Chapter 16 Chapter Fourteen

There are many mysterious things in the world, such as Bermuda, such as the deadly places scattered in most areas. I have been to many places and investigated many strange and mysterious events.Only this time, it was bad. I don't know how long it took before I woke up from the coma.My whole body hurts, especially my back. I guess I hurt it when I fell down. There was a warm and soft body lying on my body quietly. I reached out to touch it, but I touched two soft objects. Subconsciously squeezed, the owner of the two soft objects suddenly made a "hmm" sound and woke up. "Ah! Bastard, who is touching me!" It was Xi Xiaoyun's voice. She saw her chest was attacked and struggled desperately.

I laughed dryly and said, "You stinky little girl, you're fine, you're still alive and kicking, you're definitely not hurt!" "It's you, Mr. Ye?" Hearing my voice, Xi Xiaoyun's restless body stopped, "Where are we?" "I'm afraid it's under that abandoned town." I looked around where I couldn't see my fingers. It was pitch black nearby, and looking up, we couldn't see the big hole that made us fall. "Huh, just now I thought I was going to die." Xi Xiaoyun let out a deep breath. "Me too. I thought I was swallowed by some monster."

I couldn't see anything, I could only listen carefully to the sounds around me with my ears sideways.Zhang Li and the other five girls also fell down, where are they?I should have woken up after so long, but I didn't hear the slightest sound. "That..." Xi Xiaoyun's tone was slightly hesitant and shy. "Why, do you want to confess your love to this handsome guy before you die?" I said narcissistically. "Well, I don't have any intentions yet. But, but," her voice became softer and softer than a mosquito's eyelashes: "Can you please take your hand off my chest!"

"Ah! Oh!" Only then did I realize that my left hand had been holding tightly to a soft object, which turned out to be her breasts.Puffy, this shape, this fullness, this elasticity, yes, this little girl is very promising. I pretended to be a conditioned reflex and squeezed harder before letting go. She immediately got up from me.I maliciously guessed that if there was light now, I would definitely be able to see the flushed and shy appearance of this beauty. This little girl has given me a lot of trouble, and now that she has taken revenge, she is really in a good mood. Thinking of the light, I suddenly remembered the portable tool bag that the detective agency required to carry with me. There should be tools for lighting in it.

Speaking of this thing, it has been issued to me since I worked in the old man's detective agency.But apart from the small pistol I used, the other things have never been opened at all. I groped around on my body and found a tool bag sewn in a hidden part of my clothes. Based on my sense of touch, I searched for things like lighting tools. Very good, sure enough. I took out a small flat foldable flashlight that was only half the size of a palm, and pressed the switch, a white light shone straight out, illuminating the surrounding area. When his line of sight suddenly hit the bright light, it was instantly dark.After I gradually got used to it, I could see the surrounding environment a little more clearly.

Judging by the shape of the surrounding area, it was indeed an underground cave. The cave is so big that even the light of a flashlight can't reach the edge.But where is Zhang Li and the others who fell with us?They fell down from the same hole, why didn't they see the shadows of the six of them nearby? "Ah! What are those!" Xi Xiaoyun exclaimed in surprise, she grabbed my arm, shaking non-stop.It seemed that he had been greatly frightened. I followed her gaze and was stunned. I saw an archway not far away, and under the archway were densely packed with white bones.Those bones included males, females, old and young. The clothes on the bones had long been weathered into disrepair, but the bones were still as white as new, reflecting a strange luster under the light of the flashlight.

I checked with my eyes, and there are at least a thousand people who died here.Could it be that this was once the site of a collective burial after a certain war? I walked over a few steps, squatted down, took out a piece of toilet paper, and used my thumb and index finger to pinch a human rib nearby and looked at it.There was no sign of injury. Then he squeezed the rotten clothes on the corpse with his hands. As soon as the cloth touched his hands, they turned into dust and fell into the air.The clothes have long been corroded by the years and turned into powder, and it seems that they have been at least hundreds or thousands of years old.

Strangely, there are almost no traces of war on these bones.How exactly did they die?Are these people the former owners of the town above?Why did they abandon their homes and flee into this underground cave? Questions came one after another, but no clue could be found from the corpse in front of him.However, the postures of these bones when they died were a bit strange, with their legs bent and their hands folded together, as if they were worshiping something. And the direction of worship is the tall archway not far away. With doubts, my eyes moved to the archway. This archway is actually not weird, the whole body is made of a kind of black unknown jade like the stone archways in ancient towns.But there are also different places. The most striking thing is the wonderful scene reliefs of Sichuan opera classics carved on the lower two floors.

With the theme of "loyalty, filial piety, integrity and righteousness", the relief sculptures have selected more than 100 wonderful scenes from more than 40 traditional Sichuan operas and carved them in various parts of the archway. I read it bit by bit. Although I don't know Sichuan Opera very well, I have already verified more than 20 plays. After a little counting, there are more than 570 figures carved on the reliefs, all of whom have clear faces, distinctive personalities, and are lifelike, fully demonstrating the exquisite skills of ancient stone carvings. The selection of Sichuan opera is rich and colorful, all of which are popular stories from ancient times.

For example, it expresses the loyalty and integrity of ancient women and the "Twelve Widows Conquer the West" in which women do not let their eyebrows go; "Three Heroes Fighting Lv Bu", "Zhao Yun Liu Bao A Dou", "Empty City Strategies" with leading characters and great wisdom and courage; The entire archway is about eleven meters high and ten meters wide. I took out a compass and calculated it. It faces south and backs north. It is in the shape of three gates. There are mighty lions, and each lion also straddles a benevolent and solemn Bodhisattva or ancient Buddha.

"Why is this archway so high? It's so majestic!" Xi Xiaoyun raised her neck sorely. "Counting carefully, this stone archway has four floors, which is called four-story multi-ridged eaves in architecture." I saw the entire archway, and I roughly knew its origin, and explained: "If I didn't guess If it is wrong, it should be a chastity memorial archway. It is a chastity monument erected by the nephew of a big family named Deng for his dead aunt. Silently waiting for her husband's return. The wait lasted for sixty years, until she died of old age." Xi Xiaoyun was a little surprised: "Can there be so much information on a single archway?" "It's very simple. Since it is a memorial archway, of course her life and past events will be recorded in the reliefs and text of the archway." I smiled: "And there are as many as five of this archway in the town. " She pondered for a moment: "There are five archways in the abandoned ancient town above, and one of them seems to be erected at a similar location to this place. Strange, are they all built by the big family surnamed Deng?" "It's very possible." I frowned, "I'm afraid there are not only five archways on the top, but if my guess is correct, there are five archways on the bottom at the same position. It's strange, why did the big family build five archways in the town?" I can't even understand the archway, and the chastity archway is built underground? It can be seen that the five archways on the top are basically used to cover up the bottom. Since it is just a chastity archway, do you need to spend so much time to cover it up? ?strangeness!" "It's really strange." Xi Xiaoyun imitated my appearance, holding her chin and staring at the archway in thought. "Is it possible that these people who died for unknown reasons have something to do with these archways?" The woman's thinking ability really jumped, and she was full of chaotic logical associations. I scratched my head: "Impossible, how can the archway kill people?" Xi Xiaoyun shuddered suddenly: "The object of the crossroads game is to play against the archway in the center of the town, and the owner of the archway above is this. No matter how you think about it, there must be something wrong with these archways. .” When I thought of the strange black-blue light emitted by the archway above, I also felt that there was something wrong with the archway. But the chastity archway below is like the most common thing, neither has the cold and biting feeling of the upper archway, nor is it creepy, it is just an ordinary dead thing. Since you can't figure it out, just change your thinking and find some more clues, and you will always figure it out.I looked around and asked, "By the way, did you see the few people who fell with us?" "No, maybe the position was different when it fell." Xi Xiaoyun shook her head. I was noncommittal: "If it fell from a hole, how could it fall to different places, unless the height reached a certain level. But if this place is really that high, we would have fallen to our deaths long ago!" "There is indeed some truth in what you said, but this girl has no other explanation." Xi Xiaoyun was very straightforward. I shook my head: "Go look for them, they are all innocent people, if you can save them, save them." "Innocent? You said they were innocent?" She kept giggling as if hearing something funny: "If you knew what they did, you would never say such funny things." I stared at her and said slowly, "Then tell me." Xi Xiaoyun was at a loss for words, with a struggling expression on her face, and she sighed after a long time: "I will tell you later when the time is right. Now..." For the girl in front of me, I am not very optimistic about when the time will be ripe.It is estimated to be three days, it is estimated to be five days, and it is estimated to be ten years. Of course, the biggest possibility is that it is selectively forgotten. Confused, we left the chastity archway and searched for the six missing people.But no matter how hard they searched, there was no trace of them. "Speaking of which, isn't Li Xinjie in the same dorm as you? Have you investigated her?" I suddenly thought of this person. "I did an investigation. After she got rid of my stalking, I used my network to find her data. Xinjie's background is very simple, a double-income family, and she is an only child. But after a closer look, I found something wrong. Maybe she All of his identity information was forged." Xi Xiaoyun's face was a little sad, she really regarded the girls in the same dormitory as good friends.It's a pity that two withered and died, and the other kept cheating on her. I curled my lips: "Aren't you reconciled? In fact, it's each other. Aren't you also deceiving each other?" "Although the facts are true, the reason is true, and the status is also true. But I just feel uncomfortable." Xi Xiaoyun smiled wryly. "Okay, you should have a reason to explain the whole thing to me. What's going on with this so-called beauty society? How did two of the girls in your dormitory die?" I said seriously Lack of information, lack of enough to start to cloud judgment. Xi Xiaoyun bit her lip, "I can only tell you selectively about this whole thing. Actually, the reason is not complicated, it's very simple. "I accepted the entrustment to come to this school and lurk secretly as a student. When I lived in that dormitory, there were already three girls living in the dormitory, namely Zhou Jie, Zhao Lu, and Li Xinjie. The four of us soon became Good sister. "Then suddenly one day, Zhao Lu mysteriously told us that she joined a very interesting club. In that club, her code name was No. 4. The club's name is Beauty, and its purpose is to transform all mediocre women into beautiful women. It's so beautiful. "Afterwards, Zhao Lu did become more and more beautiful day by day. Her ordinary appearance turned out to be very charming, and she was pursued by no one. After joining the club for two weeks, there were so many male suitors around her. "Under her recommendation, I also joined the Beauty Club, codenamed No. 6. I have no idea when Li Xinjie and Zhou Jie joined. "But after joining, I discovered the weirdness of that club. Zhao Lu became more beautiful, socialized more, and met a rich boyfriend. The game that I used to play every two nights stopped. , Club activities do not participate. "No. 1 called and told her that if she didn't play games, she wouldn't survive ten days. "Of course she didn't believe it, and none of us took it seriously, but this sentence came true. Zhao Lu often had nightmares in the dormitory, was crushed by ghosts, and finally died tragically on the bed. By that time, all the talents of the Beautiful Society found the seriousness of the matter. "No. 1 said that if you want to leave the club and leave with the beauty given by the game, you can only find a trustee. "The trustee must be of the opposite sex. Otherwise, the game will be played forever, and you will never leave this school. If you don't play the game, you will die in ten days. In fact, it is true. Girls who don't believe in evil and don't continue to play games The children were literally dead, and death looked terrible." Xi Xiaoyun trembled with fear. "Who is number one?" I asked. "I don't know, we have never seen her appearance clearly." Xi Xiaoyun shook her head. "How is it possible? Has she covered her face all the time?" I was puzzled. "No, it's just that you can see her face clearly. But when you turn your head away from her, her face is like a layer of fog in your mind, and you can't remember anything." She replied. I frowned, and looked at her with a little worry in my eyes, "No. 5 said you won't survive tomorrow, could it be..." "No, I won't die." Xi Xiaoyun smiled bitterly: "The curse on me has been broken." "How did you crack it?" I was very surprised. She hesitated for a moment, but did not answer after all. "I'm sorry, I don't want to say it. I don't want to lie to you either." I looked into her eyes for a long time, and then turned my head: "Okay, tell me when you want to talk." Then he walked forward. There was a deep sadness and pain in her eyes, which made me very reluctant to ask any more questions.After all, the girl in front of me really worried about me during the game. This cave is really big, equivalent to the size of the entire town above, and it is a purely natural cave.This situation is really rare. After visiting the five chastity archways one by one, the six people were still not found. The archway is exactly the same as imagined.There are thousands of bones under each archway. Calculated, there are at least five thousand humans who died strangely in this cave. Hundreds of years ago, the total population of a rather large town was only about this number. How did these people die here?There were no obvious wounds on their bodies. How did they die?Is it an infectious disease, and these people are all quarantined?But if there is such a large-scale plague, it should be recorded in the nearby county annals.But when I checked some time ago, I didn't find out why.But since five or six thousand people can come in, this cave must have a big exit.So I started to look for the exit of the cave with Xi Xiaoyun indiscriminately.Suddenly, a circular building appeared within the range of the flashlight.It was a tomb, the tomb of a very ordinary rich family in ancient times, not considered luxurious, "It's strange, why is there a tomb here?" Xi Xiaoyun asked in surprise.I looked strange: "This tomb is not simple." The top priority now is to go out first and then talk about other things.There is not even a tombstone, but it is very large. "It's not that simple. To this beauty, it's just an ordinary big tomb." She couldn't see anything strange. I pointed to the location of the tomb and explained calmly: "This tomb was just built at the lowest point of the cave, forming a pattern of dragonflies and water. You see, there are no tombstones around the tomb, and the top of the tomb is covered with an oval roof. In terms of Feng Shui , The cemetery is located on the main trunk of the earth veins, and the so-called trunk trunks of the earth veins are mostly places where the underground water veins are the most abundant. It seems that this tomb was definitely instructed by an expert Taoist." "I don't quite understand. What's the use if you just say it!" Xi Xiaoyun cutely scratched her head. "It's very simple. There is only one purpose for doing this, which is to wash away bad luck." I licked my lips, feeling a little nervous in my heart, "In the eyes of the ancients, if a person died in an abnormal manner, or had too much resentment before death, they would use this plausible pattern to build a tomb in a place with a lot of people. In the cave where the water veins run through, it is hoped that the bad luck of the deceased will be taken away by the extremely wide water veins in all directions." Xi Xiaoyun became frightened, "Who is the owner of this tomb?" "Who else could it be? It must be the owner of the chastity archway." "Oh my god, it's terrible. Since a woman who can be erected as a chastity archway and talked about by later generations will die with resentment? No matter how I think about it, I can't figure it out!" She was very puzzled. I don't understand either. There is a wooden door on the huge tomb. This wooden door is only the size of a person. The rotten wooden surface is about to fall off, giving people a very uncoordinated feeling. "Do you think there's something wrong with the wooden door on the grave?" I lifted my chin and looked at the door carefully. "That's right, there seems to be traces of it being opened recently." As expected of an investigator, the basic observation skills are pretty good. "Go in and have a look." I said firmly. "What?!" Xi Xiaoyun's pretty face suddenly turned pale with fright, "Go, want to go in? Forget it, what's the use of going in. It's scary!" "Aren't you very good at kung fu?" "Great can be used as farts, no matter how powerful martial arts are, they can't deal with ghosts." She shook her head vigorously. "What nonsense are you talking about? How can there be ghosts in this world?" I dragged her forward. "If you don't go, you won't go if you die, and if you can't die, you won't go." She shook her head desperately, "Although I didn't believe in ghosts before, but now I do. Ever since I played that ghost game, I have encountered all sorts of weird and inexplicable things, whether it's ghosts or something!" "Maybe you can find an explanation after you go in." I pulled her hard and finally pushed her to the grave. Sure enough, there were traces of opening on the wooden door, and the opening time was not far away, at most one or two months ago.It can be easily judged by looking at the dust accumulated in the crack of the door. Gritting my teeth, I pushed open the wooden door. There was only a "creak", and with a sharp and heavy sound, the wooden door was opened smoothly. Very unusual, the tomb is very clean, it seems that someone often cleans it.Could it be that someone still lives there? Xi Xiaoyun and I looked at each other, and both felt a chill rushing up. He looked up and looked around, but there was no sign of people living there.In the huge tomb, there is only a very large stone coffin in the center, and the coffin is covered with a heavy stone coffin lid. Apart from being big, this coffin is like a tomb, and there is nothing special about it. But no matter how I look at it, I don't like it. There must be something wrong with this coffin. "Hey, go and open the coffin." I pushed Xi Xiaoyun beside me. "Why me?" She pointed to her nose with an unbelievable look: "She is just an ordinary little girl." "What are you pretending to be? In the wandering room that day, neither your eyes nor your strength can be called ordinary. If you don't go, why don't you let me, an ordinary citizen like a bird with little strength, Open it!" I also pointed to my nose, looking confident. "Which eye of yours saw that I had the strength to move the coffin lid? Look at my pitiful appearance with thin arms and legs. You have pity on me. Just be obedient." Xi Xiaoyun muttered in a low voice, but couldn't do anything for a while, so she had to go forward.Her kung fu was really good, and with luck, the coffin lid, which weighed several hundred kilograms, moved slowly.I secretly sighed, these guys who have practiced martial arts are really inhuman existences! As the coffin lid moved, the contents inside were gradually exposed. Just halfway through the push, Xi Xiaoyun casually took a look inside, and was immediately stunned with shock on her face.She stared unblinkingly at the inside of the coffin, her whole body trembling. I walked over curiously, and when my eyes touched the inside, I was also stunned in surprise.