218. The cause of incorruptibility
Qin Zhou was already eager to ask: "Ah Xi, who will you and me take the lead first?" ”
Unexpectedly, Gu Xi glanced at him and said, "You don't go up." Qin Zhou was stunned, "Why?" Gu Xi's gaze drifted over the rest of the people, and it was self-explanatory. In addition to a few of our own people here, there are mostly Mo people, and if we all enter the cave, it is equivalent to leaving this exit to the Mo people.
Qin Zhou's eyes rolled, and he pointed to Zhu Ke on the ground and said, "Won't you just take her with you?" Didn't she say it was the patriarch of their Mo clan? If it's not enough, add the old man. As for ......" he said in a low voice, "A few of them, it depends on whether you can say or not." "I know he's alluding to Cen Xi's people. You can't have the heart to harm people, and you can't have the heart to defend people, Qin Zhou has always been on guard against them.
But he was too worried, and before Gu Xi could speak, Cen Xi had already walked to him, "Let's go up too." ”
"Just you wounded soldiers?" Qin Zhou heard that she intended to provoke the general, but Cen Xi didn't care, although her voice was not high, but she was very calm: "I am not a person who likes to wait for results, since I have all arrived here, even if I ......" She raised her head to look at the dark deep cave, "There is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, and I will definitely leave today." ”
In fact, she would have made this decision, and I was secretly suspicious in my heart. The purpose of her trip to Yunnan was for the jade plate, could it be that she also saw the clues here, and guessed that the owner of the phantom cave had been here?
In the end, the "agreement" was led by Qin Zhou, I followed him, Cen Xi, He Zhixu, and Xiaoyou followed me, and then Tong Ying, Zhu Ke, and Gemu slowly ascended in this order, Gu Xi was not the last, and Dao Fei followed. The rest of the Mo people are ordinary people, so they all stayed where they were, and speaking of which, this team is really strong enough.
I subconsciously looked back before I climbed to the entrance of the cave, Cen Xi was four or five meters below me, although she looked gentle, but when she experienced these things, she was not delicate, but Xiao You always seemed soft and weak, very timid.
My eyes swept underneath, and fell to a certain place, and my heart rippled slightly, just now when I saw the woman turning up the corpse suspected to be "Ah He", I found that the corpse was not Ah He at all, so I was alert in my heart and shouted to remind Gu Xi. I was diverted by Gu Xi's sudden change just now, and I forgot about this stubble, and at this time, I remembered that it was too late to inform Gu Xi who was still below. Shocked and uncertain, Xie Ze and Ah He went into this cave together, and later Mei Jiugu also went in with Aunt Mei on her back, but these four people from beginning to end, how did they come to the fifth corpse to be thrown down from above and pretend to be Ah He?
When I looked at the corpse after thinking about this, I suddenly felt strange, but just as I was about to climb up to the entrance of the cave, a scene suddenly flashed in front of my eyes, and I felt a chill down my spine. The sight disappeared in the blink of an eye.
When I climbed into the cave, Qin Zhou, who was already waiting there, swept his eyes across my face and asked with a smile, "What's wrong with your face?" It's not that monkeys are afraid of heights. "I'm not in the mood to joke with him, because the image just now is still floating in my mind, and just now I saw that many Mo people below were lying on the ground, with no breath of life!
Is this a sign that our decision to use moss to detoxify green is wrong? Will everyone here die after night? I have never had a precedent for foresight, and even if there have been dream warnings, they are all different from what they were just now.
I guess it's a dazzling hallucination. I comforted myself, but I was always uneasy.
After Cen Xi and the others came up one after another, Qin Zhou proposed to go to the cave, because there were too many people gathered at the entrance of the cave, and they couldn't enter if they came up later. Before entering the cave, Qin Zhou turned on a flashlight to illuminate it, needless to say, the deeper it went, the darker it became. His sharp knife was always held in his right hand, and he was on full alert, because he had not forgotten that the sinister Xie Ze and Aunt Mei Jiu, who had become Gu people, were still in the cave, and they were likely to wait for an opportunity to strike a fatal blow in the shadows at any time.
To be honest, I'm already scared of this kind of cave now, especially when I learned that it was still the same person set up a thousand years ago, and I inevitably thought that this wouldn't be another cave.
After walking for about five minutes, Qin Zhou paused. I was right behind him, and I knew what was going on, and a few meters in front of him there was a man lying on his stomach, judging by his size.
He turned back to me and whispered, "I'll go over and have a look." ”
When he approached him vigilantly, he paused for only a moment before turning the man over with the hilt of his knife with his backhand, revealing an unfamiliar face. Qin Zhou raised his voice and said to me, "It's dead." "I saw it without him saying it, my chest was undulating, there was no breath at all.
What horrified me was why there were other people in this cave. This is already the second person to appear, and it's still dead!
Due to the stop here, Cen Xi and the others also stopped, and later asked: "Why don't you leave here?" As soon as he heard the voice, he knew that it was Gu Xi, who muttered in a low voice: "It seems that someone died in front." ”
There was a commotion, and Zhu Ke walked over from the space left by Cen Xi and a few people standing on the side of Gu Xi in front of him.
I noticed Zhu Ke's expression froze, and when Gu Xi's gaze narrowed over the corpse on the ground, he looked sideways at her and confessed: "I knew him, but I was when I was a child. He was my father's contemporary, and I should have called him my cousin. ”
"You're saying he died more than a decade ago?" I asked, skeptically.
Zhu Keding looked down and said quietly: "They are the ones who dug the coffin and entered the hole, and they didn't come out after they went in, and they still died here." "I may not have had any hope for the people who didn't come out, but when I saw the corpses with my own eyes, I couldn't help but feel melancholy.
"But," Cen Xi walked up from behind and asked a question that also made me feel incredible: "Why has this man been dead for more than ten years, but his body is intact?" ”
Zhu Ke was stunned for a moment, obviously thinking of this question, and couldn't help frowning.
Xiao You shrank his neck in fear, "I think it's gloomy here, could it be because there was no air in the first place, it can't be...... Ghosts, right? ”
Cen Xi raised his hand and pointed, "There is a slight moisture above the stone wall, which proves that there is air here." ”
At this time, I heard Gu Xi conclude: "There is no need to discuss it anymore, it is because he was hit by Qingyan." It is highly poisonous and can form a protective film on the human body, isolating the oxidation and decay of the corpse by the air, but the premise is that the person must be poisoned from the inside out. Otherwise, the ancients only had to use it to smear the whole body to keep the corpse from decaying. ”
I see, although this explanation is bizarre, it is more reliable than Xiaoyou's "ghost" statement.
The cave is narrow and does not allow everyone to gather together, since Gu Xi came to the front from the back, he will not return, and he will still be driven by Qin Zhou, and he will walk side by side with me. Zhu Ke was still guarded by Tong Ying, following closely behind us.
I observed for a long time and found that this cave is not like the phantom cave in Guiyang, where there are no two compartments every other way. From the entrance to the present, it seems to be a straight road and a slope downward.
We were originally at the entrance of the cliff at a height of 50 meters, but if we kept going downhill like this, wouldn't we be going down the hill again?
When there was finally a fork in the road, Qin Zhou stopped and illuminated the two passages with light, both of which were deep and difficult to discern. He turned around and asked Gu Xi, "How do you choose now?" Gu Xi didn't rush to answer him, his eyes looked around carefully, I pushed his elbow against him and pointed to the top of the fork in the road, although the light was dim, I seemed to see something strange on it.
Qin Zhou reacted quickly and shone the light over, only to see that there were four ancient characters on both sides, and Xiao You murmured in the back: "Don't enter the door of life, don't go out of the door of death." ”
My heart moved, could this be Qin Wen again? Turning his eyes to look at Gu Xi, he saw that there was a different color in his eyes, and he was also acquainted with Qin Wen. Qin Zhou also muttered a sentence in his mouth after listening to Xiao Younian, and then asked, "What does this mean?" On the left, it says that the birth gate does not enter, which means that this is the birth gate? So why not? If it's a dead door on the right, it will definitely come out, can't you wait for death? ”
He wasn't really asking anyone, he was just saying what was in his heart.
Gu Xi asked him, "Then did you have a choice at this time?" Qin Zhouyang pointed to the left: "It is said that this is the door of life, so naturally it is going this way, who is going to go to the door of death." Xiao You questioned later: "But I said that I couldn't enter the door." ”
Qin Zhou sneered: "If you don't enter the sketch door, you really don't enter?" So why are you still in the hole? If you're afraid, stay here. After saying that, we didn't hesitate anymore and chose to go the left way, and we naturally followed up. There was a lot of footsteps behind him, and it was obvious that despite the doubts, no one really stayed at the intersection.
But when two forks appeared in front of them again, everyone subconsciously looked up, and saw that there were words above.
I only heard Xiaoyou read again: "There is life in death, and there is death in life." She used to read it in order from left to right, and this time it should be the same, that is, the four characters on our left hand side are "life in death" and "life in death" on our right hand.
Literally, the left side is the door of death, but there may be a way out; On the right is the door of life, but there is a danger of death.
"It's hard to choose." Qin Zhou muttered.
"What's so hard to choose, it's better to survive than to survive in life." Gu Xi gave a concise judgment. Qin Zhou nodded, or chose the right side of the door, but when Qin Zhou walked out of ten steps and stopped, I thought he saw something in front of him, but after following the light and looking, he didn't see anything unusual, so what did he stop and do?
In confusion, I heard him ask in a very soft voice, "Ah Xi, do you feel your feet?" ”
"Stop!" Gu Xi's voice was also very soft.