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Chapter 296 66. Wooden coffin eaters and hide-and-seek

After hearing the screams, Zheng Yun and his party quickly pushed aside the suspended wooden coffin and swam towards the entrance of the cave. They floated on the edge of the crack in the brick wall blown up by the explosives, and looked down into the cave.

The picture is stunning.

The depth of the burrow is difficult to estimate.

The dark mud poured into the corridor from the outside swamp is slowly falling along the edge of the cave, like a thousand jet black mud waterfalls, wiggling down the steep rock wall.

But the silt flows too slowly.

Deep holes cannot be filled.

The swamp water quickly arrived and filled the entire cave, making the mud flow more slowly. Every stream of mud flow was turbulent in the water, and strands of mud yarn escaped.

Except for the lake silt.

The cave is full of wooden coffins.

Those pitch-black wooden coffins defy human common sense and are suspended in every area of ​​the cave, like Kongming lanterns released during festivals, densely packed and quietly floating in the turbid water.

Look closely at the wooden coffin.

Some are floating vertically, some are floating horizontally, some are broken and falling, and some are floating with their seals intact. They are piled on top of each other and all are squeezed near the entrance of the hole.

Basically full.

Shine the flashlight.

There are almost no gaps visible.

"It seems that all the wooden coffins floated out from here. The corridor and the hole happen to be a right-angle structure. Only a few can float out. More wooden coffins are blocked here."

Li Wu looked at the hole and gave the reason.

The principle is similar to the sewers in ordinary people's homes. Things get stuck in the right-angle pipes and can easily cause blockage.

But his explanation could not alleviate the sudden increase in heart rate of the young team members. The visual impact of this scene was so strong that it was as if a wooden coffin had been stabbed in the heart.

The scene of releasing the Kongming Lanterns is peaceful and beautiful.

But after replacing the Kongming lantern with rotten wooden coffins, the scene became horrifying, especially since many wooden coffins were really rotten, and the corpses inside could be seen directly with the naked eye...

"There seems to be only wooden coffins."

Zheng Yun observed carefully with a flashlight. These wooden coffins were exactly the same as those floating on the lake. The bones inside the broken wooden coffins were no different from those he had seen before.

It seems that this place is a cemetery.

At least a thousand wooden coffins were buried.

But except for the wooden coffin, there were few debris in the cave, and there didn't seem to be many accompanying collections, only vines and branches.

If nothing else, the depth of the cave beneath their feet was the lowest level of the tomb. It was also the place where the generals of Hunumu Camp were buried in the ancient city of Nanze during the Ming Dynasty.

"What did that team of Western explorers do when they got into the depths of the tomb? What was hidden underneath?"

Li Wu looked at Zheng Yun and asked.

Since Zheng Yun could tell the route of the underground waterway in the ancient city of Nanze before, he might also know the situation in this place, at least better than himself who was confused.

"Maybe he's looking for the general's coffin."

Zheng Yun shook his head and gave his guess.

This kind of tomb is similar to the "Tomb of Martyrs". Judging from the time, it is likely that it was built when the ancient city of Nanze was about to be abandoned, and it is impossible to appear on the city construction drawings.

There are several possibilities.

In addition to the unknown number of these, but at least thousands of soldier skeletons, there are also the tombs of the soldiers of the Marsh Tiger Camp, and there are some rare treasures buried inside the coffins.

Or maybe so many heroes from the Marsh Tiger Camp were buried and sealed here to suppress some kind of magical method, using thousands of heroic souls to seal the magical method deep underground forever.

The second is more likely.

After all, their camp has been attacked.

"Judging from the aging of the brick walls, the construction time of this thousand-person burial pit should be later than the main city of Nanze Ancient City, and similar to the Taoist ruins." Li Wu continued.

"I'll go down and take a look."

Zheng Yun no longer thought about it, and led the ghost general into the pit, swimming down through the gaps in the thousands of wooden coffins.

"Look here."

Li Wu gave instructions to the others and followed Zheng Yun and Gui Jiang alone, without giving them a chance to choose.

The level of danger here is extraordinary. They can try it in ordinary places, but not here. They are not experienced enough and will die if they are not careful.

The four of them dived into the cave one after another.

With his head down, Zheng Yun pushed the wooden coffins open with his hands, passing by the corpses in the wooden coffins, crawling through the gaps between the wooden coffins, and occasionally facing the faces of the rotting corpses.

Click.

Halfway through the dive.

The ghost general suddenly took action.

It reached out and made a fist, punched directly through a rotten wooden coffin, took off a silver mask from the corpse's face, and then handed it to Zheng Yun behind it with a weird smile.

“A mask is the key?”

Zheng Yun immediately asked the ghost general alertly, because this order was not given by him, but the ghost general's instinctive behavior.

Ghost generals usually take action automatically in times of crisis, and they are ineffective on many occasions, especially in places they have never been to, such as the original Immortal Cave and Heavenly Palace.

In the Immortal Sacrifice Cave, the Ghost General never took the initiative and did not know how to avoid Han Xian. He could only follow him into the black box.

The same goes for the Heavenly Palace. The ghost general didn't react in the first level of the palace. He didn't expect the immortal corpse to appear at all. He went up to fight after hearing the sound. He didn't know how to restrain the immortal corpse.

But in some places, the ghost generals know more than Ji Dao, such as the Yin ghost figurines in the deep-sea floating city. The ghost generals directly lead the iron chains of the Yin ghost figurines, just like leading a dog.

And then there is this place.

The ghost will take the initiative to take off the silver mask.

From these details, it seems that the life of the ghost general can be pieced together. They may have visited or heard about the Deep Sea Floating City during their lifetime, or they may have visited or heard about the ancient city of Nanze.

The Ghost Suppression Department is affiliated to Triton and is also a special room of Triton. Once there is a ghost causing trouble, they must go quickly and fight on the front lines all over the world.

The dangerous places they have been to.

Probably more than I've ever heard.

He spent his whole life either in the dangerous place of gods and ghosts, or on the way to the dangerous place of gods and ghosts, until he was buried in the Hades Pavilion.

Like the 20,000-foot abyss prison like the Deep Sea Floating City, and the ancient capital city like Nanze Ancient City, they might have visited a few times in the era when they were still alive.

The ghost will smile silently.

Answer in a special way.

"Pick."

Zheng Yun immediately asked Li Wu to do it.

The ghost will suddenly take action at this moment, indicating that danger is coming, and this silver mask is the way to avoid it.

Zheng Yun even had an intuition that these silver masks might be the key to solving the archaeological team's disaster.

Song Wan and the others fell into a deep sleep and were unable to wake up. They were suppressed by a special method of ghosts and ghosts. The silver mask was a tool to avoid the method. As long as they put on the mask, they could escape.

This guess makes sense.

All the corpses buried here wear the same mask. They sleep here and need to use some means to avoid gods and ghosts so as not to wake up for the rest of their lives.

"Zheng Yun... if we take off the mask, is it possible that these corpses will wake up?" Li Wu also immediately figured out the key and extended the association, feeling a little worried.

"It doesn't matter."

Zheng Yun shook his head, took off the mask himself, looked for the broken wooden coffins, and took out four or five of them one after another.

If masks are key.

Then they have to pay at least two to three hundred, one for each team member at the Sunken Lake Camp and the Taoist Temple Camp.

"Okay, how many should we pick? In fact, yesterday morning, before you arrived at the Sunken Lake Camp, I asked them to save twenty or thirty when I was acting as the camp captain."

Li Wu also took action immediately.

He started faster than Zheng Yun. He took out a saber and pried open a wooden coffin with two or three blows, and took out a mask from inside. "No hurry, let's go down and take a look first. You let the other team members dig up two hundred first." Zheng Yun nodded and asked Li Wu to arrange for the young team members to open a library to collect.

The corridor is full of wooden coffins. There are definitely a hundred coffins, and young team members can also dig them out.

"Okay." Li Wu immediately ordered through the intercom.

"Captain Li, does this count as tomb robbing?" A young team member was stunned when he heard this, and subconsciously asked more.

"You're a member of the fucking archaeological team. Do you think you're a tomb robber? Come on, get started. If you can't pass this level, why are you doing archeology?" Li Wu laughed angrily.

He knew very well how important the mask was. If this thing was really useful, then they could save all their teammates.

"Let's continue."

Zheng Yun put the mask on his face and continued diving.

At this moment, his cell phone suddenly vibrated. He took it out of his pocket and saw that it was Hu Ruihua's call.

Click the button to connect.

Hu Ruihua said anxiously: "Zheng Yun, Song Wan and Hu Zi woke up. I was just about to call you to tell you the good news, but they climbed through the window and ran away together while I wasn't paying attention."

"what?"

Zheng Yun was shocked.

"Lao Meng and I are chasing. Many people woke up in the whole camp. The scene is a bit chaotic, and the situation is very wrong. Huzi Xiaohu and Song Wan, they can communicate normally."

Hu Ruihua continued to speak.

Through the headphones, he could hear that the background sound there was very noisy, and the Taoist ruins camp was already in chaos.

"Didn't I tie Song Wan to the bed? How did she escape? Can she untie the rope by herself?" Zheng Yun took a deep breath and asked quickly, really unable to understand this matter.

"That's the problem. Huzi had a knife with him. He untied the rope, jumped out of bed and went straight to Song Wan. He cut the rope with one knife, and then the three of them ran away together."

"They seem to be able to communicate and cooperate very well. Their destination is very clear. They have already run to the parking lot and are probably going to drive out of the camp."

Hu Ruihua's tone was urgent.

"..."

Zheng Yun took a deep breath.

At this juncture, people in the camp were gradually waking up. This must be bad news. It meant that the situation was getting out of control, but there was nothing I could do.

Same as previous guess.

These people who wake up may not really wake up, but enter the next stage of 'sleepwalking'.

They may do all kinds of weird things in their sleepwalking state like the explorers who died yesterday and last year.

And once they are everywhere, even if they get the silver mask back, they won't be able to wear it for everyone.

The situation is troublesome.

Not that easy to deal with.

Zheng Yun believed in Hu Ruihua's judgment, but he did not expect that these sleepwalkers seemed to be able to communicate.

Huzi rescued Xiao Hu and Song Wan. This situation was very strange. How did he know that Song Wan was trapped? And why not 'rescue' Hu Ruihua and Lao Meng?

Since Hu Ruihua and Lao Meng are chasing them, why don't they look back? What on earth are they dreaming about?

"Has the situation changed?"

Li Wu asked aloud.

"Let's go ahead and ask them to take off their masks quickly and go back to the Collapse Lake camp to try and see if it works."

Zheng Yun shook his head and continued to dive. He could only believe that the camp had enough ability to control the situation.

My current mission is to find the source. No matter how many people are left in the camp, try to bring as many masks back as possible.

Several people continued to dive deeper. As they swam, the density of the wooden coffin became more and more dense, almost reaching the point where it was difficult to move even an inch. Every step had to push the wooden coffin apart.

Zheng Yun did not hang up the phone and kept listening to what Hu Ruihua was saying. Hu Ruihua also kept describing the situation.

The good news is that the tiger has no gun.

The bad news is that they really dare to break the card.

They drove along the paved road and rushed into the depths of the rain forest. Hu Ruihua couldn't see where they were going, so he could only borrow a car from his teammates on duty and follow them closely.

at this time.

Zheng Yun and others also arrived deep in the cave.

The wooden coffins at the bottom of the deep lake are stacked almost like bricks, like a black coffin tower spliced ​​horizontally and vertically, and also like a maze composed of wooden coffins, and you need to drill holes to find your way down.

The group of explorers left many traces, and the screams in their ears were getting closer and closer, almost right under their feet.

Finally at some point.

They got out of the wooden coffins.

A large space appeared in front of them, separating the floating wooden coffin from the sinking wooden coffin. There were a lot of lights in this space, coming from flashlights floating in the water.

These flashlights were abandoned.

Land on the wooden coffin at the bottom.

The light beam illuminates the turbid water body, refracting the water light, making the entire space look like daylight.

The pitch-black wooden coffins were like black shadows, part of which stood vertically and suspended above the head, while the remaining parts were piled up and down at the feet, soaking in the lake water.

"Ahhhh!"

"Ah ah ah ah."

The screams also suddenly amplified.

"Be careful."

Zheng Yun sounded a warning.

Screams surrounded their ears, and the explorer who made the sound was near them, but they looked around, but no one could be seen, and they had no idea where they were hiding.

"Zheng Yun, it seems that he is in some wooden coffins." Li Wu's back felt cold and he looked around with his flashlight.

Only his voice is heard but his person is not seen.

And the distance is so close.

The only possibility is that the explorers who screamed got into the rotting wooden coffins around them!

"Probably." Zheng Yun nodded.

He had the same view, but there were too many wooden coffins deep in the cave, and the sound propagated in the water was weird. They couldn't locate the target wooden coffin at all.

up down left right.

in all directions.

They were all rotten wooden coffins.

These wooden coffins were staggered horizontally and vertically, creating a lot of blind spots and light and shadows, making it so dark that you couldn't even see your fingers.

Who knows where they are hiding?

And the more dangerous situation is, why did these people get into the wooden coffin? Are they motivated or forced?

"Shall we look for it?"

Li Wu forced himself to calm down.

This scene is really horrifying. Not only is the scene horrifying, but the screams are also piercing the heart, as if there is a wooden coffin that can eat people and eat the explorers alive.

If you take the initiative to enter the coffin.

Then why should they scream?

"Try it." Zheng Yun was also a little worried.

Looking up and looking around, they saw that there were more than a thousand wooden coffins in the cave. It was really difficult for them to find a few explorers who had gotten into the wooden coffins among the thousands of wooden coffins.

Play hide and seek on such occasions.

It not only tests their psychological quality, but also their adaptability. Who knows if they will also be swallowed?

Think of this.

Even Zheng Yun's scalp felt cold.

Because their current location is in the deepest part of the cave, in the gap between a large number of wooden coffins above and below. If the wooden coffins suddenly change, they will have no place to run!

(End of this chapter)