Chapter 78 Chapter 19 Dead End

The answers to all the mysteries can only be pinned on Huangcuo itself. Tonight, after everyone has gone to bed, Mu Qingxiang will go nearby to see if there is anything like the ruins of Huangcuo.I was bored for a few days, and my whole body was almost moldy. As soon as I heard something exciting to do, I immediately signed up enthusiastically. Mu Qingxiang put away the blueprint, and then said: "You can rest now, don't tell anyone about this beforehand, do you understand?" "Don't worry." I promised, but then I asked worriedly, "My needle box was stolen by someone, and I don't know who did it. What if this person uses poisonous needles to harm people these days?" What should we do? As you have seen, we were almost shot by poisonous needles that night. If we use shields to block, we may not be able to block it."

I thought Mu Qingxiang would be frowning because of this, but I didn't expect her to say easily: "You don't need to worry about this matter, if someone really wants to hurt you with a poisonous needle, you can use me to block it." "Really?" I asked suspiciously, "Are you stronger than a shield?" Mu Qingxiang was too lazy to talk to me, after explaining the matter clearly, she kicked me out of the room and told me to go back and recharge my batteries.I obediently went back to sleep and didn't wake up until evening, when it was already dark.Mu Qingxiang woke up earlier than me, or didn't sleep at all. When I went to her room, she was still reading that book.At dinner, I told Lao Yan that I would not eat in Huangcuo, so I found an excuse to take Mu Qingxiang out to have a good meal, and then inquired about the history of Huangcuo.

The last time I ate in a small restaurant in the village, the owner told me that Huangcuo was originally built in 1905, and it took three years to complete it. It was built by a Chinese businessman surnamed Huang who lived in the Philippines.However, according to the deed records, Huangcuo was "purchased and rebuilt in the sixth year of Guangxu", that is to say, there was already a house, and the businessman surnamed Huang just processed it.This sounds very common, but now that I think about it, it is likely that the former Huangcuo was destroyed for some reason, and the current Huangcuo has been rebuilt, but the location of the reconstruction has been moved by more than ten meters.Ask again, Huang Dejun is not dumb, the villagers said that he has lived there all the time, often went out to buy things, and even bargained with the villagers, how could he be dumb.

The shopkeeper told us that the storm is coming, I am afraid that the edge of the sea cliff is not safe, it is better to go to other places to avoid it.I thanked the shopkeeper and said that Huangcuo is very strong and cannot be destroyed by storms, so there is no need to worry.The shopkeeper saw that I didn't listen to the advice, so he stopped talking and started making disaster preparations on his own. With the approval of the villagers, Mu Qingxiang and I returned to Huangcuo immediately after we finished our meal, ready to explore the ruins of the ancient house at night.We plan to do it in the middle of the night because we are worried that people will be watching in the dark now that everyone is awake.When everyone is asleep, there is no need to worry about moving your hands.Now the sky is dark, the salty wind and waves are very strong, a wave hits like a hill, even if you talk face to face, the sound of the wind and waves can drown out the voices of people.

Finally, after a long wait, Mu Qingxiang and I walked out of Huangcuo at 1 am and walked slowly to its right.The waves were even bigger at this time, and a wave came over, and the water splashed on the rocky cliff.The wind is also getting stronger, as long as you open your mouth, your tongue will really flash. Before walking over, I stopped Mu Qingxiang and told her to follow me to a place first.This place is beside the wall of Huangcuo, and the other side is the patio outside the main hall.I turned on the flashlight and wanted to find something to prove that the inference in my heart was correct.Sure enough, I found several black tiles on the outside of the fence, but they were all broken into many pieces.During the day, we found that a few tiles were missing from the eaves of the main hall, where they actually fell.

If the tiles from the eaves fall, they will definitely hit the outside of the main hall. Unless a typhoon blows over, the fallen tiles will never fly outside the Huangcuo. The only possibility is that someone threw them out.I knelt down and looked at the broken tiles. Not only were they broken, but there were bright red blood stains on them. Seeing me squatting still, Mu Qingxiang said to me: "Time is running out, go over there and have a look." I had already solved a doubt in my heart, and when I heard Mu Qingxiang urging me, I stopped wasting time and walked with her to the sea cliff on the right.The sea cliffs are almost all stone. It is not easy to build a house here, but it is easy to destroy it.We haven't been walking around, all because the ground is flat, so we didn't expect so much.When we walked more than ten meters, we found some broken bricks and tiles on the ground. Although they were eroded to pieces, we could still find their origin from the dross.

The waves kept beating, and the water splashed more and more, and water accumulated in many places on the cliff face.We stepped into puddles from time to time, and when we measured the size of the ruins with our steps, when we came to a yellow mud field, the brick mud under our feet suddenly slammed, and then Mu Qingxiang and I fell down unexpectedly. It turned out that when Huang Cuo was digging the foundation, he had already pierced through the sea cliff. This place has been eroded by sea water for a long time, and it has become soft, and it scattered like quicksand when stepped on.But even if they spread out, there wouldn't be a pit leaking out. This pit is like a small sinkhole. The bottom of the pit is at least four or five meters above the ground. It's not easy to climb up.The walls were all slippery and wet with mud, which fell off at the first scratch, and it was impossible to climb up from the bottom of the pit.

I raised my head to the ground and yelled for help, but the wind and waves were too loud for anyone to hear.Mu Qingxiang belongs to the person who comes here and is safe. She doesn't yell like me when she falls. She picks up the flashlight and asks me to pay attention to the surrounding environment, because this pit is unusual. I lowered the voltage of my hand and found that there were many excavation marks in this mudstone cave, and the surface of the cave wall was uneven like a dog chewing on it.On one side of the mudstone cave, there is another bifurcated tunnel, which is a bit like a man-made dug, and a bit like a natural one.It is very likely that the original mudstone hole was not that big, and someone dug it bigger later.Depending on the situation, the people who dug the hole were about to dig to the ground, but unfortunately they didn't succeed, or the mud layer of the foundation would not have been trampled and destroyed by us.

There were a few shovels in the pit, and when I saw it, I was amazed at how much perseverance it takes to dig a hole in the ground.I remember that there is a basement drawn on the blueprint, which should be found in the real Huangcuoli. There is a mudstone cave here. Could it be the basement recorded in the blueprint?Mu Qingxiang was not sure about this, she said that the basement would not be so simple and should be finished together with Huangcuo.Because things like the basement will affect the buildings on the ground, the basement is usually dug out first, and few people do it the other way around.

"That's weird. Did you know about this mudstone cave?" I raised my flashlight and looked deep into the mudstone cave, and saw a corner. "Since they're all here, let's go in and have a look." Mu Qingxiang suggested. I looked around the mudstone cave. There was only one way. Unless we could climb to the ground, there was no other choice.I picked up a shovel in the mudstone cave, trying to use it for self-defense, who knows what's weird in the mudstone cave.The mudstone cave is a bit damp, which is probably related to its location. The entire sea cliff is close to the sea, and it is inevitable that sea water will pour into the bottom of the cliff.

There is no branch in the mudstone cave. When we reached the corner, we saw two bones.This was beyond my expectation. I thought there were countless French silver coins in the mudstone cave, but what I saw now were all unlucky things.Bai Gu was wearing clothes, all of which were robes from the late Qing Dynasty, with the word "yellow" embroidered on the corner of the clothes. "Are they from Huangcuo?" I wondered. "There should be nothing wrong." After Mu Qingxiang finished speaking, she untied the robe on the body of the skeleton. I was too nervous, so I didn't pay attention to the etiquette and forgot to stop Mu Qingxiang from taking off the dead man's clothes.When I came to my senses, both bones were murdered and stripped naked.Mu Qingxiang squatted down and carefully inspected the bones. They were intact and did not suffer fatal injuries, which means that their bodies were beaten before they died.Moreover, the bones were all yellow and white, and he died of poisoning. "Then how did they die?" I asked nervously, could it be that people who were well-behaved suddenly died. "I don't know, I can't see the cause of death." Mu Qingxiang shook her head and said. "Could it be that the basement marked on the blueprint is here, or when they built the house here, they probably didn't know there was a mudstone cave in the ground." I asked. "The location of the basement should not be here, let's continue to look ahead." Mu Qingxiang grabbed the flashlight and walked deep into the mudstone cave. There are many stones inlaid in the mudstone cave, so some corners are forced to be dug out, and some are so narrow that you have to curl up to pass through.The further I walked in, the more stuffy the air became. I worried that if I continued walking, I would have breathing problems, so I asked Mu Qingxiang if I wanted to turn back.After all, the mudstone cave is here, and it can't escape. Besides, I don't think this mudstone cave is well hidden, and it may collapse soon. Mu Qingxiang told me not to worry, since the mudstone cave is made of a mixture of mud and stone, it will not collapse so easily.We fell only because the houses that had been built on it had dug out the mud foundations and destroyed the tops of the mud-rock caves.I listened to Mu Qingxiang's assurance, and my mind became much more at ease. Even if I starved to death, I couldn't be buried alive, that would be too painful. After walking for more than ten steps, we held our flashlights and looked forward, and the two of us stopped at the same time.It's not that there are wolves, tigers and leopards ahead, and there are no cliffs and abysses, but that there is only a dead end ahead, and there is only a wall of mud and stone.I walked over in surprise and touched the mudstone wall, which was almost entirely stone, with only a little mud.This wall has traces of being excavated, but the wall is full of stones, so it is impossible to dig through it. "Will there be another fork that we didn't pay attention to just now?" I wondered. Mu Qingxiang shook her head and said it was impossible, walking all the way, there was obviously only one way.Since the road was blocked, we had to go back again, but we couldn't find another road when we got to the bottom of the pit.We walked back and forth in the hole suspiciously, and when we walked back to the wall at the end, Mu Qingxiang reached out to touch it, as if a door would appear as soon as we touched it. "Don't touch it. There can't be a secret door in this kind of place. It was obviously dug out by those two ancestors. They died before they dug it successfully." I said dejectedly. Mu Qingxiang turned to me and said, "Indeed there is no secret door, and they also dug out this mudstone hole. I think I know how they died." "How did he die? Could it be that he was killed by a ghost?" I guessed wildly. "This is a dead end, and they didn't have time to dig through the mud pit we fell into. Since they can't make it to heaven and earth, how can they eat?" Mu Qingxiang speculated, "If they can't supply, they will die naturally. No wonder the bones are intact. There was no sign of poisoning either, so it turned out that he died of starvation.” "Uh..." I stood there in a daze, cursing in my heart, damn it, I really came up with whatever I wanted.Just now I thought that even if I starved to death, I couldn't be buried alive, but I didn't expect to find out that those two people were starved to death.If we can't climb out and others can't find us, wouldn't we have to follow in the footsteps of bones. Thinking of this, even if I can't climb up, I have to try my best, so that I don't want to starve to death in the mudstone cave.But at this moment, I suddenly thought of a terrible problem. If there is a dead end at the end of the mudstone cave, which cannot be opened, and the top of the mudhole cannot be dug through, and there are secret doors everywhere, then the two How did the ancestors appear in the mudstone cave, did they emerge out of thin air? I looked at the bone at the corner in doubt, and I kept asking myself: what happened to those two people.