Chapter 69 The Ladder of Suspended Souls

Fatty pulled my arm and said to me: “Old Hu, in case the rope breaks how to do? You can be more careful ah, we still have a lot of money did not spend it, now is not the time of valor, see the situation is not right to hurry back to run, do not show off.”

I said to the fat man: “This is what I said to you is more or less, you stay up there to be more careful, if the rope in the middle of the road suddenly broken, you must not pull back, let the rope to keep the original state, otherwise you pull the rope away, I can not touch back.”

I thought about it is still a little less assured, and instructed the fat man said, “Little fat, you stand here can never move, I and the big gold teeth from this down, if out of this son of a bitch stone steps, use the rope to pull you out.”

Fatty said, “No problem, you two can rest assured, if there is any danger, you just blow the whistle, I can pull you both back with one arm.”

As long as the rope connected between the three of us can exceed the distance of twenty-three steps, we should be able to crack the cyclical ghost steps, thinking that getting out of the trap is imminent, the three of us can’t hold down the excitement in our hearts, Fatty stayed in the same place, and Dajinya and I pulled the rope downward.

I every down a step, will look back to see the fat position of the candle light, in the down to the sixth layer of stone steps, I let the big gold tooth to stay, so that the big gold tooth can also stay within the sight of the fat man, more or less can have a care, after all, the big gold tooth is usually pampered the whole day to eat good food, did not go through much of this kind of life and death ordeal, if he can not see his companion, it is likely to lead to his nervousness excessive and make some irrational moves.

This is the sixth step down from the fat man’s place, Dajinya lit the candle, checked the ropes tied around his waist, then handed over the remaining ropes to me and stayed at the sixth step to wait.

I said to Dajinya: “After I go down, I will keep walking along the steps to the end, if I can get out of these twenty-three stone steps, I will pull the rope three times, and you will notify Fatty up there, and after meeting with Fatty, you will walk down along the rope.”

Dajinya said to me: “Hu master don’t worry, although I’m not useful, but this is a matter of life and death will not be sloppy, I will stay here, waiting for your good news.”

I saw his words firmly, then nodded, holding a circle of rope in his hand, continued down the stone steps, every step, then released a little rope.

When I went down to the distance of twelve steps from the fat man, I looked at a large bundle of rope in my hand, although I knew it was enough, but still subconsciously counted the distance, twenty-three stone steps, twenty-three minus twelve, only a little more than half of the distance, the rope is enough to use.

I silently counted the number of steps under my feet, as long as more than twenty-three steps will be able to return to the Underworld Temple, really can return to the Underworld Temple? At this point it seemed to suddenly become unsure again.

In front of me is an endless darkness, the further down I go, the faster my heart beats, I am afraid that the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment, but I have already come this far, I can only continue to walk downward with a stiff upper lip.

Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, the crescent-shaped mark on the steps even appeared again, but the bottom of the steps is not yet the end, really living hell, I continue to walk with a hard head, how to walk until there is no rope.

The rope in my hand is getting shorter and shorter, my heart is hairy, ready to return here, don’t want to go down again, then I suddenly saw a little light below the steps, I quickly step down, the closer I am more and more surprised, there is a person standing below me, broad back facing me, a candle lit at the foot of the light I saw above is the faint light from this candle.

That person is clearly should be above me fat man, he is pawing a foot, constantly looking down, I see clearly is indeed fat man, a moment of discouragement has been extreme, it seems that this approach is again not work, so I had to go over to the fat man, a pat on the back: “Okay, do not look at it, I’m hu hansan is back.”

The fat man was unprepared, even if it is bold, but also startled, rolled down the stairs, I hastily reached out to grab his arm, but he is too fat, although I caught his sleeve, but did not pull him, only pulled down a sleeve.

Good in his hands is also agile, only rolled down two layers of stone steps, will stop there, raised his head to look upward, see I actually came out from the back, but also surprised, asked: “Old Hu, how the fuck do you come down from the top? Raising children is not called raising children, called scary ah, ah my mother, really fucking scare people to death, you are a word ah.”

I said to the fat man: “You also do not startled, and not a big girl and small children, you skin thick flesh, scared a scare can not be scared.”

I sat on the steps, untied the rope around my waist and said to Fatty: “No way, it seems that we have judged correctly, this section of the steps is a chaotic zone at the edge of the ghost mound, the space theorem does not exist on these steps, hurry up and pull Lao Jin up, then we’ll make other plans.”

Fatty pulled the rope, pulled Dajinya up, told him the cause and effect, Dajinya listened to it and also hung his head, I said to Fatty and Dajinya: “Although it is often said that a drum is a drum, and then failing, and three times exhaustion, but we have not yet arrived at the time of discouragement, before we are not too hungry to move the energy, hurry to think about it again to see what else is not folded, if after a few more hours. If it takes a few more hours, if we are so hungry that we can’t move, we will really have to close our eyes and wait for death.”

Mentioning the word hunger, Fatty’s hunger burned, grabbed the neck of a goose on the ground and said, “That’s not so bad, if there is really no incantation, we still have two roasted geese to eat, since you and Lao Jin said that you can’t kill geese on this staircase, we can eat one first, leaving one to wait until we are in the Underworld to kill again.”

I said to Fatty, “We don’t have firewood, how can we eat here? Couldn’t you eat raw ones?”

Fatty wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and said, “What’s wrong with eating raw? Ancient people did not just eat raw meat, really hungry and still care whether he is raw or cooked.”

I said: “the primitive people eat raw meat, drink blood, you are still gritting your teeth and insist on insisting, if we can no longer leave, you then eat is not too late, in fact, now from the meal you ate in the temple of fish bones, less than six or seven hours.”

On the side of the big gold teeth crying face to me said: “Hu master, we this time is not really want to play finished? This method of going to the sky and into the ground have thought of all, just can’t get away from this ghost beating wall of more than twenty steps, this can really fall into the evil luck.”

I want to comfort Fatty and Dajinya a few words, words to the mouth, but can not speak, in fact, I am now also upset, but also very much in need of other people to say a few words of relief, this donkey day of twenty-three steps, it is really going to kill.

“Twenty-three, twenty-three.” This number, as if I’ve seen it somewhere before, I reached out and touched the crescent groove on the stone steps, as if I had suddenly grabbed a floating plank when I was struggling in a vast ocean.

Fatty again wanted to discuss with me how to eat these two geese, I was afraid that he interrupted my thoughts, not waiting for him to open his mouth, while he made a silent gesture to him, continue to rack his brain to search for information in his memory.

I want to understand after a pat on the thigh, scared Dajinya and fat man jumped, I said to the two of them: “Fuck his grandmother, we all let this ghost steps to the blind, this is not what ghosts hit the wall, nor what ghost mound edge of the chaos zone. This fucking is a mechanism in the Western Zhou ancient tomb, a weird trap designed with easy numbers.”

When I started in the army, I have been combined with the family secretary of the remnants of the study of the Zhou Yi, cover the beginning of the syncopated Taiji gave birth to two instruments, two instruments gave birth to four elephants, four elephants gave birth to eight trigrams. Therefore, the students are divided into the east position west position is the two meters, said, divided into the east four position west four position is the four elephants, said, divided into the dry, Kan, Burgundy, Zhen, Sundowner, away from the, Kun, against is the gossip that is all the heaven and earth avenue of the creation of the nature of the reasoning.

At that time I just take these to kill the monotonous time in the barracks, due to the “sixteen words of yin and yang feng shui secret art” in which one of the words is “recluse” word, “recluse” word in a volume, all for the tomb in the organs and traps, China since ancient times respected the number of easy, so the layout of the tomb are inseparable from this way, I have a lot to say. Layout can not be separated from this way, I have studied in detail, now recall, this twenty-three stone steps, the scientific name should be called “Hanging Soul Ladder”, this design principle has long been lost for thousands of years, there are a lot of mathematicians and scientists are obsessed with this way, some believe that this is a kind of numerical hypnosis, deliberately leaving a mark or numerical information to confuse the walker, and mathematicians are also obsessed with this way. Confuse the walker, while mathematicians believe that this is a complex structure of digital models, being in which look at only one staircase, in fact, all directions, crescent-shaped mark is a trap, the mark is actually gradually deviated from the steps, coupled with these steps and the stone wall, may be coated with a kind of ancient secret recipe to blend, light-absorbing paint, it is even more difficult to recognize the direction of the direction of the people, once pay attention to the information, will be is to make people produce a logical error in judgment, thought to walk a straight line, in fact, unknowingly on the fork in the road, on the fork in the road in a big circle, and in the end, completely lost the sense of direction, the steps of the drop is very small, may be in order to let a person to produce the illusion of the difference between the high and low fall and the design of the.

Like the Three Kingdoms when the eight array, a few stones can be trapped in the sky, into the ground without a door, that was only eight, has been so complex and mysterious, not to mention the Western Zhou time, the world still exists sixteen words, that is even more mysterious.

This complexity in the modern view of the “hanging soul ladder”, as early as the Western Zhou period, the most popular push trigrams to play the number of times, the ruling class completely control the mastery of these secrets, no less than the current top state secrets.

Hanging soul ladder may not be twenty-three steps, but according to this number can be deduced from the number of steps out, I can not imagine that this Western Zhou ghost mound, there is this kind of powerful traps, if the grave robbers do not understand this way, mistakenly into this stone steps, will be trapped dead, but this is just scratching my itch, today and look at my old Hu’s tactics.