Chapter 108: Stacked Burial
This guy can even laugh!
My heart was beating wildly, it seemed to be an illusion at that moment, I couldn't tell the real from the fake, did the corpse really open its eyes just now?
Ah Chuan was still laughing, looking weird, I hesitated and leaned in again, and glanced into the water from a distance.
No, the corpse didn't open its eyes, it was still lying quietly at the bottom of the water, silently facing us.
I was in a trance, I obviously saw it open, even if it was only for a moment, Ah Chuan must have seen it, otherwise why would he suddenly withdraw his hand?
Lao Huang has been standing beside me, but he didn't seem to see the abnormality just now, just looked at me inexplicably, as if my reaction was not normal.
Ah Chuan smiled, turned his head, and put his hand into the water again, I didn't look at his hand again, but stared at the corpse, and everyone gathered around, and they were all looking at the bottom of the water.
The corpse opened its eyes again!
This time I could see it clearly, Lao Huang also saw it, and I heard him take a sharp breath beside him, but Ah Chuan didn't retract his hand as if he was frozen.
One, two, three......
The corpses close to Ah Chuan are opening their eyes one by one!
Only then did I notice that the biggest abnormality of these corpses was that they were all lying on their backs at the bottom of the river, with their faces all facing up!
If they were really drowning, how could they all be in this position, they must have been thrown into the corpse here!
All the corpses we could see had their eyes open! They weren't stones, but they weren't dead either, and they weren't made like that by some kind of magic.
Ah Chuan still didn't retract his hand, Xiao Qi didn't stop it, he was simply experimenting with himself, he wanted to see what else would happen to these sunken corpses, if they just opened their eyes to see us, he would definitely choose to jump into the water and swim out.
It doesn't look like a sunken corpse will come out of the water, but I'm so nervous, and Ah Chuan's courage is too great, and his temptation is simply death.
I stared at the bottom of the water, forgetting to breathe, but Ah Chuan still looked relaxed, he gently stirred with the water, but his eyes kept on the sunken corpse.
The sunken corpse moves!
They floated lightly, one after the other, and they seemed to lose their strength in the water in an instant, and became like normal drowned corpses!
I couldn't help but retreat, Lao Huang also took a step back, Ah Chuan hadn't retracted his hand yet, his hand was swinging, as if to seduce them.
Brother Shen had already made an attack stance, and I watched as the sunken corpse floated upwards in a supine position, getting closer and closer to us, as if it was about to emerge out of the water!
"Achuan!"
I couldn't help but scream, I always felt that something terrible was going to happen, he was likely to be dragged under the water in an instant!
The current was so fast, if the corpses had been able to float, they would have been washed away by the water a long time ago, but they just floated straight up, and it seemed that they were getting closer and closer to us.
The nearest floating corpse was less than a meter away from Ah Chuan, Ah Chuan turned sideways slightly, as if he saw something, he suddenly withdrew his hand and stood up.
He was so fast that I was startled, and I looked into the water, and saw that the corpses were sinking as slowly as they had been floating, and there were so many corpses that they seemed to be dancing in the water.
They can't feel Ah Chuan, so they sink again? I wondered what it was, they slowly sank to the bottom of the water, and closed their eyes again, and if it weren't for the obvious change in location, I didn't even think it had happened.
"What do you see?" I asked.
"Tentacles, there are very thin tentacles swinging under them, there are things parasitic on them, these things are lying on the bottom of the water, so the corpse will take on its back." Ah Chuan didn't look frightened at all, and said it normally.
I immediately felt disgusted, this must be some kind of Gu worm again, it seems that we can't swim over even if we want to, these bugs are by no means good stubble.
"How do you get there?" Lao Huang looked impatient.
"Find another way." Ah Chuan spread his hands, looking not in a hurry at all.
Brother Shen left the entrance of the cave and walked towards the half of the cave that we had not walked on, and soon he turned back and pointed to the top of the cave: "You can go up there." ”
We walked over and saw that there was a square hole of about two square meters in the roof of the cave where his flashlight shone, and there were no steps or ladders below, only a dent that could reach half a foot on the side of the cave wall, and it seemed that this place was a cellar.
We turned half a circle, and there was no exit except the canal and here, and we either climbed up or went back the way we came.
No one wanted to go back, we started to climb as we should, the hole was only four or five meters above the ground, but I couldn't go up, I had to hold it with two hands, let alone one, with a little effort, the injured shoulder changed from a dull pain to a stinging pain, I could hear the slight sound of the bones, I had made it crack and crack and crack and break and crack and break and crack and crack and break and crack and break and crack and crack and break and crack and break and crack
Eventually, they pulled me up with a rope, and I wanted to wrap it around my waist, but my clothes were too slippery to hang on, and the feeling of losing my center of gravity made me feel top-heavy, and I ended up wrapped around my arms, and a little skin trauma was nothing to me.
No one dislikes me, they seem to be on a mission, but I always feel blocked.
The cave on this level is almost the same as below, there are also three or four layers of coffins piled up, we turned around and didn't see a way out, the only way out is still at the top of the cave, even the chisel marks on the cave wall are exactly the same as below.
We all turned on the flashlight and shone it at the square hole, and I saw that the top layer was full of such square holes and stone roofs, and the flashlight dissipated in the darkness, and I don't know how many layers there were.
Could it be that there are hundreds of coffins on each floor? I was surprised and worried that it was too much trouble for them to pull me up layer by layer.
Things are exactly the same as I thought, there are literally a lot of coffins stacked on each floor, and we are like entering a beehive, the same pattern, never to end.
We climbed four or five more floors, but there was still no end in sight, there was still no other exit from the cave, but the coffins stacked on top were obviously much newer, and the bottom layer was not crushed.
The atmosphere was depressing, everyone kept their mouths shut, there was nothing scary here, but we had nothing to say, they climbed like a machine, and pulled me up like a machine, and the movements became more and more skillful, but there was still no end in sight.
We must be getting farther and farther away from the main burial chamber, and I even doubt that it was right or wrong to climb up, and if we had turned back, we might have found a new burial passage, and now even the height was staggered.
"It's a stacked burial, there must be an exit here." Ah Chuan said suddenly.
Everyone's movements stopped, and Ah Chuan smiled: "Stacked burials are more common among ethnic minorities, the vertical downward layers of tombs occupy a small area, and they are more economical, the old coffins are below, and the upper layer is full, the more upward the age is closer, since there are new coffins, it means that they have been using this tomb hole, and the exit may be above our heads." ”
It turns out that the exit that Ah Chuan said leads to the outside, and I said that it is not in the mood to appear, it is good to be able to go out, but Yu can't give up.
Brother Shen climbed up again, and when he jumped on the ground, he would put a rope and pull me up, but this time he didn't, he stood at the edge of the cave and looked to the side with a flashlight, as if he saw something strange.
"What's wrong?" Ah Chuan screamed.
Brother Shen didn't answer, he left the edge of the cave and walked deeper, he must have found something, Xiao Qi quickly climbed up, she paused at the entrance of the cave, and also walked in the direction that Brother Shen left.
"Daze, look at it, what's the use of asking for these stuffy gourds?" Ah Chuan pouted in disgust and began to climb up.
Brother Shen, they soon returned, looking at us condescendingly: "There is an exit. ”
We climbed up again in the same way, and I bypassed the rope, and this floor was full of coffins as well as below, and in the dim light I saw a figure behind the coffins.
I couldn't help but be startled, and quickly calmed down, what Brother Shen saw just now must have been him, since he let us come up, there would be no problem.
Lao Huang also noticed, and we walked around the coffin one by one, and the figure became clearer and clearer, and I saw that it was a stone figurine.
This stone figurine was not terrible at all, it was completely different from the corpse I had seen along the way, it was about the same height as me, the whole thing was blue-gray stone, it was not carved into a human form, but it was round and chubby like a matryoshka.
I've seen all kinds of terrifying things, and I even feel a little cute when I suddenly see such a stone figurine, its facial features are carved very shallowly, different from the twisted and painful appearance of those corpses, but the corners of the mouth are crooked and laughing.
At first glance, it seems that there is no problem, but the more I look at it, the more I feel that something is wrong, its expression is too strange, it is obviously laughing, but the eyes are round and big, ordinary people will definitely bend their eyes when they laugh, this is the characteristic of facial muscles, as long as it is a smile, even if it is a fake eye, there must be a change, the expression of this stone figurine is too discordant.
The smile should be warm, but I can't help but chill, this smile looks so weird, even the whole stone figurine has an abnormal sense of abruptness, it seems to have crossed over from other ancient tombs, not like it should appear here.
Behind the stone figurines is a narrow tomb road, I raised the flashlight to look, only to see that the tomb road is smooth, the stone walls on both sides are carved with insect and snake patterns, and below is a system.
Round and round and we're back!
I have a feeling of time and space disorder, this stacked burial is very simple, there are no patterns on the cave wall, I feel that we are getting farther and farther away from the right path, and now there is a carved tomb road again, but it appears in such a strange place, as if it was screwed by force, and even this stone figurine exudes a strange atmosphere.