The roots in the crevices are related to the tree in the mural. A casual mention of my words immediately aroused Li Huiyan's interest.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find that my bold conjecture is not groundless.

The murals on the stone walls at the bottom of the pool depict the protagonist of the strange tree that feeds on human flesh and blood, and the blood-sucking behavior of these roots should have been more than a simple coincidence.

Moreover, the contents of the last mural have clearly described, that the strange tree has been buried in the mausoleum along with the coffin of the great general, and we happen to be in the tomb at this time.

Everything seems to have confirmed that the blood-sucking roots on the altar should be the roots of the flesh-and-blood tree in the mural.

"How does a tree survive for thousands of years in a dark place with no sunlight?" Li Huiyan seemed to have decided that my guess was correct, and after looking at the mural a few times, she asked me with some doubts.

"I don't know, this big tree feeds on human flesh and blood, which is already bizarre enough, so naturally it can't be measured by common sense." Hearing this, I shook my head and said, "If I have to say a reason, I think it has something to do with the crescent-shaped blood pool in the last mural, maybe it is the nourishment provided by the blood in that blood pool that has allowed this tree to survive in this tomb for so long." ”

"Your guess should be the closest to the truth, but it doesn't rule out other possibilities, such as the place we are in now, which should be the altar used to worship the big tree. Perhaps in the beginning, there was a time of bloody sacrifices to the trees with the flesh and blood of the living. Hearing my answer, Li Huiyan glanced at the mural again thoughtfully, and then said.

"Well, but I'm more curious about why these people are feeding this tree in such a cruel way, and maybe there are other reasons for this." I thought about it for a moment and said again.

The owner of the tomb should have learned some secrets about the tree from the ancestors of the tribes who were slaughtered by him, and it is possible that one or two people were not slaughtered, and the tree was buried in the tomb along with the coffin, perhaps it was the idea of the ancestors of these tribes.

It's just that what is the secret in this, just looking at a few murals, Li Huiyan and I, can only guess wildly.

In any case, the strangeness in this ancient tomb has far exceeded my expectations, whether it is the corpses of the women in white before, or the altar and these blood-sucking roots that I see now, it makes people feel a sense of respect.

"I don't know, I've read a lot of archaeological books before, but I've never seen anything like this. Maybe there will be records in other places, but I haven't seen it.

Li Huiyan obviously can't answer my questions, or she has no fewer questions in her heart than mine.

"This tomb is very weird, let's try to be careful." I was silent for a moment and said to Li Huiyan.

Although I was curious about the secrets of this ancient tomb, I would love to see the strange tree that sucks flesh and blood in the main burial chamber depicted on the mural.

But my gut told me that if I did go there, there would be unexpected disasters.

"I know, let's figure out how to get out of here now." Li Huiyan said.

Get out of here?

After being reminded by Li Huiyan, I realized that I had forgotten the most important thing now.

Watching the pool sink and watching the wooden coffin containing Xiao Yue trapped in the water, I didn't have time to think too much about it, and jumped down directly with Li Huiyan.

It was only now that Li Huiyan's words woke me up from reality.

Yes, Xiao Yue is fine, even the corpse poison in his body has been cleared a lot because of the blood in the roots of those trees, but how can we get out of here?

I took the flashlight from Li Huiyan's hand and shone it from the bottom of the pool, and immediately my heart was half cold.

The height from the bottom to the top of the pool we were in was about 50 meters, and although the pool was in the shape of a funnel, it was not something we could climb up at such an almost straight angle.

The walls of the pool were covered with unusually smooth moss, and there were no ladders or vines or anything else that could be climbed to make it impossible to climb with bare hands.

"Let's take a closer look to see if there are any other exits here." Li Huiyan obviously realized our current situation, sighed softly, and said to me.

With that, the two of us split up and searched the bottom of the pool to see if there were any other exits to escape.

After a round around, I was a little disappointed that the pool had been hollowed out of the mountain, and there was nothing on the stone walls except for the carved frescoes, let alone secret doors.

The next moment, my eyes fell on the four round holes around the bottom of the pool, through which the water in the pool had been drained, and the nine corpses of women in white had all been sucked into these four holes.

Could it be that these four openings are the exits of the ancient tomb? I thought to myself.

Although it is not known where the four holes lead, since they can drain all the water in such a huge pool, it proves that there must be a much larger space at the other end of the four holes.

"You're not planning on us to crawl out of here, are you?" Seeing that I stopped motionless at the entrance of the cave, Li Huiyan stepped forward and asked in a strange tone.

"Well, I've thought this before, but I still think it's a little inappropriate." I'll be honest.

Not to mention where these holes lead, just talking about the female corpses in white that were sucked into it by the water flow before is enough to make people retreat.

The holes are only one meter in diameter, and maybe even smaller inside. In such a small space, if we encounter any urgent danger, we have no chance to turn around and escape.

If it was just me and Li Huiyan, it wasn't that I couldn't take the risk to go in and try it. It's just that now there is a comatose Xiao Yue with corpse poison in her body, and we have become a little constrained, in such a small place, we can't drag her away.

All of this eventually made me reject the idea of finding a way out of these holes, after all, the risks are so great that we will all die in them.

"So what now?"

After a long night's tossing, I was a little tired, and my voice was weak.

I didn't eat much at the village chief's house at night, and I consumed too much physical strength by walking all the way with Xiao Yue on my back before, if we continue to consume it in this tomb, even if I don't starve to death, I will be exhausted to death.

"I don't know, I have tried to use my mobile phone to contact the outside world after entering this tomb, but my mobile phone has no signal at all." Trapped in this dark tomb, Li Huiyan, who has always been smart, has no choice.

I sighed, are we really going to be trapped here? Then the blood on his body was sucked dry by the strange roots of the stone slabs of these altars, and became the nourishment of the big tree.

After being in the chamber for so long, looking at the smooth, almost straight walls of the pool, I felt the breath of despair for the first time.

"Why don't we rest here first, since we can't think of a way for the time being, it's better to recover some strength first." After thinking about it secretly, I suggested to Li Huiyan that this seems to be the only thing we can do now.

"Well, but should we get Xiao Yue and that wooden coffin off the altar first, these strange roots that suck human blood are always unsettling."

Li Huiyan nodded, then glanced at the wooden coffin containing Xiao Yue on the altar, and said.

Naturally, I have no objection to Li Huiyan's proposal.

After a while, I first took Xiao Yue out of the wooden coffin, and then the two of them worked together to lift the wooden coffin off the altar, and then put Xiao Yue in again.

"I'm still a little worried, why don't you sleep for a while, and then come back to sleep for me when you wake up. We took turns resting and waking each other up immediately if we were in danger. ”

After doing this, although the whole person was already weak and sleepy, I still said to Li Huiyan.

I'm not sure if the nine white-clothed female corpses that were washed into the hole will crawl out again, and I don't know if the blood-sucking roots in the crevices of the altar will spread to us, but after thinking about it, I decided that it would be better to stay alone.

"Okay, let's rotate every two hours, and if I sleep too hard for a while and don't wake up, you remember to wake me up."

Li Huiyan thought about it a little and felt that this was the safest way, so she immediately agreed to my suggestion.

Just a moment later, Li Huiyan was already sitting on the wet ground with her back against the wooden coffin and falling asleep.

It can be seen that she is also extremely tired, otherwise with her character, it would never be possible to sleep so soundly in such a place and such an environment.

I turned off my flashlight, resisted the drowsiness that hit me from the bottom of my heart, and kept my eyes wide open in the dark as much as I could to keep myself from falling asleep.

When I was in school, I had many fantasies about what kind of life we faced when we came to the Yaojiacun branch church.

However, it is impossible to think that we would encounter so many things on the first day we came to Yaojia Village.

From the time the ghost Yazi Mountain encountered the mountain ghost blocking the way, I felt as if I was living in a nightmare, and everything seemed so unreal.

But I knew it wasn't a dream, we were trapped in this tomb, and it wasn't until now that I realized that I couldn't find any use for the archaeology I had studied for three years.

Eventually, I couldn't resist the tiredness and sleepiness, and at some point I fell asleep on the wooden coffin, until I was woken up by a loud noise.

"Seven...... Seventh Master, come and see, here's a good ...... What a big well. A stammering, but strong, rugged, and loud voice sounded in the cave for the first time, and in an instant I was awakened from my sleep.

"Idiot, what kind of well is this, it's clearly a dry pool." Another magnetic voice rang out, retorting unceremoniously.

"Humpty and fat winter melon, it's not the monkey master I said you, is your brain full of pork belly, why don't you say that this is your thatched pit, who have you ever seen have such a big well?" Then another high-pitched voice rang out.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of laughter.

Listening to this laughter, it seems that there are quite a few strangers in the cave, at least eight or nine, and maybe even more.

"You...... You are jealous of my cleverness, and deliberately sing to me...... Singing the opposite, let's let the seventh master judge. The owner of the first voice seemed very unhappy, and stammered again.

"That's enough, I'm risking my life to take you down, not to let you come here to make jokes. If anyone dares to talk nonsense again, don't blame me Liu Laoqi for turning his face and not recognizing people, and just throwing himself into this ancient tomb as a living dead to fend for himself. An old but majestic voice sounded, and the atmosphere in the cave fell silent for a moment, as if everyone else was afraid of the owner of the voice.

Inverted bucket?

I had just come to my senses, and I instantly captured the key words in these people's words.

As someone who has studied archaeology for three years, I still know a thing or two about these things.

An archaeology professor once used his spare time to tell us about tomb robbers, such as fighting back, touching gold, and working in the fields.

Could it be that a group of tomb robbers came to this tomb?