Moments of crisis
They straightened their gear, discarded some of the unnecessary things, and each of them put on gas masks, because there were a large number of dead trees underneath, and a strange smell was permeating. It was a sulfurous poisonous gas volatile from volcanic activity, and it was very toxic, so they had to cross it quickly, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
Monk Hua lit up the surroundings with strong illumination, and under his feet was a two-car wide stone road paved with stone slabs, which led almost straight ahead.
"Little Third Master, this is the Shinto of the mausoleum, which leads directly to the main gate of the mausoleum." Pan Zi explained to Wu Xie.
"Old man, how are we going?" Monk Hua asked Chen Pi Ah Si.
"Follow the Shinto, and then talk about the Imperial Tomb." Chen Pi Ah Si said.
Before Chen Pi Ah Si finished speaking, Meng Li had already walked along the Shinto Road in front, and the others followed behind, trotting all the way over. Soon they came to a stone gate, the stone was very high, a bit like their archway in the ancient village.
This is the first stone gate of the imperial tomb, called the Gate of Heaven.
When passing through the stone gate, Chen Pi Ah Si specially advised: "When you come out, remember to walk backwards, so as not to hit the guillotine door." ”
"What do you mean by a guillotine door?" Ye Cheng was a little cautious when he heard this name, and asked softly.
"I read in my grandfather's notes that before this first stone door, it was the place where the coffin and funeral procession were slaughtered, and after the funeral ceremony was completed, when everyone went out of this door, they would be clicked, so this door is equivalent to the gate of yin and yang. If you enter at this door, you must come out upside down, otherwise it will be very troublesome. Wu Xie explained.
After passing the gate of heaven, there were white stone men and stone horses every five meters on both sides of the Shinto, and they didn't take a serious look at it, and kept moving forward.
Suddenly the fat man stopped, and Wu Xie hit his back and fell to the ground.
Wu Xie touched his aching forehead and asked, "Fatty, what are you doing?" ”
The fat man turned his head, his face pale, and said softly, "It seems that there is a person standing on the side of the road." ”
Mengli heard the movement behind and turned around, Panzi turned back and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
The fat man told him what he saw again, and the others were a little unconvinced, so Panzi asked, "Are you sure you read it right?" Could it be a stone man? ”
The fat man shook his head and said, "It's gone in a flash, I just reacted, you look at me, I'm in a cold sweat, I shouldn't be wrong." ”
"Did you see it clearly?" Panzi asked.
"It seems to be a woman, I can't be sure." The fat man said, "I ran too fast for me to see clearly." ”
Wu Xie and the others all used flashlights to shine at the stone people in the back, and there was no woman in the range that the fat man said, maybe it was further back.
"Old man, do you want to go back and have a look? Maybe it's the woman in the gang. Monk Hua asked. The woman he was referring to should be A-Ning.
"Surely not, if it were that girl, I would have recognized it at a glance." The fat man said.
Chen Pi Ah Si hesitated for a moment, and then said to Monk Hua: "You and the others go over first." Then he patted Junko, "You accompany me to have a look." ”
Shunzi was stunned for a moment, and then the others were also stunned, I don't know what Chen Pi Ah Si means?
"Let's go." Mengli didn't want to care or bother to care what Chen Pi Ah Si meant, and the two of them wouldn't be easy to do, so she beckoned everyone to move on.
After walking for a while, you will arrive at the altar at the end of the Shinto, and behind the altar, on top of the sixty dilapidated steps, is the main entrance of the imperial tomb. The architectural style of the whole imperial mausoleum is very similar to that of the Ming Palace, and the scale is huge and impressive when viewed on the cliff. However, the extensive use of black stone makes it seem a little weird and mysterious.
They walked up the steps and walked into the main entrance of the imperial mausoleum, and after entering the main hall of the mausoleum, which was about the size of two basketball courts, and on both sides were copper carriages. On the edge of the deep wall at the back, there are two black statues on the left and right, covered with a layer of ash, and the statues have hideous faces and angry eyes, I don't know what they are.
Mengli shone a flashlight around, and shone on a beam, and saw a black shadow hanging from the beam.
"Look." Mengli shook her flashlight against the beam, motioning for them to look there.
Looking at the shadow pose, it seems that a dead man is hanging from the beam, and there is an old Type 56 rifle hanging from his shoulder, if there is no accident, he should be a member of A-Ning and their team.
The fat man let out a "hmm", as if he had found something else, and he pointed to the rest of the beam, and said, "Everyone, you see, there is more than one. ”
Elsewhere on the beam, there were six or seven corpses, all suspended from the air, like hanged ghosts. All of them were armed with weapons, and ordinary zongzi could not bear it, so what could have killed them, and why did the corpses climb onto the beams?
At this time, everyone felt very weird, feeling that it was not appropriate to stay here for a long time, and Mengli frowned, she was wondering if it could be that thing, right? That's trouble. But when I turned my head, I found that the fat man was gone. With a flashlight, I found that the fat man had stepped on one side of the statue and was climbing up the beam.
"Fatty, what are you doing? Come down! Wu Xie saw the fat man's behavior, and he was anxious, and hurriedly shouted.
The fat man was very agile, and after a few steps he reached the top of the beam, and then said to us, "What are you panicking about? You fat man and I are not vegetarians, and I will come down if I find something wrong. So saying, he climbed up the beam to the corpse.
Wu Xie suddenly woke up and knew that the fat man was eyeing the 56-type, this guy didn't have a gun in his hand, and he was uncomfortable all the way, and now he was not excited to see such a good gun. This guy is unorganized and undisciplined, he is used to it, and now he is angry, and there is nothing he can do.
The fat man directly hooked the gun on the corpse, then threw it to Pan Zi, and picked up the bullet pack on the corpse
At last the fat man went to examine the corpses, and he removed the gas mask from the corpses, revealing the face of a middle-aged foreigner, the whole face was distorted, his face was blue, and his mouth was wide open, as if he was screaming when he died.
Pan Zi saw that the man's face turned blue, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't touch him, look at his face, he should have been poisoned to death." ”
The fat man continued his research, and he wondered what exactly was hanging the corpse. He went up and took a look, his face very puzzled, "Why do these seem to be hair?" ”
"Hair?" Wu Xie was also puzzled below and asked.
"Let me show you." The fat man took out a dagger and tried to cut off the hair of the hanged man, but it didn't break after two strokes, so he had to take out a lighter and burn the head directly, and the body fell off the beam.
Monk Hua wore gloves and turned over the corpse, and the corpse's hair actually grew from its back. Everyone was curious to see why this unusual corpse had hair growing from its back and was still being hung?
Mengli felt more and more uneasy, felt the strange aura around her, and shouted: "If you want to live, come down quickly, you can't stay here any longer." ”
As soon as the words fell, Ye Cheng's face turned pale, and he suddenly sat on the ground, his hand trembling and pointing at the fat man.
I saw that behind the fat man's shoulder, there was a strange white face with staring eyes, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be a strange person lying on the fat man's back, but the fat man didn't seem to notice it at all.
"Fatty!" Wu Xie shouted, and everyone else looked at the fat man, and they all stepped back in unison. Pan Zi reflexively, clicked the bullet, and raised the gun to aim at the thing.
Mengli hurriedly grabbed his gun with his hand and said, "Don't shoot." ”
The fat man was seriously working on the equipment, and was suddenly startled by their movement, not knowing what was happening. But as soon as he saw that the place where Pan Zi's gun was pointing was next to him, he immediately turned his head, and this look immediately matched his face.
He didn't know how to react at once, so he stared at it wide-eyed, and froze there.