Hemostatic powder is a good thing, but it's a pity that it's all used on me now.
Lao Bai is a bit mean, he shamelessly picked some from my wound, then squatted there and rubbed it on the wound like wiping his butt, grinning as he rubbed, blood dripped out, just like having his period, I felt so bad for him, but he himself was not ashamed at all, and even said that you have to filter the water after washing the rice, so of course he has to bleed when he is injured.
So I shouldn't have saved him, and now that he has just recovered his breath, that stinky mouth starts to chatter again, and after talking about bullshit for a long time, he finally gets to the point.
After the water in the west of the river melted, we followed the flow and entered this level of the tomb. Only Lao Bai was struggling with the water scorpions. He finally got rid of them after a lot of effort. Seeing that more than half of the water in the pool had been poured in, he simply waited until the pool was dry before letting the rope down.
At that time, this level of the tomb had become a swamp, and the average water depth was almost knee-deep. Fortunately, there was only one path, so he didn't have to worry about getting lost with us. He just followed the corridor in the tomb and soon arrived at the fork that Zhang Xinya mentioned.
However, one of the paths was completely flooded, probably the path I took. Once the stone gate was blocked, the water outside couldn't come in, so that path would be flooded.
Lao Bai had only one other choice, and he took that path to get in.
"My uncle and his men took that road, too!"
Zhang Xinya interrupted Lao Bai hastily and asked, "Didn't you meet my uncle?!"
"Meet him, shit, that road is long!"
Lao Bai muttered, "You don't know, there are many tombs on that road, and those tombs are full of dead people..."
"Did you go into those tombs?"
I asked with a dark face, "So you got into something unclean, and then got stabbed in the ass with a rusty spear?"
"What do you want to do?!"
Lao Bai covered his chest with a vigilant look, "I warn you, I got these things with my life, don't even think about it!"
Well, this is a confession, needless to say, this grandson must have gone into those tombs.
He was muttering along the way to find one or two treasures, and I'm afraid he would get itchy when he saw those tombs, so he finally went in.
We came here to seek a way to survive, and he came here to seek wealth. They are not the same thing at all. But seeing that he wanted money more than his life, I was really speechless.
Zhang Xinya was quite curious about what he found. Lao Bai warned us again and again, and confirmed that we would not do anything dirty like Brother Yaozi, so he happily told us that it was a piece of jade.
I wanted to laugh at him, but the thought of doing that disappeared in an instant. I looked at this bastard and wanted to hit him with a club.
As the saying goes, gold has a price, but jade is priceless. If this grandson looks like this, I'm afraid he must have something extraordinary.
All the people buried here are Jie people. These executioners burned, killed, looted, and ate people in the north. They did everything. They must have robbed something good. The piece of jade was taken out of the arms of a dead person by Lao Bai. In terms of age, it is already an ancient jade. If it is good, it will be worth a fortune!
However, it was because of touching the jade that the dead in the tomb were awakened by him, and a large group of big zongzi came to chase him with weapons.
Lao Bai fled all the way, and during the period, a big zongzi stabbed him in the buttocks with a spear. He immediately clamped his buttocks, twisted his waist, and broke the spear head with a "click", and then he escaped. This is a man who values money more than life. In order to ensure that he can live to get the jade and spend money in the end, he ran desperately until he was exhausted and fell directly into the corridor. I don't know what happened next.
Zhang Xinya asked him to take out the jade and open our eyes, but this grandson probably saw the bad signs in my eyes and refused to take it. He was guarding against me like a thief.
In fact, I just wanted to share a little bit of the profits for a moment, and everyone who sees it should get a share. Now that I am not allowed to see it, I have lost my mind. After a little thought, I shook my head and said, "There is something strange about this matter. The big zongzi cannot use weapons. The zombies who can use weapons are called corpse soldiers. They are similar to ghost soldiers, but their fighting instincts are preserved in their bodies. Corpse soldiers are good at catching qi. Once they identify their prey, they can't escape at all. They will chase you to the ends of the earth. You have been lying in the corridor for so long and are still alive. Don't you think it's a bit weird?"
Lao Bai thought about it and couldn't explain it, but he had walked the road ahead, and this was probably the only place where he was valuable at the moment. I could only ask him for details.
"Don't tell me you're going to go forward. I'm telling you, there were too many corpses. I just touched one, and all the corpses in the tomb got up. After I chased them out, more and more corpses ran out of the tombs and joined them. It was like a snowball, and it got bigger and bigger. There were at least dozens of them!"
Lao Bai was serious, but he still told me what he knew: "After coming out of that tomb, I kept running in a straight line. I ran for a long time before I encountered a T-shaped fork. At that time, I was chased to the point where I had no way to go up or down. I didn't look carefully and just went straight in your direction."
This clue is so useful.
My master and Brother Yaozi were walking in front of Lao Bai, and that road was actually equivalent to making a circle and finally returning to my road.
In other words, if nothing unexpected happens, my master and Brother Yaozi should be in the other direction that Lao Bai said. If we walk straight forward now, we should be able to find them! !
My breathing was rapid. In my heart, finding my master was the only hope for survival. As for Lao Bai, it was better to rely on myself than on him. Although I was a rookie, I knew how to run away when something happened. This grandson had no idea at all and was courting death everywhere!
"We must leave here. Since those corpse soldiers didn't catch up, I suspect that something might have happened. The road ahead may not be so dangerous!"
I hesitated for a moment, and made a decision in my heart. I looked at Lao Bai and said unhappily, "My master and his men don't know we are here. If we wait any longer, we will die. We have lost all our food and drink now. Can the jade in your arms still keep us hungry?"
Lao Bai was at a loss for words, and finally had to pinch his nose and set off with us.
In fact, this road is safer, because the last heavenly official designed this place to suppress demons. There are no flying arrows, falling rocks, or other mechanisms in it, and we didn't see the corpse soldiers that Lao Bai said. It didn't take long for us to rush to the fork he said. The situation here stunned us.
Corpses after corpses were lying here, and broken weapons could be seen everywhere.
Aren't these the corpse soldiers that Lao Bai was talking about? Now they have all been killed!
These corpse soldiers are still covered with armor, but those armors are neither leather nor iron, just like the thousand-layer pine cones that have been soaked, they have all exploded.
This kind of armor should be the ancient paper armor, but it has been rotting in this tomb for a thousand years and is now unbearable to look at.
As the name suggests, paper armor is armor made of paper, with hard cloth on the bones and then paper tendons.
Don't think that armor must be made of leather and iron, the cost is too high. The ancient smelting technology is very limited. Even in the heyday of the unified dynasty, it is impossible for all armies to be equipped with iron armor. This kind of paper armor is the best choice for the ancient army. It is very common, relatively cheap, and has strong defensive capabilities. It is not worse than iron armor at all, but the durability is a little worse.
As far as I know, paper armor was mentioned in the history books of the Southern Qi Dynasty. The prototype of this thing probably appeared during the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that it was truly mature and equipped on a large scale. These people are wearing the earliest paper armor.
The Jie people are very poor. Because of poverty, they eat raw meat and drink blood. Most of their soldiers directly wrap cow and sheep skins around their bodies as leather armor. For this group of barbarians, paper armor is already a very high-end product. However, they can't even make it. Nomadic peoples have always been good at destruction, not good at construction. It is estimated that these paper armors are not known where they were robbed from. They must be supplied to generals first.
If nothing unexpected happens, these corpses here are all middle-level generals of the Jie tribe. They are the characters who command those mercury helmets and are buried here.
I squatted down next to one of the corpse soldiers and observed carefully. I found that the corpse soldier in front of me was destroyed by a sword piercing his chest. This kind of sword wound is too familiar to me. It was left by my master's ancient sword!
It was my master and Brother Yaozi who killed these corpses and accidentally saved Lao Bai. Otherwise, Lao Bai would have been stabbed to death by the spears...
All signs are telling me that they are not far from me now!
"Blood!"
Zhang Xinya exclaimed, "Corpse soldiers don't bleed. This must be left by my uncle and Brother Yaozi. They must be injured and not in good condition. They may even..."