Chapter 59: The Burial Pit



The water was cold, and there was a strange smell in the air, like the smell of sewers.

I tried to swim a few times, my right ankle still has no strength, and has been frozen stiff, even the pain is gone, I can only try to shake the knee joint, just a few swims, I suddenly touched a thing, very stiff, I thought it was to the shore, was holding up my hand to climb up, but the arm forced, the thing slipped away with a bang, I only heard the sound of water, pounced.

What is it?

I hurriedly went to pick up the lighter in my trouser pocket, fortunately it was waterproof, I lit the lighter, and suddenly there was an orange light in front of me, at this time, I found that not far ahead, there was a blurry thing, floating on the water, but because the light of the lighter was too weak, I couldn't see clearly for a while, and I was about to swim over, but the thing swam towards me by itself.

I was shocked, and I thought of the human face fish that the fat man said, this underground river is the source of the glacier, can't there be that thing? I subconsciously wanted to touch the dagger on my waist, only to find that the dagger had long since disappeared, and I can now say that I don't even have a weapon to defend myself.

Gradually, I noticed that something was wrong, that the thing that was floating towards me did not seem to be a living thing, because I did not hear the slightest sound of the water fluctuating, and there was a dead silence around me, and the thing seemed to be floating towards me along the water.

Knowing that it was not a living thing, I calmed down a little, and at this moment, the thing floated closer, I looked at it, and suddenly my scalp exploded, and a pale corpse was slowly sliding towards me, I instantly thought of what I had just touched, and after a long time, I was crawling on a corpse just now.

Seeing the corpse glide straight towards me, I felt like I dodged to the side, avoiding the current, and the corpse grazed my arm and slid downstream. After such a fright, I quickly raised the lighter, trying to see the surrounding situation, this look, I was stunned, only to see that the water I am now on, is densely covered with corpses, these corpses in the dark can not be seen, can only see a humanoid black shadow, because of the relationship of the water, they are like a queue at the moment, floating towards my location.

I suddenly felt my scalp tingle, and when I thought about the few mouthfuls of water I had just poured into my stomach, I suddenly felt sick to my stomach, and I hated to vomit. But now apparently there is no time to vomit on me, and in this moment, several corpses have already floated past my body, touching the skin of the corpse, only to feel a stiffness and coldness, as if something has penetrated into the skin along the place of contact.

I shuddered, feeling that the heavy yin here was unusual, and it was worthy of avoiding the corpses that kept floating over, and I saw that there seemed to be a landing site upstream, and immediately went upstream against the water, during which there were constantly corpses of different shapes floating over, the clothes on these corpses had already rotted, most of them were naked, the corpses were male and female, most of them were dry and stiff, and there was no sign of decay due to the temperature.

As I swam forward, I wondered, how could there be so many corpses here? Could it be a slave for burial? But I have never heard of anyone who would put the burial person in the water, the tomb passage is already a big taboo, let alone put the burial person in the water, this kind of behavior, I heard the third uncle mention, also known as water empowerment, the descendants of the tomb owner will inevitably suffer a catastrophe.

I thought about the origin of these corpses, my consciousness was not attentive, and I collided with one of the corpses, in an instant, I felt a tingling feeling in my chest, as if something had gotten in, I hurriedly flashed to the side, let the old man's body go, and was about to check the chest, the halo in the cave suddenly dimmed, and then, everything around me turned a bleak turquoise, I was shocked, I looked up to see the lighter held high, the flame that had been growing had been only the size of a soybean, obviously there was no wind, But it was beeping and beating, and at this moment, the flame the size of the bean was green.

I suddenly felt a chill in my neck, and I thought of what the fat man said about the ghost blowing the lamp, damn it, there are so many zongzi, what kind of lamp should I light it.

At this moment, I really wanted to slap myself twice, but before I could do it, the light of the lighter went out with a flicker.

The cave fell into darkness again, and then, I felt as if someone was blowing on the back of my neck, and the shade was cool and drilled into my collar, so frightened that my scalp was numb, and I couldn't help screaming, and hurried to get the lighter, and after hitting it several times in a row, the flame was rekindled, and it was still a bleak dark green, as if it would be extinguished at any time.

When I looked back, I immediately stiffened, and the corpse that had collided with me was staring straight at me at the moment.

His whole body was floating on the water, and he should have been buried face down in the water, but at this moment, his face was raised, his chin was half in the water, and his pale face was staring straight at me.

This corpse was supposed to be flowing down the water, but at this moment, it turned a corner, and when the other corpses were floating down, it was slowly sliding towards me.

As soon as my scalp exploded, I couldn't care so much anymore, so I swam to the shore with all my strength, and there were constantly corpses floating towards me, and I couldn't care so much, while saying offense in my heart, I reached out and pushed the corpse over, blocking the old zongzi.

Seeing that there was still a finger away from the shore, I suddenly put a hand on my shoulder, I knew what was happening without looking, and I suddenly wanted to cry without tears, and the lighter in my hand flashed at this juncture, and the green light flashed, and it went out again.

At this time, I felt a stiff and cold body on my back, and then, a tingling sensation kept coming from my skin, as if something was crawling on me, the hand on my shoulder had no strength, I couldn't be afraid at this time, I threw the hand away, and hurriedly wanted to swim to the shore, but before I could swim a few steps, there was a sudden sound of water flowing in the hole, as if something was swimming in the water.

The corpse's hand was thrown away by me, and left my back for a while, and before I could catch my breath, the whole person was suddenly pushed up, and turned over in the water, this time, choked on a lot of water, and I was so disgusting that I wanted to vomit.

During the struggle in the water, the palm of my hand couldn't help but touch a slippery thing, which seemed to be a big fish, which not only reminded me of the piranha in the tomb of Qinling, but suddenly tightened, and was about to emerge from the water, the thing in the water rushed over, and my whole person was suddenly hit by the flesh and eight elements, because it was pitch black here, I couldn't see what was attacking me, I only felt that the thing was very powerful, and it seemed to want to kill me in the water.

I was almost holding my breath, and if I continued like this, I would drown if I didn't get killed, and I immediately rose up with a fierce force, and I felt that the thing swam behind me, as if it wanted to hit me once, this time I was fully prepared, as soon as the water flowed, I punched it out, hitting a ball of soft meat, and the water flow suddenly became disordered, and I also took advantage of this chaos to get in and out of the water, and hurriedly ventilated.

I don't know what this thing is, I suspect it may be a human-faced fish that the fat man encountered, and if this human-faced fish lives here, then what does it feed on? Thinking about the corpse in the cave again, he suddenly felt a chill, if this was known to the fat man, he would not make a fuss.

I took a breath and hurriedly swam into the distance, and the other hand hurried to the lighter, and it took a long time to ignite it, and I was overjoyed at this sight, it turned out that I had swam to the shore, and I could go up as long as I held my hand.

I immediately climbed ashore, and I did not care that my body was as cold as ice, and hastened to retreat far from the water, and squinted into the water by the faint light of the fire.

I saw that the water was still not calm, and the old zongzi who sneaked up on me was strangely circled in the water at the moment, virtual and real, I saw that from under the old zongzi's body, it seemed to run out of a lot of things, and if you looked closely, it turned out to be a black insect similar to a beetle, these insects were full of thousands, and they came out from under the old zongzi's body at once, and then scattered in all directions.

The old zongzi had no bugs, and the whole person suddenly began to slide down along the current, I sighed, it seems that I was really scared of myself just now, how can there be any ghost blowing the lamp, it is estimated that these insects are hiding in the corpse, controlling the swimming of the corpse, and the abnormality of the lighter just now, maybe it can also be explained, the lighter has been used for more than ten days, and the gas oil is almost dry, according to the different environments, the lighter is different when it is out of gas.

At this moment, the lighter in my hand went out again, and the surroundings were suddenly plunged into darkness.

I secretly exclaimed in my heart, what should I do now, it is going to be completely dark, I can't help but look up, but I find that I can no longer see the hazy fire above, could it be that the fire dragon above has been extinguished? Damn, when is that damn fat man going to come down.

I stood on the shore and took a few deep breaths, and my nose was filled with a strange smell, not just the smell of corpses, as if there was something else.

After thinking about it, I decided to make a torch first, I took the lighter in my hand, and shook it desperately, it is said that when the lighter is out of gas, shake it a few times, and the remaining gas in it will produce a chemical reaction, which can return to the light once, I have not tried it, and at this moment I can only hope that it is not a boring person to break it out.

After shaking it more than twenty times, I tried to hit it, and the lighter actually lit up, and the color was normal. I was overjoyed, and hurriedly looked around, trying to find something that could be a long-term light source, but when I saw this, my heart suddenly chuckled, and I saw that all around me was actually full of corpses, and these corpses, with the upwelling of the water, were constantly swept into the water, and then went down the river, I don't know where to float.

I instantly understood that this may be a burial pit, but after thousands of years of evolution, the underground river water has risen, so that the corpses are swept into the water, and I am in the pile of corpses at this time, where I am standing, due to the erosion of the water, the corpses are gone, but the foothold is the stronghold, and the ground behind me is full of dense corpses, and everywhere the light goes, the shape of the corpses is strange, and the farther place is a darkness, and I don't know how many.