Chapter 16 (25)

Dodor said, "Shut up. "If she is allowed to continue, there will be extremely ugly words coming out, and if she makes up such nonsense, it will really become false. said to the village chief: "We are the 'descendants of Prince Zhuang' entrusted by Mu seniors. It's a clever phrase that encompasses both at the same time.

The village chief nodded, sighed, and said, "Miss Mu was kind to us in the past, and her entrustment should not be refused. But I still hope that you will listen to the old man's advice, Prince Heshuo Zhuang has already entered the earth for peace, his soul has ascended to bliss, no matter how much right and wrong it is, he can already put it aside, can't others still put it away? If a few people really think about Prince Zhuang, why should they regain their past grievances?"

Duoduo's mind was in turmoil, and he silently recited what the village chief said: "Past grievances? It seems that Prince Zhuang's death really has something to hide. People are dead, how do you know that he can leave it alone?" said solemnly: "Thank you for the village chief's teachings, but that is the last wish of Prince Zhuang, and he should do his best as a descendant." Whether it is worth it or not, we will know it in the future. ”

The village chief shook his head and sighed, and said, "Obsessed, it is not something that can be resolved by external forces, I just want to think twice before acting." Going down to the ancient tomb is also a detrimental thing to yin morality, don't you really regret it? Okay, since that's the case, then come with me. ”

He persuaded with compassion, but he could not persuade at all. Only shaking his head and sighing, he walked to the bronze statue, bowed down and bowed three times, and ordered the villagers to take two sticks of incense and a clean tray. First took the incense and lit it, held it high above the top, and stood motionless, only to see the curling white smoke rising up, and a faint fragrance drifting in the ancestral hall. The aroma was also a little strange, and it could mobilize the deepest sad memories in everyone's hearts, and everyone in the hall felt depressed.

After a pillar of incense, the village chief picked up the tray and dropped two drops of liquid from the top of the bronze statue. The village chief handed the tray to one of the villagers, walked around the back of the bronze statue, looked up at the peeling gold paint wall, shook his head again and sighed, and his arms parted, and everyone was amazed, the wall turned out to be a realistic curtain. When it was opened, a white cloth banner was revealed, with the word "lay" written on it, and a bronze coffin was parked under the flag.

The village chief took out a wooden stick, dipped it in the liquid in the tray, and then applied it between the coffin lid and the coffin body, carefully applying every place, calling a few villagers, making a gesture, and several people lifted the coffin lid together.

Chu Menglin was startled and hurriedly tilted her head to the side. She usually kills people without blinking, but she doesn't dare to embarrass the dead body, and it is even more unprecedented to lift the lid of someone's coffin like this. I'm really afraid that there is a skeleton with rotten skin and flesh lying in the coffin, and two hollow eyes are staring at me. Yu Guang first looked at the end of the coffin, but there were no white bones, so he was bold and slowly turned his head, there was a straw mat in the coffin, and there was nothing else. I was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but after thinking about it, it was the empty coffin that was even more terrifying, and I exclaimed: "This ...... What about the dead man? Is it a corpse ......?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately saw that everyone around him was laughing, and even the village chief had a faint smile on his face, and said: "If there is a coffin, there must be a corpse, who set the rules? The curtains and empty coffins you see, these are all things that we are hiding from people." As he spoke, he uncovered the straw mat at the bottom of the coffin, revealing a swarthy hole, which at a glance was strange and profound, like a road to hell. When the straw curtain is lifted, it brings a gust of wind to the back, which makes people feel even more chilled down the spine.

The village chief said: "The bottom of this coffin is connected to the ground, and it goes straight to the ground, but before you go down, the old man still has a few pieces of advice. There are some evil sects in this mausoleum, and over the years, there have always been people who have ...... To put it nicely, it's called 'Touching the Golden Captain', I don't know where to get the news, I heard that there is an ancient tomb here, but they didn't come for the prince, they just wanted to make a small fortune. If you don't listen to the dissuasion, it won't work with me, so you go around to another place, measure the distance, dig the passage yourself, and really find it for them. But none of those who have been down to the ancient tomb have come out alive so far, and they have never returned. In fact, there are no gold or silver treasures in this tomb, and if you really say that, there can be more burial goods in the mausoleum in Tokyo near here, and it is not too unjust to give your life in vain for the sake of hearsay in the air? Some people say that there is a curse in this tomb, which is the residual intention of Prince Zhuang's hatred. Our village guards here, firstly, to prevent outsiders from disturbing the undead of the prince, and secondly, to persuade the greedy not to take this road of no return. However, there may be exceptions, you are his relatives, and maybe he will not harm you, but the other things in the tomb do not belong to you, and remember not to touch them, so as not to cause trouble. ”

Chu Menglin secretly laughed: "If this royal tomb is really an empty tomb, then there is nothing to touch, but you specially told us not to touch other things, is it not that there are no three hundred taels of silver here? When Princess Yong'an accompanied Prince Zhuang to the funeral, she was a little girl, young and beautiful, as the saying goes, everyone has a love for beauty, she must have a lot of jewelry, I don't know if it will be unlucky to peel off the jewelry of the dead to wear." ”

Duoduo didn't want to wait any longer, and was about to go down to the tomb first, when the young man, who had not spoken much, suddenly said, "Wait!" lit a torch and went into the cave, but the torch was not extinguished. Duoduo secretly praised: "Sure enough, he is a veteran of inverted fighting, that is, he has experience." I was so anxious that I forgot to test the underground air. Suddenly, his mind changed: "If he really made a fortune by robbing the tomb, he heard that there was no treasure in the tomb, so he should be disappointed, so he turned around and left." Even if he knows our identity and doesn't care about me deceiving him, he will never risk his life again, and follow us to the reason of going to the underground palace, what is his idea? Well, he doesn't say it, I won't break it, it's better to let him go ahead, it's best to be able to break the mechanism along the way, even if he can't, it's his first move, and I can be prepared. Originally, he stretched out his hand to take the torch, but when he thought of this, he temporarily patted him on the shoulder and said: "Brother Tai has studied this way and has rich experience, so he is ashamed of himself, and he is tired of Brother Tai to lead the way first." ”

The young man said, "Okay, you are a big official in the palace, of course I will listen to your orders." After saying that, he smiled strangely. Call it weird, just because the smile is very stiff, not only does it not seem to come from the heart, but it is more like a smile born from being squeezed and twisted by the muscles on the face. The young man held the edge of the coffin with his left hand and a torch in his right, and jumped into it with both feet. Chu Menglin whispered, "I'...... I ......"

Duoduo said in his heart: "Let her go in the second place, if the tomb robber really has any abnormal movements, it is impossible for him to have great powers and harm me with one person." Pretending to be considerate, he said, "It's okay, you can walk in the middle." At this point, it was impossible for Chu Menglin to retreat, let alone make herself look cowardly, so she walked to the coffin, first reached into one foot to probe the bottom, and immediately touched the ground.

It turns out that the cave is not straight up and down, but zigzag and winds down. She was much bolder, put both feet into the coffin, sat down, propped her hands behind her back, and slowly rubbed down. Originally, a faint glimmer of light could still be shot in the top of the head, but after rubbing out not far away, it was suddenly pitch black in front of me, and the sound of the coffin lid moving back sounded overhead. She suddenly had the illusion that she had been imprisoned in the depths of the earth, faintly hearing the roar of monsters, and all kinds of demons and monsters could be pounced everywhere in the darkness. wanted to scream, but heard Duoduo say coldly: "Naturally, you have to cover the lid of the coffin, and you can't let the hole open in front of people at will." ”

Chu Menglin thought that it was reasonable, but the darkness was easy to breed fear, and she couldn't help but think wildly in her mind, and all that appeared was the stumps and severed arms of those who were killed by herself. Although the young man had a torch, the light could not be transmitted because of the distance, and she did not blame herself for being too slow, but she complained that the young man did not wait for her. His arms and waist were violently numb, and after a long time, he found that the road was no longer going down, but straight forward. They couldn't see each other in the dark, and she wasn't afraid of losing face, so she changed her downward posture to kneeling on the ground, crawling forward with her hands and feet.

This section is even more sad than just now, the body is already very sore, and this place is low, I can only crawl with my head down, and even my head and neck are sore. The range of the body that can stand up is extremely limited, and the weight of the whole body is almost concentrated on the arms, and the pain is so painful that it seems to break in the next moment. It was still a trivial matter that his hands were covered with sand and stones, and his palms were worn by sharp stones, and it was a hot pain, and he still had to press the wound on the ground, and even his knees were worn out. Although the air in this passage is not highly toxic, he does not dare to inhale more, and his exhalation must be extremely subtle.

I don't know how long it took, when I straightened up a little more, I suddenly felt that the space was much larger, and the original narrow passage finally came to an end, and Chu Menglin almost cried with joy. Seeing a black mass in front of her, she only thought it was the young man, and shouted, "Hey, why don't you wait for me!" ran forward and patted him on the shoulder, the tentacles were cold and stiff, not like the body of a living person. Immediately after that, there was another pain in the palm, as if it had been stabbed by a sharp weapon, and liquid flowed out of the hand.

Then the young man's voice said, "What's the matter? What's wrong with you?" A bright light appeared, and it was the young man who came over with a torch and shone on what she had touched. It turned out to be a stone pillar carved with a dragon's head, and it was the dragon's head that she had just photographed, and the blood that flowed out left a dazzling red mark on the top, making the majestic dragon's head look extremely hideous and terrifying. In an instant, the little puppet whose arm was cut off by himself, the bloody Deshou who was covered in blood, and the unjust soul who was killed by himself flashed in front of him, all of them came to catch him with his teeth and claws to pay for his life.

The young man also glanced at the dragon head, and said in a low voice: "Girl, you have committed a bloody crime, this is a bad omen, do you really want to move forward?" Although Chu Menglin was afraid, she would never allow others to underestimate herself, and said, "Of course you go, why not?" The young man smiled at her again, still with that strange smile, as if the person in front of him was just wearing a skin bag, and an ownerless soul had entered his body and laughed on his behalf. Chu Menglin's heart was cold again.