Chapter 8: The Dungeon
The three of us and Fat Zi Yue'er got lost in the dark underground, and we all thought it was the result of spatial confusion. So, I came up with the idea of digging through the ground and burrowing into the ground, after all, digging a hole is the most familiar escape method for our tomb robbers. However, in the course of the project, we found that there was an inexplicable and strange situation in the earth cave overhead, and we had no choice but to sit down and discuss countermeasures, find out the cause, and then find a way to solve the problem.
During the discussion, Yue'er came up with an inconsistencuous sentence, and after listening to her, I smiled and said, "I've heard of the "ghost ship", what is this "ghost soil"? How I've never heard of it. ”
Yue'er shook the bangs on her forehead and said, "The old man doesn't often say that when the object is old, it will become fine." Pu Songling's book is not also written, gold and silver have courage, and they can be transformed into shape over time. Since there will be ghost ships, then of course there will be ghost soil, but this ghost soil is not necessarily real earth, but the soul of something looks like dirt, not real earth. ”
I shook my head negatively and said, "How can it be so mysterious!" This is also too far off the track of normal thinking. ”
The fat man published his thoughts, and it was still his set of conclusions, that is, there were ghosts and ghosts.
I said to the fat man with great disapproval: "Can we discuss the problem from a scientific point of view, maybe the top has not been dug to the top, or it is covered by something similar to soil, so this is the case." With that, I stood up, put the torch into the straight hole above my head, and looked up at the top of the dirt hole above my head.
The fat man and Yue'er sat on the ground and shook their heads firmly and said: "It's the feeling of digging the soil, but there is no slag falling, how to explain it from a scientific point of view." Since it's not air, what can be dug up will definitely fall off the debris. If it's a hard object such as steel, then naturally it won't fall off the residue, just by the feel, you know that it's not an incomparably hard thing, neither of these cases, what do you say? ”
I heard the word air, and an electric current flashed through my head in an instant. I hurriedly crouched down, beckoned them to come closer, leaned in their ears, and whispered two words: "There are ghosts." ”
When they heard me say that there was a ghost, they opened their mouths wide in surprise, and the fat man picked up the submachine gun on the ground, couldn't help but look around, and then asked in a low voice: "Really, how do you know that there is a ghost?" ”
I whispered three words: "Blinding." ”
After listening to me, Yue'er nodded in agreement. The fat man whispered to me, "I'll just say there's a ghost!" You still don't believe it, but now it confirms my wisdom. What do you say now? ”
I lifted my coat and ripped off the tiger's eye aragonite from my waist and placed it on my eyes, looking around through the gem. There was nothing to see but flickering fires. I couldn't help but put down the tiger's eye stone with some disappointment, and said in my heart: Did I guess wrong? However, I put the tiger's eye stone over my eyes again, looked at the ground first, and then raised my head to look upward. As a result, I saw a snake-like strange eye staring at me in the straight hole dug by the fat man and the two of them above my head, and I immediately screamed in panic: "Fat man." ”
The fat man sitting on the ground immediately raised his submachine gun and pulled the trigger into the straight hole above his head.
The gunshot rang out, and in the straight hole above, there was a ghost scream, and something fell. One-eyed and pointy-mouthed, wolf-like body, with a circle of hedgehog spines on his neck, a large furry tail behind him, and slender limbs with frog flippers. This thing must be the hairy face monster that I met with the fat man before, and it can transform into a human form, and it has been quietly following us with its cunning, waiting for an opportunity to confuse and poison us.
The monster was wounded by a gunshot wound, bleeding purple, and a one-eyed man looked at us viciously. I couldn't help but be frightened by his hideous appearance and took a step back, the fat man raised his gun and was about to shoot again, the four-like hairy monster, with its frog flippers sticking to the earth wall, quickly jumped to the straight hole on the top, and disappeared with a "boom".
Only then did we realize that the straight hole above had been dug through, and a faint light was cast. The fat man was afraid that the ghosts would ambush him, so he first climbed into the straight hole with a gun on his back. He cautiously poked his head out of the hole, but found no sign of the monster, so he put his hands on the ground and jumped up. Then Yue'er straddled the bag over her shoulders, then jumped up lightly, climbed up the straight hole and climbed up. And in the end, I was the only one left, and that was the real big problem, and I could only stand on the ground at a loss. I was injured in my right arm, and although the wound had healed, for some reason, my body was getting weaker and weaker.
The fat man and Yue'er, who had already gone out of the ground, stood at the entrance of the hole above, took off their coats and tied them together, and then hung down the clothes tied together from the top of the straight hole. I stood on tiptoe, stretched out my left hand and wrapped my grip on my clothes, and together they pulled me into the dirt hole above, and I kicked the dirt wall in the straight hole with both legs and climbed up.
When I climbed up to the ground above, the three of us looked around with torches and saw what we saw, and we were completely speechless.
I saw that there was an ancient city tower in front of me, the solemn stone road, the dragon stone pillars were erected on both sides, there were five city gates on the towering city wall, and there were blue bricks and blue tiles on the city gate tower.
The fat man walked forward and said in admiration: "Good guy, Tiananmen under the ground." ”
Yue'er agreed and said: "It's quite like Tiananmen Tower, not long ago, Uncle Fang just took me to see it." ”
When we got closer, we found that there were terracotta warriors standing guard next to the largest gate in the middle. The fat man looked at the terracotta warriors and said: "How can such a magnificent city gate be placed with such a short stone figurine, as tall as the terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shi Huang, it looks so magnificent." But this stone maid is really realistic, and her facial expressions are exactly the same as those of real people. ”
I explained to the fat man: "In ancient times, people were relatively short, and it is estimated that this stone figurine is biased towards a realistic and realistic style. ”
The three of us walked into the city gate, and found that there were real market streets in the city, and stone figurines in the shape of traders and tourists were everywhere through the streets and alleys, and the scene was as lively as a busy traffic.
After entering the city gate, I didn't know what was wrong, I was dizzy as if I was anemic, and I couldn't help but sit on a stone bench to rest. And the fat man next to me was also abnormal, he didn't follow Yue'er to watch it, but stayed by my side with a nervous face, and asked me with concern: "Are you uncomfortable?" ”
I was afraid that he would be worried, so I reluctantly smiled and said to him, "I'm probably a little tired, just take a rest." ”
At this time, Yue'er, who ran to the distance, suddenly exclaimed loudly. I'm shocked, could it be that hairy-faced monster has reappeared? So, he hurriedly stood up and quickly ran to Yue'er's side with the fat man. When she got closer, she realized that she was screaming because she had accidentally knocked over a stone figurine, which fell to the ground and broke into two pieces.
The fat man said to Yue'er unhappily: "Isn't it just breaking a stone figurine, do you know what you are shouting about?" The children are scared out of you. ”
Yue'er pouted and retorted to the fat man: "You are not a woman, nor are you a pregnant woman, where did you come from?" ”
I lowered my head and held a torch to shine at the broken stone figurines, and couldn't help but gasp, where is this stone figurine, it is clearly a real figurine, it is completely painted on the human body with a layer of cement-like soil, and the clay figurines made of people. I picked up a broken piece of adobe and put it under my nose to smell the pungent smell of herbs, probably some kind of potion mixed with dirt. I squatted down and poked the soil on the clay figurine's body with my hand, it felt very soft and not hard at all, it was difficult to peel off the body of the figurine, and it had completely blended with the human skin in the figurine. And from the broken stone figurines, a pile of vomit-like internal organs gushed out, and my stomach churned again.
Only then did the fat man see that the clay figurines were actually human corpses, and he couldn't help but scold, "Who is so immoral that makes the dead man into a stone figurine and puts it here as an ornament, and he is not afraid to knock on his door in the middle of the night." ”
Looking at the broken figurines on the ground, I hesitated a little, first looked at Yue'er, and then at the fat man, and then slowly said: "These stone figurines should have been made when people were alive." When the person wakes up, the soil below the body has been dried, but the soil on the face has not yet dried, so the people who are still alive in Tupene are constantly fighting to breathe, so the facial expressions of the figurines are so vivid and hideous. ”
After listening to me, they were so disgusted that they hurriedly jumped away, and Yue'er said with some indignation: "Who built this city? It's too lacking in virtue and perverted. ”
I said to her, "If you go inside, you will probably meet this perverted lord of the castle." ”
After that, we walked through the bustling market, and saw a deep ancient house in front of us, quietly away from the market, located not far away, and the size of the house we lived in the capital was more than three times larger. We left the market and approached the dark and quiet old house.
The fat man and I watched the exterior wall with great interest, and after watching, the fat man sighed and said, "It's so beautiful and magnificent, it's really majestic." To be able to live here and enjoy the blessings of Qingfu, it is estimated that it is either a relative of the emperor or an important minister of the court. But then again, Lao Zheng, look at this mansion, is it exactly the same as the ancient house where the two of us lived in the capital! ”
I also felt familiar at first, when I heard the fat man say this, the more I looked at the ancient house in front of me, the more it looked like the old house we lived in the capital, and the old house of the other people was completely a miniature version here. Could it be that the house here has anything to do with the "stranger house"?
The three of us sighed while admiring, and before we knew it, we had passed through the doorway and walked to the backyard house. There were no figurines in the courtyard of this dark ancient mansion, and Yue'er asked suspiciously: "Why aren't there those disgusting figurines here?" After speaking, he stuck out his tongue in disgust.
I also felt strange in my heart, and found that we had unconsciously arrived in the back garden, and saw a small square pavilion in front of me, so I beckoned the two of them to go over and rest. The three of us sat in the gazebo to rest, and suddenly felt the cold breeze, and the fat man couldn't help but shiver, and then said: "This is underground, where is the cold wind blowing, it is still so biting." ”
We felt the cold breeze, so we looked around the garden, and found that there was a well not far from the pavilion, and there seemed to be water in the deep well.
The fat man immediately said excitedly: "Great, just thirsty, get some water to drink." ”
I said to him, "Don't get your hopes up, if you drink the water here, you will have diarrhea." ”
The fat man said indifferently: "My intestines are very healthy, even if I eat stones, I can digest them." It's not like some people's intestines, which are so weak that they can't stand the toss. ”
I was so angry that my face swelled, and I said to him angrily: "Dead fat, I can't hear good words, drink you to death." ”
The fat man insisted on walking to the well despite my dissuasion, and Yue'er couldn't help but follow with curiosity. I saw that they were busy by the well, as if they wanted to use the wooden barrel by the well to draw water to drink, so I sat in the gazebo and watched them busy with boredom.
Just when I was looking at the swaying figures of the fat two people in a desperate and boring way, there was a heart-piercing pain on my right shoulder without warning, and the pain was so painful that beads of sweat kept rolling down my forehead, and the strong pain only lasted for more than ten seconds, and I was already soaked with sweat all over my body.
The pain came so suddenly, I was a little puzzled to untie the bandage on my shoulder, and found that a hard thorn the size of a toothpick had grown from the wound I had scratched before. With a gentle pull with his hand, there was a tearing pain at the junction between it and the wound, as if a hard thorn had taken root on his shoulder, and it was completely connected with flesh and blood. When I saw this strange situation, I was very surprised in my heart, and when I touched the hard thorns with my hand, it felt less like a grant than a hard branch, and I was greatly surprised, and I thought: Could it be that a tree has grown on my shoulders? Surprised, he wanted to take a knife and rip it off.
At this moment, he suddenly heard that the fat man by the well was exclaiming, hurriedly pulled up his clothes, and rushed out of the pavilion with a submachine gun. I saw that the bucket on the edge of the well was constantly gushing out something like black silt. And the fat man pulled Yue'er to run to which side, and the black mud that flowed to the ground chased over there like eyes. Wherever the black mud passed, it was as if it had been splashed with strong sulfuric acid, squeaking and emitting scorched smoke, and it also emitted this stench, pungent smell.
I tried firing a few shots at the black mud that was dripping on the ground, but instead of splashing a single bit of mud, the bullet was wrapped in it and disappeared. The black mud kept flowing in the direction where the fat man was, and he and Yue'er had retreated to the corner of the wall, huddled together, and there was nowhere to escape.
The fat man yelled, "What the hell is this? ”
Yue'er stuck next to him, her little face lost her usual playful demeanor, frowned, and squeezed out a word from between her teeth: "Sin." ”