Chapter 24 Chapter 23 Survival on the Cliff

I didn't expect that the fire just now did not burn all the moths to death, but so many came out.But this is understandable. After all, not all moths are stupid enough to jump directly into the fire, and those who don't want to jump into the fire and because they don't want to line up survive because of this. Seeing these moths, I was very nervous, for fear of alarming them, but the blood on my body still attracted them.The moths, one at first, and then a flock, flew towards my wound.I was in a bad mood, so I quickly found a place where I could stand a little bit, and used a lighter to burn these moths.But the lighter was too small to be of much use after all, and these moths still flew over desperately.The front of me was okay, but the back was miserable. The moths that flew to my back slowly began to suck my blood, and I felt like a leech stuck to my back.

I turned around, put my back against the cliff, rubbed back and forth, followed by these moths and dropped a lot.But the constant stream of moths was about to surround me, and I felt that I was about to become the second Adi. In order to survive, I made an extremely dangerous action, that is, I continued to swing out of the cliff with a rope, and fell on a relatively large rock on the right.The reason why this movement is extremely dangerous is not that I might not be able to fall onto that boulder, but that the strength of this movement is too great, and it is very likely that Shu Shan and Huo Zihao who are pulling the rope will be taken out of the cliff together. But these two people seem to have been prepared. They have already tied one end of the rope to a huge rock crack, which avoided the bad situation of being thrown out because of my excessive movement below.

Since the rocky place where I settled was relatively large, I was able to repel the moths more easily. Summarizing the combat experience in the top tomb room - I can be bitten by moths, but I must not let them hatch on my body. Therefore, I kept twisting my body and rubbing my back against the wall, like a scalper Like repelling flies.However, even so, I still cannot avoid being sucked into my blood by moths.After these moths sucked the blood, their bodies slowly turned red. After being chased away by me, they no longer surrounded them, but flew towards a cliff under their feet, and the directions were all very consistent.

At that time, I was very curious, why did so many moths fly down the cliff? I turned my head several times, but I just couldn't figure it out.However, I have no time to think about such highly suspenseful reasoning questions.Because there are more and more moths on my body, the moths that have just been reduced due to changing positions will soon be replenished. At the critical moment, I saw some of these moths flew upwards, and after a while of beating by me, there were fewer moths on my body.I thought to myself: What is the situation?Looking up, it turned out that there was a big fire burning above.

I let out a long breath, and sat down on the ground, thinking to myself: Why are these unlucky things one after another?I looked at myself and was glad that there were only red spots and no white spots, otherwise I would have died tragically on the cliff. However, all this is not over.Just when I was about to take a rest, I heard rustling sounds from the rocks under my feet, and a bad premonition came to my heart.I lay down on the rock and looked down, only to see many moths flying towards a hole the size of a nail cap. If I remember correctly, there is a coffin on the rock at the foot. This coffin is buried in many tangled branches. Could it be that the corpse in this coffin has not decomposed yet?

The answer was soon revealed. In fact, none of these exposed coffins are intact, and most of them have decayed into a pile of bones.But for some unknown reason, there was a corpse lying on top of the coffin, and the corpse did not rot. Suddenly, two red dots lit up on the rock under his feet, and these two red dots looked so familiar.Only then did I understand that this corpse should have been revived by sucking bloody moths just like the mummy in the tomb. I can't help being a little annoyed at the thought that this creature was resurrected through my blood, but I don't have a gun on me, so I can't shoot it a few times, or I'll rasp it to ashes.

After a while, the corpse stood up slowly. It kept looking in my direction, but I didn't dare to look at it.I peeked down furtively and saw it bouncing up and down on the coffin, but couldn't move a step away from the rock.I was overjoyed in my heart, immediately picked up stones and stones, and threw them at the mummy under my feet. After hitting it a few times, I was able to hit it twice. After the mummy was smashed, although he was annoyed, there was nothing he could do. However, the stones around me are limited, and the stones will be thrown out soon.After throwing the stone, I tried to find something else, but found nothing to throw.

When I was secretly annoyed, the rope on my body was lifted up by Shu Shan on the top of my head again, and she motioned for me to go up quickly.Unexpectedly, because of this mention, I suddenly came up with inspiration.I cut off the remaining rope with the star knife, then tied one end of the cut rope to the branch, and threw the other end to the rock under my feet. After throwing the rope down, he didn't expect the mummy to be smart enough to come looking for it.Holding the rope with both hands, the mummy climbed up clumsily, with very clumsy movements.I pulled the rope with both hands, and felt the center of gravity of the force keep moving upwards. Just when the mummy was about to reach the rock, I loosened my hands and cut off the branch tied to the rope, and the whole rope fell down together with the mummy.It's just that this mummy was not as lucky as me. After it fell to the rock below, it bounced and fell again, until it fell into the river below the cliff. I don't know what happened to it.

I took a breath as I watched the mummy fall from the rock.However, this time I did not take too much rest, but continued to climb up the mountain, hoping to climb to the entrance of the cave where Shu Shan and Huo Zihao were.Fortunately, although the rocks are steep, this section of the cliff is not so difficult to climb.But the scenery along the way is not beautiful. There are various coffins everywhere in the stone crevices of the cliff. These coffins are of different styles, some are square, some are round, and some are polygonal, which is dizzying.The burial methods are also different. Some of them are cracked, some are cliff-hole, and some are wooden piles. Basically, they do not exceed the hanging coffin tombs we saw in the hanging coffins of the Bo people.Although these coffins have different styles, they have one thing in common, that is, most of them look dilapidated, showing their unique age and traces of time.

Although I was shocked by what I saw, I still tried my best to climb to the entrance of the cave where Shu Shan was.For me, climbing this ten-meter-high cliff was really exhausting. I felt very guilty when I saw Huo Zihao and Shu Shan's expressions from nervousness to relaxation. There were many arrowheads scattered around the extinguished bonfire, and I was very surprised. I didn't expect Shu Shan and Huo Zihao to carry wooden arrows to burn, so I couldn't help sighing. Suddenly, Shu Shan yelled, and I turned my head to see that her eyes were staring at my arm.Seeing her strange eyes, I also looked down at my arm, and suddenly found two white spots on my arm.

To me, this is like a bolt from the blue. Could it be that I will really become the second emperor?I let out a long sigh and said, "Unexpectedly, I also won the Mark Six lottery." "Yi Shui, what should we do? We are the ones who got you in trouble, if Shanshan didn't insist on going to see the coffin, you wouldn't be in trouble either." Huo Zihao said. With a wry smile on my face, I said, "There is danger everywhere, whether you are looking at the coffin or not." Shu Shan cried, "Yishui, heal the wound quickly!" Hearing what Shu Shan said, I also thought that this is the most urgent thing.At that moment, I threw the Xingxiu Knife into the fire, and then squeezed out the whiteheads until the blood came out. Then I picked up the hot XingXiu Knife and scalded the wound. The painful pain reached all the nerves. His forehead was suddenly dripping with sweat. Shu Shan and Huo Zihao watched everything I did intently. Seeing that my wound was scalded to death, they quickly helped me look through other places on my clothes. They were relieved when they saw that there were no other whiteheads on my body.However, although the white head is gone, the red spots are all over the body.There is really no complete part of my body now, and even my face is covered with red spots. "Just now in the hole on the bottom floor, the rope suddenly disappeared. Do you think it might be that Da Pao and the others had an accident?" Huo Zihao said. "It's possible," I said. "Then let's go in quickly, let's go in earlier, the uncle and the others will be less dangerous." Shu Shan said. After the three of us discussed it, we decided to return to the tomb as soon as possible.At the moment, we walked through the array of arrows and knives again, and came to the original tomb passage.Unexpectedly, after we tried our best to return to the tomb passage, we found that all the tomb doors in the tomb passage were closed, and there was no trace of Da Pao and others. As mentioned above, all the tombs of this ancient tomb have no tomb doors, and now there are many tomb doors suddenly appearing in these tombs, so it is not surprising. "Uncle, what should we do? Are Master and the others trapped in the tomb?" Shu Shan looked at the closed door of the tomb, and looked at Huo Zihao in confusion. "I don't know either, let's take a look again." Huo Zihao said, "Everyone pay attention to check whether all the tomb doors are closed, and pay attention to which tomb chambers have abnormal movements." Hearing what Huo Zihao said, Shu Shan and I had a direction.Sure enough, in the deepest tomb, we saw that the door of a tomb was half-opened.The three of us forcefully opened the door of the tomb, and found that there is a special world in this tomb. There is a huge coffin in the tomb. This coffin has been carefully processed. It has unique texture, special texture, and is very atmospheric.Based on my existing experience and intuition, this coffin is likely to be the owner of the tomb. The three of us walked into the tomb carefully, but inadvertently discovered that there were still 8 small coffins placed on the corner of the tomb.These 8 small coffins are relatively small compared to this huge coffin. They are less than one and a half meters long and less than half a meter high, and are made of a complete old tree. "Uncle, why are there trees here?" Shu Shan whispered. "Those are not trees, but coffins." Huo Zihao said. After finishing speaking, Huo Zihao pulled Shu Shan and me out of the tomb. "What's the matter, uncle?" Shu Shan asked in surprise. "I think the formation of the tomb just now is very strange. If you look carefully just now, you will find that the tomb is composed of octagons. There is such a coffin at each corner, which looks like a long-lost octagon. Array." Huo Zihao said. I saw Huo Zihao's words were ridiculous, so I asked: "What is an octagonal formation?" "As the name suggests, the octagonal array is a formation with eight corners. It originated from the eight-diagram array, but it is different from the eight-diagram array. The eight-diagram array is used for building houses and military affairs in the yang world, but the octagonal array is mostly used in the underworld. The Yin House." Huo Zihao said, "However, it is different here, the formation here seems to be more used to protect the coffin of the tomb owner." "Hearing what you said, it is somewhat similar to Yin Bagua." I said. "Hey, you also know Yin gossip, you are knowledgeable." Huo Zihao didn't know that I went to the Yuan Dynasty general's tomb in the northwest corner of the school with Huo Gang, and saw the Yin gossip with my own eyes, but I didn't give any further explanation , only to hear Huo Zihao continue to say, "This octagonal array is the predecessor of the Yin Bagua, and it has undergone several changes before becoming the later Yin Bagua. However, the Yin Bagua in the Ming and Qing Dynasties no longer has evil spirits, and they are simply used to build Yin houses. , to stabilize Feng Shui for the tomb owner." "Listen to you, the octagonal array has a strong evil spirit." I said. "It's not only very heavy, it's almost menacing. You have been to the hanging coffins of the Bo people. You should know about the four-ghost ecstasy array set up in the tomb of Mrs. Wang of the Bo people." Huo Zihao said. When I heard Huo Zihao mentioning the Four Ghosts Ecstasy Formation, I couldn't help feeling a little nervous.Recalling the scene of the four coffins we saw in Furong Mountain more than 20 years ago, I was really panicked.The mummy in those 4 coffins only circled us a few times before we fainted to the ground, and inexplicably went to the cliff cave under the nine-story cliff, almost dying. Because I was deep in thought, I didn't answer Huo Zihao's words. I just heard Huo Zihao continue: "Regarding the tomb robbery experience of the Bo people's hanging coffins, Master Chen Daohe once called seven of his disciples to have a special discussion and explanation with me. He It is said that the four-ghost ecstasy formation is very similar to the long-lost octagonal formation, except that the number of coffins is reduced by half. Uncle Shi believes that the number of Bo people is small, and when the Boren king was buried, in order to preserve the existing population, the number was reduced. The number of people in the formation, therefore, the eight corners have become four corners." "Is there a way to break it?" I asked. Huo Zihao sighed, and said: "In the past, there was no way to crack it. But because of the four ghosts' enchanting array, my uncle consulted the classics, not only found the octagonal array, but also found the corresponding cracking method. Therefore, There is a way to break it. It’s just that one person needs to guard two positions in the octagonal formation, and at least four people are needed to break it. If there are weak or women, one more person needs to be added accordingly, so we can’t break the formation right now. To find the cannons, we must work together to crack them." "Then what should we do?" Su Shan asked. "I don't know what to do. I think what we need to do now is not to crack the octagonal formation, but to find your uncle and the others. Right now their life and death are uncertain, let alone relying on the strength of the three of us, we can't crack the octagonal formation, even if What's the use of us breaking the octagonal formation!" Huo Zihao said. Hearing what Huo Zihao said, I realized that I had lost my mind just like Shu Shan, and I was only thinking about breaking the formation to get the treasure, completely forgetting the safety of Fourth Uncle, Da Pao and others. Just as we were planning to open the tomb doors one by one, we heard a crackling sound at the end of the tomb passage.With our vast experience, it was the sound of a tomb door opening.Not knowing what the sign was, Shu Shan and Huo Zihao unanimously set up submachine guns, waiting for the tomb door to open. Sure enough, after just a few seconds, at the end of the tomb passage, a bright light flashed on the horizon of the originally uneven black gable.Accompanied by the continuous sound of crackling, the bright light gradually increased, and a stone door about two meters wide was lifted from bottom to top. None of the three of us thought that there is also a tomb door here. We have always thought that this is the end of the tomb passage. Who would have thought that this place would also be opened. After the door of the tomb was lifted, it was directly illuminated by the strong light on the opposite side, so we couldn't see the situation on the other side.But the person behind the tomb door obviously also saw us. The person stood behind the tomb door in a daze and didn't move for a long time.I wanted to ask who was here, but Shu Shan was rather impatient, so she asked, "Are you Master?" Shu Shan asked the first time, but the man didn't answer. The second time, the man coughed dryly. Only then did we know that this man was the village head.Shu Shan and Huo Zihao put down their guns and asked him if he knew where Da Pao and others had gone.The village didn't speak for a long time, and finally said after a long time: "Da Pao and the others have already gone up there." "Which one is above?" Shu Shan asked strangely. "Oh, you don't know, there is also a tomb passage at the back door of this tomb door, but this tomb passage leads to the ground. Brother Cannon is right, the door we just entered is the back door of the tomb chamber, and we just now The tomb that I found by accident is the main entrance." The village chief said happily. Seeing that he was happy, I asked him where the rope hanging under the tomb where the bamboo raft was placed went.When the village chief saw me asking about the rope, the smile on his face disappeared immediately, and then he made an expression of remembering. After a while, he said: "After Shu Shan and Huo Zihao went down, Wu Zheng woke up slowly, Da Pao said he I want to continue looking at other tombs, and Yan Yuwei and I will guard the ropes. Seeing that the cannons are well arranged, Yan Yuwei agrees. After that, Yan Yuwei and I stayed, and the rest went out. A few minutes later, Yan Yuwei was called out by the cannon, and a few minutes later, I was also called out, and then we found the current main entrance. At that time, the cannon thought it was the tomb passage leading to other tombs, so We just followed, but after walking for a while, we found out that this is the entrance to the tomb. So we returned to the tomb where we were just now, but when we came back, we found that the rope in the tomb was missing. At first we thought you were coming up I took the rope away, but we couldn't find you anywhere. So we continued to go up and out of the cave. When we got outside the cave, everyone saw that it was almost dawn, and they were afraid that others would find out where they were. Call the police, so I sent me in to look for you again. It's all right now, I finally found you, let's go!" Immediately, the village head burst into a warm smile again. Hearing what the village chief said, it seemed that everyone had already found the exit, but because there were no valuable treasures here, and the sky was about to dawn, they had to withdraw as soon as possible.But how does this explain the disappearing rope, could it be that we have encountered a ghost again? "Let's go, it will be too late after dawn." The village chief urged us. "We could still see the moon just now, why is it dawn now?" Shu Shan asked curiously. "Today is the 20th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. The moon rises around 9 o'clock in the evening and sets around 9 o'clock in the morning, so as long as the sky is not bright, we can see the moon." The village chief explained. "Is the sun out there?" Shu Shan asked. "No." "Since there isn't one, how do you know it's almost dawn?" Shu Shan asked unreasonably. I really couldn't stand Shu Shan's ignorant question, and said, "Don't you have a watch!" "Oh, let's not be in a hurry." Shu Shan said happily, "Uncle, didn't you say that four people are needed to break the octagonal formation? We have four people now, let's break through the formation quickly." When Huo Zihao heard Shu Shan say that he was going to break the formation, his face showed embarrassment, he said: "Although it is an hour, there is no guarantee that the time will be enough, besides our physical strength is so weak, I am afraid that one person will not be able to hold two positions. " "It's okay, let's try it!" Shu Shan said. Huo Zihao was really moved by what Shu Shan said.He said: "As long as there are enough people, it is actually very easy to break the octagonal formation. The four of us just need to stand in the middle of the two coffins, tear off the two corners of our clothes and hang them on the red nails of the two coffins." That's it." "Why hang on the red nail?" Shu Shan interjected. "This red nail is not an ordinary nail. It is called the Yin-Yang nail. The soul of the person who is nailed will never be reborn. According to legend, these nails were not originally red, but because they were nailed to the child in the coffin. That's why they were dyed red. These children were all nailed to death in coffins naked, and they didn't know how to cheat corpses, but their ghosts became extremely vicious because of this nail." Huo Zihao said. "Could it be enough to just tear off two corners of the clothes?" Shu Shan asked. "Of course not. If we want to break the octagonal formation, we need to help these ghosts lead the way. We tore off the hem of the clothes and just told these ghosts that someone is here to save them." Huo Zihao said. "I see." Shu Shan said. "After hanging the corners of the clothes, we sat between the two coffins. After a while, these ghosts will climb onto our shoulders. Let's lead these ghosts to the exit of the tomb passage, and the octagonal array will be broken."