Archaeological Notes

Chapter 33
This parchment scroll is full of dense funeral texts, obviously written for the dead. Originally, it was full of obscure composition marks. I think it is useless to count on him now.Without a clue, he put the sheepskin scroll back into the pocket of his underwear.I didn't feel it when I squatted on the ground just now, but when I stood up suddenly, I remembered the female corpse on my back. Immediately afterwards, my whole body felt a little numb, and my consciousness suddenly shifted to another point.

The rest of the people also noticed that my face had changed, and their eyes slowly fell on the sleeping bag behind me. A bold and ridiculous idea was proposed by Niu Er: "We have been walking around in this palace of the underworld. Could it be the reason for the female corpse not to go out?"

"Nonsense!" Huang Mao snorted at this, feeling that Niu Er was talking nonsense again, and his words were deliberately tinged with Northeast flavors to run him off: "What's so terrible about a female corpse? We six big men have strong yang energy. Shocking! You have to come up with the courage to overwhelm all monsters, ghosts and snakes, I really don't understand how you come out to mess around with such a big and thick man, but such a timid man?"

Niu Er grew up in Shigui Village since he was a child, but he didn't receive any atheism education when he grew up, and his thinking was too feudal and superstitious.He brought it up because of the female corpse. When we are still conscious, everyone tries hard not to think about ghosts and gods, but if we really want to say, we don’t have the slightest idea, and we don’t see it at all.For this reason, I can only comfort myself in this way. The corpse on my back is unlikely to affect our consciousness. There must be some other reason for not getting out of this Hades.

Just sitting like this is not an option. The decision after everyone's discussion is to try our best to get out of this Hades before our willpower and physical strength collapse.It seems that everyone has a little bit of luck in their hearts, that is, the Hades has been "deified" by us, in fact, it is just a little bigger, and there is nothing weird about it.But this time, I saw that the strength of several people was not so strong. Although they cheered up, they still couldn't harden their bones.

This time, Da Beitou was in charge personally, took the miner's lamp from Liu Maodi, and walked in the front with the light on, within a hundred steps.Suddenly, a strange sound echoed in the Hades.

"Papa! Papa..."

There were only two or three strange sounds, and when we realized it and stopped to listen carefully, the sound stopped.I stood there in a daze for a while, and even when I wondered if I had misheard and I was hallucinating, the voice came again: "Pa-ta!"

This time the six people heard it all in their ears, there was no mistake, and they all felt a little panicked.Niu Er wept sadly: "Oh my god, did you hear that, why does it sound like human footsteps?"

At this time, the voice came again, and the few of us were silent and speechless.Immediately afterwards, the sound became regular, pattering, very much like the sound of a person's footsteps, as if someone was circling around us a few feet away.

"Could it be that there are other people in this ancient tomb besides us?" Liu Maodi swallowed, looked at me and said.

As a result, the rest of the people turned their gazes to me one after another, and I understood and immediately argued: "It can't be my brother Scar, let alone the monk, besides, they don't need to play tricks like this." ? Can’t eat when you’re full?”

"Then who do you think it might be?" Huang Mao thought for a while and asked.

"How do I know, big brother!" I gave him an annoyed look, "Maybe it's some donkey who ventured into Daxing'an Mountains and stumbled into this ancient tomb by mistake? The legs and feet grow on someone else's body, why should I?" I know, maybe that’s not the sound of footsteps at all, because no one plays with us like this..."

"Wait!" Brother Liu Maodi suddenly interrupted me at this moment, his expression was not relaxed at all, and he looked at Niu Er in horror, "Is there a ghost? That's why we can't get out?"

When Da Beitou heard this, his lungs almost exploded, and he scolded his mother, then Brother Liu Mao was here to shake the morale of the army again. Everyone was panicked, and he added fuel to the fire.But Liu Maodi explained innocently: "You are foreigners, and you have never heard of the strange events in the village. It is rumored that in the ancient tombs, especially the tombs of some Jurchen tribes in the Jin Dynasty, they will be cursed by the shaman. If the dead are not peaceful, they will die miserably. There is one in our village. When the rocks were blown up, a grave was dug out. After returning, he had a high fever, and all he heard were ghosts. He died the next day. The kang is on, it looks very evil!"

"So, did you guys meet a great dancer?" Huang Mao seemed more relaxed when he heard it, and it was purely an anecdote, "You're so stupid."

The big backed head is very courageous, so he said he doesn't care if he is a ghost or not, even if there is a shaman who is a master of rice dumpling dance, just find out and let him make a special trip to show us.After saying let us follow, he looked for the sound of footsteps, and chased them with his lights on, not wanting to chase after them, but there was nothing.The footsteps came from the other side.Dabeitou didn't believe this evil anymore, and followed the same pattern to chase again towards the direction where the sound came from. We were out of breath, but we still didn't even catch up with a ghost.Unable to get rid of it, the sound of footsteps surrounds us, echoing in the dark palace of the underworld, for a long time.

The thin man noticed it at this time, he listened carefully and said, "The footsteps don't sound like normal people's."

I thought to myself that this is not nonsense, the footsteps that follow ghosts like a shadow, it would be weird if it was from a normal person, and the sound sounds like a thumping sound when stepping on the ground!It is full of weight, and I jokingly said that it might be a bear.The six people were exhausted physically and mentally after chasing the footsteps. Listening to me, although the atmosphere is still depressed, the panic in my heart has gradually weakened.Because if it was really because of the footsteps that we couldn't go out, but our lives have been safe for so long, it can be seen that there is no need to worry too much for a while.

After discussing for a while and getting tired from standing, everyone simply put the bag on the ground, and the yellow hair continued to smoke, saying that it was refreshing and a good idea.After we took it, we were all silent, and we just kept smoking hard. The red light from the smoking cigarettes was printed on the Hall of Human Face, twinkling, and our faces were strangely strange.

Soon one cigarette burned my mouth almost gone, but I still couldn't figure out a way. I have a habit of smoking the leftover cigarette butt, like to pinch it with two fingers and bounce it away.I twisted the cigarette butt with my fingers, held it between my fingers, and flicked it out with all my strength. I saw it draw a beautiful arc in the air, and it bounced on an object, sparks splashed everywhere; In the darkness, a strange figure with a hunchback suddenly appeared.

"It's there!" I couldn't help but shouted loudly, pointing my hand at that place, Dabeitou and the others looked back in amazement, and before the cigarette butt was extinguished, we saw a shadow suddenly disappearing into the darkness like a shadow puppet leaving the curtain, Then came the sound of pattering footsteps.Huang Mao was so angry that he cursed, "Who the hell is pretending to be a ghost? Let me catch him, and let him peel off his skin if he doesn't die."

At this time, with the miner's lamp on his back, he was the first to chase after the black shadow, and the few of us hurried to follow him when we saw it.Under the violent movement, the lights swayed around, and they ran wildly with their backs on their backs at an astonishing speed.The yellow-haired man ran very vigorously following the big back, and the skinny man also ran fast, passing by like an arrow.Niu Er didn't lose the wind, and ran with his fat buttocks ding-ding-dong-dong, lest he would be able to catch up with the expression of being left behind.It happened to me that I was carrying a dead body. Although it didn't have much weight, I couldn't move my arms away, and I couldn't run fast no matter how hard I tried.At first I was barely able to catch up, but it didn't take long for me to feel exhausted, I couldn't breathe, and my lungs seemed to be scratched by claws, which was extremely uncomfortable.When I stopped and put my hands on my knees, before I could catch my breath, I looked up and saw a light in the darkness tens of meters away from me.

I was terrified, so I braced myself up and chased after him. I spread my feet and ran vigorously, but I didn't notice that my speed was getting slower and slower.His whole body was weak, and his legs couldn't exert any strength at all. Although he felt unwilling, he could only watch helplessly as the light from the big-backed miner's lamp disappeared from sight bit by bit.

When I stopped, I didn't know where I was, and what came into my sight was the silent darkness, and my whole body suddenly felt bewildered.After groping my body for a long time, I found a box of wet matches, which was put in my pocket after the monk lent me to light a cigarette.Relying on its faint light, I looked around, and it seemed that I was still within the range of Hades. Unlike just now, I found that the mist permeating it seemed to be getting thicker and thicker.

The match quickly burned to the head, burning my fingers, and the pain I felt woke me up a little, and I realized that what I had to do now was to calm down.If not, it would be difficult for me to guarantee how long I can persist only by willpower if I still can't find a way out after I finish this box of matches.You must know that in the ancient tomb where you can't see your fingers, there is no light to illuminate the road, it is like a blind man hesitating, and the situation will only get worse.

In order to make myself feel better and my reason not to be driven crazy, I barely stood up and walked back and forth in a hurry, trying to relieve my emotions.But my beating heart never calmed down. At first I thought I was too nervous, but after a while, I realized that something terrible happened again. From my personal feeling, I almost Can't believe it's true.

I kept comforting myself, telling myself not to panic, but my heart beat faster and faster, almost jumping out of my chest.Imagine being alone in the darkness in a dark temple that you can't get out of, and with a thousand-year-old female corpse on your back, anyone would have hair on their backs.A sparked match will soon be extinguished. Although I told myself to use it sparingly, if I didn’t see the light for a few seconds, my heart seemed to be empty, and I was terrified.The only thing I can do now is to hold on until they come back, because I don't have any way or confidence to get out of this ancient tomb.

But at this moment, I couldn't help but wait in place. I suddenly felt a strange touch coming from my back.It was like a person's heartbeat, beating vigorously and pounding loudly.

It came from the chest cavity of the female corpse, and I was so frightened that I was about to suffocate.

(End of this chapter)