Chapter 20 Weird
Everything that followed was going on silently. Zuo Qingcang and the old man connected the hole and the passage through ropes and daggers, and then transported the jars from the burial room and into the passage in the middle of the stone room.
The old man who came to the passage opposite the stone chamber also found that in addition to the original three passages, there was actually a passage below the thief hole, but he had not seen it before when he stayed in the thief hole.
When all the food was delivered, Zuo Qingcang carried the jars and strided towards the passage again.
Before leaving, Zuo Qingcang looked back at the stone chamber and looked at the eternal light hanging on the wall. He suddenly felt that he had forgotten something, but when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't remember it.
He shook his head and walked towards the depths of the passage with the old man.
The old man followed behind and couldn't help but look back at the huge corpse monster in the stone chamber behind him. However, neither he nor Zuo Qingcang said anything, obviously because he was afraid of attracting the attention of the corpse monster. After walking for hundreds of meters, the old man finally couldn't help speaking and whispered: "Why choose this road?"
"The passage is almost the same, and there is no clue in the stone chamber." Zuo Qingcang explained: "I just chose one casually."
The old man showed a depressed look when he heard this. They were just next to the corpse monster, and they were unwilling to speak, but Zuo Qingcang chose this path with a certainty as soon as he came up. The old man thought he was sure of what he was sure of. Unexpectedly, he chose it casually.
"By the way, you said that the corpse monster was born from the body of a monk." Zuo Qingcang asked, "That's like the corpse monster in the stone chamber just now, how many corpses do you think can be formed by the corpse monster?"
The old man's expression moved, which he had never expected before: "A such a big corpse monster would require at least dozens or even hundreds of practitioners to use their corpses as raw materials to produce such a big corpse monster."
The two of them looked at each other and immediately realized something.
"This ancient tomb is even more dangerous than we imagined." Zuo Qingcang said lightly: "The source of the corpses of these monks is nothing more than two possibilities. One is provided by the person who built the ancient tomb. Whether the formation of the corpse monsters was a coincidence or they did it intentionally, it all illustrates the danger in the ancient tomb.
The second possibility is that those dead monks are the people who robbed the tombs later. That is, dozens or hundreds of Taoists with spiritual power in their team were wiped out and died in this ancient tomb."
Zuo Qingcang glanced at the old man and said, "The next road is ten dead and lifeless. If you want to withdraw now, you still have time. Although the monsters outside are dangerous, there is not a possibility of breakthrough. Or you can wait for me here, I will leave half of the food for you..."
"No need to say anything." The old man sneered and said, "Now escape, and then sit in the ancient tomb and eat the rest of the days. Do you think I will be willing to do it? As for breaking through the outer edge of the ancient tomb, there are giant elephants, yin girls, and short spirits guarding the entrances and exits. If I go out, I will die. Follow you in, at least I can try it, otherwise I will not be willing to do it even if I die."
"Then let's go." Zuo Qingcang nodded and continued, "I originally thought that this thief hole might lead to the outside of the ancient tomb, so that we might be able to go through here to replenish food and water, and then slowly draw it. But now it seems that this thief hole not only leads to the outside, but also leads to the lower level of the ancient tomb."
"The situation seems to be more complicated than we had previously speculated."
Although the situation Zuo Qingcang said was very difficult, his eyes were as bright as before, and he seemed to see no slight decadence or despair: "But no matter what, we have to go down and see. No matter how big the ancient tomb is, whether we can stop moving the stars and the formation of Yi Su on the coffin. Only by going down and checking with our own eyes can we find a way to leave this island."
Along the way, the two exchanged their clues they had obtained and their views on the ancient tomb. A few minutes later, the two came to a stone chamber again, and there were three identical passages in front of them.
Not only the passage, but also the layout of the entire stone chamber, the size and orientation of the passage, and the eternal lights in the stone chamber are exactly the same as the previous stone chamber.
"We're back?" The old man reacted immediately, but immediately shook his head and said, "No, there is no corpse monster here. Could it be that the exact same stone chamber was built on purpose?"
Zuo Qingcang did not answer him, but squatted down by himself, stretched out his fingers, and touched the ground. Feeling the dryness on his fingers, he calmly said: "There is no mucus, no trace of corpse monsters. It is indeed the structure here that is the same as before."
The old man nodded, looked at the three identical passageways in front of him, and the way he came from behind him, and asked, "Then what will we do next?"
Looking at the three identical passages in front of him, Zuo Qingcang felt a sense of bad premonition in his heart, but he still pointed to the middle passage and said, "Go here."
Next, the two walked into the passage, but this time the passage was not long. After about a minute, the two walked out of the passage again. This time the two appeared in front of them were still the same stone chamber and the same three passages.
The old man's face became a little solemn: "Is it the same stone chamber again?"
Zuo Qingcang observed the surroundings carefully, but could not find any place that could provide his judgment. He simply pulled out his dagger, drew a fork on the ground, and then said to the old man: "Let's go, go in the middle."
This time, the two of them walked faster. They only took more than thirty seconds to walk through the passage. The one that appeared in front of them was not beyond Zuo Qingcang's expectations, but was still the same stone chamber.
The old man quickly ran to the position where Zuo Qingcang used a dagger to mark it. When he saw that there was nothing on the ground, he felt relieved: "It is indeed just a stone chamber made, which may have some special meaning or some psychological tactic."
However, Zuo Qingcang did not speak, and the scene in front of him gave him a very bad association.
He didn't say anything, and once again led the old man into the passage, which was still the middle passage.
Next, every time the two of them came to the stone chamber, they chose the middle passage, but the more they walked, the ugly the old man's face became. In the same stone chamber and the same passage, his steps became more and more urgent, but after walking through more than a dozen stone chambers in a row, everything in front of him still did not change at all.
Walking gradually turned into a trot, as if he was eager to get out of the predicament in front of him, but when he came to the same stone chamber again, the old man finally couldn't help but curse: "What does it mean? What do the people who built this tomb think? Why do they all make the same?"
Zuo Qingcang looked at the stone chamber calmly, then took out the dagger again and spent a mark on the ground.
"You still suspect that we are coming to a passage?" said the old man: "Didn't you try it before? You should have just built a lot of the same rooms."
Zuo Qingcang shook his head: "The length of each room is about ten meters, and the length of the passage is about one thousand meters. We have walked through seventeen stone chambers in a row. Theoretically, the length of this straight line has exceeded the range that the island can accommodate." This is the data compared by Zuo Qingcang based on the length obtained by the previous round of the island.
Hearing Zuo Qingcang's judgment, the old man's face changed and he asked, "Are you sure?"
"If nothing affects my brain, this kind of judgment of sense of direction and space should not be wrong." As he said that, Zuo Qingcang walked to the middle passage in the stone chamber again, and the old man walked in with a serious face.
Half a minute later, the same stone chamber appeared in front of the two again. The old man looked at the marked location of Zuo Qingcang and said, "No. It seems that it is indeed a room with the same structure. Maybe the underground space of this small island is relatively large, maybe you remembered it wrongly, after all, in this kind of ancient tomb..."
Listening to the old man's words, Zuo Qingcang said nothing, but made a mark on the spot, then turned around and walked back to the passage.
"You want to go back?" The old man looked at Zuo Qingcang in confusion, followed him, wanting to ask him why.
But when he returned to the previous stone chamber and looked at the empty space on the ground marked by Zuo Qingcang, his face immediately changed drastically.
Chapter completed!