Lao Wu's lips moved, and from his expression, he didn't seem to agree with Zhang Xuan's statement about the funeral standard, but considering that the details of deep and shallow burial had nothing to do with the overall situation, he turned his head and just stared at the stone steps that circled down, and said, "Let's go. The answer should be at the very bottom of this vein, where you can feel a gentle breeze, and I'm afraid it won't be too shallow below. ”

The iron chain and the stone slab under the foot are already the remains of more than a thousand years ago, the stone slab is overhead on the thick iron chain wrapped in thick rust, the five people reminded each other, lightly stepped on the stone steps made of stone slabs, as long as the foot is a little heavier, it will sway from side to side, making people tremble, for fear that one foot did not turn into the depths of the bottomless vein.

Carefully tried to go down a few steps, I couldn't help but secretly complain, if you use the stairs of modern buildings to compare, the design of this stone step is simply to take the embarrassing, not only the feet are swaying and unstable, between the steps are also full of twenty or thirty centimeters high, wide and narrow can only accommodate most of the soles of the feet, every step is scared, the legs began to tremble hard, even the nervousness in the heart, only down a dozen and panting.

In the middle is a cylindrical cavity dug out according to the distribution of mineral deposits, the left and right jagged are not very neat, and the iron chains and stone steps that are deeply smashed into the stone wall are also followed by the changes of protruding or recessing, this irregular spiral descending staircase structure aroused the interest of Lao Wu, and nodded lightly after carefully observing the thick iron chains, saying that the metal must have been artificially added to the casting, otherwise it would have been rotten for more than a thousand years, only from this point of view, the civilization of the era of King Luo Dian has been highly developed.

Generally speaking, copper metal is relatively stable, and iron is difficult to survive for a long time, especially when these iron chains are exposed to air and oxidize naturally. Lao Wu couldn't stop sighing, but he didn't expect that in Yunnan, a border place, the ancient iron-smelting technology was no worse than that of the Central Plains Dynasty at the same time.

Lao Wu was extremely excited, and couldn't wait to chase after the big head, Zhang Xuan and I alternately helped Chen Blind up and down, and after a while, a layer of sweat appeared on Kung Fu's body, and the wind from the open ground blew from his feet to his head, and it was cold from the inside out.

The big head who walked first stopped, and as soon as I turned around, the dazzling mine light shook my eyes, and I blocked it with my hand, and heard the big head say to Lao Wu: "It seems that something is hanging in front of me and shaking around." As he spoke, he turned his head back, his hand pointing straight ahead.

I followed a few steps behind the two of them, and following the direction pointed by the big head, I clearly saw a dark figure swaying left and right above the stone steps in front of me, and my heart fluttered and jumped with acceleration. Lao Wu, who had been staring at it for a long time, whispered: "Don't panic, I don't think it's likely to be a living thing." ”

The big head put down his movements very slowly, I followed him with the courage of the heart, and the two of them approached the black shadow step by step, and stopped at a distance of about three or four meters, the big head's eyes were better than mine, and his voice was a little tight, "It's a corpse hanging in the air, let's get closer and take a look." ”

When encountering such things as coffins and ancient corpses, I have been trained for more than a year to become less nervous, but in addition to a few beams of light from far and near in front of me, surrounded by darkness that swallowed up a qiē, coupled with such a corpse hanging in the air swaying from side to side, it naturally created a strange and terrifying atmosphere of approaching step by step, and my legs and feet fell unfavorably.

Stiffened and moved closer, slowly seeing the corpse hunched over, hung high from behind by a hanging iron chain, from my point of view I could only see the sideways, the black clothes on the body looked like ancient clothes, wrapped so that no skin was exposed, the lowest end of the fluttering clothes was half a foot high from the feet, the long hair hung straight down just to cover half of the side of the face, and the withered yellow hair fluttered gently with the corpse swaying from side to side.

I was beating a drum in my heart, and I kept telling myself that I had seen a lot of ancient corpses, and I didn't need to be nervous at all, I slowly approached the corpse more than a meter away and stopped, and just wanted to beckon Lao Wu to come and take a look, but the corpse that had been floating sideways suddenly turned around in a small half circle and swung towards me.

I didn't expect that the corpse, which was hanging in chains, would suddenly change direction and rotate ninety degrees to press its face against me, being blown by the light wind. Without any reaction, in an instant, the hideous, shriveled face of an ancient corpse almost hit my face, let alone in such an extremely exciting and sudden way. I could clearly see that the black-hole-sunken eye sockets were looking straight into my eyes, the black, dry skin that was clinging to the deep shaved cheeks almost rubbed the tip of my nose, and the white teeth in the gaping mouth were about to pounce and bite.

The brain "boom" seemed to explode, my legs were weak and I sat on the stone steps, my hand tightly grasped the arm of the big head next to me and refused to let go, subconsciously opened my mouth to shout but even the voice was held in my throat and couldn't come out, my eyes were black for a while, and I was about to faint.

The big head was also startled by the ancient corpse swinging in, but he was far from seeing me up close, and reached out to pull me up and backwards up a few steps, and I sat on the stone steps and leaned against the stone wall and was paralyzed, so frightened that I almost peed my pants. Lao Wu caught up with two steps in front of me at this time, and comforted: "It's good that you're not scared, there will always be such a coincidence under the ancient tombs, don't panic." ”

Blind Chen heard Zhang Xuan say that I was almost hit by an ancient corpse, and sighed heavily, "Alas", he sighed heavily, "I have been to a lot of tombs, and it is strange to say, and the occasional strange things in the tomb will find two kinds of people, one is timid, and the other is a bad thing...... You're okay, I've personally experienced being scared to death by going down to the ground together. ”

This may sound like a prank joke about the fright I just received, but in fact, I heard Chen Blind mention it at the wine table last year, and it was a purely superstitious statement, and the grievances of the unjustly deceased were so great that they specifically picked on the bad and the cowardly, and I couldn't help but think about which of the two types of people I was, and how could I be so sad.

It took me a long time to get back to normal, Lao Wu had already studied the hanging ancient corpse for a long time, and an unbearable expression gradually appeared on his face, and he said: "I can see that this is a female corpse that has been pregnant for seven or eight months. The special constant temperature conditions and the lack of microorganisms in the underground environment allowed the corpse to be preserved intact, and the skin and flesh had been carbonized. ”

I couldn't help frowning, using a pregnant woman for burial, the body was hung for more than a thousand years, this King Luo Dian is really a brutal king without humanity, according to the superstition of the ghosts and gods of the blind man, it is not surprising that this female corpse has great resentment, and even descendants like us can not hate to pick the skin of King Luo Dian when they see such a scene.