Chapter 17: The Mysterious Tattoo
I was expecting to see a pile of bones, or a decomposing corpse. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 But when I saw the situation in the sarcophagus, I found that the coffin was actually a tomb robber in a night coat, and it seemed that he had just died.
Cassia said that this person was supposed to be one of the gang, apparently having an accident during their ransacking of the burial chamber, and the body was also dumped here. Cassia grabbed the corpse's right hand and pulled down his sleeve, revealing his wrist.
By the light of the fire I could see that there was indeed something tattooed on this man's wrist. I made a closer look, and found that it was not a word, but an extremely distorted pattern, a little familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it. I can't describe what it looks like, I can only say that it looks like a kind of ciphertext, and it looks like an animal of imagery.
"Could it be that the guards were talking about this kind of tattooing?" My heart said.
Looking at the tattoo on this person's wrist, I was completely confused, and Master and Cassia didn't know what this pattern meant.
"Fourth, do you recognize this kind of tattoo? What is this stab? ”
Cassia thinks that since the fourth camel is a tomb robber like this man, he should know something.
The fourth camel stared at the tattoo for a long time, his face was cloudy, and finally he shook his head, saying that he didn't recognize it. But I saw that his expression was clearly recognized. It's just that he doesn't intend to tell us, and he seems to be secretive about this kind of tattooing.
Master didn't want to dwell on it any longer, so he beckoned us to continue on our way. And since there will be corpses here, it would be better for us to leave early to save ourselves any more trouble.
Walking out of the burial room, we continued to approach the underground Xuangong. Hump Lao Si walked in front without saying a word, and I followed his footsteps closely, but I kept thinking about what that pattern meant? Have I seen it somewhere? But the further you go, the narrower and narrower the stone road becomes, and the traces of artificial decoration gradually disappear, and the stone road gradually becomes the most primitive mine road.
Cassia couldn't help but complain, and I looked at my surroundings, but I always had a sense of déjà vu. After about a stick of incense, this difficult journey finally came to an end. We squeezed out of the stone path, and before we could catch our breath, we heard the four old men in front of us shouting, "It's broken! We're on the wrong track! ”
When I heard this, my heart was terrible, and I hurriedly asked him what was the matter?
Hump Laosi's face turned pale at this time, and the calmness in his eyes before was gone. He stared at the rock wall in front of him, but he couldn't find the mark he had made.
"No, no, no! Not this way! ”
Cassia asked, "Fourth, do you mean that the exit of this labyrinth is not this road?" Shall we go back? ”
The fourth child had a gloomy face, shook his head and said, "Several, we are being targeted, and we can't go back." ”
I heard it a little inexplicably, maybe it's their jargon. But looking at the face of the camel Laosi, I had a feeling that something was wrong.
"Can't go back? Why? Cassia was also confused for a while.
The camel didn't explain, and led us to continue walking forward with a cold face. Master also realized that the situation was not right and beckoned us to be careful. This time, the fourth child in front didn't go far before stopping. I quickly followed, and found that there was also a rest camp not far ahead!
But before I could take a second look, the camp gave me a sense of familiarity. I vaguely began to realize what was going on, but for a moment I didn't dare to admit it, thinking that maybe it was just a coincidence.
However, when I saw the traces of charcoal painting on the ground, I was shocked and my mind went blank. At the same time, I smelled the choking smell of urine wafting from the campfire again. My heart was cold, and I thought to myself, it's over, it's a big trouble now.
Cassia also realized at this time that we seemed to be going around in circles, thinking that the fourth child was playing tricks, so he said, "No, haven't we been to this place before?" How did you come back around? Fourth, how did you lead the way? ”
The camel Laosi's face was pale, and he stared around without saying a word.
At this time, the master suddenly said, "It's not that we're going around in circles, it's the incense of the corpse." It's not clean, and we're being targeted. "As soon as Master said this, Cassia and I couldn't sit still.
"What then?"
The master looked at the fourth camel, and the fourth said in a deep voice: "Hades is easy to send, but the little ghost is difficult." Now there is no other way, you all follow. Since they don't want us to get out, the situation is even more tricky. ”
Since we only walked this path not long ago, we now walk in the stone path, and there is always the illusion of going back in time. Along the way, we didn't notice anything unusual around us, but when we arrived at the intersection, the fourth child who walked in front found that the mark he carved on the fork in the road was missing.
Although it was expected, several people began to make difficulties, which way to go?
Cassia insisted on going the same way. His reason is very simple, since we don't know the situation now, taking the previous path is the safest choice, even if you can't get out, the worst situation is to return here.
Hump Lao Si waved his hand and explained that if Cassia was followed, it would be a protracted battle next. But we now have little physical strength and resources left, and we can't go on like this, otherwise if the torch is extinguished halfway, there will be no possibility of going out.
For the situation we are in now, the fourth child made a specific analysis. In fact, from the time he came in just now, he roughly understood what was going on? However, because of the lack of evidence, he did not draw conclusions in the first place. And for ordinary people, especially people like me who are fighting for the first time, when they encounter this situation, their first reaction is that this must be a ghost hitting the wall.
But the fourth camel analyzed that this will never be a ghost hitting the wall. Because we are all laymen, we have always only hearsay about things like ghosts hitting walls, and we don't know the mysteries. In fact, the ghost hitting the wall is an extremely rare and strange phenomenon, and its appearance must have several coincidences to happen, so it can be said that the appearance of the ghost hitting the wall contains a great element of luck.
And why is it that what we encounter is definitely not a ghost hitting the wall? Hump Laosi explained that although the ghost hitting the wall is weird, in the final analysis, it only affects people's psychology, and it is powerless to change the objectively existing things.
I was a little confused, so I asked him to be specific.
"If it's a ghost hitting the wall, then the problem is on us. We unknowingly went back and kept repeating the process. But you've all overlooked a flaw in front of you. ”
The fourth camel stared at the stone wall in front of him and continued: "The mark engraved here before is real. Ghosts hitting the wall can affect us, but they can't change what objectively exists. Now we can't see the mark, which means that there is no such thing as a marker in this place, which means that this is not the road we have traveled at all. ”
"But this doesn't make sense at all, if it's not going back, then how can the camp just now be explained? Could it be that we are collectively hallucinating? Wrong? ”
Cassia is really good, logically speaking, Hump Laosi's words are indeed a bit untenable. If the situation is really as the camel Lao Si said, the road we are taking now is not at all the one we have walked before, then how to explain the appearance of these things around us? Could it be that there are really two identical stone paths in the labyrinth? Or are we collectively hallucinating? Furthermore, taking a step back, if this is indeed not a ghost hitting the wall, and we have not gone back, then where will the road we are taking now lead?
The fourth camel didn't explain more, and after the master discussed it with him, he decided to follow the experience of the fourth child. Experience plays a crucial role in dealing with this situation. The fourth child adjusted his state and took the lead into another exit.
Facts have proved that the judgment of the fourth child is correct. The stone path we are walking on now is a completely unfamiliar stone path. I was relieved to see if we hadn't walked the road after taking a closer look.
But the fourth child's face was not relaxed, on the contrary, his expression at this time made me feel as if he knew what was in front of me.
I suppressed my voice and asked him in a low voice, "Fourth, what's the place ahead?" Have you been here before? ”
The fourth camel's expression was very unnatural at this time, he didn't speak, just nodded slightly, indicating that he had indeed been here. However, before I could ask more questions, a strange sound suddenly sounded in the stone tunnel not far away. Several of us were stunned, the echoes in the stone path continued, and the sound sounded like a movement formed by the distortion of shrill laughter mixed with multiple echoes, which was extremely weird and creepy for a while.
But as the movement got closer, I realized that it was not a shrill laugh at all, one high and one low, and its regularity, and when I listened closely, it was more like the sound of footsteps.
I wondered in my heart, could anyone have gone ahead of us? Before I can figure out what's going on? The fourth camel in front of him suddenly seemed to have seen a ghost, his face changed suddenly, and he turned his head and dragged us back.
Cassia was still unclear what was happening in the back, and the fourth camel hurriedly shouted to him: "Put out the fire!" Put out the fire! ”
I've never seen the fourth child so scared as he is now. Cassia saw that we were all running back, and before he had time to ask, he ran backwards. But after running a few steps, the fourth camel said urgently: "It's too late!" It's all against the stone wall, don't look back! ”
I didn't dare to slack off, and immediately stuck to the stone wall according to the fourth child's words, burying my head and not daring to move. Soon, a distinctive smell began to permeate the surroundings. I can't tell you what it smells like, but I'm impressed by the smell. I distinctly remember that when I was near the mine, the smell was also emanating from the group of figures.
Thankfully, we didn't seem to be discovered. I couldn't see what was going on behind us, but it sounded like the footsteps were passing straight behind us, as if we didn't feel our presence at all.
The whole thing happened so suddenly that we didn't dare to breathe a sigh of relief until there was no movement in the stone tunnel. It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, and Master beckoned us to leave immediately. I saw that the fourth child was still sticking to the stone wall and there was no movement, so I called him, but who knew that the fourth child still did not move. I said strangely, what's wrong with the fourth? walked over and pushed him, what I didn't expect at all was that the fourth child fell down so straight.