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Chapter 17 - Chapter 18 Big Tree

I climbed out of the cave carefully. There was only a small protrusion outside where I could stand. Further out was a cliff, at least 15 meters high, and the wind was very strong. I could only observe this place by sticking close to the cliff.

 

I really don't know how to describe what I saw. In front of me was a huge natural cave, roughly the size of a football field. There was a big crack on the top of the cave. The moonlight shone through the crack, just enough to outline the outline of the entire cave. I was currently on the west wall of the cave, and there was nothing to climb on. I glanced around and found that the cave walls around us were also densely packed with holes, tens of thousands of them, so dense that it was as if the cave wall had been swept by super machine guns of different calibers more than a dozen times.

 

What was most shocking was that in the middle of the cave, there was a tree that was almost ten stories high and ten people couldn't even hug it. On the tree, there were countless vines as thick as telephone poles. These vines crisscrossed and entangled almost everything that could be entangled. Their branches hung down from the tree like willow branches, some hung in the air, some had already fallen to the ground, and some even stretched out from the holes in the cave wall. Almost everywhere you could see, there were vines spreading over, and even on the edge of our cave entrance, there were one or two vines crawling.

 

If you look closely, you can see a lot of things hanging on the branches near the inside. At first I thought they were fruits, but looking at the outlines of these things, they didn't seem to be fruits. These things are hidden behind the dense vines, and they shake in the wind from time to time, which is very strange.

 

At the bottom of this natural cave, there is a stone corridor, starting from a small building like an altar, and extending all the way to the bottom of the tree canopy. I can vaguely see that the end of the corridor is a stone platform with more than a dozen steps, on which there is a jade bed, and it seems that there is a person lying on it! The distance is too far, except for a silhouette, nothing else can be seen clearly. I dare not make a conclusion.

 

The fat man was very excited and kept shouting, "Damn it, I finally found it. This must be the main tomb chamber of the Western Zhou Dynasty tomb. The body lying on the jade platform must be the body of King Lu Shang. This old man Lu Shang is so wicked. He took over someone else's nest, turned it over and moved in himself. Today, I, the fat man, will enforce justice on the behalf of heaven and teach you a lesson for this unethical guy. I will let you know that this is the end of tomb robbing!" He was so excited that he didn't even think about what he was doing and even cursed himself.

 

At this time Pan Zi suddenly said: "You'd better not act rashly. King Lu Shang is very evil. I think there must be another mystery here. I think we should find a way to return to the ground through the crack above."

 

I looked up and was shocked. It was not easy to climb to the top, and we had to hang upside down for a long distance to reach the crack. We were not Spider-Man, how could we do it? So I turned around to ask Fatty's opinion, but I saw that he had already leaned half of his body out of the cliff, and he didn't take Pan Zi's words to heart. I saw that he was very agile, so I didn't stop him. He climbed down more than 2 meters in a few steps and reached another cave. Just as he was about to continue climbing down, a hand suddenly stretched out from the cave and grabbed his foot.

 

The fat man was so frightened that he kicked the hand hard, trying to kick it off. Then he heard a man's voice coming from the hole: "Don't move! You'll be dead if you take another step." I heard it and it turned out to be my uncle. I couldn't help but shout out: "Uncle, is that you?"

 

The man below was surprised and said, "Nephew, where the hell have you been? I was so worried about you! Are you okay?"

 

When I heard that it was indeed Uncle San, I breathed a sigh of relief and shouted, "It's okay, but Pan Zi is injured! It's all the fault of this fat guy!" I wanted to stick my head out to take a look, but the hole below was right in the blind spot where I was now, and I could only see half of the fat guy's leg. I had no choice but to give up. Then I heard the fat guy yell, "Comrade, please don't grab my feet, okay?"

 

Uncle San cursed: "Where the hell did you come from, you fat guy? Stop talking nonsense to me. Come down quickly, don't step around, and don't touch the vines."

 

The fat man asked, which one, is it this one? He pointed with his toes, and Sanshu shouted, "No!" Before he finished speaking, the vine that originally looked very ordinary suddenly stood up like a snake, and the end rolled up like a flower. At first glance, it looked like a ghost hand. This thing stood there, as if it was sensing the fat man's position. As long as the fat man moved, it moved with him, left and right, just like an Indian teasing a snake. I suddenly realized that the ghost hand that Pan Zi saw and the five fingers that I saw were these things.

 

That fat guy was really something. He actually drew circles with his feet to tease the vine. I thought to myself that this guy was so unreliable, no wonder he could only come to rob tombs alone. If he had been following us, he would definitely kill him one day. Just as I was thinking about it, the third uncle really got angry and cursed: "I say, are you done yet? Do you know what this thing is? Come down here!" As soon as he finished speaking, the fat guy was in trouble. The vine wrapped around his feet and then rolled up, almost pulling him off the cliff. When we were in the stone room, the fat guy and I couldn't pull a vine. Now, there was no place on the cliff to leverage. Seeing that the fat guy was going to fail, I was anxious and wanted to find a stone to throw down to smash the thing, but the cliff was fucking bare and I couldn't get any debris off. I was just groping around when I suddenly felt my foot tighten. I looked down and it was bad! A ghost hand vine appeared out of nowhere and entangled my feet. I immediately tried to find a place to grab it, but it was too late. A huge force pulled me out. Before I could react, I was already in the air.

 

The feeling at that moment was like weightlessness. I couldn't grab anything with my hands and feet. Then I was thrown heavily against the cliff wall. It was worse than being hit by myself. It was just like being hit by a slammer! I was so dizzy that I almost vomited blood. Then I felt the vines take on more strength and pull me down. My hands were bleeding, but I couldn't grab anything. Then I was in free fall. There was a 15-meter cliff below. I closed my eyes and it was over! I was dead this time.

 

At this moment, suddenly three or four vines were attracted by me and circled over from the cliff. One of them was particularly thick and wrapped around my waist. I was wrapped up in the air like a twist for several times. Then, the back of my head was scratched hard by the particularly thick ghost hand vine against the stone wall. My head buzzed and I felt dizzy all of a sudden. I felt like I was being dragged by those vines, and I kept hitting branches and rocks along the way. There was no part of my body that was spared. I was hit so hard that I saw stars and almost lost consciousness.

 

When I found myself motionless, I suddenly felt extremely nauseous and dizzy. I wanted to open my eyes, but I found that there seemed to be a layer of sand in front of my eyes. I took a few deep breaths and gradually recovered. My vision gradually became clear. At this time, I found that I was hanging upside down on a branch of the giant tree. Below my head was the stone platform where a mysterious corpse was placed. I took a closer look and was shocked. It turned out that there was not only one corpse lying on the stone platform. Next to the corpse I saw, there was also a young female corpse lying. The corpse was covered with white gauze, her eyes were closed, and her face was peaceful. She looked quite pretty, and there was no sign of decay on her body. If you didn't look carefully, you would think she was sleeping. The male corpse lying on the side was wearing a bronze mask with a fox face, and was covered with tight armor all over his body. His hands were placed on his chest, and he held a purple gold box in his hands.

 

I glanced at the armored corpse several times, and always felt that something was uncomfortable. After a closer look, I found that through the eye holes of the bronze mask, the eyes of the corpse inside were actually open, and those two blue eyeballs were staring at me coldly.

 

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