Chapter 9 Chapter Nine: Carrion in the Lake

"Damn it!" Fatty Hu yelled suddenly, and pulled hard, and the plastic pole was lifted up at once.I could see clearly that a half-decomposed corpse was just pulled up by Fatty Hu along the bamboo pole. Afterwards, Fatty Hu played the demeanor of a general who blocks and kills gods and ghosts, raised his foot and stepped on the half-rotten corpse fiercely. "Ah?" There was a wave of unrest here, I suddenly heard Dandan's exclamation, turned around to look, and suddenly I was so frightened that my vest broke out in cold sweat, and my hands had already climbed to the edge of the raft, less than a step away from Dandan's feet. far away.

"Step on it!" I stood on the other side of the raft, not caring so much, and exclaimed. Dandan was completely frightened, and stood on the raft without daring to move. Although Professor Qian was an archaeologist, at this moment, besides his pale face, he was only trembling. I grabbed the other end of the raft in three steps and two steps. Just in time, a splash suddenly appeared under the water, and the head of a half-decomposed corpse popped out, and I wanted to climb up the raft. I kicked that head hard, and the pale hand that was holding onto the raft firmly grabbed my ankle at a speed that was almost weird, and then pulled me hard fell into the water.

"Damn it!" I was scared out of my wits. At this time, Dandan had come to his senses. Don't be overly scared, it will probably explode with strength that you didn't have before. Since this little girl grabbed me, then, forcefully To step on the hand that grabbed my ankle. Professor Qian also ran over and hugged me desperately to prevent me from being dragged into the water by the water ghost. With the combined strength of the three of us, I was not pulled down by the water ghost, but the water ghost was stubborn and grabbed my foot desperately, which made my ankle hurt, and we pulled it up little by little. raft.

It was also a half-decomposed corpse, which had long since changed beyond recognition. In addition, it had been soaked in water for a long time, and its head was swollen badly. It looked scary... Never let it go on a raft! As I was thinking about it, I reached out and fumbled in the backpack, trying to find a tool that was handy, but after a while, where did I find the tool?He grabbed it casually, didn't even look at what it was, waved his hand and slashed down on that hand. A crisp sound of broken bones echoed in everyone's hearts, I couldn't help but shiver, my feet let go, that damned water ghost finally let go.

I hold a rusty bronze short sword in my hand, it is not full of feet, but at the most dangerous moment, it is this ancient bronze sword that saved me... This ancient bronze sword was left to me by my grandma when she passed away. It is said that my grandpa bought it back with his life. I believe that this ancient sword can save me from bad luck, and my grandpa and grandma’s spirit in heaven will protect me Therefore, I will take it with me when I enter the ancient tomb. Besides, this is an ancient relic, it can suppress evil and eliminate evil—unexpectedly, in this underground world, it really saved me once.

"Brother Xu..." There was unspeakable terror in Dandan's voice. I came back to my senses, ignoring the injury on my foot, and following Dandan's gaze, countless pale and rotten fingers emerged from the edge of the raft, firmly grasping the raft, trying to climb up . "Slashing with a knife, what are you still doing?" I didn't care what happened, I just slashed randomly with the ancient bronze sword, probably because of my impression, Professor Qian also figured out the one that Fatty Hu gave him. With a hatchet, chop randomly... However, for some reason, there are too many carrion corpses underwater, and there are corpses constantly climbing up, and even one has already climbed onto the raft and was kicked down by me.

"Fatty—" I yelled, "Let's go!" "I want to go too!" Fatty Hu jumped anxiously, "But this damn raft just doesn't move!" The raft was spinning slowly on the water, but it couldn't move forward, no matter how brute force Fatty Hu used.Damn it, I cursed in my heart, greeted Fatty Hu and said, "Come here, I'll support the raft!" "Okay!" Fatty Hu readily agreed, and I rushed to Fatty Hu's side in three steps and two steps, but the plastic pole in his hand was really not a good thing. Now there is no other way but to make do with it.

Fatty Hu snatched the ax from Xiao Zhang's hand, and slashed at the head of a rotting corpse that had just climbed onto the raft—Xiao Zhang frightenedly held the flashlight, and leaned against me with a look of panic on his face. I paddled the water vigorously and indiscriminately. In fact, I didn't know how to punt, but since Fatty Hu couldn't do it, I had to try it myself. It's just that poor Professor Qian, holding a hatchet tremblingly, kept waving the hatchet to look at the corpses trying to climb onto the raft, and muttered in his mouth: "Why is this happening, what happened to these corpses... ...how come there are so many corpses here..."

At the end, he actually added a sentence—these corpses were not seriously decomposed, could they be the ones who died recently and were murdered? Originally, my scalp felt numb when I saw the rotting corpses constantly emerging from the lake, but now I heard Professor Qian’s exclamation, and I broke out in a cold sweat. Listening to my command, cold sweat dripped down my hands, and I could barely hold the plastic pole. "Damn old man!" Fatty Hu chopped down a rotting corpse with an axe, and cursed at Professor Qian, "Ask them, why isn't it rotten? I think your head is rotten..." While speaking, he was The ax chopped off the head of a carrion, and I smelled the hideous smell of rotting fish again in my nose, and I almost spat it out on the spot.

"Boss Xu, I told you to hurry up, Fatty, I'm about to lose my hold..." Fatty Hu said anxiously. "I..." I was sweating, I don't know how to row a boat at all. "Let me come!" Suddenly, Dandan ran towards me quickly. "You will?" I asked a little surprised. "I'll try!" Dandan hurriedly said, but at this moment, I suddenly felt a tightening on the plastic pole, and then a strong force pulled me down like water. Seeing this, Xiao Zhang and Dandan pulled me hard—in order to prevent those carrion corpses from climbing up, the five of us almost all gathered at one end of the raft, so that the raft was naturally heavy at one end and tilted into the water .

"Ah..." Dandan exclaimed suddenly, I looked down, and saw a pale hand clasping Dandan's ankle. "Damn it!" I yelled, I didn't care about so much, I supported the bamboo pole with one hand, covered the bronze dagger with the other, and chopped down on that hand. However, even I didn't expect that due to the weight of the raft, Fatty Hu saw that the situation was not good, so he ran to the other end of the raft and jumped for a while. This damn Fatty Hu had amazing explosive power. With this jump, he stabilized the raft, but since I was standing on the edge of the raft, now I couldn't stand still anymore and fell into the water. "Brother Xu..." Seeing this, Dandan hurriedly grabbed the plastic pole with one hand and brought it to me. I hurriedly grabbed it, and was about to climb up the plastic pole, when suddenly, water splashed all over the water, and a huge monster, twisting its body, appeared on the water. Taking advantage of the pale beam of light from the flashlight in Xiao Zhang's hand, I could see clearly that the thing looked like a big python, with black scales all over its body, twisting its body in the water... "Let's go—" I screamed in fright in the water. Those carrion corpses that seem to come alive for some unknown reason are fine, but this big python, God knows whether it is a python or some other monster—anyway, I can be sure of one thing, it is definitely not a vegetarian. With a loud "pop", the raft was slapped by the monster with its twisted tail, and it was instantly torn apart. "Fatty, Dandan...Professor Qian..." Almost instantly, my eyes were dark, all the lights were extinguished, and there seemed to be something pulling me desperately under the water... I didn't care about so much, and I couldn't tell the direction clearly. I just swam forward with all my strength out of survival instinct. Behind me, the body of the water splash came, and the monster was still there... At this time, I couldn't care about others, the surroundings were in darkness, and I didn't know what happened to Fatty Hu and the others. Immediately, I could only swim forward with all my strength , There was ice-cold lake water pouring into my mouth, with the smell of rotten fish that made me want to vomit... When I was exhausted, and even wanted to give up, my fingers actually touched the cold bricks-arrived? As soon as this idea entered my mind, I was already a little confused, and suddenly I couldn't care less about it. I crawled towards the surface of the water... The backpack and clothes on my body were already soaked. I lay down on the ground and groped to take out the flashlight. Fortunately, Fatty Hu didn’t buy inferior products. After I patted and tapped, the flashlight turned on. Then, I just Lying on the ground, he even vomited out the yellow water in his stomach. That damned lake water is really smelly, especially with the rotting corpses soaked in it. Just thinking about it makes me sick. I waited until I was about to vomit before I felt better. I wrung out my clothes, held up a flashlight, and started Take a look at your surroundings. One thing I can confirm-this is not the shore of the lake where we originally entered this place, that is to say, I accidentally came to the other shore? Fatty Hu, Professor Qian, and Dandan... I held the flashlight and shone around in the water, but at this moment, my whole body was suddenly cold, but my back was hot, and sweat rolled down my wet clothes——a hand rested on my face. the back... I stood there straight, I didn't even have the courage to look back, this place - is there anyone alive besides me?Or, Fatty Hu and the others?But in such an environment, no matter how unreliable Fatty Hu is, he would never scare me like this. My vest was sweating profusely. I don't know why those rotting corpses in the lake suddenly came to life, desperately trying to climb onto the raft, and I don't know who left that raft. , Now, I'm beginning to regret that I shouldn't have come to this damned Huangtu Village, and since I've come to Huangtu Village, I shouldn't have encouraged Fatty Hu to blow up the tomb with dynamite. I shouldn't have broken into this unknown nether world knowingly after Huang Chang and Xiao He fell into it... That hand just rested on my shoulder, and I felt a bone-piercing chill, gradually permeating my whole body from my shoulder, and half of my body seemed to be unable to move——in my nose, I smelled a A disgusting smell of rotting fish. "Ah..." I yelled out the panic in my heart, and then I squatted down suddenly. The moment I squatted down, I crossed my legs and swept across my back fiercely. With a plop, a heavy object fell into the water. Holding the flashlight, I gasped heavily. It really wasn't a person, I saw a floating corpse, a splash flashed on the surface of the water, and then sank to the bottom of the water... Where did this rotting corpse come from, why is it standing behind me silently?I don't know, according to the "Hidden Dragon Jue" left by my grandma, all places with good geomantic omens are actually treasured places to raise corpses, and even some places with excellent geomantic omens can make corpses mutate, so that they will not be damaged or destroyed for a thousand years. While it is bad, it also has the breath of the living. I have never understood what this so-called "breath of the living" really means?Does it mean that these corpses can attack people like living people? I really don't understand why these corpses, which have been dead for a long time, can move freely? "Wow--" At the moment when I was thinking wildly, suddenly, the water in the lake splashed in all directions, and then, a head popped out from below, almost instinctively, I held up the flashlight, pulled out the bronze sword in one hand, and Want to chop it up. But immediately, the man touched the water beads on his face, and shouted: "Boss Xu, for the sake of the party and the people, give me a hand!" I stared blankly at the fat man in the water, my God—that man turned out to be Fatty Hu. At this moment, I was happier than seeing my own mother. This fat man is not dead. A blind fortune teller once said that this fat man is a lucky general. He looks simple and honest, but in fact, he is only stupid. Blessings can often turn bad luck into good luck. "Boss Xu, hurry up and give me a hand!" Fatty Hu said as he dragged another person up from the water with all his strength. "Dandan?" It was only then that I realized that Fatty Hu was hugging Dandan desperately. Under the beam of light from the flashlight, Dandan's face was pale, to put it bluntly, no different from those rotting corpses soaked in water.However, at this time, I really couldn't hide the joy in my heart. In this damn underground world, it is good to have a living person as a companion after all. I grabbed the shore in three steps and two steps, stretched out my hand to pull Fatty Hu, and then the two of them joined forces and pulled Dandan up together. Dandan drank a lot of water and his stomach was bulging, as if he had been there for three months She is pregnant, poor girl, she has fallen into a coma, if the fat man hadn't desperately hugged her and dragged her ashore, I'm afraid her life would be in jeopardy. I asked Fatty Hu to put Dandan on the ground, and then I didn't care about so much, I squeezed Dandan's stomach hard, and let her spit out the water. Fatty Hu even wanted the chicken mother-in-law to help Dandan with artificial respiration, but after I gave him a hard look, I finally gave up the idea. Dandan was already unlucky enough, drank a stomach full of stinky water, if he was given artificial respiration by Fatty Hu's stinky mouth, he might leave a psychological shadow for the rest of his life. "Did you see Professor Qian and them?" I asked Fatty Hu. "How can the fat man care about them?" Fatty Hu shook his head and said, "Besides, they are not beauties?" He said, and he looked at Dandan wretchedly. I can only sigh, but I understand in my heart that under such circumstances, there are rotting corpses and that unknown monster underwater, and the water is dark, and Fatty Hu can still hold Dandan to escape, which is already very good. Where can you care about others?I didn't even care about Professor Qian and Xiao Zhang, so what can I say about him? "I said Boss Xu, this place is evil!" Fatty Hu stomped his feet vigorously, and began to wring his clothes dry, while frowning, "Why are there so many corpses in the lake?" "God knows!" I shook my head and said, "Maybe it was buried?" The corridors inside, plus the size of the underground lake here, are also huge enough.The identity of the owner of the tomb was also confirmed from the side, which is extraordinary. After such a person died, a large number of slaves would naturally be buried for him. Professor Qian judged from the blue bricks on the ground that this should be the tomb of the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty had extremely heavy burials, so I am not surprised by such a huge tomb, but the corpses in the lake are really... extremely weird. "Tell me, could the corpse in the lake be cursed?" Fatty Hu whispered. "Curse?" I was stunned, when did Fatty Hu start to believe in these heresies? "Let me tell you!" Fatty Hu took off his clothes naked, squeezed the water vigorously, and then said, "When I was on the raft, those corpses wanted to climb up. The ax chopped off a few heads, and then I found..." "What did you find?" Seeing that the fat man said it mysteriously, I hurriedly asked. "There seems to be something in the heads of those corpses!" Fatty Hu lowered his voice, and said in a low voice, "So I suspect why those corpses took the initiative to attack us, it must be a Gu..." In the generation of Miaojiang, there has been a saying of raising Gu since ancient times, which is mysterious and unpredictable, but I have never seen it with my own eyes, and naturally I can’t explain it clearly. It is different from natural science, which cannot be verified at all. Whether it was a curse or a voodoo, I witnessed with my own eyes those corpses climbing up the raft like living people, densely packed, making one's scalp numb. "Stop talking..." I shook my head and said to Fatty Hu, "Clean up and find a way to leave." "Leave?" Fatty Hu jumped up on the spot and shouted, "Boss Xu, are you crazy? Just leave like this?" "What else do you want?" I asked. "The scale of this ancient tomb is huge, and I don't know how many treasures are waiting for me, Fat Lord. How can there be any reason to enter Baoshan and go back empty-handed?" . "Aren't you afraid?" My head felt dizzy. "Afraid?" Fatty Hu snorted through his nose, "Fatty Master is afraid of Professor Qian's stubbornness. As for other things, it's not like we haven't seen him before!" I shook my head, not knowing how to convince this fat man, I shone the flashlight on the water surface, the water surface was pitch black, there was nothing, the big python or other monster that twisted its body and overturned our raft was nowhere to be seen. Even the rotting corpses that moved were gone, and the lake was as calm as death. I don't know what happened to Professor Qian and Xiao Zhang? "Now, the whereabouts of Xiao He and Huang Chang are unknown, and Professor Qian and Xiao Zhang also..." I sighed. "That's their lucky back!" Fatty Hu put on his wet clothes again, looked at Dandan who was lying on the ground, and began to rummage through something in the backpack. I glanced at it, and this kid was emotionally prepared. Everything you need. "Boss Xu, you carry something for me, and I'll carry this girl on your back, what do you think?" The fat man asked after tidying up a little. "Okay!" I agreed, and it's useless to stand by the lake and wait. Now, I'm afraid it's impossible to cross the lake and return to the way I came back. Now, the only thing I can do is to do something else. Looking for a way out, the scale of this tomb is huge. When it was built, I don't know how many skilled craftsmen were used. These people will definitely not let them leave alive. They naturally also know that building such a tomb will lead to a dead end in the end. Therefore, these people will usually leave themselves a last way to escape. Now, what I have to do is to find the way out left by those craftsmen at that time and escape. birthday. Otherwise, let alone whether we have the physical strength to swim across this lake, even if we can swim across, the water monsters and carrion in the lake will probably pull us to stay as companions. Fatty Hu just put Dandan on his back, when suddenly, Dandan spit out a mouthful of foul-smelling lake water, all over Fatty Hu's back and neck—— "Woooo..." Immediately afterwards, Dandan burst into tears. "Hey——" Fatty Hu was furious after being spat out by her, but when he saw her cry, he lost all anger... "I don't want to die, Brother Wuchang, please, let me go back..." The girl was so sad that she was sobbing. "Hey, you're still fucking alive!" Fatty Hu originally wanted to maintain a little demeanor and make a good impression in front of the beauties, but when he heard Dandan crying about Brother Wuchang, he immediately became angry. "I...Brother Hu?" Dandan was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly came back to his senses, and found himself lying on Fatty Hu's generous shoulders, and was immediately stunned. "Dandan, it's okay, we're not dead yet, I'm afraid we'll have to wait decades to see Impermanence!" I deliberately laughed, pretending to be very relaxed. "Brother Xu, are you here?" Dandan finally woke up and gave me a sigh of relief, but this girl's situation is not too optimistic, after soaking in cold water for so long, at this time, she needs to take a hot bath, Come to a bowl of hot ginger tea, but in this ancient tomb, there is only coldness and darkness. "Yes, we are still alive!" I nodded seriously, "But now, we have to find a way out." "Professor and Xiao Zhang..." Dandan looked around and asked me. Holding up the flashlight, I shook my head and said, "Don't think about them, everyone has his own life." "Boss Xu, where are we going?" Fatty Hu asked with Dandan on his back. I carried all of Fatty Hu's luggage on my back. This guy's luggage is really heavy. Then I held up the flashlight, looked around, and said for a moment: "It's right ahead!" , right in front of it should be the site of the ancient tomb. And if there is a way out, it should be near the tomb, so it should be right to go straight ahead. Dandan is fine now, but I saw that her face was pale and her lips were black and blue, obviously it was not lightly frozen. This underground lake is so icy cold that my old man almost froze to death, let alone her?Only Fatty Hu, that heartless, is still thinking about making a fortune at this time. I held the flashlight and walked in front, and Fatty Hu carried Dandan on his back and walked behind me. After walking a few steps, Fatty Hu suddenly called out: "Boss Xu——" I was taken aback by his sudden cry, and shouted dissatisfied: "What's the matter with you?" "What do you mean—what is the monster in the lake?" Fatty Hu asked hehe. "Big boa constrictor!" Dandan lay on Fatty Hu's body and said in a low voice, "I look at the black scales, they look a bit like..." "It doesn't look like it to me!" Fatty Hu shook his head and said, "It doesn't look like a snake..." "What is it that isn't a snake?" I snorted and asked dissatisfied, "Anyway, it's just a water monster!" "Like a dragon..." Fatty Hu suddenly said mysteriously. "Dragon?" I was stunned, are there dragons in this world? "Brother Hu is talking nonsense!" Dandan obviously disagreed with Fatty Hu's statement, and hurriedly said, "It must be a python. I don't know how big this underground lake is, and I don't know how long it has existed. There is also a python. It's not a rare thing, where are the dragons?" "What do you know?" Fatty Hu whispered in dissatisfaction, "Boss Xu, I can use my grandfather's reputation to guarantee that when we fell into the water, I saw..." "Did you see your grandpa?" I said angrily. "Fuck!" Fatty Hu shouted, "My family has no money, and my grandfather would not be buried in such a high-level ancient tomb. I... I... Boss Xu, dare you say it again, Fatty, I will never end with you! " "If you're not talking nonsense, I'll be thankful, and thank you grandpa by the way!" I sighed. "I'm not talking nonsense, I really saw that the monster has claws—the same as the dragon claws I saw in the painting before." Fatty Hu distinguished loudly. I wanted to scold Fatty Hu, but I held back after all, this damn underground world, lonely and cold, with his big mouth talking nonsense, isn't it a happy thing? Seeing that I didn't say a word, Fatty Hu said again: "Besides, the scales on that monster's body can glow in the dark..."