Chapter 156: What's Behind It
The priceless Changchun wooden chair must only be owned by people with extremely noble status. There is no doubt that the shadow on the chair may be the owner of the Changchun wooden chair.
The drifting dust has not yet completely settled, but when the light shines through, the shadow is still clearly visible.
The moment I saw this shadow, my heart involuntarily beat a few times.
The shadow, as if curled up on a chair, the shadow was fluffy, the flesh had completely dried up, it was a monkey.
I was shocked to see monkeys one after another in this place. According to the information I have so far, the Zhangxiong people do not worship monkeys, and there is never a trace of monkeys in the places where they live.
The chair was supposed to be an ordinary monkey, and there was nothing unusual about it, but it was slightly larger. The monkey must have been dead for many years, except for the hair on the outside of the body, which was still relatively well preserved, and the body was so hard that only bones and a layer of dry skin remained.
Not only am I confused, but Xiaomao is also confused. We don't know what this monkey means.
Behind the Changchun wooden chair, there is the stone door, since there is a door, it means that this place has not yet reached the end. I think this stone gate is too heavy, and I will definitely not be able to push it with just me and Xiaomao.
But Xiao Mao took a few steps to the side, waved his hand at me, and when he looked at it, he could see that the stone door was not closed very tightly, and there was still a gap. The gap was narrow, and I didn't know if I could squeeze through it sideways.
I took out my mobile phone and took a lot of photos back and forth of this place, especially the monkey on the wooden chair in Changchun, which has no textual clues, and left some photos, which may be useful in the future.
We were all a little hairy by the previous accident, so we were very careful, there was nothing abnormal in the Changchun wooden chair, Xiao Mao tried for a long time, and after making sure it was safe, he slowly approached the stone door.
After the light shone through the crack in the stone gate, it seemed to be swallowed up by darkness immediately, and according to my experience, the space behind the stone gate was still so large that the light could not reach the end. Xiao Mao took off his backpack and tried it, squeezing it sideways until he barely squeezed through. The person is gone, but the backpack can't pass, so I can only take out the contents of the two backpacks, hand them to Xiao Mao through the crack in the door, and then throw the empty backpack over, and let him reload the things over there.
After finishing these, I also squeezed into the crack of the door, maybe I was a little fatter than Xiao Mao, and I was almost stuck in the middle, I took a hard breath, shrunk my stomach, and with the help of Xiao Mao, I squeezed through.
When we actually stood behind the stone gate, we realized that there was a dark abyss in front of us. The abyss cuts off all the roads and is absolutely impossible to pass through, that is to say, this abyss is the real end of here.
The sacrificial field is close to the abyss, but the Zhangxiong people still made such a large stone gate in the middle, and the carving and installation of that kind of stone gate requires a lot of energy and time, if it is not necessary, the Zhangxiong people should not do this.
I thought that the Xiangxiong people probably didn't want people to see the abyss behind the stone gate, even if they were their own. This stone gate blocked people's view, and if the stone gate had not left that gap, it would have been impossible for newcomers to discover the endless abyss behind the stone gate.
There must have been human activity in this abyss, and there is a lot of debris left at the edge of the abyss. Xiao Mao picked up a small stone and threw it down. Soon I heard the sound of stones falling to the ground, and judging from this, the depth of the abyss was about forty to fifty meters, not bottomless.
"There is no way out, only to go back, or go down to the bottom of the abyss to see." Xiao Mao squatted on the edge and looked left and right: "Someone has gone down before." ”
At the edge of the abyss lay several iron stakes nailed into the stones, as thick as my wrists, deep and strong. Based on the spacing between the iron piles, it is conceivable that these iron piles were used to fix rope ladders in the past. The rope ladder hangs down into the abyss, and people can climb down the rope ladder. However, the iron stakes are still there, and the rope ladders are gone, probably when the Zhangxiong people last left, they took all the rope ladders.
It's impossible to leave out the past in this abyss, and I've changed some of my views on this place, feeling that the drainage system at the entrance is completely a covert for this underground place. If it is just a sacrificial ground for the Xiangxiong people, there is no need to hide it at all, then the only thing that can be explained is that what they want to hide is probably this abyss.
What will be beneath the abyss?
"I'll see if the rope is enough, and if it's enough, I'll go down first." I flipped the rope out of my bag, the rope was too thick, a coil of rope was heavy, and I only brought a smaller nylon rope and two buckles. A coil of rope is fifty meters, which should be almost enough.
"There are only two of us, and we can't go our separate ways, let's go down together." Xiao Mao helped me fix the rope to the iron stake at the edge, and he said it lightly, but I knew that he was afraid that if I encountered an accident under the abyss, I would not be able to cope with it.
I knew it would be useless to persuade him, so when the rope was fully secured, I put on the buckle and slowly climbed down the rope.
This abyss, which is not very deep, gave me a sense of fear that I had never felt before, and I felt as if I had been completely overwhelmed by darkness when I had barely climbed down for less than three meters. Looking down, the darkness below is as thick as heavy ink, as if after a person goes down, he will never come up again.
When I climbed down five or six meters, Xiao Mao also climbed down. The stone wall of the abyss is almost 90 degrees vertical, but fortunately, the stone wall is uneven, and the feet can borrow strength, and it is almost ten meters down, I feel more stable, so I speed up.
There was no accident in the middle, and the two of them slipped smoothly to the bottom of the abyss. I glanced back and forth with my flashlight, and it was empty, nothing.
"Take a break." Xiao Mao knew that my fever had not completely subsided, and he was afraid that I would not be able to bear it, so he beckoned me to rest in place for a while.
The two of us leaned against the stone wall behind us and sat down to smoke a cigarette. The bottom of the abyss is empty, and the light still doesn't shine on it, but I've made up my mind, now that I've found this place, I'll take a good look at it, even if I waste a little more time. The food in the backpack is not small, and it is planned to be used, and two people can last at least a week.
"It shouldn't be a problem for the time being." Xiao Mao took a cigarette in his mouth, took out the compass and looked at it, the compass was not affected, with this thing, even if the space is large, it will not be disoriented.
The two of us rested for about half an hour, got up and looked around, it was dark everywhere anyway, and it was almost the same in which direction we went. The two of us decided to move forward upright, and if it didn't work, we would turn around when the time came.
Xiao Mao walked in front, I walked behind, and after walking out a few steps, I suddenly felt that the calm atmosphere around me seemed to have changed, and a trace of indescribable danger was silently permeating. I didn't hear anything, I didn't see anything, but it felt very wrong.
It was like walking alone on a path in the middle of the night, and it was quiet all around, but as I walked, I felt as if something was suddenly behind me.
I stumbled back, and as I turned around, the flashlight swept backwards. There was nothing behind me, and I pondered it myself, thinking if it was too suspicious.
I turned around again, but only one step, and the feeling of something behind me flooded my mind again. It's a very bad feeling, and it makes people feel hairy. I turned my head again, but there was still nothing behind me.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Mao saw me grinding behind me, so he asked me what was going on.
"I can't say...... I don't want to let the little hairy grass and trees be soldiers, however, the feeling that there is something behind it has always lingered, I hesitated for a moment, and said to him: "I think there is something behind." ”
Xiao Mao also took the flashlight and shone it behind him, and the two flashlights crossed to illuminate a large area of darkness behind him, but he really couldn't see anything except the stones.
"It's nothing, don't think about it." Xiao Mao shook his head and said, "Follow me, it's okay." ”
Xiao Mao continued to walk forward, I didn't believe him, but the ups and downs in my heart made people very unsteady. Although I didn't see anything, my hunch grew stronger, and I always felt that somewhere beyond our eyes, there was a pair of eyes, staring at the two of us.
I walked very slowly, my legs were like lead, and I asked as I went: "Xiaomao, when we were on the ground, we speculated that there were most people around Ta'er Lake, and you said, will the other party also come here?" ”
"Even if the other party arrives here, he is behind us, and it is impossible for him to go to the bottom of the abyss before us."
"I hope so......" I couldn't help but swallow my saliva, the uneasiness and horror in my heart seemed to be fermented, and it was constantly expanding.
I took two more slow steps and turned my head to look behind me. The back was still empty, I turned around and followed Xiao Mao, just wanted to take a step, but I always felt that something was wrong.
Suddenly, my scalp went numb and I swept the flashlight backwards, and this time, when my eyes followed the flashlight to the back, the whole person froze.
It was indeed empty and empty, but there was a shadow on the stone wall we climbed down.
I couldn't tell when the shadow appeared because of the light, but the moment I found it, my head exploded.
The shadow on the stone wall is a face, a vague face. This face is facing us, as if it is staring at me and Xiaomao.