Daomu Biji

In the next two days, I lived like a gecko or the Qiang herb collectors who lived here. Since it has nothing to do with the matter, I will keep the story short.

From a rock climbing rookie with only some rough experience, I slowly began to be able to crawl on the cliff independently on those ropes. We searched from top to bottom, hole by hole. The specific process is actually very interesting, but I can't describe it. Most of these caves are not deep, and many of them are authentic mountain cracks. What looks like a cave is actually only an arm deep, and not many can fit in it. However, even so, we still found incomplete structures in many caves. The bones and some of the buns were still clearly visible, but most of the bones were scattered and had obviously been pecked at.

Thinking of their determination to cut off the rope, I thought their faith was admirable at the time, but now when I see those skeletons, the empty skeletons make me feel very ridiculous. I don’t know how they will feel at the last moment. Maybe a few people will have hallucinations due to hunger. That should be the best result they can get from their efforts.

It went smoothly beyond my expectation. On the morning of the next day, we looked for the cave where they found the silk book. The reason why it was definitely this one was because there were obvious traces of artificial reinforcement around the cave. The cave was only half a person high. , deeper than all the holes, but you can still see the bottom at a glance, where there is a skeleton sitting cross-legged.

Speaking of skeletons may not be appropriate, because the corpse has a complete human form, but it is not a mummy. The bones can maintain the human form mainly because he is wearing an iron suit.

This thing is a kind of blessing for folk cultivators. It is said that the ancient Shu generation had this custom to restrain their various desires. I am not a folk custom expert, and I don’t know it in detail. I just feel that it is really difficult for him to carry this broken body. Iron climbs so high.

The iron coat is very much like a chain rack. But it was made of old iron, and the entire iron suit had rusted into a whole body, and the bones inside had long since fallen apart. Only the shell retains its pre-death posture. There are many dents in the black cave wall around the skeleton. It seems that all the silk books in the past were placed here. It has now been completely looted.

I don't know who this person is. Judging from the dry bun on the skull with almost no white hair, he must not be an old man. Where does it come from? What stories have you had? What were you thinking about before you died? Whenever I see a dead body, I always wonder about these things.

Because the two of us almost blocked all the light at the entrance of the cave, Xiaohua turned on the flashlight. Xiuxiu revealed to us that a huge accident happened in the later stages of the excavation process, but nothing here seemed like a huge accident. Accident looks like. Moreover, the project back then was huge, so many people were working on it, just for such a hole?

Although they needed to search all the cliffs here, they did not require all the Old Nine Sects to be dispatched. Such an unprecedented battle must be led by one person, and that person must have judged that the situation required this. The judgment of the people who can gather all the old nine sects should be correct.

What we see before our eyes is definitely just an illusion.

Sure enough, behind this ancient corpse we found many strange cracked mud marks on the stone wall. After scraping off the mud marks, I was surprised to see cement.

The stone wall at the back is built with cement from the mountain rocks here. It's surprising to see cement in a place like this. I find it unacceptable. Apparently they sealed this place completely before they evacuated.

"Has your mother-in-law told you about this situation?" I looked at the cement, which made me a little worried. Does this kind of sealing mean that there is some huge danger that needs to be paid attention to? But the old woman didn’t tell us, or even mention that this place was sealed.

"They were the first ones to evacuate back then. The sealing of this place should have been done by the remaining people after the Huo family left." Xiao Hua said, "If she wanted to accomplish something, she shouldn't have resorted to such tricks. .”

As he spoke, he hit the cement-mixed stone wall twice with a stone on one side. The stone wall did not move at all. But a lot of the cement on the surface was smashed away, and we found that the color of the cement inside changed. Appears a dark red color.

It's said to be red, but it's actually a kind of yellow that's leaning toward dark brown, much like rusty water. I picked up a piece and smelled it, and there was no smell.

Although I wasn't sure, I immediately realized that it might be blood. The old woman told us that when we were exploring here, a huge accident happened, and there were bloodstains here, which proved that we came to the right place. However, there is something a little problematic about the way the blood appears.

I have seen similar traces before, in the slaughterhouse case, when my third uncle and I went to buy new year's goods. This kind of old blood stains is actually more depressing than fresh blood.

However, as the flowers continued to be smashed, more and more cement was broken, and I found something was wrong. The whole block of cement inside was of this color. The deeper you go in, the darker the color becomes, and the closer it is to the real cement. The red color, even, I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect, I started to smell the smell of blood.

Xiaohua also showed a surprised look. She smashed it a few more times, pulled out a few rocks, stopped, and cursed: "Tsk."

I looked at the crater made by the smash. All the cement inside was red, as if the cement was stirred with plasma.

If someone was injured or died, it would be impossible for so much blood to be shed. Moreover, the blood was soaked into the cement, so there was no reason for it to penetrate so deeply.

"Could it be that they mixed dog blood in the cement back then to ward off evil spirits?" I asked Xiaohua.

Xiaohua turned over the cement blocks on the ground and said: "The more you dig, the deeper the blood stains become. The more blood soaks into the cement, but there is not much blood on the surface, which means that the blood seeps out from the inside." He touched the hair. Black cement "has no contact with oxygen, and the iron in the blood has not been oxidized, so the color has not faded."

"Seeing out from inside?" I thought to myself, what's the reason? A bad feeling spread throughout the world. I suddenly thought of the Blood Corpse Tomb.

Xiaohua continued to hit it with a rock several times. Although the blood-soaked cement was not very hard, after the fluffy part on the surface was smashed away, there were more and more broken stones inside, making it impossible to hit it anymore. So we hoisted masonry hammers and other equipment from below and began to break the stones apart bit by bit.

This mixture of cement and stone is equivalent to the current roadbed concrete and has excellent compressive resistance. We can only smash the cement from the gaps between the stones and knock the stones off, and the progress is slow. In the cramped space, the two of them were soon covered in sweat. Because of the mistakes in cooperation, their fingers and heads were hit by the opponent's hammer, which was extremely painful.

I don’t know how long it took to dig. It was dark outside, and suddenly I broke a stone. It was immediately discovered that a section of bone was exposed from the cement.

Xiaohua and I looked at each other and immediately sped up the chisel and pushed aside the nearby rocks. A strange skeleton was revealed from the rocks.

It was a completely decomposed body, but it had not decomposed. We only dug up a little bit. The skull and one arm bone were just visible, but the rest were still in the concrete. The bones were yellow and almost broken into pieces. It was definitely a human corpse, but it was a little different because these bones were covered with a layer of strange "hair". If you look carefully, you will find that it is covered with mold-like "hair", which makes people's backs tingle.

I looked closer. And immediately pushed the little flower away so that he wouldn't touch it. I didn't know when I got up and saw the hair. All guard will be opened, and I will take a few steps back.

These do look very much like "hair", but if you pull it, you will find that these hairs are connected to the bones. They are found on almost all bones. The hairs seem to grow from the bones, because the decayed hairs are very It was so brittle that it broke into small pieces when touched, and was stuck to the bones by the decaying corpse liquid at that time. The quantity is very large.

Xiaohua put on her gloves and picked up the hammer. He began to knock on the skull embedded in the concrete, and the Tianling cover was broken in two strokes. Use the nail-picking end of the hammer to dig out fragments of the skull. When you shine a flashlight into the skull, you can see that the skull cavity is also filled with what looks like hair.

"Not good." Xiaohua clicked her tongue.

I immediately realized that the heavy losses they suffered here must not be due to any accident. It seemed that they encountered something - something weird.

I had always thought it was a bit strange that such a powerful team would not cause "huge changes" even if they encountered very clever traps. Laojiumen was not a bandit. Even if one or two people died, with the strength of that group of people, With skill and experience, you will also find a way to escape immediately. However, sometimes, no matter how good your skills are, it is useless.

I was a little scared. If this was the case, then opening this hole would be a very dangerous thing. I didn’t know what was going on in the hole, but there must be corpses behind it. If a forbidden woman crawls out after knocking, it will be enough for us. Also, I don’t know how the hair grows in my head.

I told Xiaohua my concerns, and after much deliberation, I had no choice but to put on clothes, two or three layers of gloves, and goggles. I wrapped a bandage all over my natural face, making it look like a deep burn. We made sure that no piece of flesh was exposed before we continued digging.

Now I didn't even sweat anymore, all the sweat was covered inside. Within ten minutes, all my private parts began to protest to me, so I had to scratch and carefully dig around the body, as carefully as archeology.

As we expected, the second skeleton was found almost immediately, almost hugging the first skeleton. Then, immediately there was the third skeleton, in the same position as the second one, also holding the third skeleton. A skeleton. Like the first skeleton, these bones were all covered in that kind of hair.

Keep digging, and when you get to the back, it's all made of stones. No cement has been poured here at all. There is no large-scale equipment for pouring cement on the cliff. If you pour it by hand, the cement cannot be pressed into the depth of the hole. This made the excavation very convenient, and more bones were dug out after the second and third bodies. What was puzzling was that all the bones were hugged together. At first I thought they were fighting, but as the digging continued As I dug, I realized that they were pushing the people in front of me, as if they were trying to push them out.

Suddenly I could recreate the scene back then. People outside were pouring cement inside, and the people inside were trapped by rocks. They yelled not to, and tried to push the people in front of them out, but countless hairs spread along the gaps in the stones. Devour them. They were wailing, and the squeezing rocks made it impossible for them to move forward at all. They were twisting desperately in pain, and the cement was driven in from the outside by an awl like a siege war cone. The pressure squeezed the gravel and crushed them. , their blood pooled together and flowed towards the surging mud.

This is no longer a scene that can be described as death. Those old friends from the past died like this in the end. No wonder Laojiumen and the others are so afraid that they don't even want to talk about it. Xiaohua frowned and looked at me. He grabbed the plastic bag covering his head and combed his sweaty hair back with his fingers, and said: "You are right, this cave was sealed. It was not after Granny Huo left, they were after the incident happened. Immediately. The cave entrance was sealed, so there was such a thrilling scene. My mother-in-law should know about this, why didn't she tell me?"

"Not necessarily." I said, "Maybe after she left, the remaining people still didn't give up and were still trying. That's why such a problem occurred."

Xiaohua shook her head: "Do you know how much time and effort it takes to install a cement tanking system on a cliff like this? As soon as they had the accident, the cement tanking started before they could escape from the hole. This means-"

He hesitated to speak, and I immediately understood what he meant: "This is a premeditated situation. The cement tank is an insurance. They expected that there would be such a danger, so before going in. They were already prepared." Everything, if something happens to them in there, then lock them in.”

"They are willing." Xiaohua looked at the skeleton. "That makes me feel better."

"But look at them like this. If they are voluntary, why are they in such a state? They are like sugar-coated haws, one pushing the other." I said.

"Then what do you think it should be?" Xiaohua shined a flashlight on me.

"For example, six people were in a narrow cave and suddenly discovered something happened. They were facing the threat of death. They instinctively ran to the entrance of the cave. But the entrance of the cave had already sprayed lumps of cement. At this time, they should be. Scattered, one by one solidified in the cement. Everyone's movements are different, and the distance between them is also different. They should not be connected to each other like now." I said, "And, they are all They are old people, and I think at that time, they also know that they are bound to die, so they will give up very early and will not make such intense survival movements."

Xiaohua shined the flashlight on the skeletons, and after being quiet for a while, she slowly said: "It makes sense, so what you mean is that they were not voluntary, but with such a big machine and so much cement lying outside, they would not Do you know what it does?"

I think not necessarily. From this matter alone, there are too many possible explanations. For example, these people were coerced, or they did this because they wanted to give something away. go out. But that doesn't explain another thing.

After thinking about it, I felt that there was only one possibility that could explain two things at the same time. I said to Xiao Hua: "Why don't you think the old woman told us that this place is sealed with cement?"

"I don't know, maybe she thinks it's not very honorable or..." Xiaohua thought for a while and shook her head, "Okay, I admit it's hard to explain, but I know her purpose is very strong, she won't be She is playing tricks on us or deceiving us. If she knows that this place is sealed with cement and does not tell us, then the lamas on our side will stop, and her plan will not be implemented. She cannot be so arrogant. "

"Yes." I nodded, "She didn't tell us. Obviously the only reasonable explanation is that she really didn't know. However, she was involved in what happened here back then. It's impossible for her not to know. There is only one explanation. "

"What do you want to say?"

"These bones, these people are not from Laojiu Clan, buddy." I said, "Damn it, after Laojiu Clan left, another person came here, entered, triggered the mechanism, and was sealed inside. Moreover, it won’t last long, so the blood is still red.”

"Oh, you mean, we are not the first group of people to come here after Laojiumen?"

"That's about it. And look at the formation of this group of people." I picked up a piece of cement. "Cement canning is not something that ordinary people can do. It is also a very large team with a strong background."

Xiaohua leaned against the cave wall on one side and sighed: "Moreover, they knew there was danger inside and placed cement cans in advance, so these people must have something to do with those years." He looked at me, " Some people don’t give up.”

"Yes, some people are determined to give up." I nodded, and we were relatively speechless. The bones of these people were twisted and broken, and they were rotting here in an indistinguishable shape. We couldn't get any more information from them, but I felt I feel sick. What is it that makes so many people make such meaningless sacrifices again and again?

After a moment of silence, Xiaohua said: "No matter what, looking at the situation, they still failed. We still have to continue with the unfinished business, and they triggered the agency. Laojiumen touched the agency once, and they also touched it. This shows that the mechanism inside is not temporary, and we will not be able to escape when they encounter them. There must be something related to these 'hairs' inside this hole, so we must be extra careful."

My mind flashed with the idea that if hair grew in my skull and the tips of the hair went through my brain, my brain would become the hair that I pulled out of the sewer, covered in soap and unknown grease. Group, then I would rather die. Fortunately, I quickly ignored this idea.

After that, Xiaohua handed me the hammer and asked me to continue digging. He would have chatted with me, but this time, he and I were no longer interested in talking.

Soon, we dug out a few more skeletons. After that, the back was full of rocks, and no more skeletons were found. We kept going for three hours, and all we dug out were only rocks.

I suddenly doubted that the group of people who sealed the cave had blocked the entire cave, and what we were doing now was a fool's act. But thinking about it, it was definitely not the case. Moreover, I have no other choice now, no matter what. I have to keep digging for as long as it takes.

In fact, in the end I didn’t know how many hours I had been digging. I was actually exhausted and terribly sleepy, but Xiaohua didn’t mention taking a rest, and I felt too embarrassed to mention it. While he was confused, there was a "crash", and the stone in front of him suddenly collapsed. The upper part of the stone wall in front of him collapsed, revealing a dark hole.

I still held the last piece of "" in my hand, and it took me a while to realize that I had dug through. Xiaohua and I looked at each other, then raised the flashlight and shined into the hole. Behind the stone wall, there was an extension of the cave, but the bottom was completely invisible. Twenty meters away, on the ground of the pipe, one after another clay pots appeared, extending to the end of the pipe.

What is creepy is that on each clay pot, there is a spherical thing the size of a cantaloupe. When I shine it with a flashlight, I find that there is hair growing on it - these spherical things look like tiny little ones. Human heads grew out of clay pots and were densely packed throughout the cave. My goosebumps stood up uncontrollably. (To be continued)