Chapter 3 Ghost Hands Under the Ice(1/2)
I used a fine brush to carefully clean the dust on the inscription.
This monument may have been erected on the cliff for thousands of years. Years of wind and sun have caused the mineral content to change. It is possible that it was broken into dirt by my accident.
Most of the inscriptions are blurred, and I can only get a general idea from a few words.
What is basically certain is that the tomb of this general should have been built in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It mentioned the words "Xiandi" and "Jingsheng". The first thing I thought of was the Three Kingdoms period.
Jingsheng should refer to Liu Biao of Jingzhou.
I thought about it carefully and found that Liu Biao in Jingzhou had quite a few generals named Huang, such as Huang Zu or Huang Zhong.
But I don't remember any general with "Uncle" in his name.
I patiently read the inscription and found that there was not much useful information. After all, too much time had passed and the inscription was blurry.
If you want to find any useful clues, the best way is to go deep into the tomb.
But at this time, I felt very uneasy. The experience I had in that underground palace during my childhood made me extremely cringe.
I bit the bullet and dived one step at a time, exploring the dark cave step by step.
Suddenly I heard something and subconsciously stopped, feeling that the cave seemed much brighter.
An idea suddenly popped into my head, and I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
I raised my head tremblingly, and when I saw the roof of the cave, my heart stopped beating at that moment.
On the top of the cave not far in front of me, hundreds of green lights locked on me.
Drops of water fell down, and under the light of the flashlight, I saw clearly that it was not water, but blood!
I raised my wrist slightly and used a flashlight to illuminate the ceiling of the cave.
At that moment, I almost vomited.
Thousands, no, tens of thousands of green-eyed bats were densely packed all over the cave ceiling!
They surround me!
In fear, the flashlight in my hand illuminated the stone wall diagonally above. The cracks there were filled with severed limbs and incomplete organs!
Some are already bones, some are hanging with rotten flesh, and some are dripping with blood. Look fresh!
I subconsciously pointed my flashlight at the surroundings, and right above my head, where blood had just dripped, there was a human head hanging!
I was petrified.
At the same time, I also saw that not only the top of the cave, but also the two side stone walls were covered with blue-eyed bats!
Each of them was staring at me with their green eyes, as if they had locked onto prey and were ready to pounce on me together and bite me.
I'm glad I didn't hold my hand against the wall just now, otherwise it would be hard to say if I accidentally grabbed something.
At the same time, the curiosity in my heart started to kill me again. I actually wanted to see what it looked like under my feet.
From the first moment I walked into the cave, I felt that this place was different from other caves. The ground was very flat, a bit like skating on the ice in an ice rink.
Because it was night and the light was very dark, even though there was a flashlight for illumination, I was never sure whether what I was walking on was ice or a rock formation as smooth as pebbles.
I slowly squatted down to ensure that I would not disturb the bats. I pointed the light of the flashlight at the ground and felt a cold touch wherever I touched it.
Through the illumination of electric light, I could clearly see the ice crystals in the plane under my feet. This was actually an ice surface!
I was surprised and a little scared. After walking for so long, there was nothing strange about the ice under my feet. This showed that the ice was very thick and there was probably a deep underground river under the ice.
If the ice melts, won't I drown?
I took out my work shovel, then knelt on the ground and used the shovel to chisel the ice surface a few times. Unexpectedly, the ice surface was unexpectedly stronger than I expected.
Now I feel relieved.
Just when I was about to stand up and continue moving forward with my hands on the ground, I suddenly discovered that there seemed to be something hidden among the dense white ice marks under the ice surface.
So I crawled forward a short distance and got closer to the small hole I had just dug to observe.
The electric light illuminated the deep water under the ice, revealing a pool of faint blue water, like blue tears.
The river water remained slowly, as if dead.
At that moment, the entire cave fell into a deathly silence.
I heard water droplets falling on the ice, making a ticking sound, like a countdown.
My heart seemed to be beating in response. I held my breath and observed carefully.
Under the water, there was a shadow floating vaguely. It was as if it knew I was observing it, and it happened to drift through the small ice cave.
When I saw the "shadow" clearly, I couldn't help but be surprised!
What I saw was cloth! No! To be precise, it was clothing! And the clothing was not flat! This means that what was floating under the ice was probably a corpse!
Just when I was horrified by this discovery, I saw bit by bit through the ice hole, above the clothes, human skin.
The skin has turned white due to blisters, but there is no sign of decay. It is still lifelike. What's even more strange is that he doesn't seem to be swollen.
Could it be someone who just died?
But this is impossible? Judging from the flow direction of the water, this should be the upper reaches of the underground river. How could the frozen corpse be frozen for such a long time under such a thick layer of ice?
Moreover, this person is still wearing right-sided clothes similar to the Hanfu style.
I was thinking and observing.
At this time, the face of the corpse under the ice had floated into my sight.
The deceased was a male, with some wrinkles on his face, but the texture of the wrinkles was very strange. It started from his mandibles and spread toward his face. It was like being poisoned by a strange poison and slowly aging in the movie.
Before I could figure this out, the upper half of the dead body's face had already floated to the small hole.
I saw that his eyes were closed and he was very peaceful.
It doesn't look like he was poisoned.
This man's eyes are slender, a bit like the eyes of a fox.
I was thinking about it, and then I turned my attention back to the hole.
This time, he stopped fluttering.
It was like I was observing him through a small hole, with the ice hole opening facing that slender eye.
I swallowed.
Those eyes seemed to have some magic power, making me unable to look away.
suddenly.
suddenly.
I seem to have an illusion, I feel like he is smiling!?
Yes, I feel that slender eye is slightly bent, he is smiling!
Realizing this, my heart beat wildly.
I tried to control myself, I wanted to look away!
I can't look at him!
I warned myself in my heart.
but
I can not do it!
The more I looked at him, the more frightened I became.
The more I looked at him, the more ominous I felt.
The heart beats violently.
I felt severe pain and fear.
I saw it!
That dead body——
Open your eyes suddenly!
"ah!!!!!"
I screamed and fell backward.
My scream resounded throughout the cave, and all the blue-eyed bats were alarmed at that moment.
Tens of thousands of bats fluttered their wings, making rustling sounds and high-pitched roars.
It was different from all the animal sounds I had ever heard, like an iron sheet scratching a steel plate.
Harsh and creepy.
Before I could stand up from the ice, I felt violent shaking under my feet.
That's not the mountain shaking, but the ice surface or underground river!
To be continued...