Chapter 58: A dilemma
The old man detained Yang Shoucheng, and the first person I took into the cave was the strong man who talked a lot, this guy was still standing on the edge of the inverted pyramid cave with his mouth open, and his face was incredible.
I was not in the mood to wait for him to collect his surprise, so I threw him down and turned back to pick up the second person, and I told the old man that with my current ability, I could bring in at most eight people.
One hostage, plus me, the remaining six are all old people, this ratio is enough for him to feel at ease, and the people who go in are all personally selected by him, all with weapons.
The old man was the last person I took into the hole, and as soon as his feet landed, he immediately observed his surroundings, which was more than those strong men and policemen who stared and opened their mouths.
When several flashlights illuminated the dried corpses on the cave wall, someone couldn't help but exhale, the old man glared at the man, as if he was making a fuss, that person was not as strong as others, and he seemed to be less courageous than others, the old man deliberately picked him in, there may be some special use.
The old man instructed his subordinates not to touch the dried corpses, they drove piles at the edge of the hole, fixed the rope and slipped to the bottom of the hole, the old man didn't know what to do in the past, there were quite a lot of rules, before going down the cave, he wore a yellow paper charm folded into a triangle for each of his subordinates, I didn't expect them to believe in this, his eyes glanced at Yang Shoucheng, he shrugged his shoulders slightly, and expressed disdain for the old man's behavior.
To my surprise, the old man also gave Yang Shoucheng one when he issued the talisman, and depending on his attitude, Yang Shoucheng must wear this thing.
When it was my turn, the old man smiled: "The girl has a way to come in, naturally she has a way to restrain these things, and the old man will not get an axe." ”
I was a little curious, and wanted to mix one up and take a look, but they didn't plan to give it to me at all, so I was so stupid that I moved to the bottom of the cave with a straight face and let them slide slowly on their own.
The first two to come down immediately looked at the opening of the two holes, and I thought they were very professional, at least in some ways more professional than me, and they quickly noticed traces that I hadn't noticed before.
After the old man came down, they reported to the old man one by one, I really didn't see that this place had been placed with heavy objects for a long time, and there were traces of people moving.
The old man nodded silently after listening, twisted his white beard and muttered for a long time, his subordinates waited for his instructions, but I asked impatiently, "Do you want to go on?" ”
"In your opinion, what could have been the weight that was originally placed in this place?" The old man asked me suddenly.
I just wanted to say that I didn't know, but when I saw the size range of the heavy objects marked by the two strong men, I was stunned for a moment, this size is exactly the same as the sarcophagus below, and I said casually: "Coffin." ”
The old man's eyes lit up and he smiled: "It seems that our heroes see the same thing." ”
I was a little surprised, I had seen the sarcophagus below before I thought of the two things together, and the old man thought of it just by the traces, could it be that his profession was ......
"Coffin? How can there be a coffin in a mine? Besides, that mine road is a dead end, and the mourners can't get in! Yang Shoucheng said.
"You know a P, who stipulates that the burial can only be carried up? Down—"
"Big Tiger!"
The old man spoke out in time to stop the strong man who spoke the most, I said in my heart that his name was Da Hu, and his character was enough to be a tiger, but what he didn't finish gave me a hint, there is indeed no entrance to the cave from above, so there is only one way for the funeral procession, which is the place where the sarcophagus is placed in the cave below.
I imagine that a long time ago, when this hourglass hole was discovered, the lowest sarcophagus had not yet been brought in, and that place might have been a larger opening, with a tunnel to the outside world underneath.
At that time, the workers first brought in two coffins, put them aside, built the entrance into a coffin stone platform, put the first sarcophagus, and then everyone went up to the first hole, hoisted the other coffin, and blocked the thin opening in the middle of the hourglass.
I don't know if they understood that the cave was a dead end, but at the time, no matter which way they fled, they probably ended up dying.
This idea was bold and bizarre, I just thought about it and took it into my heart, the old man had already ordered his men to drive piles, and a few strong men with flashlights with me slid down the rope first.
In the darkness, I saw the big tiger winked at the old man, as if he was asking, and quietly made a gesture to wipe his neck, and only after these two actions did he turn on the flashlight, the time for the transition between dark and light was only three seconds, but it exposed the thoughts of their group.
Yang Shoucheng was always sandwiched between the two of them, keeping a few steps away from me, they were a group of organized and capable ...... Convict?
To be honest, I don't believe that they used to be ordinary people, and they must have engaged in illegal hookups, and you can see their true nature from the way they treat survivors, ruthless and ruthless.
Now that they have achieved their goal, and they want to kill us and destroy the mouth, Yang Shoucheng I must protect it, but even if teleportation is used, the strong man who is staying next to him will have a chance to fire a few shots, I sank my heart and decided to sacrifice myself, anyway, it is a few pains, and it will be fine to endure for a while.
Just when I decided to take advantage of the old man's failure to use the ability of teleportation to snatch Yang Shoucheng, leaving the old man's group underground forever to avenge Li Duo and the survivors, Yang Shoucheng actually took the first step.
He suddenly ripped off the yellow paper talisman he was wearing around his neck and tore it in two, and the strong man next to him raised his gun to fight, and I quickly used teleportation to pull him away and move directly to the edge of the hole in the ground.
The strange thing is that the two strong men didn't shoot, if they pulled the trigger at the first time, Yang Shoucheng would be injured if he didn't die, but they didn't do it, I saw what they did just now, they just wanted to knock Yang Shoucheng unconscious with the butt of the gun.
The old man still shouted, 'Don't shoot', and the big tiger said, 'We have a charm to ward off evil spirits', and the old man scolded him for being a pig's brain, but he didn't explain more, just said leave us alone and run down quickly.
He used the word 'escape' to make me very puzzled, I and Yang Shoucheng are only two people, if you want to escape, we can escape, some of them have guns, even if they are trapped below, they can dig through the edge of the stone platform, and go out through the passage where the ancients came in, why escape?
However, before I could think about it, there was already movement below, and I wanted to take Yang Shoucheng to teleport out, but when I heard the movement below, I was driven by curiosity, and I paused, and couldn't help but turn my head to look at the bottom of the cave.
I saw that the dried corpses that had been clinging to the stone pillars were all moving, and their twisted and curled bodies were stretching out, accompanied by the sound of clicking bone joints.
Yang Shoucheng obviously saw this scene, and the strong men with flashlights at the bottom of the cave also saw it, one by one they grabbed the rope and jumped directly into the hole, the picture of the resurrection of the dried corpse I have only seen in foreign blockbusters, and the scene in front of me is more real and more shocking, but when a few dry corpses who recovered their mobility first crawled towards me and Yang Shoucheng, I immediately decided to give up the experience of the 4D version of the horror movie, and dragged Yang Shoucheng to send him to the mine.
"You go and see Li Duo and Pang Xiaofei, I have to go back." I said after letting go of Yang Shoucheng.
"Are you really interested in the following things? Do you know what it is? Yang Shoucheng looked at me with suspicion.
"I just don't know, I'm going to hear it." I think the old man would have revealed some information to his cronies when there were no outsiders, and I can't say why, but I had a special feeling for the sarcophagus and wanted to know its secrets.
Yang Shoucheng didn't stop it, if all the survivors were really killed, our mission would fail, and sooner or later we would have to go our separate ways, and now is a good opportunity to say goodbye.
Yang Shoucheng just wanted to say some auspicious words when they parted, but before he could finish 'wishing you', he was interrupted, and the people who ran in were covered with dirt, and the soil was still mixed with blood, as if they had rushed over from the scene of the war movie.
"Are you two alright?! Great, the outside of the camp entrance is blocked by zombies, hell, a large group of zombies suddenly appeared, I can't handle it alone! ”
We recognized the voice as Li Duo, and seeing that he was not dead, Yang Shoucheng exhaled heavily, and Li Duo was still saying: "The old guy blew up the camp gate, and now the zombies are rushing in, and we don't have many people left, all of them have withdrawn." ”
As he spoke, there were messy footsteps rushing towards us from far and near, shouting 'Close the door', and there was a push-pull iron door at the entrance of the mine, and I heard the clashing of metal, as if someone was stacking the trolleys piled up at the entrance.
The roar of the zombies followed, the iron door was slammed, the grinding of metal mixed with the screams of women, and the wounded moaning in pain.
More and more people gathered at the end of the mine, even men and women, old and young, not to mention dozens of people, Li Duo pulled me aside and whispered to discuss, he wanted me to teleport these people to a cave across the wall.
I shook my head resolutely, the dried corpses below had been resurrected, and they couldn't deal with the thousands of mummified old men, and a hundred of them could devour these survivors.
When the survivor next to me saw me shaking his head, he immediately shouted excitedly: "She doesn't agree, let's open this hole ourselves!" ”
Someone took the lead, and naturally someone responded, and all the men who could move picked up the tools they had picked up from the entrance as weapons, shovels, pickaxes, hammers, etc., and smashed them into the small hole at the end of the mine, without even giving me a chance to explain.
On the other side, the zombies are reluctantly banging on the gate, on this side, the survivors are working together to dig the mountain wall, both sides can't overcome the obstacles in front of them for a while, I see that they are all red-eyed, so I didn't rush to explain, and turned to the outside of the mine.
Li Duo and Yang Shoucheng followed me closely, in fact, they didn't need to follow me anymore, it may be that my performance all the time made them think that I had a way to reverse the current predicament, so they followed step by step.
Yang Shoucheng took advantage of this effort to tell Li Duo the reason why he couldn't go below, Li Duo's face changed suddenly, and he wanted to turn around and go back to inform the survivors that if they really dug through the mountain wall, they would be caught between dried corpses and zombies to make hamburgers.