False evidence

Chapter 248 Someone is in the Wall
"How are you two doing?" Gao He had somehow managed to sit up.

His face had lost all color, turning as white as if it had been covered with a layer of flour, and his whole body was trembling uncontrollably.

Xiao Shen San is a child, and when he fights with the poisonous monster hand, the poison spreads much faster than in an adult.

In just that short time, he was lying on the ground, almost unable to move.

The excavator was cut in two by the iron fan, and both pieces were still wriggling.

However, as the arm writhed, a section of the body of a gigantic, multi-legged worm emerged from the skin!
I didn't have time to think about anything else. I grabbed the strange insect's body, counted it carefully, and pried something off its back.

With a quick flick of his right thumb and forefinger, he crushed the substance and fed the powdered granules to Gao He and Xiao Shen San respectively...

"This stuff really can detoxify!"

Gao He moved his arm, which had been gripped by the strange hand, and said, "Just a short while ago, I was almost numb and couldn't move. I feel much better now. By the way, you didn't eat that... that powder."

I sat next to Xiao Shensan, panting heavily: "Internal and external application have the same effect."

I showed him my right palm, which was already covered in blood. "I had already detoxified myself when I crushed it."

Xiao Shensan sat up, wiping the cold sweat from his face: "What the hell is this thing? It's terrifying!"

The three of them rested for a while until they could all get up before going to look at the motionless strange hand.

It was indeed a hand, an adult's hand.

But only most of the arm is left.

After I pried off most of the insect's body, it stopped moving.

But even curled up and motionless, it still makes one feel itchy all over.

That was clearly an arthropod, but not a centipede.

It has no bristles, but its countless hands and feet look as hard as iron branches.

Gao He examined the creature closely and said in confusion, "This isn't a centipede, it looks like... a house centipede!"

I sighed and nodded: "It's a centipede."

"This is only half a centipede..." Gao He said in disbelief, "It's almost a foot long... How can there be such a big centipede?"

“Just because I haven’t seen it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.” I pulled Xiao Shen San to his feet. “See the red dots on its back? I’ve only ever heard my grandfather mention this thing. It’s called a string of lights, or ‘everlasting light.’ It usually only appears around graves. Ordinary centipedes only cause itchy, red, and swollen skin, but ‘everlasting lights’ are highly poisonous and can be fatal. But this thing can poison you, and it can also cure you. Of the nine red dots on its back, the reddest one without a black line in the middle is the antidote.”

Xiao Shen said, "I understand. It's like the centipede's inner core... The so-called Wind-Fixing Pearl may not be able to fix the wind, but it can cure centipede poison."

I nodded.

Gao He muttered, "This thing is huge... and where did this human hand come from?"

Xiao Shensan chimed in, "It's a miracle we survived. Where did we get manpower... where did we get manpower..."

He looked at me.

"They almost died, what's there to hide?"

I turned to Gao He and said, "Now that I think about what my grandfather told me, the 'Eternal Lamp' is a special poisonous insect that guards the grave! And the person who hid the things is a descendant of a family that has been building graves for generations. As for what exactly the 'Eternal Lamp' is, we can only... go back and ask the 'experts'."

Gao He held up the hand that had been grabbed, "Hiss... why is it still a little numb?"

I looked at the strange hand and said, "The skin, flesh, and bones are still there, but the arm is just a layer of skin that looks like it's been tanned, and the surface is bluish... It's probably mercury. This hand was injected with mercury. We've cured the insect poisoning, but we're still suffering from mercury poisoning."

"Damn it! Insects and mercury, this trap is too vicious!" Xiao Shen cursed, but then his expression changed as he looked at the broken statue on the altar. "Now I really want to know what kind of treasure that Jiang has gone to such lengths to hide behind here!"

I said, somewhat lost in thought, "If it's not important, why would they go to the trouble of disrupting the feng shui and hiding it in the ancestral temple of another family surnamed Jiang..."

Xiao Shensan chimed in, "They both have the surname Jiang, could they be from the same clan?" He then climbed back onto the altar, tilting his head to peer behind the clay sculpture, "The small door is closed, do you think there might be other hands or feet inside?"

I called out to him, "Come down!"

Xiao Shen looked at me in surprise: "You really don't have any curiosity at all?"

I rolled my eyes: "Yes! But this isn't a graveyard. I don't believe there's only one way to find the answer!"

Gao He and Xiao Shen's eyelids twitched at the same time...

The three left the ancestral temple and went around to the back wall of the main house.

Xiao Shen leaned against the wall and tapped a bare blue brick with his backhand: "The wall is only this thick. Guess what kind of secret is hidden inside?"

"Get out of my way."

As Gao spoke, he took out his keys, pulled out a folding knife, inserted it into the crack between the bricks, and began to scrape.

Xiao Shen looked at me again: "Are you sure your intuition is right? There really isn't...that thing hidden in here?"

He pouted at the iron fan I was carrying.

I shook my head: "Whether intuition is accurate or not is another matter. Like you said, we've come this far, shouldn't we get to the bottom of things?"

The back wall of the main building of the ancestral temple may have been very sturdy, but even the side facing outwards could not withstand the ravages of wind, frost, rain and snow.

Gao He didn't have to exert much effort to pry and pry out a piece of blue brick.

He quickly waved his hand in front of the hole he had pried open in the wall to make sure there were no more lights left on inside before turning on his phone's flashlight and cautiously peering inside.

When he turned around, I saw that his face, which had just regained a little color, had turned deathly pale again.

I didn't ask him anything, but I turned on my phone and looked into the hole in the wall.

Just one glance was enough to send chills down my spine.

Deep inside the hole in the wall, there was nothing terrifying, just a rubbery membrane.

However, after experiencing what happened before, especially after carefully examining that 'strange hand,' as the person involved, seeing this strange 'membrane' would definitely be quite shocking.

Excavator...

The wrist that I cut off, leaving only a strip of skin, left a very deep impression on us.

Under the electric light, the texture and color of the 'diaphragm' inside the wall hole were exactly the same as that wrist fragment!
This membrane is a layer of human skin!
"What should we do now?"

Gao He twirled his phone between his fingers and looked at me with a wry smile.

“This happened decades ago, calling the police won’t do any good,” I said.

He took the knife from his hand, glanced at it, and began to pry open a brick in the wall above.

The wall bricks were pried out. I looked at Xiao Shensan, then turned to Gao He: "Do me a favor, help me get up there and take a look."

I climbed up the platform, and while talking on my phone, I glanced into the brick hole. I was so shocked that I almost fell backward, taking the platform with me.

"What is it?" Gao asked hurriedly, putting me down.

"A pair of eyes! Human eyes!"

I felt a little breathless and involuntarily took two steps back, staring at the back wall in horror:

"It's not just a hand. There's a person built into this wall!"

(End of this chapter)