Chapter 60: The Fork in the Road

Fork

Catch another ghost blowing the lamp? It's not so evil, and besides, we're still crawling in a long thief hole, and we're still far from the underground palace of the ancient tomb, so I touched the simple gas mask on my mouth, and it shouldn't be my breathing and movements that made the candle go out.

Could it be that there is air flow through the thief hole, I took off my gloves and tried it around, but I didn't notice any strong air flow, and I didn't care about him, I tried it again.

I struck a match, wanted to light the candle again, but found that the ground in front of me was empty, the candle that was originally inserted on the ground did not know where to go, at this time my scalp was all up, I thought that according to the previous thief hole into the underground palace, it was as easy as exploring the bag to get something, this time it was really alive, the candle in front of me, in the moment I was distracted, disappeared out of thin air.

I reached out and touched the place where the candle had been placed, and it was hard, but it was a flat slate, where did this slate come from?

I didn't care much, so I tore off my gas mask, patted the fat man's leg and said to him, "Climb back, something is wrong with this thief hole." ”

The big gold tooth was lying behind him and panting, and when he heard my words, he hurriedly curled up, turned around and crawled back, but this time he was bitter to the fat man, and he couldn't turn around in the robbery hole, so he had to drag the rope that tied the two geese upside down, and propped up the ground with both elbows, and crawled backwards.

We turned around and climbed back for less than five meters, and the big gold tooth in front of us suddenly stopped, and I asked behind me: "What's wrong Jin Ye, grit your teeth and hold on, climb out to rest, now is not the time to rest." ”

The big golden tooth turned back to me and said, "Master Hu...... There is a stone gate in front of it, which seals the road, and you can't get out. His face was so frightened that it was not easy to speak.

I used the wolf's eyes to shine a light on the road in front of the thief cave through the big gold teeth, sure enough, there was a flat big stone, I took every step forward, I carefully observed, and did not find any stone trough or other mechanism, the cave wall is flat soil, I don't know where this heavy stone slab came from, and the brush is in front of me.

Seeing that there was no way back, and there was no way to stay where I was, I had to make a gesture to the big gold tooth to turn him back, and then push the fat man behind him to crawl forward.

The fat man didn't know why, and when he saw it for a while, he said angrily: "Lao Hu, you want to toss me to death, I can't climb anymore, if you want to climb again, you crawl over me." ”

I know that we have encountered something unusual, what it is, I can't say it now, but I must not stop, and I can't spare time to explain to the fat man, so I urged repeatedly: "You have so much nonsense, let you go forward, you just crawl forward, hurry, obey orders and listen to commands." ”

The fat man heard that my tone was wrong, and knew that the situation might have changed, so he stopped complaining, and drove the two geese forward again, and hurriedly crawled forward for a distance of nearly two hundred meters, and suddenly stopped.

I thought he was tired and wanted to take a break, but I heard the fat man say to me in front of me: "**, Lao Hu, which hole are we going to drill in these three holes in front?" ”

"Three holes?" I've always been a thief hole, and I've never heard of a fork in the road, and at this time, I can't figure out what's going on with two more heads.

I asked the fat man to climb into the thief hole in front of me, and made room for me at the fork in the road, so that I could check the situation of the three related thief holes, I came to the middle, and the big gold tooth also crawled over, he was too tired to speak, I motioned to him not to worry, rest here first, and then do what I thought about when I understood the three thief holes.

I carefully inspected the three robbery holes in front of me, these three robbery holes and the one we got into, like a crossroads, the wall of the robbery hole in front of me was the same as before, neat and smooth, and dug calmly.

On the other two sides, however, the work was extremely scattered, and it was evident that the people who dug the two holes were in a hurry, but in terms of technique, they were basically the same as the flat robbery holes. There was a large amount of earth piled up in this cave, apparently from the passage on both sides.

I wondered if this could be dug by the senior who funded the repair of the fishbone temple, could it be that after he opened the thief hole, he went to the underground palace to get the treasure, and the way out was blocked by the stone gate, and he couldn't go back, so he made holes from both sides and wanted to escape?

I let the fat man and the big gold tooth rest and wait in the same place, I tied a long rope around my waist, and climbed into the thief hole on the left side to find out the situation, and if anything happened, I blew the whistle and let the fat man and the two pull me back.

I was just about to get in, when the big gold tooth reached out and grabbed me, took out a golden Buddha talisman from my neck, handed it to me and said, "Master Hu, wear this, if you open the light, you can also defend yourself in case you encounter something dirty." ”

I took the Golden Buddha and looked at it, this is a year, it is an antiquity, I said to the big golden tooth: "This Golden Buddha is very valuable, or keep the two of you to defend yourself, the thief is evil, but it doesn't seem to be a ghost, maybe it's some kind of mechanism that we haven't seen, I'll go to the holes on both sides to reconnoitre, it will be fine, don't worry." ”

The big gold tooth is not as panicked as just now, grinned, put his hand into the collar, and took out more than 20 pendants, all of which are Buddha Bodhisattva Guanyin and the like, and there are some Taoist paper talismans, and the pendants are gold, jade, ivory, and jade, all of them are different, and Dajin said to me: "I still have a bunch of them, all of them have been opened, and I don't feel scared of any dirty things." ”

I thought to myself that no wonder this grandson had to enter the underground palace, not afraid at all, it turned out that there were these treasures as the backstage, and said to him: "That's right, I'm afraid of ghosts, I'm not afraid of ghosts, I'm just worried that we have encountered something beyond common sense, and that's what is difficult to do, but it's not sure at the moment, I'll go to the cave here to take a look." ”

Saying that, he took the golden Buddha of the big gold tooth to me, hung it on the neck, and secretly thought: "During this time, I have been exposed to a lot of antiquities, and my eyesight is not better than before, I see that this golden Buddha is not like a fake, damn it, don't return him first, last time he gave me and the fat man two touch gold runes, are Xibei goods, maybe I touched the gold a few times before, it was because I wore a fake talisman, which made the ancestor unhappy, that kind of fake is better than there, and it may be better than wearing a fake, and so the big gold tooth will give us a real gold touch talisman and then return him, This is a deposit. ”

This section of the cave can already clearly feel the wind, the air flow is very strong, it seems to be connected to somewhere, then there is no need to worry about the air quality, I explained that the fat man still according to the previous contact code.

The fat man and the big gold tooth stayed where they were, and I explored the path to the left, with a rope attached in between, so as not to get lost, and if either side encountered a situation, I could pull the rope or blow a whistle to convey the message.

I put on a gas mask, illuminated with a wolf's eye, and burrowed into the cave on the left, this hole was obviously dug in a hurry, narrow and difficult, only enough for one person to crawl, if the psychological quality is a little worse, it is easy to be too low and depressed here, as if buried alive in the ground, resulting in a mental breakdown.

I was worried that the air in the depths of the cave was not smooth, and I didn't dare to stay longer, after all, the gas mask can only protect the mouth and nose from inhaling harmful gases, but the eyes and ears are not covered.

The narrow hole in the ground made me completely lose my sense of orientation and distance, and I didn't climb far away intuitively, and then I encountered a heavy stone slab in front of me, the thickness of which was incalculable, and the surrounding soil seemed to grow into one, not buried later, and its size could not be confirmed, and the whole way out was completely blocked.

At the end of the cave, it suddenly expanded, and it was obvious that the previous man wanted to dig a way out from below or around, and he dug very deep on all sides, but the huge stone slab seemed to be so big that it was impossible to find a way to dig out.

I was trapped not once or twice, although this thing is strange, but I was not discouraged, and I climbed back the way I came, and the fat man saw me crawling back, so he asked what? Where?

I told me about the events at the end of the passage, and the three of them were puzzled, and it was difficult to understand whether this huge stone slab was born naturally in the soil. But it was so neatly born that it was extremely difficult to manually chisel this stone slab weighing several thousand catties.

The most strange thing is that when we got into the thief hole, why didn't we find this slate, and it only came out of thin air when we went back? Legend has it that there are many mechanisms in the ancient tomb, and they won't be so powerful, no, you can't say it's powerful, you can only say it's strange.

Now there are two holes in front of us, one is the downward robbery hole, and the other is similar to the narrow hole I just entered, and I estimate that the situation inside is similar to the narrow hole I just entered.

But I'm not going to the Yellow River and don't give up, damn it, this is a bit unlucky, it's not far from the Yellow River, isn't it going to die? Then you won't cry if you don't see the coffin, but this is an inverted thief hole, not far from the ancient cemetery, there will naturally be a coffin in the ancient tomb, this time it's really a Jedi, and the coffins of the Yellow River are all together.

Don't dare to think about it anymore, at this time the most afraid is to scare yourself, I rested for a few minutes, according to the way just now, into the thief hole on the right hand, whether it is also sealed by the boulder, after all, you have to see it to know, this road is absolutely and then try to do another plan.

I climbed to the end of the narrow hole, and sure enough, there was still a boulder, and I couldn't help but curse, but suddenly I realized that there was something unusual here.