He shook his head and said he couldn't remember clearly.
I had no choice but to let him stay where he was and rest, but he refused to stay alone in the hall.
"Brother Hu, please take me with you.
Otherwise, I won't be able to explain to Mr.
Guo when I go back."
I thought to myself, how long has this been?
You are still worried about settling accounts after the fall.
Guo Laizi might have been buried in the ground long ago.
No matter what, it is not easy for him to have such a heart.
Although Zhong Quan couldn't remember the way to the Zhaidian, following the intermittent blood and water stains on the ground, we quickly found the cannibal chamber he mentioned.
As for the bronze vessel standing outside the ear, it is not a basin, but a ritual vessel used to hold lamp oil.
I came closer and found that the bean cup was filled with dark oil, which smelled like animal fat.
I tore off a section of fabric, twisted it into a wick, and threw it in.
Zhong Quan was very clever and quickly took out the matchbox.
Unfortunately, the matches were soaked in water and could no longer be used.
The fat man took out the lighter and lit the oil lamp.
With the light of the fire, the surrounding layout of the ear room was immediately clearly visible.
The location of this ear room is very remote, far away from the center of the hall.
The entrance to the ear room is narrow, and it is impossible for more than two people to enter side by side.
There is a circle of vague characters engraved on the lintel of the ear chamber, which looks somewhat similar to Jingjue characters.
With the fire, everyone's mood was much more stable than before, especially Zhong Quan, who volunteered to take the lead into the ear room.
I say this kind of thing should be done by professionals.
You stay outside the ear room and do the job of standing guard for us.
Zhong Quan stood obediently by the door and warned, "Be careful, I promise not to be a deserter this time."
"If the situation is not right, just run away.
There is no shame in deserting.
Survival is more important than anything else."
I stuck the flashlight, held the dagger behind my back and slowly walked into the ear room.
The fat man and I were used to working together.
The two of us looked after each other, back to back, and quickly scanned the ear room.
Different from the rough appearance, the interior of the ear room is exquisitely and luxuriously decorated, and the layout and furnishings complement the entire hall.
Judging from the layout, this ear room should be a storage room used to store materials before the worship ceremony.
A huge wooden screen is used as the dividing line to divide the room into left and right sides.
We first went to the left side and found a large amount of scattered grains and several carcasses of cattle and sheep on the ground.
I stepped forward to check and found that there were very obvious baking marks on the blackened and shriveled grains, indicating that these grains were prepared for the dead from the beginning and were taken to another world for consumption.
I fiddled with it randomly and found several huge black spots printed on the surface.
The fat man squatted down, dug at it with his hands for a long time, and finally tore off a piece.
"It's linen.
The grains were originally packed in bags.
Over time, the grain bags aged and rotted, so the grains were scattered everywhere."
I looked around the left room.
In addition to grains, there were also a lot of livestock.
The corpses have also become shriveled and black due to the baptism of time, and their empty eye sockets are filled with the breath of death, making people shudder.
Seeing that there were no valuable clues in the left room, the fat man suggested going to the right to find the pool to see what was going on.
Zhong Quan once said that Guo Laizi and others were picked up by monsters in the water, so the right side became the focus of our investigation.
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Walking around the screen, I saw the pool Zhong Quan was talking about at a glance.
The pool water reflected a cold light under the flashlight.
There is no odor in the air and the water looks very clear.
"There is really water."
The fat man wondered, "Is there a culvert under the town library?
Then what is going on with the riverbed we see?"
The appearance of living water proved that my original judgment was wrong.
The decline of Zhenku City was not directly related to the diversion of the river.
I walked straight to the pool.
The pool was also made of bricks and stones, and the gaps were filled with windproof mud.
There was a large pool of water on the ground, probably from Zhong Quan's struggle.
The fat man walked forward, took a look, and quickly retracted his head.
I bent down and reached out to explore.
The water in the pool was bone-chilling, making me shiver.
If those two people really fell into the pool, they would probably freeze to death even if they didn't drown.
"We can't just give in.
I'll go in and take a look, and you'll take care of me from above."
I made up my mind that I would see people alive or dead, and I would have to separate everything today.
The fat man touched the water, stopped me and said, "Why are you going down there?
Bury them with them.
They are not relatives.
Those few are not good birds.
They should benefit the society.
People will also thank us." " I rolled up my sleeves, and as soon as I touched the water with my arms, I realized that the water here was deeper than I thought, and it was already beyond the height of the pool.
I fished it out randomly, and when I pulled out my arm, it was no longer as cold as before.
Instead, I felt a surge of heat.
"It is indeed living water.
I don't know where it leads."
I insisted on my decision, took off my clothes, pants, shoes and socks, twisted my joints, moved my muscles, and prepared to dive in to find out.
The fat man shook his head and said, "You are so big that your elbows are starting to turn outwards."
"Don't take advantage of me.
Hold on tight."
I fastened the rope around my waist and pulled hard.
The supplies and equipment were all taken from the soldiers, and they all looked like foreign goods.
This group of people had really put in a lot of effort.
After telling the fat man, I jumped into the water with a flashlight and dagger.
When I entered the water for the first time, I was so cold that I almost went back to my grandma’s house without holding my breath.
The pool itself is not big, and it didn’t take me two swims to get to the bottom.
I wondered in my heart, Guo Laizi and the others couldn't really be drowned in a puddle of urine.
I looked towards the wall and suddenly found a black thing shaking at the bottom of the water.
It floated feebly for a while, and finally sank slowly.
I hurriedly swam forward, and it took me a while to see clearly that the rag-like thing turned out to be clothes.
I picked up the clothes, and the water flow lifted them up.
The unfolded clothes looked particularly familiar.
I recognized at a glance that this gray woolen coat belonged to Guo Laizi.
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I looked around, hoping to find other clues, but my chest suddenly felt tight, forcing me to get out of the water to breathe.
I quickly emerged from the water and threw the clothes tightly in my hands on the ground.
There was a loud "pop", and Zhong Quan was so frightened that he rushed in from outside.
When he saw the situation in the ear room, he immediately understood that I had gone into the water to find someone, and hurriedly rushed forward to help me.
I sat by the pool panting, pointing to the coat on the ground and asking: "Is it your boss's thing?"
Zhong Quan picked up the clothes, and after a little identification, he nodded decisively.
The clothes must belong to their boss, Guo Laizi, and he didn't run away.
The fat man said that it was rare now.
He couldn't find him and only had a coat left.
Zhong Quan said with lingering fear: "They were dragged in.
The water splash was so big that I couldn't see anything clearly.
It was just white flowers, like the claws of a monster.
They dragged the two of them down."
"Then tell me, why are monsters so powerful?
Carp or bastard?"
"Brother Wang, believe me, I didn't lie."
Zhong Quan couldn't explain clearly and pretended to get into trouble.
While I was putting on my clothes, I said, "There's no one down there.
I've looked for it.
Your boss is not a vegetarian, so he might have escaped.
There is an underground channel under the pool, and I don't know where it is connected.
Since there is no body under the water, then At least it means that she is still alive.
If we keep walking, we can always meet her as long as we are still in the ancient city.
To be honest, we have another companion who has also been separated and is looking for her.
We are more anxious than you. " Zhong Quan looked at the blood on his clothes and seemed to be still hesitating whether to follow us or not.
I sat on the edge of the pool and looked at him.
Suddenly, there was a "gurgling" movement in the pool behind me.
I turned my head and saw that the center of the pool was violently churning, with bubbles constantly rolling up from the bottom.
Zhong Quan said with great joy: "They are back, they are back."
"Don't go there."
I grabbed Zhong Quan and pointed at the growing waves.
"The situation is wrong.
This movement doesn't look like a human being."
In the blink of an eye, the pool surface seemed to roll away, and a large amount of water vapor jumped out of the water with a rolling sound.
The fat man yelled to run, but the door of the ear room was about the size of a palm.
I couldn't care about that much.
I struggled to lift the screen behind me to block the three of them.
As soon as I said it, I heard a loud "crash" sound, and the pool The water in the pool splashed out like a fountain, and the entire ear room seemed to be raining oil.
The hot pool water flowed through the gaps in the screen and onto my hands.
It hurt so much that I almost jumped up on the spot.
After the explosive gushing, the water in the pool gradually returned to calm.
I hurriedly threw away the screen and kept blowing with my hands that were almost cooked.
The fat man covered his face and cursed loudly, as if he was also burned.
Zhong Quan was trembling all over and spoke with a cry: "Master Hu, look over there, what's floating in the water?"
The fat man seemed to have thought of something, thought about it, and suddenly said: "Oh, fuck, that's not right.
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You call him father and call me brother.
There's still a gap in seniority.
Then I'm not at a disadvantage.
I'm at a disadvantage.
Your fat man has never done this before” I said, "What time has it been?
It's important to get down to business."
I looked in the direction he pointed.
I didn't know when the originally clear and translucent water became turbid, and the water surface was filled with an indescribable dark red color.
The strong metallic smell makes people dizzy.
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that a pool of living water had turned into such a ghostly appearance in just a few minutes.
There was a pool of dark objects floating quietly on the stinking water.
When I got closer, I found that they were also soaked clothes.
Zhong Quan used the barrel of his gun to pick them up one after another.
In addition to cotton sweaters and trousers, there were also A big leather shoe fell out.
The fat man held his nose and said: "This is great, even the underwear is floating up.
I think there is probably a female demon in the pool, and your boss has been adopted as his son-in-law."
Zhong Quan was dumbfounded and didn't know what to say.
He fiddled with it a few more times and said desperately: "Sangouzi's clothes are also here.
They must have been eaten by monsters."
The facts are in front of us, and no reasonable explanation has yet been found.
It is said that high mountains breed spirits and deep waters hide monsters.
The construction of tombs is inseparable from the word "Feng Shui".
After seeing the exquisite layout of the general's tomb, I particularly admired the wisdom of the Zhenku people in using Feng Shui to make clever changes, and I dare not underestimate the unknown tomb in front of me.
Generally, living water is rarely hidden in tombs.
Especially in desert areas, underground culverts are easily affected by the seasons.
Whether they wither or swell, they will have an impact on the fengshui of the tomb to a greater or lesser extent.
In severe cases, corpses will be transformed.
The suddenly polluted pool in front of you is The best proof.
The fat man asked me what I thought.
I said that based on past experience, this ear room should be used for cleaning tributes and storing livestock.
In ancient times, "animals" were also classified into high and low, and it was not uncommon for people to be sacrificed as "animals" and buried with them.
In the eyes of the nobles at that time, it was a matter of course.
The purpose of this pool of running water is roughly to wash livestock.
It is unknown whether there are any spirits in the pool.
The fat man expressed his opinion and insisted that this was an evil ghost seeking his life.
He explained in a dignified manner: "Think about it, so many people were buried with them for no reason.
They must be unwilling and resentful.
Over time, they gathered together.
In the tomb, that’s fine.”
After hearing these stories of gods and ghosts, Zhong Quan shrank up and no longer dared to look at the pool.
I had another thought.
Water is a very precious resource in the desert, which is equivalent to life for humans.
Does the water placed in the tomb have some symbolic meaning?
It is the ardent expectation for the owner of the tomb to die soon and return to the world, just like the mother's nurturing.
The fat man said disdainfully: "You're too sore, so instead of calling this a bath, let's just call it breast milk."
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"Masters, Masters, can we change places?
I'm really scared."
Zhong Quan's fear was not completely unreasonable.
Past experience tells me that I must leave this place.
Some terrible changes have occurred in the ancient tomb, and it is no longer suitable for continued exploration.
I said to the fat man: "It doesn't matter if it's soup or water, it's not advisable to stay for a long time.
Our primary purpose is not here, let's evacuate first."
As if to confirm my judgment, the scarlet water suddenly turned out a burst of blisters, and two bodies of flesh and blood The stripped bones surfaced lightly.
I saw such a terrifying scene suddenly.
The three of us shouted almost at the same time.
Zhong Quan was so frightened that he sat down on the ground and almost broke the wooden screen I left beside him.
Needless to say, these two horrific corpses are naturally the leader of the tomb robbers, Guo Laizi, and his little follower San Gouzi.
Ten minutes ago, it was still a living and fresh life, but in the blink of an eye, it had turned into a bloody skeleton and white bones.
The insignificance and fragility of human beings are fully exposed in the face of unknown fear.
Before we had time to figure out the whole story, Fatty and I picked up Zhong Quan, who was in despair, and quickly escaped from the ear room
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