Chapter 72 Unbelievable
The situation is too incredible, and I still remember it freshly. Liu Sang looked at the woman's leather figurine and made a series of ancient sayings with very strange pronunciations in his mouth. Then the mug oil bottle told us: "Climb in!"
I didn't believe it was a woman's skin figurine telling Liu Sang where he went, and then the mangul bottle translated the ancient language to us. It must be a principle I don't know, but now it seems like this.
The fat man put the woman's skin figurine into the cave and let it be the pioneer of the way, saying, "Sister, please communicate with them." Each of us divided a rhinoceros horn candle and all crawled into the cave.
The fat man learned his lesson this time and didn’t crawl in the last one. I was the last one, and Liu Sang also recovered a lot.
The human skin figurines that were blocking the road before were gone, and we quickly climbed to the place where the scale appeared on the cave wall. The fat man said to Liu Sang: "Boy, don't hold it in your own hands if you hear anything."
Liu Sang cursed: "It's a big trouble to come down with you, hurry up and go out. I don't have so many jokes with you."
Soon we surpassed the previous location of the Immortal Gate. I thought the people in front would go out through this gate, but they did not. They crawled deeper into the cave.
"Don't look back." Menyoubo reminded me in front. My heart was cold. This hole was like a highway and it was impossible to retreat, because as long as we retreated, countless human skin figurines would crawl towards us in the cave behind us. Although I don't know if this time would be different from the last time, Menyoubo didn't let me look back, which means he had already determined that something might appear behind me. But he really didn't have to worry. Only when I encountered a relatively spacious place could I turn back. The more I walked in, the narrower the passage.
"You guys are talking nonsense now, it's best not to lose the chain!" I said gritting my teeth and continued to climb forward.
I don’t know how long I crawled, but the fat man’s candles were burned out first, then mine, then Liu Sang’s. In the end, all the candles were burned out, and we fell into absolute darkness.
We still have lighting things on us, but the surroundings are still dark, and we cannot see other lights besides the rhino. Liu Sang said: "Can you feel the darkness around us live?"
I don't know what it means, he explained: "It's all small bugs. These little bugs fly densely in all the spaces around us. I can hear very subtle sounds. What we see is not darkness, but thick insect mist. We think there is no light, but it is actually light blocked by them. Only rhinoceros fire can drive them away."
I waved my hands, but it was useless, and my hands couldn't feel such a tiny bug. Or maybe I was already blind.
We didn't have much conversation. I judged through my voice that Liu Sang was still crawling in front of me, and the sound of gasping and heartbeat were the clearest sounds I could hear.
I was not very scared at the beginning. I had a place where rocks could rely on. At the beginning, I felt a sense of security. Only when my hands and feet were unable to stretch for more than three to four hours would claustrophobia come.
But the real creepy came over ten hours later, not because of the outside environment, but because of my imagination.
I had climbed deep into the rocks and had been in the middle for seven hours, and the passage seemed to have no end.
We have crawled through the area where we used to pee. Now, there are not many taboos. It doesn’t matter in everyone’s shit and urine piles. Later, there is no urine left, and it turns into sweat on our bodies.
We cannot retreat, I dare not look back. Even if I can turn around, I will climb back to the tomb of the King of South China Sea. In the dark, what we can eat is those shellfish and sea cockroaches with the same hand. But the advantage is that those things should not be eaten in a short time. But the greater possibility is that the four of us were silently trapped in this passage, and no one would know that we were dead here.
I crawled forward for at least 5 hours, and time and all the sounds disappeared in my ears. I could only climb forward numbly. For a long time, I was pulled down. I couldn't touch the person in front of me. The fierce fear made me crawl forward and frantically, and finally touched Liu Sang's feet again.
I don’t know how long it took to end, but the fat man said, “I have it!”
I thought I had an exit and asked, "Have you gone out?"
"Scale!" said the fat man: "I felt the scale on the stone wall."
I was surprised at such a deep place. The fat man was silent for a while, as if touching it, and then he said, "I don't know this scale."
I'll do it! I urged them to move forward, touching the stone walls around them, and soon touching what the fat man touched. I suddenly felt cold sweat. Although I didn't recognize this scale, I knew that this was a unit on Ding Lan's ruler.
Ding Lan ruler is a ruler of the yin house, with the unit of measurement in the underworld, which is the word "女".
This is a tomb of the Han Dynasty. Ding Lan ruler has not been invented yet. It is a character engraved by a master of Qi's family. Why use Ding Lan ruler?
Is it a hint that we have reached the underworld?
The most important thing is that I forgot the ruler in the tomb of the King of South China Sea.
Chapter completed!