Chapter 21: Ten Coffins
"Suicide!"
There is amazement and suspicion in my heart, so many people are committing suicide? Why?
"I just looked at the shape of those bones and suspected that they were suicide burials, and looking at this picture confirmed this suspicion."
Lacey showed me the picture, and I went back to see the corpses, and sure enough, they had committed suicide.
But why did they commit suicide, did they want to go to heaven and earth with the Ten Witches? Going to heaven?
The carving on this sarcophagus is gone, and I went to look at another sarcophagus, and there was a loud sound of stones rubbing next to it, mechanism! I turned my head sharply to look, but it was Zhao Dong and Zhang San who pushed open a sarcophagus with all their might.
"Scared me to death, what are you doing"
"This is called opening the coffin to make a fortune, and this is called being promoted to make a fortune, and when you see the coffin, you naturally have to open it and take a look."
Zhang San's mouth always has a lot of truth, Zhao Dong has already shot the flashlight down, probe to see.
"Ahh
"Damn, you speak Japanese", Zhang San teased Zhao Dong again, and then stretched out his head to look at the coffin, and Lacey and I also walked back and forth to look inside.
If you weren't prepared to look at it, you would have been shocked, it was a wooden mask, carved with the head of a beast, and like a grimace, with big eyes and teeth, and very vicious. The whole mask is also painted in color, which is a swallow, which is the most primitive swallow.
"What is this, is this mask worth anything?" , Zhang San asked.
"This is a wizard's mask, in ancient times, wizards were doctors in tribal countries, and they treated diseases by wearing this mask to scare away evil ghosts, so until now, many people have to hang a mask of this kind at the door, called swallowing mouth"
"Oh, that's how I swallowed it, I don't know if it's worth it," Zhang San said
"You know the money" I looked up at Zhang San, but I was so frightened that I couldn't speak.
Behind Zhang San stood a man in a multicolored mask, and the eyes on the mask glared at us viciously.
I was so scared that I fainted, and my feet were so weak that I was about to fall.
I turned to look for Lacey, who looked at the grimace-masked man with the same wide open eyes.
Zhang San and Zhao Dong turned around, the mask was behind them, and their faces almost hit the mask, and the two of them went limp, collapsed to the ground, and crawled to our feet with their hands.
Except for Lacey, our flashlights fell to the ground, but the light around us was not only not dimmed, but it was brighter than before, and there were torches on the walls all around, and the altar was full of people, dressed in sackcloth, some with torches.
In the light of the fire, on the altar stood a man with a grimace mask next to each coffin around us.
There was no sound, and there was no movement. We fixed our minds and found that those who were dressed in sackcloth did not move either.
Even this is enough to scare people, did we inadvertently enter that passage from heaven to earth, or is it the overlap of time and space?
"Is it the memory of stones, I see that scientists have studied that some stones have the function of memory like videotapes, as long as there is thunder and lightning, or when certain conditions are met, the scene and picture that are remembered in the stone will be projected", after all, Lacey has been in the army for so long and knows a little bit about everything.
We thought about it for a while, and then I noticed a problem, and I put my finger in front of me and shook it, saying "It's not a memory, if it's a picture at most, this torch can shine our shadow."
"What's that? Staggered time and space? Ghost hitting the wall? Zhao Dong asked.
Thinking of the wind that hit Zhao Dong and blew past us just now, it is really possible that a ghost hit the wall.
"That's good, let's pee, the ghost hits the wall and is afraid of the boy's pee", I untied my pants while saying, "I met a ghost hitting the wall two months ago, and I broke it with urine"
"Boy pee?" Zhao Dong asked
"yes"
"I'm afraid you're the only one who is there", it was Zhang San who spoke
Alas, I forgot that I usually brag with them, but now I am exposed, so I can only silently bow my head and pee.
I moved while urinating, and after urinating, the scene in front of me remained the same.
"Xiaoshuai, you pretend", Zhang San began to laugh at me again.
"What's so good about this, it means that it's not a ghost hitting the wall, and trying to find a way"
"Let's go back, let's get out of the cave first," Zhao Dong said.
"Well, I'm panicking in this hole, let's go out first," Zhang San said.
When we turn our heads and look at the hole, what about the hole?
The entrance to the cave turned into a mountain wall.
We all ran back and touched it with our hands, and it was a real mountain wall. Where did the hole go?
Around this cave, we looked around, and circled, there was no hole, and carefully and slowly around the cave wall to find, I still didn't believe it, but I looked for it round and round, and after more than a dozen rounds, there was still no hole. This is an enclosed cave.
Disappointment, what to do, will we be trapped and die here, and in a few years, maybe future generations will dig here and find four corpses dead in a closed cave.
"What about the hole, what about the hole", I don't want to give up, "there must be a hole, look for it again, look for it again"
Lacey they all looked at me, and they gave up.
I said in a pleading tone, "One more round, one more round"
"Xiaoshuai, there must be a hole, I must have found it just now, come and discuss", it was Lacey who spoke.
What is this, I lay on the altar and looked at the wizard with the grimace mask. It's not the memory of a stone, it's not a ghost hitting a wall, it's a staggered time and space, it shouldn't be, if it is, these aren't images, they should be living people. What's more, the staggering of time and space is just a hypothesis mentioned in Science Fiction World magazine, otherwise what is it?
"I can't go back, I'm going to starve to death here"
"I won't starve to death, I should die of thirst first, and then I won't be able to quench my thirst by dropping a drop of urine"
"You want to drink pee, it's disgusting, you can drink it when I pee."
Saying that Zhang San was about to pee, an inspiration suddenly floated through my brain. "Don't talk, let's repeat the steps again and see what went wrong"
"Repeat what?"
"Originally, it was just a pile of bones and ten sarcophagi, and we must have done something wrong, so it will be like now, we will repeat the action just now, find the cause and see if we can solve it"
"Well, what Xiaoshuai said makes sense," Lacey said.
"At first I was looking at the paintings on the sarcophagus, and it didn't make a difference."
"Zhang San and I pushed open the lid of the coffin"
"Well, let's put the lid on the coffin."
There was a grinding sound, and the four of them slammed the lid on the coffin, and we turned to see that the torch was still burning, and the masked wizard was still standing.
"So it's not the coffin lid, when we opened the coffin lid and we shone it inside with a flashlight, and all four of us saw the grimace mask"
"Is it a mask?"
"What's the noodle?" , Zhang San asked.
"Let me think"
Masks are used by sorcerers to scare ghosts and ward off evil spirits, is there any spell on the mask? Sorcery? Got witchcraft under the mask? And then we see that the masks are all under witchcraft? If it's some kind of witchcraft, if it only affects the eyes, then just wake up with a sleep,
This is a bit beyond my comprehension, but there is a faint feeling in my heart, but I can't capture this feeling.
"Do what you just did, let's think about it again", the faint feeling in my heart was a little stronger.
Blowing dust, looking at the stone carvings, and finally opening the coffin, when Lacey and I pushed the lid open, the dead body with the grimace mask in the coffin appeared in front of us again.
Oh, the faint feeling in my heart just now is this, there are dead bodies in the coffin, so it's not a staggered time and space. The coffin has not changed, it is still the coffin of July 1999, and everything you see on the outside is an illusion, not a memory of a stone. This illusion comes from when we see the mask, which is the node, and this face is the key to our consciousness.
Looking at the mask, an inexplicable nervousness rose in my heart.
I slowly reached out to break the mask, wanted to break it out and burn it, when my hand reached under the mask, the back of my finger touched a pile of soft things, I was already very nervous and shrunk in fright, and pulled my hand back, I knew that it was the face of the deceased, but then I thought, this person has been dead for two or three thousand years, how can there be muscles and skin, this scared my whole body was electrocuted, from my fingers to the top of my head.
I couldn't touch the mask anymore, so I turned around and pulled out some rune paper and gave it a try.
The paper covered the mask's eyes and forehead, and Lacey and I pushed the coffin with all our might, and looked around, still unchanged.
"It doesn't work, Xiaoshuai, is there any other way?"
"Close your eyes, I shouted to open them and open them again", I don't know if it works, try it if it doesn't work.
After closing his eyes, he heard a crackling sound in the sarcophagus, like something exploded, and his eyes went dark. When I opened my eyes, the torches on the cave walls were gone, as were the people wearing the grimace masks, and everything was back to the way it was before it opened.
With a cheer, Zhang San and Zhao Dong shouted, I haven't shouted to open my eyes yet, what are you doing with your eyes open, it's okay.
I let out a long sigh of relief, and Lacey smiled.
Zhang San and Zhao Dong stopped shouting, and a creepy sound came from our ears.
It was the rubbing sound of the stone light coffin lid being pushed, and all four of us were sitting here, who was pushing the coffin lid.
The heart that had just fallen was instantly up to her throat again, and Lacey was the first to stand up, and the flashlight shot at once, and we staggered to our feet, and it was the second sarcophagus behind us, the front of the sarcophagus was empty, and the lid of the sarcophagus was slowly opening.
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