Volume 1 Chapter 5: The Strange Tomb Passage

Wei Zhongxian, a famous eunuch in the Ming Dynasty, he is not a famous eunuch like Feng Bao, the reason why he is famous is that he is greedy!

The ancient emperor claimed to be long lived, but this Wei Zhongxian was called "nine thousand years old", so it can be imagined that Wei Zhongxian was powerful.

The second brother hadn't read any books, but he also knew about Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch, so he exclaimed: "Master Cao, do you mean that this tomb belongs to Wei Zhongxian?" ”

I glanced at my second brother and said, "Wei Zhongxian built his own tomb in Biyun Temple in Xishan before his death, and later he was given death in the south, and he was not buried here, and his followers built a mound in Biyun Temple, which was destroyed during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.... This can't be Wei Zhongxian's tomb. ”

"What Third Master Qiu said is right, this can't be Wei Zhongxian's tomb, and this tomb doesn't look like the Ming Dynasty, it belongs to an earlier dynasty."

Master Cao echoed.

The second brother was very impatient when he was said, and shouted: "No matter whose tomb this is, the original ghost weapon was lost in order to hide from the tomb beast in the town, find the main tomb here and touch it again, otherwise those guys will die in vain!" ”

After saying this, the second brother took the lead and walked in the front.

Afterwards, we walked deeper along the graveyard. Strange to say, I have hated tomb robbing since I was a child, but now I have an inexplicable sense of excitement in my heart.

I classify this excitement as a product of the aftermath of the catastrophe.

Because of the sudden outbreak of the armored corpse just now, the six of us originally only had four flashlights combined, and three flashlights were lost in this trouble, and only the last flashlight remained.

So the second brother walked in front with a flashlight, and we were in two columns, a column of three people, relying on a flashlight to walk in this not very spacious cemetery.

My second brother and Master Cao and I walked in a column, Dawu and the other two guys walked in a column, and I was at the back of this column.

To be honest, I felt quite insecure at the back of the line, there was darkness behind me, and I always felt like there was a pair of eyes staring at us behind me, and I didn't dare to look back.

I haven't drunk water since I went down to the grave, and I must have been under the grave for most of the day, and my throat has been smoking.

"Second brother, is there any water?"

I said to my second brother in a hoarse voice.

The second brother stopped and handed me a kettle, and I poured it in a big gulp without saying a word, but the second brother slapped me on the back of the head, and then jumped like thunder.

"Damn, don't drink water like that! There are only two pots of water left, and you have let you drink half a pot of water in these mouthfuls, and you don't know how long it will take to get out, do you want us to die together in this ground? ”

I was a little aggrieved and returned the kettle to my second brother.

Maybe the second brother felt that he was a little too much, and sighed again: "Alas, forget it, you haven't fought in Qiuzi, and you don't know a lot of rules and things to pay attention to....."

The group walked for nearly half an hour, still in this tombway, and we finally realized that something was wrong.

It stands to reason that no matter how long a tomb is, we won't walk for half an hour without seeing the next tomb.

But now we are facing such a strange situation.

The second brother hissed and motioned for us to stop, and then he took a flashlight to shine back and forth, and then looked at the surrounding tomb walls, but found nothing unusual.

I suddenly thought that when I came in with Dawu, the road behind me disappeared inexplicably, and I had a bad premonition in my heart.

I told the second brother about the situation I encountered when I came, and the second brother frowned and asked Dawu: "Dawu, did anything special happen when you came just now?" ”

"No, it's nothing more than encountering the Tomb Beast, and at first I didn't realize that the road behind me was gone.... The guys I brought down were all dead, and there was only a colleague named Baisha I invited on the road, and he found that the road behind was gone, and there was a hole in the ground, and he said that Qiu Sanye fell under the hole.... As soon as the two of us thought about it, there was no place to run if it couldn't be beaten, so we jumped down the hole, and then I walked forward with Baisha, and encountered a fork in the middle, I turned around and asked Baisha where to go, but he disappeared inexplicably, and then I met Qiu Sanye....."

The second brother pondered, and then Master Cao spoke: "Second master, haven't we encountered a ghost hitting the wall?" ”

The so-called ghost hitting the wall means that you can't distinguish between the southeast and the northwest in one place for a while, your self-perception is blurred, and you don't know the real direction. By walking on his own, he always goes back and forth in one place, and he can't get out.

The saying in the Tao is that there are ghosts at work, and it takes the hooves of a black donkey to break this dead knot.

But when I was a child, I heard my grandfather say that a ghost hitting a wall is a fart, and there is no ghost hitting a wall.

Obviously, the second brother was deeply taught by my father, and he didn't believe in the statement that ghosts hit the wall, so he naturally ignored Master Cao's speculation.

In the middle of the night, the second brother took out a dagger, carved a mark on the tomb wall, and then said: "Go again, if you return to this place, then it will be a hell of a!" ”

Soon, the six of us walked the grave path again, and strangely, we carved a mark almost every ten meters, but after we walked for another twenty minutes, our group began to break out in a cold sweat.

If we had encountered a ghost hitting the wall and walked for more than 20 minutes, we would have seen the marks we had carved, but along the way, to our creep, we didn't see a single mark.

Does this mean that we haven't encountered any ghosts hitting the wall at all, but that the tomb is just so long?

I immediately dismissed my suspicions, and we had been walking in this tomb for almost an hour. Calculating the speed at which we walked, we had walked at least four or five kilometers.

How big does an ancient tomb have to be to have a tomb road four or five kilometers long?

None of the emperor's tombs in previous dynasties were of such a scale, so this is simply impossible.

I looked at the second brother and Master Cao, and the two of them were also extremely pale, presumably thinking the same as me.

The atmosphere was silent for a while, no one spoke, and it was obvious that the current situation was a little helpless.

I broke the silence and asked the second brother, "Second brother, have you often encountered these strange things when you go to the tomb before?" ”

The second brother shook his head solemnly: "No, I can't look down on ordinary tombs at all, they are all tombs with a history, so I won't make much money after a trip..... Normally, you will only encounter some strange mechanisms, and rarely encounter strange situations that are difficult to explain. ”

Immediately, everyone fell silent again.

Dawu was already a little anxious, picked up the gun and shot twice in front, and scolded: "Damn, the second master, we have poured so many fights, when have you ever encountered such a grievance?" If there's something dirty, let's make it hard and steel, I can't stand it going around in circles! ”

Master Cao frowned, took out a cigarette from his jacket pocket and lit it, and when the cigarette was almost finished, he proposed an idea.

"Since I didn't see the mark I just wrote, it means that it wasn't a ghost hitting the wall..... From this point of view, it is possible that this tomb road is very long, but we haven't walked long enough, so we haven't walked out. ”

Master Cao took another puff of cigarette, spit it out and continued: "However, we have to verify this guess first, let's go back now, if we see the mark just now this time, it means that there is no problem with the road we walked, this tomb road is indeed long and shocking, and then return and continue to walk to the end, at least this is the best in my heart." ”

The idea was well received by all of us, and we began to return the way we had come.

It's just that I have a bit of a headache, and the first mark we wrote down was half an hour away, which meant that we had to walk for another half hour to see the first mark.

Because I kept walking, I didn't stop, my legs began to go a little numb, and I kept my head down with my back down.

With the second brother shining in the faint light, I could only see Master Cao's heels when I lowered my head.

In the silence, I was a little drowsy, my eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and I simply closed my eyes and walked forward.

I thought, anyway, the tomb road is a straight line, and if you go wrong with your eyes closed, you will touch the tomb wall, and if you walk next to the tomb wall, you will not be separated from the second brother and them.

When you close your eyes, you will naturally lose your vision, and your sense of hearing will naturally become a little more clever in this case. Because no one was talking, it was quiet, and all I could hear was the sound of people's breathing and footsteps

I walked with my eyes closed for a while, but I didn't touch the tomb wall, and I couldn't help but think to myself, my balance is quite good, and I have been walking in a straight line, but whenever I deviate, I will touch the tomb wall. But so far, I haven't touched the tomb wall.

As I walked, I suddenly realized that something was wrong, that at first our footsteps were clearly disorganized, and now suddenly I could only hear footsteps of the same frequency as mine.

If I hadn't known in advance that there were people around me, I would have thought I was the only one walking.

How could it be so coincidental that the pace of the six of us was right?

I opened my eyes suddenly, it was pitch black in front of me, I couldn't see my five fingers, and there was still a second brother with a flashlight.

When did the second brother turn off the flashlight?

I shuddered in an instant, subconsciously stopped, and then I fell into endless fear.

When I stopped, there was silence all around, and there were other people's footsteps, and the footsteps I heard just now were actually my own, and I mistakenly thought that everyone's steps were on the right track, so the footsteps coincided.

In fact, it has always been the footsteps of my own people!

I tentatively shouted "Second Brother", but did not get a response. I started shouting Master Cao and Dawu again in a hurry, but no one paid attention to me.

I swallowed, and in the utter darkness, there was not a single light, as if I had suddenly lost my sight, a feeling of panic that probably only those who have experienced it.

I don't know when it started, the second brother and they disappeared, and I was the only one left.

I reached out and touched the walls around me, and found that the walls that should have been half an arm's length away from me were also gone, and I touched the void.

This feeling made me want to cry, and I felt a sense of collapse in an instant, and I walked forward for a few more minutes, and suddenly I heard the sound of breathing other than me, and I shouted second brother again, but no one replied to me.

I froze in place, realizing that something was wrong, and my scalp suddenly tingled......