Chapter Seventy-One: The Lamp in the Drum
The words left by the white chicken are really incredible, but this is not the time to care about this, so I shifted my attention and began to observe the big drum embedded in the air. At this moment, I suddenly found that there seemed to be something hidden behind the drum skin, and that thing was projected on the drum surface, forming a faint shadow.
Is there something hidden in this drum? Did the white chopping chicken find out about this at the beginning, so he put down the lock, but was plotted? With this in mind, I pulled out my dagger and plunged it into the drum, cutting the leather of the drum surface. Suddenly, I made an L-shaped opening in the drum, lifted the drum skin and looked inside, I couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out that in the center of the drum, there was a figurine.
The light went in, and I saw that on the other side of the drum, there was a human figure curled up in a ball with legs, the maid could not see his face, he was wrapped in black cloth, and the only thing that attracted people's attention was that there was a metal object hanging on the neck of the figurine. I took a closer look at the thing, and immediately felt a thrill all over my body, because what hung around the man's neck was a hollowed-out ball of black iron.
This...... How is this thing exactly the same as the magic lamp in the tomb of the Earth Ghost King?
A series of questions flashed through my mind, and I said that Lu Su had been looking for the so-called key, hoping to uncover the hidden secrets of the magic lamp, could it be that these magic lamps were related to Puzhen? What does the person wear around his neck represent? Why is it placed here?
I stared at the black light hanging around its neck and asked the tofu above to hand me an iron clipper. This thing was originally used to open the stone, with a hook at the top, I used the movable tube to extend its length, and soon reached the black light on the neck of the corpse, and with a pull, the rope connected to the black light broke in response, and with this pulling force, the corpse fell down in response, and fell down violently, and fell to the wooden drum, and then I heard a thud, and in an instant it fell apart.
The sound echoed in the drum, vibrating in circles, only to feel that the sound was getting louder and louder, shaking people's ears and hearts, but there was no intention of stopping. I hurriedly pulled out, and I didn't care about seeing the black light in my hand, so I hurriedly climbed up the rope. And at this moment, the drum reverberate, and even outside, you can hear the rumbling drum in circles.
At this time, Tofu had searched all over the white chicken, and placed the searched items neatly on the ground.
At a glance, they were all small objects, and there was no trace of the silk book map, and it was estimated that this thing was either not on the white chicken, or after his death, it had been taken away. When Tofu saw me coming up, he still had a magic lamp in his hand, and he couldn't help but be shocked and said, "Where did you come from?" β
I told him the following, and Tofu said, "Is this thing real or fake?" No wonder Lu Su will cooperate with the mute, it turns out that this place is related to this magic lamp. At this time, the drum sound became louder and louder, and as the sound vibrate, the countless drums on the ice surface, as if they were all sensitive, rang in unison.
The sound of one drum was still in the range, and the sound of ten thousand drums in unison was a little unbearable, and even I felt the ice under my feet tremble. At this moment, Tofu exclaimed, pointed to the position on the top of the cave, and said, "Look." When he looked in the direction of his finger, he saw that the ice picks hanging on the top of the cave, which were slightly thinner, could no longer hold back the tremor of this sound, and they broke off one after another and smashed down.
I suddenly realized that the inside of this drum is eighty percent connected, one drum and ten thousand drums, this sound echoes in the ice cave layer by layer, plus the sound inside the drum continues to improve, so that if it continues to develop, eventually, the entire ice cave will be destroyed by this sound!
I couldn't help but gasp and said to Tofu, "I've been tricked, hurry, run into the ice cave." "This ice cave is the only passage, and because of its rectangular structure, the sound does not travel too deeply, and as long as you run to the depths of the ice cave, you can avoid danger.
Tofu and I didn't care about the corpse of the white chicken, carrying the equipment, spreading our feet and running inside, the more anxious the easier it was to make mistakes, Tofu only ran two steps, slipped under his feet, and suddenly brushed a dog to eat, and the black light in his hand drew a low parabola and was thrown behind, and fell on the body of the white chicken.
I quickly pulled the tofu up and said, "Can you have some fun?" β
Tofu scolded his mother and said, "Damn, I don't know what's going on, I feel like something tripped me just now." β
I looked down and saw that the ice under my feet was extremely smooth, where could I stumble, thinking that Tofu was making excuses for myself, so I didn't pay attention to it, and was about to turn around and take the black lamp back, but I saw the body of the white chicken on the edge of the drum body, with the trembling of the drum body, began to slide down, and before I could get closer, the body of the white chicken, together with the black light, fell down,
I felt a suddenness in my heart, and when I looked down, I could vaguely see the corpse of the white chicken, lying on the ice in a strange posture, and as for the black light, it was too small to be seen. At this time, the ice picks kept falling down, and I had no choice but to blame Tofu for dragging my feet and running deeper into the ice cave.
After running to the depths for a distance, the deafening drum beat suddenly became much smaller, and the ice cave in front of us, which was also the height of one person at the beginning, began to widen radially, and we could see very obvious artificial traces.
The searchlight in our hands is still the one left by the dumb man, it has been used for a long time, the power supply is relatively weak, and the range of the light is not far, I estimate that I and Tofu have run wildly without rest, at least a hundred meters out, that is, this ice cave is already a hundred meters long. At this moment, at the end of the light, a gate suddenly appeared.
This is the first time we have seen the tomb door since we entered this Xuanbing Tomb, and before that, just like what was written on the stone tablet, there was almost no obstruction such as the tomb door, and Puzhen used the natural labyrinth and the strange mechanism installed to play our group around.
Staring at the door that suddenly appeared, I couldn't help but be vigilant, and when I got closer, I realized that this was actually a yin door.
What is Yin?
Presumably most people have seen the kind of paper people, paper horses, and paper houses burned for the dead, and in some places in the countryside, the more generous people, during the mortuary period after death, will use bamboo strips and paper to paste a fake doorway at the entrance of the corpse hall. When the living come to pay respects, they stand at the door, and this gate is called the gate of the underworld, which is equivalent to the door of the house of the dead.
This is the case with the Yin Gate in front of us, but it is not made of bamboo strips and paper paste, but it is chiseled along the trend of Xuanbing, and the surface is brushed with a layer of black things, and I don't know if it is black paint or something else, it is strictly blocked in front of us, at first glance, it seems that the gate of the underworld stands in front of us.
However, this yin gate is only a doorway, so there is no obstruction, except for a frame, a high ice threshold, there is no other object.
The Yin Gate has been circulated for a long time, and it is impossible to verify where it comes from, but it is generally more common during the mortuary mourning period, and it is rare to repair the Yin Gate in the tomb like this. Tofu stared at the gloomy door and said, "I feel like I'm going to step into another world." β
I said, "From the moment we went down, we had already entered another world. "This is the world of the dead, where the living come to fight against the dead in an underground world for profit.
This Yin Gate is the gate of the dead, and I estimate that the real owner of this Xuanbing Tomb is about to show up, so I didn't care about saving the light source, turned the light to the maximum, and stepped into the Yin Gate with Tofu. Behind this gate, there is a small ice cave, the head can be seen at a glance, and as soon as I step inside, I see countless figures swirling in front of me.
Seeing so many people in this kind of place, I was scared to death, but when I looked closely, it turned out to be a lot of ice sculpture people, posing in various poses, with paint, lifelike, the light turned around, the light flowed, and in the blink of an eye, I thought that these people were also moving.
Looking at the shape of these people again, it suddenly makes people feel even more strange, I saw two of them, squatting facing each other, with a stick between the two, and each of them holding one end of the stick, as if they were working, and as if they were playing some game.
Not far away, there was another woman in the shape of a woman, naked, holding a round object in her hand, making a throwing motion, like a game, like some kind of ritual.
Tofu sighed that the naked woman carved well, while taking a closer look, by the way very obscene on the ice sculpture woman's body up and down his hands, suddenly, Tofu moved, as if seeing a ghost retreated again and again, and shouted in his mouth: "Mom, I thought she was throwing hydrangea to recruit relatives, why is it not a hydrangea in her hand, but a human head!" β
Head?
My heart moved, and I looked closer, and sure enough, what the woman was holding in her hand was a very small human head, and it was estimated that it was a newborn baby's head, and the outer layer was wrapped in ice, so we didn't see it before.
A woman who throws people's heads?
Could it be some kind of evil ritual?
Who is the owner of this Xuanbing Tomb?