30. Double-trapezoidal tombs
Suddenly, the corpse stood up and slapped me. Without warning, I sat up, I looked at the white body as if it had been painted, fear did not drive me to do anything, but I unconsciously picked up the shovel, as if there was a force driving me, indignantly let me put the shovel down, something was wrong. I thought about it, and I seemed to feel that the slap that had just hit me was very large, but when I looked at the corpse's hand, it was at most half the size of my palm.
"What's going on?" An incredible thought crept through my mind.
"Wake up, wake up!" In the darkness I felt the space I was in suddenly spin up, a voice suddenly sounded, and finally I could only hear a bang, I suddenly found myself still sitting on the coffin, in front of me was the fat man, he looked at me with a horrified face, sweating, snorting and panting, and the old man next to me was facing me with a shotgun.
"What's wrong?" I felt a chill in my heart, and I realized that I still had the shovel in my hand, right in front of the fat man's head. I just felt like my brain was messing up and my hands seemed to be frozen in the air.
"You just went crazy." The fat man didn't care so much when he saw that I woke up, and kicked me down.
I rolled down in a rounded way, touched the back of my head, and continued to ask, "What's going on?" At the same time, I swept my gaze from the old man and the fat man back to the coffin, it was still the same, there was no change, the snake was still a snake, he was still hovering and attached to the coffin, and the body in the coffin I still couldn't see clearly, but when I went through all that, the scene suddenly became weird.
"You were stunned just now." The fat man took turns and jumped down from the coffin with his arms and said to me.
"Devils?" It dawned on me: "It turned out that the previous one was a dream." But are there such real dreams? I wiped the sweat from my head.
"No, I've seen this coffin in our ancient books." Suddenly, Master Brie spoke, he put down the gun in his hand, and stared at the coffin in front of me with a pair of fine eyes: "This is the coffin of the ghost country, the mother of the country can use, I have seen this kind of coffin in the funeral culture book in our Yi epic "Zhige Along", this kind of coffin is made of blood bronze, the coffin is made of the main rod of Yanmu, so after the washing of time, it is like the ice without a trace. ”
"Ghost Country?" I didn't care what blood bronze was and what was Yanmu at this time, all my thoughts floated to the ghost country, what does this mean? This tomb is actually related to the ghost country, it is the one-eyed Gumo, so what does this mean? This tomb was stolen, which means that we have indeed come to the right place? By mistake, they really found their tracks.
I always thought that my fate was like a cloud in the sky, which could only move with the wind when it moved, but until now I have found that it is not only that, I have been walking in a cycle chosen by others, and whenever I think I am almost about to leave this cycle when I look up and find that the gears of fate are still spinning in my head, there is no sign of stopping.
"This is the ghost country's negative ghost mother lock soul coffin, at that time the ancients believed in the soul theory, so they used a way to preserve the body of their mother of the country."
"Wait." I suddenly interrupted the old man's words and looked at him with a very strange look: "You say this is the mother of the country?" Is it a woman? Or is it a grown woman? ”
"Nonsense." The old man patted me on the head, "You're stupid. ”
"No, no." I said as I tilted my neck on the ground to avoid another slap from the old man, then looked directly at him and asked, "Is it possible that there is a child in the coffin?" ”
"Either you're crazy, or the ancients are crazy." The old man shook his head, now is not the time for us to discuss this, "We are in a very bad environment right now. ”
"Nope." I turned my head around and looked stupid and asked, "How did I get into a daze?" How did you get here? Wang Lei: What about them? ”
At this time, the fat man swept the eyes of the snake mother with a flashlight, and asked with an indifferent look, "What did you see at the end of the demon?" ”
Eye? It occurred to me that it was that eye, which seemed to be the entrance to a world in the darkness, and I remembered that I only saw the illusion when I looked at that thing. "It's the Soul Snatcher. During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there were many Taoist priests, so there were many such strange secret techniques, and it is estimated that something was used to make you enter the illusion, and it was always in the future when you saw something glowing in the dark, try not to see him. The old man saw what was on my mind and said to me slowly, "As for how we got in?" I can only tell you, Wang Lei, they are about to come in? ”
"What?"
As I was talking, I heard a voice and suddenly looked back, and saw Wang Lei and Xu Ming screaming and squeezing out of the wall not far away. The wall is moving and receding a lot? An idea popped into my head.
"This wall is filled with corpses, some of them are craftsmen of the time, some are martyrs, and some are the corpses of those tomb robbers, but luckily we were vomited." The fat man said as he lifted his sticky clothes in his hand.
"Spit?" I was surprised.
"That's right. The wall is alive, and I don't know what it is, it's an old guy anyway, but luckily his digestive system isn't very good. The old man smiled at me and said, "We have all become its excrement and have been put in this place. ”
"Isn't that what you mean is the toilet?" The fat man gave him a blank look, "Don't use it if you learn less, it's not your person who loses it, but the person who teaches you!" The fat man patted his face as he spoke, and immediately ran towards Wang Lei and them, "Hurry up and pull them over, the new round of the demon wall is probably about to start again, you don't like to stay in his stomach, right?" ”
"What?" I was wondering when I suddenly saw the wall not far away moving back towards us at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye. I was startled and immediately hid back, and although the coffin was scary enough, it didn't matter if I didn't look at it. I watched the demon wall move towards me, I could only lean against the coffin, and I was so pessimistic in my heart! It wouldn't be worth it if it was hung, but fortunately, it was similar to what the old man had described, and the maximum distance of the thing could only be moved to the front of the coffin.
Probably told Wang Lei and Xu Ming about the situation here, the old man also said that there is an exit three meters away from the back of the coffin, which seems to be a passage for transporting the coffin, originally I wanted to say that since that place is for transporting coffins, does it mean that the place we are going to is the way out of this tomb? But after thinking about it, I gave up on this statement, after all, our main purpose in this place right now is to find everything that might be related to my mask.
Here, the old man didn't give Wang Lei much time to rest, so we immediately sorted out our equipment and walked towards the passage that the old man said.
This place is an inverted triangle room, we were at the bottom of the triangle before, and the further we went, the more focused our vision became, and the light of the flashlight could be maximized, so that we would not walk in that huge sinkhole like before. A few meters of the road under the delay of Wang Lei and Xu Ming, we walked for a few minutes, during which the fat man and I took turns to give them psychological comfort and counseling, but these two guys probably saw something in the demon wall, and they were still confused for a while, and their nerves were highly tense.
Suddenly, we stepped on a plank. A creaking sound erupted in the dark tomb. The fat man who was walking in front suddenly paused, "What is it?" How can there be planks? ”
At this time, the burial system of the Western Zhou Dynasty, in fact, the tomb where we were before was a dead man's room, to put it bluntly, it was a bedroom, and there was naturally a lot of attention in the bedroom, at that time, people believed in the duality of soul and flesh, and believed that the soul of the dead was still kept in the world in another form after death, so it was not uncommon for the ancients at that time to dress their tombs luxuriously, and this wooden board is the meaning of the soul, as the name suggests, it is a walking passage for the soul of the soul. I heard that the production method of this thing is very strange, but I have never seen the real thing, and I can't imagine that what we are stepping on under our feet is a piece now. ”
"Soul Attraction Dao?" I wondered, "Is that so strange?" ”
"This thing has gone through a lot of processes, and it is a special product specially provided for those who have died, and it is said that it also has the effect of rejuvenating the soul?" The old man said to me in order to scare me. But the old man didn't know that his face seemed to me to be nothing but wrinkles, so I didn't feel anything intimidating, so I could only weep and give him an expression of encouragement: "Well, you did a good job." I said in my heart, but I couldn't remember the mask on my face, so I could only watch the old man's stupid performance alone.
Speaking of this, we have already walked through the tomb at this time, and under the light of the flashlight, this is not a corridor, but a trapezoidal tomb, the walls on both sides of this tomb are getting narrower and narrower as we go forward, and it should be a double trapezoidal tomb. However, it seems that the preservation of this place is not complete after being sacked by tomb robbers. The funerary objects in the niches on both sides seem to have been hollowed out, and the remaining frescoes next to the niches may be some kind of deity.
And just then, my eyelids suddenly twitched, and I saw something in the corner on the right running quickly.