The passage is deep, winding, and sloping downward. It is hard to see the end at a glance...
It seems to be the road to the Nine Nether Hell. People in it, accompanied by darkness, groping forward, every step down is unpredictable, and the air is filled with a strong smell of rot. The source of everything is at the end of this secret passage.
Since entering this secret passage, my body has begun to show abnormalities again. The heat suppressed by the female ghost began to stir in my lower abdomen again, and it has a tendency to intensify.
Zhang Daoxuan was the first to discover the abnormality. After I explained my previous experience and current feelings, he fell into deep thought.
"It's interesting."
After a moment, he said so.
This is the second time I heard him say these four words today. The first time was about the female ghost, and the second time was naturally about me.
I really can't figure out what's interesting. It's definitely not fun to be on fire all over!
Fortunately, Zhang Daoxuan didn't really ignore me. He put his hand on my shoulder without making a sound and pushed me forward. The cool air from his palm quickly relieved the heat, and my speed was obviously much faster.
After turning several corners in a row, a dim light came into my eyes.
At the end of the dark passage, there was a dark underground room with lights inside.
When the three of us jumped into the dark room, the strong smell of rottenness and blood hit us.
"My God, how many people have this family harmed!"
Zhang Xinya covered her mouth and nose, and was almost suffocated by the smell. Her chest rose and fell sharply. After trying to restrain herself for a while, she finally turned her head and vomited with a "wow".
She is much more tolerant than me. If she is like this, what about me?
Fortunately, I am now a paper man, and my physiological structure determines my function. Although I feel nauseous, I cannot vomit.
There is no way. The scene in front of me is simply hell on earth!
In the small dark room, the corpses are stacked one after another. It seems that there are dozens of corpses. The oldest is in his seventies or eighties, and the youngest looks like a junior high school student wearing a school uniform. All of these dead people are pale without exception. There are obvious cuts on the neck artery. They died of bleeding. The time of death is also different. Some corpses have rotted, and some have died less than a day ago according to the corpse spots.
In the middle of the dark room, there is a small pool of one meter square. The pool is full of blood, reflecting the extremely seductive blood light under the dim light.
"These seem to be the missing people recently..."
Zhang Xinya retched while pointing at a little girl still in school uniform, saying, "The message has been forwarded on WeChat Moments. About four or five days ago, this child never returned home after school. It turned out that she was dragged here and bled to death. What on earth did this family want to do by killing so many people?"
"It seems to be an evil sacrifice."
Zhang Daoxuan frowned and looked at the top of the dark room opposite the blood pool. There were some strange patterns carved with blood. There was no pattern at all. It looked like some graffiti left by ancient ancestors in the cave to record their lives. They were all a combination of circles and lines.
After staring at that place for a while, Zhang Daoxuan probably didn't see any clues and walked towards the southwest corner of the dark room.
There was a table with some papers on it.
Zhang Daoxuan pulled me over there. He walked very fast and didn't look at his feet. The amazing thing was that his feet seemed to have eyes, and he could always find a gap to land among the piled corpses.
I was in a more miserable situation. Now I had to rely on him to help me suppress the heat in my body. I didn't dare to leave him at all. I could only chase him in a hurry. As for my feet, I didn't care at all. I stepped on a rotten corpse by mistake. This corpse was at the bottom. Only a face was exposed from the gap, and it was swollen beyond recognition. When I stepped on it, the skin and flesh were "slipped" and broken, just like stepping on rotten fruit. My feet slipped. If I hadn't hugged Zhang Daoxuan in time, I would have plunged into the pile of corpses. When I rushed to the table, I was almost sick to death.
However, the things on the table attracted my attention.
These are some drawings, drawings about the structure of the tomb!
I could tell at a glance that the top drawings showed the internal structure of the Qihe Tomb. This kind of tomb is extremely rare and similar, and it is too recognizable. Xing Wei marked many colors on these drawings, and I couldn't understand what they meant.
Under the drawings of the Qihe Tomb, there is a thick stack of blank A4 paper. The first one is full of question marks, and I don't know what it means.
Through these clues, I can roughly see that Xing Wei has probably started studying the tomb a long time ago, but it seems that... the tomb still makes him full of doubts and puzzlement.
This is a bit unreasonable. The Qihe Tomb can be regarded as a large tomb, and it is also a tomb that dignitaries in the old days would choose. But compared with other extremely luxurious aristocratic tombs, this one is relatively simple. There is only a little trick. If you study it carefully, almost everything can be resolved. What is there to hesitate about?
"After all, he has studied for so long. If he hesitates, he must know something."
Zhang Xinya listened to me and said bluntly: "This tomb should have something unusual. It may be different from the Seven-combination Tomb you know."
It seems that this is the only explanation at present.
Just as I frowned and thought, Zhang Daoxuan silently took his hand away from my shoulder.
Without him, the burning breath in my lower abdomen reappeared, and it came extremely fast. Flames almost instantly burst out of my body.
The pain came unexpectedly, and I almost jumped up. I screamed "Ah" and shouted to Zhang Daoxuan: "Senior, save me!"
"Sorry, let's do an experiment."
Zhang Daoxuan shrugged, put his hand on my shoulder again, and then said: "I'm just a little curious, why this place makes you burn with yang energy, but unfortunately, I didn't find the reason just now."
Just... an experiment?
I looked at him with resentment. Is this a devil? What about the trust we promised?
I suddenly regretted listening to him and running in. I was on fire after a disagreement. It was really scary.
"It's okay. Your foundation is still relatively good. It won't burn for a while."
Zhang Daoxuan was embarrassed for a rare moment, and then he said seriously: "There must be something in this place that is related to you, but you can only find the reason yourself. I, an outsider, can't intervene."
As he said that, he moved his hand away again, and I didn't even have the chance to stop him. With a "hiss", flames appeared on my body again, burning the paper on my body black, and I could really feel the pain, which was no different from being thrown into the fire. For a while, I screamed miserably.
"Shut up!"
Zhang Daoxuan was also a little annoyed, and shouted: "Forget the pain, feel it carefully, what is affecting you!"
How can such pain be forgotten just by saying forget it? I am not Guan Erye, who can play chess while scraping bones and healing wounds. However, after two days of getting along, I have some understanding of Zhang Daoxuan. If I don't do what he says, I guess he will really ignore me and let me burn to death here.
Pain is something that can't be forgotten, but in order to save my life, I can definitely endure it!
While screaming and rolling, I forced myself to calm down and pay attention to everything around me.
Buzz!
I found that when the fire burned my body, there was indeed something in my lower abdomen that was constantly trembling, and the terrible heat was also radiating from that thing. I could feel it quietly and felt that it seemed to be very excited and stimulated in some way.
This is a mysterious feeling that is difficult to describe, but after careful experience, I soon found the source!
"In the blood pool!!"
I immediately yelled: "There is something in the blood pool that is stimulating the thing on my body!"
Bang!
Zhang Daoxuan immediately put his hand on me, and the terrible burning breath was suppressed, the flames dissipated, and I was exhausted. There were curls of black smoke floating up, emitting the smell of burning pig hair.
However, before I could catch my breath, Zhang Daoxuan picked me up and threw me directly into the blood pool, shouting: "Go, find that thing for me!"