Chapter 515: Thin Mud
Seeing that Wang Chuyi's face returned to normal, I was a little relieved, and was about to open my mouth to ask the old man to tell me the exact location of the entrance to the ancient tomb, but unexpectedly he stood up directly, walked towards the inner room, and then closed the door heavily, leaving me and Wang Chuyi in a daze in the house.
"What's wrong with this old man?" Wang Chuyi asked.
"It's nothing, I asked him about the tomb, and he wouldn't say."
At this time, Wang Chuyi smiled slightly and said, "Why do you ask him?" If you have hands and feet, let's find them ourselves. As he spoke, Wang Chuyi took out a yellowed map from his arms and shook it in front of me.
When I looked up, I knew that this was the trend map of the ridge vein, in other words, the map of the entrance to the ancient tomb, as long as we had it, we could find the entrance to the ancient tomb smoothly.
I lowered my voice and said, "Okay, you were in that room just now, didn't you churn a little?" ”
Wang Chuyi secretly smiled and said, "Professional habits, professional habits." ”
When the morning sun shone into the house, Wang Chuyi and I had already packed our bags and were ready to leave.
I got up and knocked on the old man's door, but there was no response, I wonder if the old man was still there, maybe he had gone out before us?
I shouted in front of the door, "Thank you, old gentleman, for taking you in last night, and we're leaving." ”
After saying that, I pulled Wang Chuyi out of the old man's house.
When I came out, I found that everything in the village had changed, it was completely different from last night, the fallen leaves on the ground had disappeared cleanly, the collapsed and dilapidated houses had also taken on a new look, and the whole village looked clean and tidy, as if someone had just cleaned it.
But now I am most worried about the village gate, and if the gate is still like last night, I am afraid we will not be able to get out.
When Wang Chuyi and I walked to the village gate, we found that the gate had been restored to its original state, and its position had changed, exactly the same as when we entered, and a sloping down staircase appeared in front of us.
I opened the map that Wang Chuyi secretly took out and looked at it carefully, according to the trend of the ridge on the map, the ancient tomb should be located in the northwest of this village, but if you want to reach the location of the ancient tomb, I am afraid it will take a lot of twists and turns, after all, there is no road to go directly here, everything can only rely on us.
Walking down the stairs of the village, when we reached a slightly flat place, Wang Chuyi and I each held a hand* and walked along the dense woods in the northwest direction.
As he walked, Wang Chuyi suddenly said, "Lao Bai, you are in front, the branches in front." ”
I hurriedly walked over, and took a closer look, this branch was obviously cut down, and the cross-section was still very fresh, it should have been cut not long ago, indicating that Huzi and they had also walked this road, in this way, it is simple, as long as we follow the traces left by Huzi, we should be able to find the entrance to the ancient tomb.
We followed these traces all the way, and before sunset, we walked out of the forest and came to an area with relatively sparse vegetation, where there were no traces left by the tigers as they marched.
"Lao Bai, look over there." Wang Chuyi raised his hand and pointed to a bush on the northwest side.
I looked in the direction of her finger, and I saw something with white flowers, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be gauze! There's blood on it!
"Let's take a look."
When I walked in front of the gauze, I only felt that my feet were weak, and one foot was already sunk in the mud.
"Stand back, first year, this is a trap!" I hurriedly shouted, but fortunately, Wang Chuyi reacted quickly enough and stopped in time.
Years of experience in inverted buckets have made us develop a habit of always looking at unfamiliar areas, one after the other, so that if the person in front of us hits a trap, the person behind can also help in time.
"Grab the rope and I'll pull you out!" Wang Chuyi threw the rope over with a shake of her hand, and after I grabbed it, she began to pull back.
Just when I was being pulled out of the mud by Wang Chuyi little by little, suddenly a strange laughter sounded.
"Giggle......
This laughter sounded very eerie, and it made people feel an inexplicable fear in my heart, and I quickly looked around, trying to find out where the laughter came from.
"Giggle......
The laughter was like a spell that kept echoing in my ears, but I couldn't find the exact location of the sound.
"First year of junior high school, did you hear that?" I asked out loud.
Wang Chuyi was pulling the mountaineering rope hard, and when he heard me ask, he shook his head and said, "What kind of laughter?" I didn't hear that. ”
At this time, I looked down, and suddenly found that next to the leg I fell into the mud, there was a strange woman's face, the woman's face was very pale, her eyes were narrowed into a slit, and she couldn't see the eyeballs at all, and the most creepy thing was that there were more than a dozen finger-thick holes on this woman's face, and there was a black mud-like liquid gushing out of it.
The woman's face was staring at me, her mouth opening every now and then, and if I could describe it as an animal, I immediately thought of the fish, the fish that kept opening its mouth after leaving the water.
"Quick, pull me up!" I was so frightened that my voice changed, and I was tugging at the rope while trying to pull my leg out of the mud with all my might.
But the more anxious I was, the more I couldn't pull out this leg.
The woman's face seemed to sense my movements, and began to climb up my legs that had fallen into the mud.
I was so close that I could see very clearly that there was a stake under the woman's neck, as if the human head was growing on a wooden stake, and the stake was full of thorns, and it was covered with red liquid, and a strong smell of blood penetrated into my nostrils, and I immediately realized that it was blood!
As the stake got closer and closer to me, the thorns on the stake began to pierce my skin, and the pain came over me instantly.
"Ahh I screamed.
"Lao Bai!" Wang Chu exclaimed one by one, and the force of pulling the mountaineering rope couldn't help but increase a few points.
The pale face of the woman had risen to the position of my neck, and the thorny stake was almost attached to my chest, and the skin on my chest was covered with blood from the thorns, and the woman's face began to blow an eerie cool air towards my neck, giving me goosebumps all over my body.
"Damn, I'm fighting with you!"
In this case, the fear has been infinitely magnified, and in an extreme fear, I chose to give up the struggle, took out the Miao knife from the tactical backpack with my backhand, and slashed at the woman's head.
The knife roared, slicing a large hole in the woman's head, and blood spurted out at once, splashing my face.
"Click... Click...... Giggle......"
A strange sound came from the bottom of the stake, and after a creaking sound, the woman let out a creepy laugh again, and then the stake began to slowly descend.
As the stake left my chest, the thorns that had pierced my skin slowly pulled away, and my chest was already blood-red.
"Quick, Lao Bai, work hard, it's about to come out!" Wang Chuyi tied the rope to a tree, walked quickly towards me, and then stretched out his hand and grabbed my arm.
Wang Chuyi dragged back hard, and I struggled desperately to get out of the mud.
"Click!"
With a crisp sound, my foot was pulled out of the mud.
"What's that?" Wang Chuyi pointed to the position of my ankle and exclaimed.
I looked down and found that there was a human hand at my ankle, which was holding my ankle tightly, because my foot had been stuck in the mud just now, I couldn't detect the feeling of being caught, and now I pulled it out and found that this hand was still connected to half of my arm.
I took a closer look and saw that the bottom of the half of the arm was still exposed with white bone slag exposed.
"This can't be the hand of the tiger, right?" Wang Chuyi asked nervously.
The arm was wearing a black training uniform and a metal ring on the ring finger, which was clearly a modern arm.
"No, Huzi is not married yet, how can he wear a ring?"
I couldn't help but look at the muddy ground in front of me again, I don't know what happened here before, but I can infer from this arm that something dangerous happened here, and someone died tragically under this muddy ground.
After this commotion, I took off my shirt and asked Wang Chuyi to disinfect the wound on my chest with alcohol, and looked around, the ground here was all covered with a kind of low bushes, and it was impossible to distinguish which piece of land could be stepped on and which piece of land was thin mud.
We had to use the long branches to find our way, and the speed of our march slowed down a lot.
According to the analysis of the ridge trend map, we walked all the way to the northwest, and there were always some traces along the way, and there were no traces of blood along the way, as if this way came over, the mercenaries behind Huzi encountered a lot of strange phenomena, and there were also very fierce battles.
The sky gradually darkened, and an inexplicable sense of danger instantly enveloped the entire forest, Wang Chu and I lit torches and prepared to continue walking, but at the moment when the torch was lit, a face suddenly appeared in front of me, no more than two centimeters from the tip of my nose.
I screamed in fright, instinctively retreated, Wang Chuyi hurriedly raised the flashlight to shine forward, only to see a low old woman standing in front of us, hunched over, holding a white bone flute in her left hand.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart, this old woman should be the old gentleman who mentioned to us before, ghost woman!
I instinctively looked around, and sure enough, I found that the surroundings were unconsciously full of barefoot children, and these children formed a large circle, and Wang Chuyi and I were in the middle of this circle.