Chapter Eighty-Eight: A Mountain of Corpses and a Sea of Bones
Puzzled, I plunged headlong into the dark cavern with Ansari.
This cave is much narrower than the width of the gutter outside, and after a long time in the dark, my eyes have been able to adapt to the environment here, and under the light of the flashlight, I can see that the cave is very wide, and we can hear the echo of footsteps when we walk here.
The cave wall here is closer to nature, unlike the gutter outside, which can clearly see the traces of artificial excavation, and there are many scattered stones on the ground, and the road is uneven, which is very different from the smoothness of the gutter.
The cavern zigzags downward, and there is silence all around, except for the sound of messy footsteps and gasps, echoing in my ears, and I can almost hear my own heartbeat with nervousness. The whole mountain was still shaking, the rubble was falling, the feet were shaking and shaking, and our danger was not lifted.
The slope was getting steeper and the road was getting harder and harder, but Ansari had a look of excitement on his face, and I could see why, because the further we went, the more we proved that we were approaching the bottom of the grave.
In my mind, the entire Black Water Demon Cave, oh no, is from entering this gutter, to the gate to the sky, nine stone pillars, two connected stone rooms, ten thousand corpse mounds, to all these passages, all linked together, forming a three-dimensional figure in my mind, I suddenly found that the entire gutter and this passage seem to be a ring, two sections are connected to the ten thousand corpse mounds, and what is surrounded in the middle is the sacrificial stone chamber and the pillar of heaven.
If the bottom of the cave is connected to the Ten Thousand Corpse Mound, then this idea is correct, that is, it is actually a whole, and the middle ground is like an island that is encircled.
Islet?
I slowed down suddenly, and a thought that had never occurred before crossed my mind.
Could it be that the gutter here used to be an underground river?
The grave of 10,000 corpses is a deep pool formed by the confluence of underground rivers?
If you explain it this way, the storage of that gutter is more reasonable.
I thought of the underground river again, if the grave of ten thousand corpses is really an underground pool, then most of the underground rivers converge here, that is, there must be other channels, or waterways, leading to the deep pool.
I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, if that was the case, could it be that the countless bones in the ten thousand corpses were soaked in water?
Of course, when we were on the edge of the cliff just now, we couldn't see the bottom of the grave, and we couldn't tell whether it was a waterhole or a dirt pit below.
Well, this qiē question, as long as you get there, will naturally have an answer.
Ansari ran ahead and turned around and called out to me, "Hurry up, what do you want?" ”
I answered, hurried after him, and said to him, "I suspect that there is a pool of water under the grave. ”
Ansari looked at me and wondered, "Waterhole? Where did you judge that? ”
I'm a little smug, thinking that there are things you don't understand.
As soon as I analyzed my thoughts and analyzed him, Ansari frowned and said, "If this is the case, then a hundred years ago, when the team of sacrificing the Immortal Heaven arrived here, it should have dried up, otherwise it would be impossible for them to enter the sacrificial chamber through the gutter." ”
What he said was very right, but it was nonsense, because this should be the case, but looking at his solemn expression, what did he find in this sentence?
Ansari turned his head to look at me, and suddenly said, "You must think that my words are nonsense, in fact, I suddenly remembered, if the bones in the gutter were really dragons, but the water here had long dried up, then how could the dragons still be here?" Don't forget, dragons can't live without water. ”
I was stunned for a moment and guessed, "Maybe the water in the gutter is broken, but there is still water in the pool." It may also be that the dragon is trapped in shallow water and has nowhere to go, and comes out along the gutter to meet those people, due to the lack of water, the body is not supported, so it will lose both with those people, and end up together......"
Ansari nodded slightly, as if agreeing with me, as if we were nearing the end of the cavern, and a cool wind blew in front of us, and we could faintly hear someone talking.
Ansari waved at me, signaling me to silence, then quickened his pace and walked forward.
I also put aside all my thoughts for the time being, and I was too lazy to spend that brain, maybe the answer to this qiē is in the Ten Thousand Corpses Tomb.
There was an exit in front of us, and Ansari and I walked out of it one after the other, and suddenly there was a sudden brightness in front of us, and at the same time, an extremely cold breath came to our faces in an instant.
I couldn't help but shudder, and when I looked closely, we had indeed come to the bottom of the Ten Thousand Corpse Grave, and as far as the eye could see, the mountains and bones of the corpses all over the ground were so close to us.
If it weren't for the fact that we had seen this place on the cliff before, we would have been scared at this time, but Rao was like this, my heart was also beating wildly, my legs were weak, and I could hardly believe my eyes when I looked at the scene in front of me.
The cave we came out of at this time was about three meters away from the bottom, and from here, there was a huge cave below, which was densely packed with countless bones, layer upon layer, boundless, and innumerable.
But to be honest, if I hadn't known that there were countless dead people's bones underneath, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to tell what these black things were, because we had turned off the flashlight in order to hide before we came out, and the whole cave was pitch black.
Only the two flashlights illuminated by the stone path above brought a glimmer of light in this darkness, and the huge keel in the middle of the cave reflected a misty white light in that bright light, which barely allowed us to see the situation of a small area in front of us, otherwise, we were afraid that we would not be able to reach out and lose our fingers.
I looked up at the flashlight, and my intuition told me that it should be Lao Pan and Zhang Ye, who were still trudging down the top.
But in this huge cave, there is only this light, and the "enemies" who have come down before that we have not yet met are gone.
I remember they used a flashlight to light it just now, but now it'......
Ansari suddenly pulled me and pointed downward, and when I looked down, I saw that not far below us, there seemed to be a faint green light flashing, and in a blink of an eye, it disappeared.
A thought popped into my mind, ghost!
This thought appeared coldly, my scalp was numb, I thought yes, this must be a ghost, think about this is ten thousand corpses, tens of thousands of corpses, how heavy is the yin qi? It's normal to be a haunter or something.
Thinking about it carefully, I can't help but feel a little weak in my legs, tens of thousands of corpses, how many ghosts must there be?
No, this can't be called a grave of ten thousand corpses, this has to be called a cave of ten thousand ghosts......
The jumbled thought flashed through my mind for a moment, but Ansari whispered in my ear, "There's someone down there." ”
Someone? I was slightly stunned, isn't it a ghost?
Crash......
The mountain wall suddenly shook, and there seemed to be a sound of chains shaking, I looked at the mountain wall, and touched a few handfuls of my hand, only to find that there was a long chain on the stone road, near the height of the thigh, and it seemed that it had been coiled down along the stone road.
My heart moved, and I was wondering how there could be a chain here, when Ansari suddenly said to me, "Let's go down now, take care of it, and don't make a sound." After saying that, he jumped down the stone road, put his hands on the edge of the stone road, let go of his hands, and fell to the ground quietly.
Ansari's figure suddenly blurred, and I was busy following his example, jumping down, and when I landed, I felt a hand stretched out next to me and helped me, so I also landed lightly, only making a very slight sound.
Ansari gestured to me for him to follow him, and the two of us leaned down and crept forward.
It's just that when I arrived at the bottom of this 10,000 corpse mound, the feeling of violently shaking the belly of the mountain just now suddenly became much weaker again, and if I didn't pay attention, I couldn't feel the shaking at all......
I thought it might be a waterhole, but now there is no water, and walking up this cave is a bit like walking in the old forest deep in the mountains, walking on the leaves of rotten trees, and it is not very solid.
When I looked down on the cliff, I only saw countless skeletons, overwhelming, at this time, I really walked in this ten thousand corpses, I suddenly found that these bones were not densely stacked, but in a row, divided into a lot of corpse piles, and there were many gaps in the middle of the corpse pile, which allowed us to pass through.
This avoided walking through the bones of the dead, but looking at these scattered bones so closely, there was still an indescribable and extremely strong fear in my heart. These bones have been here for a hundred years, and this cave is very cold and damp, the yin qi is extremely heavy, it should be a forest of white bones, but at this time it looks mildew black, and the air is filled with an extremely bad smell, I swear that this is also in this special place, my nerves have been trained to be extremely strong, if I change the scene, I will definitely not be able to help vomiting.
But at this time, the fear and wariness of people have somehow outweighed the fear of the bones and the ghosts that may be in place, and I don't know where our enemies are at this time, perhaps, they are waiting for us behind the pile of corpses in front.
I forcibly suppressed the fear and disgusting in my heart, but suddenly there was a whirlwind around me, with a terrible roar, like a whimpering ghost, and like a terrible ghost crying, rolling up something like black scum all over the ground, and rising to the sky.
I looked up at this scene, but I unconsciously stumbled under my feet, and when I looked down, I actually stepped on the skull of a dead man.
I was so startled that I took two steps back, almost subconsciously, and was about to look up to see where Ansari was, but at this moment, the back of my neck suddenly itched, as if someone was blowing cold air on my neck......