Cultural Relics Are Not To Be Messed With

Qi Chen didn't yell "Help", but instead choked on a big mouthful of water, his nose was sore and his eyes swelled, tears streaming down his face.

Although the river from Xigang has been treated, the pollution is not extremely serious, but it is definitely not clear, and the taste of the entrance is simply indescribable.

The extremely cold river water made his whole body numb, his calf cramped, and his muscles were tangled and throbbing so painfully.

He couldn't shout, couldn't open his eyes in pain, struggled and couldn't move, his whole body was tightly bound by Lao Yuan's arms, and he felt that his lungs, nose, ears and throat were choked with water, and he was sore and sore. There is no relief.

The oxygen in the lungs was being lost rapidly, and the feeling of suffocation became heavier and heavier.

After the whole body was numb from the cold, a piercing pain began to grow from the cracks in the bones. The coldness was so cold that it could freeze the heart to the point of freezing to death.

Lao Yuan looked like he was in his fifties and had no energy. Let alone comparing his strength with young people, with his thin body, he was probably not strong enough to compare with his peers.In the house before, even chasing Qi Chenlongya up to the second floor was a little short of breath, and it looked like he hadn't exercised his hands and feet much.

But at this moment, it was as strong as if it was made of copper and iron.

Qi Chen only felt that the bones in his arm were about to be crushed by his iron palm.

As the last bit of oxygen in the chest was squeezed out, suffocation became Qi Chen's only feeling.

The feeling of being so anxious that he wished he could grab a life-saving grass, and the pain that he was almost dying dominated all his consciousness. The sting is negligible.

He just felt that he seemed to be getting farther and farther away from the surface of the river, and also farther and farther away from the hope of being alive. Being dragged by Lao Yuan, he seemed to sink directly to the bottom of the river.

Just when he was confused by the extreme suffocation, his hands and feet were weak, and he was about to lose consciousness, the force that had been clamping him down suddenly disappeared——

Lao Yuan suddenly let go of him without warning.

The moment Qi Chen was let go, he instinctively struggled, his hands grasping indiscriminately, trying to grab some life-saving straw.

But before he struggled a few times, he felt a kick on his vest. This kick took away most of Qi Chen's strength, and he sank powerlessly.

After sinking for a short distance, Qi Chen, who had only a trace of consciousness left, only felt that he seemed to have landed near a certain vortex——

There seemed to be a water pump installed on the left side, and a huge suction swept Qi Chen over.

After a stomach-turning whirlwind, the stagnant force that had been hindering his movement suddenly disappeared, and a large gust of damp and rotten air suddenly poured into Qi Chen's mouth and nose, and then he felt himself falling heavily. On the ground.

The ground was not very hard, on the contrary, it was a bit soft.

But no matter how soft it is, it is still powerful when it falls.Qi Chen, who was half dead, was hit by the somewhat soft ground, and still felt that all his bones were about to fall apart, especially the arms that had been squeezed by Lao Yuan.

But he can't control these anymore.

From the moment he got the air again, he couldn't help breathing heavily, as if a person who had been hungry for three months saw food for the first time.

It wasn't until the chest cavity was filled with air that Qi Chen felt alive.

He moved with difficulty, turned over, and then spread out on the ground in a large shape as if he lost his strength, slowly relieving the fatigue and soreness all over his body.

After a while, he felt that his hands and feet, which had been numb for a long time, finally regained consciousness, and the frozen blood flowed in his body again, so he moved his eyelids, and then opened them.

What came into view was a dark sky...

After he blinked away the water vapor in his eyes and his vision gradually cleared up, he realized that it was not the sky, but a stone, a large black stone wall, with many stalactites hanging long and short, like upside-down nail boards, just like So facing him.

He seems to have fallen into a stone cave...

Qi Chen was stunned for a few seconds, struggling to get up from the ground.

But when his palm was on the ground, he froze again, because the touch under his hand was so strange——

The place that was pressed by him was a little tighter, but the place that was not pressed by him, the ground seemed to be covered with a thick layer of mud, but the mud was loose and had a sticky feeling. In short, it felt very uncomfortable. Comfortable.

He frowned, turned over and stood up enduring the discomfort with a disheveled face.Some weak feet almost failed to support his body for a moment, and he staggered two steps before he stood firmly.

Thus, the astonishing scene in the cave fell into Qi Chen's eyes without warning——

It was a mountain of bones, densely packed along the wall of the cave, forming a circle, and the muddy ground where he was standing, less than two meters in diameter, turned out to be the only open space in the pile of bones.

The state of these bones is somewhat similar to that of the old lady's son last time, and they are also white. They have been piled up in this cave for many years, but there is no trace of yellowing or blackening. The whiteness is almost fake. .

And the heads embedded in it are all facing the open space in the middle without exception. They don't look like they were naturally piled up by being sucked in by the vortex, but more like they were deliberately stacked like this. ...

There are small bean candles on the four wall tops of the stone room, and I don't know how long they have been burning quietly here, and what they rely on to keep them from extinguishing.

The candlelight was not bright, it was dim and old, with a faint ghostly aura. The bleak light fell on the mountains of bones below, casting flickering shadows, making the black eye sockets of those skulls even more eerie. .

Qi Chen suddenly wanted to understand what the soil under his feet was not firm at all, and the tentacles were still a little sticky——

In all likelihood, a mountain of corpses rotted into mud and fell down. Over the years, layers have been laid...

Qi Chen: "..."

He suddenly didn't even know where to put his feet!

Apart from hanging in mid-air, he couldn't find even a place where he didn't really need to touch these bones and flesh.

This is... what kind of fucking situation is this? !

On the one hand, he felt that it was not good for him to just stand on the muddy and dusty body of others. He had been with Long Ya and the others for a long time, and he had experienced a series of strange and chaotic things. Did the dead person leave a little bit of soul here? If so, standing like this, he seemed to be working hard to die.

On the other hand, he had to force himself to put aside these messy thoughts, settle down, find a way to find an exit, and get out from here as soon as possible.

The thoughts of the two sides were intertwined, which caused him to neither move nor stay still. On this fake muddy ground, he stood as a glorious and hard coffin board, surrounded by mountains of skeletons quietly watching.

True onlookers...

Qi Chen was in a cold sweat and was about to be watched by those skulls.

He froze in the middle, staring at the countless black eye sockets, trying to develop trysophobia, and only then did some unformed thoughts appear in his mind——

This stone cave exists very abruptly, from the top of the cave full of stalactites to the bottom of the cave covered with rotten objects, there is really no place that can connect to the outside.Even Qi Chen couldn't imagine where he fell in from, and it was a coincidence that he just landed on the only open space in the middle.

Unless this stone cave is not naturally formed at all——

In other words, if an ordinary person came here and used normal methods to grope in the river, he might not be able to find even the slightest trace of this cave.

If you want to find the entrance of the cave and enter the cave, you probably have to use a very human method.

And if it takes a very human way to get in, then the same should be true for getting out.

Thinking of this, Qi Chen immediately regretted it - why didn't he pester Team Leader Long to learn some crooked tricks?At least at this time, I can barely squeeze out a few plans in my mind to try, instead of standing here stupidly without any solution like now, turning into a stick that is left behind and independent.

The stone room was extremely quiet, except for the muffled sound of the wet river water dripping from Qi Bangchui's body on the "soil" floor, there was no other sound at all.

Listening to the sound of "clicking" water droplets, Qi Chen stood there for a moment, and a new guess popped up in his mind——

The scale of these bones piled up is too frightening, and the placement and method of the skulls are so strange that they seem to be placed deliberately... It makes Qi Chen feel like he is doing some ritual, or looking after something...

Will it be the exit that is looked after?

Qi Chen was so puzzled in his heart, he turned his neck and looked around again.

The black eyes of all the heads around were facing the place where Qi Chen was standing.

And Qi Chen just broke in. These corpses have been placed here for an unknown number of years, so naturally they are not aimed at him... but should be aimed at the things that were surrounded in the middle.

Qi Chen twitched the corner of his mouth, squatted down slowly, took a deep breath, then endured the nausea and discomfort, stretched out his hand stiffly, and said in a low voice: "Sorry." soil".

This layer of "soil" is so thick that Qi Chen can hardly imagine, but it is not compact after all, so it is not difficult to pick it up.

After less than 10 minutes of digging, Qi Chen dug out a piece of bare ground in the middle.

And the exposed stone ground is indeed not smooth, but has been carved. Qi Chen felt a carved curve, and he groped along this curve bit by bit...

It wasn't until I touched the first end that I realized that this curve drew a circle.

I don't know if this circle can't see the light or what, Qi Chen just wanted to remove the pile of "soil" in the middle to see if there were other things engraved in the circle, when the circular circle suddenly lit up.

It was as if someone had poured some fluorescent water into the carved gully, and the bright light flowed forward along the curve like water little by little, and finally connected end to end.

At that moment, Qi Chen saw a glimmer of light in front of his eyes, and four pieces of dark yellow talisman paper appeared symmetrically around the edge of the circle, on which were filled with incomprehensible runes like ghostly drawn talismans.

Qi Chen was taken aback when he saw this scene——

Because it is so familiar, it is exactly the same as the circle around the skeleton of the old lady's son.

Qi Chen recalled what Longya did back then, and after thinking about it for less than two seconds, he acted like he was going all out——

He took a breath, settled his mind, then closed his eyes and kicked his legs, raised his hand and tore off the paper talismans pressed around the circle one by one.

The moment the last paper talisman was torn off, the entire cave shook violently, and a mountain of bones collapsed and rolled to the ground.