Chapter Forty-Three: Someone Behind the Scenes
Chapter 43: There is someone behind it
?? What catches your eye is the entrance lobby, in the empty room, there are guest seats in the left and right rows, the main seat is against the wall in the middle, there is a long table in front of every two seats, the table is lit with oil lamps, and next to the bronze lamp, there are stacks of plates, which contain pastries and fruits, especially some fruits have undried water droplets on them, as if they have just been washed from the water!
There are obvious traces of human life in the whole house, not to mention anything else, just the fruit on the plate, if there is no one here, wouldn't it mean that it is the fruit thousands of years ago! This...... This is also incredible! But we searched all around, and there was really no one else here except us, and all kinds of signs pointed all the questions in the same direction, that is, at what moment when the lights of the city of vain death were lit, the ancient city returned to thousands of years ago, and what we see now is the city of vain death thousands of years ago!
This......
We were all stunned, and the scene in front of us completely subverted our worldview. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoIf we can go back the way we came now, what would the outside world look like now? Will it appear in the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods? This thought popped into my head.
Ghost Hand didn't move after entering the room, his eyes looked straight at the upper seat in front of him, his face was still wooden, the seat was empty, there was nothing, I don't know if Ghost Hand was looking at the seat or thinking about something.
"Let's go to the other rooms!" Weng Liang said.
With the lesson just learned, we carefully eliminated the mechanism and entered several other rooms at different distances, which were not much different from the first room, the difference was that there was a palm-sized jade coffin on the upper seat of each room, and a bronze coffin was placed on each of the other seats, which was only the size of a palm. And in the middle of the room, there stood a dark tree-shaped lamp.
Is this a coincidence? It was no coincidence that we had several investigations and confirmed that almost all of the rooms had coffin sculptures and tree-shaped lanterns, but none of the first ones we went in!
"The entrance is gone!" Ghosthand's voice was hoarse and low, and he looked at the altar, and then said, "That thing has awakened." ā
I saw a rare hint of jealousy on the face of the ghost hand as if it was forever expressionless, and what made my heart tremble even more was that jealousy...... It's thick!
That thing! Didn't he mean "that thing" the Black Coffin and the Twins Demon Boy?
Entrance! The entrance to the depths of the tomb of the Dian king?
"So what's going on right now? Has time been reversed in this ancient city? I couldn't help but ask.
As soon as the words fell, Lao Liu, Weng Liang and the two middle-aged men all looked at the ghost hand, and we all wanted to get an answer.
The ghost hand didn't say yes, nor did he say no, suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and looked up at me: "The ghost building has no way to open the door, nine coffin lights in the nine-fold lighthouse!" ā
"The corpse of the four shells and camels leads the way to the underworld, and the Pisces Pond is determined to be dead and alive!"
The ghost building has no direction to open the door, and the nine-fold lighthouse has nine coffin lights; The corpse of the four shells and camels leads the way to the underworld, and the Pisces pond is determined to be dead and alive. This is a passage from the Book of Luban, and I said it almost subconsciously.
After saying it, my whole person was shocked, the ghost building has no direction to open the door, no direction, no direction to open, no direction can be divided into two kinds in the mechanism, one is chaotic, the other is the ring distribution, so the no direction is actually all directions, and the doors of all the houses around us are open towards the altar in the middle, which belongs to the latter.
Nine coffin lamps in the nine-fold lighthouse, if you think about it carefully, aren't there nine lampstands on the tree-shaped lamps we see in other rooms! Nine coffin lights? Could it be ...... It's those little coffins in the seats!
Thinking of this, I looked up at the altar, there was a strange mark in the middle of the altar, and there were nine small holes around the square, the small holes were extremely small, like nine jacks, if you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see it at all, and then looked at the surrounding houses, in the circle closest to the altar, there were really nine more protruding and tall houses, I only felt that there were more veins in my mind, and my eyes suddenly opened up!
We went into the nine houses as fast as we could, and took out the lamp and the palm-sized bronze coffin, and everyone looked at the pile of bronze coffins, which didn't look like a lamp at all! The bronze coffin is enough, but the lamp is one short, there is no tree lamp and coffin in the house we entered for the first time, there are many bronze coffins in other rooms, but there is no ninth tree lamp!
When we went in to get the lamp, the ghost hand instructed us to take only the copper coffin, not the jade coffin, we knew that he would not say the reason, so he did not ask, and now all the things were taken out, but there was a tree-shaped lamp missing, so we had to look at the ghost hand again.
At this time, we found that the ghost hand had disappeared at some point, the lights were bright, and the orange light illuminated the surroundings clearly, and our eyes searched around, but we never found the figure of the ghost hand!
Where will he go? Don't...... He's gone looking for the ninth tree-shaped lamp!
Without the ghost hand, I didn't think of any other way after thinking about it, and there was no movement just now, with the skill of the ghost hand, there should be no danger, and now we can only wait.
After eating some dry food and water, we sat on the bluestone floor next to the altar, back to back with our eyes closed, no one wanted to eat the things in the house, and we didn't want to stay in the house, we hadn't rested for a long time, I sat down against Weng Liang, closed my eyes and wanted to take a nap, and after a while, I fell asleep.
I was woken up, rubbing my sour eyes, the short deep sleep was the most uncomfortable, if I could, I just wanted a bed and a pillow, and a good night's sleep was the happiest thing in the world.
Everyone moved, it was the ghost hand who woke us up, I yawned, and the ghost hand found the ninth tree lamp from there, and I was refreshed, and my sleepiness dissipated a lot.
"The coffin doesn't need to be lit, this lamp is for ghosts, and it doesn't matter if the living light it or not."
With the words of the ghost hand, my remaining trance and sleepiness flew out of the clouds at once, but a cold sweat broke out behind my back......
The moment we put the last bronze coffin on the tree-shaped lamp, the surroundings were swallowed up by darkness, and we turned on the flashlight, and there were dilapidated houses all around, and a breath of vicissitudes came to our faces, and the city of the dead restored the gloom and desolation we came.
The original circular square with a radius of more than ten meters is gone, replaced by a bottomless pit, and we, standing on the edge of the pit, if we take another step, we will fall, no return!
I quickly took a step back and took a deep breath, the big pit was like a big well, it was full of ink, at a glance, it seemed to be able to tear out people's souls, and they couldn't extricate themselves from it! What makes my hairs stand on end even more is that the moment I see the black hole, the fear that seems to come from the depths of my soul suddenly becomes real, and the feeling, if you really want to compare it, is like a livestock being pulled into a slaughterhouse full of flesh and blood, it is a fear from instinct and from the soul!
"Here's ...... How deep does it have to ......" Wen Liang's voice was obviously trembling.
His uncle looked down, but also secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, threw a cold firework down, the fire flashed, quickly fell down, by the firelight, we saw a row of plank roads on the cave wall, one meandered down, disappeared into the darkness, I still want to look more closely, just stretched out the neck, the cold fireworks have turned into a little spark, disappeared into the palpitating darkness......
At the same time, there was a strange roar, and then suddenly there was a flash of red light above my head, which was extinguished in an instant, all of which happened between the lightning and flint, but I still saw it the moment I looked up, it was...... A face too big to imagine! It's very similar to the hideous giant face in the Ghost Face Clock, but it's too much bigger!
There was no time to be shocked, a heavy chain rubbing sound sounded behind us, and the black coffin that had not appeared for a long time appeared again! When I turned around, I could see two cracked children in red belly pockets smiling at me! We had no way back, gritted our teeth, and turned over and walked away from the unfathomable black hole......
The ghost hand opened the road in front, after Lao Liu broke off at the end, we walked on the plank road hanging on the cave wall, saying that it was a plank road, but in fact it was a protruding stone, one meter long, palm wide, the interval between each one was not half a meter, stepping on it, half a foot was hanging outside, where is this walking plank road, this is clearly playing heartbeat! If you're not careful, you'll fall, and you won't know what to do!
But fortunately, with such a plank road, the black coffin can't come down, and we are safe for the time being.
As soon as you enter the black hole, the temperature around you drops, and the further you go, the colder it becomes, and you can't help but shiver. In this huge shaft, the light of the flashlight seems so insignificant. None of us know how deep it is underneath, let alone what terrible things are hidden underneath, but we know that walking on such a plank road, our hearts are trembling and our feet are shaking!
I seemed to hear something in my ears, and the figure was so faint that I couldn't tell if it was a real sound or if it was an auditory hallucination. I walked down more than ten meters cautiously against the wall, I was already covered in cold sweat, but the voice was louder, and then I was sure that it was not my auditory hallucination, it vaguely seemed to be ...... A woman's voice!
"You ...... Did you hear a woman's voice, I asked them. Their faces were a little pale, and they said yes, but they couldn't really hear it.
After walking down for a distance, the voice was a little louder, very ethereal, like crying, like laughing, there were faintly overlapping different sounds, how to listen to how to feel don't pinch, I had goosebumps all over my body, I don't know if it was scared or cold.
Just when I was holding my breath and trying to listen carefully to the source of the sound, Weng Liang in front of me suddenly turned around! His sudden action startled me, and I saw that he looked at Lao Liu, who was walking at the back, with a blue face and a strange face, and said to Lao Liu in a low voice while gesturing: "You...... Back...... After...... Yes...... Person! ā