I swear I have never heard such a weird laughter in my life. The laughter was high-pitched, like a child holding its throat, making people shudder when they hear it.

Let me ask, who can hold a smiling head in the middle of the night and not get scared?

I was so frightened that I threw the puppet's head out. The head hit the ground and cracked several times, but it still shook and laughed.

Me, Fatty, and Wang Yuanchao all took a step back in unison.

It wasn't until we left the puppets that the weird laughter slowly disappeared.

The fat man was wearing big pink pants and looked like an old hooligan. He said: "Dingdang, don't we have a saying in the tomb robbing business? White hair is stiff and black hair is evil, while the crying face of Bodhisattva is demonic with a smiling face. Things that make people laugh are never good.

To deal with it, it's either a ghost or a monster, I think we'd better retreat."

After saying that, the fat man begged his grandfather to sue his grandmother and kept nagging at the puppet: "It's just passing by, don't take it off, don't take it off."

I didn't speak.

I also know the formula that the fat man said. The general meaning is that the rice dumplings with white hair in the ancient tombs are zombies, and the rice dumplings with black hair are evil stars. Things with sad faces do not harm people, and those who harm people are mostly those who smile.

Things, this is the experience accumulated by the ancestors of tomb robbers for thousands of years.

But I always feel that these puppets are not ghosts.

But if he wasn't a ghost, how could he wink at me? His head was pried off and he still kept laughing?

My strong curiosity overcame my fear, and finally I stamped my feet and said, "Brother Yuan Chao, let's go up and have a look. There must be something fishy about this puppet."

Regardless of the fat man's reaction, we walked directly in front of the puppet's head and smashed it on the deck like a coconut.

When the puppet's face was covered with cracks, I inserted the paratrooper's knife and broke it, instantly breaking the puppet's head into two halves.

At the same time, what was hidden inside was also revealed!

I quickly picked up a lantern and shined a light on it, and then I could clearly see what was going on in the puppet's head.

It turns out that the puppet's head is not solid, the wood inside has been completely hollowed out, and many small gears made of steel are embedded inside. A large roller with a diameter of more than ten centimeters is fixed directly above the gears.

The big roller seemed to have used up its last strength and was slowly turning and then stopped.

Wang Yuanchao and I were both dumbfounded. We didn’t expect that such an antique from thousands of years ago would have the same modern mechanical structure hidden inside. What the hell is going on?

I quickly called the fat man over and asked, "Fat man, is this puppet really from the Three Kingdoms period? Take a closer look."

"This..." The fat man was a little dazed when I asked him, and said in an uncertain tone: "That's right, both the carving technique and the painting are all in the style of the Three Kingdoms period."

"Then why are there gears here?"

"I'm damn depressed too." The fat man cursed, and then fiddled with the big roller with his hand, trying to vent his anger.

But as soon as he fiddled with it, the big roller drove the gear and the firing pin, and made another horrible laugh.

The green lantern shone on the puppet's smiling face, as if the boys and girls around him were alive! And this weird laughter also sent shivers down my spine. I only felt a cold air running up the soles of my feet.

, goosebumps all over my body.

The fat man even sat down on the ground, dumbfounded and shouted: "Fuck, I'm scared to death, fat man."

I have regained my composure at this moment, and countless thoughts are running through my mind.

It seems that those terrifying laughters are not caused by evil spirits, but are caused by the mechanism in the puppet's head. It is like installing a musical instrument in the puppet's head. As long as the big roller rotates, the instrument will play.

But the strange thing is that no one has ever turned the big wheel before, so what makes the laughter come from it?

Could it be that there is something else hidden in this seemingly huge roller?

I looked carefully and found that the roller was made of a thin layer of iron. When I flicked my finger on it, it made a crisp sound. It was obviously empty inside.

I carefully cut open the iron sheet with a paratrooper's knife. When I saw what was in the roller, my jaw dropped in shock.

There was a little black mouse nesting inside!

This mouse looks very strange. Its body is almost twice the size of a normal mouse. It has a bulging belly. It has a pair of bright little eyes that emit a strange light and looks at us mischievously.

When he saw me holding the knife, the rat chirped twice and wanted to bite me. I didn't react for a while. Fortunately, Wang Yuanchao had quick eyesight and quick hands. He took the paratrooper knife from my hand and quickly nailed the rat to the deck.

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"Oh my God! How come there are mice in here?" I said in surprise.

Although the rat had its belly pierced by a knife, its tail was still trembling, it was making strange chirping noises, and it was staring at me fiercely.

The fat man looked at the mouse in confusion, then at the roller that I had cut open, and was stunned.

I saw that he suddenly stopped moving, so I asked what happened?

The fat man pointed to the space inside the roller and said: "I know how this puppet laughs! There is a mouse in the puppet's head. The mouse is enclosed in the big roller. As long as it moves, the roller will rotate.

The puppet started laughing. Ding Dong, have you ever had a fucking pet? A little hamster, just like that cute little hamster on a roller toy."

I was stunned by the exquisite craftsmanship in front of me. It took me a long time to think of asking the fat man: "Was there such advanced craftsmanship during the Three Kingdoms period?"

The fat man shook his head and said: "It's really hard to say. During the Three Kingdoms period, there were many talented people. Didn't even Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, create a wooden cow and a flowing horse? I think as long as you have money, you can gather all the skilled craftsmen in the world and want to make one.

It shouldn’t be difficult to create a mechanism like this.”

"Then what's going on with this mouse? It's been sealed in a roller for thousands of years and it doesn't die? And it doesn't eat or drink." I asked, looking at the mouse that was still chirping strangely.

"I don't know about this fat man. There must be some mechanism that can provide it with food and drink..." The fat man was also confused. After thinking for a while, he suddenly said: "But the fat man has heard the old man in the tomb robbing world say that the legend

There is a kind of rat in China called the Millennium Rat. As the name suggests, this kind of rat can live for thousands of years. They do not lie around day and night like ordinary rats. Instead, they eat well every time and then sleep, sleeping for hundreds of years.

Years ago, people would continue to sleep after eating, and would only wake up when disturbed. It is said that there was a king named Duke Xi of Qi who had a wish before he died, saying that the tomb was too monotonous and wanted something alive to give him.

Being a companion by himself would be a good way to relieve boredom. So his sons searched here and there, and finally found the thousand-year-old rat, which made Duke Xi of Qi pass away with a smile. However, within a few months, Duke Xi of Qi's body was eaten by rats.
Chapter completed!