Chapter 19: The Ghost
"We'll have to go down and see." After Wang Yuan finished speaking, he walked down from the stone pile, and from a distance, if it weren't for the huge ribs, maybe he wouldn't have thought that these were some bones at all. The cave wasn't like the boxy halls they'd seen before, but it was a cave that had been dug up randomly, unfinished, with hard rock all around and at the top, and it was surprisingly large, about the size of two football fields, and it was full of bones, and there were some small passages around the cave, and it didn't seem like it was the end.
With every step Wang Yuan took, there was a gurgling sound under his feet, and he walked to the side of one of the ribs that protruded from it, patted the dust on it with his hand, and found that this blue light seemed to be emitted from the inside out, not artificially painted like the wall, and many of the bones around him had been broken into small pieces, and there were not many intact. Wang Yuan also noticed that there were still a considerable number of stone tools on the edge of the cave.
"How long have you been here?" Wang Yuan asked.
"It took about half an hour, and we followed the same path we had taken, and after some twists and turns, we arrived here, and then rested here for a while." Zhao Bin said.
"Zhao Bin, how do you feel about this place?" Wang Yuan asked.
"I don't feel anything, there's no need to be too surprised to see anything in a place like this, I think it's time for us to go, we don't have much time, it's amazing here, we have to get out as soon as possible." Zhao Bin said.
"Are these really bones? If there is something like this in it, we will undoubtedly send it to death. Wang Yuan said.
"I think the bones are similar to the history of the cave, and if you look at the square stone tools around it, they may be tools for grinding." Zhao Bin said.
"Are you grinding these bones?" Wang Yuan said.
"Maybe that's because of these things." Zhao Bin said.
"We've got to get out of here, let's go...... Well? Where is Qi Zhuang......" Wang Yuan found that there were only two people around him, Xiaoying and Zhao Bin.
"He's there." Xiao Ying pointed, and Wang Yuan saw Qi Zhuang looking at a row of erected ribs not far away.
Qi Zhuang waved his hand at Wang Yuan and them, motioning for them to come over.
"What is he looking at?" Wang Yuan said, but Xiaoying suddenly showed a frightened expression and tugged Wang Yuan's arm.
"Xiaoying, what's wrong?" Wang Yuan looked at Xiaoying's frightened expression and felt a little stunned.
Xiaoying pointed to the place where Qi Zhuang was standing, and stammered, "Look...... Qi Zhuang ...... in front of him. ”
Only then did Wang Yuan react, Qi Zhuang was not looking at the row of ribs in front of him, he was looking at the bottom of the ribs, where there seemed to be a person lying there......
"Qi Zhuang, this is ......" Wang Yuan and the others stepped forward and said, they walked in and saw a dry male corpse lying on the ground, the facial expression of the corpse was very hideous, obviously he suffered a lot before he died.
"Let's go, don't look at such a terrible thing......" Xiaoying hid behind Wang Yuan, never daring to take a closer look at the corpse on the ground.
"Wait a minute, Wang Yuan, you see that there seems to be a very thick layer of ......dust on this corpse," Qi Zhuang said.
Only then did Wang Yuan realize that although the corpse was not decomposed, and even the skin had an elasticity, its face and clothes were covered with a layer of dust, and it also glowed faintly. "How is it possible, why is it not rotting......" Wang Yuan said.
"Maybe it's due to the dry environment here?" Zhao Bin said.
"And that's not all, you see the clothes of this corpse, like the clothes of the group of people we just saw with Scarface." Qi Zhuang said.
"Really...... But the clothes he was wearing had been silent for a long time. Wang Yuan touched the corpse's clothes with his hand and said.
"His neck was broken, and it seemed like his arm was broken...... And the surroundings seem to be like traces of a fight. Zhao Bin said.
"Ah!!h Xiaoying on the side screamed, pointing to their backs. "Wang Yuan, there seems to be a ...... over there"
Wang Yuan and the others looked back and saw that among some broken bone fragments not far away, there were still four corpses, these four corpses were almost the same as the previous one, they had all been severely traumatized before they died, and one of them had been pierced through the chest by the surrounding bone fragments. Wang Yuan lifted his clothes and found that the corpse's pierced wound seemed to have been cemented with the bone fragments. The skin on his body, although somewhat dry, is not wrinkled like the legendary mummies.
"It's horrible...... Like a zombie......" Several people all showed frightened expressions.
"Wang Yuan, let's go, leave it alone, I'm afraid ......" Xiaoying said again.
"Wait a little longer, maybe they'll have something of value on them." After Wang Yuan finished speaking, he began to rummage through the clothes pocket of the corpse. "Qi Zhuang, Zhao Bin, you also look for other corpses and see if there is anything."
"This is disgusting...... Although Qi Zhuang was not afraid of these corpses, he still felt sick when he really asked him to turn over these corpses.
Xiaoying saw the behavior of the three people on the side, so she simply covered her eyes. The three men rummaged through all the pockets of the corpses, but found nothing, only two of them with two delicate dart-like knives tied to their legs. The three of them squatted together and studied these two exquisitely made knives, Xiaoying on the side seemed to be very curious when she saw these two knives, and she also looked at them together, these two knives were exactly the same, and each one was extremely sharp, engraved with fine lines, and the word "ghost" was engraved on the handle.
"Ghost...... Is it really a ghost? Qi Zhuang said.
"Ghosts don't die...... Wang Yuan said.
"They all seem to have been killed by very powerful people, and three of the five corpses have broken necks." Zhao Bin said.
"You're not done, let's go......" Xiaoying said while covering her eyes.
"Scarface's men are wearing the same clothes as them, could it be that it was two locust trees that killed them? Think of the scared look on Scarface's face when he heard me talk about the two locust trees. Wang Yuan said.
"That's right! It's very likely that you say that, you see how scared he was with his scarred face at the time, it's very likely that as you said, these people came here more than ten or twenty years ago and were killed by two locust trees. Qi Zhuang said.
"But Qi Zhuang, the scar-faced man's subordinate just now, you also saw it, according to what we deduced, are the people of the two locust trees really capable of killing that kind of cold-blooded guy? Zhao Bin said.
"I don't know, but these two knives are quite delicate." Qi Zhuang looked at the two knives and said.
"Let's take it on us, maybe we can use it. Didn't you notice these five bodies when you came down? Wang Yuan asked.
"No, we didn't just walk through here." Qi Zhuang said.
"Why doesn't it rot?" Zhao Bin said.
"It probably has something to do with these shiny bones...... We pick up some pieces and take them with us, maybe we can go out and get some money. Qi Zhuang said.
"Don't move, we don't know what it is...... Wang Yuan said.
"Forget it, let's go...... Oh my god...... The corpse is deceitful!! When Qi Zhuang got up, he suddenly felt that his back was leaning against something, and when he looked back, it was a man in black.
"Is that you?" Wang Yuan saw that this person was none other than the woman who had been with him before.
"Why are you here, you shouldn't be here." The woman seemed surprised to see Wang Yuan in front of her.
"This is the guy I talked about before." Wang Yuan introduced them to them, and then he looked at the woman again and said, "Do you know what path you showed me, I almost died there." ”
"Aren't you going to that city? I've shown you a shortcut. The woman said.
"Can you take us out? Eldest sister...... I've been bitten by snakes several times all over my body, and maybe I'm going to die here if the poison strikes...... If you want to make up for the mistake of pointing us the wrong way, you can take some of us out. Wang Yuan said, he knew that the woman in front of him was not a bad person, and she shouldn't leave them alone.
"Why don't you tell me about saving your life? You're already drowning without me. The woman said.
"My sister, please help us out, her father is still trapped here waiting for us to save him." Qi Zhuang pointed at Xiaoying and said.
"I can't go out yet, I'm not done yet." The woman said.
"If you have anything, I can help you." Wang Yuan said.
The woman looked at Wang Yuan and said, "My father entered Yansheng Mountain sixteen years ago and has never come out since......"
"What do you say!!" Wang Yuan's heart was shocked, and he barely sat down on the ground. Xiao Ying, Qi Zhuang and Zhao Bin also looked at the two of them with wide eyes, and suddenly the atmosphere fell into a dead silence.
"You're his own sister?" Xiaoying said.
"Don't get me wrong, my father is not Wang Chengqiu, my name is Liu Jia, and I am twenty-eight years old this year." Liu Jia seemed to see the doubts in their hearts and said. "I'm here to find my father's body."
"Do you know about my father?" Wang Yuan asked.
"Understand something." Liu Jia said.
"Can you tell us how we can get out?" Wang Yuan said.
"This is also the first time I have arrived in this cave, and if you follow the path I told you to take, you will soon find the city you are talking about, but I don't know how to get there. Unless you go back to my path now, and then go back to that passage. Liu Jia said.
"That passage is full of snakes, we're going to die there, how are you going to get there?" Wang Yuan said.
"Try to go where I haven't been before, I'm going to find my father." Liu Jia said.
"Can you tell me about your father? Maybe we can help you. Wang Yuan said.
Liu Jia didn't say anything but looked at Wang Yuan, Wang Yuan made her look a little uncomfortable, and then turned her face sideways and said, "Of course, it would be better if I could talk about my parents." ”
Liu Jia smiled and said, "This is your purpose." ”
Wang Yuan didn't speak, and Liu Jia then asked, "Why did you come to this place, how did you get in." ”
Wang Yuan told Liu Jia everything from Professor Zhou's entry into the village to their group's entry into the mountain and what happened later. Liu Jia seemed to think for a while after hearing this, and then said: "How many entrances are there here......
"And where did you get in?!" Wang Yuan was taken aback when he heard this.
"There is a hidden cave on Yansheng Mountain, but it doesn't seem to be the mountain you said." Liu Jia said.
"Isn't it over for us to get out of there?" Wang Yuan suddenly felt hopeful.
"Uh...... It seems unlikely, that entrance is similar to the one you came in, there is a gap, you have to jump into the water and you can continue to walk, you can't go back. ”
"How many times have you been in?" Wang Yuan asked.
"Many times, when I first first came, I almost died here, just like you. But then I found some patterns, and it was much easier. Liu Jia said.
"What did you find in this?" Wang Yuan asked.
"Nothing but a few strange bones and animals."
"Is it the same every time you go out?" Wang Yuan said.
"Well, that's the city you said, although there are many passages here, but no matter how you go, if you want to get out, you only need to take those passages down." Liu Jia said.
"It seems to be saved." Wang Yuan breathed a long sigh of relief.
"By the way, what is the name of your Uncle Liu you just said?" Liu Jia asked.
"It's called Liu Xingye, who sees the mountains in the village, I don't know why he knows here." Wang Yuan said.
"Have you heard of the names Liu Yue and Liu Qi?" Liu Jia asked.
All four shook their heads, indicating that they had not heard of it. Liu Jia's eyes showed a hint of loss, found a place to sit down, took out the biscuits in the bag and distributed them to Wang Yuan and them, and several people took the biscuits and sat next to Liu Jia.