Chapter 49: The Mass Burial Tomb
The chief security officer looked at it and stopped him again and again, "Mr. Zhuo, you can't do it, how can you let a guest take an adventure in the affairs of our village!" ”
Some villagers who had been treated by their grandfather also persuaded them with good words, "Mr. Zhuo, this well is very evil, you must not go down!" ”
When the chief security officer heard this, his eyes widened, "You people, you are saying such things now, it's not because you are timid and afraid that you actually let Mr. Jia Zhuo stand up for you, are you embarrassed!" The chief of the guard counted everyone down.
Grandpa stretched out his hand to stop him, "Hey, forget it, I'm also curious, let me go down and have a look!" ”
The chief of the security still resolutely disagreed, "It's better for me to come, after all, I'm the chief of security!" So saying, he took off his shoes and went down the well. However, the chief was over sixty years old at that time, and he could not usually walk easily, let alone climb up and down from this well.
Grandpa saw that he was resolute and upright, so he stepped forward and gently said a word in the ear of the chief of the body, the chief was stunned when he heard it, and looked at the grandfather carefully, "What Mr. said is true?" ”
Grandpa nodded slightly, and Bao Chang was overjoyed, "I didn't expect Mr. to be from Faqiumen, it's really a blessing for me!" ”
Grandpa waved his hand lightly, signaling him not to be public. The chief of the security guard hurriedly shut up.
When my grandfather talked about this, I was still very young at that time, so I asked my grandfather, what is a Faqiumen person? Why does grandpa say that he is from Faqiumen?
Grandpa looked at me softly and gently touched my head, "Grandpa lied to him!" ”
When I was a child, I believed my grandfather's words, and now that I recall that my grandfather actually deceived me not by the security chief, but by me.
The chief listened to his grandfather's words, and then nodded and agreed to let his grandfather go down to the well to take a look.
Grandpa cleaned up and down his body, and also took some application things such as fire folds and ropes, and finally pinned a dagger he carried with him to his waist.
The chief shouted to the onlookers, "Hey, those boys! Don't dare to go down the well, always dare to put the well rope! Still not a man! ”
Several young men hurriedly answered and walked over quickly. Grandpa grabbed the well rope with the bucket hanging from it, and several young men grabbed the rope, tied two unlit torches to the rope, and then carefully sent Grandpa down.
The more I went down the well, the darker and darker the light, and the grandfather made a fire with his hand, reached out and touched the wall of the well, and found that it was not as slippery as the ordinary wall of the well, which showed that the wellhead was not the only outlet for the water, and the water vapor was partially emitted through other means.
Grandpa went down to the bottom of the well, reached out and picked up the clothes floating on the water, and looked carefully, it was indeed the clothes worn by the old Zeng Tou yesterday, but why did he take off his clothes here!
Grandpa looked at the water under his feet, picked up a stone from the side, and threw it vigorously. I found that the water here is not deep. And there doesn't seem to be anything like human bones in it that Lao Zeng Tou said yesterday.
Raising the fire fold to observe privately, Grandpa suddenly found that on the side of the well wall, there was a big crack, almost half a meter wide.
Grandpa grabbed the rope and swung over, and saw that the crack was dark and bottomless, and when he turned his head, he noticed that there were traces of water erosion on the inside of the crack, which meant that water often flowed into the well from this place, which was probably the source of those human bones or dried corpses.
Grandpa was still a master of the arts, looked at the dark gap, untied the rope on his body, took off the two torches, and walked in.
When I was a child, I also asked my grandfather if he would be afraid of going into such a dark place.
Grandpa smiled and said, "How can you not be afraid, but you can't help it, you can't control your legs." ”
The more Grandpa walked inside, he realized that the inside of the gap was a little bigger than the entrance. As he deepened, Grandpa could vaguely see some of the things that were deposited in the crevices, but Grandpa didn't want to see them clearly, not because he was afraid, but because Grandpa knew that those broken parts of the human body would never fly up and hurt people, so there was no need to deliberately make himself disgusted.
Grandpa soon reached the end of the crack, and at the same time, the sound of rushing water could be heard. Grandpa immediately understood that there was an underground river here, and when the river water rose, it would pour into the village well along the crack, and the things that the villagers fished up from the well must have come from this dark river.
Grandpa came out of the crack, lit a torch in his hand, and the surroundings suddenly lit up a lot, through the light of the torch, grandpa found that this is a relatively large space, under the feet is the gravel riverbed, not far from the rushing river.
Obviously, the water level is still relatively low, so the riverbed is exposed. If the river rises, the entire underground space may be filled with water.
At this time, there is no way to guess when the river will rise, or it may be the next second, so grandpa must speed up, otherwise once the river rises, the villagers above may pick up grandpa's corpse.
Grandpa looked around and found that on his side was a huge mountain wall, and the marks of water washing on it were obvious. On the other side is the dark river. The mountain wall on that side of the river and above the entire space was still dark, and the light of the torches could not reach those places.
Grandpa held a torch and walked quickly along the river beach, just walked out a short distance, he saw that there seemed to be a dark shadow on the river beach in front of him, and grandpa cautiously walked to see that it was a person kneeling on the ground, without any clothes on his body. Look at that figure, it should be Lao Zengtou.
Grandpa shouted softly, "Old Zengtou? Old Zengtou? ”
The man who was on his knees did not respond. Grandpa stepped forward and patted him gently, but as soon as his hand touched this person's skin, grandpa immediately felt that something was wrong, and there was no trace of temperature on this person's body.
Grandpa stretched out his hand and turned this person over, this person fell to the ground with a bone, and when he looked at the appearance, it was really Lao Zengtou, but grandpa looked down again, and immediately gasped.
I saw that a big hole was torn open on Lao Zengtou's stomach, the flesh and blood were blurred, and it had been completely deflated, and all the internal organs inside had disappeared.
A strong smell of blood permeated, and Grandpa felt sick to his stomach and almost didn't throw it up. Looking at the scene in front of him, his grandfather's face was pale, and the old Zengtou's internal organs didn't know what had been dug up.
Suddenly, Grandpa looked around vigilantly, maybe that thing was hidden in the darkness in some corner!
This place can not stay for a long time, grandpa felt that he must leave as soon as possible, he took out the rope in his arms, tied it to the chest of Lao Zengtou, pulled up the upper body of Lao Zengtou with his hand, turned around and dragged it in the direction of the crack, grandpa felt that since he had found Lao Zengtou, he always had to take the body back, so as to give an explanation to the family.
Grandpa had just taken two steps when he suddenly turned to look at the darkness across the river. He remembered that Lao Zeng was kneeling on the river beach just now, and his head was facing the direction of the dark river. Grandpa didn't pay attention for a while just now, but now that he thinks about it, he feels more and more that something is wrong.
Grandpa groaned for a moment, then took out the fire fold and lit another torch. When the fire was burning, he threw it the other side of the river.
The torches made an arc and landed on the opposite river beach with a click. The torches fell right below the mountain wall, illuminating a large part of the area above at once.
At a glance, Grandpa immediately froze. I saw that on the opposite mountain wall, there were countless coffins inlaid one after another, densely packed, and I couldn't count them at all. Some of the coffins are still intact, some are broken.
How can there be so many coffins here! For a while, Grandpa felt a little incredulous, could it be that this was once a group burial ground for ancient ancestors?
The shock brought by the scene in front of him made Grandpa's mind blank, and he even forgot about the dangers around him, and Grandpa just stared blankly at the stone wall opposite, looking at the coffins embedded in the stone wall. Until the torches on the opposite side were gradually extinguished, and the opposite mountain wall fell into darkness again.
Grandpa woke up in shock, how could the torch on the other side go out with some accidents? The torch in his hand is still burning. Grandpa couldn't help but take two steps back, only then did he feel cold under his feet, and when he looked down, he didn't know when the river had reached his ankles.
Grandpa was very surprised by the speed of the river's rise, hurriedly turned around, pulled the body of the old thunder head, and ran towards the crack, but the river rose faster than expected, and not long after running out, the river had already touched the calf.
Grandpa measured the distance from here to the crack and calculated that they should be able to reach the crack before the river touched their thighs.
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard the sound of water splashing from behind me. When Grandpa looked back, he saw a huge spine bulging on the surface of the river, and it was still moving rapidly, and the most terrifying thing was that this spine was rushing in this direction quickly. It's just that because the water on the river beach is still relatively shallow, the things in the river can't come up for a while, so they can only follow Grandpa and them closely in the dark river.
Grandpa didn't understand for a while, why the things in the river chased after him as soon as they came up, and when he turned his head, he suddenly understood. It turned out that there was a bloody old Zeng behind him, and the smell of blood drifted far away in the water, no wonder it attracted this kind of thing, grandpa suddenly remembered two words: fishing!
The river is rising faster and faster, and by this time the water level has long since passed the butt. Grandpa could only swim in the water, and when he looked back at the river, he began to look more restless.
Grandpa turned to Lao Zengtou and said, "Old man, it's not that I don't want to take you out, and I can't help it!" After Grandpa said to himself, he let go of the rope in his hand and swam forward as fast as he could.
At the same time, a huge black shadow suddenly burst out of the water......