Dong Jing held Uncle Zhong's shoulders and turned him over.
The originally strong middle-aged man is now rolling his eyes white and twitching all over his body, probably because he bit his own tongue when he was convulsing, and there are bright red blood in the foam overflowing from the corner of his mouth.
"Uncle Zhong! Uncle Zhong!"
The young man's fingers were trembling, he was at a loss, and he didn't know what to do.
At this time, Ji Thrush put away his long bow and rushed over with Ren Jianmo.
"What's going on, where did you hurt?"
While speaking, he lowered his head to check Uncle Zhong's injury.
Just now Ji Xiaoniao heard the scream, and when he turned his head, he happened to see Dong Jing half-kneeling on the ground, and a black shadow jumped up from the grass, and went straight to the second young master of Dong's family, vaguely, like some kind of large insect .
At that time, he didn't have time to think about it, so he quickly shot an arrow and shot down the thing, but he still wasn't sure what it was.
"He was bitten by a centipede!"
The boy's voice trembled a little.
Ji Thrush quickly noticed that there were two crescent-shaped cuts on Uncle Zhong's left trouser leg, and quickly pulled out the dagger from his waist, and cut the wounded trouser leg with a "stab".
The sudden exposure of the wound made Ji Thrush and Dong Jing gasp together.
The centipede's mouthparts were not big, and it only left two symmetrical openings with a diameter of only one millimeter on Uncle Zhong's skin, without even a trace of blood oozing out.
But at this moment, the skin around the bite marks had completely swelled up, with a terrifying dark brown color, and spots of purple-red bruises in the middle, covering most of the calf, and tended to spread to the knees and ankles.
"I, I have medicine here to treat poisonous insect bites!"
The second young master of the Dong family laid the still twitching Uncle Zhong on the grass, and frantically began to search through his storage space.
At this time, Ji Thrush had already taken out the lighter, and used the flame to burn the blade of the dagger red, then cut open the wound on Uncle Zhong's calf, and squeezed out the poisonous blood under the skin.
On the other side, Ren Jianmo took out a soup spoon from "One Cubic Meter of Freedom", wrapped it with a bandage, forcefully squeezed the wounded man's clenched teeth, and pressed the spoon on his chest. On the tongue, in case he continues to hurt himself uncontrollably.
Dong Jing finally found a pill that could cure insect poisoning. He hurriedly rubbed off the wax seal, fed it into Uncle Zhong's mouth, crushed another pill, and applied it to the wound.
They waited for a while, and Uncle Zhong's convulsions not only did not stop, but became more intense.
This poor middle-aged man looked like a tetanus patient, his whole body turned into an arch, and a gasping gurgling sound came from his throat. His jaw was tightly closed due to the spasm of his jaw joint, as if he was about to bite the bullet in his mouth. The soup spoon was bitten off raw.
Look at his wound again—his calf was already swollen thicker than his thigh, his skin was dark and purple, and the blood gushing out from the cut skin also had an ominous dark purple color, anyone who looked at this Looking at his appearance, he felt that his leg must be lost.
Ji Thrush gritted his teeth, took out a bottle of universal antidote for 5,000 points that he had exchanged in the "Peach Blossom Spring", and poured it down for Uncle Zhong.
This time, it finally worked.
Soon after taking the medicine, Uncle Zhong stopped convulsing, and his foot injury did not continue to worsen, but he was still unconscious and did not respond to how he called.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Second Young Master..."
Zhuzi picked up Uncle Zhong, placed his cousin on the back of a zombie mercenary, and then asked tremblingly:
"We have already applied insect repellent powder, so why did we encounter centipedes?"
"Have you ever seen an ordinary centipede jump three feet high?"
Dong Jing's face was still pale, and there was a slight trill at the end of the sentence.
"I remember that the handbook left by the ancestors once said that there are anti-theft mechanisms inside and outside the imperial mausoleum..."
His fingers unconsciously twisted his braids, and he gave the dead centipede a hard look.
"I think...that centipede is probably used by the guards outside the imperial mausoleum!"
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The second young master of the Dong family guessed right.
The more they walked towards the mausoleum, the more red-headed centipedes they encountered.
These little creatures hide among the grass leaves, it is very difficult to find, and they are not afraid of the insect repellent powder on them at all, as long as there is a living person passing by, they will rush straight at them viciously.
As a last resort, they could only put on thick clothes, tie up the tubes of their boots, and then ride on the shoulders of the zombies, letting them carry them.
At the same time, the other living corpses formed a circle around the outside, using machetes to open the way, and cleaned up the vegetation along the way as much as possible.
And Ji Thrush became the busiest person.
He has to be alert to everything around him at all times, and if there is any trouble, whether it is a centipede or not, he will call it with an arrow before making a decision.
In this way, although safety was guaranteed, everyone's speed was so slow that it could only be described as "turtle speed".
Fortunately, they had already entered the scope of the imperial tomb, and the reaction of the two L-shaped sticks in Yi Lianna's hand became more and more obvious.
Along the way, they also found a few scattered corpses.
Judging from the clothes and outfits of the corpses, they are probably grave robbers coveting the wealth of the imperial tombs of the previous dynasty.
These people may have obtained clues to the location of the tomb from certain channels like them, or they may have strange magic and found the correct location of the tomb with the skill of searching for dragons and acupuncture points. Before the hole could be shoveled, it fell under the poison of the centipede.
"Second Young Master..."
When the fourth corpse was found, Zhuzi finally couldn't hold back his worries:
"This... you said, the imperial tomb... has been patronized by these thieves?"
"You idiot! Even if the tomb was stolen, what does it have to do with us!"
Dong Jing glared at Zhuzi from the air.
"Our target is only the soldiers buried in the mausoleum! No matter how vulgar the tomb robbers are, they shouldn't kill those worthless people!"
Zhuzi had no choice but to nod, not daring to say any more.
After midnight, they finally heard the voice of the girl shouting "stop".
"Here, the probe rods react strongly."
Elena sat on the shoulder of a zombie, raised her chin forward, "The thing you are looking for is below."
Girls use affirmative sentences.
Ji Thrush looked at the two sticks in the witch's hand, and found that the long ends were completely closed together, forming a very standard "V" shape.
Along the way, Elena had told him that the reaction of the L-shaped rod meant that there was a large amount of metal nearby.
So what else is there to say? Just dig by hand.
So the four zombie mercenaries held shovels under the command of the second young master of the Dong family, and started digging in the direction pointed out by Elena.
Ji Thrush went to check Uncle Zhong's injury.
Uncle Zhong's right leg bitten by the centipede did not continue to deteriorate, but there was no sign of improvement either.
Along the way, Uncle Zhong did not twitch again, but remained unconscious, breathing shallow and slow, always giving people a feeling as if he was about to die at any time.
According to the medical knowledge taught to him by his brother Fan's family, Ji Xiaoniao shined a flashlight on Uncle Zhong's eyes.
The two pupils did not respond at all under the stimulation of strong light.
Ji Thrush's heart sank suddenly, and he secretly cried out that something was wrong.
It seems that even the universal antidote from "Peach Blossom Spring" can't detoxify the red-headed centipede, so Uncle Zhong may be really in danger this time.
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The tireless zombie mercenaries quickly penetrated a corridor more than three meters deep and reached the top floor of the tomb.
The roofs of imperial mausoleums of all dynasties are desperately thick, and some dynasties even used earthwork to create a layer of structure similar to concrete.
In order to avoid a hard fight with the cap, experienced tomb robbers will even make great efforts to dig a deep "U"-shaped robbery hole and go around from the bottom of the tomb.
But now they don't have the American time at all, so they can only find ways to violently break through the top layer.
Fortunately, Ji Thrush was well prepared this time, and even brought two guns.
With such a hot weapon beyond the age, no matter how strong the top is, it can't resist it.
It's a pity that they are inexperienced laymen after all. When the two guns went down, not only the roof was blown, but also the hole that was dug with great difficulty collapsed, directly burying two zombies.
In desperation, everyone had to spend a few more hours cleaning and reinforcing the collapsed robbery cave. When the passage to enter the underground palace was finally opened, it was almost dawn.
"Zhizi, you stay outside."
Before entering the robbery cave, the second young master of the Dong family ordered the remaining servants:
"You guard Uncle Zhong and wait to meet us."
Dong Jing knew that Zhuzi was a good runner and knew the surrounding terrain well, but his combat effectiveness was really worrying. If he took him to the tomb, he would only be a burden if he encountered danger. Uncle, the second one can be a lookout at any rate.
Zhu Zi naturally had no objection to his young master's arrangement, so he stayed on the ground with the two living corpses assigned to him and the seriously injured loyal uncle.
Meanwhile, Ji Thrush, Ren Jianmo, Dong Jing, and Yi Lianna led ten zombies through the narrow and steep robbery hole, then hung a rope from the blasted seal and climbed down the underground palace.
Under the lighting of rainy night lights and flashlights, everyone quickly saw the surrounding environment clearly.
They did have a lot of metal around them - but not the heavily armed army of men they had in mind.
Ji Thrush and the others were in a square tomb. There were dust left by the explosion everywhere, as well as copper tripods, wine utensils, and unnamed metal containers of various sizes piled up in the four corners of the tomb according to the etiquette.
Ji Thrush: "..."
While disappointed, he couldn't help but find it funny.
This is a huge imperial mausoleum that occupies a white area. The owner of the tomb buried almost half of the country's copper, iron, gold and silver in the ground in order to survive in the underworld. In addition to soldiers wearing armor and holding weapons, there must be a large number of other metal products buried in the tomb!
"Well, at least we're in the tomb."
Ji Xiaoniao encouraged herself.
"Next, we just need to find the soldiers who were buried with us!"
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Ji Xiaoniao accidentally set a flag for herself!