Chapter 20: The Closed Door

I just felt like I had rolled off a high platform and flipped several times on the ground before stopping. Although Ye Xun also fell to my side, he was not as embarrassed as me, and he reached out and dragged me up.

I quickly glanced around by the flashlight of the pursuers.

Ye Xun and I fell into an open cave, and although I didn't see the specific scene in the cave, I saw a round stone platform like an altar. I was about to take a closer look in the direction of the stone platform when the pursuers were close to the hole above us.

I pulled Ye Xun and went straight to the bottom of the cave to hide. The two of us had just stood on the wall of the cave when a few flashlights shone into the cave from the top of our heads.

Someone stood at the entrance of the cave and shouted, "Where are the people?"

Chen Mingyu said coldly: "Don't you know that it's dark under the lamp? I'll go down and find them. ”

Chen Mingyu is worthy of being an old Jianghu, and he saw through my tricks at a glance. When I reached out and touched the handle of the knife, Ye Xun gently touched the corner of my clothes and whispered, "There is a coffin behind us." ”

I reached behind my back and felt a huge coffin. The sarcophagus without a coffin lid is not too crowded even if two people lie side by side. However, if the two of us jumped into the coffin together to escape, wouldn't it be tantamount to being caught in an urn?

I was about to say no when I heard the sound of someone sliding overhead.

I just glanced in the direction of the top of my head, Ye Xun suddenly grabbed my belt and lifted me into the coffin. As soon as I fell into the coffin, I instinctively wanted to climb out, but before I could get up, I was pressed back by Ye Xun, who jumped in.

When I tried to resist again, there was the sound of footsteps falling to the ground not far from us—someone coming down from above.

"There's a coffin here!" someone shouted, and more and more people came down from the hole, and a layer of cold sweat broke out in the palm of my hand holding the long knife.

I was miserable by Ye Xun.

If we had dispersed just now, we would still be able to use the terrain to maneuver with Chen Mingyu, but we are now in the coffin, and we don't even have a place to move, as long as the other party has a gun in his hand, we can't run if we want to.

When I turned my head to look at Ye Xun, he pressed his hand on my back, stretched out a finger and pointed at me a little.

What does Ye Xun want to say?

I was wondering when I suddenly heard Chen Mingyu say, "You two go to the coffin and have a look." ”

I was startled, and both hands grabbed the long knife at the same time.

Ye Xun tapped my back again at this time, as if telling me to calm down, and as if he counted "two" once.

I couldn't help but look at Ye Xun, someone had already pressed his hand on the edge of the coffin, and the flashlight beam also hit horizontally from the top of the coffin. As long as the other party moves the direction of the flashlight slightly, Ye Xun and I will be completely exposed to each other's sight......

Ye Xun grabbed my neck at this time and pressed it down, and I immediately involuntarily lay down in the coffin.

As soon as the tip of my nose was pressed against the coffin board, I heard a shrill wind above my head, as if some behemoth had fallen from the sky in an instant. Before I could react, there was a loud bang above my head, and several fingers that had been crushed by life fell down on me along with the dust and stone skin in the sky. Before I could close my eyes, I was dazzled by the dust.

By the time I opened my eyes, it was pitch black, and I could faintly hear screams coming from outside. I subconsciously reached out and touched the top of my head, the coffin had been tightly covered by the wooden lid, no wonder my eyes had become pitch black, and I couldn't hear the movement outside.

I whispered to Ye Xun, "Do you see the coffin lid on it?"

"Didn't you see that I could throw you in?" Ye Xun almost choked me to death with a word, "Silly." ”

I was so angry that Ye Xun rolled my eyes. He must have seen the lid hanging from the coffin, and cut the rope that held the coffin, but he never told me, and I almost choked to death.

But I also knew that now was not the time to compete with Ye Xun, so I could only suppress my anger and put my ear to the coffin and listen carefully to the movement outside. Someone said: "Boss, Xiao Wu's hand is useless, you see ......"

"Send him away, double the bereavement pension. After Chen Mingyu threw down a sentence, a scream soon came from outside.

The man turned to his companion and said, "Boss, do you still see inside the coffin?"

Chen Mingyu said: "Don't look at it. Wang Huan and Ye Xun looked young, but they were actually veterans, and veterans would not drill into the coffin. Look in the cave and don't kill the killer if you find it......"

Chen Mingyu's voice became smaller and smaller, and it seemed that he had gone somewhere else. I whispered, "Help me move the lid of the coffin and see what's going on outside." ”

Ye Xun and I worked together to push the lid of the coffin open a little, and I also stuck my head out of the coffin.

Chen Mingyu's men had already dispersed in groups of four, searching in different directions, but Chen Mingyu himself walked up to the altar in the center of the stone cave with a few of his right-hand men.

Chen Mingyu was still standing on the empty altar at first, but quickly squatted down, and soon after, he lay on the ground with a flashlight, apparently observing the things on the altar. What's on the altar? Is it a picture, or is it a text?

Chen Mingyu quickly stood up and shone a flashlight on the walls around the altar. When the beam of the flashlight stopped at one point, I also saw a door carved into the wall.

The stone carvings of the gate are extremely realistic, even with a three-dimensional beauty. Although I couldn't see exactly what kind of picture was carved on the gate, I could see that the gate seemed to protrude from the inside out, as if someone had opened a gap in the gate from the inside, peeking at the visitors outside the door, deciding whether to open the mysterious door for the visitors.

Chen Mingyu stared at the door for a long time before moving the flashlight and turning it in a clockwise direction. Another stone door soon appeared in my sight. A gap about the width of a palm opened between the two doors, and a palm pushing the door could be faintly seen on one side of the door.

Before I could see the full picture of that palm, Chen Mingyu turned around again, and another gate soon appeared in my sight......

Counting from the first time Chen Mingyu saw the stone door, there were a total of five stone doors in the place where I could see it, and each stone door was opening a part of the door in a sequential manner. If the cave above us is also a stone door, it happens to be a completely open gate.

A conjecture quickly flashed through my mind: the coffin was under the open door, and the stone coffin body and wooden coffin lid showed that the coffin was not a burial thing at all, but a tool for transporting the dead.

After a brief pause in the coffin, the dead are brought to the altar, where the shaman, who worships the gods, prays for his soul to enter one of the doors, behind which is connected to another world, whether it is the human world, the heavenly realm, or even hell.

However, everything here doesn't seem to have anything to do with the god of water?

When I was thinking nonsense, Chen Mingyu suddenly said, "Come here." Go and pull the coffin to the altar for me. ”

I couldn't help but be shocked, and someone said, "Boss, that coffin is estimated to weigh a few tons, can we pull it over?"

Chen Mingyu walked down from the altar and kicked back and forth on the ground twice with his foot: "You see, there is a slide on the ground, as long as you get the coffin up, it is not difficult to pull it up to the altar." Hurry up. ”

After Chen Mingyu moved his steps, I saw that the so-called slides were actually copper pillars stuck side by side between two rail-like bronze tracks, because the past was too old, and the two rows of slides were buried under the dust. Chen Mingyu cleaned them out with just a few strokes: "Hurry up, take a shovel to shovel out the slide, and a few people will tie up the coffin for me in the past." ”

I saw someone running towards the coffin quickly, so I quickly closed the coffin lid with Ye Xun and lay back. I whispered, "Ye Xun, what did you see just now that the coffin lid was hung on the roof of the shed?"

"Rope. ”

Ye Xungang said two words, and I felt "chuckle" in my heart.

I don't know how many years this cave has existed, but one thing I know for sure is that there is no rope that does not rot for more than ten years, and someone must have changed the rope regularly to hang the lid of the coffin, which weighs hundreds of pounds, from the roof of the shed.

Who are the people guarding this altar? are they the water gods, or is it someone else?

Before I could think about it, there was the sound of ropes rubbing against the coffin outside—there was also a slide underneath the coffin where we were lying, otherwise it would be impossible for people outside to easily reach under the coffin.

I said softly: "Ye Xun, if you go to the altar for a while, maybe something will happen, how sure are you that you will break out?"

"Cooperate with me to arrest Chen Mingyu. Ye Xun replied, and quietly opened the guitar box, not knowing what he was rummaging through inside.

If there were no other water gods outside to attack Chen Mingyu, arresting Chen Mingyu was our only chance, and I also took out the dagger from my body and held it in my hand, quietly waiting for the coffin to move.

Soon after, the voice of the bodyguard shouting outside was heard: "One, two...... One, two, ......"

Every time the other party shouted, the coffin we were in would move forward a little, and the sound of the copper pillar turning close to the coffin also came in at once. That sound may not sound loud outside, but inside the coffin it was like a muffled thunder, which quickly closed my hearing. I only felt my ears buzz when the moving coffin suddenly stopped, and the dark red fire instantly fell into the coffin from all directions.

Someone lighting a fire outside?