Chapter 19 There is a cave in the sky
"Peanuts! Where are you? "I shouted into the darkness of nothingness, but I heard no answer." Old Tan! Peanut "Every time I shouted their names, the fear in my heart only increased, and even my own echo was now a little terrifying. After shouting, my voice became smaller and quieter, and at the last time, I didn't dare to speak again.
Suddenly, the entire world fell silent, and I was left alone in the huge square. In this ancient tomb, which has not been set foot on for thousands of years, darkness has surged towards me unscrupulously. My heart went from extreme worry to extreme fear, and my hands and feet began to tremble.
Just as I was stiffening, suddenly, something hit me the shoulder.
"Ahh I was so frightened that I jumped in place for a moment before turning my head away.
"I'm sorry." Peanut grinned evilly and winked at me.
The moment I saw him, I almost wanted to give him a hug with joy.
"You, you're fine, then" I was about to ask Lao Tan about the situation, and suddenly I saw a person on his shoulder.
Peanut put down the man on his shoulder, and when I saw it, it was Tan Wei. I hurriedly squatted down to see how Lao Tan was doing.
"Not dead yet." Peanut said, probably because of the fatigue just now, and sat down on the ground.
Lao Tan's face was pale, but his breathing was quite even, so it shouldn't be a big deal. I took the backpack and made a pillow for him under Lao Tan's head, took out the water, and handed it to Peanuts.
"Thanks to you, what was that? Why didn't you make a sound at all, so you hung Lao Tan up? I said to Peanut.
At this time, I noticed that Hua Se's face was also a little pale. The heart said that this kid was not King Kong originally. However, his series of actions just now are already jaw-dropping, this kind of ability, being a tomb robber is really wronged, and it is estimated that he will go to Hollywood.
Peanut took the kettle, but instead of drinking it, he lit a cigarette and took two puffs, probably to ease his breath.
However, to my surprise, he then stood up and took off his shirt.
"It's not hot, why are you taking off your clothes?" I looked up at him, and suddenly I noticed that there was a blood mark on Peanut's shoulder, which spread all the way to his back.
"You're hurt?" I quickly stood up and walked behind him, and when I looked at the flashlight, I was stunned.
I could never have imagined that the blood on Peanut's shoulder had spread all the way to the back of his waist. And it wasn't a wound anymore, it was just a tear. The flesh on his back was turned open, as if someone had slashed him diagonally in the back, blood was left on his back, and his pants were soaked.
I immediately thought of the huge shadow and asked, "What the hell is that thing?" ”
"Spider." Peanut replied with a smile, "Maybe this place is too remote for part-time workers to come, so I raised such a big one." ”
"You still have the heart to laugh, damn, do you know that this kind of wound will kill people if it is not treated well." I immediately took out a first aid kit in my bag. Fortunately, we were well prepared and had a lot of trauma medicine in it. I was taking out the alcohol to clean his wound, but Peanut said no, and threw the stack of band-aids to me.
"Huh?" I was almost stunned.
"I'm a person who can't invade all kinds of poisons, and the medicine doesn't work, just post two of them." With that, Peanut put the alcohol and the tetanus medicine back.
"You're crazy." I didn't want to talk to him anymore, so I grabbed alcohol and a cotton cloth and rubbed it on his wounds. I thought that this kid was afraid of pain and didn't want to be embarrassed in front of me, but until I had finished treating all the wounds, he didn't say a word. This kind of endurance is estimated to be comparable to what Guan Er Ye has.
When I was done, I remembered what had just happened and asked him, "Eh, is there a rope on the stone pillar?" How can you tell? ”
Peanut pointed me to the approximate location of the six stone pillars, "If the thing dragging him is completely suspended, it will not go in a straight line at all, there is no connection between us and the city tower, the trajectory of the movement, plus the height, must be related to the stone pillars, but I didn't expect that it would be spider silk." ”
"Spider Silk?" I immediately remembered the spider silk I had encountered earlier, "Impossible, how can spider silk have that kind of toughness?" ”
"Don't take your experience to see what's in the tomb." Peanut turned his head and continued to enjoy his cigarette.
"You mean, that spider silk was spit out by the big guy just now?"
"No, it's big, but it's not enough to spit out this level of thread. You'll know when you go up later. ”
When I heard this, I was shocked, "Is there anything bigger?" "The thought of the spider that was bigger than the shadow just now made my back cold. Wait for me to suddenly react, "You, what did you just say?" Go up? What to go on? ”
Peanut grinned, "Can't you see it yet?" That's the only way we can get there. ”
Looking along Peanut's fingers, I seemed to see a net spread over my head. However, it is more than 30 meters high, and it is still connected to a spider silk, which is really life-threatening. If nothing else, it would be impossible for me and Lao Tan to climb the surrounding stone pillars.
On second thought, however, it seems that this is indeed the only way for us to enter the tomb.
"But what if that thing escapes again?" Still uneasy, I asked.
"It's okay, don't worry." Peanut said that, but he showed that kind of coaxing child, which made me even less confident.
Damn, let's die, that's all there is to it anyway. I felt like my legs went limp.
After a while, I still had some doubts in my heart, so I asked Peanut, "Don't you think it's strange?" You said that the mausoleum opposite was for sacrifice, and there were sacrificial vessels at the door, so how did the people in ancient times go to worship? You can't just climb that high spider silk, right? This is too mysterious, I don't believe it, those people have the same skills as you. ”
Peanut looked forward, "You're right, the spider silk on it is an accident, the real passage is definitely not on it, I still believe, there are mechanisms around, you just looked at the moat, do you think there is anything strange?" ”
"Strange?" I thought back to the scene in the moat, "It's nothing special, except for the cold air on the water, it's just a little high, and it's scary to look at." ”
"Yes, it's height." Peanut smiled and nodded.
"Height?" I thought to myself, shouldn't the moat be dug deeper, but I don't know what's weird.
Peanut said: "If it is a real castle tower, no matter how high the moat in front of it is, it is no problem, but this is a mausoleum. Although the ancients had high requirements for tombs, even the greatest emperors in history could not completely bury everything in reality into their tombs, so everything in the tombs was intentional. ”
Peanut looked at me, as if deliberately waiting for me to digest what he was saying before continuing, "How deep is the moat we see?" Twenty or thirty meters is just what we see on the surface, and there is no way to calculate how deep the water is. And this height, in fact, is the height of the foundation of this mausoleum in front of you, and you can imagine what kind of project it would be to build such a high foundation in such a cave. ”
I suddenly understood what Peanut meant, "You mean, the entire height of this mausoleum is also the height of the moat?" Oh my God, that, how high is that? ”
"The important thing is not the height, but such an ancient tomb, which is completely unreasonable in the era of the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, the tombs were almost all vertical pit tombs, that is, a big hole was opened from top to bottom, and then the bottom of the cave was divided into tomb roads, burial chambers, patios, etc., what we saw in front of us was a large-scale horizontal cave tomb, this kind of tomb structure, in the late Western Han Dynasty, was just emerging, until the Tang Dynasty, this structure was fully formed, and the people of the Western Han Dynasty may not even have the idea of this tomb structure. ”
I pondered for a moment, "You mean, this is not a tomb, but a city hidden in the mountains?" ”
When I said this, even I was shocked.
Peanut shook his head, "This is definitely an ancient tomb, and it must have been built like this for some special reason." ”
"In your experience, what do you think is the reason for that?" I asked curiously.
Peanut was silent suddenly, and after a few seconds before he said, "This ancient tomb is not just about burying people. ”
I laughed, "The ancient tomb doesn't bury people, do you still bury ghosts?" "However, when I saw the gloomy expression on Peanut's face, I immediately stopped laughing." You, don't scare me. ”