Chapter 44 Chapter 43 Deserters!

As soon as he entered the tomb, the ghost Yamamoto kept yelling to close the door.I looked at the corpses pouring in like a tide outside, and I was still in shock. Lao Li wanted to close the door, but in a panic, he bumped into me... Just when everyone was in a mess, Zhuoma Yangjin, who was behind me, didn't say a word Go over and pull the tombstone towards the middle. "Crack!" A huge echo resounded in the tomb, and the chaotic scene suddenly fell silent.It turned out that there was a buckle on the back of the tombstone. Zhuoma Yangjin closed the tombstone again and buckled it. Maybe she used too much force, which is why she made such a loud noise.

"It's safe." Zhuoma Yangjin looked around at everyone, patted the dust on his hands, and said calmly, "At least the corpses outside can't come in for the time being..." safe?I don't think so, with this beast like Yamamoto around, will we be safe?I couldn't help but sneer, turned around and began to look at the condition of the tomb, just in case. When I came in, I was in a hurry, and I didn't have time to see the situation of the tomb.Now that I take a closer look, I can't help but be dazed. I don't know what it is. If we say that this is a tomb, there is nothing like a tomb except for a large black coffin: it is actually more like a wide open space. There are milky white stalactite-like things hanging upside down from the top of the cave, and there is a dark river on the left and right sides of the cave wall, one is steaming, and the other is eerie and extremely cold.The two meandering and rugged lines meet at the bottom of the cave, and on the ground near their meeting is a huge coffin.There is nothing else, and there is no way for us to escape from here.

I looked at Lao Li in despair. He came over and patted my shoulder, trying to comfort me, but his voice trembled involuntarily: "It's okay, we should find a way to get out..." I glanced at him numbly, then lowered my head again, without speaking. Facing the big coffin, everyone fell silent for a moment, at a loss, and the tomb was so quiet that only the sound of breathing echoed incessantly. This silence made me calm down quickly.Now that he has gone through all kinds of hardships to get in, at least he has to find out why this man named Changshuo has arranged so many traps in the cave step by step, but when he can enter the tomb, all the traps are just decorations.More importantly, the two water veins in the cave converged, and his coffin was parked on five side by side stone benches without falling to the ground.Even a layman like me knows that this place is not suitable for burial, because the humidity is too heavy, and the coffin of the corpse is extremely perishable.As a third-rank official, it is impossible for his subordinates not to have a tomb for him... Then how could this be the case.Furthermore, the etiquette and laws of the Qing Dynasty were strict, and all officials had to follow the etiquette in funerals. Where did his burial method come from?

I thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out, so I could only discuss it with Lao Li.After listening to my analysis, Lao Li first asked me: "Dolma Yangjin said that the year of Renchen is written on the tombstone, isn't it?" I said: "Yes." He lowered his head and pinched his fingers to calculate, and then said: "It was 1892. October 1892..." He pondered, "Did Zhuoma Yangjin mention a man named Shengtai at first?" , saying that the owner of the tomb is his subordinate?" Zhuoma Yangjin immediately took over the conversation and said, "Yes. Shengtai has a subordinate named Changshuo. My grandfather told me about it, so I know it very well."

I was just about to ask her, since she knew it was the tomb of a third-rank military officer in the Qing Dynasty, why did she have anything to do with the faceless devil.But before he could say anything, Yamamoto unceremoniously stood in front of the three of us, and said loudly, "Why don't you open the coffin and have a look?" I glanced at him and said with a sneer, "Who knows what the coffin is, what if it's a blood-sucking zombie... Since you want to see it, then go and take a look at it first!" I was just planning to scare him, but I didn't really intend to ask him to see it.Unexpectedly, when Yamamoto heard this, he put the rifle into Takeno's hand with a smile on his face, and was about to go to the coffin.

"Yamamoto-kun!" Dolma Yangjin pulled him back, stopped using Japanese, and said in Mandarin, "Yamamoto-kun, you are a master of China and know that China pays attention to etiquette. The coffin of a third-rank official cannot tolerate outsiders. Casually blasphemy." Speaking of this, she winked at me again, "Do you think so, Master Luo?" I answered "yes".Zhuoma Yangjin said again: "Yamamoto-kun, you heard it. So you should rest on the side. Tell Luo Technician and the others to check the situation first." Shan Ben was still waiting to force his way through, but Zhuoma Yangjin held him firmly, urging Lao Li and me to quickly lift the lid of the coffin to have a look.When I saw Yamamoto's cheap look, I was furious, and I wished I could shoot him right away.Seeing that my expression was not right, Lao Li hurriedly pulled me to the side of the coffin and said, "Go and have a look first."

When I came to the coffin with Lao Li, I thought of the zombies and the corpses outside the tomb, and my heart pounded. I don’t know what is inside. Judging from the previous situation, it is 1000% impossible. It was the corpse of a well-rotted third-rank military officer... I backed off a bit, and said hesitantly: "Old Li...I..." Without raising his head, Lao Li squatted on the ground, and said in a deep voice, "You step on my shoulders...you are thinner, and I am heavier, so you will not be able to bear me. Besides, your body will be much more flexible if you are thinner. The situation is much more responsive.”

There is nothing around the coffin to step on, and to compare my body with Lao Li's - I am indeed much thinner and lighter than him. I have no choice but to step on his body and lift the coffin lid to see the situation.You can't ask Zhuoma Yangjin to go. I gritted my teeth, shook my heart, and said: "Okay...you...you give me the mahogany sword." There is a thunderbolt mahogany sword, if there are ghosts in it, you can resist it for a while, so your heart will be more at ease. Old Li Yiyan took out his thunderbolt mahogany sword and gave it to me.I took it and bit it horizontally in my mouth, and stepped on Lao Li's shoulder...

It was almost time to see the coffin lid, "Not enough, stand up a little more." I ordered. Lao Li grabbed my foot on his shoulder and stood up slowly.Now I easily grasped the edge of the coffin, borrowed my strength to push it up, and easily saw the coffin, no, I easily saw the things in the coffin-there was no coffin lid! When I saw that thing, I thought I was fooled, so I quickly rubbed my eyes, widened my eyes and looked at it again, yes, indeed.Immediately, my hands and feet were cold and my scalp was numb, and I fell straight from Lao Li's shoulders. Old Li was half bent, so he couldn't use his strength at all, so he couldn't possibly catch me.I fell to the ground solidly on my back, which made me dizzy and staring at me.

Zhuoma Yangjin reacted very quickly, and immediately ran to my side, and asked with concern: "Master Luo, did you fall? Why are you so pale... Don't scare me, where did you fall?" Voice With a bit of crying, as if I was seriously injured and was about to die. I knew if my complexion was ugly, I just wanted to speak, but when I opened my mouth, the cold air came out of my heart, my whole body was cold, and I couldn't say a word. Lao Li and the Japanese devils surrounded me at the same time, and they kept asking me what I saw. I glanced at these people and didn't know how to tell them what I saw, I'd rather be wrong.But...that thing lay there so clearly, how could I see it wrong even after looking at it several times.After a long time, I finally spoke with difficulty: "New...recruit...that deserter..."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed drastically. Zhuoma Yangjin grabbed me and shook me violently: "What are you talking about, deserters?" Her hands were shaking, and her voice changed tune. I was dizzy by her shaking, I tried my best to break away from her hand, and repeated what I said just now calmly: "There is a deserter in the coffin. We lost that deserter." Zhuoma Yangjin stood up abruptly when he heard the words, and said to Lao Li almost as an order: "Li Zeng, ask me to go up and down." Lao Li shook his head and vetoed it flatly: "You are a woman, no." Yamamoto interjected immediately: "Then I'll go...I'll go and see..." Lao Li gave him a sideways look, sneered, and didn't speak. Yamamoto took two steps back, stopped thinking about Lao Li, and asked Takeno Yiyang to entrust him to see what was going on inside the coffin. I finally came back to my senses and struggled to get up. Seeing this, Zhuoma Yangjin quickly came to help me.I stood up staggeringly, and said, "There is more than one person in the coffin. There are deserters on the top, and the corner of the official uniform is exposed underneath." "What!" Lao Li and Zhuoma Yangjin Qiqi exclaimed, "The deserter is in the coffin?" I didn't have the strength to explain it to them, so I mumbled and signaled them to watch Yamamoto's reaction.Sure enough, Yamamoto was carried by Takeno to the side of the coffin to have a look. He also let out a ghostly cry and fell off Takeno's shoulder. But he is not like me, he turned over and got up immediately after falling, hugged Zhuye, danced and sang, looking very excited.Just like when they met Faceless Wang Weicheng. I immediately became vigilant, thinking that Lao Li must stop the devil from approaching the coffin again.But before I could speak, Zhuoma Yangjin said worriedly: "Master Luo, did the deserter inside become faceless?" I was surprised: "How do you know?" Zhuoma Yangjin opened his mouth to answer, when suddenly there was a "click" from inside the coffin, followed by a muffled "bang", as if something had hit the coffin. Before seeing anything unusual about the coffin, Zhuoma Yangjin pulled me nervously and ran to the tombstone. "What are you doing?" I shook off her hand, stood still, and said. Zhuoma Yangjin grabbed my sleeve and forced me to stand beside the tombstone, and told Lao Li and the devil to come over quickly.After shouting, she stared intently at the dark coffin with a very complicated expression: excitement, horror, anticipation...