Chapter 18: The Coffin Array

We ran for a long time and were dizzy, but we didn't see the destination, and we were already muttering in our hearts, as soon as we heard Master Liang suddenly say this, the old itch stopped and asked him: "Master, what is the trick, how do you say it?"

Master Liang rubbed his chest while pointing to the ground, and said to us, "Two... Little brother, look at this coffin, isn't it very familiar. ”

I heard the words and raised the torch, and sure enough, I saw a coffin on the side, and there was a hole in it, as if it was the one that was crushed when the old itch climbed down the cliff.

Lao Itch looked around and complained: "Old Wu, how did you lead the way, isn't this the place where we came down just now?"

I said to him, "I don't know, this place looks the same everywhere, and the fuck kept walking without paying attention, I don't know if I got into a fork in the road and went around it." ”

Master Liang calmed down, waved his hand at us and said: "No, you haven't paid attention, it is clear in the following notes, this path has always been straight, there are no turns or forks, this thing is not simple, if I am not mistaken, we may be fooled by something." ”

I was quite concerned about Master Liang's words, so I asked him, "Could it be that we have gone too far and walked all the way to the end of the cave, and you see that there are not a few coffins with holes here, maybe it's a coincidence?"

Master Liang shook his head: "There is a compass on the watch below, and it is customary to calculate the feng shui direction first every time I go to a place, I have already noticed it when I came down just now, and now we are indeed back to the starting point." ”

At this time, Lao Itch already knew that something was wrong, and said: "That's bad, could it be that we have run into something dirty and confused our eyes?"

I smiled bitterly in my heart, there were thousands of coffins around, thousands of corpses gathered together, if no one believed that there was nothing dirty, Master Liang shook his head again: "I don't think so, in the Miao cave burial customs, the coffins that can enter the cave are all natural deaths, and all those who die of illness and murder and other unnatural deaths can only be buried outside, and it will definitely not be harmful to say that there are ghosts here." ”

I knew that this person did have some knowledge, so I asked him: "Master Liang, you should have more knowledge in this area than us, what do you estimate is going on, our torches won't last long, wait for the fire to go out." It's really called that the sky should not be called the earth and the earth, and you have to think of a way quickly. ”

Master Liang said: "Looking down, the reason why we walked in a circle is that there is a problem with the arrangement of the coffins here, these thousands of coffins are criss-crossed, and some strange techniques may be used during the process, making the entire cave into a labyrinth, you know Zhuge Liang's eight array diagrams, with a few piles of stones can trap hundreds of thousands of troops." Thousands of coffins trapped the three of us here, isn't that a piece of cake?"

Zhuge Liang drove the troops to take the rocks, and laid a stone formation on the Yubeipu beach near the mountains and rivers to block Lu Xun's story, I and Lao Itch both know, but the description of the novel is an exaggeration after all, I don't believe that just a few piles of stones can have such a big effect, if this is the case, why do you need to build so many tanks and cannons?

The old itch didn't believe it, and said to him: "Master, don't come to fool the Guangdong boss to fool us, you yourself are trapped here, this eight-array diagram, I heard it said in the commentary, it's not the same thing you said at all, besides, we watched it on the cliff, the coffin arrangement here is clear at a glance, and I didn't find any special arrangement." How can we turn around after we come down, is it possible that the coffin here can still run away on its own?"

Master Liang said: "This is different, you look at it above as an approximation, just in such a little time, can you write down all the veins between the coffins?" When you came down, it was pitch black. As long as each coffin is slightly offset, it may lead us to the wrong path designed in advance, and before we know it, we are going back. ”

I think what Master Liang said makes some sense, but I can't believe it all, anyway, there must be something strange here, and it may not be easy to go to that open space, and I asked them what they had in mind.

Master Liang sighed: "I'm not bragging, I don't have a coffin formation here, I will definitely be able to catch it without accident, but everything needs a certain amount of time, I'm afraid our torch won't last until that time." Besides, I think we have more important things to decide at this time. ”

I know what he means, I suddenly felt a headache, the main problem at the moment is not the problem of breaking this formation, but how to face our situation, not to go is not a way, to go down is not a way, this time I can be lucky to return to the original place, and it is not necessary to go again, when the torch is extinguished, there is no village in front of the village, there is no shop in the back, it is strange if you are not sleepy.

In fact, the easiest way to break the formation is to climb over those coffins on the side, but no one has mentioned this suggestion, and everyone knows the reason.

After a few minutes of stalemate, the flames on the torches fluttered a few times, and gradually weakened, and the old itch looked at the torches, and suddenly shouted: "Damn, I have an idea, or we will burn all the coffins here with a fire, and give him a fire to burn it for eighteen miles, and it will be clean when it is burned out." ”

As soon as I heard that this person was stupid and clever, I also came up with this kind of idea, and scolded: "Isn't you equal to [**], even if you don't burn to death, you will be smoked to death, forget it, I look at it this way, I will go forward first, you watch the direction of my torches, as soon as my movement is out of direction, you stop me, we will know what the problem is?"

Old itch said: "No, if the torch goes out halfway through, you are in a worse situation alone, who will save you at that time, we must not be separated at this time." ”

I'm also anxious, Lao Itch said that I immediately calmed down, the black light here is blind, the formation is so complicated, if you get separated, it's really a terrible thing, and this thing is not caused by me, Lao Itch has also gone through it once before, and his mother's want to go to Lei should also be him, I asked Lao Itch and said: "Old itch, haven't you fucking walked through it once before?" How did you get out that time?"

The old itch scratched his head and said: "I don't know, when I came out, I lost my soul, covered my head and walked all the way, I didn't think anything about it, I came here, it was quite smooth, and I didn't touch the coffin formation, so I don't think this thing is what you said, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get out last time, and I would have my life to come back?"

Master Liang said: "There is nothing that makes no sense, this coffin array is mainly to confuse our eyes, visually misleading our sense of direction, if we don't * eyes, * our own sense of direction to touch the past, maybe we can walk over, you lost your soul last time, it may be the key when you can come out smoothly." ”

The old itch laughed: "Pull it down, this can be pulled out for you, according to what you say, if you encounter this kind of thing in the future, we just need to lead the way in front of the crazy, then nothing is a problem." ”

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Master Liang couldn't help but feel a little unhappy, and sneered: "Don't say it, it's not that there is no such possibility." ”

Lao Itch said: "Okay, this difficult work is entrusted to you, wait a minute, I'll knock you crazy with a brick, you work hard, bring us in, come out and I'll give you a suite in the Jīng Divine Hospital, I promise that I won't be able to treat you." ”

As soon as I heard what Lao Itch said, it was too immoral, so I hurriedly played the round and said, "When you still have the heart to joke, think about how to go this way, if you can't think of it, we have to climb back to the cliff as soon as possible." ”

Master Liang thought for a while and asked the old itch, "How long did you go that time?"

Old Itch said: "Three years ago, I can't remember, how can I have half a cigarette." ”

Master Liang thought for a while and said to us: "Two little brothers, speaking of which, in fact, that open space is not far from us in a straight line, this matter is not difficult to do, I think my analysis is correct, break this formation, if you have a heart, you can't get out, and if you don't have a heart, you can go out, two people who want to believe me, let's just try it, didn't Grandpa Deng say, practice is the only criterion for testing the truth." ”

I asked him, "How do you try this, is it really crazy to knock people out according to what the old itch said?" ”

Old Itch said to Master Liang: "Think clearly, if you want to knock it, you will knock it." ”

Master Liang said: "Of course not, where do you want to go, I mean, let's put out this torch, go all the way through the dark, pinch and calculate the time, probably almost the torch and then light it, there is no visual interference, see if we can get to that place." ”

Lao Itch immediately objected: "No, no, no, this black light is blind, I won't do it, what should I do if I get lost?"

Master Liang said: "Then it's better for us to blindfold one person, and we will follow him, so it's all right." ”

I thought about it for a moment, and it was not a way to stay here any longer, so I took out the rags left over from the time when I was making torches just now, and handed it to the old itch for him to cover.

The itchy boss was reluctant, but he was the only one who had ever walked out, and he was the only one to lead the way.

At this time, the torch in his hand suddenly flickered twice, and finally he couldn't hold on anymore and extinguished with a thud.