Xiangxi Shadow Chapter 57 The Ancient Corpse of the Sarcophagus
The opening is very narrow, which can only accommodate one person in and out, and there are no traces of digging around the opening, which seems to have been deliberately set aside.
Long Quan smiled at me, telling me that he was right.
I stood by the mouth and weighed it, and then led Qiu Yan and Long Quan in.
As soon as I walked in from the opening, the fog disappeared, and although it was still pitch black, I obviously didn't have the depression I had before, and I seemed to be able to breathe much easier.
We took a flashlight and looked around, and found that this is a natural karst cave, the bottom of the cave is paved with stone slabs, and in the corner of the karst cave, we can see a faint light of the hole, and it is estimated that there is the second passage.
Looking at Qiu Yan's relaxed expressions, I advised:
"Don't take it lightly, we haven't figured out what the hell that shadow was just now!"
Long Quan snorted coldly and said:
"Who else could it be, eighty percent of it was the old man!"
"Don't be so sure yet, let's figure it out!" With that, I turned my flashlight into the depths of the cave.
Unlike the previous place full of coffins, it was empty, and there was nothing in the open space about the size of a basketball court.
At this time, I noticed that there was a row of black doors in the innermost part of the cave, which were arranged in a regular manner, but the proportions were different from the normal doors, and seemed to be narrower.
I wondered if there would be a dozen more passages, and if each passage led to such a cave, how big would this underground world be!
Qiu Yan also discovered these doors at this time, and pulled me to go over and have a look.
I hesitated because I was worried about the shadow, there were so many doors, if he was hidden in one of them, we really couldn't guard against it.
I asked Long Quan to pull out the short sword, and don't hold hands, the two of us sandwiched Qiu Yan in the middle, and then slowly moved towards the doors against the wall.
When I got closer, I realized what kind of door this is, it is clearly a stone coffin standing at the mouth!
These coffins are embedded in the wall, it seems to be hewn out of the stone inside the wall, I see that there are several coffin shapes carved on the stone next to me, but they have not been chiseled out yet, it seems that this is also a cemetery, but for some reason, the people in it are all buried standing up.
In front of each coffin was a broken stone slab, and under the stone slab there were some stone platforms that had been knocked down, I speculated that these stone slabs were originally the lid of the coffin, and those platforms were altars, I picked up a piece of broken stone and looked at it under the flashlight, and found that the crack was still new.
"Where's the people in here?" Suddenly, Qiu Yan said a few meters away.
Dare to be stunned, Qiu Yan and Long Quan have already "visited" more than a dozen coffins.
I hurried over, pulled them against the wall, and said angrily:
"Don't run around and forget the lesson?"
But Qiu Yan didn't seem to care, she still held a flashlight to shine on those coffins, and asked me:
"He Zimu, where did the people in these coffins go?"
After listening to Qiu Yan's words, I also looked at the coffins, and the coffins were all empty, and there was nothing.
This situation is indeed a bit strange, according to the appearance of the scene, not to mention that all the coffins are buried with people, at least one or two are buried with people, how can there be no one?
I looked at the empty coffins in front of me, combined with the previous information, and immediately reacted.
"Qiu Yan, is Chen Fangyuan also a corpse chaser?" I asked Qiu Yan.
Qiu Yan was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically:
"Corpse chaser? How could Grandpa Chen be a corpse chaser? ”
"No, I thought it was strange when I had a conversation before, he seems to know a lot about the corpse chaser, as soon as I mention pinching his fingers to find things, he can think of the corpse chaser, and he also knows the origin of the corpse chaser, and even the Huang family knows, these things, people who don't know the inside story can't know at all!"
"Even if he's a corpse chaser, isn't that a good thing? You've got another helper! Qiu Yan asked innocently.
I said in my heart that Qiu Yan usually looks very shrewd, why did she become stupid and sweet at a critical moment?
Long Quan and I glanced at each other, and then Long Quan sneered:
"Brother He suspects that Old Man Chen manipulated these corpses!"
I nodded.
Qiu Yan was stunned.
"Grandpa Chen manipulates the corpse? Why? ”
I smiled and said:
"I'll have to ask him about this!"
In fact, after learning about this situation, it didn't help us much, but made me more nervous.
If I guess correctly, Old Man Chen must have taken away the corpse against us, and now we don't know where he or the corpse is hiding.
I handed the stone in my hand to Qiu Yan, and after letting them look at it for a while, I said:
"The crack on this stone is still new, which proves that these coffin lids were only lifted after we came in, and now it seems that most of the people who opened the coffin lid are Chen Fangyuan, we must be careful from now on, this old man has known your father for a long time, but he has not taken action until now, it is enough to see that this is an old and cunning old fox!"
"That's right, I guess the fog rising over there was caused by Old Man Chen smashing on the ground after he lifted the lid of the coffin!" Long Quan echoed.
I nodded, agreeing with Long Quan's opinion.
But Qiu Yan kept frowning, as if she was still very confused about Chen Fangyuan's true identity.
"Qiu Yan, don't think about it, as the saying goes, the heart of defense is indispensable, let's just mention this old man a little, if we guess wrong, it's a big deal to apologize to him seriously!" I persuaded.
Qiu Yan seemed to want to refute me at this time, but before she could speak, there was a sound of Suo Suo from the middle of the row of coffins, which sounded like a group of people walking gently.
I quickly pulled Qiu Yan behind me, then hid in one of the coffins, quietly observing the direction where the sound was coming from.
At this time, I realized that the coffin in the middle was wider than the coffins on both sides, because if you didn't look closely with a flashlight, these coffins were all pitch black, so I didn't find it at the time, and now it seems that it is really a door, because the sound came from there.
I turned off the flashlight and told Qiu Yan and Long Quan to turn it off as well, then I lit a magnesium rod and threw it towards the door.
After a while, I saw a "man" staggering out of the doorway, and behind him, there were two or three more people crowded.
Under the light of the magnesium rod, I quickly saw the man's appearance.
I saw that the man was naked, his whole body was brown, his skin was shriveled, almost skinny, and the most terrifying thing was that his two eyes were actually two black holes, and there was nothing in the eye sockets.
"Isn't this a skeleton outside the passage?" Qiu Yan exclaimed quietly beside me.
Not to mention, except for the fact that this man still has a bit of flesh on him, the color and appearance of his body are exactly the same as the three skeletons we saw at the entrance before.
"What to do? Is it just hiding? Long Quan asked again at this time.
Obviously, it wasn't the living people who came out of that door, they were the ones who were supposed to stay in the coffin, and now, I don't know if these dead people are bad or good, and I don't know if they are aggressive, so I really don't know what to do except continue to hide!
We watched with bated breath as sixteen "people" came out of the door, and I counted them, matching the number of coffins.
At this time, in addition to the fear of these walking dead people, I had a curiosity about the door.
Then what did Old Man Chen do with these dead people through that door? Is it used to ambush us?
Also, what's behind that door? It seems that the space inside will not be small, could it be another tomb?
Then I saw that after all the sixteen dead men had come out, out of the door came a tall man, who, like the others, was naked, and his whole body was coffee-coloured, but the flesh of the man was quite plump, and evidently better preserved than the others.
Just as I was wondering who this person was, I suddenly saw a figure coming out of the mouth where we entered this cave, and I thought to myself that this person was probably Chen Fangyuan, and it was probably him who poked his head out before.
The figure first looked at us, then he bent down, then stood up again, and I saw him throw something in our direction.
Before I could react, I heard a stone fall in front of us, and the sound of the stone hitting the ground was so loud in the cave that I could even feel the ground shake.
"Oh no, they're coming!" At this time, Qiu Yan pulled me down and said.
I looked up, and sure enough, the sixteen men were oversized and seemed to hear a voice, and they were now coming around us.
Then I realized that the figure was not well-intentioned, and that he was trying to attract these dead people to our side.
While scolding the eighteenth generation of the figure's ancestors in my heart, I racked my brains to think of a plan.
Obviously, it's impossible to go head-to-head with these seventeen dead men, but we can handle three or two.
I can't help it, I can't think of any other way but to escape.
"Why are you still stunned? Run! I got up and shouted.
After saying that, I pulled Qiu Yan out of the coffin.
I had thought that these dead people, like the corpses I had encountered before, could move, but not fast, so that I could pass through them and escape through the passage.
But who knew that as soon as I pulled Qiu Yan and ran to the middle of this group of dead people, I felt that something big flew towards me behind me.
I didn't dare to look back, I just wanted to leave here quickly with Qiu Yan.
At this time, I felt that my legs were hit by some heavy object, and then the whole person fell forward, and took Qiu Yan to the ground.
Before I could look back, I felt something crawling on my back.
I quickly turned over, and then I saw a dead man lying under me, his hands grasping my clothes at the moment, and I held them down and crawled on top of me.
"Take your clothes off!" Qiu Yan said as she got up.
I quickly unbuttoned my shirt and broke free from it.
Seeing that Qiu Yan and I were about to run out of the "encirclement", I was happy, but I heard Long Quan's heavy shouts behind me.
I looked back and saw that Long Quan didn't know when he was going to compete with that big man!