Chapter 260: The Heart of the Well
This tremor in the stone gate was completely isolated by the closed stone door, and if you stayed outside, you wouldn't even feel the slightest. The tremor was slight, but it was enough to make people feel shocked, and the old oilman wiped the water on his face, looking a little uneasy. I stood still, not moving, but an inexplicable feeling rose from the deepest part of my heart.
I can be sure that this is the first time I have heard anyone talk about this stone gate, and it is the first time I have set foot in this place, but the moment I entered the stone gate, I felt a faint sense of familiarity. It's like living in a home where you've lived for many years, and even if you're brought to your home blindfolded, you can't see anything, and you can still perceive that familiar smell.
With this special feeling permeating my heart, even I was in a trance, and I was a little unsure, was it really my first time here?
"Brother, don't be stunned yet." The old oilman patted me beside me, looking a little sad and a little distracted. I came to my senses, and immediately I smelled a foul smell. For me, and for people like Lao Youzi, who often walk in the cemetery, the smell is not unfamiliar, it is the smell of corpses. This stone gate was closed for many years, and the old oilman's companion did not go out after squeezing in, and the man was probably already dead here, and even his body was decomposed.
"Pillars? Pillar? The old oil's voice trembled a little, and he raised a flashlight to shine forward, the space behind the stone door is not very large, and the strong flashlight can shine from the side of the door to the end of the space on the opposite side. It was like a huge stone chamber, and through the light, I couldn't see anything superfluous. But with a flicker of his eyes, he was completely attracted by the few figures standing in the middle of the space.
I immediately remembered that when the old oilman and his companions were about to go into the water to check, they had seen a few people walking on the water, sinking to the bottom of the water and silently. Lao Youzi judged that those people were likely to enter the stone gate, and at this time, his judgment was confirmed.
These figures made me and Lao Youzi nervous for a while, the other party didn't even sit in the boat, walking in the river with water, would it be an ordinary person? But when I flickered my gaze again, I noticed that several people seemed to be standing around something, motionless, like petrified statues. Lao Youzi and I squeezed in from the outside, and the movement was loud enough, but the other party seemed to be deaf to it, and there was no reaction at all.
In this way, Lao Youzi and I calmed down a little, and looked back and forth a few times, and the figures really seemed to be surrounding something, and the things they surrounded attracted all the attention of several people. But the more I looked at it, the more surprised I became, and even if I was completely attracted to something, it was impossible not to have any reaction. The slight vibration, the dark sound of the knock, several petrified figures, and a lingering smell of corpses, the surrounding atmosphere suddenly became weird.
"Brother, I'll go over and take a look first, you wait here, if there is no danger, I'll greet you." The old oil's forehead began to sweat little by little, but he had come to this point, no matter what, he had to see what was going on, he pinched the flashlight, swallowed his saliva and said: "Don't worry, I won't swallow anything I found."
"Wait!" I grabbed him, narrowed my eyes, and looked back and forth for a while, and I suddenly felt that the figures in front of me that appeared in the light were somewhat familiar. When your eyes are fully accustomed to the environment, you will be able to see more clearly. I counted them attentively, and there were six figures standing there.
The six motionless figures suddenly reminded me of the big river eye that I had set foot in with Xiao Jiuhong a long time ago! That place, the legend is that it was the place where King Yu buried his bones, and the ancestors of our seven doors and seven families were all guarding next to the big pit used to store the lotus sacred wood. My vision is clear for a while, blurry for a while, if I see it correctly, the six motionless figures in front of me seem to be the true body of the Seven Sect Ancestors who originally stayed in the eyes of the river! Originally, there were seven ancestors, but the ancestors of our Chen family were taken away by our grandfather, and there were only six left.
For a while, I seemed to understand something in my heart, but I didn't seem to have thought it through, and I didn't understand it. The eye of the river is far away from here, no matter how powerful the Seven Sect Ancestors were during their lifetime, after all, they are people who have been dead for many years, and they will definitely not move around on their own. Thinking about the situation at that time, I thought, could it be that the lotus wood statue carried the true body of the ancestor and came here from the side of the river?
The more I think about it, the clearer it becomes. This big river has been guarded by Jiuding for thousands of years, and there are seven gates of our river in the uninterrupted patrol of the river, and there are few major changes, so the true body of the ancestor of the seven doors has been staying in the eye of the river. But now the situation is different, the three bronze tripods are separated from the river, the river is unstable, the strength of the seven gates is still weak, and in the end, even the true body of the ancestor has to come out. They don't get carried here for no reason, there must be some important reason.
The familiarity of this place, as well as the true figure of the Six Ancestors, made my heart fluctuate. After observing the old oilman for a moment, he slowly raised his legs and walked forward. As we judged, the smell of corpses was getting stronger and stronger, wafting through the space. Soon, the old oilman saw the body of his companion, which was already decomposing. People have been trapped here for a month, without food and water, and unable to get out, presumably dying of thirst and starvation. The old oil man was very sad, but at this moment, I didn't care about remembering the dead with him, and I was close to a few figures, and I could be 100% sure that it was the true body statues of several Qimen ancestors that I had seen in Heyan at that time.
Six figures, surrounded by something, each missing a hand. The space was constantly vibrating with the sound of knocking, and when I walked here, I felt that the knocking sound seemed to come from the middle of the six figures. No one told me what was going on, but it was clear, and some time ago, the sound of the thud had rushed out of the stone gate and disturbed the river, so the old man could get the news from the sand miners. Such a sound is definitely not normal, and the lotus wood statue carried out the true body of the Seven Sect Ancestors from the eye of the river and pulled it here.
The Ancestor is in the middle of the town! Absolutely! After the old oil saw the few people who were treading water sinking into the river, the sound of the dong dong was isolated in the stone gate, and it could no longer be transmitted to the outside world!
What is it in the middle of them!?
Except for the slight vibration, there was no dangerous aura around. The true bodies of the Seven Sect Ancestors were all pulled here, which suddenly made me feel the importance of the situation. I put aside all distractions and walked a few quick steps, and when I reached this point, I saw at a glance that six figures surrounded a round hole in the ground. The hole was like a well, and it came out of the well rhythmically with a muffled sound.
"Ancestor forgive sins, forgive sins," I muttered silently, then moved closer, bent over, and came to the "well" from between the two figures.
The wellhead was dark, and I shone my flashlight downward. There was a string of runes by the well that I couldn't help but have, and the moment the light penetrated into the well, I saw two streams of intertwined flowing water, constantly rotating in the well, like the rumored yin and yang fish, swimming with their tails in their arms.
The two streams of water that turned into yin and yang fish were so clear that you could almost see them all at a glance. As I approached, I heard the old oilman being thrown out of the back and falling heavily to the ground, and I couldn't help but moan in pain. Looking back, the old oil's waist was about to be broken.
"I can't get by," he rolled over and got up, his face full of horror. This "well" is guarded by the ancestor of the Seven Gates himself, and if I am not a descendant of the Seven Gates, I may not even be able to touch the edges.
Now I don't have to think about it so much, the water in the well flows, and there is a constant knocking sound vibrating, making the two rotating yin and yang fish splash in all directions. At this moment, I was lying on the edge of the well, and a terrible thought suddenly sprung up in my heart. I hadn't made out what was at the bottom of the well, but I thought it wasn't like the sound of a big drum.
It was like the beating of a heart, slow but rhythmic, like the syllables that shook the whole river, and the vibration of space was completely generated by this bang.
I held back the horror in my heart, my hands were already shaking invisibly, and the sound made me indescribably afraid. But the more this happens, the more I want to see what is in the well. I took a breath, forcibly suppressed the panic in my heart, turned on the light of the flashlight to the strongest, and shone straight down the well.
The light shines through the clear water all the way to the bottom of the well. The water rippled, and my vision shook with the water waves, and I saw that there seemed to be a few pieces of broken limbs at the bottom of the well, which had been thrown in the well for I don't know how many years, but it was as if it had just come out of the body, and the real one seemed to be still dripping blood.
Between a few pieces of minced meat, there was something as red as a fist, and at first, I didn't realize what it was. But as soon as I fixed my eyes on the thing, I saw it throb and thump. I couldn't help but sit down on the edge of the well, and the fear in my heart instantly reached its peak.
Is my judgment true? At the bottom of this "well" is a beating heart!?
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I probably wouldn't have believed it at all, what kind of heart is this, and what kind of human heart is it? It seems to be shaking the river, and it is about to set off a monstrous wave that no one can stop!