Volume 1, Ghost City of the Bone Forest_Chapter 33, Underground Dark River
A stone tablet is used to put it in the most important part of the corpse, which should be the most valuable thing in the funeral goods, could it be that this stone tablet has a great origin?
"And then?"
Seeing that Zhuzi didn't continue, I hurriedly asked.
"Later, the body was bought by a European and smuggled out of China along with the coffin. The strange thing is that Wu Dong disappeared after making this deal, and we haven't seen him again to this day anyway. I don't know what this pattern represents. But! At that time, this pattern appeared, and Wu Dong made a lot of money. The strange man at the bottom of the Xuanming Temple is also related to this pattern, I think maybe there is a tomb or something like that below! ”
As I said before, people in this business are divided into three classes, and opening coffins and robbing tombs do not belong to the profession of selling ghosts and demons, so if you can, you won't take it. But the interests are in front, and we are all short of money, so we can only bite the bullet.
"Well, since that weirdo is wounded, I don't think he'll recover so quickly. Shall we fight? ”
The fat man made a statement, he and Zhuzi stood on the united front, I shook my head and said helplessly: "Okay, arrange the ladder first, and strive to get rich tonight!" ”
At that time, we all used bamboo ladders, and two iron hooks were tied to one end and hung on the edge of the well, and in my opinion, the things of the older generation were not necessarily convenient, but they were very durable. Compared to the stainless steel ladder that I used with the fat man later, the old slub ladder was stronger.
The ladder stretched all the way to the bottom of the well, and the beads went down first to take the lead, and I was in the middle, and the fat man was broken.
When I was on the bamboo ladder, I looked down, and the carcass of the turtle was still there, not being eaten by the stranger, but emitting a fishy smell, like the rancid smell of rotten fish and stinky shrimp in the vegetable field.
I covered my nose and mouth with my sleeve, and the wooden door was open, apparently the weirdo didn't have time to close it when he entered.
"I'll go in first, put the flashlight in my mouth, and then find a way to fix it on my body after I pass through the stone slab in front of me."
I spoke, and with a flashlight in my mouth, I slipped into the wooden door, and there was a long period of darkness, and the air smelled of blood, and I even used the flashlight to shine the blood stains left on the ground.
The beads didn't climb at all after they came in, they bent over and easily followed me, poor fat man, this guy tightened his belly, and got up like a big bear, I looked back and shook my head with a smile.
Passing through the low stone slab and into the large hole at the bottom of the well, I held a flashlight and looked around. There was no trace of the strange man, and the green light I had seen last time still flickered faintly on the ground. Looking around vigilantly, the bead walked over to the green light source and picked it up from the ground with his gloved right hand.
I watched from afar, and was about to ask him if this was the Night Pearl, but at this moment, the bead's glove was suddenly ignited by a terrible green flame, and then burned wildly!
"Brother Zhuzi, what's wrong!"
The fat man asked in surprise.
The bead hurriedly took off his gloves, but the flames had already burned his arm, and I rushed over to see that there was a visible burn on the bead's forearm, and a large piece of red fluttering.
"Are you alright?"
I asked hurriedly.
"Damn it, it's a fire bug, not a pearl of the night!"
Zhu Zi cursed, took out a small bottle he carried with him, and sprinkled some medicinal powder on his hand, which was crystal clear and looked like snow. After landing on the bead's hand, the burned area seemed to improve significantly.
"It's ground with the inner core of snow wood, and it's useful for burns." He put away the vial and stepped on the glowing gloves on the ground. But I saw that the green light source was crawling fast on the ground, like an insect on the ground!
"Still running!"
The bead caught up and stepped on the green light source, and the flames erupted again in the green light, spreading to both sides. The bead took a few steps back, and strange green flames lit up the walls around it, and I heard a strange cry from the ground, like the shrill screams of insects. The flames spread outward around the beads, and the fat man and I hurriedly retreated, only to see strange murals appearing on the walls of the cave around the cave illuminated by the flames!
Before, I came down because it was so dark that all I could see was the polished cave walls, but this time, I saw more, and the murals looked thoughtful, but very rough. This is completely different from the Dunhuang mural photos I saw at the time.
However, even if it is rough, it is very old, and at least it has been proved that there were people here, and there must be some kind of secret hidden under the Xuanming Temple!
The strange green flame slowly extinguished, the beads beckoned to us, and the fat man and I hurried up.
He lifted his foot, and on the ground was an insect that looked somewhat similar to a hermit crab, carrying a stone on its back, but it had been crushed by the beads. The insect itself was already torn apart, and I asked strangely, "Brother Zhuzi, you just called it a fire bug, do you know this thing?" ”
Zhuzi nodded and said, "I've seen this thing in the past, and I don't know what its scientific name is, but people in the industry call it a fire bug." They feed on dry bones and slowly produce a greenish stone on their backs, which releases flames in case of danger. It's the green flame we just saw, and we usually kill this thing when we see it, because it's easy to get hit like I just did. Once the flames jump up to the body, the immortal will lose half his life. I was careless, I didn't expect such an unclean thing to be under this temple. ”
I noticed that the bead ended up saying that it was unclean, so I couldn't help but ask, "You say it's unclean?" What's in there. ”
"Oh, let me tell you that, it's not usually clean where this thing is."
The bead didn't say it explicitly, but the fat man and I also understood a little bit, and the so-called unclean things may be evil earth beasts or even ghosts......
I strapped the flashlight to my shoulders so I could hold the dagger and shovel in both hands. The beads looked ahead, and it was pitch black, but the terrain was stretching down at an angle. In other words, if we keep going, we will most likely end up going deeper underground.
"Let's go."
The fat man took the lead and walked forward, the underground was quiet, and only the aperture of the flashlight could illuminate the surrounding scenery. And that silence makes people feel uneasy, I don't have claustrophobia or anything like that, but in this place where weirdos can appear at any time, it would be a lie to say that I wasn't afraid.
I walked forward for a while, and suddenly the bead said, "Stop." ”
After standing still, the beads looked to both sides, then thought for a moment and said, "We may be walking on a dry underground river. ”
Neither I nor the fat man immediately reacted to this, and looked at the beads a little stupidly.
"Drilling wells is generally to take groundwater, there is a dark river under the city, the well of Xuanming Temple must have been drilled on the underground dark river, but then the dark river dried up, and the well dried up." Zhuzi and I also knew what the fat man said, and he frowned when he saw that we still didn't react, and explained in more detail, "If we are walking in such a dry underground river, then first of all, we don't know where the underground river leads!" Secondly, we don't know how wide this underground river is. Finally, if we look at the murals we have just seen, perhaps this dark river has been artificially drained and cut off, then the direction we are walking may lead to some place that has been built. And I've just taken a closer look at those murals, and to be honest, they look a bit like they were left over from a cult. ”
At this moment, the fat man and I finally understood, according to the meaning of the beads, it may be that the cult drained the underground river and built some kind of building under the Xuanming Temple. At the same time, it has also been covered by such a temple as Xuanming Temple.
"Be mentally prepared if this is the case for us. There will be some monsters coming out of Baoqi, and some monsters are more terrifying than ghosts. ”
After the bead finished speaking, he took the lead and continued to walk forward, and the fat man and I hurriedly followed, after all, he was well-informed, and I felt a slight chill in my heart when he said this.
After walking for about five or six minutes, the road ahead suddenly broke off, and we separated to find a way out, and I walked along the stone wall with a flashlight, and vaguely I could hear a certain sound, because it was in a quiet underground space, so I could hear it clearly.
"Goo-goo-goo-goo......"
Like the sound of something rolling, I frowned and looked back, and at this moment, there seemed to be something in the darkness. Not far in front of me, a slender thing was slowly rising from the ground!