Chapter 20: Weird
The next qiē was performed in silence. Zuo Qingcang and the old man used a rope and a dagger to connect the cave and the passage with a rope, and then carried the jars down from the burial chamber to the passage in the middle of the stone chamber.
And the old man who came to the passage opposite the stone room, in addition to the original three passages, in fact, there was also a passage below the thief cave, but he couldn't see it when he stayed in the thief cave before.
When all the food arrived, Zuo Qingcang picked up the jars and strode towards the passage again.
Before leaving, Zuo Qingcang also glanced back at the stone room, looking at the ever-bright lamp hanging on the wall, and suddenly felt that he seemed to have forgotten something, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't remember it.
He shook his head and walked with the old man towards the depths of the passage.
The old man followed, and couldn't help but glance back at the huge corpse monster in the stone chamber behind him. However, neither he nor Zuo Qingcang spoke, obviously afraid of attracting the attention of the corpse monster. After walking for a few hundred meters, the old man finally couldn't help but speak, and said in a low voice: "Why did you choose this path?" ”
"The passage is almost the same, and there are no clues in the stone chamber." Zuo Qingcang explained: "I just chose one at random. ”
The old man showed a depressed look when he heard this, just now next to the corpse monster, they were reluctant to speak, but Zuo Qingcang chose this path with a certain face as soon as he came up, and the old man thought that he was sure. I didn't expect it to be chosen randomly.
"By the way, you said that the corpse monster was born from the body of a monk." Zuo Qingcang asked, "That's like the corpse monster in the stone room just now, how many corpses do you think a cultivator can form?" ”
The old man's expression moved, which he hadn't expected before: "Such a big corpse monster, at least dozens or even hundreds of cultivators need to use their corpses as raw materials to produce such a large corpse monster." ”
The two looked at each other and immediately realized something.
"This ancient tomb is even more dangerous than we imagined." Zuo Qingcang said lightly: "The source of the corpses of these cultivators is nothing more than two possibilities, one is provided by the people who built the ancient tomb, whether the formation of the corpse monsters in the future is a coincidence, or they did it intentionally, it shows the danger in the ancient tomb."
The second possibility is that those monks who died were the ones who robbed the tombs later. That is, dozens or hundreds of Dao people with spiritual power in their team were all wiped out and died in this ancient tomb. ”
Zuo Qingcang glanced at the old man and said, "The next road is ten deaths, if you want to quit now, it's still too late." Although the monsters outside are dangerous, it is not impossible to break through, or you can also wait for me here, and I will leave you with half of the food......"
"You don't have to say it." The old man sneered and said, "Flee now, and then sit in the ancient tomb and eat the mountain, and end the rest of the days, do you think I will be willing?" As for breaking through the periphery of the ancient tomb, there are those giant elephants, yin girls, and dwarf spirits guarding the entrances and exits, and I will be sent to death when I go out. Follow you inside, at least you can try, otherwise I won't be willing to die. ”
"Let's go, then." Zuo Qingcang nodded and continued: "Originally, I thought that this robbery cave might also lead to the outside of the ancient tomb, so that when the time comes, we may be able to go to the outside of the tomb through Guò to replenish food and water, and then slowly figure it out. But now it seems that the cave does not lead to the outside, but to the lower level of the tomb. ”
"The situation looks more complicated than we had previously speculated."
Although the situation in Zuo Qingcang's mouth was very difficult, his eyes were as bright as ever, and he didn't seem to see a trace of decadence and frustration: "But no matter what, we have to go down to see, no matter how big the ancient tomb is, whether opening the coffin can stop the Great Array of Moving Stars and Changing Stars, we can only find a way to leave this island by going down and investigating with our own eyes." ”
Along the way, the two exchanged clues with each other so far, as well as their views on the ancient tomb. A few minutes later, the two of them came to a stone chamber again, and in front of them, there were three identical passages.
Not only the passage, but even the layout of the entire stone chamber, the size and orientation of the passage, and the everlasting lights in the stone chamber are exactly the same as the previous stone chamber.
"We're back again?" The old man reacted immediately, but immediately shook his head and said, "No, there is no corpse monster here, could it be that it is an exact stone chamber built on purpose?" ”
Zuo Qingcang didn't answer him, but squatted down by himself, stretched out his fingers, and touched the ground. Feeling the dryness on his fingers, he said calmly, "No slime, no traces of corpses. It's just that it's just the same as it was before. ”
The old man nodded, looked at the three identical passages in front of him, and the way behind him, and asked, "Then how do we go next?" ”
Looking at the three identical passages in front of him, Zuo Qingcang's heart was filled with a trace of bad premonition, but he still pointed to the middle passage and said, "Go here." ”
The next two walked into the passage, but this time the passage was not long, and after about a minute, the two walked out of the passage again, and this time in front of them was still the same stone chamber, or the same three passages.
The old man's face became a little solemn: "Could it be the same stone room again?" ”
Zuo Qingcang carefully looked around, but couldn't find anything that could provide his judgment, he simply pulled out the dagger, drew a fork on the ground, and then said to the old man: "Let's go, let's go in the middle." ”
This time, the two of them walked a little faster, and it only took more than thirty seconds to walk through the passage, and what appeared in front of them, not to Zuo Qingcang's surprise, was still the same stone room.
The old man hurriedly ran to the position where Zuo Qingcang had marked with a dagger before, and when he saw that there was nothing on the ground, he was relieved: "It's indeed just the same stone chamber that was made, maybe there is some special meaning, or some kind of psychological tactic." ”
However, Zuo Qingcang didn't speak, and the scene in front of him made him have a very bad association.
He didn't speak, and led the old man again to the passage, which was still the most middle.
Next, every time the two of them came to the stone room, they chose the middle passage, but the more they walked, the more ugly the old man's face became, the same stone room, the same passage, his steps became more and more urgent, but after walking through more than a dozen stone chambers in a row, there was still no change in the slightest qiē in front of him.
The walk gradually turned into a trot, as if he was in a hurry to get out of the predicament in front of him, but when he came to the same stone room again, the old man finally couldn't help but scold: "What do you mean, what do the people who built this tomb think, why do they all make the same?" ”
Zuo Qingcang looked at the stone chamber quietly, then took out the dagger again and put a mark on the ground.
"Do you suspect that we are here for a passage?" The old man said, "Didn't you try it before?" I guess I just built a bunch of the same rooms. ”
Zuo Qingcang shook his head: "The length of each room is about ten meters, the length of the passage is about one thousand meters, we have walked through seventeen stone chambers in a row, theoretically speaking, this straight line length has been beyond the scope that the island can contain." This is the number that Zuo Qingcang compared according to the length obtained by going around the island before.
Hearing Zuo Qingcang's judgment, the old man's face changed and he asked, "Are you sure?" ”
"If nothing affects my brain, I shouldn't be able to make a mistake with this sense of direction and space." As he spoke, Zuo Qingcang walked to the passage in the middle of the stone room again, and the old man also walked in with a solemn face.
Half a minute later, the same stone chamber appeared in front of the two again, and the old man looked at the position marked by Zuo Qingcang and said, "No." It does seem to be the same room, maybe the underground space of this island is relatively large, maybe you are mistaken, after all, this kind of tomb ......"
Listening to the old man's words, Zuo Qingcang didn't say anything, just made a mark on the spot again, and then turned around and walked back to the passage.
"You want to go back?" The old man looked at Zuo Qingcang puzzled, and followed, wanting to ask him why.
But when he returned to the previous stone room and saw that the ground marked by Zuo Qingcang before was empty, his face immediately changed drastically.
Zuo Qingcang squatted down, touched the ground without the slightest scratch, and said lightly: "This place is strange. ”
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