Chapter 71: The Beast in the Coffin
Zhang Jiande seemed to have come to his senses at this moment. He held the pistol and gently poked the woman's thigh, then retracted like lightning.
My whole body muscles immediately tensed up, and I stared at the woman in the coffin in case she suddenly opened her eyes and attacked us.
But what I saw was that elastic skin, and this woman was still lying motionless in the coffin with her eyes closed, like a patient who had been anesthetized and was waiting for surgery.
Now I feel a little more at ease!
"Look! Her hands and feet are chained!" Seeing that the woman was motionless, Wang Haiyang seemed to become bolder and leaned into the coffin to take a closer look.
After his reminder, I also noticed that the woman's hands and feet were indeed wearing iron chains, but the black iron chains were about the same color as the rotten clothes, making it difficult to spot for a while.
"Now I'm getting rich!! I'm really getting rich now!" Zhang Jiande was so excited that he put away his pistol and held the engineer shovel to shovel the funerary objects in the coffin!
"Qingyang! Go and lift her mask!" Ye Lingwen whispered behind me.
"By the way! Why did I forget the mask! The black market price of this mask is probably worth ten million at least!" Zhang Jiande heard the words of the spirit pattern and was so excited that he went to lift the mask.
Before Wang Haiyang and I could stop him, he had already taken off the mask. But when I saw the face behind the golden mask, I felt a chill run through my body, and my legs went weak and I almost fell off my feet.
stable.
Even Zhang Jiande exclaimed and the mask in his hand fell into the coffin.
And Ye Lingwen behind me was so frightened that he started crying!
I couldn't care less to comfort her at this time, because I was trembling myself.
What I saw was not a human face at all. What the mask covered was actually a tiger's head, which meant that the person lying in the coffin was not a woman at all, but really a monster with the body of a tiger and the head of a tiger!
The four of us gathered around the coffin, not daring to move, for fear of waking up the monster that seemed to be sleeping! But after a long time, the monster made no movement. Its eyes were always closed, as if it was asleep.
Same!
Only then did I dare to take a closer look. Judging from the size and appearance of the tiger head, it should be a cub. Its eyes were closed tightly, and its yellow, black, and white fur was still shiny under the light of the headlight. There was no trace of it at all.
Traces of decay! A curved king character is clearly visible on the forehead. If you don’t look at the body, it is clearly a little tiger taking a nap.
At this time, the shock and fear in my heart are really beyond words. Is there really such a monster in the world? With the body of a tiger head!
Looking at this weird monster, I suddenly thought of the Queen Mother of the West whom Gerile talked about on the way here! According to legend, the Queen Mother of the West is a tiger-headed person, and according to Gerile's analysis, the ruins of Kunlun are the Qilian Mountains. Could it be that there is a coffin lying in front of me?
This one is the Queen Mother of the West?!
Judging from the way her body remains incorruptible, it seems that she really has mastered the method of immortality! But would King Zhou Mu have such a strong taste and fall in love with such a monster?!
And what is her relationship with Ye Lingwen and her daughter? Why is there a jade pendant exactly like Ye Guangci’s in her tomb?
While I was distracted, Ye Lingwen and Wang Haiyang suddenly shouted in unison. I was startled and saw that Zhang Jiande had thrown a bundle of lit detonators into the coffin. It seemed that he was also frightened.
He didn't want any of the funerary objects in the coffin, he wanted to blow up the monster.
It was too late for me to stop me. In desperation, I hugged Ye Lingwen and pushed her to the ground. I heard a loud noise and the gravel on the roof of the cave fell one after another. I felt like I was being thrown by a wave of air.
in the air, then landed heavily on the ground, almost rolling under a boulder, and the spiritual pattern was overturned by the air waves and thrown far away. Half of the bloody tiger head fell in front of me, and at this time the tiger's eyes had already
Opened, the mouth is also open!
I shuddered: So this monster is really alive! The explosion woke it up! Fortunately, Zhang Jiande killed it! Otherwise we would really have to face such a living monster with a human body and a tiger head!
I stood up staggeringly and walked over to help Ye Lingwen up. I saw that her face was pale and she was silent. I could feel her whole body trembling.
"Are you okay?!" I asked quickly because I was afraid that she would get hurt.
Ye Lingwen said nothing and shook his head at me, and I felt relieved!
At this time, Wang Haiyang and Zhang Jiande also got up from the ground. When I looked at the coffin again, I saw that it had been blown to pieces. The monster's residual limbs, flesh and blood and burial objects were scattered all over the ground. What I didn't expect was
, under the violent vibration, the huge stone arch carved on the cave wall actually opened a gap. It turned out that the stone arch was not carved on the mountain, but was really a huge stone door.
Zhang Jiande said while picking up the underworld weapons among the flesh and blood on the ground: "I told you! I have guns and cannons! I am not afraid of anyone!"
"What's the use of picking up more if we can't get out?" Wang Haiyang scolded.
Wang Haiyang's words made me feel anxious again after I had just relaxed. How can we get out of this underground cave deep into the mountain? The monster's coffin is placed here just to keep it secret. Maybe there is no exit here at all!
"What to do now?" Wang Haiyang asked.
Zhang Jiande suddenly raised his head, and his expression could not be seen behind the gas mask, but he said calmly: "Then I won't go out!"
I suddenly heard him say this and suddenly remembered what Wang Haiyang said to me. I couldn't help but feel nervous and thought to myself: Why does Zhang Jiande wear a gas mask all the time? Doesn't he find it cumbersome?
I was just about to ask him to take off his gas mask when Wang Haiyang suddenly said in a trembling voice: "Listen! What is this sound?"
I no longer cared about studying Zhang Jiande and quickly listened carefully, because I knew that there should be no living things in this cave deep underground!
Sure enough, I heard bursts of croaking sounds not far away, which sounded like countless bees buzzing and flapping their wings.
I shined my flashlight into the darkness and saw groups of large and small black shadows jumping towards this side in the mire under the boulder.
"What the hell is this?!" I asked Wang Haiyang, knowing something was wrong.
Wang Haiyang wore a headlamp and squinted his eyes to look carefully, and then he shouted: "This is a corpse toad!"
"Corpse toad?!" This was the first time I heard this name. I knew that having the word "corpse" in the name was definitely not a good thing, so I couldn't help but ask, "What is it? Is it poisonous?"
Wang Haiyang took off his backpack and rummaged around and said, "Of course it's poisonous! I've encountered it before in an ancient tomb in Guangxi and almost died.
Ordinary toads feed on insects, while corpse toads feed on the carrion of humans or animals. This kind of toad is huge, has gray skin and red eyes, and is particularly poisonous! It seems that there are many corpses in this cave!
Otherwise, it would be impossible to feed so many corpses! When these corpse toads have no food, whether it is winter or summer, they will be in a dormant state. They will not die without eating for several years. It seems that the explosion just now must have destroyed the dormant corpses in the swamp.
Chapter completed!