Volume 1 Jin Dynasty Ancient Tomb Chapter 15 The Corpse Appears Again

  Bang, bang, I kept hitting the wall, my body felt like it was going to fall apart. Zhu Baozi took out a small hand grenade, exactly the same as the one used by Song Tian before. It wasn't very powerful but very practical, most importantly, it wouldn't blow up the ancient tomb. He shouted from below "Lin, catch the grenade and blast the roof!" As he finished speaking, he shone his flashlight on me. I lifted my head, the entire roof was like a bundle of rattan tied together, resembling a trumpet-shaped plant, with corpses hanging all over it, some had become skulls, others were mummies. I quickly lowered my head, not daring to look again, I didn't want to become one of them.

  Look at me being flung over, Zhu Baozi hastily threw the grenade up, fortunately, he threw it to just the right height, I grabbed it with one hand, my heart was delighted, but then I crashed into the wall again, my head buzzing with a loud noise, and poor me was flung towards another direction. At this moment, I suddenly saw a pottery figurine standing on a pottery horse carriage, and I happened to be able to hug him tight. In order to stabilize myself, as soon as I got close to the pottery figurine, I hugged him tightly, but unfortunately, the pottery figurine was not solid enough, not only did it fail to hold me in place, but it was also pulled up by me.

  Bang, it crashed into the wall again, and I forgot to let go, so the pottery doll went "pa" and shattered. What's even more surprising is that after the pottery doll shattered, it wasn't empty inside, but a desiccated corpse, with its lower jaw gone, leaving only a row of teeth. I was so scared that I quickly let go.

  "Ka ka ka," I frowned, what a sound, and when I lowered my head, my soul almost got scared to death. That damned corpse actually came back to life, its mouth wide open, biting towards my neck. It grabbed onto my outer garment, didn't fall off, I was anxious, stuffed the grenade into its mouth, kicked it down, and while still in mid-air, heard a loud boom, the corpse turned into scattered remains.

  And I could only continue to endure the constant impact on the wall, until I fainted. When I woke up, I felt like my brain was filled with lead, and within ten centimeters of my nose tip was a desiccated corpse, its dry brown skin wrapped around its bones, empty eye sockets, protruding teeth, and sunken cheekbones scared me into hastily leaning back, but suddenly my head was hit again, and it throbbed with pain. I turned my head to look around, and found that I was surrounded by the corpses! They were all around me, in front of me, behind me, to my left and right.

  Looking down, everything was pitch black all around, and I had no idea where the stones were. Suddenly, I felt something coming towards me. Although I couldn't see it, I could feel the vines moving around me, and there was a rustling sound. My heart immediately rose to my throat, and cold sweat broke out again.

  I opened my eyes wide to see clearly the thing that had crawled over, when suddenly a dazzling light burst forth, making my eyes ache with a sharp pain. I hastily raised my hand to shield my eyes.

  "You're awake," the stone's voice came over, and after adapting to the brightness, I saw that it was the stone crawling towards me on the rattan, and he also had a lot of injuries on his body, especially with a big bruise on his face, and his clothes were torn into strips. I couldn't help but ask in doubt, "What happened to you?"

  "What's wrong? I just wanted to come up."

  My nose turned sour and tears gushed out. It turned out that Shi Tou had deliberately let himself be tied up by the rattan to come and save me, suffering a whole body of injuries. At this time, Shi Tou had already climbed over, he was not afraid of the dry corpse, what could be kicked down was kicked down, what couldn't be kicked down, he directly grasped it, soon using it to cut off the rattan on my feet, then grabbed my hand and let me turn around with my head facing up. At this time, my feet were less than three meters away from the ground.

  "I'm letting go, be careful!" Shi Tou warned.

  "Relax!"

  I thought I could stand firm, but after standing on my head for so long, it wasn't that easy to recover. I felt a burning sensation on my face, and with a stumble, I fell to the ground, shattering a clay figurine. Fortunately, I didn't turn into a zombie. The stone jumped down and helped me up, asking "How are you? Are you okay?"

  I rubbed my head and said "It's nothing, just a bit dizzy."

  After a while, Shi Tou pulled me up and said "Be careful where you step, don't tread on the rattan strips and you'll be fine."

  I took a look, and indeed, the rattan strips and stone bricks were of one color, and if you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see them at all. This time, with the stones leading the way, it was much smoother to walk, about six minutes or so. On the opposite side, another burst of light flashed over, "Mr. Zhang, have you rescued Mr. Lin?"

  "En," Shi Tou replied, and I could tell it was Zhu Baozi asking the question.

  Zhu Baozi and Lao San leaned against a stone gate, Lao San's face was pale and weak, his eyes closed. Seeing a living person become like this, I couldn't help but say "Alas, what happened to him?"

  Zhu Pangzi also sighed "Hope he can hold on."

  The stone walked over and pushed against the stone gate, saying "Can't open the stone gate?"

  Zhu Baozi replied, "Well, I pushed for half a day and couldn't push it open."

  Shitou stepped back two steps and together with Zhū Bāozi used a flashlight to shine on it. The stone gate had a wolf head carved on it, exactly the same as the one on the stone bricks inside the passageway. The wolf's two eyes protruded forward and were empty in the middle, revealing two holes that were just the right size for human hands to fit into, like two door handles. However, what was eerie was that the two eyes were one red and one blue, but when the flashlight shone on them, they both emitted a faint, cold black light.

  "What's going on?" Zhu Baozi asked me with a look of surprise.

  I licked my dry, cracked lips and said, "You guys think we've all been deceived? Is this really the true burial site?" As soon as I finished speaking, even I myself wasn't sure. Could it be that the massive project above was just to deceive others?

  "No, it can't be!" Zhu Baozi was also extremely surprised.

  I turned back to take a look, and with my hand touching the wolf head on the stone gate, I said "The one above is the standard for the tomb of the nobles in the Spring and Autumn period, while this is the standard for the king's tomb. The pottery figurines are lined up in an array, the wolf head guards the gate, and inside should be the palace, meaning that the owner of the tomb was a king when he was alive, and after death, he also wanted to rule the underground."

  "What's the point anyway? We've got to open the stone gate." The rock said to me, seemingly uninterested.

  "It's very simple," I nodded and said. "The mechanism is in one of these two eyes, you can choose either one, push it inward, if you choose the right one, the stone gate will open naturally."

  "What if I chose wrong?" Zhu Baozi asked.

  "Heh," I shrugged and said "Then you've activated the mechanism, what kind of mechanism I don't know, but it's definitely going to let us play till the end."

  Zhu Baozi wiped his nose with his hand and said, "Then let's choose blue! Doesn't blue represent peace?" After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand towards the blue wolf eye, but hesitated and didn't dare to press it. It was clear that he was also hesitant in his heart. At this moment, a hand suddenly pressed the red wolf eye, I turned my head, and it was not someone else, but Shi Tou.

  Zhu Pangzi withdrew his hand and scolded loudly, "What's wrong with you? Why did you press the red one?"

  The stone glanced at Zhu Baozi faintly and turned his head to say "Because the blue one was blocked by you."

  With a loud crack, the three of us immediately took a step back, tensely staring around, afraid that some unexpected mechanism would appear.

  "Door... door..." Old Three said weakly as he sat on the ground.

  I lifted my head and saw that the door was ajar. I felt a surge of joy and exclaimed, "The door is open! The door is open!"

  Zhu Pangzi patted Shi Tou's shoulder and said, "Little brother, I didn't expect you to have such skills!"

  The stone didn't answer, walked back and stretched out his hand to push the door, but the stone gate only slightly shifted. The stone frowned, using both hands at the same time, and was barely able to move the stone gate.

  "Let's help together!" Zhu Baozi handed the flashlight to Lao San and said "Lao San, shine a light for us."

  I pulled down the torn sleeve and threw it to the ground, also walked over to help the stone push the door together. The three of us used force, but the stone gate still moved slowly. Carelessly, I used too much force and scraped off a piece of skin from my shoulder, which hurt so much that I immediately stood up straight, rubbed my shoulder with my hand, and when I lifted my head, I was stunned.

  "What's wrong? Won't you come and help?" said Zhu Baozi.

  I patted Zhu Baozi and pointed at the short and stout shadow on the stone gate, stuttering "Isn't this your shadow?"

  Zhu Baozi nodded, and I pointed to the shadow in the middle and said "This is mine, isn't it!" Zhu Baozi nodded again, and I pointed to the shadow on my left and asked "Is this Shi Tou's shadow, isn't it?"

  Zhu Pangzi glared with his eyes and said somewhat displeasedly: "What the hell do you want to ask?"

  I pointed at the tall and thin shadow moving on the left side of the stone and asked, "Damn it, whose shadow is this?"

  "Damn it," Zhu Baozi also saw the way out at this time, pulled out his gun and shot back. At this time, Shi Tou also turned around and opened his flashlight, only to see that the flashlight was still being held by Lao San on his chest to illuminate us, but his head had already been smashed like a watermelon, blood and brain matter were still flowing out continuously. A zombie was less than two meters away from us.