The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 223
I couldn't help but ran back two steps, shouting Tang Linlin's name, who would have thought that the entire passage would be filled with responses, echoing Linlinlinlinlinlinlin... Under the effect of the echo, The original voice changed and became extremely dull, as if some ghost was calling Tang Linlin's name.

I couldn't help but shut my mouth suddenly, my mind was in a mess.

How could a living person suddenly disappear?

Could it be... Is there any mechanism?I'm reminded of some scenes in the TV series, the floor tiles suddenly flipped over, and the main character was taken behind the wall or something.Although it's a bit nonsense, I can't help but wonder if Tang Linlin has fallen into some kind of trap.

If this is the case, the situation will be bad, because such traps are usually inserted with sharp iron spines and the like.

Thinking of this possibility, I immediately squatted down, imitating the protagonists in the TV series, knocking on the floor tiles with my hands, trying to hear the sound to distinguish whether there is a hollowed out trap under my feet.However, the sound that comes out is very crisp.

Zhou Xuanye on the side understood what I was thinking, and squatted down on the side to knock on the floor tiles. As he knocked, his face suddenly brightened, and he said, "I found it. There is something wrong here." I saw the brick he was knocking on. Hearing the sound, he knew that the place below seemed to be empty.

We were overjoyed, we got together and pressed carefully, but there was no movement at all, and judging from the gaps between the floor tiles, it was very tight.

Could it be that we both thought wrong?

But it's obviously empty here?

Zhou Xuanye frowned slightly, and made up his mind: "Dig it out first." Fortunately, we have climbing tools in our equipment bag, which can come in handy, and the two big men worked together to pry up this floor tile in no time. .

After prying it open, the bottom is really empty, but the space is not big. At best, it can hold a cat, but definitely not a person.

However, there is still one thing buried in this space at this moment.

The thing is in the state of a pipe, buried in the floor tiles on both sides of the bottom, and it looks quite long.

What is this?

Zhou Xuanye and I looked at each other, both confused, what is buried here?
"Boss." I wanted to ask Tan Ren if he knew, so I turned around and called him, but when I turned around, I almost went crazy and screamed, because Tan Ren's girl was gone.I didn't care too much, and turned on the most powerful searchlight directly, and the whole passage was instantly illuminated. At the end of the passage, there was a huge closed stone gate, and the figurines on both sides extended all the way to the outside of the stone gate.

Apart from the figurines, there is nothing else in the entire tunnel. What happened to Tan Ren and Tang Linlin?
God, even if there is a mechanism like in the TV series, there should be a little sound when the mechanism is activated, right?

But we heard nothing!
Zhou Xuanye's expression changed drastically, he jumped up abruptly, we both didn't care about the thing buried in the ground, our four eyes kept searching the surroundings, almost staring at a hole in the wall, but we still found nothing.

Zhou Xuanye took a deep breath, and said to me: "Get closer to me, we can't be separated anymore." I nodded and walked to the side of Zhou Xuanye. In fact, this is exactly what I thought in my heart of.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Xuanye said: "There was no sound of the mechanism being activated, and the people disappeared too quickly. There are only these figurines around. I suspect it has something to do with them."

they?

I stared at the figurine closest to me. Except that the facial features on the face were drawn a little weirdly, the rest really didn’t look great. Could it be that the two living people were blinded by these figurines? of?
After he finished speaking, he stood up, pulled out the ghost sword from behind with his backhand, and pointed it at the figurine closest to us.

I was taken aback, knowing that Zhou Xuanye probably wanted to test whether there was any problem with these figurines, so although my heart was pounding, I didn't stop it.

Zhou Xuanye's sword was very fast, from top to bottom, it slashed down from the figurine's chest.This sword was quite sharp and heavy. With one strike, the upper part of the figurine was cut in half. A large piece of the shoulder fell to the ground, and the outer clods also peeled off.

Coupled with this impact, the figurine failed to stand firm, and fell forward, slamming on the ground, and fell to pieces.

Although the figurine fell into a pile of dirt, a cylindrical object emerged from the center of the figurine.I subconsciously looked at the position where the floor tiles were pried open before, and saw that the things buried there were exactly the same as those in the figurines.

And as the figurine fell down, the thing tightened like a rubber band, accompanied by a piercing sound of the machine running, and before Zhou Xuanye and I could understand what was going on, I suddenly smelled There was a pungent smell.

How would you describe the smell? It's weird, not bad, but definitely not good. It's a bit like the smell of burning coal.

With the light of the flashlight, I saw puffs of white smoke coming out of the cracks in the floor tiles where the figurine was standing, and the smell was obviously coming from the smoke.

Now, even a fool would know that there must be something wrong with the smoke. Judging by the smell, it might be something similar to carbon monoxide.

The smoke came quickly, and Zhou Xuanye and I quickly covered our noses, and he grabbed my arm and said, "Quick, get out first!"

At this moment, we can't care about Tan Yan and the two of us for the time being, we both turned around and ran back, let's talk about escaping from this damn place first.At this moment, smoke was also rising from the feet of the figurines who hadn't fallen down, but after a short while, the place became foggy.

If it was carbon monoxide, I guess Zhou Xuanye and I would have died, but it should be something similar, and the harmful effects don’t take effect so quickly, so I don’t feel anything right now, it’s just that there is too much smoke, which makes my eyes hot.

Due to the thick smoke, our sight was also blocked, and we couldn't see the situation behind us at all. When we ran a few steps to the previous corner, we found that the passage had disappeared, and there was only a side covered with stones behind us. Brick wall!
I was dumbfounded, and said: "This, this is the road that Patriarch told us to take? He is cheating us!"

Zhou Xuanye raised his arm to cover his nose, and said, "Perhaps the situation at the other end of the passage will be worse?"

I said: "Could it be worse than now?" Damn it!I immediately beat the wall that popped up in front of me with my hands, but it didn't move.In desperation, I pulled out the climbing pry and smashed it. Just as I was about to release the first pry, Zhou Xuanye suddenly grabbed my hand and said, "Don't move, look, something is wrong with the real brick."

He motioned me to take a closer look, and I saw that the joints of the blue bricks were a little red, as if there was some red substance filling them.

Just now we searched for Tan Ren and Tang Linlin, and in order to find the mechanism, we also carefully checked the floor tiles. At that time, the gaps between the tiles were not red!

Thinking of this, I immediately ran back for a distance, and found that the gaps between the bricks in other places also turned red.

Yes, there is definitely a problem with this.

I put down the crowbar, I couldn't smash it, I couldn't get out, and the poisonous smoke was still increasing. If this continues, even if we don't get poisoned to death, the oxygen here will be exhausted sooner or later.

What should I do?
In the smog, Zhou Xuanye's face appeared and disappeared from time to time, and the expression on his face was even more obscure, and finally he said: "We have to think of other ways, and besides, Senior Brother and the others are probably still trapped in a certain place, we can't Just go.

"Then what should we do now?" I heard that carbon monoxide poisoning is serious and can cause incontinence. Just thinking about it makes my scalp numb.Even if this thing isn't carbon monoxide, it's probably about the same.

Zhou Xuanye didn't speak, but seemed to be thinking.

Anxiously, I remembered that strange tube buried in the ground.All of this seems to be related to the stretching of the tube. Obviously, it is the key to the control mechanism. Maybe we can start from it?
Thinking of this, I immediately covered my nose and told Zhou Xuanye what I was thinking. Right now, I had no other choice but to be a dead horse as a living doctor, so he didn't have any objections, and immediately followed me, and we returned to the hospital. When I got to the pipe, I started to test, trying to find out how to control this thing.

Stretching out his hand to touch it, the outer layer of this thing is wrapped in a layer of silk-like cloth, which is cold and cold, and the inner part seems to be a very thin chain, with both ends sunk into the floor tiles.I tried to pull it out, but I felt that the other end was very heavy, and the surrounding figurines seemed to be moved, shaking with them, looking like they were about to fall, so I quickly let go.

Zhou Xuanye seemed to have discovered something, with a thoughtful expression on his face, he said, "This thing is buried in the ground, and the end is inside those figurines. If you move it, poisonous smoke will come out of the ground... I understand, the key point is in the ground. The figurines are just an opportunity to activate the mechanism. We have to return this thing to its original position to block the poisonous smoke."

The surrounding area was completely white, and I started to feel dizzy, so I said, "Brother Zhou, it's too late to stop the traffic now, it's all smoke."

Zhou Xuanye said: "Go ahead, we can't sit still." Immediately, we started to pry other floor tiles.

(End of this chapter)