Chapter 16: Accidents
Standing at the stone gate, I roughly counted the wooden coffins floating in the pool, no more and no less, exactly nine.
"What do we do now?" After entering the stone gate, Li Huiyan turned to me and asked.
When the stone door was opened, Li Huiyan took a general look at it with a flashlight and found that the pool in front of us had completely blocked our way.
The way out of here is on the other side of the pool, and there seems to be no other way than to wade directly through the water.
"What else can I do, I can only swim over." I said helplessly, there is only one way in front of us.
"That...... Zhang three years, I can't swim. Hearing this, Li Huiyan's expression was a little embarrassed and said.
I asked Li Huiyan to shine a flashlight on the pool, and relying on the light of the flashlight, I looked at the depth of the pool. Although the water in the pool is very clear, there is no way to see the bottom of the pool.
The further down it became, the darker it became, and the seemingly inconspicuous pool was a bit bottomless.
"That's it, I can swim, I'll bring you over first, and then I'll swim back and bring Xiao Yue over too."
The bottomless pool in front of me is at least four or five zhang in diameter, and it is obviously impossible for a person who can't swim to wade through, so I had to think about it and said to Li Huiyan.
"Hmm." Li Huiyan hesitated slightly, but quickly nodded and agreed to my proposal.
Seeing that Li Huiyan did not object, Xiao Yue, who was about to carry her on her back, carefully put it down, and temporarily leaned her against the stone wall on the side.
Then I walked to the edge of the pool and nodded back to Li Huiyan.
Li Huiyan immediately stepped forward knowingly, and after hesitating for a moment, she stepped forward and hugged my waist.
"Be careful." I reminded Li Huiyan, and then reached out and wrapped my hand around her thin waist.
I have to say that this beautiful school girl is excellent in both figure and appearance, although it seems to be a little thin, my hand around her waist feels extremely soft.
The moment my palm touched her waist, I felt her tremble slightly, and then returned to normal, but she lowered her head and did not dare to look at me, and I could see that she was a little shy.
I picked up Li Huiyan and jumped into the water gently.
Hiss......
As soon as I touched the water, I immediately felt a chill all over my body, and the water in the pool was as cold as freshly melted snow.
Li Huiyan hugged me with her left hand, and her right hand holding the flashlight was raised high, and the two of us were almost facing each other at this time, and the posture of hugging each other looked extremely ambiguous.
Because I had to free my right hand to hold Li Huiyan, I had to use one left hand to paddle desperately, because of the constant floating up and down in the water, the two soft touches on my chest made me a little confused, and I almost sank into the water because of distraction.
I was startled, and I didn't dare to have any more thoughts, so I immediately gathered my mind and swam to the other side with all my might.
Just as I was about to swim to the other side with Li Huiyan, a wooden coffin floated slowly in front of the two of us along the water.
Through the cracks in the broken wooden coffin, I seemed to see a pale and bloodless face in the wooden coffin.
The sudden glance made me think I was dazzled, and just as I was about to see it again, the wooden coffin had already floated in front of the two of us.
A moment later, when we went up to the other side, our clothes were naturally wet.
Because she was in a hurry when she followed Teacher Feng, Li Huiyan only wore a thin set of pajamas, and at this moment, the pajamas were completely wet by the pool water, clinging to her, and her graceful figure was unobstructed.
In order not to be mistaken for a pervert, I quickly looked away from Li Huiyan.
"Are you alright?" I saw that Li Huiyan's teeth were chattering at this time, and her whole body was trembling, so I couldn't help but ask.
"It's okay, it's just that the water in this pool is a little cold, and it will be fine in a while. Hurry up and pick up Xiao Yue, remember to be careful. Li Huiyan shook her head and admonished me.
I answered, turned and jumped into the pool, and a moment later was back on the other side again.
I picked Xiao Yue up from the ground and walked to the edge of the pool, but I hesitated.
I had already tried it once when I sent Li Huiyan over just now, and the water in this pool was extremely cold. This level of cold may be able to grit your teeth and barely endure it for people who are in good health, but for Xiao Yue at this time, it is undoubtedly fatal.
Xiao Yue's body was already weakened by the corpse poison in her body, and it was hard to imagine what would happen if she was exposed to these cold and biting pool water at this time.
"Zhang Sansan, what's wrong?" Seeing that I hadn't been in the water for half a day, Li Huiyan shouted on the other side.
I told her my worries again, and Li Huiyan seemed to feel a little embarrassed and troubled after hearing it.
I was thinking about it, trying to figure out the best of both worlds.
At this moment, a wooden coffin floated in front of me again with the flow of water, and the moment I saw the wooden coffin in front of me, I had an idea, and I had a way.
Seeing that the coffin was about to pass me again, I quickly reached forward and stretched out my hand and pulled it to the shore.
I have to say that my luck is quite good, and the wooden coffin that appeared in front of me is almost the most well-preserved of all the nine wooden coffins in the pool.
If Xiao Yue is put in this and pushed across the pool, he doesn't have to worry about the weak Xiao Yue touching the cold pool water.
After pulling the wooden coffin, I had to put Xiao Yue on the ground again, and I had to open the wooden coffin first if I wanted to pass it smoothly.
I don't know what kind of wood this wooden coffin is made of, but it can still be preserved so well after thousands of years.
When I took out the four copper nails nailed to the wooden coffin and lifted the lid, I was so frightened by the scene that I almost collapsed on the ground.
I saw that in the wooden coffin I opened, there was an extremely well-preserved long-haired white-clothed female corpse, and at a glance I thought it was a sleeping living person.
Although her whole body is a little swollen because of the damp environment in this cave, this degree of completeness of the female corpse is better than the female corpse of the Han Dynasty unearthed in Mawangdui, Changsha.
"No wonder, no wonder, in order to save his friends, the little one must not disturb the seniors to sleep for a long time, if he can leave from here, the younger generations must burn more paper money for the seniors."
After experiencing the mountain ghost blocking the road in the Ghost Yazi Mountain and the female corpse in the bronze coffin of the Yao family ancestral hall, I was extremely afraid of these ghost corpses and other things, and immediately kept shaking at the female corpse in the wooden coffin, and kept talking.
After saying that, I endured the fear in my heart, bent down and took out the female corpse in the wooden coffin, and threw it into the pool with a thud.
To my surprise, I thought that the female corpse would float when thrown into the pool, but I didn't expect it to sink directly into the bottomless pool and disappear.
Although I knew that this kind of rude approach was very disrespectful to the deceased, in order to save Xiao Yue, I had to do it hard.
Seeing that the female corpse sank to the bottom of the pool and disappeared, I immediately picked up Xiao Yue and put her in the wooden coffin.
Just in case, I thought about it and nailed the copper nail that I had taken off again again, and it was a big deal to take it off when I got to the other side of the bank.
After doing this, I jumped lightly again and jumped into the pool.
Even though it was the third time I had entered the water, the cold water still made me grin. I secretly said in my heart that it was fortunate that there were these wooden coffins here, otherwise if Xiao Yue was taken over the water, it would really take her life.
I pushed the coffin with one hand and paddled with the other, and although it wasn't very fast, I quickly reached the middle of the pool.
However, at this time, the unexpected happened.
I was struggling to swim and suddenly felt my feet sinking, and my two ankles seemed to be firmly grasped by something, and a huge force came from the bottom of the water, dragging me directly to the bottom.
Caught off guard, I was dragged into the water, and swallowed a few mouthfuls of cold and biting pool water.
As soon as I was dragged underwater, I opened my eyes, and the scene in front of me almost scared me out of breath.
In the pool, a pale and puffy face was facing me, and her long hair was floating up and down in the water, dancing wildly as if it were alive.
Although there was no way to see the other person's face underwater, I still recognized her at a glance, but it was not the white-clothed female corpse I had picked up from the wooden coffin and thrown into the pool and sank to the bottom of the pool.
How did she come back to life?
Knowing the identity of the culprit, I can no longer be calm, this is obviously a corpse that has been dead for I don't know how many years, how can it be that it came back to life, could it be to retaliate for my previous disrespectful behavior towards her?
The force on the hands of the white-clothed corpse was so great that it was as if an iron ingot had been tied to my feet, and I was constantly being pulled and sinking towards the bottom of the bottomless pool.
Although I was still a little afraid in my heart, I couldn't care much about my life, so I immediately bent down and reached out to hold the female corpse's hands, and then twisted it hard, and the female corpse's hands holding my ankles instantly let go.
After getting out of the trap, I couldn't care about anything else, and after diving out of the water, I pushed the wooden coffin containing Xiao Yue in front of me hard, and then tried to swim towards the other side of the pool.
Previously, because the wooden coffin blocked the view, Li Huiyan on the shore did not realize that I had actually experienced nine deaths, and at this time, I saw my ugly face and desperately swam to the shore, which was the only way to discover my abnormality.
"Zhang Sansan, what's wrong with you?"
Li Huiyan's concerned voice came from the shore, but at this time, the crisis had not been resolved, and I couldn't care about her words at all.
A moment later, when I had climbed up to the other side with all my strength, I could not speak at all, and lay on the ground with my whole body paralyzed, my mouth open and panting heavily.
"Zhang Sansan, what's wrong with you, why are you tired like this?" Li Huiyan's voice came again, and she squatted beside me, looking at me with a frown and a puzzled expression.
"Hell yes." My teeth chattered, and these three words popped out between my teeth.
Hearing this, Li Huiyan's frowning brows did not stretch at all, but became tighter and tighter.
"It's ...... How did your feet become like this? Suddenly, Li Huiyan noticed the position of my ankle and exclaimed.
Hearing her words, I sat up with my tired body on my back, looked down at my ankles, and couldn't help but gasp.
By this time, the ankles of my feet had turned dark blue, and I could see five distinct finger prints on each ankle.
I tapped my ankle with my hand, but I was numb and unconscious, and I couldn't feel any pain even if I pinched it hard.
"Zhang Sansan, what's going on?" Li Huiyan's tone became extremely serious.
I had no choice but to tell her what had happened in the pool before.
After listening to my narration, Li Huiyan's brows furrowed again, and she said, "I think you may also have been poisoned by corpses." ”
I've been poisoned by corpses too?
Li Huiyan's words frightened me, Xiao Yue was poisoned by the corpse, but life and death are still uncertain, if I am poisoned by the corpse again, then how can I escape from here?
It's impossible for Li Huiyan to take the two of us with the oil bottle alone, right?
When I thought of Xiao Yue, I remembered that she was still in the wooden coffin in the pool.
However, when I looked up, I was a little dumbfounded.
I saw that the wooden coffin that had been pushed to the shore by me had drifted to the middle of the pool again, and what was even more strange was that the other eight wooden coffins that had been floating in the pool were rotating around the wooden coffin containing Xiao Yue at this time.