[Bottle Evil] Snowy Illusion

Accompanied by an extremely dull roar, the upper half of the sarcophagus was slowly pushed away by the four people.

Since the entire old building is basically closed, the air here is not circulated all year round, and there is a musty smell. These days, several people have opened the door to ventilate when they come in and out, and the musty smell has been reduced a lot.But under the lid of the sarcophagus is a relatively closed space, and a sour smell permeates it for a while.

Li Cu became nervous. This smell could easily make people associate it with a corrupted corpse. Wu Xie insisted that there was a corpse here. Immediately, he stretched out his hand to cover his mouth and nose, narrowed his eyes, and waited until he was mentally prepared to open it. He opened his eyes, but only saw a black hole. The coffin was indeed empty.

Wu Xie pointed the light of the flashlight into the sarcophagus, and Li Cu saw a lot of dust in the light beam, but the light beam shot into the sarcophagus as if it was swallowed up, and nothing could be illuminated.

"Boss, is this empty?" Su Wan asked.

Wu Xie frowned, and did not answer Su Wan, but continued to scan the coffin with the light of the flashlight.

Li Cu also felt strange, it didn't look like it was empty, if it was empty, the light from the flashlight should be able to directly shine on the bottom of the coffin, unlike now, this beam of light seemed to shine into a completely claustrophobic space, lost the ability to Objects that reflect it, just like you are facing the night sky, the light of the flashlight also disappears in the night.

Li Cu vaguely remembered reading it in Wu Xie's notes, or hearing that Wu Xie mentioned to him a material that can absorb light when painted on the wall. It is usually used in ancient tombs and painted on the tomb wall to prevent Tomb robbers.A similar phenomenon occurred when the light shone into the coffin in front of him. Li Cu guessed that maybe this coffin was also painted with that kind of thing.

Wu Xie looked at it for a while, touched his chin, and said, "I'll go down and have a look."

As soon as the words finished, Zhang Qiling raised his hand to block Wu Xie, and said, "I'll go."

"I'm not going." Li Cu hurriedly shook his head.

"Fuck me." Su Wan sighed, then asked again, "Go down? Boss, are you going to lie down in this coffin?"

"Is your eye broken?" Wu Xie replied, looking at Zhang Qiling again, "Brother, you and I have never been here, but now you have just woken up, your body should still be recovering, it is more appropriate for me to go down. "Zhang Qiling withdrew his hand and wanted to say something, Wu Xie then laughed and said, "Give me a chance to show off."

Li Cu heard Wu Xie say that Su Wan's eyes were broken, so he looked carefully at the sarcophagus, and heard Wu Xie said that he was going to go down. Then he noticed that the coffin had no bottom, with a dark opening, and the bottom part was Another pitch-black space.

Just as he was thinking about it, Wu Xie suddenly patted him and said, "Follow me."

Li Cu was startled, and said: "No way, you are reluctant to let Brother Zhang go down, and if you want to pull me down, I really can't do it. Compared with you guys, I'm a scumbag."

Wu Xie had already put one leg on the edge of the coffin, then raised his hand and patted Li Cuo's shoulder, saying: "Don't worry, nothing will happen, even scum is fine, at most I will let you lift things for me. I will first Go down, make sure it's safe, and come down again."

In Li Cu's previous contact with Wu Xie, except for scolding him for hurting him, Wu Xie seldom looked at him at other times, and when they looked at each other, Li Cu could often see that in Wu Xie's eyes, There is a kind of luster that ordinary people don't have, which is a kind of subconscious contempt.After all, their experience was too different, and Wu Xie looked at him as if he was a creature of a lower level.

This feeling has been with Li Cu for a long time, and it is also the main reason why he has always been disobedient in making small moves, because it seems that Wu Xie is using him while acting like he is just using him.This once made Li Cu feel uncomfortable.

Li Cu knew that he could not expect any good deeds from this tomb robber, but the contact over the past year made Li Cu sure in his heart that Wu Xie was not such a simple villain, or an absolute teleologist.

Just now, in the action of patting the shoulder that couldn't be simpler, Li Cuo seemed to see another Wu Xie.This action is not a reminder or a greeting, but as if to him, he is the same as Zhang Qiling, at least a little different from the tool being used, a companion.

"Damn, don't touch me, I'm so disgusting." Although this made Li Cu feel a little awkward.

"Do you want to listen to something more nasty? Do you know why I asked you to come down with me?" Wu Xie smiled at Li Cu, then got up, supported the edge of the sarcophagus with both hands, and stepped on the other leg, with both feet gently kick.

Wu Xie's slender figure wrapped in a gray windbreaker fell quickly.The windbreaker was lifted by the force of the fall, and a corner flashed in the light circle of the flashlight, and then disappeared into the darkness in the coffin.

Soon there was a slight sound of landing from below, and then Wu Xie's voice. Wu Xie said to Li Cuo who was lying on the sarcophagus: "Come down quickly, don't dawdle."

Li Cu was taken aback, and followed Wu Xie's example to climb up into the coffin. Although he couldn't see the bottom, but hearing the sound of Wu Xie jumping just now, it should not be very high. The following said: "I just want to see whoever says not to come down with me, I will pull him down."

Fucking psycho.Li Cu cursed in his heart, but when he was distracted, he fell into the water in a posture of slipping.

Li Cuo's "Ah!" came from below, followed by a "bang" and Wu Xie's laughter.

After Li Cu got up, he wanted to beat Wu Xie.Fortunately, it was not very high. Li Cuo hurt from the fall, but he was not injured.Enduring it, Li Cu patted the soil on his body, and took out the flashlight from his pocket. The light of the flashlight was not swallowed up this time. Li Cu saw that there was a small space within the range of the light beam, which was roughly square, and it was also It's empty.Wu Xie was standing in a corner with his back to him, and was also shining a flashlight on the wall.

"Nothing, where is the corpse you mentioned?" Li Cuo asked.

Wu Xie said, "Look carefully."

Li Cu moved the flashlight to his feet, suddenly found something, and asked in surprise, "What is this?"

There was a thick layer of dust on the ground, but there seemed to be something buried under the dust. Li Cu squatted down to look carefully, and there was a fragment of something faintly illuminated by the light.Li Cu stretched out his hand to take it, but he didn't want to be scratched by the sharp edge of the fragment, so he took a "hiss" breath.

When Wu Xie heard this, she walked towards him, shone the light of her flashlight on him, and said, "When I see you like this, I think of my past, so every time I pity you and pity you, I want to beat you up at the same time."

Li Cu wanted to refute, but Wu Xie continued: "But you are much better than me before." Then he raised his head and glanced at the faint flashlights of Zhang Qiling and Su Wan, "You just met Someone who can show Zhang Qiling's back."

Li Cu cut a sentence: "Damn, this sentence is really disgusting."

Beside the sarcophagus, Su Wan quietly glanced at the people around him.

Although the surrounding light was dim, Su Wan could still see a trace of fluctuation in Zhang Qiling's gaze cast into the darkness below.

Wu Xie pulled out some broken porcelain pieces from the dust one after another. Li Cuo didn't know the specific material of those porcelain pieces or the meaning of the patterns painted on them, so he could only help Wu Xie wipe off the floating dirt and dust on them.

Gradually, Li Cu discovered that almost the entire ground of the space they were in was covered with such debris.The fragments vary in size, some of which can basically be seen in their original shape, while others are only the size of a fingernail.

"What is this?" After cleaning for a while, Li Cu finally couldn't help asking.

"Funeral objects." Wu Xie put down the porcelain vase he had just checked, and went to look at another larger fragment.Li Cu picked it up, followed Wu Xie's example, and placed the porcelain bottle up to the light of the flashlight, and then looked at the lines on it.

Li Cu knew that he was a complete layman in this area, and he didn't want to see anything from the porcelain, but when he saw the pattern painted on this relatively complete porcelain vase for the first time, he still had a feeling , this is a pattern he has never heard or seen.

The bottles and jars that can be called antiques in my impression are either a single line or pattern, or paintings of people, flowers, birds, fish and insects, mountains, rivers, rivers and seas, at least they can be called types.But Li Cu looked at the pattern drawn by the light blue lines in front of him. If it wasn't for the bottle to see the bottle mouth and bottom, he might not even be able to distinguish the top, bottom, left, and right of the pattern.

Li Cu looked at it for a long time and felt it was strange, so he glanced at Wu Xie, Wu Xie also frowned, as if he was also puzzled.

"What is this group of neither human nor ghost?" Li Cuo asked.

Wu Xie glanced at Li Cu: "It's not a human being or a ghost, it's a god."

"God?" Li Cu asked, "I haven't seen or heard of such a strange god."

Wu Xie patted the ashes on his hands, and said: "Gods originally have many different systems and different types. The gods we are familiar with now mostly have images evolved from humans, but there are a few more eyes. A few hands, or just add a circle of light on the head." He stretched out his fingers and drew a virtual one on Li Cu's head.

Li Cu felt very unlucky, and opened Wu Xie's hand, Li Cu also stood up.

Wu Xie smiled: "But our ancestors, the ancestors who lived in this world, they always had rich imaginations and connected some fantastic natural phenomena with gods, so the gods created may exceed The extent of our knowledge."

Li Cu seemed to understand, and asked, "You mean that the painting on it is a god worshiped by people a long time ago?"

Wu Xie nodded and said, "It's not so long ago, it's just that this is a god independent of other civilizations, so it's different from what you've seen before. I've seen similar ones in other places before, and they should be It's the same kind."

For some reason, when it comes to strange gods, Li Cu thinks of that kind of snake. To him, they are an existence independent of the existing cognitive range, and everything related to that kind of snake is also a mystery. Li Cu thinks There must be some connection between them.

Just as he was thinking, Wu Xie suddenly asked, "Apart from this pattern, did you find anything else?"

Li Cu said "Ah?", shook his head honestly, and said, "Wu Xieshen, don't test me, I just fell off and my butt still hurts."

Strange to say, when Li Cu found so many fragments on the ground, he was afraid that if he sat more firmly just now, his butt would be cut open by the fragments.But he soon discovered that where he was standing, in the middle of the space, and in the light circle of the flashlight, there were large fragments and they were very concentrated.

Li Cu walked towards the edge of the hole under the sarcophagus. Sure enough, there were no big fragments there, mostly small ones.

Li Cu felt that he had found the key, and said, "Boss Wu, the pieces are placed according to size!"

Wu Xie sighed and said, "Dead wood cannot be carved."

Just as Li Cu was about to argue, Wu Xie waved his hand, and continued: "If you only think about what you see, you will never know what you can't see."

Seeing that Li Cu was still confused, Wu Xie smiled and said, "What you see may not be what you need. You can ask Su Wan to see if he has any different opinions."

Of course Su Wan could hear the conversation between the two from above, so he said without thinking, "Boss Wu, I'm more concerned about why all the funeral objects were broken! What a pity!"

When Li Cu heard it, he suddenly realized that they saw the broken porcelain vases, and then their eyes were attracted by the patterns on them, but they ignored the biggest problem, which was why these porcelain vases were broken.Although Su Wan didn't come down to look at it, he got the point.

"Yeah, how did it break?" Li Cu asked, "Did someone destroy them on purpose?"

Wu Xie smiled: "I don't know, but you also mentioned a problem just now. The fragments here are not scattered and disorderly, and they are basically concentrated under our feet."

Li Cu thought that these porcelain bottles were not so much deliberately destroyed here, but more like they were piled up here after they were destroyed.Li Cu squatted down again, carefully looking at the larger fragments. He and Wu Xie had dug up a lot just now, and now they looked at the ground and suddenly found something strange.

Under almost two layers of debris, there is a black ground covered with patterns, and this pattern is also very familiar, but Li Cu really can't remember it for a while.

Li Cu stretched out his fingers and touched the black lines, the cold touch made him suddenly realize that the ground was actually made of the same material as the sarcophagus above.

"Boss Wu, the ground is also made of black stone!" Li Cuo said.

"It seems that you discovered it this time." Wu Xie also squatted down while speaking, and said to Li Cuo, "Help me move all the broken porcelain pieces to the side."

The two were busy for a while, and Su Wan asked if he needed to come down to help, but fortunately, the debris was concentrated, and the two quickly cleared the black stone ground.To Li Cu's surprise, what appeared in front of his eyes was a rectangular black stone slab.

"What is this?" Li Cu looked at the black slate in front of him, and seemed to find something, "It's a bit like the bottom of this coffin."

Wu Xie didn't answer, but Zhang Qiling's voice came from above: "Get out of the way."

Li Cu was taken aback, but saw that Wu Xie had already stepped back, so he also took a few steps back, and then with the sound of a gust of wind, a blurry figure landed in front of Li Cu in an instant——Zhang Qiling also jumped down .

Zhang Qiling jumped down and went to look at the black stone slab, and carefully touched the lines on the stone slab with his unusually long two fingers. After groping everything back and forth, he stood up and said to the two, "It's part of the sarcophagus."

Although Li Cu also thought about it, he was puzzled and asked, "Could it be that the bottom of the coffin fell, and the funerary objects fell out and broke? Why didn't the body fall out along with it?"

Wu Xie took two steps forward, walked in front of Zhang Qiling, and suddenly asked, "Is the flashlight up there?"

Zhang Qiling hummed, the two looked at each other, and Wu Xie nodded.

Seeing all this made Li Cu even more confused, but Wu Xie looked at him and said, "You are only half right, this stone slab is not the bottom of the sarcophagus."

Li Cu was taken aback again, and said casually, "It's not the bottom of the coffin, could it be the lid?"

After saying this sentence, Li Cu felt his hair stand on end. Seeing Wu Xie's half-smile expression, he became more sure that this sentence was right.

If the underground stone slab is not the bottom of the coffin but the lid, then the bottom of the coffin is on their heads, and the entire sarcophagus was originally turned upside down!

Thinking of the half-and-half design of the sarcophagus, Li Cu suddenly thought of why the corpse didn't come out.

Since the sarcophagus was turned upside down, the lid of the coffin fell, and the porcelain vases buried with them also fell, but the corpses were always there because they were well fixed, and they "lyed" safely at the bottom of the coffin—on top of their heads!

Li Cu felt that the hairs all over his body stood on end, and then he heard Wu Xie say to the top: "Su Wan, stretch out the light a little."

Li Cu didn't dare to look up at all, but his body seemed to have reacted due to inertia.

Li Cu looked up and saw a faint light from the flashlight held by Su Wan above his head, and under the light of this light, Su Wan's blurred face, and beside Su Wan's face, across the coffin wall of the sarcophagus, a A twisted and terrifying face.

Half of that other face was hidden in the darkness, and the light of the flashlight in Su Wan's hand could only vaguely illuminate an outline, but Li Cu could still see something strange.

Next to Su Wan's face, the face of the "corpse" that Wu Xie had always been certain of was not exactly a face, or it was not the face of an ordinary person turned into a corpse at all.Only the half of that face that was illuminated by the light was the size of an ordinary human face. It was extremely pale and terrifying.

Su Wan didn't know what was going on above, so he just felt that there was no one talking for a while, and he couldn't see the situation below clearly, so he stretched the flashlight down again, trying to take a clear view of the situation below the sarcophagus.

And with the spread of that point of light, Li Cu was finally able to see the complete face of the "corpse", which was twice as long as that of an ordinary person.

After a short period of panic, Li Cu quickly thought of a mysterious existence recorded in Wu Xie's notes - the Yin soldier in the bronze gate.

Li Cu once suspected that Wu Xie's record about Zhang Qiling entering the bronze gate for the first time was an illusion.After all, that record was too weird. The ghostly army of Yin soldiers appeared with the light blue mist and the sound of antlers. They were mighty and majestic. It's hard to believe.

Li Cu turned to look at Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling, and the two of them were also staring at the strange face above, and even Zhang Qiling frowned slightly, Li Cuo suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Boss! Brother Zhang! Why don't you talk anymore? Did you find anything?" Su Wan shouted from above, with anxiety in his tone.

Hearing Su Wan's voice, Li Cu suddenly felt sympathetic to him. If he knew that he was with a Yin soldier, face to face with only a layer of coffin wall, he didn't know how he would feel.

"You better stop asking." Li Cu said, "It's all for your own good."

Su Wan became even more anxious when he heard this, so he heard Wu Xie say, "I didn't find anything, I'll tell you when I get up."

Su Wan said: "Boss, tell me quickly, I am very brave."

Wu Xie smiled and said, "Of course, the ignorant are fearless."

When Su Wan heard Wu Xie say this, he became even more anxious, and said, "Boss, I don't want to be on it by myself." One leg was already on the edge of the sarcophagus.

Su Wan supported the side of the sarcophagus with both hands, and was about to jump down when he suddenly felt a shock.

The three people under the coffin also immediately heard the blunt rubbing sound from above—it was the half of the sarcophagus containing the corpse that was slowly moving, and it was about to close the mouth they pushed open.

Su Wan looked around in horror, but there was no one there, the sarcophagus was closed by himself!

"Jump down!" Zhang Qiling's voice suddenly came from the darkness below.

Su Wan didn't have time to think any more, he kicked his other leg onto the edge of the sarcophagus and jumped down.Just as Su Wan got up, the sound of the bottom of the sarcophagus above their heads also stopped, which meant that the sarcophagus had been completely closed.

"What did you do!" Li Cuo asked.

Su Wan was still in panic, and stammered: "I, I didn't do anything! It started to move by itself."

"Don't make noise." Wu Xie said, and then asked Zhang Qiling, "Brother, what's going on?"

Zhang Qiling seemed to think about it, and said: "There should be a mechanism on the sarcophagus, which is very secret, and we ignored it."

Wu Xie put his hands on Zhang Qiling's shoulders, and said, "It's okay, it's rare that you also miss, what should you do now? Can you open the sarcophagus through the mechanism?"

Half of Zhang Qiling's face was hidden in the darkness, and the other half of his face was frowning in the dim light of the flashlight, and his eyes that had been indifferent all this time suddenly looked at Wu Xie, and said, "Wu Xie, why are you looking for a corpse?"

Wu Xie was taken aback for a moment, but after a flash of surprise, he returned to that expression of indifference, and said, "It's just curiosity."

Zhang Qiling was silent for a while, then said: "You don't want to say?"

Wu Xie suddenly smiled, and replied: "I'm just doing what you did back then." Then he looked at Li Cu and Su Wan, "Brother, let's find a way to get out first, and I'll tell you when we get out."

Zhang Qiling was silent for a while, and only hummed.

Quiet made the sense of fear slowly spread again, Su Wan finally couldn't help it and said: "Boss, after the love and hatred between you and Brother Zhang are out, you take it easy, how can we go out now?"

Li Cu was more concerned about the one hanging above his head, so he asked, "Will it not fall?"

Zhang Qiling said: "No, it's already fixed."

Su Wan heard the key at once, and asked, "What will fall?" Then he used the flashlight to shine upwards.

Li Cu was ready to hear Su Wan's scream, but Su Wan only said, "There's nothing."

Li Cu was taken aback, and hurriedly raised his eyes to look, and sure enough, the pale and strangely long grimace that he could see just now had disappeared.

Naturally, Wu Xie also saw it, and was obviously shocked. For a while, the three of them all looked at Zhang Qiling. After all, he was the first to discover the mechanism.

Zhang Qiling took the flashlight in Li Cu's hand and shone it overhead, but since the flashlight was just an ordinary household flashlight, after several people used it for so long, the power was not enough, and the light was much dimmed, and the space below seemed to be The light-absorbing paint was applied, and the coffin face above the head could not be seen clearly even if the arm was stretched out, but it could be seen that the strange corpse was indeed gone.

"I can't see clearly." Zhang Qiling checked for a while and said.After speaking, he glanced at the three of them, and then handed the flashlight to Wu Xie.

Wu Xie smiled and said, "Brother, we are about the same height, I guess also..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Qiling suddenly squatted down in front of him, then stretched out his arms to hug his legs, and with all his strength, lifted him up.

"Zhang Qiling, you!" Wu Xie was at a loss for words, and shouted again, "How do I know what you are looking for? You put me down, and I lift you up instead!"

Zhang Qiling clicked his tongue and said, "Look carefully, are the lines the same?"

The previous panic dissipated in an instant, and all the self-control of Li Cu and Su Wan was spent trying not to laugh.

Wu Xie held the flashlight in one hand, and grasped Zhang Qiling's shoulder weakly with the other.He only felt a bit of heat from Zhang Qiling's words, sprayed on his lower abdomen through the thin shirt under his open windbreaker, and suddenly his whole body was numb, so he shouted again: "You first, let me down first! Let's see what!"

Zhang Qiling said again: "You only need to see if it is consistent with the lines we saw above, or if there are other traces of mechanism."

This sentence was another burst of enthusiasm, Wu Xie hurriedly said: "I see, don't talk yet!"

Wu Xie didn't have time to think about the sensitive reaction of his body, so he took a deep breath and cleared his cough.Then I had to frown and raise the flashlight to look carefully, and if I saw it earlier, I would put it down earlier, otherwise it might be a joke.

The face of the coffin in front of them is indeed covered with a layer of texture, no matter how you look at it, it is the same as the outermost layer of texture on the sarcophagus that they saw when they were on it at the beginning.

"How is it?" Zhang Qiling asked, although he was holding Wu Xie, his breath was still very steady.

"Well, it's indeed the coffin lid we thought it was at first." Wu Xie said with a firm mind, "This sarcophagus will turn itself over?"

"This mechanism is very strange, and I have never encountered it before." Zhang Qiling said.

Wu Xie sighed, and said again: "Brother, if you want me to tell you, it's better for you to look at it, after all, you are an expert." Then he was about to say to put him down quickly, when he suddenly saw that on the edge of the coffin, there seemed to be a With a small bump, he said, "What is that? Brother, take a step to the left."

Hearing that Wu Xie seemed to have discovered something, the three of them lifted their spirits again, but just as Zhang Qiling took a step, there was a loud noise in the whole space, and then without warning, the ground the three of them stepped on collapsed.