Chapter 31: A Thousand Coffins
The coffins stretched from the top of where we were standing to the huge wall carvings on the other side of the abyss, densely covering the entire space.
No one knows how long they have been silent, and in the darkness they seem lifeless.
The most bizarre thing is why they are suspended in the air, is there some supernatural force that can't pull it?
The glow of the flare faded after a few dozen seconds, and the bright dome returned to darkness, giving a sense of suffocating death.
I looked at the fat bear in amazement, and before I could close my mouth, I blurted out and asked, "How can there be so many coffins?" ”
The fat bear put away the flare gun, straightened his backpack and said, "It's a thousand coffins, and the only way for us to go to the other side now is to step on those coffins on it." ”
"This is too mysterious! How did the coffins above defy the laws of gravity and levitate in mid-air? Still unable to believe what I had just seen, I shook my head and asked.
The fat bear sneered at this time, he pointed to my glasses and sighed and said, "Why don't you have four eyes and my two-eyed people understand?" Who told you that those coffins were suspended in mid-air? They were obviously tied up with thick ropes and hung on the top of the rock wall. ”
I listened and looked at it carefully, and then it dawned on me. Then he asked the fat bear, "Although we can step on the coffin above, but there is no ladder here, how can we go up to the coffin?" ”
The fat bear took out the climbing rope from his backpack and raised it and said, "It's the same as the last time you climbed through someone's window, it's not that difficult." ”
As he spoke, he had already fastened the rope to the rock wall with mechanical plugs and quick hangers.
As soon as I heard this, the anger suddenly came up, it turned out that he was also present when he went to Dean Wei's house to steal the painting before, and he dared to say that he didn't follow me!
Seeing that he had leaked his mouth, the fat bear looked embarrassed, and hurriedly tied the rope around his waist and said, "Fat master, I'll go up and explore the way first." With that, he used all his strength and quickly climbed the rock wall.
It was nearly 100 meters high from where we stood to where the coffin hung above, which may not be a lot for a rock climber, but for a man who had to fall eight times from the window on the third floor, it was a deadly rhythm.
I hesitated for a while, and when I saw that the fat bear had already gone up a lot, and if I didn't keep up, I would be left alone, so I had to grit my teeth and climb up.
When I went up, I found that the rock walls were very smooth, as if they had been polished and washed by the water for many years, and on several occasions my feet slipped and almost fell.
Although the fat bear looked fat, he was astonishingly agile in his movements, and he had already thrown me off more than ten meters after a few rubs. I can't help but wonder if every fat man who robs the tomb is as agile as this counterintuitive.
In order to slow down the fat bear, I deliberately accosted him, because I found a rule, as long as the fat bear spoke, other movements on his body would definitely stop, probably because his body was too fat and his cerebellum could not be coordinated.
I gasped and asked, "Fat bear, how did you find those coffins hanging from the dome?" I used a flashlight to shine it for a long time and didn't notice it. ”
The fat bear stopped and said triumphantly, "Didn't I tell you?" Fat man, I have a memory palace, as long as I have seen it, I will definitely be able to recall it. I once happened to read an ancient book that recorded this formation, and it said, 'There are thousands of coffins in front of the floating wall'. So I conclude that there is an article on this dome. ”
"Then why couldn't you remember it before?" In order to hold back the fat bear, I continued to ask questions. Then he reached out and grabbed the protruding rock above, and moved up a little more desperately.
The fat bear smacked his lips and said, "I was hungry before, so the memory palace went on strike." When I've eaten enough, I'm going back to work. ”
I didn't want to listen to his nonsense anymore, so I changed the topic and asked, "Do you think we are in the belly of this mountain now?" Or is it a few hundred meters underground? ”
The fat bear replied, "I can't say for sure, maybe the belly of the mountain itself is empty, and it is connected to the ground through the cracked abyss. Anyway, we are inverted, not archaeological, and the matter of studying these strange geological phenomena should be left to the exploration team, and we will not grab that job. ”
I let out a "hmm" and struggled to move a quarter of a meter upward, when the fat bear suddenly spoke again: "Four-eyed boy, it suddenly occurred to me that this thousand coffin array seems to have some connection with the coffin road we walked along when we came. ”
"What...... What connection? I replied with difficulty.
"There is the word 'coffin'! Do you think we're going to be under that coffin road right now? Fat Bear said again.
I was speechless and a little unable to answer, feeling that this kind of association that was forcibly unfolded by the literal meaning could also be imagined by the fat bear. I didn't think it was meaningful, so I didn't pay attention to it, so I casually said "um" and continued to climb up.
Seeing that my answer was so perfunctory, the fat bear was a little unhappy, and just wanted to say something, but he wanted to stop talking. By this time, I had managed to crawl under the feet of the fat bear, and I could already see his crotch, so I said to him, "If you have something to say, let it go quickly, don't put this grinding." ”
In the next second, something happened that I absolutely did not expect. This guy actually followed my word and let out a loud fart......
Oh, my God! Can you imagine? I was right below him, and I just wanted to take a break out of breath, but this bastard actually got me a biochemical weapon directly! At this moment, my limbs were climbing on the rock wall, and I couldn't spare my hands to pinch my nose, so I had to let the special gas ravage my fragile respiratory organs......
Fat Bear also felt a little embarrassed, he smiled at me and said, "I'm sorry Four-Eyed Boy, Fat Master, I was a little out of control just now." ”
I wanted to scold him, but I was afraid that as soon as I opened my mouth, the special gas would rush into my mouth, so I had to endure it. Anyway, it was really the darkest minute of my trip to the grave, and I even felt like my tears were about to be smoked out. I was so desperate to catch up with him before, and now under his ass, it's just naked self-inflicted!
Just as I was grieving, the fat bear above suddenly kicked me in the head. I thought to myself, not only did you not only release a bioweapon to poison me, but now you are insulting me with a physical attack, what a bully! It was unbearable, and I spat on his trouser leg at the moment.
However, the fat bear didn't care about my actions, he snorted at me, and said in a panic, "Four-eyed boy, there seems to be something down there!?" ”