Chapter 42: The Deserted City Inn

I was really witty, I picked up the backpack and threw it at the vital part of my brother-in-law's crotch, my brother-in-law was directly blinded by my actions, instinctively a cat waist, leaned down, protected the root of life with one hand, and knocked off the backpack with the other, otherwise it would be more terrible than hanging. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The bronze necklace suddenly did not cover the brother-in-law's neck, and quickly climbed up and disappeared into the darkness.

My sister immediately dragged my brother-in-law over from the wall, stretched up the King Kong umbrella, and made a defensive gesture.

My brother-in-law was already hurting in his legs, and he was so tormented by me that he was angry enough, looked at me viciously, and said seriously:

"Little stone, you want the old Wang family to cut off their children and grandchildren! What kind of international joke is you making in front of your sister? There's an iron guy in this backpack you threw out, with edges and corners, and he can really make me a eunuch! ”

My sister was busy and said:

"Lao Wang, just now a bronze necklace quietly appeared on the top of your head, similar to the one hanging by the neck of the corpse outside the city, thanks to the stone saw it, he was in a hurry, threw a backpack at you, and saved your life. Don't blame him, he didn't break it, did you? ”

The brother-in-law hurriedly raised his head and looked above the city wall, and it was already quiet at this time, and when the brother-in-law learned the reason, he felt that the tone of what he had just spoken to me might have been a little heavier, and looked at me with sincere eyes and said:

"Brother-in-law, thank you for saving your life, my Wang Dacong will repay you for your kindness!"

I smiled and said:

"Brother-in-law, don't thank you, in case I am put around my neck by this bronze necklace, don't use this method to save me, we don't have a daughter-in-law, I'd rather die than be imprisoned!"

When my sister heard me say this, she was a little unhappy, and said to me fiercely:

"Phew, don't talk nonsense, boy, let's be careful, don't go near the wall."

The brother-in-law whispered:

"I wonder if this bronze chain triggered the fall of the mechanism, or if someone deliberately placed a trap on the wall?"

The sister glanced up at the castle and replied:

"It may not be artificially trapped, even if there are people on the city wall, they can't see the specific situation below, and they can't accurately locate it, maybe you are standing by the wall and triggering the mechanism. You didn't say it yourself just now, untie the hood and back your head, maybe the hanged ghost came to find a stand-in, this letter, right? Let's hurry up, keep an eye on our heads at all times, and never get close to the wall. ”

To stabilize the morale of the military, let's first observe the environment of the nearby city and the outside of Guo. The so-called outer Guo is the part between the outer city wall and the inner city wall, generally speaking, it is the common people area and the commercial area, but this city is an underground palace, so I don't know what the whole outer Guo is for, and asked:

"Sister, the whole underground palace is like this, what is the inner city, the outer city, maybe there are three palaces and six courtyards in the innermost, and three thousand female dumplings. There is no business in the outer Guo underground, and there are no ordinary people living in it, why is it the real thing? ”

My sister said implicitly:

"The structure of the entire underground palace should be similar to the capital under the rule of the ghost king, so that the ghost king dreams that even if he dies, he can continue to be the honor of a state and be the king forever. Outer Guo is naturally not just a simple decoration, but also to better protect the burial place of the ghost king in the inner city. I have been thinking about this problem when I saw the general structure of this underground palace at that time, this Wai Guo is to settle those ordinary clansmen who accompany the burial, and these dead clansmen may have a special mission, just like the farting zongzi, we must not take it lightly. ”

The brother-in-law continued:

"Hot, let's not waste time, hurry up and find the entrance to the inner city!"

After that, we moved straight forward, my sister and brother-in-law held flashlights on both sides of me, I carried a bag on each chest and back, holding my brother-in-law with one hand, and grasping the probe with the other, pressing the formation in the middle.

It's a pity that the burning stick was left outside when it got into the hole, not to mention that I really used it easily, and I was a little reluctant.

At this time, the dark street is deserted, and we always feel that someone is staring at us nearby, and there are many low wooden huts lined up regularly on the street, with simple shapes and different sizes, but the doors are very low, and it is estimated that you can't get in while standing. The doors and windows are completely closed, and you can't see inside. At the end of the alley of the wooden house appeared a simple wooden shed, two people high, transparent on all sides, with some simple wooden planks on the roof, somewhat similar to the spiritual tent erected after the death of the people in my hometown. Inside the shed there were several old wooden tables. There seemed to be a few people sitting next to the table!

The three of us were on high alert, lost their eyes at each other, and slowly approached the shed.

Could it be that these people are the accomplices of the little beggar and Scarface?

When I walked in, I found that the tables were neatly arranged, with several pottery bowls and several pairs of wooden chopsticks on the tables, and around one of the tables sat four shriveled corpses with wrinkled and twisted faces, one of which was sitting with its back to the other three. Some of them were dressed in cloth clothes, some were dressed in bronze armor, and although they were old, the cold was still there.

In the middle of the shed, there was also a corpse sitting on the ground, and in front of it was a half-human-high three-legged cauldron standing on the ground, the upper part of which was somewhat similar to the spittoon of Grandpa's house, except that there was an ear-shaped handle on each side. There was still some wood underneath that wasn't completely burned, and there was some black residue in the pot that looked disgusting.

When I saw this scene in front of me, I felt a little surprised and asked my sister:

"Sister, the ghost king will eat a big pot of rice at that time? Launched a socialist planned economy in Dongyi two thousand years in advance? No wonder people have strong combat effectiveness and stronger productivity! But this pot has grown like this, even if I boil a pot of sheep and scorpions, I can't eat it. This chef is also really dedicated, and he dies on the job! ”

My sister took one look at the cauldron and said to me:

This is called the copper mustache, which was popular from the Shang Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period. In the early Shang Dynasty, most of them had no ears, and in the later period, there were generally two straight ears on the edge of the mouth. In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, most of the mustaches were high-collared, short-footed, and often had attached ears. Don't look strange, this copper mustache will definitely be sold for a good price when it is placed in a foreign auction house! ”

The brother-in-law looked at the dried corpse in front of him and said:

"Hot, I think the dried corpses in this shed are very strange, the posture is very neat, if the collective is martyred for the ghost king, if you kill yourself by eating poison, you will also be on the table to lose your breath, instead of sitting up straight and straightening up."

My sister nodded and said:

"Lao Wang, do you mean that after they died, they were specially carried here while the corpses were not stiff?"

The brother-in-law poked one of the dried corpses with a Taibao shovel and said:

"This corpse is very hard, the seven holes have not been sealed, in my experience, it should not become a zongzi to bite people, and it does not look like there are Gu worms in the stomach. Perhaps, as you mentioned, the entire architecture of the outer kingdom and the corpses of the martyrs were used as models to decorate the noisy and lively city, recreating the glory of the reign of the Oni King. ”

I thought to myself, this ghost king is really ruthless, he has spent a lot of time tossing people, and he is not considerate of his clan at all. Everyone has martyred you, and you have to put out a plank room, put people's corpses as wax figures, and make it a feudal slave society daily life experience hall, who would dare to buy a house here! What a pervert in my heart!

I really don't get angry, this will make my stomach growl, I hurriedly said:

"Sister, this is a canteen, I saw a lot of houses along the way just now, maybe there are public toilets, commissaries, confinement centers, KTV bars in the city, let's don't study it anymore, we can see it one by one, let's hurry up and find masks."

My sister hesitated for a moment and asked:

"Lao Wang, can you see what surplus value is still in the vicinity, can you provide us with some useful clues?"

The brother-in-law thought for a moment and said:

"I'd like to check the cause of death of these corpses, and maybe predict the dangers and traps ahead. We must not move forward blindly, we have suffered a loss of hidden weapons before, and it will be difficult to say next time. The more anxious you are, the more cautious you have to be. ”

I reluctantly said:

"Okay, you two take a look, I'll find a stool to sit down and rest."

said to rest for a while, but in fact, he was not worried about the surrounding environment and helped keep an eye on it. I always have a little action in my heart about what the little beggar and Scarface will do, but I can't guess yet.

I sat at a table inside, with my back to the table, facing my sister and brother-in-law, and watched as they groped and poked at the corpses.

At this time, as soon as he sat down and had nothing to do, the smoker immediately got into his head, and he felt a cigarette on it, and heard his brother-in-law say:

"Hot, these corpses were obviously killed by trauma, some had a knife on the back of the chest, and some were hit to death by blunt objects on the head, not suicide, but homicide!"

Sister Says:

"Lao Wang, the location of this wound is different, the technique is also arbitrary, it does not conform to common logic, it stands to reason that people are martyred by strangulation, burial alive or poisoning, do they have to kill each other?"

Brother-in-law said:

"The hypothesis of killing each other is somewhat untenable, and there is also the possibility that the martyrs had fought with another foreign army in the city before they died. After dying in battle, it will be placed here again! ”

The brother-in-law then turned to the front of the corpse with his back to the table, and with a look of surprise, he said:

"Hot! Come and see this person's face? ”