When I mentioned this to the fat man, I couldn't help but suspect that there were many stones buried in this cave, which were used to suppress ghosts, and these words made Ding Sitian a little nervous, and she said to us: "Don't mention this, I feel cold in my back, what should we do now?" There is no way back, there are ten passages here, and there are nine left, which way do you have to go to get out? ”

I found that Ding Sitian's courage has indeed become smaller, maybe because of the heavy losses of cattle and horses in the pastoral area, so that she has no bottom in her heart, I estimate that she is in the same mood as the old sheepskin, the pastoral area has an accident to take responsibility, the only way to reduce this responsibility is to recover the lost cattle and horses, but the missing cattle and the fleeing horses are precisely running into this area that is regarded as a "forbidden land" by the herdsmen, and those terrifying legends about the "Hundred Eyes Cave" have already penetrated into the bone marrow of the locals, and it is really difficult to advance or retreat. But in this special era, fear is not as strong as fear of blame, if you put yourself in the shoes of her and the old sheepskin, the pressure on their hearts must be very great, and the fierce ideological struggle must be going on.

To say that she was not like this when the previous big series, at that time it was just when the classmates were young and high-spirited, once we went to a certain place in series, and happened to catch up with a local middle school teacher, with a group of junior high school students to dig a grave, the tomb owner was a celebrity in the late Qing Dynasty Restoration, the body was pulled out of the grave, hung upside down on the tree to show the public, so that the revolutionary masses could see the ugly face of the largest royalist party in history, Ding Sitian and I went to visit overnight after hearing the news, the moon was dark and the wind was high at night, A few people rushed to see the ancient corpse hanging on the tree in the dark, and they didn't see her afraid at that time.

I came back to my senses and said to Ding Sitian and the fat man: "This crypt is not a place of right and wrong that should not be left for a long time, let's see how the situation of the old sheepskin is first, and then go out as much as possible." We lacked medical knowledge at that time, and did not know that the movement of the intestinal tube in the abdominal cavity of the human body is mainly innervated by autonomic nerves, and it is also affected by the blood movement of the intestinal tube.

All we can do is to massage his abdomen, the old sheepskin sanity is somewhat restored, the most memorable thing for him is his horses, the remaining three horses, all fled into the depths of the dense forest on the ground of the "Hundred Eyes Cave", lost their mounts, and it was not easy to return to the pasture, so I had to comfort him that he must try his best to find the horses.

Seeing that the old sheepskin has improved slightly, I discussed with the fat man and Ding Sitian where to go, this crypt is surrounded by ten passages, the structure is almost identical, we enter it from a collapsed tunnel, the original road has collapsed, and it is not known whether there is an exit yet, but this crypt should not be an ancient tomb, it is not very strong, and the possibility of finding an exit is still quite large, I think that since there is a symbol of rejuvenation and soul suppression, it seems that there are dead souls and ghosts everywhere, so the ten tunnels around here, It is likely that it represents the ten realms of the underworld, and it is not clear whether it is eastern, southern, or northwest, so I have to choose one at random.

The fat man asked, "Old Hu, are you talking nonsense?" I heard you say that it is enough to hang, why do you say that there are ten realms in the underworld? Why not eight, nine, or eleven? ”

I said: "I remember that my grandfather used to have a map of the underworld, and there were exactly ten paths in the underworld painted on it, as for what is not nine or eleven paths, I heard that it was because the Tang Dynasty divided the world into ten paths, yin and yang are relative, so there are also ten paths in the underworld, but whether these ten tunnels are like this is not something I can't be sure, the thoughts of the ancients, where do we go to understand?" Anyway, if you want to turn passive into active, you have to go in and see for yourself, and if you're lucky, maybe there will be other gaps in the collapse that can climb out of here. ”

The fat man thinks it makes sense, at this time everyone is almost resting, so I still carried the old sheepskin with the fat man, made a mark on the way to come, picked up a passage at random and walked in, the underground moisture is very heavy, choking people's brains are painful, and the swarms of rats are still disgusted, there are many rat holes in the stone bricks along the way, it is estimated that they can reach the ground, but only the body shape of the rat can come and go in it.

Not far away, the collapse of the tunnel blocked the way, had to turn back, and then in another tunnel, I finally found a shaft, the top space is narrow, only for one person, I first touched up the steep stone steps, found that the tunnel leading to the top of the shaft mouth, was blocked by a gray rock, with my hand touched, the gray slate is a large piece of cement, there is an iron ring on it, the strangest thing is that there are some Arabic numerals on the surface of the cement slab, as if it is a certain number, I am anxious to leave this gloomy and damp crypt, I didn't bother to look carefully at what those numbers meant, so I put the kerosene gas lamp in my mouth, stretched out my arm and pushed it up, and the heavy cement block was only pushed open by me through a narrow slit, and the cold wind on the ground poured in, but I used all my strength to feed, and the cement slab did not move at all, and I could no longer push it away.

I climbed down the shaft and told my companions about the situation above, and the fat man and Ding Sitian were surprised: "Are you mistaken?" This Hundred Eyes Cave should be a monument, although we don't know what it is used for, but how can there be a numbered cement slab? "However, we don't know exactly when the foreign character code was introduced to China, and we don't plan to do this research, we just want to get out of it.

The fat man took off his coat and hat, rolled up his sleeves and climbed up the shaft, only to listen to his luck, while cursing while pushing the cement that pressed the shaft, highlighting the muscles and bones of the whole body, using a body of brute force, and shouted: "Open the ......" and pushed the cement slate aside, the dim starlight outside immediately sprinkled down, we grew a breath of air, and couldn't help but have a sense of seeing the light of day.

The fat man climbed on the ground first, Ding Sitian and I supported the old sheepskin below, the fat man picked him up and dragged him out of the tunnel, and then climbed up as well, only to see the moon shadow outside hazy, the shadows of the trees around him, still in the forest of the "Hundred Eyes Cave", there are no worms and wild rats here, there is silence everywhere.

While the fat man and I were looking around to identify the direction, Ding Sitian carried the gas lamp and looked at the cement cover curiously: "Huh...... In addition to the code, there are also words on it...... Water Supply Troop ...... Wave 3916......"

(Note: Water Supply Unit -- During World War II, the Japanese army set up the world's largest secret military structure for researching and preparing bacteriological warfare, and had a number of independent units under its jurisdiction. ）