Chapter 8 Bitterness

Nobita screamed in pain, pushed me away, and took a step back.

I didn't have time to think about it, so I felt that my whole face began to be hot and itchy. It seemed that my whole head was not mine, and I hit the rock wall to relieve my pain.

I hit my head and broke the blood, and then I couldn't help it. I reached out to grab the skin on my face. Not only this scratch, I scratched my fingernail and scraped off a piece of skin.

My skin is as soft as tofu skin, and it peels off as soon as I scratch it, which is simply devastating. Suddenly, I thought of those shameless people on the ground and felt that I had encountered the same thing as them?

I was so scared that I was about to pee in my pants, and I heard Liang Qian say to Daxiong, "I know what's going on!" Hold him!"

As soon as I finished speaking, I felt my whole body tight and felt pressed under a truck tire weighing hundreds of pounds, and then someone pressed my shoulder.

"Break your mouth!" I heard Liang Qian's voice coming to my ear, and then two hands like iron pliers supported my upper and lower jaws.

Then I felt a hand sticking into my throat, and suddenly my head was dizzy and I felt extremely sick.

But the * in the stomach was blocked by that arm and couldn't spit out at all. I had to make a dry and vomiting sound, and tears from my nose came out together.

That's really painful. I don't want to die for the second time in my life.

Before long, the hand was pulled out of my throat, and there was a black and yellow thing between my two fingers, squeaking.

I suddenly felt relaxed all over my body, and my skin was no longer itchy, so I began to vomit sideways. As a result, I spit out a pale yellow** with blood, not to mention how disgusting it was.

After vomiting for a while, I recovered and wiped the * and snot tears from the corners of my mouth with my sleeves.

At this time, Nobita helped me up and handed over the kettle for me to rinse my mouth.

I vomited a few times before I could barely speak and asked, "What the hell is this?"

Liang Qian had just pinched that thing to death. At this moment, she spread out her hand and said, "Is it delicious? THIS IS CALLED Bitterlong (READ LONG). I THOUGHT THERE WAS NO SUCH THING IN THE WORLD FOR A LONG TIME, BUT I DIDN'T EXPECT TO SEE IT HERE. IF IT hadn'T BEEN HARM TO PEOPLE, I WOULD HAVE GIVEN IT TO THE zoo.

I heard him strangely, so I went over and immediately recognized it. It was a small toad with golden spots on its back, so I said, "Isn't this a toad?" What kind of bitterness?"

Liang Qian threw that thing aside, shook her head and said, "This is not an ordinary toad. This thing was used to make poison in the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period, called golden cicada worm, which is one of the ancient magic created by the ancients."

I don't know what a golden toad is, but I finally remembered why this thing ran into my mouth. If you guess correctly, the zombie carried this kind of golden toad, and the three dead people were also poisoned, and then grabbed their faces. It should be very painful before they died.

When Daxiong killed the zombie, its blood splashed into my mouth, and the bitter gag came in at that time.

We rested for about ten minutes and heard the sound of them in the depths of the cave.

Lao Huang and others quickly saw us in the corridor and were a little surprised to see that Liang Qian and I were both hanging up.

After we told him what had just happened, everyone was extremely surprised, and several soldiers ran to check the fragments of the rice dumplings.

When they saw the three shameless bodies on the ground, Lao Huang even said, "Huh?" He said, "Are these the people of the expedition?"

I was scared to death just now and didn't have time to see the identities of the three people. At this moment, I was surprised, because these three people were wearing well-to-date jackets, like a group of hikers, but they were obviously organized.

After checking for a long time, we had no more superfluous clues, so we burned the white-haired zombies and three corpses with kerosene. Then Liang Qian led the crowd to the broken secret door and said, "This hole is extremely dangerous. We'd better be careful."

Lao Huang nodded and said to the soldiers behind him, "Let's go."

Liang Qian reloaded the gun, lit the flashlight, jumped on the gravel pile, and bent down into the entrance of the secret road.

In order to save the battery, Lao Huang commanded several of his men to light five or six torches and followed Liang Qian one by one.

This time, I didn't enter the last one, but followed Liang Qian closely.

Although the secret path is not wide, it is more than two meters high. After entering the hole, you can walk upright, which is not very tiring.

In fact, since I saw the sarcophagus, I had a guess about what happened in the mine.

Since there is a coffin, this mine must be connected to an ancient tomb.

For the ancient tomb structure, I was limited to my first knowledge at that time, but since the sarcophagus was found and there was such a secret tomb path next to the sarcophagus, I can be sure that there must be more important tombs at the end of this tomb path.

Because according to the structure of the ancient tomb, the location of the sarcophagus should be an ear chamber of the whole tomb, because larger tombs are generally equipped with two ear chambers, burying people who are closer to the tomb owner and belong to the martyrs.

The narrow tomb is only more than 20 meters long, and I don't know what stone is made of. It looks simple and thick, and there is no carving on it.

In my experience, after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, all large tombs will have murals, but they are not here, and they are very rough, indicating that this cave was at least before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

As soon as we got out of the tomb, we came to an extremely wide cave hall.

The cave hall is more than ten meters high and is almost half the size of a football field. There are many dagger-like sharp stalactites hanging on the top of the cave. At first glance, it is a naturally formed underground cave.

We walked to the center of the cave hall and soon found a bronze tripod in the center of the cave hall.

The tripod is half a meter high, covered with light gray copper rust, and can also roughly recognize the ancient patterns carved on it, which are animal patterns such as Luan birds and tigers. Due to the long years, almost all the rocks on the ground are glued to copper rust.

Copper tripods became popular in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Later, although ironware was invented in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, ironware was easy to rust and decay, so until the Qin and Han dynasties, many emperors liked to use bronzeware to bury them.

Judging from the body and pattern of this copper tripod, it should have been cast in the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, because the copper fetus of the Qin Dynasty is relatively light and thin, and the pattern is very simple.

I just saw the sarcophagus outside, and it is difficult for me to determine the age of the ancient tomb, but now I almost conclude that this must be an ancient tomb of the Qin Dynasty.

However, when I realized this, I began to be surprised, because in the Qin Dynasty, Sichuan was still a land of barbarians. At that time, no one should have had such a large financial resources to build tombs.

And there is a big difference between the ethnic minorities in Sichuan and the Central Plains, and this copper tripod is placed here, which is obviously used to burn sacrifices, which can only be found in tombs in the Central Plains.

These questions drove me to borrow a flashlight from Liang Qian's hand and came to the copper tripod to take a closer look.

However, except for me, it seems that other people have no interest in this copper tripod, and they are scattered to the cave hall to find other clues.

I first aimed the light of the electric power into the interior of the copper tripod, and saw a thick layer of black-gray powder inside. Due to the age, the powder inside almost condensed together and became a plaster-like object.

I found a long stone on the ground, stirred the powder inside, and picked out some animal bones and some jade residues in it. This confirms my inference that this thing was indeed a container used to burn sacrificial objects 2,000 years ago.

I was even more curious. I set up the flashlight to check the lines on the tripod.