Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 22
The black coffin was heavy and heavy, like an ancient monster bound in mid-air.

The coffin was about three meters long and two meters wide, exuding a gloomy breath of death.

A thin layer of frost condensed on the surface of the coffin, like a large freezer.Drops of water kept dripping down, playing weird tunes on the water surface.

There is a copper ring on each side of the black coffin, and four thick bronze chains pass through the four copper rings.

We looked at the black coffin in mid-air in amazement, and were speechless for a while.

What kind of place is this place?
Why is there a black coffin hidden under the cold pool?
Who buried the black coffin here?
Who would be the person lying in the coffin?

Is this a holy place to worship the Dragon King, or a place of evil spirits where dead bodies are buried?
Is the hasty escape of those corpse rats related to this black coffin?

There are so many secrets buried in the weird cave, I feel like I have fallen into a fog.Numerous questions entangle us, but we can't even solve a single one.

After a moment of silence, someone spoke up, "Do you think there is a treasure hidden in this coffin?"

Someone echoed: "In my opinion, this coffin is hidden so secretly, the deceased must have been a high-ranking official and aristocrat during his lifetime, and there must be priceless funeral objects in the coffin!"

Hearing that there might be treasures in the coffin, many people's eyes lit up, revealing a greedy light.In the face of wealth and desire, the dangers just now have long been forgotten by people. At this moment, all they see is the black coffin hanging in the air.

Someone excitedly suggested, "How about we open the coffin and have a look?"

Others echoed, "Okay! Okay! Find a way to get the coffin down!"

Gu Meidi said contemptuously: "Who are these people!"

I turned my head to look at Professor Ye, who said, "Although I am also full of curiosity about this coffin, my intuition tells me that this coffin is definitely a hot potato, and it is better not to provoke it. Let's go, let's go." These reckless and ignorant people stay here and toss!"

To be honest, the impression that this group of villagers gave me was not bad, and my evaluation of them is simple and rough.But now, I feel disgusted when I look at the greedy faces of these people.

We didn't speak, and walked down to the platform on our own, wanting to leave by boat.We can sail out of the cave while the rat swarm dissipates now. If the rat swarm reappears later, we can only wait to die.

"Hey, where are you going?" Mao Chengke chased after him.

I replied angrily: "Of course we leave here, we don't want to sit here and become food for those rats!"

Mao Chengke ran in front of us, blocked our way with open arms, "You can't go!"

I frowned and said displeasedly, "What do you want to do?"

Mao Chengke said: "Mr. Goat said, you can't leave here without authorization, otherwise the King of the Yellow River will be angry!"

Gu Meidi said: "We are not the ones who give off ghost relatives, and we have nothing to do with the King of the Yellow River!"

Mao Chengke said: "No! Mr. Goat said, you are not allowed to leave here!"

Gu Meidi had always had a lot of opinions on Mao Chengke before, and now he couldn't help being furious, "Mr. Goat, Mr. Goat, you are always talking about Mr. Goat. Is Mr. Goat your grandma? Don't you have a brain?"

"Stinky bitch, shut up!" A few strong men came behind us with knives and surrounded us.

My heart skipped a beat, and I felt something was wrong, but there was no timid look on my face. I asked one of the strong men who took the lead, "What does this mean? What do you want to do?"

Professor Ye stepped forward, clasped his fists and said, "Heroes, we meet by chance, and we can be regarded as fateful people. It's a bit hurtful to take a knife every now and then. Even big things can't escape the word 'reasonable', don't we?" If there is something that offended you unintentionally, please let me know the reason!"

Mr. Goat walked down slowly, "Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just that you brothers would like to ask some help!"

Gu Meidi sneered: "Are you asking for help? The customs here are really strange!"

"Smelly woman, how dare you disrespect Mr. Goat, are you looking for death?" The strong man in the lead cursed sharply, pointing at the ancient flute.

"You..." Gu Meidi raised his brows, and was about to explode immediately.Professor Ye raised his palms to signal Gu Meidi to shut up.

Gu Meidi lowered his voice and said angrily: "These savages, sooner or later, this girl will beat them until they are looking for their teeth!"

Professor Ye cupped his fists at Mr. Goat and said, "I wonder what Mr. Goat wants us to do?"

Mr. Goat stroked his beard, and a sinister smile appeared on his wrinkled face like tree bark. He pointed to the black coffin hanging in the air and said, "I heard yesterday that you two are Professional archaeologists, so I want to ask you to help open the coffin!"

Open the coffin? !

We stared at Mr. Goat in annoyance. We didn't expect this old man to be so cunning. He was greedy for the treasures in the coffin and was afraid of the hidden dangers in the coffin, so he asked us to be his "death squad". I couldn't help but curse the old fox in my heart.

Professor Ye has also traveled the rivers and lakes for many years without being disturbed. He smiled and said: "Mr. Goat, I'm really sorry, we have no interest in that coffin. Besides, you discovered the mechanism, even if there is any treasure in the coffin, You just add up the points yourself!"

Mr. Goat said coldly: "I don't care whether you are interested in that coffin or not, anyway, my brothers and I are very interested in that coffin bottle. If you really find the treasure, it will be counted as yours! Professor Ye , you won't even do this little favor for us?"

Mr. Goat raised his eyebrows, and those strong men immediately took a step closer to us with their knives.

"Don't come here! Whoever comes here, I will be the first to kill him!" Grandpa raised his shotgun, staring with red eyes.

Now we have only two options: one option is to reject Mr. Goat's request, and then start a fire with their people; the second option is to agree to their request, choose to compromise, and at least get temporary security.But the opponent has around [-] troops, if there is a firefight, we will definitely not be able to fight, so after much deliberation, the only choice at present is to compromise.

Professor Ye also analyzed the current situation very clearly. He chuckled, "Mr. Goat, we can open the coffin for you. But after opening the coffin, you have to let us go!"

Mr. Goat nodded and said: "Naturally!" He said, making a "please" gesture.

A strong man flipped the handle of the knife and suddenly launched a sneak attack on Grandpa.Grandpa was caught off guard, and the shotgun fell to the ground.

Before Grandpa could resist, two sharp waist knives were already around his neck.

Immediately, I was furious, and rushed towards Mr. Goat, "What are you going to do?"

Two strong men stopped me fiercely, their cold waist knives resting on my neck, "If you keep yelling, I will bleed you!"

Mr. Goat waved his hand, and the two strong men let me go.I let out a wheezing sound.

Mr. Goat said without turning his head: "Young man, don't worry, as long as you are honest, I will not hurt you! The three of you are responsible for opening the coffin, and your grandfather left us as a hostage. Anyway, he is not Archaeologists, don't go up and make trouble!"

I looked back at my grandpa, who nodded at me, "Don't worry, I'll be fine!"

I bit my lip and nodded, and said silently in my heart: "If something happens to grandpa, I will definitely let these grandsons pay for it!"

We went back to the platform, and after a brief discussion, we decided to climb to the top of the coffin with the help of the bronze chains hanging in the air, which is the only way to get to the coffin.

The closest bronze chain to us was hanging on the cave wall above the Fishbone Temple. We took off our coats and took out wolf eyes and folding engineering shovels from our backpacks. These were the expedition equipment we bought before we set off. Unexpectedly It came in handy here.

We strapped our foldable engineer shovels on our waists, put on black tactical gloves, and climbed up the Fishbone Temple with bare hands.

Gu Meidi and I are both practitioners. Climbing is not difficult for the two of us. We quickly climbed up to the Yubone Temple.

To our surprise, Professor Ye, who is nearly 50 years old, is also agile, and his climbing speed is no slower than us young people.

Gu Meidi and I couldn't help giving thumbs up and exclaiming: "Amazing!"

Professor Ye said: "After so many years of travelling, I have learned some three-legged cat kung fu, otherwise I am afraid I would not be alive today." After saying this, Professor Ye pointed to the bronze chain above his head and said, "I will come first Bar!"

As soon as the words fell, Professor Ye took a deep breath, jumped up with a hey, and tightly held the bronze chain with both hands.Then, with a sudden effort from the waist, he raised his legs and hooked the bronze chain, and the whole person was deftly hung upside down on the bronze chain.Immediately afterwards, he alternated his hands, and crawled forward along the bronze chain lightly and nimbly like a swimming snake.

Gu Meidi said: "Professor Ye is really strong!"

I nodded, "You go first, I'll be the queen!"

Gu Meidi gave a soft chirp, jumped up, hung upside down on the bronze chain, and then said to me, "Tuobagu, follow!"

I rubbed my palms together, and jumped up high. The moment I grabbed the bronze chain, I used the power of the jump to straighten my waist up, like a big bat, hanging on the bronze chain with a clatter.

The bronze chains were icy cold, and even through the tactical gloves, my hands were quickly numb from the cold, and it was very difficult to move forward every step.Not only that, but there is also a layer of frost condensed on the surface of the bronze chain, which is very slippery besides the cold, which greatly increases the difficulty for us to crawl.

But no matter what, we can only grit our teeth and persevere, and no one dares to relax at all. If you fall from such a high altitude, you will be disabled if you don't die.Even if you were lucky enough to land in the pool, you might not be able to alarm the corpse rats, and it would be even worse if you were gnawed by the rats to nothing but a pile of bones.

In addition, the three of us, the master and the apprentice, must also pay attention to the consistency and coordination of our crawling movements. If we act independently, the suspended bronze chains will sway violently, which not only increases the difficulty of our crawling, but also increases the danger of falling.So we basically crawled over with the slogan, "One two one, one two one!" When "one" was called, three people stretched out their left hands at the same time, and when they called "two", three people stretched out their right hands at the same time, One left and one right, hands alternately crawling forward.

Since the three of us, the master and the apprentice, stayed together all day long, the tacit understanding was quite high. The journey was safe and sound, and we finally came to the black coffin.

A gust of icy yin qi rushed towards the face, and the strong breath of death wrapped the coffin, making one's heart beat faster.We sat down on the coffin and rested for a while.The bronze chains bear a lot of weight. I estimate that the black coffin weighs hundreds of catties, and the weight of the three of us is almost a thousand catties, but the four bronze chains are completely motionless.

The gangsters urged impatiently below: "Hey! You guys don't dawdle, open the coffin quickly!"

"Bandits" is what I call those strong men. In my eyes, these people behave like bandits.

I spit and cursed angrily: "Damn! I really want to abolish those grandchildren!"

Professor Ye said: "Don't do stupid things. A man must know how to bend and stretch. There is a huge gap between the enemy and us. We can only outsmart them, not fight hard! Come on, let's open the coffin!"

"Wait!" Gu Meidi said suddenly, "The edge of the coffin seems to be sealed with wax."

Professor Ye and I looked at the edge of the coffin and found that the place where the coffin lid meets the coffin body has indeed been filled with wax to seal the coffin.It's no wonder that this coffin was put into the water. If there was no sealing paint to seal the coffin, the river water would soak into the coffin from the gap, and the coffin inside must have been soaked long ago.

We took off the engineer shovel, and along the edge of the coffin, cleaned all the wax in the gap, revealing a thin gap, enough for the sharp edge of the engineer shovel to insert.

Gu Mei Di retreated to the bronze chain in the east, and Professor Ye and I retreated to the bronze chain in the north and south directions.There is no place to stand, we can only hang upside down on the chain again, take off the engineering shovel from the back, aim at the gap, and insert the sharp shovel edge into the gap between the north and south sides of the coffin.At this time, Gu Meidi also took off the engineering shovel and inserted it into the gap in the coffin from the east.

(End of this chapter)