Listening to the sound of the stone ball hitting the steps getting closer and closer, faster and faster, I was sweating profusely, trying to find a place to dodge, but the narrow step passage was smooth on both sides of the wall, and there was no place to hide.

"Seventh Master, it can't go on like this, you have to think of a way quickly!" Wang Chuyi shouted.

At this moment, Huzi turned around suddenly, took out a saber from his backpack, and almost with all his strength, inserted the saber into the gap between the steps under his feet, this saber is about twenty centimeters long, and it is inserted vertically on the steps, which should be able to play a short blocking effect.

After doing this, we continued to run, and almost every time we ran a saber into the gap in the steps, fortunately each of us had two sabers with us, otherwise we would have lost half of our equipment just by this one step.

While running, Wang Chuyi said, "Huzi, don't you know the mechanism?" Let's see if there's any trap door or anything like that. ”

When Huzi heard this, he scolded, "Damn, running so fast, we can't find out what mechanism there is, I want to know how long this step is now, Lao Tzu's legs are almost weak." ”

It's okay that Huzi didn't say this, as soon as he said it, I also felt that my legs were weak, and we had been running this step passage for more than half an hour, and it had been tilting downward, and I didn't know where it led.

At this moment, suddenly the steps in front of me changed, I quickly raised the flashlight and shone it forward, only to see that the steps in front of me began to curve upward, and I couldn't help but be happy, as long as I could rush up the steps in front, the stone ball would not be chasing over!

I hurriedly shouted to tell the others to run, the stone ball behind me was already visible, if I was deflated now, it would be all over.

As soon as the Seventh Master heard that there was hope, they all ran forward with all their strength, and at the last moment, we finally rushed up this section of the upward steps, and the boulder stopped less than five meters behind us.

Finally got out of danger, a few of us breathed a sigh of relief, sat on the steps to rest, Huzi wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and said, "Damn, it's just a little bit, let's go to report to Lord Yama." ”

At this time, I was so tired that I only had the strength to breathe, and I couldn't speak at all, after about twenty minutes of rest, the seventh master was the first to stand up and continue to walk forward, this upward step was very high, and the height of each step was seventy or eighty centimeters, and it was quite laborious to walk.

In this way, we walked for a while, and suddenly found two green points of light in front, the seventh master hurriedly waved his hand to signal us to stop, only to see the two green lights in the distance flashed two or three times, and then swayed in the air, I took a closer look, and then determined that the thing is phosphorus fire, which is the kind that often appears in the graves in the countryside, commonly known as ghost fire, which is a kind of organic phosphorus formed by the decay of the corpse after death.

Seeing this, the Seventh Master couldn't help frowning, and said, "How can there be phosphorus fire?" Has anyone ever been here? Saying that, the seventh master walked forward cautiously, after turning over the two steps, we arrived at the location where the phosphorus fire was, only to see three skeletons appear in front of us, judging from the costumes of the three skeletons, it should be the Republic of China period, could it be said that in the Republic of China period, this ancient tomb has been discovered? If that's really the case, is the unicorn eye in this tomb still there? Could it have been taken out by someone?

Thinking of this, the Seventh Master and I hurriedly went to check the corpse's clothes to see if there were any artifacts in their backpacks and pockets.

This kind of work is naturally indispensable to the tiger, he is most happy to go into the tomb to pick up ready-made things, the three of us rummaged for a long time, and did not find any valuable artifacts and other objects from the three corpses, but the seventh master, from one of the skeleton's jacket pockets, turned out a small red book, only the size of a palm, it looks like it should be something like a document, open it and take a look, only to see that the first page of this small book actually painted a horse, this horse is painted lifelike, even after many years, Even now, I can't help but admire the subtlety of the painting.

I stepped forward and took a closer look, and suddenly found that this red book was very strange on the horse, and I always felt that something was wrong: "Seventh master, this horse is wrong, why don't you have eyes?" With only a pair of empty eye sockets, it can't be an undead horse, right? ”

The seventh master nodded, affirmed my statement, and then picked up the red book with both hands, put it on his chin, looked at it carefully with a sideways face, and after about two or three minutes, he put the book down, and then walked towards the three skeletons.

I saw that the seventh master looked more serious, as if he had discovered something big, and he didn't dare to go over to disturb, so he stood aside and watched, only to see the seventh master continuously look at the palms of the three corpses, and when he turned to the left hand of the third skeleton, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "That's right, it's really them!" ”

Seeing the Seventh Master slowly standing up, I dared to ask, "What?" Do you know who these three skeletons are? ”

The seventh master nodded, and said, "Of course I know, this is a person from the Northeast Ma family, and it can't be wrong, that person has six fingers on his left hand." ”

Northeast Ma family? A noun flashed in my mind, I always felt that I had heard it somewhere, I thought about it for a long time, and suddenly remembered that in the early years, in the Xuanmen, there was a saying that Nanmao and Beima Dongfo Xidao, Nanmao naturally refers to Lingnan Maoshan art, and Beima is a huge family, it is said that the people of the Northeast Ma family will have some Xuanmen thaumaturgy, which is different from Nanling Maoshan art, the Northeast Ma family has a unique skill, sniffing ghosts, that is, smelling with the nose, can smell where the yin is heavy, as long as the Ma family smells out of the place, most of them are some graves, Once you touch the big tomb, you will make a very small robbery hole, using the bone shrinking technique, plus a fairy rope, you can go down to the ancient tomb, very good.

It's just that the story of the Northeast Ma family is all some untenable rumors, and there are not many convincing things, the so-called fairy rope, I guess it is a rope such as a mountaineering rope, and a rope sleeve formed by a special knotting technique.

It's just that I ran into the corpses of three Ma family members here, which shocked me a little, these people are all old connoisseurs of the inverted bucket, how could they fold here? I turned around and shone my flashlight backwards, and the tall staircase was coming to an end, and then there were the ordinary steps, and if you rushed over, you could find the tomb door and go out, where did these three people come from? If they had come in from the other side of the tomb, they would have rushed out of the tomb, so why would they suddenly die here?

If, like us, we also entered through the tomb gate, then why did we suddenly die after walking these paths?

Thinking about it, I crouched down and took a closer look at the three skeletons, trying to find out if there were any scars on them, and if I could, I could tell what kind of mechanism they had hit.

But when I and the Seventh Master searched for it, we didn't find any scars on the three skeletons, and the three of them died here so well, at this moment, the Seventh Master shouted violently, "Put on the gas mask!" ”

I was so excited that I quickly took out my gas mask and put it on my head, and only two words flashed in my head: "Poison gas!" ”

There are no fatal scars on the skeleton's body, and there can only be one reason for the sudden death, and that is poison, and it is highly poisonous!

After putting on the gas mask, the seventh master waved his hand at us, signaling us to continue walking, and soon reached the end of the steps, I held up the flashlight and shone forward, as far as the eye could see, it was all pink mist, and the concentration was very high, and I couldn't see the road ahead clearly.

"Damn, it's really poisonous!" Huzi scolded and stopped, because we didn't know how powerful the pink mist in front was, none of us dared to rush in.

The Seventh Master watched for a while, and then said, "This poisonous fog is visible to the naked eye, and it is absolutely impossible for the three people of the Ma family not to find it, according to my speculation, the area covered by this poisonous fog should be very large!" ”

As soon as the seventh master's words fell, Wang Chuyi said, "Yes, I guess that the three people of the Ma family should have been forced into a dead end by something and had to pass through the poisonous fog, at the beginning of the period they should be holding their breath, but later found that the area covered by the poisonous fog was too large, so they had to open their mouths to breathe, and then ......"

I swallowed involuntarily in the face of this poisonous mist, to be honest, even if we were wearing gas masks now, I would not want to enter the pink poisonous mist, in case this thing was corrosive, it would be troublesome.

Thinking of this, I put on my gloves without saying a word, armed myself to the teeth, and then stopped.

The seventh master looked at me and said, "With our current equipment, it shouldn't be a big problem to go in, the era of the three brothers of the Ma family is not as good as we are now." With that, the Seventh Master took a step forward and walked forward one step ahead.

Seeing that the seventh master was already about to enter the poisonous mist, I had no choice but to be cross-hearted, and quickly followed, just entered the poisonous mist, only to feel that it suddenly darkened, the range of the flashlight was less than five meters, it seemed that the concentration of this fog was too high.

At this moment, I suddenly felt that I had stepped on a hard object under my feet, and hurriedly looked down, and when I squatted down, I found that under my feet was a vine the thickness of a child's arm, lying horizontally on the ground.