Chapter 397 The Chasm

Under the white phosphorescent light, the whole tomb exudes an indescribable gloomy smell.

After really stepping into the tomb, I approached the vertical burial coffins standing in the grooves and found that there was something else on the coffin lid. They were people carved on bronze, all of them were strong and powerful.

That was a human rubbing.

In fact, it was the portrait of the person in the coffin, which was somewhat similar to the principle of rubbing. It was carved on the coffin lid after the coffin was closed, which meant leaving a name after death, and more importantly, preserving some deeds or images of the deceased, so as not to make the person die in vain and disappear after the body decayed.

This method was more popular in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, but it was abolished in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, because people at that time felt that if a person's portrait was left behind, if the painting was particularly similar, part of the soul would be locked in the painting, not to mention praying for a good death, it would be difficult to rest in peace.

There is no particular yin and yang about this, it is just the folk tradition at that time. Whether there is a portrait of the dead on the coffin lid will not have any effect on the dead. I took this opportunity to peek at the demeanor of the people in the coffin.

Due to the limitations of the times and productivity, these people in the coffins did not wear helmets and armor, but only wore a battle skirt tied around their waists to cover their vital parts. They had disheveled hair and looked indescribably wild. In this gloomy environment, they looked more like old ghosts than warriors.

I thought of the two stone sculptures at the entrance of the cave. From the perspective of image, how similar are they to these human rubbings?

Lao Bai suffered a loss and finally learned his lesson. Since entering the tomb, he has become cautious. He knows that human breathing can sometimes cause corpse transformation. He covers his mouth and nose and dares not breathe.

Not only him, I only glanced at the human rubbings from a distance, and I dare not approach those bronze coffins again.

I don't know if it's because he killed too many people in his lifetime, so he has too much evil spirit. Generally, if such a killer gets up, he is often extremely ferocious. There are killers everywhere here, and it is conservatively estimated that they are three or four thousand years old. If they really jump up, we have no other way to go except to be killed.

Several people knew the danger here. With extreme caution and carefulness, they didn't make any mistakes. They walked in places where there were no objects scattered. It's just that this place is too huge. There are more than hundreds of dead people buried. I have never seen such a huge tomb. After wandering around for a long time, I finally found the way out of here.

There is no tomb door to isolate it. It's just a small hole in a dark corner, which is almost integrated with the dark environment.

Wushuang was the first to discover the cave entrance. He didn't hesitate at all. He supported the stone wall with one hand and crouched down to drill out!

With a "crash", Wushuang's foot seemed to step on gravel, and his sole slipped, and he stumbled forward. Fortunately, he was quite skilled, and the hand holding the hole immediately exerted force, and he shouted "Aiya", and his body suddenly retreated.

Wushuang's face was as pale as a Western vampire duke, and he kept breathing heavily. It was obvious that he was frightened just now. He said with lingering fear: "Outside... It's empty, I almost fell down just now."

I pulled him aside, carefully supported the hole, and leaned my head out with a flashlight. The situation outside made me swallow my saliva.

Is this still a tomb?

If there were no traces of artificial chiseling everywhere, I would have thought it was a naturally formed underground Jedi! !

Outside the small cave entrance, there is a chasm that is more than 30 feet wide. The chasm is filled with all kinds of foul miasma produced in the tomb. It is gray and you can't see the bottom. No one knows how deep it is, but it is definitely enough to smash a person to pieces. As for what is under the chasm, it is even more unknown.

On the other side of the chasm, you can vaguely see that there is also a gray cave there, and the road is there.

However, if you want to reach the other side, you must cross this chasm first! !

"It is indeed the Xia tomb. I have never heard of such an arrangement in a tomb. I just don't know what they spent so much effort to dig this ditch for? Is it just to block others from entering the core area of ​​the cemetery? Or... is there another purpose?"

I secretly speculated in my heart, and leaned out a little more, hoping to find more information, but because I leaned out too much, my body swayed and I almost fell into the ditch. I quickly retracted my body and felt that I was sweating all over at that moment. I turned my head to remind Wushuang and Brother Yaozi to hug me from behind. Only then did I boldly lean half of my body out. I looked around and saw that the length of the ditch was incalculable, but it also rejected my previous guess.

This ditch does not exist to isolate others! !

Because, a few meters away to the left of the cave entrance, there is actually a suspension bridge across the ditch.

To be precise, there was no ironware in that period. It was a bronze suspension bridge. It should have been covered with wooden boards. However, the tomb was not well sealed. Even if there were some wooden boards, they have all decayed now. Only a few bare bronze ropes are left across the gap.

I looked down at my feet. When I went out of the cave, there was a 30-centimeter-wide stone edge outside...

"Gudong!"

I swallowed hard, but a sentence popped up in my head-the road to Shu is difficult, more difficult than climbing to the sky.

However, no matter how difficult the road to Shu is, can it be difficult to get past here?

If you want to reach the other side, you must first get out of this hole, lean against the wall, step on the 30-centimeter-wide stone edge, and move towards the bronze rope little by little. There is a huge gap in front of you. If you tremble a little, you will die immediately without a burial place. If you are lucky enough to get close to the bronze rope...

Bronze, as the earliest alloy mastered by humans, has properties that are really... hard to describe! !

A bronze rope has been hanging there for thousands of years. Who knows what it has become? Whether it can hold people is completely unknown. Crossing such a ropeway is like hanging your life and property in the crotch of God. It sways and sways, and you can't be sure when it will be shaken off...

I replayed the process of reaching the other side in my head, and I shrank back with lingering fear. The only thing left in my mind was this desperate road. As for why such a gap was dug in the tomb, I had no time to explore it, and I couldn't find out anything. The Xia Tomb is completely our cognitive blind spot.

"Go through!"

Lao Bai kept rubbing his arms, not knowing where he got the courage from, and said tremblingly: "This place is not right. I always feel that something bad will happen if I continue to stay here. I feel panic for no reason. I haven't had this feeling for many years. In the past, I always ran away immediately, and that was for sure. Those who refused to listen to me... The grass on their graves is now very tall!!"

Brother Yaozi nodded, thought for a moment with a gloomy face, and his eyes fell on our ragged clothes. He said in a low voice: "From here to the location of the cable bridge, it is at most a few meters away. That's enough. Take off your clothes and gamble your lives!"

In this situation, a rope may save one's life. Unfortunately, all the climbing ropes we carried were left in the cave behind us. There was no other way but to take off our shirts, tear them into wide strips and connect them together to make a "rope" full of bumps.

After finding a place at the entrance of the cave to fix one end, Brother Yaozi wrapped the other end around his waist without saying anything, and then drilled out with his back against the stone wall. He was a brave man. In his opinion, even if he fell, we could pull him back with the rope. It felt like flying over the eaves and walls. The distance of several meters was reached in an instant. He stared at the bronze rope, took several deep breaths in a row, and jumped up. At the moment of falling into the chasm, he grabbed a rope chain with one hand.

With a loud bang, I closed my eyes instinctively, and then saw Brother Yaozi was already hanging on it steadily. He weighed it a few times and reminded us loudly that there was no problem. Then he pulled the chain with one hand and untied the cloth wrapped around his waist with the other hand. Like a monkey, he jumped along the bronze rope to the opposite side. The whole process was done in one go, making people want to scream several times.

With such a good example, Lao Bai gained confidence. He pulled back the rope and wrapped it around himself, and then got out the second.

Everything went smoothly. Wushuang and Zhang Xinya were next.

When it was my turn, I twisted the remaining cloth strips into another rope without thinking, and tied Xiaozhi and me together.

Those movements were performed by Brother Yaozi and others smoothly, and they looked easy, but I knew that they were a great test of physical strength. The chasm was thirty feet wide, and if the arm strength was not enough, she would fall down if she couldn't grab it all at once. This was impossible for Xiaozhi. I could only tie her to me together, so that even if she was exhausted, she could hang on me...

As for Cang Yao, I didn't consider her at all. Such a chasm is a life-and-death challenge for a living person, but for a ghost, it seems to be no problem...

"It's a pity that she doesn't have the skills she used to have. Otherwise, she would probably fly over with us?"

I don't know what thoughts were running through my mind, and I pulled Xiaozhi out little by little.

I don't even know how I managed to wade through the abyss.

I only know that I pulled Xiaozhi very tightly, and my hands slipped in the end. My palms were full of sweat, and my legs were shaking...

When I stood in front of the iron chain, I breathed a sigh of relief.

My back was pressed against the cold stone wall, and the coldness in the tomb almost dried up the sweat on my body in a short moment. I took a deep breath and rested for a while. I subconsciously turned my head to look at Xiaozhi beside me. Xiaozhi's face was tense and nervous, but she didn't show any fear.

A huge head silently poked out from the hole we just left, turned back and forth, and then turned his head to look at me.

Everything around was dark, I couldn't see the other person's face clearly, I could only see that the other person had disheveled hair and seemed to grin at me, revealing a mouthful of white teeth...