Chapter Twenty-Six: Escape

There has never been a lack of living burials in ancient tomb customs, and often the designers and builders of those tombs will be buried alive without exception. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

With more and more such things, the designers and builders of the funeral are becoming more and more frequent, and some relatively intelligent designers are born, who will leave a way for themselves when building ancient tombs, and these so-called ways of life are often accompanied by high risks, and it is difficult for a person in an emperor's tomb to make his hands and feet without being discovered.

If someone denounces them in the process, everyone will be affected. Because this cave will be related to the life and death of all the buried people, out of the hole, is life, can not come out is death, hence the name - the hole of death.

The place where we came in is very likely to be a hole in the afterlife, one is because this kind of hole does not appear in the original design drawings, so we did not see that part of the road in the short book, and it is also natural; The entrance to the cave under the stairs is hidden behind a figure-6 wall, which is easy for ordinary people to think of.

The poison-eyed dragon smiled: "Zou Ye is worthy of being an expert, and he is a word. ”

I smiled bitterly and shook my head: "Brother Si said that I laughed, without your reminder, even if I was asked to go again, I am afraid it would be difficult to think of such a thing." Now there is no death hole for us, only to open this door, presumably Brother Si already has a way? ”

The poison-eyed dragon smiled and pointed to the picture that I had copied in my hand: "Why don't you continue to look down, maybe you will find something." ”

I took what he copied down and looked at it, the paper was very long, it was the rice paper that the poison-eyed dragon carried with him, and the pen was his own lake pen, but it was a little different from the ordinary lake pen, the pen barrel was filled with pre-ground ink, and there was a small mechanism at the junction between the pen barrel and the pen head, and the ink would flow down after opening, a bit similar to our current fountain pen.

The whole sheet resembles a scroll, rolled together, and the text that has been copied on the back is hidden behind the scroll. Hearing what the Poison-Eyed Dragon said, I thought it was a little funny. After all, he is also a great connoisseur who is proficient in antiques, and he knows ancient pictures and texts very well, and even he can't understand things, so he would think of letting me, a semi-literate person, look at it and try it.

I slowly opened the back of the scroll, and the Poison-Eyed reached for the part I had opened and re-rolled it back together.

A line of text appeared in front of me, and I subconsciously read a few words in my mind, and everything seemed to be logical, and then I reacted. Wide-eyed and incredulous, looking at the poison-eyed dragon.

The poison-eyed dragon seemed to have expected me to do this, so he asked, "Does Master Zou feel that these words are familiar?" I nodded heavily, and he continued, "It seems that I am not mistaken, whether we can get out of this ancient tomb is all up to you." ”

The second half of the copy is all words, which are very familiar to me, and my grandfather forced me to learn these words every day when he was alive.

This is the first time I've seen this kind of writing outside of this book, and I have to say that I was really surprised that every generation of owners of ancient seals had to leave their names when they continued to write ancient seals, but I never knew that there was a generation in the Cuban Congress.

The second half of the copy tells a very interesting story in the text recorded in the ancient seal of the Qimen. There is also a special mechanism outside the gate of the ancient tomb, but if someone enters, they will not speak, and once they speak, they will touch the mechanism in the ancient tomb, and the mechanism will release a pre-prepared human saying, "Trespasser, guard the times".

The front of the gate of the ancient tomb is coated with special secret medicines, once people enter it, the mouth and nose inhale these secret medicines, at that time will feel dry mouth, want to drink water, there are pots on both sides of the gate, holding the water dripping from the mountain stream, the speed of the water droplets is very well controlled, but if you drink the water in the pot in the ancient tomb, there will be an illusion, aggravating the impression of the sound in the ancient tomb.

The key is not in the water, but in the pot, which is made of a special material, which is full of this special poison from the inside out, and once you drink only the water in the basin, the poison spreads like a plague. The only way to cure this poison is to drink two pieces of tiger talisman in water, or bring the tiger talisman to the home, which can delay the onset of poison.

It can also explain why everyone was poisoned and died, and only Sun Denian's family was safe, which also brought a more serious problem, that is, everyone present had contact with Sun Mingyi, and we must have also been infected with poison.

I can't help but be glad that I made my choice, if it weren't for that bit of curiosity, I'm afraid we wouldn't know what happened until we died.

Fortunately, at the same time, we have a deeper understanding of this ancient tomb.

As I had originally suspected, the tomb was a trap designed to trap a traitor in the world, but the name of the traitor was not mentioned, and the Poison-Eyed Dragon said that he probably didn't want him to leave a name in the afterlife.

The opening of the door must be completed by two tiger talismans, to put it bluntly, this piece of loneliness is a key that is separated, which is placed inside and outside the gate respectively, if it is not an excellent coincidence, it is impossible for ordinary people to open it, the reason why it is placed in half of the ancient tomb is also to prevent the descendants of traitors from peeking into the clues and taking people to open the ancient tomb, then all the previous efforts were wasted.

And the origin of this tiger talisman is extraordinary, it doesn't seem to be a thing at that time, the two tiger talismans of the poison-eyed dragon looked at it in his hand for a long time: "If it weren't for what was said in this book, it would be easy to be misled for a while, and this thing really doesn't belong to Pakistani culture." ”

In the end, the book explains how to open the gate, and also tells some things about the secrets of the tiger talisman.

I asked the fat man to go to the other side of the gate to find a groove where the tiger charm could be placed, and I found the same groove on the other side, put the two tiger charms in at the same time, and pressed it to the end, and a horizontal rectangular bulge appeared about seven feet above the ground.

It is a bit similar to the latch used to lock the door in the ancient mansion door, the fat man and I jointly lifted down the heavy latch, and after putting it down, it pushed it open to both sides, and the door was slowly pushed open by the two of us under the loss of the stability of the latch.

Before the gate opened, I asked everyone to put on their gas masks again to prevent us from being thirsty from being infected by the gas. After opening the door, I took down the tiger talisman embedded in the wall with the fat man.

The fat man had the white-haired old man on his back, and I opened the way in front. Everyone walked out of the gate, and there were two pots on both sides of the gate, and there was still some water in the task, and there was a crested head on each pot, and water droplets were dripping from the mouth of the phoenix, but the speed was extremely slow.

The four of them walked together in front and back, groping their way forward in the dark, when suddenly the white-haired old man kept repeating something through his gas mask.

I turned my head to look at the white-haired old man and asked him what he was talking about, the fat man's impatient body shook, the white-haired old man was shocked by this sudden shock and coughed, the fat man said: "Don't read it, when is this, and I am still talking about drinking water, I didn't listen to them, the water in here can't be drunk." ”

As soon as the fat man's voice fell, a deep voice resounded in the hole: "Trespassers, be guarded for generations." ”

The fat man became even more energetic when he heard this: "What's the matter, it's not wrong, the voice is there, so I want you to drink that sip of water..."

I glanced at the wounds on the feet of the white-haired old man, and immediately understood, and hurriedly stopped the fat man from going on: "Don't say it, he has injuries on his body, and the poisonous gas has entered through his wounds, he is poisoned, hurry up." ”

As soon as the words fell, the white-haired old man exerted all his strength, pulled off the gas mask on his head, and was about to pull the mask on the fat man's head, I couldn't see it well, so I hurriedly grabbed his hands, but unfortunately it was still a step too slow, and the gas mask on the fat man's face had been torn off.

I saw that it was not good, and while I hurriedly told the fat man to hold his breath, I reached out and took the white-haired old man from his back, and tied his hands firmly with a rope to prevent him from making trouble again.

The fat man held his breath and put on his gas mask again while running, and everyone ran a long way away, only then he breathed a sigh of relief, and the fat man scolded all the way as he walked.

In the panic, we walked through several forks in the road, and finally there was no way out, and there was a dead end in front of us, surrounded by stones, except for a wooden plank that had long since rotted and broken overhead.

The broken wooden planks were knocked off with the only remaining sapper shovel on the fat man's body, and the dirt was exposed on the top, and he dug the dirt a few times, and the soil was very soft, as if it was not very far from the ground.

When everyone heard this, their hearts were overjoyed, and I put down the white-haired old man behind me, pulled out my bronze sword, and followed the fat man to dig the dirt above my head.

Digging up is easier than digging down, but it's more dangerous, and if the soil on the top layer is too loose, it can easily cause a collapse and the risk of us being buried alive is high.

Finally, after a lot of effort, the top of my head was dug nearly five meters high, and my feet were fixed on both sides of the hole that had been dug, and the last shovel went down, and the whole piece of dirt fell down, almost knocking me down the middle.

It was still pitch black overhead, and I thought I had walked into a tomb, and when I saw the little glimmer of light that came in, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, it turned out to be moonlight, but when I saw the roof above my head blocking the sky, my heart that had just been put down was lifted again.

Crawling out of the hole, the flashlight hit the surroundings, and a dilapidated firewood house was revealed, and I was about to take a closer look, but the fat man below was already impatient to wait, and shouted below to put the rope down.

Only then did I come to my senses, and hurriedly found a rope to put down, and the other end was fixed to the beams and pillars of the firewood room. Suddenly, a voice came from the window of the firewood room: "It's really good, I can't imagine that old thing can have a grandson like you, and he can be regarded as blinding." ”

I hurriedly subconsciously touched the gun on my body, and after touching it for a long time, I found that the heavy equipment when I came up was left below, and I came out in a hurry, and I didn't have time to bring the gun at all, my heart sank, and my right hand was held on the bronze sword at my waist.

Looking at the dark shadow outside the window, although I had only heard this person's voice once, it was the sudden disappearance of the tomb at this time, although I was already angry in my heart, but I no longer had the initial impulse, waiting for the other party's next move.

Seeing that I didn't react at all when I heard his voice, he couldn't help but wonder: "It's really good, it's only a few hours of hard work, and you can be so calm, I really look down on you." ”

I snorted coldly: "Hmph... Thank you for your uplift, since Your Excellency has come to me, why don't you show your true face, you have to hide in the dark, since you are an elder, why do you need to hide. ”

Na Guan Ji suddenly laughed: "You don't have to provoke me, if you want to see me, it's not difficult, it depends on whether you have the ability." Let's see what that guy Mao Hongwu taught you. ”

I was about to continue asking, but the fat man had already crawled out from underneath: "Who are you talking to, and you don't know how to pull me... Ay... Where is this? ”

I glanced at the fat man, and when I looked back, the disease had disappeared from the window, and when I looked around, I couldn't help but find no trace of him, and my mood couldn't help but be a little complicated.

shook off the messy thoughts, turned around and went to help the fat man pull the white-haired old man up. After everyone came up, they took off their gas masks, went out of the firewood room and looked around, and were surprised to find that this was actually Sun Mingyi's old man's house.

He took some well water from the well, soaked the tiger talisman in it, and after about an hour, gave the water to everyone to drink.

After drinking the water, the white-haired old man who had been weakly muttering about drinking water fainted, I looked at the watch from the village man at the foot of the mountain, it was already one o'clock in the morning, the small village in the mountains fell into a deathly silence at this moment, there was no pursuit of all kinds of beasts in the ancient tomb, and an unprecedented tranquility enriched the surrounding atmosphere.

I gave the only remaining glutinous rice to the white-haired old man, and beckoned the fat man to fill in the hole he had dug. Everyone fell asleep in this quiet and serene atmosphere.

And I was sitting at the gate of Sun Mingyi's house, smoking a cigarette, staring at the bright moon in the sky, and couldn't sleep for a long time.

By the moonlight, you can still faintly see the rut marks on the ground, which should be left by the police car.

After five or six days of perilous perils in the tomb, we finally escaped. But now we need to find Sun Mingyi's grandson as soon as possible and place the white-haired old man well, the news given by emma is not wrong, that Guan Ji did come to Baishan County.

But I don't know what he wanted to do when he came to Baishan County, whether the so-called big fight is related to the remnants in my hand, everything seems to have fallen into a dead end again, and there is no conclusion.

Suddenly Li Guohua's name appeared in my mind, the white-haired old man and the woman surnamed Lan once said that the villager had seen a Chinese man, and this person told the villager not to drink the water in the tomb, even if it was a clear spring left in the mountain stream, most of the people who could say this kind of thing were the disease, and the purpose was naturally to let the villager take people out of the cemetery safely, but what he didn't expect was that we didn't enter through the gate, but walked through the cave of death.

Although it is only speculation and there is no substantial evidence, I firmly believe that the reason why the villager was able to find me was because Li Guohua and his son, two Hong Kong peasants, sold my situation to the villager of Yamashita, and the villager did not know that out of various mentalities, it was not good to be upright, but he wanted to take the sword and lure me here. Of course, without the help of Na Guan Ji's self-disclosure of his whereabouts in this plan, the implementation of the plan would have been very difficult, so we are just pawns of Na Guan Ji in the whole plan, but we don't know what his purpose is.

The old Hong Kong farmer Li Guohua and his son are friends with the villager in the mountain who have business dealings, and it is natural for them to know about my situation, and to be able to spread the news to Emma's ears and convince her to tell me through her mouth, if it were not for ordinary people, I am afraid it would be difficult to do it.

If all this was done by Na Guan Ji alone, and my grandfather was defeated at his hands, I don't think I was so wronged, after all, my grandfather was a martial arts madman with developed limbs and a simple mind, if it wasn't for his master back then, where could he get the treatment of a full teacher.

The fat man came out and saw me sitting alone at the door in a daze, so he took a cigarette from my hand and lit it, and spit out a puff completely: "Old Zou, do you say that there is really such a thing as immortality in this world?" ”

I was puzzled and asked, "Why do you say that?" ”

The fat man said: "Your grandfather's senior brother who studied art back then didn't look like an eighty or ninety-year-old man, although he didn't see his face, just with his skills, I dare to say that we both beat him enough." ”

I nodded: "That's right, this is the first time we've fought each other, and there will be opportunities in the future, hasn't he always wanted half of the scrap in my hand." I'll just wait for him to get it, and one day I'll know how he did it. What kind of unsavory secrets do he have? ”

My grandfather said to me before he died, although he was already in the age of the cane, three or five young adults would never be able to get close, and one palm could break my grandfather's ribs several times, which was enough to see that his strength was not comparable to ordinary people, and my grandfather had a pair of ears that listened to the wind, and he was only able to dodge his fatal blow, which shows his speed. As the saying goes, boxers are afraid of being young, and this sentence doesn't seem to work so well in him.

The two of them sat at the gate and smoked a few cigarettes, looking at the silent night sky, a wave of tiredness gradually swept over the whole body, and I don't know when, we both fell asleep.

Early the next morning, everyone woke up, and the fat man reluctantly carried the unconscious white-haired old man on his back and set foot on the road to the county seat.

In the county hospital, there is a sign at the gate, with a photo on it, and a row of text written next to it, which roughly means that there is a child here, but the parents do not know where to go, and I hope that those who know can inform the hospital.

This child was sent to the hospital by the Poison-Eyed Dragon, Sun Mingyi's granddaughter Lu'er, the Poison-Eyed Dragon and the fat man went to inquire about Lu'er's whereabouts, and I took the white-haired old man and the woman surnamed Lan to show the white-haired old man his injuries.

About noon, the poison-eyed dragon hurried out of the hospital with Lu'er, I waited for him at the gate with the fat man, looking at him as a thief, I suddenly felt funny, and the fat man also sarcastically mocked him.

The poison-eyed dragon said helplessly: "No way, the normal procedures are too complicated, and it is estimated that it will be three days before they do it, so it is better to bring it back how I sent it." ”

Looking at the child in his arms, the three of them couldn't help but sigh, the three old men with a two-year-old child, I am afraid that trouble will be indispensable in the future.

I took a look at the white-haired old man, who had several tubes inserted in his body, his feet were also wrapped with gauze, and there was a slight trace of blood on his face, he must have been much better before, but he was still in a coma.

After saying goodbye to the woman surnamed Lan, we left our addresses in Beijing and Jiangmen, and left the hospital.

Sitting on the bus from Baishan County back to Chengdu, I walked bumpily along the way for almost a whole day. We found a hotel in Chengdu, and everyone went separately to buy some clothes, milk powder and other things for Lu'er.

dragged his tired body to take a hot bath in the hotel, ate a meal, soaked the tiger charm in water, and poured the water into a bottle and fed it to Lu'er to drink. We were relieved to rest.

Finally, there was a chance to sleep peacefully, and no one had the energy to open their eyes again. Even Lu'er slept with us all day, without crying or making a sound.

A group of us with a small child was a little inconvenient, and the next morning we took the train from Chengdu to Wuhan.

When I arrived in Wuhan, I first wanted to confirm whether Zou Yanchang had really been poisoned by that disease; If Zou Yanchang has an accident, then his son who is studying in the United States will not be too safe, and I must find him as soon as possible; If he has any accidents, I owe Zou Yanchang the love, and I don't expect to be able to pay it back in this life.

finally returned to Wuhan, and the fat man returned to his home with the poison-eyed dragon, and Lu'er was also with them. I went to Zou Yanchang's residence alone.

Hurried to Zou Yanchang's residence, the wooden door at the door had been broken, the tables and chairs in the door were very badly damaged, and there were traces of fighting everywhere. When a neighbor saw me coming, he told me that Zou Yanchang had been attacked by burglars and was admitted to the First People's Hospital of Wuhan.

It happened just yesterday, from the time the house was ransacked by thieves to the time the police cordoned off the scene and lifted the blockade, more than 20 hours had passed, which means that we were 20 hours later than the disease.

I hurriedly thanked my neighbor and went downstairs, and found Zou Yanchang's ward at the First People's Hospital.

Zou Yanchang was fine, but his arm was stabbed, his ribs were fractured, and he was lying on the hospital bed to integrate his daughter-in-law's boastful bragging.

Zou Yanchang seemed a little surprised to see me coming, and his daughter-in-law knew that we had something to talk about, so she went out under the pretext.

I asked him who had attacked him. Zou Yanchang shook his head: "I don't know, I haven't seen it before, if you want to know, you can go to the police station and ask, those people have been arrested." (To be continued.) )