Chapter 11: The Secret Path
"Holy!" I yelled at the same time as Leather Bag and leaned back.
"Hell! Hell! Leather bag shouted.
"Mom! Mom! "I'm screaming.
We stumbled outside, and the bag reached for the door.
"Don't die!" I pointed to the thunder outside.
"Don't die!" He looked at the coffin in the back room.
So the two of us put it there for a stalemate, not so much a stalemate, but a choice between being killed by lightning or being bitten to death by a zombie, which way of death is more comfortable. Strangely enough, however, the corpse in the coffin in the back room did not stand up as we imagined and run among us to play the game of "eagle catches chicken".
Zongzi asleep? Or maybe it's not a rice dumpling, it's just an old, well-preserved corpse.
"Let you usually read less novels, you don't listen, you don't listen!" After we sat there for more than ten minutes, fear finally turned into embarrassment, and embarrassment subtly turned into banter.
"You, why don't you go and take a look." I looked at the bag.
"Why don't you go! I'm not going anyway! Bastards are going! "Then there must be a son of a son of two of me.
"You've slept with him for so long, isn't your relationship iron?"
Leather bag can't wait to tear my stinky mouth, "We want to go together." ”
We leaned against the wall and moved to the inner room. When we nodded our feet again and peeked inside, we finally determined that it was just a dead body without any harm, and of course it was not ruled out as a contagion.
After a brief flash of light again and again, we finally got a good look at the whole body. The body inside the coffin was curled up and twisted, rough and cracked, and it seemed that it had been dead for a long time. Strangely enough, the body did not decompose, but was preserved in a state that resembled air-dried bacon, which certainly did not whet any appetite for my life. Looking further down the face, the deceased's face was twisted and hideous, and his mouth was wide open, apparently suffering unbearable pain from his death.
"There is a grudge to repay the grudge, there is a revenge to take revenge, the wronged creditor, don't hurt me!" Leather Bao'er stood aside and chattered, like Dachuan when Dachuan buried people's heads.
"Leather bag, why did you say that the one lying down has his head half raised?" I wondered.
"Uh, did you lie down and fall stiff?"
I imagined it, and if it weren't for the eerie atmosphere, I would have laughed out loud.
"serious! It's a dead man. ”
"You ask me, how the do I know!"
"You've slept with him for so long, maybe you're still mouth-to-mouth......" I started to joke about the bag again, "Anyway, your kid sleeps so deep that you can't feel it when you press down on anyone." ”
"Coma! It's okay to be unconscious! When I woke up again, I heard you outside, and I didn't even bother to care about what's going on down there. The bag insisted that he was unconscious, not sleeping. Then I said as if I felt sick, spit a few mouthfuls of phlegm, jumped to the side and retched.
I couldn't hold back any longer, laughing and patting the wooden coffin. It may be that I used too much force, or it may be that the bag touched the coffin when it was beating, and I saw the head in the coffin shake and then tilt to the side.
"There's something, look!" I saw that the human head was pillowing on a hole at the top of the Seven Star Plate, and a large iron bump protruded from this hole.
"No wonder this dead ghost half-raised his head, it turns out that he can't sleep on his pillow." The leather bag came over.
"We've got to find a way to get the body out."
"What? Isn't there a piece of iron, and it's not an antique? ”
"You don't know, this seven-star board is the yin bed of the dead, which means to attract longevity and blessing for future generations, and the hollow grass is used as a cushion below. There is an iron lump cast under this seven-star plate, and there must be an article in it. ”
"You understand this?" Leather Bag looked at me with incredible eyes.
I gave him a blank look, "I grew up in the countryside, and I haven't experienced anything." ”
Anyway, the dead body didn't bite, so we gritted our teeth and jumped in.
"I'm sorry, uncle. You'll have to lie down somewhere else. "Then we went to carry the male corpse one by one, but we tried several times but could not lift the body out, who knows whether it was psychological factors or whether the body had already adhered to the plank.
"No, why is it so heavy!" The leather bag looked at me with a puff.
I knew it was useless to exert myself, so I crouched down and studied the iron object. I found out that it was actually an oval-shaped protrusion, artificially inlaid in the seven-star hole, slightly higher than the wooden board, and it was not one with the seven-star board.
I picked it with my hand, and there was no response for a long time. So I kicked with my foot, once, twice, "boom~" The bottom of the coffin was made into a flap, and it was unexpectedly broken, and I and the bag fell.
We fell four or five meters high, and we fell heavily to the ground. "Poof! Poof! "Then we both coughed violently.
"Are you dead?" Leather Bag asked me.
"Almost, ahem." I struggled to get up, and I felt a sharp pain in my chest.
I picked up my bag and ran my fingers around for a cramped corridor where we landed at the very end. "Authentic! It's authentic! "I felt the traces of manual excavation.
"Saved?" The bag was delighted.
"It's pretty much the same, it's all on TV."
So I heard the tone of the leather bag, "watch less TV." ”
The two of us supported each other and walked towards the end of the corridor, which was long and dark. We walked very slowly, and we could feel that the road was slowly moving upwards. After walking for about half an hour, there was a roadbed of bluestone mounds, and it seems that this place was originally intended as a permanent fortification, but for some reason it was stagnant.
We were lucky that there were no forks in the road, no quicksand, no strange pythons, no poisonous insects. But let's be honest, the near-confined space and the feeling of being overwhelming, we amused each other and told yellow, not-so-coke jokes, in an attempt to make this journey as fast as possible.
The floor and surrounding walls began to get damper and wetter, and moss even grew where our fingers slid over. This is a good thing, because there is a river nearby, which means that we are getting closer to the earth.
After nearly two hours of non-stop trekking, we finally heard the sound of "rushing" water, and Leather Bag and I couldn't help but speed up our pace. We don't have the strength to speak anymore, we're close to exhaustion. After a while, a bean-sized light began to appear in front of him, and then it grew bigger and bigger.
The long night was finally over.
The bag broke free of my arm and took a few steps forward. When he reached the entrance of the cave, he turned around and began yelling at me. "Whoosh~" The sound of the running water outside was so loud that I asked over and over again, "What!" What the are you talking about! ”
As I slowly moved to the entrance of the cave, I finally understood what the bag was shouting - it was a waterfall cliff.
"Water Curtain Cave?" My mind twitched, and I looked out, and the rushing water splashed in the pool below, splashing huge white waves. We're in the middle of this waterfall, it's not very high, but if there's no water down there, I'm sure it's high enough to kill us.
"Jump?" Look at me.
"Jump your uncle, you make a movie! You don't have the aura of the protagonist! I gave me a blank look. Only then did I realize that he had fallen from the coffin badly, and I only broke a few ribs when I landed on my back, and the leather bag seemed to be on the ground, and now his face was covered with black-brown blood scabs from blood clotting.
"Do you want to go back?" Leather bags are very good at coming up with bad ideas.
I stared blankly at the pool below, and it seemed that it had rained heavily last night, and the water in the pool was bottomless.
What to do! What to do! My brain was spinning. Go back? The difference of four or five meters between the end of the tunnel and the house alone made it difficult for us to climb up. Besides, I don't know what happened to the strange mansion now, although it was dawn now, and the thunder stopped, but the thought of seeing the black skin again made my scalp explode.
Jump? It's five or six stories high, it's either injured or disabled, and Bag and I are both people who have fallen once.
Don't jump, wait for someone to come to the rescue. This vast mountain and wilderness waiting for a person with a slim chance is the same as suicide.
There is nothing more tragic in the world than when you have just escaped from a desperate situation, and you are immediately in another desperate situation.
I struggled to think about what I would do if this was really the secret passage for Lee to stammer. "That's right, vines! Vine! I shouted excitedly.
Not far from the entrance to the cave were several strands of arm-thick vines that we could knot into ropes. I told Leather Bag about my thoughts, and Leather Bag praised me, "You are so smart!" ”
Because the vines were far from the entrance of the cave, we had to hold each other's hands and lean out to reach out, and it took a lot of effort to break the two of them. The vines were too thick and too heavy, and then we took great pains to tie the two strands of vines into ropes, which were about five or six meters long.
We wrapped one end of the vine around a larger rock at the entrance of the cave, and then tied the other end of the vine to the leather bag. Leather Bao'er looked at me with tears in his eyes, he thought that in the face of life and death, I actually left him the first chance to live.
I gave him a blank look and said you think too much, in fact, I just want to test the strength of this rope. Then the bag became even more agitated, the excitement that wanted to tear me in half.
I thought about it for a long time and decided to wrap the middle part of the rope around myself, because the vines and the weight of the bag itself would make the dangling part very heavy.
"Actually, according to Newton's gravitational acceleration plus gravity, plus vertical fall...... "I used all the physical terms I could think of to start brainwashing my bag."
Bao Er stretched out his hands and took the water out, and began to wash his face. Then he asked me in disbelief, "Insurance?" ”
I patted my chest and punched the insurance ticket, "Absolutely safe!" When did your brother Feng lie to you, I vouch for my academic qualifications! ”
Then the leather bag began to rub towards the entrance of the cave little by little, and squatted at the entrance of the cave for a long time but did not dare. I scolded him for being a waste, and then duly brought Master Newton out and bragged, "Don't worry, it's absolutely fine, Newton said." ”
Leather Bao'er gritted her teeth and seemed to have made a lot of determination. I was just about to jump down, but suddenly turned around and asked me inexplicably, "Brother Feng, what kind of education do you have?" ”
"I didn't graduate from junior high school!" I kicked him down.