Immortality begins in Goose City

Chapter 93 Headless Zombie

After passing through the Blood Pool Pass, the tomb passage opened up.

The walls on both sides are no longer rough rock walls, but smooth bluestone with murals carved on them.

The murals share a consistent theme: a man dressed as a prince appears in various scenes...

The scenes depict hunting, feasting, reading, and even leading troops into battle.

The man's face was blurred, but his imposing presence suggested he was Prince Rong.

After walking about a hundred paces, a wall appeared in front of us.

No, to be precise, it was a wall that was knocked open.

The bluestone bricks were shattered on the ground, revealing an irregular hole with jagged edges, as if it had been forcibly smashed open by something.

Lin Zhihua asked in surprise, "Could it be that tomb raiders came in before?"

Murong Xue squatted down, carefully examined the broken bricks and stones, and shook her head: "That's not right."

"Judging from these marks, the brick broke from the inside out."

"It wasn't someone from outside who broke in; it was something inside... that caused it to crash in."

Upon hearing this, everyone tensed up.

Huang Shujian looked at Ma Yongzhen, who nodded and placed his hand on the bundle at his waist.

The package contained a specially made fishing net, mixed with steel wire, specifically designed to deal with some troublesome things.

"Be careful," Huang Shujian said.

Ma Yongzhen was the first to crawl into the hole. He scanned the inside with his headlamp and then turned back: "Young Master, it's safe."

The group crawled inside one by one.

Inside was a small tomb chamber, about three zhang square, with three coffins arranged in a triangular pattern in the center.

The coffin was made of ordinary bluestone, without any carvings or decorations, so simple that it was completely out of place in this magnificent tomb.

Lin Zhihua's eyes lit up: "The '品' character tomb!"

"I have studied this system. It is usually the guard tombs of the main burial chamber, where servants, slaves, and guards valued by the master are buried, which is called funerary sacrifice."

"The former royal family had a penchant for burying young boys and girls alive with them, so that they could continue to serve them in the afterlife."

"And then there will be a powerful guard protecting the tomb."

The words had barely left his mouth...

"Knock knock".

A knocking sound rang out.

It was very faint, but exceptionally clear in the silent tomb.

Everyone was startled and turned around in unison to look at the cave entrance they had come from.

But it was empty there, there was nothing there.

Huang Shujian raised his hand, signaling everyone to be quiet. He listened intently.

"Knock knock".

The sound rang out again, and this time everyone could clearly hear the direction.

It's not the one behind, it's the one on the right.

The headlamp beam immediately focused on it.

The blue stone coffin lay there quietly, without any abnormalities, but the knocking sound just now definitely came from inside the coffin.

"Could it be... a zongzi (sticky rice dumpling)?"

Lin Zhihua's voice trembled slightly, but she still took out a dark object from her backpack and held it in her hand.

Huang Shujian glanced at it: "Black donkey hooves? Isn't that the equipment of tomb raiders?"

Lin Zhihua was a little embarrassed: "Archaeology and tomb raiding... have many similar methods. Sometimes when we professors are looking for tombs, we even need to ask tomb raiders to guide us."

Qin Mo said, "It doesn't matter whether it's a zongzi or not."

"Since they've rung the alarm, it's a warning to us."

"There are only two choices: either retreat or drag them out and kill them. If you ignore it and walk over, there will be hidden dangers."

Ma Yongzhen looked at Huang Shujian. Huang Shujian nodded.

Ma Yongzhen immediately untied the rope from his waist, one end of which was tied with an iron hook. He swung it twice and threw it toward the coffin lid.

The iron hooks precisely caught the edge of the coffin lid.

Ma Yongzhen pulled hard, and the coffin lid was completely blown off, flipped twice in the air, and crashed to the ground with a thud.

Everyone stared into the coffin.

The headlamp beams converged, revealing a little girl curled up in the innermost corner of the coffin.

She was dressed in the attire of a maid from the previous dynasty, wearing a blue cloth shirt and with her hair styled in double buns.

She closed her eyes, hugged her knees, and looked as if she were asleep.

Lu Yu couldn't help but gasp softly, her voice filled with both surprise and fear.

Qin Mo spoke: "Human puppets. A secret technique of the previous dynasty's royal family."

"This must be the little maid that Prince Rong picked out to serve him in the underworld."

"The coffin on the other side should contain a virgin boy."

Lu Yu's voice trembled: "Then the knocking sound just now..."

"Sounds from inside coffins are usually made by rats or something similar crawling inside," Qin Mo said. "But this is a stone coffin, with no gaps."

He paused, then continued, "So either it was caused by the mercury gas inside the virgin's body rupturing out of her skin, or..."

"...It's the ghost of the little girl pleading for help, hoping we can take her out for a proper burial!"

"After all, this kind of evil magic will prevent the body from decaying, which also means that the soul can never be reincarnated and can only be a slave forever."

Lu Yu gritted her teeth: "This method is too cruel. The former royal family was utterly vicious!"

Huang Shujian didn't speak. His gaze swept over the girl's body, but he didn't find any wounds.

"Ma Yongzhen," he said, "carefully remove the girl and take her with you when you go out."

Ma Yongzhen nodded, jumped into the coffin, and carefully carried the girl out.

The girl was very small, but extremely heavy.

Qin Mo looked at Huang Shujian and said sincerely, "Young Master Huang is kind-hearted and will surely be rewarded handsomely."

Ma Yongzhen put the girl aside and prepared to open the other coffin, which should be the coffin of the boy.

The instant his hand touched the coffin lid...

The last coffin suddenly began to shake violently!

"boom!"

The coffin lid was blown off from the inside by a tremendous force and crashed straight into Ma Yongzhen!

Ma Yongzhen reacted extremely quickly, immediately raising his arms to block.

But the force was too great; the coffin lid slammed into his arm like a heavy hammer.

He was thrown backward by the impact, flying towards Huang Shujian.

Huang Shujian reached out his right hand to catch Ma Yongzhen, and at the same time pulled a specially made fishing net from the package at his waist.

The net was black, mixed with fine steel wire, and stretched to a square foot.

Huang Shujian flicked his wrist, and the fishing net opened up like a large net, covering the coffin.

Inside the coffin, a tall corpse was slowly sitting up.

It has no head.

The cut at the neck was covered in dark, rotting flesh, and the cervical vertebrae were visible.

He was wearing a robe from the previous dynasty, embroidered with leopards on a red background.

It was the headless zombie that escaped from the Black Tiger Gang that night!

The headless zombie had just sat up when it was completely covered by a fishing net.

It began to struggle frantically, tearing at the fishing net with its paws, the steel wire making a screeching sound as it was about to be torn apart.

"Retreat!" Huang Shujian shouted in a low voice.

Everyone immediately retreated to the outside of the broken brick wall.

Ma Yongzhen then took a detonator out of his backpack and threw it into the coffin.

The detonator traced an arc in the air, just as it was about to fall into the coffin...

Huang Shujian drew his Mauser pistol from his waist.

Raise your hand, aim, and pull the trigger.

The movements were completed in one smooth motion.

"Bang!"

The bullet hit the detonator precisely.

"boom--!"