Chapter 28: The Candle Records the Way
The space is relatively quiet, there is nothing unusual around, and there are no weird rats and bats above your head.
I raised my flashlight and looked around, and there was the most peculiar thing in this house.
"Fatty, have you noticed the strangeness of the place, it stands to reason that this place shouldn't be so peaceful, think about the chain bridge we climbed outside."
The fat man's muffled voice sounded next to the two maids.
I glanced back at him, and the guy was still crouching next to the maid, staring at the two jade bracelets they were wearing.
Obviously, he hasn't given up on taking the baby.
I rubbed my temples, and I had a headache.
Cui Hao's voice followed closely.
"Is it still calm here? Think of the bats in the room and the strange rats on the ground. Coupled with these movable clay sculptures, these things can only be regarded as ordinary in your eyes? ”
I shook my head and walked over to Cui Hao.
"You don't understand what I mean, think about it."
I pointed around.
"We were on the iron lock outside, and we encountered tens of thousands of corpses staring at the wall, and those corpses were even able to shake their hands and feet, and they did not decay for thousands of years, and they had turned into zombies. But look at the room again. ”
My eyes were on the two polite maids.
"If you think about them, isn't that weird? The layout outside is so strict, it can even be said that a line leads to the sky, and every inch of carelessness will kill you. But if you look at it again, these clay statues are weird, but they are not full of murderous intentions. ”
Cui Hao was stunned by what I said, and stood upright beside me.
"I seem to understand what you mean, these weird things we encountered, although they looked terrible, they didn't kill the two of us. Although the study was full of bats and weird rats, they didn't threaten our lives. ”
I nodded, feeling that Cui Hao was finally not blinded by these treasures, and continued to be blinded.
"That's what I mean, so I think it's strangely calm here, like I'm inviting you in. It's not quite right, it's so weird. ”
I carefully held up my flashlight and walked around the room again.
It's a pity that I didn't find the way, and I didn't find the secret door hidden here.
"Cui Hao, it seems that the two of us have to go back to that study this time, and there is no hidden passage here at all."
I went through every nook and cranny around me.
He even took the few decorations in this room in his hand and played with them carefully, for fear that the mechanism would be on it.
It's a pity that nothing was found.
The floor here is paved with a large block of special material, and there are no gaps in between, and it is impossible to hide hidden passages.
Hearing me say this, Cui Hao couldn't help but shudder.
His gaze looked over my shoulder at the study not far away, and he took two steps back.
"Did you really go in?"
I nodded in the affirmative.
"Of course, but this time the two of us have to be careful enough, and we need to mark the door."
The bookshelves inside are stacked and complicated, in case the two of us get lost in it and can't find the exit for a while.
If the overhead bat or the underground rat were to attack us, the two of us would be overwhelmed.
So the best way now is to just do a good sign of going out.
Cui Hao nodded at me, rummaged through the backpack for a while, and took out a large bundle of white wax from it and stuffed it into my hand.
"Let's break the candle in a moment, break it into small sections, and then light the candle as a mark, and we can clearly find the way in the dark."
Cui Hao looked at me with a smug look on his face.
"I deliberately brought a large bundle of white candles to avoid losing my way underground, so I prepared them in advance."
I took the white candles, took out a dozen or so candles, pinched them in the palm of my hand, and retied the rest back into his bag.
"You can take the rest with you first."
With the hilt of my knife, I cut the white candle into five sections, each about the length of a little finger.
I cut off a part of the top of my head, revealing the core of each candle and shoved one of them into Cui Hao's hand.
"Be careful, you'll follow me. Light a candle and mark it in front of you, because the room is dark, and it's full of books, so we have to be careful not to get caught on fire. ”
I looked back at Cui Hao curiously.
"Where did you come from? I've rarely heard of anyone using this old method. ”
Cui Hao patted his chest and walked to the gate with a big stride.
"The fat man has been traveling south and north for so many years, in short, I have heard many people's stories, and many of them have told me about going to the tomb. I also learned from an old mouse, which is not surprising, right? ”
After Cui Hao pushed open the door, he involuntarily took a flashlight and shone it above his head.
His face immediately became extremely strange, and he quickly aimed his flashlight at the ground.
"It's better not to look at it, the more you look at it, the more furious it becomes."
I nodded, followed Cui Hao, lit the first candle, and placed it on the side of the door.
Within a radius of two or three meters around us, we were suddenly shrouded in a cloud of dim yellow wax light.
I breathed a sigh of relief and followed behind Cui Hao to light a candle every five meters or so.
The candle is like a small lamp, slowly helping us light the way out.
I breathed a sigh of relief and quickly urged Cui Hao to take a closer look around.
It's still the way it was.
We walked from beginning to end on these shelves, but there were no words or logos on them that could be used as markers.
After walking around again, I still didn't find any clues.
But at this moment, my eyes fell on the easternmost corner of the bookshelf.
It should have been deliberately carved out as a place to specialize in learning.
There is a long wooden desk with the four treasures of the study on top of it, and a book in the center of the desk.
Besides.
There are also several books on either side, the ink is dry, and the hanging brush is slightly swaying vertically.
"What's that?"
I quickly rushed around my desk and raised my flashlight to take a closer look.
It was extremely calm and there was no sound.
But the shaking of the brush on the table made me know that something had definitely touched this thing just now.
Cui Hao's face was also extremely ugly.
He swallowed and walked over to me.
"Do you think it's the bats above your head or the weird rats crawling on the ground? I can't think of anything else that could touch the brush on this table. ”
I shook my head and quickly dragged Cui Hao to the table.
"Whatever it is, ignore the books on the shelves, the rest of the place is the same, only this place is still interesting."
I looked at the four treasures of the study on the desk, reached out and carefully took them out one by one, and rubbed the lines on them with my hands.
I'm trying to find a switch on the table or a mechanism to press a door.
After Cui Hao saw the four treasures of the study, he was attracted by this thing again.
He thought about it, silently took out a few bamboo slips from his backpack and threw them directly on the ground, and took the opportunity to put the ink cartridges and brushes on the table into the bag.
"This thing looks like a fine utensil, especially this brush, the barrel is still made of jade, and even faintly reflects the emerald green glow under the light."
Cui Hao wrapped this thing in a piece of clothing quite lovingly, and then put it in the backpack.
"If you take it out, you will definitely be able to sell it at a good price, and I will bring all this paper and ink, maybe someone will appreciate it after I go out."
I didn't bother to pay attention to him.
This guy saw something good and put it in his backpack, and when he couldn't fit it, he threw out the ones that were not worth much before.
I don't know what else Cui Hao can do if there are other artifacts in the back.
I continued to touch the objects on the table, and picked at the bottom of the desk.
Just when I thought I still hadn't found anything, I was ready to go home.
My gaze fell to the center of the desk, where the book was placed.
I immediately took the book and held it in the palm of my hand.
When I opened the book, it was full of blank pages, and there wasn't even a single word on it.
"Who made this thing?"
I looked at the book curiously.
The books here are all special ancient books, which contain all kinds of words and records.
How is it possible to have a book here, but it is empty?
When I noticed this book just now, I also saw that there was no text on the cover of the book, and it turned out to be a wordless book.
I took the book and looked it up and down.
Seeing that I kept reading this book, Cui Hao couldn't help but come up.
"What are you doing here?"
I shook the book in my hand and spread out the pages inside for Cui Hao to see.
"This is a wordless book, I think it's a little weird, it's all batches of classics, how can there be such a thing?"
Cui Hao glanced at the book in my hand, shook his head and continued to fiddle with the four treasures of the study on the table.
"How is this impossible? You're going to be foolish, hurry up and find out if there's a mechanism you call it, right? I don't want to stay here all the time. ”
Cui Hao stretched out his finger and pointed to the top of his head.
"The guys up there are staring at us, and the big rats on the ground can't tell where they're hiding in the corner, staring at the two of us gloomily."
He reflexively pointed to the burning candle I had placed on the ground.
"And that's it, but it won't last long. We'll have to find a way to mark it again in a moment, lest we have no way out when the time comes. ”
Just as Cui Hao said this.
I looked up at the way I came, and suddenly I felt that the center of the bookshelf seemed to be much darker.
I suddenly froze, and suddenly I had a feeling of uneasiness in my heart.
"Fatty, do you feel something is wrong?"