I just felt like I had rolled down from a high platform and rolled several times on the ground before stopping. Although Ye Xun also fell next to me, he was not as embarrassed as I was, and he even stretched out his hand to pull me up.
I took a quick look around with the flashlight illuminated by the pursuers.
Ye Xun and I fell into an open cave. Although I couldn't see the specific scene in the cave, I saw a round stone platform like an altar. When I was about to take a closer look in the direction of the stone platform, the pursuers were already close to the entrance above and behind us.
I pulled Ye Xun and ran straight under the cave entrance to hide. The two of us had just stood against the wall of the cave when a few flashlights shone into the cave from above our heads.
Someone stood at the entrance of the cave and shouted, "Where have the people gone?"
Chen Mingyu said coldly: "Don't you know it's dark under the light? They are under your feet. Go down and find them."
Chen Mingyu is worthy of being an old Jianghu, and he saw through my tricks at a glance. When I reached out to touch the handle of the knife, Ye Xun lightly touched the corner of my clothes and whispered: "There is a coffin behind us."
I reached behind and touched, and sure enough there was a huge coffin. The sarcophagus without a lid would not be too crowded even if two people lay side by side in it. However, if the two of us jump into the coffin to hide together, doesn't it mean that we will be caught in a trap
When I was about to refuse, there was the sound of someone sliding above my head.
I just glanced in the direction above my head when Ye Xun suddenly grabbed my belt and pushed me into the coffin. As soon as I fell into the coffin, I instinctively wanted to crawl out, but before I could get up, I was pushed back by Ye Xun who jumped in.
When I wanted to resist again, there was a sound of footsteps falling not far from us - someone came down from above.
"There is a coffin here!" After someone shouted, more and more people came down from the cave entrance. I couldn't help but break out a layer of cold sweat in the palm of my hand holding the long knife.
I was deceived by Ye Xun.
If we had dispersed just now, we could still have used the terrain to deal with Chen Mingyu, but now we are in the coffin with no place to move. As long as the opponent has a gun in his hand, we can't run away even if we want.
When I turned to look at Ye Xun, he put his hand on my back, stretched out a finger and nodded at me.
one? What did Ye Xun want to say
When I was wondering, I suddenly heard Chen Mingyu say: "You two, go to the coffin and have a look."
I was startled and grabbed the long knife with both hands at the same time.
But at this moment, Ye Xun tapped my back again, as if telling me to calm down, and as if counting "two" once.
When I couldn't help but look at Ye Xun, someone's hand was already pressing on the edge of the coffin, and the flashlight beam also shot across the top of the coffin. As long as the other party moves the direction of the flashlight even slightly, Ye Xun and I will be completely exposed to the other party's sight...
But at this moment, Ye Xun grabbed my neck and pushed it down hard, and I immediately lay down in the coffin involuntarily.
As soon as the tip of my nose touched the coffin board, I heard a harsh sound of wind above my head, as if something huge fell from the sky in an instant with the force of a mountain. Before I could react, there was a loud bang above my head, and several broken fingers fell on me along with dust and stone skin. Before I could close my eyes, I was blinded by the dust.
When I opened my eyes, my vision had become pitch black, and I could still faintly hear the screams coming from outside. I subconsciously reached out and touched the top of my head. The coffin had been tightly covered with a wooden lid. No wonder it became pitch black before my eyes and I couldn't hear what was going on outside.
I whispered to Ye Xun: "Did you see the coffin lid on it?"
"Didn't you see that I could throw you in?" Ye Xun almost choked me to death with one sentence, "You idiot."
I was so angry that Ye Xun rolled my eyes. He must have seen the lid hanging above the coffin, and cut the rope holding the lid, but he never told me, causing me to almost choke to death on the ashes.
But I also knew that now was not the time to compete with Ye Xun, so I could only suppress my anger, put my ear to the coffin and listen carefully to what was going on outside. Someone said: "Boss, Xiaowu's hand is disabled, look..."
"Send him away and double the pension." After Chen Mingyu said this, a scream soon came from outside.
The man killed his companion and said, "Boss, do you still have a look inside the coffin?"
Chen Mingyu said: "No need to look. Wang Huan and Ye Xun look young, but in fact they are veterans. Veterans will not drill into the coffin. Search in the hole. If you find them, don't kill them first..."
Chen Mingyu's voice became smaller and smaller, and she seemed to have gone somewhere else. I whispered: "Help me move the coffin lid and see what's going on outside."
Ye Xun and I worked together to push the coffin lid open a little, and I also stuck my head out of the coffin.
Chen Mingyu's men had dispersed in groups of four and searched in different directions. However, Chen Mingyu himself led a few of his capable men to the altar in the center of the cave.
Chen Mingyu stood on the empty altar at first, then quickly squatted down, and soon lay on the ground with a flashlight, apparently observing the things on the altar. What exactly is on the altar? Is it a picture or a text
Chen Mingyu quickly stood up and shined a flashlight on the walls around the altar. When the flashlight's beam stopped at one point, I also saw a door carved into a wall.
The carvings on the gate stone are extremely realistic and even have a three-dimensional beauty. Although I couldn't see clearly what kind of pictures were carved on the door, I could see that the door seemed to protrude from the inside out, as if someone had opened the door a crack from the inside, peering at the visitors outside, and making a decision. Do you want to open the mysterious door to visitors
Chen Mingyu stared at the door for a long time before moving the flashlight in a clockwise direction. Another stone door soon appeared in my sight. A gap about the width of a hand opened between the two doors, and a hand pushing the door leaf could be faintly seen on one side of the door.
Before I could see the full picture of the palm, Chen Mingyu changed the direction again, and another door soon appeared in my sight...
Starting from the stone door that Chen Mingyu saw for the first time, there were five stone doors in total that I could see, and each stone door opened part of the door in an increasing manner. If the cave above us was also a stone door, it would be a completely open door.
A conjecture quickly flashed through my mind: the coffin was under the open door. The stone coffin body and wooden coffin lid showed that this coffin was not used to bury people at all, but to transport the dead. Tool of.
After the dead person rests briefly in the coffin, he will be sent to the altar, and the wizard offering sacrifices to the gods will pray that his soul enters one of the doors. Behind the door is connected to another world, either the human world or the heaven. Maybe even hell.
However, everything here seems to have nothing to do with the Water God
When I was thinking wildly, Chen Mingyu suddenly said: "Come all over. Go and pull the coffin to the altar for me."
I couldn't help being surprised when someone said: "Boss, that coffin must weigh several tons. Can we pull it over?"
Chen Mingyu walked down from the altar and kicked the ground twice: "Look, there are slides on the ground. As long as you get the coffin up, it's not difficult to pull up the altar. Hurry and do it."
After Chen Mingyu moved away, I saw that the so-called slides were actually copper pillars stuck side by side between two rail-like bronze tracks. Because of the passage of time, the two rows of slides were buried under the dust. Chen Mingyu cleaned them out with just a few strokes: "Hurry, use a shovel to shovel out the slide, and a few people will go over and tie the coffin for me."
I saw someone running towards the coffin quickly, and I quickly closed the coffin lid with Ye Xun and lay back. I whispered: "Ye Xun, did you just see something hanging the coffin lid from the ceiling?"
"rope."
Ye Xungang said two words, and my heart made a "thump" sound.
I don’t know how old this cave has been, but one thing I am sure of is that there is no rope that has not rotted for more than ten years. Someone must be replacing the rope regularly to lift the coffin lid weighing several hundred kilograms. On the shed roof.
Who is guarding this altar? Are they those water gods, or is it someone else
Before I could think about it, there was the sound of ropes rubbing against the coffin from outside - the coffin we were lying on also had a slide underneath, otherwise people outside would not be able to easily extend the rope under the coffin.
I whispered: "Ye Xun, if you go to the altar in a while, something might happen. How confident are you that you can break out?"
"Cooperate with me to capture Chen Mingyu." Ye Xun answered before quietly opening the guitar case and looking for something inside.
If there are no other water gods outside attacking Chen Mingyu, capturing Chen Mingyu is our only chance. I also took out the dagger from my body and held it in my hand, quietly waiting for the coffin to be moved.
Soon after, the bodyguards shouted from outside: "One two... one two..."
Every time the other party shouted, the coffin we were in would move forward a little, and the sound of the copper pillars rotating close to the coffin could be heard. That sound might not sound loud outside, but inside the coffin it was like a muffled thunder that quickly blocked my hearing. Just when I felt my ears buzzing, the moving coffin suddenly stopped, and dark red firelight shot into the coffin from all directions in an instant.
Someone started a fire outside