Chapter 32: Tomb Visit

The diameter of this thief hole is quite large, and after Jiang Xiaobai squatted down and climbed into the hole, the space was quite spacious, enough for him to turn around and move slightly. According to the light shot down from the temple, you can vaguely see the square circle of this thief hole, the shovel marks on the cave wall are one by one, the ridge line is clear, and the delicate are symmetrical. Although Jiang Xiaobai hated the three of Wang Da Hammer from the bottom of his heart, he had to admit that the three of Wang Da Hammer did have a few brushes.

As early as waiting for Liu Hansan, Wang Dazhui and the three of them had built this thief hole in advance, and after a day or two of ventilation, the filth from the bottom of the tomb had dissipated a lot. Jiang Xiaobai snorted and felt that the air in the thief cave was okay, so he lit the fire and put it in front of him, and crawled towards the depths of the cave.

This thief hole is dug at an inclined angle, the wall of the hole is smooth, and it doesn't take any effort to climb forward, Jiang Xiaobai first climbed a few steps carefully, and saw that the fire in front of him kept burning, that is, he was relieved, and his steps were bold, he was not worried about what was in this thief hole, otherwise Wang Da Hammer and the three of them would die when they dug this hole, as long as the air was fine, there was no danger. Jiang Xiaobai's footsteps slowed down a little faster, although he was caught by Liu Hansan and forced to enter this tomb, but he was not curious about this ancient tomb in his heart.

Generally speaking, the robbery hole is directly cut into the underground palace of the tomb, this robbery hole is not long, it didn't take much time, Jiang Xiaobai climbed to the bottom of the robbery hole, felt a burst of shade at the bottom of the mouth, occasionally the wind blows out, the end of the robbery cave seems to be a wide space, but from the inside of the cave, it is pitch black, and you can't see anything.

Jiang Xiaobai propped himself up at the bottom of the thief cave, reached out and took out a piece of debris from his arms, threw it in, and within a few seconds, he heard the sound of the debris falling to the ground, the height should be only about five zhang, after thinking about it, he didn't hesitate anymore and jumped from the bottom of the thief cave.

As soon as he landed, he felt that the bottom was hard rather than soft soil, like green bricks, Jiang Xiaobai shone everywhere with fire, and saw that this was a dungeon paved with green bricks, and the entire dungeon was arched and circular, and the scale was not small. As far as the eye can see, this wide underground palace is empty, there is not a single item, and the only dirt on the blue brick ground is also the one that Wang Da Hammer and the three of them fell when they robbed the hole.

In a huge pitch-black space, it is naturally not enough to rely on the light of a fire fold. Jiang Xiaobai had no choice but to take advantage of the faint firelight, carefully looked left and right, and saw that there were a few dark blue fireflies floating not far from the right side of his side, and after a closer look, they were still moving. Jiang Xiaobai tried to walk towards this pile of blue fireflies, but found that no matter how he walked, the distance was not shortened, this firefly seemed to be deliberately taking him to a place, as soon as he moved, the fireflies moved, as soon as he stopped, the fireflies stood up, so Jiang Xiaobai couldn't help but exclaim: "Is this phosphorus fire a refinement?!" ”

The dark blue fireflies in this dungeon are called phosphorus fire, and the folk are more called ghost fires. This kind of fire mostly exists in the tombs, and this underground palace has been a closed environment before, and as soon as the hole is stolen, the air circulates in, and when it encounters the temperature brought by the fire fold, it naturally burns.

Jiang Xiaobai followed the phosphorus fire for almost a hundred steps, and saw that the phosphorus fire stopped, and after a short time, it was already dimmed. According to the light of the fire fold, Jiang Xiaobai found that he had walked to the end of the right side of the underground palace, he touched it with his hand, it turned out that the far right side of the underground palace was a polished and smooth stone wall, and when he took a photo of the firelight, he saw three murals depicted on the smooth stone wall.

These murals look lifelike, as if there is a hallucination of coming alive under the fluttering light of the fire. The first mural depicts a funeral scene, a group of people wearing filial piety clothes and white cloth on their heads are carrying a heavy purple coffin, and there are several people blowing suona and beating gongs and drums on the side. The faces of this group of people are very strange, all of them have pink and white faces with cyan eye makeup, and they all wear necklaces made of skulls around their necks. What's even more bizarre is that there is an old man sitting on the coffin carried by this group of people, who looks like a Taoist priest, who is sitting on the front of the coffin at the moment, his eyes are closed, he should be dead, because the old Taoist's face is not colored.

Jiang Xiaobai felt a strange feeling in his heart after seeing it, shouldn't the deceased be lying in the coffin, but in this mural, he is sitting on the coffin! He counted the characters in the painting, in addition to the dead old man, there were six people carrying the coffin, and there were also six people playing suona and gongs. Exactly twelve!

Then he moved the fire fold to the next fresco, and saw that there was a hill that was not very high, and there was not a single vegetation on this hill, and there was a temple on the top of the hill, and white smoke rose from the temple, and the group was about to rush to this hill. Seeing this, Jiang Xiaobai understood that the hill in this mural was the Burial Immortal Ridge, and the temple was the broken temple above his head now. "It seems that there were people who came to worship this ruined temple before..."Jiang Xiaobai muttered to himself, and then looked at the next mural.

The third mural is the last, and the figure in the painting carries the coffin up to the ruined temple and then disappears, and it doesn't depict how they built the tomb at the bottom of the ruined temple... This is the most simple painting among the three murals, but Jiang Xiaobai always feels that something is wrong, as if something is missing... He leaned forward to take a closer look, and his heart was suddenly shocked! I only saw that there was a funeral procession of twelve people, but at this moment, there was one less person, and the faces of the eleven people seemed to show a strange look, and at first glance, it seemed that they were all smiling at Jiang Xiaobai! It's weird and creepy.

Jiang Xiaobai was shocked! Hurriedly took the fire fold back to the first mural and the second mural, and counted them, and there were twelve people in both paintings, and these twelve people all had a sad expression. Jiang Xiaobai wondered for a while, why was there one person missing from the third mural, could it be that he encountered something unlucky on the way to the Burial Immortal Ridge? But why did the remaining eleven people have strange smiles on their faces?

Puzzled, Jiang Xiaobai looked back at the third mural, and this look almost frightened him to throw away the fire fold in his hand! Just as the fire fold moved back to the third painting, as soon as the firelight was reflected on the painting, Jiang Xiaobai saw that the old Taoist priest who had closed his eyes suddenly opened his eyes and stared at himself! Before he could be surprised, the flame of the fire fold in his hand suddenly went out, and the darkness suddenly enveloped the entire cave.

"It can't be that evil, right?" Jiang Xiaobai's eyes were dark, and he hurriedly blew the fire fold into his mouth, but no matter how he blew it, the fire fold just couldn't light up. "! It's far worse than a flashlight" Jiang Xiaobai became more anxious the more he blew, and said straight in his mouth, "There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south, there are no taboos", suddenly he thought that there was another fire fold in his arms, and he quickly took it out, and as soon as he blew his mouth, the fire ignited at once.

"Whew~" Jiang Xiaobai wiped the cold sweat on his head, it turned out that it was just that the fire was burned out, and there was a false alarm... Suddenly, I remembered the eyes of the old Taoist priest just now! He hurriedly put the new fire fold in front of him, and saw that the old man was still sitting on the coffin board with his eyes closed. "It seems that I have been in the dark for a long time, and I have hallucinations, don't scare myself..."Jiang Xiaobai comforted himself again and again, he is a modern person after all, he has received advanced education, and he does not believe in the gods and ghosts, not to mention that he is still a soldier and a party member, and the socialist outlook and dialectical materialism are unshakable in his heart!

Jiang Xiaobai slowed down slightly, then raised his feet and walked to the far left side of this underground palace, according to what he thought, the ancients paid the most attention to balance, and at the end of this far right was a stone wall with three murals. Then, at the end of the left side of this underground palace, there should also be a smooth stone wall, and there are three paintings on the stone wall, which is in line with the balance.

Sure enough, Jiang Xiaobai walked to the end of the far left, and saw that there were also three murals depicted on the stone wall. The first of the three murals depicts three people standing at the temple of the Burial Immortals, and a group of people are climbing the mountain at the bottom of the Burial Immortal Ridge; Immediately after the content of the second painting, these two groups of people converged together, entered the temple together, entered the bottom of the temple, and came to this underground palace; The third mural depicts a scene, a lobby, in which there is a coffin, the coffin is half opened, and there are several people lying on the side of the coffin, and the costumes are the same as those in the first two paintings, and these lying people are not painted on their faces...

The more Jiang Xiaobai looked at it, the more frightened he became, didn't the content of these three paintings just deal with what they were doing now? And in the last painting, the faces of the people lying in the coffins are not painted, so doesn't that indicate that they are all dead...?

At this time, Jiang Xiaobai's dialectical materialism, which he had always firmly believed, couldn't help but waver, and at this time, there was a sudden roar from the thief cave, which scared him even more!