Chapter 17: It's All Conspiracy
The Japanese bodyguard died suddenly and inexplicably, not even a trace of stump remained, which was so weird that it made people's hearts chill. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
There must be something going on that we don't know about, and maybe it has something to do with the trap we encountered. But it should never be done by zombies, because zombies will not have such spirituality and selectively pick on lone people.
The poison-eyed dragon was still not at ease: "Could it be that this Japanese kid was unlucky to bump into it?" ”
I said, "Brother Si, don't guess here, instead of guessing like this, don't ask the woman surnamed Lan, maybe she can give us the answer we want." ”
The two of them returned along the same route, and the poison-eyed dragon trembled along the way, for fear of encountering zombies, but fortunately he did not have the crow's mouth of the fat man, so he returned to his place without danger.
When the woman surnamed Lan saw the two of us coming out, I was still holding a piece of rope stained red with blood in my hand, and she looked at me with a surprised face, and then looked back.
I looked behind me and said to her, "Don't look, there's no one left." ”
The woman surnamed Lan looked at me with a frightened face: "You... You killed him? ”
Seeing that this woman was like a frightened bird, a little helpless, and at this time no one else had come out, I felt a little funny, and I had a trace of bad thoughts, and deliberately smiled at her: "Miss Lan, you seem to have a big opinion of me, I think the two of us need to have a good exchange." ”
I haven't formally taught this woman yet, but I guess it's not much better, and it's definitely far worse than emma. Her face was red and white for a while when I said this sentence that was neither yin nor yang, and she really didn't treat me as a good person, and said tremblingly: "What do you want?" Mr. Yamashita is coming out soon. ”
The poison-eyed dragon pulled my sleeve on the side and whispered to me, "Master Zou, someone is coming out." ”
I felt a little pity, and was about to say something to amuse her, but before I thought that someone would come back, the woman seemed to hear the movement, and breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
None of us spoke again, and the atmosphere was a little awkward, waiting for the people inside to come out. came out of several doors one after another, and the fat man, the village man under the mountain, and the white-haired old man also came out, more or less with a little injury on his body, but fortunately there was no major problem.
Seeing that it was only me and the Poison-Eyed Dragon who came out, the villagers didn't say much. When he came out of the archway, he saw that the two birds were still alive, so he took off his gas mask. We ate a little something, drank some water, waited for half an hour, and there was no movement in the remaining two doors.
The villager frowned deeply and asked the white-haired old man to take the rope back. The other end of the rope seemed to be tied to the dead object, and the white-haired old man wasted a lot of energy, but he couldn't pull a single bit, and several other subordinates of the villager under the mountain also went up to help.
Fortunately, the strength of the rope was high enough, and three or four people worked together, and the rope suddenly loosened, but the length of one meter returned to its original heaviness, but fortunately, there were many people who were able to pull the rope back little by little.
The fat man sat next to me and said, "Old Zou, do you think they will pull out any treasures?" It's so heavy, it's worth a lot of money. ”
Listening to his words, it seemed that he felt that the things he pulled out still had to be shared with them, and it was a pity, so I smiled and said, "If you go and help, maybe the Japanese village man will give you more." ”
The fat man shook his head again and again: "That's not good, let's still wait for work, if we really want to come up with something good, we'll catch him off guard." ”
As soon as the poison-eyed dragon heard that the fat man was going to make a move, he stopped it repeatedly: "Don't, don't, fat man, you can't do this..."
The fat man interrupted the Poison-Eyed Dragon's words with a righteous look: "Brother Si, don't worry, you will hide behind me when you do it later, if they want to hurt you, they will step on my corpse first." ”
I don't know if the fat man did it intentionally or unintentionally, seeing that they pulled out more and more ropes, the poison-eyed dragon became even more anxious: "Fat man, fat man, you really can't do it with them, if you really want to do it, you have to wait for them to transport things out, if it's really a big guy, the three of us won't be so easy." ”
The poisonous eye dragon's mouth kung fu can not be compared to the fat man, the fat man was a little speechless for a while, but he still found a step for himself with a hard mouth: "I also said casually, I didn't plan to do it, but you reminded me, we have to prevent them from hitting our black guns." ”
I was a little embarrassed, and said to the fat man: "Don't talk nonsense, it's not time yet, this Japanese villager won't shoot us with black guns, after all, we still want us to show him the way, our Chinese things, how can these Oriental devils understand, Brother Si, do you say yes." ”
While we were talking and smoking, the white-haired old man and the others had already pulled out a rope, and the other end of the rope was supposed to be tied to the waist of the white-haired old man's hands, but now a stone figure fell to the ground.
The stone statue that fell to the ground was almost exactly the same as what I had seen in the passage before, and when he turned over, he also opened his eyes and grinned, and everyone was puzzled, before entering the cave, these two ropes were clearly tied to people, how could they be inexplicably tied to the stone statue.
Not only me and the poison-eyed dragon, but the rest of the people were also surprised, and the fat man whispered to me that he and the villager had found the same stone figure in the cave.
And by their appearance, it seems that there is such a stone figure in the passage in each arch.
The villager immediately asked the white-haired old man to pull another rope, and after the same period of relaxation of more than one meter, the rope became tight again, and it was estimated that it had reached the stone statue.
Without any suspense, he pulled out another stone statue of the same size and exactly the same. At this time, not only me, but everyone else had lost their minds.
Yamashita came over and gathered everyone together, and everyone told them what they had encountered in the passage.
First of all, the village man under the mountain, because of the fat man with him, even if he wanted to hide something, he couldn't do it, and the fat man added from time to time.
The white-haired old man and others also explained what they encountered in turn, and the villagers kept telling them not to give any useful clues.
Maybe what he thinks is useful is useless to me, and what he thinks is useless is what I want to know.
In short, including me, I said it one by one. I pondered for a moment, then looked up and asked the woman surnamed Lan if she had noticed anything special outside.
She shook her head and said that everything was fine, that there had been no noise outside since we had entered the cave, and that she had not even noticed that the rope was tied to the stone statue.
Perhaps because he had no watch, lacked the concept of time, or was desperate to get what he wanted, the villager Yamashita looked more anxious, and he did not have the slightest composure before: "Mr. Zou, I hope you can think of a way as soon as possible to take us to the main tomb." I will definitely double the reward. ”
I don't know where he got so much confidence in me, I nodded and was about to speak, when the fat man interjected: "Mr. Villager, we have an ancient Chinese saying that takes people's money and eliminates disasters with people, although we haven't gotten the money yet, but don't worry, with us, we will definitely help you find what you want." ”
The fat man was full of packing tickets for the train, which caused the villagers to nod their heads incessantly, looking very funny, and I waved my hand to ask the villagers if the ropes were the same length for everyone.
Yamashita Villager glanced at the bodyguard beside him, the two glanced at each other, and Yamashita Villager nodded affirmatively: "Yes, Mr. Zou, all the ropes are personally selected by my bodyguard, and they are the same regardless of length or tensile strength." ”
I said to the crowd, "Except for Miss Lan, there is one of them, all of whom have entered the cave, and I want you to remember where you came across the same stone statue as this one." ”
Several people looked at the villager under the mountain, and when they saw him nodding, they lowered their heads and began to meditate.
The first to speak was the fat man, but it was not how smart he was, but a conditioned reflex, who had been a scout in the army for many years, and the number of steps in the distance would be more sensitive.
The fat man said that after the rope came to an end, neither of the two people wanted to turn back, let alone stay where they were and wait for another person, so the villager stuck a knife in the ground and tied the rope to the knife, and the two of them walked more than 100 steps away, and then they saw the stone statue, behind the stone statue is a variety of traps because of the aging of the mechanism. I can't remember how many traps I walked through, and at the end were the same five arches.
The rest of the people were almost the same, and when the rope came to an end, they had walked a distance of fifty to a hundred paces forward, and only then did they see the stone figure.
No one's rope is more than the stone statue, and it is even more impossible to tie it to the stone statue. The fat man slapped his thigh and startled us all: "Oh, I see, there are ten of us in total, and we have all encountered traps more or less, and there is no big problem, and the location of these stone figures shows how safe the cave is." ”
The fat man's words immediately resonated with everyone, but this does not explain why the Japanese bodyguard who entered the cave with us died, if according to the logic of the deeper the stone statue, the safer it is, then our arch passage should be the safest.
There is no way to explain why the rope that is tied to the waist is tied to the stone statue. The fat man slapped me with a look of hatred that iron is not made of steel: "Are you stupid, our rope is too short, we haven't touched the stone statue, if I do, I will also tie the rope to the stone statue, so as not to look for it on the ground." ”
I looked up at everyone and saw that almost everyone was looking at me with the same expression, as if they knew how to do it, only I was the stupidest, and I smiled a little embarrassed, but I guess it wasn't much better than crying.
The fat man looked at me triumphantly, as if this was the only way to relieve my long-standing depression of laughing at him.
The arch is exactly the same, and when you enter it, it is the same passage, and in the passage are placed the same stone statues from far and near, and behind the figures are exactly the same aging traps.
Everything was almost identical, and everyone fell silent again. As the old saying goes, guns are easy to dodge and arrows are difficult to defend against, and this kind of hiding in the shadows and killing people in the invisible is even more terrifying. At this moment, my desire to kill this Japanese villager with the help of the ancient tomb is gone, and the only thought is how to get out of here.
Suddenly, the blood on the rope caught my mind, and I went to look at the other two ropes that were tied to the stone figures, and there was not the slightest trace of blood except for dragging the dirt that had been stained on them.
It can also be seen that these two people suffered misfortune after they were tied to the rope. If they fall into the same aging trap as us, they can only say that they are really lucky.
I stood up and walked to the arch where I had entered with the poison-eyed dragon, looked at the black hole inside, thought through some questions, and then looked up and said to the villager under the mountain: "Mr. villager, in my opinion, only the road that Brother Si and I took is the safest. ”
Not only Yamashita Villager, but everyone was puzzled, so I patiently explained it.
Only two of the six doors did not come out, and the chances of survival were slim, and only me and the Poison-Eyed Dragon had been touched in the remaining four doors, and the bodyguard of the Yamashita villager had also died inside.
According to common sense, all traps in this should be disposable, and even a crossbow cannot automatically reload arrows.
If we go through it again, the likelihood of landing again is also very slim. For the remaining three routes, the probability of departure is much higher than ours.
It seems to make sense, but for me and for Yamashita Muramo, it's all gambling, and now it's just up to him to see if the bet is worth it.
Everyone looked at Yamashita Villager, who seemed to enjoy the gaze for a while, but frowned deeply and closed his eyes to think.
The fat man was an anxious man, and he could stand his behavior like this, and shouted repeatedly: "Oops... The owner of the village. You have something to say, if you are afraid, go back as soon as possible, don't look for any treasures, go back to each house to find your own mother, we are separated by a Pacific Ocean, you don't have to worry about us saying that someone will laugh at you, several of them are your people, let alone say it, go back and make up a reason, um... Let's just say that you blew up the mountain only to find that something had already been climbed by someone a long time ago. ”
When the Yamashita villager heard this, he was furious, and said: "Yaga, the samurai of Great Japan will not retreat. Mr. Zou, please lead the way, I must find what I want. ”
I think it's funny, and although I don't have a liking for Japanese people, I don't have a dislike for it. In the early years of my life, I met a student who came back from studying in Japan in Guangzhou, from whom I learned some about Japanese culture, and it can almost be said that the Japanese have inherited most of the advantages of Chinese civilization, but the biggest failure is that they really don't know what it means to stay in the green mountains without fear of no firewood.
This is also the reason why people like Yamashita Murafu will fall for the fat man's clumsy agitation method.
The proprietor spoke, and several of his men did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly got up and packed up their equipment and prepared to enter the cave again.
Although I was extremely reluctant, I still walked in front, and the villager of Yamashita followed closely behind the poison-eyed dragon, his only bodyguard now escorted him at all times, and the white-haired old man led a man to break the back.
The group walked for about twenty minutes, and finally saw the stone statue that stood in the middle of the passage, and to my surprise, the hideous expression of the stone statue before I left now returned to smiling, but this smile seemed to me to reveal a chill.
Bypassing the stone statue, an old and aging trap path, I passed very smoothly and walked to a small room with five doors.
Everyone breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally came over without danger, and now it is how to choose these five doors.
Suddenly, the only woman in the line panicked, and I asked her what was wrong.
The white-haired old man after the break said: "The person who followed me after the break is gone." ”
The woman surnamed Lan pointed to the back of the white-haired old man, speechless for a long time, and we were all shocked when we walked behind him.
The white-haired old man's back was covered with blood at some point, and he himself didn't seem to realize that he was pointed at by the woman surnamed Lan, and he himself glanced back, reached out and touched it behind him, and he was also startled.
After everyone saw it, they were all shocked, the white-haired old man's skills and I and the fat man had been taught, and his subordinates and the villagers under the mountain were not to mention, such a skilled person, the people around him were quietly killed, and he was splashed with blood, and he would not be aware of it.
The white-haired old man himself was even more shocked into a cold sweat, and he was a little at a loss for a while for the inexplicable death of his companion.
Looking at his back stained red with blood, the poison-eyed dragon saw something, leaned into my ear and whispered: "Master Zou, do you think this guy's death is the same as the bodyguard before?" ”
I nodded without hesitation, and the fat man heard the words of the poison-eyed dragon and began to guess wildly: "Old Zou, do you think they will offend any immortals?" Just took them in, or I really can't explain it. ”
I said, "Don't talk nonsense, where are the ghosts and gods in this world, talking nonsense, don't worry that I will cure you for the crime of disturbing the morale of the army." ”
Having said that, the successive inexplicable deaths seem to be explained only by ghosts and gods, and my heart is inevitably a little drumming.
If you really run into ghosts and gods, not to mention a dozen of us, even if there is another company, it will not be enough for people to stuff their teeth.
The woman surnamed Lan was already frightened, and everyone fell silent at this time, and the atmosphere became a little weird.
Originally, things were weird, I was worried that if they let them think about it again, maybe there would be some heresy, Yamashita Muramo also realized this, the two of us looked at each other, Yamashita Murafu said: "There are no ghosts and gods in the world at all, we must have fallen into the trap of this ancient tomb builder, at this time we must calm down and think about countermeasures, Mr. Zou, what do you say?" ”
I thought he would say a bunch of useful words, but I didn't expect to go around for a long time and kick the question to me again, and for a while I didn't know how to answer: "Ah... Well... Yes, Mr. Villager is right, let's not believe in the ghosts and gods, this is all a lie to children. Now it's a civilized society, don't believe in those feudal superstitions, these two unfortunate comrades must be on the road of the ancient tomb, but we haven't noticed it, and we will definitely encounter the same things next, everyone should be more careful, and help each other out..."
I don't know how these people are obedient, they didn't listen to everything, just remember all the way "there will definitely be the same thing in the future", one by one before I finished speaking, they almost interrupted me in unison.
The fat man saw that they were all a little worried and scared, and he didn't know what An's heart was, so he fanned the flames, and said that it would definitely appear, but he didn't know who the next unlucky guy would be.
A sentence made me and the villager of the mountain take great pains to say that it instantly became nonsense, I glanced at the fat man, and was speechless, the villager of the mountain also glared at the fat man, without words, and the fat man had an attitude that had nothing to do with me, which made people cry and laugh.
I'm afraid that the fat man will do too much and attract the hatred of the villagers under the mountain, and when the time comes, I will have to guard against things in the dark, and some of them will prevent the villagers from doing the tricks, which is really a bit difficult to do.
waved his hand and interrupted the fat man's endless talk: "Little fatty, don't be alarmist here." Since we can come here, there are still five doors in front of us, and after these five doors, it will be easy to do later, and the probability of encountering this kind of thing is relatively low, if we go back now, there will definitely be people who will fall into the trap and die without a corpse. ”
Several of Yamashita Villager's subordinates, except for the Japanese bodyguards around him, did not seem to be as he imagined, and they were all of the same heart and mind as he imagined, but they were all looking forward to the white-haired old man.
The white-haired old man hesitated for a moment, waved his hand, and instantly quieted down: "Mr. Zou, I specially investigated your background before I came, and I know that you have entered some extremely dangerous tombs, so I found you..."
I was a little confused when I heard this, and I felt that these guys knew that I would come to Sichuan, and they knew that I would pass through Baishan County, and the bus driver went to Sunjia Village to drop us down.
After hearing this, I suddenly felt as if I had fallen into a conspiracy, and I didn't even notice it before he opened his mouth, if it weren't for the fact that the white-haired old man himself couldn't do anything about the situation in front of him, I'm afraid that even if we left here, I would still feel that I met them by chance.
The poison-eyed dragon and the fat man also looked at the white-haired old man incredulously, and I asked him suspiciously how he knew that we would pass through Baishan County, and how he was so sure that he had placed us in Sunjia Village.
The white-haired old man said, "Did you get the news in advance that Guan Ji is going to do a big job here again?" I nodded, and he added, "The news is true, and the general direction is true, but the location is different." Mr. Yamashita learned about you from a wealthy businessman in Hong Kong, and began to plot to use you to find what we needed for us. ”
I don't have to think about it to know who this Hong Kong businessman is, but I didn't expect this guy to cause me such a big disaster, and inexplicably led me into a conspiracy circle. (To be continued.) )