Chapter Twenty-Three: Sudden Greed Nears Death
I looked back and looked in the direction he was pointing, and there was a black hole thicker than an arm behind a small dirt bag on the ground.
This is a cemetery, and there are holes that are either drilled by rats or dug by the tomb robbers.
Looking at the topography of this place and the people inside, I know by feeling that the former is more likely.
If we go down here, unless there is a hole in it, we will be suffocated in the earth.
I walked over half-bent and quietly, looked at the red bricks peeking through the hole, leaned on the ground and reached out to feel the walls in all directions, but the walls were not open, like a drainage pipe.
The soil on it had not been trampled on, it was very soft mud, I knocked it directly with my hands, found the weakest section, buckled it up from below, stabbed it with a dagger, and buckled off a piece, turning the hole into a size the thickness of an adult's waist.
When I was done, I gestured to them that they could go in.
Ziwei said, "I'll go down first." ”
I nodded, "Tang Jiao, you follow, move lightly, my palace." ”
Ziwei propped his hands on his sides, tentatively downward.
It looked deep below, and he didn't find a suitable place to stay, so he didn't dare to jump down rashly, so he could only slowly slide down the walls on both sides.
For a few seconds, we couldn't see the figure from above, and I was lying on my stomach at the entrance of the cave, and I vaguely heard Zi Wei knocking lightly on the wall.
I nudged Tang Jiao and said, "Jump down." ”
"Huh?" Tang Ka glared.
"Youzi is not falling and can't kill you, jump quickly."
The footsteps on both sides were getting closer and closer, and I ignored Tang Jiao, found a large stone slab, and sprinkled some dirt and weeds on it in a few steps, making it look similar to the rest of the tomb.
When I turned around, the Tang Jiaren were gone.
I hurriedly leaned into the cave and stepped on the walls on both sides, and when the hole was almost at the top of my head, I touched the stone slab and covered it outside the hole.
It was pitch black in front of me, and I glanced down, took a breath, and jumped down.
Ziwei was ready, and when I fell from above, he reached out and caught me firmly.
After landing on the ground, I subconsciously looked up, but the result was dark and swarthy, and I didn't see anything.
Judging from the time of the fall just now, it is at least as high as five or six stories.
Shen ...... Shen shopkeeper...... Brother Shen...... Are you two alright? Tang Jiao's voice was twisted.
"It's fine." My son and I did not answer at the same time.
Tang Jiao sighed twice and said, "Where are we going now, I can't see the road clearly in this place, can we get through?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, I felt a hand reach behind my back, and my heart tightened, and I grabbed him and almost threw him over. Tang Jiao screamed in his mouth, covered it with his other hand, squeezed it from the gap between the corners of his mouth, and said: "My hand-Shen shopkeeper, let go quickly, I just want to touch if there is a way......"
I quickly let go, "I'm sorry...... Instinctive reaction. ”
Tang Kari hissed and rubbed his wrists and shoulders, I looked at the environment, indeed, except by touching, I really couldn't find a way.
"You hold Ziwei, I'll explore the way." I say.
There was silence behind him for a few seconds, and something was handed over, and Ziwei was heard say, "Tie it around your wrist so that we won't fall apart." ”
I hummed, and I felt that it was he who had untied the clothes that had been tied to the wound.
After tying it up, he handed the other end back to him, and the blind man explored the environment of the cave little by little, piecing together each part in his mind to form a complete picture of the cave.
It's a bit like a well that's narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, not closed, but after touching around, I found two holes in the road, which are so small that I can only crawl through them with a low body.
One of the holes was sealed in a few steps by the earth that had collapsed from above, leaving one less option and no other option.
Along the way to the hole, I never encountered any other forks, and the further down in the darkness I went, the more empty I felt, and I wondered if there would be anything ahead.
When I finally reached a corner, I heard two mouse cries in front of me, and I stopped and clenched the dagger in my hand.
The rats were gnawing on something, their teeth creaking and making loud, jagged noises.
The sound of us moving forward alarmed the foraging rats as we got closer, and there was a crackling sound of bronze objects colliding ahead. I saw that it was not good, it was too late to retreat, and there was a dead end behind, and the space was narrow, and it was enough for us to eat a pot when blocked by a group of rats.
I hurriedly urged Ziwei and Tang Jiao to follow closely, and hurry up to the front, since there are bronze utensils, it means that there must be more space inside, as long as you can stand up, everything is easy to say.
In a trance, he saw a bright light appear not far away, and the three of them were nervous, and their chests were pounding.
As soon as I looked up, I hit the stone wall above my head, and I gasped, and before I could think about it, the rats rushed over.
"Shopkeeper Shen! Shen shopkeeper! Tang Jiao shouted in the back.
I swung the dagger in my hand as hard as I could, barely daring to take aim at it, and it was sure to pierce the stomachs of several rats, and pierce the blades of the knives like skewers.
With a wave of his hand, he threw them aside, and the cold weapon had no effect at all in the face of a group attack, and I killed a few mice, and all three of them were bitten to varying degrees.
The rats here are not afraid of people, and I was stunned for a few seconds before I realized that they were not eating, but they were afraid that they were just hungry and crazy to bite the decorated burial goods in the tomb.
Why are you hungry? Because they can't get out, they have nowhere to find food.
Needless to say, the vitality of the rat is given time, except for the reinforced concrete, everything on the side can be bitten and drilled through.
Although this place is made of stone, there are still bare mud in many places, and their ability to make holes is so powerful, how can they be trapped here and starved like this.
The bad feeling deepened, either there was something wrong with this place, or something was wrong with it.
Either way, it's not a good thing for us.
I can't beat these mice, Ziwei and Tang Jiao have no weapons and can only grab the rats and hit the wall, their hands are full of rat blood, their bodies are bare-chested, they are torn off by a bite, and they also fall into a skin and flesh.
If you can't beat it, you can't run away.
I ignored them and bit as much as I wanted, squeezing away the migratory rats and crawling into the holes.
Tang Jiao's cries accompanied the way, and the faint light finally enveloped my body, and I almost rolled out of the hole, bringing the two people behind me to stumble, and almost hit me.
Finally having the freedom of movement, the three of us faced the fierce rats, stood up with their eyebrows raised and vented their grievances along the way, regardless of the thirty-seven twenty-one, grabbed the burial goods at hand and stuffed them into the hole.
There were rats running out of it and continuing to chase and bite us, and at this time, how could they succeed again, and kicked back several of them with their feet like a ball. Tang Jiao used both hands and feet, grabbed and kicked, and circled a few times with his fist in his hand, shouting "Pegasus Meteor Fist!" The gray squirrel that rushed up and jumped at him was hitting his fist, and was knocked out by his head, and fell into the darkness and disappeared.
My son and I looked at him like a monster with black lines on our heads.
Tang Jiao was full of embarrassment, and laughed because of the fire behavior just now.
After finally plugging the hole, I had time to look for the light source behind me.
"Pearl of the Night!" Tang Jiao's eyes lit up, and he pointed to the lampshade on the low pillar around the coffin in front of him and said, "Four!" We're rich! ”
"Don't mess around!" I grabbed Tang Jiao, "Don't take anything here, we're not tomb robbers!" ”
Tang Karan glared at me, "You don't understand this, this thing is so precious, it should be placed in a place where it can give full play to its value, and let it be buried in the soil, this is a tyrannical thing!" In order not to waste their value, what if I bear the charge of a thief? Since I met them today, they are destined to be people, and the treasures are spiritual, and it is their blessing to be able to go with them! ”
I gritted my back molars and didn't speak, Tang Jiao said: "Besides, shopkeeper Shen, only those who steal things are called thieves, what is stealing?" If you don't ask, you steal! You let go of me, I'll ask the owner of the tomb, if he wants me to take it, if he doesn't want me to promise not to touch it, it's all right? ”
I stared at him, and Tang Jiao shook me off, and with the light of a wealth obsessed in his eyes, he tiptoed towards the coffin.
Ziwei stood beside me and said to him, "You die by yourself, and if something happens in a while, don't expect us to help you." ”
"What could be the matter?" Tang Jiao walked to the edge of the coffin, knocked his head on the ground, stared at the coffin and said: "Today we met is arranged by God, you said that you have been underground for so many years, and you can't use the things of living people, why don't we make an exchange, you give me these four beads, go back and wait for me to go home, and promise to burn 800 million dark coins for you, so that you can make a fortune underneath, how about this business?" ”
There was no movement in the coffin, and Tang Jiao said: "If you are willing, don't make a sound, if you are unwilling, let this bead be destroyed." ”
If you want to curse, you almost burst out of your mouth at that point, what kind of nonsense is this bastard saying! This bead is a phosphor of a natural mineral, how can it be extinguished, he doesn't call it a question, it's clearly a robbery!
"If you don't make a sound, I'll just take you by default." Tang Jiao said, reaching for the glass cover.
I watched as he pushed open the mouth of the hood, and just as his fingers were about to reach in, I shouted, "Be careful! ”
Tang Jiao was frightened by me, and his outstretched hand shrank back as if he was electrocuted, and his whole body trembled.
He turned his head, and was about to complain, when I stared at the cover tightly, when I saw a sharp thorn suddenly protrude from the glass on the upper floor, and the cold light suddenly appeared, and in less than a second, it actually pierced straight into the night pearl below, and violently bloomed inside, releasing countless small thorns.
I hurried over, grabbed Tang Jiao's collar and dragged it back to the entrance of the cave, and the three of them opened a hole in the bronze vessel that accompanied the burial, and hurriedly got into it, and one of them picked up the same convenient burial vessel and blocked it in front of him.
The night pearl exploded in an instant with the glass cover, and the other three followed, not to be outdone, chasing the sound and repeating the same scene.
I peeked through the crack and saw that the walls were covered with tiny needles, and after breaking open a pearl of the night and overcoming the resistance of a heavy glass, most of them pierced into the wall, and the remaining small head was exposed, glowing silver under the fluorescent glow of the shattered ground.
In the darkness of the walls, needles paved the starlight on all sides.
We were surrounded, hiding in a pile of burial vessels for a long time, and Tang Jiao became honest and watched all this in amazement.
He rolled his eyes and landed on me, and before he could say a word of thanks, the sound of his nails scratching hard against the lid of the coffin came from the coffin not far away.