Chapter 51 Chapter 50 Mud Pool

It took less than ten minutes to open a passable hole, and destruction was always more efficient than construction. Zhang Haike and the others filed in and lit torches. After entering the brick wall, they found that the situation here was completely different from what they thought. The first is mud, and behind the brick wall is a huge stone hall. Except for the bricks on their side, the other parts are all large stone strips, but it is impossible to tell what kind of stone it is. The entire hall is filled with The mud, surrounded by a very sloping stone edge, can be walked on, and the corpse was sitting on the stone edge.

They pushed the corpse when they went in, and the corpse fell into the mud. Zhang Haike helped him up and found that the joints of the corpse could still move. He was wearing clothes from the early Republic of China and tied leggings.He originally wanted to take a good look at the condition of the corpses, but quickly dismissed the idea because he found that the huge mud pool was full of such corpses. From the condition of the corpses, it is hard to tell how deep the mud was. Some corpses were covered, and some corpses reached the waist. The mud was green and very viscous, making people sick.

They walked on the edge of the stone, walked around, and found that there was no passage leading to other places in this stone hall. "Just such a small place?" One person said to himself. Zhang Haike said: "The submerged part of the people on the side is high, and the people in the middle are low. This mud pool is in the shape of a bucket, and there should be an opening leading to other places under the mud." "Damn it." "The corpses in the mud all wear eye protection and something to protect their nose and mouth. Even if there is no opening, they are still fishing in it. But I tend to have a passage." Zhang Haike said, "Because all the people are connected by ropes, Moreover, our judgment just now was wrong, this opening was not closed by the outsiders, but by these people inside. You see, the traces of the seal are all inside. These people sealed themselves inside."

"You mean, there might be something strange in the mud, they don't want it to hurt people, so they sacrificed themselves?" "I've never thought of being so noble in our business. There are bricks on the ground outside, which means that people inside are constantly blocking, and people outside are constantly trying to dig in. I don't know the specifics, but we have to Send someone to guard the opening. It should be safe inside." "No one is like the Zhang family. When they dig a brick wall, they dig. Everyone knocks bricks into the wall. Only we dig outside. Stop talking nonsense."

"I'm not talking nonsense." Zhang Haike took a breath suddenly, took out the pocket watch again, and opened it to show them the photo, "Do you know who this person is?" Several people looked at it and shook their heads.Zhang Haike looked at the hole they came in, and said, "This man is Zhang Qiling's father, I met him when I was a child." Lifting up a corpse, Zhang Haike put a torch close to the hideous face of the corpse, and said, "Look carefully at the faces and hands of these corpses, all of them belong to the Zhang family, and all of them have the characteristics of the Zhang family."

"Ah?" These people went to look at it one after another, and when they saw the corpse's fingers, they were indeed extremely long, and all of them turned pale. "This is how the same thing?" "I knew that Zhang Qiling's father died, but the family kept secret about these deaths. I'm afraid we were deceived this time. Someone arranged for us to come to this place." "Who?" Zhang Haike turned around and said, "It's Zhang Qiling, a little brat. We were led here all the way. If you think about it, it seems that all the information was provided by him." He paused, and continued, "This kid, he tricked us all here. Could it be because of his father's body?"

"Fuck it, I'll go up and wring his neck." One of them was furious.Zhang Haike immediately waved his hand: "Wait a minute, the death of these Zhang family members is too suspicious. Zhang Qiling probably didn't want to harm us, but wanted us to see how these people died. He might just want to find out how his father died. of?" "No." The other said, "Come and see here." Several people turned their heads and saw that the man had already jumped into the mud and was carrying another corpse. He twisted the head of the corpse hard, and in an instant he twisted the head of the corpse off very easily.

"The neck is broken, and many of these corpses have injuries." He said, "There have been a lot of fights here, and the way the Zhang family killed people was used. Some of these people were murdered, and the people who killed them It's also the Zhang family. This is the scene of our family's infighting." Several people looked at each other in blank dismay. Actually, everyone knew a little about the infighting in the family, but seeing such a scene, these children still couldn't digest it. "Did Zhang Qiling's father be murdered by our own family?" One of them became terrified, "Damn, his father is dead, but our father is still alive. Could it be that our father is the murderer? This brat To trick us into coming here for revenge?"

Several people looked at each other again, paused, and immediately rushed towards the exit, and then rushed to the entrance, and saw Poker Bottle squatting behind the brick wall of the entrance, watching them silently. Several people slammed on the brakes, and the last person rolled directly into the mud. Several people stood still and trembled. One of them said: "Little devil, why did you get down?" Poker-Face looked left and right, and looked at them again. Zhang Haike was still relatively calm. After a few minutes of stalemate, he came to his senses and asked, "Did you hear our discussion just now?"

Poker Bottle nodded. "Is it as we surmised?" Poker-Face looked at him and said, "It's not speculation, I was there when all this happened." Several people looked at each other again: "It is true that our father killed your father?" "I don't even know who your father is." Poker bottle said, "The father you think is not my father." "Then why did you trick us here?" Poker-Face looked at Zhang Haike and said, "I need to come down to this place. I'm too young, and I can't do many things." "What are you doing here?"

"It has nothing to do with you." Poker bottle said, "Under this quagmire, there are cobweb-like passages, all filled with mud, but each section of the passage is connected with various rooms, where you can rest and breathe air. Among them There are a few rooms that have a lot of things you need, you can use these dead men's equipment and go forward four to five rooms to complete the test." "how about you?" "I have to go very deep." Poker bottle said. Pokerfing told Zhang Haike that the whole area under this strange place is the ruins of the ancient city of Sizhou, and there are at least four layers of rock layers buried under their feet, and they are only on the first layer.This ancient city was operated by the Zhang family 30 years ago. After a flood in the Kangxi period, the ancient city was buried in mud and disappeared. Most of the property has not been cleared out, so there are many good things in the mud. The ancient city of Sizhou was built 1,500 years ago in the Sui Dynasty. During this generation, the Yellow River flooded continuously for years. Later, the foundations of countless old cities collapsed, and the soil was buried under the new city. After that, several layers of cities staggered up and down, and the underground became a maze of silt and relics.Floods in the Yellow River have occurred no less than ten thousand times in the past 1,500 years, and each time a lot of property was fixed in the mud. For tomb robbers, it is simply a gold rush.In the ruins, as long as they explore a distance of several hundred meters, they can return with a full load. But what Poker-face wants is in the deepest place. "You don't need help?" Zhang Haike asked after Poker Fing finished speaking. "You can't help me," Poker-Face said, "You don't understand everything here, you take your things and go back quickly, otherwise, the danger not only comes from here, let the Zhang family know that you are here, you will not It will end well." Zhang Haike and the others looked at each other, and Boyouping said: "I didn't want to say these things at first, and I wanted to wait for you to suffer setbacks, but you are too persistent and shrewd, and you really succeeded. Now, I have said everything that needs to be said, Believe it or not, it's up to you." After speaking a few steps, he jumped into the mud and fell down. A few people watched a few bubbles come out of the mud, and after a few thumps, the Poker Bottle disappeared, and looked at each other again. "How?" said one of them, "Is what this kid said true?" "It's really not important, but if we listen to him, we will lose to this little bastard. We have already lost face. I can't swallow this breath. Why should I listen to him?" Another said . After being silent again, one of them cursed, packed up his equipment, and jumped down. Zhang Haike watched them go down one by one, and sighed inwardly, a particularly bad feeling surged up, but he still jumped into the mud with them and dived down. The feeling of diving in the mud is very strange. Zhang Haike didn't describe it much. He only said that he held his breath for three minutes, and then he felt the rope and led him to the side of the tunnel. He held the rope with one hand and touched the side of the tunnel with the other. Going all the way, when the corridor reached the top, he was floating up to the top, and found that it was the mouth of a well, the well was full of mud, and there was a cobbled ground outside, and several mud monkeys were all lying on the ground panting. This seems to be a family's yard, which has obviously sunk into a cave, but the bonsai, rockery, and pebbles still exist. The torches had already been lit, and if you didn’t judge, you would think that this was a very small stone hall. The flood destroyed two houses, and the outer wall collapsed and covered the courtyard. Now the outer wall that became the ceiling has tilted. Zhang Haike wiped off the black mud on his face, and saw that apart from a few of them, there was no Poker Bottle. "What about the kid?" One of them pointed to one side, and saw a muddy footprint on the ground, leading into the darkness where the torches could not reach.Zhang Haike wanted to follow immediately, but was stopped by someone: "That kid told us not to follow him, otherwise it would be very dangerous. He said that only he can walk that road." Zhang Haike was impatient, thinking that this kid really didn't want his life, he didn't even want help, this is the behavior of a child, he said: "After all, he is a brother of the same clan, no matter what his purpose is, we can't let him die." Zhang Haike followed along the mud footprints, and they found that there was still a hole in the corner of the wall, leading to another gap. Zhang Haike said that this ancient city was completely buried by silt. In some places, the silt has been completely turned into mud after hundreds of years, and some of them are still viscous. There is only air in many relatively large and closed ancient architectural relics.In the early exploration of the Zhang family, passages have been established between the routes that can be traveled, and ropes are hidden in the mud, which can be touched as long as they enter the mud, so as to reach another room before suffocation.Some rooms are too far apart, and the predecessors used the method of digging robbery holes to move forward. In short, because of the complex geological conditions in the ancient city, it became a system composed of robbery holes, ropes under the mud, and various passages. The predecessors of the Zhang family used a network exploration in the initial stage, but in the later stage, all the routes were grouped into one, obviously with a clear purpose.This is because at the beginning, the purpose of this group of people was just to collect property, but later they discovered a secret in the collected property, so they turned to concentrate on exploring this secret. In the corner of that room was the entrance of a corridor. After they entered, they entered a dry ancient ruin, half of which had collapsed, and they could see the shaved ceiling, half of which was buried in the soil, and the entire ceiling was is slanted. This is a wing house with a garden on the side. It seems to be the building of a rich family. The family is well-off, so the house is very strong. Although it collapsed in the flood, many shapes have been preserved. They saw two forks here, and the tomb passage that continued forward turned into two.From the traces of the mud, it was easy to tell which way Pokerfing was going, but Zhang Haike found that they couldn't follow. Because of the two robber holes, one is large and the other is small, the large one is of normal size, but the small one can only accommodate a man as tall as Poker Bottle.They looked like they were not much bigger than Poker Bottle, but they definitely couldn't squeeze in. Zhang Haike couldn't figure it out. After he carefully inspected the small robber's cave, he found that it was a last resort, because there were four bluestone slabs in the soil around the robber's cave. This was a sewer channel with a diameter of It has been pinned and cannot be expanded. No wonder Pokerfing said that only he can pass.