Origin Chapter 101: The Living Dead
"It really doesn't look like a human being. Humans can't scratch so fast." Wu Zhongyuan said.
At this time, Lv Jiahui and Zhang Shukai also pressed their ears to the door, and they also heard the sound of scratching the door, but it only lasted for a short time and then disappeared.
"Why is there no movement?" Wu Zhongyuan said.
Wang Xinran thought for a while, took the claw hammer from Lv Jiahui's hand, and knocked twice at Shimen.
After the knock, there was a sound of scratching at the door again. The scratching speed was very fast, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, and then again. Swish. The scratching speed is very fast, and the number of scratches varies from time to time.
"Not Morse code." Lv Jiahui shook her head.
Wu Zhongyuan glanced at Lv Jiahui, then said to Wang Xinran, "What do you feel?"
"Judging from the frequency of scratching the door and the volume of the sound, it should be some kind of animal with sharp claws." Wang Xinran said.
Wu Zhongyuan didn't ask again, Wang Xinran's judgment coincided with his.
"What could it be?" Lv Jiahui turned to look at Zhang Shukai.
"Could it be a pangolin?" Zhang Shukai guessed.
Wang Xinran said, "We are now at a depth of 100 meters. How could pangolins come here?"
"Otter?" Zhang Shukai guessed again.
Wang Xinran shook his head, "It shouldn't be, these stone chambers are airtight, otters can't get in, not to mention that otters should be afraid of people, but the animal inside obviously wants to attack us."
The four of them didn't speak for the next few minutes. As long as the door grabbing sound disappeared, Wang Xinran would knock on the stone door. After each knocking, the door grabbing sound would reappear.
All kinds of impossibility are ruled out. No matter how incredible the remaining one is, it must be the truth. Now the truth has been revealed. What, it was originally here.
Wang Xinran lit a cigarette and took a sip. "If you grab the door so fast, you must be moving very fast."
"Apart from scratching the door, I didn't hear the sound of the chain mopping the floor. It should not be locked by the chain." Wu Zhongyuan said.
The two are actually worried about the same question, which is what to do if the stone gate is blasted open and the animal inside jumps out.
"What exactly is the animal inside?" Lv Jiahui frowned, "How did it survive until now?"
"If you don't open the stone gate, you will never know what it is," Wang Xinran said, turning her head to look at Zhang Shukai, "On the premise that the stone gate can be pushed open, try to narrow the blasted gap as much as possible."
"I'll try my best." Zhang Shukai nodded in agreement, then considered the angle and removed part of the gravel that was on the gas cylinder.
Ready, the four retreated to a safe area. Zhang Shukai asked for Wu Zhongyuan's pistol and prepared to shoot.
Zhang Shukai saw the three of them one by one, and when the three were psychologically prepared, he pulled the trigger on the gas cylinder.
After the explosion, there was a scratching sound from the Shimen, this time the scratching sound was very clear.
Because the smoke and dust caused by the explosion had not dissipated, the situation in front of him had not been dissipated, and Wang Xinran did not intend to see the situation before firing. Seven shots.
The gunshots stopped, and the scratching also disappeared. Wang Xinran irradiated the area with a strong flashlight. When the dust settled, everyone could clearly see that there was a black thing in the gap that was blown up. To be precise, it was a black , only the head was drilled out, and the body was still stuck in it.
Wang Xinran put on * and walked forward cautiously. Zhang Shukai and Lv Jiahui followed with guns, and Wu Zhongyuan walked at the end.
In front of Deshimen, Wu Zhongyuan saw clearly the situation at the gap, and his stomach throbbed instantly. What came out of the gap was indeed a head, but it was not an animal's head, but a human head. Wang Xinran fired seven shots before. , at least three shots were hit, and red blood and white brain fluid slowly overflowed from the bullet holes.
Wang Xinran and others should have seen this kind of **** scene a lot, and they did not show nausea or discomfort. The expressions on the faces of the three were more puzzled. Judging from the scratching sounds before, it should be an animal. Yes, how can it be a person.
The person who was shot was a small flat-headed man. This hairstyle is naturally not from the ancients, and undoubtedly belonged to Zhao Ying.
At this moment, a strange situation happened, and the head of the man who had been shot a few times suddenly opened his eyes and raised his head.
No matter how daring you are, you will be frightened when you see such a situation. While exclaiming and retreating, Wang Xinran and Zhang Shukai fired a few more shots at the man's head.
Because it was shot at close range, the destructive power was even greater, and the entire head was almost smashed to pieces. Even so, the head was still moving, arching forward violently, trying to get out of the stone door.
But the gap was so small that it caught his shoulders. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get out. After repeated attempts, he quickly retracted into the stone chamber.
The four were in shock and looked at each other.
"How could this be?" Wu Zhongyuan was the first to speak.
No one can answer his question.
"Is he the one who grabbed the door just now?" Wu Zhongyuan said again.
The three still didn't say a word. The matter was so strange that none of them came back to their senses, and no one could give a reasonable explanation.
"How did he become like this?" Wu Zhongyuan said, he didn't ask Wang Xinran and others, he was 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, Lv Jiahui added, "Zombies are not invincible, and they can also be killed by attacking their heads."
"Then what's going on?" Wu Zhongyuan pointed at Shimen.
No one answered.
Wang Xinran held a flashlight with strong light, and lay down on the crooked body, shining in from the gap in the stone gate.
"What's in there..."
Wu Zhongyuan didn't finish his words, and a half-hearted head suddenly emerged from the gap. Since the accident happened too suddenly, no one was psychologically prepared. The three instinctively ducked backwards, but Wang Xinran was the most frightened. Seriously, he hurriedly rolled to dodge, stabilized his body, and shot immediately.
Due to the angle of the shot, these shots directly knocked off the half of the head from the neck. At the moment when the head was separated from the neck, a yellow snake-shaped creature came out of its cavity and exposed half a foot. After that, he turned his head and drilled back into the cavity, and the headless corpse shrank back from the gap in the stone gate again.
"Have you seen it?" Wu Zhongyuan looked at the three of them anxiously.
Judging from the three people's expressions, all three saw the snake-shaped creature, which was about the thickness of a thumb, was khaki-yellow, and had no obvious head. It didn't look much like a snake, nor an eel or an eel. , but a bit like an earthworm.
"Like a roundworm, but many times bigger than a roundworm." Lv Jiahui said.
"Don't you have any information about this kind of thing in your headquarters?" Wu Zhongyuan asked, "That person may have died long ago, and that yellow thing is controlling him."
"It may be a kind of creature like iron nematode." Wang Xinran said, seeing Wu Zhongyuan's puzzled face, Wang Xinran knew that he didn't understand this kind of creature, so he explained, "Iron nematode is a kind of parasitic worm, usually parasitic on the arthropods. In the body of animals, this type of worm has a great feature, which can control the behavior of the host, making the host show strong aggression, and when they want to change the host, they will drive the original host to commit suicide. Known There are hundreds of species of iron nematodes, but the individuals are very small, as big as just now, and have never been found."
After Wang Xinran finished speaking, Lv Jiahui said, "In addition to iron nematodes parasitic worms, some fungi can also affect the behavior of infected people. The well-known Cordyceps sinensis is such a situation. Before death, keep it upright in the soil, so that the fungus can germinate and grow from its head."
Wu Zhongyuan nodded to Lv Jiahui, lay on his side, and looked in from the gap.
Wang Xinran handed over a flashlight with strong light, but Wu Zhongyuan waved his hand and didn't answer it. Although he had made psychological preparations in advance, the headless corpse did not reappear. The general situation in the stone room could be seen through the gap. What I saw was a stone platform that was the same as the ones I had seen before. In the center of the stone room was a large four-legged bronze vessel. It was square, nearly two meters long and wide, about one meter high, and had ears on all sides.
He is not unfamiliar with this style of bronzeware. This is a bronze ice mirror. It is an ancient water storage vessel. It has a thermal insulation effect and is also the prototype of a modern refrigerator. , and only half this size.
A large number of bullet casings were scattered around the Bronze Ice Mirror. In addition to the bullet casings, there were also large bloodstains. A waterproof backpack was left not far from the Bronze Ice Mirror.
Change the angle, continue to observe, and find a black animal in the northeast corner of the stone room. This animal is lying on the ground motionless. It should not be a living thing. Some are like dogs, some are like monkeys.
There is nothing else in the other areas of the stone chamber. The previous headless corpse is not in the stone chamber. There are bloodstains left on the edge of the bronze ice mirror. The headless body should have climbed into the bronze ice mirror.
"Knock on the stone door." Wu Zhongyuan said.
Wang Xinran took the claw hammer and knocked on the stone door. There was no abnormality in the stone room, and the headless body did not climb out of the bronze ice mirror.
After observing the situation in the stone room, Wu Zhongyuan stood up. Wang Xinran didn't ask him what he saw. Instead, he lay down and observed it himself by the light of the strong flashlight.
While the two of them observed the interior of the stone chamber, Zhang Shukai made a torch. He made a torch not just for lighting. He carried a gas cylinder behind his back. If necessary, he could release oxygen to help burn the A headless corpse.
Before pushing the stone door open, Wang Xinran fired a shot at the bronze ice mirror. The bullet hit the bronze ice mirror, causing a dull echo, and the headless body did not reappear.
Carefully pushing the stone door open, Zhang Shukai and Lv Jiahui stood on guard from the door, while Wang Xinran accompanied Wu Zhongyuan to the stone platform.
While walking, Wang Xinran used a strong flashlight to illuminate the northeast corner of the Zhaoshi room. This time, he could see clearly that it was not a dog that fell there, but a black-haired monkey.
There was a thick layer of dust falling on the stone platform. Don't ask, Zhao Ying and others didn't even try to answer before. They knew that they must be wrong.
There are no round holes or stone **** on this stone table. There are three gossip copper plates inlaid on the stone table. The three gossip plates are the same size. Each gossip plate has five rings inside and outside. , The hexagrams of the two instruments, the four images, the eight trigrams, and the sixty-four hexagrams, on the top of the three discs, each has two characters, namely the Tao of Heaven, the Tao of Earth, and the Tao of Humanity.
"What is this topic?" Wang Xinran asked.
“He wants me to turn the five rings of gossip and explain the three ways.” Wu Zhongyuan said.
"Is there any hope?" Wang Xinran asked.
Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, "This is for me to explain the meaning of the existence of heaven, earth and human beings, 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... "