Chapter 16: The Underground Lake
Chubby and I are gradually losing strength, and although the four mud corpses are moving slowly, they never seem to stop, and the distance between us and the mud corpses is getting closer and closer, and sooner or later we will be caught up by the mud corpses. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"No", Xiao Fat said as he ran: "I have to think of other ways, if I continue like this, I will have to vomit blood if I don't get caught up by the mud corpse."
I said, "What can I do? Now there is no way to heaven and no door to the earth."
"There is indeed no way to go to heaven, but there is a door to enter the ground", Xiaopang saw that the mud corpse had not yet caught up, and as he spoke, he picked up a plastic bag from the things scattered on the ground in his backpack when he smashed the mud corpse just now, and put his tomb robbery manual into a plastic bag and carried it in his arms. When I looked, there was food on the ground, but there were no flashlights, lighters and other necessary things for tomb robbery. Chubby casually paddled some food and put it into the backpack, saw how close the mud corpse was, hugged the backpack to his chest, and said as he ran: "There is only one way left."
"What's the solution?" I asked as I ran.
"Into the ground, jump from the waterhole where the mud corpse crawled out, maybe there is a glimmer of life, and there is a sound of water flowing in that waterhole, as if it is living water", Xiaopang said.
"Damn, what's this called, isn't it the same as suicide? What if that puddle is stagnant? And who knows if there are other mud corpses in there?" I said.
"Jiren has his own natural appearance", Xiaopang said, "I can only gamble", said, and ran to a waterhole. I saw that the waterhole reflected a strange light in the green firelight, and the black hole did not know how deep, and the ripples rotated slowly, as if something was stirring underneath, and there was a fishy smell.
Xiaopang looked at it and hesitated, swallowed and spit, tried twice but still didn't have the courage to jump down, seeing that the mud corpse was about to come, and finally his heart was crossed: "Brother Dong, buddy is one step ahead, life and death are left to fate", said, took out a necklace from his arms, and handed it to me: "If you are still alive, help me hand this over to the daughter of Boss Liu of Panjiayuan No. 117 shop 'poetic', saying that in fact, I have always liked her, and if I am still alive, I will lose weight", said and wiped two handfuls of tears.
I said: "How do you make it look like the five heroes of Langya Mountain, don't I have to jump too, Xiaopang, just like you said, Jiren has his own natural appearance, I believe we must be fine...... By the way, who is 'poetic'?"
"Don't mention the sad past, Brother Dong, take care", after Xiaopang finished speaking, he gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, and jumped into the waterhole with a "plop", and there was no one when the water splashed.
At this time, the four mud corpses have surrounded me, I can't jump without looking, and finally my heart is horizontal, "Go to Nima Madi, do what you like, jump down at least a whole corpse, it's better than tearing up the zongzi", after thinking about it, my eyes were closed, I held my breath, and I jumped into the pool.
I jumped in and realized that it was a puddle, and it was not much different from a quagmire, but before I could react, I suddenly sank in, and then, the smelly sewage mixed with mud and sand poured into my ears and nose...... I held my breath and paddled subconsciously, thinking, this is over, I can't hold on for long, if this breath is loosened, I will be drowned, my consciousness began to blur, I felt that I was getting closer and closer to death, just when I was about to hold on, suddenly I felt a clear rapids across my face, and then a strong suction force sucked me in, like a flush toilet, I don't know where I was sucked in, and then I lost consciousness......
I don't know how long it took, I gradually woke up, opened my eyes, and found a strange place, Chubby was sitting next to me, looking at me happily.
"I'm finally awake," Chubby said.
"Where is this?", I asked, "Isn't it the Netherworld?"
"Damn, is there such a beautiful little ghost as me?" "We seem to have been sucked into a lake, and the exit is this place, and I don't know where this is."
I sat up, I was stunned by the sight in front of me, it was a huge hollow, the whole cave emitted a pale green fluorescence, in front of me was a lake, the size of two football fields, the lake water was green, and it also emitted green light under the fluorescent light of the four walls of the cave, the water was as still as a mirror, without a trace of ripples, and there was water vapor floating on the water surface, like a fairyland. The walls of the cave are crawling with vines, and strangely, in the center of the lake, there is a huge iron chain, with a diameter of two or three meters thick, which is divided into two at a distance of about ten meters from the surface of the lake, one is inserted into a hole in the top of the cave, and the other is parallel to the surface of the lake, and on the opposite side of the lake there is a huge cave, and this iron chain goes deep into the cave.
I watched it for a while before I came back to my senses, and when I lifted my nose and smelled it, what smelled so fragrant? I had never smelled such a fragrant smell, it made people salivate, like roast suckling pig, and like the smell of roast pigeon.
Turning his head, I don't know how Chubby lit a bonfire, next to our wet clothes, a shelf with dried vines on top of the bonfire, and a thing was roasting on it, and there were cans and ham sausages taken out of the backpack next to the bonfire.
"We almost lost our lives, you came with a picnic", I laughed, "What is that roast, why is it so fragrant?"
"This is...... Roast pigeons, well, it seems to be almost", Chubby said, took the roasted thing, tore off a thigh and handed it to me, "Come, Brother Dong, try my craft, absolutely first-class, I promise to make you unforgettable for life"
I took the thigh and smelled it, it was so fragrant, "Why are there pigeons in this cave?" I asked.
"Hey, what's so strange about this, there can be blood bird's nests in the cave, why can't there be pigeons", after speaking, he also tore his thighs and chewed on.
As soon as I saw that Chubby was eating so deliciously, he was also hungry, so I stopped asking and ate it too.
As I was eating, suddenly something flew over my head, and then another one, and I looked up and was startled, and saw that it was a huge bat, a little bigger than a pigeon, and I had never seen such a big bat. Looking at the thighs I ate again, I immediately reacted and couldn't help but vomit.
Xiaopang was eating and enjoying on the side: "It's okay, this thing is called 'fish-eating bat', it eats fish, it's not poisonous, don't worry"
Chubby really dares to eat anything, I really can't eat this thing, I stood up and walked to the cave wall, looked carefully, and found that the cave wall is composed of rocks mixed with some stones that emit green fluorescence, so the whole cave emits green fluorescence, I know that this kind of fluorescent stone is called "glowstone", many small shops sell this kind of glowstone handicrafts, in the dark can fluoresce by itself. The walls of the cave are neat and there are obvious signs of excavation, and this cave may have been the cave where glowstone was mined.
I asked Chubby, "Chubby, how did you get there before you could finish talking in that tomb?"
Chubby said while eating: " We were arranged to rest in that dry rest house that night, the more I thought about it, the more strange it became, I couldn't sleep at night, I suddenly heard movement outside, I looked out through the crack in the door, and found that it was Zhang Ziheng's kid, he sneakily went downstairs, I came out and followed him secretly, I wanted to see what he was doing, followed along, someone suddenly patted me on the shoulder, I was startled, I looked back and saw that it was Wu Lan, I whispered to him Zhang Ziheng didn't know what the hell was doing, I went over to see, Wu Lan nodded, and I went down with me, and saw Zhang Ziheng go down to a basement, and after we went down, we found that the basement was empty and there was nothing, Zhang Ziheng is also gone. Wu Lan knocked on the four walls, saying that the wall had a mezzanine, and then removed his long baggage from behind."
After eating the bat leg, Chubby tore off a large piece of the bat's chest, and then said: " Open the bag and see, the bread is a big sword with a black leather sheath, he pulled out the sword, the basement immediately flashed, at a glance it is a treasure guy, the sword is all black gold, he inserted the sword lightly into the wall, just like inserting it into the tofu, and then a prie, the wall opened, sure enough, there is a secret door, we went in to see, the things inside are very strange, there is a big iron door on the wall on one side, there is a seal on it, it seems that the wall is also iron, I don't know what is inside, there is a hole under the wall on the other side, there are steps inside, we estimate that Zhang Ziheng went down to the hole, and went down from the steps, and the result was after going down, I found that there are two roads, I don't know which one Zhang Ziheng took, I told Wu Lan to take one road each, to see what the situation is, I seemed to have walked a long distance in the secret passage, but when I came to the end of the road, I found a row of upward steps, so I went up, I didn't expect to enter the coffin, and I saw you when I pushed the coffin lid"
"You mean you go straight to the burial chamber from that secret passage?" I asked.
"Yes", Chubby said, "but I don't know why the grave tunnel under the coffin disappeared when the mud corpse chased us"
I thought for a while and said: "I was also inexplicably taken to that tomb, so it seems that this must be a trap, it is to trap us in that tomb, whether the mastermind is Zhang Ziheng I don't know, but it must have something to do with him, he is likely to want to lead you and Wu Lan to the tomb, there must be a mechanism under the coffin, and when you come in, close the secret door, so we didn't see the secret passage when we ran over."
"But what is the purpose of the grandson?" asked Chubby.
I didn't answer because I don't know the answer to this question either.
"Let's think about that later," I said, "and the most important thing now is how do we get out of here?"
"I've observed, it's a closed cave, it seems to have only three exits, one is the hole in which the chain at the top of the cave goes into, one is the cave across the lake where the other chain goes in, and one is there," Chubby said, pointing to the top of the cave wall on our side.
I looked where he was pointing, and saw that there was a huge stone door near the top of the cave, but the stone door was sealed, and I didn't know what was behind the stone door.
"How long did it take you to get from the retreat to the burial chamber?" I asked.
"I guess it's been more than half an hour", Xiaopang said, "What's wrong?"
"From the time you left and the analysis of the situation where we jumped from the tomb into the waterhole and were sucked into this underground lake, this cave is likely to be in the interior of Yuquan Mountain, and I saw those two iron chains and suddenly remembered a legend in old Beijing."
"What legend?" asked Chubby.