Chapter 290: Nine Steps
Mu Xiu and An Xiangfei leaned over and poked their heads in, and then Mu Xiu straightened up and said, "It's no time to prepare the equipment, hurry up and go in."
The three of them were busy for a while, preparing all kinds of equipment, including modern high-tech and traditional things to ward off evil spirits. After checking each other, the curtain Xiu took the lead, and the order of An Xiang Fei in the middle of the hall entered at one time.
The entrance was a steep staircase, and I counted it to 24. The grave road that had just landed and shone with a flashlight was pitch black, as if it were a bottomless pit. The light of the flashlight couldn't reach the end.
"Slow down." Mu Xiu reminded me and An Xiangfei in a whisper.
I patted him on the shoulder to show that I understood. I had just walked about a dozen steps forward, when suddenly a gust of wind came from the graveyard in front of me, which made my back chill, and the cold sweat on my head couldn't help but come out.
Makushu stopped and squatted down, took out the compass, and saw that the pointer on the compass turned twice and pointed straight in front of us.
Mu Xiu straightened up, his face a little gloomy. took out a handful of glutinous rice and put it forward to disperse, then turned around and said, "Okay, rest assured, there will be no problem where there is glutinous rice." Remember to hold a handful of glutinous rice in each hand. With that, he began to walk forward again. I don't know how long I walked, and I walked for a while to take three handi glutinous rice. Soon we realized that there was no way to walk ahead.
"How can this be, I saw a road ahead just now." An Xiangfei's face turned pale, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said.
"Hallucinations" I didn't want to blurt out, because I had encountered too many of them before, the so-called long-term illness became a cure.
"Maybe Liangxi is right." Makushu glanced at me, and then stared in the direction ahead.
I went on to say; "The hallucination appeared, generally because we had relaxed all the way just now, and you found out just now, the yin wind was gusting for a while, so it was at the moment when we were nervous, when the spirit was unstable, it confused us and took us into the hallucination."
"What should I do then?" An Xiangfei asked with trembling lips.
"Biting the tip of the index finger, the blood on the fingertip is the most yang thing in the human body, so the general dirty things are avoided." With that, I quickly bit my fingertip, and a rush of pain came quickly. Makushu An Xiangfei also bit his fingertips immediately. Looking up again, we found that the wall that had just stood in front of us was indeed gone, and not far away, we vaguely seemed to have seen the gate of this tomb dungeon.
"What's that up front?" An Xiangfei asked curiously.
"Where's the entrance to the dungeon," Makushu replied. Immediately afterwards, Mu Xiu looked back at me and An Xiangfei and said:
"The more you go to the dungeon, the more careful you must be, don't touch it indiscriminately, you know, the person lying inside is a golden captain who is well versed in the art of tomb paths."
"Understood," An Xiangfei and I responded.
In this way, the three of us walked cautiously all the way, about fifty meters away from the dungeon. Makushu suddenly shouted.
"Don't move, don't go forward" and I took another step due to the inertia of my body moving forward. That's when it stopped. Looking at Mu Xiu again, sweating profusely, he pointed to the ground for me and An Xiangfei with gestures. Only then did we realize that the floor here was different from the one we had walked on before. Each piece is squarely hewn out of bluestone slabs, the most important thing is a total of nine rows and six rows, and each bluestone slab is engraved with some messy historical figures.
"How are these floors different, are they mechanics or something?" An Xiangfei asked.
I looked at my right foot, which I had just rushed out of, and I habitually wanted to retract it, and just as I was about to lift my foot, Makushu quickly pressed my foot that was about to leave the ground.
"Can't move, if I remember correctly, this is the most common and vicious mechanism in the tomb, 'Nine Steps'" Makushu then continued.
"The so-called nine-step door means that only by walking through the nine-step path can you find the door of life, otherwise what you will step into in the past is also the door of death. The biggest feature of this mechanism is that you can't take a wrong step, otherwise you will be pierced by ten thousand arrows. The right foot that Liang Xi stepped on just now did not trigger the mechanism, which means that this step is correct. ”
"Then why can't you take it away?" An Xiangfei looked at me who was standing uncomfortably and asked.
"The so-called door of life, one life and two deaths, everyone's numerology is not clear, and the door of life is not passable, so since Liangxi has stepped on the right step, then he can't take it away, otherwise the first step will become the door of death. He won't be able to go again."
Listening to the words of the curtain repair, it made me break out in a cold sweat, and I lost the treasure of the curtain repair, otherwise I would not be able to enter or exit if the door was sealed.
"So how do I go?" I asked anxiously.
"Don't worry, tell me your birthday, I need a little time to calculate it." Makushu glanced up at me, looked down at the order of the patterns on the bluestone slabs, and said to me.
After I told Makushu about my birthday, Makushu drew gossip on the ground, and after about five minutes, my right leg was already a little numb at this time, perhaps due to excessive tension. So I hurriedly urged:
"Okay, no. I can't stand anymore."
"How can this be, impossible," Makushu kept repeating these two words. This puzzled me.
"What's impossible," I asked anxiously.
"Why don't you have a door of life and no door of death, I just calculated twice." Mu Xiu looked at me with a confused expression.
"I don't know." I said helplessly.
Mu Xiu was speechless for a while, and suddenly a gleam flashed in his eyes, and he laughed and said:
"I see, I see. Liangxi, you can go with confidence, you won't have anything to do with you, how did I forget that there is another kind of life that is between the door of life and death. Your birth date is exactly this kind of fate."
Listening to it, this made me speechless for a while, whether it is reliable for a while, and for a while. I felt that my legs were getting numb and numb, and now I couldn't advance or retreat, thinking that it was better to believe him than to be afraid of death. So I closed my eyes and walked forward, thinking, "If you want to die, die."
It wasn't until I walked nine steps and noticed that I felt different under my feet, and then I opened my eyes and realized that I had already come.
"Ryokhi, are you alright?" An Xiangfei asked eagerly.
"I'm fine." I replied. Looking at Mu Shu again, he looked at me with a smile on his face, silent, but I could see the full content in his eyes.
"Come here, you two." I urged the two people on the other side. Because at this moment, I am standing here alone, although I am only less than ten meters apart, but I really don't feel good, maybe this is the yin and yang boundary of life and death.
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