Chapter 57 Mask

The old sheepskin language expression ability is limited, coupled with what he said upside down, I and the fat man listened to a head full of fog, but finally is probably understand what he means, in the old sheepskin’s hometown, there is a piece of sandy area, this area of arid and little water, but the sandy middle of the soil is very moist and eerie, since the ancient legend that there is a place to raise the body, corpses buried in the body can not rot, in fact, that piece of land grows some strange plants.

Legend has it that this plant, is ancient from thousands of miles away from the western region back to the country round sand city passed in, this thing is extremely poisonous, the whole body is similar to the human form, a little bit like unusually large ginseng, but to be dozens of hundreds of times bigger than that, it itself and ginseng does not have anything to do with the mainland of China, it has no accurate name, only generally known as the corpse ginseng or ghosts ginseng, the ancient back to the country said it is “bet not reed”. The ancient Muslims called it “Buhulu”.

This thing specializes in the dark rotten soil breeding, some by the moisture erosion of the tomb, or silt accumulation of the ancient riverbed, are very suitable for it to grow, its roots can penetrate into the ground a few feet, said it is a plant, but can stretch the roots strangulation of human and animal food, like a huge man-eating grass, if digging up the ground excavation of this plant, regardless of human and animal, once touched by the poisonous gas is bound to die.

The approach taken is to confirm the location of the growth of the bet not Lu, around it dug four ditches, the depth of the ditch in order to accommodate the rural vat of water prevail, from the bottom of the ditch with the cemetery bricks piled up into the shape of a brick kiln, even the upper side are completely closed, closed before closing a few dogs inside, and then completely with the cemetery bricks blocked, the formation of a secret room.

Locked in the brick room in the vicious dog due to poor breathing, in a burst of growling out of instinct, they will use their paws to dig mud, want to dig a ditch and out, once the planing out of the betting not resuscitated in this giant poisonous plant, the dog is infected with poisonous gas immediately killed.

There is also a way is directly with leather strips of the dog’s legs and poisonous roots tied together, people hide in the wind far away from the release of the whip run, the dog will pull up the roots of the fright and escape, although this approach saves time and effort, but not insurance, often will make the excavator poisoned to death, so not as widespread as the first method.

Back to the country of the “bet not Lu” out of the ground, not long after the loss of the nature of the soil will make the toxicity of its exhaustion, then people go over to the poisoning of the dead dog body, along with the poisonous “bet not Lu” and buried back in the pit, one year after the excavation, the dog body will be with the “bet not Lu”. A year later, digging out, the dog corpse will grow into one with the root and beard of the “bet not Lu”, although the corpse is rotting and stinking, in the absence of sunlight, but still able to wriggle as if alive, cut it up and dry it in the sun, then it can be sold as a very valuable medicine.

With a little grinding wine can make a person paralyzed, as if half-dead state, even if you take the knife and axe to cut off his hands and feet, he will not have any feeling, and then after a few days to pour to the antidote, it is as active as the beginning of the first time, will be able to return to normal, the legend of the ancient Hua Tuo can disemboweled and broken to treat the disease, are used in this kind of numbing medicine, until the Song Dynasty Palace Imperial Hospital and the use of the records.

The old sheepskin in the northwest home, saw someone planing barren shoveling graves dug out this humanoid poison, that time a dig can dig out a long string of dead bodies, are unintentionally killed in the night through the nearby villagers, it rolled people, toxins are transferred to the body, the deceased although dead, but the dead body is like a corpse in general, the hair and nails are still growing, by the yin gas for a long time latent, meet the yang gas and move, no matter what live animals and humans caught The dead body will be poisoned to death and become part of the nutrients of this strange ginseng.

We speculate that the situation of the brick room, it seems to be a ghost deliberately built, used to cultivate paralyzing nerve drug place, rumor has it that the zombie meat buried in the corpse land called “boring incense”, can be used as medicine, these almost has grown into a plant of rotting corpses is also a peculiar medicine, but its cultivation method is really outrageous.

I was about to ask the old sheepskin, there is no way to completely eliminate this monster, otherwise it blocked the door is not the end, but the words are mouth, suddenly remembered a deadly thing to, the body suddenly cooled half, I and fat man and those carrion entangled in half a day, splashed with a lot of fishy smelly juice, I am afraid that also poisoned.

Fatty and I hurriedly looked at their own bare hands, our hands mixed with too many things, has been dirty to see what, but the back of the hand seems to have a layer of tiny pimples, slightly numb and itchy feeling, for the time being there is no other symptoms, although I do not know if it is not a sign of poisoning, but most likely is not a good sign.

Ding Sistern in the 蚦 poison has no way to treat, I can not imagine that I and the fat man also successively with the road, I am very complex mood, but a mine is the top, the two thunder is also resistance, lice more than not bite, more than not worry about the account, this was originally a messy situation, and then add some trouble is not a big deal, the big deal is that the three of us to go to see Marx together.

Young people in our time, there is nothing too complex thoughts and feelings, and since childhood education so that we do not know how to write the word “difficulty”, under the sky there can be difficult to live under the revolutionary warriors? So the great sorrow will not be too much on the heart, I quickly put the worry about whether I have been poisoned things behind me, asked the old sheepskin there is no way.

The old sheepskin shook his head and sighed, which there is no way, that back to the country’s poison away from the earth that is dead, and so a moment of the Yin gas dissipated, probably will not move, now can only learn from the land master squatting in this dry wait, but who knows that the root of that thing how long, if there is still a part of the ground followed by the gas, we go out to the door will have to be poisoned by the stranded it.

Just when we can not do anything, suddenly heard a strange movement from the top of the head, Fatty and I raised the engineer lighting tube to look up, in the wall and ceiling interface, there are a number of narrow windows connected to the corridor, the basement door of the demon ginseng roots string window into the basement door is trying to drill in a sneak attack, Fatty swung his knife to chop the roots have been extended into the basement, only to hear the sound of cut leather bag came, the knife fell at the corrosive liquid splashes, the corpse ginseng tentacle-like roots and quickly shrink back. The roots quickly shrank back.

We then realized that although the door and wall of this basement is strong, but not tight, air holes and air windows are very many, it is easy to let the other side have a chance to take advantage of, this basement seems to be a data storage room, there are a lot of iron cabinets and wooden boxes loaded with documents similar to archives, Fatty and I pushed the iron cabinets will be all the gaps in the outside blocked.

There was an extremely thick iron cabinet in the innermost part of the room, which was the best defense object, but no matter how hard Fatty and I pushed it, it didn’t move even a little bit, as if it had taken root in the ground, I adjusted the light column of the engineer’s flare, and carefully illuminated the iron cabinet, and I suspected that there was a secret door here, which needed to be opened and closed by a mechanism, which was a plot that was found in most of the anti-Special Agent movies of our time.

Fatty and I guessed randomly, I did not expect that this time it was really blindfolded, when I followed the edge of the iron cabinet, move the light to the corner of the time, suddenly saw in the crevice between the iron cabinet and the wall, stuck with a human hand, the claws of the hand dry and lush purple, born with animal hair, with most of the dead bodies in this institute, are dead with some kind of sudden and unknown reasons, after death due to the special environment in the vicinity of this hundred eyes cave, only to cause this kind of The special environment near the Hundred Eyes Cave caused this abnormal sign of necrophilia after death.

After the gap that was stuck by the corpse there seems to be not a small amount of space, but I used the lighting tube to see half a day also can not see clearly, right now this basement outside the door is blocked by the corpse ginseng that grows with the zombie, if there is still a passage after this iron cabinet, maybe we can leave from this secret passage, and this dark passage is repaired bizarrely, ready to not be able to store the things that we need inside.

Fatty and I feel convinced of this exciting speculation, the fat man immediately fumbled around to find open the iron cabinet organs, I did not busy hands, I feel that this iron cabinet dark door is a little wrong, but where it is not right but a moment to think clearly, I took a breath to make their emotions as smooth as possible, brain spinning, think that the body stuck in the iron cabinet and the gap in the wall, may be in an emergency intended to escape into the secret room for refuge, but because he died, he was not in the secret room. Secret room to take refuge, but because he died suddenly, just opened the camouflaged iron cabinet into the dark tunnel, then immediately died, not like being iron cabinet alive clamped to death, only automatically back to the iron cabinet will be his body clamped.

Also, this institute in the heavily guarded, seems to be completely unnecessary in the underground facilities have been very hidden, and then create a hidden secret door, unless the door behind the space is confidential in the confidential, most likely even the Japanese Institute of most of the personnel will not know, only some of the heads of this institution to grasp the things inside, after death was stuck in this body, should be the head of this magic cave! But why is the dead body’s arm exposed on the outside, is it normal to die in such a posture? Could it be that it was not escaping into it, but was just about to escape from it? This secret room in the secret room ……

My brain east and west, is a wild guess, the fat man has touched a table under a protruding floor tiles, the location is very hidden, but also unobtrusive, if not a brick by brick row touched the past, there is no way to find out that he uncovered a few ripples do not move, and then changed to use his foot to step down, this foot stomping force is not small, the tiles were stepped by him sunk down one or two centimeters, the rumbling sound of the iron cabinets to the side of the collection of the Into, flashed a narrow aisle to, may be due to his force is too large, or perhaps the mechanism stepped over the head, the activities of the iron cabinet into the wall, but no longer as I expected that automatically recovered again.

This aisle has a secret door, the door is wide open, the depth is a bigger basement, the fat man thought that this secret room is used to store medicine and food, anxious to step in, I hurriedly blocked the passageway mouth, to the fat man and the old sheepskin, said: “you look at the zombie was clamped dead in the aisle, his head and arms are towards the outside, this posture is likely to show that The moment before he died, he was fleeing outward from the secret room, rather than hiding in the secret room for shelter, that inside ……”

I just said half of my words, then heard a loud bang, the top door of the wooden chair was suddenly knocked into a number of breaks, sitting behind the door of the old sheepskin was shocked, dragging Ding Sistern hastily back away, I held up the lighting tube to look over, I saw the iron door opened, a pale old woman like a strange face from the door poked in, this is an alien plant in the shape of a ginseng, but the form is far more than the ginseng hideous ten thousand times, and this time to see very truly, that the demon ginseng’s face is full of wrinkles folds This time, I can see very clearly, the face of the demon ginseng is full of wrinkles, two huge bags under the eyes are especially obvious, I think it is more like a kind of semi-biological organisms that live in the soil and rely on sucking the juice of corpses to survive rather than being a pure plant.

Don’t say face to face with its long ugly face, just smell the damp and stinky smell of grave soil on its body, it has already made people feel a burst of scalp swelling, fainting, now we only have to step back, I and the old sheepskin pick up Ding Sishen, fat man with a long knife to cut the tentacles of the feet that keep reaching over, the four were forced to gradually retreat into the secret room behind the iron cabinet.

I am worried about the fat man alone in distress, after entering the secret room can not care to see the surrounding environment, directly to the old sheepskin dingsisitian, and then turned to the dark door to meet the fat man, want to close the dark door, against the momentum of the demon ginseng, but in the panic where to find the internal organs of the secret room.

Fatty in a hurry, will be in the aisle of the zombie pushed out, a tentacle of the demon ginseng immediately rolled it wrapped into the dense roots inside, I use this opportunity to close the door of the chamber firmly, with the fat man together to find all the things you can find behind the door, it is only then that I saw, this hidden huge chamber everywhere in some of the large cabinets placed in the specimen bottles, we knocked over many glass bottles, inside the human organs and strange shapes and sizes. human organs and oddly shaped dead animals flowed all over the floor, and a strong odor of antiseptic potion immediately emanated from the basement.

We are close to hysterical busy, the body has been close to dehydration, see temporarily blocked the portal, the tense spirit of a little slack, suddenly feel rootless, my shoulder wound pain is unbearable, backward a few steps, want to find a place to sit down to catch their breath, behind me there is a stone platform, the darkness of the darkness, I did not look carefully to sit on it, I sat down and then feel behind me there is a surprisingly cold, back to the back of the hand, found that the fingers touched a piece of ice, and I feel that my fingers are not a good place. I was shocked, immediately remembered that the mural wearing a mask on the big Xianbei female corpse, hurriedly turned around with the engineer lighting tube a light, this anatomical table on the stone platform, is really lying a gold mask face of the ancient female corpse, metal mask in the lighting tube under the dark yellow light, flooded with a burst of ghostly light.

Fatty and the old sheepskin also found that there is a difference, are over to watch, that from the death of the invisible deterrent, so that our whole body for the trembling, hanging in the chest of the engineers lighting cylinder, along with the rhythm of rapid breathing, followed by the undulation, perhaps there was a moment is that I see the eyes, the lighting cylinder light, the mask of the female corpse by the flow of the beam of light shook even seem to be resurrected in general, the mask of that original calm solemn without the slightest expression of face, as if to us, we can see that the mask is the same. The face on the mask, which was originally calm and solemn without any expression, seemed to move towards us.