Chapter 5 The Tomb Gate

When I woke up again, the sensations in all parts of my body began to revitalize. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 After looking back and forth, I found myself lying in a dimly lit cave with Master sitting next to me. At first, I thought it was my hallucination. But as soon as Master saw that I was awake, the wrinkles on my face immediately relaxed.

Master asked me how I felt. Is there anything you feel uncomfortable with? I looked at Master a little sluggishly, and I couldn't figure it out, and my heart said Isn't this an illusion? Just as I wanted to move, Master hurriedly pressed me down and said, "Lie down and don't move, your neck hasn't been cleaned yet." ā€

Seeing the silver needle in Master's hand reaching out to my neck, I shivered all over my body and asked Master what he was going to do.

Master didn't answer, and I couldn't see what Master was trying to do. Is there something in my neck? Thinking about it, I turned my head sideways and looked down, but I didn't see anything, and just as I wanted to touch it with my hand, Master immediately stopped me and told me not to move. I had no choice but to tighten my neck. Soon, I felt a tingling pain coming from the base of my neck, followed by a burning sensation. Before I could make a move, I heard Master shout, "Come out, don't move, don't move." ā€

I was immediately too frightened to move. Master pressed my neck, and I felt something start wriggling around my neck, like a worm. Master was quick to catch the thing, and then threw it into the fire.

When all this was over, Master breathed a sigh of relief.

I was a little frightened, and I reached out and touched my neck, only to find that my neck was covered in blood. Then I suddenly remembered the man in the tent before, and now that I think about it, the two of us were almost the same. It's just that I don't have a fever, probably because the wound is not infected because of the timely treatment.

"What's that?"

Master cleaned my wound with hot water, and while helping me stop the bleeding, he said, "You have been bitten by a corpse bat before, and something has been planted in your body. If it is not dealt with in time, once it is overnight, it will be no different from a dead person at dawn. ā€

"Corpse bats?" I muttered, a little incomprehensible. But how do I not know when I was bitten by this thing?

Seeing my expression, Master said, "Don't believe it, this is just taken from your neck." I looked in the direction Master was pointing and was stunned for a moment, only then did I see two furry things on the ground, each the size of a fist. On closer inspection, it is indeed a hairy bat.

"Master, are you saying that this thing has always been on me?"

Master nodded and said, "Otherwise, what do you think?" If it's a few hours late, I'm afraid that the Daluo Immortal won't be able to save you by then. ā€

I looked at the two fist-sized hairy bats on the ground, and I broke out in a cold sweat. What the hell, when did this thing find me? How come I don't feel a little bit? When I came back to my senses, what I didn't expect was that Cassia was lying here, and it looked like he was still in a coma.

Master sighed and said that the two of us were really fatal. If it hadn't been discovered in time, the two would have died a long time ago. We shouldn't have been allowed to come with us in the first place, this place was simply not something we could handle.

I laughed dryly a few times, not daring to answer Master's words again. Thinking of what happened before, although my mind was full of doubts, looking at Master's face now, it seemed that now was not the time to ask. Cassia's condition is not very serious, and according to Master, it will be time to wake up in another hour. I looked back and forth and saw that it was a hand-dug mine, small in scale, with corners full of rubble and all kinds of discarded stone drilling tools. The dampness in the cave was heavy, the water on the campfire was boiling, the hot water was boiling, billowing white, and a strong smell of herbs was constantly emanating from the water, and Cassia and I were lying on the straw mats not far from the campfire.

I poured some water and was about to ask Master what was going on? At this moment, a man walked in through the entrance with his head bowed. It seemed to be raining outside, and the man's hair and upper body were almost wet, and he was holding a pile of wood in his arms. I wondered, who is this man? As soon as I saw his face, I was immediately stunned.

Isn't this the mute guard who took us up the mountain? How did he end up here?

I looked at him and didn't know what to say. When the man came in, he swept his eyes over me, ignored me, and walked straight to the campfire with the wood in his arms. Then take off your shirt and smoke it next to the campfire.

The atmosphere became a little awkward for a while, but the master broke the silence, handed over a glass of water, and asked, how is the situation outside?

The man took the water, shook his head, and then leaned against the rock wall and said lightly: "The rain doesn't stop, and it is very likely that they will return to the nest early." Time is running out and you have to act early. ā€

When I heard this person speak, my first reaction was that this person was not mute, and I seemed to have heard this voice somewhere. After thinking about it carefully, it dawned on me, isn't this the black shadow that saved me before? It turned out to be him!

I looked at this person and was a little confused for a moment, what the hell is going on?

When the master heard this, he didn't say anything, but only said a word, and when he woke up, he took action. The guard didn't say much, nodded, leaned against the rock wall and began to close his eyes. At this time, I couldn't sit still. When I heard him mention returning to the nest just now, I should be referring to the kind of corpse bat, but what exactly is this kind of "corpse bat" they are talking about? I don't understand at all.

The master said that the hairy bat is not an ordinary mountain hairy bat, but an extremely rare yin bat, which is recorded in the "Xishu Burial Technique", this kind of yin bat is also called "corpse bat". Necrogenous bats are a branch of vampire bats that feed on blood for a living. Its role is very special, and "raising corpses" is one of them. Unlike other vampire bats, corpse bats are mostly artificially raised due to their corpse-raising function. However, due to the fact that the technology of raising corpse bats is too old, most of them have been lost, and there is a risk that the yin bat will backfire on its owner, so there are very few records about this kind of yin bat, and it can only be encountered in some special tombs.

I heard a little bit of a doorway, this kind of corpse bat is actually associated with some special large tombs, it can be said that where this kind of corpse bat appears, then there must be a large tomb hidden here. As for the peculiarities of these tombs, Master said that he didn't know the specifics, but he heard that all the tombs where this kind of corpse-raising bats appeared were very evil.

As he spoke, Master took out a piece from his bosom and handed it to me. I took it and found that it was a plain brocade that was a little yellowish, and on the brocade cloth, it was densely painted with a lot of things. Master asked me if I could see what was painted on it. After I looked at it carefully, I gradually recognized it, and a thought immediately flashed in my mind, this turned out to be a plan for the underground palace!

In fact, I almost didn't recognize it at first, because it was marked with a lot of clueless code words, as well as all kinds of abnormal patterns, and the plan itself was very shabby, most of which were blurred, and I really couldn't imagine that there was an ancient tomb painted on it for a while. And the strangest thing is that in the lower right corner of the brocade cloth, at the edge of the planning map, there is a square Xuanhong seal.

The seal is inconspicuous, and the vermilion clay has fallen off, but the general outline can still be distinguished. I wanted to see some articles from the seal, but I immediately understood that it was completely futile, the main part of the seal fell off more severely, and I could only tell that it was a four-character square seal, and it was completely impossible to identify the contents of it.

Where did this plan come from? Master glanced at the guards who were closing their eyes and recuperating, and the meaning was self-evident. And if this is really the planning map of the Dushan Underground Palace, then this time, we are almost sure to win. However, how did he get his hands on this dungeon plan? How could it be in Master's hands?

Calculate the time, it must be the second half of the night. Master couldn't stand it a little, so I let Master rest, and I kept the cassia meeting.

Cassia's physique was much stronger than mine, and he woke up in a daze after about half an hour. I heard the commotion and hurried over to see how he was doing, and the guard seemed to be sleeping very lightly, and he woke up at the slightest movement.

When Cassia woke up, his body was fine, but he was still a little confused. I asked him how he felt, and he replied in a daze. The master also woke up at this time, and when he saw that Cassia was almost recovered, he beckoned us to pack up our things and prepare to leave. After a short rest, we had one last drink of tea, cheered up, and the guard took the lead and moved deeper through the other exit of the mine.

In fact, I have always had a question, although I don't know how to do it, I can't see feng shui, but even a layman can see that there is basically no feng shui in this place of Dushan, how can there be a large tomb? Besides, there are many mines in Dushan, and digging tombs here is not a clear indication that they are going to be stolen and excavated, and even if the underground palace on the planning map really exists, it must have been stolen.

But for now, since no one else has mentioned this level, I can't say much. The group continued to move forward, and the structure inside the mine was extremely complex, because the jade veins in the rock strata of the mine were extremely irregular, and the branches were as intertwined and complex as the human veins. The space of this branch we walk is relatively narrow, and only one person can walk. The guards walked in the front with torches, and Master and I walked in the middle, behind the Cassia Hall. The smell of the mine was permeated all around, and the sound of dripping water could be heard from time to time in the darkness in the distance, adding a bit of weirdness to the dull atmosphere. The sound of chaotic footsteps and the heavy breathing of a few of us was particularly harsh and nerve-wracking in the silence of the mine.

"Why hasn't it arrived yet?"

I was a little out of breath with nervousness, so I asked softly. But no one answered me, and the echo of footsteps around me silenced my voice. Cassia's breathing behind him grew more and more rapid, and it was clear that he wasn't much easier than me. And the guards who walked in the front seemed to be familiar with the road, and walked all the way quickly.

After walking about two pillars of incense, I suddenly found that the stone road around me seemed to have gradually undergone some changes, the stone surface under my feet was much smoother than when we came in before, and the surrounding rock walls began to show traces of human repair, and the rock surface was even polished, very smooth, but it was much shorter than before, and we had to bend our bodies to enter. At the top of the stone road, there is a layer of something similar to white plaster, and various murals are densely squeezed on it, which not only does not have a trace of beauty, but makes people feel extremely strange.

"Looks like we're almost there."

Cassia coughed a few times as he spoke. I held the torch and watched it back and forth. After walking a little further, we found that we had reached the end of the stone path, and at the end of the stone path was a two-person high tomb door. The tomb door is made of white marble, the crested door scroll of colorful tassels and the lintel inlaid with jade gems dazzle me, and the two stone doors are also inlaid with large and small white jade, the jade color looks very warm in the firelight, obviously the best Nanshan white jade. Looking down further, the central position of the two doors is carved with a picture of a man and a woman intercourse, with a human head and a snake body, which should be the common Nuwa and Fuxi in the town tomb.

The two doors alone show the wealth of the tomb owner. But as the saying goes, wealth is not exposed, and the owner of this tomb is so extravagant that he is not afraid of causing trouble? A fate that will not be peaceful even after death? Just as I was thinking wildly, suddenly a gust of wind rushed straight to my door, and I shivered, wondering where the wind came from? But the next moment, when I saw the situation in front of me, I suddenly chuckled in my heart.

The door of this tomb is actually open!