Chapter 228: The Combination of Man and Beast(1/2)
Cheng Hao reacted in an instant. He pressed the short knife in his hand against the ground. When the boat was completely close to the four people, he quickly jumped on it. The bow of the boat was instantly stressed, and countless blood spots flew towards the four people, including Bai Chi. He stepped back with a quick step, and the wretched man stood in front of Shen Li in an instant, with blood all over his body.
Now is not the time to worry about this. The wretched man also carefully took the pistol from Shen Li's hand and held the military dagger in his other hand.
The lid of the coffin facing several people is still closed, which means that the coffin on the other side is open.
Bai Chi made a visual inspection and found that the boat was more than three meters long. Excluding the distance between the front and rear, the cabin was reduced to one and a half meters. It would be difficult to hold two coffins with such a length.
When I opened the coffin just now, I didn't pay attention to the length of the coffin, but focused all my attention on the stone carvings. Now thinking about it, Bai Chi seems that this coffin is only fifty centimeters long. If there is a partition, then there will be another coffin of the same size on the opposite side of it, which is the one that several people saw has been opened just now.
Cheng Hao gently opened the coffin lid, then jumped down again. Bai Chi took a step forward and asked, "Is it the original one?"
Cheng Hao nodded and replied: "Yes."
Then Cheng Hao used a short knife to carefully hand the bow of the boat to one side. Slowly, the other side of the boat appeared in front of the four people.
Cheng Hao jumped up again, and Bai Chi hurriedly followed. Cheng Hao looked inside the coffin with a flashlight, but there was nothing inside, as if nothing had been placed at all.
Thinking of the coffin opposite, Bai Chi hurriedly asked Cheng Hao to turn the coffin lid over. Cheng Hao followed Bai Chi's instructions and closed the coffin lid, and instantly a embossed giant python appeared in front of several people.
The appearance of this giant python was similar to what Bai Chi had seen on the two bone mountains, except that this carving had four legs carved under the body of the giant python. In an instant, Bai Chi remembered the allusion of superfluous things.
In ancient times, dragons symbolized the existence of emperors. The paintings about dragons that we see today have been improved since ancient times. People at that time did not worship blindly. A poisonous snake could easily bite someone to death, so many people would mythologize it. With such rendering, the legend of dragon appeared over time.
The coffin lid depicting a giant python that the four of them are facing now may not be a simple snake-shaped pattern. If it is more profound, it should be a dragon.
Judging from the baby drawing of this dragon, this stone sculpture must have a very long history, because this dragon has not yet evolved to what it is today.
Bai Chi looked at the coffin lid and thought about the one on the other side, and suddenly became shocked. This place might be a burial place for emperors...
The shocked mood could not be calmed down for a long time. This idea made Baichi somewhat unable to accept it. If this is also an imperial mausoleum, then who is buried here? Who would bury themselves on the edge of the Yellow River?
Cheng Hao also thought about this problem while standing in front. The lens reflected the slightest light under the flashlight. Bai Chi didn't know how to explain this problem. Judging from the signs that the coffin had been opened, it meant that there must be something inside. something.
Maybe it's the same thing as the giant python stone sculpture.
And now it has disappeared inexplicably, which shows that this giant python stone sculpture is a very important thing to someone.
This is only the most preliminary judgment. Baichi still doesn’t know whether there is anything inside, but the only thing that is certain is that someone has been here!
Cheng Hao took a breath and jumped off the boat. Bai Chi didn't want to stay alone and followed him.
Seeing that the two of them had very similar expressions, the wretched man said, "How long have you been here and you're still trying to be cool?"
Bai Chi glanced at the wretched man and said nothing. Cheng Hao lit a cigarette and took a long puff and said:
"Let's leave this place as soon as possible, I feel like we have touched another force!"
Bai Chi was shocked. The other force Cheng Hao mentioned was most likely another wave of people, but he shouldn't show such a frightening expression, right?
The wretched man's expression changed after hearing what Cheng Hao said. Bai Chi felt that things were not as simple as he thought. Could it be that the other force was not human?
Bai Chi walked up to the wretched man and told the wretched man everything that happened in the cabin and his inferences. After listening, the wretched man tremblingly took out a cigarette, looked at Cheng Hao and asked:
"We've really touched that power!"
When Bai Chi heard this, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, and the two began to play riddles again. Bai Chi stood aside and was about to ask the wretched man what was going on. Cheng Hao flicked the cigarette butt away, looked at the wretched man and Bai Chi and said:
"Stop talking, this place is not very peaceful, leave now!"
After saying that, he quickly picked up his luggage and walked towards the other side. Bai Chi looked at the wretched man and couldn't help but ask:
"What is the other force you are talking about?"
The wretched man made a don't ask questions gesture to Bai Chi. Seeing that Cheng Hao ignored him, the wretched man lowered his voice and said:
"I don't know much about this power. Anyway, don't ask anything. It could be a human being or it could be a natural phenomenon."
Bai Chi took a hard time to think about it, and felt that nothing valuable could be analyzed. At this time, the wretched man and Shen Li were already chasing Cheng Hao, and Bai Chi hesitated for a while and chased after him.
The bank of this blood pool is a bit muddy, and one foot is deep and the other is shallow when walking, but surprisingly there is no blood in the mud on the bank, as if the mud has a filtering function.
There is no time to study this now. Cheng Hao has already walked to the other side. When Bai Chi walked over, Cheng Hao was squatting on the ground.
Shen Li and the wretched man stood next to Cheng Hao on the left and right. With the help of the light of the flashlight, Bai Chi looked around carefully and found that this place was exactly the same as the place where several people had just stayed.
Due to the existence of stone crevices, Baichi would probably regard this place as the place he came from.
Cheng Hao squatted on the ground with no intention of getting up, and kept tapping the ground with his hands. Bai Chi looked a little confused, not knowing what he was doing.
Seeing that the wretched man didn't say a word, Bai Chi couldn't say anything more. After a while, Cheng Hao slowly stood up and looked at Bai Chi for a while before saying to a few people:
"No footprints were found here. No one should have been here before us!"
Bai Chi thought for a moment and asked:
"If someone comes, they don't necessarily have to stay here. Maybe they can stay at the place we just stayed at."
Although this statement sounds a bit disbelieving to Cheng Hao, it is a fact.
Cheng Hao glanced at Bai Chi and said:
"It's unclear where we stayed just now. We didn't think too much about it at the time. It should be mixed up now, but I didn't find any other footprints when I walked over just now."
Cheng Hao was the first one to leave. Perhaps his motive was that he was afraid that a few people would come first and disrupt his observation, but this was obviously unnecessary. If someone had really come, and it happened to be where the four of them had been just now,
, which completely overturned Cheng Hao's speculation.
Now one thing is worse than one thing less. Bai Chi would rather believe that he is the first group of people to come than to believe that there is another group of people. But if this is really the case, then why is there nothing in the coffin?
Cheng Hao held up the flashlight and looked around for a while, and then said when he came to Bai Chi:
"There doesn't seem to be any exits here. I wonder if there are any agencies or something like that?"
Because he had touched something like a mechanism before, Bai Chiyue and Cheng Hao carefully groped under the cave wall for a while and touched a protruding object. He was immediately overjoyed and did not think about what would appear next moment.
Just press it hard.
At this moment, few people dared to speak, but after a while, nothing happened. The wretched man started to complain endlessly about whether this was a mechanism and not to touch any hanging rocks.
Bai Chi also felt that the stone just now was a bit abrupt. It shouldn't be some kind of mechanism triggering device, right?
But this idea only existed for less than a second, and suddenly a sound of chains grinding was heard around the four people.
This sudden noise really startled the four of them. Something that they thought had no mechanism actually existed...
The wretched man grinned and cursed, and hurriedly ran over there. Before Shen Li could react, Cheng Hao pulled her to his side, and at the same time grabbed the enthusiastic wretched man by the collar and pulled them together.
He was dragged back.
At this time, the sound of the machine's operation was still sounding. The wretched man turned around and said to Cheng Hao: "Brother, look at the door. It's open. Why are you holding me back?"
At first, Bai Chi squatted on the ground and didn't find anything. Now after the wretched man said this, Bai Chi looked forward and found that something was really opening slowly. But when he looked carefully, it was not just one, but seven in total.
Cheng Hao's eyes flashed under the cover of his glasses, he tapped his neck and said:
“Wait until you see it clearly before you consider whether to go there!”
As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Chi sighed secretly. At this time, the seven stone doors had been opened, but there was no exit inside. Cheng Hao glanced inside with a flashlight, and Bai Chi was stunned...
Behind these seven doors, there are actually seven mummies standing upright. Each mummy is only 1.56 meters tall. Bai Chi has long been used to seeing dead people, and the seven mummies will probably not transform into corpses.
What made a few people's scalps tingle the most was the fact that there were seven pythons as thick as calfs coiled around the bodies of these seven mummies.
This thing is no joke. The moment Cheng Hao swept over it with his flashlight, Bai Chi could clearly feel the seven pythons squirming slightly.
This proves that they are still alive, and are most likely hibernating or sleeping in this state.
Bai Chi was startled, and his clothes were soaked in cold sweat at some point. Cheng Hao's current concerns were completely understood by Bai Chi. With the fighting power of these seven pythons, they could strangle several people to death in an instant, except of course himself.
Now not knowing whether to advance or retreat, Cheng Hao let go of Shen Li and the wretched man, drew his dagger and looked ahead warily.
Shen Li stood next to Bai Chi. Bai Chi could see that Shen Li's face suddenly turned pale, and she couldn't say a word stuck in her throat.
This stone hall is so weird that it is unimaginable. Now these seven pythons appear again, and they are also climbing on the mummy. This is obvious that they already existed when this stone hall was built, and these seven pythons are still alive today. , must be closely related to these seven mummies.
Suddenly a terrifying thought appeared in Bai Chi's mind. Are they related to hosts?
Now take a closer look, the seven mummies are obviously dead, but the seven pythons are not only fine, but also alive and well. This must be the pythons draining the living people clean, and then they can live to this point.
Now there are two problems, one is feeding, and the other is parasitism.
If they are raised, these seven pythons will have the freedom to read and move on their own. If they are parasitic, it means that the two of them have grown together. If the giant python wants to move, it will be dragged by the corpse, so it cannot completely activities, this way the risk factor for several people will be greatly reduced.
Because of this idea, Bai Chi slowly turned from being alert at first to vigilance. After all, looking at it like this, the possibility of the host's surname is very high, because the snake's tail part can no longer be seen at all.
At this moment, Bai Chi planned to walk over and take a look. If the giant python wanted to attack him, it would definitely be restrained by the corpse. Even if there was danger, Bai Chi could easily avoid it with his own skills.
But as soon as he took a step, Cheng Hao suddenly grabbed Bai Chi's shoulder from behind. The force was so strong that Bai Chi had the urge to fight back at this moment.
Breaking away from Cheng Hao's hand, Bai Chi hurriedly looked back and saw the calm look on Cheng Hao's face. Bai Chi pretended to rub his shoulders and asked Cheng Hao, "What are you still worried about?"
Cheng Hao looked at the seven pythons in front of him and said solemnly:
"These seven pythons already have the ability to survive by reading."
Seeing the scene of mummies and pythons entangled with each other in such a strange stone hall, Bai Chi immediately thought of a hybrid between humans and animals.
This scene seems to be as incredible as a science fiction movie. If you tell this scene to others, it will definitely make people laugh out loud. Let’s not talk about how to get along. Let’s just say that the genes of humans and pythons do not match. If forced Combining the two into one must be hundreds of percent difficult.
But Bai Chi has really seen this scene now, and there are still seven pairs. If this is exposed to the outside world, it will definitely cause the whole world to go crazy.
Cheng Hao's closeness of mind has surpassed Bai Chi's imagination. Bai Chi once regarded Cheng Hao as Liu Wei, because no matter what he did, Cheng Hao had the shadow of Liu Qi. But the two people were completely different in height and appearance. There are only a few similarities, if I have to say there is one, it would only be the decisive character and the weapons in their hands.
Now Cheng Hao pulled Bai Chi back. When Bai Chi heard his words, he felt that this person was a little unfounded. The mummy had weathered so much, and the python also grew up with it. If he wanted to read the action, he must kill it. Break the connection between the two.
To be continued...