Chapter 45: Scattered
I was amazed by what I saw, something I never expected. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Ahead of it is an arched passage made of stone bricks, which is not straight and curved, so that the flashlight cannot reach the end.
I wasn't surprised by the way the passage looked, but the ground inside the passage shook me. Because there is a layer of floating ash on the ground inside the passage, but not a single footprint appears on the floating ash. That is, no one has entered this channel in the recent period.
I really didn't expect this to be the case, obviously the floating ash in the passage has proved that the old prostitute has not entered, so where did the old prostitute go?
I turned around and looked carefully at the stone walls around me, no, there was no entrance to the rest of the world. There are only two passages here, the one I ran into, and the one with the floating ash.
I don't know how to explain everything in front of me, isn't it true that I'm not chasing an old prostitute?
In this case, I had to make a judgment at once, and in order to verify what I had in mind, I picked up a broken pottery shard on the ground and gently scratched it twice against the dust in the passage.
With just two taps, deep scratches appeared in the dust. This is the last thing I want to see, and I wish there would be no traces, but it backfired, and it turned out that the dust here was the same as the dust I usually saw, and anything that weighed a little bit on it would leave a certain trace.
To be honest, this is a verification against my will, I know that this will be the result, but I still want to try it with pottery shards, it is nothing more than a trace of illusion. The fantasy old prostitute entered this passage, but the dust here was different, and there was no trace left. But the facts have wiped out this illusion of luck.
I was very apprehensive and alert, and I knew that whatever had brought me here, he should still be here. Since there were only two exits here, it was clear that he hadn't walked into the dusty passage, and there was only one exit left, which was the same one I had entered. If he wants to leave through that passage, then I'll definitely see it.
Although it is only 200 square meters of space, it is impossible to stand in place and see all the corners, because there are so many things placed here, and there may be a person hiding in any gap. I don't know where he's hiding, but I've got to find him, otherwise he's in the dark, I'm going to be more passive, and I'm more interested in figuring out why he's bringing me here.
I pulled out the pistol that had run out of bullets, although I knew that this thing was not as useful as a dagger without bullets, but this thing was definitely more effective than a dagger, after all, the other party did not know that there were no bullets in the gun.
I walked back to the passageway I had entered, placed my backpack across the floor, and then took care of every nook and cranny with a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other. I searched all the corners, not a single crevice, but I didn't find the person who brought me in.
In the end, I had to devote all my attention to the coffin, because I couldn't imagine a person hiding anywhere but inside it.
"Come out, I know you're hiding in a coffin." I shouted into the densely stacked coffins, "I have no ill intentions, I just want to know some information about this place, and I think we can talk."
Of course I know that the other person will not come out because of my shouting, but I have to let the other person relax, at least when I find him, he does not mistake me for a threat to his life and resist desperately, I don't want to fight to the death with someone I have never met here.
The coffins here have been nailed, and some of the coffin boards are badly damaged, so it is not difficult to open the lids.
I came to the nearest coffin, and with a push of one hand, the lid slipped to the ground. It seems that opening these coffins is easier than I thought.
Before I pushed the lid open, I imagined a lot of images, such as the person hiding inside, or the dried corpse, or a pile of white bones, but none of these appeared, and what appeared in front of me was a coffin full of bamboo slips.
I opened the second and third mouthfuls in quick succession...... The tenth coffin, which is full of bamboo slips. This makes me feel very surprised, I have seen what kind of tomb owner I have robbed the tomb over the years, but it is really the first time I have seen a coffin with bamboo slips for burial, and it is not just a coffin.
I wondered about the rest of the coffins, could all the coffins here be bamboo slips?
The next step was to open the lid, but with each opening, my nerves tightened. Because the fewer unopened coffins remain, the greater the chance that the person will be hiding inside. Of the more than 20 coffins opened during this period, only one coffin contained paper books, and the rest were bamboo slips.
I was somewhat skeptical about the appearance of paper books, because I saw a text on the book that caught my eye, that is, Luozi. may be because of his surname Luo, so when he sees this word, he can't help but have a curious mentality. At the same time, I also found that the bamboo slips are different from the words that appear in the books, they are not the same dynasty at all, and the two characters represent a large span of dynasties, so it will make me feel very strange.
But I don't have time to think about this right now, and now there are only three coffins left open, and for some reason I suddenly became nervous, and my heart was beating so hard. Maybe I haven't done this kind of thing on my own for too long, and in the past there would be people around me to help, but this time it's just me, and I'm dealing with someone I've never met, which more or less makes me doubt whether I can settle down.
I took a deep breath to calm myself down, but it didn't work, my heart didn't listen to me. I could only grit my teeth and persevere, trying to restrain my nervousness.
There's nothing more stress-relieving than a quick fix, and I'll put my heart on the side, and come on, when it's time to do it, you have to do it if you don't want to.
In fact, I have already thought of a way out in my heart, and if I can't fight, I will run, which is the worst plan.
I pushed open the lid of a coffin and immediately used a flashlight to look inside, it was a bamboo slip, and there was no one. pushed the second one one after another, and the third one, it turned out to be a bamboo slip, and there was still no one inside.
Seeing this scene, I immediately looked back at all the coffins. No, I didn't miss a single coffin, but, what about people? Where have the people gone?
I was stunned, completely confused, I never thought this would happen.
I looked at the stone sculpture Fang Xiangshi in the entrance passage and began to think crankily, I knew that this idea was absolutely wrong, but I couldn't resist it.
Could it be that the Fang Xiang clan brought me here?
Impossible, impossible, I shook my head in denial. It's just a stone carving, don't say it can't move, even if it does, it can't run that fast. I still remember the plot of chasing the flashlight, and the speed of the flashlight is not slow at all.
I walked to the stone carving Fang Xiang's and circled around Fang Xiang's, but I didn't see any mechanism, let alone think it would move. No, I must have been chasing someone, and that light source was never the light of this emerald.
Since I'm chasing a flashlight, where is the person who brought me here? He certainly didn't enter the passageway inside, but apart from the passage inside, it was the only passage I entered. Did he go out of this passage again?
I quickly recalled every detail from the time I entered here, including all my movements, and found that there was a time lag that I did not see the passage that I had entered, and that was the two or three seconds that I had been scratching the dust with a pottery shard.
If the other party is using these two or three seconds to leave here, then his speed is too fast, and he has not made a single sound, you must know that in such a quiet place, even a needle on the ground can be heard clearly.
The more I thought about it, the more incredible it became, it was outrageous. I was led here by a man who used two or three seconds to quietly go out from where I came in, which is impossible to think about. You must know that the other party brought me here and ran a long distance, so I don't believe that he doesn't know that he is tired, so he doesn't pant much.
I put myself in my shoes, if I were the other party, then I would definitely not be able to do it, but if I was someone else, such as the little wolf, it was possible with his skills. No, he can't either, he's fast, but he can't do it quietly.
Looking at everything here, I really didn't know where else to hide people, and I even carefully examined every stone carving, but I still found nothing.
I let go of all my tense nerves, sat on the floor, and completely relaxed. Maybe this is the ease after hopelessness, I think the man should have run away, so it is basically impossible to catch him. I couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said in my heart that this is really big, obviously it was me and the old prostitute who wanted to arrest people, but they were played around.
Sitting on the ground, I was pondering where I and the old prostitute were separated, I obviously chased the flashlight all the way, but it was not the same place as the old prostitute, wasn't I chasing the same person as the old prostitute?
Xin said, don't care how many people there are here, first find a way to find the old prostitute, after all, it's not a good thing to be alone in this kind of place.
I thought as I took my gun and drew all the routes I had taken, of course I didn't know if I was right, but one thing was for sure, it wouldn't be difficult to go back the way I came, because I had marked every turn.
As soon as I thought of the mark, I suddenly realized where I had run away from my old wife.