Chapter 191: The Niche Tomb

Bizarre and beautiful, these are two words that are difficult to put together, but at this time, only these two words can describe what we are seeing in front of us.

This place is a circular valley, the valley is very high, we are not at the highest point, there are still a hundred or so meters overhead. This circular valley is composed of countless stone pillar mountains, and we are not the only ones who enter the valley, and there are cracks in the valley outside, but it is estimated that only our road can pass through the complex depression canyon area as quickly as possible.

The top of the crater was covered with a lot of vegetation and it was impossible to climb up, so we walked out of the cave completely, and it was indeed a protruding stone platform. Standing on the stone platform, an extremely depressed and disgusting feeling immediately came to my heart.

In this circular valley, the dense protrusions on the stone walls are similar to where we stand now, but they are much larger than those under our feet, and the contents inside are all coffins.

From a distance, those are like countless niches on the cliff of the Dunhuang Grottoes, but its function is to hold the tombs of the coffins, but these tombs are each more than ten meters high, and there are dozens of coffins in the opening of the coffins, and I don't know how deep the niche tombs are.

We stood on the eaves steps at the entrance of the cave and were stunned for a long time, and we didn't feel any chill when we were blown by the strong wind. The sun slowly rose, and the golden beams shone through the gaps in the canyons, because of the sheer size of the valleys, the beams swept through the niches containing the coffins like spotlights.

"This ...... How many people do you have to pretend? "I was a little panicked, I really couldn't understand what this place was for, the huge natural canyon, and such a magnificent man-made structure. The most critical thing is which to move out of the coffin that can almost fill a huge stadium, which ...... This is undoubtedly a tomb, but the owner of the tomb has already reached tens of thousands.

The fat man scratched his head, looked back at the old madman, and said, "The place where we should be arrived is finally here, what are you going to do, what are you going to do here, what are you going to do here, you should talk about it?" ”

The old madman didn't speak, he shook his head and pointed to the bottom of the crater, which was the most central area of the valley floor. The sunlight didn't hit anywhere, so the fog was still thick.

"It's not over until you get there, this section of the road is not easy to walk." The old madman sighed meaningfully, and turned his head to look to the other side of the stone platform on which we stood.

The cliffs in the crater canyon are pale and white, and this kind of terrain is not uncommon, and in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, such terrain is often called a sinkhole. They are the result of the erosion and collapse of underground rivers beneath the karst landscape.

The sinkholes are usually hundreds of meters deep and are covered by dense vegetation on the outside, and there are local Yao tile villages built on the inside or edge of the sinkhole, which can not only defend against external enemies, but also get water is also very convenient, because under the sinkhole, there will always be a water system that crosses through.

Above our heads, too, there is a wide variety of vegetation, some of which are still lush green at this time of year. Most of these vegetation have roots hanging from the air, but they also contain many wrist-sized vines.

We are going down to the very bottom of this circular valley, and the misty area is almost more than ten meters high, which also indicates that we have to touch the fog to reach the center of the valley floor, and according to this layout, there may be some buildings in the center of the valley floor.

Speculation aside, the things below did not disappoint us in the first place, the monkeys cries one after another, and the fog below was probably the monkey's nest, and we had some intention of sending it to the door ourselves. But the old madman insisted that the most important things were indeed in the center.

The vines were very thick, because they were exposed all year round, so they were as hard as stones, and we grabbed them and went down quickly, only shaking slightly, and the three of us together did not break the vines.

Our altitude is about 200 meters from the cloud layer, and there is no possibility of a full corpse falling from this height. We went down the vines, which were full of intricate roots, and it was easy to climb down, and we didn't have to worry about losing our footing, even if we took the initiative to jump, I was afraid that we would not fall more than ten meters.

Although the niche tombs on the rock wall are unevenly distributed, after all, without any layout, we still encountered one, which is more than 50 meters away from the entrance of the cave we came out of.

The cave of the niche tomb is very large, the whole is oval, and its interior is concave for more than ten meters, and all the coffins are stacked. There are various styles of coffins, and it can be clearly seen that they are not necessarily from the same dynasty.

We landed on the rock steps outside the niche tomb, the protrusions of the steps were not carved out of the mountain, but were made of wood and rock, and the crevices of the rocks were full of coarse vegetation that had grown.

This time the old madman had not yet urged us to hurry, the fat man took the lead, and his desire to catch a few treasures was still not abandoned, until he reached the hole in the alcove, and a cold wind blew directly on our faces.

The wind was strange, and it was in the valley that the wind was blowing from the cave in the alcove. We had a tacit understanding, and neither of us mentioned these questions that could not be explained for the time being.

The coffins are stacked one on top of the other, and one of them is set up with wooden shelves, which is said to be stacked, but the actual coffins are all placed on wooden shelves. The wooden shelves are similar to those of the coffin, except for some red paint, and the others are neither patterned nor carved.

These coffins were arranged in a row of twenty, with seven or eight layers stacked on top, and they almost collapsed with a push. There was a gap of more than a meter between each huge shelf, and we turned around half a circle inside to find that the fat man was forced to fall short this time. Because there was less than half a foot of space between each shelf and the coffin, we couldn't pull the coffin out, and the lid of the coffin couldn't be lifted in this narrow space.

The fat man looked at the material of the paint and wood on the coffin board, and found that it was not a valuable material, so he simply stopped thinking about these things, and was planning to avoid these places and continue on his way. only to find that the foot of a shelf in front of him moved.

It's a little darker, the sun hasn't shone here, it's pitch black, and we're only lit by a small gas lamp, which is about the same as a candle, and it's thankful that something from a century ago can be lit up now, so I don't expect it to be an absolute lighting tool.

The place was a little cramped, and it was easy for two people to bump into the bulge of the wooden shelf, and we followed the fat man slowly forward, and we heard the sound of squeaking.

The old madman behind him spoke at this time: "Our lunch is here." ”

As soon as I heard it, I immediately realized that it might still be a big black mouse, and I wasn't surprised that it was here, but I couldn't help but think of something unappetizing.

The fat man didn't stop, I thought he wanted to eat something fresh this time, but I didn't want the fat man to swagger over, and waved his hand away the big mouse in the corner of the wooden shelf.

This thing is really eye-catching, and it makes me lose face in the crowd again. The fat man chased the big mouse, and the big mouse ran out from under the shelf. You say it's not good where it goes, and it climbs on my lap when it gets under my feet. I almost screamed and slapped with my hands, but fortunately, this guy jumped onto the shelf next to me without climbing my upper body, and disappeared into the cracks of the coffin, the old generation shook his head helplessly, I had the heart to scold my mother, but I was afraid of being said to be in the nest, so I had to suppress the anger after being ridiculed.

The fat man didn't pay attention to us, he had already gone around to the place where the big black mouse was squatting, we hurried up, and immediately saw two black corpses leaning on the coffin shelf, the most terrible thing is that the coffin here is ajar, because the crossbar of the side shelf of the coffin has been broken, so the coffin lid can be opened.

Leaning on were two blackened corpses, stained with clothes or bones or something like that, and there was nothing in the half-open coffin lid, and the coffin board opened a triangular opening tens of centimeters in size. An arm poked out of the opening, and the movement of this arm was very strange, and the palm was wide open, grabbing the head of the person with his back against the shelf. The person with his back to the shelf was also in a miserable state, and the other person didn't know if he wanted to pull this person or something, he was lying on this person's body, and the two corpses outside had been glued together.

"Zong...... Zongzi? "I'm reminded of some of the gossip literature I saw in my early years, and it seems that that's what zombies are called.

The fat man grinned and snorted, and when he saw me like this, he teased: "I didn't see it, I will say all the black words, that way?" ”

I slapped away the fat man's hands that wanted to come up and bow to each other, and he didn't feel bored or snooping. We were around the corpses, and the arm inside the coffin was clothed, but the clothes were not the funeral clothes worn by the dead, but a synthetic garment, because the cuffs also had blackened leather bands that were exposed.

Did someone get into the coffin and try to steal the contents of the coffin? I thought about it, and quickly dismissed this conjecture, it stands to reason that the coffin board can be opened, and at most I can find something to put on my feet, so that I don't have to crawl in to get something, which is a little too difficult for tomb robbers.

The fat man pinched his chin, he deliberately wanted to open the two corpses on the ground, but the extent of their decay, after thinking about it, he still didn't make a move. The three dead people are estimated according to the degree of corruption of the objects on their bodies, and they have not been a few years, but they are definitely not the last research team of the old brother. Then another problem arises, and it seems that we are not here for the second wave.

Just when we were studying whether to leave it alone, the old generation looked at the corpse, slowly squatted down, he went around a direction, took the gas lamp, and immediately a metal reflection shot out, and at the same time I heard the old generation snort.