Chapter 26 The Mysterious Coffin Cover
We walked a distance again, but it was uncomfortable to walk this distance.
Before we knew that there were carvings on the stone walls on both sides, I could only hear the light and agile jingle sound coming from somewhere in front of me. But since I learned about the virtual eyes carved on the stone walls on both sides, I always felt that there were many eyes looking at me in the darkness, which made me feel like I was on my back.
It is precisely because of this that I unconsciously speed up the pace under my feet.
As I moved forward, I felt that the inclination of the entire passage was increasing, so some stone steps appeared under my feet at the right time. It seemed that when the ancient ancestors built this place, they still considered the details very thoughtfully.
Soon, not far ahead, I saw a not-so-large exit, and it was still pitch black outside. This feeling of finding a way out makes people feel completely devoid of joy.
When I walked out of this passage, there was no such thing as the undercurrent and the sound of water flowing just now. The feeling here was completely different from that before. It was dead silent, but I could always feel a hint of cool breeze here. This is good news, at least it is connected to the outside. But it also made me a little worried. Being able to feel the cool breeze here means that this location is not very far from the outside, but since we are about to reach the end of this place, then where is Annaduo going?
I looked around and found that there was a hole inside the mountain where we were. I don’t know if it was formed naturally or artificially built. However, even if it was formed naturally, it would have been processed artificially in the later stage. Because I could feel that the foot was relatively flat.
We walked a few more steps forward and suddenly saw a very tall thing appear in the flashlight aperture in front of us. This is a steep stone pestle stacked with large and large stones. It is like a common mani pile in Tibetan Buddhism, but the stone pestle that makes up this stone pestle is neither carved with scriptures like the mani pile nor has any patterns.
It seems that the ancient ancestors stayed here. But we have no way to verify what the meaning of doing this is. However, as soon as we walked out of the passage, we still clearly told us that this place is not ordinary.
We carefully bypassed the stone pestle and found that the jingling sound we heard just now seemed even more obvious here.
This sound echoed in this space, and the three of us were tightly surrounded by darkness, and we were unable to tell where the sound came from for a moment.
We continued to move forward. Not far away, Yuanxiao suddenly tripped by something under his feet and slanted. Yuanxiao cursed in anger, looked down and found a stone slab that was almost broken on the ground.
This stone slab is very neat and has patterns on it, which is obviously carefully crafted by man.
However, this is another thing that is difficult for us to understand. Although we don’t know what the specific meaning of the stone pestle just now is, it must contain some special symbolic meanings. This can be seen from the special shape of the stone pestle.
But at this time we could not understand the broken stone slab under our feet. It seemed very casual when placed here in an inappropriate manner. Although this stone slab was thick enough, it was neither tall nor imposing, unless something was hidden under it, but we turned it over and there was no mechanism or secret passage under the stone slab.
Yuanxiao stared at the stone slab and looked carefully for a while. She didn't say anything for a long time, as if she was thinking about something, so I asked, "Lanxiao, have you thought of something?"
Lantern Festival wanted to speak but stopped, and was a little hesitant. I saw that he was a little sluggish, so I said, "You have something to say! You can say it quickly if you have nothing to do!"
Yuanxiao thought for a moment, "I think this stone slab looks like a coffin lid!"
"Coffin lid?" I thought for a moment, and felt that it seemed unlikely. "How come there is only the coffin lid here, and that coffin?"
Wen Mo squatted down, reached out to pick up a piece of fragments, put them in front of him and looked carefully, then looked down at the large pieces of fragments on the ground, and touched the patterns on it with his hands.
I also bent down and asked Wenmo: "How is it? What is this?"
Wen Mo picked up one of them and handed them to me. I took them curiously, but the fragment looked not big, and I didn't expect it to be so heavy. As soon as I took it, I almost couldn't hold it in my hand and fell to the ground. I quickly grabbed it with both hands before I could hold it firmly.
At this time, Yuanxiao also came over. With the help of the flashlight in his hand, I saw the fragments with patterns engraved, which should be a corner of the entire pattern on the stone slab.
But what caught my attention was the shape of the stone slab, which was ridged in an arc shape on one side and flat on the other side. There were even grooves for sealing and fixing the cover on the edge. This surprised me, "This, it really looks like a coffin lid!"
Yuanxiao immediately felt a little proud, "How is it! I will just say it! Is this ordinary person with my eyesight?"
"However," I still can't understand, "What does throwing a coffin lid here alone mean?" The semi-finished product? It's thrown here before it is finished? It makes no sense!
We looked around but didn't find anything. Although it was dark here, you could tell that the corresponding coffin was not small when you looked at the lid of the coffin. There was no reason for such a big thing to be seen!
The three of us scattered around and searched around, and I walked to the side, but after just two steps, I suddenly felt like I had stepped on something hard under my feet.
I looked down and found that it was a piece of iron chain. I picked it up and looked at it, and found that although the iron chain was rusty, it was still very strong. After so many years, the iron chains have not shown any decay. I have to say that this is surprising. I don’t know what materials were added or what methods were used when casting these iron chains.
I held the chain and couldn't help but think again, how could there be a chain here? My mind is now full of doubts. The coffin lid that suddenly appeared just now, and the iron chain that suddenly appeared now, I always feel that there is something wrong with it.
If all kinds of items are piled up here and are messy, even if these two things appear in this way, we will only be a little surprised, but we will not feel abrupt or strange. But now there is nothing in this place, and these two things appearing alone cannot be placed at will without reason.
But what is the point of putting them here, or how they are placed here, whether they are artificially placed or...
Thinking of this, a thought suddenly flashed out of my mind, which made my heart tremble. I said, "I understand!"
Hearing my voice, Yuanxiao and Wenmo walked back, Yuanxiao asked, "What do you know?"
I handed them the chain in my hand, "Look at this."
Yuanxiao took the iron chain from my hand and held it in my hand and weighed it, "Iron chain? How could this be here? Where did it come from?
I pointed at my feet, "It's here, I accidentally stepped on it."
Yuanxiao frowned when she heard this, "Why is there this here? A broken coffin lid, a piece of iron chain, nothing else. What does this mean?"
I said, "I was thinking just now that the reason why we feel that these two things are abrupt here is that in addition to the difficulty in understanding the meaning of them being placed here, there is another important reason that they are not complete and are all broken parts."
After hearing this, Yuanxiao looked confused. When I saw his eyes rolling around, I knew he didn't understand. Wenmo listened seriously and nodded thoughtfully.
Yuanxiao scratched her head, "Zhuoran, what do you mean by what you said? What exactly do you want to say?"
So I continued, "But we think about it the other way around, what if we are complete in themselves? What if they were not put here?"
Before the Lantern Festival could be heard, I was annoyed, "Damn! Zhuoran, what are you talking about silently? They were not placed here by others, could they fall from the sky?"
I nodded, "Yes, you're right, I think it might have fallen from the sky!"
Yuanxiao was stunned for a moment, then glared at her eyes, reached out to touch my forehead, "You kid has a fever! Are you talking nonsense! What coffin is coming from above..." Yuanxiao was stunned in the middle of his words, and he must have thought of the same thing as me.
Yuanxiao stared at me with wide eyes, "What do you mean is that these two things are from..." As he said that, Yuanxiao suddenly shone the flashlight upwards, but found that the top of the cave was pitch black. There was no searchlight in our equipment at this time, and our flashlight was not bright enough.
Lantern Festival tried to stretch out its arms as much as possible, but the brightness of the light emitted by our flashlight is good, but the concentration is not high. The light emitted from the flashlight and soon dissipated into the darkness.
Just when we were helpless, Wen Mo took out something from his bag. When we looked closely, we were delighted. What Wen Mo took out was a signal gun. Wen Mo looked at the gun in his hand, "I don't know much about using this thing, who can you do it!"
Yuanxiao stepped forward and snatched it over, "I'm going, boss, you're so thoughtful. You can't use it and bring such a thing with you. How about emergency?"
Wen Mo shook his head, "It's not like that. When you were in Guizhou, before you found Yuan An, I had agreed to conduct temporary cooperation with him. This set of equipment was obtained from him."
Lanxiao and I nodded. Fortunately, this is the case. This is really a timely help.
Lantern Festival fiddled with it and asked Wenmo, "Where is the flare?"
Wen Mo searched again, then took out two thick shells. Yuanxiao skillfully installed the flares and fired a shot above our heads. A flashing red light rushed upwards, and then quickly exploded on the top of the cave.
The flares are rich in a lot of magnesium, and once burned at high temperatures, it will emit dazzling light. The flash bombs illuminated at the top of the cave illuminated a large area above our heads, and the scene above us was stunned!
Chapter completed!