41. Stone Gate
In the graveyard, several people stopped advancing.
I held my breath and listened vigilantly to the movement in the burial chamber, "Tick, tick, tick," I heard nothing in the dark tomb except for the sound of water dripping from the top of the tomb and falling to the ground.
I asked softly, "Pei, you say, is this the sound of water droplets?"
Pei shook his head, didn't say anything, and the few of us continued to walk towards the depths of the tomb.
The tomb was dark and damp, and the smell of corpses coming from there made people feel a little choked when they breathed.
Generally speaking, the tomb road in the early Tang Dynasty is round arch, and the top of the tomb road where we are located is at a right angle of 90 degrees, and the tombs of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period are used to be built in this way.
After walking a long distance and not being able to see the entrance to the tomb, Li Wen said impatiently, "How long will it take to walk?" Is there an end? ”
Pei patted Li Wendao, who was losing his temper in front of him, "It should be soon, we have walked more than three hundred meters, and we are almost there." "People in that period often used the tomb road to measure the age of the deceased, and the tomb road is like the path taken by the deceased before his death. Basically, ten meters is one year old, and the king of the North Slave died at the age of sixty-three. According to this statement, there should be more than 330 meters left in the tomb road.
While I was thinking in my head, I suddenly heard a cacophony from the direction of the nearby tomb wall, so small that I could barely make out what was being said. "Listen! There's momentum." I waved my hand to everyone and the people in front of me all stopped in place, holding their breath and listening carefully to the sounds around them.
"Tick, tick, tick," In addition to the sound of water drops in the tomb, all that was left was the sound of everyone's gentle breathing, and after listening carefully for a while, Li Wen shouted anxiously, "Yang Xiuyuan!" Haven't you fucking heard of people being scary, scared to death? Don't talk nonsense about this gloomy grave. ”
I didn't make a sound, I was troubled and puzzled, just now I obviously heard someone whispering on the wall of the tomb, why is there no sound at this moment?
Pei's hand movement was very small, and he quietly pointed to the curtain wall, which no one else noticed.
It seems that when he first entered the tomb, Pei noticed that something was wrong with the tomb wall, but he was not sure if he was having auditory hallucinations, so he didn't say anything. I wondered.
I then walked as close to the wall as I could, but the strange "conversation" was missing.
As I walked forward, above the tomb, a drop of cold water dropped on my forehead, and the ice man felt numb in his heart, and he rubbed it on his forehead.
took the flashlight and unintentionally bowed my head, which made my scalp tingle suddenly, "Blood!" Where did the blood come from? There was blood on the back of my hand. I asked Pei in a panic, they turned their hands and shone a flashlight on me, Huzi anxiously ran over and touched my head and asked, "Yang Xiuyuan, what's wrong with your head, why is it full of blood?" Does it matter? ”
Pei also said worriedly, "Yang Xiuyuan, what's the matter?" What happened to the forehead? ”
The droplets, the droplets just fell on my forehead, are those droplets ..... When I looked up, I was horrified, a breath of cold air poured into my lungs, and a rotting hand stretched out from the top of the tomb, and bright red blood was dripping down from my fingers.
A scream from Huzi exaggerated the already panicked atmosphere even more, staring at the hand above his head and trembling, "Is there a dead person in the top wall of the tomb?" ”
Pei has always been bold, but at this moment, he was also frightened by the sudden appearance of the hand without saying a word.
It seems that we are in this tomb, the curtain walls on all sides are inlaid with those poor corpses, since the Qin Dynasty has used tired laborers embedded in the city wall to make wall tiles, and the king of Bei Yannu is an evil tyrant, and it is not impossible to use the corpses of tired laborers to make tomb bricks.
Thinking of this, my heart was a little calm, and the sense of panic turned into sympathy and pity, pity for those hard laborers who died in vain.
Rubbing the blood from his forehead with his clothes and continuing to walk forward, Li Wen looked behind him from time to time, afraid that the bloody hand on the top of the tomb would break free from the wall.
I patted Li Wen on the shoulder and comforted, "Brother Li Wen, what are you afraid of, those are just corpses that have been used as tomb bricks, what is so scary." ”
A few small, faint voices came from the walls of the tomb again, and this time everyone heard them almost clearly, and suddenly they all froze there, looking at each other's eyes, hoping to get definite proof, but when everyone listened carefully, the sound disappeared again.
Levine stared at me, tilted his chin to see if I heard, and I nodded in confirmation and pointed to the wall of the tomb.
Li Wen also nodded in response. It seems that there is indeed a problem in the tomb wall.
No matter what it is, we can't wait for it to hurt us and fight back, and the senseless panic at this moment can only make everyone mess up first. I took out the crowbar in my bag, and stuffed it into the gap in the tomb bricks, the tomb bricks were relatively loose, I didn't make much effort to pry a tomb brick, more than 40 pounds of tomb bricks, I directly pulled out from the tomb wall, the empty earth wall behind the tomb bricks was nothing else, but the smell was quite pungent, the smell of decay and deterioration, choked me to cover my nose and sneeze a few times.
After that, I pried off a brick at every time I walked, but there was no body in the wall of the tomb that I had in mind.
The flashlight flickered and went out a few times, and then it ran out of power, and the whole eye couldn't see the five fingers, Qi Yufan shouted for the two members of our team to quickly find the flashlight. In the depths of the cemetery, a cold wind blew over, and I was shivered by the forest, and my heart was frizzy.
The voice like a whisper reappeared, and the originally frizzy heart, coupled with the voice that knew there was but didn't know where it was, the hairs on his body suddenly exploded.
The voice is getting louder and louder, but I still can't hear what is being said, and the sound that is getting closer and closer makes people's whole hearts rise, the most terrible thing is not that you see, but that you hear but can't see, and the unknown danger is the most dangerous.
As the flashlight lit up again, the approaching sound magically disappeared again, and a vague building with a stone door appeared in the distance.
The appearance of the stone door of the tomb gave everyone the dawn, a few of us quickened the pace, walked in the direction of the stone gate, the stone gate is getting closer and closer, thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters, only to find that the tomb door is blocked by a large stone slab, Li Wen picked up the crowbar, and was about to go up to the door.
I hurriedly grabbed Li Wendao and said, "Don't be in a fucking hurry, this stone gate is called the Yin and Yang Gate, you can't pry it, you forcibly pry the door and touch the mechanism inside, and the entire stone gate will become a peerless door, so we can't enter the tomb with great ability." ”
Li Wen shouted impatiently, "This stone gate blocks the way, and it doesn't pry, don't stop Lao Tzu from getting rich." With that, Li Wen pulled me back.
Pei hurriedly went up and grabbed Li Wen and said, "Li Wen, don't be impulsive, although it is important to get rich, you must also be appropriate, you will destroy this tomb like this." ”
Li Wen reluctantly threw down the crowbar when he heard Pei say this, and said impatiently, "You can!" You can! Go ahead and open it. ”
In fact, Li Wenhe did not understand the importance of this stone gate, the entire tomb roof was filled with iron mortar, the entrance to the only stone gate, in the tomb before the Tang Dynasty, the tomb would not block the tomb door, the late Tang Dynasty began a new architectural style, the tomb door is divided into two layers, the first stone door is sealed by a stone slab, it is easier to destroy the Yin and Yang door.
But if someone does break it, the second hundred-ton gate made of iron slurry and stone powder will fall, this gate is called the peerless gate, and if this gate falls, this tomb will be truly isolated from the world, and no one can enter.
I took it out of my bag, the Bolt of All Souls, this thing doesn't look like a few simple wires, it's a good tool to break down the mechanism. As the Ten Thousand Souls bolt was inserted into the gap between the stone gate and the ground, I gently tinkered a few times, and with a boom, there was a burst of dust on the ground, and the stone gate slowly rose upward.
Qi Yufan gave me a thumbs up, "Good craftsmanship!" I really admire it in the next. ”
At the moment when the stone gate was raised, a noisy sound continued to come from the tomb behind him, this time not the voices of a few people, but the voices of a group of people.