XXXV. A map

The beard's voice trembled a little, and only our flashlights lit up by the ghostly surroundings, adding a bit of horror to this palace.

I feel a little unnatural, with Feijing, a ghost hunter, by my side, I am not very afraid if I encounter a corpse. But the other party is Ali, who has just died, and if she turns into something and stands in front of me, to be honest, I have a special sense of fear spreading in my heart.

The beard was also obviously a little guilty. I'm holding a flashlight and shining around.。。 Want this to Ali's corpse.

But there was nothing around but the coffin, and he couldn't find him for a long time, and he didn't speak with a gloomy face, and he could see that he was worried about something.

We turned all our eyes to Feijing, he is a ghost hunter Taoist, and he is the best at this kind of supernatural events, at this time we can only pin on him, hoping that he can find clues.

"You must have encountered a lot of this kind of thing as a ghost hunter Taoist. Can you tell where the body went? Ayumi asked calmly on the side.

Of the four of us, only Ayumi could ask this in a normal tone at this time.

Feijing shook his head and said: "If it was really a matter of encountering such an evil sect every day, Dao Ye and I would have considered changing careers a long time ago, who can be stimulated by this every day." Sick is not. Listening to his tone, he seemed to be puzzled by the sudden disappearance of the corpse.

I hesitated for a long time, but finally I finally asked, "Will she still be alive?" ”。

"Alive? Big brother, you didn't see it just now, that girl's body is stiff. How can you be alive," Beard ruthlessly told the truth.

When he said that, I understood it in my heart, but I just didn't feel comfortable. Yes, Ali's death is so certain, there is absolutely no room for any possible detour. My heart suddenly cooled again.

"Could it be a corpse?" Ayumi asked Feijing.

Feijing's eyes narrowed slightly, pondered for a while, and said uncertainly: "It's possible, but it's not likely." Because I have encountered a few cases of corpse fraud, and each time it is very exciting, it is absolutely impossible to be so peaceful. However, this place is very evil, and it is normal for the corpse to be strange. ”。

Feijing's words were very funny, but I didn't feel like laughing. Glancing at the situation around him in fear, he said, "Let's look and see if we can find it."

I was completely blinded, and all such irresponsible words were spoken. After thinking about it, I guessed how they felt at that time, and they must have been angry and pitiful.

These words completely disregarded me, and the comfort of others.

Beard objected to me, but did not explicitly disagree. He lit a cigarette for me, and then said to me gently, "Zhang Xin, you have to open something." Man is human when he lives, and after he dies, he is just an object, a skin. Isn't it all about kicking your legs wherever you die? This place doesn't seem to be what we first suspected. It's likely that the killing move is in the back, for the sake of a corpse, do you really want to take this risk? Is it worth it?

If you really can't get over this hurdle in your heart, we will accompany you to look around. But before I do that, I would like to remind you that we are really running out of time. If you look at your watch, it's less than four hours before the storm that the dog-day ship boss spoke of. It's enough for us to go back the same way, and you're going to waste it here? If we don't do it well, we may be here to bury Ali's eldest sister. ”。

Hu Zi's words are tactful enough, and the analysis is also the head is the truth, which is reasonable and well-founded, I pondered it again, and finally sighed helplessly and said: "Yes, I listen to you." ”。

Feijing said that without further ado, let's go to the fourth layer first. My feeling is that if Yang Xiaoqi and Dragon Tooth hadn't died, they would have come here too. After all, this is the very core of the ancient city, and the main burial chamber is likely to be on the top floor.

"Those two goods will never die, and you don't know their skills. Having said that, the dragon's tooth is understandable, after all, he is the top figure of the 'Seven Colors'. But Yang Xiaoqi has changed a little, and I don't know what he has encountered since he came back from 131, this time I saw him in addition to his temper has not changed, his skills and courage can be compared with Hu Ye and me. Unbelievable". Beard said on the side.

"Why. That kid got a lot smarter. It's not as silly as it used to be. Come on, don't mention him yet, let's get ready and go. Feijing waved his hand and opened the way in front of him with a flashlight.

The passage was as Ayumi had guessed, and when it went down, it was a walkway that went to the left, without any steps, and it was all going in parallel.

The walkway was surprisingly wide enough to pass a horse-drawn carriage, and a few of us looked around and there was nothing worth noting.

Beard said hello and we moved on. After a while, they came to a stone staircase that went up.

Seeing this, Ayumi smiled with a rare smile: "As I guessed, this road to the fourth layer is indeed hidden. ”。

Beard said don't be too happy too soon, you see there are two corpses there. It means that this fourth layer is not safe.

We were all stunned by the sudden words of the beard, and then surprised. This guy's eyes are really thieves.

Looking in the direction of the beard point, sure enough, there were two figures lying on the ground in front of the stone steps upward, the light was very dim, and it looked vague and unreal, but it was certain that it was a human form.

There can't be an inflatable doll in this place, and the shadow can't be a stone statue if it's on the ground, so I'm sure it's definitely human.

The beard touched his chin on the side and said as if he was serious.

Feijing scolded him, told him to be serious, and then took out his knife and slowly touched it with a flashlight.

We followed him closely, and in case something happened, we could help a little.

That's two dead people, yes, and they've been dead for a long time. Judging by the degree of dryness of the corpse, it was at least a few years or more.

The corpses were two men, who looked burly even though they had shrunk severely. It can be seen that these two people definitely belonged to the existence of the iron tower before their deaths.

After making sure there was no danger, the flying mirror beckoned us and let us pass.

Ayumi is a corpse digger, and she has a certain judgment on corpses. "This is a foreigner," she said. ”。

Foreigner? The corpses of foreigners appeared in this ancient city deep in the waters of China? It's kind of incredible.

Hu Zi didn't seem to have any good feelings for foreign peoples, and grinned: "Damn, these foreign devils didn't fish for treasures from our ancestors back then, and they deserved to die here this time." ”。

"Can you tell which country it's from?" Feijing asked Bumidao.

Ayumi glanced at him lightly, and said angrily, "Why don't you ask if you can see their names?" I was amused by her words, this girl looked cold, I didn't expect there to be such a side in my heart.

It's an eye-opener. Beard muttered quietly, obviously a little surprised by Ayumi's joke.

"It's been too long to die. You guys dig through the backpacks there and see if there's anything that proves their identity? Ayumi said to Beard and me.

I didn't move, after all, I was a writer, and I was still a little resistant to the corpse, even the things on the corpse.

Beard nodded indifferently, in fact, there was no need for Ayumi to say that he would do the same.

The backpack contains compressed biscuits, an alcohol stove, a medical bag, rope, gloves, matches, and more. There was also a rotten pistol on his waist, which was no longer usable.

Beard laid out everything one by one, and finally found a map and a notebook, both written in English. It was really unexpected. We may have used the map, but the English notebook told us that it was a book from heaven. I only know one NO and YES, and the rest are 'little tadpoles'.

Other people don't know anything about English, even Feijing, a decent college student, can't understand it, and he doesn't know how he got into college.

The map was so important to us that we were even more surprised when we opened it that it was a bird's-eye view of the entire ancient city under the sea, with almost every place drawn and described in detail.

Beard asked me to wrap up my notes and find a girl who understands bird language to translate them for us when I go out. After explaining this to me, he beckoned us to look at the map together.

The notebook was close to falling apart, and I felt like it would be shattered if I had a little bit more strength in my hands. I had no choice but to use my laptop to take off the crust and make a mold to put on the front and back, then wrap it in a tarp and carefully put it in the innermost slit of my backpack.

When everything was ready, I leaned over and worked on the map with the bearded men.

The map was kept fairly well because it was stored in a plastic wooden box. Otherwise, we wouldn't dare to take it apart and look at it like this.

There are a lot of circles and crosses painted on it, and I don't know what they mean.

After all, the beard is from the captain of the gold school, and the ability to read pictures is above us. There were some places that we couldn't understand, so he explained them to us while watching.

This is indeed a map of the ancient city, which records the location of the palace, as well as the buildings and streets of the entire ancient city.

Hu Ziyi pointed to the location of the underground river in the picture and said: "This is the moat river, and the picture has a name in English, let's not care what it's called for the time being." Look here."

We looked in the direction he was pointing, and there was an open area on the side of the bottom of the river, which was supposed to be a hidden burial chamber or something. The picture depicts a large area there, and there are no coffins in the burial chamber, not burial goods. It's a man with a small horn painted on his head. I think this is the kind of underground people we encountered before.

This position is drawn with a large cross,

There are three such spaces in the entire river, but in the middle there is an upward sluice gate, which resembles a modern urban drainage system. The intricate roads are interconnected with each other, covering almost the entire ancient city.

What we didn't expect was that there was a way to the palace in the underground passage. It's just that the whole road is almost covered with small lattice burial chambers.

There is also a cross drawn on this road.

Feijing pointed to the gate under the river and said, "I think Yang Xiaoqi and they may come out along this road and enter this palace under the city." ”。

Hu Zi said, from the diagram there is indeed only this way, but you have also seen that it is so complicated underneath, can they really get out safely?

Beard was right. Yang Xiaoqi They didn't have a map, and it was a little difficult to get out of the labyrinthine underground passage.

Ayumi suddenly said on the side: "Not necessarily, if you look carefully, although the roads under the ancient city are complicated, every one leads to this palace." As long as they're willing to go. You will definitely come to this palace. ”。

Hearing her say this, we immediately looked at the map again, and sure enough, as she had said, every road ended up with the same road leading to the palace. No matter how many turns you have made along the way, this is definitely the final destination.

I always thought it was a bit unusual, but I couldn't think of anything wrong. I had to continue looking at the map there.

The beard was now observing the location of the palace, and he counted his fingers little by little on the map, and counted them in his mouth.

1、2、3、4.....

"What do you count?" I asked.

Beard raised his head and said to us, "That's right, this picture shows that this palace has a total of nine floors. We're on the third floor, and there's ....... above that No way! He exclaimed.

"Look for death. Shocked," Feijing scolded.

I was also frightened by the sudden attack of the beard's 'I rely on', so I looked at him angrily and asked him what was wrong?

The beard wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said, "Damn, things are not good." You can't go up to the fourth floor, what do you see on this picture? ”。