Chapter Forty-Eight: The Arrow Array
When I was about to get out of the slab under the slate, I saw the ghost's big black face right in front of my eyes, and I was so frightened that I subconsciously reached out and pushed it away from me.
As a result, there was an exclamation in front of me, and when I looked closely, I found that the fat man had been pushed down by me and rolled forward.
A few steps ahead, there was a big black pit, and half of the fat man's body had now fallen, and Tianyu and I hurriedly ran to the smoke man and helped him pull the fat man up.
The fat man lay on the ground in shock, and scolded me unrelentingly: "Fake Sven, you want to murder your husband?" ”
Ignoring his half-truths and annoyed jokes, I hurriedly ripped off his backpack, unzipped it, and poured out all the contents.
The big black face I saw before must not be a mural, if it was, how could it appear on the fat man's backpack, and as a result, I pushed the fat man out and almost made him fall into the trap. The only light here is the flashlight in our hands, a dim searchlight in Tianyu's hand, and the murals on the stone walls, which will never be refracted on the canvas backpack.
The fat man looked at my strange behavior and asked me worriedly, "Lao Zheng, what's wrong with you?" Don't scare me. ”
Tianyu and the smoke man also looked at me in surprise, the contents of the fat man's backpack were scattered all over the ground, except for food, it was tiger skins and ancient picture scrolls, and the ivory coffin cover had been discarded by him at some point, but there was no trace of the big black face, and I sat on the ground like a deflated leather ball.
I thought to myself: Could it really be that I am dazzled, or hallucinating?
No way. I immediately dismissed the thought in my heart. As the saying goes, "It's no more than three things." "I've seen the ghost's big black face three times, it's definitely not dazzling, this ghost thing must be hiding around us. Wait for the opportunity.
Looking at the three people in front of me who were staring at me with nervous faces, a trace of fear suddenly welled up in my heart.
That big black-faced thing can't just be lurking in one of them, right?
I buried and suppressed the fear in my heart, and then said to the three of them: "I'm fine, it's just" I stumbled for a long time, and I didn't find a suitable lie as an excuse to explain for a while.
The cigarette man patted me on the shoulder and comforted me flatly, "It's okay." "Finished. He turned around and began to look at the pit behind him.
The fat man said to me with a relaxed face: "With me by your side, what do you have to worry about, don't be nervous and relax." I'm counting on you to take me out of this damn place. I've had enough of the earthy smell here. ”
Tianyu looked at me with a worried face and didn't say anything.
I smiled and listened to the fat man's words, somewhat relieved. I'm not alone in the fight right now. No matter what happens next, I don't have to worry too much about having these reliable friends by my side.
With that in mind, I stood up and began to look at the burial chamber I was in. This burial chamber is completely different from the previous stone chamber, it is a pit burial chamber. A large pit had been dug into the ground in front of it, about the same size as the one we had fallen into earlier. But. The pit stretched endlessly into the distance, and there was no end in sight. It was pitch black again. With the power of our current light source, we can't see too far at all.
Recalling the experience of entering this underground tomb group, I can't help but sigh in my heart, this labyrinthine underground tomb group, the anti-theft mechanism set up in it is really large-scale, completely beyond people's imagination.
The cigarette man turned to me and said, "We'll have to go down and have a look." ”
I nodded, and began to pull the rope out of the fat man's backpack, and the tobacco man connected the three iron pipes into an iron rod, then stuck it in the dirt ground, and tied the rope to the iron rod.
The cigarette man insisted on going down alone, but I resolutely disagreed, because I was always obsessed with that thing that I didn't know what it was, and the big black face that would appear from time to time, and I would never let my teammates be left alone. So, at my insistence, the four of us went down to the pit en masse.
After descending into the pit, we then looked into the distance in the faint light, and were suddenly deeply shocked by the scene at the bottom of the pit, so that we could not calm down for a long time.
The pit is covered with a dense array of bows and arrows, and people with dense phobias will definitely feel suffocated and faint at the first glance.
The fat man looked at the arrow array in the distance and said to me, "Lao Zheng, is there any tranquilizer for me, how do I feel panicked now." ”
I reassured him and said, "You rest against the wall, don't move around." "The heart said: It's over, I'm really afraid of something, the fat man probably has a dense phobia, how do I usually not find it, maybe he just happened to feel unwell at this time, not really because of the relationship of dense fear. I was worried that the fat man, who was not very conscious, would fall into the arrow formation lightly, so I first settled him in the corner of the pit to rest, and then asked Tianyu to take care of him. Looking at the fat man's depressed appearance, I felt a little funny, but I didn't expect that the fat man, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, would also have times when he was panicked and scared.
The cigarette man was already squatting on the ground not far away with a cigarette in his mouth to check, and I also cheered up my spirit, carefully and cautiously moved a few steps forward, squatting down to check the sharp arrows on the ground that had drawn their bows and were ready to shoot through us at any time. The root of each arrow is cut into a barbed crescent opening, so that the arrow can be hung on the densely opened bowstring, as long as someone accidentally touches the mechanism, thousands of sharp arrows will be like dominoes in a chain reaction, absolutely no dead end will be in the deep pit, shooting all the people in the deep pit, into a hedgehog covered in thorns.
However, I found that most of the bowstrings are made of animal hoof tendons such as cow tendons, and many of them have lost their function after years of corrosion. So, as long as we are careful to avoid bows and arrows that can still be triggered, we should be able to safely pass through the arrow array.
I told the smoke man my opinion, and the smoke man probably had the same idea. It's risky, but there's no alternative.
I conveyed my thoughts to Tianyu and the fat man, but the fat man, who was sitting in the corner resting against the dirt wall, immediately rejected it, waved his hand and shook his head, and said, "No, no, I can't." I would feel dizzy and weak in my legs when I looked at those dense bows and arrows, and there was no way to cross through them, so I thought of other ways. ”
I smiled and said, "Since you will get dizzy when you see it." That's easy, you can walk through blindfolded! ”
The fat man glanced at the dense array of arrows, and said to me angrily: "Your heart is greatly broken. ”
I didn't answer, and Tianyu on the side answered: "I think this method will work, as long as someone is leading you in front and slowly moving forward step by step." ”
I was just joking, and I didn't expect it to be the solution to the problem, but who would lead the fat man became a problem. Usually the best person at this time is me, but I am afraid that the big black face will appear at any time, and then I will panic and accidentally cause the fat man to fall into the arrow formation.
But among the remaining two, I felt uneasy about Tianyu, and let the cigarette man lead the fat man, and the fat man himself was awkward and unwilling. In the end, I ignored the fat man's unreasonable trouble, and decided to let the cigarette man lead him, I walked the front road, and the rain was cut off at the end.
The fat man was blindfolded, and as soon as I was ready, I cautiously walked into the arrow array. The ground was littered with bows and arrows, and their feet were on the rotten shafts of the arrows, making a clattering sound. I looked at the rotten arrow array, and my tense nerves suddenly relaxed a lot, and I began to move forward with bold steps, and from time to time I looked back to check the condition of the fat man.
Suddenly, I accidentally kicked a good bowstring, and my heart suddenly cooled: "Not good. "But it's too late to dodge.
I saw a bow and arrow on the ground, swishing up, flying past my knee in the blink of an eye, and then falling weakly downwards and falling to the ground.
I patted my chest in fear and let out a sigh of relief. It turned out that the dense arrow array in this deep pit had completely lost its effect and would not pose a threat at all.
The fat man walked behind blindfolded, moving very slowly, but his mouth was very restless, and he kept shouting, "I'm hungry." ”
I had to find a safe place where the sharp arrows were corrupted, dispose of the bows and arrows on the ground, and then ask everyone to sit around and rest.
Tianyu distributed the food to everyone, and I said to the fat man who was blindfolded: "The arrow array has lost its effect, we can speed up with peace of mind, can you not be blindfolded?" ”
The fat man shook his head like a rattle, stuffed his mouth with food, and said indistinctly: "I get dizzy when I see these dense arrays of arrows, and it has nothing to do with whether it is dangerous or not." ”
I said again, "The arrow array is almost rotten. Either you keep your head down, don't look around, and just focus on the road under your feet, so that we can get out of here quickly. We've only walked about a tenth of the way now, and at this pace, can we get out in the Year of the Monkey? ”
The fat man swallowed the food, nodded and said, "I'll try it." ”
The fat man listened to my advice, and the speed of our march was indeed much faster, and we soon reached the position in the middle of the deep pit.
I was worried about the fat man's condition and turned around and asked him, "Are you okay?" Do you want to take a break? ”
The fat man replied, "No, if your stomach is full, you won't feel tired." "The fat man is very well taken care of, as long as he is fed, nothing is a problem.
I smiled and turned around and continued walking. I could vaguely see the exit ahead, and at that moment, I noticed something strange underneath my feet. (To be continued......)