pappabearbooks Chapter 2492: Dark Cellar
Chapter 2492: Dark Cellar
After dealing with the tomb robbers, they were in the ancient tomb anyway, so they didn't bother to deal with the corpses.
The tomb robber incident was just a small episode, and they were ready to move on.
Lin Ran felt a little strange. Although it was said to be an underground secret room, the space was vast and there was obviously a road ahead to explore, but the tomb robbers stayed put.
Unless they are fools, they will wait to die.
Thinking about it this way, there is only one possibility, that is, there is danger ahead.
After a short rest and the pain on their bodies relieved, they continued to move forward.
There was a step in front of him. He went down the step and found a body lying in a damp corner below.
The corpse was wearing the same clothes as the tomb robbers and was obviously one of their accomplices.
"Why are you throwing it away after eating it?" Wang Jinpeng frowned.
"That's not right." Lin Ran came to the corpse and found that the corpse was different from the corpse that had been dismembered by his companions just now. This corpse seemed to have been soaked in water and the body was unusually bloated.
There was a huge wound in the stomach area, and the internal organs inside could be seen.
Next to the wound, there were some small green insects crawling, eating his body.
What's even more disgusting is that from time to time, small bugs are seen crawling out of his ears or eyes.
Everyone was disgusted by the scene in front of them and couldn't help but take a few steps back.
"What the hell is this?"
"Carrion bugs." Lin Ran said. This is a bug that lives in dark and humid environments and eats carrion. It is extremely rare in human society. Although this bug mainly eats carrion, it can also burrow into people's bodies. In the skin, it poses a threat to humans, so this bug will be eliminated by humans as soon as it appears. It can only be seen in inaccessible places.
What Lin Ran was more concerned about was the wound on the abdomen of the corpse, which looked like it had been torn in half by something.
The carrion insects lying near the wound were gnawing at his corpse, looking like silkworms eating mulberry leaves.
Lin Ran looked away from the physical presence and observed the surrounding environment.
When you walk down from the top, you enter a square space.
It looks a bit like an ancient cellar, and it is also very roughly built.
Different from the main tomb chamber, the stones used here are quite random, with various sizes and specifications, resulting in the front being staggered, like a maze.
There are many small holes on the wall, and I don’t know where they lead.
Standing there, I suddenly felt a cold wind blowing by.
Wang Jinpeng deeply remembered Lin Ran's teachings and did not touch anything in the room.
However, he still went to check the hole out of curiosity.
He originally wanted to see if there was any hole leading to the outside so that he could leave the secret room by digging.
As he put his eyes close to the hole, he noticed something moving inside.
Then he shined his flashlight curiously.
Just when he saw the creature in the hole clearly, he almost lost his grip on the flashlight and kept moving back.
"What's wrong?" Huang Hao looked at Kongdong as if facing a powerful enemy.
Wang Jinpeng is a very courageous person, and he knows very well that if he can scare him like this, there must be something terrible in the hole.
"There... there are a lot of those things in this hole." Wang Jinpeng was a little incoherent, pointing at the carrion insects that were eating the corpse.
Lin Ran's face instantly turned pale. The carrion bugs would not deliberately attack humans, but once their numbers increased, they would inevitably pose a threat to humans.
However, this kind of creature is particularly sensitive to light. Just now Wang Jinpeng shined a flashlight on it, which clearly attracted their attention.
You have to leave now.
Because carrion bugs have begun to crawl out of the holes.
There is also a platform with no escape on the steps behind them, and they are now trapped inside.
If they were surrounded by carrion insects, none of them would survive.
When the carrion crawls, it will produce strange sounds. To their ears, this sound is simply a requiem.
"Don't run back." Lin Ran said to Huang Hao, who wanted to escape. Once the carrion worm locked on its target, it would not let him go easily.
For a secret room like this, it is impossible for the craftsmen who built it to get out through the sealed door. The secret room is designed to be one-way.
Lin Ran searched around the cellar and found a narrow door on the south wall.
The door was made of the same stone material. If Lin Ran hadn't guessed that there was another door in the cellar, he wouldn't have discovered it.
The carrion insects kept crawling out of the holes, and Lin Ran came to the wall as if he hadn't seen them.
This stone door is some distance from the ground, and there is a step below.
The stone door is not completely sealed, and the threshold is made of wood.
It's just that due to years of disrepair, the threshold has become rotten. If you try to push it with your hands, it will make a creaking sound.
"There is a door here!" Huang Hao ran over immediately when he saw a way out. He was very excited. He was worried that he would die in this ancient tomb.
There are also some writings on the door.
Lin Ran took a closer look and finally found some words in his knowledge base.
It is the writing of Chu State during the Warring States Period!
However, there was a lot of text on it, and Lin Ran couldn't translate it immediately, and some of the handwriting was blurred.
Seeing Lin Ran checking the words on the door, other people followed his example and stood beside the door.
They thought Lin Ran didn't open the door because they found a mechanism on the door.
Liu Jingfeng also noticed the writing on the door. As a senior native master, he also discovered that the writing was different.
This is obviously written before the Qin Dynasty. In the past, Liu Jingfeng would have wanted to dismantle this door, take it out and sell it for money.
But now he has completely changed. Regarding the items in the ancient tomb, he will try not to move them as much as possible.
Others had more direct ideas. Ever since they entered the ancient tomb, they had been pushed forward by a pair of invisible hands. Except at the beginning when they came in to find the treasure inside, they had been running away.
Only someone like Lin Ran, who was very interested in history, would think of research at this time.
He glanced at Shimen and wrote down the rough sequence of words.
Wang Jinpeng couldn't bear it anymore and reminded: "Brother Lin, there are more and more bugs."
Just behind them, the carrion insects had gradually formed a torrent and were crawling towards them.
Although I really want to find out what is written on the door and whether there is any danger behind it, the current situation is really not the time to do research.
Wang Jinpeng asked: "Brother Lin, is there no problem with this door?"
Lin Ran nodded, "Okay, get it out of the way."