There was a lot of noise when the floor was rising, but even then, the sound of large pieces of gravel hitting the stone door could still be heard in the tunnel.

Because the inside of the tunnel was so narrow, Li Huaishan and I could only bend our shoulders and move forward, his elbows and knees hitting the ground again and again, making an annoying muffled sound from time to time.

Li Huaishan's figure completely blocked my vision, and I couldn't see the situation in front clearly, so I could only rely on my feelings to guess the distance ahead. ”

I immediately understood what he meant.

The figure I saw outside the cave just now was Little September.

Li Huaishan stopped, and then said: "It's dead, and there is no corpse." ”

I asked, "How did you die?" ”

The flashlight in front of her shook quickly a few times, and after a while, Li Huaishan spoke: "There is no obvious wound on her body, and her face is a little swollen." ”

"Do you have strangulation marks on your neck?"

"Nope."

Judging from the death described by Li Huaishan, Xiao Jiu should have died of suffocation, but there were no strangulation marks on her neck, and the specific cause of death could not be inferred for the time being.

Li Huaishan: "Her nose and mouth are not blocked by debris, how can she suffocate?" ”

I patted Li Huaishan's ankle in the back: "Leave her alone and move on." ”

In this extremely narrow tunnel, it was impossible to cross over Xiao Jiu's corpse, Li Huaishan could only push her corpse and slowly move forward.

When the jacket on Xiao Jiu's body rubbed against the rough ground, the sound was long and broken, making my scalp tingle.

Ever since I entered such a tomb, all the sounds around me seemed to be very irritating to me, making people want to puncture their eardrums, and even if they were in severe pain, they wanted to make the environment quiet.

But I also knew in my heart that if I really closed my hearing, my situation would become more and more dangerous.

The tunnel is very long, and the deeper we go, the narrower it becomes, and the stone walls on both sides seem to be slowly pressing against us, making people feel bored and out of breath.

When we first came in, we could still move on our knees and elbows, but when we reached the second half, we had to lean sideways, rub one shoulder on the ground, and squirm with the strength of our thighs and waist.

The increasingly strong claustrophobic feeling seemed to make Li Huaishan very irritable, and even the rhythm of his breathing became rapid and scattered.

September's corpse still makes annoying noises from time to time when it moves, and I feel like I'm not far from collapsing.

I don't know how long I moved in the tunnel like this, when a wind suddenly blew in front of me, Li Huaishan squirmed forward a few times, and then said a little excitedly: "It's almost the end." ”

Hearing him say this, I was also a little surprised in my heart, but I still suppressed my temperament and told him: "Be careful in everything." ”

Li Huaishan didn't respond, just kept working harder, fighting with a breath, and moved out as fast as he could.

The wind became more and more urgent, and even with Li Huaishan in front of me, I could feel my collar and the zipper on my chest trembling with the wind.

After about half an hour, Li Huaishan stopped, and said in a slightly tight voice: "Help me untie my backpack!" ”

My left hand had been stretched forward, and when Li Huaishan said this, I quickly moved forward, touched a pin button on his shoulder strap, and it took a little effort to untie it.

Li Huaishan threw away his backpack, jumped violently, and quickly drilled out of the tunnel.

That's when I saw a small hole in front of me, and I couldn't get through it if I had a backpack.

Li Huaishan walked out of the tunnel first, and then came in head-on to me, he first pulled his backpack out, and then came up to me to help me untie the shoulder strap of the backpack.

It took me a while to get out of the hole, and Li Huaishan threw his claws into the tunnel and hooked out my backpack.

If we put it in the past, the backpack was thrown away, and in order to speed up the formation, we wouldn't even go back and pick it up, but since the experience of the ghost cave, now we understand that the materials in the backpack are tantamount to the cost of saving our lives.

I tied my shoulder straps and put my backpack back on my back, Li Huaishan carried the bag in one hand and the flashlight in the other, and shot it nearby.

On this side of the tunnel, there is a large karst cave, surrounded by watery stalactites that rise from the ground like natural stone pillars to the top of the cave.

In the ancient tombs of the past dynasties, it is rare to directly use natural caves to rebuild, after all, most of the caves such as this have complex structures, and there are leylines flowing, and the water vapor is too heavy, which is easy to corrode the buildings in the tombs.

However, the classics of the family say that whoever builds a tomb with a heavenly cave must be a big tomb and a rich tomb, but there are many wind holes in the tomb, and the Qi field is mixed and fierce.

Standing at the exit of the tunnel, you can hear the distant whistling wind, which seems to come from different directions, constantly converging towards the center of the cave, and in the field of vision of the quicksand of the Qi Sea, you can even find the wisps of Qi field around the stone stalactites flowing vigorously in the chaotic direction.

Li Huaishan glanced around a few times, and then hit the beam of the flashlight on Xiao Jiuyue's corpse: "You say, how did she and Mia die?" ”

By the light, I could see that Xiao Jiu's whole face was puffy, as if someone had filled her skin with a lot of gas, but her neck was as thin as before, and her body was still slender, and the overly fat jacket was hunting under the wind stirring.

I shook my head: "It's hard to say, it's possible that they encountered a terrible evil when they entered the tomb, or maybe it was something else...... It's hard to say. ”

Li Huaishan frowned: "I don't know what's going on, after entering this tomb, I always feel very stuffy in my heart, like pressing a stone, and I can't breathe." ”

I feel the same way, but now is not the time to say that.

"Can you still make out the direction?" I asked Li Huaishan.

Li Huaishan: "You want to go east, it's due east." ”

As he spoke, he used his flashlight to illuminate a stalactite in front of him.

I straightened my backpack and planned to go in that direction, but Li Huaishan stayed where he was, and just said, "Why do I always feel that we shouldn't go east." ”

"What's wrong?"

"I can't say it, I just don't think it's in the right direction."

"And which direction do you think you should go?"

Li Huaishan straightened the flashlight and let the light shine towards the darkness in front of him: "Go straight." ”

I patted him: "Lead the way." ”

Li Huaishan asked me while carrying his backpack: "You believe me so much, what if I make a mistake?" ”

I smiled, "You seem to have a talent for pathfinding. ”

Li Huaishan pursed his lips and didn't say anything more, just as he was carrying the shoulder strap of his backpack, he walked in front of me with a flashlight.

Passing by a few stalactite pillars, he took the initiative to speak: "Actually, it's a glass egg." ”

I didn't understand for a moment what he meant: "What did you say? ”

Li Huaishan: "I mean, it was the glazed egg that told me which direction to go, when you asked me which side is east and which side is west, it was also the glazed egg who gave me the sense and helped me point out the direction. ”

I thought carefully about the records about the glazed eggs in the classics of the family, and said: "Do the glazed eggs still have the function of guiding the way, the classics of the family don't say it." ”

I heard Li Huaishan say: "Of course there is, when I was eight years old, I walked alone at night, the fog was very strong that day, and there were few people on the road. Since then, I have had a sense with Liuli Egg. ”

I asked him, "This glass egg was left by your father, right?" ”

"Well," Li Huaishan nodded: "Listen to my mother, this is the last relic left by my father." When the family was in the most difficult time, she was reluctant to sell. ”

"After your father died, didn't your mother start a family?"

"No, with my mother's temper, few people can stand it, let alone live with her for the rest of their lives."

Just as Li Huaishan was speaking, I felt as if something in front of me suddenly shook, and immediately reached out to grab his arm and signal him to stop.

Li Huaishan's footsteps were forcibly stopped by me, and he turned his head and asked me, "What's wrong?" ”

I stared straight ahead and silently made a silent gesture.

In the darkness in front of the cave, I couldn't see anything except the huge stalactites, but I always felt that something had really flashed through the gap in the stalactites just now.

I also saw a figure flash through the cave when I saw a figure flash through the hole, but when I fixed my eyes and looked closely, the figure had long since disappeared without a trace.

Li Huaishan struck the beam forward, and the miserable white light was reflected on the stalactites, only reflecting patches of oily luster.

In the huge space, it seems that there are only two living people, Li Huaishan and me, but I know in my heart that there must be something hidden in the place where the quicksand and light of the Qi Sea cannot cover.

"Let's go." I gently pushed behind Li Huaishan and said in a low voice.

It is estimated that it was my sudden stop just now that made Li Huaishan a little more vigilant in his heart, and he kept shaking his flashlight to illuminate the sobriety around him while lowering his footsteps and walking forward.

As I walked, I also concentrated on perceiving the Qi field in the cave.

Except for the faint resentment, the proportion of yin and yang qi in the cave is very normal, even if the wind is scattered, it does not disrupt the proportion of this great qi harmony.

But the more this happened, the more uneasy I became, and I always felt that under this extreme calm, there was something abnormal that I could not perceive.

The damp air was blowing around me with the wind, and the waterproof jacket had long been wet, and occasionally the moisture gathered into water droplets, dripping down the cuffs and corners of the clothes to the ground, and this rich damp was also mixed with a musty smell of rotten wood, which made people uneasy.

(End of chapter)