Chapter 115: Hiding a Coffin in a Tree
Ge Zhuang suddenly became anxious, and said with a tiger face, big sister, who are you scolding, fat man, am I this kind of person, believe it or not, anyway, I and the little pumpkin must have heard it!
Hearing Ge Zhuang's words, Chen Yun stood up and asked, "But we are so close, why did you hear it, but I didn't?" ”
Ge Zhuang said who knows, maybe it's because the two big men, Little Pumpkin and I, have a heavier yang energy, so they will be the first to notice it. Chen Yun said, "Nonsense! But in the end, she didn't choose to ignore this information, stood up and stretched, and said, "Okay, just trust you this time, go, take me to the place where you heard the voice, if I know that you two are lying to me, see how I come back and scold you." ”
Ge Zhuang and I grabbed the guy in our hands, and when we saw that the vicinity of the camp was still calm, we didn't wake up the old bell again, and took Chen Yun directly to the forest in front of us, where the "footsteps" came from.
We are in this natural canyon, three sides of high mountains, one side of green water, the range is very broad, away from the waterway to go forward, in front of the eyes is a vast jungle, located in two rivers and three mountains surrounded by the place, the basin valley terrain is slightly low-lying, plus the temperature is constant, in the tropical climate, the four seasons are like spring, so the jungle is lush, the trees are growing vigorously all year round, the crown is very high, are at least ten meters from the ground of the lush old trees.
Walking to the place where the sound came from before, Ge Zhuang stopped walking, kicked twice at the trunk of the tree, turned around and said, "It should be the sound from this tree." ”
Chen Yun looked up, looked at the night sky covered by the shade of the trees, and said that there was wind in the canyon, maybe the leaves were moving. Ge Zhuang and I both shook our heads again and again, saying no, the sound of the leaves being blown by the wind, we haven't heard it, and besides, the whole forest is connected together, if you want to move, you should also move the whole forest together, it is impossible for only one place to make a sound.
She looked at the two of us helplessly, and said that you have to prove that there are ghosts to be down-to-earth, right? I said that I didn't want to prove that there are indeed ghosts in this world, we have already encountered them once when we were in Dujiangyan, and this old bell can prove it.
Seeing that I was so stubborn, Chen Yun said Okay, this tree is so high, which of you climbs up to see the situation? I looked at Ge Zhuang and said why don't you take the guys to stand guard nearby, and let me and Chen Yun go up, okay?
Ge Zhuang refused, saying that you two are going up to do what you are going to do stealing chickens and dogs, don't fall down and smash the fat man in a while, or I'll go. I said that you have the size of a live bear, when will you be able to climb to the top of the tree, listen to me, you will stay below!
I took apart a strip of cloth from my body, tied a dagger to the back of my hand, and the first one climbed towards the canopy, and Chen Yun followed me, and it took the two of them a full two minutes to barely get close to the top of the tree.
I was holding a branch and panting, and I heard Ge Zhuang shouting below, "Do you want the fat master to hold a lamp for you?" It's a black light on it, and it's not convenient to do things, big sister, little pumpkin has no experience, what if you find the wrong place? ”
Dead fatty, clean up the yellow cavity!
I ignored him and climbed the trunk and arched up again, feeling that something was wrong with the tree. Southeast Asian rainforest borders Yunnan, the climate is basically the same, the vegetation in this rainforest is generally dominated by trees, the main trunk is straight like a cylindrical shape, divided into three layers of structure, but the tree we climb, but it is not as straight as an arbor, there are many branches, the leaves are luxuriant, and climb through the middle part, the top of the tree begins to have the thickness of an arm of rattan hanging down.
Generally speaking, tree vines belong to hermit vegetation, although they are dependent on the big tree to grow, but the two do not belong to the same structure, but this tree is different, all the vines extend along the trunk of the big tree, and belong to the same whole.
There are not many trees that grow rattans, so I looked down at Chen Yun, who was climbing up close behind, turned my body a little sideways, pointed to the big tree rattans extending from the green canopy, and asked her if she could tell what kind of tree this tree belonged to.
Chen Yun climbed up to the canopy with my help, stepped on the huge branches with both feet, stabilized his body, and said What did you ask me just now? I repeated the question, and she shook her head and said that I was not an expert in botanical research, and that this kind of tree was quite rare and that I had never seen it before.
The big tree was basically climbed to the top by us, and we each occupied a corner, and we both looked up at the green leaves of the canopy, and found that in the middle of the layers of green green, countless vines coiled up, forming a bulging "big bag" in the middle of the canopy, egg-like shape, the vines were entangled with each other, wrapped very tightly, like a huge silkworm chrysalis.
I poked it with my hand, turned back to Chen Yun and said, "There should be something wrapped in this, from the outside, it looks like a pancake box set by Teniang." ”
Chen Yun took a breath and said that the vines were too tightly wrapped to be seen clearly from the outside, why don't I ask the fat man to bring a few firewood knives?
I said no, I'll have it!
As I spoke, I took off the dagger tied to the back of my hand, grabbed it with my backhand, and chopped it on the tree vine, and the tree vine that was cut by the blade burst out of dark green slurry, slimy, exuding a strange smell, not smelling bad, but not fragrant, very viscous, and stained a lot on me and Chen Yun.
Chen Yun hurriedly dodged his head and asked me to be careful, we didn't bring any change of clothes.
I inserted the tip of the dagger into the crack of the rattan, and slowly cut a hole along the rattan as I pry it downward. This vine has been hanging here for I don't know how many years, the surface is very hard, with my efforts, it took nearly half an hour to cut these vines, look into the depths, and suddenly startled.
Within these layers of vines, which are intertwined into the shape of silkworm chrysalis, there are actually stone boxes two meters square, which are square and square, and at a glance, they are completely in the shape of a coffin.
"Could it be a tree coffin...... Chen Yun was surprised, grabbed my wrist tightly, and said Don't pry again, this sarcophagus is afraid that it will not weigh one or two tons, and it will all be dragged by the canopy and vines, cut down these tree vines, once the sarcophagus loses its support, it will definitely fall.
I quickly stopped and asked, "No, there have been thousands of years of no one under this rift valley, who will bury a coffin here?" And how did this sarcophagus run to the top of the tree, about ten meters high, could it be that the coffin itself can climb the tree? ”
Chen Yun stretched out his finger and rubbed the fine patterns on the surface of the sarcophagus, saying that the sarcophagus was so well preserved and had not decayed for thousands of years, it should be due to the fact that it was tightly wound by the vines and trees, forming a vacuum environment. Thanks to this big tree, you can see the pattern on it? This is an inscription by Koyoro.
Now that I have come to the ruins of the ancient Yelang Kingdom, it is not uncommon to find a sarcophagus, but what I can't figure out is, why would a good coffin be on a tree? Chen Yun said that this coffin has existed for at least a thousand years, can any plant really survive for so long?