Chapter 13: The Devil
The grave road was not long, but the three of us walked very slowly, and it took half an hour to hear the footsteps again. This time there was no need to remind him, Zheng Wen directly cut his right index finger.
Once again, I had some palpitations and dizziness, and I was so ruthless that I bit the tip of my tongue with my teeth, and I woke up in an instant. And Uncle Zheng next to him was fine, which made me feel a little strange. But now is not the strange time, what is about to be faced is an abnormal life and death decision, and if you don't pay attention to it, you may die here.
"Uncle Zheng, where to start?" I turned my head and looked at Uncle Zheng, who was not affected by the footsteps in the slightest, and asked.
Uncle Zheng didn't seem to be very sure, so he walked to the wall of the tomb again and began to knock. This time the beating was very careful, although the sound was not enough to drown out the even footsteps, but it didn't hit the hearts of Zheng Wen and me. The two of us just looked at Uncle Zheng, who was constantly beating, and didn't dare to disturb the slightest.
A few minutes passed, but we seemed to have waited for hours or even days, and finally Uncle Zheng's determined eyes told us that we had found that place. Zheng Wen and I looked at each other, each took out a shovel and began to pick it up. During this time, several of us did not say a word, and all relied on eye contact.
Of course, the speed at which two people pick it up is much faster than that of the first person. But when the first brick was pulled out, I was a little dumbfounded. This time it wasn't like I had dug out a vacant lot in that passage before, there was a real one behind this brick, Zheng Wen and I looked at each other in disbelief, and then turned our eyes to Uncle Zheng.
Uncle Zheng saw that the bricks were not empty, but still so calm and calm, as if he was confident, and motioned for Zheng Wen and me to continue digging. After the first brick was pulled out, the others were easy to dig out, and the second and third bricks were quickly pulled out with a big gap.
The back of the gap is full of dirt, and it seems that there is no exit, and I don't know why Uncle Zheng let us dig here. I was about to ask Uncle Zheng what to do, when Uncle Zheng snatched the shovel from my hand and shoveled it up on the dirt behind the gap. After Zheng Wen saw this, he also took a shovel to help.
A few minutes later, a small stone door appeared behind the opening, and the stone door was so closed that it seemed that only one person could pass through.
After seeing the stone gate, Uncle Zheng seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and said softly: "Sure enough, it was not in vain." ”
After the stone gate appeared, the footsteps became clearer, and the sound seemed to come from the stone gate. I took a deep breath, stood next to the stone gate, and nodded to Uncle Zheng and Zheng Wen behind me. I was about to push the door in, but we thought about it simply, the stone door did not move at all, and Zheng Wen and Uncle Zheng did not push open the stone door.
Uncle Zheng asked Zheng Wen and I to take out some more bricks next to the stone gate and find the mechanism to open the stone gate. But we searched for a long time, and the boss who had opened the gap still couldn't find the mechanism to open the stone door. The footsteps inside were louder, as if they were making a mocking sound, mocking us few unknown people who were not capable of doing anything.
After groping for a while, Uncle Zheng had no choice. Once again, we sat down against the wall, helplessly watching the stone door across from us.
"Uncle Zheng, how do you know there's a door here?" I looked at the silence and asked.
"I saw it in a book." I was a little surprised when I heard this, for Wang Xuanling, there is almost no record in the official history and the wild history. I've only heard my grandfather talk about it, and this Uncle Zheng can actually see it in a book, and I think that book can be regarded as a very precious material.
As if he saw my question, Uncle Zheng actually explained it to me. It turns out that this Uncle Zheng is a member of the Zheng family in Xingyang, you must know that the Zheng family in Xingyang is a famous family in history, and the Boling Cui family, Longxi Li family, Zhaojun Li family, Fanyang Lu family, Qinghe Cui family, Taiyuan Wang family and called the five surnames and seven families.
At that time, the marriage between the five surnames and seven families continued, and it also had a pivotal position in the Sui and Tang dynasties. In the early Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin chose a concubine for the crown prince Li Chengqian, and took a fancy to the daughter of the Taiyuan Wang family, but the marriage proposal was rejected, and Li Shimin had no choice but to choose something else. After refusing to marry, the Taiyuan Wang family did not move a single bit, and the status of the family at that time can be seen.
And this Uncle Zheng, since he is from the Zheng family in Xingyang, you can imagine how precious the collection of books at home is. It's no wonder that Uncle Zheng can see the name Wang Xuanling in the book.
"Then Uncle Zheng, how do we open this door?" It was Zheng Wen who was asking, and I was still digesting what Uncle Zheng said just now.
Uncle Zheng looked at the door and said with some uncertainty: "I suspect that this door is the back road left by Wang Xuanling for himself back then, and the door behind the tomb wall is destroyed." As a feng shui master, it is impossible for Wang Xuanling not to know this. That's why I suspect that, if that's the case, there are only two ways to open the door. ”
"Which two?" When I heard that I could open this door, and that there were two more ways, I suddenly came to my senses.
"The first one is to find the mechanism, as long as you find the mechanism that opens the door, then it will be effortless to open the door." Uncle Zheng's words made me feel a little urge to vomit blood, if we could find the mechanism, we wouldn't be sitting here helplessly looking at the stone gate opposite.
"Uncle Zheng, you can just say the second one." Listening to Uncle Zheng's meaningless method, Zheng Wen, who was sitting there, was also a little impatient.
"The second one is simpler, just blow it up with explosives." After listening to Uncle Zheng's second suggestion, I have the urge to hit my head against the wall, which is even more unreliable than the first one, if there is explosives, why do we dig out bricks for a long time, just explode and it will be over.
Just when I was about to deny Uncle Zheng's second statement, Zheng Wen actually took out two grenades from his backpack and asked if it worked. These two guys scared me a lot.
I used to be just a legitimate businessman, and even the earth rats I came into contact with only used some primitive tools, at most detonators and explosives. This grenade is a type of munition, but I didn't expect the forces behind Zheng Wen to have such a great ability to bring all the grenades here.
"Where did you get the grenades?" Zheng Wen set off with us, and we were also with us when we packed up our things, and his tools were the same as those in my backpack, nothing more than shovels and ropes.
After Zheng Wen's explanation, he realized that his current backpack was actually not his. His backpack was lost when it was pulled off by those arms.
The backpack on his back now belonged to the mercenary who was hacked to death by a cold knife, and when the mercenary took out a gun and shot and spoke, he threw the backpack on the ground, Zheng Wen picked it up casually, and then pulled Uncle Zheng and I to escape together and carried it on his back. Just now, when I was rummaging through my backpack and looking for something to eat, I realized that there was this thing inside. So now when I heard Uncle Zheng say, I thought of the two grenades in the backpack.
I looked at Uncle Zheng with an inquiring gaze, only to see him nod. However, I was still a little worried: "Uncle Zheng, will there be any traps or anything like that after this door is opened?" ”
Uncle Zheng smiled at me and said, "Don't worry about this, since it is Wang Xuanling's way to escape, how can there be a trap." ”
Hearing Uncle Zheng say this, Zheng Wen and I breathed a sigh of relief. Zheng Wen took the grenade and motioned for Uncle Zheng and I to go farther away. When Uncle Zheng and I walked a certain distance, Zheng Wen picked up a grenade and knocked it lightly on the wall, making a crisp sound, and quickly threw it next to the stone door.
After throwing the grenade, Zheng Wen quickly fell to the ground against the wall, and Uncle Zheng and I immediately fell to the ground when we saw this. A few seconds later, a loud bang was heard, and the ground shook, and a cloud of dust fell from the top of the tomb.
At the moment, I only felt my ears tingle and there was a roar. Uncle Zheng next to me got up and pulled me, as if he was saying something, but I couldn't hear a word.
After the stone door exploded, we didn't rush in. After his body recovered a little and the dust in the tomb had settled, he began to enter the stone gate.
This time, I was in the front, Uncle Zheng was in the middle, and Zheng Wen was behind. Until now, Zheng Wen still has the remaining grenade in his hand, in his opinion, no matter what kind of ghost pushes or grinds ghosts, as long as a grenade is thrown over, it will all be finished. I don't know if it's because the hearing of the ear has not fully recovered or what, I didn't hear any footsteps when I entered the stone gate.
The space behind the stone gate was very large, the size of a football field, and it was a little empty, and I didn't see a demon pushing the stone mill, so my mind was a little more settled. Later, Uncle Zheng and Zheng Wen also walked in one after another, and when they saw this scene, Uncle Zheng shook his head and said, "No."
I didn't know what Uncle Zheng said was wrong, and I was about to step forward, but I felt that someone behind me pulled me, and in an instant, I fell backwards and fell outside the stone gate. I turned around and found that Uncle Zheng was holding me with one hand and Zheng Wen with the other, and the three of them were all lying down outside the stone gate. It seems that Uncle Zheng dragged me and Zheng Wen out.
"Uncle Zheng, what's going on?" Before I could ask, Zheng Wen had already asked first.
"That ghost inside is very powerful, be careful. What you just saw was an illusion. "When I heard Uncle Zheng's words, my scalp was a little numb. I used to hear my grandfather say that only an old ghost with a deep Taoism will make people hallucinate, but I didn't expect this grinding ghost to have such Taoism.
Zheng Wen over there obviously didn't believe it, but Uncle Zheng was his elder, and it seemed that he might be his boss or something, so he could only endure some unhappiness.
We stood up and cleaned up, and began to enter the stone gate again. This time, the footsteps inside were heard more clearly, evenly and powerfully. Every sound seemed to be on my heart, making every step of our way a little difficult.
This time, I really saw the ghost grinding, and it was indeed the evil ghost grinding. It was pitch black in front of me, and I didn't have the empty feeling I had when I came in just now, but I felt a little depressed. Only the stone mill and the demon in front of him emitted a little green light.
I was horrified when I saw the demon, the dark green grimace I had seen in the hotel and in the graveyard before, only larger, the size of a basin. What surprised me even more was that body, this body turned out to be the body of the rat who died and grabbed Kong Sanye and jumped into the crack.
And the things on the stone mill made me feel like throwing up. It turned out to be arms, crushed by the stone mill, and turned into puddles of meat sauce.
Zheng Wen obviously recognized the body of the mouse, and looked at it with my usual open-mouthed boss.