I thought vaguely, and I couldn't tell what I was doing, but there was still a familiar figure in front of me, but I tried my best to convince myself that this was not the real Lin Xiaoyu, phantom and reason, inner demons and obsessions. Intertwined in layers.
The tip of my tongue felt slightly numb due to being scratched by Huai Rujin's fast knife. The figure was like the wind blowing through the treetops, gently brushing against the leaves and dodging calmly. Huai Rujin grabbed me and pulled me aside. He held the dagger behind his back and held it in front of his chest on guard.
The figure seemed to have no intention of entangled anymore. If the smoke and dust floated up, it returned to the dragon coffin and then disappeared. Huai Rujin grabbed my hand and then gradually relaxed, her fingers firmly pressing the side of my wrist, but she could still feel the tenderness of the skin on her fingertips.
This was the first time I took a closer look at Hua Rujin's appearance, and found myself deeply attracted to her. The reason why I was not attracted to her when I first saw her was because she carried a sense of distance. Before liberation, this was called class difference.
Hua Rujin took off her black jacket and wore a tight black leather jacket underneath, which accentuated her figure even more. Her hair with natural undulations fell on her shoulders. The expression on her face was often as cold as ice. The high and narrow nose bridge is delicate and indifferent, the slender willow eyebrows are painted with dark eye shadow, and the brown eyes covered by long eyelashes shine with a light that is repellent from thousands of miles away, but there is a deep sadness that is not easy to detect. , deeply covered with coldness.
Huai Rujin turned around and saw me staring at him, my eyes seeming to be a bit unavoidable. I was embarrassed and quickly averted my eyes, and said awkwardly: "Thank you, Miss Huai, for your generous rescue."
"That..." Huai Rujin paused, responded, and said, "It's nothing."
"I didn't expect that Miss Huai is not only beautiful, but also has such good skills. She doesn't show her real face!"
"Okay, stop talking, let's go look for it again."
I nodded, "I remember that Miss Huai brought someone else. I didn't see him under the water just now. He should be here."
"Gu Aba?" Fatty Yu asked, "That old bird is very thief."
We turned around a stone screen wall and came to a cave. Huai Rujin was about to go in, but I stopped him, "Wait, don't go in yet."
"What's wrong?" Hua Rujin looked at me in surprise.
"There's something wrong with this hole." I felt something was wrong early in the morning, and there was a rancid smell in the air.
"It stinks." Fatty Yu pinched his nose and said, "Miss Huai, don't you think so?"
Huai Rujin's eyes averted for a moment, a little wandering, and he frowned, but said nothing, as if he had something to hide. I saw all this action, but I didn't point it out and said, "This may be a corpse cave."
"Corpse cave?" Fatty Yu said in shock.
Huai Rujin said, "Are we still going in?"
"Why are you still going in there? There must be corpses in the corpse cave. They are rotten and smelly. They are so disgusting." Fatty Yu said quickly, "Let's leave quickly and stay away from here."
"Will Guaba be in there?" I said.
"Oh, he's not a fool. Who would go to such a place for nothing?"
"Who can say this well? You don't know what is behind the corpse cave. What if he is obsessed with money and is in there?" I said, "I think so. Miss Huai definitely can't stand the situation here, Fatty." You just got tired and went to see it.”
"Me? Why!" Fatty Yu jumped up anxiously and cursed: "I won't go!"
"You're not going, are you?" I sneered: "Miss Huai, why don't we go in and have a look? Fatty is timid."
"Hey, are you kidding me?" Fatty Yu yelled, blowing his beard, "I'm telling you, I really won't accept your trick. If I go, I'll go. Don't regret it. If there are gold, silver and jewelry in it, , I won’t give you any!”
"No need, just take care of yourself."
"Hmph!" As he said that, Fatty Yu pinched his nose and rushed in. The corpse cave was glowing with green phosphorescence, and on the walls on both sides of the cave were hung corpses one by one, so rotten that they could not be distinguished at all. This scene is not inferior to, or even worse than, the mummy hanging on the iron-eating Tai Sui in the Yinshan Tomb.
The closer you get to the rotting corpses inside, the more serious the decay becomes. The innermost part has turned into rows of skeletons, arranged very neatly. This kind of corpse cave is not uncommon in the southwest region. Some bones are artificially hung here, which is similar to raising slaves during life. However, the further outside it became, the messier it became, probably because the person who did it at the time couldn't bear it. Especially at the entrance of the cave, there were corpses that had not completely decomposed.
This kind of corpse-raising cave was started at the same time as the tomb. It usually takes several years to build a large tomb like this. The corpses are hung inside in batches, so the innermost ones have the highest degree of decay and are relatively neat. However, this kind of corpse cave has been carefully designed. It is impossible for it to be completely rotten in less than 180 years. Therefore, even if a hundred and eighty years have passed, the corpses outside will not be rotten to the core.
Huai Rujin and I waited at the entrance of the corpse-raising cave for half an hour. We couldn't see Fatty Yu coming out, and we became even more anxious, fearing that if something happened to him again, it wouldn't be worth it.
I wanted to go in and observe, so I said to Huai Rujin: "Fat man may not be safe in his work. I'll go take a look. You wait for me here."
Huai Rujin nodded and said with concern: "Then be careful."
I smiled, thinking to myself why the pregnant lady suddenly became concerned about my safety, and said, "Don't worry, I'll go and come back soon."
Not long after.
I took Fatty Yu out of it, blaming him all the way. Huai Rujin didn't know what we were talking about. He glanced at me from the corner of his eye and looked away immediately.
So, he asked me: "What happened to you just now?"
I replied: "This fat man is so cowardly. He hid at the entrance of the cave and didn't even dare to go in. I've looked inside. The cave is dead. There is no other exit. Guaba is not in it."
"I...it's because I can't stand the smell inside, not because I'm timid. Li Rui, can't you save some face?"
"Oh, I didn't say anything to you." I said helplessly, "Okay, okay, considering how well you performed in the past few times, I'll just pretend this never happened. Don't worry, Miss Huai won't look down on you. of."
Fatty Yu smiled and said, "As long as Miss Huai doesn't underestimate me, nothing will matter to me."
Huai Rujin said: "What did Brother Yu say? Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, and I am no exception. I have nothing to say."
I didn't understand what she meant at first, but after hearing the words "Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, and I am no exception", I reacted randomly and thought: "I just saw her expression at the entrance of the cave." , when the fat man asked her if she didn’t smell the stench of the corpse cave, she seemed very unnatural. Could it be that she really didn’t smell it? Could it be that there was something wrong with her nose?”
Fatty Yu chuckled and said, "Look, look, Miss Huai is such an open-minded person!"
Huai Rujin said: "Since Gu Aba is not here, should we look elsewhere?"
Fatty Yu was happily chatting with Huai Rujin, and naturally he still had something to say. At this moment, he suddenly heard me shouting from the front, "Hey! Come here quickly. There's something going on."
Huai Rujin was about to go up and asked, "What's wrong? Have you seen Gu Aba?"
I said: "There is no other way ahead." I saw a relatively primitive cave appearing in front of me. It looked like it was dug manually, but I couldn't see its function. It just led straight into the depths.
I said: "There is no dark room in the cave, so there is no way to hide anyone."
"If Guaba is really here but has not returned, he can only stay here."
Fatty Yu said decisively: "Then it must be here. Is there any other way?"
"I feel like something is wrong." I thought, "We went from the coffin room to here, but we found no trace at all. If he came in by himself, he would have to leave some traces."
"You're right." Huai Rujin said, "It's really incredible."
"Is it interesting for you two to scare yourself with your noises?" Fatty Yu said, "If there's anything going on, why don't you just go in and take a look?"
Just as Fatty Yu was about to take a step forward, I quickly lifted his feet up with quick eyes and hands, and said anxiously: "Oh my god, you pig, you are too heavy!"
"What are you doing!" Fatty Yu was confused when I lifted his feet. I slowly moved his feet away and said, "Miss Huai, look!"
There were actually a few drops of red blood at Fatty Yu's feet.
"Ah?" Fatty Yu said in surprise.
"The blood is still fresh." I analyzed. "There is no scab. It should be done within a few minutes."
"You mean, this is Guaba's blood?!"
"Who else could it be but his?" I asked.
"yes!"
I frowned, as if the situation was not good, and said softly to Huai Rujin: "Trouble, Guaba might be in danger, it's very possible..."
Huai Rujin didn't seem to be particularly concerned about Gu Aba's life and death. He just expressed concern symbolically and said, "I think we should go in and take a look before talking about it?"
I clicked my tongue, looking at the blood on the ground, I couldn't figure out what was going on. At this time, Fatty Yu turned around in a panic and asked: "Li Rui, do you think there might be something in here that took Gu Aba away?"
I didn't think much about it and asked him to follow me. The three of us crawled forward along the hole. After about half a cigarette, I said, "Stop."
Fatty Yu was already sweating after crawling for such a long time. He squeezed up to take a look and asked softly: "What's wrong?"
"Do not talk!"
Fatty Yu closed his mouth knowingly and looked at me strangely. Suddenly he felt something gently touching the back of his neck. His scalp suddenly became numb and the flesh on his face twitched involuntarily.
"Ah!" He shouted in fright, "There is something!"
I turned around to look, and my scalp suddenly exploded, and all the hairs on my body stood up, "Get out of the way!"
