85. Will-o'-the-wisp 2
I didn't expect that I would come to such a strange place just because I wanted to break the mysterious man's corpse-turning curse, but I can also be sure that all this is just a coincidence, because this place definitely cannot be the masterpiece of that mysterious man. This place is magnificent and magnificent. If it is that
The mysterious man created it all by himself. I have already died at his hands dozens of times, so he didn't have to resort to such despicable means as poisoning Rhubarb to prevent me from discovering him.
"Come on, let's go inside and take a look. Maybe there are some secrets hidden inside, and maybe we can solve the mystery in our hearts."
I looked at the shadowless ground, sighed, picked up the torch and dipped it in the grease next to me, and walked in front, with Liang Zi following closely behind me.
This cave is very big. Liang Zi and I walked forward so far that even the wall behind us was hidden in the darkness, and we couldn't see the end yet.
"Mom! This hole is big enough. It's bigger than my vegetable garden."
"Yes, such a big cave has neat stone slabs under the feet. How much manpower and material resources will be spent just to build it?"
Liang Zi and I were walking forward while talking, when suddenly a light blue fire flashed in front of us, which was extremely dazzling in the dark cave.
"What is that? Is it a will-o'-the-wisp?"
Liang Zi grabbed my arm and asked. I scratched my head and didn't know what it was, so I could only take a closer look. After taking a few steps in a hurry, everything in front of me shocked Liang Zi and me.
Not far in front of us, there were thousands of bones piled up, seemingly in a disorderly manner, and the movements of many of the bones clearly showed that they had gone through violent struggles. For a moment, we seemed to be in a terrifying slaughterhouse, with the bones emanating from them.
In the faint phosphorus fire, there was nothing but white bones, but the ground around the white bones seemed to be covered with writings.
"What is this? Brother Sheng? Is this the ancient burial pit you mentioned?"
I shook my head. If it were a burial pit, these corpses would be arranged neatly, and this should be the main tomb. Why would the slaves who were buried here be placed here?
"It seems not. You see, these people obviously struggled fiercely before they died. If they were buried alive, they should have been buried alive or directly hacked to death. You see, there don't seem to be any scars on their bodies?"
As I said this, I squatted down, picked up a piece of white bone from the ground and looked at it. Unexpectedly, as soon as I picked it up, the bone was completely shattered and turned into a ball of fly ash. It had obviously weathered over time.
"This should be the person who was brought in after the cave was built. But since they struggled violently before death, why did they still die together? Couldn't they just scatter and run away?"
"I don't know, Brother Sheng, do you think they had any shadows when they were in here?"
I shook my head and signaled Liang Zi to stop talking, because I found some words carved on the ground next to me. I knelt down and took a few glances by the light of the torch.
They are all seal characters from the Shang and Zhou dynasties. I don’t know much about these characters. I studied them for a while out of interest. After all, Chinese characters are all of the same origin, and I can guess a lot of things accurately.
The words above are obviously carved in stone. After reading a few words, it is easy to find that most of the contents are filled with curses and other resentments. After casually looking at other places, I can't help but feel a little creepy, except between the lines.
Chapter completed!