Chapter 15: Escape
When he arrived at the stone gate, Uncle Zheng hesitated slightly, then pointed to the stone gate with his hand and said firmly: "Smash it here." ”
There are too many corpses, and Zheng Wen and I didn't hear Uncle Zheng's words too clearly, and we still kept waving our clothes to resist the corpses flying over.
Seeing that neither Zheng nor I moved, Uncle Zheng threw away the coat in his hand, took out a shovel from my backpack, and smashed it towards the stone gate. smashed it several times in a row, and Uncle Zheng said "It's done" in my ears, Zheng Wen and I both looked back, but as soon as we turned around, our bodies were uncontrollably rushed out.
I saw that the waterlike water on the top of the stone gate rushed down directly, and it was waist-deep in an instant. It turned out that the trap behind the folding fan stone door was this water.
After being rushed in, I struggled to get up, and continued to wave my clothes to drive away those corpses, Uncle Zheng shouted: "Ye family boy, soak in the water, those corpses are afraid of water." ”
Hearing Uncle Zheng shout, I immediately soaked in the water as soon as I was short, leaving only my eyes on it. The corpse was really afraid of water, and did not come to chase and bite me, but flew back in groups towards the stone gate that flew out.
The corpse flew back, and the evil ghost also flew out with the followers of the corpse. As soon as the demon flew out, the ajar stone door was also tightly closed, and the stone door we had entered before was also closed.
Now it's a confined space, and there's no way out, but the water keeps rising. Soon it was above my neck, but fortunately I was not bad at water, otherwise I would have drowned here.
And Zheng Wen over there, since he can go undercover next to Zhang Dahai, the river digger, how can his water kung fu be bad. It's Uncle Zheng, looking at the action, the water nature is not inferior to me at all.
I swam towards them, and the water was full of broken arms, the ones pushed up by the demon's stone mill, floating on the surface of the water one by one, which was shocking to see.
"Uncle Zheng, what now, we can't get out?" I swam to Uncle Zheng and asked loudly. The sound of the water is very loud, and the voice is so low that it is not easy to hear clearly.
Uncle Zheng didn't speak, but looking at Zheng Wen's desperate look, I knew it was going to be bad. Haven't you been bitten to death here by corpses and evil spirits, and you can't drown here by this water?
After a long time, Uncle Zheng sighed and said, this is fate, it seems that I really can't get out this time. I didn't expect to meet the ghost of pushing and grinding, no wonder no one has ever seen the ghost of pushing and grinding, and everything I have seen is dead. This time, I can see the ghost of pushing and grinding, and it is not in vain to walk in the world.
The three of us floated silently on the water, letting the severed arm glide by. The water level rises higher and higher, and once it is filled with water, then we will inevitably drown here, unless a miracle happens. But I didn't believe much in miracles, I only believed in myself.
No one wants to die, no one wants to sit still, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, it will be grasped, and the desire to survive forces me to calm down.
"Zheng Wen, you also fell from above?" I swam to Zheng Wen and asked loudly, although Zheng Wen had already said it once before, I still asked.
"yes, you mean?" Zheng Wen and Uncle Zheng's eyes lit up at the same time, it seems that they are quite clear about my intentions, which means that my guess may not be wrong, and our final way out should be overhead. If you can get through it on top of your head, you can get to the top and escape from here.
I nodded to Uncle Zheng and Zheng Wen and said, "I also fell from above, if we can get through to it, we can go up." ”
Now that there is a glimmer of hope of escape, it is time to regain confidence. However, the shovel had already fallen just now, and it should be under the water by now. Fortunately, the contents of the backpack were still there, Zheng Wen and I took out a rope and tied it around our waists, and let Uncle Zheng hold the other end in our hands, so we plunged into the water to find a shovel.
Now we have to be fast, because the water is so fast that it doesn't seem to take long to fill this place, and once it's full, we haven't opened the passage yet, then we have to give an account here.
The more anxious you are, the slower your hand moves. I plunged into the water and finally found the shovel back, but I was knocked on my hand by something I don't know in the water, and the shovel fell again, so I had to dive into the water again to look for it. Visibility underwater is so low that you can basically touch it with your hands.
After a long time, I finally found the shovel. This time, he grasped it firmly in his hand and floated up quickly. By the time I swam to Uncle Zheng, the water level was only half a person's height from the top. Zheng Wen is worthy of being an undercover agent on the side of the river digger, and his speed is more than a little and a half faster than mine, and he has already dug a big hole at the top.
There is no focus point in the water, and it is not easy to dig up, and it is also very laborious. Now is not the time to spare your efforts, the sooner you dig through, the sooner you escape, this is a race against time with death, so you have to hurry.
Zheng Wen and I, with shovels on both sides, kept digging back and forth, and kept throwing my arms like crazy. The dirt on it spilled down and fell on his head, and he didn't bother to wipe his face, but he continued to dig with his arms. During this period, we didn't say a word, and Uncle Zheng didn't say anything, just shining a flashlight on it and watching us dig.
Fortunately, Uncle Zheng's flashlight is waterproof and can still emit light. Otherwise, if there is no light in this dark cave, we may not have the current digging speed. I guess most of the things in my backpack are broken.
The water level rises very quickly, and the more you reach the top, the faster it rises, and by this time it has reached the mouth, and it seems that it will fill the place in another minute or two, and the hole up has not yet been opened. At this time, my breathing began to be a little short, and Zheng Wen next to me was also like this, and the oxygen here was a little insufficient.
I began to become a little impatient, and the speed of digging was out of order, and several times I dug the shovel into it at the same time as Zheng Wen, and it seems that Zheng Wen was also as impatient as me.
When I was distraught, I heard a crisp sound, and I felt that the shovel should have dug into the stone. The sound is so pleasant now. This also means that it is about to be dug through. Uncle Zheng and Zheng Wen also heard this voice, and the three of us looked at each other and smiled, but this smile poured a stomach full of water.
Now that we have reached the top, we have the bottom in our hearts, and we are no longer as troubled as we were just now. Soon he pulled out a hole that was about the width of one person. Zheng Wen and I sent Uncle Zheng up first, and let Uncle Zheng pull Zheng Wen up first, and then Zheng Wen and Uncle Zheng pulled me up together.
After coming up, the musty air of the breathers felt that it was a happy thing, and it was too embarrassing to be in the water below. The three of us just lay there like that, not saying a word for a long time. I'm so tired, I'm too tired to speak, I believe Zheng Wen and Uncle Zheng over there are the same.
After lying there for a long time, the three of us sat up, Zheng Wen and Uncle Zheng leaned against the wall over there, and I leaned against the wall on this side, looking at each other face to face.
I didn't know why I was laughing, but when I saw them laughing, I thought I should laugh, so I laughed. Uncle Zheng's goatee trembled with laughter, and the water droplets dripped down the top little by little.
After laughing for a long time, we took off our wet clothes and wrung them out before putting them back on. Although the backpack carries medicine, and the general minor illness is not afraid, but in this ancient tomb, health is more important than anything else. I didn't know if I took it off, and I was shocked when I took it off, but now I found that my body was densely covered with bruised wounds, and in some places, after encountering water, there were almost signs of suppuration.
Tear through the wet backpack, take out the medicine, and start wiping it up. Fortunately, the medicine was packed in a plastic bag and tied very tightly, so it didn't cause the medicine to get wet this time, which is also a blessing in misfortune.
"Uncle Zheng, where should we go next?" I rubbed the medicine and asked Uncle Zheng, who had already wrung out the trial clothes and put them on again.
When I asked, Zheng Wen, who was sitting next to Uncle Zheng, also looked at him with an inquiring look. Among the three of us, Uncle Zheng has become the core.
Uncle Zheng stroked the goatee, looked around, and said something that startled both Zheng Wen and me: "We still have to go down." ”
As if seeing our question, Uncle Zheng said again: "According to what you said, everyone else is already in the tomb below, and the pattern of the three-phase tomb is also below. Besides, the Earth Dragon King and Zhang Dahai are both below, isn't the purpose of our coming here to find them? ”
It was only after Uncle Zheng said this that I remembered the purpose of our coming here. According to what Uncle Zheng said before, Zhang Dahai and his grandfather, as well as Kong Sanye, may all be in the tomb of Concubine Pan Shu of Nanqi. And the mausoleum of Concubine Pan Shu of Nanqi is on the left side of this three-phase tomb, so if you want to go there, you can only go down.
"Then Uncle Zheng, where are we going to go down?" Zheng Wen looked at Uncle Zheng and asked.
"Of course not from here." Uncle Zheng pointed to the hole we had just dug and said with a smile. It's strange to say that the water in the cave didn't overflow, and it was this that made us dare to sit here so easily and rest and adjust.
It seems that Uncle Zheng, who has just come out of the mortal pattern, is in a good mood at this time, and he can make jokes. In fact, my mood is also very good, and I am full of confidence, I can escape from such a thrilling moment and not die, so what else is there to be afraid of, the so-called catastrophe will not die will have a blessing, it must refer to me like this.
"Uncle Zheng, you can see, where should we go down now?" Although I am in a good mood, it does not mean that I am not worried. Ever since I saw that the ghost was actually a mouse's body, my worries have continued unabated. The body of the mouse will appear here, so where will Kong Sanye be?
And Uncle Zheng said that the place where we are buried is not too dangerous, and it has already made us almost die here, so the mausoleum of Pan Shufei of Nanqi where Grandpa and Zhang Dahai went will definitely be more dangerous than here, can they deal with it? Thinking of this, my heart tightened for no reason, I must find my grandfather.
After listening to my words, Uncle Zheng stood up, looked around, and pointed in a direction and said, "Go forward from here, and that should be the mausoleum of Concubine Pan Shu of Nanqi." ”
Zheng Wen and I raised our heads and glanced at the narrow passage that Uncle Zheng was pointing to, it was pitch black without a single light, like a beast waiting for us to send it to devour.