The dark entrance was illuminated by the white, shiny snow pines inside. The color of the wood was as if it had just been put there. The entrance to the tomb chamber was not large, and Zhang Wenbin looked around roughly, barely enough for one person to pass through, but probably not possible with a coffin.
Chaozi, after all, had some experience and also saw the door, standing at the entrance of the tomb passage said: "It seems that the project here was not completed in one day. After the owner of the tomb died, those craftsmen used these woods comparable to gold to pile directly on the coffin, which once again broke the convention, first entering the coffin and then building the tomb."
Regarding funeral culture, Cha Wenbin naturally knew what to do. He also thought it was the case, but felt that something was fishy: "According to Chinese customs, people usually start building their own tombs when they ascend to the throne, because these projects are often very grand and cannot be completed overnight. For example, here, just collecting this much snow-white stone would take 40 or 50 years, not to mention excavating such a large space in the underground rock layer. Having only a coffin but no tomb is a great disrespect to the deceased. Even poor families must have an earthen mound. Let's go in and take a look, be careful of those spiders."
Chaozi led the way, followed by Zha Wenbin, and Zhuo Xiong brought up the rear. The three of them didn't dare to be careless, so they tightly tied up their collars and pant legs to prevent those small spiders from crawling into their clothes.
As soon as you enter, there is a bend, and the square passage is quite in line with the design of the tomb path. The Chinese emphasize the round sky and the square earth, and this tomb path is the road from the world to the underworld in funeral culture, so it has to be like this.
The snow in here is much better sealed, with a faint scent of trees. When Chaozi turned the second corner, his body suddenly retreated backwards, straightening up and leaning against Zha Wenbin's body. Zha Wenbin didn't have time to react and fell onto Zhuo Xiong's body. The three of them were like dominoes, all falling down together.
Cha Wenbin was just about to ask him when Chaozi suddenly shouted: "There's something in front, a ghost..."
Hearing the ghost, Cha Wenbin's hands instinctively supported the ground, his body leaned forward and slipped from Chaozi's body to the front, and as soon as he raised his head, he was startled.
This snow lotus was white as jade, and the ones they saw along the way were also like that. But at this moment, in front of them, a black human face suddenly appeared on the wall, which made Cha Wenbin even more surprised: Shi Tou Die!
No wonder even Chaozi was scared, this old man is the one they saw die in the bamboo forest with their own eyes, and the door of the tomb chamber had just been opened, and a face belonging to him jumped out from here, it's really scary.
"Is he coming for us?" Zhōu Xióng asked tensely.
"Shut up." Zha Wenbin ordered, he was also unsure what this thing was.
Right in the middle of it, "got a gun, that face disappeared instantly, countless small black dots scattered away, except for the bullet hole left on top, there was nothing else.
"He dares to scare you, Super Grandpa! One shot and your brain will be blown out!" After finishing speaking, Chaozi still blew on the gun muzzle that was still emitting a wisp of smoke.
"It's a spider! A group of little spiders!" Zhang Wenbin looked closely, and it was a large number of small spiders that gathered together on the wall to form a human face pattern.
"What's with the spider? How did it turn into that old man's face?" Chaozi still thought he was invincible, and that he had shot and killed the evil spirit that Stone Father had turned into.
Zha Wenbin also didn't understand the reason, but it can be confirmed that this is a very small group of snow wolf spiders, possibly just hatched: "I don't know, maybe he came here before, or maybe this group of spiders is warning us because he died at the hands of spiders."
"Here comes the gang to scare people, this group of beasts. It seems that this is probably their old nest. Later, we will kill them and finish off this group of rubbish. Wenbin brother, you'd better go behind me, I'll take the lead."
"Never mind, I'll go first. You're too impulsive." Cha Wenbin vetoed Chaozi's proposal. If it weren't for this kid acting too quickly and startling those spiders, he really wanted to read some information from this human face. At least these spiders must have seen Shi Tou before to make him look like that; otherwise, it would be too coincidental.
This tomb is a complete nine-turn eighteen-bend, with forks in the road at every intersection. It's just like a maze in terms of size. Although it's not very large in volume, when you walk inside, you can feel that its internal structure is quite complex.
Next, they didn't encounter any spiders, nor spider webs, and there were no burial objects either. However, the eighteen bends of this road seemed to have no end, with another fork in the road appearing after every turn.
Half an hour later, Cha Wenbin realized that the situation was very bad. The entire underground space was only about half the size of a football field. At the speed they were crawling, they had already crawled several laps in this period of time, but there was still nothing around them except for smooth snow and ice.
"We're lost." Zhang Wenbin said extremely calmly.
"We've been going around in circles." Chaozi replied.
"How did you know?"
"Look here." Chaozi nodded his mouth and pointed to the wall beside him.
In the maze, there is a biggest problem that is easy to get lost. However, two of the three people are experienced scouts, so when they encountered the first fork in the road, Chaozi left a mark on the wall with his dagger. At this moment, a clear scratch was on the wall beside Chaozi.
Cha Wenbin was extremely delighted, this kid still came in handy at the critical moment!
"You take the lead, walk on a road that leaves no trace, make a mark every two meters. If you encounter a mark that has already been made, change to another fork, this space is not large, we can find the entrance."
Half an hour later, he was somewhat disoriented because at this moment there was no place for him to leave a mark, and they had walked all the roads.
"What's the point of staying in the same place?"
Cha Wenbin took out his compass, he wanted to see the direction, walking in a fixed direction might have good results, unfortunately, his compass was malfunctioning again, the needle kept spinning and couldn't stop.
"There's a magnet underneath, we're probably in trouble."
"What's going on?" Chaozi asked.
"Ghost hitting the wall."
"Is there a ghost playing tricks on us?" The first person Chaozi thought of was Shi Tou, he thought it must be that old man who had turned into an evil spirit to make things difficult for them.
"Not so," said Zhang Wenbin, "the ghost hitting the wall is just a trick to deceive one's own eyes, this is just a simple layout in Feng Shui, I didn't expect to fall for it."
All the perceptions of human beings in this world come from their eyes. We often say that only the eyes will not deceive themselves. In fact, it is not so, and the eyes will often deceive themselves unintentionally. Because people mainly rely on ground signs to identify directions, when these signs sometimes create illusions, or give you incorrect information, you think you still have a sense of direction, but in fact, you are already lost.
"He continued: 'Breaking this is not difficult in itself, but the person who set up this formation is a master. First, we can't see the starry sky here, and second, the Luo Pan has been damaged, so we've lost our basic sense of direction. We can only follow these pre-designed roads, so we'll keep turning in circles inside. However, I'm sure that there's one exit that we haven't taken yet. As long as we find that exit, we can get out.'"
Chao Zi suddenly became anxious, he and Zhuo Xiong were both professional scouts, most skilled at observation, every fork in the road here indeed had their own marks left behind, there was no other way.
"Sometimes, don't believe your eyes, they can deceive you."
Chaozi said: "Then what do you say we should do? Are we going to be trapped in here until we die? Besides, even if we really can't get out, I have something here that can take care of this small area. Just place it somewhere and it'll blow everything open."
"No, we can't blast it. This is a wooden structure. If you blow it up, all the wood will collapse and bury us alive. Keep looking, there must be a very hidden door. I'll lead the way, you two carefully observe every footprint and every wall."
When they reappeared at a familiar location, no one wanted to move anymore. A gaping bullet hole in front of them seemed to be mocking the three people, which was where Chaozi had shot at that group of spiders earlier.
"We're back again, we really can't get out of this place." Chaozi sat on the ground in despair.
It had been two hours since they entered the tomb chamber, and the constant circling was making all three of them extremely anxious.
Now, Cha Wenbin still didn't have a better way out. The clever design of the mechanism here had already exceeded his expectations. He thought for a moment and said: "Let's retreat first. I remember that from here, going up two turns is the entrance. We came in and saw that human face right away. Later, when we go out, let's take that climbing rope and tie it to the outside. We'll hold onto the rope as we walk, so nothing will happen."
The team changed from the back to the front, Zhuo Xiong led the way. Here, going up and making two consecutive turns is the entrance. Everyone was very clear about it, but after making two good turns, where was that open golden nanmu wood entrance? There was only a smooth snow-covered top above their heads.
The original entrance has disappeared like a ghost!
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