Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Chapter 279 Let me show you, who should I hit with the first hammer?

"If you have to fart, do it quickly!" Ma Si said impatiently.

At this time, Cui Hao, Wang Hu, Shi Nianzi and Zhao Ziang, who were all unconscious, were already lined up in the open space in front of me.

Chila!

Su Tiansheng grabbed Cui Hao's collar from behind and easily cut open his clothes with a triangular bayonet.

The clothes were cut in half and separated to the left and right, revealing Cui Hao's back.

Su Tiansheng then stretched out his left hand and pressed it on the top of Cui Hao's thoracic vertebrae, counting and touching downwards.

"First quarter, second quarter, third quarter...sixth quarter."

"Well, this is it."

Counting to the sixth thoracic vertebra, Su Tiansheng pressed his fingers between the sixth and seventh vertebrae, and then made a cut there with a triangular bayonet.

The tip of the bayonet scratched the skin, and the scratch quickly turned into a bloody mark.

There are twenty-six vertebrae in an adult.

There are seven cervical vertebrae, twelve thoracic vertebrae, five lumbar vertebrae, one sacral vertebra, and one coccygeal vertebra.

In childhood, people usually have five sacral vertebrae and three to five coccyx vertebrae, which will gradually fuse into one sacral vertebra and one coccyx during growth.

The place where Su Tiansheng cut with the bayonet was exactly in the middle of the human thoracic vertebrae.

"hey-hey."

Su Tiansheng smiled sinisterly.

He looked up at me and made a motion like swinging a sledgehammer. "Bang! Your brother's spine will be broken right here."

"Then I will pull your brother by the hair and cut him in the chest."

"Then step on his shoulders and flip his upper body over so it's like a bird!"

"Hahaha, just like a bird fluttering around in the air!"

"You'd better open your eyes and look carefully later!"

He laughed and raised his arms to imitate the flapping of a bird's wings.

quack!

I clenched my back teeth tightly.

Fire can be seen in his eyes due to hatred.

"Su Tiansheng! Try to move them again!"

Su Tiansheng said with a playful smile: "Oh, I really want to try and see what you can do to me."

"Come over and bite me if you dare!"

He raised his eyebrows at me and then shook his wrist.

Chila!

The back of Wang Hu's clothes was cut open.

Then he used the same method to find the space between the 60th and 7th thoracic vertebrae and made a bleeding incision with a triangular bayonet.

Ma Si moved to block my view.

"Isn't there one last question? Ask it quickly."

I closed my eyes and took several deep breaths to calm myself down.

We must hurry and find a solution!

Otherwise Su Tiansheng would break their vertebrae!

Once the vertebrae are broken, even if you survive, you will end up paralyzed all over.

We can't just watch them get paralyzed!

"Where the bodies of the two geological survey team members were found, I saw Professor Zhang's soul enveloped in a scarlet blood mist."

"Why are only Wang Hu and I able to see it?"

"Afterwards, Wang Hu and Shi Nianzi were taken away by Professor Zhang's spirit. Why weren't Cui Hao and I taken away by his spirit?"

"And Zhao Ziang, he's been possessed by Professor Zhang and is chasing us..."

Before I finished asking, Ma Si couldn't help laughing.

He convulsed with laughter.

"Oh my, I'm dying of laughter."

"I laughed so hard my stomach turned."

"Since you want to know so much, I'll let you see."

Ma Si took out a flat round tin box from his pocket.

The paint on the tin box was peeling a little, and it looked like an old item.

The lid of the box is printed with a beautiful red-faced woman with bright eyes and the words "Shuangmei Brand Vanishing Cream" written on it.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, a large number of overseas goods flooded into the country, including perfumes, floral water, vanishing cream and other cosmetics.

During the Republic of China period, Kwong Sang Hong in Hong Kong produced Double Mae brand floral water and vanishing cream, which opened up the market and gradually broke the monopoly of foreign products.

The flat, round tin box of vanishing cream in Ma Si's hand is a product of that period.

Click.

The tin box opened.

There are more than ten small white balls inside, which look like sugar pills.

Ma Si picked up a small ball and shook it in front of me.

"According to ancient records, I used a dying person as a container and carefully cultivated this Gu worm."

"This poisonous insect is smaller than a hair and is colorless and odorless."

"As long as you gently crush the shell, the insect inside will enter the human body, gradually causing hallucinations."

"No, it should be said that it creates an illusion!"

Although I don't know much about poisonous insects, Professor Zhang mentioned some medicines when he was teaching history.

At least since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, alchemists and sorcerers who pursued immortality had refined elixirs that could cause hallucinations.

Wu Shi San, which was widely used by the upper class during the Wei and Jin dynasties, is this kind of elixir.

After taking it, the whole body will feel hot and hallucinate.

At that time, people believed that this was a miracle drug that could awaken the mind, but in reality it was a chronic poison that would cause death from poisoning if taken for a long time.

It was not until the Tang Dynasty that Sun Simiao called on the world: If you come across this recipe, burn it immediately.

Wu Shi San then gradually died out.

However, some people continued to improve it and formulated more effective pills which were circulated secretly.

I think the so-called insect in Ma Si's hand might be a similar hallucinogenic drug.

"It is the most beautiful insect, it can make whatever you want come true!"

"If you want beautiful women, you will see countless beauties obeying your orders. You can ask them to do anything for you!"

"If you want delicious food and fine wine, there will be an endless supply of wine and meat before your eyes!"

"But once you think about the scary things and the things you worry about, you will panic and see the scariest and most worrying things happen!"

"On your way into the cave, Old Man Su used some tricks to steal the door and put one of these in each of your pockets."

"As long as the shell is broken by a collision, the poisonous insect inside will quietly enter your body..."

After hearing this, I seem to understand a little.

The pills in our pockets all break at different times.

Therefore, there is a sequence in which hallucinations appear.

Looking back, the first person to have problems was Zhao Ziang.

He was also the first one among us to fall to the ground.

When it fell, the shell was broken and the poisonous insect entered the body.

In addition, he was very frightened, so the illusion created by the insect made him think that he was possessed by a ghost, and he chased us, roaring like crazy.

The one who had problems after him was Wang Hu...but why didn't Cui Hao and Shi Nianzi show any abnormalities?

Could it be that they were thinking about something else, so they didn't reveal it because the illusion was not terrifying?

And the ghost of Huang Ziming and the spirit of Professor Zhang that I saw, were they really hallucinations caused by the poisonous insects?

Thinking of this, I felt extremely anxious.

I originally thought of Huang Ziming as a trump card to turn the tables, but if this was all an illusion...

"Then why does Wang Hu see the same thing as me?"

"Even if we're both afraid and thinking about ghosts, we won't see the same ghosts, right?!"

I asked loudly.

This is the biggest loophole discovered after careful consideration.

If you can't give a reasonable explanation, then what I saw was not necessarily an illusion!

"You are the backbone. Your words and actions will influence them."

"Wang Hu was influenced by you, but the ghosts he saw might not look the same as the ones you saw."

I was stunned.

Wang Hu did not say what kind of ghost he saw.

This explanation seems to make sense.

Boom!

Su Tiansheng took a hammer and knocked on the ground.

He grinned at me and said, "Who do you think should I hit with the first hammer?"

"It's to smash this damn wide-brimmed hat."

"Or... smash your rat brother?!"