I pondered and told Huzi my analysis, and asked him what he thought, Huzi thought about it and told me that I should not go to another fork in the road to see, since people gave us two choices, at least find out both paths.

I had basically the same idea as him, so instead of rushing to the stone gate, we turned around and walked back. The safety of this road has been proved along the way, and there is no mystery to go back, and the two of us returned to the fork in the road in less than a few minutes. I reminded Huzi to be careful, after all, we haven't walked this road.

The corridor on the left is obviously much more shabby than the one on the right, and even the temperature difference is surprisingly large, and we found that the moisture along the way came from this side. Since this road is not straight, every three or four meters there is a turn, and the sound of the water ticking on the top of the cave makes my hearts rise to my throat again.

After walking for more than ten minutes, the space became wider again, and Huzi pointed to the walls on both sides in surprise for me to see. In fact, I didn't need him to remind me that I had already found that the murals on the walls on both sides had reappeared, but they looked a little oozing. The tomb is made entirely of black rock, and the frescoes on the walls are completely dark red, like the blood of some animal. But I think it's a dye, because the color of blood doesn't last that long.

The scenes on the murals are also very hideous, depicting all kinds of strange ghosts and ghosts to enforce criminal laws on people, and the murals are divided into ten pairs, five on the left and right. In the center of each mural sits a huge person dressed as an emperor, and all kinds of imps below cut sinners with knives and axes, using boiling copper to pour sinners into the population, using hooks to drag sinners' intestines, and some directly sawing life into two.

Although the style of painting is very different from modern times, it is not difficult for me to think that this painting may be a Ten Hall Yama. But then I felt that something was wrong, Yama, which translates as bondage, binding, and binding the sinful. It turned out to be the king of the underworld in ancient Indian mythology, which appeared in the Rig Veda, and Buddhism continued to use this saying to call Hades the demon king who ruled hell.

Although I learned from the old immortals that the Ten Halls of the Difu existed, it was impossible for the craftsmen of the Shang Dynasty to know that this kind of mural appeared here, which made me doubt the age of this ancient tomb for the first time. However, whether it is the ubiquitous ancient inscriptions in the tomb or the description of the unearthed bronzes by Qin Wuye, it proves that this is indeed an ancient tomb of the Shang Dynasty.

So I began to have some conjectures about this tomb, these murals may have been painted by the tomb owner, Liu Lang said that the tomb owner may be my master's deceased, so it should also be his Taoist practice in that period. Referring to my master's ability, the owner of the tomb may have been to the underworld at that time. So the previous paradox has reappeared, was this painted by the owner of the tomb during his lifetime or after his death? Or were the two burial tunnels not built at the same time?

I couldn't think of a reason for it, and the tiger on the side saw that I was stunned and didn't speak, so he stabbed me and asked me what was written on the stone door in front of me. When I came back to my senses, I found that there was indeed a big stone door at the end of the road, the color was as dark as the wall, and an incense burner also appeared in the depression next to the door. There is an even more complicated ancient script on the stone gate, and Zhou Tong told me that it says "death".

The two corridors are completely opposite in style, one is resplendent and the mural symbolizes rebirth, as if it were a gate to heaven. And this one in front of me is dark and weird, and the mural depicts the criminal law of the underworld, symbolizing the eternal sinking of the underworld. I told Huzi the words on the door, this should be the door of death.

Huzi scratched his head and began to take off his shoes again, I ignored him speechlessly, and asked Zhou Tong what he thought, after all, he is a ghost body without substance, can he pass through the stone gate to see what is going on behind. Zhou Tong changed the tone of his hippie smile, and he said to me with some horror: "The red character "death" on this gate is written with borax mixed with cinnabar, and the gold character "sheng" on the other side is written with adamanta, both of which are things that restrain all spirits. Don't say that I'm a breezy yin soul, even if a mortal yang soul is out of the body, I can't get by. Also, I don't recommend going here, because the anger pouring out from behind the door scares me, and it looks like a living thing from the fluctuations. ”

Zhou Tong's words made me chuckle in my heart, he didn't care about the invulnerable bronze armored corpse before, since he said so, it can be seen how terrifying the things behind the door are, I am not stupid enough to treat the living thing he said as a person or animal.

As I was thinking about it, Huzi had already swirled the shoe in his hand and threw it high, and the direction of the tip of the shoe was facing the stone gate in front of me. Huzi seems to be very superstitious about his method of setting the direction of throwing shoes, and while pushing his shoes on his feet, he will go up and twist the incense burner. I hurriedly grabbed him and told him that my old fairy felt something behind him, so let's go back to the door.

Huzi didn't seem to be very happy, and told me that he had just calculated, and it was safe to go this way. I simply ignored him, grabbed the collar of his clothes and walked back, and asked about the future with my shoes.

Before returning to the birth gate, my heart finally calmed down, and the peaceful feeling here was comfortable. I took a deep breath, and to be on the safe side, I asked the tiger to stand against one side of the wall, and then I slowly twisted the incense burner in the groove against the wall.

The incense burner was turned around by me and couldn't turn, and then Huzi and I began to wait, and there was no response for a long time, could it be because of the age, the mechanism parts corroded? Just when I couldn't hold my breath, the two sides of the gate wall began to sound a "clatter", and the stone door also rubbed against the ground and opened to both sides little by little. I excitedly shone my flashlight to the other side of the door, and by the time I noticed a noise overhead, it was too late.

My first feeling was that there would be arrows shooting down on it, when I looked up, I found that there was a humanoid statue of the same color as the top of the shed, the statue was holding a jade bowl in its hand, and the liquid in the bowl had poured down at the same time as I looked up, and it was poured directly on my head, and then I felt that my eyes were black and my consciousness began to dissipate, and before my consciousness completely disappeared, I found that Zhou Tong appeared in front of me with a frightened face, and Huzi also nervously ran over to support me, and then I didn't know anything.

In a coma, I felt top-heavy, and my body was like a hot air balloon, constantly floating upwards in the dark. It's not about fear, it's just a panic that feels like there's no reason, and wants to grab something to stop you, but there's nothing to rely on.

The total darkness was like a vacuum, and I didn't seem to need to breathe, there was no concept of time, I instinctively felt like I was flying upwards, and there seemed to be no end to it. Day after day, year after year, slowly my mind began to lag a little, as if I had experienced thousands of years of loneliness.

I suddenly began to stubbornly think that I would be assimilated by the darkness in this way, but instead of being afraid, I was a little happy, and I felt that when I was completely assimilated by the darkness, I would live forever. I don't know how long it took, my consciousness began to gradually dissipate, forgetting who I was, what my name was, forgetting the ancient tombs, forgetting the immortals, until finally, my parents and Bao'er also disappeared from my consciousness. At this moment, I suddenly felt a little unwilling, and I wanted to try to think of something, but I felt unusually tired. The darkness kept soothing me, as if to say don't think about it, relax and be immortal.

So I felt really tired, and I started to compromise. Just as my consciousness was about to go completely blank, a light suddenly appeared in the darkness. Through this light I saw a deep pool, and then I realized that I was facing the deep pool face down, and the shadow reflected in the deep pool looked like me, but it made me feel very strange.

This reflection aroused my curiosity, and I tried to stare at him to see clearly, but he slowly floated from under the water, opened his closed eyes, and stared at me with interest. I found that he looked exactly like me, but he was dressed in very luxurious clothes from antiquity, and I felt dwarfed by him. A wave of anger rose in my heart for no reason, and I asked him, "What are you looking at with a shadow staring at me?" ”

Not only did he not get angry, but he laughed, and the scene changed with his smile, and we switched places. I looked up at him in the deep pool in the air, the water was as smooth as a mirror without a drop spilled, he smiled and said to me: "We are both in the water, I am only half in the water, and you are about to drown, how can you say that the shadow?" ”

When I heard him say this, I quickly looked left and right, and I was actually lying on the water. The water level was already past my ears and was still sinking, and I wouldn't be able to breathe before it flooded my nose. I hurried to see him, but he was gone, and the pool above it was gone, turning into a misty cloud.

I tried to look around with my eyes, and suddenly the clouds rolled up, and a faint red appeared. When the storm passed, a beautiful face appeared in front of me, and the woman in red who had appeared in my dreams countless times since I was a child stood in front of me, looking at me with a frown. I suddenly felt a little aggrieved in my heart, and I called out with red eyes: "Sister save me!" ”

The woman in red sighed, then handed me her plain hand, which was as warm as water: "I can't save you again and again, if you want to get out of the mud plow, you should save yourself!" She spoke hard and pulled me up from the water. I was just about to say thank you, when a chaotic and noisy sound in the void shook my brain.

The moment the woman in red disappeared in front of my eyes, a scream that pierced my nerves came into my mind, and I suddenly opened my eyes and found that Huzi was shaking the collar of my clothes, and Zhou Tong was also standing aside. I hurriedly stopped Huzi and said with a wry smile: "Don't shake it, I'll get motion sickness if I shake it again." ”

Huzi was stunned when he saw me wake up, and then his eyes turned red and he roared: "Lao Tzu still thinks you are dead, do you know, you were drenched in weak water just now!" ”