Chapter 69 Answers to the Mystery (1)
After Hari Chaga said this, we changed the subject and began to check out the main hall. Tofu said that he had been here for more than two hours, and because he had no relevant memories, he basically got nothing with his own skills.
The entire main hall was empty, and there was no corpse on the only corpse bed. After looking around, a strange idea came to my mind: the corpse bed had no traces of pressing, and the surface was smooth, and there was no such thing as corpse oil or paint powder. This means that at the beginning of the construction, there were no coffins or corpses on the corpse bed. A corpse bed that had never been used was placed here, as if waiting for someone to lie on it.
The three of us started searching for the main hall again, but they found nothing as Tofu said. Finally, I turned my eyes to the corner of the wall, which was where Tofu was drilling holes before and was about to escape. I asked him how the hole came from.
Tofu squatted down, knocked the light into the hole, and said, "I've crawled in before and saw that there is a side hall behind the hole. Hiss... By the way, there are still dead bones in the side hall, and this hole is probably the one that it hits."
I immediately said, "Go in and take a look." Then the three of them crawled over the hole in the corner of the wall.
When I crawled across the street, I saw that it was indeed as described by tofu. It was a very small side hall, facing outside. In fact, there was a door that could lead to the outside, but the door was locked. A corpse wrapped in clothes lies on its side by the wall not far from the entrance of the cave.
Harichaga said strangely, saying, "There are doors everywhere in this place. Whether it is the main hall or the side hall, you can go out. Why is this person making such a hole?" I am afraid no one can answer this question. I walked up to the dead bone and asked Tofu: "Have you touched this corpse before?"
Tofu shook his head, with a look of gratitude, and said, "I crawled in and saw that the corpse didn't bring anything, but was just wearing clothes. I was not interested in touching it." Tofu had always been uninterested in touching the corpse, so I nodded, put on the corpse gloves, and wanted to find some clues in the corpse's pocket. After all, although he died in this place, he could make a trip here all the way. I guess the identity of this person in his lifetime must be not simple.
Who would he be?
I started to check out its stuff.
It was wearing a yellow outdoor suit, with many large and small pockets on the clothes and zippers. Judging from the style, the body was a man. After touching for a while, I found some parts, such as small pryers, iron hooks, windproof lighters, and batteries. However, when I touched its inner bag, I suddenly found a folded small clip.
This should be a ID card, only half a palm-sized, leathery, and the leather should be good, it has been preserved so far, and even the surface is shiny. I guess this is because the corpse oil breeding during the decay of the corpse is infected, so it has this texture.
I was curious about the identity of this person, and I was wearing gloves, so I didn't feel disgusted. I immediately opened the small clip. The ID was indeed placed in the clip. It was an old-fashioned ID card. The glue on the outer layer of the ID was air-filled, making the entire ID blurry, but I did see the name on it clearly, and it said: Chen Ci.
I doubted whether I had read it wrong, so I blinked hard, but when I opened it again, these two words were still the same.
Tofu was shocked and said, "Another Chen? I said, Lao Chen, how many fathers do you have?"
My mind was a little confused, and I said, "Of course there is only one father."
Tofu said: "Isn't the corpse in the cave Chen Ci's? This is? Could it be that Old Man Zhao lied?"
I thought about it and said that there is absolutely no need for Old Man Zhao to lie in this matter. But if the corpse in front of him is a sacrificial poem, then who is the corpse in the cave? What's the matter with the mute outside the door?
Could it be that the truth he asked me to see is this?
No, I have to find out with the mute. So I said to Haricha: "Do you a favor and get the man outside in." I was worried about the danger in this main hall before, and it was inconvenient to carry a mute. Now it seems that this concern can be dispelled.
Hari Chaga gave OK gesture, and went out of the hole to find the mute. After a while, Hari Chaga carried the mute in, but his expression was a little wrong and said, "Damn it, fortunately I went in time, and the man named Lu came."
I was shocked and thought to myself, why did he come so quickly? Then I asked, "Where are the rest?"
Harichaga said: "Everyone is there, but it seems that the situation is not optimistic and I am tied up."
Oh shit.
I looked at the mute who was still unconscious, thinking that if I had known this, Wen Min should have killed the man named Lu. What was the mute thinking at that time? Why did he seize Wen Min's gun? Now, the man surnamed Lu tied up the man and obviously came to be hostage.
Although Zhong Gong and others are not bad at their skills, they are not on the same level as Lu Su.
Harichagai said again: "They are coming to the main hall. It will be around ten minutes. I see that the person surnamed Lu wants to use hostages to threaten us."
Threat?
What exactly is there in this main hall? What can he threaten us?
Although the mute's face was pale and covered in blood at this moment, I had to force him to wake him up. I won't go into details about the process in between, but it's just not very glorious anyway. The mute woke up and looked at the surrounding environment. His confused eyes immediately gathered together again, and he said with a hoarse voice: "You are in."
I nodded, and let someone lean halfway into my arms, and said, "Yes, we are in the side hall now. Lu Su has held our people hostage. It will be about ten minutes left. Let me tell me, what is the truth you are talking about?" The mute coughed violently twice, staring at the corpse on the ground, and said, "I remember everything, but unfortunately, it's too late."
Tofu looked at it and said, "It's not too late, your life will be like a cockroach that cannot be killed, and it will be fine. Tell us what's going on. We have solved the problem and it's better to take you out."
The mute closed his eyes, as if he was adjusting his breath, and as if he was thinking about something. After a moment, he finally spoke, but his words made me stupid.
"I went through a lot of hardships to get the silk book map, but unfortunately I was alone and the silk book could not be deciphered, but I didn't have much time left, so I took the silk book and broke into the king's tomb alone..."
I hardly knew how to speak for a moment, and finally I could only squeeze out a sentence: "You are indeed a slander."
The mute ignored me and continued to talk, saying, "This ancient tomb has many mechanisms, but in the final analysis, there are three things that are the core. One is the female locust, which surrounds the entire king's tomb according to the earthly energy of the corpse formation. In fact, it is in the land under our feet, all of them. Once these things break out of the ground, no one can escape."
Tofu was surprised, frowned, shook his head, and said, "Why can't I remember this? So, we actually walked into a Nuluo Mountain? What is the second one?"
The mute said, "It's the demon-taking mirror. Puzhen used it to raise an evil army, which is what we encountered before. They lurked in the demon-making mirror, came out when they met the light, and would restore the mechanisms of the ancient tomb one by one. These things are wise, but unfortunately, I died in their hands twice in a row."
Died in their hands twice in a row? What does this mean?
The mute seemed to know my doubts, looked at me, and then said: "Later, I was seriously injured and came here. This hole should have been left by Bai Laosi back then. I don't know why he made this hole, but after breaking in, I got nothing, which is really disheartening."
I looked at the corpse next to me and said, "What?"
The mute coughed twice and said, "But I am unwilling to give up. Bai Laosi can find a way to transfer the curse. Why can't I do it? There is a hole he made in this place, so there must be a road ahead, so I pushed open the door."
The direction of the mute finger was the carved wooden door of the side hall. It should be pushed outward and could go out. The door was ordinary and there was no special thing.
Everyone's eyes were gathered on the door.
What's behind the door?
The mute said, "Behind that, I found a way to transfer the curse, and then, I left the place and started implementing my plan."
Tofu stuttered: "Have you left this place? Then this corpse, and Old Man Zhao...what the hell is going on?"
The mute said coldly: "I didn't say I was not dead."
This sentence made the atmosphere around him fall into silence. Tofu swallowed his saliva and said, "Then, then you are actually a big rice dumpling?"
Chapter completed!