Chapter 25: The Door of Death
Liu Yang touched his head and thought about it, and replied, "It doesn't make much difference which door you go through." However, the door over there is too far from the ground and there is no way out, and if I was just to come in and paint this picture, I would definitely choose to go through this door. ”
However, I disagreed and said, "If I were given a choice, I would choose to go through the door below." Quite simply, I don't come to this painting for no reason, these two paintings must have an allegorical meaning. And these two pictures give people the feeling that one is the door of life and the other is the door of death. The door below is where humans have the upper hand, and this door is where monsters have the upper hand. ”
Liu Yang analyzed: "So that is to say, if you open this door, maybe something more dangerous will happen." ”
Kong Xian shook his head and expressed his disapproval, he said: "I don't think necessarily, the direction of these two paintings is facing inward, and they are both locked from the outside, so that means that only the winner can lock this door, I don't think the monster can paint murals and lock the door." ”
"But it's painted on this door, and it's the fucking monster that wins." Liu Yang said.
I seemed to understand what Kong Xian meant, so I asked, "Are you saying that someone deliberately created this illusion and made everyone retreat, just because they didn't want anyone to open this door." ”
Kong Xian nodded, and then said: "No one can say whether there is an exit behind this door, but there must be a secret that no one knows. ”
"Open?" I asked softly.
Kong Xian was silent for a long time and nodded. Then he handed me the headlamp, pulled out his Swiss Army knife, and began to fumble through the crack in the door.
It would be much easier to have a bolt behind this door, but it would be a bit troublesome to lock it. Although the Swiss Army knife is easy to use, it has not reached the point of sharpening iron like mud.
Fortunately, there was really a bolt behind the door, and Kong Xian scraped it little by little with a Swiss Army knife to get the bolt off. Listening to this stinging sound, I don't want to mention how uncomfortable it is. Not only that, but I suddenly had a strange feeling as if something was watching us inside the door. I even imagined many scenes after the door was opened, for example, there was a bull head and horse noodles standing behind the door, holding a knife and fork waiting for us to eat; Or some gods living in it, eating, drinking, and having fun in it, thinking about how to benefit mankind.
Liu Yang was not idle, leaned against the stone wall on the side, and analyzed in a chattering voice: "Alas, you say, why is there a bolt outside this door, it stands to reason that it shouldn't be, it should be a bolt on our side, and it should be a lock outside the door." ”
Kong Xian snorted and replied: "There is only one possibility, which means that our side belongs to the outside of the door." ”
I didn't bother to talk to them, and I held the night pearl in my pocket, thinking that if the headlamp ran out of power, I could still use it to shine it, but it would not be easy to explain at that time.
After Kong Xian squatted there and scraped for about 20 minutes, a "bang" sound came out, and the bolt on the door fell off.
We all took a deep breath, looked at each other, and cautiously began to push the door.
This door looks heavy, and it is quite light to push, probably because the door shaft is relatively lubricated, and the whole door is completely opened as soon as you exert force.
As soon as the door opened, the first thing that came into my sight was a dark shadow above, and we were all stunned at the door. The dark shadow in front of me turned out to be more than a dozen corpses! All of them were suspended in the air, and they had turned into hideous corpses, all of which were facing us, and the eerie atmosphere was suffocating.
I almost screamed out of my throat, but fortunately, Kong Xian's hand quickly covered me back. Liu Yang had already shrunk behind Kong Xian. I dare say that this sight is sure to give me nightmares for years.
"This, this, this...... This monster likes to eat bacon. Liu Yang whispered tremblingly.
I only felt my eyes drawn to the dried corpses, and I was afraid but afraid to avoid them, for fear that if I looked away, they would be in front of me when I looked again. I even replayed the classic picture of the zombie siege in my mind, and if I compared these corpses to fire pine nuts, I would directly equate them.
Kong Xian was also trembling when he saw this scene, but he calmed down instead, he put down the hand holding me, and whispered in my ear: "You and Dayang are staying here, I'll go inside and have a look." ”
I was not at ease, so I pulled him and said, "No, no, we have to go in together." ”
He suddenly laughed and asked softly, "What?" Can't bear me? ”
I was a little embarrassed, snorted angrily, and replied: "I can't bear you, I'm afraid that you won't die completely after a while, and I have to carry you out." ”
"Mom, can you two not be so ......"
Liu Yang wanted to tease a few words, but before he finished speaking, a strange sound came into our ears, a little like the cry of a toad, and it felt too dull to listen to.
We quickly shut up and held our breath to find the source of the sound. Upon closer inspection, the sound seemed to come from not far behind the dried corpse.
Liu Yang asked in a trembling whisper: "What is the situation, you want to cheat the corpse?" Or is there a monster about to show up? Listening to this voice, Lao Tzu's goosebumps fell to the ground, and it was not as pleasant as dealing with fire pine nuts outside. ”
As soon as Liu Yang's voice fell, the sound of the toad crowing also stopped. We looked at each other, not understanding what was going on. I pushed Liu Yang and said unceremoniously: "Da Yang, why don't you go in and take a look, you have already brought a black rope to ward off evil spirits, and the king of Hades will probably have to give way when he sees you." ”
"What kind of thing, Lao Tzu looks like a demon ward!" Liu Yang was not happy when he heard this, and pointed at Kong Xian and said, "Just now Jin Ye wanted to go in, but you were stunned, and now I have to go in and lie down." Little brother, are you doing a little too obvious? ”
I felt a little hot on my face, and said angrily: "It's not that I value sex and ignore friends, it's that your heart is not clean." I want to be heavy on color and light on friends, I will be like Lin Su, stay by Mo Yanchen's side honestly, who will come to play with you. ”
Liu Yang not only didn't feel the slightest guilt when he heard this, but showed a strange smile in arrogance, and said softly: "Little brother, when you came to save me before, I really regarded you as a generation of heroes. You won't be scared now, will you? Do you have the ability, let's go in together and let Jin Ye guard outside. ”
Before I could speak, Kong Xian suddenly said firmly: "No, don't make fun at this time." ”
I also know that Kong Xian is right, but Liu Yang deliberately provoked me just now, I really can't swallow this breath, if I promise Kong Xian to obediently guard outside now, wouldn't I just raise my hand and surrender.
Seeing that both of us were silent for a long time, Kong Xian was not going to ask for any of our opinions, so he insisted on going first to have a look. I guess Liu Yang is also playing drums in his heart, I'm afraid, he may not be much better. The two of us were silent on the surface, and in our hearts we both agreed to let Kong Xian go to this thunder.
Kong Xian was already ready to enter the door, so I didn't fight, and while handing him the headlamp, he instructed: "Be careful inside, shout if there is anything, and the two of us will rush in." ”
Unexpectedly, he shook his head, pushed the headlamp back to me, and said calmly: "Just follow the inside, and if you hear me say run later, don't worry about anything and run for your life." ”
I nodded in response, but I knew in my heart that if something went wrong, I wouldn't be able to convince myself to leave him alone, even though I knew I was a liability.
Kong Xian is very cautious in every step, it is often more worrying on people's territory than on the territory of Huo Songzi, monsters are always just monsters, they will only carry out savage attacks, and people are different, you never know what kind of death others have left you.
After walking for nearly three meters, Kong Xian stopped, and at the same time, the sound like a toad sounded again, and my heart had already jumped to my throat, for fear that some monster would jump up at this moment.
Kong Xian stood there quietly and checked the situation around him, listened carefully to the direction where the sound came from, and then squatted down in a position around the stone bricks, he put his hand on the ground and groped, as if looking for something. After a few moments, he began to pry his knife on the ground, and then slowly broke a stone slab from the ground. As soon as he broke the board, the sound of the toad suddenly became deafening, bright and crisp.
"Come here." Kong Xian shouted.
Liu Yang and I breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly leaned inside. As I passed by the dried corpse, I was eager to shrink up and hide in the shell of the turtle, for fear that the rope around the neck of the corpse would grow old and fall on me. Liu Yang was no better, he simply ran to Kong Xian's side at the speed of a hundred-meter sprint, unwilling to stay under the dried corpse for an extra second.
The space behind this copper door is not large, there are no edges and corners around it, and the whole is circular. The top was high, but rough, with a lot of wood hanging from the wood, and the dried corpses were hung from the wood with hemp rope. The surrounding walls are also very rough, not as delicate as the space where the stone statues were placed before, and there are many small cracks in the walls, and some green grows from the cracks, I don't know what kind of plant it is.
There's an old-fashioned dark counter in the corner, and if you don't shine through it with a headlamp, you won't be able to spot it. On the other side there are some firewood and pots piled up. The whole space is very simple, and you can see it all at a glance. The only thing that might be of value is that there are some ancient characters carved on the stone wall directly opposite the door, which I can't read.
The stone slab that Kong Xian pried open should have been cracked, otherwise it would not be so easy to pry open. For some reason, there were dozens of bullfrogs squatting under the stone slabs. Their arrival seemed to startle them, and the "quack" was as noisy as a discotheque.
"Look at them, Lao Tzu's stomach is growling, why don't we eat something and leave?" Liu Yang picked up a toad leg, and his saliva was about to flow down.
It's not that I want to hit him, looking at the dried corpses next to me, I really don't want to think about eating, so I said to Liu Yang with a disgusted face: "Do you know what these toads grew up eating?" It's possible that you are eating these hanging bacon, but you can't say for sure. ”