Xiangxi Shadow Chapter 11 White-haired beasts
Qiu Yan and I finally dug out the top of the coffin, but found that there seemed to be something on both sides of the coffin.
Qiu Yan looked at me and exclaimed:
"Co-burial?"
I couldn't believe it, so I took a shovel and dug out another section, but I didn't expect to dig it out and look at it, and sure enough, it was a coffin lid.
Seeing this, Qiu Yan ran to the other side to excavate, and after digging for a while, she got up and said:
"It's also a coffin, it seems that it's really a joint burial tomb, is the reason why this family didn't go out again is really because the whole family was slaughtered?"
I shook my head and said:
"Who would be so kind as to kill his whole family and then bury them? A tombstone was erected! ”
Just when Qiu Yan and I were puzzled, the second baby who went to the wild with three dogs suddenly barked:
"Brother Zimu, Sister Yan, come and have a look!"
The sound came from the mountain behind us, and I got up from the pit and saw Erwa standing behind a few rocks next to the mountain.
"Come here!" When the second baby saw me, she waved and shouted again.
Who knew that after the second baby shouted, he suddenly climbed up the hill behind him, I saw that he didn't climb very high, and suddenly flashed, and disappeared.
I hurriedly called Qiu Yan, and then ran towards the place where the second baby disappeared.
When I ran to the stones, I noticed that they didn't look like they had grown on the ground, but more like they had been washed down from the mountains by the rain.
As we crossed the rocks, we saw a path leading up the hill, which was narrow and not purpose-built, like a passage that someone often walked by.
I didn't delay and continued to climb up the path, but before I had climbed two steps I saw a crack in the mountain at the end of the path, which was less than a meter high and just wide enough for a person, and if we wanted to get in, we had to lie on the ground.
I ran to the crack and shouted inside, and the second baby quickly responded:
"Come down and sprinkle!"
I looked back at Qiu Yan, and she also had a surprised expression on her face.
The crack was very dark, and my eyes hadn't been able to adjust to the darkness for a while, but I thought that since the second baby could go safely, then I should be fine.
But who knew that I had just gotten into the crack, and suddenly I felt that my hands were empty, and then the whole person rolled down.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you, it's a steep drop." After I fell, the second baby covered her mouth and said.
I quickly sat up, and shouted towards the mouth of the crack:
"Qiu Yan, slow down, there is a steep slope after coming in, don't fall down!"
At this time, because I was looking out from the inside, my vision immediately recovered, and I realized that the height of the fall I had just fallen was not high, at most three meters, and the steep slope I had fallen down was made of dirt and gravel.
It immediately dawned on me that the crack was much bigger than what we saw, but that it was blocked by falling rocks.
At this time, Qiu Yan also climbed in, she faced me, looked behind me, and opened her mouth wide.
I quickly turned around, only to see a two-story cave behind me, nay, a two-story house.
The reason why this cave is a house is because it is full of all kinds of old-fashioned furniture, including beds, cabinets, shelves, fire pits, and even the floor is neatly stacked with stones.
Erwa stood beside the wooden bed at this time, pointed to the bed and said to me:
"Come here, look here."
Qiu Yan and I walked over immediately, who knew that when we looked over, there was a corpse lying on the bed, and the corpse was covered with corpse rotting fungi.
As soon as Qiu Yan and I saw the corpse rotting fungus, we subconsciously covered our noses and mouths, and then we took the second baby and the three dogs out.
We didn't stop until we got back to where we put our backpacks, and Qiu Yan looked very happy and said to me:
"Looks like we're on the right track!"
I nodded and responded:
"yes, but we can't stay here for long, we can't get a step near the cave without equipment."
"Well," Qiu Yan replied, "let's go back to the col first, it should be okay for such a long distance, and then inform Xiang Wei and ask him to bring the equipment over." ”
"Okay, but you have to let him hurry up, it's best to bring a few people over first, and let the others live in Li Xianfu's house first, and the speed will be faster if there are fewer people." I said as I packed my backpack.
Then the three of us and the three dogs ran back to the col.
Along the way, we explained to the curious Erwa that mushrooms were a very dangerous thing, and told him that we would have more people coming, and that they would bring more advanced equipment, and that we would go into the cave to find out when the time came.
Erwa also explained to us the process of his discovery of the cave: it turned out that it was not Erwa who found the hole, but the three hunting dogs, the crack was in the dark, and it was difficult to find it without deliberately looking at it, Erwa's hunting dog somehow found there, and Erwa found that there was a cave when he went to look for a dog.
I asked Erwa if there was anything uncomfortable, and Erwa said that it was a little blocked in her throat, and I felt like I looked at the three hounds again, and I saw them playing as if nothing had happened.
I sighed and glanced at Qiu Yan, and we shook our heads at the same time in relief.
After running through the col, we found an upwind outlet and began to set up camp, I asked the second baby to tie the dogs, first, I was afraid that they would run back to the cave, and second, last night that thing didn't figure out what was going on, tonight there are no walls and no door panels, maybe something will happen!
Qiu Yan was bent on finding the spearhead of the tiger bone, and a clue suddenly appeared in this file, so she naturally left everything else behind, she had been worried along the way, and now she finally frowned, I really don't want to use last night's incident to ruin her fun.
Set up the tent, the sky will be dark, the second baby turned out the wild boar leg left over from yesterday from the cloth bag, patted and slapped and put it on the fire, I don't mind, Qiu Yan didn't have time to mind, just like that, a wild boar leg solved the two dinners of the three of us and three dogs.
After eating, Qiu Yan came over to discuss with me what happened after Xiang Wei and them arrived, I thought to myself that the white-haired beast hadn't figured it out last night, let's get through these few nights first!
But seeing Qiu Yan so excited, I couldn't bear to disrupt her plan.
Qiu Yan planned in detail, detailing how long it would take several people to dig up a coffin, but Qiu Yan was also worried, she was worried about those corpse rotting fungi, and asked me if there was a way to deal with those corpse rotting fungi, saying that people couldn't wear oxygen masks to dig up those coffins.
I was right when I thought about it, wearing that mask, I couldn't breathe normally, let alone do heavy work.
But what can the corpse rot do? Fire? Didn't that burn the entire cave's clues? Flooded and buried? I can't bury those spores!
After thinking about it, I thought it would be better to leave those corpse rotting fungi alone, so I said:
"In my opinion, we'd better not move those fungi, anyway, we broke ground during the day, and as soon as the day is over, we'll come back immediately, didn't Xiang Wei say that the spores of the corpse rot fungus will only work in the dark? I think we can only pray that what Xiang Wei said is right. ”
Qiu Yan nodded after hearing this, and said:
"It seems that this is the only way."
After I answered Qiu Yan, I turned my face and thought of the musty smell I smelled when I first entered the house last night, I remember that my grandfather smelled musty in the bandit village in Jiangxi, and then his main family had a corpse, I was thinking, the white-haired beast yesterday should have something to do with the corpse.
Since the three of us were tossed enough last night, plus Qiu Yan and I had been digging the ground for a few hours after climbing the mountain all morning, we didn't talk much in the evening, and we went back to our tents to rest.
I still gave up the tent to the second baby, and I slept by the fire with three dogs, and I thought to myself that with these three good dogs as companions, there was no need to keep a sentry or something.
This night, I slept soundly, there were no white-haired animals, no mosquito bites, and I didn't even dream.
But just when I was satisfied and slept until I woke up naturally, I suddenly felt that my leg was stepped on by something, and this foot was not very heavy and did not hurt, and I thought to myself that it might be a dog.
Just as I raised my head to scold these disobedient dogs, the scene in front of me suddenly scared me silly.
I saw the three dogs bouncing merrily where my feet were stretching, and in the midst of them, with their backs to me, sat a white-haired thing.
The thing was about the same height as the second baby, but it was much burly, and at the moment it was playing with the three dogs with great interest.
I suddenly understood why the dogs didn't react the night before, what the dogs wouldn't react to? Something that is not a threat to them!
But just because this white-haired monster is not a threat to dogs does not mean that it is not a threat to us!
I lay in place, not daring to move, at this time the sky was just dawning, the second baby was still snoring in the tent, it seemed impossible to expect them to come to my rescue.
The human body is sometimes so strange, I used to fall asleep like this, and I felt very comfortable, but once I found this white-haired monster, even if I kept the same position, I felt uncomfortable anywhere.
Maybe I was overly nervous, and after a while, I started to feel like my joints were going to hurt to death, and I felt like I had to roll over to relieve it.
But as soon as I moved my calf, the white-haired monster turned around as if it had been electrocuted, and we looked at each other for a short moment, and the white-haired monster jumped away with fear on his face as if he had seen some monster.
I was stunned, and my eyes followed the white-haired monster, and I saw it jump down the col, and after a while it climbed up the opposite hillside, and finally disappeared into the crack.
It wasn't until the white-haired monster disappeared for a moment that my mind began to react.
First of all, it is the appearance of this white-haired monster, a bit like an orangutan, but its mouth is a little more prominent than that of an orangutan, it has no tail, it can walk upright, and its two hands are about the same length as its feet.
Secondly, this guy seemed to be scared of me, which was a bit of a surprise to me, and I thought to myself that if he knew what I thought, he would probably die laughing.
Finally, and most strangely, this guy actually lives in that cave, isn't it affected by corpse rotting fungi?