Chapter 19: A Fork in the Road

The air flow in the thief cave is dry, but people walking in it are gloomy, very mysterious, I have been walking in front, when Ge Zhuang walked back along the footprints, he became the vanguard of the army, there are flickering fire candles on the ground, the faint light reflects the entire tomb into a black and dark piece, the lights flicker, but it seems more and more weird.

I became a little shorter of breath, and whispered a reminder to Ge Zhuang not to extinguish the candle, this place is very weird, like a labyrinth, but there must be no more mistakes.

Ge Zhuang was impatient, and said Little pumpkin, I know, you should be careful yourself, you are suspicious as soon as you get off the tomb, how can there be so many doorways? The fat man really doesn't believe it, every time he goes to the tomb, he can meet a ghost and turn off the lights!

As soon as Ge Zhuang finished speaking, the candle in front of us suddenly went out, without warning, and was instantly blown out by a cold wind.

"Hold the grass!" Ge Zhuang couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, frightened into a wave of cold sweat on his big face, and hurriedly looked up, he saw that more candles lit in front of him were also extinguished one after another, from our feet to the end of the tomb.

The entire tomb was plunged into absolute darkness in an instant.

"Old Zhong, turn on the flashlight!" In order to save the battery, we turned off the flashlight immediately after lighting the candle, which would be dark, and my first thought was to let the old clock quickly turn on the flashlight.

The old bell was a stuffy gourd, and he didn't make a sound, but he quickly turned on the flashlight and shone into the gloomy tomb, but he didn't find anything special.

The three of us were silent, and for a moment I could only hear the sound of everyone panting in the long and narrow tunnel, and I raised my hand slightly above my head to feel the humidity of the air in the tunnel, the wind was not moving fast, and this level of wind should not be enough to extinguish the candle.

Without strong drafts, how did this candle go out?

A fine layer of cold sweat was already soaked on the tip of my nose, and I hurriedly found a lighter, which was not windproof, and was specially prepared by me to test the size of the air flow.

After the lighter was turned on, the flames on it were jumping and churning gently, like a small vertical snake, coming out of the gas outlet valve, flickering for a long time, but not extinguished.

"It's strange, why is the fire on the lighter not extinguished, but the fire on the candle is extinguished?" Ge Zhuang leaned his head over, looked at the flames on the lighter curiously, and said with a puzzled expression.

I said, "Fat man, shut up and don't talk, your tongue is too poisonous, maybe this good friend was attracted by you." ”

Hearing me say this, Ge Zhuang and I were anxious, and said with a black face What do you mean by the little brain? The old bell wiped his sweat and said that you all should stop arguing, hurry up and light the candle again!

"That's it!" I squatted down with the flame in my left and right hands, and gently brought the lighter to the ground, trying to find the candle, but when I looked, I found that the candle on the ground had disappeared!

Hold the grass, what kind of trouble is this?

I couldn't help but shudder, and inexplicably recalled the experience of going to the tomb that Old Man Zhang told me before, could it be that there is really a thousand-year-old female ghost under the ancient tomb in Dujiangyan?

I was not calm, and I felt that the statements of these ghosts and gods were too vain, so I didn't believe in this evil, and turned back to the old bell and said, "Do you have any candles there, take them out and let me light them!" ”

The old pendulum hand was gone, but there was still a bottle of kerosene. I thought that kerosene would work like a candle, so I asked the old bell to take out the torch he had prepared, wrap it in a cloth, pour a little kerosene, and light it with a lighter.

The moment the fire lit up, the air became much warmer, and this time I held the torch in my hand and carefully groped my way forward.

I had placed more than 20 candles on the ground, but now they are all gone, and there is no trace of any living thing in the vicinity, which really makes me think of ghosts, theoretically speaking, ghosts are a magnetic field that can interfere with people's brain waves, so that I can see a lot of hallucinations.

But in the second master's "Feng Shui Notes", there is a chapter dedicated to ghosts, and the momentum of ghosts is far less terrible than the ordinary people's oral traditions, and what it is most afraid of should be the fire and other things with heavier yang energy, of course, it must be an open flame, not the light illuminated by a flashlight.

Walking like this, I soon came to the place where we had turned back, and the footprints on the ground were still there, I hesitated for a moment, and then said to the old bell, "Do you think it is strange? The footprints were made barefoot. ”

Lao Zhong also found out, nodded and said I am also wondering, why did the leper head three and his companion go to the grave, they should walk barefoot like this, not afraid of stepping on the snake?

The tomb road is dark and damp, and there is air circulation, indicating that it is not sealed, this environment is very popular with snakes, insects, rats and ants, generally as long as it is a tomb of the year, you will see snakes when you open the grave, the climate in the ancient tomb is so cold, there will be snakes is also common.

I groaned for a while, and said otherwise, old bell, let's all take off our shoes and go forward, the leper has been to the grave before, and may have encountered the same encounter as us, since they are not trapped in the tomb, it means that they must have found a way to deal with it, maybe slippers are a wise choice.

"Okay!" Lao Zhong did not hesitate, and immediately sat on the ground, took off his shoes and socks, tied them with shoelaces, and carried them behind his back.

Ge Zhuang and I also hurriedly followed, it is strange to say, not long after taking off our shoes, we walked less than twenty or thirty meters forward, and found a turning point, continue to move forward a little, the footprints have disappeared, and there is a fork in the road in front of us, two roads, one large and one small, the left one is flatter, and the right one is much shallower and narrower.

When I came here, I immediately stopped, and Ge Zhuang and I exchanged glances, both of which hesitated. The footprints appeared here and were broken, and it is very likely that they were deliberately erased, and the person who erased the footprints may be the leper who walked in front, or it may be a ghost, probably because he doesn't want us to find out which way the person in front of him has chosen.

I asked the old bell to adjust the strong light of the wolf's eye flashlight to the highest, and then held it to illuminate the two holes, the wolf's eye flashlight shone far away, and the passage on the left did not exceed twenty meters, which was a naturally formed large karst cave, and I could still vaguely hear the sound of "ticking and ticking" flowing water in my ears, and the passage on the right led to the black, and there were extremely obvious traces of artificial excavation.

Ge Zhuang glanced at both sides, squatted down and whispered to discuss, saying that Fat also thinks we should go to the left, you see the big karst cave over there, it is obviously naturally formed, but the passage on the right has traces of artificial excavation.