Chapter 3: The Tears of the Stone Gate
This frightened everyone, Guan Hu trembled, and the gun went off. The huge echo of "bang" shook everyone.
The torches fell to the ground and were extinguished.
The appearance of a coffin in a closed cave can still be understood, and suddenly a person sitting on the ground is seen, completely ripping off the tense nerves.
Conditioned reflex Guan Long also fired a gunshot,......
Three of the four were sitting and one was lying, and there was no one standing upright.
It's dark
There was darkness, silence.
"Am I dead?" Twelve woke up, and it was dark in front of him.
Twelve's words broke the silence, and the three people who were stupid were much more sober. My heart was still trembling, and I didn't know anything in the darkness if the person sitting on the ground had already walked to my side. Guan Hu felt the shotgun and swung it vigorously in front of him.
Guan Long went to touch the matches on his body in a panic, and after touching the matches, he scratched again and again, but it always failed to burn. In the darkness, it seemed that the man was sitting next to him. Seeing that the person was about to collapse, at last, a faint light illuminated the eyes, and the match was struck.
Although it was only a little light, the three people who were flustered were much better.
Guan Long struck the matches one by one, and asked Guan Hu to smear the torch with some meat oil and light the torch again.
The torches that were just oiled brought plenty of light, and Twelve seemed to have broken through the psychological barrier, and he was not afraid.
The man sitting in front of the stone gate was still sitting there, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Guan Long and Guan Hu also loaded their shotguns with iron sand.
The four men stood up and walked over to the seated man.
Another stone gate, in front of which sat a Taoist priest wearing a robe.
The Taoist priest sat cross-legged, looking like a dead man, his muscles somewhat atrophied. The beard hung down on his chest, and it seemed that this was the old way painted on the cave wall.
If the old way also has it, then what about the monsters in the picture, are there too? Or is it just a fictional story on the mural?
Look at the stone gate behind the old road, there are also words on the stone door, but this time even patriotism doesn't know these words, and the door is covered with yellow paper painting charms.
Aiguo was about to look carefully at the words on the stone door, when suddenly the charms began to turn black and fell one by one. Before it fell to the ground, the spell was all ashes. Looking at the murals on the cave walls, they also began to lose their brilliance, and then they rose to the ground, turned black, and fell off.
The four of them watched all this back to back, and then looked at Lao Dao who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, his skin slowly began to darken, and his muscles shrank in, as if he suddenly ran out of water, and slowly it was like only a layer of human skin was wrapped on his bones, and the Dao robe and Dao crown turned into black ash, and then the whole person scattered to the ground.
Although the four of them were surprised, they were not very afraid. I had heard of old men digging up the graves of the ancients, and the contents turned to ash when they saw the air.
"Look at what is written on the stone gate, just go out" patriotism is also a little panicked. Take a closer look at the stone door, after the charm on the door is dropped, the stone door shows a huge face, and there are two holes carved in the middle of the doorknob between the two doors, forming a huge nostril of the face. Two large eyes are carved in the center of the two doors, and there is an eye that stands up in the middle of the eyebrows.
This face has three eyes.
The whole door is carved with countless lines, many Taoist charms, the top of the face, the top of the door is engraved with three traditional characters, patriotic one by one, "broken-soul--closed"
There is a row of small characters below the three big characters, which is not very clear, and there are some charms that have not fallen off and are blackened to cover the row of words below.
Aiguo reached out to wipe the black paper ashes, and as soon as his hand touched the paper ashes, the paper ashes turned into black powder and floated down. The blood on his hand inadvertently touched the stone door.
Patriotic torches close to those few small words. I looked at those words carefully, and my heart moved, and I read them out one by one,
"The Ancient Road of Broken Souls, the Hidden - the Underworld - the Underworld, the Living Do Not Approach"
As soon as he finished reading, some black things suddenly flowed out of the two eye holes on the stone carved face, and Guan Long pulled Aiguo behind him. Looking at the face on the stone door again, it was like crying, and a black thing kept falling out of the two eyes, like a person crying.
Shimen wept.
Guan Long raised his gun and pointed it at Shimen, "Where the hell did these two big centipedes come from?"
Patriotic look closely, those two lines of tears are actually two big worms crawling.
The big worm writhed and crawled out of the two eye holes. The people in the mountains don't know other such big insects, so they all say that they are centipedes. Guan Long and Guan Hu often go into the mountains to hunt, and their eyes are good, and they can see at a glance that the tears flowing are two big "centipedes". Guan Long and Guan Hu didn't dare to be careless, the two guns kept pointing at the stone gate, and slowly took two steps back. They know that the farther away from this poison the better.
Aiguo was also at a loss, and was about to beckon everyone to run back, when the two centipedes had already crawled in through the two nostrils of the big face.
"Brother Aiguo, let's go back, it's weird here" Twelve pulled the sleeve of Aiguo's coat. This time the patriot also agreed to leave early,
"Okay, get out". As soon as the four of them turned around, they heard a dull sound behind them.
"Knock"
The voice rang out in the dark cave, and the four looked at each other with a look of fear on their faces. This was followed by two more "Knock knock,"
Drumbeat? It sounded like someone was beating a drum.
Before the four of them had time to think about it, knock knock, knock knock ......,
There was a dense drum beat from behind.
The four of them looked at each other and suddenly looked back together. There was nothing behind, and the drums came from behind the stone gate. The sound became louder and louder, and slowly it seemed that the walls of the cave where the four people outside the stone gate were also heard from the cave wall, knock dong, dong dong drum.
In the depths of the mountain, inside the closed stone gate, there was a drum sound, who beat this drum?
The words on the stone door are secluded and underworld, and people should not be approached.
Could it be that behind the stone gate is the underworld? The drums? Could it be a requiem?
Aiguo raised his head, closed his eyes, and listened to the sound of drums, as if returning to the day of his mother's death, crying heartbreakingly, cold hands, closed eyes, mother, my mother.
There was another desolation from the sound of the drums, and he fell into the mire. The icy muddy water, the biting cold wind, the body is getting colder and colder, and there are evil wolves surrounding him on all sides, and in the black night, more than a dozen pairs of cold and murderous eyes are staring at him. The sound of the drum was like a pack of wolves with a murderous aura and despair.
The sound of the drum was low and ethereal, as if it controlled everyone's heartbeat. The drums beat slowly, the heart beats slowly, the drums beat like a shower, and the heart feels like it's about to jump out of the chest.
I can't die like this, I want to use pain to distract myself, but I didn't expect to bite the tip of my tongue at once. A rush of pain came, and a stream of blood rushed to the brain. Patriotism sobered up as soon as possible, and felt that the drumming was also commonplace.
Turning his head again, the torches fell to the ground, and the other three people all lowered their heads, shrunk their shoulders, their eyes closed, and bit their lips in pain, as if they were experiencing the pain of a thousand cuts, and cold sweat was dripping down their chins.
Patriots hurriedly pinched their people, no matter how hard they pinched, it didn't work. Seeing the others fall to the ground, Aiguo suddenly remembered the bloody sensation, spit some blood from his mouth and put it on his fingers, and applied it to the middle of the three people, and the three of them were all awake.
The drums became normal again, except for some echoes in the cave.
I came back from the Grim Reaper.
The four of them glanced at each other, and before they could think about things, the stone door with a big face carved into it slowly opened inward.
The stone door opens automatically, although it is very weird, but the exploration of the unknown world has always been the most fundamental ** buried in the hearts of human beings. Experiencing a moment of life and death in such a short period of time aroused the curiosity of the four of them at this time.
Wiping the cold sweat on his face, Aiguo walked to the stone gate first to see who was beating the drum.
Guan Hu rummaged over the bones of the Taoist priest, turned over an iron sword, and also tore some strips of cloth from his coat to wrap around the tip of the sword, smeared with meat oil, and added a torch, the hole was suddenly filled with light, and the visibility was several meters more.
Inside the stone gate is a boxy stone room, there is a statue of a god more than two meters high on the opposite wall, the idol has four hands, the statue has three eyes in the firelight, it seems that the huge face carved on the stone door is this statue.
There was a black hole next to the statue, the size of the table top of a large round table.
There is a two-meter-high stone platform in the center of the stone room, the stone platform is very delicately carved, and a large black ball is placed in the middle, and two large "centipedes" are lying on the round ball as if licking the stone ball. The four corners of the stone platform are inlaid with four ghost heads, and now some black liquid is dripping from the ghost heads, falling drop by drop.
Underneath the stone platform is a round, flattened stone that looks like a tree stump, which glows white and yellow when illuminated by the light, and the stone is polished very smooth. It looks like a stone drum, oh, it's a stone drum.
The stone drum was somewhat transparent and shiny in the firelight.
The falling liquid hits the stone drum and makes a snare drum sound. The stone drum was unusually smooth, and the liquid that fell down slipped off without touching the stone drum at all. There is a groove in the ground under the stone drum, and the liquid that falls down flows with the groove to the round hole next to the stone statue.
The drums seemed to be used to everyone, and Guan Long and Guan Hu shotguns pointed at the two big centipedes and walked over slowly. Patriot and Twelve followed behind him with a torch. Approaching the stone platform, everyone smelled a smell of blood. Guan Long took the barrel of the gun and sent it to the tip of his nose. He turned back to his patriotism and said, this is blood.
Looking closely at the two centipedes, it turned out that they were spitting out a stream of blood from the ball.
Everyone stared at these two centipedes carefully, these two centipedes ignored everyone, and didn't even raise their heads, as if they didn't know the existence of four people, they kept vomiting blood, and slowly, the centipede's body turned from black to gray, from gray to white. Only then did he slowly climb down, crawled behind the stone gate, climbed into the two holes in the ground behind the stone gate, and came out of the nostrils of the huge face outside the stone gate, and his eyes went in and disappeared.
No more blood dripped onto the stone drum, and slowly, the drumming stopped.
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