The grave keeper continued: "Then in that moment I remembered the contents of the dream, there was a man who gave me something...... The person's appearance was clear, just like a real person, but I never left here. My heart moved, as if I had grasped something, and an idea suddenly popped up in my heart, and I immediately asked, "Are you the only grave keeper in this underground palace?" He nodded.

I immediately knew what the problem was, that a man did not jump out of a stone, and if he really lived here all along, what about his parents?

When I asked my parents, the grave keeper said irritable that he didn't remember. Suddenly, the thought in my heart became clearer, my voice almost trembled, and I asked, "Do you remember what that person gave you?" ”

The grave keeper narrowed his eyes and said, "Mask." ”

"What kind of mask? Is it the same as the one on your face? ”

The grave keeper said, "It's different, that mask is like jade, and it has been staring at me in my dreams. ”

I said, "So you didn't kill me, you wanted to remember more?" "The grave keeper did not speak, which was regarded as a tacit acquiescence, and the thought in my heart became stronger and stronger: Bu Ci once said that there are three people who will survive, but in the mouth of the tomb keeper, only two will survive, so does the third person exist? If so, could it be the person in front of you?

Immediately after, I remembered what I said in the suicide note of the Daoist, those three people, one will be blessed by the Earth Ghost King, one will become the servant of the Earth Ghost King, and the other will leave safely. The one in front of me, could it be the second person? Countless thoughts went through my mind, and I thought of him saying that he didn't know my grandfather, but he reacted to my name, and had some weird dreams.

Could it be that he is...... He is......

A person who was about to come out jumped into my mind, not to mention how complicated this feeling was, and finally I said, "Can you take off the mask, maybe I know what is going on." The grave keeper stared at me, slowly moved his hand to his face, and then lifted the turquoise mask.

Behind the mask, a thin, sallow, unshaven man appeared, like a mummy, and his face was almost deformed, but I still recognized it, it was grandpa!

It's my grandfather Chen Siyuan, who has disappeared for fourteen years!

He's still alive?

I quickly calculated a time account in my mind, fourteen years ago, my grandfather was in his sixties, and now he should be in his eighties, close to ninety years old. Could it be that he has been living in this underground palace for the past fourteen years? What does he eat and drink? What do you live on? How did he get this exuberant physical strength?

I think of the Earth Ghost King, is it because of the Earth Ghost King?

I was not excited, but when great joy and confusion came at the same time, I suppressed all my emotions, not even excitement. I looked at the person in front of me without blinking, his beard covering most of his face, and his cloudy eyes looked at me quietly, and said, "You know me?" ”

"Acquaintance."

"Who are you?" He asked the question again.

I took a deep breath, swallowed my saliva, and said in the calmest voice, "I am your grandson, Chen Hang." ”

The grave keeper's eyes widened: "Grandson? Where did I get my grandson? ”

I know that he has lost his memory, or rather, he has been brainwashed by some kind of force to position himself as a grave keeper. Where does this force come from? The Ghost King? Or are the seven lamps again? From this point of view, grandpa's group of people had close contact with the underground palace of the Earth Ghost King, and they should have had close contact with the seven lights.

I looked at his surprised expression and nodded, but he obviously didn't believe it, shook his head, his voice was still grumpy, and said, "I've always lived here, how can I have grandchildren." ”

"But you have an impression of my name, don't you? You've never left here, and why do you have these strange dreams? If you were born to live here, what about your parents? Where are your parents? This series of questions pressed over, and his skinny sallow face showed hesitation, and finally asked, "Are you really my grandson?" So who am I. ”

"You are Chen Siyuan, a tomb robber, fourteen years ago the tomb of the ghost king disappeared, fourteen years ago, I came to find your clues, but I didn't expect that you are still alive......"

He was silent, and suddenly pressed on the floor tiles of the tomb road, and there was no movement, and several floor tiles around him suddenly turned, revealing a gap, and behind the gap, a stone human head appeared. The man was big-eyed and square-eared, with his tongue sticking out long, and looked at us with a weird smile.

His thin fingers were very flexible, and I didn't know where to press the head, and I suddenly heard a creaking sound from behind the tomb wall, which seemed to be the sound of a stone door slowly activating.

Immediately afterwards, I heard my grandfather say, "I can't fully trust you, but I can let your friend go first, and you can't meet until then." After a pause, he looked at me suspiciously with a skeletal face, and with a slightly eager look, he said, "What else?" ”

And also?

I was stunned at first, and then reacted, and then told him the information I knew about the road from beginning to end, we sat in the dead tomb, the two of them sat cross-legged, motionless, the only thing that moved was the mouth, when the mouth was dry, I felt the water, and couldn't help but drink the water left for Tofu and others.

After speaking, I cautiously asked, "Grandpa, do you remember anything?" ”

He looked at me, shook his head, and said, "Nothing, what you're talking about doesn't seem to have anything to do with me." ”

I was silent for a moment and said, "So, you still don't believe in your identity?" ”

He nodded, although his voice was not so irritable, but his attitude was a little more restrained, helpless, I could only use a killer move, and said, "I have a way to prove your identity." He didn't speak, just looked at me with his eyes. So I said, "My grandfather has slippery bones, and the bones of his body can shrink at the same time and get into a hole twice as small as his body." ”

As soon as these words came out, the person on the other side finally showed a shocked look, and I knew that I was right. I slowly approached his thin body, he was unacceptable for a moment, completely sat on the spot, I saw that he had no intention of attacking, and when I got closer, I couldn't help but use my arms to hug the skinny man into his arms.

Before, I was alone, uncared, as if floating in mid-air, but now, I feel a force that pulls me from the air to the ground, and I am grounded.

He didn't push me away with his huge strength, my throat was a little blocked, and I couldn't speak for a while, and it took me a moment to spit out a few words: "Grandpa, I miss you." ”

"I'm going to get you out of here."

In the dim light, in the dungeon, where there had been no sunlight for thousands of years, there was a build-up of obscurity, and for a moment, I felt his dry hand pat on my back, and said in a slightly irritable voice, "I can't leave here." ”

I let go of him and said, "For what?" Why did you become like this? ”

Grandpa shook his head, looked at me with complicated eyes, and said, "You come with me, and I'll take you to a place." "I could see that his gaze was full of struggle, doubt and fear of the unknown, and my arrival may have shattered his fourteen years of 'peaceful' life, which made it difficult for him to accept it for a while.

I didn't ask too much, I followed him and let him take me through the dungeon, and on the way, I asked him some questions to sort out my grandfather's current situation.

In Grandpa's words, he has a memory of being in this place since he began, and his purpose is to protect the main place of the underground palace, that is, the coffin room of the Earth Ghost King, and the coffin room is the only place he has not been to. In addition, this underground palace, in fact, has a very obscure secret passage, connecting the underground river and the outside world, his usual food, mainly through the underground river, as for clothes, he collected some dead people's clothes.

I can't help but think, could it be that the clothes of those naked corpses were also taken away by my grandfather? But I didn't ask that question, so it didn't matter to me at all. My eyes were fixed on the emaciated man in front of me. Even though he was close to 90 years old, his body showed no signs of rickets, just very thin, and his skin was close to the bones, just like the children I had seen on television in Africa starving to death.

Although I know that my grandfather is better than me, subconsciously, I still have an unreal feeling, for fear that this is just a dream of mine, or another ghost covering my eyes, and I am afraid that something will suddenly change and kill my grandfather. Before, he was careless and bold, but now he is extremely vigilant.

As he walked, Grandpa suddenly turned his head, his unshaven face twitched, squeezed out a strange smile, and said, "There's nothing here that can hurt me, don't worry." "I guess I haven't smiled for a long time, so his smile that he thinks is soothing is actually very weird. I nodded, loosening my nerves.

In the fourteen years he was here, there were two places that his grandfather did not dare to visit, and it was the fear and awe that were deeply rooted in his mind that he never dared to set foot in. One of them is a coffin chamber, while the other is a closed ear chamber that connects to the coffin. I don't know why Grandpa became like this, but I can imagine that some kind of powerful force must have affected him, and this force was telling him in an invisible way that he couldn't go to these two places.

And at this moment, grandpa was suppressing the fear in his heart and leading me to the coffin of the earth ghost king.

He said, "If what you're saying is true, then I have to figure out, I still have a very good son, right?" ”

I said, "Very good, you may have saved his life by looking for the corpse lamp." ”

Grandpa didn't say anything more and kept walking, but I could see that the thin muscles he had left were tense.