Chapter 10: Dark Shadows
The third uncle prepared four torches, one for each person, although the stone strip that emitted light on the gate could illuminate far away, and everyone's eyes were blessed by internal qi, but the depth and darkness of the corridor were still beyond the limit, just in case, the four of them lit the torches.
Zhou Zhichu and his father, one on the left and one on the right, leaned forward along both sides of the corridor.
"It's not a wooden door. "At the beginning of the week, I probed the doors on both sides of the corridor.
"If the wooden door had rotted a long time ago, where would it have remained until now? β
"It's not a stone gate either. β
The iron gate is even more impossible, after thousands of years, the iron gate has long since turned to ashes.
At the beginning of the week, I saw that these doors had no handles, and like the doors outside, there were no markings, or maybe they were marked, but they disappeared in the long river of time.
He gently pushed the door in front of him, and unexpectedly and reasonably, the door fell backwards entirely, slamming to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust that had been silent for thousands of years.
Behind the door was a small room, really small, probably just a bed and a small table, there was nothing in it, but it stinked, and there were black marks on the wall in the shape of a human figure, which made people's scalps tingle to see.
After that, several people explored several rooms, basically all of them were similar, the rooms were large and small, many of the rooms left clear or vague black shadows of human figures on the walls, and there were traces left by decaying wooden beds, and not all the doors were intact, some doors were torn or twisted by strong external forces, which made them look terrified.
Although these strange phenomena all happened thousands of years ago or even earlier, and it is unlikely that they will still be dangerous today, they still do not make a few people feel more relieved.
"What the hell is this?" Xiao Wu said with emotion as he looked at a twisted door like a twisted flower.
No one answered, because no one knew, and there were no remains here, no weapons, indicating that the situation was under control and the remains should have been moved.
Seeing that the destruction in the corridor was everywhere, the third uncle said comfortingly that the damage to the corridor was so serious, indicating that all the organs were abolished, which was good news.
At the beginning of the week, I also found that although these doors are much smaller than the doors that entered, there is a special stone bar above the door, and the material is the same as the stone bar that glows on the gate, the difference is that only one is still glowing, and the other has been silent.
The third uncle's face became more and more ugly as the investigation progressed, there was nothing in these rooms, and there was no gain at all, which was much worse than his expectations.
At this moment, the four of them suddenly felt that it was darkening behind them, and they couldn't help but look back, the light of the gate they came in in the distance was gone, and suddenly it looked like they were trapped in a long corridor without a head and tail, and in an instant, except for the place where they stood, the front and back fell into an impenetrable darkness, and several people felt hairy in their hearts.
"What's going on? Gate...... Gone?"
"No, the hour has come, the midnight has passed, and the ugly hour has come. The third uncle said.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that the third uncle had said before that there would be a glimmer of light from the gate of the child, and there was an hour, and now the ugly time has come, and the glimmer will naturally disappear, what kind of organ is this, the ancient era is really a magical era.
But this was not over, after the light at the gate disappeared, there was the sound of clattering stones sliding, and several people became nervous again at the beginning of the week.
"What is this? What kind of monument is this...... "Xiao Wu's mind is far more fragile than his skills.
"Not good!" the third uncle suddenly rushed towards the gate.
Xiao Wu didn't know why, so he hurriedly chased after him.
For a while, the father and son of the Zhou family who stayed behind looked at each other.
"Let's run. Looking back at the third uncle and Xiao Wu slowly disappearing at the edge of the corridor, he suddenly realized that this corridor was actually arc-shaped.
The wind in the air also stopped suddenly, and there was darkness that could not be seen clearly in front and behind, and the two fell into a dead silence, Zhou Laohan said: "This monument is really strange, maybe it is someone's ancient tomb." β
Zhou Zhizhi hesitated for a while, but still spoke: "This should not be an ancient tomb, but a refuge, a place where people took refuge thousands of years ago." β
"Thousands of years ago?" Zhou Laohan was startled, the ancients were only a long, long time ago among the people, and he never knew the specific age, and he really couldn't imagine it when he heard that it was thousands of years ago.
"I don't know, maybe it's possible in 10,000 years. β
"Tens of thousands of years!" This number of years was completely beyond Zhou Laohan's imagination, but he thought of another question: "How do you know?"
"Leave this alone, let's run away. β
Old Man Zhou smiled bitterly, "Child, it's not that you don't want to escape, where are you going to run away?"
The front of the corridor is completely dark, although there is only one place in this monument so far, but it all reveals strangeness, just like this darkness, the light of the torch can only shine to the front of the ten zhang at most, and no matter how far it goes, it can't shine clearly.
However, Zhou Chuchu didn't think so, just like the coercion of Xiao Wu before, he would be afraid and afraid, but he would never cower.
Just when the boy was trying to persuade his father, suddenly a little light floated from the gate, it was Xiao Wu.
"What a daze, come here. β
Zhou Zhichu sighed, and could only wait for the next time.
The two walked in the direction they came, and after waiting for Xiao Wushi, the other party sneered in the faint light of the torch, "Don't try to escape, we'd better be together in this place, otherwise we don't know how to die." β
Zhou Chuchu's face was expressionless, but the hand holding his father was tighter.
The three of them walked to the gate and found the third uncle holding a torch with his head up, standing with his back to them trembling slightly.
"Third uncle, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Wu stopped.
Zhou Laohan and his son also stopped and looked at the third uncle in front of them.
"Third uncle, third uncleβ" Xiao Wu shouted a few more times.
"Haha-ha-ha-" The third uncle didn't look back, but let out a wild laugh, and there was no echo in the corridor.
The third uncle's smile not only did not reassure Xiao Wu, but also frightened him to pull out the steel knife, and his voice was full of crying: "Third uncle, don't scare me." β
Zhou Zhichu and Zhou Laohan slowly regressed, these three uncles are not crazy.
The third uncle turned his head suddenly, his eyes were red, and he pointed at the gate with a torch, "Look at what is on this." As he spoke, he waved the torch several times.
Xiao Wu and the father and son of the Zhou family were relieved to see that the third uncle was not crazy, if the third uncle was crazy, no one could control him.
But when they looked at the door, they were shocked again.
The door was opened inward before, and I don't know what the back of the door looks like, and the door is closed at the moment, which should have been a bad thing, and the third uncle actually laughed out, isn't it really a little crazy.
Look closely, there are many black shadows behind the door, although they are all black, but you can still see that it is a figure stacked on top of each other, these black figures who have gone through countless years are frozen on the gate at this moment, they cover their eyes in despair, some wave their arms wildly, and some twist and struggle, these figures have something in common, that is, their faces are pitch black, and they can't see anything.
"What is this? painting...... This is a maniac......" Xiao Wu was a little frightened and muttered to himself.
"This is not a painting, this is the shadow left by a person being burned to death on the wall, and I saw it on the battlefield when I was young," Zhou Laohan interjected: "However, there are not so many. β
Xiao Wu and Zhou Zhichu looked at the dense black shadows on the wall, I don't know how many layers were stacked, they were all cold and hairy, these burned to death were obviously alive before they were born, are they still human beings who do such a tragic thing?
"Are the dark shadows in those rooms also burned to death on the walls?!"
"It should be, but it's not so obvious......"
"Third uncle, isn't this funny. "Xiao Wu was terrified, could it be that the third uncle was really confused and crazy.
"Idiot, who told you to look at this, look up. The third uncle suddenly turned his head, his eyes were red, and he shouted excitedly.
Xiao Wu quietly took a step back and looked higher up at the gate, "Huh-what's that!"
"Haha, see it, that's a treasure, with this treasure tonight, it's worth the trip, haha-"
Higher up in the gate, there were two square pieces of jade, the size of a palm, that glowed slightly in the light of the torches.
The jade stone is on the top of each of the two doors on the left and right of the gate, and the position is the same as the shimmering stone strip on the other side of the gate.
"It's ...... What?!" Xiao Wu suddenly screamed after seeing it clearly.
"Lingyu!" the third uncle roared.
"Lingyu?!" Xiao Wu opened his mouth in surprise.
"Haha-ha-ha-yes, Lingyu, a rare Lingyu in the world, haha-"
"Such two big pieces, rich, rich, haha-" Xiao Wu also fell into crazy ecstasy.
"Idiot, this is an opportunity to break through the innate the day after tomorrow, how can it be used as money!haha-" The third uncle looked up at Lingyu and laughed.
"Ah-innate, haha-" Xiao Wuyi was shocked, and even more ecstatic.
At the same time, Zhou Zhizhi stared at a black shadow on the edge of the gate, the shadow was very strange, lying there like a toad, very different from the confusion and madness of other black shadows, he slowly walked towards the shadow on the wall, the black shadow seemed to move.
The young man was startled, could it be an illusion, and in the next moment, the shadow turned his head, this black shadow had white temples, his face was pale and bloodless, his eyes looked at the young man like a cold-blooded snake, and the blood in his whole body was coagulated at the beginning of Zhou.
This person he knows, it's Wei Dong!