Chapter 60: The Headless Stone Statue
Gerille motioned for all of us to remain silent, and we just stared silently at the headless black shadow in front of us, the light of the flashlight shining past, and the black shadow remained motionless.
"! Don't be a dead man! If it's a living creature, the flashlight won't move at him? Zhang Jiande said softly.
Geril shook his head and said, "Are dead people that tall?" Don't you see that he is so much taller than us without a head, and besides, the dead man can stand firm? ”
After a long time, the shadow remained motionless.
"I'll go take a look!"
Wang Haiyang probably couldn't help it, and walked over as he spoke, only to see him walk up and down with a flashlight and look up and down, the black shadow was still motionless, and Wang Haiyang immediately beckoned to us and motioned for us to go over.
I knew it should be fine, and when I walked over to take a look, it turned out to be a stone statue of an ancient military general, but it didn't look like the dress of the Central Plains, it might be old, the stone statue's arm had been broken, and the head was gone!
"! A false alarm! This thing is the guardian of the mausoleum," Geril sighed.
"That's not right!" Wang Haiyang shone a flashlight on the weeds on the ground and said, "Look at the traces on the ground, hasn't this stone statue been here all along, it just arrived here?" ”
I looked down, and sure enough, there was no road at all, and the weeds were growing luxuriantly, but it was obvious that a row of weeds was lodging, and there was a series of deep and large footprints, which stretched from a distance to our feet, and although they were the shape of human feet, they were larger than normal human feet.
I couldn't help but look at the feet of the headless stone statue, and the edges of the gray stone feet were still black dirt!
Geril and Zhang Jiande also saw it, and Geril stammered: Could it be ...... Dao: Did this headless stone man come by himself?
Under the cyan moonlight, there was silence all around, a breeze blew, the leaves of the nearby trees rustled, and Geril's words sent chills down my back!
"Let's go! Get out of here" Wang Haiyang said and walked forward without waiting for one of us, the three of us scrambled to follow, and after walking a few steps, I couldn't help but glance back, the headless stone statue was still standing there, still motionless.
Zhang Jiande took a long machete to open the way in front, and the four of us hurried all the way, walking along the bottom of the valley for more than an hour, until Ge Ri shouted that he couldn't walk anymore, and then stopped to rest.
Gerille threw his big backpack aside, sat on the ground, and said as he took out the kettle to drink: "Oops! I'm exhausted! I'm so scared that stone man will come with me! ”
I said, "If you can't carry it, I'll give me your backpack!"
Zhang Jiande, who was on the side, panted and said to me:
"I can't see it! Mr. Shen! You have fine skin and tender meat! Good physical strength! ”
"If there was no diamond, Mr. Ye wouldn't have sent me over! Rest assured! Even if I encounter any ghosts, I'll kill them! "Thinking of the weird stone man just now, my heart is still up and down at the moment, but in order to cheer up these people, I pretend to have a unique skill and hide it deeply.
Zhang Jiande nodded and said, "It seems that Shen always practices the family, then I will rest assured!" We rest for three or four hours, wait for the dawn, and if I remember well, the front is right, and we must have plenty of energy before going down! ”
We then unfastened our backpacks, opened our sleeping bags and rested on the spot.
When I was pushed to wake up, I saw that the sky was already bright, and the three of them had packed up, and I looked forward, and a large flat area suddenly appeared in the narrow valley here, and it turned out that the terrain of this valley was like a gourd, with a small mouth and a big belly! At this moment, a thin mist rose on the flat ground in front of us, and some dark shadows could be faintly seen standing in the morning mist.
The four of us walked cautiously into the mist.
The black shadows standing in the fog are statues, tomb beasts. The costumes of the stone carvings are all exotic, naked, rough and unruly, many of them have been broken, either missing arms and legs or missing heads.
I thought to myself: the headless stone statue that stood in our way just now must be here, but I can't figure out how it can run a distance of miles to block our way! ”
By this time, the mist had slowly cleared and everything around it became clear.
In the depths of the valley, this flat land is no less than a thousand acres, surrounded by towering mountains, there are some rows of towering trees in the distance, and there are twenty or thirty stone statues nearby, stone horses, and unnamed tomb beasts arranged in a symmetrical semicircle, all of which have collapsed and are covered with moss, and the weeds in the stone crevices are up to the knees!
However, the most striking thing is that in the middle of the two rows of stone statues stands a huge stone statue, although it also collapsed, but if it did not collapse, it was at least five or six meters high
I walked up to the big statue, the head of the statue was gone, and the lower part of the base was sunk into the earth, and I could tell that the statue was a woman!
"To erect such a large statue of a woman, is this really the mausoleum of the Queen Mother of the West?" Zhang Jiande couldn't help but shout.
"Yes! Except for Wu Zetian, Chinese women can only be buried together, look for the tombstone" I looked at the tall stone statue, and my heart was also shocked.
"The funeral culture of the Western Regions is influenced by the Central Plains but is different from the Central Plains, and there should be no monument," Geril looked around vigilantly.
Zhang Jiande led us around to the other side of the stone statue, and a dark and very regular circular hole appeared on the ground, only enough for one person to enter and exit
"This is the hole we dug last time," Zhang Jiande unloaded his large backpack.
"This is dynamite, right?" You're skilled! ”
Wang Haiyang, who had not spoken, turned on the flashlight and shone it into the cave, saying:
"There are a lot of big trees on the ground here, which means that the soil is very thick and the tomb is very deep! It can only be blown up with explosives!"
According to the plan, leaving Geril to answer outside, the three of us unloaded our backpacks, took out our equipment, and prepared to go to the grave!
Because Zhang Jiande said that this tomb was dangerous and abnormal, the equipment we prepared before coming was also readily available. Zhang Jiande threw me a small backpack, I opened it and saw that it contained a first-aid kit, a glow stick, a small bottle of compressed oxygen, a gas mask, gloves, a small strong light flashlight, and so on.
The other end of the rope was tied to a big tree not far from the hole, and then the three of us wore rubber gloves on our hands, headlamps on our heads, portable sapper shovels and gas masks pinned to our waists, and slowly fell down.
Zhang Jiande was in the front, followed by Wang Haiyang, and finally me, after entering the cave, I suddenly felt a burst of coldness, but it was a lot cooler.
After falling for twenty or thirty meters, the thief hole turned inclined downward, and both of them untied the rope, and I knew how many pounds and taels I had, and I still crawled forward with the rope tied to them.
After about five or six minutes of climbing, we climbed through the cave into a burial chamber, and the robbery hole hit the top of the burial chamber.
This is the first time I have entered the ancient tomb, I was nervous and curious, the tomb is not large, rectangular, and the four walls are made of huge stones, which is indeed different from the tombs in the Central Plains. At the four corners of the burial chamber stood four stone carved lamp slaves. Other than that, the tomb was empty, and not a single burial object was seen!
"I'll go! There's nothing to do! Don't be so poor as this! Zhang Jiande couldn't help but scream!