Chapter 371: Overture to the Dead (1)
At the other end of the stone gate, there is a row of stairs that float upward.
Below the stairs, it was pitch black, like a bottomless abyss.
"Old Lu, do you think this thing can be strong?" After entering the stone gate, I was immediately worried when I saw the scene in front of me.
"It doesn't matter if it's strong or not, there's only one way in front of you." Lu Xuesong rolled his eyes at me, with a hint of disdain in his eyes.
"What if we fall......" I asked weakly.
"Shut your crow's mouth for me, how can there be so many possibilities." Lu Xuesong suddenly had a black line in his head, if it weren't for the space around him being too narrow, he might have kicked me a long time ago.
I spread my hands, not words.
"Let's go." Seeing that I didn't speak in frustration, Lu Xuesong's calm face finally relieved a little, and he didn't hesitate without any hesitation, and stepped on the suspended staircase.
Although the stairs were suspended in the air, after Lu Xuesong stepped on it, he did not sink because of his weight.
Seeing this, I relieved myself and followed.
The two of us walked up the stairs all the way up for about half a minute, and the stairs reached the top.
There was a three-person wide passage extending next to the vertex, and when I looked inside, there was a faint light coming out, not even that I couldn't see my fingers.
The two of us walked side by side, cautiously walking in.
The passage is very rugged, and after a few steps, you will come across a turning point and a lot of forks.
The two of us didn't walk blindly, but followed the route we started and went all the way forward.
The further we walked, the brighter we became, and when we reached the last intersection, a brightly lit stone room was also presented in front of the two of us.
This stone chamber is large, at least a few hundred meters long, and it is not empty, and there are things everywhere, but fortunately it does not look cluttered, and it is not a place to put your feet.
As for the ground, it is criss-crossed, with stone steps and pools, the water is dark black, and I don't know how long it has been placed, it looks disgusting.
The surrounding walls are carved with strange tadpole characters, and in some places, they are inlaid with dark blue gems that look faintly glowing from a distance.
At the top of the stone chamber, a strangely shaped sarcophagus was erected.
The back of the sarcophagus is oval-shaped, blending with the wall, and the front of the sarcophagus is covered with criss-crossing iron cables, which looks very evil.
"Lao Lu, what do you say can be locked up here?" After glancing around, I walked to the sarcophagus, looked at it for a moment, and suddenly asked Lu Xuesong.
"I don't know what's locked up, I just know that if you accidentally wake it up, the two of us will be in trouble." With Tang Luoyu's previous experience, Lu Xuesong is now very sensitive to anything. He saw me wandering near the sarcophagus and hurried me out.
"I'm afraid it's not that simple, you see, the wall behind this sarcophagus seems to be hollow." I was surprised that there was no exit from the stone chamber other than the one we had entered.
I raised my hand and knocked on the nearby wall, and when I reached the position of the sarcophagus, my heart suddenly "clicked".
"Hollow?" Lu Xuesong came over with a frown, and knocked on the wall as I did, and after knocking, a trace of surprise suddenly appeared on his face. "Could it be that behind this sarcophagus, there is a road leading to other places?"
"Judging by the current situation, maybe this is the case, otherwise, there is no need for this strange sarcophagus to be placed here in this form." The corners of my mouth twitched, and deep inside, it seemed as if there were countless grass and mud horses galloping.
"In that case, what are you still doing in a daze, let's do it!" Lu Xuesong sighed, and immediately reached out and grabbed the iron rope wrapped around the sarcophagus.
"Wait, someone looks like they're coming." I was about to step forward to take a hand, but there was a sound of footsteps in my ears, and although it was very faint, I could hear it clearly.
Hearing this, Lu Xuesong put down the iron cables, turned around at the same time as me, and looked directly at the entrance of the stone room.
The footsteps were cyclic gradually, and after a while, three figures slowly walked out of the passage and entered the stone room.
All three were male, ranging in age from forty to sixty, and they were none other than the Qingxu Dao Chief, the Lifeless Old Ghost, and a Taoist priest named Jin Xuanzi, who had entered the Holy Land with me.
"Hey, it's you." Qingxu Daoist and the others saw us at a glance, were stunned for a moment, and hugged us with a smile.
"Three, it's been a long time." With the mentality that harmony is precious, Lu Xuesong and I politely returned the salute.
We didn't have any entanglements between the two of us, and in addition, we were in this strange stone room together at the moment.
Therefore, everyone is very enthusiastic on the surface, one brother at a time, one brother at a time, and if you don't know, you may think that our relationship is iron.
After a short conversation, a group of five of us gathered in front of the strange sarcophagus.
Qingxu Dao Chang and the other three looked carefully for a moment, and found that behind the wall, there was really a cave queen, and immediately proposed to combine the strength of five people to open the sarcophagus.
For this proposal, Lu Xuesong and I naturally couldn't ask for it, and nodded their heads one after another.
The iron ropes wrapped around the sarcophagus were just ordinary chains, so it took almost no effort for those iron ropes to be broken by us.
After the criss-crossing iron cables were broken, the appearance of the sarcophagus was also clearly presented in front of our eyes.
On the lid of the sarcophagus, there is a dense tadpole inscription, and looking at the font, it is similar to the writing on the surrounding walls, thinking that it is the same language.
In addition, the lid of the coffin was inlaid with many dark blue gemstones, and the shape and size of the coffin were obvious, just like those on the walls.
"This thing doesn't seem to be ordinary." The Taoist priest named Jin Xuanzi suddenly lit up his eyes when he saw this dark blue gem.
He pressed his hand on a gem and slashed it hard, and the gem immediately fell off and fell to the ground.
Jin Xuanzi bent down and was just about to pick it up, but at this moment, the gem that fell to the ground shook very strangely.
Hearing only a "click", the center of the gem suddenly cracked, and in the blink of an eye, a dung beetle-like black bug crawled out of it.
The worm, after crawling out of the gem, burrowed into Jin Xuanzi's feet at an extremely fast speed, and in an instant, bit his shoes open, and then drilled into his shoes.
This change was unexpected by Jin Xuanzi, and when he reacted, it was too late.
The worm had already followed his feet, burrowed into his body, and climbed up at a very fast speed.
"No ......!" Jin Xuanzi screamed bitterly, while opening his shirt, he wanted to find the track of the insect crawling and stop it, but unfortunately, the insect crawled too fast, and at the same time as he opened his shirt, it had already followed his left stomach, all the way up, and in the blink of an eye, crawled into his neck! To be continued