Chapter 66: The Man in the Coffin
After everyone finished fooling around with tofu, they shifted their attention and focused on the current tomb. There are no entrances or exits, and the old nest above our heads has no entrances and exits, which means that we are in a dead end, whether we go up or down.
From the perspective of the structure of the tomb, this is unlikely, because the ancients paid attention to death as life, and the tomb is also called the Yin House, that is, the place where the dead live, the Yin House and the Yang House are common, and no one will build a dead end in the Yin House.
Professor Lin said: "Maybe there is some secret passage in this place, everyone should be careful. Everyone gradually dispersed in formation, carefully looking for possible hidden passages around, and at this moment, Gu Wenmin's eyes were sharp, and he suddenly said: "Come and see, the patterns on these coffins are so strange." "We are mainly here for the things in Xu Fu's coffin this time, so we didn't pay too much attention to these nine burial coffins, Gu Wenmin's voice couldn't help but attract everyone's attention, only to see her pointing to the top of the coffin of one of the coffins, and said: "Look, the characters carved on this coffin are really weird, like aliens." ”
Following her gaze, I couldn't help but sigh, yes, it does look like an alien. It's not the first time I've seen an ancient coffin, I've seen a carved Yunrui beast, I've seen a carved crane celestial official, but it's the first time I've seen such a strange-looking person on a coffin. In the center of this coffin, there is a small human figure, wearing clothes that are different from the wide robes and large sleeves of the ancients, but more close-fitting clothes, with hands on the chest.
I took a closer look and realized something was wrong. The hand is not actually on the chest, but on the neck, to be exact.
I couldn't help but gasp, surprised, and said, "It's like pinching myself." ”
Gu Wenmin nodded, obviously puzzled, at this time, the rest of the people also found that such a strange figure carving was found on almost every coffin lid, but the body shape of the figure, some strong, some slender, looked like there were men and women. Gu Wenmin speculated: "Could it be that the figure carved on it is the owner of the coffin?" ”
Tofu said: "Could it be that the people in this place strangled themselves to death?" Haha, don't be funny, it's impossible. "It's a shame that this kid is still laughing, if he knew what happened to him, he would probably be so scared that he couldn't cry, for the sake of this kid's physical and mental health, I decided to hide this matter to the end.
Professor Lin pushed the glasses with one lens and said, "It is impossible for people to strangle themselves to death, but Xiao Gu's words reminded me, you look at the faces of these characters, strange, with long mouths and wide faces, as if they are wearing a strange mask, maybe it is some kind of ritual, after these people die, will they put their corpses in this shape because of this ritual?" ”
I said in my heart that it is worthy of a professional, and I can think so much with just one figure carving, but what ritual can be so weird? In my heart, I felt that Professor Lin's idea was unreliable, so I didn't answer, but an idea popped up in my heart, these nine coffins were placed here abruptly, and there was no way forward, could it be that Xu Fu deliberately did it? Could he have had some other purpose?
Just as I was thinking about this question, Tofu suddenly approached me, and his other intact hand, tightly tugging on my arm, seemed to be a little nervous, and he said, "Old Chen, I don't agree with Professor Lin's words. ”
I said: "If you don't agree, don't agree, don't put your arms around me, old man, don't you feel tired, I still feel goosebumps." ”
When Professor Lin heard this, he asked Tofu if he had any ideas, and Tofu nodded and said, "I have an idea, but I think it's a little scary." You see, the strange masks on these people's faces are very similar to the gas masks we are carrying? Tofu's tone trembled as he said this, apparently caught up in some kind of association. But this association is really bold enough, I subconsciously looked at the face on the coffin, and I couldn't help but instantly break out in a layer of cold sweat, not bad...... The mask the man was wearing was very much like a gas mask.
No, it should be said that the more you look at it, the more it looks like it! Almost identical!
Duan Fei was obviously a little scared, her voice was trembling, and she said, "Brother Dou, don't talk nonsense, it's scary." ”
Tofu's expression was already ugly at this time, his face was crying, and he stammered: "I, I'm not talking nonsense, you look carefully at the people on these coffins, two of them have thin waists and big breasts, and they are two women...... In our team, isn't it just you and ...... And Gu Da Beauty. I was horrified, and immediately confirmed them one by one, and carefully looked at the carvings of the characters on each coffin.
This one is unbelievable, exactly like what Tofu said, nine coffins, with characters carved on them, all carrying something similar to a gas mask, and seven men and two women.
Could it be ...... Are we lying in these nine coffins?
No, to be more precise, these nine coffins are not for us?
I looked at the rest of the people, almost all of them had cold sweat on their heads, their faces were pale, and for a moment, in the silence of the tomb, only our increasingly heavy gasps could be heard. The idea was so weird that it might just be a coincidence, but the mask was similar to a gas mask. There is already a custom of covering the face in the funeral customs, and it is not uncommon for the corpse to wear a mask when it is buried, and we must have thought too much about it.
I am a more realistic person, and I don't want to be scared to death by some ethereal imagination, so I took a few deep breaths, calmed down my pounding heart, and taught Tofu to say: "Don't be so superstitious, according to what you said, could it be that Xu Fu had already deduced that more than two thousand years later, there would be a group of us who would come to rob the tomb, and then deliberately left us nine coffins?" ”
Speaking of which, I remembered another loophole and added, "Besides, there are not just nine of us, ten of us." ”
There are four people, Professor Lin, Wu Sidong, and Duan Fei, and me, Gu Wenmin, and Tofu, adding up to just ten people. Even if Xu Fu can really pinch and calculate and prepare a coffin for us, the number of coffins is not right.
As soon as I said this, everyone's hearts were also relieved a little when they were mentioned just now, and Jiqì Ren No. 1 took off his gas mask, wiped the cold sweat on his head, and said, "Let's not scare ourselves, the guess just now is too ridiculous." Even if Xu Fu really knows how to count, then shouldn't he just prepare our coffin, shouldn't there be any Japanese people breaking in? ”
Tofu wondered, "Japanese? What Japanese? ”
Gu Wenmin hid the part about him, and told Tofu about the encounter with the Japanese corpse in the tomb, Tofu was immediately shocked, and said: "Little Japan is too despicable, they want to rob the land, and now even the mushrooms have to be robbed with us, we can't delay any longer, we must quickly find the main tomb...... No, since this place is a dead end, where did the rest of Little Japan go? ”
Tofu's words were to the point, and everyone looked at each other, and they couldn't say why for a while. At this moment, Wu Sidong suddenly pointed to the coffin beside us, his voice was panicked and strange, and he said in a dumb voice: "Will it be...... Inside? Don't you think this coffin is too big? Fear...... More than nine people, right? ”
Tofu was originally small, Wu Sidong said this, which scared him a lot, and he hurriedly said: "Don't guess, do you mean that after these little Japanese ran into the tomb, they climbed into the coffin by themselves?" They're not fools......" As soon as Tofu's words fell, there was a sudden thud in the silent and dark tomb.
The voice was dull and close, coming from our right-hand side. Everyone looked at the source of the sound, and there was only a large black wooden coffin.
The sound came from the wooden coffin, and there was something in it!
My first reaction was: it's dead.
Duan Fei and Wu Sidong are novices who have only touched dry bones, where have they encountered such a strange situation, they are so frightened that they can't say a word. At the critical moment, it was still the soldiers who were more reliable, and the No. 1 man licked his lips, put on his gas mask again, and made two gestures at everyone. The first gesture is for us to step back; The second gesture was to bring his three comrades together.
The four of them had a very tacit understanding, and in an instant, they each stood at one end and surrounded the huge black coffin from all sides. If the enemy does not move, I will not move. The machine did not do it directly, but held a gun and stared at the coffin.
The voice in the coffin rang out a few times, as if something was about to come out of the lid of the coffin.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
In the silence of the tomb, the sound made people's scalps tingle. Gu Wenmin's body leaned closer to me, after all, she was still scared, so I patted her hand to calm her down.
Tofu swallowed his saliva and said, "The glutinous rice is used up, and the buffalo horns are not prepared, and there are zongzi coming out." Lao Chen, I am injured now, and you are responsible for protecting me. ”
I said, "I only protect women, and I am not responsible for men." ”
When Tofu heard this, he immediately pinched his throat and said, "People's ...... In fact, she is also a girl. I saw that Tofu was already scared and had no skin and no face, so I said: "Okay, okay, don't discredit the title of sister anymore, if something is wrong later, you and Wen Min don't care about anything, hide first, and I'll deal with the rest." ”
Tofu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Lao Chen, don't say anything, good brother!" As he spoke, he put his arms around me from behind.
I immediately got angry and scolded: "You *** are sick, is it time to joke?" Take your paws away. ”
As soon as I finished speaking, I reacted that something was wrong, Tofu and Gu Wenmin were standing on my left and right sides, how could he hug me from behind? Thinking so, I couldn't help but look down at the hand that was holding me, it was a dry purple and black, greasy human hand. No, rather, a pair of hands that belong to a dead man!
Before I could react, the hands suddenly applied force and pulled me back. The force was so great that I felt my thighs hit the coffin behind me, and then I fell backwards.
The touch told me that the lid of the coffin behind us had been opened! And at this moment, my thighs are against the edge of the coffin, and the whole person involuntarily falls towards the coffin because of the force behind me.