Chapter 19: A Cave Within
"Peanuts! Where are you?" I shouted into the darkness of nothingness, but I couldn't hear any answer. "Old Tan! Peanuts..." Every time I called their names, the fear in my heart disappeared.
Adding another level, even my own echo seemed a bit scary at the moment. After shouting, my voice became smaller and smaller, and in the end, I didn’t even dare to make a sound anymore.
Suddenly, the whole world became quiet, and I was the only one left in the huge square. In this ancient tomb that no one had set foot on for thousands of years, darkness rushed towards me unscrupulously. I felt extremely worried.
It turned into extreme fear, and my hands and feet began to tremble.
Just when my whole body was stiff, suddenly something hit me hard on the shoulder.
"Ah!" I was so frightened that I jumped on the spot and then turned around.
"Sorry." Peanut smiled evilly and winked at me.
The moment I saw him, I was almost so happy that I wanted to give him a hug.
"You, are you okay? Then..." I was about to ask about Lao Tan's situation, when I suddenly saw someone carrying someone on his shoulders.
Peanut put the man off his shoulder, and when I saw it, it was indeed Tan Wei. I quickly squatted down to see how Old Tan was doing.
"Not dead yet." Peanut said, probably because of the fatigue just now, he sat down on the ground.
Lao Tan's face was pale, but his breathing was fairly even, so it was probably nothing serious. I took my backpack and put it under Lao Tan's head to make a pillow for him, then took out the water and handed it to the peanut.
"Thank you so much. What was that thing just now? Why did you hang Lao Tan up without making any sound?" I said to Peanut.
At this time, I noticed that Hua Se's face was also a little pale. I thought to myself that this kid was not King Kong after all. However, his series of actions just now were shocking. With such skills, being a tomb robber is really embarrassing.
, I’ll probably make it after going to Hollywood.
Peanut took the kettle, but did not drink it. Instead, he lit a cigarette and took two strong puffs, probably to catch his breath.
However, to my surprise, he stood up and took off his shirt.
"It's not hot here, why are you taking off your clothes?" I looked up at him, and suddenly I noticed that there was a blood stain on Peanut's shoulder, which spread all the way to his back.
"Are you injured?" I quickly stood up and walked behind him. I looked with a flashlight and was stunned.
I never imagined that the blood marks on Peanut's shoulders would spread all the way to his lower back. And it was no longer a wound, it was just a crack. The flesh on his back was open, as if someone was forcefully applying force from behind.
He cut with a knife, leaving blood on his back, and his pants were soaked through.
I immediately thought of the huge shadow just now, and asked, "What on earth is that thing?"
"Spider." Peanut replied with a smile, "Maybe this place is too remote and part-time workers can't come, so we raised such a big one."
"You still want to joke, damn, do you know that this kind of wound can kill people if it is not treated well." After I said that, I immediately took out the first aid kit from my bag. Fortunately, we were well prepared at the time, and there were a lot of trauma medicine in it.
Just as I was taking out alcohol to clean his wounds, Peanut said no, and threw the pile of band-aids to me.
"Huh?" I was almost stunned.
"I'm invulnerable to all kinds of poisons, and medicine doesn't work, so I just put two stickers on it." After saying that, Peanut put back the alcohol and the tetanus medicine.
"Are you crazy?" I didn't want to say anything more to him, so I picked up alcohol and cotton cloth and rubbed it on his wound. I originally thought that this kid was afraid of pain and didn't want to embarrass himself in front of me, but until I took care of the wound
It was over, but he didn't say a word. This kind of endurance is probably only what Guan Erye has compared to him.
After finishing it, I remembered what happened just now and asked him: "Hey, is there a rope on the stone pillar? How did you see it?"
Peanut pointed out the general direction of the six stone pillars to me, "If the thing dragging him is completely suspended in the air, it will not walk in a straight line at all. There will be no connection between us and the tower. That kind of moving trajectory
, plus the height, it must be related to the stone pillars, but I didn’t expect that it would be spider silk.”
"Spider silk?" I immediately thought of the spider silk I encountered before, "Impossible, how can spider silk have such toughness?"
"Don't use your experience to judge what's inside the ancient tomb." After Peanut said this, he turned around and continued to enjoy his cigarette.
"You mean, that spider silk was spit out by that big guy just now?"
"No, although that thing is very big, it is not qualified to spit out such a level of thread. You will know when you get up there later."
After hearing this, I was shocked, "Is there a bigger one?" When I thought about the spider with a bigger shadow than the one just now, my back suddenly felt cold. Wait...I suddenly realized,
"You, what did you just say? Go up? What go up?"
Peanut grinned, "Can't you see? That's the only way for us to go there."
Following Peanut's hand, I seemed to see a heaven and earth spread out over my head. However, it was more than thirty meters high, and it was connected by a spider's thread, which could really kill me.
Apart from anything else, it would be impossible for Lao Tan and I to climb the surrounding stone pillars.
However, after thinking about it again, it seems that this is indeed the only way for us to enter the ancient tomb.
"But, what if that thing comes out again?" I asked still uneasily.
"It's okay, don't worry." Although Peanut said that, his expression was that of coaxing a child, which made me even less confident.
Damn it, just die, that's the only way to go anyway. I feel like my legs are weak just thinking about it.
After a while, I still had some doubts in my heart, so I asked Peanut: "Don't you find it strange? You said that the mausoleum opposite was used for sacrifices, and there were sacrificial vessels at the door. How did people in ancient times go there to offer sacrifices?
You can't just climb up such a high spider silk, right? This is too mysterious, I don't believe it, those people have the same skills as you."
Peanut looked forward and said, "You are right. The spider silk above is an accident. The real passage is definitely not there. I still believe that there are mechanisms around it. Did you feel anything strange when you looked at the moat just now?
?”
"Strange?" I recalled the scene in the moat, "There's nothing special about it, except for the air-conditioning on the water. It's just...it's a bit high, and it looks scary."
"Yes, it's the height." Peanut smiled and nodded.
"Height?" I thought to myself, shouldn't the moat be dug deeper? I didn't understand what was so weird about it.
Peanut said: "If it were a real city tower, no matter how high the moat in front was dug, it would not matter, but this is a mausoleum. Although the ancients had very high requirements for tombs, even the greatest emperor in history did not
You may have completely buried everything in reality into your own tomb, so everything in the tomb is intentional."
Peanut looked at me and seemed to be waiting for me to digest what he said before continuing: "How deep is the moat we saw? Twenty or thirty meters is just what we see on the surface. How deep is it under the water?"
There is no way to calculate the depth. And this height is actually the height of the foundation of the mausoleum in front of you. You can imagine what kind of project it would be to build such a high foundation in such a cave."
I suddenly understood what Peanut meant, "You mean, the entire height of this mausoleum also includes the height of the moat? Oh my God, then, how high is it?"
"The important thing is not the height, but that such an ancient tomb makes no sense at all in the Western Han Dynasty. The tombs at that time were almost all vertical cave tombs, that is, a large hole was opened from top to bottom, and then the bottom of the hole was divided into
Tomb passages, tomb chambers, patios, etc. What we see in front of us is a large-scale horizontal cave-type cliff cave tomb. This kind of tomb structure was just emerging in the late Western Han Dynasty. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that this structure was fully formed.
, people in the Western Han Dynasty probably had little idea of such a tomb structure."
After listening to this, I pondered for a while, "You mean, the construction here is illogical. Is this not an ancient tomb, but really a city hidden in the mountains?"
Even I was shocked when I said this.
Peanut shook his head, "This is definitely an ancient tomb. It must have been deliberately built like this for a special reason."
"Based on your experience, what do you think the reason might be?" I asked curiously.
Peanut suddenly fell silent, and after a few seconds he said: "This ancient tomb is not just for burying people."
I laughed and said, "If people are not buried in ancient tombs, how can they also bury ghosts?" However, when I saw the gloomy expression on Peanut's face, I stopped laughing immediately. "You, don't scare me."
Chapter completed!