Chapter 29: Falling Sands

I followed Su Xiao's direction and looked, damn it, what is this? Half a rubber tube?

I bent down and pulled the half of the rubber tube out of the sand, and I didn't know that this pull actually brought something out. <#..

A glittering thing slowly came out from under the sand, and I felt a thrill in my heart, this is not some evil thing, right?

"Su Xiao, go back!" I yelled at Su Xiao, and then slowly pulled it out, but when I saw it, I was fucking happy for a while, and I couldn't cry or laugh.

Where is this rubber pipe, it is the section of wire connected to the lamp mouth of the miner's lamp, and the one that flashes below is the lamp head of the miner's lamp.

"This should be the one in the third brother's hand." I glanced at Liu Er, who looked anxious, and his eyes were red and about to burst into flames.

"How did this thing get under the sand? Just now, the second child shouted a voice, and we saw that the light in the third child's hand went out, which was only five or six minutes before and after, what about people? "Hong Ye's face is not good-looking.

"Is the third child gone?" Liu Er didn't seem to listen, but looked straight at the miner's lamp in my hand, his face full of sadness.

I sighed, handed the miner's lamp to Hong Ye, walked over, and patted Liu Er on the shoulder.

"Second brother, don't worry, it should be fine, the third brother is a celestial person, and I didn't hear the third brother's voice, I'm afraid I'm going to get separated, look for it again, look for it again." I comforted.

Hearing me say this, Liu Er's eyes were a little bright, but it was obviously difficult to recover all of a sudden.

"That's it, little brother, you and Miss Su are here, holding torches, me and the second child, let's scatter to look for it, the miner's lamp stays here, make a mark, the time is twenty minutes, whether you find it or not, come back." Hong Ye's face was solemn and he came up with such a method.

Su Xiao and I nodded, and Liu Er had no opinion, obviously agreeing.

I got some sand on the miner's lamp, buried it there, and turned the power to the maximum, and that guy was like a searchlight in an anti-Japanese drama, with a white pillar of light shining along the top of the roof.

I didn't have time to look at what's above my head, so I looked at it, and I should have been able to see it from afar.

This thing is the lighthouse that these two of us will find later, and use it to guide the way.

"Let's go, Su Xiao." I took Su Xiao's hand, held the torch in the other hand, glanced at Hong Ye and Liu Er, and turned to leave.

Hong Ye sighed, and Liu Er also took out another torch from his bag and lit it and touched it in the opposite direction.

"Master Hong, second brother, remember, twenty minutes, no matter what, you must come back!" I roared solemnly, and Hong Ye nodded heavily.

I glanced at the two of them, never looked back, and pulled Su Xiao away.

I don't know if I can go back here this time, but the white pillar of light emitted by the miner's lamp gives me some confidence, and I hope I can find Liu San and walk out together.

But there was a kind of uneasiness in my heart, which became heavier and heavier, and made me feel chills all over my body.

"Let's go, Su Xiao, let's go down over there, you see, I don't know if there are any traces here, and I don't know if it's the footprints of the third brother." I pointed to the deep and shallow groove under my feet.

My family has been digging sand for generations, and I can say that the sand is the most familiar thing to me, and looking at the deep and shallow traces, I know that something must have passed through here before.

But I can't guarantee what it is, because after walking on the sand, it will not leave footprints like loess, but deep and shallow ditches, which will slowly be buried by the sand again.

"You said that this past is the third brother Liu?" Su Xiao looked at me and asked.

"I don't know, it may be Liu San, or it may be Brother Dong who came first, it is more likely to be someone else, or ......" I don't want to talk about it anymore, the more I talk about it, the more I cry, the more I get mad.

I turned my head, "Look, Su Xiao, the lights are there, we can go out, if we find the third brother, we will go to that place to meet Hong Ye, and then we will definitely be able to go out." I spoke optimistically to Su Xiao with confidence that I don't know where it came from, and she listened carefully.

It's just that there are some things she knows, and I know.

I remember when I was a child, my father told me, people, you have to have hope in life.

I asked my grandfather what his hopes were. My grandfather smiled and told me that when I marry my daughter-in-law, he will hold his great-grandson.

But now, I am not married and have children, my father has left this world, and maybe I will die in this tomb in the near future. The only regret is that I didn't find the secrets that my father left me.

I felt that something was wrong with my spirit, and in this oppressive environment, I actually started to think cranky. Su Xiao looked at my ugly face, and suddenly used force to hold my hand, I came back to my senses, smiled at her, and told her that I was fine.

"You can't have something, I haven't repaid the favor yet, you saved me by changing your life at that time." Su Xiao said to me with a serious face.

I was stunned by her serious look, but I quickly reacted. "Then how do you repay me?" I smiled and squeezed her hand tighter.

"I ......" Su Xiao opened his mouth and was about to say something, but was interrupted by a sudden voice.

Moo! Moo! Moo! Moo! Moo!

This sound sounded five times in a row, one higher than the other, one more urgent than the other, and finally turned into a strand of gathering, which made my ears tingle.

"What is this?" Su Xiao asked me in horror.

"Damn, it's the cry of a cow, how can there be a cow in the ground? Hell alive. I pulled Su Xiao and looked at the darkness around me in panic, trying to find the source of the voice.

It's dark all around, and I don't know if it's still in the tomb we came in. It's hard for me to imagine what kind of person could build such a vast sea of sand in the mausoleum.

"Arwen, Arwen, have you ever heard a saying?" Su Xiao's eyes lit up, as if he remembered something, and suddenly asked me.

I was still looking for the source of the voice, listening to her ask, subconsciously asking her what legend she had.

"Ground Cow!" Su Xiao's voice was a little faint, but when it reached my ears, it set off a big wave. "Earth cow, earth cow ......." I muttered these two words in my mouth, trembling all over, damn it, could it be this thing?

A scene from my childhood came to my mind.

At that time, I was about seven or eight years old, and in our country, I could already follow the adults to the fields or the battlefield. Of course, it can't help much, but when you are busy, you can send dry food and water to your family.

It was also summer, I carried a basket of stewed vegetables and steamed buns to the sand field, that year my family and the old six families next door partnered to make a sand field, my mother cooked, I also sent a lot. At that time, I was accompanied by the boy from the old six family, who was seven or eight years older than me, and went to the junior high school in the town, and when I came back on Sunday, I went with him.

When I got to the battlefield, I called my father and my grandfather up, and the adults began to eat, and I walked around, the sun was poisonous, and I was afraid of the sun. But while eating, my dad said he felt the sand shake under his feet.

The sixth smiled and said, you are weak, did you toss your mother-in-law yesterday, my father scolded him with a smile, and he was really churning underground.

Then I went up to my father and said, "Daddy, the eggs are in the pit." Niu Dan is the kid from the sixth family.

Lao Liu was immediately anxious when he heard this. The dolls in our sand field are not allowed to go down, the sand is not like loess, it is easy to collapse, and once it collapses, people will be buried alive.

The sixth man didn't eat anymore, so he scolded and walked to the bottom of the sand pit, but he didn't know that he had walked less than five steps. Then I heard "Moo, moo!" from under the ground. This sound shook the ground and then shook the whole battlefield as if it were boiling and dusty.

My father's face changed, and he hugged me and walked up.

Half an hour later, when my father and my father took me to the place just now, a big man was digging frantically in the sand, crying as he plowed.

The next day, I heard from people outside that the old six cows had died under the battlefield and were buried alive. Others said that they were eaten by the ground cows.

When I got home, I asked my dad what a cow was. My dad sighed and told me not to go to the battlefield again, and didn't tell me what a ground cow was.

But with those five loud roars, and with Su Xiao's reminder, I finally felt the familiarity of that voice, which was so terrifying in my memory.

"I'm afraid there will be an earthquake, what can I do inside this ancient tomb?" Su Xiao's face turned white.

I pulled her. "Isn't it a ground cow?"

Hearing my question, Su Xiao and I ran to the side and explained to me that the side was a depression against the wall, and I thought we should be able to dodge.

"The earth cow is an earthquake." Su Xiao took the time to explain to me.

But when I heard it, I didn't think so, is that really the case?

I hid in that hollow, watching the sand on the ground start to shake constantly, and the scene of the battlefield when I was a child appeared in front of me again, damn it, but don't let anything happen again.

I prayed in my heart for every god I could count. But I don't know if it's my crow's mouth or it's true, after I changed my life, I became a damned person in Hong Ye's mouth with eighteen tribulations. Neither the heavens nor the gods heard my call.

I saw the sand on the ground throb slightly, like fried beans, and then the same sound that I had just made came again.

This time I heard it very well, and it was coming from underground!

It was a low, mooing roar like a cow, deep and strong, repeating itself so much that it sounded like a muffled breath in the middle of summer.

"Ah, watch out for Arwen!" I was thinking about this when Su Xiao suddenly pushed me, and I stumbled and fell on the sand.

"How ......"

I was suddenly confused by Su Xiao. But before I could speak, I saw that the hollow rocks I had been leaning on had begun to shake with the ground, and a crack appeared with a click, spreading towards the sand where I had fallen.

"Run!" I was completely awake now, and I took Su Xiao's hand and wanted to run.

But the ground kept throbbing, and it was completely unsteady.

At this moment, Su Xiao beside me suddenly screamed, and I saw a black crack open under her feet.

Then she fell, and I gritted my teeth and tried to pull her up, but in a few moments, my feet cracked.

Bang!

With a loud bang, I fell in, and immediately the sand and stones that fell from above hit my head, making my eyes black.

Before I passed out, I vaguely remembered that I was still holding Su Xiao's hand.