very special way. The giant anaconda that died next to it was wrapped in green mist in a short time, and soon turned into a black mummy, but because of the blood, it quickly turned from a black mummy into a pile Messy snake bones. Old Zhong and I stared wide-eyed and made a gesture at the same time: "Damn!" "I found a situation!" I gestured. "What's the situation?" Old Zhong signaled me to fart quickly. "They are very hungry." I continued to gesture. Old Zhong obviously couldn't understand my humor, so he gave me a "rely" gesture again. Then Lao Zhong did a series of actions that were very inconsistent with his identity. He even opened the backpack, took out a paratrooper knife and cut off a piece of his underwear, then pissed on it, and then cut off a piece to wrap around it. I wiped everything down to my nose, put on a gas mask, and threw the rest at me for me to do the same.I was carrying the water-stained cotton cloth and couldn't make up my mind to wrap it around my head.Finally, I finally made up my mind, tore off a piece of my underwear, peed on it, and wrapped it around my head. Although the smell was still there, it belonged to me anyway, so I didn’t feel so repulsive. I comforted myself by saying that it was a temporary measure to save my life. , While persuading myself that many people still drink their own urine for treatment, this grievance is nothing. Just as I was thinking of absconding, Comrade Lao Zhong had already started to make big moves. He took out the bamboo handle of a whirlwind shovel, stuffed some saltpeter and sulfur into it, unscrewed the fuze of a flare, poured the powdered explosives inside, and sealed it with a piece of chewed gum. bamboo tube. I was startled when I saw these actions of his. Saltpeter is a combustion accelerant, and with the fuze of the signal flare and some cotton, it can be made into a small bomb.I hurriedly stopped him: "Think about it clearly, this is an ancient tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty that has never been excavated, don't you want to blow it up! Maybe there will be a first-class cultural relic in the future, you But think clearly!" Old Zhong rolled my eyes at me, drilled more than a dozen small holes in the bamboo pole in his hand with the tip of a knife, and quickly made two strange "big firecrackers", then motioned for me to back off. Just when I spoke just now, the movement of the air flow has been driven, and those residual green mist seem to have spirituality. I saw Lao Zhong took out the lighter in his hand and lit the big firecracker in his hand. He shook his hand suddenly, and a ball of fireworks sprayed from all sides flew towards the "green barrier". The sparks splashed from the dozen or so small holes on the walls of the bamboo tube mixed with the pungent smoke of saltpeter soon opened a circular blank area in the green smoke, which had already turned into green smoke under the high temperature of the sparks. The black powder fell down one after another.I let out a long sigh of relief, and said to myself, Jiang is still old and hot, and no one else can react so quickly in such a short period of time.Lao Zhong also gestured to me proudly, and then lit the second special big firework.Under the high temperature of the fireworks, these unknown green particles soon began to fall, and the green branches around the bamboo tube turned into black charcoal. When I was about to tear off the dirty and wet mask covering my face with a sigh of relief, something unexpected happened.Near the outside of the fireworks, that is, the place where the temperature is suitable, the green smoke began to rise like crazy. As the fireworks gradually extinguished, the outer green mist has filled up the part of the fog burned by the high temperature of the fireworks. Therefore, the crack in the green mist that lasted for less than two minutes was refilled.And these things are even crazier, they have started to slowly fall to the ground, and then they have bred new offspring on the ground, as if they have formed a green carpet. Old Zhong's face was ashen, watching the green mist turn from the sky to the ground one after another, continuously eroding the space around us, and soon spread to us.I don't know why, but facing these inexplicably frightening things, I actually have a strong desire to laugh. Obviously, this is not the time to laugh, because this green carpet has already shown a strong ability to reproduce and corrode .Just when the two of us backed away, Comrade Zhong dreamed that dozens of erhu snake skins accidentally fell to the ground, and were immediately swallowed up by this spreading green carpet, which soon became overgrown like cauliflower. Like green bumps. My heart was trembling for a while, if these ghost things touched me, if I was lucky enough not to be devoured, wouldn't it be that I would grow a whole body of green hair, even if I survived, I would probably be a humanoid green fur turtle. Just when I was thinking wildly, Lao Zhong touched me and motioned me to look forward, I looked at him puzzled, he motioned forward again, I still didn't understand, he made a "shh" I just realized that the mask that Old Zhong gave me just now, which was made of his liquid and I threw away, is now surrounded by green carpets, but the strange thing is that these ghosts seem to be afraid of this mask , did not devour the mask, on the contrary, a vacuum zone was formed around the mask.If you look carefully, there are still several places that are not covered by these green carpets. It is the "scene" where Lao Zhong and I made the mask just now. , It immediately vaporized like a young leaf touching red charcoal. The two of us suddenly realized, and then looked at each other and smiled. It turned out to be that simple!No wonder it is said that boy urine can cure all poisons. Old Zhong blinked at me anxiously: "How is it? Is it in stock?" I smiled: "There are not many in stock, but I guess it is enough!" The green mist in the air has basically settled under the flame attack of the old clock, we only need to deal with this strange carpet on the ground to reach the stone gate. In this way, the two of us spread excitement all the way, humming and killing the main tomb.