Daomu Biji

The weird sound that led us here suddenly appeared behind me. Although the sound was not loud, it was like thunder in the extremely silent coffin. It was extremely clear. I trembled when I heard it, and the muscles on my forehead tightened. A cold sweat.

This coffin is about six or seven meters long. It is not long or short. Judging from the sound, the source of the sound should be no more than one meter away from me. It is almost close to my back and you can pat me on the shoulder. distance. "Yes... yes..." There were regular sounds, and it was almost like pressing the door panel to listen for the knock on the door. A stream of cold air slipped from the back of my neck and went straight down to my heels.

For a moment, all the muscles in my body were so stiff that I couldn't move. I considered whether to look back, or I wanted to pretend that I didn't hear the sound and ignore it. But I reacted immediately. I couldn't laugh or cry myself. I bit my tongue to remind myself: bite to calm down. In fact, at this time, I had no choice but to face it. Fear and making excuses were simply signs of waiting for death.

After a moment of stalemate, the ghostly voice was neither urgent nor far away. I took a deep breath, gritted my teeth and held the short knife tightly, and slowly turned back to see what was behind me.

As I turned around, the strange sound suddenly stopped. I took a closer look, but there was nothing in the gray mist behind me. The direction where the strange sound came from just now was still gray. Just disturbed by my movements, some strange airflow appeared, but it quickly calmed down and became as even as before.

I swallowed, feeling a little surprised, and looked around with a flashlight. There was nothing unusual. It was as if the sound had never happened before.

The sound was so close to me just now, and I heard it extremely clearly. It was definitely not an illusion. My turning movement only lasted about a second. If it was made by some moving object, it would not have disappeared at such a fast speed. Could it be that the sound came from somewhere else? Did I make a mistake?

I subconsciously took a step forward, trying to find the source of the sound. Suddenly, a figure rushed over from the mist beside me. My eyes were quick and I caught sight of something happening, so I hurriedly ducked down. The figure didn't catch me, but still knocked me to the ground. I rolled on the spot and looked back. The man who hit me was fat. It was Boss Wang who brought me here.

I cursed, showed my short-handled hunting knife, and wanted to end it with him. Unexpectedly, he hid in the mist again in a flash and disappeared.

I couldn't help but spit in contempt. His dagger must have fallen outside during the fight just now. Now he was jealous of the short knife in my hand. He didn't dare to confront me and hid in the mist. Waiting for me to get closer, and then launching a surprise attack, it's completely different from the arrogance just now, he must be a villain.

But having said that, the situation here is so weird, and this guy's courage is not ordinary. If I had neither a flashlight nor a weapon, I would have been huddled in a corner and trembling if I dared to sneak attack others.

Fortunately, the fog here is as thick as water. Once something moves, there will be a very obvious trajectory. It would not be so easy for him to sneak attack me, otherwise I would have been knocked down by him just now.

When I thought about this, I felt strange again. In this way, if the owner of the strange noise moved in this coffin, there would definitely be a moving trajectory. But when I looked just now, the mist was smooth and it didn't look like anything had moved. Looks like, doesn’t he have a body? Is it a ghost?

While guarding against another sneak attack from Boss Wang, I stood up. The space inside the coffin was not big. When I rolled just now, I didn’t know where I had landed. I had to quickly retreat to the side and find a way to climb up.

This place is not big overall. Looking around now, it is close to the center of the coffin. Through the fog, I saw something in the center. Looking at the shadow, it seemed that there were many ropes hanging from the top of the coffin, all the way to the bottom of the coffin. I thought they were aerial roots hanging from the branches attached to the top. I took a step closer and looked at them with a flashlight, only to find that they were not. They were bronze chains as thick as my wrist, covered with fungi and fibrous roots of the banyan tree. The top was wrapped to the bottom, but the iron chain seemed to be only fixed between the top and bottom of the coffin, and nothing was tied below.

This stone coffin is said to be huge. In fact, I know that such a size has been found in several tombs of nobles in the Western Han Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. This thing is called a coffin, but in fact it should be called a coffin room. If According to earth burial tombs, the formal inner coffin should be placed in the center of the coffin room. For those with strong financial resources, the stone coffin room should be surrounded by more than ten layers of wooden coffins, all the way to the edge of the innermost inner coffin.

Now that I have taken a few steps, according to the size of the coffin, I should at least be able to see the general shape of the inner coffin, but now I can only see a few chains and nothing on the ground. Is it possible that the coffin is actually empty? So where did the sound just come from? Where does that weird radio interference come from?

I was stunned for a long time, and then took another step forward. I wanted to go to the middle of the bronze chain to see if there was any trap door on the bottom of the coffin that he was fastened to. Then I took a step forward. Suddenly my feet were empty, and my whole body fell downwards. When it fell, I quickly grabbed the bronze chain in front of me and slid down a few meters before catching myself. I was so frightened that I broke into a cold sweat.

What's going on? Why the hell does it look like it's all gone? I was still frightened. I shined my flashlight downwards, but I couldn't see the ground. The fog below was very thick. I stepped down and stepped into the fog, but I couldn't step on anything. There seemed to be a deep depression.

Sure enough, there is something strange. I thought that the sacrificial platform on the top of the bronze tree was embedded two meters into the coffin chamber, and there was nothing in the middle. It may be a multi-layer built-in coffin method like the war period. This coffin chamber is also ok in the middle. There is also a depression called the coffin well, and the actual coffin is underneath. I don’t know how deep the coffin well is. It’s really dangerous. If I had just missed the mark and fallen, I might have fallen to death.

The few bronze chains here may be part of the lifting device used to transport the coffin down the coffin pit. The inner coffin containing the body should be right below me.

Just as I was thinking about it, there was another commotion nearby. Boss Wang rushed over again. This time he had some weapon in his hand and rushed towards me. The fog here was so thick that it was probably aimed at the light spot of my flashlight. They came to judge my position. When I saw that I was wrong, I subconsciously shouted: "No! Stop!"

But it was too late. Boss Wang said "Ouch", stepped on the air and fell down. I felt the chain below shook violently, probably because he caught it, and at the same time, I made a sound in my hand. Guji, the body actually started to slide downward.

I turned around and saw that the mushroom-like fungus on it was squeezing my hand and squeezing out a lot of greasy, wax-like juice, which made the bronze chain look like it was coated with a layer of oil. I screamed in my heart that it was bad. , I hurriedly inserted the short-handled knife into the hole of the chain, but it couldn't be inserted. After three times, five divided by two, the knife got stuck in the root of the tree. I twisted it hard and stopped my body. At this time, I It had slipped down no less than ten meters and entered the interior of the coffin shaft, inside the trunk of the bronze tree.

The boss's head was covered in blood and he was hanging on a bronze chain below me, about a foot away from me. He couldn't pull the chain, so he used his belt to pass through a chain hole before barely stopping. I shined a flashlight on him, and he cursed and turned his head to avoid the dazzling light.

I saw that he did not pose a threat to me for the time being, so I went to see the condition of the coffin well. The inside of the trunk of the bronze tree is the same as the outside. It is engraved with cloud and thunder patterns that go deep into the ravine. The tree roots snake down from the top and follow the lines all the way down. The fog inside is much thinner than above. I looked around, eager to know this. What is the size of the coffin shaft in the center of the coffin room? If it is too big, it may be a big problem for me to climb out.

The coffin well is a rectangle, four meters long and two meters wide, which can accommodate a coffin loosely. I can touch the walls of the coffin well with my hands. I don’t know if it’s because of the fog, but the tree roots here don’t harbor a lot of fungi, and I can see the true color of the tree roots. There is a peculiar smell floating in the air in the coffin. It may be because it is too foggy outside. The isolation medium inside the gas mask begins to be affected, and the effect begins to decrease. I can feel the smell of the knife getting stronger and stronger, until it chokes my nose. From this point of view, Boss Wang must also be feeling uncomfortable.

Looking down, I was surprised. I could see the chain hanging down into the darkness below. It was very long beyond the reach of my flashlight. Looking down from here, the entire coffin shaft was bottomless. Look, It actually seems to go all the way up, with no bottom.

No way, I thought, and I actually had a feeling in my heart. Is the entire bronze tree hollow? The height we climbed up is no less than 300 meters. We don’t know how deep this copper tree goes into the ground. If it is hollow, where is its bottom? The center of the earth? Hell? What’s the point of inserting this giant hollow cylinder here?

Boss Wang was also very surprised. The two of them didn't speak and looked straight down. Suddenly, there were two false sounds of "... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "

Boss Wang and I looked at each other and cast all our gazes into the darkness below. That voice actually came from the abyss below.