Chapter 151: The Nine-Ring Burial Pit
The remaining ten members of the Western Expedition Team finally escaped from the snow valley full of white strange masks and horseshoe crabs in the frozen and cold snow valley. But the danger is not completely gone, but will come again at any time.
When the fifth master saw us setting up ropes in the burial pit, he said to me, "Xiaowen, this is a circular burial pit. However, "
Halfway through the words of the fifth master, I nodded, there are a lot of dry bones of birds piled up in the deep pit, it should be a burial pit, and from its arc appearance, it should be a circular burial pit, in the center of it, there should be a burial chamber.
But I don't know why Fifth Master Zha stopped in the middle of his words, and asked a little puzzled: "Fifth brother, but what?" Is there anything wrong here? ”
Fifth Master Zha looked at the scattered dry bones scattered on the dirt floor and said, "However, the dry bones in this ring-shaped pit are all birds, and I think there should be other burial pits near this deep pit,"
I was not surprised to hear this, but it is not surprising that in ancient times, there were a large number of burial pits in the catacombs of high-ranking royal families.
After the rope was erected, I wanted to go up first, but I was stopped by the fifth master, and he said to me, "I'll go up first." After saying that, he pulled the rope and climbed up quickly.
I had no choice but to wait for the fifth master to go up later. As a result, I didn't expect to be preempted by Kunba again, and the playboy unceremoniously ran in front of me and went to the ground. I had to wait helplessly for the curious people to climb up first, and then asked Tianyu, "Can you go up yourself?" ”
Tianyu nodded, so I said to her again, "Then I'll go up first." I'll pull you up when I go up. ”
Tianyu didn't speak, just nodded.
I grabbed the rope. Soon he climbed up, then turned back. Pulled the rain up.
When the rain reached the ground, he collapsed in my arms. I held her body, looked around, and found that Fifth Master Zha and the others were standing in front of me, looking forward motionlessly.
I flashed past the crowd and looked ahead, and found that not far below our feet there was another pit, much wider than the one we had just climbed up. It's a width we can't cross. And this wide deep pit takes an arc to extend into the distance, and finally connects into a ring. Another circular pit was encased in the grave pit of the birds behind me.
To my great astonishment, there were seven other circular burial pits in front of me, each wider than the other. In this vast underground cavern, there are a total of nine ringed burial pits, and on the ground in the center of the nine-ring burial pit. It was dark and there seemed to be something, but because of the distance and the darkness around it, it was impossible to see what it was.
I was very shocked and pulled the rain. He began to walk on the ground on the outside of the circular burial pit, looking down at the dimly lit pit from time to time.
The others followed me and started walking around.
The underground cavern was pitch black. There was nothing but nine ringed burial pits in a ring of burial pits in a ring. There is also no access to the entrance and exit. These strange circular burial pits, along with the lonely and desolate dry bones within. It is enclosed in this dark and silent cave, far away from the dust of the world.
It took about half an hour to go around the circular burial pit, but it was mainly due to the fact that we were walking and stopping, and the footsteps were not fast, so it took a lot of time.
After looking around the top of the burial pit, I didn't find anything unusual, the burial pit in front of me was very wide, and it was impossible to cross it directly, so I had to go down to the bottom of the burial pit, and then climb to the ground on the opposite side from the inside.
When I stepped into the bottom of the burial pit, I found that the dry bones inside were much larger than those in the outermost burial pit, and they looked like the remains of macaques. I thought: It seems that the animals buried in these nine circular burial pits are arranged in order according to the size of the precious form, and I don't know what the animals buried in the last ring pit are, and it may be very precious camels.
After looking around the burial pit of the macaques' dry bones, we didn't find anything wrong, so we had to set up ropes again and climb up. In this way, we climbed up and down again and again, from the outside to the inside, and passed through the burial pits of the four rings of pigs, sheep, cattle and horses.
When I came to the burial pit of the seventh ring, I was surprised to find that the dry bones in the burial pit of the seventh ring resemble camels.
The burial pit is from the outside to the inside, although one ring is shorter than the other, but one is wider than the other, we walked a long distance longitudinally in the seventh ring of the burial pit before we reached the opposite earthen wall and climbed up. Then everyone slipped into the eighth burial pit again, and I was shocked to find that the dry bones in this burial pit were elephant bones. There are several well-preserved elephant carcasses, with pointed tusks, lying quietly in the center of the burial pit.
I was very surprised to walk up to the elephant's skeleton and looked up and down in disbelief, almost seeing through the elephant bones. In the end, I finally believed that the dozens of dry bones in front of me were really real elephant remains. Looking at the pale and cold dry bones, a very bad thought suddenly appeared in my heart, and I said: If the burial objects in the burial pit of the eighth ring are rare elephants in the world, then the burial objects in the ninth ring will be some rare and precious animal in the world, and I suddenly have a rather bad feeling.
The fat man walked up to the elephant's bones, opened his mouth wide in surprise and said, "His grandmother's, I don't know which old man is buried here?" Just by looking at his extravagant burial pit, you can guess that there must be a lot of treasures buried in his tomb. His grandmother, now I am really going to get rich. I wonder what the next burial animal will be in the burial pit? I'd love to see it soon. ”
I frowned, stared coldly at the elephant remains in front of me, and replied thoughtfully to the fat man, "The contents of the next burial pit will definitely surprise you." ”
Stepping into the Ninth Ring Burial Pit, I immediately felt a gust of wind blowing through the back of my neck, causing my pores to instantly open up and scream in horror. Sure enough, my guess was correct!
The fat man looked at the corpses all over the grave in the ninth ring, and muttered angrily, "Metamorphosis." ”
The Ninth Ring Burial Pit was full of human bones, and humans became the highest level of burial objects.
"Human martyrdom" has become the highest burial method in the bloody and cruel Ninth Ring Burial Pit.
Although it is said that "all living beings are equal", I was very saddened to see a large number of dead bones of burial animals in the burial pits outside. But I absolutely cannot agree with the acceptance of human martyrdom, which is beyond the limit of what I can bear.
miserable white chest ribs, propped up in black dirt; The lonely skeleton and skull rolling around, with dark eye holes, in the darkness, desolate silently counted the countless years that had not seen the light of day. Looking at the desolate dry bones, I didn't feel any fear, only a heart full of sorrow, and if I stayed here, I would not be able to breathe because of palpitations.
I couldn't bear to take a second look, and walked quickly over a dry skeleton, and without looking back, I came to the front of the dirt wall, trying to leave here as much as possible. As a result, when I was pulling the rope, I saw a person on my side out of the corner of my eye, so I immediately turned my head to look at it alertly.
A very complete dry bone, in an upward climbing posture, kneeling in front of the dirt wall, his pale hand bones were actually inserted in the dirt wall, and a picture immediately appeared in my mind, a person who still had a trace of breath, in the burial pit, trying to use his last strength to climb up and get out of here. But in the end, to no avail, he held on to the greatest hope, but also felt endless despair, but his hands could not be let go, causing them to sink deep into the dirt, and as a result, he remained in this hopeless posture until he became a pile of white dry bones.
My nose was sore, and I hurriedly grabbed the rope with both hands and climbed up with all my might. As soon as I went up, I found that there was no longer a burial pit in front of me, and the ground under my feet was no longer dirt, but a large circular stone slab with a radius of about a zhang long. In the middle of the round slate, there is a square gray slate one meter square, and on the top of the square slate, there seem to be scattered patterns decorated with some geometric patterns.
With a flashlight, I cautiously scanned the ground beneath my feet, and there was usually a mechanism on top of such a stone slab.
The rest of the Western Expedition team also climbed the round stone slab one after another, and when they saw me staring at my feet with my pestle in place, everyone also bent down and kept looking at my feet.
I crouched down and tapped the slate in front of me with my hand, which made a very dull sound, and then I took a small step forward with confidence, and then bent down again, ready to strike the slate in front of me again.
Suddenly, I heard a rustling sound in the distance, and Captain Chen, who was standing next to me, immediately said to me, "It's over, the masked monster worm has come in." ”
Needless to say, Captain Chen also guessed it, panicked in his heart, and immediately anxiously accelerated the movements of his hands, kept knocking on the circular stone floor, and then walked forward with stop-and-go.
The other members of the Western Expedition team followed me very tacitly.
I crouched on the ground, anxiously moving forward. In the darkness, I could already hear the sound of rustling in the distance, getting closer and closer, and at this time I walked safely to the center of the round stone slab, the square gray stone slab in front of it. (To be continued......)