Chapter 44: The Blocked Slate Formation
The cave has been sealed for a long time, and many people have died inside, so there must be a large number of corpses decomposing and the poisonous gas condensation, and there will be a risk of poisoning and fainting if you rush into the cave. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Fortunately, both caves are now reappearing, and the air inside can circulate.
After about half an hour, Lu Le and Lao Niu took the lead with the miner's lamp, and the four of them slowly walked into the cave.
The cave was unusually cold, but there was no expected stench, and he groped his way forward for less than ten steps, and where the light in his hand passed, he really saw the white bones on the ground.
This should be the remains of the passing merchant, since it is sheltered from the rain, there is no need for them to go too deep into the hole, which is also reasonable. It's just that the white bones are stacked horizontally and vertically, blocking half of the cave alive, not at all sitting or lying down to avoid the rain, more like being discarded by someone after death.
Seeing Lu Le squatting down to carefully check the traces on the corpse, Wen Juan was so frightened that she quickly turned her head, Huang Xiaoxian took her hand and whispered, "Don't be afraid, there are us." ā
The corpses were very complete, there were no signs of external blows on them, they should have suffocated to death, but who stacked these dead bodies together? If it was a human being, then how could he not suffocate in it? If it's a ghost, there's more than one fur in this cave......
Lao Niu waited a little impatiently on the side, patted Lu Le and said, "My brother, what's so beautiful here, let's hurry up and go home after finishing things, this is not a place for people to stay at all......"
Lu Le stood up quietly, and didn't say the doubts in his heart, Lao Niu doesn't care, there are two female comrades in the back, can you not be afraid if you know? I can only pay more attention to the next march, and I have to check and understand what the corners are, otherwise there will be a corpse in front of me, and a demon will come out in the back.
Walked forward for a while, there was a distance of twenty or thirty meters from the entrance of the cave, and there was still no trace of limestone on the cave wall, and the person who really opened the mine should have given up early, and there was no need to continue digging, it seemed that Wen Juan's husband was completely running for the underground treasure back then.
At this time, Huang Xiaoxian reminded in the back: "When you see a stone slab with words, you must stop in advance!" ā
Lu Le was shocked, how could he almost forget such an important matter! Quickly slowed down, his eyes followed the light on the mottled ground, and he didn't dare to take it lightly.
After walking for nearly a hundred meters, the cave suddenly became open, and the four people in parallel would not feel crowded, and the ground in front of them was covered with boxy stone slabs, which were paved far away, and the lights turned on and could not even see the edge.
Lu Le and Lao Niu hurriedly stopped, squatting on the ground and carefully distinguishing what words were engraved on those stone slabs.
The slate is 80 centimeters square, and the four pieces are neatly arranged in front of the front, the first row is engraved from left to right: "A Thousand Miles Journey", and the second row is "The Kindness of a Woman".
Due to the dim light, the third row was a little difficult to recognize, Lu Le squinted his eyes and half-recognized and half-guessed before he made an appointment to understand the four words, which was probably engraved with "Righteous Destruction of Relatives".
Huang Xiaoxian pulled Wen Juan to the front and asked her, "What was the situation here back then, can you tell us more in detail?" ā
"When I dug up these slates, everyone was very excited, thinking that they had dug up the treasure, so they rushed to run up, and my husband beckoned me to go too, but I didn't lift my feet, and almost all the slates were sunken, and in the blink of an eye, everyone was gone. Before I even understood what was going on, the slate was back to its original appearance, as if no one had ever stood on it......"
may be too impressive, after many years, she can still remember that scene so clearly.
"After digging for a hundred meters, you didn't find limestone, and you just dug a few broken stone slabs, are you so excited?"
Even a tendon like Lao Niu saw the abnormality, and Lu Le hurriedly twisted his thigh and signaled him not to say any more. Some things don't have to be said through, and it's not a good thing to be too shrewd.
Huang Xiaoxian asked very promptly: "You just said that almost all the slate has been stepped on, which means that there are still slate slabs that have not collapsed, although there are very few." ā
Wen Juan nodded very affirmatively: "That's the case!" Although the view is not good, the slate is so large after all, I am very sure that some of it has not been moved! ā
Thinking of the shocking scene back then, Wen Juan trembled like chaff all over his body, and his voice trembled: "You have also come in the cave, and I have finished what I should do, let me go down the mountain first......"
Huang Xiaoxian pondered for a moment and said to her: "I know you are scared, when they pass the stone slab level, let's go down the mountain together." I can't go any further, not to mention that we can't rest assured that you go down the mountain alone......"
After hearing this, Wen Juan nodded and reluctantly stayed.
Lu Le then remembered that once he encountered the corpse demon Huang Xiaoxian would be poisoned by the corpse, he hurriedly waved his hand at them and said, "You all go down the mountain, Lao Niu and I can handle it!" ā
Huang Xiaoxian not only didn't leave, but also came to them: "Why don't you brag about it and don't make drafts?" Then tell me, how are you two going to get over these slates? ā
Lu Le smiled and said, "It's not simple? Grab a handful of sand and throw it over, and see which piece is stuck and which one is not, don't you know how to go? ā
Huang Xiaoxian stretched out his fingers and scratched the bridge of his nose vigorously and said, "If it is really that simple, what secrets does this underground treasure have?" Look at the words on the slate, it is obviously carved with great effort, but it has no clear meaning, according to my opinion, the essentials of passing through the slate should be on these words! ā
Every time she scratches her nose, Lu Le feels very sweet and useful, although it hurts a little. To prove his suspicions, he grabbed a handful of dirt and sprinkled it, and all the slabs were untouched.
"Your thing is too light, even if there is a mystery underneath, it is not enough gravity to overturn the slate!" Lao Niu looked more expert, carrying a mining lamp and finding a bunch of large and small stones on the ground, which was estimated to weigh dozens of catties.
Thanks to his great strength, he threw the stone on the slate, smashing it in all directions, and the whole mine shook and shook, but the slate still did not react at all.
I don't know if Huang Xiaoxian's analysis is correct, or if there is nothing abnormal about these stone slabs in the first place, it is simply Wen Juan who is alarmist, and she hopes that we will retreat in the face of difficulties and not continue to move forward......