88 Give you a happy
I can't save you
Several people walked into the secret door one after another.
A long and narrow corridor appeared before my eyes again. This time it was bright enough without the use of a flashlight. The walls on both sides of the corridor emitted star-like light. Looking closely, I found that they were actually luminous pearls embedded in the walls.
"Oh my god." Daniu almost fainted at the sight. One of these things was already worth a fortune, let alone so many. "Brother Lu, can I take a few off?"
"Don't do useless things!" The one-eyed man opened his mouth and yelled at him, "Hurry up and get on with your journey!"
"Oh." Da Niu nodded, and had no choice but to put his hands in his pockets, grit his teeth and continue walking forward.
"Axue, what is engraved on the wall?" Li Yiqing looked up at the mural on the wall. It was not an exquisite masterpiece, but a simple painting with extremely clumsy and even disorganized brushstrokes.
Kittens, puppies, flowers, plants, fish and insects, each one looks as childish as an elementary school student's drawing homework, completely different from the lifelike plum blossoms carved on the wall of the attic.
"Could it be that the tomb owner drew it himself?" Liu Ge said.
"Probably not." Qi Qiuxue shook her head, recalling what Ah Hai and the others had said. "They said that the Princess was proficient in everything from music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. Any of her paintings would be a masterpiece. But these on the wall are clearly the work of someone who has never studied painting systematically."
"Who painted that?" Li Yiqing was puzzled. "How could such a talented and decisive princess agree to have such a painting carved in her tomb?"
After saying this, Qi Qiuxue shook her head.
"Hurry up!" Perhaps because they were getting closer and closer to their target, the one-eyed man was extremely agitated. He turned around and looked at the three people behind him and shouted angrily, "Stop worrying about that mess!"
"Ahai, you go in front, Daniu, you follow the back!" Qi Qiuxue and the others are still useful and cannot die for the time being. In comparison, the subordinates who traveled with them are not that important. Too many people died in the tomb this time, and the remaining team members who were separated are probably in danger. In this case, it doesn't matter if two more people die.
Something seemed to be surging back and forth under his skin.
Qi Qiuxue noticed this and signaled Li Yiqing and Liu Ge with her eyes to be careful.
After walking for about a few minutes, a new door appeared in front of them. Qi Qiuxue and the others spent some time finding the key. There were some patterns on the walls on both sides that could be pressed, and either hidden arrows or secret compartments would appear. It all depended on luck.
Fortunately, Qi Qiuxue was lucky. When she opened the third mechanism, a jade-carved key appeared in front of her.
She picked up the key and tried to open the door. With a click, the door opened smoothly.
The moment everyone walked into the door one after another, Qi Qiuxue noticed that something was violently surging under the skin of Da Niu and A Hai.
“…”
Behind this door is a side room, where a perpetual lamp is lit, and the candlelight illuminates everything around. Inside are countless treasure chests of all sizes, gold and silver utensils, jade and ceramics... Each one is a priceless treasure!
Now even the one-eyed man couldn't help swallowing his saliva. No one could remain calm when facing these treasures. Daniu and Ahai couldn't hold back any longer. They ran forward to open the treasure chest and stuffed the treasures inside into their backpacks.
Human greed is fully demonstrated at this moment.
The one-eyed man shook his head and barely regained some consciousness. These subordinates had repeatedly disobeyed his orders, and this time they even acted without asking, which touched his bottom line.
"Stop!" he yelled, feeling not only ashamed but also furious. He raged, "You've filled your backpacks to the brim. Carrying so much stuff won't help you move around. What are you going to do if you run into danger?!"
"Besides, this is just a small side tomb. The treasures in the main tomb must be even greater. You..."
As if he had long been fed up with his self-righteousness and willfulness, Daniu finally chose to explode after enduring for a long time. He stood up shakily, gnashed his teeth, took out a pistol from his pocket, and pointed it at the one-eyed man in front of him: "Shut up!"
"What are you doing?!" The one-eyed man was a little bit incredulous. In all his years of tomb robbing, no one of his men had ever dared to disobey him. "You actually pointed a gun at me!"
"I'll kill you if you scream again!" At this moment, Da Niu's eyes gradually turned scarlet. Not sure if it was because of him or he was influenced by the other party, but the things hidden under his skin became restless again.
Like densely packed cylindrical spheres, they twisted and changed wildly in his body. Some had even climbed onto his neck, cheeks, and eyeballs. Even though they were far away, Qi Qiuxue and the others could still see the true appearance of these things through his scarlet eyeballs.
They are bugs, one bug after another, and the big bull is like a nest made of human skin and flesh, a habitat and a happy city for the bugs. They gnaw on his skin, control his emotions, and revel in his body, celebrating silently.
"It's those little blue dots of light!" Liu Ge suddenly realized. When they cut their skin and dripped blood into the patterns under their feet, many glowing blue dots of light entered their wounds. At the time, the three of them didn't know what these were, until now -
It turned out to be insect eggs, tens of thousands of them stuck together. As they moved forward, the eggs grew rapidly in their bodies, and the closer they got to the main tomb chamber, the more uncontrollable they became.
This appearance was extremely terrifying in the eyes of outsiders, but unfortunately, the people involved were in the dark. The one-eyed man and the other two had no idea what was happening. They only felt that everything in front of them began to change, all their senses were magnified to the maximum, and their emotions were mobilized without limits. They became extremely suspicious, nervous, and angry.
At this moment, the former teammates had become enemies who wanted to seize the treasure. Seeing this, the one-eyed man took out his pistol without hesitation, and the two pulled the trigger at the same time.
The two bullets flew towards each other's bodies at the same speed. One hit Da Niu's heart accurately, and the other missed a little. Although it did not kill him directly, it injured the one-eyed man's intact eye.
The invasion of darkness came in an instant, wrapping the one-eyed man in layer upon layer. He screamed and touched his injured eye, but he only felt a pool of sticky blood and many limp insect bodies, some dead, some still alive, wriggling wildly on his fingertips.
"What the hell is this?" The bespectacled man completely collapsed. After a brief moment of daze, he raised his gun and began to attack indiscriminately in every direction. Qi Qiuxue and the other two had already found cover and hid before the fight broke out. Only Ah Hai, who was still obsessed with the treasure, was unfortunately shot and fell to the ground without a sound.
The one-eyed man emptied his gun and knelt on the ground, struggling in pain. As his blood surged, the insects became more and more excited, biting his body more vigorously. Even some of the insect eggs that had squeezed into his blood vessels grew rapidly, becoming so large that they almost burst his blood vessels.
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts so much!" The one-eyed man screamed, hoping someone would lend him a hand. "Save me, save me, I don't want the treasure anymore. I'll give all the treasures to whoever can save my life!"
"It's a pity that we don't have any healing items." A voice came from above in the chaos.
It’s Qi Qiuxue, the woman with the low ponytail!
As if he had found a life-saving straw, the man desperately crawled towards the direction of the voice: "Take me out, take me to the hospital, okay? The doctor will definitely have a treatment method, and he will definitely be able to cure me..."
As the one-eyed man's mouth opened and closed, some insects began to crawl out of his throat, as if his body was already full of them and they had no choice but to come outside.
Qi Qiuxue frowned and took a few steps back, then said, "It's too late. I can't save you."
"What's more, if I save someone like you, I'd be harming myself." She pulled a handkerchief out of her backpack, picked up the pistol that Daniu had dropped, and pointed the gun at the one-eyed man's head. "But I can give you a quick death."
"Goodbye." She pulled the trigger calmly, and the bullet hit the one-eyed man right in the middle of his eyebrows.
In the next second, the one-eyed man dropped his head with a "thump" and never raised it again.
【Author’s words】
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