Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: The Tomb of the Fascinated

The wind and sand above the heads of the human-faced sand sculptures were originally very large, but after descending into such a deep cave, the air flow in the cave is not so obvious.However, a strong wind blew from the hole behind the stone, and it was chilly on the person's body, making goosebumps rise. When Wang Zhongnan said this, Yuan Sen raised his gun suddenly. When Wang Zhongnan was stunned, Yuan Sen shot behind him with a submachine gun. "Puff - puff -" the bullets hit the sand sculpture wall. Yuan Sen yelled, and said, "Go quickly, I saw that person—" Without saying a word, Wang Zhongnan and Bayi surrounded them in two directions. Yuan Sen raised his gun and walked straight towards the neck of the human-mask.

Same as last time, the place is still empty, where is there half a figure? Yuan Sen grabbed Wang Zhongnan and said, "Believe me, I really saw someone squatting like this, really—" With that said, Yuan Sen squatted down, imitating that person.He saw it very clearly this time. Although the place was very dark and it was more than ten feet away from where he was standing, he could still clearly feel that the thing was a person, and he believed it was the outline of a person. Wang Zhongnan and Bayi stepped back to where they were standing just now, watching Yuan Sen imitate that person.Wang Zhongnan took out a cigarette, lit it, put it in his mouth and took a deep breath.He frowned, and his dark face was covered with a layer of frost. In this vast sea of ​​sand, what he feared most was the unknown.There are too many terrifying legends about this sea of ​​sand.

Yuan Sen squatted on the ground, carefully recalling that person's movements and gestures. What mystery is hidden in it?Why was he the only one who could see that person's shadow? Suddenly, Bayi yelled, "Don't move, that person is behind you—" Bayi's hysterical yell almost scared Yuan Sen away. He shook his whole body, and he just stayed there, not daring to move. Wang Zhongnan also saw that shadow, that's right, it was indeed a person, squatting there, his body curled up into a ball, his head buried between his knees, as if he had been severely frightened, he made an ostrich attitude, not daring to look up.

After Yuan Sen got nervous, it didn't feel right to regain his composure. Since that person was behind him, why didn't he feel anything at all? Wang Zhongnan and Bayi approached step by step with their rifles in hand, and Yuan Sen just stood there, motionless.Wang Zhongnan and Ba Yi approached Yuan Sen, and suddenly found that the figure was gone again, and he disappeared without a sound under their noses. The two looked at each other, Yuan Sen got up from the ground, looked behind him, and the figure was gone again.There seems to be no other explanation for the current situation, except for the theory of bumping into ghosts.

Wang Zhongnan walked over and stroked the sandstone where the figure squatted. There was the neck of the human face. Because it was covered by the mask, this place was not eroded by the wind and sand very much, and the rock still remained hard. Wang Zhongnan touched it inch by inch, and the rock surface was polished quite smooth, and it was a complete whole without any blemishes. Suddenly, Bayi squatted on the ground and began to cry. He wailed loudly and spoke Uighur over and over again. The crying sound was extremely sad, which made Yuan Sen and Wang Zhongnan puzzled. Yuan Sen's first reaction was that the superstitious and cowardly Bayi was scared to tears by the terrifying atmosphere. He patted Bayi on the shoulder and told Bayi that person must be pretending to be a ghost, and he and Wang Zhongnan would be able to get rid of it soon. The guy took it out.

Bayi cried for a long time before explaining the situation in Chinese. What he said surprised Yuan Sen and Wang Zhongnan.Bayi said that he could clearly see the person's physical features and gestures, which were very similar to his boss, mine manager Kurban.He has been with the mine manager Kurban for decades, and his strong and broad body features are very obvious. Although the squatting figure looks weird, the two of them have very similar bodies. Hearing what he said, Wang Zhongnan and Yuan Sen also felt that the person might be the Kurban mine manager, but the location where they encountered the sandstorm was at least hundreds of kilometers away from here. In the vast desert, how could the Kurban mine manager be alone? Also appear here?

Bayi wept loudly, saying that his boss was dead, and that his soul must have been taken to Zhehanan by Allah, and his wronged soul was still left in the desert waiting for them to find his body and bring him back to Yingavati Village jade mine. The wind on the sand platform was so strong that it blew Bayi's cries so piercingly that it made people feel very uncomfortable. Subconsciously, Yuan Sen and Wang Zhongnan both accepted that the shadow was the mine manager Kurban, and they also I feel bad for mine manager Kurban. While everyone was mourning deeply, piercing sounds suddenly came from the belly of the Human Face, which sounded like a wild animal devouring food, biting off the flesh and chewing with great mouthfuls.Then there was the sound of stones colliding. Something was crushed by a boulder.

Amidst this strange sound, the figure came out again, but this time he was not squatting, but half leaning half against the wall, his stomach and abdominal cavity were torn open, and blood flowed across his body. Wang Zhongnan turned on the flashlight and "swipe" to shine on the shadow. Like the previous few times, the shadow disappeared without a trace.This time, he understood. He looked carefully at the curved stone wall with a flashlight. It was true that the seemingly smooth human face actually had many holes the size of needle eyes on its neck. They didn't find this problem just now. First, they didn't turn on the flashlight because they were afraid that the person would attack Yuan Sen from behind. Second, the neck of the human face is not static. The part with the hole is actually rotating all the time. Embedded in the outer stone wall, the gap in the middle is so small that it is almost negligible, so the squatting shadow will flicker.

The formation of shadows must be related to light. They were able to see the squatting shadow because the light shone on the shadow and the shadow blocked the light. Wang Zhongnan knocked on the rotating stone wall, the echo was very dull, such a hard core of the stone wall, it is difficult to cut open, even with bombs, it is not easy to make holes. However, since the moonlight can shine in, there must be an entrance that can shine in the light source, and judging from the size of the shadow, the area of ​​the entrance should not be too small. The three of them went around to the opposite side, and the area of ​​the sand platform on the opposite side was much smaller, it could only accommodate the width of one foot, and it was easy for people to fall if they were not careful.From the sand platform, there is a height of more than ten meters. The higher the stone statue is, the closer it is to the human body. The ears and hair are quite realistic, so there are very few parts that can be seen clearly with a flashlight, and many places are convex. The stones that came out were blocked.

Wang Zhongnan handed Yuan Sen the flashlight, and he turned over and climbed up the stone wall, toward the head of the human face.The face on the sand platform had a very small slope and went up without a buffer. Wang Zhongnan climbed very hard and almost fell down several times.This kind of unprotected rock climbing is quite dangerous, and falling down is a sand platform. The sand platform has only a thin layer of sand on the surface. Even if you don't fall to your death from a height of more than ten meters, you probably won't be able to stand up and walk in this life. Wang Zhongnan climbed to the top of the human-mask and inspected it carefully, then he lowered to the side by about two meters to the left ear of the human-mask.The wind was strong up there, Wang Zhongnan yelled a few words to Yuan Sen and Bayi, but they were blown away by the wind and he couldn't hear clearly, so he had to beckon Yuan Sen and Bayi to climb up.

Wang Zhongnan took out a climbing rope from his backpack, tied one end of the rope to the ear of the face, and let the other end hang down. Yuan Sen and Bayi quickly climbed to the ear of the face while grabbing the rope. The two went up, only to find that it was an oval hole with a diameter of only about one meter. The hole was quite deep, and the moonlight could not reach the bottom. Wang Zhongnan took out several ropes from his backpack, tied them together, and hung them down into the cave. Yuan Sen volunteered to take the lead and climbed in first.As expected, the cave was very deep, and the rope of more than 20 meters was hanging down to the end. Yuan Sen held a flashlight in his mouth and caught a stone sculpture, which landed on the stone sculpture, and then slid down along the stone sculpture. Yuan Sen went down to the bottom and signaled the entrance of the cave with a flashlight, and Wang Zhongnan and Bayi also climbed in. Inside the cave is a small tomb carved out of rock, Yuan Senqi said: "According to our inference just now, the person who looks like the mine manager Kurban should be in this cave..." Wang Zhongnan found an exit behind a rock, and the rock blocked the exit tightly, and the three of them pushed the rock away together.Behind the stone is a hole that can only accommodate one person squatting to get out. Remove the stone, and the sound of stone rolling that they heard when they were on the sand platform sounded again.It was as if a road roller was crushing a stone, and the sound was mixed with the sound of the stone breaking, which made people feel very uncomfortable. The wind and sand above the heads of the human-faced sand sculptures were originally very large, but after descending into such a deep cave, the air flow in the cave is not so obvious.However, a strong wind blew from the hole behind the stone, and it was chilly on the person's body, making goosebumps rise. The three of them had only one flashlight, Wang Zhongnan held it in his hand, and got out first, Yuan Sen followed, and Bayi was the last.Passing through the entrance of the cave, the space outside is very large. It is so big that Wang Zhongnan’s flashlight can’t see the end. Feel. The place where the three of them stood was a long tomb passage. The tomb passage was quite narrow and could only accommodate one person standing with their legs together. As a result, the three of them could only stand one after the other on the tomb passage, cautiously facing forward. Walk. From time to time, the corpses of insects and mice can be seen on the tomb passage, just like the human corpses found in the desert, the corpses of these animals have become veritable mummy.The dehydrated body collapsed and crawled on the tomb passage. It was strange that although those bugs looked like beetles, they were extremely large. Some were as big as an adult's fist, which was particularly scary. As Wang Zhongnan walked, he reminded Yuan Sen and Bayi to be careful, the mummy had been weathered into a waxy shape, and if one accidentally stepped on it, it might slide down into the abyss. When he first came in, Wang Zhongnan shone a flashlight through the abyss on both sides of the tomb passage. At a glance, the foundation of the tomb passage was getting wider and wider, and the whole was shaped like a ladder.But the abyss next to the tomb passage was bottomless, and it took a long time to hear the sound of the stone hitting the ground after kicking down a stone. After that photoshoot, people's legs trembled uncontrollably when walking on the tomb passage, so Wang Zhongnan only took a photo in front, trying not to let the peripheral light of the flashlight fall under the tomb passage. The strange thing is that the further you go, the louder the sound of rolling stones, as if something is rushing towards this side pressing the tomb passage in front, which is very strange. This time when they went down to the tomb, they came for Mine Manager Kurban. They at least wanted to make sure that that person was Mine Manager Kurban, so Bayi didn't back down, and he didn't intend to go back. He followed Yuan Sen all the way. , looked preoccupied, and didn't say a word. Wang Zhongnan walked for a while, and suddenly stopped in the middle of the tomb passage. Yuan Sen was surprised and urged him, but Wang Zhongnan said in a low voice, "Don't worry, I found something—" Wang Zhongnan squatted down, picked up the thing, looked at it for a long time, handed it to Yuan Sen, and said, "Take out all the guns. Those who come are not friendly, and they might even use the guns!" It was a bullet casing, and the casing was as shiny as new, so it must have been newly shot.That is to say, not so long ago, someone walked through this tomb passage, walked the path they were walking. Both Yuan Sen and Bayi pushed the bullets into the barrel of the gun, and they found another corpse less than 100 meters away from where they found the bullets.The corpse was wearing a modern expedition waterproof suit. It was a middle-aged man with a rough face and a beard. Wang Zhongnan found no gunshot wounds or other wounds on him. It feels very weird. Wang Zhongnan looked at his body over and over again. There was no dust on his body, and the death time was very short.People who can come to this kind of place must have good physical fitness, and can basically rule out sudden illnesses, but he has no wounds on his body, which is really strange. Wang Zhongnan turned his body over so that his face was facing upwards. Suddenly, a red light flashed. Wang Zhongnan was shocked. In such a narrow tomb passage, there was no place to dodge. Wang Zhongnan quickly blocked it with his arm. In this case it was his only means of protection. Yuan Sen kept looking around with his submachine gun in his hand. When he saw the red light coming, he fired two bursts in a row. One shot missed, and the other just hit the thing.As soon as the blood sprayed, the thing fell on the corpse. The beam of light from the flashlight focused on that thing, and it turned out to be a palm-sized red spider. The spider's whole body was bleeding with purple-red blood, and its skin was purple and transparent, like overripe grapes. The three of them had never seen such a big and strange spider.The spider's blood spread on the corpse and penetrated into the skin, leaving a purple spot on the corpse's hand. The place where the spider's blood was stained soon began to fester. Wang Zhongnan carefully pulled off the man's waterproof suit, and there were still several such purple-red festering marks on his back. It turned out that this guy was poisoned to death by the star spider. Yuan Sen felt nauseous and almost vomited. In this kind of ancient tomb, there are unknown poisons like red spiders. Thinking about it makes people panic. In order to prevent any spiders hiding on the body from a surprise attack, Wang Zhongnan pushed the body into the abyss.The three of them continued to walk forward. Having learned the lesson just now, Wang Zhongnan paid special attention to the things on the road and the cornerstones on both sides of the tomb passage while walking. I don’t know if I don’t take a photo, but I’m startled when I take a photo, the tomb passage is still clean, but the scene on the foundation stone makes people have nightmares for the rest of their lives just by looking at it. Fat venomous snakes and purple-red spiders crawled back and forth on the cornerstones on both sides of the tomb passage, as well as fist-sized beetles and half-meter-long centipedes wrestling and biting together.They fought so that their juices flew around, and they were horrifying. The three people on the tomb path were terrified. Everyone knew that the things on these poisonous insects were all killed by seeing blood. However, Wang Zhongnan walked forward along the cornerstone, and in the direction of the tomb path forward, these poisonous insects were crawling.Those poisonous insects crawled back and forth on the cornerstone of the tomb passage, as long as any poisonous insect stayed there panting, it would soon be bitten to death by other insects or its own kind. Now that they have come to this position, it is impossible to go back. Wang Zhongnan has rich experience in field survival. He reminded Yuan Sen and Bayi to tie the trousers tightly with a rope to prevent these poisonous insects from getting in. After everything was done, Wang Zhongnan turned on the flashlight. In order to avoid attracting the attention of poisonous insects, he tried his best not to look at the cornerstone of the tomb passage, and the three of them walked quickly forward only looking at the tomb passage.If it wasn't because the tomb passage was too narrow, they would definitely not be walking, but galloping. The path to the tomb was extremely long, and the three of them walked for more than ten minutes before reaching the other side.On the opposite bank was a deserted pile of rocks, with half-person-high stone strips piled up in disorder, with broken marks on them, and wet black soil on the ground. When they got here, the imposing sound of stone crushing sounded more realistically in the ears of the three of them, as if someone was hiding in the dark and gnashing their teeth to the ground, especially It's the sound that's so loud that it overwhelms any other sound and you have to pay attention to it. The light of the powerful flashlight illuminated the shadows in front of him. Wang Zhongnan used the flashlight to illuminate the surrounding area. After he illuminated it, he realized that the area of ​​this space was completely beyond his imagination.This place is like a huge wasteland. There are only messy piles of stones on the vast land, and the ground is very uneven. The other end of the wasteland is like a huge black hole. The flashlight can only illuminate a range of tens of meters. The surrounding darkness is overwhelmingly suppressed, making it difficult for people to breathe smoothly.As soon as Yuan Sen stepped onto the wasteland, he felt that it was extremely cold here, as cold as hell. When the wind blowing from the wasteland stuck to his skin, it was like cutting flesh with a knife. Yuan Sen said to Bayi: "What the hell is wind here? It's just a knife." Bayi smiled, wrapped up his clothes, and walked forward with difficulty. Wang Zhongnan kept a cold face and walked forward without saying a word. His flashlight kept shining within ten meters, so he could see clearly ahead and shine on the ground. The size of this wilderness was unbelievably large, and the three of them kept facing forward, in the direction where the dark wind was blowing, advancing against the wind, and the wind tended to blow bigger and bigger.Walking against the wind like this, you have to take two steps back after taking three steps. In desperation, Bayi suggested that the three of them should hook their arms together and walk forward. Although it is not easy to be blown back, walking will be more difficult. In this dark underground wasteland, people have no concept of time at all. They walk in a daze, not knowing whether it is day or night outside, and they don't even have time to look at their watches. Faced with the wind, Bayi bowed his head and walked forward. Suddenly he shouted, "My God, what do you think is that?" Yuan Sen and Wang Zhongnan were so tired from walking against the wind that they almost fell asleep on the ground. When Bai Yi called them, they also looked forward. Standing in front of the three of them was a big bronze tripod, several feet high, so long that even several people might not be able to pull it over hand in hand.What's even more strange is that the surface of the copper tripod is dark blue, with a thick layer of patina growing on it, and the patina is covered with dust.Something was cooking in the big copper tripod, and the lids on the top of the tripod were knocked one by one, hitting the tripod strings.The lid of the copper tripod and the tripod string collided with each other, and something was cooking in the tripod, white gas kept rising up, and it rushed up to a very high level. Only then did everyone realize that the strange sound on the tomb passage came from this big bronze tripod.It's just strange that the sound made by the knocking of the cauldron cover and the cauldron string can be transmitted for several miles, gathering together in this vast wasteland without dispersing, it breaks people's hearts. Everyone was forced to cover their ears, the sound was so weird, it felt like their heart was being beaten by something, it was very uncomfortable.The big copper tripod is like boiling water on the stove, and the tripod cover jumps up and down.However, although the cooking in the cauldron was very hot, the three of them stood at the feet of the cauldron, but their hands and feet were still icy cold. Bayi couldn't help being curious, and touched the copper tripod with his hand, as expected, the body of the big tripod was also cold.This is really strange, obviously everything boiled in the cauldron, but the body of the cauldron was as cold as if it was placed in an ice cave. The lid of the cauldron was still bouncing up and down, standing under the cauldron, one could see in the gap between the tumbling of the cauldron, there seemed to be something coming out of the cauldron, it was a black mass, one could not see clearly. Bayi has always been timid, and he doesn't know what kind of medicine he took today, but he actually grabbed the stand ear of the big tripod and climbed up. He climbed to the stand ear of the bronze tripod and looked inside.But the white mist was transpiring and he couldn't see clearly, so Bayi pulled the lifting lever of the copper tripod very fiercely at this time.The copper tripod is so big, its lid must not be too small, Bayi alone can't shake that big guy at all. Wang Zhongnan beckoned Yuan Sen to go up to help, Yuan Sen and Wang Zhongnan climbed to the opposite side of Dali's ears, and when they touched the mouth of the tripod, they found that the white mist coming out of the mouth of the tripod was quite hot, which proved that This big tripod is indeed cooking.The three of them worked together to carefully support the side strings of the tripod cover. After several times of force, the tripod cover did not move at all, and it was incredibly heavy.Seeing that dragging was impossible, the only option was to push. Bayi followed Dali's ears and moved towards Wang Zhongnan. The three of them worked together, and finally the lid of the tripod was moved out a few centimeters. Looking in through the gaps in the side strings, in the bronze cauldron with a diameter of several feet wide, white mist is transpiring, and nothing can be seen, except for the black thing that was looming just now, it has disappeared. The three of them took a breath, worked hard again, and moved the lid of the tripod a few centimeters. Suddenly, the white mist from the mouth of the tripod turned wildly, and sprayed out from the string mouth like crazy.Wang Zhongnan yelled that it was not good, dragged Yuan Sen and jumped down, and Yuan Sen let go of his hands and fell from the standing ears several feet high.When he let go, he saw something protruding from the mouth of the tripod. It turned out to be a big face, which was several times bigger than an ordinary person's. Yuan Sen let go and slid down the wall of the bronze cauldron. Wang Zhongnan grabbed him from behind and carried him directly to the ground.Bai Yi reacted a little slower, so he was not so lucky, he fell directly from the tripod, fell to the ground with a muffled sound, and was thrown down like a sandbag. The ground of this underground wilderness is dry and hard, and it is fake if it does not peel off a layer of skin when dropped on it.Yuan Sen and Wang Zhongnan ran to Bayi as soon as they reached the ground to help him up. Thanks to this guy's rough skin, he only got a little pale from the fall, but he was still able to stand up.Being able to stand still meant nothing serious, both Yuan Sen and Wang Zhongnan breathed a sigh of relief. When the cauldron was moved by someone, it made a louder noise, Bai Yi sullenly signaled everyone to get out of here quickly.Yuan Sen wanted to refute, but Wang Zhongnan stopped him with stern eyes. Obviously, Wang also found something wrong here. The three of them ran against the wind and ran forward quickly. The darkness in front of them became thinner and thinner, as if a thin layer of light came through.The sound from the big bronze cauldron was even more intense, as if something suppressed by the big cauldron was about to break free and rush out. The ground was shaken slightly by the big cauldron. What kind of weird stuff is cooked in it. The farther I ran, the clearer I could see. There was a huge opening at the end of the wasteland, which looked like a big egg lying horizontally, with white light shining through the opening. The frequency of the stone rolling became faster and faster, and the three of them covered their ears while running. Even if they covered their ears, the sound seemed to tear people's eardrums apart. , The suppressed thing seems to be about to break free. Bai Yi was running, but suddenly his feet became stiff, he stopped, and said to Wang Zhongnan: "No, that thing is about to break through the bronze tripod, as soon as he leaves the restraint of the bronze tripod, none of us can survive today. " As he said that, he untied a half-foot-long scimitar from the inside of the leather jacket. The scimitar was black all over, and it was a stone tool with a blunt blade.Bayi held the scimitar in his hand, glanced at Wang Zhongnan solemnly, and without saying a word, he galloped in the direction he came from. He seemed to be running with his waist bent, his body was exceptionally light, and he disappeared into the darkness not long after. inside. Yuan Sen stared at Wang Zhongnan. This timid and superstitious Uighur man he had always thought of was actually acting like this, which was really surprising. He was full of questions, and he felt that Wang Zhongnan could help him answer them. Wang Zhongnan glared at Yuan Sen, and ran towards the glowing opening. Yuan Sen had no choice but to follow.The egg-shaped exit became bigger and bigger in the field of vision, and the sound from the bronze cauldron became more and more strange, as if something was slowly wriggling in the wilderness. The sound was extremely dull, but no one heard it. The sound of the bronze cauldron cracking, that thing should not come out yet. Wang Zhongnan rushed forward with all his strength, Yuan Sen saw that something was wrong, and also accelerated towards the bright light.Suddenly, the ground shook violently, and there was a tearing sound from the wasteland. Yuan Sen turned his head and looked back, only to see a huge black shadow running towards this side at high speed.Wang Zhongnan shouted: "Don't look back, run—" Yuan Sen turned around in a hurry, but it was already too late, something hit his back suddenly, his throat was sweet, and he sprayed a mouthful of blood when he opened his mouth.Wang Zhongnan heard a strange movement behind him, reached out his hand to hold Yuan Sen, and sprinted towards the white light that was getting closer. Wang Zhongnan rushed into the huge egg-shaped exit with Yuan Sen in his arms. Yuan Sen was caught in pain under his armpit, his bones hurt like they were about to shatter, and he didn't have any strength in his body. After coming out of the exit, Wang Zhongnan put Yuan Sen on the ground after running for a while.As soon as Yuan Sen touched the ground, the pain was so painful that he wanted to hit the wall to death. Wang Zhongnan took out a bright boning knife from his backpack and burned it red with a candle. No matter how Yuan Sen resisted, he took off his waterproof jacket and started Roll up the clothes inside.One hand pressed down on Yuan Sen's back like iron pliers, so that Yuan Sen was firmly pressed against the ground, and the other hand holding a knife slashed his back twice, drawing a cross with the two knives.A large amount of black blood gushed out of the wound immediately, and Yuan Sen was so painful that he was almost suffocated. Wang Zhongnan ignored it and cut down again, picking out a barbed black tooth long like a thumb. Yuan Sen yelled and lost consciousness.