Chapter 60: The Fork in the Road
Catching up with another Ghost Blowout? It’s not so evil, besides, we are still crawling in the long cave, far from the tomb’s underground palace, I touched the simple anti-virus mask on my mouth, it shouldn’t be my breathing and movements that make the candle go out.
Could it be that there are air currents passing through the cave, I took off my gloves and tried around, but I didn’t feel any strong air currents, so I don’t care about it, I’ll light it again.
I scratched a match, want to light the candle again, but found that the ground in front of the empty, originally inserted in the ground candles do not know where to go, this time I scalp the whole of the whole are at first glance up, I thought that according to the previous cave into the underground palace, as easy as a bag to pick up, this time can be a real living ghost, in front of the candles, in the moment I was distracted by thinking, disappeared in thin air.
I reached out and touched the place where the original insertion of candles, hard to the touch, but a flat slab of stone, this slab is out of where?
I could not care less, pulled off the gas mask, patted the fat man’s leg and said to him: “Quickly climb back, this cave is not right.”
Dajinya is lying in the back of the huffing and puffing, heard my words, hastily curled up the body, turn around and crawl back, this time but the bitter fat man, he can not turn around in the cave, only to drag the two geese bolted to the rope upside down, with two elbows to support the ground, to the back of the backward crawling.
We turned around and climbed back not five meters, the front of the big gold teeth suddenly stopped, I asked in the back, “What’s wrong with the gold master, grit your teeth and hold on, climb out in the rest, now is not the time to rest.”
Dajinya turned back to me and said, “Master Hu …… has a stone gate in front of him, sealing the road, can not get out ah.” His face has been scared and bloodless, and it is not easy to say the words even if it is not easy.
I used the wolf’s eye across the big gold teeth to shine a light on the way to the front of the robber cave, there is really a flat boulder, I passed by every step forward, are carefully observed, and did not find any stone grooves and other organs, the cave walls are flat dirt, I do not know where this thick slabs of stone came out of, flush in front of the block.
I see no way back, in place is not a solution, so I had to make a gesture to the big gold teeth, let him turn back again, and then pushed the fat man in the back, let him climb forward.
Fatty did not know why, see a moment forward a moment back, furious: “Old Hu you fucking want to toss me to death ah, I can not climb, want to climb again you climb over me.”
I know we have encountered something unusual, exactly what, I can not say now, but must not stop, also can not spare the effort and fat man to explain, then even urged: “you which so much nonsense, let you forward, you climb forward is, fast, follow orders and listen to the command.”
Fatty listen to my tone is not right, also know that there may be a change in the situation, will no longer complain, rushed two geese and climb forward, hurriedly crawled forward nearly two hundred meters distance, suddenly stopped.
I thought he was also tired, want to take a break, but heard the fat man in front of me said: “Fuck, old Hu, this front three holes, which hole we drill?”
“Three holes?” Historically, all the robber holes are one, never heard of a fork in the road, at this time, I just grow two more brains also can not understand what is going on.
I let the fat man climbed into the front of the cave, the fork in the road to me to make room for me to view the three connected cave situation, I came to the center, Dajinya also followed the climb over, he has been too tired to speak, I signaled him not to worry about, first rest here, and so on, I understand the three caves on the actual and then do the calculations.
I carefully check the front of the three robber holes, these three robber holes and we drilled in this, as a crossroads, the front of the robber holes of the cave wall and the same as before, neat and smooth, dug with ease.
However, on the other two sides, the work was done in an extremely haphazard manner, and it was obvious that the people who dug these two holes were in a great hurry, but judging from the method, it was basically the same as the leveling hole. This section of the hole piled up a large amount of soil, apparently when the two sides of the passage, accumulated here.
I thought to myself, could this be the predecessor who funded the repair of the Fishbone Temple, could it be that after he opened the cave, he went to the underground palace to get the treasure, and then his retreat was blocked by the stone door, so he couldn’t go back, so he made holes from both sides, trying to escape?
So speculation will not have any results, I let the fat man and big gold teeth in place to rest and wait, I tied a long rope on the waist, first climbed into the left side of the cave to explore the situation, in case there is any situation, will blow the whistle, let the fat man two people pull me back.
I was just about to drill in, the big gold teeth reached out and pulled me, from the neck to take down a gold Buddha body protector to, handed me, said: “Master Hu, wear this it, open light, in case of what dirty things, can also be defense.”
I took the golden Buddha to see, this can have years, is an ancient object, I said to the big gold teeth, “This golden Buddha is very valuable, or keep you two to defend yourself, the evil evil cave, but does not seem to be ghosts, perhaps we have not seen some kind of organ, I go to the two sides of the cave to scout, will be fine, do not worry.”
Big gold teeth has not like just so panic, grin, hand into the collar, pulled out more than twenty pendants, are Buddha Bodhisattva Guanyin and so on, there are some Taoist paper amulet, pendants are gold, jade, ivory, jadeite, each different, the big gold said to me: “I have a bunch of it, all have opened the light, how many dirty things to his mother are not afraid of it. ”
I thought no wonder this grandson must enter the underground palace, not afraid at all, the original has these babies do background, said to him: “yes, afraid of ghosts do not inverted, inverted is not afraid of ghosts, I just worry that we encountered something beyond common sense, that is difficult to deal with, but now can not be sure, to wait for me to go to this side of the cave to look at and then say.”
Said then took over the big gold teeth give me the gold Buddha, hanging on the collar, secretly think: “this time I contact with the antique quite a lot, eyesight is also non-comparable to the former, I see this open gold Buddha is not like a fake, heck, first do not pay him back, the last time he gave me and the fat man’s two touching the gold talisman, are Xibei goods, maybe I have several times before the touching of the gold is not smooth, because of the wearing of a fake talisman, caused the Ancestor is not happy, that kind of fake is better than nothing, not wearing it may all be better than wearing a fake one, wait for Dajinya to give us a real gold touching talisman in exchange and then return it to him, this will be considered as a deposit first.”
This section of the cave can already clearly feel the wind, the air current is very strong, it seems to be connected to where, then do not have to worry about the air quality, I explained that Fatty is still in accordance with the previous several times the contact code.
Fatty and Dajinya stay in place to rest, I explore the left side of the road, the center is connected to the rope, not to get lost, if any party encountered a situation, you can pull the rope, but also through the whistle to pass the message.
All accounted for, I put on a gas mask, with the wolf’s eye lighting, ambush drilled into the left side of the cave, this hole is obviously dug extremely hastily, narrow and difficult to walk, just to allow one person to crawl, if the psychological quality is a little bit poorer, here it is easy to be too low and depressing, as if buried alive in the ground, resulting in a mental breakdown.
I worry about the cave depths of the air is not good, and do not dare to stay more, after all, the anti-virus mask can only protect the mouth and nose do not inhale harmful gases, while the eyes and ears are not covered, if there is a cloudy fog miasma and other toxic gases, are walking five views through the seven orifices, the eyes are exposed, but also will be poisoned.
Narrow hole in the ground, so that I completely lost the sense of orientation and distance, by intuition also did not climb out of the distance, it will be in front of another wall of heavy stone slabs, the thickness of this pouring slabs of stone can not be estimated, and the surrounding soil seems to have grown into a body, is not later buried into the size of which there is no way to confirm the whole way out is completely blocked.
The end of the cave, suddenly expanding, apparently earlier that person wanted to dig a way out from the bottom or around, all around the digging is very deep, but that huge slab seems to be so big that there is no edge, want to find into the head to dig a passage out is impossible.
I was trapped is not once or twice, this thing is strange, but not discouraged, and immediately climbed back according to the original way, the fat man big gold teeth see me climbed back, then asked how? Where is the passage?
I put the end of the channel thing probably said again, the three are puzzled, difficult to understand, is not this huge stone plate is natural born in the soil not? But also born so neatly, to manually chisel this thousands of pounds of slabs is also extremely difficult.
The most fucking strange thing is that when we drilled into the cave, how did we not find this stone plate, go back to the time to appear out of thin air? Legend has it that there are many mechanisms in the ancient tomb, and they wouldn’t be this powerful, no, I can’t say powerful, I can only say strange.
Now we have two holes in front of us, one is a downward robber’s hole, the other is similar to the narrow hole I just went in, I guess the situation inside is similar to the narrow hole I just went in, it is also a stone slab blocking the way, there is no way to go around it.
However, I am a person who will not die until the Yellow River, heck, that’s a bit unlucky, this place is not far from the Yellow River, wouldn’t it be a death wish? Then I don’t see the coffin, but this is the inverted cave, not far from the tomb, the tomb will naturally have coffins, this time it is really to the Jedi, the Yellow River coffins and coffins are all together.
Do not dare to think again, this time the most afraid is to scare themselves, I rested a few minutes, in accordance with the appearance of just now, drilled into the right hand side of the cave, whether it is also sealed by the boulder, after all, to see to know, this road is extinct and then try to do another plan.
I climbed to the end of the narrow hole, really is still a boulder, I can not help but want to curse, but suddenly realized that there is something unusual here.