The years when I was Captain Jin

Chapter 250 The Millennium Mouse

I swear that I have never heard such a weird laughter in my life. The sharp laughter is like a child holding his throat, which makes people shudder when they hear it.

Let me ask, who doesn't panic when holding a smiling head in the middle of the night?

I was so frightened that I threw the puppet's head out. The head hit the ground with several cracks, but I still wobbled and laughed.

Me, Fatty, and Wang Yuanchao all took a step back at the same time.

It wasn't until we left the puppets that the weird laughter slowly disappeared.

The fat man was wearing big pink underpants, and said with the air of an old hooligan, "Ding Dong, isn't there a formula in our tomb robbery business? White hair is stiff and black hair is evil, and the smiling face of the crying Buddha is always bad. Deal with it, it's either a ghost or a monster, I think we'd better withdraw."

After finishing speaking, the fat man begged his grandpa to sue his grandma and nagged at the puppet repeatedly: "It's just passing by, everyone, don't take offense, don't take offense."

I didn't speak.

I also know the formula that the fat man said. It probably means that the rice dumplings with white hair in the ancient tomb are zombies, and the rice dumplings with black hair are evil stars. Things with mournful faces are not harmful, and most of them are those who are smiling. This is the experience accumulated by the ancestors of tomb robbers for thousands of years.

But I always feel that these puppets are not ghosts.

But if it wasn't a ghost, how could it wink at me?Laughing with his head pried off?
My strong curiosity overcame my fear, and finally I stomped my feet and said, "Brother Yuanchao, let's go up and have a look, there must be something strange about this puppet."

Regardless of Fatty's reaction, we walked directly in front of the puppet's head, and slammed it on the deck like a coconut.

After the puppet's face was covered with cracks, I inserted the paratrooper knife into it and broke the puppet's head in half.

At the same time, what was hidden inside was revealed!
I quickly picked up the lantern and took a light to see clearly what was going on with the puppet's head.

It turned out that the head of the puppet was not solid, the wood inside was completely hollowed out, and many small gears made of steel were inlaid inside, and a large roller with a diameter of more than ten centimeters was fixed directly above the gears.

The big roller seemed to have exhausted its last strength, it was turning slowly and then stopped.

Wang Yuanchao and I were dumbfounded. I didn't expect such an old antique thousands of years ago to hide the same mechanical structure as the modern one. What the hell is going on?

I quickly called the fat man over and asked, "Fatty man, is this puppet really from the Three Kingdoms period? Take a closer look."

"This..." Fatty was a little dazed when I asked him, and said in an uncertain tone: "That's right, both the carving techniques and the painting techniques are all in the style of the Three Kingdoms period."

"Then why are there gears here?"

"I'm fucking depressed too." The fat man cursed, then fiddled with the big roller, trying to vent his anger.

But as soon as it was fiddled with, the big roller drove the gear, and the firing pin made a terrifying laugh again.

The green lantern shone on the puppet's smiling face, as if all the boys and girls around were alive!And this weird laughter also sent chills down my spine, I only felt a chill rushing up the soles of my feet, and goose bumps all over my body.

The fat man even sat down on the ground, stunned and shouted: "Fuck, I scared the fat man to death."

At this moment, I have regained my calm, and countless thoughts flashed through my brain.

It seems that those horrible laughter are not caused by some evil spirits, but by the mechanism in the puppet's head, just like a musical instrument is installed in the puppet's head, as long as the big roller is turned, the instrument will play.

But the strange thing is that no one has turned the big roller before, so what made the laughter come from?

Could it be that there is something else hidden in this seemingly huge scroll wheel?
I took a closer look and found that the roller was cast with a thin layer of iron sheet, and it made a crisp sound when I flicked it with my fingers, obviously it was empty inside.

I carefully cut open the iron sheet with a paratrooper knife, and when I saw what was inside the roller, I was so shocked that my jaw dropped.

There was a little black mouse nestled inside!

The appearance of this mouse is very strange, its body is almost twice the size of a normal mouse, with a bulging belly, and a pair of bright small eyes, emitting a strange light, looking at us like a thief.

Seeing me holding the knife, the mouse chirped twice and wanted to bite me. I didn't react for a while, but fortunately, Wang Yuanchao was quick-sighted, grabbed the paratrooper knife from my hand, and quickly nailed the mouse to the deck .

"My God! Why are there mice in here?" I said in surprise.

Although the mouse had been pierced through the stomach by a knife, its tail was still trembling, its mouth was making strange chirping noises, and it was staring at me fiercely.

The fat man glanced at the mouse in bewilderment, then at the roller that I had cut open, and became dazed.

I saw that he suddenly stopped moving, so I asked what was going on?

The fat man pointed to the space inside the roller and said, "I know how the puppet laughs! There is a mouse in the puppet's head, and the mouse is enclosed in the big roller. As long as it moves, the roller will turn. The puppet also laughed. Dingdang, have you ever raised a pet? Little hamster, just like that cute little hamster on a roller toy."

I was stunned by the exquisite craftsmanship in front of me, and it took me a long time before I remembered to ask the fat man: "Did such advanced craftsmanship exist in the Three Kingdoms period?"

The fat man shook his head and said, "It's really hard to say. During the Three Kingdoms period, talented people came out in large numbers. Didn't even Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, build wooden cows and horses? I think as long as you have money, you can gather skilled craftsmen from all over the world to gather together and want to build It shouldn’t be difficult to get out of this kind of institution.”

"Then what's the matter with this mouse? Has it been sealed in the roller for thousands of years without dying? And it doesn't eat or drink." I looked at the mouse that was still chirping strangely and asked.

"This fat man doesn't know, there must be some mechanism that can provide it with food and drink..." The fat man was also at a loss, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly said: "But the fat man has heard from the old predecessors in the tomb robbery world that the legend There is a kind of mouse called the millennium mouse. As the name suggests, this kind of mouse can survive for thousands of years. They don't come out at night like ordinary mice, but eat enough every time, and then sleep, sleeping for hundreds of years. In [-], he continued to sleep after waking up and eating, and would only wake up when disturbed. It is said that a king named Qi Xigong had a wish before his death, saying that the tomb was too monotonous, and he wanted to give living things to him. It would be good to be a companion by yourself. So his sons searched here and there, and finally found the Millennium Mouse, which made Qi Xigong die with a smile. As a result, Qi Xigong's body was eaten up by the mice within a few months. It was a joke for a while."

(End of this chapter)