Chapter 34: Sneak Attack

The strange and strange sound that led us here suddenly appeared behind me. Although the sound was not loud, it was like thunder exploded in the extremely quiet coffin, which was extremely clear. I trembled all over, the muscles on my forehead tightened, and there was another cold sweat.

This coffin is about six or seven meters long, whether it is long or short, judging by the sound, the sound source should be no more than one meter away from me, which is almost against my back and can be patted by the distance of my shoulder. "Oh...Oh..." A regular sound was like leaning against the door panel and listening to the knocking feeling. A cool air slid from the back of my neck to the bottom and went straight down to my heel.

For a moment, my muscles were so stiff that I couldn't move. I was thinking about whether to look back or not, but I still wanted to pretend that I didn't hear the sound and ignore it. But I immediately reacted, and I couldn't laugh or cry. I bit my tongue and reminded myself: I have to calm down. At this time, I actually have no choice but to face it. Fear and making excuses are all manifestations of waiting for death.

After a stalemate for a moment, the ghostly voice was neither anxious nor slow, neither approaching nor going away. I took a deep breath, gritted my teeth and held the short knife tightly, slowly turned around, and saw what was behind me.

As I turned around, the strange sound suddenly stopped. I looked closely and found that there was nothing in the gray fog behind me. The direction of the strange sound just now was still gray, but it was disturbed by my movements, and some strange airflow appeared, which quickly calmed down and became as uniform as before.

I swallowed, feeling a little surprised, and shone it with a flashlight around, without any abnormality, and the sound seemed to have never appeared before.

The sound was so close to me just now, and I could hear it very clearly. It was definitely not an illusion. My turn was only about one second. If it was made by some moving object, it would not have disappeared at such a fast speed. Could it be that the sound came from somewhere else? I made a mistake in my judgment?

I subconsciously took a step forward, trying to find the source of the sound. Suddenly, a figure rushed over from the mist beside me. My eyes were quick, and I just saw a situation and quickly lowered my body. The figure did not catch me, but still knocked me to the ground. I rolled on the ground and looked back. The figure hit me and the boss who hit me was fat.

I cursed, showed off my short-handled hunting knife, and wanted to break it with him, but I didn't expect that he hid in the fog again in a flash and disappeared.

I couldn't help but spit out a saliva with contempt. His dagger should have fallen outside during the fight. Now he is afraid of the short knife in my hand, and he dares not conflict with me head-on, but hides in the fog. Waiting for me to get closer and then launching a surprise attack, which is completely different from the arrogance he had just now. He must be a villain.

But then again, the situation here is so strange that this guy is not as brave as it is. If I had neither flashlight nor weapons, I would have dared to attack others. I would have shrunk in the corner and shivered. Fortunately, the fog here is thick like water. When something moves, it will appear very obvious. He would not have succeeded in sneak attacking me so easily, otherwise I would have pressed him down just now.

I thought about it, but I felt strange. So, if the owner of the strange body actually moved in this coffin, it would inevitably have a trick of moving, but when I looked at it just now, the fog was smooth, unlike something that had moved. Is he not a body? Is he a ghost?

While I was guarding against Boss Wang's sneak attack again, I stood up. The space inside the coffin was not large. I just rolled away and didn't know where I rolled to. I had to retreat to the side as soon as possible and find a way to climb up.

The place is not big in general. Now, when I look around, it is close to the center of the coffin. Through the fog, I see some things in the center. Looking at the shadows, it seems that many ropes have been hung from the top of the coffin and connected to the bottom of the coffin. I thought it was the root of the aerial tree hanging from the branches on the top. I took a step forward and shone it with a flashlight and found that it was not. Those things were bronze chains as thick as wrists, covered with fibrous roots of fungi and banyan trees, and they were wrapped around from the top to the bottom of the coffin, but the iron chain seemed to be just fixed between the top of the coffin and the bottom of the coffin, and nothing was tied below.

This stone coffin is said to be huge. In fact, I know that this size has been found in several noble tombs from the Western Han Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. This thing is called a coffin, but it is actually more appropriate. If it is based on the burial tomb, the formal inner coffin should be placed in the center of the coffin chamber. It has strong financial resources. The stone coffin chamber must be closely attached to more than a dozen wooden coffins and stick to the innermost inner coffin edge.

Now I have walked a few steps. According to the size of the coffin, at least I should have seen the rough shape of the inner coffin ground, but now I only see a few chains, and there are no things on the ground. Could it be that the coffin is actually empty? Where did the sound just now come from? Where did the weird radio interference come from?

I was stunned for a long time and took another step forward, trying to walk to the middle of the bronze chain and see if there was a door on the bottom of the coffin he was tied to. I took a step out and suddenly my feet were empty and my whole body fell down. I quickly grabbed the bronze chain in front of me, slid down for several meters before I could hold my body in a cold sweat.

What happened? Why did it seem like I was stepping on empty? I was still scared. The flashlight shone down and couldn't see the ground. The fog was very rich. I stepped on my feet and stepped on me. I couldn't step on anything. It seemed that there was a very deep depression.

There was indeed something strange. I think the coffin chamber was embedded in two meters into the sacrificial platform on the top of a bronze tree, and there was nothing in the middle. It might be a multi-layer embedded coffin method like the Warring States Period. There might be a depression in the middle of this coffin chamber called the coffin well. The real coffin position is below. I don’t know how deep the coffin well is. It’s really dangerous. If I fell down just now, I would fall to death if I didn’t hold it.

Here are a few bronze chains, perhaps part of the lifting device used to transport the coffin to the well. The inner coffin that contains the body should be directly under me.

Just as he was thinking about this, there was a sudden disturbance on the side. Boss Wang rushed over again. This time, he was holding a weapon in his hand and rushed towards me. The fog here was so thick, probably because it was to judge my position from my flashlight spot. When I saw that something was wrong, I subconsciously shouted: "No! Stop!"

But it was too late. Boss Wang said "Oh" and fell down with a step. I felt the iron chain below tremble suddenly, probably because he had grabbed it. At the same time, a gurgling sound came from my hand and my body began to slide down.

I turned around and saw that it was the mushroom-like fungus on it that had been crushing my hands, pressing out a lot of smooth juice like oily wax, which made the bronze chain look like a layer of oil. I screamed in my heart and hurriedly inserted the short-handed knife into the hole of the chain. As a result, the damn one could not be inserted. After three or five days of the first lunar month, the knife was stuck in the root of the tree. I twisted it hard before I stopped my body. At this time, I had already slid down less than ten meters and entered the inside of the coffin well, inside the stud of the bronze tree.

Boss Wang was covered in blood on one end, hanging on the bronze chain below me, about one foot away from me, and he couldn't pull the chain. He used his belt to pass through a chain hole before he could barely stop. I clicked on him with my hand, and he cursed and turned to avoid the dazzling light.

I saw if he was a threat to me for the moment, so I went to see the situation of the coffin well. The trunk of the bronze tree was the same as the outside, with clouds and thunder patterns deep into the gullies. The roots of the tree wind down from above and down the lines. The fog inside was much thinner than above. I looked around for a while and was eager to know how big the coffin well was in the center of the coffin chamber. If it was too big, it would be a big problem for me to climb out.

The coffin well is a rectangular shape, four meters long and two meters wide, just enough to accommodate a coffin and put it loosely. I could touch the wall of the coffin well with my hands. I don’t know if it was because of the fog, the tree roots here did not parasitize a large amount of fungi, and you can see the true color of the tree roots. There was a odor floating in the air in the coffin well. It might be that it was too foggy outside, and the isolation medium inside the gas mask began to get damp, and the effect began to decline. I could feel that the odor became stronger and stronger, choking my nose. From this point of view, Boss Wang must not feel uncomfortable.

Looking down, I was surprised. I could see that the iron chains were hanging down to the darkness below. The place where my flashlight could not be illuminated was very long. From here, the entire coffin well was bottomless, and it seemed that it was always connected, without a bottom.

No, I think I actually felt that the whole bronze tree was hollow, and the height we climbed was less than 300 meters. I don’t know how deep the bronze tree was underground. If it was hollow, then where would it be at the bottom? Is the center of the earth? Is this giant hollow cylinder inserted here? What is the meaning of inserting it here?

Boss Wang was also very surprised. Both of them didn't say anything and looked down. Suddenly, two "............" sounds, and the faint-hearted knock suddenly appeared around us again!

Boss Wang and I looked at each other, and all our eyes turned to the darkness below us. The sound actually came from the abyss below.

From here, the sound was a little different, with a little echo, which seemed to be coming from a deep place. With the rhythm of the sound, I could clearly feel that the bronze chain was shaking slightly in a short range, as if the other end was pressing against a giant's artery.

This phenomenon caused a irresistible chill in my heart, because I didn't feel a ray of wind blowing from below, and the two of us could not make such a heavy bronze chain vibrate at such a high frequency. What is the one that touches these bronze chains in the darkness below?

Boss Wang listened thoughtfully. According to reason, he had never experienced such a thing and should be more afraid than me, but looking at his expression, he was surprisingly calm and seemed to be judging something.

After a stalemate for a while, the sound finally subsided, and the bronze chain stopped vibrating. I breathed a sigh of relief for no reason, and the person almost felt soft from the chain.

Boss Wang still didn't respond. He thought quietly for a while, took out a cigarette and lit it, took a hard breath, then took out a small fluorescent stick from his pocket, shook it twice, and shook the fluorescent inside.

I didn't know what he wanted to do, so I looked at him coldly. He waited until the glow stick reacted to the brightest, threw it down the bronze chain, and the green light column fell in circles.

The aperture became smaller and smaller, and it quickly disappeared into my vision. I thought it would fall until it disappeared into the darkness. Suddenly, at the limit of visual sight and invisibility, the fluorescent stick hit something, and bounced it with a "bounce" and flew to the bronze wall on one side, falling down again, and disappeared in an instant.
Chapter completed!