novelaction Chapter 71
Chapter 71
They had now reached the end of the passage, which was the entrance to the shipwreck tomb. The entrance would open once the mechanism was triggered.
Zhang Hao emitted a peculiar sound wave towards the end of the road, the sound penetrating through the cracks in the floor.
When these sound waves returned, a complete picture formed in his mind, and the situation beneath the floor was also clearly visible.
The mechanism to open the entrance is one of the floor panels at the end.
Zhang Hao gestured for everyone to come to the floor at the end, and then stepped on the floor tile that had been found.
As the floor descended into the trap, the sound of machinery turning filled everyone's ears.
Then, with a loud "boom," the floorboards beneath their feet opened directly from the outside in.
Suddenly, a huge suction force came from beneath everyone's feet and sucked them all in.
Zhang Hao felt a sudden dizziness, and when he resurfaced, he found himself in a tomb chamber.
In the center of the tomb chamber is a circular pool with steps leading up to it.
The ground around them was covered with all sorts of bottles and jars, some as small as a baby's fist, others as tall as half a person.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
After Zhang Hao surfaced, the others followed suit.
The fat man couldn't wait to take off his mask. He gasped for breath, "Damn, I was suffocating! Brother Zhang Hao, you're amazing. You managed to stay underwater for so long without an oxygen tank."
Yi Sa and Ding Yudie looked as if they had seen a ghost.
Yi Sa glanced at the time and said, "It's been over two hours since we went into the water. Even we water demons couldn't do that. How did you manage to do it?"
"What else could it be? It's just that they've mastered a special breathing method, which consumes very little oxygen underwater. People who don't understand might think they can breathe underwater."
Zhang Hao knew that others wouldn't believe his story, but whether they believed him or not was irrelevant to him.
"Bang!"
Just then, a sound of ceramics colliding suddenly came from inside the tomb.
Everyone looked around and found that everyone in the group was in the water and no one had gone up, so it was even more impossible for them to touch the burial objects.
"Who's playing tricks on us!"
The fat man roared, and the echo lingered in the tomb chamber; there was no other response.
He climbed up the steps from the water, but after only two steps, he slipped and fell to the ground.
"Fatty, what's wrong?"
"There was something sticky under my feet, and I accidentally stepped on it and fell."
Zhang Hao emerged from the water and saw a row of footprints, each the size of a baby's foot, extending intermittently into the passageway outside the tomb.
The fat man got up from the ground, took out his dagger, scraped off a little of the sticky substance, and smelled it under his nose.
"This is adipocere, formed when a corpse is kept in a dark and damp environment for a long time."
"Fatty, you mean these footprints were left by a rice dumpling?"
Wu Tianzhen asked.
The fat man nodded: "That's right, the commotion just now was probably caused by the rice dumplings."
After saying that, he walked in the opposite direction of the footprints to the corner of the tomb.
"Everyone come quick, there's a coffin here."
Zhang Hao walked over and saw that among the many bottles and jars, there was indeed a small coffin, which was only big enough to hold a newborn baby.
"There's a coffin here too."
Ding Yudie called out from another corner.
Everyone moved to that corner to check again and found a small coffin that was exactly the same as before, except that there was something sticky inside this coffin.
It looks consistent with the adipocere left by the small footprints on the ground.
"Clang, clang!"
Just then, a pottery jar about half a person's height suddenly fell over and began to roll rapidly on the ground.