Chapter 101 Living Dead

"It really doesn't look like a human. It's impossible for a human to scratch so fast." Wu Zhongyuan said.

At this time, Lu Jiahui and Zhang Shukai were also close to the door. They also heard the scratching sound, but it only lasted for a short time and then disappeared.

"Why is there no movement?" Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang Xinran thought for a moment, took the claw hammer in Lu Jiahui's hand, and knocked on the stone door twice more.

After the knocking, there was the sound of scratching at the door again. The scratching speed was very fast, swish, swish, swish, pause for about a second, swish, swish, another brief pause, and then swish, swish, swish, swish again. The scratching speed is very fast, and the number of scratches is different every time.

"It's not Morse code." Lu Jiahui shook her head.

Wu Zhongyuan glanced at Lu Jiahui, and then said to Wang Xinran, "What do you feel?"

"Based on the frequency of scratching the door and the loudness of the sound, it should be some kind of animal with sharp claws." Wang Xinran said.

Wu Zhongyuan did not ask any more questions. Wang Xinran's judgment coincided with his.

"What could it be?" Lu Jiahui turned to look at Zhang Shukai.

"Could it be a pangolin?" Zhang Shukai guessed.

Wang Xinran said from the side, "We are now under a hundred meters of water. How could a pangolin come here?"

"Otter?" Zhang Shukai guessed again.

Wang Xinran shook his head, "Probably not. These stone chambers are all airtight. It is impossible for otters to get in. What's more, otters should be afraid of people, but this animal inside obviously wants to attack us."

The four of them remained silent for the next few minutes. As long as the scratching sound disappeared, Wang Xinran would knock on the stone door. After each knock, the scratching sound would appear again.

After all possibilities have been eliminated, the remaining one, no matter how unbelievable it is, must be the truth. Now the truth has been revealed. The animal inside was not an intrusion from the outside, let alone brought by Zhao Ying and others. No matter what it is, It was originally here.

Wang Xinran lit a cigarette and took a puff, "If you grab the door so fast, you must be moving very fast."

"Other than the sound of grabbing the door, I didn't hear the sound of chains dragging the floor. It should not be locked by chains." Wu Zhongyuan said.

The two of them were actually worried about the same problem, that is, what to do if the stone door was blown open and the animal inside jumped out.

"What is the animal inside?" Lu Jiahui frowned in confusion, "How did it survive until now?"

"If you don't open the stone door, you will never know what it is," Wang Xinran said, turning to look at Zhang Shukai, "On the premise that the stone door can be pushed open, try to narrow the gap created by the explosion as much as possible."

"I'll try my best." Zhang Shukai nodded in agreement, then considered the angle and removed part of the gravel pressing on the cylinder.

After being prepared, the four people retreated to a safe area. Zhang Shukai asked for Wu Zhongyuan's pistol and prepared to shoot.

Zhang Shukai looked at the three of them one by one, and when they were mentally prepared, he aimed at the cylinder and pulled the trigger.

After the explosion, a scratching sound came from the stone door, and this time the scratching sound was extremely clear.

Since the smoke and dust caused by the explosion had not dissipated, the situation ahead could not be seen, and Wang Xinran did not intend to see the situation clearly before shooting. He fired directly at the area below the stone gate and continued shooting seven times in a row.

The gunfire stopped, the scratching disappeared,

Wang Xinran illuminated the area with a strong flashlight. When the dust settled, everyone could clearly see that there was a black thing in the gap created by the explosion. To be precise, it was a black head. Only the head came out, and the body was still stuck. inside.

Wang Xinran put on his gun and walked forward carefully. Zhang Shukai and Lu Jiahui followed behind with guns, and Wu Zhongyuan walked at the end.

Arriving in front of the stone gate, Wu Zhongyuan saw clearly what was happening at the gap, and his stomach suddenly turned. What came out of the gap was indeed a head, but it was not an animal's head, but a human head. Wang Xinran had fired seven shots before, at least there were Three shots hit, and red blood and white brain fluid slowly overflowed from the bullet holes.

Wang Xinran and others must have seen many such bloody scenes, and they did not show any nausea or discomfort. The expressions on the faces of the three people were more confused. Judging from the scratching sounds before, it should be an animal inside. Why? It will be an individual.

The man who was shot to death had a short crew cut. This hairstyle was certainly not from ancient times and was undoubtedly from the same group as Zhao Ying.

At this moment, something strange happened. The head of the man who had been shot several times suddenly opened his eyes and raised his head.

No matter how brave you are, you will be frightened out of your mind when you see this situation. While screaming and retreating, Wang Xinran and Zhang Shukai fired a few more shots at the man's head.

Because the shot was fired at close range, the damage was even greater, and the entire head was almost smashed. Even so, the head was still moving, violently arching forward, trying to get out of the stone door.

But the gap was very small, and it stuck on his shoulder. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get out. After repeated attempts to no avail, he quickly retracted into the stone chamber.

The four of them looked at each other in shock.

"How could this happen?" Wu Zhongyuan was the first to speak.

No one could answer his question.

"Is he the one who grabbed the door just now?" Wu Zhongyuan asked again.

The three of them still didn't say anything. The thing was so weird that none of them came to their senses and no one could give a reasonable explanation.

"How did he become like this?" Wu Zhongyuan said. He was not asking Wang Xinran and others, but more like talking to himself.

Everything has a reasonable explanation, even weird things are no exception. Wu Zhongyuan first thought of zombies, "You often deal with supernatural phenomena, have you ever seen zombies?"

Wang Xinran frowned and said, "The blood of a person infected with corpse poison will turn black, but his blood is still red."

After Wang Xinran finished speaking, Lu Jiahui added next to him, "Zombies are not invincible. Attacking their heads can also kill them."

"Then what's going on?" Wu Zhongyuan pointed at the stone gate.

No one answered.

Wang Xinran held a strong flashlight, lay down crookedly, and shone the light through the gap in the stone door.

"What's in it..."

Before Wu Zhongyuan finished speaking, a bloody head suddenly emerged from the gap. Because the accident happened so suddenly, no one was mentally prepared. The three of them instinctively dodged backwards, but Wang Xinran was the most severely frightened and hurriedly Roll to dodge, stabilize your body and shoot immediately.

Due to the angle of shooting, these shots directly knocked off half of the head from the neck. The moment the head was separated from the neck, a yellow snake-like creature came out of its cavity. It was exposed for half a foot and then turned around. After getting back into the cavity, the headless corpse shrank back from the gap in the stone door again.

"Did you see it?" Wu Zhongyuan looked at the three of them anxiously.

Judging from the expressions of the three of them, all three of them saw the snake-like creature. It was about the thickness of a thumb, khaki in color, and had no obvious head. It didn’t look like a snake, nor an eel or an eel, but rather something like a snake. Like earthworms.

"Like roundworms, but many times larger than roundworms," ​​Lu Jiahui said.

"Don't you have any information about this kind of thing in your headquarters?" Wu Zhongyuan asked, "That person may have died a long time ago, and it was the yellow thing controlling him."

"Maybe it's a creature like iron worms." Wang Xinran said. Seeing Wu Zhongyuan's puzzled expression, Wang Xinran knew that he didn't understand this kind of creature, so he explained, "Iron worms are a kind of parasitic worm that usually lives in the bodies of arthropods. , this type of worm has a great feature. It can control the behavior of the host and make the host show strong aggression. When they want to change the host, they will drive the original host to commit suicide. Known iron worms are There are hundreds of species, but the individuals are all very small, and the ones as big as just now have never been discovered before.”

After Wang Xinran finished speaking, Lu Jiahui said, "In addition to iron nematode parasitic worms, some fungi can also affect the behavior of the infected person. This is the case with the well-known Cordyceps sinensis. Bat moth larvae infected by the fungus will appear before death. Keep it upright in the soil to allow grass fungi to sprout and grow from their heads."

Wu Zhongyuan nodded to Lu Jiahui, lay on his side on the ground, and looked in through the gap.

Wang Xinran handed over a bright flashlight, but Wu Zhongyuan waved it off. Although he had been mentally prepared in advance, the headless corpse did not appear again. Through the gap, the general situation in the stone chamber could be seen. The first thing he saw was It was a stone platform similar to those I had seen before. In the center of the stone room was a large four-legged bronze vessel, square in shape, nearly two meters long and wide, about one meter high, with ears on all sides.

This style of bronze was no stranger to him. This was a bronze ice mirror, which was an ancient water storage vessel. It had a heat preservation effect and was also the prototype of a modern refrigerator. However, the largest known bronze ice mirror was the Marquis Yi Bingjian of Zeng. This one is half the size.

There were a large number of bullet casings scattered around the bronze ice mirror. In addition to the bullet casings, there were also large blood stains. A waterproof backpack was left not far from the bronze ice mirror.

I changed the angle and continued to observe, and found a black animal in the northeast corner of the stone room. This animal was lying motionless on the ground. It was probably not a living thing. Because I couldn't see its head and face, I didn't know what it was. Just looking at the shape, it looked a bit like a dog. , also somewhat like monkeys.

There was nothing else in other areas of the stone chamber, and the headless corpse was not in the stone chamber. There were blood stains on the edge of the bronze ice mirror. The headless corpse should have crawled into the bronze ice mirror.

"Knock on the stone door." Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang Xinran took a claw hammer and knocked on the stone door. There was nothing abnormal in the stone room, and the headless body did not climb out of the bronze ice mirror.

After observing the situation in the stone chamber, Wu Zhongyuan stood up. Wang Xinran did not ask him what he saw, but lay down crookedly and observed it himself with the light of a strong flashlight.

While the two were observing the interior of the stone chamber, Zhang Shukai made a torch. He did not make the torch simply for lighting. He carried a gas bottle behind his back. If necessary, he could release oxygen to assist combustion and burn the headless body. corpse.

Before pushing the stone door open, Wang Xinran fired a shot at the bronze ice mirror. The bullet hit the bronze ice mirror and produced a dull echo. The headless corpse did not appear again.

Carefully pushing open the stone door, Zhang Shukai and Lu Jiahui stood guard from the door, while Wang Xinran accompanied Wu Zhongyuan to the stone platform.

While walking, Wang Xinran used a strong flashlight to shine on the northeast corner of the stone room. This time he saw clearly that it was not a dog that died there, but a black-haired monkey.

There was thick dust on the stone platform. Needless to say, Zhao Ying and others had not tried to answer at all before. They were self-aware and knew that they would definitely answer incorrectly.

There are no round holes or stone balls on this stone table. There are three Bagua copper plates inlaid on the stone table. The three Bagua plates are about the same size. Each Bagua plate has five inner and outer rings. The inner and outer rings are respectively Tai Chi and Liang Yi. , Four Symbols, Bagua, and the sixty-four hexagrams. Above the three disks, there are two characters each, which are the way of heaven, the way of earth, and the way of humanity.

"What is this topic?" Wang Xinran asked.

"He wanted me to turn the five rings of the Bagua and explain the three paths." Wu Zhongyuan said.

"Is there hope?" Wang Xinran asked.

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, "This is asking me to explain the meaning of the existence of heaven, earth and man, which is equivalent to asking a high school student to explain Fermat's conjecture, four-color conjecture and Goldbach's conjecture in mathematics. Do you think there is hope..."

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