Chapter 58: The Secret of the Dungeon
With a "plop", the little girl had already jumped into the dungeon.
"It's so dark down there!" said the little girl, with a hint of fear in her voice.
Ling Yun asked her to dodge, and she jumped down, and the hot liquid of the candle that melted and flowed from the candle lamp swayed and overflowed, burning on her hands, slightly painful, and the dim candlelight suddenly illuminated the entire basement.
The little girl's face turned a little pale and said, "So many skulls." ”
Ling Yun only felt in his heart that the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, if it was changed to Ziruo, even if the girl was a few years older, he was afraid that he would scream and throw himself into his arms in fear, and he didn't dare to look at it, and although this little girl's face changed slightly, she was still looking around, and her curiosity was full of curiosity.
Ling Yun raised his eyes and glanced at the cage that had once imprisoned half of Wang Sancheng's body, the last time he poked it a few times, a hole leaked out of its body, and a foul-smelling blood gushed out and flowed all over the ground. Now the flesh had long since turned into a half-rotted skin lying on the ground, and the blood had solidified into a layer of red paint, covering the ground, showing a dark color in the dim light.
The little girl looked around the skulls, picked up the top one, put it in her hand and stared at it, and suddenly wondered: "Why is there a small mark behind this head?"
Ling Yun held the candle lamp and took a closer look, and sure enough, on the back of the skull's head, there was an obvious dark red mark, the outer circle was a circle, and there were several messy and irregular straight lines drawn horizontally and diagonally inside, as well as a number of blood-colored spots, dripping into the circle.
"Isn't this a sign of puppetry?" Ling Yun said in his heart, he picked up a few more skulls, and inspected them one by one, sure enough, there were marks on the back of each skull, all the marks were similar, they were all dark red circles and several straight lines, and the number of blood-colored spots was also different.
The little girl looked at it for a long time, but she didn't see her eyebrows, so she simply threw it to the ground, her skull was very hard, and the little girl threw it hard, smashed it on the hard stone floor, rolled it a few times, and there was no crack at all.
The little girl turned around and found the cage that had once contained half a body, lying on the outside of the cage, seeing a thin skin inside, her face showed a little disgusting, and said, "It turns out that this is what it looks like when the blood is sucked dry." ”
"Aren't you afraid?" Ling Yun asked when he saw that she was like a child who had come to a new place, without any fear.
The little girl squeezed her eyes at him and said, "I've seen too much, no matter how scared I am, I'll get used to it, it's just a pile of dead people's bones and stinky skins, I've seen the ugly appearance of intrigue when I'm alive, and what's so terrible about the dead, at least it won't hurt you." ”
As she spoke, she saw the small door next to the cage and poked her head out to look at the dungeon.
Ling Yun approached with a candlelight, only to see that there were several empty dungeons inside, the little girl stepped into the dungeon, pinched her nose and said: "It stinks enough just now, I didn't expect it to stink even more here, you are going to let me hide here, I was not killed, I was already stinking to death." ”
Ling Yun grinned and said: "You are so pampered and accustomed to the eldest lady, what is this smell, you don't know what the real smell is, if you want to talk about the smell, when the people die, put them in a damp place, the limbs rot a little bit, the skin rots, the blood and water organs flow out, and the inside and outside are full of maggots, and the smell is really windward and can stink for eight hundred miles." ”
The little girl almost wanted to vomit, jumped up and tried to cover his mouth, and said angrily: "What is it to intimidate a child, if you die one day and become stinky, I will cover my nose and take a few more looks." ”
Suddenly, the little girl felt that the slate under her feet was a little loose, and said strangely: "This is already underground, it stands to reason that the slate should be on the ground, why is it loose and dangling, but it looks like it is hollow underneath?"
Ling Yun said: "It seems that you need to lose weight." ”
"Phew, come and help me lift this slate. The little girl crouched down, and with all her strength she could not lift the heavy stone slab.
Ling Yun saw that the stone slabs on the ground were one zhang square, and the stone slabs were tightly connected, leaving no gaps, and even if the little girl's nails were torn, I am afraid that she would not be able to lift the stone slabs.
However, for Ling Yun, these stone slabs can also be seen as separate picture scrolls, which can be easily uncovered, so in the little girl's slightly surprised eyes, she saw Ling Yun lift a boulder half a foot thick with two fingers, put it next to it, and stand against the wall.
"Are you still a human being?" the little girl sighed in surprise, and couldn't help but touch his two fingers with a look of disbelief.
Ling Yun saw that under the stone slab was a bottomless black hole, the widest part of the cave entrance was about an arm's length, just enough to accommodate an adult man to go down, although the cave wall was surrounded by mud, but there was no trace of a knife and axe, but extended smoothly, as if a cylindrical boulder had pierced through to form this big hole in one fell swoop.
The little girl looked strangely at the bottomless black hole, picked up a broken bowl next to it, and threw it down, only the dull sound of the broken bowl hitting the wall of the cave was heard, and it did not fall to the end for a long time.
The little girl said, "Doesn't this hole have a bottom?"
Suddenly, a puff of white smoke came out of the cave, rushing out, Ling Yun hurriedly dragged the little girl, and left the entrance of the cave.
Ling Yun lifted the stone slab and pressed the entrance of the cave, and said, "This hole is very strange, and I don't know how it was formed. He thought of the worm that fought the giant lion outside the southern city gate, it was not this kind of monster that dug this hole in the ground, but the worm's body was as big as a small hill, and such a small hole might not be able to accommodate a single claw.
The little girl was startled by the steaming heat, but she didn't feel afraid, and groped around in the dungeon, saying: "You said that this hole was not dug by a prison escapee, but where is it transported when so much soil is dug up, this person is probably a person with extraordinary power like you, otherwise how can such a thick boulder be pried up." ”
Suddenly, the little girl let out a silver laugh and said, "I found another place." ”
Ling Yun approached with a candle lamp and saw a wall that the little girl was touching, the color was obviously lighter than other places, and it looked like it was built from behind, about the size of a door.
Ling Yun told the little girl to dodge and kicked down the thick clay wall, revealing a long and endless underground corridor with an arched roof on top.
"It's a lot more fun now, and I'm starting to like the dungeon a little bit. There was some excitement in the little girl's voice, and she jumped over a pile of crumbling clay walls and walked into the corridor.
Ling Yun originally felt that it was dangerous, but driven by curiosity, he followed the little girl in, and lifted her up and put her behind him, the corridor was very wide, enough to accommodate three people in parallel, more than two feet high, ordinary people walked upright without obstacles, but the air was slightly dirty, it seemed to be caused by long-term closure and no ventilation.
Ling Yun was surprised in his heart: "I didn't expect that this ordinary county government has so many dungeons with secret passages, and the dust on this ground is several feet thick, and no one has set foot in it for decades, so it must not be the construction of the three cities of the king, who made such a huge project?"
The little girl followed behind Ling Yun, her footsteps kicked up the dust, she choked very much, coughed a few times, and pouted: "You let me follow you just to eat ashes." ”
Ling Yun was afraid that there would be danger in front of him, so he brought her behind him and said, "It's better to eat ashes than to die." ”
The corridor seemed to be endless, walking for nearly half an hour, and before it was finished, the candlelight had already burned out and extinguished, and the two men groped their way through the wall in the dark, and the speed was even slower.
Ling Yun hesitated a little and said, "Where does this corridor lead?"
The little girl was a little sleepy, but her curiosity supported her to keep walking, and said, "You will know when you get to the end." ”
"What if there's no end?" Ling Yun said.
"No, if there is no end, then who chiseled it, it can only be a masterpiece of the gods. The little girl yawned and said, "Anyway, it's just as dark to walk back, so it's better to go on." ”
Ling Yun didn't expect that he needed a little child to cheer him up, the two were silent, Ling Yun's slightly rough big hand held her soft little hand, for fear that they would get lost.