For the next two days, I lived like a gecko or a Qiang medicine picker who lived here back then, because it didn't have much to do with things, so I made a long story short.

I started as a novice climber with only some savage experience, and slowly started to be able to crawl independently on the cliffs with those ropes, and we searched from top to bottom, hole by hole. It's a lot of fun, but I can't describe it. These holes are generally not deep, many of them are authentic mountain cracks, looking like a hole is actually only an arm's deep in the end, and there are not many that can accommodate it, but even so, we have found mutilated bones in many caves, some of the buns are still clearly visible, but most of the bones are scattered, obviously pecked.

Thinking of their determination to cut off the rope, I thought that the faith was admirable at the time, but now I feel very ridiculous to see those skeletons and hollow skeletons. I don't know how they will feel at the last minute, maybe a few people will hallucinate because of hunger, and that should be the best result of their efforts.

To my surprise, on the morning of the second day, we went to the cave where they found the silk book, and the reason why it must be this one is because there are obvious traces of artificial reinforcement around the cave, the cave is only half a man high, deeper than all the holes, but you can still see the bottom at a glance, and there is a sitting skeleton inside.

It may not be appropriate to speak of bones, because the corpse has a full human form, but it is not a dry corpse, and the bones can maintain a human form, mainly because he is wearing an iron suit.

This thing is the blessing of a folk cultivator, it is said that the ancient Shu generation has this custom, used to restrain their various *, I am not an expert in folklore, and I don't know it in detail, I just feel that it is really difficult for him to climb so high with this broken iron on his back.

The iron cloak is a lot like a chain frame. But the old iron was used, and the entire iron suit was rusted into a whole, and the bones inside had long since fallen apart. Only the shell remains in its pre-death posture. There are many hollows in the black cave walls around the bones, and it seems that the old silk books are placed here. It has now been completely ransacked.

This person does not know who it is. Looking at the dry bun on the skeleton and almost no gray hair, it shouldn't be an old man. Where does it come from? What are some of the stories? What were you thinking before you died? Whenever I see a corpse, I always wonder about these things.

Because the two of us blocked almost all the light at the entrance of the cave, Xiaohua turned on the flashlight, and Xiuxiu revealed to us that there had been a huge accident in the later part of the excavation process, but nothing here looked like a huge accident. Moreover, the project was huge, so many people, was it just for such a hole?

Although they needed to find all the cliffs here at that time, they didn't want all the old nine gates to be dispatched, this kind of battle that had come before must have been led by one person, then this person must have judged that the situation needed to be like this. The judgment of the people who can gather all the old nine gates should be correct.

What we see before our eyes is certainly just an illusion.

Sure enough, behind this ancient corpse, we found a lot of weird cracked mud marks on the stone wall. Scrape off the mud marks and see the cement.

The stone wall behind it is made of cement from the mountain rocks here, and you can see cement in such a place. I can't accept it, apparently they completely sealed this place before they left.

"Did my mother-in-law tell you about this?" I looked at the cement, and it made me wonder if this kind of sealing meant that there was some kind of great danger in it that had to be noticed. But the old woman didn't tell us, didn't even mention that it was sealed.

"They were the first to withdraw back then, and sealing this place should have been done by the rest of the people after the Huo family left." Xiaohua said, "If she wants to do something." It shouldn't be enough to play this kind of trick. ”

As he spoke, he took the stone on one side and smashed the cement mixed stone wall twice, and the stone wall did not move at all. But a lot of the cement on the surface was smashed off, and we found that the color of the cement inside had changed. It has a dark red color.

It's said to be red, but it's actually a dark brown yellow, much like rust water. I picked up a piece of shard and sniffed it, but it didn't smell anything.

I wasn't sure, but I knew right away that it might be blood. The old woman told us that when we explored this place, there was a huge change, and there were blood stains here, which proved that we had come to the right place. However, the appearance of blood stains in this way makes me feel a little problematic.

I have seen similar traces, in the slaughterhouse case, that year my third uncle and I went to buy New Year's goods, this old bloodstain is actually more depressing than blood.

However, as Xiaohua continued to smash, more and more crumbling cement, I found that something was wrong, the whole piece of cement inside was this color, the deeper the color became, the closer to the real red, even, I don't know if it was a psychological effect, I began to smell blood.

Xiaohua also showed a look of surprise, smashed it a few more times, turned out a few stones, and then stopped, and scolded: "Tsk." ”

I looked at the pit that had been smashed out, and all the cement in it was red, as if the cement had been stirred with plasma.

If someone was injured or killed, it would not have been possible to shed so much blood, and besides, this blood was soaked in cement, how could it penetrate so deeply.

"Could it be that they mixed dog blood in the cement in order to ward off evil spirits or something?" I asked Xiaohua.

Xiaohua flipped the cement block on the ground and said: "The more you dig the blood, the deeper the blood stains, the more the cement is soaked in blood, but there is not much on the surface, which means that the blood is oozing out from the inside." He touched the blackened cement, "There is no oxygen in it, and the iron in the blood has not been oxidized, so the color has not faded." ”

"Oozing out of it?" I thought to myself, what was the reason? A bad feeling spread throughout me, and I suddenly thought of the bloody corpse.

Xiaohua continued to smash it with a stone, although the blood-soaked cement was not very hard, but after the fluffy part of the surface was smashed, there were more and more broken stones inside, and it was impossible to smash it into again. So we hoisted up the masonry hammer and other equipment from underneath and began to smash the stones apart little by little.

This mixture of cement and stone is equivalent to the current roadbed concrete, and the compressive performance is excellent, and we can only smash the cement from the gap between the stone and the stone, knocking the stone down, and the progress is slow. In the cramped space, soon the two of them were sweating. Because of the mistake of collaboration, they were all hit on the fingers and head by the other party's hammer, and they were miserable.

I don't know how long it took to dig. It was pitch black outside, and suddenly I smashed a rock. At once, it was discovered that a piece of bone was peeking out of the cement.

Xiaohua and I glanced at each other, and immediately accelerated the chiseling, brushing aside the nearby stones, and a strange skeleton emerged from the stones.

It was a completely decomposed corpse, but not decomposed, and we only dug up a little bit. I could just see the skull and an arm bone, the others were still in the concrete, the bones were yellow, almost crumbling to slag. It can be determined that it is a human corpse, but it is a little different, because these bones are covered with a strange layer of "hair". If you look closely, you will see that it is covered with mold-like "hair" that makes people's backs hairy.

I took a closer look. And immediately pushed the little flower away so that he would not touch it, I don't know when I got up and saw the hair. All the guards will be opened, and he will take a few steps back.

These do look very much like "hair", but if you pull it up, you can see that these hairs are connected to the bones, almost all of them are on the bones, and the hair seems to have grown from the bones, because the rotten hair is very brittle, and when you touch it, it will break into small pieces, and it will be stuck to the bones by the rotting corpse fluid at that time. The amount is very large.

Floret put on her gloves and picked up the hammer. He began to knock on the skull embedded in the concrete, and smashed the Heavenly Spirit Cover in two clicks. The end of the nail with a hammer dug up the skull fragments, and when I shone a flashlight into it, I saw that the cranial cavity was also crowded with hair-like things.

"Not good." Xiaohua snorted.

I immediately realized that the heavy losses they had suffered here were certainly not due to some accident, but it seemed that they had encountered something - something weird.

I have always felt a little strange before, such a powerful team, even if it encounters a very clever trap, it will not cause a "huge accident", Lao Jiumen is not a thief, even if one or two people die, with the skills and experience of those people, they will immediately find a way to escape. However, there are times when your skills are useless.

I'm a little scared, if that's the case, then it's a very dangerous thing to open this hole, I don't know what the situation is in the cave, but there must be a corpse in the back. If a forbidden woman crawls out of knocking and knocking, it will be enough for us. I don't know how the hell these hairs get into my brain.

I told Xiaohua about my concerns, and after thinking about it, I had to put on my clothes, put on two or three layers of gloves, and then put on goggles, and wrapped my natural face with a bandage, making it look like a deep burn. Make sure we don't have a piece of flesh left out before we continue digging.

Now even the sweat was gone, all the sweat was covered in it, and within ten minutes all my intimate parts began to protest against me, and I had to scratch and carefully dig around the corpse, as carefully as archaeology.

As we expected, the second skeleton was found almost immediately, almost clasping the first, and immediately afterwards the third, in the same position as the second, holding the first. Like the first skeleton, the bones were all covered in that kind of hair.

If you continue to dig, you will be covered with stones, and the cement will not be poured into the cliff at all, and there will be no large equipment for pouring cement on the cliff, and the cement will not be able to reach the depth of the hole by pouring it by hand. This made it very easy to excavate, and more skeletons were dug up and then the second and third bodies were dug up, and it was confusing that all the skeletons were hugging each other, and at first I thought they were fighting, but as I dug and dug I realized that they were pushing the person in front of them forward, as if they were trying to push the person in front of them out.

I could suddenly recreate the scene of the old days, the people outside were pouring cement into it, and the people inside were crushed by the rocks, and they were shouting no, trying to push the people in front of them out, but countless hairs spread down the cracks in the stones, engulfing them. They wailed, the crushed rocks making it impossible for them to move forward, and they writhed in despair in pain, the cement being driven through the outside by the battering cone-like awls, the pressure crushing the gravel and crushing them, their blood pooling together and flowing into the mud that came rushing through.

This is no longer a scene that can be described by death, those old guys in the past died like this in the end, no wonder Lao Jiumen They were so afraid that they didn't even want to talk about it. Xiaohua looked at me with a frown. Grabbed the plastic bag that covered his head and brushed back his sweaty hair with his fingers, and said, "You're right, this cave is closed." It's not after Granny Huo left, they were after what happened. The entrance to the cave was immediately closed, so there would be such a thrilling scene, the mother-in-law should know about it, why didn't she say it? ”

"Not necessarily." I said, "Maybe after she left, the rest of the people are still not giving up and are still trying." That's why this kind of problem will arise. ”

Xiaohua shook her head: "Do you know how much time and effort it takes to install a cement canning system on this kind of cliff?" As soon as they had an accident, before they could escape the hole, the cement canning began, which means—"

He stopped talking, and I immediately understood what he meant: "It's a premeditated situation, cement canning is an insurance, and they anticipate such a danger, so, before going in." They've got everything ready, and if something happens to them inside, then keep them plugged inside. ”

"They did it voluntarily." Xiaohua looked at the skeleton. "It makes me feel better."

"But look at them like this, if they are voluntary, why are they in such a state? Like a sugar gourd, one pushing the other. I said.

"And what do you think it should be?" Xiaohua shined a flashlight on me.

"For example, six people in a narrow cave suddenly noticed something had happened, and they were threatened with death, and they instinctively ran towards the entrance of the cave. But the hole has been sprayed with lumps of cement at this time. It should be dispersed, one by one solidified in cement. Everyone's movements are different, and the distance between them is different, and it shouldn't be like now, one after the other. I said, "Moreover, they are all old rivers and lakes, and I think at that time, they also know that they will definitely die, and they will give up very early, and there will be no such fierce action to survive." ”

Xiaohua shone the flashlight on those bones and was quiet for a while before she said slowly: "That makes sense, then you mean, they didn't do it voluntarily, but with such a big machine and so much cement lying outside, they wouldn't know what they were doing?" ”

I don't think so, there are too many explanations that make sense in this case alone, for example, that these people were coerced, or that they did it to give something away. However, this does not explain another thing.

When I think about it, I think there's only one possibility that can explain two things at the same time. I said to Xiaohua, "Why don't you tell us that this place is sealed with cement?" ”

"I don't know, maybe she doesn't think it's glamorous or ......" Xiaohua thought for a moment and shook her head, "Well, I'll admit it's hard to explain, but I know she's very purposeful, and she won't be playing tricks on us or cheating on us." If she knew that this place was sealed with cement and didn't tell us, then our lamas would have stopped, and her plan would not have been carried out, and she could not have been so proud. ”

"Yes." I nodded, "She didn't tell us, and obviously the only plausible explanation was that she really didn't know." However, she was involved in the things here back then, and she couldn't have been unaware, there was only one explanation. ”

"What do you want to say?"

"These bones, these people are not from the old nine gates, buddy." I said, "Damn, after Lao Jiumen left, another person came here, went in, touched the mechanism, and was sealed inside." Moreover, it won't be too long, so, the blood is still red. ”

"Oh, you're saying that we're not the first people to come here after the Old Nine Gates?"

"That's probably the case, and looking at the battle of this group of people," I picked up a piece of cement, "cement canning, that's not something ordinary people can do, it's also a very large team with a strong background. ”

Xiaohua leaned against the cave wall on the side and sighed: "Moreover, they know that there is danger inside, and they have placed cement cans in advance, so these people must have something to do with back then." He looked at me, "Someone doesn't give up." ”

"Yes, some people don't give up." I nodded, we were relatively speechless, these people's bones were twisted and broken, they were all rotting here, we couldn't get more information from them, but, I felt a wave of nausea, what was it that made so many people do such meaningless sacrifices again and again?

After being silent for a while, Xiaohua said: "No matter what, looking at the situation, they still failed, we still have to continue the unfinished business, and they touched the mechanism, Lao Jiumen touched the mechanism once, and they also touched it, which shows that the mechanism inside is not temporary, and we must not be able to escape if they encounter it, there must be something related to these 'hair' in this hole, we must be more careful." ”

My mind flashed through the imagination that if hair grew in my cranial cavity and the tips of the hair ran through my brain, my brain would become a clump of soap and unknown grease that I had twisted out of the sewers, and that I would rather die, but I skimmed the thought quickly.

After saying that, Xiaohua handed me the hammer and asked me to continue digging, and he would have gossiped with me, but this time, I was no longer interested in talking to him.

Soon, we dug up a few more skeletons, and after that, the back was full of stones, and no bones were found, so we continued for three hours, digging up only stones and stones.

I suddenly wondered if the people who sealed the cave had blocked the whole hole, and what we were doing now was foolishness, but I definitely wouldn't, and I had no other choice now, no matter how long I had to dig it.

In fact, in the end, I don't know how many hours I dug for myself, I was actually physically exhausted and sleepy, but Xiaohua didn't bring it up to rest, and I felt embarrassed to mention it. In the confusion, there was a "bang", and the stone in front of it suddenly collapsed, and the upper part of the stone wall in front of it collapsed at once, revealing a black hole.

I still had the last piece of "" in my hand, and it took me a while to realize that I had dug it through, and Xiaohua and I looked at each other, then raised the flashlight and shone it into the hole. Behind the stone wall was an extension of the cave, but there was no bottom at all, and twenty meters away, on the ground of the pipeline, there were clay pots one after another, extending to the end of the pipe.

What is terrifying is that on each clay pot, there is a spherical thing the size of a melon, and when I shine it with a flashlight, I find that there is hair growing on it - these spherical things, like a small human head, grow out of the clay pot, densely packed all over the cave. I could see that my goosebumps stood up uncontrollably. (To be continued)