9. Cong Family Ancestral Tomb (6)
Brother Qiang seemed to really like these jades, and kept touching them, as if he was touching the eldest girl, "How can you tell that it's not from the Cong family?"
"Guess, and I know where the ancestors of the Cong Yu family are now, and this appearance is also very inconsistent with the portrait enshrined at home. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Cong Yu's two ancestors are brothers, they are very tall, and their faces are thin, it won't be like this. "The old man used a flashlight to shine a jade sculpture, and suddenly we made an amazing discovery.
"Clever, you see. There are landscape paintings in this stone. Brother Qiang shouted, and the old man on the side of his face was also amazed.
There is a strange mountain and river inside the jade sculpture Suddenly, very realistic, as if a sand table made of real objects is placed in the body.
"Don't you see this place familiar?" the old man was almost ecstatic, and I looked through it carefully, but I didn't find anything familiar. Brother Qiang laughed, "The map is exactly the same as the one drawn on the map, except that this is a real thing, just like a bird map taken in the sky." ”
"It seems that this trip, we have come in vain. The secret of the ancestral tomb is still this place. It's just that I don't know what is so peculiar about this place that makes it difficult for your ancestors to let go. "I think it's boring, and since you can't sell the things here, let's just leave.
But as soon as I turned around, I felt that something was wrong, and pointed to an empty stone pier and asked, "Have you noticed that there is a spare seat among these people covered in white cloth before?"
In fact, I was already very sure that there must have been a corpse there, but just as we were looking at the jade carving, it suddenly disappeared. I used my flashlight to shine back and forth, and even in the darkest corners of the entire cave, I didn't notice anything unusual.
"Let's leave quickly, the Cong family has fought too much to you to imagine. If the crafting mechanism is certainly not comparable to those tombs. The old man tightened his bag and walked briskly towards the way he came.
I also thought the atmosphere was a little weird, and when I walked past the empty stone pier, the flashlight flickered, only to find that the stone pier was full of fishy blood.
"Old man, what is this? "I pointed to the blood, and there were some tiny maggots in the blood that were struggling and crawling.
"Run, there must be a mechanism here, if the zongzi touches the mechanism, we will find a place to sit down." The old man said as he ran towards the outside of the cave.
But when we walked to the entrance of the cave, the old man suddenly stopped, "It's over, there's no way." ”
When I looked, what was in front of us was a whole piece of jade, and there was no hole.
From the moment we entered the ancestral grave of Congjia, our feet were covered with magnet powder, not only when we ran just now, but even if we walked very casually, we could leave a mark. I crouched down to see where the jade was connected to the ground, and I was surprised to find that half of the footprints remained, and it was half of our forefoot that was exposed.
I touched the jade, and it was very real, "How did you do this, and it was completely integrated with other jade, could it be that we had a special function just now, and came through the wall?"
"We touched the mechanism, I don't care, dying in the ancestral tomb can be regarded as a leaf falling back to the roots, what about you?" The old man was a little melancholy, "If you say that I am going to fight, I am still confident when I encounter the ancient mechanism, but where is this, from the ancestral tomb of the family are all built by tomb robbers, and the designed mechanism is comparable to those ancient tombs." ”
I squatted down and tried to use the dagger to find out under the jade, but the sharp dagger couldn't be inserted in the slightest, it turned out to be a jade vein, so how did the footprints under it form?
The old man still had no choice, I felt a little discouraged, and Brother Qiang suddenly said, "Smart, where can you go where you saw the disappeared corpse just now?"
I stood up for a moment, "Yes, since he can leave blood stains on the stone pier, if he leaves, although he will not have to shed all the way, at least he can give us some traces." Zongzi can't go the wrong way in your own home. ”
I returned to the side of the stone pier, and Brother Qiang and the two also came over, and the three flashlights shone at the same time, reflecting the dazzling stone pier. The maggots writhing in the blood can be counted one by one.
The old man took out his housekeeping skills and sniffed around on the ground like a hyena.
"Old man, if you like this posture, I will hang a rope around your neck in the future. I looked to the other side, because there were obviously two drops of blood here, "We don't need guide dogs, what are you looking at, just follow the blood trail all the way." ”
The old man stood up with a straight face, "Strange, this blood seems to be very fresh, and there is no corpse gas at all." I saw him reach out and dip it in the maggot pile, shake off the maggot that crawled to his finger, put it under his nose and sniffed it, "It's fresh, this person is still alive." ”
I looked at the maggots in my blood, and I felt a chill in my heart, if a living person was full of such insects, when he was conscious and had the ability to act, he clearly felt that the insects were burrowing around in his body. It must be so painful, if it were me, I would have found a rope to hang myself.
I started to get a little itchy on my body, it really looked like some bugs were crawling on my body. But the old man inadvertently wiped the blood on his fingers.
Probably due to the influence of the old man, I began to think that the darkness here was terrible. Brother Qiang and the old man followed the drops of blood, while I kept repeating them everywhere.
"It's gone. "The last drop of blood under our feet, and then the ground cleans.
The old man squatted down, "There's a problem here, open it and take a look." The old man stomped on the ground with his foot, and it really made a knocking echo, and the bottom was definitely hollow.
Brother Qiang inserted the dagger along the crack in the stone, almost bending the dagger, and only then did he lift a whole piece of stone a little. I saw that there was a door and pulled out a dagger and stepped forward to help.
The stone under our feet can be half a meter square and more than ten centimeters thick, and it takes a lot of effort to set off the demon concubine. The two daggers were fixed, and one of us jerked down and upward, and after nearly half an hour of hard work, the three of us were sweating and moved the stone a little to reveal a gap that could be inserted into our hands.
I sat on the floor, gasping for breath and slashing my dagger into the gap a few times. But in the darkness below the gap, it seemed that I had really struck something, I put the dagger in front of me and looked at it, and threw it aside with my hand, ", there's a maggot nest down there." ”
In addition to a little blood stain on the dagger, what is even more conspicuous is the constantly wriggling maggots.
The old man shook his hand and shone down with a flashlight, but it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything clearly.
I squeezed a few words out between my teeth, "Lift it open, and you will die." You can't stay here and wait to starve to death. ”
Brother Qiang nodded, and was about to stretch out his hand, when the old man slapped his hand away. I took off a piece of clothing from my body and put it on the mat, and the three of us lifted it up.
I glanced down in the dark and almost peed into my pants. Beneath the stone was a deep pit, in which a corpse lay revealing only a bloodied foot. The whole person is already completely covered with maggots.
And the maggots under the pit are surging upwards at a speed that we can see with our naked eyes, like a water surface, and as the water level continues to rise, the corpses are getting closer and closer to the outside.
"Damn, this is a dung pit, your Cong family is really particular, there is everything in the grave. I was about to beckon Brother Qiang to cover the stone with me, but the old man suddenly grabbed me, "Break this thing up and try it." It may be a mechanism, be fast. ”
I looked down and saw a long patina pole at the bottom of the pit, which appeared abruptly on the stone wall. There are also some scratches on the long pole and a little bit of blood. It must have been touched when the corpse fell.
But the distance we are from the long pole is too long, and this distance is about a meter and a half. "Wouldn't it be enough to lift this brass rod with a rope?" said I, and went to untie the rope, intending to tie a knot and stretch it down.
"To win people, at least you have to figure out whether it is up or down, and what to do if it is left or right, you can't afford to delay time, you have to be fast. "The old man pushed me, his meaning was obvious, this was to let me go down.
I tilted my face in embarrassment, "Why do you let me go down, what if I fall into the dung pit?
Brother Qiang took a look at it, took the rope and tied it to my calf, "Smart, just be thin." The old man's body flexibility is not good, isn't it you scared or who?"
I want to die, and I feel like I'm going to be executed. Brother Qiang tied up with the old man and lifted me up, "Be smart, you must look carefully, if you make a mistake, we will all die here." ”
Brother Qiang kicked me, "You move quickly." I hurriedly hung down my head and feet, and the old man Qiang Geye was pulling the rope on it.
I had high blood pressure in my brain and my whole hair was swollen. The maggots in the pit made a foul stench, and I almost fainted. I wrinkled my nose and closed my eyes, and I opened them when the top of my head touched the brass rod.
The flashlight shook in my mouth, I didn't dare to look at how close the maggots below were to me, the strong light was dazzling, and I gently saw that there was a machine wide in front of me, and the machine was full of patina, and I could clearly see the marks left by the previous trigger.
I grabbed the brass stick and threw it to one side. It may have been almost rusty for many years, and my whole body swayed with inertia. I saw maggots less than 20 centimeters above my head. I was so nervous that it would be only a matter of time before these maggots would crawl on my head and burrow into my ears, nostrils, and mouth.
I went crazy, holding the brass rod with my eyes closed and twisting it back and forth.
There was a soft click, and the sound sounded in his ears, regardless of whether he really opened the mechanism or not, he yelled at Brother Qiang and the two, let them bring it up.
But as soon as I opened my mouth, a torrent burst out of the crack in the stone, and it happened to hit my face. I choked on a mouthful of muddy water, feeling like my brain was in a state of confusion, and when I got to it, I coughed violently.
The current was very fast, and the sound of flowing into the maggot pile was extremely loud. Brother Qiang threw me aside, ", there is water, this dung pit will be full in a while, and we won't have to die well when maggots come up." The old man came to help. ”
Brother Qiang roared and was about to shake the rocks, trying to stop the water from rushing up.