Chapter 32: The Mystery in the Coffin
The black lacquer coffin in the dark and closed tomb was forcibly opened by the black-faced man and others, and everyone began to curse in disappointment, so I couldn't help but look at it curiously, and saw that the coffin was empty.
But when I found that there was something wrong in the empty coffin, I immediately pulled the fat man who was watching the excitement with me, and quickly turned around and left the giant coffin. As a result, on the way back to the door, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the black man, Jiang Ye, and the white-haired shriveled old man were already far away from the coffin, standing in the innermost corner of the tomb, talking to the Liu brothers. My brain immediately turned the camera quickly, capturing the fragment of the coffin just opened in my memory, and found that the three people didn't seem to open the coffin by themselves just now, it seems that the three of them had premeditated. Thinking about it from a new perspective now, I don't know if the fight just now is a play directed and acted by the Hei Dahan and the Liu brothers, these scheming people must be careful.
The fat man saw that my face was very ugly, and there was cold sweat on my forehead, so he lowered his voice and asked me cautiously, "Lao Zheng, what's wrong with the coffin?" â
I walked to the corner of the wall near the stone gate, and while paying attention to the movements of the Liu brothers, I observed the physical condition of the group that opened the coffin. At this time, the smoke man also leaned over, he was still staring coldly ahead, a pair of eagle eyes staring at the huge coffin and the crowd in the distance. I explained softly to the fat man: "I just found that the bottom plate of the empty giant coffin is covered with tiny needle holes, and probably under the coffin board, there is hidden poisonous smoke, and now it has been released. â
When the fat man heard this, his mouth opened wide in horror. The wide bull's eyes showed a panicked look, silently expressing the surprise in his heart.
I crouched down and opened my backpack on the ground. Pour the potion in a white porcelain bottle onto a white old man's vest, and then quickly tear it into three pieces, so that the fat man and the smoking man wrap around his face. The potion in this vial is a special anti-poison agent made by Master, which can effectively prevent poisonous smoke and gas, and can also detoxify.
With my face covered, I explained to the two of them in a muffled voice, "After the giant coffin is opened." I smelled a strange smell, very similar to the cigarette that the boy smoked, but the taste was quiet and faint. It is difficult to be noticed, and when I looked at the coffin lid on the ground, I found that the coffin board was also poisonous, a chronic poison made from poisonous weed juice. Onset is very slow. But once the skin touches it, it is designated as hopeless. â
The fat man glanced back at the vicinity of the giant coffin, and saw that those people were still looking around the coffin, so he turned his head and said, "Fortunately, it wasn't the coffin we opened just now." â
And at this moment, I suddenly heard a shout of joy from the coffin, "The exit has been found".
When the fat man heard that he had found an exit, his body reacted immediately, and I grabbed his arm in an instant. Stop him from making a move: "Wait. â
I saw that the crowd on the Liu brothers' side had begun to move, and they walked towards the coffin in twos and threes. I kept an eye on everyone's movements. The Liu brothers plus their nephews, the three of them still stood motionless, the black man and the white-haired old man Jiang Ye also stood a few steps away from the giant coffin and stopped to watch, and several people who were very close to the Liu brothers did not walk towards the coffin, but stopped at a slightly closer distance and stretched out their heads to look at the coffin curiously.
At this time, someone had already boldly stepped into the giant coffin, and then lay down and got into something, because the distance was too far to see the specific situation.
The fat man said to me a little anxiously: "Lao Zheng, do we have to go over and take a look?" â
I looked at the smoke man, and his eagle eyes were staring indifferently ahead, not knowing whether he was staring at the coffin or watching someone. I had to ask him out loud: "Brother Smoker, do you think we should go over and have a look?" â
The cigarette man was still expressionless, and only one word "wait" came out of his mouth with the cigarette in his mouth, and he didn't explain much. This is the attitude of the cold smoke man, and I have long been surprised. As a result, the fat man was very dissatisfied and rolled his eyes and glared at the cigarette man, and then looked at me with slanted eyes, frowning, and his face full of muscle twitches, all to show his dissatisfaction. I had to smile and nod to the fat man, signaling him not to worry, wait and talk about it, the fat man stood up unhappily, and stared ahead angrily with a pair of bull's eyes.
There were already five people in the giant coffin, and there were still people stepping into the huge coffin. Time passed minute by minute, and I finally saw the black man and the others talking to each other for a while, and then they began to slowly approach the giant coffin, and the Liu brothers, who had been standing motionless in place, also took action. Then I looked at the man again, and he was still like a sculpture, his face cold against the stone wall, motionless, as if he had melted into the dark and cold stone wall.
The fat man paced restlessly in front of my eyes, his eyes asking me from time to time if I could move. I was influenced by him, and my heart couldn't help but become restless and anxious.
The crowd in the distance disappeared one by one, and the figures of the black man and others also disappeared, and the Liu brothers also took their nephews into the giant coffin, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. I hurriedly looked at the cigarette man, and just wanted to open my mouth to ask? I saw the resentful woman who had always had a very weak sense of zĂ i, glanced at us, and then swayed into the giant coffin, and disappeared as soon as she bent over.
After the cigarette man saw the figure of the resentful woman disappear, his expression, which had been cold and unchanged, finally changed, his cold eagle eyes narrowed slightly, and he tore off the square towel covering his face and stuffed it into his arms, and then put a cigarette in his mouth, lit it and took a deep breath, and immediately said a word "go", and then strode towards the giant coffin in front of him. The fat man and I hurriedly picked up our backpacks on the ground and followed him.
Walking to the front of the giant coffin, we found that the bottom plate at the bottom of the giant coffin had collapsed down more than half a meter deep, and on the side of the head of the coffin, a square dark hole was exposed, and people could easily climb into it as long as they lay in the coffin.
The fat man stuffed the flashlight in the placket of his chest, leaked the head of the flashlight to illuminate the outside, and then tightened the zipper of his clothes, and was about to bear the brunt of the hole.
The cigarette man reached out and grabbed the fat man on the side, and then didn't say anything. As soon as he bent down, he was the first to climb into the dark hole.
The fat man glared and wanted to say something to me. I guessed his mind and wanted to talk to him, but I felt that it was not the right time, so I had to comfort him and say: "Brother Smoke is for your safety, after all, people are skilled, and it is right to take the lead." â
The fat man said unconvinced: "Lao Zheng, what you mean by this means that my skills are not as good as others." â
I saw the fat man's bull temper come up. I had to smile and say, "No, no, I know your skills." Brother Smoke probably handed over the difficult task to you. Don't think about it. "Once the fat man and the smoke man enter the strange and dark tomb, a subtle atmosphere will be generated between them. I know very well that the fat man is not used to the indifferent and arrogant attitude of the cigarette man, and the cigarette man does not care about what others think of him, so they gradually drift apart. The estrangement in the middle is getting tighter and stricter. There is no one right or wrong in this kind of thing, it's just a matter of incompatible personalities, and I am very embarrassed to be caught in the middle, so I have to act as a regulator and often come forward to ease the atmosphere between the two.
The fat man said unconvincedly: "I have already seen it, this time in the fight, those grandsons didn't take us seriously, wait for me to find a chance." I must want those grandsons to see the fat man and my origin. â
I smiled and patted the fat man on the shoulder, and boasted, "Fat man, I naturally know your superb skills." As the saying goes: Kill chickens with a slaughtering knife, you are higher than human skills, why show it to those villains. But then again, it's a good thing that no one pays attention to us, so we don't have to worry about anything. And with them on the road ahead without hesitation, we should be grateful to them. After saying that, I saw that the fat man's indignant face eased a lot, and then I was relieved to burrow into the hole exposed inside the giant coffin.
The dark cave dug vertically is still square and not narrow, but it can only crawl forward on its knees. I hadn't climbed far in the cave when the light of the flashlight on my chest reflected the figure of the man who had been waiting for us in the square cave, and probably heard us coming in, and then began to crawl forward again. I knelt and followed behind the figure of the smoke man, in the dark and narrow space, there was nothing but cold, and it was surprisingly dark and silent, as if a ghost would pop up at any moment. But when I saw the crawling figure in front of me, I immediately felt a lot more relieved.
The fat man stuck to my back, bumped into my ass from time to time, and repeatedly urged me to crawl forward quickly, I couldn't help but say to him upset: "You are really annoying, can you look at it, why are you in a hurry, rushing to reincarnate?" â
The fat man didn't know whether he was joking or serious: "Wait a while for all the good things to be taken away by others, you can't catch up with the hot guy who eats, it's really annoying." â
Crawling in the narrow, dim and damp earth cave, the cold smell of the earth alone was enough to annoy me, and I was too lazy to talk to the fat man, so I concentrated on crawling and did not argue with him.
The fat man kept urging from behind, and I had to keep speeding up, but no matter how fast I tried, I couldn't catch up with the cigarette man crawling in front of me, and he kept a distance from me all the time.
In the dark, cold and damp square cave, I knelt and crawled for an unknown amount of time, and I felt that my knees were numb, and I couldn't feel the hot and sore pain at the beginning. Sweat trickled down his cheeks into the cavern, seeping into the cold, damp earth. Although I had cotton gloves on my hands, the palms of both hands were so hot that they felt like they had been grilled by a blazing fire. At this moment, I really want to lie down on the cold dirt and rest immediately.
At this time, the cigarette man in front of me suddenly stopped, and I saw that the light of his flashlight was still shaking, so I was worried that something was wrong in front of me, so I hurriedly knelt down quickly and crawled over, and asked, "What's wrong?" â
The cigarette man turned to me and said, "It's here." Then he leaned forward, and a roll rolled to the ground.
It turned out that I had reached the end of the square cave in front, and the hole seemed to be some distance from the ground, but watching the smoke man roll out neatly, I had a preconceived thought: the difference between the hole entrance and the ground in front of me should not be too high. I immediately turned on my flashlight with peace of mind, climbed to the exit and looked down, but I was dumbfounded, the source of the square hole, from the ground below, at least one story high, I don't have the superb skills of the cigarette man, I can't roll out beautifully. I can't turn around lightly in the square hole, do I want to jump down with my head down, and then I can't fall out of the concussion?
When I was hesitating how to go down, the fat man behind me suddenly approached my face and asked me in a loud voice, "Lao Zheng, what are you waiting for?" â
His faint voice suddenly appeared in the darkness, startling me a lot, and as soon as my hands slipped, I fell out of the hole defenselessly, and there was no need to think about how to do it anymore.
When I fell out of the hole, I tried my best to lean back and try to hit my back on the ground. As a result, I forgot that my backpack was still behind me, and when I fell to the ground, I almost broke my waist. I clutched my aching waist and lay on my side on the ground with a painful expression, not getting up for half a day.
At this time, the fat man jumped out of the hole, looked at me lying on the ground and moaning in pain, bared his big teeth, and teased me with a smile: "Lao Zheng, your courage is also too small, why is it so unfrightening, and it fell down all of a sudden." With that, he bent down and lifted me up from the ground.
I stood up from the ground and rubbed my aching waist with a painful expression.
Suddenly, the cigarette man standing in front of me yelled "don't" into the distance. (To be continued......)