Iron Tooth City.
It was dark on all sides and very quiet. You could barely hear the breathing of the people around you.
Ouyang Heng glanced at Gongsun Baba, who was walking in the front, and his eyes narrowed.
It was her own request to be at the front.
The reason is simple. She was the first to break into the theft industry and has the most experience.
Since she asked for it herself, Ouyang Heng certainly chose to satisfy her.
The last person left behind was Bi She, who was basically silent except for talking alone with Ouyang Heng.
"The Huozhezi can't be used anymore. The air here is thin..." Gongsun Baba frowned.
"I have Night Pearl."
It was Bi She who spoke.
He took out something wrapped in cloth from the pocket at his waist.
When he opened the cloth layer by layer, the luminous pearls were revealed inside, releasing the gleaming light.
Although the area covered by this light was not large, it was barely possible to see clearly the area about three meters in front.
"There is something ahead." Gongsun Baba suddenly pointed to the front and said.
Ouyang Heng and his party all looked forward. Following the direction pointed by Gongsun Baba, we could see that there seemed to be a figure looming in front of them.
At this time, Bi She held up the luminous pearl and walked in front. He narrowed his eyes and said, "It doesn't look like a living person."
"Follow me and take a few steps slowly."
The green snake moved slowly and moved closer to the front.
After walking about seven or eight steps, the blurry figures in front gradually began to become clearer.
It turned out to be a corpse leaning against the wall.
"It's a mummy."
There are mummies on the walls of this corridor, something doesn't look right.
"Old Qi, have you seen this kind of clothes?" Gongsun Baba took a look and asked sideways.
Ouyang Qing nodded and said, "I have seen it before. These are the clothes from Daxia. They are styles passed down from the West..."
Ouyang Qing took a closer look at the mummy's face.
"Yes, I am sure this person is from Daxia."
People from different countries and capitals can often be roughly judged by their appearance.
"Brother Ninth, don't touch this person's face."
Seeing Ouyang Heng stretching out the blade and trying to touch the mummy's face, Ouyang Qing hurriedly shouted.
"What?" Ouyang Heng stopped moving.
"This man became a mummy not long after his death. There is something wrong with this."
Ouyang Qing said.
"Junior brother, have you seen something fishy?" Gongsun Ba said domineeringly.
Gongsun Baba entered the industry earlier than Ouyang Qing, and his vision is certainly better than his.
Of course, what Ouyang Qing could see, he could also see.
"I see something."
Ouyang Qing glanced at Ouyang Heng and Bi She, "Big brothers, there is something inside this person's body, which is very dangerous."
"In that case, why do you have to remind me? If anything happens to me, you don't have to pay back the money." Ouyang Heng said lightly.
"Brother Ninth is joking, the things inside are not fatal to you."
"What's more, paying back debts is a matter of course. I'm not a defaulter." Ouyang Qing said with a wry smile.
The so-called reciprocation, Ouyang Heng had already given him face, but without telling the truth, how could he tell the real reason.
"What exactly is here?" Ouyang Heng did not dwell on that topic.
"It's a bug."
Gongsun Baba answered.
"You mean, a kind of insect turned the corpse into a mummy?" Ouyang Heng frowned.
"Brother Ninth, look at the side of his neck. There is a hole there, which is where the bugs first got in... This kind of bug can absorb water and prevent corpses from rotting. There are many wealthy people who specialize in getting this kind of corpse bug into their coffins. , wait until the body is drained of moisture, and then deworm. In this way, the body can be preserved for a longer period of time."
Gongsun Baba turned his palm, and a dagger appeared in his palm.
This dagger is a little smaller than ordinary daggers, and there is a groove in the middle of the blade.
At the same time, she took out a small bottle and dropped some potion into the middle groove of the dagger.
The potion looked a bit bright under the radiance of the luminous pearl.
"What are you doing?" Ouyang Heng was curious. This gangster had a lot of strange tricks. If he hadn't been exposed to them, he would never have known that there were insects that could turn the dead into mummies.
"I want to collect some bugs and bring them back. This thing is very rare and can be sold for a lot of money."
Gongsun Baba slowly approached the mummy with the dagger in his hand, and stabbed it gently into the neck of the male mummy.
Not long after, the skin and flesh turned, and something came out of the mummy's body.
Gongsun Baba quickly pulled out the dagger...
Ouyang Heng looked toward the middle of the dagger. In the groove in the middle, there were many small insects, some of which looked like fireflies. Their bodies glowed with a faint red light, and some even had a pair of small wings on their backs.
The insect wasn't ugly, but if Ouyang Heng hadn't already known the habits of the corpse insect, he probably wouldn't have been able to guess that the insect was hiding inside the corpse.
The potion Gongsun Baba applied in the groove of the dagger was to stick to the corpse insects.
"Are there any insects inside the dried corpse?" Ouyang Heng asked.
"Yes, there are many more, at least thousands. The inside of this mummy has been eaten away by insects." Gongsun Baba pursed his lips and said.
"Since there are so many, why did Bi lead them out and capture them all?" Ouyang Heng asked.
"You can't touch them all. If all the bugs come out, it will be very dangerous. After this bug matures, ordinary swords can't hurt it. It can burrow along the surface of a living person and devour human flesh and blood." Gongsun Ba said domineeringly. .
"In that case, let's go on."
Ouyang Hengdao.
Everyone started to move forward.
With the help of the luminous pearl's light, the danger hidden in the dark ahead has been reduced a lot.
But Ouyang Heng's heart was still heavy.
The mummy from before must have been from not long ago. Why did he die here? And why was his body eaten up by corpse insects?
There are too many secrets hidden here. Who can be sure that the power that harmed the mummy has disappeared?
After walking for a while, the green snake who was already at the front, holding the luminous pearl in his hand, suddenly stopped.
"There are murals on the walls." Bi She said concisely.
Everyone looked at the wall, and sure enough, there were large murals on the wall.
"This wall is not made of stone. It looks like a kind of brick." Ouyang Heng discovered that when he arrived here, the wall was no longer made of stone, but was made of blue bricks.
The murals painted with several kinds of pigments are carved on the bricks.
"It's just bricks, just bricks mixed with iron. The murals on them are spliced together." Gongsun Ba said domineeringly.
"What splicing?" Ouyang Heng asked.
"Just draw it in advance, then dismantle the bricks, transport them in, and stack them in a certain order, and the mural will be reproduced. The process is quite difficult. When splicing, the order of the bricks cannot be determined. Chaos." Gongsun Ba said domineeringly.
