Chapter 25: The Sound of Gunshots

At this critical moment, Meng Yingjiu grabbed my hand, Zou Zhou grabbed my foot, and I felt like I was about to be torn off.

Meng Yingjiu took too much weight, and the wood under his feet made a clicking sound, and Meng Yingjiu said, "Give me me." ”

I threw away the flashlight, reached out and grabbed Meng Yingjiu's hand, and then he lifted me up directly. Meng Yingjiu stepped back and pulled us back to the wooden ladder, and Zou Zhou climbed up on his own.

Before we could recover from this, the wood beneath our feet began to shatter. So we were no longer cautious, but ran straight up, and the wooden ladder we ran through was broken by us.

After a few laps up, the wooden ladder turned into a stone ladder built into the cave wall. We ran up the stone stairs before we dared to stop and rest.

When the cave arrives, it becomes a natural rock, and the stone ladder is dug directly into the rock. We are now about a dozen stories from the bottom of the cave, and we have to sigh again at the technology and creativity of the ancients.

Looking at the broken wooden ladders, I felt very sorry and said, "Hey, we have destroyed another monument." ”

Zou Zhou asked: "Why is it 'again'?" What else have you ruined? ”

"Huh? Did I just say 'again'? ”

"Got it."

Looking at Zou Zhou's casual expression, recalling that I was almost torn off just now, I said angrily; "If you hadn't been so reckless just now, we wouldn't have fallen, and we wouldn't have destroyed these monuments, and I was almost torn off by you just now, can you still have a conscience?"

The more I talked, the more angry I became, since I came to the ghost cave, I have experienced several life and death tests, but I can't blame others, I came by myself, I feel like a dumb person eating coptis, and I can't say what I have to say. Thinking of this, tears unconsciously wet my eyes and were about to flow out. So I turned around and held back my tears.

Zou Zhou pulled my clothes behind my back and said, "I'm sorry, I was too excited just now." Because my grandmother's diary also drew a five-pointed star. ”

Meng Yingjiu said: "But the five-pointed star is too ordinary, and it's not strange for your grandmother to draw it?" ”

Zou Zhou said: "The five-pointed star painted by my grandmother is a star with a dot in the middle. She used to tell me that when she was younger, her brother died, and she was very sad. At that time, a friend of her brother taught her to draw such stars. It was a beautiful sister, and she said that when a person dies, he becomes a seed and grows again from the ground. If a loved one reverently draws such a star on the ground, the gods will sense it and will cause the dead to grow out of the place where the star was drawn. Sister, is there a dot in the star you just saw? ”

Hearing him say this, I really felt that the pentagram I saw just now was engraved in it, but I couldn't be sure, after all, I had just returned from the edge of life and death, and I couldn't remember these details clearly.

I said, "I'm not sure, I haven't had time to take a closer look at it just now." ”

Zou Zhou sighed and said, "Hey, I messed it up myself." ”

I turned to him and said, "I can't say for sure right now, but there's a good chance that this star is your grandmother's mark here." Your grandmother said she wanted to come back here, and this place must have meant something to her. ”

Zou Zhou looked at the broken wooden ladders and said, "But now, everything is ruined." ”

I said, "You've been here, so you don't regret it." "There are a lot of things that we can't experience in person, but it's worth it to have the opportunity to experience the scene again. A revisit to an old place is always more impressive than looking at a photo.

Zou Zhou said: "Well, if this is really left by my grandmother, then she must have been there too, let's go up quickly." ”

Meng Yingjiu said: "There are still 5 floors, and we will go to the top." As he spoke, he shone his flashlight upwards, and above the fifth floor was a round tower made of stone, and there seemed to be something hanging on the top of the building.

I shuddered and said, "Is there something hanging on it?" It's not going to be a big bat again. ”

Zou Zhou: "It's hanging something, but it's not as big as the bat king under our feet." ”

Meng Yingjiu said: "I've seen it, and it's a sarcophagus. ”

"Coffin? It turns out that this is really an ancient tomb. "But Zou Zhou's grandmother wants to come back here, is it difficult for her to be the little dragon girl of the Tomb Sect? This is too, and I didn't expect that I actually entered an ancient tomb in such a daze, and it feels like I have traveled into a tomb robbery novel, I can't be dreaming, right?

Zou Zhou said: "Sister! Aren't you scared of the coffin, why don't you leave? ”

Of course, I can't ask Zou Zhou if his grandmother is a little dragon girl. So I said nonsense: "Of course not, is this coffin as scary as the Bat King?" I'm just sighing that I'm calm when things that I used to fantasize about really come out in front of me"

Zou Zhou said: "If you really can't walk, I can carry you, and it can be regarded as repaying you for coming in and saving me." ”

The boy finally admitted that I had come in to save him. "Come on, I won't bother you if I'm so 'heavy'." Besides, if you want someone to carry it, you have to let Meng Yingjiu carry me. But he has also walked so much, and he is also very tired, and he will be even more tired when he carries me, and I will be very distressed. But Zou Zhou mentioned this, I really itched, hey, this kind of thing is too tangled.

After struggling like this, I slowly walked to the top, and the stone staircase turned and dug into the cave, and after turning again in the cave, I went up to the stone tower above. The stone tower was built around this round hole, and there was a cloister about two meters wide on the side of the round hole, and the cloister here still has no railing.

The stone tower is about 8 stories high, and at the top of the tower hangs a sarcophagus with iron chains. There is no building inside the stone tower that allows people to go up, and there are no windows in the stone tower, the whole stone tower is closed, and the only exit is a stone door opposite us.

Zou Zhou said: "Is the staircase outside? ”

Meng Yingjiu said: "There are no stairs outside. "Then how do you go up?"

I looked up at the enclosed stone pagoda and said, "There is no exit from this stone pagoda, and you can't get in if there are stairs outside!" ”

Zou Zhou said: "I mean, how did the coffin be put up." ”

Meng Yingjiu's flashlight pointed at it and said, "The bronze chain is pierced into the stone. "It turned out to be bronze, and I thought it was an iron chain. Meng Yingjiu continued: "The walls of this stone tower are two meters thick. ”

"So wide?" Zou Zhou said and ran to the stone gate, and forcefully pulled the door open, this door opened inward. When opened, there is also a gate inside. Meng Yingjiu and I also walked over, and the stone gate was not big, only two meters wide.

The door outside was open to the outside, and after we pushed open the stone door, it was pitch black outside, and Meng Yingjiu's flashlight shone through, and I saw the huge humanoid statue he said. The statue stood with its back to us, almost a dozen meters away.

Zou Zhou didn't care about the statue at all, but looked for something on the wall between the two doors. I asked him, "What are you looking for?" “

Zou Zhou said: "This stone wall is so thick, there must be a secret passage in it that can lead to it." "But it makes sense that this tower is built so high and the walls are so thick."

Zou Zhou stopped and said, "But I always feel that there will be a secret passage here." “

"Do you remember what your grandmother said before?"

Zou Zhou leaned against the wall and thought, Meng Yingjiu said: "If there is really a secret door, it will not be located here, it is too obvious here." “

Zou Zhou thought for a while and said, "Then let's go inside and look for it separately." With that, he ran out.

My flashlight went off, so I could only follow behind Meng Yingjiu, and we went to the other side and started looking. Speaking of the secret door, I experienced it once before, I said: "When we were besieged by the dragons, I just touched the mechanism on the ground, opened the secret door and fell down, and separated from you."

Meng Yingjiu carefully observed the stone wall and did not answer me. I continued, "What happened to those spirits?" ”

"They all scattered."

Scattered? Suddenly another important question came to mind, and I asked, "How can you live a long life?" ”

"I'm looking for you."

"Looking for me? Did Uncle Qing tell you? "Yes." "Are you really here to find me?"

Meng Yingjiu stopped looking, looked at me and said, "Otherwise, what do you think it is?" “

I lowered my head, pretended to be looking for a mechanism, and said, "I just want to make sure." “

Suddenly, there were several loud gunshots outside the tower! Meng Yingjiu and I looked at each other. Zou Zhou said weakly: "Was it a gunshot just now?" ”

I followed Meng Yingjiu back to the door, he turned off the flashlight, it was pitch black, and I didn't see any light. I whispered, "Don't you see anyone?" “

Zou Zhou also ran over, looked outside and said, "Who is shooting?" ”

Meng Yingjiu said: "The person who fired the gun was still outside the fence and did not come in. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, we saw a bright light suddenly appear not far away. The bright light slowly grew larger, illuminating the entire cave.

I saw the wall that Meng Yingjiu was talking about, and the wall was about 50 meters away from us, and it was very high, and it looked almost as high as a three- or four-story building in our place.

The light was quickly extinguished. Zou Zhou said: "There are also flares, it looks like they are coming." ”

I said, "Could they be the people you said they were?" ”

Zou Zhou said: "It's very likely, let's go out and have a look." ”

I hit him and said, "What's going on, we're going out now and we're going to hit them at gunpoint." ”

Zou Zhou said with a straight face: "But this kind of place can't hide people?" ”

At this time, in the place where the wall had just been, a little light appeared, and those people walked in.

We hurriedly hid behind the stone door inside, because it was very quiet, we could vaguely hear the sound of people talking outside, Zou Zhou pricked up his ears and listened carefully, but he still couldn't hear what he said.

Remembering the gunshots, I suddenly became frightened, and I asked, "What are we going to do now?" ”

Meng Yingjiu said: "You guys first hide in the stone ladder cave below, and I'll go and see the situation." With that, he got up and was about to leave.

I hurriedly grabbed him and said, "How can this work, it's too dangerous, they have guns!" I don't want you to go. "I was already very guilty when I let him face the monster alone just now, and now I can't let him take risks alone!

"I'm not going to let them find out about me."

"No way!"

Zou Zhou suddenly said, "Shhh They're already out there. ”