The length of the stairs was beyond my imagination, and it took me half an hour to walk, and the Poison-Eyed Dragon, who had never exercised much, was so tired that he cried out in pain. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After an hour or two of stop-and-go, it was estimated that they were about to climb to the top of the mountain, and everyone was already so tired that they were out of breath, and no one dared to take off their masks and drink saliva, and it was even more uncomfortable to hold inside.

The fat man sat on the ground, shone a flashlight forward, and said, "Hit a flare and see how far we have to go if we fall to the ground." ”

Everyone looked at me silently and agreed with the fat man's idea, although this kind of step passage in the cave was extremely unfavorable for the firing of flares, but fortunately it was a steep slope, at least it would not bounce back.

I loaded the ammo, and the light of the flashlight pulled the trigger in the darkness, and the flare flew out with a thud.

After 100 meters, the flares widened and the staircase came to an end, and we finally saw hope.

While the light of the flares was still on, I pulled up the poison-eyed dragon sitting on the ground and walked up quickly.

Walk to the end of the stairs and look back, and the stairs end up with an open doorway. There is a pavilion-like building directly in front of it, and instead of a stone table and stone bench, a coffin is placed.

There was a bird parked above the coffin, the same bird I had caught in the woods, and although it was standing at the moment, it did not make the slightest call, which was very strange.

The pavilion is surrounded by a circle of ponds, which are connected by a bridge at the end of the steps.

There is a circle of plank paths on the surrounding walls, spiraling upwards, and the end is facing the top of our heads, which is also a stone cave entrance.

As soon as the fat man saw that there was a coffin, he immediately came to his senses: "Lao Zou, there should be something good this time, look at this coffin, how many treasures must be hidden in such a big coffin." ”

After that, I was ready to cross the bridge and start opening the museum, but I was afraid that he would have an accident if he acted recklessly, so I hurriedly followed behind. When I got closer, I saw that this coffin was indeed big enough, the overall height was about one meter five, two meters long, one meter wide, the surface was made of stone, without any decorative patterns, it looked a little simple, and there was a thin seam around one meter.

The poison-eyed dragon and I gasped when we saw it, not because of the size of the coffin, but because of such a coffin, the person buried in it must be a nobleman with status, since it is a nobleman, there should be such a burial system, the cemetery chooses to rely on the mountain and the water is an auspicious place, but there is no saying that the coffin is placed by the water.

This is incomprehensible. The fat man said: "What is there to understand, just open the coffin and look at it, maybe there is no corpse here, maybe it is a trick." ”

Yamashita Murafu came here for a purpose, and he still didn't know that I had taken down half of the tiger talisman that was buckled in the stone slab, and he was even more sad about what the fat man said about opening the coffin, and this old thing would not leave empty-handed.

I took out a crowbar from my bag, inserted it along the gap in the coffin board, and joined forces with the fat man, and the coffin board loosened little by little.

At this time, the bird standing on the coffin board also fell to the ground, and everyone was even more stunned when they saw this situation, and the poison-eyed dragon, who originally wanted to take off the gas mask, did not dare to mention it again.

I put down the crowbar and poked the birds on the ground with the top tube, which was a little stiff, as if petrified, and with a slight movement, one of the birds' claws was broken.

I turned my back to the fat man, he couldn't see the movement of my hands, and urged behind me: "Oh, what's so beautiful, isn't it just that the bird is dead, it's a big deal not to take off the gas mask." Don't make such a fuss. ”

Being said by the fat man, I didn't bother to look at it anymore, although I had a lot of doubts in my heart, but I couldn't figure it out, since I couldn't figure it out, I simply didn't think about it.

Soon, the heavy coffin board was pried off by us, not so much the coffin board, but the heavy prefabricated board, and the fat man and I used our strength to feed, and only moved a little.

The rest of the people, seeing that the two of us were struggling to move, also came to help, and the six of them moved a huge coffin, although it was easier than me and the fat man, but it was not easy at all.

When the stone coffin plate was lowered, there was a wooden coffin inside, which looked to be quite well preserved, and a huge bird carved the entire coffin board.

The fat man and I saw this bird, we were a little stunned, this thing is too familiar, we have seen too many depictions of the same as this in the capital of Gu Xiaowan Kingdom, this ancient tomb is full of strange stone statues, I didn't expect to have such an adventure.

Seeing that the two of us were a little stunned, the poison-eyed dragon asked, "Second master, what's wrong with you?" Is there anything strange about this? ”

I said, "Oh, it's all right, Brother Si, you can show me what kind of bird this bird is and what it represents." ”

The poison-eyed dragon circled around the coffin a few times, returned to me, and sighed: "Master Zou, do you want to say that you have seen this bird somewhere else?" ”

Although I didn't go into detail with him about the details of his trip to Xinjiang, based on his relationship with Emma, it is estimated that he has known about it for a long time, so I was not surprised at all when he asked him, but nodded.

The poison-eyed dragon said, "This is the bird you saw, phoenix. Legend has it that during the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the Cuban State believed in the sacred bird phoenix, and believed that the phoenix was the son of the three emperors Fuxi in ancient times. Pakistan is right here, so it's not surprising that the phoenix is here again. ”

I was puzzled and asked: "I have indeed seen phoenixes, in the desert of Xinjiang, but at that time, they basically appeared in pairs, at that time, I heard Professor Gu's students say that phoenixes are two birds, why is there only one here?" ”

The poison-eyed dragon smiled: "You don't know this, the phoenix is indeed a pair, but that is the addition of later generations, our nation's mythological system is extremely complex, who can say which dynasty and which generation of the phoenix came together." Besides, do you know what this Baishan County used to be called today? ”

I shook my head to say I didn't know, and the poison-eyed dragon said: "There is another name here, called Luofeng County, when the name was obtained has no document, but there are still allusions, the legend is because there is a peony blooming here, attracting the phoenix to fall here." ”

This kind of mythological story may not be true, it is also recorded in my book, but I have been in order to find clues related to the phoenix, rummaged through the whole book, and even looked for the so-called Luofeng County in the whole map, but it has been fruitless, who ever thought that the name of Luofeng County, since the Ming Dynasty has been changed to Baishan County, it is said that because the phoenix Pang Tong died in Luofeng Slope, the people think that the word Luofeng is too unlucky, and the joint petition, this name was changed.

From the original meaning, Luofeng County does not seem to have much to do with the ancient Xiaowan Kingdom, and there is a big time difference between the emergence of the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors and the Xiaowan Kingdom, and there can be no direct connection between the two.

The fat man smiled: "You guys are really troublesome, just open it first and see if you can't, just rely on those conjectures where a painting came from." ”

The poison-eyed dragon also nodded in agreement with the fat man's opinion, I was about to call the Yamashita villager and the white-haired old man to come to help, needless to say, the crowbar in the hand of the Yamashita villager was already eager to try.

The four of them found a gap in four different directions, inserted a crowbar, and pried it up, and the wooden coffin board "creaked" open.

Everyone worked together to lift the coffin out again, and the villager couldn't wait to stretch his neck to see what was in the coffin.

The coffin was pitch black, empty, nothing, the flashlight fell into it and found nothing, the villager under the mountain frowned and looked extremely depressed, seeing him like this, I hurriedly stretched out my head to see.

The coffin was empty, there were no bodies, no burial goods, and everyone was speechless by what they saw.

The fat man scolded: "I'm, I've been cut off." ”

The poison-eyed dragon shook his head and said, "No, it wasn't someone who got on it first, there was nothing in this coffin in the first place." ”

Before opening the coffin, it was not so easy for us to find the seam of the coffin lid, and it was even more difficult for the crowbar to be inserted into the seam. It would be much easier for us at least if someone had cut off everything than it is now, and the iron nails on the inner wooden coffin board were tightly pressed against the coffin board, and there were no signs of someone prying it at all.

If it is an empty coffin, then why waste so much effort to hide in this big mountain that no one cares about, build such a huge mausoleum for it, and spend so much manpower and material resources to build so many traps. It seems too unreasonable.

The fat man sighed in disappointment: "Hey... No is nothing, what's the use of having to make those excuses? Let's find a place to get out. ”

Without a word, I walked over to the coffin and knocked around the coffin with gloves on, hoping to find some traps or something.

When it hit the bottom, there was an empty echo that made everyone flutter. It's empty underneath, which means it's another door, but we haven't found a way or a way to open it.

The fat man saw that there was a way out, where could he care about what mechanism was secret, and hurriedly took out explosives from his bag and placed them at the bottom of the coffin, so he retreated a few meters away and shouted: "Get out of the way, I'm going to detonate." ”

Everyone hurriedly stepped back, and an explosion behind them made everyone fall to the ground unconsciously.

After the explosion, everyone got up, the gas mask on their faces was already covered with a layer of dust, only the gas mask on the face of the villager under the mountain was also shocked by the sudden explosion, and he was choked by the dust and coughed, and he was looking for the ground with a frightened face, and his eyes couldn't be opened.

Gradually, his face became red, probably because he didn't dare to breathe without a gas mask, and he held it back.

For a long time, he finally couldn't hold it anymore, and the gas mask was not found, lying on the ground panting, looking resigned to fate.

His chest was breathing one after another, and he slowly became smoother, and the air around him didn't seem to hurt him. He glanced at us, got up from the ground, moved his limbs, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, probably the most sincere smile of his life.

Seeing that he was fine, everyone took off the masks on their faces, walked to the coffin, and stretched out their heads to look inside.

The coffin, which was originally empty, but half a meter deep, had an extra hidden coffin underneath, exactly the same size as the top, and it became deeper when connected to the top, and there was a gorgeously dressed corpse lying in the dark coffin underneath.

When the fat man saw the corpse, he was extremely excited: "His grandmother's is actually hidden inside, there must be a lot of treasures." ”

rolled up his sleeves and prepared to go down, but I hurriedly stopped him: "Your uncle, why can't you learn well, put down your sleeves, put on gloves, I'll go down first, I didn't tell you not to come down." Brother Si is waiting for us up there. ”

I turned over and entered the coffin, two meters long, half a meter wide space looked a little crowded, the village man outside the coffin stretched his head and looked nervously at the coffin.

I took out a thin red rope from my bag, and the first thing I did when I went down to the coffin was to wrap the hands of the corpse with the red rope, which was my homemade rope for the corpse according to the records in the ancient books.

It is said that it can prevent corpses and restrict the free movement of zombies, and each inverted bucket sect will have its own production method, but I don't know if what I did halfway through the family is useful.

After the corpse's hands and feet were tied, he carefully rummaged beside the corpse, and at this time the fat man felt that I was too inkblot underneath, and without waiting for me to connect with him, he turned over and jumped into the coffin, which frightened me a lot.

At this time, I was almost found, except for the clothes worn by the corpse and the jade pillow behind the head, there was nothing else, the fat man reached out and picked up the pillow and put it in his pocket, ready to get out of the coffin.

Another bird, which had already disappeared, suddenly appeared out of nowhere at this time and landed on the shoulder of the ancient corpse, without the slightest cry in its mouth, which was particularly strange.

Seeing this, the fat man stretched out his hand to catch the bird, but I hurriedly stopped him: "Wait, I have a bad premonition, go up quickly, I'm afraid it's not good." ”

The fat man saw that I said solemnly, and he didn't dare to slack off, and as soon as he used his arms, he jumped out of the coffin, and I followed the fat man, and his arms were supported by the coffin.

When the fat man saw me fall, he hurriedly reached out to pull me, I didn't dare to look back, and the two sides seemed to be more energetic, desperately pulling me from both sides.

I pulled out the bronze sword at my waist, turned around and saw that half of my trouser leg was broken, and the fat man took me out of it with a bang.

I hurriedly beckoned everyone to run, and there was no delay for a moment. The crowd followed me and ran up the boardwalk on the stone wall.

The straight-line distance from the bottom of the plank road to the exit above is only more than ten meters, but it has been spiraling up around the mountain wall, and the distance that was originally only more than ten meters has been stretched countless times.

The original stone plank road, after running for a long time, suddenly fell under my feet and turned into rotten wood, I almost fell down, but fortunately the stone stake stretched out from the wall, and the moment I fell, my hands were propped up on the stone stake.

Standing up and looking up, there was a wooden plank road above us that was exactly the same as under our feet, and a stone stake sticking out of the wall every half meter or so. Presumably the same condition as under our feet.

We were thinking about countermeasures, although we had run up twice, but we were less than five meters from the ground, and the coffin in the pavilion was no longer visible at this time, but we could vaguely hear the constant sound inside, as if something was about to come out.

Since the surface was covered with rotten wooden planks, I would accidentally step into the air if I walked up, so for safety, I held the rifle upside down in my hand and knocked off the rotten planks on the boardwalk while finding the stone stakes to clear the way for the people behind.

Each step was extremely careful and tedious, so that the speed became extremely slow, and the sound in the pavilion was like a urging sound, constantly urging us to hurry up in the back.

Cold sweat was already oozing from my forehead, and I didn't pay attention, and with a sudden stroke under my feet, I sat on the stone stake, but fortunately I didn't fall, and glanced back at the pavilion in the center.

I don't know when, there was a hole in the pavilion, I was shocked, and then I pricked up my ears and listened carefully, and the sound disappeared. I hurriedly looked around with a flashlight, and even I didn't know what I was looking for, but I just hoped that I wouldn't leave.

The fat man behind me saw that I almost fell, and sat on the stone pile and kept looking, not knowing what was wrong, and shouted, "Old Zou, what's wrong with you?" Evil? ”

I glanced back at the people behind me, stood up on the stone stake against the wall, and prepared to open the way in front of me. Seeing that he had walked to the last lap, he was only twenty meters away from the entrance of the cave, and his feet were empty, and he could see the end at a glance.

Suddenly I felt something on my shoulder, I shook my arm and slapped it again, and I scolded without looking back: "Little fatty, don't you want to hold me to death?" So high, so close, you are not afraid of falling to your death. ”

The fat man said strangely in the back: "What do you say, Lao Zou, who squeezed you, I am still far away from your two stakes here." Ay... Lao Zou... Behind you... What's in the back? ”

Behind? "Isn't it you behind me...", I didn't feel right, but it wasn't that I felt that something was wrong behind me, but the voice of the fat man talking, and the distance between me and the voice of not wanting to speak behind my back.

I didn't dare to look back, my left hand held on to the wall, lowered my head and looked back, half a meter away, a pair of feet wearing shoes that did not belong to this era stood on the stone pile, one of the feet was still wrapped with a red rope, I was shocked, I didn't dare to look at it again, hurriedly raised my head, took a deep breath, closed my mouth and didn't dare to breathe.

I remember my grandfather said, "When the dead are buried, the bones are not broken, and they are treated as corpses. ”

There are many kinds of corpses, zombies are just one of them, if the breath of a living person is contaminated with a zombie in the ancient tomb, then there must be a death, either a corpse is destroyed, or a person dies.

I was the first living person to touch a corpse, and though I had been tied with a rope, it was evident that he had broken free now, and if I turned back, I would surely die.

I now finally understand why there is a circle of deep water here, the art of feng shui, pay attention to the mountains and rivers when it is an auspicious place, the mountains and rivers are nothing more than yin and yang, water is yin, mountains are yang, water is yin, vice versa, most of the burial of tombs in ancient times is for future generations, and the changes in the landscape are impermanent, and the burial of ancestral tombs can not guarantee longevity.

And the deep water here is mostly because the original people of Xiangdi thought that the yang and yin were declining here, so they transformed this place, and I don't know what kind of heart he has.

I leaned against the wall with my left hand, leaned inward slightly, and quietly reached my waist with my right hand to touch the sword.

Holding the bronze sword, the palms of his hands kept sweating, and the movements that were originally done in one go were at the moment and Yahoo's slowness, and even the trembling was forgotten. The tip of the sword slammed diagonally backwards, and sparks sparked as the bronze sword slammed into the wall.

A sword pierced the air, and I drew my sword and turned around, slashing at the back, but nothing was enough.

Suddenly, the fat man shouted, "Squat." ”

I didn't have time to think, I instinctively bent down, "bang bang" several gunshots in a row, the bullet almost grazed my scalp, and after the gunshot, I turned around and swept my sword over.

Standing on the horizontal stone pile, the movement seemed extremely inconvenient, and the movement was relatively slow, and the sword fell short again.

On the contrary, it was the bullet shot by the fat man, and the gun hit the zombie to the flesh, and it seemed to know the power of the bronze sword in my hand, and kept dodging.

I was about to look for it again, when the fat man urged from behind, "Don't look for it, run quickly." ”

At the moment, the situation was urgent, and I didn't care about putting away my sword to change the gun, half-squatting, leaning on the wall with one hand, and holding the sword in the other hand and constantly slashing on the ground.

At a distance of more than twenty meters, it took four or five minutes to see the head, during which the zombie never reappeared, presumably waiting for us at a certain node. In the end, it was more than two meters away from the entrance of the cave, and he simply jumped over.

The fat man jumped after me, the poison-eyed dragon followed the fat man, his feet trembled violently, a distance of about two meters, he could usually jump over with his eyes closed, but at this time he didn't dare to take a step, holding the wall with both hands, and tears were about to come out.

The fat man scolded at the entrance of the cave: "Poison-eyed dragon, your uncle, if you don't jump, Lao Tzu will shoot you down." ”

That being said, it couldn't really be done, and the intimidation didn't seem to have any effect, as the Poison-Eyed Dragon was still standing on the stone stake and shivering, and it was shaking even more.

Seeing this situation, it was not a way to drag it down, so I shouted to the poison-eyed dragon: "Brother Si, jump quickly, that zongzi is right behind you, don't look back, you will die if you turn back." ”

As soon as he heard the zongzi behind him, the poison-eyed dragon suddenly screamed, and jumped over with his eyes closed, although the intimidation worked, but it was not wrong to close his eyes in such an environment, unless he was prepared, but unfortunately he made the decision in a panic.

The poison-eyed dragon jumped to the entrance of the cave, brushed its feet against the edge of the hole, and its body was unsteady on its feet, and it slipped down directly. I hurriedly reached out and grabbed him, his originally thin body became extremely heavy for some reason.

The fat man and I finally managed to stabilize the momentum of his fall, I held a flashlight in my mouth, and looked down, the zongzi was grabbing the feet of the poison-eyed dragon with both hands stretched out. (To be continued.) )