Liu Siniang shouted in surprise: "What is that sound?"
I shouted loudly: "Who knows what it is? But it's definitely not a good thing! What are you waiting for? Run!"
After saying that, I grabbed Liu Siniang and Xiao Zhuoma and ran forward.
The three of us ran forward for about seventy or eighty meters, risking our lives. The corridor suddenly turned sharply downward. As the slope became steeper, the entire corridor began to narrow little by little. The narrowest part was only enough for one person to pass through.
But we didn't care about that much anymore, we just ran forward with our heads down, for fear that the weird friction sound would catch up with us.
People are born with a fear of unknown things, especially things that are inexplicable, sudden, invisible and intangible.
None of the three of us spoke, we just kept running forward.
The corridor went all the way down, and after about ten minutes, a thick stone door suddenly appeared at the end of the corridor.
The stone door was ajar, and there was a row of footprints at the door.
I squatted on the ground and used the firelight to discover that the series of footprints turned out to be dark red.
"It's blood! Could it be that guy just now? He was injured?" Liu Siniang said in surprise behind me.
I shook my head, dipped my index finger and thumb on the dark red footprint, then put it to my nose and smelled it. Suddenly, a fishy smell mixed with a strange aroma poured into my nose, making my stomach churn. .
I turned my head away and took a few deep breaths before spitting out the overnight meal.
Liu Siniang asked concernedly from behind me: "What's wrong?"
I shook my head and said, "It's okay! This is not blood!"
Liu Siniang asked in surprise: "This is not blood? What is that?"
I said in a deep voice: "If I guessed correctly, this thing should be ambergris."
Liu Siniang asked in slight surprise: "Did you mean..."
I can't. After she finished speaking, she nodded and said, "That's right! It's ambergris, the price per gram of which is several times higher than gold on your black market."
Liu Siniang shook her head and said, "Impossible!"
I turned around and asked with some confusion: "Impossible? Why is it impossible?"
Liu Siniang said: "The method of making ambergris has almost been lost. Now those who can make this ambergris..."
As Liu Siniang spoke, she stretched out a hand and spread her fingers, and then continued: "As far as I know, there are no more than five people who can make this ambergris. And among these five people, four He is already over a hundred years old and has no interest in world affairs..."
I said, "Isn't there one person left?"
Liu Siniang said: "The remaining person is said to be a once-in-a-hundred-year-old genius among the Gu sects in the Lower Eight Gates... It seems that his surname is... yes, his surname is Xin... However, he was in the Lower Eight Gates sixty years ago. He has disappeared during an internal fight, and no one knows whether he is dead or alive. But even if he is still alive, it is impossible to produce so much ambergris saliva. You must know that this thing is extremely complicated to make, otherwise..."
Before Liu Siniang finished speaking, I interrupted her and asked, "What did you say the last name of the remaining person was?"
Liu Siniang looked at me with doubts in her eyes. Obviously, she didn't understand why I suddenly cared about that person's surname. She blinked at me for a long time with her big eyes, and then said slowly: "My surname is Xin! What's wrong?"
I didn't answer Liu Siniang's words, but frowned and murmured to myself: "My surname is Xin? Is this really such a coincidence?"
Liu Siniang was unwilling to give in and kept asking behind me: "What's such a coincidence? Young Master Hu, what are you talking about?"
I looked back at Liu Siniang and said, "It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered someone and some things. We..."
Before I could finish my words, suddenly the tooth-searing friction sound sounded again, this time it was closer to us.
I was startled when I heard the sound. I stood up quickly and let Liu Siniang and Xiao Zhuoma take the lead in getting into the stone room at the end of the corridor through the crack in the door. I also followed closely behind and used the With all the energy of sucking, he finally pushed the stone door open bit by bit.
Just a "click" sound was heard, and the stone door closed.
At the same time, the frightening friction sound also stopped abruptly at this moment.
I took a breath and wanted to sit on the ground and have a good rest for a while, but as soon as I leaned against the stone door, little Dolma not far in front shouted: "There is... someone!"
I was immediately startled, and my originally relaxed nerves suddenly became tense again, "Is there anyone there?"
Liu Siniang hurriedly answered: "It's... a dead person! And... and there's more than one..."
I was surprised: "What? Where?"
Little Zhuoma said: "It's...inside!"
The design of the inner and outer rooms of this stone house, the size of the two rooms inside and outside are almost exactly the same, and both are empty.
I strode in from the outer room. When I entered the inner room, I found three people leaning against the wall on the right.
These three are naturally dead.
Three mummies, three mummies wearing the same hiking clothes as the woman named Yao Fang outside.
They seemed to have been dead for a long time. Although I don't understand the forensic algorithm in TV dramas to deduce the time of death, I can tell with the naked eye that these three people have been dead for at least half a year.
I squatted down and rummaged around on one of the men for a while. Apart from getting a work permit, I still didn't get anything. This guy's pockets were cleaner than his face.
I opened the guy's work permit, and sure enough, he was also from the 749th Bureau of the Central Committee.
Liu Siniang came over, looked behind me, and said softly: "Gu Jie...what a strange surname."
I nodded and said, "It is indeed a very rare surname."
I put the guy's movement permit in my pocket and put it together with the work permit that belonged to Yao Fang before.
Then, he turned around to see the cause of death of the other person beside him.
I rummaged through it for a while, but I only found one work ID card. The guy's name was Shi Mingfei. There was nothing special about it except that there were some girls in the photo on the ID card.
I sighed and moved my gaze to the mummy sitting at the end.
What is different from others is that this mummy is like an old monk, sitting there upright, with his head bowed and the palms of his hands facing up, in a posture of meditating and praying.
This is a man, he must be very old, with a few strands of gray beard hanging below his nose. The skin all over his body is so dry that there is no drop of moisture, showing a strange dark brown color.
I looked at the old man in confusion for a long time. Just as I hesitantly reached out my hand to him, the long-dried corpse in front of me suddenly raised its head.
His pair of deep-set eyes, like black holes, stared at me, and his tight jaw bones could not stop trembling. For a long time, he slowly said a few words: "You... can't change... anything. ...You can't change it..."
This sudden change shocked me all over, and I subconsciously stepped back. As a result, the sole of my foot slipped, and I fell onto my back with a bang.
Liu Siniang hurriedly came over to help me and asked in a very surprised tone: "Young Master of the Hu family, what's wrong with you?"
I looked at Liu Siniang, and then pointed at the mummy in front of me. I was about to say something, but I was surprised to find that the guy still maintained the same posture as before, as if he was meditating.
"He...he..." I looked at the old man's mummy in front of me, confused and confused.
Liu Siniang seemed to realize something, looked at me and asked, "What happened to this mummy? Is there anything wrong with him?"
I looked at the mummy, then turned to Liu Siniang, widened my eyes and said, "He moved just now... didn't you see it?"
Liu Siniang didn't speak, she just shook her head.
I turned to look at the little Zhuoma next to me and asked, "Didn't you see it too?"
Little Dolma shook her head and said in her immature and blunt Mandarin: "I didn't see it either! Have you seen a ghost?"
"What the hell?" I said and pinched my temples with my thumb and middle finger. "Is it true that I was too tired during this period and had hallucinations? But...but everything just now was really too real. …”
I slowly got up from the ground, staring at the mummy in front of me, muttering to myself: "No matter how hard I try, I can't change everything... What do you mean by this? I can't change it." Whose everything? And...whose everything do I try to change?"
Liu Siniang looked at me from the side. After a while, she patted my shoulder gently and said, "Master Hu, are you okay? Why don't we take a rest first? I think you are tired." "
I shook my head and said with a wry smile: "I'm fine, don't worry!"
After saying that, I looked around, frowned slightly and said, "Besides, this place is not a place to stay for a long time. We have to get out of here quickly."
Little Dolma continued from the side: "But, the way we came here was blocked by you. The door is so heavy. It needs to be closed, but if you want to open it, you, me, even if you add grandma, it will probably be difficult." It's enough to be able to reopen the stone door... In the end, maybe the three of us will die of thirst here like a few of them. I don't want that. Look at how ugly they all are. I don't want to die. So ugly..."
Little Dolma herself was talking and her mouth was split open and she was about to cry, but I covered her mouth.
When little Dolma saw me covering her mouth with my hand, she opened her mouth and was about to bite me.
If I hadn't been able to dodge quickly, this little girl might have been able to tear a piece of flesh off my hand alive.
Little Zhuoma threw my hand away and shouted: "Mom, look at him! He bullies me!"
Naturally, Liu Siniang would not let this little girl continue to fool around in such an occasion. After glaring at little Dolma, she said sternly: "Okay! Little Dolma, you can't be fooling around anymore!"
