Zhang Jinya's sudden action scared us all.
What's up there? Why is he so scared...
We were still a little confused. Fatty was a good guy after all. He was ready to go up and help Zhang Jinya. Who knew that he hadn't taken a few steps forward when he heard a noise in the ear chamber above.
Rustle...
The sound was like something was crawling, but the sound was too loud and very crisp. It felt like the sound of a metal hook scraping on the ground, very harsh!
As a result, the fat man didn't dare to go over and couldn't help but yelled: "Old Zhang, what are you still dawdling about? Get up and run!!"
Zhang Jinya rolled down more than ten steps from the ninety-nine steps and refused to move. I don't know if he fell somewhere. After more than ten seconds, he climbed up with a dusty face. Then, as if he was chased by a wolf, he cried "Awoo" and ran down the steps desperately with his two slender legs.
At this time, the things that made strange noises in the ear chamber and almost scared Zhang Jinya to death finally appeared.
It turned out that some arthropods the size of an adult's palm, that is... insects?
But there were a lot of them, a large black mass, more than hundreds or thousands.
These bugs are all black and look like dung beetles, but dung beetles are definitely not this big. I estimated that this thing is at least 15 centimeters long, which reminds me of another arthropod - the giant isopod!
Once this idea came up, it was simply out of control. The more I looked at this thing, the more I thought it looked like a giant isopod! !
So I couldn't help but mutter: "Don't giant isopods live in the deep sea? How did they appear in an ancient tomb?"
"Fuck giant isopods!"
The fat man's face turned green when he saw these things, and he wailed: "This is clearly a corpse beetle! But why is it so big? It's over, it's dead!"
Corpse beetle! ?
When I heard this, I shuddered all over.
In "The Secret Art of the Fa Qiu", my ancestor gave a very important introduction to the Corpse Beetle, because it is the most common and fierce creature in the ancient tombs. However, I was lucky a few times before and never encountered this kind of thing in the tombs, so I didn't recognize it at first glance. At this time, when the fat man said it, I finally understood why he was afraid!
When you go to the tomb, you are not afraid of ghosts or zongzi, but you are afraid of Corpse Beetles!!
Corpse Beetles are actually a kind of scavenging insects that eat corpses. They appear in groups in ancient tombs and can even eat large zongzi. However, they not only eat rotten things, but also fresh things. When they are extremely hungry, they will even eat stones. They never avoid food! It is even more creepy when it bites people. It first bites a hole in the skin, then drills into the flesh in a blink of an eye, and then starts to eat from the inside, until it has eaten all the internal organs, meat, etc. in the body. After it has eaten the person, only a layer of skin is left on the person, and then it starts to ovulate in the person's body. Because this thing is like a seahorse, hermaphrodite, as long as it is full, it can ovulate immediately, and after slapping the eggs on the person's skin, these eggs will use the nutrients in the fat layer under the person's skin to breed larvae, and then... The larvae will eat the person's skin and make it full of holes, leaving nothing behind, and then transform into an adult, that is, a corpse beetle. However, at that time, the adult corpse beetle is only as big as a dung beetle, but it has no size limit. As long as there is food, it will continue to grow. It is simply something that violates the common sense of the ecological chain.
When the Han tomb of Mawangdui was first opened, the holes found inside were full of these tattered skins. They were empty shells left behind by the corpse beetles after the tomb robbers entered the tomb. Fortunately, the corpse beetles inside escaped because of the holes. So no one died when the archaeologists entered the tomb later.
In short, anyone who opens a tomb to search for gold is afraid of corpse beetles. These things are like army ants. Wherever they pass, no grass grows. They are not fatal except for being afraid of fire!
The size of these corpse beetles we encountered now is very amazing. If we were knocked down by them, we would be dead!
Zhang Jinya obviously knew these things, so he was so scared. When he saw the corpse beetle coming down, he ran even harder. Unfortunately, how could his two legs outrun eight or nine legs? It didn't take long for them to catch up. The corpse beetle in the front was very big, about 20 to 30 centimeters long. It jumped up and bit Zhang Jinya's buttocks, making him scream and roll on the ground. Then he was drowned by the black corpse beetles. The legs of these corpse beetles were very sharp, and they cut Zhang Jinya's clothes into strips in a blink of an eye. Zhang Jinya was covered in blood and rolled on the ground.
When we saw this, we thought that Zhang Jinya couldn't run away, so we rushed to save him immediately. Although this guy is not honest and is a swindler, he is still my teammate. When I was targeted by the Laughing Corpse, he helped me and saved my life. Although we have been saving each other for a long time and it has become a mess, and it is hard to tell who owes whom, I can't give up Zhang Jinya, so I was the first to rush up. I went over and scraped Zhang Jinya's body with the back of the knife, and directly cut off more than a dozen corpse beetles, but more and more gathered, and even I was bitten. For a while, I broke out in cold sweat on my forehead.
"Brother Xiaotian, hold on!"
At this time, the fat man suddenly yelled, which scared me. I turned my head and saw that he had taken out more than a dozen fire starters and threw them towards me. I quickly dodged them and was almost burned by the fire starters. However, as soon as the fire starters fell to the ground, the corpse beetles surrounding me and Zhang Jinya squeaked and dodged. These things are afraid of fire. The fat man's trick solved the urgent problem. I immediately pulled up Zhang Jinya, who was bitten by the corpse beetles and ran away.
Zhang Jinya also recovered at this time. After rushing down the stairs with me, he started to take off his pants without saying a word. In a blink of an eye, he took off the big red shorts with Crayon Shin-chan printed on his buttocks. The embarrassed female comrades in the team turned their heads away at the time, but when he took off his pants, a relatively small corpse beetle fell out with a snap.
It turns out that a corpse beetle got into his crotch...
Zhang Jinya is a man of character. He was bitten into a blood gourd but still didn't stop. He didn't even pull up his pants and stomped the corpse beetle with one foot, making it fly all over the place. He even stomped it flat, then grinned and showed his signature big gold teeth and sneered: "You little thing, you want to take the back door?"
I was speechless when I saw his arrogance. I thought to myself, this corpse beetle is really something. What back door do you want to take? Why don't you bite off the balls of this idiot? I kicked him in the butt and urged him: "Okay, stop bragging here It's gone, pull up your pants quickly, it's just a little thing, why don't you put it away quickly, aren't you afraid of being embarrassed here? Why are you pretending to be an elephant with a small loach in your arms, it's really..."
When I said this, the fat man immediately laughed in a yin and yang way, and teased while looking at me: "I say, Lao Zhang, no wonder you refused to take off your clothes and jump into the river to take a bath with me when we were on a mission in the southwest. Are you afraid of being seen because of your physical defects? Tsk tsk, this little bamboo shoot is quite cute..."
When the fat man said this, I also laughed. It's so mean, and it's a little bamboo shoot? This description is simply poking Lao Zhang's spine...
Zhang Jinya was thick-skinned and couldn't stand our ridicule. He pulled up his pants and glared at the two of us.
"Okay, stop making trouble. It's still possible to make trouble at this time."
Qing Yi shook his head helplessly, looked at the direction of the stairs and said softly: "We have to think of a way quickly. Those fire starters won't last long. Once the fire starters are extinguished, they will pounce on us."
I hurriedly looked in the direction of the stairs. Yes, the fire starters were almost extinguished, the flames were getting weaker and weaker, and the corpse beetles that were forced back were about to pounce on us again.
The fat man thought for a moment and said, "There's no other way. Let's go to the ear chamber and give it a try!"
"Go to the ear chamber?"
Zhang Jinya's eyes widened in disbelief: "Are you afraid that we won't be bitten to death? Why are you rushing to the ear chamber to be tortured!"
This man...
I was speechless with him. I don't know who was the one who insisted on me taking him to the tomb as soon as we met. Now that he really came in, he immediately became scared. I couldn't help but slap Zhang Jinya on the forehead to make him shut up, and then signaled the fat man to continue. As a result, Zhang Jinya was resentful like a little widow, muttering something about how Xiaotian had grown up and forgot the well digger when he drank the water. He had the ability to start to attack him, the original guide.
The fat man ignored this guy and said directly: "Corpse beetles live in groups, just like wolves. With so many corpse beetles gathered together, there must be a corpse beetle king leading them. The corpse beetle king refuses to show up now, so we can only go to the ear chamber to find it. We will pick a big one to kill. As long as we kill the corpse beetle king, these corpse beetles will be scared. Then we may still have a chance to survive!"
We discussed it and there was no other way at the moment, so let's do it this way!
"I'll lead the way!"
Yishiting stood up all of a sudden, and took out her blowtorch again. Without saying a word, she rushed to the stairs first.