False evidence

Chapter 247 The Strange Hand
I helped Gao He up, his face still filled with terror. "Holy crap...it was a human hand! A dead man's hand!"

"Calm down!"

In an instant, I sensed something was wrong and grabbed the hand he had just put into the clay sculpture.

On one side of his wrist and part of the back of his hand, there were several clear purplish-black finger marks.

Gao He grinned: "I'm sure that's not a living person's hand... It didn't even grip that hard, so how come it's bruised? Ouch... Why does it feel a little numb?"

I said urgently, "Sit down and don't move! Try to breathe softly! This isn't just bruising, it's poisoning!"

"Poisoned?"

Gao He was startled again and quickly sat cross-legged on the ground as I had instructed. "There really is corpse poison?"

I crouched down and examined the finger marks more closely. I frowned and shook my head: "It's not corpse poison, it's probably a centipede or some kind of toxin."

Gao He breathed a sigh of relief, "That's alright... Centipedes are poisonous, but not enough to kill someone..."

"What do you think? You've never seen a centipede that can sting people to death!"

I glared at him. "Forget it, it's hard to explain in a short time. You should just stop moving and lie down, try to slow your breathing."

Gao He was obedient and immediately lay down on the ground.

Seeing me climb onto the altar, he reminded me, "The man's hand is in that small door in the wall!"

I have already seen the 'small door' he mentioned.

It really was a doorway, about the size of a palm, opened in the wall, shaped like two doors.

In other words, most of the surrounding wall plaster has peeled off, making the contrast too obvious; otherwise, it would be difficult to notice.

Xiao Shensan also climbed up. Seeing the small door as well, he thought for a moment and said, "The plaster on the walls in other places has fallen off, but the part behind the statue hasn't. It must have been mixed with glutinous rice water."

He then lowered his voice and said, "Use glutinous rice water to mix with mud; once it dries, it's as strong as cement. This is something that tomb builders in the old days were best at!"

He took out his phone, glanced at it, and said with a disappointed look, "No signal! Otherwise, if I called Lu Zelin, that 'expert,' he would definitely know what kind of organization this is!"

"We have to destroy every mechanism, otherwise Brother Gao won't make it to the hospital!"

As I spoke, I took out an iron fan from my backpack and then pulled out a belt from my waist.

I inserted one end of the belt into the buckle, pulled it into a loop that was just big enough to fit a hand, and handed it to Xiao Shen San.

Xiao Shen was extremely clever and immediately understood my intention. He took the belt, went around to the other side of the clay sculpture, and carefully lowered the belt loop from top to bottom in front of the small door.

Seeing that he was ready, I used the iron fan to smash the mud statue in front of the small door.

Although I didn't learn medicine from my grandfather, I helped him from a young age and saw many different cases.

It is certain that what Gao and Zhong were poisoned with was not corpse poison, but the poison of venomous insects such as centipedes.

I don't know why being grabbed by a 'dead man's hand' would cause me to be poisoned by a centipede, but I wouldn't dare to risk my life and use myself as bait.

If things go wrong and we end up with only Xiao Shen San as a 'young kid,' then Gao Hecai and I are truly doomed.

Different species react to sound; even a deaf snake can sense sound through its skin.

I originally intended to make a show of force, but I didn't expect that the clay sculpture had become so hard over the years that a large chunk broke off after just one tap, failing to achieve my intended purpose.

I went to smash the wall again, and although I made a sound, the small door still didn't move.

"Take it!"

Xiao Shen handed over the belt.

Seeing him roll up his sleeves, I quickly said, "This is no small matter, don't do anything rash."

"Otherwise what?" Little Shen said, baring his teeth. "If something happens to me, I'll still have you; but if you cause trouble, I'll really be out of options!"

He slowly reached his hand towards the small door, then withdrew it, glanced down at Gao He, and whispered to me:

"I don't know anything about poisons, but if I really get poisoned, you'd better keep your head up! He's so big, you can't handle him. I'm small, it's a choice between two people, save one or the other!"

"Don't tell me this is how you treat your two older brothers?"

"Tsk! Two different things! Saving one is better than two dying, right?

"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up!"

I held the belt in one hand and gripped the iron fan tightly in the other. Xiao Shensan reached for the small door again, and I saw that his whole body was trembling slightly, but his expression was unusually firm.

In that instant, I finally understood why those two big shots he mentioned would become brothers with this 'little rascal'.

When Xiao Shen's fingertips were less than a foot from the small door, he hesitated for a moment, then looked up and asked me, "Are you ready?"

“We’re ready.” I nodded vigorously. “Lu Zelin and I will definitely send your ashes back to your hometown in Northeast China for burial.”

Xiao Shen glared at me, said nothing, hesitated for a moment, and then suddenly reached his hand towards the small door.

His fingers were still ten centimeters away from the small door when it suddenly opened, and a bloodless human hand suddenly stretched out!

The hand moved incredibly fast, grabbing Xiao Shen's small wrist before he could even react!

"Hurry up!"

Amidst Xiao Shen's loud shouts, I yanked on the belt.

As the trap tightened rapidly, a chill ran through me.

Upon closer inspection, it is clear that it is indeed an adult's hand.

The trap did indeed snare the wrist of this hand, but it wasn't locked completely.

This wrist is like it has no bones, no flesh, just a layer of skin.

As the trap tightens, the 'wrist' retracts accordingly.

A noose made of leather belt is not like a rope. Because of the belt buckle and the belt itself, there will always be some gaps left when it is finally pulled together.

The truth is, in the blink of an eye, the belt was already at its tightest.

I could no longer hold back. Knowing that the iron fan couldn't exert its full strength due to the narrow gap, I simply let go of the iron fan and reached out to grab the monster's wrist!
Xiao Shen was ruthless enough. When the strange hand grabbed his wrist, his face turned green with fear, but he still stubbornly refused to pull his hand back.

I easily grabbed the monster's hand, but the feeling I got in my palm the next second was something I'll never forget.

It felt as if I hadn't grabbed a hand, but rather a rubber glove.

The gloves were previously inflated, but when I squeezed them, they immediately deflated.

Then, as my fingers clenched, I felt a sharp pain in many parts of my right hand, and then I clearly felt that I had grabbed a slender but multi-legged living creature!
The feel of it makes one's hair stand on end and one's heart tremble.

However, at that moment, an idea flashed through my mind like lightning.

He moved swiftly, immediately loosened his belt, and stretched out his left hand, using his fingers to brace against the two small inward-opening doors.

Xiao Shensan finally made a move, stretching out his other hand and gritting his teeth to grab the monster's hand.

I thought to myself, thank goodness he looks like a child.

The back of the clay sculpture is next to the wall, with a gap of less than 30 centimeters between them.

I put both hands in, and my shoulders were almost stuck between the clay sculpture and the wall, so I couldn't make any big movements.

As a child, Xiao Shen San was much more agile than me.

He was truly determined, revealing his fierce nature. He kicked off the wall with one foot, let out a loud "Ah!" and used the rebound force to fall backward off the altar.

The strange hand couldn't withstand his all-out effort and was eventually pulled out by force.

That one move really hurt my right hand.

It felt like I was holding a saw blade with teeth on all four sides, and someone forcibly pulled the saw blade out of my tight grip.

That pain...

"Hurry up! Hurry up..."

Hearing Xiao Shen's panicked shouts, I disregarded the pain in my hand, picked up the iron fan, turned around, and jumped off the altar.

Rushing up to him, he saw that the hand was still gripping his wrist, the fingers holding his wrist still, and the forearm, less than a foot long, seemed to have turned into a layer of skin, with some soft creature writhing wildly inside!
I quickly figured out what was going on, and decided to "go all in" and directly try to pry open the monster's hand and grab its fingers.

That was just half an arm connected to the hand; no matter how strong it was, it couldn't compare to an adult's strength.

I didn't use much force to pry open two of the monster's fingers, then suddenly stood up, pulled it off Xiao Shensan, and hurled it upwards.

Before the excavator could land, he unfolded his other hand into an iron fan and swung it diagonally like a cleaver or axe...

(End of this chapter)