Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Ice Coffin in the Secret Room
One, two, three, four。。。。。
When I mentally counted the number from one to seven thousand two hundred, an hour had passed.
The cycle repeats itself twelve times, and the day comes to an end.
In addition, I sleep for about three hours a day and eat for half an hour.
Well...
I should have been in this bottomless deep well for half a month.
After a slight pause, he repeated the boring numbers over and over again.
I don't know how long it took, the girl was already a little sleepy, and as soon as she closed her eyes, a soft sound came from top to bottom, echoing back and forth in the dark and narrow dry well.
A strong light came, and the girl suddenly woke up, looking around expectantly.
From the top of the dry well, a food box slowly dropped, and was dragged by a slender rope to the bottom of the well.
A crisp male voice came, with some helplessness and sadness. "The high priest asks you, and you still don't agree?"
The girl shook her head, and a pair of beautiful eyes looked around greedily, fearing that she had missed a glimmer of light.
"Linxi, can you slow down?"
The people in Inoue knew what she wanted, and there was a wry smile on their faces. He didn't ask anymore, deliberately stopped for a while, and then sighed and closed the manhole cover again.
In an instant, the light faded, and the darkness swept in again.
The girl slowly closed her eyes and fumbled to open the food box. A puffy aroma rejuvenated her slightly.
Steamed Arowana, charcoal-grilled fresh rabbit, and a bowl of green leaf mint soup.
Although invisible, the girl could smell a few of her favorite dishes.
After eating all the food on the plate, the girl wiped her mouth with satisfaction and put the dishes and chopsticks back into the box. There was a soft ding, and the porcelain bowl seemed to touch a hard object.
The girl was slightly stunned, reached out and touched the box, and suddenly laughed softly, looking very happy.
There was already a fire knife and a flint in his hand.
"Thank you, Linxi... With a few words, he struck the flint with a fire knife, and by the flying sparks, he found some velvet and a few candles from the mezzanine of the food box.
A fire was lit and a candle was lit with velvet.
Under the candlelight, the beautiful girl smiled like a flower, looking at the silk spread at the bottom of the box, with a few crooked small characters written.
"Don't let the High Priest know!"
The girl pursed her lips and smiled, took out the silk scarf, folded it into small pieces and put it in her arms. Pick up the candle and walk along the wall of the well step by step.
The wall of the well was covered with moss, and when I reached out and touched it, a soft touch spread from my fingers to my heart.
The girl closed her eyes slightly, and hummed softly in her mouth, "Qingqing Zijin, take care of my heart." But for the sake of the king, I have been moaning to this day. . . ”
Suddenly feeling a different touch from her fingertips, the girl was slightly startled and stopped singing. Close the candle to the wall of the well and look closely.
In the crevices of the moss, there seems to be a faint yellow color. Gently brushed the moss away with his hands, but it was a somewhat rotten plank.
The girl put the candle on the ground, pulled out all the moss around her, and took three steps back with a "yah" sound.
It turned out that under the moss and grass covering, there were rows of wooden planks piled up on the walls of the well. After a while, seeing that nothing unusual had appeared around her, the girl stepped forward again, and gently tapped the wooden block with her hand, making a dull sound.
The wooden block seemed to be old, and in the dim and damp dry well, it had already become very soft, and when it was struck, a large piece fell down.
The girl kept beating, and the wooden block was soon pierced. The candlelight rushed in from the gap, and it came out several feet away, and outside the wall of the well, there was a cave!
Poking her head into the wooden hole, she felt a chill to her bones, and the girl couldn't help but shiver. Tearing the planks out of a passage large enough to enter, he picked up the candle and walked inside.
Inside was a huge cave, and although the footsteps were very soft, in the extremely quiet cave, it still seemed very harsh. After walking a few steps, she felt that the cold air in front of her was getting heavier and heavier, and the girl was suspicious in her heart, and walked in the direction of the source of the cold.
In the candlelight, I saw two objects resembling the heads of beasts, attached to an iron door, and the girl pushed it with her hand, but the iron door was extremely heavy and did not move.
Picking up the candlelight and looking closely, the two beast heads were carved in the shape of python heads, and the huge mouth was open, revealing sharp fangs.
The girl shook her fangs slightly, only to feel that her hands were warm, as if they were made of ivory. The two snake heads on the left and right are the same, with a total of four tusks. There is a slight loosening in the shaking.
The girl's heart sank, and she shook each of the four fangs, only to hear a rattle, a few muffled sounds, and the iron door turned open.
A chill swept over her face in an instant, and the girl looked in shock, and saw that there were countless candles flickering in the darkness inside.
When you look closely, it is an ice room with ice cubes neatly arranged like stone slabs, stacked together like seams.
The girl walked inside, but saw that in the ice room, there were seven or eight igloos of almost the same size, and in each igloo, there were crystal clear ice coffins.
The girl's heart was beating violently, and her breathing became rapid. Approaching the ice coffin carefully, he saw that the top of the coffin had not been covered. When she looked into the coffin by the candlelight, the girl's beautiful face suddenly showed a very terrifying look, and her hands shook, and the candle couldn't hold it and fell.
The girl hurriedly leaned over to pick it up, but fortunately she was armed with martial arts and moved quickly, so she could hold the candle firmly before it hit the ground, and the candlelight shook violently a few times, but fortunately it was not extinguished.
The girl stroked her chest with her left hand and gasped for air.
In the ice coffin, there was a woman's body! The face was as usual and lifelike, as if a living person was sleeping in the coffin.
The girl paused for a moment, stabilized herself, and looked back into the coffin. I saw that it was indeed a twenty-eight-year-old woman inside, dressed in a white hairdress, with her hair tied up like a woman in northern Tibet.
The girl exclaimed "ah" and retreated, remembering that there was also an ice coffin in each of the other igloos. Turned around and walked into another igloo, and when she came to the ice coffin, it was indeed uncovered, and when she looked inside, the girl's originally pale face immediately became bloodless, and she stumbled under her feet and fell to the ground!
How could it be, how could it be ...
There was also a woman lying in the coffin, and the strange thing was that this woman's appearance was exactly the same as the woman she had seen before!
What kind of weird trick is this?
Thinking of the high priest's ghostly methods, the girl's heart palpitated. Such a strange and impermanent thing can only be done by the high priest who is almost like a demon, right?
So, what about the rest of the ice coffins?
Startled by her terrifying thoughts, the girl stood up and looked at the rest of the ice room, her whole body trembling.
As expected, among the rest of the ice coffins, there was a woman with an average appearance!
What kind of weird trick is this? Why, these dead girls, are all the same? She has only heard of surrogate women, who are pregnant with two children at one time, and they are born one after another, only a few moments apart. The two children born in this way look very similar.
But how can there be more than a dozen people in a row, all of whom look the same as a replica?
There was a slight burning pain in his hand, but the candle was about to be extinguished. The girl did not dare to stay longer, so she walked quickly to the cave and closed the iron door again. When he returned to the well, he blocked the gap between the planks with moss, and sat on the ground, thinking in a state of confusion.