The cave was very deep, and the three brothers ran out of ropes before they went down to the bottom of the cave. However, there is still a trace of foxes.

Deep underground, the flashlights brought down by the eldest and second child failed and could not be turned on at all, and it was a completely dark environment. This is a tomb, and the two of them are convinced, but they can't even see the structure underground.

The old man leaned on the wall, feeling a sticky gas, the smell was strange, the space under the ground was not large, but the figure of the old man walking in front of him suddenly disappeared. No matter how the second child called, he didn't see the other party answer.

Something similar happened, someone was crawling behind the second child, the difference was that the person on the ground was wheezing loudly, and the exhaled breath sprayed on the ground, rolling up dust. The absolute quiet underground environment, the second child's first reaction was that the person behind him was the boss, but how could he be behind him, how could he crawl on the ground in a weird posture.

The underground dwellers lurking in the darkness didn't seem to like outside guests, and when the second child turned to look for the breathing voice, someone strangled his neck behind him. Before going to the ground, the two brothers were each equipped with a dagger, and now the dagger was inserted into the back waist of the second child, straight into the bone marrow. And that dagger is indeed on the second child.

In fact, the situation faced by the boss is exactly the same as that of the second child, who was stabbed to death from behind with a dagger. Because they unified the time and had the illusion that they actually stabbed each other to death. The only thing that doesn't make sense is that both of them have knife cuts behind them, and I don't know how the two brothers did it.

The rope that penetrated into the hole broke, and a few days later the local residents found the body of Wangfeng's third child at the entrance of the cave, his face frightened, he was frightened to death. The rope had been broken from the break, and there were obvious gnawing marks on the break, perhaps the fox had bitten the rope.

The incident caused a stir in the local area and alarmed the police, who later went down to the ground and found the bodies of the two brothers, who were turned in the same direction, each holding a dagger in his hand, and the person in the back row plunged the dagger into the back of the person in front.

Each dagger was stained with the blood of the two brothers, and it had coagulated. Judging by the blood on the murder weapon, they killed each other. The strange thing is that their position can be understood as the boss killed the second child, but the posture of the second child after his death is to face the knife directly in front of him, and there is no one in front of him. And the boss only has the hole left by the dagger inserted into the back, and the knife is on the old second-hand. So who killed the boss?

According to common sense, there must have been a third person underground that night, and he hid in the dark. The final excavation results showed that there were only the footprints of the brothers at the bottom of the cave, and there was no clue left by the appearance of a third person.

This story is rooted in Zhu Beichen's mind, it is a newspaper news, and he remembered this story before he died. The same case is likely to have happened again in the southwestern frontier, a few hundred meters deep in the ground where he is now located, and the number of people who stabbed him in the back was 3,000. They all hallucinate, perhaps not just by light and shadow, but also by the complexity of the underground.

His consciousness was clearer than ever, and if someone went underground in the future, they would also find him and the bodies of Sanqian, who had stabbed himself and himself with a dagger in his hand, stabbing him in the air in front of him. As a result, both are dead, and there is no trace of a third person here. We all died of hallucinations.

Many years ago, when Zhu Beichen first heard the story of the three brothers in northern Shaanxi, he made an inference. It is now confirmed that in this underground stone chamber, the human beings living in groups are extremely afraid of solitude and darkness. The ancients who built this underground building must have been extremely proficient in human psychology, using the oppressive underground environment and the oppressive feeling of the dark space, people with fragile nerves will easily hallucinate, and they can't distinguish friend or foe in the dark, and if all kinds of hallucinations occur frequently, it is even more dangerous.

The mysterious and unknown power led Zhu Beichen, or also led the three thousand scenes to experience this underground cave. Maybe in Zhu Beichen's memory, this is the second time he has gone underground, and he thinks he is familiar with everything here, but it is very likely that he is not the second time he has experienced it, or even the third or fourth time, so that he has experienced this underground space countless times.

Each experience is compared to the last time, whether it is the characters or the details of the environment, the smile is changing, and the continuous use of various scene hints subtly affects him and Sanqian. Every time they go underground, they think it's the first time, but in fact it's been repeated hundreds of times, or an infinite number of times.

Finally, at one point, the cumulatively concentrated hints finally erupted, and they stabbed each other to death, with the bodies facing in the same direction. It is still not clear who killed the people in the rear.

Perhaps this is not the physical experience, they have been subconsciously constructing the environment since they fell unconscious, and they have been repeating this process until they finally wake up once. But he has long been unable to distinguish between reality and dreams.

Well, now, Zhu Beichen feels that the blood in his body has almost flowed, the reasoning and imagination in his mind are becoming more and more blurred, and the truth of the facts is getting farther and farther away. But it doesn't matter anymore, he's going to die now, and the stone chamber must be an unusual, eerie space. There are different laws of time and space that I can't explore. In the next moment, the perception of the body was completely cut off, and what remained in the mind was boundless darkness and loneliness.

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At night, behind Wushan, the sky-high fire rolled up. The firelight reflected the entire Wushan Mountain Range, the sound of wood burning and cracking, and the roaring sound of all kinds of creatures on the mountain roaring and rushing into the banks of the Heishui River, waking up the sleeping residents of Heimiao.

The next day, residents on the banks of the Heishui River found two coffins, one large and one small, hanging on the bank of the river where the Miao people daily draw water. From the bluestone plate paving, directly from the village to here, more than 20 meters behind the coffin is the Heishui River.

The strange coffin was out of place with its surroundings, completely intimidating the residents who were the first to come to the river in the early morning to fetch water.

The whole body of the coffin is covered with black lacquer, there is no carving and painting on the coffin, and the coffin lid is firmly nailed to the coffin body.

Subsequently, the high priest of Hongliang, who received the coffin that suddenly appeared on the bank of the Heishui River, led dozens of young and middle-aged people in the clan to hurry to the riverbank. Upon hearing the news, the residents who rushed to the coffin had surrounded the coffin inside and outside, and it was airtight. But they didn't dare to get too close, and just formed an arc-shaped human wall on the periphery, waiting for the steward of the clan to come.

Dodge, dodge, dodge. Just as Hongliang was about to approach the two coffins, the clan witch guards arrived.

Since the wizards in the clan intervened, Hongliang was no longer convenient to ask, and he retreated to the side, because in the past ten days, too many things had happened in the Heishui River, which had attracted the attention of the wizards in the clan.