The Ghost of the Tomb Chapter 26 The Shaft
I swam to the edge of the hole, grabbed the hole with one hand, they all went in, I carefully hit the flashlight, slowly probed in, the hole was dark and long, I couldn't see the bottom, I twisted the flashlight diaphragm to the brightest. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The copper chain in the woman's mouth must have opened an entrance, which was hidden in this hole. I took a deep breath and got into the hole. The walls of the cave were very smooth, with obvious traces of artificial chiseling, and I carefully touched the walls of the cave to advance.
About 3 meters into the hole, suddenly I was stunned, only to see a few meters deeper in the cave, a figure hiding in the shadows, it seems to be kneeling there, my brain immediately exploded, damn, the ghost who was hiding in the cave before, how did it suddenly appear again.
Oops, I can't shout in the water now, Uncle Guang and they have all gone in, and I'm the only one left here, what should I do? I immediately thought of turning off the flashlight and quickly exiting the cave, but I immediately denied this idea, if it follows me out, even outside the cave, I can only die. So what should I do? I struggled for a moment, and simply turned my heart sideways, thinking that I was on this step anyway, and I could only face the difficulties.
I held the dagger with one hand and tentatively hit the flashlight with the other, thinking that it would be like an animal, attacking or escaping at me when it encounters the stimulation of light, but what I didn't expect was that it was still motionless, and it didn't seem to be aware of the light.
My heart was even more frightened, because I knew that when something really powerful was going to attack the opponent, it would first lurk without moving, and then wait for the opportunity to suddenly pounce on it and make a fatal move
My heart was pounding, my hands were a little trembling, and I saw that it was completely black, with a lot of dirt sticking to it, and I had the courage to raise the aperture and shine a light on its face, and I saw that it had closed its eyes and was expressionless.
I fixed my mind, knowing that it would suddenly open its eyes and smile, wondering in my heart how Uncle Guang and the others had not been attacked for so long around the entrance of the cave? Could it be that it was like a mouse, only hiding in the corner and watching people, but in fact, it had no courage at all?
Confronted it for about half a minute, it's not a way to go on like this, Uncle Guang and they have been in for a long time, and if they don't leave, I'll be left behind. I pulled out the dagger, plucked up the courage to walk into it slowly, getting closer and closer, but it still didn't move, I pointed the aperture at its face several times, and even deliberately aimed it at its eyes, but it still didn't respond at all.
I slowly approached it, only a step or two away from it, and I saw its true face, and I chuckled in my heart, this is wrong, it is simply incomprehensible to me, how can this be, it is not a ghost, it is not a living creature, it is actually a stone man with very realistic workmanship.
I took a deep breath of the respirator, not scared now, but full of doubts, I had obviously seen it sneer, how did I become a stone man now. I approached it again, only to find the mystery inside, damn, it was actually a face on the back of the head of the cave wall, I flashed the light obliquely, and found that the face on the back of its head was the strange face with open eyes and smiling, and the difference was that it was a large curve of the cracked mouth, hanging out of a copper chain, looking at the style and the one in the mouth of the female corpse is the same.
It dawned on me that the kneeling stone man was also part of the mechanism, and it was powered by the flow of water, and it rotated according to a certain trajectory at regular intervals, and at one time it was dumbfounded, at another time it was smiling, and at one time it turned to a hidden place to hide, and the unknown tomb robbers saw that it would change and disappear, and they thought that they had seen a ghost, and they were so frightened that they did not dare to approach it at all, and it was impossible to think that it was the main part of the mechanism. When the Double-Faced Stone Man rotates to the point where the smiling face faces the cave entrance, and pulls the copper chain in its mouth and the female corpse's mouth at the same time, the mechanism will be activated to open the entrance, but if any of the copper chains are pulled alone, it will trigger another deadly mechanism. I secretly sighed that the craftsmen at that time were really powerful, and they could make such an ingenious and vicious mechanism.
At this time, the flashlight illuminated a dark reflection on the back of the double-faced stone man, and I hummed, and tried to look at it with my side face against the cave wall, and found that there was something embedded there. I reached in and touched it, there was a hard cold feeling, to make sure there was no danger, I carefully buckled it out, held it in my hand and saw that it was actually a very old copper key.
This bronze key feels very heavy, and there are very strange lines on it, where is the key to unlocking it? Is it related to the divination turtle that the old five monsters said? It must be a very important thing to be hidden here so carefully. I thought about it for a while, so I simply forgot about it and stuffed it into the inner lining of my clothes, thinking that I would study it later when I went out.
I went around the double-faced stone man and went deeper into the cave, and a little more than a meter inside was the end of the cave, where a secret door opened at the top of the cave, which had been opened, and above it was a long, straight shaft.
At this time, I kicked something under my feet, and when I shone it with a flashlight, I found that a simple breathing apparatus of the same style as my hand had been abandoned here, and there was another one in the corner on one side, and it seemed that in the process of going up, they found that the tube connected to the outside was not long enough to be discarded.
I took a deep breath of the respirator, grabbed the hole with both hands, kicked up in a dog-crawling style, and drilled into the shaft in a few clicks, the shaft is very wide, I am comfortable in it, there is a concave point of force every other distance on the shaft, I don't know how high the shaft is, and I don't know how far the tube of the respirator can be pulled, since Uncle Guang and they can discard the respirator to go up, it proves that there is air in the space above the shaft.
I continued to climb up, and soon I felt the tube of the respirator being strained, and I understood what was going on, so I could only take another deep breath, drop the respirator in the shaft, and climb up faster. Fortunately, the shaft was not very high, and I climbed for a while, and when I was just holding my breath, my head suddenly loosened, and the whole person came out of the water.
It felt so good to re-enter the air, I wiped my face, and saw that it was actually a burial chamber, the burial chamber was empty, there was no coffin, there was no artifact, and the whole burial chamber was filled with a smelly and stuffy smell, and what was even stranger was that there was a strong smell in it.
Uncle Guang and the others gathered in a circle in the corner of the tomb, as if they were whispering something. I walked over to take a look, and found that among them sat a person in ragged clothes, it was Sister Zhao, she had been trembling, in a trance, and her eyes seemed to be mentally abnormal. The most terrifying thing is that I saw a chain around her neck, and there was something tied to the chain, which was a soul hook.
At this time, the soul lock was quietly hanging on Sister Zhao's chest, it didn't move, I know, it will suddenly move on its own, and the sound it makes is the suona sound from hell, which can summon the ugliest and darkest demons in human nature, filling people's minds. When people are frightened, they produce more terrifying illusions, and when they are in conflict, they produce darker thoughts to look at problems, and they become more and more intense like a vicious circle, and they cannot extricate themselves. The soul hook on Sister Zhao's neck must have sounded, and she definitely couldn't bear that kind of psychological pressure.
Hasn't Sister Zhao been following Leader Hong all the time, how could she be here alone? Niu Can and the old master are dead, everyone else is here, only Leader Hong is left, where will he go now alone? I have an ominous feeling in my heart, the soul hook on Sister Zhao's neck, could it be that Leader Hong put it on her, why did he do this? I remembered that Niu Can's attitude towards Hong Lingtou had changed greatly before he died, and he also said that Boss Li had doubted his words, and the old five monsters said that Hong Ling's personality was very fake, as if he was pretending, could it be that Hong Lingtou really had a problem? I thought again, Hong Lingtou must have also come in here, because the mechanism that came in was too complicated, and Sister Zhao could not have such ability, unless she hid it deeply. I looked around, but I couldn't see the figure of Hong Ling.
Because he was afraid that the soul hook would be stimulated, he sounded, and no one dared to move at this time, standing there and staring. Ah Lian took out the dagger and slowly cut it towards the chain around Sister Zhao's neck, his hand was very sensitive, and the chain was cut off with a slight cut from the dagger.