[Grave Raiders Notes bg] Lost Notes 2: Heavy Fate

Behind the cave is a square passageway. The walls of the passageway are also covered with mold and mushrooms. The environment here is cold and humid. It is not suitable for people to move around here for a long time, but it is very suitable for snakes.

There are marks left by two rows of wheels on the ground, which should be left when transporting snake ore or other things.

At the end of the corridor, there is a square room. Inside the room are rows of iron shelves, and the shelves are filled with black ceramic water tanks, densely arranged.

Zhang Qiling walked aside, there was an oil lamp, and he lit the wick with a torch.

After the oil lamp was lit, the flame quickly spread to the side, and then the second lamp was lit. After a series of "bang", "bang", "bang", the oil lamps in the whole room were lit up.

Looking carefully, the wicks of these oil lamps are actually the same one, soaked in tung oil, as long as any one of them is lit, the rest will automatically light up in conjunction with each other.

After the whole room was lit up, Nan Xing was able to clearly see the magnificent group of water tanks in front of him.

These water tanks are as high as a person, and they are covered with wooden lids.Nan Xing extinguished the torch in his hand, and walked to the group of water tanks.Looking around, the scene is very strange.

After Nan Xing entered a place, he was not the kind of person who would casually move things inside out of curiosity.If she touches it, she must have understood the current situation, has full confidence in what she is doing, or has already figured out how to deal with various emergencies.

As she walked through the group of water tanks, she observed them carefully.Suddenly, she saw that the lid of a water tank was open in front of her.

As he approached, he could smell a special stench like a rotting corpse. Looking into the water tank, he saw a black oil-like thing inside, which had basically solidified.On closer inspection, there seemed to be human hair in the black oil.

No wonder these tanks are so big, can they be full of corpses?

In the early years, Nan Xing had indeed heard of an urn coffin burial method, using urns and pots as burial utensils, which are often used to bury children and teenagers, and some adults also use urn coffins, and a small hole will be left at the bottom, hoping to restore breathing , to be resurrected.

But soaking the corpse directly with oil has violated the form of urn coffin burial. Why?

"These jars are used to hold black-haired snakes." Zhang Qiling glanced at the hair in the black oil, and said: "The things in the jars are all boiled out of human body oil."

After speaking, he picked out the oil with a knife and pulled out a black hairy snake.The snake is obviously dead. The body seems to have been pickled, rich in water, and the scales have fallen off, but the skin is still elastic.

"The snakes in the tank are all close to death when they are mined, so they are preserved in human oil in this way."

Nan Xing was puzzled, "These dead black-haired snakes no longer have the ability to co-exist with humans, why should they be preserved? Is there another purpose?"

Zhang Qiling opened the snake's mouth, "Look."

Nan Xing saw the tiny fangs inside, but there was a cut where the poison sac was located, and the inside seemed to be empty.

"The poison sac was taken out?"

"En." Zhang Qiling threw the snake back into the water tank, and said, "The venom of the black-haired snake should have other effects."

"What is the effect?"

"It's not clear yet." Zhang Qiling shook his head, "They don't seem to have found a way to use these poison sacs yet."

Nan Xing looked at Zhang Qiling, and when he was about to say something next, he stopped, looked at her, and walked further into the room, "Come with me."

Nan Xing passed by, and saw a huge stone plate placed in the darkness in the corner.The stone plate is densely covered with caves, and almost every cave contains a shriveled snake venom sac, and a series of numbers are engraved beside the cave.

Looking at it from a distance, those small holes that are densely covered with stars form a complicated star map.

Nan Xing knew this kind of star map. A large number of stars were arranged according to a hidden law. From this law, extremely fine and complex mechanisms could be derived.When this mechanism is released, it must be solved in the order it was originally set, which requires extremely high memory.

Nan Xing frowned, "Is this star map arranged in the order in which the poison sacs were taken out?"

"Well, the number of poison sacs is also the number of times they have tried." Zhang Qiling said while moving the order of the poison sacs on the stone plate.

"Try? Do you mean another function of the black-haired snake?" Nan Xing also went over to restore the position of the astrolabe with him.

"En." Zhang Qiling nodded, and from the corner of his eye, he noticed that Nan Xing's way of using Faqiu fingers was the same as his own.

Although everyone in the Zhang family has trained Faqiu fingers, everyone will adjust according to their own habits in the training of finger selection and use.

Like him, the index finger and middle finger of the right hand are Faqiu fingers, and they are used in the same way. He has only met Nan Xing for so long.

Also because of this, the actions of the two to restore the astrolabe were very tacit, and quickly arranged the positions of all the poison sacs.

There was a muffled sound coming from the stone plate, and then it was broken into two parts from the middle and moved to the two sides, revealing the dark steps under the stone plate.

Zhang Qiling lit the torch and headed down the stairs.

Walking down the stairs, Nan Xing felt that the surrounding air was getting colder and colder. When he walked to the back, even a layer of frost formed on the stone walls on both sides.

At the same time, an increasingly strong stench of corpses began to fill the air.

When we reached the end of the stairs, the whole environment was as cold as a mortuary.

Zhang Qiling stopped, and Nan Xing saw the endless coffins piled up in front of him by the light of the fire.

Because of the large number, these coffins are placed one upon another in rows, looking from a distance like rows of wardrobes.

A series of numbers were written in scrawled characters on the coffin. If you look carefully, it corresponds to the numbers engraved on the stone plate above.

"They used living people to test snake venom, and then recorded the changes in these people. At present, they should not have found the right person."

Nan Xing was stunned.

The entire underground space was silent, surrounded by a cold and treacherous feeling of nausea.

Live people were used as experiments, and human oil was used to preserve snakes. How many tragic souls are there?For what purpose is the person behind this able to do such a thing?

The two didn't stay here for too long, Zhang Qiling quickly opened the stairs leading to the next floor.

On the third floor, Nan Xing finally saw the birthplace of the creatures that had besieged her and Zhang Qiling outside.

The entire third floor was divided into compartments by iron nets. In each compartment, there was a bed, and the creatures that were seen outside in the evening were locked with chains on the bed, but they were all dead.

Their states are different, some are no different from ordinary people in appearance, some are completely distorted, and some even have long black hairs that are exactly the same as black snakes on the back spine.

Scratch marks and black bloodstains are everywhere on the wall, which is shocking at first glance, and it seems that the desperate roar that resounded through the entire space can still be heard in the ear.

Walking past these compartments, you can see that some compartments are empty, and the broken chains are scattered on the ground.It should be that after this place was abandoned for some reason, some surviving "Black Flyers" test subjects escaped.

At the end, Nan Xing noticed that there were two compartments that were very tidy, without any signs of struggle, and without chains.

But from the furnishings inside, we can see traces of people living there.

Could it be that……

"Brother, could these two be Hei Feizi's success?" Nan Xing stood in front of the cubicle and asked Zhang Qiling.

"It's not just these two." Zhang Qiling said, and opened the stairs leading to the fourth floor.

When I went down to look, I saw that the entire fourth floor was full of empty compartments that were as neat as the two rooms just now.

The author has something to say:

I really like a sentence that Uncle San said in an interview. It probably means that people don’t need to do anything in a high-pressure environment like tomb robbery. They just need to stay together and they will naturally develop feelings.So for the little brother and the little star, to promote the relationship between the two, playing the tomb robbery dungeon together is the best way I can think of to warm up their relationship~~

Thanks to Qiyangerli, Xiaoqi, and Southern Catwoman for their nutrient solution, yum! !