Chapter 413: The Mystery of Ghost Claws
There are no other clues in this tomb, so Gao Fei and his party continue to explore forward.
Not far away, I found a similar tomb, also with a coffin with nails pulled out.
Ma Tao and Wang Daqing worked together to push open the coffin lid, took a look inside, and shook their heads in disappointment.
Sure enough, it was still an empty coffin.
At this moment, Huzi suddenly straightened his back and roared urgently towards the coffin.
Gao Fei communicated with his demon pet and realized that something was wrong. He immediately made a spell-casting gesture, and three balls of purple light glowed on his fingertips.
Ma Tao's secondary profession is a priest, and his perception is more developed than Wang Daqing's.
The moment he heard the cat meow, he noticed a gloomy negative energy seeping out from the cracks in the coffin, and there was a faint rustling movement, like a mouse crawling in the coffin, and he quickly pushed Wang Daqing away from him.
Wang Daqing staggered when he pushed him and almost fell. He asked in confusion: "Xiao Tao, what's going on?"
Ma Tao did not answer, as if he had been punched suddenly, he groaned and fell backwards. The flashlight fell from his hand and rolled under the coffin board with a heart-stopping ding-dong sound.
The light in the tomb immediately dimmed.
Ma Tao rolled and struggled on the ground, seemingly fighting an invisible enemy.
"Sister Wu! Have you seen it?" Jiang Feng asked eagerly.
"I'm watching!" Wu Xiaoqian's hand holding the gun was shaking. "There seems to be something attached to the pony. It's too small to see clearly... It's definitely not an invisible ghost."
"Put the gun away and use your camera!"
Gao Fei reminded Wu Xiaoqian loudly.
He couldn't see clearly what monster Ma Tao was fighting, so he didn't dare to take action rashly for fear of accidentally injuring his teammates.
After being yelled at by him, Wu Xiaoqian finally calmed down, hurriedly took out her phone, turned it to night scene mode, and pressed the shutter on Ma Tao rolling on the ground.
Click!
The moment the flash came on, both Ma Tao and the monster on him were frozen.
Wang Daqing quickly shined the flashlight over.
Jiang Feng also turned on the "Daylight Barrier" to provide more sufficient light.
Everyone approached Ma Tao, looked down, and couldn't help but gasp!
A pale, dry palm covered with green mold was broken at the wrist. Five peeling and exposed fingers were tightly strangling Ma Tao's throat. The sharp nails were almost completely sunk into his neck, oozing out traces of blood.
Gao Fei suppressed his heart palpitations and shot three missiles with a snap of his fingers.
Amidst the roaring sound, purple light flashed!
The magic missiles amplified by "spell sharpening" hit the strange hand one after another.
The strange hand twitched and fell off.
The six-second time limit has expired. Ma Tao regained his mobility, covered his neck and cursed: "MMP! What the hell, he jumped out of the coffin without even seeing it clearly, I jumped!"
Wang Daqing quickly helped him up and used "Holy Treatment" to heal his neck wound.
"Brother, this didn't even scare you to the point of peeing, you are quite brave!"
"Isn't that right? My mental quality... oh shit!"
Ma Tao still wanted to show off, but when he saw clearly that the monster that attacked him just now was not the mutant rat he imagined, but a severed hand with muscles and bones, he couldn't control his bladder.
Gao Fei was worried that the nails on the strange hand were poisonous, or had germs or something, so he opened the astrolabe to check Ma Tao's health, and then he felt relieved after confirming that he was not poisoned or infected with any disease.
"The astrolabe can't find any information about this strange hand. It seems to be a new species." Jiang Feng stared at the severed hand and muttered, "I don't know whether it was naturally produced in the ancient tomb, or whether it was created by Hong Debiao using spiritualism."
"Anyway, report it first."
Goofy wrapped the severed hand with a handkerchief, stuffed it into the astrolabe, and sent it to Vader Laboratory.
Not long after, I received the analysis report from the laboratory.
This severed hand belongs to a micro-undead creature, a new subspecies of "Creeping Claw", which the laboratory named "Ghost Claw".
The challenge level of "Ghost Claw" is only 1/8, with 6 HP points, and its attributes and abilities are not too surprising. If it hadn't suddenly launched a surprise attack in this eerie environment, it wouldn't be much of a threat at all.
At the end of the analysis report, the researchers put forward a guess:
The ghost claw is most likely an experiment, a by-product of some powerful undead creature that Hong Debiao is trying to create.
In order to understand Hong Debiao's plot, researchers issued a commission to Gao Fei, asking him to pay more attention to undead creatures similar to "ghost claws" in subsequent explorations, so as to provide the laboratory with more specimens for research.
Gao Fei accepted the commission without hesitation.
Unfortunately, Ghost Claw is really bad.
Killing one will only give you a pitiful 25 experience points.
Even if you report this new species, the triple reward is only 75 experience points.
"What's the use of such a weak undead creature created by Hong Debiao?" Gao Fei was confused.
"Maybe he also wants to run a haunted house in the ancient tomb and build an "Identity V" theme park." Ma Tao rubbed his neck and smiled a little guilty, "There is a story, this ghost's claws suddenly jumped out of the coffin. , it’s really scary..."
After the false alarm, everyone continued to go deep into the ancient tomb.
After walking along the tomb passage for about ten minutes, Gao Fei received an alarm from Hu Zi through telepathy, and reminded his companions to be careful where they step.
Sure enough, not far from where Huzi was lying, a gap was vaguely visible on the ground.
Jiang Feng poked with an eyebrow-level stick, but there was no response at first. But when she increased her strength, the floor suddenly sank, and then there was a roar that echoed in the narrow tomb passage for a long time.
Gao Fei and the others immediately lay down on the spot.
They climbed up carefully only after the echo died down.
They approached the edge of the pit, turned on the flashlight, and shone it downward.
The pit was estimated to be no less than six or seven meters deep, and the bottom was covered with upside-down spears. The metal spearheads were rusty, but still sharp, making people's scalps numb.
"Fortunately, Hu Zi was alert and discovered the traps to prevent tomb robbers in time, otherwise he would have stepped on the air and fallen down, and would have been pierced into a sieve on the spot." Wang Daqing said while wiping his cold sweat.
Everyone carefully bypassed the pit and continued to grope forward.
When they were almost at the end of the tomb passage, Hu Zi stopped again, staring at the ground in front of him and meowing.
Gao Fei walked over to take a look, and his face changed slightly.
"Brother Fei, did you find another trap?" Ma Tao asked after following him.
"The trap is true, but it is not originally in the ancient tomb."
Gao Fei pointed to the ground.
Under the illumination of the flashlight, a circular mark can be vaguely seen under a layer of floating soil, and the metal sawtooth is slightly reflective.
"It looks like a trap." Ma Tao said as he looked at it carefully.
Gao Fei nodded, spent a star disk energy, switched his secondary profession from "astrologer" to "mimic", put on the "thief mask", and obtained the "skillful hands" skill and the professional ability "trap expert".
Taking out the matching "thief toolbox" from the star disk storage space, Gao Fei waved his hand to signal his companions to move away and began to dismantle the trap.
