In a dark burial chamber, two fist-sized night pearls emitted a faint glow, and a huge stone coffin in the middle of the burial chamber lay quietly flat.

Directly in front of the coffin, a huge relief of a lifelike grimace was facing me, as if grinning at me.

"Humble slave, why are you disturbing my purity?"

Just as I was stunned as I looked at the grimace relief, a cold, emotionless voice sounded in the tomb, but when I glanced around, the tomb was empty except for me.

"Who is it? Who's talking? ”

I was shocked, looked up at the coffin, and found that the coffin lid, which weighed hundreds of pounds, slowly moved sideways for about a meter, and finally floated motionless in the air.

In the coffin, a woman wrapped in black cloth stood upright. On her face she wore a grimace mask made of mutton fat and white jade, which was exactly the same as the grimace relief carved on the coffin, except that the mask on the woman's face seemed to be more eerie and terrifying.

"Giggles......" There was another creepy laugh in the tomb.

I saw the woman with the grimace mask stiffly raise her arm and point at me: "Humble slave, disturb my purity, you have to stay here forever to be buried......"

The next moment, the huge grimace relief carved directly in front of the coffin suddenly came to life, opened its mouth and let out a strange scream, grinning at the place where I stood. I hurriedly tried to retreat, but I found that two large white hands were clutching my ankles under me, and I couldn't move at all, so I could only watch the huge grimace get closer and closer to me.

"Don't ......"

On the train, when I opened my eyes, I saw five pairs of big curious eyes staring at me in a daze.

"I'm sorry, I just had a nightmare." I explained, somewhat awkwardly.

After saying that, I realized that my upper body was cold, and when I looked down, I saw that my shirt had already been soaked in cold sweat, and the whole dress seemed to have just been fished up from the river.

"Hey, Zhang Sansan, are you okay, what kind of nightmare can scare a big man like this."

The person who spoke was Xiao Yue, my classmate, with a cute baby face and an outgoing personality, so he had a lot of suitors in the class.

"It's really fine, it's just a normal nightmare." With that, I stood up and prepared to go to the bathroom to change my clothes.

In the train's restroom, I took off my sweat-soaked shirt and turned my back to the mirror.

I turned my head to look at myself reflected in the mirror, and there was a grimace birthmark on my back, which was pitch black, identical to the grimace relief that appeared in my dream.

From junior high school to high school to college, all my roommates mistakenly thought that the birthmark on my back was a tattoo that I had paid for, and they always complimented me on how lifelike the tattoo was, and asked me which tattoo parlor I was doing it in, but every time I was fooled.

Only I know that this seemingly harmless tattoo has always brought me misfortune since I was a child, and I am like a person cursed by the devil.

Looking at the grimace birthmark reflected on the smooth mirror, I couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Why do I have the same nightmare over and over again since I was a child, dreaming of the same scene, the same person. What was that burial chamber, and who was the woman in the grimace mask in the stone coffin? What is the relationship with me?

Let me introduce myself first, my name is Zhang Sansan, born in September 1985, 21 years old, I am a junior student majoring in archaeology in the history department of a university in East China, and my ancestral home is Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province.

On the day I was born, a large rock suddenly rolled down from behind my house, burying me and my parents in the rubble. In the end, I was rescued by the villagers who heard the noise, but both my parents died. The villagers said that I was a broom star, and even my own relatives refused to take me in, so the village chief sent me to an orphanage, where I grew up.

During this period, two families adopted me, the first time was when I was seven years old, when my adoptive parents took me out to play, but I was hit by a speeding truck and killed me instantly. When I was eleven years old, another family adopted me, and I ended up in the same end.

Since then, no one has been willing to adopt me.

At the end of the semester, the school organized a volunteer activity to teach in the countryside. It is stipulated that as long as the students participate in this activity, they can receive a good scholarship in the next semester.

In order to save some tuition for myself and at the same time want to train myself, I did not hesitate to sign up.

Soon after, I received a notice from the school that I had been assigned to teach in a small village called Yaojia Village, Lantian County, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province.

There were a total of five people with me, three men and two women, namely Xu Hao, Qin Dong, Lu Cheng, Xiao Yue, and Li Huiyan. Except for Xiao Yue and I who were in the same class, everyone else only knew each other before getting on the bus.

Among these people, the one that impressed me the most was Li Huiyan.

When I changed my clothes and returned to the carriage again, several people in the carriage had already gone back to their beds, or listened to music, or slept. Only Li Huiyan was sitting on the bed, looking intently at an archaeological book, and I, like her, also lived in the lowest bunk.

Seeing me come back, Li Huiyan nodded and smiled at me politely, didn't speak, and continued to look down at the book in her hand.

Li Huiyan, the school flower of my university, has a large number of suitors in various departments and classes, and I used to hear her name when I was in school, but I have only seen her from afar a few times, and it is really the first time I have seen it so closely like today.

Regarding Li Huiyan's appearance, even for people like me who don't have much pursuit of romance and love, every time I see her, I have a feeling of amazement. With a beautiful face without powder, a tall figure with a fat and thin body, and long hair hanging down at will, I was a little stunned at the moment.

As if sensing that I was watching her, Li Huiyan suddenly raised her head to look at me, and the two eyes collided silently, and the atmosphere in the carriage instantly became a little embarrassing.

"Uh, that, actually, I just saw that you were reading this book all the way, and I was a little curious about why you, a girl, were so interested in books like archaeology, and you didn't seem to be majoring in archaeology. In order to ease the atmosphere, I hurriedly asked Li Huiyan without words.

"Yes, I studied economics in college, but I actually prefer to study archaeology because China has a long history, and it always feels mysterious, and I want people to find out." Li Huiyan nodded and said.

"Since you like it so much, why didn't you just apply for the archaeology major in the first place, but instead study a major you don't like." I'm a little puzzled.

"Because of my grandparents, my grandparents used to be archaeologists, and they were very famous in the field of archaeology at home and abroad, but later in an archaeological process in Xinjiang, there was an accident, and my grandmother disappeared, although my grandfather survived, but he is still ......

Li Huiyan's mood seemed to become a little depressed, and after a while, she continued: "As soon as I proposed to apply for the archaeology major, my parents were resolutely opposed, and they even mobilized all my relatives and friends to persuade me, even my grandfather's best friend in life did not support me to study archaeology. In the end, under their persuasion, I really had no choice but to choose an economics major that I didn't like. ”

I listened to her quietly, without interjecting, and I could see that these words seemed to have been held in Li Huiyan's heart for a long time, and perhaps she had never said it to anyone.

"You know, since I was a child, I was very envious of those children who could have grandparents, and I really wanted to be like those children, sitting on grandpa's lap and listening to him tell me stories and eat delicious meals made by grandma. But these simple things have been a luxury since I was born. In fact, I want to study archaeology, not only because I like it, but also because I want to go to Xinjiang one day when I succeed in my studies, I can personally go to Xinjiang to investigate what happened to my grandfather back then and why he became the way he is now. ”

"In order not to let my parents worry about me, I had to apply for an economics major against my heart, but even if my family did not support me to study archaeology, I still had to study quietly by myself, and I believe that one day I will succeed in my studies and can investigate the truth about what happened to my grandparents."

Li Huiyan's words made me listen to her in a daze, and I suddenly became a little sympathetic to her. Although I don't have a full family like her parents, I am much freer than she is and can choose the path I want to take.

Compared to her, I was unfortunate and lucky at the same time.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't help but tell you so much for a while, you won't mind, right?" Li Huiyan's emotions gradually calmed down, and after closing the book, she said apologetically, and then suddenly thought of something, winked at me, and then said, "Remember to keep it secret for me!" ”

"It's okay, I'm lucky enough to hear the big school flower of our school say so much from my heart, and we don't think there is a second person in our school. If this matter is spread, it is estimated that I will be chased and killed by more than half of the boys in the school with knives, so you should keep it a secret for me. I said with a smile.

"That's of course, you're the first, and the last. This matter is so decided, you keep it secret for me, and I will keep it secret for you. Li Huiyan smiled, then stretched again, and then said, "I'm a little sleepy, you should rest early." The train will arrive in Xi'an tomorrow morning, and then transfer to Lantian and Yaojia Village, there will be a lot of things to do at that time, if you don't sleep well, you won't have energy. ”

"Okay."

Speaking of which, I was indeed a little sleepy, so I casually answered and lay back on my bed, and fell asleep.