Forbidden City

Chapter 6
The second uncle pointed a flashlight at the tree root emerging from the black hole and said to me: "Grab it and slide down it, it's about ten meters deep. Remember. Don't fall, you Once it falls, it will stay below like Wu Banxian and never come up again."

My heart sank, and I blurted out: "Wu Banxian has come up, he is not dead, he went to find his master."

"What?" The second uncle's eyes sank, he stared at me and asked, "Wu Banxian went to see his master?"

"Well, he said there are spirits under this hole..."

"Damn!" The second uncle scolded, found the mobile phone from his body, looked at the time, and said hurriedly: "I forgot about Wu Banxian, Feng Feng, speed, we have to hurry up." He said Zhangkou held the flashlight in his mouth, grabbed the two thick hemp ropes and threw them down, tied the other end to the wooden stake, clapped his hands and urged me: "Go, go down!"

"Go... go down? Why go down?" I always feel wrong, there are spirits down here, aren't we going down here to die?
"Didn't you just say that? Bring up the coffin from below." The second uncle looked at me with displeasure and asked, "Are you afraid?"

I avoided his gaze, noncommittal.

"With your second uncle and I here, are you afraid of a bird?" The second uncle grabbed the roots and slid down into the black hole. After a while, he was already in the hole, and shouted at me: "Why are you still standing there? Come down!"

Forced to be helpless, I bit the bullet and went on it. I also followed my second uncle, holding one end of the flashlight in my mouth, and went to grab the root of the tree. I found that the root was soft, and I had a feeling of touching someone's arm.

After sliding down for about one or two meters, the roots of the tree suddenly slid down. My second uncle and I screamed and fell quickly.Suddenly, with a "bang", the tree roots stopped, I was still in shock, I looked down, my heart sank suddenly, the second uncle was gone!
He must have just fallen.

It turns out that the root of this tree extends from the ground to the surface. Because it extends long enough and intersects with other roots, the part on the surface can bear part of the force. However, it is only on the surface after all. personal weight?So I was pulled straight down by my second uncle just now.

At the critical moment, I don't know whether the second uncle let go of the tree root on purpose or he missed and fell down. In short, the tree root stopped.

I looked down, and it was pitch black. I was surprised, why the flashlight disappeared?He hurriedly called down: "Second Uncle? Second Uncle?" He called several times, but there was no response.I was in a hurry, and slid down in a hurry. I slid about another meter or two, and I hit a hard object under my feet. I looked down and saw that it was a tree pocket, and the root of this tree grew out of that tree pocket.I stepped on the tree pocket, slid down slowly, and finally hugged the stump, and found that the tree was so big that I could barely hug it with both hands.I slid down the stump until I came across another branch, and was able to take a closer look at the tree.

It really is an inverted tree, unknown, about as thick as a washbasin, the bark is black and rough, the leaves are pointed, dark and dark, very luxuriant.

I am amazed that there is really an inverted tree in this world, and what is even more strange is that it is still alive and growing very well!Is this the ninth wonder of the world that the second uncle said?
Second Uncle... By the way, Second Uncle fell!I hurriedly climbed to the top of the tree, passed through the dense leaves, and finally found the electric light below. I used a flashlight to shine down, but the leaves were too dense to reach the ground, so I called out twice tentatively: "Second Uncle? Second Uncle? "

"Huh?" The second uncle's voice finally came from below, followed by a groan, and a flash of lightning shot upwards, making the second uncle ask in pain, "Are you still on top? Come down quickly!"

Through the sound, I judged that from the treetop where I was standing to the ground where my second uncle was, it was estimated to be at least three or four meters high. I said in embarrassment: "It's too high, I can't get down." Then I asked with concern: "Are you okay? Second Uncle?"

"What do you think?" Second Uncle said angrily, "Will you try to fall off that?"

"Then...then are you injured?"

"Don't ask, come down quickly."

"How do you get down?"

The second uncle said: "Either you grab the two hemp ropes and come down, or the branches over there are closer to the ground, and you come down from there." The second uncle said while shining a flashlight on my left.

I looked at the two hemp ropes beside me. The other end of them was tied to the stump above. I was worried that they were not strong enough to take risks, so I climbed to the left along a thicker branch. When it was over, it was found that it was only two meters above the ground, so it jumped down lightly.

As soon as it landed on the ground, a flash of lightning shot over. I quickly stretched out my hand to block my eyes, and also used the flash of lightning to see that it was the second uncle. The twine dangled behind him.I hurried over and asked, "Second uncle, is there any injury?" The second uncle grinned for a while, and said with difficulty, "No, it's just a little pain in the buttocks."

It turned out that at the critical moment just now, my second uncle let go of my hand in order to avoid accidents for me, and fell straight down. Fortunately, the dense branches blocked it for him. He grabbed a branch, but the branch was not thick enough to bear it. His body, he fell again, and finally sat down on the ground.Fortunately, that part was thick and lucky, and survived.

I looked up with the flashlight again, only to find that the tree was much bigger than I imagined. The branches were four or five meters high from the ground, like an upside-down umbrella, and the crown was four or five feet wide!I took a picture of the surrounding area again, and found that the area below is very wide, maybe thirty or forty square meters wide, and the ground is very flat and dry.

"Huh..." A gust of cold wind passed by my ears, the branches above my head suddenly shook, and the leaves rustled.My second uncle and I looked at each other in blank dismay. The bottom is almost sealed, and it is more than ten meters high from the top. Where is the wind coming from?

The second uncle also looked puzzled, he stood up with difficulty, raised his head and looked up.I suddenly remembered Wu Banxian, he said that there are spirits down here.Is the ghost coming out?My heart was trembling for a while, and I said nervously to my second uncle: "Second uncle, let's... hurry up, there is...something wrong here."

"Hush—" Second Uncle hissed softly at me, pointed his flashlight upwards, and frowned.His eyebrows were originally sharp and sword-like, but now they are furrowed into a straight line, which looks very strange.

Slowly, the leaves became quiet, and the second uncle said: "Don't be afraid, with your second uncle here, any monsters and ghosts will hide away. Let's go, my uncle will show you something." My shoulder forced me to turn around and shine the flashlight in front of me.I looked along the flashlight and gasped. There was a coffin two feet away in front of me!
"Then... is there a dead person in that coffin?" I asked in horror, not wanting to go there.The second uncle pushed me and said, "There is a person, but it can't be said to be a dead person." My heart sank, and I blurted out: "Is... a living person?"

"Just go and have a look." The second uncle strode towards the coffin.

I hesitated for a moment, then followed suit.

When I got closer, I realized that the coffin was the same size as ordinary coffins, and the whole body was amber in color, translucent, and a person could be faintly seen lying inside.It seems that what Wu Banxian said is right, there are indeed coffins and dead people below.

"Look, I'm afraid this coffin is unique in this world. It's even better than the golden nanmu coffin. If we get it back, we can change it to another country." The second uncle said while stroking the coffin, his face full of intoxication : "However, compared to the person in the coffin, this coffin is nothing."

At first I didn’t dare to look into the coffin because I was afraid of seeing a horrible scene. Now that my second uncle said this, my curiosity arose sharply, so I used a flashlight to shine in, because the light was not very good and the coffin was translucent, so , the people inside didn't see clearly for a while.

The second uncle said brightly, "Did you see that? The person inside is the work of Miss Hua!"

I looked inside, and I could vaguely see that the clothes of the person inside were bright, and the skin was kept in perfect condition, as if there was no sign of decay at all.I was suddenly curious about what kind of person this is and how he could hide in this strange coffin, so I tried to get as close to the coffin as possible and shine a flashlight inward.

Finally, I can see her facial features clearly.

Suddenly, she opened her eyes and looked at me, and at this moment, I also saw her face clearly, my heart was shocked, it was her!How could it be her!
(End of this chapter)