desert abyss

Maybe I walked too long before, maybe I was too excited to hear Li Jin's voice, anyway, after running, my ankle suddenly stopped working.My legs gave way, I fell to the ground, and then I rolled down the smooth stone steps with my backpack.

The stone steps are like a slide. Once I rolled it, I couldn't stop. The front wheel turned forward and the back wheel turned back. Anyway, I rolled all the way to the bottom.

I was so dizzy at this moment, I could only lie on my back on the flat surface at the bottom of the stairs, looking at the light circles lit by white reptiles above my head, feeling that everything was unreal.After a long time, the bug lights above the head went out one by one.I picked myself up from the ground in agony and turned on the flashlight.

The case of the flashlight was knocked out of shape, but luckily the light was still bright.

"Li Zhen?"

I called out tentatively.

My voice echoed three times in the empty abyss, and then was suddenly absorbed by this special stone.

Li Zhen is not here.There was still a circle of smooth stone walls around me.But around me, there are six huge stone boxes in a circle, like a hexagram.Each box is three meters long and one meter wide.The box is thin at both ends and thick in the middle.I went over to examine one of them, and was struck by the fact that it resembled a coffin, only without a lid.

Taking a closer look, the coffin did have a lid, but it was turned over and not closed.There were also bones in the coffin.The bones were extremely clean, neatly placed in the center of the coffin, with arms folded on the chest.

In addition to the bones, there was a strange thing in the coffin.In the right hand of the corpse, a golden object several fingers wide was held. It was slender in the middle and bulged at both ends, like a pair of hammers with short handles.However, the hammer heads at both ends are not solid iron blocks, but beautiful gold bars gathered into a shape like a flower bone.I think I've seen this somewhere, because the first word that comes to mind is "pestle" instead of "hammer."But what this thing is, I can't figure it out.

Other coffins also contained neatly arranged corpses, all of which were holding things in their hands.In addition to the golden pestle, I also saw an extremely gorgeous golden sword, a golden wheel, a colorful Ruyi, and a white jade lotus.Each object is only the size of a palm, but it is extremely gorgeous and breathtaking.

The sixth coffin was empty.There were no bones and no funeral objects inside.

I took a closer look at several coffins and was very interested.Although the funerary objects seemed to be of great value, I had no desire to keep them for my own, as they looked so beautiful and fitting in the coffin.I just picked up the golden double-headed pestle and played with it in my hand.This little thing of pure gold is heavy and delicately carved, and it looks new and shiny under the flashlight, like something modern rather than ancient.

I turned the golden pestle upside down in my hand, and finally remembered where I had seen it before.Half a year ago, when my junior sister and I were eating skewers at a street stall, she secretly showed me a similar thing out of my bag.She said it was a souvenir bought in Thailand, a "vajra".Thinking about it this way, this thing really looks a bit like Buddhism.

But will it be the same?When Liao Xiaodan and Huang Kun came to me to snatch her handbag, could it be for this thing?On our way to the training base, the bus stopped four times. Li Zhen risked his life to get out of the bus four times to get it. Could it be the other four expensive funeral objects?

But if so, why are these five things here?Who are these five people?

Why is the sixth coffin empty?

Because of all kinds of questions like this, I decided to hold the vajra, and if I meet Li Zhen and the others in the future, I can still ask them.The important thing now is to get out.There is a small hole in the door opposite each coffin.At this point, I didn't care much about my choice of right or wrong, so I didn't worry too much, and went out from the hole closest to me.This opening is exactly opposite the sixth empty coffin.

Passing through the cave, I came to a huge grotto.

The flashlight can only illuminate a part of the grotto, the top cannot be seen, and the surroundings cannot be seen.

From the six small holes extend six slender bridges that radiate outward from the center.I'm standing on one of the bridges.

The pile of bones under the bridge is full of bones.

I'm not afraid of bones - my grandfather's family is in Nanjing, and a bunker near my house buried the dead during the war.When I was young, my female or male companions named Juan'er or Dan'er took my grandpa's dog and went digging when I had nothing to do-but the number of white bones under my feet still made me sick to my stomach.There are at least tens of thousands of human skeletons here.

If you look closely, there are not only human bones, but also some smaller or larger skeletons, perhaps of livestock or the like.

I stood on the bridge, looking at the white bones paved all over the sky, biting my fingers and thinking what the hell it was.At this time, I began to regret not listening carefully to what Huang Kun taught me.

"Li Zhen?" I called again tentatively.

There was no echo in the grotto, only an alert silence.

"Anyone? Hello?" I started walking forward.

The bridge is endless, and the bones are endless.As I walked, I felt that I should sing a nursery rhyme to strengthen my courage, but I only had "Tianzhu girl" and "Sister, go forward boldly" in my mind for a while.Anyway, there was no one around, so I didn't blush and my heart didn't beat. I hummed "Sister, go forward boldly, oh Shariva Shariwa", but I didn't expect to sing "I'm like the petals with dewdrops" Suddenly, a crisp laugh was heard.

My goose bumps jumped three feet high.If I heard it right, it was a woman's voice.

Then, to my horror, a melodious woman's singing came from a distance, clearly following my tone.

"From then on, you built the red embroidered building, threw red hydrangea, hit me on the head, and drank a pot with you, red sorghum wine..."

I covered my mouth and forced myself not to make a sound.I thought to myself, this woman is a human or a ghost. If she is a human, it's okay to say, but if she is a ghost, I don't want to drink this sorghum wine, and I don't want this red hydrangea. Otherwise, why don't you kidnap me and go to the underworld to get married.I was thinking wildly there when the woman laughed again, and then the singing stopped.

I stared in fear, and suddenly felt my ankles being grabbed.I shone the flashlight down, and I saw Li Zhen's bloody face raised from my feet resentfully, he was pawing at the side of the bridge with one hand, and grabbing my ankle with the other.

I shouted angrily and kicked him down decisively.

A burst of obscene language came from under the bridge immediately. Its power of filth and its ability to integrate various dialects across the country cannot be underestimated, so that it is difficult for me to understand with my cultural level.Then there was a series of crackling and creaking sounds.

After a while, Li Zhen crawled up again, and this time I pulled him up.Later, because he felt a little sorry, he kindly helped him pat the dust off his clothes.He still had a hand bone hanging on his body, and I flicked it and flew out.

Li Zhen pinched my face and rubbed it back and forth.

"Why don't you die for the mine? Why don't you die for the Angora rabbit? Why don't you die for Huang Kun? I'll die for you, okay?"

"It hurts, hurts... Hero, I was wrong... What is an Angora rabbit?"

Lee Jin and I exchanged information while walking along the bridge.

It turns out that Angora rabbits refer to zombies with fried fur. Because they are covered with white hairs, they are very similar to Angora rabbits, so Li Zhen and the others collectively refer to these things as "rabbits".There are many names for zombies, but this is the first time I have heard of such a retarded name.I asked Li Zhen who got the name and why he was so dubious.He looked at me, froze for two seconds, and suddenly laughed.

Lee Jin told me while wiping the blood off his face that he also saw the vortex in the air.His experience was roughly the same as mine. He wanted to meet us at the camping place, but he lost consciousness after seeing the vortex.When he woke up, he was already underground.Later he heard my movement and came to me.He didn't see the steps and the six coffins, but he wasn't surprised when I told him.

I wanted to show him the vajra in my bag, but for some reason, I hesitated again.

I kept this stuff until the very end.

I asked Li Zhen if he heard the female ghost's voice.He froze for a moment and shook his head.It turned out that when he woke up, he was on another bridge, and there was a mechanism in the bridge. Halfway through, he was thrown into the funeral pit.At that time, the flashlight went out, and the backpack could not be found. He had no direction in the dark, and he was always hugged by something.It wasn't until my flashlight appeared that he waded over from below. Because of his high nervousness, it was natural that he didn't notice the sound.

I admired him. Although the bridge was only about two meters high from the bones below, if I fell, I would be so scared that I would not be able to get up.

The width of the bridge is only for one person to pass.Li Zhen walked ahead with a flashlight, and I followed behind.The two of us summed it up.The food in my backpack couldn't last us both for long, and the most troublesome thing was the lack of water.Fortunately, I was not injured, and Lee Jin didn't hurt any bones when he fell, so we still have strength.It doesn't look like an extremely dangerous place here, but it's a bit weird, it's better to hurry up now.

We walked along the bridge that didn't know where to go.Li Zhen told me that this is the direction to the north.The compass has failed. I asked him how he knew the direction. He said he relied on intuition, but I didn't think so.He should have concluded that I chose the bridge facing the empty coffin.He did know something.

I had nothing to do while walking, so I urged Li Zhen to talk about "Angora Rabbit".Since he continues to use such a naming method, it means that he must have some experience.

"Yuewei Thatched Cottage Notes" said that the appearance of zombies is "white hair all over the body, red eyes like cinnabar, fingers like curved hooks, teeth exposed and lips like sharp knives", this description is really a bit like a rabbit.All zombies in popular culture must eat human flesh and suck human blood. In some versions, people who have been sucked blood will become new zombies.Zombies can't bend their knees, they can only jump straight.It is said that the high thresholds in Chinese buildings are used to prevent zombies from jumping into the home.This is ridiculous.

Around the 90s, a zombie panic broke out across the country.Zombies vary from place to place. Some say that scientists were mutated by some kind of disease infected by vampire bats. Some say it is an old woman who drinks the blood of young girls. Some say they ran out when developing attractions. The most perverted It is said that he ran out of the museum.Zombie rumors are concentrated in the central and eastern regions, mainly around Changsha and Shanghai.I was in elementary school at the time, and I had vaguely heard the rumors.What did you say that five zombies ran out, the Taoist priest killed two, the People's Liberation Army burned two, and the remaining one is still moving around.

Other than that, my idea of ​​zombies comes entirely from the novels and The Walking Dead, so I'm dubious about the existence of such a thing.

Li Zhen said that he had seen zombies, but only once did he actually see them face to face.At that time, he was 17 years old, and he saw hundreds of salt-soaked zombies in the underground sewage pipes in Shanghai, and the corpses were indeed raised.He was surrounded by zombies in the waste water, and finally crawled out through a manhole cover.It was thunderstorming outside, and a zombie blew up Baimao.That is indeed the same as the long-haired rabbit.

I asked him why a man from Nanjing went to build sanitation projects in underground water pipes in Shanghai. He waved his hand and said that he was too young at that time, but now he is old.He was one year older than me, and he was only 25 at the time, so he was really shameless.

I asked him again what happened after he climbed out of the manhole cover, and why the zombies didn't come out.Li Zhen said that he didn't know what happened to the zombie, because he was pulled out of the manhole by someone else, and after he got out, he just ran away, and that person probably burned the zombie.The things that engrave zombies are no different from the traditional evil things, such as mirrors, peach wood, jujube stones, red beans, etc., but fire is the most reliable at critical times.The zombie is full of oil, once it is lit it crackles and bursts, and then the problem is solved.

"Who is so kind to pull you out after seeing you in the manhole? If it was me, it would definitely be dirty."

Li Zhen glanced at me.

"Huang Kun."

"Ah..." I opened my mouth.

"Shut up and don't say a word, I will punch you if you say a word."

"You guys have known each other so long? Why do you have to come to Shanghai to build a sanitation project even though you're both from Nanjing?"

"It's a long story. Huang Kun is a native of Nanjing. My sister and I are originally from Yunnan, but we also grew up in Nanjing. When we were seven years old, our family members died. When we were ten years old, we were adopted by the owner of the team. The owner lives in Shanghai, so we followed him to Shanghai. After I stayed in Shanghai for ten years, the owner took us back to Nanjing. After that, I often lived in Nanjing and worked in Shanghai with the owner.

"But the sanitation project..."

"Hush!" Li Zhen suddenly stretched out his hand to cover my mouth.

Faintly, a low humming of a woman came from the front again.

"Master Yan Wang, you understand, tell Nu Tuo to give birth to a man, and don't take off the hairpin of a woman in Fireworks and Liuxiang..."

The song "□□ Complaint" was actually sung.

This time Li Zhen also heard it, his hand covering my mouth was shaking.The voice was so close to us that if there was a woman there, she must have heard everything we just said.

"Don't shoot guns, just enter the village quietly, let's meet that flower girl for a while." Li Zhen said in my ear.

The singing gradually came out, and we tiptoed forward.After walking for about 3 minutes, the flashlight finally found the boundary of the sacrificial pit.A circular hole was opened in the stone wall there, and we groped out from the hole and came to a stone room.This stone room is only about ten square meters, which is naturally incomparable to the one just now. It is surrounded by chains carved from stone, and in the center there is a platform two or three meters high. woman, motionless.