When I opened the secret door just now, I took a look at this thing, that is, about half a second, plus the scare, it was impossible to take a closer look at the appearance of that thing, and I only had a general impression in my mind. But now, under the stalemate, in the firelight, that strange face was clearly imprinted in front of the third uncle's eyes.

The third uncle only felt intimidating at first glance, he hadn't seen any zongzi, wet and dry, two heads without a head, peaceful and hideous, he was born with big nerves, and he was never afraid of these things after he was 15 years old, but this face is too damn evil.

The monster's face was bronze, the flesh was shrunk, the skin was cracked into scales, one side was peeled up, the two eyes had no pupils, and you just felt that he was looking at you.

The third uncle pondered that this doesn't look like a zongzi, no matter how ugly the zongzi is, at least it has to look like a person, why does this thing look like a snake! Isn't this a monster?

And what made the third uncle wonder the most was that the more he looked at this face, he seemed to have a strange feeling in his heart, but what it felt, he really couldn't say, and his neck kept sweating without a trace.

His hand became more and more weak, and the monster squeezed out a little more expressionlessly, and the third uncle knew that he couldn't think about it anymore, so he threw the fire fold on his face, and the fire got up in a flash.

The wine that the third uncle likes is a kind of green sè "burning knife", Shanghainese people seem to call it mung bean roast, and the third uncle drinks it is brewed by the countrymen themselves, which is the base wine, the degree is extremely high, and it will be burned at one point. He still likes to drink this wine, but for his grade, this wine is like a slow xìng poison.

The strange face was drowning in flames, and it was no longer clear to see, and the things on all sides began to smoke white, and the skin and flesh began to melt, and an extremely unpleasant smell came to the nostrils.

Most of the funerary goods in the coffin were covered with cháo's wet rotten silk, and now they also squeaked to burn, and the suo xìng was not directly lit.

The third uncle tried to hold his breath as much as possible. The fire burned for about six or seven minutes, and the wine was burned out, and the third uncle found that this trick worked, and the power from below to the top slowly disappeared, and as the fire became smaller and smaller, the face was also corroded, revealing the charred black skeleton that had been burned inside.

The third uncle was afraid that his defense would change, but he still did not relax the strength under his feet, one hand was still propped up, and the other hand pulled out the machete at his waist to play with the skeleton.

After fiddling with it twice, he found that there was no reaction, and the third uncle slashed his neck twice and cut off the neck bone, only to breathe a sigh of relief, and was sure that this thing was really hanging.

As soon as he relaxed, his whole body was out of strength, and the strength of his two hands quickly disappeared. As soon as his feet were weak, he sat down in the coffin and gasped for air.

But this matter is not over, the third uncle rested for a while, thinking about the secret room under the sarcophagus. The heart said that this place can't stay for a long time, the whole tomb is already full of smoke, there is not much air, this time is even more insufficient, we must hurry up and see what is below, if there is no good goods, let's hurry up and fight the thief hole out.

He picked up the flashlight on one side, bit it in his mouth, and once again pulled up the stone slab of the secret door that was lowered by the sarcophagus.

The headless blood zongzi lay flat under the stone slab, it was a burly male xìng wet corpse, and the clothes had also rotted, leaving only a lot of strips of cloth stuck to the body, showing a kind of bronze rust all over the body, and the most terrifying thing was that the body was covered with a lot of skin folds similar to eyes.

The third uncle pressed its chest, feeling that the steel was as hard as iron, and couldn't help but rejoice, if he couldn't bear it just now, he would definitely die in nine lives.

At this time, a very chilling scene suddenly made the third uncle froze, and an extreme chill rushed to his head from the soles of his feet at once.

He suddenly found that this bloody dumpling, his right arm shrunk under the stone wrench, was only a piece left! The part below the elbow is gone.

The third uncle "groaned" in his heart, and his mind was suddenly confused, and he immediately leaned over to look at the broken hand, only to see that the skin and flesh were really like cotton wool, showing an explosive shape, and the third uncle suddenly sat down on the ground with a soft body.

I originally thought that the third uncle's description was too cumbersome, but as soon as I heard that the blood zongzi had only one hand, I immediately understood why the third uncle spoke in such detail.

Like cotton wool, the wound in the shape of an explosion is formed by a short-distance sweep of a firearm, that is, the hand of this bloody zongzi was broken by a gun!

These circumstances, coupled with the records in my grandfather's notes and the expression of the third uncle, I had probably guessed the development of things, and suddenly I also felt a chill spreading from my back.

But if things really develop like this, then the whole thing is so incredible that it has become the plot of a monster novel, I really can't believe it.

The third uncle touched his body and wanted to find another cigarette to smoke, but apparently there was no more on his body. I touched my butt pocket and found that there was still half a pack, which was a cloud smoke that I asked for from the fat man when I was happy in the bar and handed it to the third uncle.

The third uncle clicked it again, took a hard sip, and then said: "When I saw the blood zongzi, I realized that my old man, your grandfather, what he wrote in his broken notebook, there may be something hidden, and I suddenly knew why I asked him what happened at that time, and he didn't want to mention it." "The clouds are deep and there is no trace.

No matter how much we asked about what was in his notebook, Grandpa said that it was not a story that children could hear. At the time, we didn't know why, but now we finally know, but the truth is so terrifying.

The third uncle looked at me and said, "Eldest nephew, you are so clever, believe me if I don't say it, you also know what is going on." ”

I didn't dare nod my head because what I thought of was incredible.

From the grandfather's notes, it can be known that before the grandfather pulled out the severed hand of the Warring States Silk Book from the robbery hole, a string of box cannons sounded in the ancient tomb, that is to say, the uncle in the ancient tomb may have broken his right hand because of this shuttle box cannon.

And the blood zongzi in the dark room of the ancient tomb did not even have a right hand, and the wound was like a cotton wool explosion, so there is probably only one conclusion: the blood zongzi is not an ancient corpse, but a corpse of my uncle!

According to my inference, it could have been something like this:

At that time, they went down to the thief hole, and they must have discovered the secret room under Ding's coffin just like the third uncle, and according to the uncle's xìng grid in the note, he must have been the one who was vying to be the pioneer, and he must have been the first to go down to the secret room under the coffin before the others.

And it was in that secret room that the uncle found the Warring States silk book, and just when he took out the silk book and was about to exit the secret room, something terrifying suddenly happened.

When the change suddenly occurs, the uncle should still have room to deal with it, so he can still poke his hand out of the secret room, but by the time he thinks of it himself, it may be too late, and as a last resort, either he himself or his grandfather shoots and breaks his hand.

The severed hand was dragged out of the tomb by the grandfather who was outside the tomb with a mouse, but the uncle was in the secret room, and in the end, it turned into such a terrible monster.

And outside trying to rescue the uncle's grandfather and grandfather. was also implicated and died next to the coffin.

However, it is not clear what happened to the blood-red thing that was chased out of the tomb at the end and the monster-faced giant corpse later. I think it's possible that the blood-red thing is the uncle who was tricked but still has a residual consciousness, but the grandfather definitely didn't think of that at the time, and he was a monster in the tomb.

Of course, this is not the case, only the parties know about it, and now such speculation . Even if it makes sense, it's just speculation.

I put my thoughts tentatively on a one. The third uncle looked at me with a complicated expression and nodded.

At this time, I thought of a question, and I asked: "However, since grandpa said to us, 'This story is not for children', it means that he also knew that he was fighting at that time, and it may be his brother, so it stands to reason that he could not have known about this matter, so did grandpa also go back to this ancient tomb later?" And there is no trace of what happened next in the notes, just because the facts are too appalling? The third uncle frowned and said, "I have the same doubt, but this point is beyond investigation, the old man is dead, and we will never know what the real situation was at that time." ”

I asked, "And what's next?" Did you go down to the chamber under that coffin? The third uncle took another puff of his cigarette, almost one-fifth of it, and said, "If you were me, would you be unable to bear it?" ”

I smiled bitterly in my heart, and said that if I were you, I would be scared to death when I opened the secret door, and where would I have the opportunity to wonder if I could go on. I shook my head and said, "How can I compare with you, your nephew and my courage are not unknown to you, you don't want to open which pot to mention, let's talk quickly, what is in the secret room?" ”

The third uncle sighed and said, "I'll show you something first, and then tell you slowly." As he spoke, he pulled his backpack from the cabinet next to his bedside and took out a small ivory box from it.

I took it and saw that the box was the original enamel box of the Qing Dynasty, a blank box that had not yet been enamelled, very heavy, and when I opened it, there was a black sè and ugly pebble in the box, just like the one often seen in the yellow sand piles on the construction site now.

"What is this?" I wondered.

"This stone is what I took out of that secret room." The third uncle said.

I "ahh "I looked at the stone carefully, and I couldn't see anything strange, and just as I wanted to take it with my hands, the third uncle covered the box back." Don't move, this thing is a bit dangerous. He said.

I returned the box to him and said strangely, "This seems to be just an ordinary stone, so this is what is placed in the weird secret room?" ”

The third uncle sighed again, as if they were old people who always liked to sigh. He said, "Don't look at it as inconspicuous, I almost died trying to get this thing." ”

After deducing the truth of the bloody corpse, the third uncle was so shocked that he sat on the ground and was stunned for a long time before he recovered, his heart was in a mess, looking at the secret room two feet away from him, and said in his heart that in the darkness, what mysterious power can make a person become like that. The clouds are deep and untraceable.

The third uncle, like me, is also a person who is destined to commit Tai Chi, and he definitely can't stand the torture of curiosity, but I am too timid and often suffer from the double torture of curiosity and fear. The third uncle was different, he just hesitated, and then decided to go down to the secret room to have a look and find out.

Now that I think about it, this is actually a very unwise thing, and probably only someone like the third uncle would make this kind of decision in that situation.

The reason why grandpa refuses to teach the third uncle too much is also because he is impulsive, and it turns out that grandpa is quite accurate in seeing people, but unfortunately, the experience of the elderly, the juniors often do not listen.

After resting for a while, the third uncle began to prepare. He first cleaned up the bones of the ancestors, took off his coat, tore them apart, cleaned up the two bones outside the coffin, wrapped them in the clothes, and then wore gloves, covered the armpits of the bloody corpse with a corpse belt, pulled out the coffin, respectfully put it aside, and put the severed head back, kowtowed three strong heads to the three bones, and said: "Unworthy descendants of Wu Sanxing, dull mind, offending the remains of the ancestors, please forgive the ancestors." ”

After kowtowing, he pinned the machete back to his waist, took out the detonator and inserted it into his belt, and looked around his body to make sure that there was nothing flawed.

He gathered his thoughts, came to the coffin, raised the secret door again, and looked carefully inside.

Under the secret door, there is indeed a secret passage that slopes downward, but, unexpectedly, the secret passage is very short, so short that it seems that you can only crawl into it.

The length and width of the dark passage are the same as the coffin, just now this "blood zongzi" is lying in the dark passage, and it is also a loss that the place below is narrow, the "blood zongzi" is a natural giant force, and he can't use his strength, otherwise with the strength of the third uncle, how can he be suppressed?

The third uncle first made a fire fold and threw it in. The firelight rolled all the way, fell straight into the depths of the dark tunnel, and finally stopped, turning into a small light source, illuminating a rough idea.

Then he touched the machete in his waist, said the blessing of his ancestors, took a deep breath, carefully shrank his body, and slowly burrowed into the dark passage.

There was an indescribable stench in the dark passage, and the third uncle lay down, had to hold his breath, moved inside, and after all his body entered, his feet took the secret door above, and the secret door turned down again.

All around was eerily silent, except for the crackling of the fire in front of them. The third uncle was a little nervous inexplicably, his body was already covered with white sweat, he barely calmed down, touched the flashlight, lit it and shone it forward.

The light of the flashlight was much stronger than that of the fire fold, and it shone far away at once, and he saw that the secret passage was made of black sè stone slabs, about three meters long, one after the other, until it reached the depths. The whole passage is very refreshing, and the black sè stone slabs around it are also very smooth, without any decoration, and at a glance, it looks like the ventilation ducts of an old-fashioned zhōng yāng air conditioner.

The size and appearance of the flame in front of the fire fold are normal, and the air in the secret passage should be connected to the outside, and there should be no problem with breathing.

The third uncle fixed his mind, bit the flashlight, and began to crawl into the depths of the secret passage.

I also have the experience of crawling in narrow passages, and I know that it is not easy, although the third uncle has a much better physique than me, but he only climbed a few steps, and he also felt shortness of breath, plus he had to watch out for the surroundings from time to time, and the climb was even harder.

After climbing for about ten minutes, there was a turn in front of him, and the third uncle turned around, he thought that there was still the same secret passage behind him, but when he turned around, he found that in front of him, there was a black stone wall carved with reliefs.

The third uncle was stunned for a while, and after staying for a long time, he realized that the secret passage had come to an end.

What's going on? He was dizzy, originally thinking that there should be an exit at the end of the secret passage, and then there would be a secret room inside, and all the secrets should be in this secret room.

But now there was nothing, and the secret passage only extended a little, and there was a black stone wall blocking the way.

Could it be that when my uncle came in, he touched some mechanism and sealed the secret passage?

The third uncle knocked on the stone wall, and found that the back of the stone wall seemed to be solid, and then checked the joints around it, and found that this stone wall was sealed here, that is to say, it is not a mechanism, this should already be the end of the secret passage, and when the uncle came in, he should have climbed here.

That's strange, if this is the end of the secret passage, then this must be the place where the uncle stole the silk book back then, but there is nothing here, where was the Warring States Yunshen Silk Book put back then? Or will you just throw it on the ground?

The third uncle turned around, looked around the end of the secret passage, and looked at the stone wall blocking the way.

At this time, the reliefs on the stone wall caught his attention.

It was a deity with a bird's face, the bird's body was like a night owl, and the human face was very strange, very exaggeratedly carved, the face plate was as big as a footwash, with an open mouth, flowing clouds and sideburns, and a expressionless face, I don't know if it was a man or a woman.

(I hear this, "ahhh )

The third uncle noticed that there was a little depression in the mouth of the relief, compared it to the painting, and found that the silk book at that time may have been rolled into a roll and placed in the mouth of the Ding relief.

However, the embossed mouth is solid, which means that after taking out the silk book, no mechanism will be triggered.

He looked up at the rest of the embossed face, the nose, the ears, the eyes, and finally, his gaze met the embossed eyes.

The relief of the human face and the body of a bird has four eyes, and round pupils are also carved, but strangely, the pupils of the upper two eyes are protruding outward, while the pupils of the lower two eyes are sunken inward. In other words, the yīn carving and yang carving in the relief carving method were used respectively.

This is something that the third uncle has never encountered, don't say it's him, even if it's me, I know that this is absolutely impossible, all the reliefs, either yīn carving, or yang carving, it is impossible to mix together.

The third uncle leaned over to see it himself, and couldn't help but let out an "ah". He found that the stone at the pupil part of the relief was not a whole with the relief, but an ugly pebble with black sè embedded in it, and strangely enough, the pebbles of the upper two eyes were still inlaid in it, while the two in the lower eyes were dug up, leaving only two spherical pits.

The third uncle looked at those two eyes, and his heart gradually became clearer, and a bold speculation appeared in his heart.