If you say that the huge gate in front of you is a mountain temple built by people, it doesn't look like it. I don't really believe that this is a temple, because there were mountain temples built in various places in the past. Every year in the first month of the year, I go to make offerings to the mountain gods in order to pray for peace and good fortune when I walk in the mountains.
But I have never heard of a mountain temple built in the crater of a volcano. It was not a mountain temple built by ordinary people. This giant gate may be the place where the so-called mountain gods lived in ancient times.
Because the so-called mountain gods in various places are just a belief among ordinary people, and they are all fictitious gods, but the gate in front of us actually exists.
I can tell that this is no ordinary door. This kind of door is impossible to have among the people. The lacquered copper door has been buried here for who knows how many years.
The paint on the door is peeling off a bit, and the copper nails are so rusted that they cannot be seen as they were, but on this door, you can still clearly see the ten horizontal and ten vertical door nails. The ancients generally valued etiquette and system very much, and status was originally a fictitious thing, but the ancients just accepted it as a dead end.
Depending on your identity, you must wear what kind of clothes, use what kind of utensils, and what kind of house you must live in. This must not be mistaken. In some eras, if you wear the wrong clothes and use the wrong things, you will be beheaded. .
Let’s take the recent Qing Dynasty as an example. Those who could afford such lacquered copper gates were wealthy and powerful dignitaries, because the court at that time had a clear canon for the main entrance of the marquis’ house.
The doornails are five horizontally and five vertically. For the Duke and Prince Baylor, the doornails are seven horizontally and seven vertically. The doornails for the prince's palace are seven horizontally and nine vertically. This is a symbol of identity and status. The number is determined by the number, no matter it is one more or less. Even one of them may lead to death.
In the whole world, only in the ancient palaces are people qualified to use nine horizontal and nine vertical door nails. A door with ten vertical and ten horizontal door nails should never appear in the world of the world. It is something only found in the underworld. The door nails represent The underworld is divided into ten realms, ten halls and ten hells.
There was a moment of doubt in my mind. The huge door in front of me was definitely not the legendary gate to the underworld, but if the door was built like this, it must be related to the underworld or dead things.
"Open the door." I said hello to Uncle Wang and others, and then started to pry the door open.
"Isn't it bad to just pry the door open?"
Lei Zi said directly: "There is a huge door here. Why don't we knock on the door first to see if there is anyone inside..."
"Knock, if there is something inside and open the door for you, can you bear it?" Lone Wolf replied directly to him.
I kept scanning the giant door with the Blood Demon Eye Technique, and reached out to touch the doornails of the giant door. Judging from the feel of my hand, this door should not be locked, and there is no doorbolt inside. It is just covered with volcanic ash from the eruption. After the lava cooled, it was blocked.
I directly sent Mei Hua to push the door hard. At this time, Linggu saw that we were struggling too slowly, so he just stretched out his hand and pushed the door gently. The huge door was pushed out through a gap. Once again, I felt terrible. This will not change. Bones are terrible.
The soil behind leaked out, so we started digging vigorously. Meihua's hands were digging at the soil crazily, and it didn't take long for the entire door to be completely cleaned out.
A few of us pushed a huge door panel, and with a sudden force, the door suddenly opened a gap big enough for people to get through.
At this time we saw the situation behind the door. It was very dark behind the huge door. Even if the light from Lei Zi and Lone Wolf's night vision goggles shone in, the light from Uncle Wang's wolf-eye flashlight seemed to be swallowed up by the darkness.
But you can feel that there is a lot of space inside. I planned to go in and take a look. Everything about this place is unknown, but I definitely can’t miss it.
Uncle Wang walked in the front, and I gave him a flashlight for lighting. Behind this giant door was a long corridor, which was clean and empty of anything.
The four of us walked slowly. Although we walked very lightly and carefully, we only walked a few steps. The solid ground under our feet suddenly turned over. I reacted immediately, but Lei Zi and Lone Wolf did not react. When they came over, the two of them were suddenly thrown down and landed heavily on a very steep slope. They rolled and climbed down five or six feet deep.
As it fell, the two of them grabbed it with both hands. They supported each other and managed to stop a little. After rolling down from such a high place, the body and head could not avoid bumping, but when they stopped, they no longer cared about these. They just wanted to know where they were now.
Uncle Wang and I jumped up and leaned directly against a wall. While shouting for Lei Zi and Lone Wolf who fell, we touched the flashlight on our bodies.
But fortunately, Lei Zi and Lone Wolf's infrared night vision devices emitted some light. When I saw the night vision devices shaking, I confirmed that they were fine.
Uncle Wang's wolf-eye flashlight lit up. At this moment, I felt my head being touched by something. I stretched out my hand and touched it.
Right above his head, there was a shoe. At first glance, they look like the kind of earless, thousand-layer cloth shoes that people in the mountains only wear during festivals.
As soon as he touched the shoe, his hand naturally continued to touch upwards. This time, he suddenly touched a cold ankle. Is this a corpse? My guess was immediately confirmed in my mind.
I quickly let go of my hand, looked up using the Blood Demon Eye Technique, and saw a dead body hanging directly above my head, with its head drooped and standing on tiptoes, and it was already dead.
Uncle Wang and I had nothing to do with each other. Lei Zi and Lone Lang had also seen dead people, but they were still startled by this sudden move, but they immediately responded.
No one knows who this corpse is, and no one knows why he was hanged here. The reason why it is weird is that, first, it is a male corpse, but it is wearing blood-red clothes.
Secondly, the corpse would not have been hung for too long, at most three years. The corpse did not rot, but gradually dried like bacon.
In this environment, the corpse is in such a state, as if someone deliberately hung the corpse to the wind vent to dry in the shade and then moved it in. Because it is airtight down here, once the corpse slowly rots, no one can get in. It stinks. To die.
"There's something evil about this corpse." Lei Zi and Lone Wolf crawled out behind us. After looking at it for a while with eyes equipped with night vision devices, he said: "This seems to be someone who hanged himself. Well, he must have been hanged. But why is this person wearing red clothes? A man wearing red clothes hanged himself." Damn, this is a bit pervasive."
When he saw the body clearly, he also roughly saw the surrounding environment. In front of him was a tunnel-like passage, which was very wide. The passage branched a few feet ahead.
But the situation after the bifurcation was invisible. We were all clinging to the wall on the left. The hanged man in red clothes was hanging on the left. Next to the hanged man, there was a large piece of black cloth hanging down, covering the entire aisle. Divide into two.
"What are you doing pulling a piece of cloth here?" Lone Wolf was an iron-blooded soldier. When he came to this place, he was still a little scared. He could only keep asking in a low voice to build up his courage.
Seeing this piece of cloth, and then looking at the layout in front of me, I had a vague judgment in my heart, and immediately stood on the spot. At this time, the lone wolf gently pinched the corner of the black cloth, trying to slowly When he pulled it off, the black cloth was already a little bad, and it was pulled open with a sharp squeak.
"Don't!" The sound of black cloth being torn woke me up, and I was about to grab Lone Wolf's hand: "Lone Wolf, don't pull away!"
"What? Why can't you pull it open? Is there anything on the other side of the cloth?" Lone Wolf asked me.
"If my guess is correct, there is also a hanged ghost on the other side of this black cloth, and it is a female corpse. She should be wearing white clothes." I said: "This is the ghost guarding the gate. Male and female corpses cannot meet. , it will be very troublesome for us if we meet."
At this time, the lone wolf stopped, but still had the courage to get under the black cloth, and nodded to me when he came back. My guess was absolutely correct. On the other side of the black cloth, hanging alone, was a dried female corpse, wearing a full body suit. She was wearing white shroud-like clothes and her hair was disheveled.
"How did you know there was a female corpse over there?" Lei Zi suddenly interrupted and asked me.
"No, I just heard that these two corpses, a man and a woman, were a couple before they died. They were hanged here. This is a kind of evil magic. The two corpses are used to guard this giant The door may be quiet at ordinary times. If an outsider enters here without knowing the doorway, he will roll down from such a high place and pull off the black cloth with his hands unobstructed. As soon as the two corpses meet, the two resentments will burst out. ." When I saw these two weird corpses, I felt even more certain.
"This place may be a cave or something." I pointed forward and said, "There are many branches, just like the enchantment array. Outsiders can't figure out the situation. It's easy to break in, but it's probably difficult to get out. It's very possible. I will be trapped and die inside, I just don’t know the layout here, it has nothing to do with fire zombies.”
"What should we do?" Lei Zi looked at the situation around him and asked me cautiously, "It's better to be careful." I thought for a while and said, "Don't go in too deep rashly. Let the two of us go in, and you stay in The lone wolf here is responsible for responding. If something happens, it won't be all over the place. I have a hundred ways to save you." Lei Zi and I walked forward one after another.
Uncle Wang stopped me: "Xiao Lin, you have to be more careful. You should ask Meihua to clear the way. You can also take the paper man with you. At the worst, you still have spiritual bones to protect you, although she doesn't listen to you very much."
In front of this passage, there were three forks. We couldn't separate, so we picked the leftmost one and continued walking. Just as I thought, the passage became short and narrow, and there were twists and turns. I walked very slowly. Try your best to keep the path you have taken in mind, and as you walk, you have to be on the lookout for any murderous plots around you.
I have some suspicions. Judging from the lacquered copper gate and the two Yaksha ghost statues outside, this place has some yin energy. Because I walked slowly, I gradually lost the sense of time. I don’t know how long I walked. The number of passages extending in all directions suddenly decreased a lot. The road in front of us was simple and spacious. It was a crossroads with one horizontal and one vertical direction. However, I clearly felt that the path we were taking was heading downwards. From the position of the crater, at least Went down about a hundred meters.
"Xiao Lin, it's almost time for us to get here. Otherwise, let's go back first and have a good discussion with Uncle Wang and the others, and then we can make plans."
As Lei Zi spoke, the sweat on his forehead also started to fall. He took turns tugging on the cloth with both hands. He didn't know whether it was because of fear or the stuffy heat caused by the lack of air circulation in the volcano.
But I found that Lei Zi's forehead was sweating, which gave me a hint of association, that is, it was possible that the two of us were approaching the place where the fire zombies were stored. The heat emitted by the fire zombies caused the temperature nearby to rise. What's up?
