The three of them were crawling in the dark cave. The cave first sloped down less than ten meters along the entrance, and then turned to be parallel to the ground.

Xiao Ran was both excited and confused now. What was exciting was that he didn't expect to enter the inversion phase so quickly.

But if this becomes Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan's first experience of betraying Dou'er, does that count as rewriting the original story line? Will there be new changes later?

Now that things have come to this, we can only take one step at a time. At worst, like before, I will put more thought into dragging them back to the "right path".

Thinking of these two words, Xiao Ran himself felt dumbfounded...

"We're here!" After climbing about twenty meters more, Hu Bayi suddenly shouted.

In order to save power, neither Xiao Ran nor Fatty turned on their flashlights. Only Hu Bayi, who was in the lead, turned on his flashlight to guide the way.

Xiao Ran tilted his head and saw the outline of a hole appearing in front of Hu Bayi. The damaged tomb bricks on the edge of the hole were vaguely visible.

Hu Bayi looked around, then turned over and jumped down. The fat man also imitated Hu Bayi and turned over and jumped down. He only heard a "pop" and a burst of ash suddenly rose from the entrance of the cave.

Xiao Ran followed closely behind and looked around. It turned out that the entrance of the cave was less than two meters from the ground. He saw the fat man getting up and rubbing his butt, and then he jumped down easily while holding back his laughter.

The three of them all turned on their flashlights, and the not-so-bright light revealed the general outline of the tomb. As Hu Bayi said, this is definitely not the tomb of a wealthy family, let alone a prince or aristocrat.

In the square and simple tomb, a simple wooden coffin in the middle was covered with dust.

The fat man looked at the unopened coffin and happily used a shovel to pry open the coffin lid.

"Fat man, stop! What are you going to do?" Hu Bayi quickly stopped him.

The fat man was stunned, and as if he suddenly realized something, he took out a candle and ran to the southeast corner to light it.

Hu Bayi quickly ran over, snatched the candle away and said, "Uncle, is this what I meant?"

The fat man was a little confused: "Did I get the wrong direction?"

Hu Bayi almost laughed out loud at him. He took out the gold-touching talisman from his chest and waved it in front of his eyes: "We are here to touch the gold-touching captain, not a tomb robber! We have agreed before that we will not touch the coffins of ordinary people.

.Look at the wooden wedges on the coffin lid that are still intact, which means that the tomb robber who broke the hole before has not touched it. Can we still be less enlightened than him?"

Only then did the fat man understand what Hu Bayi meant, and he said with a smile: "I am just practicing my skills and going through a process. We have to learn to fight in battle..."

Xiao Ran suddenly thought of something and asked Hu Bayi: "Master Hu, there is a distance of more than 20 meters from the entrance to the tomb to the entrance of the tomb. Is there such a thing about a robbery hole? Drilling a hole from a tomb

, and finally hit another tomb?"

Hu Bayi said: "I have been wondering just now how the robbers dug the hole like this. And judging from the tomb owner's coffin, I can only guess that the purpose of the person who dug the hole was not here. I don't know who he is.

Was it intentional, or was it just the wrong hole..."

Just as he was talking, the fat man not far away shouted again: "Come and take a look! That beast must be in here!"

They hurried to the fat man's side. Behind a screen wall, there was a hole half a man's height. There were fresh blood stains around the hole. There were gusts of wind blowing in the hole, exuding a faint fishy smell.

"We are just passing by this time to catch the scourge. Don't blame me for disturbing you..."

Xiao Ran clasped his hands and muttered silently. He didn't know whether he was really saying these words to the tomb owner, or to the other two people, or to some unknown force, telling it that this was not counted.

, just an accident.

Hu Bayi took a picture of the hole and said, "There is a bend in front of this hole, so we can only continue drilling in."

The three of them didn't say much and ducked into the hole again.

After climbing some distance further and passing several turns, they once again came to an empty cave. This was larger than the previous tomb chamber, but it was not like a man-made excavation. There were many small scratches on some of the cave walls.

, like the claw marks of some animal.

In the center of the cave, there is a mound of fine gravel and soil, with a lot of hay spread on it.

Xiao Ran looked at it with a flashlight and found that there was some blood stains on it. He thought that this place might be the nest of the deer. It had just rested here, but now there was no trace of it in the cave.

The three of them searched around the cave wall with flashlights, and sure enough they found three more small cave entrances. It seemed that this was a fork in the road. They didn't know which one the beast had gotten into, so they had to split up one by one.

Xiao Ran crawled forward along one of the small holes, observing the cave walls along the way, and saw tiny claw marks. Thinking of the hundreds of yellow-skinned ones just now, he couldn't help but feel a little panicked.

At this time, his vision was not enough, so his hearing came into play. He could always hear some rustling sounds, as if there was something running with him in the surrounding walls.

"Master Xiao..."

A sound came from far and near, and Xiao Ran's scalp suddenly felt numb. He didn't know if it was an illusion.

"Boss Xiao..."

There was another call, and at the same time some rare earth fell from his ears.

He felt that the sound was coming from above his head, so he quickly turned around and looked up, only to see a hole above him. On the other side of the hole, a big face stared at him.

He was so frightened that his heart tightened. After he saw the face clearly, he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a wry smile: "Fat Master, why are you up there? You scared me to death..."

"I don't know, I've been climbing all the way up here." The fat man chuckled, "I've just reached the end here, and there's a big cesspool inside. The smell of shit and urine makes my eyes hurt!"

"A cesspit?" Xiao Ran was confused, "What cesspool? Are there people digging cesspits underground?"

"They're not human, they feel like mice or rabbits, but some of them are really big... Oh, I'm disgusting. I'll go find you first." After the fat man said that, he crawled in the opposite direction.

Xiao Ran slowed down and crawled forward, and soon found a faint light approaching from the right front, and there was another small hole there.

He crawled to the small hole and waited quietly. Soon Hu Bayi's face appeared on the other side of the hole.

"Lao Hu, Master Hu! Have you seen the big dung pile?" Xiao Ran greeted quickly.

Hu Bayi was also stunned, and then shouted to Xiao Ran: "Boss Xiao, there are two forks in front of me. One side looks like a nest, full of mounds of soil and hay, and the other side looks like a granary, with a lot of grain piled up.

"

Xiao Ran was puzzled and asked: "The fat man passed over my head just now, and he said that there was a big dung pile over there. Mr. Hu, what kind of place is this? How come you have all the food, drinks, and toilets?"

Hu Badi said: "It's either a yellow-skinned nest or a mouse's nest. But this mouse's nest is a bit too big for anyone to get into. I'll go and join you first..."

After Hu Bayi finished speaking, he also hurriedly climbed towards the entrance.

Not long after, both Fatty and Hu Bayi arrived behind Xiao Ran. After summarizing what they had just witnessed, the three of them seemed to hear a faint rustling sound, as if there was something in the cave wall. Moreover, on the cave walls along the way,

There are also many large and small holes, most of which are impenetrable to humans.

It seemed that the only road in front of him was now, so Xiao Ran took the lead and continued to climb forward.

After turning a few more turns, he saw from a distance that there was a dead end at the end of the cave entrance, and he felt discouraged. It seemed that Zhibao, who had half his life left, no longer knew which hole to escape through. They

We can only go back the way we came.

The fat man behind him also looked inside with his flashlight and said, "Boss Xiao, look at the very back, is there a painting?"

Xiao Ran looked carefully, and it seemed that the cave wall at the end was indeed full of flowers and greenery.

You're all here, let's take a look. Xiao Ran and the others climbed to the end and took a closer look. They saw a person painted on the mural, who looked like the God of Wealth. He was holding Ruyi in his right hand and a gold ingot in his left hand. The seat was full of grains and grains.

Copper coins.

But when it comes to being the God of Wealth, he does not have the kind-faced, kind-looking eyes and long beard that are commonly seen in the Five Gods of Wealth. Instead, he has a sharp mouth, a rat beard, and long ears and thin eyes.

Xiao Ran was about to step forward to take a closer look when he suddenly felt his feet loosen, and with a "crash" sound of earth and rocks, his whole body suddenly fell weightless.

Fortunately, the fat man behind him was quick and grabbed one of his arms immediately. When all the earth and rocks fell, he found a platform less than two meters below his feet, next to the vertical wall behind him. At the other end of the platform, there was a section

Artificial stone steps.

"You two gentlemen, there is a road below!" Xiao Ran shouted quickly.

The three of them went down to the platform along the stone wall, climbed the stairs and walked dozens of meters, when they saw a slightly opened stone door standing in front of them.

Xiao Ran used his flashlight to shine around the stone door and found that there were holes of various sizes on the walls around the stone door. There was blood around one of the holes, and the blood stain went all the way down and into the stone door.

"It seems that the beast is in here. Let's close the door and beat the dog... beat him!" The fat man said with great interest.

The three of them pried open the stone door with all their hands, and found that there was actually a spacious stone hall inside. In the middle of the stone hall, against the wall, there was a clay statue enshrined, which was exactly the same as the portrait just now.

"This is the Cang Temple." Hu Bayi looked around and said, "This is the temple dedicated to the Gray Immortal..."

"Is there a temple for rats?" Xiao Ran was surprised.

"Hey, you didn't know this. People here believe in the Five Immortals, and there are temples for the Five Immortals. When Lao Hu and I joined the queue, we even burned a Huang Xian'er temple!" said the fat man.

"Good man, something is coming!" Yin Yang Jing said suddenly.

The rustling sound became louder and louder, getting closer and closer, rushing over like running water.

The three of them raised their flashlights and looked around. They saw rats of all sizes emerging from the holes in the stone wall one after another and surrounding them.

Behind them, a large mound of soil was rising up, as if something was about to come out of it.
Chapter completed!