Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 53
The sound made by the rattlesnake is like a fatal note, hitting our hearts again and again.

Dozens of hundreds of rattlesnakes rushed out of the house, and these rattlesnakes crawled on the sand in a strange horizontal stretching way, which allowed it to grab the loose sand on the ground, and the crawling speed was extremely fast.

We fled out of the three rooms in a hurry, and fled out of the city like the wind.

However, more terrible things are yet to come.

In the deathly silent ancient city, rattling sounds could be heard everywhere, and more and more rattlesnakes came out from all directions, crawling quickly on the desolate streets.We never dreamed that the prosperous city in the past has now become a habitat for poisonous snakes. The entire ancient city of Loulan is like a huge rattlesnake lair, and we cannot escape.

Seeing that he was gradually approaching the city wall, Lao Luo suddenly stopped, then turned around and ran in another direction.

Wang Dongyu croaked from behind: "Why don't we go out of the city?"

The old Luo said without turning his head, "I can't get out! The gates of the city are full of poisonous snakes!"

When we took a closer look, we saw gravel surging on the ground at the gate of the city, and countless venomous rattlesnakes swayed their tails, drilled out of the ground, and crawled quickly on the sand, leaving clear traces.

We cursed bad luck, turned around and followed closely behind Lao Luo, with our hearts hanging in our throats. Could it be that we really can't escape from this place?

Da da da!Da da da!
Wang Dongyu shot at the snakes that gathered around him.For a while, wreckage flew and blood rained, but they couldn't stop the pace of the snake group, because even if we add up all our bullets, facing this mighty snake group, it's just a drop in the bucket and can't solve any problems.

The old Luo in front suddenly pointed out: "Everyone, follow closely, let's go to the top of the pagoda in the center of the ancient city!"

In the center of the ancient city of Loulan stands a tall pagoda. The pagoda is one of the few adobe buildings in the city, and it is also the highest place in Loulan city.The pagoda is about ten meters high from the ground, like a giant, guarding the peace of Loulan.

We really have no other place to go now, so we can only go to the top of the pagoda to hide first according to what Lao Luo said. No matter how powerful the snakes are, it is impossible to climb up to the ten-meter-high pagoda.

Running all the way, we soon came to the bottom of the pagoda.

The pagoda has been badly weathered, and the top of the pagoda has collapsed, revealing a dark cave. It seems that the center of the pagoda is empty.I was about to go to the front of the cave to have a look inside, but unexpectedly the clods under my feet loosened suddenly, and I didn't pay attention, and slid down the edge of the pagoda.

Everyone was shocked and shouted eagerly: "Tuobagu!"

The dense rattling sound is just under my feet, as long as I fall, I will immediately turn into a skeleton.It was too late and then it was too late, at this moment of life and death, I pulled out the shark blade in the air, inserted my backhand into the tower, and the whole person fell down half a meter, and then stopped the downward trend, like a human flag , hanging three meters above the ground, dangling back and forth.

I let out a long breath, looked down, and saw hundreds of rattlesnakes spitting out their snake cores under the pagoda, and many rattlesnakes had curled up, ready to attack.

Cold sweat dripped down my cheeks, and I secretly screamed "It's dangerous" in my heart, then walked along the body of the tower and climbed up to the top of the tower again.

"You idiot, you almost scared me to death!" Gu Meidi angrily pointed at me and cursed.

I knew that Gu Meidi didn't really scold me, but was worried about my safety, so I squeezed out a smile: "It's okay, didn't I come back alive?"

Our group of people are considered to have experienced strong winds and waves, but the scene in front of us still made us feel apprehensive, all of us were pale and silent.

Li Yingxin asked: "Old Luo, how long are we going to stay on this pagoda?"

Lao Luo replied: "Wait for dawn! Rattlesnakes are nocturnal animals. As long as you persist until dawn, the snakes will naturally disperse!"

I said with lingering fear: "What if they don't disperse after dawn?"

Lao Luo shook his head: "Impossible! This does not conform to the living habits of rattlesnakes!"

Wang Dongyu nuzzled his mouth: "Everything is possible! I finally know now that there is nothing impossible in this world!"

Lao Luo glanced at Wang Dongyu: "Young man, calm down!"

Wang Dongyu pulled the bolt of the gun with a bang: "There are thousands of rattlesnakes down here, how can you make me calm down?"

I ignored what they continued to say, but climbed to the cave again and turned on the wolf-eye flashlight.The white light beam was like a sharp arrow, shooting into the inside of the tower, illuminating the dark area below.

I was slightly taken aback: "What is that?"

"Tuoba Gu, what are you looking at?" Gan Hongxin suddenly patted my arm, the wolf-eye flashlight in his hand lost his grip for a moment, rolled and fell into the interior of the pagoda, and just landed on that black thing Above, that thing was clearly illuminated at once.

I took a deep breath, and there was a black sarcophagus under the pagoda, and what was quite strange was that the sarcophagus turned out to be a herringbone coffin.The body of the coffin was swarthy, sucking in all the light.

"Everyone, come and see! There is a coffin under the pagoda!" I shouted at the top of my voice, excited by my discovery.

Everyone crawled over, looked inside one by one, all focused on the herringbone coffin, and forgot the snakes under the pagoda for a while.

"Anyway, I'm idle now, why not go down and have a look?" Wang Dongyu was a little tempted.

"I agree!" Song Mingqiu said, "Traveling thousands of miles to come here, it seems that I am too sorry for myself if I don't go back with something!"

Liu Hanhao adjusted his glasses, and said excitedly: "This herringbone-shaped coffin can be buried inside the pagoda, which is enough to prove that the identity of the coffin owner is very noble and prominent!"

Han Jing interjected: "So, there must be something good in the coffin!"

Li Yingxin said: "Then what is he waiting for, won't he find out when he goes down?"

These guys are members of a family of tomb robbers, and this coffin is naturally very attractive to them. What's more, after analysis, they believe that there must be good things in the coffin, so they will never miss this good opportunity to make a fortune.

I looked at Professor Ye, and Professor Ye didn't stop them. After all, this trip is a voluntary help, and it's their reward to bring some treasures back.

Wang Dongyu picked up the butt of his gun and smashed the cave a little bigger, just enough for one person to go in and out.

The cold wind poured out from the pagoda, making a strange whistling sound.

"Liu Hanhao, you go down first!" Wang Dongyu said.

"Why should I play first?" Liu Hanhao asked back.

Wang Dongyu said: "You are an expert in the mechanism of the tomb, you go down first to see if there is any harmful mechanism inside, if there is no danger, we will go down!"

Liu Hanhao cursed and said: "Your uncle, how dare you treat me as a pathfinder?"

Wang Dongyu grinned: "You are wrong, we are a team, everyone has their own division of labor!"

Liu Hanhao said: "Okay! It's fine if you want me to go down first! But...you have to go down with me!"

Wang Dongyu was stunned, Liu Hanhao said: "What's the matter? Don't you want to? I'm going to risk my life, there must be someone to protect me!"

Everyone turned their attention to Wang Dongyu, the matter has come to this point, Wang Dongyu couldn't refuse, so he could only bite the bullet and say: "Go down, go down, who is afraid of anyone!"

Wang Dongyu nailed the climbing rope at the entrance of the cave, then fastened the safety buckle around his waist, grasped the descending pulley, and slid down slowly from the entrance of the cave.

After a while, Wang Dongyu's voice came from under the pagoda: "Liu Hanhao, come down quickly!"

Liu Hanhao responded, fastened the safety buckle, and slowly descended to the bottom of the pagoda.

The two shook their wolf-eyed flashlights inside the pagoda, then raised their heads and shouted at the people above: "There is no danger, come down!"

Lao Luo sat on the edge of the pagoda, lit the dry cigarette, smacked and said to Professor Ye: "Go down, I will guard you from above!"

Professor Ye nodded, without using the seat belt, he just grabbed the climbing rope and slid down.

Gu Meidi and I looked at each other. Professor Ye is very agile, not at all inferior to young people.

The inside of the pagoda was dark and had a musty smell.The bottom of the tower was very quiet, and we could no longer hear the buzzing of the snakes, and our mood suddenly became much more peaceful.

I, Gu Meidi, Professor Ye, and the six tomb robbers, a total of nine people, stood in a circle around the human-shaped coffin at the bottom of the tower.Li Yingxin didn't come down. These people are all veterans. As the saying goes, it is necessary to be defensive. After all, we are not very familiar with Lao Luo, so Li Yingxin deliberately chose to stay with Lao Luo.

The area at the bottom of the tower is not large, no more than a hundred square meters at most, and there is nothing but the solitary human-shaped coffin.The coffin was placed flat in the center of the bottom of the tower. We held up the wolf-eyed flashlight and took a closer look. This is a set of coffins, which is what we call a coffin, so the coffin looks very large.

The human-shaped coffin lay there quietly, like a corpse that had been sleeping for thousands of years.

Wang Dongyu rubbed his hands together, his pupils glowed with fiery light: "Brothers, let's do it!"

Others turned their attention to Professor Ye, and it seemed that Professor Ye was the leader of this group of guys.

Professor Ye walked around the coffin, tapped the lid lightly with his fingers, but found nothing unusual, so he stepped back and nodded at those guys.

"Hey, look at mine!" Song Mingqiu took out a folding engineering shovel from his backpack, inserted the sharp blade into the edge of the coffin lid, and shouted loudly, "Get up! Get up! Get up!"

Song Mingqiu yelled three times, and the coffin lid was only lifted a little bit. Song Mingqiu said with some embarrassment: "Who will help, this coffin lid is too heavy, I can't lift it!"

"What's the matter with you not eating? Get out of the way!" Wang Dongyu walked over, pushed Song Mingqiu away, held the engineering shovel in both hands, and exerted force in a deep voice. Great power.

Wang Dongyu's brute force was truly incomparable. He even pried up the heavy coffin lid by himself. After turning it over twice, it fell to the ground with a bang, and a piece of yellow sand flew up.

Everyone waved their hands to drive away the raised dust, and then exclaimed in unison: "Ah!"

The moment the coffin lid was opened, circles of white light rippled out of the coffin, flowing out of the coffin like running water, illuminating the bottom of the pagoda all at once.

"What is this?" We rubbed our eyes and gathered around curiously.

"Crystal coffin, my God, this is a precious crystal coffin!" Wang Dongyu called out excitedly, his face flushed with excitement.

In the tombs, the best coffins are crystal coffins and yin wood coffins.Generally speaking, these two coffins will only appear in the tombs of royal nobles, which are very rare and naturally priceless.

Like the outer coffin, this crystal coffin is also in the shape of a human being, crystal clear and radiant, with cold smoke faintly floating on the surface.Looking carefully at the crystal coffin, I found that this crystal coffin should be chiseled out of a complete giant crystal, and there is no trace of splicing on the surface.We can't help but secretly stunned, just such a huge natural crystal is already an inestimable priceless treasure.

Professor Ye said: "It's not that I haven't seen a crystal coffin, but it's the first time I've seen such a complete and huge crystal coffin!"

Gan Hongxin lay on the coffin and looked at it for a while, then turned around and said to us excitedly: "There is a woman in the coffin!"

Han Jing squeezed and said, "When you talk about a woman, you are so happy. This is a woman who has been dead for thousands of years. Are you also interested?"

Gan Hongxin rubbed his nose: "Tch, come and see this woman, she's just like a living person!"

The cold smoke on the surface of the crystal coffin gradually dissipated, and through the transparent coffin we could clearly see that there was indeed a woman lying in the crystal coffin.The woman is petite, with long hair and shawls. She wears an exquisite golden mask on her face, and she wears clothes with the characteristics of the Western Regions.The most amazing thing is that after thousands of years, the woman in the coffin is still lifelike, as if she was just sleeping peacefully, with a ruddy complexion and a knowing smile on her mouth.

"This is definitely the best preserved and most beautiful corpse I have ever seen!" Liu Hanhao adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose, his face full of excitement.

Seeing Liu Hanhao's intoxicated expression, Song Mingqiu said, "You don't have necrophilia, do you?"

As soon as the words fell, Han Jing who was standing beside Liu Hanhao immediately backed away three or four meters, keeping a certain distance from Liu Hanhao.

Liu Hanhao didn't care about Han Jing's actions. His attention was completely attracted by the female corpse in the coffin. He squatted down and pointed at the swollen belly of the female corpse through the coffin: "Well, this woman is still a pregnant woman!"

Wang Dongyu was not as interested as Liu Hanhao, and his gaze stayed on the golden mask: "This thing can be worth a lot of money!"

Han Jing glanced at it: "Well, it's okay, it's made of pure gold, and the workmanship is also exquisite, and the market price is estimated to be at least one million yuan!"

(End of this chapter)