Boom…
The rusty lock on the iron door on the left was cut off by Yang Lixuan with one shot, and he kicked it open. It was dark inside.
After a quick scan with a flashlight, they found that there was no soul-destroying rat inside. Everyone quickly hid in and closed the door tightly.
Dong... Dong Dong... Dong...
The banging sounds outside the door were endless, and the rats were banging against the iron door crazily. Fortunately, the door was relatively strong, and a layer of iron sheet was welded on the upper door and window bars, so there was no need to worry too much about the soul-destroying rats outside getting in.
He casually pulled a nearby table against the door, and the glass bottle on it fell to the ground and shattered all over the place. After taking a short breath and confirming that the rats outside could no longer come in, they nervously glanced around the room one by one.
After killing several soul-destroying rats that had wandered in, everyone held up their flashlights and carefully explored every corner of the room. The air was filled with the sulfurous smell of gunpowder explosions, mixed with an unpleasant stench and blood.
This seems to be a specimen room. There are rows of tables and iron shelves in the room, with large and small glassware placed on them.
He picked up a small bottle on the table and took a look at it. At first glance, he thought it was empty. After looking at it carefully for a long time, Chen Tao noticed that there was a small black dot as big as a grain of rice in the potion.
He picked up a few more and looked at them and said, "The ones on the table seem to be specimens of black worms in different growth stages."
"Not just the bloodthirsty black worms, but also those vines and soul-destroying rats!" Yan on the other side said.
At this time, he had a glass jar in his hand that was as big as two ordinary people's heads. There was a giant black rat with long hair inside.
"It seems that the dead Japanese didn't know everything..." Uncle Long said, looking at the glass jars.
"There are many jars on the shelf behind here. Are they all mice?"
Chen Tao was curious and held up a flashlight to check one of them. Although he was prepared, he was still startled.
Inside the bottle was a severed hand covered with large and small bumps. It has been so long that the antiseptic liquid in the bottle has turned a little yellow, and the severed hand inside looks so white that it is scary.
Chen Tao raised his head and looked elsewhere, and made a rough estimate in his mind. There were hundreds of bottles like this in this specimen room!
"This is how many people have been arrested, these damn Japanese devils!" Shangui cursed bitterly.
"These are the samples left after they experimented with bloodthirsty black insects!"
While everyone was looking at the glass jars in front of the house, Boss Zhang had reached the back of the shelves without knowing it.
"I love it! There is a thousand-year-old salted fish here!"
"I love it! There is a thousand-year-old salted fish here!" Boss Zhang's voice came from the back of the shelf.
"What? Salted fish?" Chen Tao didn't react at first and thought there was really a salted fish there. After a long while, I suddenly realized that what Boss Zhang was talking about was slander. There was an ancient corpse in that place, and it was a thousand-year-old corpse!
Since there are ancient corpses, the meaning contained in them is extraordinary. A look of joy flashed across everyone's faces, and they quickly walked towards where Boss Zhang was.
"This old fat guy is really nimble. We are still struggling here. Why did that guy get there?" Haozi muttered in Chen Tao's ear.
"You can't afford to go early if you don't have any profit! I guess he has already turned this place around!" Chen Tao said with contempt.
"That's a well-known profiteer on the road. Do you think he will care about those useless specimens like us?" Mountain Ghost came up and joined the conversation in a low voice.
"Hey, hey, shush! That's enough for you three, don't cause trouble for me. Why are you here with these two idiots, Mountain Ghost?" Uncle Long glanced at the three people who were complaining, and he got angry. road.
Hearing the sound, Chen Tao and Hao Zi looked at the mountain ghost and laughed. The mountain ghost was a little embarrassed, scratched his head and smiled dryly.
"It's strange, there aren't even vines around this specimen room..." Uncle Long looked around and said.
At this time, everyone noticed that compared with other rooms, this specimen room was so "clean"!
"They painted something on the wall and floor to block the damage of vines and rats." Yang Lixuan wiped the wall with his hand, twirled it with two fingers, put it under his nose and sniffed.
Hearing this, Chen Tao followed Yang Lixuan's example and wiped it on the wall. He raised his hand and saw that there was nothing there. He couldn't help but mutter in his heart: "Is this person a dog? You can find it all."
After walking around behind the shelf where Boss Zhang was, he saw two huge square glass cabinets like coffins parked in the corner.
One of them was a complete male corpse, completely naked and soaked in embalming fluid. The skin of the corpse was covered with large and small lumps, and it looked a bit scary when shining a flashlight on it.
The other body was tall, with a waxy-yellow skin, long hair hanging down its shoulders, and was actually wearing a pair of tattered armor. There are still a lot of mottled rust on the armor, and the remaining pieces of black cloth can be seen underneath. Looking from a distance, it looks extremely inconsistent with everything around it.
That outfit was not unfamiliar to Chen Tao at all, it was the style of the Qin Dynasty.
Those who have watched the historical dramas of the Qin Dynasty may notice this phenomenon. From the princes and nobles to the common people, and even the servants, they all wear clothes with black as the main color.
The ministers above the court all wear black court uniforms, and even the decoration style of the court is different from the splendor of other countries, with black as the main color. The people of Qin seem to have a strong black complex.
Among the many dynasties in Chinese history, the Qin Dynasty is the one that Chen Tao is most interested in. When he was in college, Chen Tao once did a project on the Qin Dynasty, and he had some understanding of the Qin Dynasty.
In real history, people in Qin do like black, and there is a reason why people in Qin prefer black.
There is such a record in the "Book of Han Lu Li Zhi" compiled by historians of the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Now the Qin Dynasty has changed to the Zhou Dynasty, and it is the time of water virtue. In the past, Duke Wen went hunting and caught a black dragon. This is the auspiciousness of water virtue."
It means that in the early years when Qin Wengong went out hunting, he once captured a black dragon, which is the symbol of water virtue among the five elements.
Therefore, the rulers of Qin believed that they were the virtues of water, so they respected water. In the five elements, the corresponding symbol color of water virtue is black. Therefore, from the Qin State in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Qin Empire that unified the world, black was advocated.
Another reason is that in ancient Chinese culture, black is a symbol of the north, and the ancestral land of Qin is located in the northwest.
According to "Historical Records·Qin Benji", the ancestors of Qin first lived in a place called "Xi Quanqiu". Later, they were granted land and marquis for their meritorious service in herding horses. They became vassals of Zhou and were able to establish the Qin State. That place was called "Xi Quan Qiu". The place "West Inuqiu" belongs to the northwest.
When he got closer, he saw Boss Zhang clinging to the ancient corpse through the glass, taking off his gas mask. At this time, his eyes were shining brightly as he looked at the clothes on the corpse, and his mouth kept smacking, and he saw that his saliva was almost drooling on the glass roof outside.
"Oh my god, I'll give it a beating! This is an ancient corpse from the Qin Dynasty!" Boss Zhang's hands were stroking around on it through the glass, and he kept mumbling,
"It's so complete, and there's this armor, tsk tsk tsk, it's incredible! Just taking out the body has already made a profit, it's so prosperous now!"
"You still take the corpse, aren't you afraid that it will pick up the corpse and eat you alive?" Yan teased from the side.
"Um..." Boss Zhang stopped mumbling, took a serious look at the ancient corpse in the glass cabinet and said, "It shouldn't be possible after soaking in it for so long..."
"I advise you not to touch it. The feng shui here is extremely weird, and the wood energy is so strong. With such a heavy anger, there must be a very sinister death place hidden here." Uncle Long looked inside. The ancient corpse said.
"It's okay for this salted fish to be in a glass cabinet. It's completely isolated from the outside world. The breath of living people won't affect anything. If it were outside, once such a thousand-year-old salted fish was found dead, we would all have to stay here!"
Boss Zhang didn't say a word, his expression was calm, he glanced at the ancient corpse in the cabinet for a few times, his eyes rolled around, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Okay, the ancient corpse has been found anyway, there must be a hole behind it. Oops... I know this trip will not be in vain!"
Seeing the smiling expression on Boss Zhang's face, Chen Tao couldn't help but complain in his heart: "What an evil capitalist! This profit-seeking old fat man doesn't know what he is holding back."
"Huh? That's not right..." Chen Tao was surprised.
"What's wrong, young man, what do you want to say?"
"This man should be a soldier of the Qin Dynasty, but..." Chen Tao looked at the green rust stains on the ancient corpse armor with some confusion and said, "Shouldn't the equipment of ordinary soldiers be so sophisticated?"
