I think that Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang are both people with special abilities, and I can give my back to them without any scruples. On the other hand, I don't seem to be particularly good at anything.

With these things in mind, Liu Shangang had already turned off the lights and drawn the curtains, and I leaned on the soft pillow and soon fell asleep.

At six o'clock in the morning, Uncle Ke came to wake us up, saying that it was the best time to open the stone door near noon, and that we should hurry up and get up.

Although it didn't take too long to get from the pasture to the Jizo tomb, it would take at least nearly three hours to complete the tomb road connecting Area 4 and the long and narrow tunnel in Area 4, so it was reasonable for Uncle Ke to call us up so early.

After breakfast, we checked the supplies again and confirmed that there was no problem, so we got on our horses and took Dorjee to the Jizo Tomb.

Although only the three of us took Dorjee to the tomb this time, Mr. Sun and Luo Fei both came.

Mr. Sun said that he would keep a guard outside, and if an evil spirit came out after the stone door was opened, he would deal with it. Xian'er and Luo Fei's rhetoric is almost exactly the same as Mr. Sun's. In fact, we all knew in our hearts that the reason why they came with us was because they were worried about a few of us.

When we came to the entrance of the Jizo Tomb, Uncle Ke asked us not to go down to the tomb first, saying that we were going to set up a battle with Uncle Liu.

I couldn't understand the formation of the Tunmeng lineage, but I saw Uncle Liu and Uncle Ke draw a big rune near the spring, pinching the handprint and reciting the incantation.

After tossing for a long time, it was finished, and I asked Uncle Ke what kind of formation this was, and Uncle Ke smiled and said, "The name of this formation involves the inheritance of our Tunmeng lineage, so the name can't be said." In fact, there is nothing profound, it is just a formation used for good luck, with the blessing of this array, when you go to the tomb, your luck will be better. ”

Speaking of this, Uncle Ke's expression became serious again: "But luck is such a thing, you can't see or touch it, after you go in, you still have to rely on yourself to be careful." Also, after this formation starts, no matter what happens in the tomb, everyone should not go in, once someone else enters, the fortune will also become bad luck, and it will harm a few of them. ”

In the second half of the paragraph, Uncle Ke said to Mr. Sun, Xian'er, and Luo Fei.

After speaking, Uncle Ke raised his hand at me: "Go ahead." Remember, don't be scared, the three of you will be fine this time. ”

I smiled and nodded at Uncle Ke.

Mr. Sun opened the entrance to the Jizo Tomb, he was going to send us to the stone gate before leaving, and Xian'er and Luo Fei seemed to want to follow us in.

But Uncle Ke stopped them and told them to wait outside with peace of mind.

Usually Uncle Ke always has a smiling and welcoming face, but when he stopped Mr. Sun and them, he gave people a very dignified feeling, so that even Mr. Sun didn't dare to disobey him, let alone Xian'er and Luo Fei.

We entered the Jizo Tomb as usual, and Dorjee walked briskly to the front, it was very familiar with the environment here, and as soon as it entered the tomb, it immediately ran towards the tomb road leading to Area 4, because it was so fast, I had to slow it down.

If we run at its pace, it is estimated that within five minutes we will have no physical strength at all, and we will not be able to catch up with it with our feet.

Three hours later, we came to the stone door with four murals, the ice was thicker than when we had come before, and the three of us had to take out the pickaxe from our backpacks and start clearing the ice as fast as we could.

Before the start of work, Liu Shangang looked at his watch, it was already half past eleven, and we only had half an hour at most to catch up with the best time to open the door.

Fortunately, although the ice was thick, it was not hard, and at eleven fifty, we cleared the ice outside the door almost completely, and then the three of us worked together to push open the stone gate.

When the door opened, there was a "click" of ice cracking from behind the door.

On the other side of the door, there was a huge, extremely dark space, and the three of us turned on the flashlights at the same time, shining in different directions, but beyond the beams of light, there was boundless darkness, and only when the beams fell on the ground or on the wall behind us, the light could be reflected.

The huge space was cold and eerily quiet, with only the faint sound of running water being heard in the distance.

I beckoned to Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai: "Come, you two take a hand and help me close the stone door, don't let the things inside escape." ”

The two of them didn't talk nonsense, and came with me to the stone door, pushing the two heavy door panels to make them back together.

Now, we're really locked in this huge dark space.

When I was about to close the door, I also took a flashlight and shone it behind me to make sure that Dorjee had come in. At that time, Dorjee was sitting on the ground with his back to me, facing the direction directly opposite the stone gate.

After the stone door was closed again, I walked up to Dorjee and rubbed its head: "Let's go, take us to find the Demon Suppression Pestle, slow down." ”

Dorjee let out a low "purr" from his mouth, then stood up and walked straight ahead with broken steps.

Although the road surface is unbalanced, it is very spacious, and as I walk, I shine a flashlight on Dorjee from time to time, and Dorjee has to stop and look around for a while every time he walks, as if he is not sure whether he is choosing the right direction or not.

After all, in a place like this, where everything is black, it's almost impossible to make out the direction.

At this time, I can only pin all my hopes on Dorjee, hoping that it can surprise us.

In the dark, people's perception of time can also be distorted, sometimes you will feel that a minute is very short, and sometimes, you will feel that a minute is very long.

Every time Dorjee stopped, I would ask Liu Shangang to report the time to determine how long we had been gone.

After walking for nearly four hours, the beam of the flashlight hit a stone wall, illuminating the uneven stone surface in a terrible white.

Dorjee stopped again, and it began to look left and right, and after a while, it ran back to me.

I asked it, "Wrong way?" If yes, nod your head. ”

Dorjee nodded twice vigorously.

How could it go wrong? It is said that Dorjee comes here every year, so he should be very familiar with this place.

I asked it again, "Did you miss it before?" ”

This time, Dorjee let out a slight "purring" sound, and since he didn't nod, it means that the answer he gave this time was no.

Liang Houzai, who was behind the hall at the end of the line, came over and said, "Didn't Dorjee say before that you can see the light from above your head in the night mound?" It is said that in such a dark place, if there is a little light, you can see it from a long distance, but we have been walking for so long, and the only light source here is our flashlight. ”

I nodded, and Liang Houzai asked Dorjee again: "Dorjee, when you came here before, you relied on the light source above your head to identify the direction." ”

Dorjee nodded vigorously, and then it let out another whining sound, and since Xian'er was not there, we didn't know what Dorjee meant.

It was a bit of a problem, so I turned around and used my flashlight to shine the way I came, and after four hours of walking, the beam of the flashlight could not reach the stone door that had been opened when we came, no matter which direction it went.

At this time, at the end of the beam, there was only bottomless darkness.

I frowned, took the map out of my backpack, and examined it carefully, but it didn't work, even with the map in hand, I couldn't tell where we were in such a dark environment.

But I found that the strange buildings drawn on the map are very different in size, so it is not exact, to be exact, it should be that the size of each building is different.

Liang Houzai also discovered this problem: "The size of the stele is different? ”

Dorjee had said before that the "buildings" that appeared on the map may be some stone monuments with irregular shapes.

I nodded at Liang Houzai and walked straight to the "wall" that had just been illuminated by the flashlight.

The reason why I would consider it a wall is only because its surface, although potholed, is generally smooth. But when I walked into it, I used a flashlight to look at its outline, only to find that it was a very large stone tablet, and there were some unknown ancient characters engraved on it, and because of the age, many of these huge ancient characters were only a vague outline.

I looked at the stele and then the map in my hand, and said to Liang Houzai, "We can only find a few more steles and guess where we are by comparing their size." ”

Liang Houzai frowned: "It's going to take a long time, we don't have a reference at all now, and we don't know which one of the stone tablets of this size can correspond to on the map." ”

Liu Shangang also said: "I have prepared two days' rations, according to Brother Dao, if you do this, it is estimated that we will not be able to figure out the direction for ten days and eight days." ”

I asked Liu Shangang: "Do you have any other way now?" ”

Liu Shangang thought about it and said honestly: "No." ”

I said, "Let's take this stele in front of us as a reference point, let's go to the left of it, if we come across a stele smaller than it, look for a place on the map that says 'there is a relatively small stele near a big stele', and then use the second stele we find as a reference point, and continue to the left, and if the third stele we encounter is between the first two, find on the map that there is a relatively small stele near a large stele, There is a relatively large stone monument near the small stone monument', and so on, if we are lucky, when we see the fourth or fifth stone monument, we can guess where we are. ”

Liu Shangang thought for a while, and then asked me: "What if you are unlucky." ”

I said, "If we're unlucky, we may not be able to touch the next stone monument for a long time, or we may not be able to walk out for the rest of our lives, but we may not be able to walk out of the place for the rest of our lives." But it's also possible that we won't have to go far to find the light source overhead. ”