Chapter 15: The Thousand Coffin Caves

I opened my eyes dimly, and found myself lying on the ground, surrounded by darkness, I touched my wrist, and the flashlight tied to it was gone.

There is a cold flat plate on the body, and there seems to be the sound of running water on the side, what is this place?

I took a deep breath, and the memories began to appear in my mind little by little, waterfalls, boiling springs, corpses on iron chains, and suddenly a white light flashed, and the situation just now came to my mind.

It was as if I had just fallen down a cliff with the current, and then I fell into the pool below, and the water was so cold that it was so different from the boiling spring water, and the moment I entered the water, I felt my ears suddenly quiet, and then I didn't remember anything. It is estimated that it was because he hit something when he fell into the water, knocked himself unconscious, and fell into the water from a height of dozens of meters.

I touched my body, it was still wet, did I fall off the waterfall and the water below continued to rush here, or did I simply have died and came to the yīn Cao Difu?

I tried to stand up, only to raise my head slightly, suddenly bang, my head hit something, the pain in my eyes with gold stars, busy with my hands, it seems to be a flat plate, I wondered, why is this so short. Did I get into a crevice or under some rock?

I looked around and found that this was not the case, and there were rough wooden wrenches all around me within a foot. Knocked, and behind it was hollow. In such a small space, I could only lie down and turn around, and I couldn't even lift my head or stretch my waist.

I propped up on the top to see the thickness of the planks, but found that the wooden wrench on top could be moved, and with a bang, a light suddenly appeared in the darkness. I pushed up my knees. Gently remove the plank from the top and sit up. When I looked outside, I couldn't help but be stunned.

Here is a white marble stone room, there are torches lit in the four corners, illuminating the surroundings, I looked at the treasure top on my head, there are two pythons intertwined with each other, and I am sitting in a coffin, the lid of the coffin is turned on the side.

*!What is this place. Who put me in the coffin?

I walked out of the coffin, looked around, and became more and more strange in my heart, the material of white marble, carved with the treasure top of the python, is almost the same as the burial chamber of the submarine tomb, is this also related to the Wangzang Sea?

Walking around, I noticed that there was more to the strange things than that. I don't know when I changed my clothes, but I changed into a rubber suit that resembled a diving suit, the kind of clothes worn by divers in the 80s. It's even more strange in my heart, where the hell did you get such an old style of clothes?

I picked up the torch in the corner and walked out of the door of this tomb. There is a corridor outside, I just looked at it, and I said "ah", oh my God, the straight road of white marble, leading to the end of the three jade gates, exactly the same as the submarine tomb!!

What's going on? How did I get back? My scalp exploded and my mind began to get confused, was this a burial chamber that looked like an undersea tomb, or had I never come out of an undersea tomb at all? Oh my God, what the hell is going on?

I rubbed my face vigorously, raised the torch, and took a closer look at the environment, trying to find out what was wrong, if it was a similar burial chamber, there must be something different.

There is a wooden shelf erected on the road, just like a scaffold, covered with wooden planks, which becomes a simple overpass through the road, which can prevent the triggering mechanism, I don't know who erected it on it, I carefully climbed up and walked to the opposite side of the road, the jade door in the middle apse was lit with torches, and the two side halls on the left and right were pitch black.

At this time, I remembered the old itch, he jumped with me on the waterfall, I fell into the pool, I was in a coma for so long, and when I arrived in this inexplicable place, what was his situation?

I thought as I walked over to the door with the light of the fire. The light was quite bright, peeking through the crack in the door beneath the jade door. When I got to the door, I heard a noise coming from inside the door. As I pressed my ear to the door, I heard a coughing sound.

Then, a man's voice said, "What should I do?" Can you open the coffin?"

Another voice sounded very embarrassed: "Sanxing said not to touch the things here for the time being, let's listen to him." ”

As soon as I heard the voices of these two people, I was stunned, the first person to speak was a stuffy oil bottle, but the second person who spoke could not hear it. Why, did he come to this place too?

And to my surprise, I immediately heard a third person's voice, which said: "Wu Sanxing is still sleeping now, let's just open it and take a look, what does it matter, I am on Xiao Zhang's side." ”

I didn't quite understand what they meant, but the third person was undoubtedly a woman.

What do they mean by these words? It sounds, it seems that the stuffy oil bottle wants to open a coffin, and the other person is hesitant because of the third uncle's jǐng lawsuit, at this time, a woman stood up and supported the stuffy oil bottle, I felt confused at the moment, why, the stuffy oil bottle has found the third uncle?

I thought as I leaned into the crack of the door to see who was talking inside, but unfortunately the range of what I could see through the crack was limited, and I only saw the back of a woman, wearing a wetsuit with the same face as me, with a very petite figure and a large braid.

At this time, I heard the fourth one say, "What about Qi Yu?" This kid is really good at playing, I don't know where he went, should we leave him here? ”

I heard him say this, and I couldn't help but be stunned, Qi Yu, this name is so familiar, it seems to be one of the people in the list written in the third uncle's notes, wait, isn't it?

I suddenly felt very uncomfortable. Qi Yu. It's not as simple as a familiar name, it seems that I often hear it, and I have a very special feeling in my heart.

At this time, the woman in the crack of the door moved a step to make way for a space, and I suddenly saw that the stuffy oil bottle was standing next to a black coffin, holding a pry pole in her hand, and at this time a woman came over. As soon as I saw her face, I was so surprised that I almost dropped the torch in my hand to the ground.

This person, isn't it Wen Jin, God, what's going on. Although I haven't seen her in person, the third uncle has a lot of photos of her, and I often see them, so I recognize them at a glance, absolutely right.

I was so confused that I almost pushed the door in. Ask them clearly, at this time, I suddenly heard a man say: "This submarine tomb is so big, how easy it is for us to find him, I think it's better to forget it, we carved a mark along the road, and he will naturally follow when he sees it." ”

"So far, there is only one way, so since no one is against it. I'll open the coffin and see what the owner of this tomb looks like. "The stuffy oil bottle lifted the skid, and was about to start, when suddenly from the left side of the room. There was a roaring sound of water that startled me.

All the people in the apse turned their heads, and one man asked, "What sound, it seems to be coming from next door!"

"Let's go! Check it out!" I saw that something was wrong, and I turned around and hid in the room on the right, and put the torch on the ground and put it out, and almost at the same time I saw a group of people running out of the apse, and then a woman exclaimed, "Look, there's a pool here!!"

At this time, I can already be sure that this is what Zhang Qiling and I described, the story that happened after their third uncle fell asleep, but he didn't say it in such detail in this paragraph, how did I seem to have experienced it myself, was it a hallucination, or did I come back through a time tunnel, or did my soul come back?

When I was thinking wildly, I suddenly saw a person holding a fire fold from the overpass on the road, secretly hiding behind the jade door of the left side room, looking inside, I took a little look, and found that it was the third uncle when he was young, he seemed to be very annoyed, and his brows were furrowed very tightly.

After a while, Zhang Qiling's voice gradually became far away, should be walking into the pool to circle the stairs, the third uncle blew out the fire fold, flashed into the jade door, I saw the heart of the shock, the heart said that this time can really know what happened in this way, whether they are hallucinating or dreaming, busy following, only to stick to the door of the left side room, want to sneak in, suddenly flashed in front of his eyes, the third uncle suddenly came out of the door again, suddenly choked my neck, and said softly: " So you followed me!" After saying that, his hand suddenly tightened and grabbed my throat.

In a hurry, I wanted to shout: "Third uncle! I'm your nephew!" But he couldn't scream, and he couldn't grab him by the collar at once, and he wanted to choke his neck.

Pinching and pinching, a voice said, "Old Wu, wake up, are you having a nightmare?"

I hit a spirit, and suddenly my eyes went dark, and I found that everything around me suddenly disappeared, and the old itch was slapping me.

I sighed, it turned out to be a dream, turned my head to look, and found myself lying on a pebble beach, with a bonfire lit on the side, Master Liang was warming up by the bonfire, and when he saw that I was awake, he smiled at me very embarrassedly.

I pinched the bridge of my nose hard, and I wondered how I could have had such a strange dream, could it really be a dream at night, but no, I haven't thought much about these things recently.

The old itch saw that I was chaotic, and wanted to pump me, but I kicked it away, and scolded: "Your grandma is addicted, right, tell me, what is this place?"

I looked back and found that the pebble beach was very small, and there was a section behind it, and there was a cliff, and it seemed that the rock vein where the underground waterway was located may be a step-shaped downward structure, and there were mountain movements in some places, causing a series of faults. Lao Itch "banged" at the top of the cliff and fired a flare, revealing the scene below the cliff.

I didn't understand what I was seeing at first, but when I understood, people were also blinded, and I opened my mouth wide, I could hardly believe my eyes, and a dozen feet below the cliff was a large natural cave, which was densely packed with coffins, one by one, and in some places it was tired several layers, and there were thousands of them, which could be said to be spectacular.

"It's... What kind of place is this!!" I exclaimed, "Oh my God, it's a coffin warehouse!"

Master Liang walked up to me and said to me, "According to my experience, this may be a high-slope Miao people cave burial cave.

Gaopo Miao people? Aren't the Gaopo Miao people from Guizhou?

Master Liang shook his head and said: "Before the liberation of this place, there were many small villages nearby, and there were many ethnic minorities living in them, among which there were a small number of Miao people, indicating that in history, there were Miao people living here. ”

I don't know much about this custom, I only know that there are some Miao people, who have been following the funeral custom of "cave burial", using natural caves as tombs, and placing the coffins of dead relatives, regardless of men and women, in the caves regularly, a layer of mulberry and a layer of mulberry, the loose and rotten below, and the upper ones continue to be superimposed, so that the age of the coffin on the upper part is closer. The deceased who enters the cave must be an elderly person over 60 years old in the family, and married, and can be buried here if he has not died of murder, infectious disease or death in other places.

The number of coffins here is staggering, probably hundreds of years old, the bottom coffins have all rotted into dirt, and the top ones are very old, probably because of the introduction of cremation, since the liberation, no new coffins have been added.

As he spoke, the flare in the air had glided to the end of the arc, and the moment the light went out, I seemed to see something special in the middle of these coffins.