Chapter 163 The river bank full of flowers on the other side
"I'll go in and have a look too!" Wang Li told Professor Zhang, then climbed onto the coffin and jumped in.
The air in the tomb became thinner and thinner, the severe suffocation began again, and the two remaining torches began to flicker, looking like they were about to go out at any moment.
"Old Xiao, how are you?" Professor Zhang knocked on the wall of the coffin and asked Xiao Han inside.
"The walls of the coffin are engraved with a lot of words like the stone door. There is nothing special about it!" Xiao Han's voice came from the coffin.
"Hu Ling, come in and take a look!"
After a while, Xiao Han shouted from inside again, stood up and exposed half of his head and one hand, "I'll pull you in."
"Okay!" I grabbed Xiao Han's extended hand.
The coffin was almost as tall as me, and the outer wall was straight and smooth, with no patterns at all. Although Xiao Han was pulling me inside, I still had a hard time climbing. There was no point of strength on my feet, so I relied solely on his strength to drag me up.
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After my upper body was completely lying on the coffin, Xiao Han let go of my hand and allowed me to climb up by myself.
The thin air and the exertion made me feel like I was about to collapse. I lay there for a long time, unable to move, looking at Wang Li who was leaning at the bottom of the coffin, looking for the exit of the mechanism inch by inch.
"This is just an empty coffin. It doesn't look like there is an exit at all!" I said to Xiao Han, feeling somewhat discouraged.
The lack of oxygen makes me just want to have a good sleep at this moment.
"Not necessarily, the words carved inside are a bit like the door we came in from." Xiao Han said.
"How about you act like you're outside the door and try opening sesame again?" Wang Li, who was groping with his head down, suddenly looked up at me and said with a smile.
Wang Li's words made my face feel slightly hot. Compared with that inexplicable and strange spell, I believe that the stone door was opened by someone accidentally touching the mechanism.
Xiao Han also looked at me with a smile and said: "Let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor, give it a try!"
I felt helpless, cleared my throat, and recited the incomprehensible mantra again.
However, this time, no movement was heard at all.
"Someone must have hit some mechanism before the stone door opened." I glanced at Xiao Han helplessly, "You actually believe that there will be such a thing as Open Sesame!"
Xiao Han laughed and said: "Come up, come in and read these words, maybe you will find something."
I reluctantly put my feet on the edge of the coffin and climbed up with my hands.
My feet seemed to hit a raised object. I was stunned for a moment, and then I thought, maybe it was a raised embossed text, which was just enough to help me climb up, and my feet became harder and harder.
There was a soft "thump" sound, and the protrusions on my feet seemed to have been broken by me, and the leverage point disappeared.
"What was the sound just now?" Xiao Han raised his head and looked at me alertly.
Wang Li, who was squatting at the bottom of the coffin, also raised his head and looked up.
"Ah!" I watched helplessly as Wang Li's expression changed from curiosity to fear, and he screamed and his body fell down quickly.
A dark circular hole appeared under him where the bottom of the coffin should have been, without a trace of light.
Wang Li's voice disappeared into the circular black hole, and the sound of him landing was not heard.
Air was poured in from the hole, and my clenched lungs relaxed, and some of my strength recovered.
"No, those things are climbing up!" Professor Zhang screamed, and everyone scrambled to climb up the coffin wall.
I turned back and looked down, and sure enough I saw the red cinnabar slowly flowing up the steps to the stone platform. I had already passed the third step and would soon be on the stone platform.
"Aren't those things afraid to go up the stone platform?" I turned to ask Xiao Han.
Xiao Han frowned and did not answer me. He stretched out his hand to pull Professor Zhang and others up into the coffin one by one. When the last soldier was pulled up, red cinnabar had covered the entire platform.
"What should I do now? Jump down?" I looked at the dark hole at the bottom of the coffin, feeling a little scared.
"I'll go down first, Hu Ling, hold my hand!" Xiao Han said, "If air comes in, there should be no problem."
After saying that, before I could react, Xiao Han pulled me into the coffin, took my hand and jumped in from the black hole.
There was a whistling wind in my ears, and I don’t know how long it took before I heard the splash of water in my ears. My body was quickly enveloped by the cold and biting water.
The water rushed into my nose and mouth instantly, and I felt a pinprick-like pain on my forehead. I quickly held my breath and stirred randomly with my hands.
I felt as if I was being lifted up, and my mouth and nose were above the water. I breathed heavily, coughed, and spat out the water in my mouth.
"You can't swim?" Xiao Han's voice came to my ears.
"Ahem - no, no!" I coughed and looked around, "Where is this place? Why is it so cold?"
"This is an underground river. We should no longer be in the underground palace." Xiao Han said, holding my shoulders and pulling me to the side.
"Have you seen Wang Li?" I asked again.
"Not yet, but he should have ended up here like us." Xiao Han said.
The sound of someone falling into the water began to be heard from behind, and Professor Zhang and the others also jumped down.
I felt my hand touch the slippery river bank, and the soft touch came from the palm of my hand. It should be the water plants on the bank.
Grabbing a handful of water plants, I used Xiao Han's push to climb up.
My body finally touched the ground. Although it was still cold and slippery, I felt much more at ease than flopping in the river.
It was pitch dark all around, and nothing could be seen. The only sound that could be heard was Professor Zhang and the others splashing in the river.
After sitting down, I unzipped my purse, took out the flashlight and turned on the switch. The light of the flashlight flickered for a few times and then went out.
It was obviously caused by soaking in water.
Professor Zhang and others swam towards me when they saw the light of the flashlight.
Xiao Han also climbed onto the shore after me. He also took out a flashlight. The light was much weaker than my flashlight, but it did not go out.
"Hey, why is your flashlight okay?" I asked a little strangely.
"Don't you know there is a word called waterproof?" Xiao Han asked, shining a flashlight on the surrounding environment.
This is like a natural cave, with many stalactites and stalagmites of different sizes hanging from the top of the cave. When illuminated by a flashlight, it shows a colorful and translucent luster, as if the stalactites and stalagmites are transparent.
There is a river in the middle of the cave. The water is so calm that you can hardly see it flowing. The two banks of the river are fiery red and filled with dense flowers.
Bianhuahua is also called Manzhushahua. It is said that it is a flower that grows in hell.
When I was a child, I would occasionally see this kind of flower in the mountains, mostly growing on shady stone walls. People in Liuqiao Village called this flower Lycoris. Because of its beautiful flowers, little girls who love beauty often picked this flower home to raise.
In a vase.
But this is the first time I have seen such a large number of them growing in the same place. This chapter has been completed!