Chapter Thirty-Four, The Curious Sarcophagus of the 5th Century
"Death Worm? What is a Death Worm?"
I asked a question strangely.
The Internet was not so developed in the 1990s. The group of people born in the 1980s and early 1990s enjoyed climbing trees and burning fires in their childhood, unlike the children who later held tablets and refused to let go. It is normal that I have never heard of death worms. Even today, many people have never heard of the name of death worms. This mysterious monster that lives in the legendary Gobi, which is not so famous in that era.
Seeing that I didn't understand, the flat-headed dwarf immediately explained: "Oh, the death worm is just a legend, but this legend has never been confirmed. It is rumored that there is a huge red worm living in the vast Gobi Desert. Their preferences and habits are unknown to humans, and they are very rare. They have never been photographed by humans, and there are no witnesses. Compared with the bigfooted savages and the Loch Ness monsters, the death worm is indeed much lower-key. However, according to rumors, this legendary monster should live near Mongolia and has no connection with our Jiayuguan City."
After experiencing a series of events of female ghosts and monsters, I, who had never believed in the rumors of these gods, ghosts and monsters, couldn't help but feel a little shaken at this time. Dai You Laiba.
"Have you brought back those monsters' skins? If you bring them back, let me take a look and then talk. Come to the topic quickly."
Xu Fo urged him, seemingly a little impatient.
"Okay, okay. After that, I spent a few days in the oasis, and basically relied on some reptiles and snakes to make a living. But on the third day, I made an unexpected discovery. I found that there seemed to be a hole under the spring water in the oasis. At that time, I did not dive in a rashly. But after observing for a while, I held my breath and went shallow. The spring water was not deep, about three meters, and soon I discovered that there was indeed a hole at the bottom of the spring water. Mr. Xu, you know that in a place like the Gobi, a mysterious hole may mean two things, either a ruin or the entrance to an ancient tomb, or a certain dead end that has no return. However, I was so excited at that time that I couldn't care about so much. I dived into the cave and saw that there was a sarcophagus inside!"
Speaking of this, Wu Bing paused, but heard the man in the room behind him suddenly shut his mouth. He had been muttering since the beginning and suddenly shut his mouth. This sudden silence made all of us unresponsive.
Wu Bing also paused. At this moment, the door of the room was suddenly hit, which scared us. Except for Xu Fo, we all shouted and took several steps back. I raised my head and stared at the glass on the room door. I saw a person's face reflected behind the glass on the door. The long and scattered hair covered his face, and the sighing stubble was covered on his cheeks. Through the long hair, we could see a pair of cold and dark eyes. He stared at us and shouted loudly: "It will find me, haha, it will find me, someone will die, haha, someone will die..."
After hearing this, Wu Bing shouted to the flat-headed short man in anger: "Lock the door tightly and tie this madman up to me. We will scare us several times a day!"
The flat-headed dwarf immediately brought people into the room. After a while of tinkering, he returned to normal. After taking a sip of cigarettes, Wu Bing said, "I didn't open the coffin rashly after discovering the coffin. After the rescue team arrived, we stationed a workstation next to the oasis, sent people to drain the spring water, and transported the monster's skin away, and then moved the sarcophagus out. The discount sarcophagus was preserved quite well. Although it was soaked in the water for a long time, the edges around were sealed, with no light and no water inlet, and there was not even air. However, after we opened the sarcophagus, there was a person lying inside, that is, the weird man in the room.
After he took him out of the coffin, he was very thin and skinny. However, compared to the mummy we studied before, his body was much better preserved. It was just that there was no heartbeat or pulse, but we found through X-ray that all the organs in his body were intact. Moreover, the clothes he wore were from ancient Loulan Kingdom. We were very excited at the time and thought that this time, he found an ancient Loulan corpse that was well preserved, which was probably a sensation in the world. But no one expected that the next morning he brought him back, a painful howl came from the storage room. We only realized that he had come alive…”
If I hadn't heard Wu Bing say this with my own ears, if I hadn't seen the weird guy just now, if I hadn't experienced so many strange things, I might have thought it was a ridiculous joke, but after hearing Wu Bing's words at this moment, I knew that this was not just a ridiculous joke, it was definitely true!
"Do you mean, the night before was a mummy, the night after, it became a living person. And he could talk and think? Then is his other behavior the same as that of a normal person?"
Xu Fo was very calm, still looking like I was used to the strong wind and rain.
"It should be said that it is normal, but I have been talking crazy. The geological research we do is related to ancient artifacts, archaeology, etc., so we have experienced some bizarre and even supernatural things, but we are indeed confused about this incident. No one expected that we would encounter such a situation. We have been trying to communicate with this madman in various ways over the past three years, but it has always ended in failure. And the sarcophagus has never found a good clue. Fortunately, we have invited you now, and I believe that our problems will be solved as soon as you come. Can you talk to this madman now?"
An expression of expectation appeared on Wu Bing's face, but Xu Fo shook his head and said, "No, let me see the sarcophagus and the huge skin first."
Wu Bing showed some disappointment on his face, but he still kept smiling, made a gesture of invitation, and led us to turn around and walk deeper into the third underground floor.
Pushing open the door of the storage room, there were many people standing in the messy and huge warehouse. Wu Bing made a gesture to invite us and took us deeper. From a distance, you could see a square, huge gray sarcophagus placed horizontally in the depths of the storage room.
Chapter completed!