northernbook Chapter 465 Ancient Tomb Prison
Chapter 465 Ancient Tomb Prison
"Brother Qin An...is there anything special about these eyes?" Hawkeye asked in confusion when he saw Qin An and Gu Wuyan's faces turned pale.
The others also felt confused and awe-inspiring when looking at the eye pattern!
"These eyes belong to someone who's been infected with the brain-eating insect...and the brain-eating insect is the most sinister and vicious insect in Miao territory! The witch will place the brain-eating insect into a person's ears or nose."
"The brain-eating insect will crawl through the ears, nose and throat into the brain!"
"After devouring the brains bit by bit... the brain-eating insect's body will grow to the same size as the brains! But when it tries to retrace its steps... it can't crawl out because of its enlarged body!"
"Finally! The brain-eating insect will grow tentacles that connect to the human brain nerves, thereby controlling the person's limbs and movements!"
"Until this point... the person infected by the brain-eating parasite can no longer have their own thoughts! To say they are the walking corpse is not an exaggeration."
Qin An's calm voice sounded.
The reason why he turned pale when he saw the brain-eating insect was mainly because he was afraid that Gu Wuyan's mother had been poisoned by a brain-eating insect!
By then, little Ayan will probably be heartbroken!
"hiss--"
Listen to Qin An’s popular science talk.
Everyone in the archaeological team gasped in shock!
"How did they come up with such an inhumane poison? Turning people into zombies... This is much more painful than physical and mental torture!" Gu Yang trembled all over when he heard it.
These Miao witches are such a piece of shit!
How could they actually create such a horrifying poisonous insect?
Gu Wuyan's figure was shaky... Academician Jiang had said that the Hundred Thousand Mountains were very likely located in this Miao borderland! And there were actually traces of brain-eating Gu here?
Do the Black Miao people who imprisoned my mother know about the brain-eating insect? Will they use it on my mother?
Gu Wuyan didn't dare to think too much...
She has been living with poisonous insects since she was a child!
He is much more sensitive to the scent of various poisonous insects than ordinary people... At this moment, when he saw the vertical pupil eye with tears of blood on the altar, he seemed to smell an invisible fishy and sweet smell!
That is the unique smell of brains being eaten!
Gu Wuyan only felt that the smell was rushing through his nose to the top of his head...
Just when everyone in the archaeological team was feeling frightened.
The ground beneath the altar suddenly made a slight crackling sound!
Everyone quickly jumped out from the altar... and when they looked back, they saw that the pattern of the vertical pupil eye was slowly sinking.
After a while.
The floor of the altar was completely sunken...only a dark hole was exposed. The edge of the hole was covered with scratches. Upon closer inspection, it seemed like they were caused by human fingernails?
"Is this... the passage leading to the main tomb chamber?"
Hawkeye was stunned when he saw the circular steps on the stone walls around the cave entrance.
No one responded.
Because they discovered that the inside of the cave seemed to be made of light-absorbing material? Even with the brightness of a military flashlight, it could only barely illuminate the scene seven or eight meters ahead.
Gu Yang took out a fluorescent stick from his backpack and lit it up.
Then throw it down the hole!
"Swish—"
The glow stick fell freely in the cave for 4 seconds before landing on the ground... But even with the brightness of the glow stick, the archaeological team members from above could not see the scene inside the cave clearly!
I can only vaguely see a ball of green light and there seems to be a person sitting around the green light?
"Brother Qin An...are we still going down? Why does it feel like there's a ghost down there?" Yang Lele was hesitant after seeing the blurry figure.
“No rush…”
Qin An bent down and looked into the cave, not knowing whether he was speaking to Gu Wuyan or Yang Lele: "You guys just rest up here! As usual, I'll go down with Lao Hu to explore the way."
The words just fell!
Before Hu Jizhou responded, Gu Wuyan spoke first.
She said with a determined look, "I'll go... There's a very good chance there's a brain-eating insect down there! I'm more suitable to go than Hu Jizhou."
Qin An did not refuse: "Okay!"
The two men jumped onto the edge of the altar and walked down the stone steps on the inner wall of the cave entrance. The height of the cave entrance was only 18 meters. With Qin An and Gu Wuyan's agility, they quickly reached the bottom of the cave entrance.
The bottom of the cave entrance is interconnected and doesn't look like a corridor... Instead, it looks a bit like an ancient prison cell for holding prisoners?
The soles of my shoes feel extremely slippery when I step on the ground!
I think it's because the ground is too wet.
Qin An and Gu Wuyan looked at each other and walked towards the figure they had seen before... When they got in front of the figure, they realized that this thing was just an ordinary stone man!
Not a real person.
This stone figure resembled an elderly man with a sage-like demeanor. He sat cross-legged on the ground, his body covered in white egg sacs the size of fingernails...
These egg sacs are stacked layer upon layer!
They look like moldy mushrooms clinging to the stone man. Some of the egg sacs are translucent, and you can vaguely see curled up little bugs wriggling inside!
"Is this... a brain-eating insect's egg?"
Qin An looked at Gu Wuyan in horror, "King Chu Xing is using this place as a breeding pond for Gu? Isn't it said that raising one of these things takes the brains of ten people?"
These egg sacs densely attached to the stone man are stained with the blood of countless people... Qin An suddenly remembered the breathing corpse of the gravekeeper in the stomach of the centipede viper python!
Swallowed by a viper python countless years ago...yet able to breathe after he opened its stomach? Could it be that it was used as a living vessel for a brain-eating insect?
Just when Qin An and Gu Wuyan were lost in thought.
A light "rustling" sound was heard in the right passage... as if many tiny insects were crawling, and the green light of the fluorescent stick flashed violently twice!
Then it went out in an instant!
Qin An and Gu Wuyan quickly turned around to look.
The beam of the head-mounted flashlight also shone forward... but unfortunately the beam could not illuminate clearly after reaching about seven or eight meters ahead.
In the dark!
The "rustling" sound is getting closer and closer!
Am I still playing with chicken feathers?
Qin An activated his passive skill.
He picked up Gu Wuyan, held him in his arms, and jumped up the spiral stone steps in the cave... After jumping up six or seven steps, Qin An stopped to observe the dirty thing that suddenly attacked.
It was a creature similar to the Gomodo dragon!
But unlike the Gomodo dragon, this one is much more agile and much larger! It's 3 meters long and has a dark green body. Its tongue alone is a full 5 meters long!