Chapter 107: The River of Sunken Corpses

There are still bursts of strange noises in the coffin, my heart is heavy like what is pressing, there are as many as seventeen Gu Kings on the mural, except for this one in the coffin, where did the other Gu Kings go?

I don't think those herbs are going to trap them, they are probably in the main coffin, one is so difficult to deal with, if there are a dozen, how can we get the jade.

I couldn't help but look at Xiao Qi's hand, her sword was lost, and if she encountered danger in the future, she could only escape.

The Gu King was still churning in the coffin, Ah Chuan jumped off the stone coffin and came to me: "What are you doing with a sad face?" All of us are dead, and neither will you. ”

"What nonsense are you talking about." I felt uncomfortable for no reason, and he seemed to be able to really read my mind.

"Just kidding, you're getting more and more boring," Ah Chuan shook his head and walked to the tomb in front of him, "Let's go, there must be something more fun ahead." ”

Brother Shen walked to the front again, Xiao Qi walked at the end, her steps were extremely light, I almost didn't notice that there was someone behind me, somehow, I just felt panicked, as if she would disappear at any time, and I couldn't help but look back after walking for a while.

I thought we should be not far from the main burial chamber when we saw the burial coffin, but the narrow passage of the tomb denied my idea, and we once again entered a cave with many forks in the road, which must have been natural, though it had been carefully excavated.

It seems that they built the tomb completely dependent on nature, and we passed through several smaller caves, but none of them were large enough to serve as the main burial chamber, so they gave up.

I don't know if it's labor-saving or labor-intensive, we're going around in circles, and I don't know if we're still in the mountain or if we've run somewhere else, it's just a mess here.

The air is getting hotter and hotter, the ointment on my body is sliding down with sweat, it looks dirty, I move my arms, I feel that my whole body is sticky, I haven't seen the sun for a long time, I don't know how long we have been underground, I have no sense of time, the long journey is like half a century.

The surrounding environment was dark and quiet, I followed mechanically, my legs and feet had long since lost the feeling of soreness, I was completely numb, and I seemed to be manipulated by Gu worms, like a walking corpse.

A small sound came to my ears, and I looked up, it seemed to be the sound of water, but it was hazy and difficult to hear.

I glanced back, Xiao Qi was still there, we walked through several more tombs, the sound of running water became clearer and clearer, and I could feel the faint moisture diffused in the air, sending a touch of coolness to the stuffy tombs.

Brother Shen stopped, and I saw a fork in the road of the tomb beside him, full of slender stalactites, which had not been excavated, although they could pass through a man, and they probably thought that the path was too narrow to be worth the time.

"It should be okay here." Brother Shen spoke.

The cool water vapor came out of the fork in the road, which made people feel refreshed, and Brother Shen deliberately stopped as if he knew that I was longing for water.

Ah Chuan stretched out his head and took a look: "There must be a reason for not digging if it is not excavated, maybe there is something in it, I really want to see it." ”

My heart suddenly lifted, no matter how Ah Chuan's words were heard, he seemed to be not afraid of anything, he was full of curiosity about everything unknown, that Gu King was enough, I didn't want to add any more accidents.

The tomb was quiet, I turned my head and saw that everyone was looking at me, they seemed to be waiting for my decision, I felt a little inexplicable, they were all weird, I had been following them all along, and now I seemed to have become a leader.

"Don't say it, maybe there's some information in the tomb." I obviously longed for coolness, but what I said was the opposite.

No one objected, Ah Chuan smiled, and followed Brother Shen to continue into the tomb, I looked at the darkness in front of me a little dazed, I don't know why, it was just a simple route question, but my heart was extremely heavy, especially when they all looked at me just now, it seemed that everyone had given their lives to me.

I was a natural follower, a layman who went with the flow, and suddenly gave me power, and I would be uncomfortable, I didn't know what was wrong with them, I felt like they had become a group and only I was excluded.

The fork in the road with water seemed to be around us all the time, the sound of the water was very close to me, only a wall apart, I don't know if it was an illusion, I even felt that the stone wall on the left was cooler than the one on the right.

The graveyard was shorter than I expected, and we soon came to the end, with a pitch-black space ahead and I could hear the clear sound of running water.

It seems that the space has become vast, the oxygen is also abundant, with a faint smell of dampness, Brother Shen walked in with a flashlight, I saw a huge tomb in front of me, this tomb is completely artificially excavated, there is no natural shadow, I am a little strange, it subverts my impression of this tomb all along.

We turned on the flashlight, the whole burial chamber was exposed, it was a round hole of hundreds of square meters, I saw that the burial chamber was full of wooden coffins, they occupied most of the burial chamber, stacked three or four layers, at least hundreds, the wooden coffins were very dilapidated, the bottom layer had collapsed into rotten wood chips under the pressure, and there were white bones sticking out from below.

I subconsciously slowed my breathing, and when I got closer, I could smell the mixed smell of rotten coffins and corpses, the smell was faint, but lingering around me.

Brother Shen raised the flashlight and looked overhead, and I saw that the rock had been cut out of my head, and the hole was completely artificially dug.

We stuck to the wall of the cave, bypassed the coffin pile, went around a semicircle, and saw that there was no road on the opposite side, there was a big black hole, and when the flashlight shone, we could see that there was a very deep area of water, and there was water on the wall of the cave that continued to flow in, and the amount of water was very large, and the water flow was very fast, and the tomb road as a whole was inclined downward, and they flowed into the darkness, and they did not know where it led.

This is also the tomb road, there are traces of human digging, and the bottom seems to have been deliberately chiseled into a pit, and they used the natural water flow to build a waterway.

The tomb road is very wide, at least three or four meters, Ah Chuan raised a flashlight and looked around: "Not bad, the underground canal." ”

What is such a wide canal used to transport? I looked into the darkness in the depths, where a cool breeze blew, and there was no strange smell of corpses and insects, as if it could lead outside.

It's a pity that we don't have a boat, and the water here doesn't seem like we can step on the bottom, we can only swim if we want to move forward, the current here is too fast, and it is not very difficult to swim, but I don't know if there is a fork in the road, and if we are swept in, it is difficult to come back by our own strength.

Water is the most dangerous, it can't be easier to devour life, not to mention that this is an ancient tomb, and I think of those invisible autopsy worms, maybe there are also here.

Ah Chuan changed a small flashlight, squatted down and shone into the water, the light of the flashlight was extremely bright, I saw the bottom at a glance, and I couldn't help but gasp.

I saw that the bottom of the water was full of corpses, they were naked, very strange, the whole body showed a dull blue-gray, obviously soaked in the water for a long time, but there was no swelling at all, it was still a complete human form, as if it had just been thrown into it.

The corpses have been soaked for thousands of years, and they must have rotted all their bones, and there are no aquatic plants or anything like that underneath, and they should not sink to the bottom of the water, but rather like stones.

I excluded the stones in an instant, they were clearly human, and it was impossible for the stone carvings to be so detailed and lifelike, and their faces showed painful and distorted expressions, all of them looked the same, but each one was different, and even if there really were a skilled craftsman who could carve the stone so perfectly, it would not be possible to carve so much.

Ah Chuan moved the flashlight, and I saw that the bottom of the water in front of me was full of corpses like this, and no matter how deep the darkness was, I couldn't see it, and if the whole canal was full of corpses, God knows how many there were.

"They were all drowned alive, most likely slaves from the construction of the mausoleum." Ah Chuan stood up and said.

"Drowning will turn out like this?" Lao Huang showed an expression of disbelief.

The painful appearance was indeed like being drowned, but their appearance was so strange that if they were drowned, it would only mean that something in the water had made them like this.

I couldn't help but take two steps back, the rushing water seemed to suck me in, and the strange wrecked corpses seemed to be alive, they were shouting to me, come down.

I breathed heavily, it was quiet here, and there were no terrible bugs, I was so troublesome, why should I follow Ah Chuan to see, the blue-gray faces were shaking in front of my eyes like a slide, they closed their eyes, but they still seemed to be able to see me.

"Jade in this?" Ah Chuan asked.

Brother Shen nodded, but didn't say how to get over, I didn't expect to encounter problems here, these corpses are too weird, if we jump in, will we become like them?

We can't try it, the water of this canal seems to have magical powers, and it seems that if it gets a little bit of it, it will be doomed, and even if nothing really happens, I will definitely not be able to swim at the thought of a group of ancient corpses staring at us below.

I raised my hand and touched my shoulder, I didn't care about it all the way, the lump seemed to have subsided a little, and the injury changed from stinging to dull pain, I don't know if it's a good thing.

Ah Chuan suddenly turned around and smiled at us, squatted down again, and without warning put his hand into the water.

My heart tightened, I thought he was going to jump in, and he was bold enough to reach out, but his movements stopped, and I saw the water slip between his fingers, and the sinking corpses under the water were quiet, and nothing happened.

I breathed a sigh of relief, he was too bold, and just when I thought it was safe, the corpse closest to him suddenly opened his eyes!

It has no pupils, the whole eyeball is blue-gray, Ah Chuan retracted his hand suddenly, stirring up a string of splashes, I saw the strange appearance of the sunken corpse, a staggered back a few steps, Ah Chuan looked back at me, his mouth was full of smiles.