Lao Jiang's words made me take a breath of cold air. There are actually such ferocious insects in the world!
But I suddenly had an idea. The group of "mountain tigers" guarding the stone sculptures in Lei Town seemed to have many similarities with the blood flies. Could it be...
At this moment, Yin Ling'er interrupted my thinking: "Li Jinglan, are you scared to death? You look so cute when you are stupid."
I immediately glared at her and didn't say anything.
Because of the sacrifice of his companion, the remaining soldier who was the driver was very sad. Lao Jiang handed him a cigarette and said softly: "It takes only one cigarette to say goodbye to your brother."
After saying that, Lao Jiang walked aside and asked me to help him collect all the insect corpses on the ground.
"This thing is disgusting. Why do you want this?" I showed a disgusted expression. Old Jiang touched the black knife on his waist, and I could only agree numbly.
I put all the bug corpses outside the fire into a cowhide bag. The bugs in the fire had been reduced to ashes, and there was nothing I could do.
The soldier had already said goodbye to his companions. In order to prevent accidents, Lao Jiang burned the several archaeological team members who had died before.
"Although this is a wilderness, there are probably a few tomb robbers who will pass by, so we still have to dispose of the corpses." After doing all this, we can finally hit the road.
The inside of the bronze cymbal was stuffed with soft things, and there was no strange noise along the way. By the time we returned to the camp, it was already dark.
"I heard the car rang, the people are back, the people are back!" the soldier responsible for the night watch shouted excitedly from the guard tower.
After a while, Platoon Leader Zhang led people out and asked us excitedly if the matter had been resolved. Everyone...
Halfway through his words, he realized that there seemed to be one person missing.
Platoon leader Zhang looked around and looked around. The soldier accompanying him lowered his head and said solemnly: "Report to the platoon leader, Dongzi, Dongzi is gone."
Platoon Leader Zhang tried his best to control his sadness, but he couldn't help but cover his chest and said with a grimace: "I can die gloriously if I can sacrifice myself for the cause of archaeology."
After that, he told one of his subordinates to remember to pay pensions to Dongzi's family.
We were also a little uncomfortable, but Platoon Leader Zhang pretended to be relieved and changed the subject and asked us what we gained from this trip.
Lao Jiang told him: "We brought the bronze cymbal back and it's in the car."
Everyone's emotions immediately became tense. Lao Jiang reassured them that the evil thing in the cymbal has been tamed by us, and the current bronze cymbal is just a simple cultural relic.
Moreover, he specially wrapped the bronze cymbals to prevent them from making noise. Now it was time to wake up the people in the small house.
"Do you really have any solution?" Platoon Leader Zhang asked.
Lao Jiang nodded, briefly described what happened in the sacrificial pit, and then asked me to take a cowhide bag filled with dead insects and find a casserole.
"What? Prepare a pot? I heard you wrong, or you are planning to stew these bugs." I couldn't understand.
But Yin Ling'er immediately understood. She danced her fingers innocently and said: "I know, this is the way to treat the archaeological team! In our Miao border, there is a kind of whip snake, which looks like a whip and hides in dense weeds. , but because it is poisonous, the poison will kill a person within three days after being bitten. Unless the snake can be killed, its gall is taken out and the medicine is eaten, the poison can be detoxified. "
"Those bugs are the incarnation of the resentment in the ancient tomb, and they are also the key to causing the archaeological team members to go crazy. Uncle Jiang probably wants the archaeological team members to drink the soup stewed by these bugs to see if it can resolve their resentment, right?"
Yin Ling'er looked at Lao Jiang with pride, Lao Jiang immediately showed a doting look, looked at Yin Ling'er with a smile, nodded, and praised: "Our Ling'er is smart, unlike some people who let him do it Push the three and block the west.”
I grabbed the bag and turned away.
Lao Jiang asked me what I was doing, and I turned my back to him and replied: "If some people don't do anything, they will be despised to death even for standing..."
Platoon leader Zhang specially assigned two soldiers to help. We boiled all the bugs in a small casserole. Old Jiang told me to put less water and use a simmer.
After simmering for half an hour, Old Jiang agreed and asked me to quickly scoop out the worms.
But now the problem comes again. We have stewed the food, but how are we going to feed those crazy archaeological team members?
Lin Jianye ignored his physical discomfort and was helped to the door of the small house on crutches, frowning anxiously.
"Master, I have nothing to do with you now, right?" To be honest, the last time I entered the small house and saw those devil-like lunatics, I almost had goosebumps falling off my skin. This time I really don't want to Go in again.
Lao Jiang snorted disdainfully: "Look at how cowardly you are, so what if you get bitten? Don't we have an antidote?"
My eyes widened and I asked Lao Jiang if he meant for me to eat this bug too.
Before Lao Jiang nodded, I immediately shouted: "Then if someone bites off my head first, then it will be useless for me to eat worms a hundred times. Besides, Master, do you really have the heart to let me take risks?" ?”
Lao Jiang glanced at me and muttered, "It's just like getting a new apprentice, but you are Wen Tao's descendant after all, so you might be of great use."
After some weighing, he agreed to let me stay outside the door.
As a result, Yin Ling'er burst into laughter: "This is the first time I have seen such a timid boy. Haha, Master, Ling'er is not afraid. Ling'er wants to go in together."
The silver bells on her body made a pleasant sound, but it made my whole face turn red.
"Who's scared? I'm worried that something will happen to my master. Let him think it over. Tsk, how could I be scared? I'm not scared!" I gritted my teeth and vented my anger at Yin Ling'er.
Lao Jiang advised me not to make a fool of myself, but seeing everyone saying this, I couldn't hold it in any longer. After Platoon Leader Zhang ordered the door to be unlocked, I was the first to rush in.
The iron door opened with a creak, and an eerie, damp coldness hit my face, as if it was a hospital morgue that had been dusty for many years, with the smell of the dead everywhere.
I shivered uncontrollably, and my whole leg became weak and numb...
The soldier turned on the searchlight above his head, but saw that the west wall was covered with bloody graffiti. The archaeological team members were tied up with chains one by one, like trapped animals. They were either lying down or standing, swaying here and there.
This time I was more cautious and looked above my head. Fortunately, no one was there, otherwise I would have been afraid that someone would pounce and take me away.
The strange thing is that this group of archaeological team members are actually sleeping now, and they don't have the crazy aggressiveness before.
Lao Jiang told us: "The queen of flies should have been burned to death, and the summons to them will be gone."
He Lanxue was simple and straightforward, followed by a cold sentence: "What are you doing standing still? Give me medicine!"
We quickly did as we were told. The soldiers next to us held down the hands and feet of the archaeological team members. We took out bowls and fed the soup to those people separately. For some reason, those people felt as cold as corpses that had been dead for many days.
They had a strong rotten smell that made me want to throw up.
I tried my best to control the fear in my heart, opened the man's mouth and poured soup into it, but the man suddenly woke up and stared at me with his snow-white pupils, as if he wanted to eat me.
The moment we looked at each other, I felt my heartbeat stopped.
Several soldiers around him pressed his hands and feet tightly, asking me to feed him quickly.
I trembled so much that I pinched the man's mouth, took the bowl and poured it into it. I don't know how long he had been hungry, but he didn't resist, and instead tasted it with relish.
A crunching sound came from his mouth, the bones rolled, and the thing was swallowed.
"What are you doing standing there, let's go quickly." The soldier called me, and I immediately walked out.
This time I didn't dare to look to the west at all, for fear of being controlled by those weird bloody death inscriptions, but the sounds I heard with my ears became clearer and clearer, crunching, clicking, clicking.
There were terrifying chewing sounds and terrifying swallowing sounds everywhere.
It seems that this is not a prison, but a ghost cave that eats people without spitting out bones!
I left the small house as if I was running away. After a while, Lao Jiang and the others also came out.
"There are only five people alive now, and the rest have died of their injuries." Lao Jiang asked us to closely observe the reactions of these five people to see if they have improved, and then burn the dead ones completely to avoid evil Dead.
Time passed by, and we stood at the small window at the door and watched the reactions of the people inside, but after a long time, those people still didn't react at all.
"Are these antidotes useless?"
The excitement was gradually replaced by doubts, and everyone began to talk about it. Even Lin Jianye couldn't help blaming himself and crying: "Old Jiang, are my team members unable to be saved? It's all my fault. If I hadn't insisted on my own way, they wouldn't have changed at all. Like this.”
Lao Jiang frowned and said to himself: "It shouldn't be!"
"Is my guess wrong?"
Lin Jianye asked Yin Linger for help again, saying that since she could save herself, she could also save her teammates.
Yin Ling'er shook her head: "You were in a different situation than them at the time. You were just injured. But these people are already terminally ill. There is nothing we can do if we don't solve the problem fundamentally."
Lin Jianye began to beat his chest again. He cried and shook the iron door, shouting: "I harmed them, I am guilty!"
Seeing that Lin Jianye couldn't control his emotions, Platoon Leader Zhang winked at his men and asked them to take Lin Jianye away to avoid doing anything stupid.
However, at this moment, the soldier watching through the small window suddenly shouted in surprise: "Wait a minute, look at their eyes."
We quickly looked inside and saw that a black gleam began to appear in the pairs of white eyes, and the pupils that had been missing for a long time seemed to be recovering little by little.
And they no longer pawed the ground with their arms and legs, and began to stand on two feet.
In other words, they are changing from beasts back to humans little by little, and gradually they have to return to normal people!
