Archaeological Notes

Chapter 3 Ghost girl

After getting on the bamboo raft, the three of them paddled towards Zhongxin Cliff in the middle of the lake. A bright moon rippled along with the waves, and gradually calmed down after a while.

After bypassing several reed beaches, the front suddenly opened up. A cliff stood in the middle of the lake like a knife and an axe. I couldn't help but tremble all over due to the sudden chill, and I was a little apprehensive. The hole in front of me looked like the mouth of a demon. It seemed that this experience would never return.

The girl is very skilled in punting, and the raft went into the hole within a few strokes.

The girl said that the sky is dry this year, if it was in previous years, the hole would definitely not show up.The cave was so narrow that it could barely accommodate the raft to pass through. Five people pushed the water with their palms on their stomachs. Because they couldn't straighten their backs, my neck became stiff after a while, and people complained.

The water in the cave was very warm, and I was just enjoying it when I suddenly felt a heart-piercing pain in my fingers, I withdrew my hand suddenly, and brought a lump of things from the water.

I threw that thing on the raft with a "snap", and found that it was a turtle. Scar turned his head to look, pulled out the saber he carried with him and moved it, unexpectedly, the turtle was biting the tip of the knife tightly. put.Scar picked it up, studied it over and over again, and said, "This bastard is quite old, so old that there are yellow spots on the turtle's shell."

When I saw this, I was also startled, sucked my finger, frowned and said, "I think it's better to take it to the village and make a soup of armor fish."

Scar took a look at me and shook his head, "Don't just eat it, you can't bear it."

After finishing speaking, he firmly stepped on the turtle with his feet, nailed open the turtle shell with a knife, and pried it left and right, and the turtle shell cracked open.Scar pulled out his internal organs, rummaged through them non-stop, and then shook his head in disappointment: "This thing doesn't grow that thing."

The monk interjected inappropriately: "What the hell? A dick?"

I looked at him with some disgust. This kid doesn't talk through his head. There is a little girl here, she is shameless and doesn't pay attention to the influence. "You are still a monk, the old abbot in Ganqing Temple taught you this?" The monk curled his lips, too lazy to respond to me, obviously interested in the turtle.

The turtle ghost was tossed to death by the knife, a bloody smell permeated the air, and I felt a little sick to my stomach.At this time, he was about to throw it into the water, but he said "huh?", and took it to his eyes for a closer look, and twisted a strand of hair from the tortoise's body.

He looked at his hair, thoughtfully, "I said it was strange, the bastard in this cliff cave can grow so big, so it's because of eating."

The monk didn't understand and asked, "What to eat?"

"Dead meat!" Scar finished explaining, and threw the dead turtle into the water.From our point of view, the feeling was unbelievable. Scar only said that he entered the hole and could get a general idea. Several people returned to normal and continued to push the water forward.

After nine bends and eighteen bends, the front suddenly opened up, and the raft turned into a pool.

The pool here is very wide, duckweed grows wildly on the surface of the water, covering the movement below the water, Scar shoots the flashlight into the water, it's so dark that he can't see anything clearly.This is a stalactite cave, and there is a large space above their heads. There are hundreds of caves distributed on the surrounding cliffs, and almost every cave has a coffin with a big head.Dozens of iron chains hang down from overhead, and shriveled corpses hang from them.

Zhongxin Cliff is so mysterious in the archaeological notebook of Dao Scar that it is regarded as a forbidden place. This is the first time I entered here, and the astonishment is beyond words.I tried to paddle towards the center of the pool, but found that the raft couldn't move at all, it just circled in place.

I was a little panicked, after all, I didn't know what kind of strange things were under the water, and it happened that I heard a burst of sound coming up from the bottom of the raft.It feels like there are a few hands scratching with their nails under the water, rustling.I looked at Scar in astonishment: "What's going on?"

Scar couldn't figure it out either, "Could it be that the raft was entangled in aquatic plants?"

The monk said it should not be, where did the aquatic plants come from in this cave?He took off his jacket, took a bag, and plunged down to the bottom of the raft.After half a stick of incense, the monk's head popped out of the water.He climbed onto the raft, untied the snakeskin bag from his waist, opened it to Tian Modou, and saw that it was full of big turtles.

Dao Scar touched the thick stubble under his jaw, his face was a bit ugly, "No, this thing has spirituality and holds grudges. It must be that the blood stained the raft when I knocked on the turtle shell, and these things drove all the way over. "

I saw a few cuts on the monk's body, which may have been bitten by those turtles. He grinned in pain, but said disapprovingly, "Don't be surprised, sir, I don't believe it. These turtles can What are we doing?"

The expression on Scar's face was obviously not relaxed, "This cave of thousands of corpses is by no means as easy as you think, it is full of dangers, so be careful anyway." His tone became more serious, "Actually, I didn't have time to talk to you when I was outside just now. Speaking of which, this cliff in the heart of the tomb seems to be somewhat different from when my father came here, and every part has a strange flavor."

My heart tightened suddenly, and I felt a little out of breath. When I saw the gloomy surroundings of the pool, I felt a little drummed: "Isn't it? No... the same?"

Seeing that we didn't believe it, Scar took out the notebook from his pocket and opened a page for us to read.I saw a lake drawn on it, and there seems to be an island in the center of the lake. Although there are only a few strokes, it is obvious that the author is very skilled in surveying and mapping. I can still vaguely recognize that it is indeed the scene we saw on the river beach just now.I also noticed that the screen was marked with arrow symbols, saying "Cuiwei Lake" and "Zhongxin Cliff".

The monk was a thief, and he could see the unrealistic part of the drawing at a glance: "Judging from the situation in this picture, there is only a **** island, but I remember the situation in the lake just now, it is a cliff , could it be that this thing is growing?"

I shook my head, feeling a little uncomfortable all over my body, "It's not growing, but the lake has dropped by more than ten meters. What kind of concept is this?"

Scar also agrees with my statement. When I close the notebook and look at the dozens of shriveled corpses above my head, I always feel that the thing is precarious, as if it will fall down at any time.He took a deep breath and analyzed: "That is to say, the position we are in now is equivalent to the bottom of the lake 14 years ago. This is a place of wrongdoing." After finishing speaking, he waved his hand: "Shut up! Girl..."

He choked in the middle of his words, and the fat man and I were sitting on the bow of the boat waiting to continue paddling the raft, only thinking about getting out of the corpse hole quickly, Scar’s words made us look back at the same time, and immediately stunned.

At the end of the raft, the girl who was standing there disappeared at some point!Where is her shadow?

This time, not only me, but even the sweat on Scar's forehead came out.The monk yelled anxiously: "What about the little virgin? Don't bring such a tricky person, and don't say hello when you go missing, so boring?"

"Could it be that we didn't pay attention just now, and that girl fell into the pond?" I analyzed, but when I looked back, this idea was far-fetched. It can even be described as silent, as if the person disappeared in a blink of an eye, as if disappearing out of thin air.

"The inside of this heart cliff is like a huge labyrinth. No one will be able to turn it out." Scar took off his shirt, took out a high-power miner's lamp from his travel bag, and tied one end of the rope around his waist. , handed it to the monk, and said: "You guys stay on top, if I pull the rope underwater, you will pull it up immediately."

Scar is very thoughtful, this move may have predicted that there is a dragon's pond and a tiger's lair below, even if something happens, we can easily respond from above.Scar picked it up properly, took a big breath, and then dived into the bottom of the pool.The duckweed scattered in all directions, then slowly gathered and disappeared with the waves, as if nothing had happened.

The monk held the rope in both hands and bent it in front of his chest, staring fixedly at the bottom of the pool with a serious face.Although we couldn't see anything clearly in the pool, we were still worried about Scar's safety. Time passed by, except for the bubbles rising from the bottom of the pool, the surrounding was deadly silent.I suddenly had an ominous premonition, worried that Scar's experience would never come back. Once our group loses his backbone, it will be as difficult as ever to get out.

I counted the time, and a whole stick of incense had passed, and there was still no movement from the bottom of the pool.

The monk started to panic. After such a long time, the frog has reached its limit, and the scar of the flesh and blood can't hold on.But there was no signal from the rope, and I panicked for a while, not knowing what to do.

The water pool was full of red and green duckweeds. I lay on the edge of the raft, scattered them in all directions, and used a miner's lamp to shine under the water surface. My cheeks were almost pressed against the water surface, desperately wanting to see the movement under the water.

It was dark under the water, and the light penetrated only a few meters away, and it was extremely cloudy. When I was about to raise my head, I found a white mass floating up indistinctly.

In fact, I was considered stupid at the time. When this happened, it stands to reason that I should stay away from that thing immediately, but curiosity drove me to maintain the original posture, trying to see clearly what it was for playing.I never thought about it, so that I saw a scene that I will never forget in my life, and it was too late when I realized it.

The white thing under the water gradually floated up. When I saw it clearly, I was already dumbfounded, and I suddenly realized it, but it was too late. A pale face, a female corpse without pupils suddenly surfaced, and the black and blue face plate Huo Ran poked out!

"Ah!" I yelled, and the voice suddenly echoed in the pool. The monk and Tian Rui suddenly turned their heads to look at me, looking ready to go.

It took me a while to come back to my senses. Looking at the corpse floating in the pond, I couldn't hold back the wild beating feeling in my heart. A chilly feeling instantly filled my whole body, and my scalp hardened.

It was the corpse of a young woman with a distended belly, wearing a big red padded jacket, it was the girl who disappeared just now!

Tian Rui was obviously the calmest of the three of us, and she couldn't make any waves on her face. She ordered me to draw the raft closer, pressed the girl's body with her hands, and said in a deep voice: "From the degree of rot on the surface of the body Look, it has been dead for a long time, at least two or three days."

The monk was the first to express his incomprehension when he heard this, "Then who was the girl who picked us up just now? Doesn't this make any sense?"

"Could it be..." At this moment, a bold hypothesis was formed in my mind, and I even felt a sense of suffocation, and everything around me became so unreal.Because this has transcended materialism, distorted time, violated physics, and reached a point where we cannot explain it through common sense.I couldn't help shivering: "That means, the girl who drove us in just now is not a human at all, but a ghost?"

Tian Rui frowned, and a look of light flashed in her eyes: "Do you know corpse spirits?"

Although I'm still considered a high-achieving student, the teachers in the university don't teach this. In the eyes of those who are professionally backward like Dao Scar, I am almost the same as someone who just came out of kindergarten.On the contrary, the monk has some insights into this: "Since ancient times, there have been cat spirits, dog spirits, and corpse spirits. In it, just like the Forbidden City is haunted, the legend is that Emperor Kangxi was harsh and arrogant to the "Xiang Lei" clan. A clansman who was dissatisfied with his actions buried a resentful corpse under a palace wall when building the Forbidden City, and later made the palace in the backyard It's flying like a dog. It is said that the corpse has turned into a handsome man, and he is promiscuous in the harem!"

Seeing that the monk was getting more and more confused, Tian Rui added: "This drowned corpse may have floated into this cave of thousands of corpses, and then was possessed by corpse spirits. We are on the way." At this time, she suddenly thought When he got up, he hurriedly said to the monk: "Quick! Pull my brother up!"

The monk had been waiting impatiently for a long time. Hearing Tian Rui's words, he said "Okay!"The rope on the surface of the water suddenly became a straight line, and it was jerked, but it was not pulled up for a long time, but the other end of the rope seemed to be entangled with something, and it could not be pulled up.

The monk gasped and said: "It's broken, the rope seems to be entangled underneath, and I can't pull it out."

The monk shaved his head and neck, and handed me the rope in his hand: "Brother Scar, nothing will happen, just wait, I'll go down to the bottom of the pool and have a look." After speaking, he took off only his underpants, The water splashed, and a fierce son plunged into the pool.

Tian Rui and I were the only ones left on the raft, and the atmosphere seemed a bit awkward. He had a frosty face, he didn't know if it was because he didn't like me or something, and he couldn't speak.But now I don't have the time to think about those romantic things. My head is wildly guessing the current situation of the scar at the bottom of the pool, and my heart is uneasy, like sitting on pins and needles.

Just when I was feeling like a year, and I was at a loss, there was a sudden movement from the water surface a few meters away from our raft, and there was a "crash" on the water surface, and a large black coffin emerged and floated on the water. .

(End of this chapter)