I looked at Professor Li in confusion: "Singing and talking bones...?"
Professor Li nodded laboriously. The cigarette in his hand had burned to the bottom. The heat from the cigarette butt almost blackened his index and middle fingers, but Professor Li seemed not to feel anything at all.
I looked at his fingers, raised my chin slightly, and said, "The smoke... is burned to the end."
Only then did Professor Li notice his slightly blackened fingers, smiled bitterly, and threw the cigarette butt in his hand aside.
After the cigarette butt drew a weak arc in the air, it fell not far away with a "click" sound, creating a small spark.
The cigarette butt fell on the ground not far away. The fire did not go out, but was still flickering brightly and dimly.
I looked at the cigarette butt for a while, then turned to look at the strange crystal bone in Professor Li's arms. It felt like a mess was stuffed into my heart. I tried my best to find a clear clue from it, but I couldn't. In the end, it's back to square one.
I opened my mouth to say something, but Professor Li spoke first: "Time is running out... Time is running out..."
I asked doubtfully: "You always say that time is running out. What exactly does time running out mean?"
Professor Li shook his head and said nothing. He just gritted his teeth and leaned against the wall with his shoulders. He reluctantly tried to support himself to stand up, but when he was halfway up, he fell to the ground with a "thump".
It didn't matter that he fell. His hand, which was already a bone, happened to hit the ground. It didn't even make a sound and fell into several knots.
This sudden fall was simply adding insult to injury for Professor Li at this time.
The severe pain prevented him from taking a breath, and he fainted all of a sudden. The crystal head that he was holding tightly in his arms also rolled away to the side with a "Gulu" sound.
"Professor Li...! How are you?" I saw this and took two hurried steps to help him, not caring about the fallen crystal skull.
But at this moment, a black shadow suddenly jumped out from the corner and picked up the crystal bones on the ground.
The next second, the guy turned around and ran towards the other side of the aisle.
"Damn it! Where did Cheng Yaojin come from...?" I cursed in my mind, then turned my head and glanced at Professor Li who was unconscious on the ground. After a brief moment of confusion in my heart, I decisively ran towards the black man. Shadow chased after him.
The black figure didn't look too tall, only about 1.45 meters at most, but this guy was like a monkey, his movements were very flexible, and he was not restricted at all in this dark and narrow corridor.
I carried a flashlight and chased after this guy. Although the light of the military tactical flashlight could illuminate a range of nearly thirty meters, I almost hit a stone pillar several times.
At this time, I had already scolded all the eighteen generations of the master's ancestors in my heart, but I didn't dare to relax at all.
The dark figure seemed to know the terrain of the ancient temple very well. He led me around and around for a long time. Suddenly, after turning a corner, the guy disappeared.
"Damn it! Where is the person?" I cursed secretly.
This is a relatively narrow corridor, and there is a closed stone door not far in front of the corridor.
I held the flashlight and shone it back and forth in front of my eyes, and found a person lying on his side about ten meters in front of me.
When I saw someone lying there, I couldn't help but feel shocked, and I hurriedly walked towards that person.
But when I walked up to that person, I couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, because the person lying on the ground was none other than Professor Li who had passed out before.
"Grandma! Why did I come back again?" I cursed in my heart: "Where did that guy go?"
Just when I was surprised, the stone door not far in front of me suddenly opened slowly with a "click".
As the stone door slowly opened, a dazzling light came out from inside.
I frowned slightly, and countless doubts suddenly arose in my mind.
I walked slowly towards the stone house. I didn't walk very fast, for fear that I would accidentally fall into a trap.
Because I had been in the dark for so long, I couldn't adapt to the sudden sight of light.
I narrowed my eyes and it took me a while to get used to what I was seeing.
At this time, the firelight was beating in the stone room, and everything inside was messy and in a mess. A man was standing in the corner breathing heavily, and a big black dog was lying on his side not far in front of him, his mouth filled with laughter. He was dripping with blood and seemed to be out of breath.
This person is none other than Lao Duoji.
And not far in front of him on the left, the white zombie had been torn into two pieces at the waist.
"Mr. Duoji!" I shouted in surprise, and then I rushed over.
But Lao Duoji suddenly waved his hand and said: "Don't come over! There is..."
I was stunned and asked hurriedly: "What's wrong? What happened?"
Before I could finish my sentence, a black shadow suddenly appeared above my head. The black shadow moved very fast, and rushed towards me like an ape.
My heart tightened, and I hurriedly turned my head to dodge. Suddenly, an extremely sharp knife almost sliced through my ear.
Although I ducked my head, my body still slowed down for a moment, and I felt a chill on my shoulders first, and then a sharp pain came over me.
I looked sideways and saw blood gushing out from a finger-long wound on my shoulder.
I quickly covered the wound on my shoulder with my hands and turned to look at the black shadow.
Only then did I see clearly what the guy in front of me was. He turned out to be a "child".
Seeing this, you may have some questions, why should I put a quotation mark on this "child".
The reason why I did this is because the guy in front of me may not be a human at all, or to be more accurate, it just looks like a human.
I saw that it had a big head and a small body, and it was wrapped in a few messy yellow cloths.
I don't know where the guy pulled the yellow cloth from, and I don't know how long it has been wrapped around him. It is already dirty.
Looking at this guy's body, he is only about 1.34 meters tall. He has no hair on his body and is very smooth, but the skin all over his body is a strange gray-white color. It looks like he has not seen the sun for a long time. The patient is average.
In addition, this guy's sternum is high, his abdomen is very flat, and his waist is very thin. His two hands are not our common hands. Instead, there are two long and thin bone knives in the original position of the hands. It looks like It makes people feel very uncomfortable.
Under his right arm was the crystal skull.
Looking at its face again, I saw that its forehead was large and flat, its cheeks were long and thin, its mandible protruded outwards, and a pair of big, cow-like eyes stared at me. The eyes were full of bloodshot eyes. What's more terrible was that , this guy doesn’t seem to have eyelids.
Moreover, in my opinion, this guy looks exactly like the crystal skull he carries under his arm.
I looked at this guy in front of me and couldn't help but swallow. I really didn't know what it was.
I thought to myself: "Is this guy the illegitimate son of that princess? Otherwise, why would he look so similar?"
I looked at it, and it looked at me, with a pair of cow-like eyes full of resentment, as if it and I had a grudge against killing my father and seizing my wife.
At this time, Lao Duoji, who had been standing in the corner waiting for us, suddenly shouted loudly, and then he rushed towards us.
The monster seemed to be on guard for a long time. It swayed its body, exerted force on its feet, and did a backflip on the spot, just in time to avoid Lao Duoji's full charge.
Lao Duoji couldn't stand upright and bumped straight into me. I couldn't dodge and was hit full in the arms by this old guy.
Even though Lao Duoji was seriously injured, he seemed to have exhausted all his strength and actually knocked me away for more than a meter and fell heavily to the ground.
