Chapter 42: The Worst Case
I followed it with doubts. As soon as I turned the corner, my heart sank. Looking at the end of the tomb passage, I couldn't help but speed up and ran over.
"How could this happen?" I touched the rock at the end of the tomb passage and looked back at the fat man.
The fat man said that he fell along the steps, so there should be a stone door behind this tomb passage, and the steps should be inside the stone door. However, there was thick rock in front of him, and there was nothing.
No wonder the fat man reacted like that just now. Now it seems that he himself can't figure out what is going on.
"I must have fallen here, but for several days, I just couldn't find the way I fell." The fat man smiled bitterly, then squatted down and continued to smoke.
The hope that suddenly appeared in me was suddenly extinguished. For a while, I stayed there, not knowing what to do.
"To be honest, I don't feel like this ancient tomb is the kind of place where people are buried." The fat man suddenly muttered, and his words were exactly the same as what Peanut said.
"Oh, what do you think it is for?" Peanut turned around and asked.
"I can tell from the first listen that you two have no knowledge." The fat man said with a profound look, "The ancient tomb has a sealed surname. Think about it, a prince and minister who went to all the trouble to build a mausoleum for himself must be a mausoleum of hope.
The longer it can be stored, the better. But here, all the designs have natural ventilation systems. Don’t you feel it when you come in?"
Although I was not in the mood to listen to this, I did not deny what the fat man said. After entering the ancient tomb, I felt that the air was quite circulated in all places, and there was almost no musty smell here, which was really strange when I thought about it.
Seeing that I was lost in thought, the fat man smiled again, "This is not the weirdest thing. The most incredible thing is that everything in this ancient tomb, whether it is a stone tower or a wooden coffin, looks like it has been made by someone else.
The maintenance is the same, the degree of decay is too light.”
After I listened, I didn't know why, but my body suddenly shook.
"In the Western Han Dynasty, one or two thousand, you are just a piece of gold. If you put it in a place like this, it will fall apart. But you all saw it along the way. The city tower and the coffin behind you didn't look like it was placed there.
It is something that has been around for two thousand years. If the age of this ancient tomb is not wrong, then... someone must have protected it in some way to prevent the contents inside from rotting."
What the fat man said made me feel a little scared. Who can maintain this ancient tomb in such a long time, two thousand years? From Qin Feizi to Qin Shihuang's unification of China in 700, it was okay, two thousand years? The administrator of the ancient tomb? How is that possible?
ah.
Looking at the expression of disbelief on my face, the fat man added: "So, since this place has a demon surname, it's only fitting that we can't find the way down."
Something suddenly occurred to me and I asked the fat man: "By the way, you can't find the way down, but why don't you go out?" As I said that, I looked in the direction we came from.
Judging from the gray face of this fat man, he must have stayed here for a long time, but the door is behind the tomb passage, so he can't live here forever.
The fat man's expression suddenly looked very depressed: "I can't get out."
Peanut frowned and suddenly said: "No." Then he ran towards the general direction of Shimen, and I immediately chased him.
The two people ran over and looked in the direction of the stone gate...I suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
The stone door was still open. When I ran over, I thought that things were going to be that outrageous. Then I thought about it, there is a way, and it would be even worse for the fat man to stay here and pretend to be a zombie. But I just did this
Thinking about it, I took two steps forward and suddenly felt cold in my heart.
Under my feet, the original stone road had completely disappeared. When I shined the flashlight, I saw an abyss under my feet. In an instant, my head tensed up. When I looked back at Peanut, he also had a silent expression on his face.
I suddenly realized that I had made a big mistake.
Mouse said before that when they turned back, one tomb passage turned into three. That means that the roads we walked down should not have existed originally. But we followed those roads that suddenly appeared for unknown reasons.
If you keep going forward, it is natural that these roads will suddenly disappear.
"The more precious ancient tombs there are, the harder it will be to go back." Fatty suddenly said from behind us. He patted me and suddenly laughed, "Don't be desperate. If three people die together, we can survive on the road to hell."
Let’s fight against the landlord.”
All of a sudden, I felt completely powerless, and things finally reached the situation I least wanted to face: the road was wrong, and people couldn't go back.
The three people walked back to the tomb passage. The fat man took us to sit down in the ear room with the empty coffin, hung up the torch outside, and asked us to be polite, making it seem like this was really his home.
While the fat man was greeting us, he unfolded the rag in the coffin and placed it between the three people. When I saw his playful smile, I thought to myself, you are not really going to fight the landlord, are you?
"You two are new here, the fat man will treat you well." The fat man said, taking out a plastic bag from his pocket, then he shook out a few compressed biscuits from it, then picked up one and put the others
Then, the fat man broke the compressed biscuit into three parts and handed one to Peanut and me.
"You're welcome. After a good meal, the fat man can tell you about Jin Ping Mei." With that, the fat man picked up the compressed biscuit and started licking it bit by bit.
I was originally in a bad mood, but after doing this to the fat man, I felt happy on my face. Looking at the fat man, I took out a bag of beef jerky from my bag, then tore open the seal and smelled it very artificially.
At this time, the fat man's eyes were wide open. This guy probably hadn't eaten enough for several days. He stared at the beef jerky in my hand, his lips trembled for a while, "Then, what is that, what is it?"
After that, he kept wandering around.
I really couldn't stand it anymore, so I threw the jerky to him. The fat man's expression changed in an instant. He reached into the plastic bag with one hand, grabbed a handful of beef jerky and stuffed it into his mouth. However,
As soon as it reached his mouth, the fat man stopped his hand again. He put the beef jerky back sadly, took out only one piece, and then started licking it again.
"Fuck, are you sick?" I frowned and looked at him, "We still have a lot in our backpack, so just eat it."
The fat man rolled his eyes at me and said, "Miss, do you know how long we will be trapped here? Even if your bags are full of food and drink, you will still have to finish them. This bag of beef jerky can last me a week."
I stopped laughing immediately, and suddenly realized that my sense of crisis was too weak.
Peanut lit a cigarette and gave the rest to the fat man. "It's not time to think about how long the food will last. Since you fell from above, there must be a way up here."
The fat man took out a cigarette, lit it, and then threw the cigarette case back to Peanut, "But if you can't find it, you can't find it. What else can you do? Climb up from the cliff behind?"
Peanut smiled and said nothing. I suddenly thought of how powerful this man was, and secretly thought that even if I had to let him climb out, it might not be impossible.
"Before, you were alone, but now the three of us can definitely find something." I said, but found that I didn't even have the strength to stand up now, "Also, damn fat man, my name is Yuan Jie, don't fuck me
Cover it up for me."
The fat man smiled: "Yuan Jie, Yuan Jie, it turns out she is a young lady. The fat man was right."
I found that this was the most laugh I had ever had since entering the ancient tomb. The three of us ate something and had a very luxurious round of a can of beer. Although the food was not enough for anyone to eat, I still ate at this time.
He didn't put anything down, he just sat quietly with his back against the coffin.
Fatty started snoring as soon as he lay down, while Peanut continued to smoke.
I don’t know why, but I feel that Peanut’s expression at this moment is different from before. He leaned against the corner, one hand wrapped around his legs, and his eyes stared at the flickering firelight at the door. No matter what mood he was in
Among them, the expression on a person's face has its own characteristics, especially the eyes. What kind of person you are, what are you thinking, what do you want to do, and where do you want to go? No matter how you hide these things, they will always be there.
There is a trace in your eyes.
But now, Peanut's eyes are so calm, and his whole person seems different from any time before. When I look at him, I feel as if I am looking at a statue. Suddenly, I feel that there is a connection between me and this person.
I feel a very far distance. I even feel that he is not a peanut, at least not the peanut I have known in the past few days.
But thinking about it again, what do I really know about him?
Apart from a name, where is he from? Where is he from? Why does he appear in my old house? What is his relationship with my father? Why does he help me like this? Why does he seem to know many things?
Don't know anything.
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