Chapter 52: Collecting Footprints
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Won't the door open? Disbelieving, I stepped forward and pulled the doorknob hard.
Really! The door seemed to be glued to the inside and couldn't be opened from the inside.
"Maybe! That's how the people who came to this room died. Ma Liang suddenly said coldly.
My body shuddered violently, doesn't that mean that we too will die here?
I kicked the door with my foot, and the door was kicked with a loud sound, but the door didn't do anything, and it didn't move.
Can this wooden door withstand an adult's full strength kicking the door? It's a weird thing.
"Don't kick! It's useless! Ma Liang waved his hand at me, "It looks like we should have walked into the territory of the tomb guard!" ”
Grave watcher?
I've heard of the grave keeper, what is this tomb keeper?
In many large ancient tombs that have been discovered, there will be tomb keepers, some of whom are spontaneously guarded by the descendants of the deceased, and some of whom are sent by the government.
But what is this tomb keeper?
"I've only heard about this tomb keeper from my master." Seeing that he couldn't get out anyway, Ma Liang simply sat on the ground and explained to me, "Didn't you notice that the ancient tomb we came in didn't have a mechanism?" ”
When I heard him say this, I realized that it seemed like this, we had been walking for so long, and we really hadn't touched any mechanism.
It stands to reason that a tomb with a craftsman to accompany him is at least a prince, right?
But we've all been around here for so long, and we haven't run into anything.
"That's because of the presence of the Tomb Keeper!" Ma Liang sighed heavily, "This tomb guard spirit is much more powerful than those mechanisms, as for how powerful it is, I don't know, anyway, I remember that the master told me that he once went to the ancient tomb with someone and met a tomb guard, and he was the only one who escaped at that time." You have to know which of them is not a master of one by one? Ten people, all gone. ”
When I go, I listened to it and broke out in a cold sweat, doesn't that mean that we are doomed?
"Not necessarily!" Ma Liang shook his head, "At least we're safe now." ”
Safe fart, safe guys, we're stuck here now, and there's an embroidered face outside.
There are tigers behind wolves, you tell me it's safe?
Seeing me sitting on the ground decadently, Ma Liang patted me on the shoulder, "It's better than waiting to die here, right?" Besides, you watched the tomb keeper still haven't come out to kill us, who knows what it means, get up and find a way. ”
I sighed heavily, patted my ass and stood up.
But there is also a little strange in my heart, why are we all trapped here, and this tomb keeper has no movement, as if it just wants to trap us here?
Or has it just eaten the people who have come to this room, and it hasn't fully digested it?
This thatched house is not very large, only about twenty square meters, and it is clear from the house at a glance, except for the door, there is no other way out.
There are no windows, what is the way out?
Ma Liang tapped his hands on the wall vigorously, and then leaned on the wall to listen with his ears.
I asked him what he was listening to, and he said to see if the walls were hollow or had compartments.
It was a very serious thing, but I almost laughed when I saw him like this, saying Did you watch too much TV, and thought there was a secret grid or something?
After that, I tried to knock on the wall twice with my hand, just like him.
As soon as I finished knocking, I was stunned.
This...... Does this really seem like something is wrong, or am I just lucky? This wall seems hollow?
I quickly called Ma Liang over and asked him to knock on the wall to see if it was hollow.
"It seems to be really hollow!" After Ma Liang knocked twice, there were two muffled knocks.
"Smash it open!" Ma Liang's eyes lit up, and then he took the machete from behind his back and struck it twice with the back of the iron knife.
The brick wasn't very hard, and after being knocked twice, it broke a fist-sized hole.
I leaned over to the entrance of the cave and looked inside, and found that it was pitch black and I couldn't see it at all.
"With a flashlight, stupid!" Ma Liang couldn't help but be angry when he saw me lying on the wall, squinting at the entrance of the cave.
I just reacted and took a flashlight to the hole.
I was instantly dumbfounded by this photo.
"What's wrong? What do you see? What's this expression? Ma Liang pushed me.
I didn't speak, I handed him the flashlight and let him see for himself.
"I'll go, what's going on?" Ma Liang just finished reading it, and he also let out an exclamation.
On the other side of the wall that we smashed open, it was not an exit, but another room.
"What now?" I looked at Ma Liang with a big head.
I thought we had found the exit, but who knew there was another darkroom.
"What else can we do, pry this wall open, let's see if the other room has a door, doesn't the room have a front and back door?" Ma Liang's voice was thick with uncertainty.
I thought about it, and I felt reasonable.
It took about ten minutes for us to chisel the hole in the wall that could hold one person.
As soon as the wall was chiseled, a gust of wind blew out from inside, and Ma Liang and I couldn't stop playing the geese.
There are no windows in this house, where does the wind come from?
"Damn, this grave keeper can't be in there, right?" I was so frightened that I didn't dare to go in when I stood by the wall.
"What are you afraid of, now it's all dead horizontally and vertically, go in and take a look, otherwise it's too much to sit here and wait for death!" Ma Liang gritted his teeth and walked in first.
Even though he said that, his legs were shaking.
Seeing that Ma Liang walked in, I could only follow in.
As soon as I entered the room, I saw a large black coffin.
Under the light of the flashlight, the coffin was a little weirdly black.
This room is not big, and this coffin stopped here and almost filled all the space.
Towards it, there was a coffin in this room, this ...... It's not the owner of the tomb, is it?
But if it is the owner of the tomb, this coffin should be red, right, why is it black? The black ones are for the living! It is only after the death of a person that the black coffin is painted red.
Could it be that the owner of the tomb is not dead?
In the past, when I was a child in the village, if there was an elderly person in the family, then a dark coffin would be placed in the house.
And when the elderly are healthy, they will ask their families to make the coffin in advance.
There are also many sayings, one is that preparing the coffin in advance is to add wealth and longevity; One theory is that the coffin needs to be dehydrated so that it will not be deformed, so that the deceased old man is more comfortable underneath.
There are also those who put the coffin in their bedroom, and these old people believe in the concept of "collecting footprints".
The so-called "hand and foot prints" should not be well understood, but they should have experienced it.
In the middle of the night, some people will hear the sound of people walking in the living room, touching the dishes and chopsticks, or drinking water.
The old people in the countryside believe that this is the soul of the dying person who goes to the place where they were alive to "collect footprints".
The person who "collects footprints" will go to the places where he went during his lifetime, wrap relatives, or invite him to dinner.
If the coffin is made in advance, then the coffin will be opened with "footprints" and make a sound.
If an old man who is sleeping hears the sound of a coffin, he will wake up and see a soul that looks exactly like himself.
Then he knew he was leaving.
However, there is also a saying that if there is no old man in the family and the black coffin is placed, then one of the people in the family must have died horizontally!
In many villages, as long as one person dies horizontally, then it is very likely that all the men in the village will have to beat the whip from the street to the end of the street with their bare arms, holding a willow whip, which means that this is to drive out ghosts.
With the men of the whole village going out to drive away the ghosts, you can imagine how fierce the ghosts who died were.
If this black coffin is a goose prepared for people who have not died, it will be even more terrifying, this Nima has lived for hundreds of years and has not died, can he be an ordinary person?
Therefore, whether it is a dead person or a non-dead person, the appearance of this coffin here is a great disadvantage for us.
As soon as I thought of these two points, I kept swallowing, put the soul slaying sword in front of me, and stared at the coffin tightly, not daring to move.
Anyone who suddenly sees such a coffin will be frightened, not afraid of the coffin, but afraid of what is in the coffin.
No one knows what's in this coffin......