"In the tomb?" Everyone was puzzled.
"If this river is regarded as a tomb passage, and the caves on both sides are the tomb passage guards, then the tomb chamber is in front."
"But that's not right. The location of the river...hiss..." Uncle Long shook his head, "Strange...too strange..."
"Could it be that..." Uncle Long seemed to remember something and his eyes lit up.
"What's wrong, Uncle Long?" Chen Tao asked hurriedly.
"I'm not sure yet, keep going and see what else there is."
The river is very long, and the farther back you go, the higher the water level becomes. At the beginning, the river bank was still four or five meters wide, but later it was only more than one meter wide. Everyone lined up in a long line and walked on the side river bank. The stone pillars and stalagmites around them were getting fewer and fewer, and they were almost invisible.
"The river bank is getting narrower and narrower. There will be no way forward. We have to find a way to get a boat." Boss Zhang said
"Where can I find a boat in a place where birds don't poop?" said the mountain ghost.
"If we don't have a boat, we can build it ourselves. Aren't there ready-made materials?"
Haozi kicked the arm-thick vine branch beside the stone wall and said,
"I don't know what kind of tree these grew on. Although they smell a bit smelly, the wood is still okay."
When everyone heard it, it was a solution. The most indispensable thing around is these vines, which are as thick and as long as they want.
Immediately, Boss Zhang called to Ah Cheng and Brother Da Bing to get shovels and cut down the vines, and everyone else also got busy. The empty underground echoed with the sound of shovels slashing and vine branches snapping.
Fortunately, there were many of them and no one was idle. I collected materials from the spot, picked some vine branches of similar thickness, cut them down and tied them with ropes to build three simple rafts, each of which was enough to accommodate three or four people.
"Oh my god, I'm so exhausted!" Boss Zhang said, sitting on a tied raft.
I rinsed the shovel in the river, and the foul-smelling juice on it made me nauseous.
After a lot of tossing, several people were a little tired, so they sat on the shore and rested for a while. After enduring the smell that made people drunk, they worked together to push the three rafts into the river and climbed onto the raft one after another. Use a folding shovel as a paddle to row forward along the river.
Although the raft was simple, it was very strong. It hit several large rocks protruding from the river along the way. Chen Tao was on tenterhooks all the way, fearing that if he made a mistake, the raft would fall apart and he would have to take a bath in the water.
Uncle Long, Uncle Wang, and Shangui held a raft together and walked in the front. In the middle were Chen Tao, Haozi, and Yang Lixuan. The four bosses, Zhang, were at the end.
Their raft was larger than Chen Tao's, and it was more than enough for four people on it. Ah Cheng and Da Bing brothers really lived up to their reputation as mercenary titans. The vine branches they cut were thick and long. Boss Zhang has been overseas all year round and knows the structure of ships very well. Their rafts are bundled very firmly.
When they were on the shore, Boss Zhang was kind enough to guide them in building a raft, which surprised Chen Tao. After all, Boss Zhang's trustworthiness coefficient in his heart had always been negative along the way.
The three paths followed the river all the way. Although the river flow is not very fast, fortunately it is flowing smoothly, and everyone does not need to expend any effort to paddle. They only need to use shovels to control the direction of the raft.
The river in front became twists and turns, and there were no river banks visible on both sides. Along the way, Chen Tao always felt something strange behind him, as if something was staring at them.
Looking behind him several times, he couldn't see anything in the pitch black, which made Chen Tao feel very unsure. The previous experience in the laboratory was vivid in his mind. Under high tension, Chen Tao felt as if the pores on his back had eyes. He could detect even a gust of wind blowing by.
"Taozi, are you okay?" Haozi asked a little strangely, looking at Chen Tao who kept looking back.
"It's nothing, I just feel like something is looking at me from behind..."
Chen Tao touched the back of his neck and said.
"Maybe it's the sequelae of being scared up there. Don't be nervous. Even if there is something, the unlucky ones will be the ones at the back." Haozi glanced at Boss Zhang and others not far away and lowered his voice. Uncle Long warned him again and again that he would not dare to cause any more trouble.
"Maybe..." With a gentle breath, Chen Tao turned his head back, but he was still a little uneasy.
Uncle Long in front was holding a compass and looking at the surrounding rock formations. Yang Lixuan was sitting cross-legged in front of the tree with his eyes closed as if he was asleep.
Boss Zhang and others behind him didn't know what they were talking about. After saying a few words, they all became quiet. On the silent river, only the sound of shovels was left, and everything around seemed quiet as if it didn't exist.
Just after Chen Tao turned his head, on the stone wall not far behind him, a little red light fleetingly disappeared into the endless darkness...
...
Wow...
Wow...
In the silent darkness, the sound of paddling one after another echoed rhythmically. Several beams of light flashed in the distance, and three rafts floated slowly along the winding river.
A middle-aged man stood on the first raft, holding a compass in his hand, constantly checking the direction. Behind him, two people, one on the left and one on the right, were sitting on the raft, paddling the water with the folding shovels in their hands.
On another raft behind him, a young man sat cross-legged at the head of the bed, with a long fine iron stick across his legs and strange patterns carved on the stick. Behind him, the same two young men chatted and paddled.
On the last raft, there were two people sitting in front, one fat and one thin, and behind them were two big men as strong as mountains.
The fat man was holding a pipe in his mouth and looking around with a flashlight. The thin red-haired young man was playing with a coin in his hand. The coin seemed to be alive in his hand, passing through his slender fingertips, and then was lifted up by the tall man. It bounced up and landed accurately in the hands of the red-haired young man.
"There's going to be a turn ahead, those behind you, please pay attention." Uncle Long put away the north needle and shouted to the people behind him.
Holding a flashlight and shining the light ahead, the river surface was very calm, with no waves visible except for the splashes caused by paddling.
The dark rock walls on both sides were covered with vines of varying thicknesses. The vine branches have no leaves and only rely on thin roots to cling to the stone wall. From a distance, they look like mold growing countless pili.
The raft turned a small bend, and the river channel in front became wider, and the river banks on both sides reappeared, revealing the rugged rock formations under the water.
As the raft advanced further, the banks became wider and wider. Everyone was surprised to find that in addition to the caves on the stone wall, there were even wooden coffins one after another on the river bank.
The placement of the wooden coffins is very chaotic, and there is no order at all. Some are very well preserved, some have had their lids opened and are leaning aside, and some are badly damaged, with only a few broken boards remaining. In addition, there are many white bones scattered on the river bank, layer upon layer, and the entire river bank seems to be made of bones.
In the darkness, a layer of light green fluorescence floated on the surface of the bones. Chen Tao knows this kind of light. It is said that after the death of a person or animal, the decomposition of the body will produce a strange flame, which is very strange. Folks call this kind of fire "will-o'-the-wisp".
If you patiently gaze at places with many wild graves on hot summer nights, you may find flickering blue sparks of light.
At this time, superstitious people will say: "That is the ghost of the deceased in the tomb who is reluctant to reincarnate, and the ghost is wandering there."
Those fires are the so-called "will-o'-the-wisps". Some people also say that if someone passes by there, those "will-o'-wisps" will follow them, just like being chased by ghosts, which is very scary.
These "will-o'-the-wisps" are actually "phosphorus fires" that usually appear in tombs in rainy weather, but occasionally appear in cities for unknown reasons.
Modern scientific explanation is that human bones contain phosphorus. When phosphorus interacts with water or alkali, phosphine is produced. This is a gas that can spontaneously ignite. It is very light and can move when the wind blows. However, it has not yet Be confirmed.
When walking, the air flow generated will drive it to move behind people. If people look back, they will see a green and gloomy evil fire behind them, which is indeed quite scary.
Those faint green fluorescence are like a layer of film attached to the white bones. If you don't care about the authenticity of the reason, it really seems that the owner of those bones is unwilling to leave after death and lingers on the body. .
Looking at the scenes on the shore, Chen Tao couldn't help but be secretly frightened.
"My God, how many people have died to have so many bones!"
