Chapter 107: The Man in the Tomb
And I felt as if the sound was coming from above my head, and I hesitated for a moment, but the blue light of the water was gradually becoming brighter on the walls of the cave, and I knew that the pool was still rising, and I could not stop.
I took a deep breath and continued to crawl forward, calling Liang Houzai's name from time to time, I was afraid that he didn't follow or had some accidents, but fortunately, Liang Houzai would respond to me every time, and he kept following me closely.
I squirmed forward for a while, and a corner appeared, which I didn't know was at first, but I saw that the road ahead was blocked by something, until I noticed that the swarm of insects on the cave wall had changed direction and were swarming towards the left side of the cave wall.
I slowly moved my body and looked up, and I saw a very wide hole on the left side of the cave wall, just enough to turn my body around, and there was a pale yellow light shining from the hole.
When I got into the hole, I noticed that the space inside the hole suddenly became larger, and I was finally able to stand up and breathe a sigh of relief.
Soon, Liang Houzai also crawled out, he also patted his chest and let out a long, long breath.
Seriously, in that extremely claustrophobic environment just now, even if those insects wouldn't do anything to me and Liang Houzai, that depression could make people collapse.
That is, the two of us just breathed a sigh of relief, and the muddy water that emitted blue light also overflowed from the hole a little, and Liang Houzai and I didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately walked in the direction where the pale yellow light came from.
I thought there would be a long tunnel in the hole, but I guessed half right, it was indeed a tunnel, but the distance was very short.
The two of us walked not far before we saw a stone gate with an open gap not far away, the stone door was very heavy, I tried to push it, but I couldn't push it, so I could only squeeze out of the crack with Liang Houzai one after the other.
Liang Houzai said that it took almost no effort for him to get out of the crack in the door, but as soon as I put my head out, I found that my chest was stuck, and Liang Houzai pulled my arm and almost used the strength to pull me out of the crack in the door.
I took a look inside the crack in the door, and I saw that the muddy water had stopped spreading five or six meters from the stone gate, and then even began to retreat at a very slow pace.
When I realized that the blue light was no longer near us, my heart felt in one word: the aftermath of the catastrophe!
I was really glad that I was still alive, but I couldn't help but be scared for a while.
Liang Houzai lay directly on the ground on all fours, gasping for breath, his neck was bruised by a stone, oozing a little blood, and the spirit rune attached to his neck didn't know where it went.
Seriously, at this time, I suddenly began to miss the school I usually hated the most, the desks, chairs, lectern and blackboard in the classroom, and the annoying homeroom teacher who often peeked out of the window.
What I miss the most is the rays of sunlight that shine through the classroom window every morning.
Liang Houzai gasped for a while and said to me, "It's good to be alive. ”
Alas, it's good to be alive, but I know in my heart that we have only survived temporarily, this dragon king's tomb is very weird, and no one can say what will happen next.
I smiled at Liang Houzai, and then looked up, just now I was glad and didn't observe the surrounding situation.
We are now in a very long tomb, the whole tomb is made of a very regular square bricks, on the wall, every meter there is an egg-sized lamp, in fact, I don't know if it is a lamp, they look more like an egg stuck to the wall, but from these eggs emitted a faint yellow light, bringing a touch of light to the tomb.
Unfortunately, the light on each egg was very faint, and the tomb was wrapped in such a yellow light, but it did not make people feel bright at all, but had a foggy feeling.
In addition, around these things, which I don't know if they were lamps or eggs, there were three or four holes the size of a baby's arm, and after the beetles crawled out of the stone door, they divided into several strands, and all of them burrowed into such holes.
The tunnel is so long that no matter which end I look at, I can't see the end of the tunnel.
Liang Houzai leaned against the wall, stood up with great difficulty, and asked me with a wry smile: "Brother Dao, which direction are we going now?" ”
I also tried to stand up, but when I straightened up and was about to use my legs to support my upper body, I suddenly felt a soreness in my legs, not only in my legs, but also in the wounds on my body.
Only then did I know that Liang Houzai was not smiling bitterly at all just now, and his grinning expression was painful at all.
In the end, I could only hold on to the wall, get up little by little along the wall, and grin at Liang Houzai, pointing to the front and saying, "Let's go over there, alas, it's not a way to go on like this, I have to find some water and food." ”
In fact, I also know that what I said is the same as not saying it, in such a place, where to find water, where to find food?
But Liang and I both know that we can't stop and wait for death no matter what.
Both of us were a little unsteady on our feet, and we had to rely on each other to stabilize our center of gravity when we walked.
"Ahh Yes! Huh! ”
The two of us had just walked two steps, and suddenly there was a strange shout behind me, and my heart suddenly trembled, and Liang Houzai was also very nervous, and I felt his hand tremble.
The two of us turned our heads at the same time and looked behind us, and we saw that not far away, there was a ...... Alone.
It was an old man with very long hair and beard, his clothes were shabby, but they looked fairly clean, and on his back, there was a very long old rifle.
He was standing about ten meters behind us at this time, and opened a door on the wall to his left, and he was now stepping on one foot in the door and one foot outside the door, and he was gesturing with his hand while shouting at us.
The aura on this person's body is very strange, both the life of a living person and a thick corpse aura, he is the "black shadow" that appeared at the entrance of the tunnel before.
He probably saw that we were just staring at him, and there was no reaction, his expression became nervous, and he pointed in the direction we were going to go, and shouted a few words with difficulty: "...... Spacious...... Wow scare! ”
I didn't understand what he meant, but when he finished speaking, he waved at us as if to let us pass.
In such a place, such a person suddenly appeared, no one knew what he did, no one knew who he was, and I was not sure whether the person in front of me could be believed.
I hesitated for a moment, took one last look at the rifle on his back, and then turned around with great difficulty and walked towards him.
This man was carrying a gun, and if he wanted to disadvantage me and Liang Houzai, by the time we met him at the mouth of the tunnel, the two of us would have died.
But he appeared so suddenly that I had to be on guard against him. When we met him near the waterhole before, he seemed to be very wary of us, but now he took the initiative to approach us, what happened in the meantime that made him let his guard down against us, or did he have other plans?
My mind was in a hurry, and Liang Houzai beside me was also nervous, his hand tightly gripping the handle of the mountain opening knife.
About two meters away from the old man, Liang Houzai and I finally stopped, Liang Houzai pulled out the mountain opening knife, stared at him vigilantly, and asked tentatively, "Who are you?" ”
The old man probably sighed when he saw that we didn't trust him, and then he gestured with his hand and muttered something in his mouth.
No one could figure out what he was trying to mean, so he danced for a while, and when he saw that the two of us were not responding, he grabbed a handful of his hair in frustration. Then, as if remembering something, he suddenly turned sideways to us, one hand pointing at his back and the other pointing at me.
Do I have something on my back?
I thought to myself as I grabbed a handful of my back, and it was only then that I realized that the clothes on my back had been torn out with a huge gap.
At this point, I probably guessed what he meant, so I asked him, "Do you recognize the Black Water Corpse Coffin?" ”
He let out a sigh of relief and gave me another thumbs up.
Looks like I guessed right.
At this moment, there was a slight concussion in the depths of the tomb, followed by a terrible howl, and the direction in which the sound came was the direction that Liang Houzai and I were going to take before.
When the old man heard this, his face became a little alarmed, and he beckoned to the two of us, and then saw him retreat to the door.
Like the stone door we had seen before, there was only one gap in it, but it was wide enough for me to lean sideways in.
On the other side of the door there was a slightly narrower passage, which, unlike the one outside, did not have egg-like lights on the walls, but was cursoryly hung with a few torches, some still lit and some already extinguished.
The old man casually took a torch from the wall and led the way in front.
He was barefoot, and when he walked, the soles of his feet were exposed, and I saw a very thick layer of calluses on them. His hair was long, as if he hadn't been trimmed for years, and he should have been very old, with only a tiny amount of black strands in his hair, and the rest was all white. It can be seen that this person loves to be clean, whether it is hair or beard, he is very clean.
Liang Houzai and I are a little weak in our legs and feet, and we can't walk fast, but the old man's pace is very vigorous, and the two of us can't keep up with him, so he will stop every time he walks and wait for us.
Speaking from the heart, I still can't trust the old man in front of me, looking at his appearance, I always feel as if he has been in this big tomb for many years, but can such a tomb really live, not to mention the strong yin qi and corpses in it, is there water here? Is there food? How can a person survive without these things.
Also, when I saw the old man, I always thought he looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen him. And the aura on his body that is mixed with anger and corpse at the same time, there is weirdness everywhere.