Chapter 13: The Monk
When he said this, I panicked even more. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Master Info took out an incense ball from his bag and wanted to put it in the lamp slave, but the guard said, "It's not time yet, go back first." ”
A few people whispered in the direction of the campfire. I wondered before, I didn't see the shadow of the corpse bats all the way here, it turned out that the backrooms were their lair. They've been hiding here before we even entered the Backrooms, and the campfire's limited lighting range, combined with their ability to hide, makes it difficult to spot them. But how did they get in? The waterways are impossible, could it be that there is a secret passage to and from the dungeon at the top of the Backrooms?
Just as I was thinking about it, Cassia suddenly shouted in a low voice: "Look, what are those mountain hairs doing?" ”
I hurried back to my senses, only to see a large number of corpse-raising bats flying down from the top of the tomb, hovering around the coffin bed and finally landing on the jade coffin below. In the blink of an eye, the entire jade coffin was covered by a dense swarm of bats, and I don't know what the intention was.
A few people didn't dare to speak up, and they didn't know what those corpse bats were doing? But this strange phenomenon did not last long, and something even more unbelievable happened.
Just when the corpse bat appeared less than half a pillar of incense, the dragon tree behind the jade coffin turned into jade. I could clearly hear a series of short chirps coming from the trunk of the tree, and the chirps were very loud, especially in the extreme silence of the moment, and the most incredible thing for me was the reaction of the corpse bats. As soon as the movement inside the tree jade appeared, the corpse-raising bats that landed on the jade coffin began to flee to the top of the tomb as if they had seen a ghost. In less than a stick of incense, all the corpse-raising bats were once again hidden in the darkness.
This series of events happened so suddenly that it was only after the corpse bat disappeared that I came back to my senses.
And just after those corpse bats disappeared, a thing that shone red slowly crawled out of the tree jade. I couldn't make out what it was, because the light was so dim that I could only vaguely tell that it was small. And after it crawled out of the tree-turned jade, it swayed and flew to the vicinity of the ginseng jade coffin, until it was completely covered by the jade coffin, and we could no longer see it at this angle.
Several people were stunned, and I noticed that after the group of corpse bats flew away, the jade coffin on the coffin bed seemed to have undergone some changes. The jade coffin, which had already turned white, now looked like a dull red.
Cassia asked uneasily, "What's that?" How do I feel like I'm going to suffer? ”
At this time, the guard suddenly said in a deep voice: "Shhh, don't make a sound, you listen." ”
A few people held their breath, and the surroundings suddenly fell into absolute silence. I consciously kept the sound of my breathing to a minimum, pricking up my ears to listen carefully to the movements around me. At first, nothing was heard, except for the occasional "crackling" of the bonfire due to the dampness. But as I listened, I could vaguely feel that there was movement around me. But Cassia's panting was so heavy that I couldn't calm down and listen carefully.
I muttered to him and told him to be quiet.
Who knew that Cassia looked at me innocently, and spread his hands to show that it was not him who gasped. I said you don't quibble, be quiet and don't suffocate.
Cassia had no choice but to cover his mouth and nose with his hands to show his innocence. As a result, instead of disappearing, the panting sound became even more violent.
I was stunned at the time, and my heart said who else would it be if it wasn't you? Cassia pointed in the direction of the coffin bed with his eyes, and said with his lips, "It's not me, it's from the coffin." ”
I stiffened and turned my head, and sure enough, an incomparably heavy gasp came from the jade coffin. I was so scared that I almost screamed, could it be that I really got it? Lying in the jade coffin, it turned out to be a living person?
In an instant, the atmosphere was so weird that I was so scared that I didn't even dare to breathe, for fear that in the blink of an eye, a monster would jump out of the jade coffin and eat us all.
"You've got an idea."
Before he finished speaking, the percussion near the jade coffin stopped abruptly, and the entire burial chamber fell into a dead silence again.
"Why did it stop?" I asked in fear, but no one answered me. At this point, my nerves were almost tense to the extreme, and the quieter I was, the more I felt that something was wrong.
Sure enough, at this moment, my eyes jumped, and I saw a vague figure crawling up from the coffin bed in the distance! I almost cried, and my heart said that a few of us were killed by Tai Sui? How can you do such an evil thing?
"From... The corpse is up! Cassia began to stutter as he spoke.
The guards immediately covered Cassia and made a silent gesture to us. After the figure on the coffin bed appeared, the upper body crawled out. I was so frightened that I closed my eyes, but Cassia suddenly pulled me, and I saw him say with his lips, "Something is wrong, it seems to be a person." ”
He spoke very slowly, and I said in my heart that you are blind or am I blind? The ghost's posture didn't look human.
But having said that, looking at it, I started to feel a little wrong. Although I was scared to the extreme, I was quite sane, and the movements of the black shadow on the coffin bed were very smooth, and it did look very much like a person. At this time, the lamp slave near the coffin bed has burned out, and we can only see a vague black shadow moving.
However, the next moment, to the surprise of all of us, the black shadow on the coffin bed actually took out a fire fold and lit it, and said to himself, "Amitabha, he always escaped." ”
The situation suddenly came to a big reversal. I was immediately stunned, and I glanced at Cassia, feeling like I was being teased.
"Where did the wild monk come from? Hurry up and get out of here. When Cassia heard that the black shadow on the coffin bed was indeed a person, he immediately became angry.
And the guy on the coffin bed obviously didn't know that there was someone behind him, and he was startled. When he turned around and saw us, he immediately shouted, "Are you humans or ghosts?" ”
Cassia was about to scold him, and suddenly a red light flashed out from behind the jade coffin. I said something bad in my heart, and hurriedly shouted to the man, "Watch your back!" ”
Unexpectedly, this guy is also a coward, turning his head to look, he was stunned for a moment, and then he howled, and even retracted back with a rolling belt, and the thing that flashed red disappeared in front of our eyes with him.
The guard was uncharacteristically at this time, and when he saw that the man had shrunk back, he immediately shouted, "Don't let him go!" Catch up with him! Before the words fell, he had already rushed in the direction of the jade coffin, and a few of us didn't dare to linger, so we immediately followed.
Running near the coffin bed, I found out. The jade coffin was moved back half a distance without knowing what, and at this time, a pitch-black hole appeared on the coffin bed.
The guards moved very fast, rushed over without even bringing torches, jumped in and jumped in, and the master couldn't stop him. We had no choice but to try our best to keep up, but our pace was much slower than his, and Master hurriedly followed, and Cassia and I also went into the hole of the coffin bed one after the other.
Cassia walked ahead with a torch, it happened so suddenly, I didn't have time to think about why such a hole was hidden under this jade coffin? Where does this passage lead? I walked to the end, and found that below the entrance of the cave was a black stone staircase with no end in sight, and the steps went all the way down into the endless darkness.
At this time, he could no longer see the shadow of the guards, and Cassia shouted a few times, but did not hear an echo.
"What should I do?" Cassia turned his head to ask for Master's and my opinion.
The master looked back and forth at the situation around him, and after a brief hesitation, he said, "Keep walking, and if you lose it, you will be in trouble." ”
The trio continued down the stairs. The staircase was clearly well manicured, and I could even see that the lanterns of the past were still hanging on the rock walls on either side, but they had long since been extinguished, and the grease in the lamps had solidified into lumps, mixed with the debris of the rock walls.
Since the guards in front had already walked this road, we were not worried about the hidden mechanism in this place, so the three of us hurried to the road. This staircase is extremely long, and we walked about half a column of incense before we saw the exit. Cassia in front of us immediately gestured to us to stop.
"What kind of place is this? Are we still in the dungeon? ”
Cassia shook his head and said, "I'm afraid we've already walked out, and now the dungeon should be directly above us." ”
I looked ahead and realized why Cassia had stopped. At the end of the stairs was an underground river about two zhang wide, a typical Han-Chinese stone bridge spanning the underground river, facing the exit of the stairs, and on the rock wall at the other end of the stone bridge, there were at least dozens of half-man-high openings.
Looking at those holes, my head was big. With so many entrances, which one is the one the guards they entered? I walked up to the stone bridge and suddenly I saw something hanging on the carved stone railing on my right.
It was a cowhide bag, the style looked a bit like a marching bag, very worn, and it was a certain age to tell by the degree of wear and tear on the surface. There were a lot of things in the baggage, in addition to dry food, water bags, and small cans of fire oil, as well as a lot of iron objects that I couldn't call and a few packets of yellow powder commonly used by tomb robbers. The iron tools were very small, and they should have been used to open the coffin.
I looked at the leather bag and wondered, could it be the man the guards chasing? But why did he hang this burden on the bridge? Didn't he enter those holes, but jumped into the underground river?
Cassia and Master were still deciding which cave to enter, and I took a torch and took a photo underwater. This time, sure enough, I saw that on the riverbank less than ten steps away from the stone bridge, there was a person lying down, I don't know whether he was dead or alive.
It wasn't that far, and I immediately beckoned Cassia and the two of them jumped into the river and slowly approached the man. The underground river here is not deep, and the water in the middle of the river only reaches my waist, and the closer I get to the bank, the shallower the waterline. It's just that, for some reason, the water here is unusually cold, and I can't help but shiver when I stand in the water. The riverbed is also potholed, but fortunately the water here flows slowly, otherwise you might have broken your head and blood if you were not careful.
When the two approached, I found a middle-aged man with dark skin lying on the riverbank. The man was of medium height, lying on his back on the riverbank, with a stubbled beard on his face, and he looked not dressed like a tomb robber but like a miner, and he didn't know why he was lying in this hellish place.
And this doesn't seem to be the person we saw on the coffin bed before, Cassia jumped over, touched his snort, and nodded to me: "The person is not dead, there is still gas." ”
Since the man is still alive, we cannot leave him alone, and besides, I saw that he had a wound on his head, which seemed to have been broken. Cassia and I carried him up the stone bridge one after the other.
In fact, this person's injuries were not serious, they were all skin injuries. Master resuscitated him, I massaged him back to his blood, and then fed him a little water, and he woke up not long after.
However, this person seems to have been stimulated before he fell unconscious, or because he had been hit on the head, so after waking up, the whole person appeared a little crazy. When he awoke, he shrunk on the edge of the bridge, staring at us with a pair of eyes, and his mouth was still muttering something. And he looks a little hunchbacked, coupled with excessive tension, now the whole person can't even straighten his waist.
I asked Master for his name several times, but he kept babbling and didn't know what he was saying. In the end, Cassia gave him a slap in the face, and he seemed to be a little sober.
I handed over the water bag, and he stared at me with a wary face, carefully took it, and took a few sips. After me and Cassia kept asking, he finally replied intermittently: "Fourth... They all call me the fourth camel. ”