Dangerous temple

Tom, Lake and Jerry are college students at the San Francisco Institute of Technology in the United States, and they usually love adventure tourism. In December of this year, when the southern hemisphere was in the hot summer, the three young people came to Peru, a mysterious country with rich Indian cultural heritage.

　　After a week of wandering in the capital Lima, the three set off for the Andes, where the remains of Indian activities are most abundant. On this day, they came to a remote town to inquire about tourist monuments in that area. Unexpectedly, the locals solemnly warned that an abandoned temple 20 kilometers away must not be entered to play, and other places can be viewed at will.

　　The purpose of the three young college students' trip was to investigate the ancient Indian religious sacrificial customs. Naturally, they became interested in the temple that made the locals talk about it, so they asked in detail.

　　History of the temple

　　The locals told them that centuries ago, the vast area on both sides of the Andes was ruled by a slave kingdom called the Incas. The Incas believed in the sun god, so they built that temple in the valley and held some large-scale sacrifices every year.

　　However, since Columbus discovered the new continent of America, white colonists from Spain, Portugal and other countries in Europe began to invade on a large scale. Among them, Spain's conquest target was the rich Inca kingdom.

　　In the face of the Spanish invading army with muskets and cannons, the Indian tribes under the control of the Inca Kingdom fought unrelenting and heroic resistance until the capital Cusco fell to the enemy. After breaking through with the last remnants of the army, an Inca prince came to this temple to hide, intending to gather strength to make a comeback.

　　Unexpectedly, the Spanish army quickly caught up and surrounded the temple. After a desperate struggle, the Inca prince and others were wounded and captured. The dehumanizing invaders crucified all the prisoners alive as infidels.

　　After the Spanish army brutally killed the Inca prince and others, they temporarily turned the temple into a manual workshop, imitating the craftsmanship of the Indians to make some exquisite utensils. At first, the workshop was prosperous, with many skilled craftsmen.

　　But the good times didn't last long. The white craftsmen working in the temple died one by one for some unknown reason, and those who survived were often hysterical.

　　Only then did the Spaniards remember the death curse issued by the Inca prince before his execution, so people thought that the death curse was really effective, and they gave up the workshop in panic.

　　Over time, the temple became more remote and terrifying, and those who entered without authorization and spent the night rarely returned alive.

　　Dangerous temple

　　Tom, Lake, and Jerry were not surprised to hear the above-mentioned horrific rumors. Because they don't believe that death spells really exist in this world, nor do they believe that ghosts are haunting.

　　In order to find out what kind of mystery was hidden in the temple, the three young people quietly rushed there. I saw that the temple surrounded by the peaks was dilapidated due to disrepair. Walking into the pitch-black temple, the smell of mildew came from the nose, which was simply disgusting. Among the three young men, Tom and Lake were relatively strong, while the relatively thin Jerry occasionally felt cold these days and stayed outside the temple to guard his luggage.

　　In order to chase after a small snake with a special shape and color, Jerry ran into a dense grass and stumbled heavily on some kind of hard object. He bent over to separate the grass in surprise and couldn't help but scream. Tom and Lake, who came over after hearing the sound, took a closer look and saw that there were several skeletons.

　　The two comforted Jerry not to panic, because they also found a lot of skeletons in the temple. It seems that this place is really dangerous, and it has claimed many lives.

　　In any case, it was impossible for the three of them to believe the myth that the Inca prince's death spell was fatal, so they decided to try to find out the real culprit. Since Jerry was a little unwell, Tom and Lake left all the pure water they carried with him, and the two went to drink the well water in the temple.

　　Tom and Lake pitched their tent in the temple courtyard, and while waiting for Jerry to recover, they checked the temple and its surroundings. Several days passed in a flash, but nothing unusual could be detected.

　　But just the night before they planned to leave the temple, Tom and Lake somehow developed a high fever, and the illness was ferocious, and soon turned into a state of confusion and rambling. Only Jerry did not catch the disease.

　　A few days passed, and the terrible thing is that Tom and Lake's condition did not improve at all, but became more and more serious. Seeing that the lives of the two were at stake, Jerry had to run back to the town alone to ask for help. After pleading hard, although the locals blamed Jerry for being reckless, they still helped carry Tom and Lake back.

　　However, Tom stopped breathing that day, and when he died, he looked extremely terrifying: his face was blue, his lips were blue, his eyes were wide open, his hands were scratching his chest clothes and flesh, and he seemed to have died after a torment. of.

　　With tears in his eyes, Jerry entrusted the locals to send Lake, who was still in a coma, to a city hospital with better conditions for rescue, while calling the San Francisco Institute of Technology. After the leaders of the college heard the news, they immediately sent Professor Risen, who has rich experience in exploration, to lead a small team to investigate the truth of the incident.

　　Poisonous well water

　　Professor Risen believed that the world was full of wonders, and there must be unknown secrets hidden in that temple. In order to unravel the mystery, the professor brought a variety of testing and testing instruments and quickly rushed to the small town at the foot of the Andes Mountains.

　　In order to prevent accidents, Risen specially asked the team members to prepare enough dry food and drinking water, and stipulated that the mountain fruits and water sources around the temple were not allowed to be used without his consent. Because according to Jerry's account, Risen initially suspected that the problem was most likely in the well in the temple.

　　After the expedition team arrived at the temple, Risen ordered the team to collect water samples for testing, and it was found that the well water contained a large amount of mercury. The common name of mercury is mercury, which is a highly toxic chemical that can seriously damage the human nervous system. If a person is poisoned by ingesting mercury by mistake, the light ones will lose their intelligence and cause madness, and the heavy ones will die in a short period of time.

　　Risen took a closer look at the well in the temple again. Although the water was not too deep, the walls of the well were made of almost airtight granite, so that the penetration was extremely slow, so it was difficult for the well water with seriously excessive mercury elements. get updated.

　　As for how the poison well was formed, Professor Risen deduced that the Spaniards occupied the temple and turned it into a handicraft workshop, with the purpose of making and producing a large number of utensils. In order to meet the extravagant needs of the rulers, the craftsmen worked all day in the steaming mercury workshop, and of course they would be poisoned by inhaling a large amount of mercury unknowingly.

　　When the artisans dumped the waste water, the only well that received the water became a poison well. So much so that someone drinking well water by mistake because of thirst can also lead to poisoning. Tom and Lake are of course among the victims, and Tom, who was more poisoned, has died tragically. Only Jerry has been drinking pure water that he carries with him, so he can survive.