Chapter 43: A White Cloth
The cold laughter on the stairs outside gave me goosebumps to the ground, and it sounded like it had come out of eighteen layers of hell!
"Someone!" Jia Ren's face sank, and he took out his dagger to signal us to be on guard, and I nodded at him with a folding shovel, ready to touch out to see who it was.
Daoist Mo walked up to us and said, "Don't forget the spell I taught you before, if the situation is wrong, just recite it the way I did before. ”
It seems that this laugh may not have been made by a human, so I took a deep breath and pulled out the charm and nodded.
The three of them quietly walked out of the stone room, and Daoist Mo covered the flashlight and looked at it first, there was a white shadow squatting on the stairs ten meters away from us, and the cold laughter continued.
I swallowed my saliva and then held my flashlight and pressed the switch in that direction, and the flashlight immediately locked the thing, like a man in a white sheet.
The moment the light hit, the strange smile disappeared immediately, and the white shadow remained absolutely still as if it had been frozen.
I'd rather it suddenly be stimulated by the light and have some action, and now this strange still state makes me feel bottomless.
"Is this thing afraid of light?" Jia Ren asked, and Daoist Mo shook his head: "It's not clear, follow me, don't move the flashlight away from that thing." ”
Jia Ren and I followed Daoist Mo slowly towards the thing, and the closer I got, the more sure I was that it was a humanoid thing covered under the white cloth, which made me feel a little relieved.
After coming to him, Daoist Mo stretched out his hand and prepared to lift the white cloth, while Jia Ren and I clenched our weapons and prepared for battle, no matter what was under the white cloth, as long as we dared to attack, let him taste the power of the steel folding shovel first.
Daoist Mo took a deep breath and reached out to lift the white cloth.
I was stupid, I could accept that there was someone under the white cloth who couldn't be here, or even a corpse, but I couldn't accept that there was nothing under the white cloth! So what was the sneer just now?
This situation was beyond the expectations of all of us, Jia Ren rubbed his eyes several times before he reluctantly accepted this fact, while Mo Daoshi sat on the ground with a gloomy face and looked at the white cloth in his hand and thought.
"It's so weird, it's like a big change in magic." Jia Ren wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and looked around at the place where he was squatting in front of the white cloth with a look of disbelief.
"Let's see what Daoist Mo said, maybe it was indeed haunted just now, you think, so many people have died here, and it is not uncommon for a few powerful ghosts to haunt you."
I sighed and walked over to Daoist Mo and patted him on the shoulder, "Forget it, don't think about it, anyway, I don't know what it is, we still have to keep going." ”
"Something is wrong, just now I obviously felt that there was indeed something under the white cloth, how could it be that it disappeared immediately after lifting it?" Daoist Mo continued in a low voice, "Maybe there is a mechanism on this staircase. ”
"It can't be, right? Even if the mechanism is opened and an opening suddenly appears to leak out of the person or something under the white cloth, then we will hear a little noise, but we really didn't hear anything in our ears just now. ”
I denied his statement, and Daoist Mo also frowned and felt that things were very strange and he couldn't think of a clue.
Jia Ren said on the side: "Why do you care so much, climb the stairs first to find Zhang Qian, they are saying, I can't think of an eyebrow after a day of grinding here." ”
"Yes." Daoist Mo finally stopped worrying about this problem, he got up and threw the white cloth to the ground, and at this time, a strange thing happened, after the white cloth fell to the ground, he actually stood up by himself! It's the same as it was just now!
The three of us were all shocked, Daoist Mo didn't lift the white cloth this time, he just touched it with his hand, and then said, "There is indeed something, you come and touch it." ”
I didn't dare, Jia Ren was bolder, he walked over and stretched out his finger to poke a few times and exclaimed: "I'm grass!" What a thing! It seems that there is indeed a person down here! ”
As he spoke, he pulled the white cloth back, and the stiff white cloth highlighted the shape inside, and the outline of the head made my eyelids jump when I saw it, it was indeed the shape of a human face.
"What the hell is this?" I couldn't figure out what the principle was at all, and Daoist Mo didn't see any doorway after circling around the white cloth twice.
Just as the three of us were pondering what the hell was going on, the mouth on that face suddenly opened, and that grim laugh came out again.
"Hey, hey, hey."
I felt a chill in the back of my neck when I heard this, and Daoist Mo lifted the white cloth again with a lightning strike, and there was nothing as before.
"It's haunted." Jia Ren gasped.
I squinted at the white cloth and was about to ask if it was the thing, but Mo Daoist quickly rummaged through the white cloth, and after a few seconds he held up a red pattern on it and said to us, "This is it, witchcraft totem." ”
There was a pattern like a cow and a horse painted on it, and I stared at it for a while and asked, "This is the totem of the Sanmiao tribe?" ”
"No, this is a common totem for the nomads of the Western Regions." Daoist Mo stared at the totem above and continued, "This is the best proof that the third force here is from the Western Regions. ”
I nodded and said to him, "I remembered one thing before, it was related to the text information in the stone chamber just now, but I don't know if it has anything to do with this force in the Western Regions. ”
"Tell me about it."
I nodded and said, "Everyone knows that Emperor Shun died in Cangwu Mountain, that is, Jiuzhi Mountain, and there is a legend about how he died that is particularly interesting, that is, Emperor Shun angrily beheaded the evil dragon and died of injuries.
This coincides with the previous stone room saying that the god of the underworld descended a doppelganger and killed the evil dragon together with the king, if the doppelganger of the god of the underworld refers to Emperor Shun, will that king be the leader of the Sanmiao tribe? And the evil dragon should be the force in the Western Regions. ”
After this statement of mine is connected back and forth, it is more credible, and Daoist Mo pondered for a moment and nodded, "There is this possibility, if this is true, then the force in the Western Regions is probably also recruited by the Sanmiao tribe itself."
Originally, he just wanted to get the protection of that force, but after he got out of control, he had to ask Emperor Shun for help, so the stone chambers on both sides had completely different statements. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a cry for help coming from the stairs, the voice was weak and felt that the oil might run out at any time, and the three of us looked at each other and quickly ran towards it.