Chapter 68: Twenty-three Levels of Steps

We racked our brains to think that the ancient tomb construction in the completion of the Xuan Gong to slaughter livestock and animals, sacrifices to heaven and rites, in order to play the role of driving away evil spirits and avoiding murder, it must be due to the fact that we brought white geese this kind of spiritual animals into the tomb, only to startle this ghost mound of one in ten thousand, so at that time we were ready to make a move to slaughter the two large white geese, I did not think that Dajinya suddenly blocked it, and did not allow me to put the knife on the white geese.

When Fatty saw that Dajinya wouldn’t let us slaughter the geese, he asked, “Old Jin, why did you change your mind again? Didn’t you just say it was all set?”

Dajinya told me to put down the paratrooper knife in my hand for the time being, and said to Fatty and I, “Master Hu, Master Fatty, don’t be offended, just now I coldly thought of one thing and felt that it seemed to be extremely inappropriate.”

I said to Dajinya: “I am this temperament, think up what, brain hot, then regardless of the first to do it again, if there is something wrong, you can speak.”

Dajinya said: “is so, I want to think about how to say ah, a rush is really a little confused, my words to organize organization.”

I and the fat man here in the tomb trapped for a long time, although not like the beginning of the time, was that the ghost mound tossed around, very nervous and helpless, but gradually began to agitation, want to leave here as soon as possible, it is not easy to come up with a way, just want to do, but suddenly was blocked by the big gold tooth, a stomach of evil fire, and seizures can not be, had to nay sex to listen to the big gold tooth to speak.

Big gold teeth thought about it and said: “I thought about it, if it is really as we expected, the three of us are now trapped by a Western Zhou’s ghost mound, and the reason why this Western Zhou’s ghost mound will come out, possibly because we brought three birds in the live geese, the geese have spirituality, and the most vigilant, which only the ghost mound startled out… …”

Fatty got impatient and said to Dajinya, “Old Jin, you’re babbling so much, what exactly do you want to say?”

I told Fatty not to interrupt Dajinya again, first listen to Dajinya to finish his words, really want to be able to escape, but also do not fight for this moment sooner or later.

Dajinya then said: “If we slaughter the two geese, there is no more livestock in the tomb, perhaps the Western Zhou ghost mound will be hidden, but I don’t know if you two have thought about it, what position are we in now, this endless stone steps, which is a part of the ghost mound, that is to say, this place shouldn’t have existed, it is a part of the Western Zhou ancient tomb, which was destroyed long ago, and it is a part of the Western Zhou tomb. part of the Western Zhou Tomb, before the appearance of the Specter Tomb, this place might have been dirt and rocks in the belly of the mountain, or it might have been a cave.”

Hearing this, I already understood what Big Gold Tooth meant, “You’re saying that if we slaughter the two geese here again, in case the ghost mound disappears immediately, we’ll land on the outside of the Tang Dynasty Tomb, and thus be trapped once again, or even in danger of being buried alive.”

Dajinya nodded, “Yes, this is what I mean, in addition, have you ever thought about it, the ghost of the Western Zhou Ancient Tomb, does not seem to be all of it, it’s only part of it, and it overlaps with the Tang Dynasty Ancient Tomb, this stone staircase is the edge of the Ghost Mound, there is no obvious boundary, perhaps it’s boundary, it may still be in a chaotic state, only that we have no way of knowing whether he is expanding, or contracting, if we slaughter two big white geese, in case ……”

After Dajinya’s reminder, I realized the greatness of it, and nearly fell into another even more horrible and unfathomable situation, I said to Dajinya: “What Master Jin said is that we should first think of returning to the Underworld Hall of the Tang Tomb, and in the vicinity of the Underworld Hall or the entrance of the robber’s hole, we should determine a good and safe position, and then kill these two big geese that cause trouble.”

However, easier said than done, this stone steps, every twenty-three steps will cycle once, over and over again, seems to be endless, once walked on this stone steps, whether it is upward, or downward, can not go to the end.

I with the big gold teeth and fat two people and discuss a few sentences, but can not think of what eyebrows, can not close their eyes to roll down it, then, I am afraid it will be as the fat man said that kind of situation, rolled to the outside world have realized the four modernizations, we may not be able to roll the head.

This seemingly ordinary Western Zhou tomb stone steps, is really more difficult to deal with than what black murder white murder, if it is the fight to touch the dumplings, the big deal to give up their lives to fight with it, to see a life and death of the high and low, can be made of this large stone steps, can not fight, smashed also smashed, standing still is not a way to go down and can not go to the head, powerlessness fills the whole body, I realize that this is the real horror.

At a loss, the big gold teeth thought of a way, although I do not know whether it is feasible, we have a disease, let’s give it a try, the three of us first of all to confirm, is not every twenty-three steps, there will be a crescent-shaped edge of the defect, we counted while walking down, counted a whole five sections.

After confirming that there is no error, in accordance with the discussed method, three people each holding a candle, I first selected a crescent-shaped gap in the stone steps to stand, the candle lit, and then the big gold teeth with the fat man continue to go down to still see the light of the candle where I stood, the second person then stop to light the candle, then the third person continue to go down.

The premise of this program is that the stone steps can not be too long, if there are only twenty-three steps, and we maintain each other’s visual distance, but also beyond the length of these twenty-three steps, then there is a chance to walk back to the temple of the underworld under the steps.

However, the three of us tried, found that this program is not feasible, of course, this is due to the objective conditions of the limitations of this tomb without up and down the end of the stone steps, not only is an infinite loop, but also in the scope of the stone steps, it seems to be extraordinarily pitch-black, this kind of black is not the kind of ordinary darkness that there is no light, but on the head and feet, in front of and behind the body, seems to be shrouded in a layer of heavy black fog.

Even if you light a candle, at most you can only see within the range of five or six large stone steps, beyond this distance, the light of the candle is swallowed up by the darkness, this kind of darkness reminds me of the ghost caves in Xinjiang, and I can’t imagine that nightmare darkness is once again encountered in the ancient tombs of the Dragon Ridge, and when I think of this, my body can’t help but shiver as if the companions who died in Xinjiang were hiding in the dark corners and watching my every move.

Because the distance to see the candle light, only six stone steps, even thirty-five meters of lighting distance of the wolf-eye flashlight, can only be illuminated to the distance of the six steps, a more than six steps, is a dark, not only can not illuminate the distance, the people in the distance can not see the flashlight and the candle’s light.

We are only three people, three people can only so explore out the distance of twelve steps, and this Western Zhou ancient tomb of stone steps at least twenty-three steps above the length, so we do, can not make any breakthrough.

The three of us helpless, and gathered in one place, lit a candle, the flashlight all off, fat man took out the kettle and drank a few mouths, as if he wanted to fill a water satiety, the result of the more you drink the more hungry you are, cursing this donkey day of the big stone bar steps.

I smelled wrong, the fat man’s kettle a wine gas, I asked the fat man said: “Are you filling the kettle with white wine? Your grandmother, let you bring water you favor to bring wine, drink too much and we still have to carry you out.”

The fat man avoided the importance of the light, to me: “Old Hu, this time to drink a mouthful of wine is not courageous it, or so you see how, we are still according to the previous as, you and the old gold two people did not six stone steps will light a candle and so on, I give up, have been running …… ”

I denied the fat man’s plan: “You this kind of courage, the most useless, you do this is equal to a waste of death, we can not lose contact with each other in any case, three people together and the hope of escape, once dispersed, lost each other’s support, each facing the situation will be doubly difficult, when I was in the army, the most emphasized point of military training is that we can not be dispersed, dispersion means collapse and disintegration, the situation will be more difficult. Dispersal means collapse and disintegration, less than a last resort desperate, are not allowed to choose to disperse breakout.”

Fatty said to me: “stop it you, now not to desperate? I think now is simply to the sky, into the ground, and say dispersed does not necessarily mean collapse and disintegration, that is called to save the revolutionary fire.”

I said angrily: “you in this kind of ghost place to save a fart kindling, once encountered difficulties on the birds and beasts scattered, that is guerrilla style.”

Dajinya afraid of us two quarrel, quickly persuade: “two masters, two masters, now is not the time to discuss military theory, we really should not be dispersed breakout, and then dispersed breakout also have to have a breakout ah, we are now …… ugh …. …Forget it, I think we can’t fall alone no matter what.”

The laws of physics, in this Western Zhou ancient tomb steps seem to have lost its role, I sighed, I would like to sit on the stone steps to rest, a sit down by the waist of something separated a bit, I reached out and touched it, it was with a long rope on the waist, I was pleasantly surprised, to the fat man and the big gold teeth, said: “There, how I did not think of the rope, fuck him, said the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, the people in a hurry to be born of wisdom! We are in a hurry, the more confused we are, we messed up, the rope that we brought with us, add up to a few hundred meters, these twenty-three stone steps are long enough to use the amount of seven or eight laps on the motherfucker.”

In this headless ancient tomb stone steps, long rope is like a life-saving straw, fat man and big gold teeth rejoice, and hasten to help, the three borrowed the light of the candles, the body carries a long rope, with a tooth bolt connected together.

I looked at the rope shuttle connected together, to the fat man and big gold teeth said: “so long rope in any case is enough, this place is not suitable for a long time, let’s act immediately.”

At that moment by the fat man stood in place, lit a candle, the rope firmly tied at the waist, the fat man stood at the position is exactly a step with a crescent-shaped gap in the stone steps, with this layer of special markings of the stone steps as a reference, the action will be more convenient. Whether it will work, I’m not sure, anyway, whether it works or not depends on this last move, I was just about to move, but suddenly pulled by the fat man.