Version 0 Chapter 8 The Imperial Tomb Road
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The darkness before dawn is the blackest. As soon as I entered the third uncle's shop, I couldn't see my five fingers. I immediately turned on the lights and searched again. The difference is that this time the purpose is clear, to find a new entrance to the ancient tomb. Although I knew that most of the entrances were on the third floor, by the way, I still went through the first and second floors with the fat man.
Finally, I opened the tungsten steel door on the third floor, and after turning on the light, the things in the room came into view one by one. I looked around with the fat man, but I didn't find any new entrances, and my heart couldn't help but be a little panicked, don't work in vain!
Then we went through all the boxes, cabinets, and drawers. The fat man was a little anxious and vented: "This old fox! Where the hell did he hide the entrance?! Then he angrily kicked the mahogany coffee table. I saw the big square coffee table that he kicked a little off, and suddenly smiled with joy, "Haha! ”
The fat man looked at me strangely, "Naive, I know you don't care about me." But when you hear me scolding your third uncle and old fox, you won't be happy to be like this, right?! ”
"you! I'm not that nervous yet. It's this coffee table! ”
The fat man reacted as soon as he heard it, and looked at the coffee table he had just kicked with affection: "That's right, this mahogany generous coffee table is dead and heavy, and you can't easily find something pressed underneath." Come on, let's move him out! ”
The fat man and I stepped up with both feet, and in two strokes we opened a third of the way, revealing a part of the square hole. Three times five divided by two, the coffee table was moved aside, completely exposing the square passage entrance, but looking at this size, the coffin still can't go down, this should not be the only entrance. It's okay, I don't plan to lift the coffin up anyway.
When I came up to the third floor, I had turned off all the doors and lights downstairs, and before going down to the entrance, I also turned off the tungsten steel doors and lights on the third floor, and the lights disappeared into the ghost realm again. Stepping up the stairs inside the entrance, I looked out the window again, and the sky was already dimly bright.
The fat man and I went all the way down in circles, estimating that there were seven or eight floors, and finally we saw the entrance to the cave, and the stairs ended. The fat man lit a candle and took it inside, and I thought to myself, "You're a little bit like Captain Kim." When he entered, he put the candle on the ground beside him, and kept a flashlight on his surroundings.
From the beginning of the cave is not a concrete structure, this must be a robbery hole that has pierced through the tomb wall. The wall made of ancient bricks, the tomb road extends to both sides, and it is time to choose left and right? I was thinking about going that way first, and the fat man said to me, "Let's go!" Follow the footprints left on the ground. ”
"Hey! It can't be that cool, right?! ”
The fat man illuminated the ground on the outside right with a flashlight, "There is no trace of sweeping, they should have chosen the left road in the first place." ”
This was the outermost part, and we walked a long way to the left before we came across a fork in the road, and continued to follow the footprints. The fat man is very careful, and he will check the ground on all other roads. He was in front of him all the way, saying that after all, I was not as familiar with the secret weapons in the tomb as he was, and the third uncle would keep the mechanism here.
As I pushed inward, the Southern Song Dynasty style relief decorations began to appear on the wall, with complex and delicate patterns, and to be honest, I didn't like it very much. In addition, the use of stone is also increasing, and it appears to be more solid.
I joked with him, "You've come so far and you're not lighting a candle anymore?" ”
He replied earnestly, "Don't you see that I'm about to order another one?" Sure enough, he already had a candle in his hand. After lighting it, the flames were really much smaller than just now, and it seemed that the air quality had decreased.
At this time, the fat man suddenly said: "Oops! ”
"What's wrong? The flames are so good that they haven't changed color, huh? ”
"It's not the candle's problem, you look at the footprints on the ground, it's all messed up!"
When I looked at the footprints around me, I was deliberately trampled back and forth, and I walked a little further, and there were traces of sweeping everywhere. The tomb road here is already very complicated, like a labyrinth, if there is no guide or map, it is really easy to get lost, I didn't expect the scale of this imperial tomb to be so large, it seems that we are so deep, the preparation is still a little owed. I asked the fat man, "Do you want to quit today?" ”
"That's not necessary, just retreat to the place before the footprints are messy, and then we'll use the compass to go to the direction where the ground is on fire."
So we quickly returned to our previous position from memory, and the fat man sat on the ground with his butt and said with a wry smile: "Let's just say that there is no such good thing!" ”
I sat down against the wall, pulled out a pack of compressed biscuits, and asked the fat man if he wanted to have some breakfast. The fat man looked at the top of his head and said, "Oh, I really haven't done it in the city in broad daylight!" Think about it, there may be a supermarket not far from above, maybe there is a fast food restaurant, I really want to order a takeaway! "Of course, I ended up eating a few compressed biscuits.
After resting for a while, we began to follow the fat man's plan, walking in the direction of the previous fire on the ground. However, the road is becoming more and more divergent, and it is really difficult to move in one direction. When we returned to a corridor in the opposite direction, I saw a row of very familiar reliefs, "Fatty, we should be in a labyrinth." ”
"Yes, I found out too. Lao Tzu is most annoyed by this kind of thing, it is better to have a zongzi! He pulled out the black gold dagger from his waist and tried to carve some marks on the wall. But I saw that he raised the arm holding the dagger, but he didn't carve it on the wall, "Wu Xie, come and take a look, here, someone has carved a mark, it's quite familiar!" ”
I chuckled in my heart, "Familiar? I walked quickly to the fat man's side, and the light of the two wolf's tooth flashlights was superimposed on a mark, "This technique! It's carved in a stuffy oil bottle! Has he been here? "My heart began to stir, how could he have been here and leave a mark! When did he come? It is not possible to tell the exact time in a few years from this nick.
"Haha, my little brother is really everywhere!" The fat man smiled happily, "Follow his mark, that's right." ”
So the fat man and I searched for the mark left on the wall by the stuffy oil bottle, and sometimes we would follow his mark and go back. Obviously, the stuffy oil bottle is also groping its way forward.
After another while, the number of the stuffy oil bottle disappeared, but the maze didn't seem to be finished, "Hey, what's going on?" Little brother won't give up halfway. ”
I asked the fat man, "Where was the last time we saw him?" ”
"It's a bit of a distance, but I've made some other markings, so I should be able to get it back." We went all the way back and found the mark left by the last stuffy oil bottle, only to find that this mark was different from the previous one, but this difference had not been seen before, what did it mean? It's really hard to guess what the stuffy oil bottle thinks. The fat man and I had to search the neighborhood carefully to see if there were any other marks he had left.
After turning around, I still didn't find any other mark. This is strange, doesn't the stuffy oil bottle want to be marked anymore? Or did you go back? Could it be that he just disappeared here?
The fat man's head was also big, so he took the opportunity to go to the ground, "The advantage of being alive is that you can still enjoy the feeling of lying down and taking a breath!" ”
"You'd better not fall asleep in this mausoleum!" Saying that, I also wanted to lie down and rest for a while, and I went to hear the fat man call: "Hell! He staggered to his feet, took two steps back, and shone upward. I said, "Why don't you want me to lie down and enjoy it?!" "But when I looked at the place where the fat man had taken it, I was also taken aback.
Just above where the fat man was lying just now, there was a beast's head carved on the top of the road. The facial expression of this beast head said that it was fierce or not, whether it was laughing or not, whether it was crying or not, and it was illuminated by the faint light from the bottom up, revealing the ghost aura of the forest, and it was extremely evil.
The fat man was bold and said, "Do you want to scare your fat man away?" I'm going to sleep here today! ”
But I found one thing, this round beast head pattern that people dare not look at seriously, there seems to be a gap around it. "Fatty, you don't have to sleep here to explain the problem, you can hold this thing up and get close."
The fat man smiled evilly: "Naive, don't use the agitation method on me, there's no need." I know what you mean, this thing it's just a lid, look at my jack fat man! Fortunately, this corridor is not high, and as soon as the fat man stretched out his hand, he held the face of the beast's head, and he pushed it up, "Hey? Is it that heavy? That thing didn't move at all, "If the little brother can stand up, I can't even move it?!" Depend on! ”
I said to the fat man, "Turn around." ”
"Yes, you've grown!" The fat man held it, his fingers clasped the pattern, and tried to turn it to the left, but it didn't work. I tried to turn right again, "Ha, there's a play!" Walk! The big stone carved with the beast's head was held up by the fat man, and after it was removed, an upward hole opened above our heads, "This labyrinth is still two floors above and below!" But I don't know if it's the designer's kindness or his mistake, who would be scared away by such a grimace to rob the tomb these years? Let's go up. ”
The fat man said, "Wait a minute, let me light another candle." ”
"The stuffy oil bottles are all up, what candles do we have to light?"
The fat man narrowed his eyes, shook his head, and said, "You know that the stuffy oil bottle didn't light a candle at that time?" Black donkey hooves, plus this black gold dagger, and your trumpet blood, we are at most half a little brother. It's better to be on the safe side. ”
"Okay--! Then you order, I'm not in a hurry. ”
The fat man respectfully lit a candle and put it on tiptoe on the ground on the upper floor, only to see that the candle flame was very weak, trembling, trembling and shaking, which was really worrying. The fat man had already taken the black gold dagger and the black donkey's hooves in his hands, and waited for the moment when the candle was extinguished.