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Chapter 271 The corpse disappeared

Seeing a person sitting there and blinking at the two of them, Li Bojian immediately collapsed on the ground and screamed in fright. Although Chen Ziyang was also startled, but several times The experience of crawling and rolling in the tomb prevented him from losing his composure like Li Bojian.

Although he was also shocked, Chen Ziyang found out that the person sitting on the ground seemed to be motionless.After grabbing the headlamp thrown down by Li Bojian, Chen Ziyang looked over again. He found that the sitting person should also be a mummy, but he was sitting there when he died. Although so many years have passed, this The mummy remained in a sitting posture throughout.

Because of the vomiting before, coupled with the sudden fright, even now Li Bojian found that it was just a sitting corpse, but she was still limp and unable to get up, continuous physical exertion It made Li Bojian extremely weak.

Inspired by Li Bojian's nod, Chen Ziyang ignored the woman, but walked carefully to the sitting corpse and looked at it carefully.

This corpse is still wearing a monk's robe, and there is no hair on the head of the corpse, and there are a few faint ring scars on it. It seems that this corpse should also be a monk before his death.And this sitting corpse also has a long string of Buddhist beads hanging around its neck.

Then Chen Ziyang looked at the corpse's eyes. The corpse's eyes were very strange, black and bright. No wonder when the headlights came from before, the two felt that the corpse was blinking at them. Well, it turned out that this pair of eyeballs were doing the trick.

When he got closer, Chen Ziyang realized that the two eyeballs of the corpse did not seem to be human eyes.They are two black and bright transparent stones. Looking at the material, they look like black crystals formed during volcanic eruptions, which is commonly known as volcanic glass.

These two pieces of volcanic glass are spherical and deeply embedded in the eye sockets of the corpse. It is not known whether the monk was blind during his lifetime and used these two pieces of volcanic glass as artificial eyeballs, or when the monk died. Someone used these two pieces of glass as hidden weapons and shot him in the eye.

Knowing that this was a false alarm, Chen Ziyang heaved a sigh of relief, and then he looked at the corpse carefully.Compared with the previous mummy, the color of this corpse is darker, and there are many folds on the corpse. It seems that this person's corpse is made of a lot of dry cow dung. The horizontal pleats are stacked on top of each other, like a puff pastry.

Chen Ziyang estimated that this was because the owner of the corpse was very old before he became a mummy. It seems that the monk must be quite old, so his skin was already loose, and he died in the After coming here, it turned into a mummy, and the loose skin was wrinkled together tightly, and it became what it is now.

Standing in front of this corpse, Chen Ziyang illuminated a circle with the light of his headlamp. With the old man's body as the center, there were several couples who were fighting each other and died around him. It seemed that this old man should It was the center of the previous battle circle.At the end of the headlights, there seemed to be two tortured skeletons hanging in the air.There are several piles of black ashes around the old man, and I don't know what made them.

Some black powder was squeezed out of one of the piles of black ash. Chen Ziyang took a look, rubbed it with his fingers, and smelled it under his nose. He felt that the black ash seemed to be black. of ashes.

Picking up a piece of wood and pulling it left and right in the pile of black ash, Chen Ziyang found that the pile of black ash was very well-proportioned, all of it was black powder, and there were no small pieces of broken bones or the like.

Ashes are generally white, and after human bones are burned into ashes, there will always be large or small fragments left, which are not so symmetrical.But Chen Ziyang's intuition told Chen Ziyang that these black ash were not simple, but now is not the time to study these things, so he groped up and down on the old man's body.

While touching, Chen Ziyang wondered, there are two unreasonable things about the corpse of this old monk appearing here.The first one, he is such an old man, why did he come here with other people to fight.

The people who go into the tomb are usually young and strong. Even if they are some experienced old people, their age should not be too old. Otherwise, it is very likely that they will not be able to get out after encountering something evil in the tomb.Even if this old monk is the commander of this operation, he should also sit around and command, instead of dying in the center of the entire battle group.

The second unreasonable thing is the identity of this old man.How could a monk come to the tomb to rob the tomb?And there was a corpse just now dressed up as a monk. It is estimated that they came together with this old man. The two of them might be monks in the same temple. So what is the purpose of these two monks coming here?

After rummaging through the corpse for a while, Chen Ziyang let out a long sigh. The people who entered here had almost nothing in their pockets except for the weapons they carried. He found nothing except for a few magic tools, and these magic tools were only commonly used by Buddhists, which could not give him any clues.

Seeing Chen Ziyang fiddling in front of him for a long time without moving the sitting corpse, Li Bojian dared to walk over cautiously, but she never dared to look into the corpse's eyes.The light from the headlamp in Chen Ziyang's hand reflected on the two pieces of black volcanic glass, and there was a slight white light, as if the old man was blinking, which was a little scary no matter how you looked at it.

After looking around the corpse for a long time, Chen Ziyang did not find any scars on the surface of the corpse.The old monk's body was completely unscathed except for some peculiar eyes, and it is not known how he died.

Originally, Chen Ziyang wanted to turn over the old monk's body and examine his legs and buttocks carefully, but after thinking about it, Chen Ziyang dismissed the idea.Judging from the sitting posture of this old monk, he should be an eminent monk who has attained the Tao. His way of sitting and meditating is methodical, and it can be seen that it is a habit developed through decades of hard training.It is very inhumane to desecrate the corpse of such an eminent monk, and it may damage one's lifespan, so it is better not to do this matter.

The current Chen Ziyang is one head and two big, and he can't understand the cause and effect of the whole thing even if he wants to break his head.At this moment, there was a clicking sound from a distance. Although the sound was very slight, it still reached Chen Ziyang's ears in this quiet and dark space. .

This kind of sound sounds like the sound made when two wooden boards are lightly bumped, or the sound made when someone steps on a wooden board while walking in the distance.Chen Ziyang became vigilant in an instant. He quickly stretched out his left hand to block Li Bojian's chest. At the same time, he raised the ancient Xuanming sword and blocked it in front of his own chest.

After pricking up his ears and listening for a few seconds, Chen Ziyang didn't hear the same sound again.But he turned his head to look at Li Bojian beside him. From Li Bojian's nervous expression, Chen Ziyang could tell that it was not his own illusion just now, and Li Bojian should have heard the sound just now.

Realizing the seriousness of the matter, Chen Ziyang quickly turned off the headlight in his hand, and hid himself and Li Bojian in the dark. At the same time, he hugged Li Bojian's head tightly with his left hand, and pressed his left hand on her Mouth, don't let her make a sound.

With Li Bojian in his arms, Chen Ziyang carefully moved a few steps to the side, avoiding the original position of the two people.Regardless of whether it is a person or something else that made the noise in the distance, it is very likely that the two people have already become the target just now, so it is better not to stay where they are at this time.

In this way, after the two moved a few meters away, they waited there quietly, waiting for the next development of the matter, to see if something would pounce on the place where the two were standing just now.But the predator hidden in the darkness was obviously much more patient than these two people. The entire pitch-black space was extremely silent now, and Chen Ziyang could only faintly hear his own heartbeat.

After waiting for a long time, Chen Ziyang finally couldn't bear it anymore. In fact, the reason why he decided to act first was because of Li Bojian beside him.He didn't know whether Li Bojian was afraid or because he had consumed too much energy from the vomiting just now. Chen Ziyang felt that Li Bojian in his arms was trembling slightly, and it seemed that he couldn't hold on for long.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang suddenly turned on the light and shone in the direction of the sound just now.After finding nothing, he took another quick look around with the light, but he still didn't see anything around the two of them.

The noise just now was definitely not an illusion of the two of them. After Chen Ziyang illuminated the circle with the light of his headlamp, although he didn't see anything alive, he seemed to feel that something was wrong.After seeing a few piles of black ashes on the ground, Chen Ziyang realized what he felt was wrong. The corpse of the old monk had disappeared!
Just a few meters away from the two of them, in the center of a pile of ashes, the body of the old monk who had been sitting cross-legged disappeared without a trace.Cold sweat oozes from Chen Ziyang's forehead in an instant. This is really strange. There was no sound just now, and the two of them didn't hear any sound at all. Why did the corpse disappear?Could it be that the old monk was not dead at all, but he stood up and left by himself just now?

When he reached the place where the old monk's body was placed just now, Chen Ziyang saw that there was a faint trace of dragging on the ground, and a footprint was left on the pile of black ash.This footprint looks like it was stepped on by a barefoot person, but this person's footprint seems to be smaller than that of a normal person, and it looks like a child's footprint.

In addition to an obvious footprint in the black and gray area, there are several black footprints walking towards the distance, but each of these footprints is lighter and lighter, and then the footprints disappear.

Chen Ziyang reckoned that it was left behind when the person who moved the old monk's body stepped on the black ash and then walked far away. The black ash all stuck to the ground as the person walked, causing The color of the footprints became lighter and lighter until they disappeared.

"Tomb robber, I'm a little scared, let's go, don't go any further." Seeing these strange traces on the ground, and recalling what happened just now, he took the corpse away without making a sound Oh, the things here are too evil, Li Bojian really can't hold it anymore.

"Don't be afraid, we are already trapped here. Even if we want to leave, we have to find the exit, but do you know where the exit is? Look at these footprints on the ground, I guess they were left by a living person. Since someone If you can get here, then follow these footprints, maybe you can find this person, or find the exit, we still have to bite the bullet and go forward, just hold on."

Although he said this, Chen Ziyang didn't know what to do in his heart. What could live in this dark space?Certainly not human!Even if it is a human being, it must be a lunatic, not a normal person.It's just that Chen Ziyang has no way to tell the truth to Li Bojian.At this time, she needs to be encouraged, instead of being frightened so that her legs become weak and limp here.

After making up his mind, Chen Ziyang took Li Bojian's hand and walked along the direction of the footprints. Li Bojian's hand turned cold again, and Chen Ziyang, who was holding her hand, felt that his hand was a little numb. It's cold, it seems that this woman has been frightened to death.

When a person is frightened, the blood in the body will instinctively flow to the person's legs, which will cause the person's hands to become cold. The purpose of the blood flowing to the legs is to facilitate the person's escape. This is when people are afraid and frightened. Instinctive reactions are beyond one's control.

After walking for a while, apart from seeing more skeletons made of dried human flesh hanging in the air, the man-made traces around gradually decreased, whether it was the corpses on the ground or the broken boards on the ground, all became sparse.

At this moment, the headlight in Chen Ziyang's hand suddenly flickered violently a few times. Chen Ziyang knew that this was a sign that the battery was about to run out. Since the two of them fell into this dark space, they had been using it all the time. A headlight, the battery power of the headlight is low, coupled with continuous use for a long time, the battery finally can't last.

Just when Chen Ziyang was thinking about how long the battery could last, the headlights flickered a few times again, then completely went out, and the surroundings returned to darkness again.Another headlight battery was put into the backpack by himself, but it was so dark here that he couldn't touch it for a while, so Chen Ziyang took out his flashlight from the backpack and lit the flashlight's button. light.

The moment the flashlight came on, Chen Ziyang saw a dark face appear in front of him.

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