58. Mausoleum
The three of us stood on the ground and looked at each other, and no one could have imagined that a real thing would disappear into plain sight. There were only three bunker-type buildings left in the wall, and my vision widened a little, and following the traces of their movement before, I found that there was a small crack under the dirt, probably left by something that had sunk!
"It's a bit weird here, but we'd better be careful." Hu Xiao said.
The old man nodded his head and said, "I suspect it's the problem with the stone you pressed earlier." These forts are actually pavilion barriers, which belong to the fortresses set up in the ancient border fortresses. It stands to reason that there shouldn't be anything like this here! ”
As they spoke, they walked towards the pavilion, and now the stone was replaced by me, maybe I was not at ease! But I still pressed my hand down, but there was no response. Walking outside, the three pavilion barriers were still three, but the one before couldn't get out.
"I guess we'd better go somewhere else!" I said that it would not be a good factor for anyone to continue in such a situation. We went into another pavilion and saw that the layout was still exactly the same, there was nothing but a small stone plaque hanging on the wall, and this stone plaque seemed to be connected to the wall, and we did not dare to use force, for fear that if we broke this other person, we would never be able to come out again.
This time the old man was a little anxious, his people were all locked up underground and disappeared, and now the only ones left are me and Hu Xiao, but his vigilance is still very high, and he is a distance from me and Hu Xiao from beginning to end, and at the same time with a gun in his hand, Hu Xiao and I don't dare to make eye contact, but I see that Hu Xiao didn't do anything, and I will be at ease with the encounter.
I don't know if the wound on my body is the effect of my mask, and it has stopped bleeding. But it's still a dull ache. This time, the person who pressed the stone card was replaced by Hu Xiao again, and it seemed that the old man had also lost his trust in Hu Xiao, but this time the unexpected sound occurred again. We drove out with a run, and saw that the pavilion barrier we had entered before slowly shrank into the earth under the gaze of the three people.
"It's one pavilion barrier that controls another pavilion barrier." Hu Xiao said.
"In this way, you go back to that pavilion barrier." The old man thought for a moment and said suddenly.
Hu Xiao and I glanced at each other, and this kind of distribution seemed to him to be the safest. But in my opinion and Hu Xiao, it is also the safest one. But just as we turned around and walked back, the old man suddenly called out to me, and Hu Xiao and I were stunned, "What's wrong?" Hu Xiao said.
When we turned around, we saw his cold muzzle, and this time it was not me but Hu Xiao. "Why do you agree so much with my choice?"
"What do you mean by that? Do you still doubt me? Hu Xiao clenched his fists, obviously a little throbbing.
"It's not a suspicion!" The old man took a few steps back and said, "Just wanted to hear what you think." ”
"It's over." Cold sweat ran down my cheeks, and my wound began to ache from the tension. I didn't speak, but took a step forward.
"Don't move." The old man suddenly pointed his gun at me, and then pointed it back.
"What do you want to hear? Just say it! In fact, you have already made up your mind about me, and whatever I say is just a defense. What if I said that I left him out and that he would join his accomplices? And are you reassured of him? ”
"Poof" I saw Hu Xiao fall in front of me, but this time I was not shocked, I ran towards the old man as fast as I could. It's not very far, but if he wasn't afraid of killing me by mistake, I would definitely be dead, I was gambling, Hu Xiao was also gambling, and the result was that he died, but I was alive.
The bullet landed at my feet, sparks with the dirt, "Stop, or I'll kill you." The old man stepped back and growled.
But I didn't pay attention to his words, and I rushed over. Instantly choked him by the neck and subdued him. I glanced back at Hu Xiao who was lying in a pool of blood, and I lifted the old man up, "How do you see that?" Is there something wrong with what Hu Xiao is doing? ”
"It's just your eyes, although you look at him a lot, it's not hatred, so I came to a conclusion." "This time I lost, and I should have gone to hell for most of my life," he said. If you want to ask me why I shot, I can only say that Hu Xiao said the wrong thing, and that sentence exposed him too much. ”
"Tell me what you know." I listened to Hu Xiao's struggle, closed my eyes, and said coldly to the old man.
"You know, I'm not going to say that."
I had mixed feelings and didn't know how to express it, and I looked at the disgusting body and suddenly threw my head forward. The bronze nose pierced a large hole in his body, and blood splattered. I left his body, picked up the pistol, and hurriedly ran back to Hu Xiao's side, I wanted to see his injuries, but he just shook his head and covered his stomach and said to me, "Put me in that pavilion, you should go down, and the people below will know your story." ”
I didn't say much so, to be honest, I don't have the slightest feelings for this person, but he is willing to help me, I can only nod to him, put him in the last pavilion barrier, I immediately ran to the pavilion where we were before, there is not much time, he is almost out of strength, originally I wanted to wait for the fat man, but if it was to wait for the fat man, the result is still the same, I and he only have one person who can go down below.
But after a while, the pavilion barrier I was in fell like an elevator, but it was at this time that I heard a deafening sound from the place above me, and I was shocked that it seemed to be a complete collapse, and suddenly my mind was clear, and the remaining pavilion barrier would automatically collapse when the last one was activated, and the city on the edge of the cliff could easily fall into the deep sea.
I sighed and felt that I had changed too much, although I said that the first time I killed someone, I didn't kill him completely, but this time it was different from that situation, I had the strength to stun the old man, and Hu Xiao's death didn't make any waves in my heart, after all, I still killed him, without hesitation, just like he killed Hu Xiao.
Human life is not worth a penny. I sighed and found that the descent of the pavilion barrier had stopped. I laboriously opened the door that had been blocked by the dirt and walked out, because of the depth of the tomb I knew that the bottom of the tomb was the flow of water, so the whole tomb road mud seemed a little muddy, the soil on the wall was completely paralyzed, the water vapor accumulated for thousands of years diluted a few places and even the stones were faintly visible, I held a small flashlight. Walking through the road, looking at the turbid water in some places, the light of the flashlight moved with a slight turn of the head, and I paid a rough attention to it, and the current situation of this corridor was like the intestines of an animal.
It is reasonable to say that it should be the tomb of the Qin Dynasty, and in the Song Dynasty, many books on gold and stone science have widely recorded that most of the burial objects in the tomb at that time were bronze, mirrors, weights and measures, currency, seals, jade, inscriptions and stone scriptures. At that time, wooden coffin tombs and hollow brick tombs in the Central Plains were popular, and brick chamber tombs made of mud were rare, but they were relatively treated only by high-ranking emperors.
I thought about where those people were before. I looked at the small corridor where I am now, and I immediately knew that this tomb was roughly the same as the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, with a tomb passage on the east and west sides under the mound. For this kind of tomb in the eyes of the people at the time, the longer it is, the more it can represent his status and dignity, just like the aisle of your house, the psychology of comparison kills his son.
Seeing that the soil on both sides gradually became less damp, I also noticed that more than ten minutes had passed, and I wanted to stop and rest for a while, but those thoughts that kept pouring into my mind still drove my never-ending footsteps, but at this moment, a vague black shadow not far away entered the range of my flashlight.
Time passed slowly as I breathed, and the echo in the entire corridor was the sound of my panting. I looked at the dark shadow, one of his hands digging deep into the wall. The whole body was almost attached to the wall, like a worm, and I turned my head to look at him and realized that it was not a human figure, but the skeleton of a human being.
I slowly put away my steps and held the flashlight in my mouth, this skeleton was not a modern human corpse. The bones of the whole person have turned white and a little cautious, and the bones of the lower body have even stuck to the wall of the soil, while the skeleton and head of the upper body have been abandoned on top, and an arm has poked into a small hole in the wall from the ground.
Just as I was about to take a closer look, I heard a "crunch". Dirt splattered from the wall to my right. In the darkness, something that reflected the glow of a flashlight came from a distance, and I naturally wanted to stand up and block it with my arms, but when I was about to get up, my knees softened for a while because I had been squatting for a long time, and my whole body fell to the ground, and at the same moment the thing from a distance brushed against the tip of my nose.
There was a loud bang, and the thing slashed down on the wall behind me, and I saw that it was a bronze giant axe more than one person high, and there was no bright spot around the axe, but the handle was very long, and the other end of the handle was a mechanism inlaid on the wall on the right, maybe it was the cause of water vapor, the soil on the wall fell down, and the mechanism naturally came into my eyes, it was a bronze wheel, a wooden shaft was placed horizontally in the center of the bronze, and there was a medium-sized gear on the shaft, The pinion is made of wood, covered with green lacquer, and each tooth is fastened with small bronze nails.
The other half of the wheel was buried inside the earthen wall, and I couldn't see clearly, but the grooves on the bronze wheel were still clearly recognizable outside the muddy dirt. And just when I was glad to have escaped the catastrophe, a pottery beast head suddenly poked out of the exposed part of the mechanism, and the beast head poked out of the wooden shaft, and I immediately thought of "Hollow? "But why is the shaft hollow? But the mutation of the mechanism is far from over, with the appearance of the beast head, a rubber tight sound sounded inexplicably in the corridor, I looked closely, only to find that the wheel buried in the wall began to rotate on its own, his direction seemed to be controlled by himself, just after the gear on the wooden shaft turned 360 degrees, a more miniature gear turned out of the dirt of the wall below, it was a gear exactly the same as the previous gear, but the small one was pitiful, Slowly, the pinion began to drive the big gear to rotate on its own, and I tried to gather the light of the flashlight, only to realize that the reason why the axe was driven before was the result of the medium-sized gear rotating around the wooden shaft. However, this time the appearance of the small gear is carried by the medium-sized gear on an extremely thin wooden skewer, which means that the medium-sized gear has broken away from the previous wooden shaft and started a new rotation.
And just when I was surprised, the tense sound in the corridor began to spread, and I followed his careful search, only to see something moving in the depths of the medium-sized gear of the mechanism? I mustered up the courage to take a few steps forward. And it was very coincidental that the sound had almost reached an extreme, and those things, like ghosts that were about to leap out, as if waiting for the commander of something, they were getting louder and louder, denser and denser, more and more urgent, more and more boiling. Like a sad requiem, like a loud war song, it resounded through the sky and the earth for a while.
I strolled over to the mechanism amid the sounds, and suddenly all the sounds shook, and a wall in front of me exploded, and I saw a tendon pop out, and the dirt sprayed all over me, and my eyes stopped. Just then, a layer of earth above me fell, and an axe shot out. The fierce wind rolled up in front of me, and with a loud sound the axe went deep into the ground, I rubbed my eyes dry, and looked at the dangerous scene, and the person was stunned for a moment, I knew that if it wasn't for too much luck, I would definitely be in a different place.
I leaned down and tried to walk in front of the trap. Coincidentally, the wall to my left also began to crumble, and a bronze machine rattled inside, and I stood up and walked over to look at it, I really didn't know what was driving these hundred-year-old mechanisms to still work as new, and that mechanism was exactly the same as the one before. It's just that it's not as fine as it is, and there is no small gear, and the whole wheel is wrapped with black cow tendons, and the cow tendons are a little tighter with the rotation of the wheels, and then I finally know how the sound in this corridor comes from.
The whole corridor began to collapse, all the dirt fell to the ground, I stood next to the wall, a sharp axe handle jumped out of the mechanism, because I was close so there was no chance to dodge, fortunately I was standing against the wall, the whole axe body hit me so hard, suddenly the blood surged, the chest seemed to be stuffed with a small bomb, the explosion of the air flow was compressed in the bones and could not be squeezed out, and finally flowed to the neck The breath could not be spit out and could not be swallowed, The feeling of swelling scattered to my limbs kept coming, and in short, this breath hit back and forth in my veins a few times, and finally I had to open my mouth and spurt out a pool of blood.
But the matter is far from over, I laboriously moved away from the axe that was pressed on my chest, and within 2 seconds later, another axe struck from above, and at the same time, the dirt kept splashing around, and I also knew why there were no murals in this corridor, because this corridor existed for these mechanisms, and he didn't have the effect of water vapor on him at all, and he used soil as a material for such a thing. The spray of dirt and an axe with a whistling wind raged around me, I had no choice but to hold my head with both hands and put my body against the wall, and at this moment a pole hit my arm horizontally, and at the same time an axe was also draped on my clothes, my people were forced to fall to the ground by the rapid axe, I tore off my clothes, looking at the unsightly Yongdao that had been damaged by the axe, the fear of death in my heart resurfaced, But this time I was not as scared as the last time, and I thought to myself, why is a corpse in this corridor? Why is his hand in the hole in the wall? Don't?
With the profundity of my thoughts, I kept blocking the falling dirt with my hands, stood up, the flashlight was still in my hand, I bit him again at the corner of my mouth, it seemed that there was no longer a road in front of me, this place, this land and every part of the wall seemed to have an axe hidden in it, one machine bracket drove the operation of the other bracket, and it worked endlessly, until the end, I wiped the soil off my eyelids, looked at the upper body of the corpse, and was ruthless, and put my hand into the hole, Then I touched a drawing and a pull ring, I grabbed the drawing and pulled the pull ring violently, "Fuck, it's a big deal, I'm going to die here." ”
Things began to develop on the good side, I pulled the ring out at the same time as I cracked a wide hole under my feet, before I had time to think about it, I fell into it with the drawing, and at the last glance, I saw a huge axe suddenly split into the place where I was standing, and the entire surface of the hole began to deform, and finally it was sealed by a strong force with the movement of the earth, no longer looking at the top, I glanced down, and I couldn't see anything clearly.
The trail seemed to be long, with endless stretches below, and I laboriously stuffed the drawings out of the wall into my pockets, and began to resign myself to fate with my head in my hands, the first 30 seconds of my countdown was a slight curve, and the last 40 seconds were a one-person curve, which made my whole body dizzy.
More than 1 minute later, my buttocks were hot and I fell on a wooden plank, and the sound of the impact shook my ears deaf, but just as I was complaining, suddenly a hard thing hit my stomach, although it was not a knife, but the huge force still entered my body. I leaned over and made close contact with the plank again.
I let out an "ahh
"Xiao Du?" A voice sounded with a questioning tone. (To be continued......)