Chapter 30: The Serpent's Body
Zhang Chongzhi obediently picked up the notebook and moved closer to Yu Youwei, the light of the two headlamps was concentrated on the notebook, illuminating every word on the notebook clearly.
The writing on the notebook is twisted and crooked, and there are some writing errors in some words with more strokes, which looks like the owner of the notebook is a person with a low level of education.
The first three pages are all numbers with similar coordinates, and some addresses, and on the fourth page, a disc with a complex pattern is drawn.
"Is this a plate?" Yu Youwei looked intently at the pattern on the disc and did not look at the text below.
"This is the bronze mirror they were looking for." Zhang Chongzhi corrected, "Look at the words below, these people are very professional, and they have even calculated the age and degree of oxidation. ”
Yu Youwei looked at the text below, sure enough, the professional is different, it seems that the purpose of their tomb this time is to find this mirror.
"What's in the back?" Yu You slightly touched the words on the notebook and felt that the page below was a little raised.
Turning it over, there was a page of printing paper pasted on it, and Zhang Chongzhi quickly went through the text, "This should be the legend about the mirror they found." ”
Yu Youwei looked at the dense small words and felt that his eyes were sour.
It turned out that this champion had a perverse personality, was extremely popular in the officialdom, was squeezed out by a group of officials, and was demoted to a county order. Later, a wandering magician recommended a secret method to him, taking the souls of 7749 abandoned pregnant women and refining them into an evil spirit with great hatred, only hurting men and not women.
The champion accepted the warlock as a doorman, and relied on this evil spirit to poison his colleagues in the court, and gradually rose from a marginal figure to a first-class important member. But his mind was gradually controlled by the evil spirit, and his desire became bigger and bigger, and he was devoured by it when he drove the evil spirit once, and the warlock spent his life in order to save his life, and sealed the evil spirit in a bronze mirror, and buried it with the champion, sealing it in the tomb, hoping that the evil spirit could calm his anger after devouring the soul of the champion.
Perhaps this history is too secretive, and there is only so much information that the gang can find.
"It looks like a piece of a piece copied from some wild history book put together." After reading the text on the printer paper, Yu Youwei came to a conclusion.
Zhang Chongzhi nodded, "Indeed, but at least we can know that the people who hired them to find the bronze mirror must have bad intentions, and looking at this situation, they may have found the copper mirror, but they did not master the method of keeping the bronze mirror, and they were victimized by the bronze mirror." ”
"So, the bronze mirror should be taken out by them." Thinking that the evil spirit sealed by the bronze mirror had so much power, Yu You shrank his neck slightly.
"It should be, otherwise why would there be more and more comatose people in Boyan County?" Zhang Chongzhi analyzed, "But this tomb must not be so simple, we have to be more careful." ”
Yu Youwei picked up the flashlight and shone it around, it was still a straight road, and the mark they had just carved was still impressively beside her, and she suddenly had a ridiculous thought, "Could it be that these roads will move?" ”
"The way to move?"
"Or rather, there's some mechanism here that can trick our vision into thinking we're moving forward." Now that he has started, Yu Youwei boldly imagined it.
"Then let's blindfold ourselves now, walk by the feeling of the body, and try it a hundred meters first." As he spoke, Zhang Chongzhi took out a roll of medical gauze and split it into two parts.
"Wait, wait, let's tie our arms with rope." Walking blindfolded in this dark place, Yu Youwei really didn't know the bottom in his heart.
"It's fine." Zhang Chongzhi tied the wrists of the two together, "That's okay, it will definitely not be separated." ”
Yu Youwei blindfolded with relief, and the two of them groped forward.
Without seeing it, the pace of the two was obviously much smaller, and Yu Youwei proposed to take fifty more steps, Zhang Chongzhi did not refute, but the back of his hand touched Yu Youwei's hand to agree.
"One hundred forty-eight, one hundred forty-nine, one hundred and fifty!" Yu You stopped slightly, and couldn't wait to remove the gauze from the blindfold.
As soon as Yu Youwei opened his eyes, he saw a pair of stone statues of boys, with two large bowl-shaped containers on his head, and after a closer look, there were no facial features carved on the two stone statues, I don't know if it was cutting corners or doing it deliberately.
They seem to have penetrated deep into the perimeter of the tomb, and there are all large and small stone caves in front of them, and the next step is to walk through these stone caves, and where they will go and what they will face are all unknown.
"Looks like we're completely trapped here." Zhang Chongzhi clenched his fists and took out a high-precision compass, "Now let's keep going in one direction, otherwise we will definitely go further and further." ”
Yu You nodded slightly, quietly opened the dagger, and held it in his hand, "Those people obviously left in a hurry when they left, they must have encountered some danger down here." ”
Zhang Chongzhi patted Yu Youwei on the shoulder, "Don't worry, you'll be fine, your life is very hard, it's impossible to explain it in such a small scene." ”
Yu You didn't know how to joke with Zhang Zhongzhi, took a deep breath, and stepped into a stone cave.
This ancient tomb is like a huge underground labyrinth, they have been walking in it for almost two hours, and they have not seen any key information, just keep walking through different paths.
Just when Yu Youwei was about to doubt his judgment, they walked to the depths of the tomb.
An empty space, supported by pillars carved out of a huge cavern, looks like the main hall of a tomb, but there is only one altar on the ground, and there is no trace of a coffin.
"Upper!" Zhang Chongzhi used a strong flashlight to shine on the top of the space, signaling Yu You to take a quick look.
A huge sarcophagus, suspended above their heads by four extremely thick chains.
Yu Youwei hurriedly pulled Zhang Chongzhi out of the way, Zhang Chongzhi looked at her actions and felt funny, "What are you hiding?" ”
"Hiding from what? I'm afraid it will fall and hit us! Yu Youwei was straightforward.
"It's been hanging like this for hundreds of years, and it won't fall." Zhang Chongzhi began to study the surrounding situation, "They must have gone up, you see, the lid of the coffin has been moved." ”
Yu Youwei also took out a flashlight to shine it, and sure enough, from their point of view, the lid of the sarcophagus was about to grow out, as if it had not been completely covered back after being opened.
"What now?" Yu You was a little panicked, she came here to find something related to those people who were unconscious, but there was no useful information except for a discarded backpack along the way, and she didn't even encounter danger.
Zhang Chongzhi didn't speak, took off the backpack behind his back, took out a climbing rope, and was about to throw it onto the stone pillar.
"Oops, hey." Yu You hurriedly stepped forward to stop, "What do you want to do?" ”
"Climb up there and take a look!" Zhang Chongzhi's eyes were faintly excited, he didn't know what was wrong with him, he just felt that the sarcophagus was calling him, and he had to go up to take a look.
Yu Youwei wanted to stop it, but the two of them had already come here, and it seemed that there was only one way in front of them, that is, to go up and have a look. She wasn't sure what she was looking for, but she knew she would know if something like that appeared.
Thinking of this, Yu Youwei didn't stop him, and let Zhang Chongzhi climb up along a stone pillar.
She stared closely at Zhang Chongzhi's every movement, and Zhang Chongzhi climbed more than three meters high in one breath, but suddenly stopped moving.
"Zhang Chongzhi, what's wrong with you?" Yu Youwei didn't dare to shout loudly, so he could only keep his voice as low as possible, and it was very difficult to make sure that Zhang Chongzhi could hear it.
Zhang Chongzhi palmed down, made a silent gesture towards her, and slowly climbed down from the stone pillar.
"What's wrong?" Yu You hurriedly stepped forward.
"There are living creatures on the pillars." Zhang Chongzhi's voice trembled a little, "The more I climbed, the more I found that the stone pillar in my hand was rising and falling, it seemed to be, it was ...... Breathe. ”
"What did you say?" Yu Youwei heard every word Zhang Chongzhi said, but he couldn't quite understand what he meant.
"I feel like these stones are alive, they breathe regularly, they move ...... rhythm," Zhang Chongzhi described his feelings with difficulty.
Yu Youwei couldn't believe Zhang Chongzhi's description, so he leaned close to the stone pillar and gently stroked the stone wall.
Sure enough, only by covering the palm of her hand on it for a long time could she feel the "breathing" of the stone pillar, and she withdrew her hand in shock, "This stone pillar is really like breathing, faintly rising and falling." ”
The two of them froze in place again, this discovery was too subversive of their cognition.
After a long while, Zhang Chongzhi came to his senses, "We've all come here, we can't come in vain, let's go check the other stone pillars." ”
"Okay." As he spoke, Yu Youwei and Zhang Chongzhi inspected all the stone pillars inside the main hall, and without exception, all of them seemed to be alive.
After inspecting the stone pillar, Yu Youwei and Zhang Chongzhi returned to the bottom of the coffin, and they didn't notice it themselves, and their posture changed to a back-to-back defensive posture.
Looking around at this empty and strange tomb, Yu Youwei and Zhang Chongzhi didn't dare to act rashly.
"They must have come in here and opened the coffin, and if nothing happened, they could have left without any emotion, so what made them drop their backpacks."
The two people who were analyzing the situation, no one noticed that the stone pillar behind them was slowly lowering the sarcophagus hanging in the air.
Until there was a loud bang, the two hurriedly turned around, and saw that the stone pillar was like a living body, and the sarcophagus was lowered to the ground, and after completing the task, it quickly returned to its original state.
Zhang Chongzhi pulled Yu Youwei back sharply, "Be careful!" ”
Reason told Yu Youwei that they should flee quickly at this time, but no one who saw this scene could resist the curiosity to find out.
The lid of the sarcophagus was opened, and a three-headed giant snake with a red body and a body larger than the stone pillar leaned out of the coffin, looking at Yu Youwei and Zhang Chongzhi condescendingly, as if looking at two ants that could be killed by blowing at will.
Yu Youwei had never seen such a big scene in a nightmare, and his feet were a little weak for a while, if it weren't for Zhang Chongzhi's support, he almost collapsed to the ground.
"Master, from now on, we will be allies who have lived and died together." Zhang Chongzhi teased Yu Youwei softly, and as soon as the words fell, he blocked in front of Yu Youwei.
"What are you doing, let's run." Yu You grabbed the corner of Zhang Chongzhi's clothes anxiously.
"Don't move, look at this figure, if it wants to attack us, can we run?"
Indeed, not to mention that this giant beast would be thrown out as long as he flicked his tail slightly, even these stone pillars controlled by it were not something they could handle.
"So what should we do, can't we talk to it and tell it bedtime stories?" Yu You was a little anxious and didn't choose to speak.
As soon as the words fell, the giant snake soared into the air, and the three snake heads conjured into three different women's faces.
"This is the sealed mirror spirit!" Yu Youwei whispered to Zhang Chongzhi.
"You little girl, you are so good-looking, how can you enter this pickled place with this stinky man." The snake-headed man in the middle spoke.
"You were the one who killed the tomb robbers last time?" Yu Youwei walked in front of Zhang Chongzhi.
Zhang Chongzhi looked at Yu Youwei who was blocking in front of him in shock, he lived until now, and it was the first time he was protected by a woman, which made him a little overwhelmed for a while.
"Harm?" The woman's face turned hideous, "We were already very miserable in our lives, and we were also victimized by thieves and trapped in the mirror, do you know why we are like this now?" ”
The three snake-headed people looked up to the sky and smiled, and their strange laughter was enclosed in the empty space, attacking Yu Youwei and Zhang Chongzhi's ears from all directions.
"We broke free from the shackles of the bronze mirror, only to find ourselves trapped in the sarcophagus, and in desperation, we had to use the maggots on the body of the thief as the body. We are also women who like new clothes and new hair buns in our lifetime, but we can be tortured to death by thieves, detain our souls, and use them as killing tools, and finally break free from the seal, thinking that we can be reincarnated, and would rather be a cow and a horse in the next life, which is much better than such a life, but we have no choice, we can only be trapped in the bodies of those disgusting maggots who eat scavengers for a living, and we will never be able to live forever! ”