Chapter 44: The Grave of Horror
Just when Zhou Fan was about to make a move, the whole space trembled again, and then a huge gap cracked in the ground, and as the gap got bigger and bigger, a big crater gradually appeared on the ground.
As time went on, the cracked pit grew bigger and bigger, until it occupied as much as ninety percent of the space, and Zhou Fan and the three of them were forced to be almost close to the wall.
After a tremor, the underground space gradually returned to calm, and Zhou Fan dared to look at the huge pit, raised his flashlight to shine it, but saw a coffin again.
Although this coffin was not as big as the two iron coffins and wooden coffins, it was even more shocking, because Zhou Fan found that the pit was divided into two small pits under the giant pit, separated by an earthen wall.
And the coffin was in the small pit on the other side, which didn't shock Zhou Fan, mainly because the coffin was all made of bronze, compared to the other two coffins, this coffin made him feel more mysterious.
Not only that, the bronze coffin is also covered with dense and strange imprints, Zhou Fan has some understanding of gods and ghosts, but Zimeng and Tianyou are different, looking at the bronze ancient coffin in a daze.
The other two small pits are not good, I saw two small pits below, one is full of dead people's bones piled up below, and the top is still densely crawling, I don't know what kind of insects are very disgusting to look at.
Maybe it's because there are too many corpses, and there is no treatment to bury them in the ground, so that the bones of the corpses produce "phosphorus powder", as the ground opens on both sides, countless "phosphorus powder" also spreads throughout the underground space, and now Zhou Fan can see everything around him clearly even if he doesn't use a flashlight.
Zhou Fan looked at the "phosphorus powder" in the sky, his face became more and more solemn, so far there have been three ancient coffins in this space, a huge iron coffin suspended in the east, and a large wooden coffin in the west.
After the ground cracked, another bronze coffin appeared, and three coffins appeared in a row, which made Zhou Fan feel huge pressure, he looked at the bronze coffin and had the illusion of rushing, feeling like something was about to jump out of the coffin.
Zhou Fan is also playing a drum in his heart now, and now it is extremely difficult for the three of them to go back, and the bluestone steps of the return shape are just at the top of the bronze ancient coffin.
Zhou Fan and the three of them were forced to the corner of the wall on the other side, a full two pits away from the bluestone steps, and what was even worse was that only half of the bronze coffin had emerged, and the other half was sunk under the blood-like bright red liquid.
Zhou Fan shone it with a flashlight from afar, only to see the bronze coffin covered with lines, which looked even more strange under the washing of blood, and now they wanted to go back, they first had to go down to the pit under their feet, and after turning over the pit full of insects, they could only return to the position of the bluestone steps after crossing the pit full of insects.
Let's not talk about how to spend the bloody puddle, just the worm pit under their feet, not ordinary people have the courage to go down, if there is something else, Zhou Fan would say something, but the insects in that pit are similar to centipedes.
The whole body is pitch black, the head and tail are the same, and the two sides are covered with a hundred feet inserted horizontally, and Zhou Fan is weak legs when he sees it, if it weren't for the fact that the pit is high enough from the position where they are standing, it is estimated that Zhou Fan would not know what would happen.
"What should I do, don't be in a daze, you two should think of a way, I look at those coffins." Seeing this situation, Zimeng was already speechless with fright, and he had just come back to his senses, but seeing that Zhou Fan and Tianyou had not reacted, he couldn't help but shout anxiously.
"What do I think of the layout here, why does it look so much like a formation." Tianyou lowered his head and muttered.
"That's right, this is indeed a formation, what kind of formation it is, I don't know yet, but one thing is undoubted, that is, this is a place of great evil." Zhou Fan heard Tianyou's muttering and took his words.
It's not surprising that Tianyou can see that the layout here is like a formation, after all, he is close to Zhou Fan, and he can understand a little bit of these things, but he knows it, but he doesn't understand what kind of formation this is.
Puzzled, he looked at Zhou Fan, who looked puzzled, and his mood fell to the bottom all of a sudden, he knew that if Zhou Fan couldn't understand it, then he and Zimeng wouldn't understand it even more, Zhou Fan couldn't think of a way to get out, and don't expect them to come up with anything.
At this time, Zhou Fan no longer had the mind, and wanted to figure out the matter of the dragon anymore, and with the appearance of an ancient coffin in the east, west, and north, his curious mind instantly turned into nothing.
He knew that he could arrange such a large number of people in this kind of ghost place, and the things sleeping in the coffin would not be simple, where did Zhou Fan still want to find the footprints of the dragon, and now he wished that he would open the flashes as soon as possible.
Zimeng looked at Zhou Fan and then looked at Tianyou, and saw that the two fell into silence again, he was also very helpless, and he couldn't help but secretly say in his heart: If I can run over and climb over the earthen wall before the insects are surrounded, and then find a way to get through the blood pit, then I can go up to find Fenglong and take the rope down to save Zhou Fan and the others.
Zimeng knew that the things in the pit below were undoubtedly Zhou Fan's nemesis, let him pass from this kind of place, he would not be willing to die, and after a turn of thought, Zimeng recognized that this method was feasible, and he didn't want to bend over and accumulate strength, intending to dive and jump down to the bottom of the pit.
Then with the momentum, the insects below will also be trampled to death, so that the moment they just jump, they will be crawled all over the body by the insects, and they will run faster if they have the momentum to carry them over, and Zimeng will be confident that the insects in the pit will climb over the wall of another pit when they climb on him.
But the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel, he just stepped forward with his strength, and a big hand behind him grabbed Zimeng's collar, but the momentum of inertia still made him unable to retract his footsteps for a while.
The collar happened to be grabbed by the dead again, Zimeng didn't jump off the bottom of the pit, but he came first to eat, not long after he fell, Zimeng immediately got up again, regardless of the dirt on his body, he gritted his teeth and roared: "Who, what the did it?" Is this going to kill me? ”
As soon as Zimeng's words fell, he saw Tianyou looking at him with disdain: "If you want to die, you can jump down now, I won't stop you again, but I want to remind you that the things below may be ancient xenomorphs, black phosphorus horses." ”
"You bag, what is from the Malu Continent, Lao Tzu doesn't understand." Zimeng was obviously still angry that Tianyou suddenly pulled him, and he didn't care about Zhou Fan's previous words, and he took out a cigarette and was lit.
The sound of the lighter igniting pulled Zhou Fan back from his thoughts, looked up at Zimeng who lit a cigarette, and didn't blame him, and now Zhou Fan also wanted to care whether he smoked or not.
And as the ground cracked and the burial pit appeared, the water vapor in the space increased, even if they started a fire now, there would be no more explosions here, Zhou Fan thought about it and said to Tianyou: "What did you just say?" Malu, or black phosphorus Malu. ”
Tianyou patted the dust on his body and said, "Yes, I was suspicious when I saw it just now, but I wasn't sure yet, but I was sure after seeing the "phosphorus powder". ”
Zhou Fan's eyes widened after hearing this, the doubts in his heart were instantly solved, and all the speculations were connected, looking at the group of insects moving back and forth under his feet, he felt extremely disgusted.
Zhou Fan calmly took two steps forward, looked down at the bones at the bottom of the pit, and said slowly: "I suspected that this might not be a mausoleum, but I have never been sure, and now it seems that all this is not accidental." ”
Listening to Zhou Fan's words, although Zimeng and Tianyou were puzzled, they didn't ask any more, knowing that there would definitely be a follow-up, and they were also used to it, Zhou Fan's tone was just quietly waiting for Zhou Fan's next words.
"This is not a mausoleum at all, but a burial pit, Zimeng, do you remember when we first came in from the well, we could still see some light faintly." Saying that, Zhou Fan cast an inquiring glance at Zimeng.
Zimeng didn't answer and only nodded, and Zhou Fan said again when he saw this: "Those phosphorus powder should be too many bones buried in the burial pit, and most of them have not been processed, and there is no coffin into the burial, so they are buried underground at will."
And in an absolutely closed environment, so a large amount of phosphorus powder is produced, and these phosphorus powders are pressed to the ground by the burial pit, only some of them float outside with the gaps, and when we come in, the faint bright light we see is phosphorus powder. ”
"No wonder, I see, when I came down, I thought it was very strange, in such a dark underground space, how could there be light, I originally thought it was the reflection of the bluestone steps turned out to be phosphorus powder!" After listening to Zhou Fan's explanation, Tianyou also sighed.
Zhou Fan ignored the two and continued: "The only thing I don't understand now is that Zimeng and I were able to come in, and it was Zimeng who inadvertently opened the mechanism for the entrance to the burial pit, but God bless you, how did you get in?"
If the entrance is always open, then when you come in, the entrance cannot be automatically closed, if it is not always open, then who opened it for you before you come in?
Assuming that we don't need to use a mechanism to open it, will the stone door close by itself? Is it possible that someone came here before we even came in?
Only this explanation is reasonable, or someone has just gone out of here and triggered the mechanism, and when you come in, it happens to be the time of the fork, and only then can it be said that it is over. ”
Tianyou couldn't help but jump in his heart when he heard Zhou Fan's analysis, and suddenly he thought of a strange thing he encountered when he first came in, "After I fell, I didn't plan to come down."
It can be seen that you have not come for a long time, so I planned to see if there was any other way out, but when I was halfway there, it felt as if someone had passed me, but the underground space was too dark for me to dare to look around.
And most of all, I thought it was my delusion, and now that you say that, there may be someone who came down before us. Tianyou said with a strange expression what happened when he first came in, and his expression couldn't help but be ugly, and he didn't know if he was afraid or confused.
"Ancient coffins have appeared on the east, west, and north sides, and the shape and layout of this burial pit are obviously arranged for these coffins, but why are there only three sides of the coffin?"
After listening to Tianyou's words, Zhou Fan was not sure if someone really came in advance than them, after all, there were only a few of them in the Zhaozong Mansion, and if it was from somewhere else to enter the underground space, he didn't know.
And he didn't believe that there would be other exits in this ghost place, unless he could block other exits, but after it was completely blocked, how could people from outside come in?
Zhou Fan was puzzled by this, because judging from the layout of the entire burial pit, this is a formation of burying corpses with people, and it is not difficult to see from several ancient coffins that the people who arranged this place deliberately wanted to accompany the corpses in the burial pit to gather and not disperse, and then supply these coffins to absorb.
If there are more exits, it is inevitable that there will be leaks, which is also a taboo, it is best to arrange this kind of formation in a sealed tomb or secret room, the formation can have the best effect, now the layout person leaves a hole, it is already the maximum limit, if there is one more, the yang energy outside will enter along the hole.
The power of that formation would be halved, and Zhou Fan believed that people who could arrange such a place would not do such a stupid act. Even if there is another exit, it will not lead directly to the outside, and it will definitely be connected to a cave, or other underground space, to buffer the yang energy and ensure that the formation is not affected.