Chapter 246 Four Skins

Can I be blamed for this?

No!!

There are ghost-faced lice everywhere, who has time to be picky? If we don't find a place to hide, we will be cut into pieces!!

Besides, there are big mounds everywhere here, and there are countless abandoned houses. We have entered several of them before, and there was nothing unusual. Who knew that at this critical moment, we picked one nearby, and there was a huge crisis inside?

In the end, it's all the blame for the bad face. Not only me, but everyone's face is bad!

Silently, I have awakened the Heavenly Official Blade and stood up silently.

The stench is in this room, but not in our room. My eyes immediately cast to a door on the left and moved closer little by little.

Brother Yaozi and the others saw this and immediately stood up, sticking close to me, ready to support me at any time.

The internal structure of the houses here is exactly the same, with two rooms, one is similar to the living room, where the stove is also here, and the other is similar to the bedroom, separated by only a simple wooden door.

The smell came from the bedroom. The wooden door in the middle was lightly closed, and it was already rotten and dilapidated. There were gaps of two fingers wide between the wooden boards.

I didn't dare to break in rashly, but stuck to the gap of the wooden door and looked inside for a while.

There was no sound in the bedroom, and there was nothing strange in sight. Instead, there was a terrible stench coming out of the gap of the wooden door, which was exactly the fishy smell we smelled.

I covered my mouth and nose slightly, and then inserted the blade into the gap of the door, and opened the wooden door little by little. The rotten wooden door made a series of groans that could not bear the weight.

When the wooden door was wide open, I rushed into the house with a Baipi knife in my hand.

It was pitch black inside, and you could hear a pin drop in silence.

The expected attack did not occur, but the stench made me dizzy and nauseous.

I still did not dare to relax, holding a knife and on guard, Brother Yaozi and the others followed closely and rushed into the house.

Click!

Zhang Xinya turned on the flashlight and illuminated the place.

The room was empty, and there were no monsters.

"What is this?"

Zhang Xinya looked ahead. This was a place similar to a kang, which should be used for sleeping, but now it was full of black things, and I didn't know what they were. The stench came from these things, just like the pickled food taken out from the cesspool in the dog days of summer.

Zhang Xinya wanted to go forward to investigate, but as soon as she got close, she covered her mouth and began to retch. Her face turned green, and she kept backing away, saying intermittently: "It's so disgusting, it doesn't feel like a bad smell anymore..."

I knew she was not a hypocritical person. She looked like a goddess, but she was a woman at heart. She would smell her socks to see if they were sour. You can say she is a loser, but you can never say she is a drama queen. You can only say that these filth in front of me are really unusual!

"Let me take a look!"

I moved forward step by step, and when I got close to the kang, a pungent smell entered my nose.

This is no longer a smell, but more like a substantial injury, as if someone had punched me hard in the stomach, making my stomach twitch.

But my endurance was still better after all. I forced myself to suppress all the discomfort in my body and held my breath immediately.

In my opinion, this smell is more like a protective measure, just like the poisonous gas in the ancient tomb. There must be something in the pickled food on the kang.

I changed a crowbar and poked it in with a "puff". I stirred it casually, and the black pickled food immediately rolled up, and a lot of jelly-like green mucus came out from below.

"Why is this like a big snot?"

Lao Bai likes to do things that add fuel to the fire. It would be better if he didn't say it, but once he said it, it would make people imagine it.

"It seems to be the secretion of something?"

Brother Yaozi said: "As for the black pickled food on it, it should be the condensation of dust falling on it."

Soon, I felt that the crowbar in my hand seemed to have picked up something. When stirring in the secretion, the resistance suddenly increased. I pulled the crowbar in my hand, and with a "click", something fell to the ground.

"Another shed skin?!"

Zhang Xinya exclaimed: "And this shed skin is more complete!!"

So, these mucus should be used to protect this shed skin? !

I continued to stir it, and soon, another shed skin was dragged out by me.

"It seems that this is where it hides the shed skin."

Brother Yaozi breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "It should not be here."

Such habits are quite interesting.

I have only heard of animals that eat shed skins, such as toads, which will swallow their own toad skins, but I have never heard of hiding shed skins. It seems that except for the broken shed skin outside, all the shed skins are hidden here, and the green mucus is secreted to protect them.

Lao Bai and Brother Yaozi started together, and soon we dragged four shed skins out of the bedroom.

There is no way. The smell of the green mucus seems to be toxic, and it is not a toxin that our gas masks can filter. If you inhale too much, your lips will turn purple, your face will be numb and swollen, and it will be even worse after it touches the wound. Lao Bai's face is full of wounds left by ghost lice. At this moment, his head is so big that it is comparable to a pig's head.

However, this toxin should not be fatal, at least we have not shown any fatal symptoms at present.

The four shed skins were simply rinsed with the precious drinking water we carried with us, and Brother Yaozi put on gloves and spread them out.

"Strange!!"

Immediately, Zhang Xinya said: "This doesn't seem to be the skin shed from the same thing!"

Indeed, the four skins, except for the similar shapes, are very different! !

The first skin is probably the most complete of the four shed skins. You can clearly see the shape of this thing. The lower body is a snake, and the upper body is a human shape. This appearance made us look at each other in bewilderment. I really haven't heard of anything that looks like this.

The legendary ancestors of mankind, Fuxi and Nuwa, look similar, with human faces and snake bodies, but that is just a legend after all.

This shed skin shows a state that only a thousand-year-old corpse can have, dry, inelastic, and carbonized over a large area. However, through some places that have not yet been carbonized, it can be seen that this thing should be covered with black scales. Although the upper body is in human form, it is still snake skin and black scales!

The second skin is younger, with a smaller carbonized area, and still has a human face and a snake body, but the scales have turned silver-gray.

The third skin is even younger, with almost no traces of carbonization. The shed skin is faintly elastic, and the scales have turned silver! !

As for the fourth skin, this skin is a bit scary. The upper body is completely human skin, while the lower body is snake skin covered with white scales!

Four skins, from ancient to modern, should be all the shed skins of the same thing from ancient times to the present, plus the broken skin on the outside, this thing has shed five times in total, and its shape is different every time, not only the color of the scales, but more... like an evolution. From the earliest shed skin, this thing is obviously more beastly, more like a snake than a human, but the later shed skin, more like a human than a snake! !

I fell silent all of a sudden.

Ghost-faced lice, five shed skins, soul-catching messenger, three smelly soil...

And, all the unsolved mysteries that appeared along the way...

All this reminded me of a record in the Yanshi mechanism, a kind of... terrifying ancient witchcraft! !

Everything seemed to be connected.

A guess came to my mind, an idea that made me feel cold all over. If this is true, then our trip is ruined.

And, it is ruined very, very thoroughly.

Although I can't believe this is true, my intuition tells me that things are probably going to the worst place.

"What on earth is this thing..."

Brother Yaozi asked Zhang Xinya: "You have some research on these things. Do you know what this monster with a human face and a snake body is?"

"I don't know..."

Zhang Xinya shook her head and then pushed me: "Hey, what's wrong with you? Why are you silent?!"

I woke up and smiled at Zhang Xinya, then said: "Nothing, I was just a little distracted. However, since we can't figure out what this thing is, let's not explore it. Let's take a good rest and wait until those ghost-faced lice outside are quiet before we go out."

After saying that, I ignored them, sat down in the corner, and thought about this matter carefully.

However, no matter how hard I thought, the answer I got in the end was still only two words-no solution! !

At least, it is completely unsolvable for a few of us!

So, after a long silence, I suddenly said in my heart: "Miss Yao Yao? Beautiful lady?"

Unfortunately, there was no response.

I gritted my teeth and shouted again: "Little fairy?"

Cang Yao's voice finally came out: "What's the matter, tell me!"

A smile finally appeared on my face. Lao Bai came up with a pig-headed face and asked me what I was thinking about and why I was laughing so meanly. I pushed him aside and organized my words. Then I said in my heart: "You don't want to die yet, do you?"

"What do you mean?"

Cang Yao suddenly became alert: "Little bastard, what are you doing again?! Hiss, you are still on guard, I can't see your thoughts, something is wrong, what do you want to do?"

I didn't say anything.

Cang Yao immediately said: "Just say whatever you want to say. You make me feel uneasy. What bad things are you planning?"

"I'm not planning to do anything bad. I've always been a kind person!"

I emphasized: "It's just that someone wants to kill me!"

"Who?"

Cang Yao said angrily: "If I do something to you, I'm the same as you. Then let's do it to him!"

"We can't do it together. Even if you were in your prime, you couldn't do it. You're older than me, and you're just a little sister!!"

I sighed: "But calm down first. I have something to ask you about... that wind chime!!"