Volume 1: The Three Dragons' Protector's Cave Chapter 18: The Phantom Mirror of the Dead Loop

I don't know if it was because of the tense atmosphere, I crawled back a lot faster, and when I climbed over, they had already packed up their things and walked up, and Brother Marijuana mixed me with me and asked me what was wrong as he walked.

I myself was confused, I didn't know what medicine was sold in Professor Wu's gourd, so I told Brother Marijuana to hurry up after a few perfunctory words.

It would be much harder to go up, and I didn't go far before I felt completely empty, if it weren't for Brother Hemp and the second uncle who kept pushing me, I guess I would have been paralyzed.

But even if Professor Wu has a high prestige, everyone believes in him, but such a headless and brainless person tells us to run, and it really can't be justified without giving a suitable reason, and everyone naturally slows down after not walking for a long time.

"I said old man, you don't have to be in such a hurry to buy and sell, if you have any concerns, you are going to say, I, Liu Sanyan, don't want to do this kind of nonsense, give me a happy word." Liu Sanyan took the lead in putting forward his opinion, and everyone stopped to look at Professor Wu, although Ajie didn't ask explicitly, they also wanted Professor Wu to explain.

Professor Wu didn't stop and shouted: "Don't stop, let's talk as we go, remember, how fast we can run, whether we can go out alive to see our own lives." ”

When I first debuted, I was also a descendant who was not afraid of heaven and earth, and I always felt that I had no tomb that I couldn't do, and I fought a lot with my friends, and I was quite satisfied with my performance every time, but then I planted it once, and I almost went to see Marx, and at the critical moment my grandfather took my uncle up to save my life, and I later learned that every time I went to the grave, my grandfather would send an uncle to follow secretly, and many times the trouble was secretly decided by the uncles, so I could be so smooth sailing.

My grandfather said that I was very talented, but I was a little irritable, and I needed to hone it slowly, and when he thought I had really made some achievements, he would take me to see the real tomb. I waited for years, and my water chestnut was almost finished, and one day my grandfather agreed to take me to see it.

Along the way my grandfather patiently told me a lot of things about this line, no matter what I knew or not, I told me patiently, that trip was the most down-to-earth way I walked, from Guangdong all the way to Shaanxi, grandpa with a thick notepad, that is he spent several years to speculate the approximate location of a large tomb, we drilled in the loess for more than ten days, and finally finalized the location of the ancient tomb, but the location is a little sensitive, next to a village.

We pretended to be a merchant in the south, this kind of thing was very common in those days, no one would be suspicious, so we temporarily borrowed to live in that village, and planned to quietly get up in the middle of the night to move, but we didn't expect that the child who stayed in that family picked up a thumb-sized pebble out of nowhere, if there was this thing in the south or next to the river basin, it was normal, but the village was so dry that it was rare to take a bath several times a year, how could there be pebbles? My grandfather was astonished and said that the stone was ominous and had to be thrown into the fire and burned, and the family stopped hearing it, and that there was something ominous about a stone, and thought that my grandfather was alarmist.

Privately, my grandfather said that it was a corpse cocoon, and that it must be a terrible thing, and that it had to be burned to death as soon as possible, otherwise no one could guarantee what would happen. The identity of this industry is very sensitive, and we can't let people know our identity, so we privately say can we sell it to us at a high price?

Don't think that the countrymen are really simple, and they are all good at calculating, and we are also in a hurry, this thing is like a time bomb, maybe it will explode at some point. The family refused to sell it, believing that the pebbles must be treasures, and that they would definitely be able to sell them for a better price in the big cities, and even hid the pebbles.

My grandfather is old, he is old and kind-hearted, he thought about it for a long time, and decided not to do it, and steal the pebbles out at night while they are asleep, even if they rob it openly, they can't let it explode in the village, and when the time comes, it is a big deal to destroy the pebbles and pat their butts and leave. As soon as it got dark, something happened, the first thing was naturally that family, when we heard the movement, the whole family turned into a black monster, although my grandfather didn't recognize what the situation was, but he could be sure that he was poisoned by the corpse after a lifetime of fighting, and he had to be cremated.

He and his uncles easily stopped the family, but there was still a lot of commotion, which alarmed the neighbors, and then the whole village came and said that we had revolted and killed the head of the family.

It was hard to beat four fists with both hands, and soon we were captured alive by the villagers, put in a sheepfold, and said that we would be sent to the police station at dawn. Grandpa told them not to touch the corpse, and they had to be cremated immediately, but unfortunately no one listened to him, and even shut our mouths. There was an accident that night, more and more people were bitten, and in just one night, hundreds of people died in the whole village, and only a few of the spirits ran away.

By the time we broke free from the rope, we were powerless to return to the sky, and in frustration, my grandfather took us and fled overnight.

Perhaps the escapees were reported to the town, and the army arrived overnight and, after discussion, shot directly at the infected villagers. Afterwards, Grandpa learned the outcome of the affair through his connections, and it was indeed a Han Dynasty tomb, and the pebbles were the eggs of the corpse falcons.

After a few months, a mysterious person came to the family, took my grandfather away, this walk is three months, and when I see my grandfather again, it was the last time, he was lying on the hospital bed dying, the whole person was too thin to look like a man, I don't know what he went through, but my grandfather secretly told me that he went to the tomb with someone, and told me not to fight again in the future, if one day I have to go to the ground, and encounter any kind of five-element bead from the fire dry gold Xunmu sinking water, run as fast as you can, no matter how good the treasure is, it is not better than your own life.

It wasn't long before my grandfather died, and he only mentioned to me about the four beads of gold, wood, water, fire, and water, and I thought it was very likely that the earth beads were found in that Han tomb, and I secretly looked up this information for many years, but I found very little. And the Yang family in the hanging coffin also told us to retreat quickly, which must have made sense, so we still left quickly.

Professor Wu said a lot in one breath, I listened to the story, I have walked more than ten laps at this time, and there should be a distance of hundreds of meters from the hanging coffin.

After Professor Wu finished speaking, I don't know if it's an illusion, I always feel that there is a depression coming to this abyss, which makes my chest a little uncomfortable, and it is getting thicker and thicker, I guess I am tired.

Miss Luo stopped and looked at the abyss, the hanging coffin was long gone, and Professor Wu urged, "What are you looking at?" Hurry up and get up. ”

Miss Luo frowned and said, "The fog has not weakened, and the temperature has risen instead of falling. ”

I remember that when we first came in, it was true that the fog was not so big, and the temperature was not so high, and the further down it became, the thicker and hotter it became, but there is also a possibility that the fog and temperature began to change after we came in, which means that even if we stopped in place, the fog and temperature would rise.

By the time we finally climbed to the first platform, I was almost exhausted, and the fog was so thick that I couldn't see it from almost a meter away, and if we hadn't been here for a while, leaving some traces, I could hardly tell that we had arrived.

Then there is no need to go up, and then you can only go up to the tomb, whether you can get out is another matter, and we only need to follow the previous secret/hole to directly reach the second layer of the water ring, venture out of the corpse pool, and have a chance to get out.

I left a back hand before, nailed the rope from this side of the platform to the other end, and it was not difficult to hold the rope in the past, and I climbed there one after another. When I climbed halfway through, a high-pitched birdsong suddenly came from the bottom of the abyss, "Chirp! "The sound of the eagle made me feel weak in my ears, and the whole person fell into the abyss. My heart is really cold, even if there is sea water below, I have to fall to death at this height, and my mediocre life is over like this? It's really over.

I was born with a sadness, what have I done to my parents in 27 years as a son of man? What have I left behind for my loved ones? What have I contributed to the world? Living in vain, living in vain, I abandoned all responsibilities and obligations so desperately, and walked towards the end without hesitation, farewell, my relatives! Farewell, this wonderful world!

The fall seemed eternal and short, there was only darkness in my eyes, and the whistling sound in my ears, I thought that I would not be able to die completely.

I just felt panicked in my heart, and I couldn't help but shout: "Ah! ”

After this shout, the whole person came to his senses, the fog was not so thick, I didn't even fall down anymore, my hand was on a wooden board, and I fixed my eyes to see, isn't this the hanging coffin? Dumbfounded when I looked at it again, I went back to the hanging coffin, the lid of which had been removed a bit, and there was the man who looked like me lying inside.

I looked around again, Miss Luo, Professor Wu, and Liu Sanyan were all there, and they were all gasping for air, showing incredible expressions when they saw the surrounding environment and people.

"Hallucinations?" Liu Sanyan said suspiciously, and pinched my face with his hand, his hand was really black, and I was about to cry in pain, I said angrily: "What are you doing?" ”

"Damn, it was a hallucination just now, it's too real." Liu Sanyan seemed to have seen a ghost, took out a pendant and made a Christian gesture on his chest, and the gods from all over the world read it all over again.

"What did you see in the hallucination?" Applejack also has palpitations on her face, and her signature smile is gone.

As soon as I said that we took the box and climbed back, their expressions became unnatural, and then Applejack said the rest of the story, and the more we talked, the more solemn we became, this is what we just experienced, is it that everyone's hallucinations are the same? And they all fell off the platform, and then they woke up.

This is also outrageous, if it is reasonable to say that I slapped Miss Luo because of hallucinations at first, but now all five people have hallucinations, and the hallucinations are all exactly the same. But except for the hallucination, nothing else can be explained, how can you not die just by falling?

"Qingqing, didn't you take a photo with your mobile phone before? Remember the time? Professor Wu said.

Miss Luo immediately took out her mobile phone to call up the photo, and the mobile phone took a time record, showing 10:23, and now it is 10:36.

It is speculated from the time, coupled with the position of the coffin lid, that is to say, we did not lift the coffin lid to fall into the illusion, and as soon as we approached the hanging coffin, we hallucinated.

In order to verify the authenticity, we lifted the coffin lid to the side, and sure enough, the fingers of the corpse's right hand were very long, holding a box, which was carved from sycamore wood crystals, and there was a fire bead in it, and a cross that read "Leave the fire bead, and those who are destined to hold the bead and retreat quickly". And the corpse wore a plum brand watch on its wrist.

All this is too weird, plus the words that Professor Wu said when he went all the way, and the behavior of each person, compared to it, it seems that it really happened, which makes people sweat all over their bodies, and even the experienced Professor Wu and Liu Sanyan are all shocked.

When we climbed back to the opposite shore along the iron cable, Brother Hemp anxiously asked, "It's done so quickly?" What treasures opened my eyes. ”

He didn't take the hallucinations seriously at all, or did he not hallucinate?

"You're not hallucinating?" I couldn't help but ask.

Brother Marijuana looked confused, "What hallucination?" ”

"It's that we ran up together, and then Uncle Wu told us the reason for running halfway, and then we fell from above." I tried to be as brief as possible, but Brother Hemp looked at me with a stupid look on his face, and the second uncle listened to me with the same confusion.

I couldn't help but be horrified and asked, "So you've been waiting here stupidly for so long?" ”

Brother Marijuana was even more puzzled and said, "Long? You crawled over and got your stuff and came back, and it didn't add up to half an hour. ”

It seems that they really don't have hallucinations, this place is really too evil, I just want to get out as soon as possible, and never come to this kind of ghost place again.

Miss Luo, they also felt that it was better to leave as soon as possible, so after packing up our things, we tried our best to go back, at this time, Professor Wu didn't talk about his past anymore, the speed was much faster, we all felt that this place was too weird, and we just wanted to leave here as soon as possible.

I was tired and collapsed again, and finally reached the platform, and the temperature and fog at this time also reached the previous level.

With the experience of the previous car, we were not in a hurry to pass, rested for about ten minutes, recuperated our strength, and crawled along the rope to the secret passage.

When I was halfway up, there was another high-pitched birdsong, which shook my ears, and the feeling of weakness in my hands and feet hit again, and I thought to myself. This time, Lao Tzu has taken safety measures, and the safety buckle is tied to his body, unless the rope is broken, it is impossible to fall. And this rope is dedicated to climbing, and there is no problem with hanging a few hundred catties, and it is impossible to break.

However, the impossible happened, and I fell into the abyss again as my hands and feet failed to grasp the rope steadily, and my body fell, and the rope was cut by a sharp stone as it swayed, and I fell into the abyss again.

This is an illusion, this is an illusion, I kept chattering in my mouth, but I was a little bottomless, after all, this time it was confirmed that the second uncle was awake, and at the same time he longed for it or hallucination, otherwise it would be a real fart.

I thought about it in a mess, and when I felt like I was falling into the boundless darkness, my eyes appeared in the hanging coffin again, the same position, the same corpse, the same Miss Luo, I was glad and at the same time there was infinite panic, I don't know how to express this mood, I guess a few of them are the same as me.

This time everyone was not so startled, they were all a little silent, this damn hallucination is endless? After opening the coffin, everything was the same as before, the box beads watch, after we took things out, only I could touch the beads, after learning a lesson, we didn't take anything this time, put the box back in its place, sealed the coffin lid, and climbed back empty-handed, Brother Hemp asked suspiciously: "What's wrong?" Is there a poor ghost lying inside? Nothing? ”

I wasn't in the mood to pay attention to him, so I buried my head and walked back, thinking to myself that the one lying in the coffin was too stingy? Take something from him and don't let people go? If you don't let me leave, I'll throw you into the abyss.

This time, I kept an eye on it, and wrote an "A" on the ground when I set off, and then wrote a "B" again after a short walk, and wrote down a mark every other time.

Dizzy and returned to the platform again, at this time it returned to its original appearance, after returning here, we left a lot of traces here, and even Liu Sanyan wrote on the ground: 12:10, the word is proof!

But now these traces are gone, and the rope is not broken, as if it has never come. A few of us are a little blinded by the hallucination, could it be that we are hallucinating again?

Liu Sanyan said: "The hallucinations of the two times are that we woke up after falling down after arriving here, except for what everyone remembers, the secret memories left are gone, which means that we didn't come here at all last time, or we fell into the illusion again." ”

"What kind of illusion? Running back without a head or a brain, can you give a happy explanation? Brother Marijuana endured all the way, and finally couldn't hold it anymore.

"It's nothing wrong with you, you're not hallucinating, you're just a vassal in the illusion." Liu Sanyan then pointed to Dahui's second uncle and the Sichuan Yankee: "You are all five, only the five of us who have touched the coffin have been unlucky." ”

"That is to say, if you touch the coffin, you will be hit by the illusion, or if you see the corpse, you will be hit, and it just so happens that only the five of us touched it. Every time we got here, we heard the sound of birds chirping, and then we fell down, and then we came. Applejack cleared up the situation and then said, "Let's say the way to wake up is to fall, but we're at the coffin again, did we fall and then go psychedelic?" So we are in an infinite loop of illusion? ”

This is really a brain-burning thing, I said: "If we analyze it like this, we have entered a dead loop on the coffin, but the time is not right, the time recorded by Miss Luo's photo was 10:23, and it was 10:36 when we were next to the coffin, and it took nearly two hours to walk here and then fall, and the time returned to 10:36, that is to say, in reality, we were lying on that and did not move, this time seemed to be frozen, or did we fall from here to achieve a time and space shuttle, and returned to that point in time? ”

I was dizzy by this messy analysis, and the second uncle couldn't understand what he was saying at all, but fortunately, the five of us could understand.

"No, no, no!" Liu Sanyan shook his head and said: "You are time stop and shuttle, you think it's a mythical story, first of all, the five of us remember everything that happened when we go back, only the five of them don't remember, and secondly, the mark here is gone, which means that in reality we haven't come here at all, even if you really shuttle the physical mark, you still have it, right?" Even if our time stands still, but the marijuana they don't stand still, after so long to see us lying on our stomach, there is no reaction, and the fool knows that something is wrong, and will definitely find a way to get us back to shore. ”

Miss Luo said: "Is it possible that only one of us is actually hallucinating, and these things are all imagined by himself?" Let's say I'm hallucinating, and it's going on endlessly, but in reality you've taken me away. ”

She said that everyone was silent, it is indeed more reasonable, five people have the same illusion, can communicate in the illusion, and then wake up and all match, this is like five people having the same dream at the same time, this coincidence is not convincing enough.

I'm a little uncertain, will I still be hallucinating, after all, I have been hit once before, and I slapped Miss Luo. If I already know that these things are all fantasies of me, and Miss Luo, they are also fantasies of me, then can I still fantasize about other things? For example, the forbidden woman, the corpse falcon or something, no, no, no, I still want to come out with something beautiful. I was startled, and quickly shook my head to dispel those thoughts, it was already terrifying, and I really wanted to get something out without being scared to death.

But after contemplating it for a long time, the beauty in the fantasy didn't appear, was it because I wasn't concentrating enough or was it not in the illusion?

Liu Sanyan on the other side was also chanting with his eyes closed, and finally opened his eyes and found that nothing new had appeared, so he couldn't help sighing: "It seems that the master is not deep enough!" ”

"Let's go through it again, let's say you have hallucinations when you see a corpse or touch a coffin, you two are the first to see and touch, then Miss Luo, then Uncle Wu, I am the last." I lined up on the ground, "How long did it take for you two to pry open the coffin and come back and tell us that the body resembled me?" ”

Applejack thought for a moment and said, "We saw that the coffin had a wire to climb over, so the big man told Uncle Wu to come down, and we climbed over, and when you came down, let's talk for half an hour." ”

"Suppose it's in my hallucination now, you told me to come down after seeing the corpse look very similar to me, and I crawled over to see it after Miss Luo took a picture, and I was hit as soon as I crawled over, fantasizing that the corpse was resurrected, and then I was woken up by Miss Luo." I continue analyzing.

Liu Sanyan frowned, and said: "Yes, hallucination is the same as dreaming, if outsiders destroy his body, they can make him wake up, I am the best at beating people, Comrade Xiao Zhang, I am here!" ”

Looking at his raised slap, I was so frightened that I quickly dodged and shouted: "What is the destruction of the body, you are also a part of my fantasy, how can the fantasy thing wake up?" ”

"Stop messing around, Xiao Zhang, you go on." Professor Wu blocked.

"If it's in my fantasy, there are only two possibilities for me in reality, one is that you can't take me back if I'm trapped somewhere, and you can't take me back to that place, I can only fall, but even if it's a bottomless pit for so long, it's time to land. The second is that I was taken back by you, and according to the temper of some people, I may have been woken up earlier, but I didn't wake up, and I woke up every time I fell from here. "I looked at them after I finished speaking, and Miss Luo glared at me when she heard some people, and I didn't see them.

Applejack thought for a moment and said, "You mean it's not your fantasy, but according to your analysis, I'm sure I'm going to get beaten too." ”

Liu Sanyan also immediately said that no one here will be polite to him, unless you abandon him.

Seeing that we were all looking at her, Miss Luo angrily pointed to the handprint on her face and said, "Are you still light?" "It embarrasses me.

Professor Wu thought for a moment and said, "This should be impossible, if you want to wake up a person who has hallucinated hallucinations, you don't have to use violence, just pour some cold water to stimulate it." It's not that everyone is hallucinating, it's that we're all hallucinating. It's possible that after our hallucinations, there are certain situations where Daiki can't come, or they don't dare to come. ”

Liu Sanyan said: "If the way we wake up is to fall from here, then what will happen if we don't fall?" If we go out the other way, will we really go out? ”

It's like some kind of game, and once we get to this point, we're forced to play it all over again. But what he said also has some truth, we don't play at the last level, we don't follow the rules of the game, just wait for the time to end and see how we wake up.

I looked at the plank road with no end in sight, and said, "According to this rule, only the dead can be resurrected, and there may be other dangers if we continue to move forward, or we are still in the rules formulated here, if we want to break this rule, we will go the other way around, we will go directly back to the hanging coffin, anyway, there is no danger after walking this road a few times." ”

"It's too troublesome to climb up and down, anyway, it's in the illusion mirror, let's just stab one person to death, it's not really dead, see how he disappeared in front of our eyes." Liu Sanyan said with a big grin, reaching out and pulling out a dagger, which startled us.

Applejack quickly stops him, saying, "What if it's not a hallucination?" Or we'll stab you to death. ”

Liu Sanyan smiled and said that he was impulsive, and finally agreed to return to the hanging coffin together.

We were not in a hurry to go back there, nor did we move those sporadic coffins, first, we were not in the mood, and second, since it was a fantasy, it was useless to take it, and it looked like we were about to go to the hanging coffin, and the strange thing was that the fog and temperature were also slowly falling.

Liu Sanyan walked in front of me, and said as he walked, "Do you think this magic mirror is related to these fogs?" Where does all this fog come from? ”

"The further down here the temperature, the higher the temperature, it's likely that there's a volcano down there, and there's water flowing down, maybe it's caused by the evaporation." Applejack explains.

Liu Sanyan stopped walking suddenly, I almost hit him on the back, and scolded angrily: "What are you making trouble again? ”

"Could it be that this is not an illusion?" Seeing that I was about to get angry, Liu Sanyan analyzed: "Have you thought about the purpose of the person who made the illusion mirror? Tossing back and forth like this to satisfy his bad taste? ”

yes, how did we not think of that? One is a tomb builder, the other is a tomb robber, the intentions are obvious, the tomb builder is to prevent being stolen, the tomb robber is doing everything possible to dig it, you have come to dig my grave, and I am still polite to you? Then why am I still working so hard to build a tomb? Just dig a hole.