reincarnation train

"Is someone coming?" Wu Xiajiu and the others stopped for a while.

Several people looked at each other, could it be other passengers who came here first?

The sound of footsteps kept coming, from far to near, but it was like an endless loop. Everyone stopped and waited for a while, but there was no figure in the cave in front of them, but the footsteps kept coming...

Tang Yunsi touched his nose and said, "This cave looks quite weird..."

Although the footsteps didn't stop, they always wanted to move forward, but the strange thing was that as they walked forward, the sound of the footsteps became smaller and smaller, until the footsteps could no longer be heard in their ears, and everyone stopped. Looking at the surroundings, for some reason, from a narrow passage to a spacious hall-like place.

Surrounded by stone wall paintings, most of them are embossed ghost faces, but their movements are slightly different. There is a huge stone platform in the center of the hall. Many ropes hang down from the stone platform, and there are circles at the bottom of the ropes. Fang Zi looked at it and muttered as if he had hanged himself.

There are three exits to the hall, in different directions, and when Wu Xiajiu and others were debating which exit to take, Shi Shangzuo walked up the stone platform, looked up at the ropeway, "That's right, it's indeed for hanging. "

"Ah?" Fang Zi was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that Shang Zuo was answering his muttering just now.

"Hanged? ... But there is no corpse on it?" Fang Zi asked suspiciously.

"Because the corpse went down by itself." Shi Shangzuo said terrifying words in a light tone, and when there was a moment of silence in the hall, he waved to Wu Xiajiu, "Jiujiu, come and take a look? There are footprints on this stone platform .”

Wu Xiajiu nodded and jumped onto the stone platform, followed by Tang Yunsi and others to look at it. The stone platform should be covered with dust, but now there are messy footprints all over it, and only a thin layer of dust remains. Layers, footprints overlapped, the most chaotic place is just below each rope.

Shi Shangzuo hooked a rope with a dagger and came down, saying, "Look at this rope, can you see what's coming?"

Xiao Yao took a look and said, "...it's quite old, some places are worn out."

Wu Xiajiu took a closer look, "Is this... the trace left when the corpse broke free?" He pointed to the bottom rope that was coiled.

The worn place Xiao Yao mentioned is the bottom of the looped rope, but the top of this rope is still strong, although the appearance is dark and old, but there is no wear or damage, only the looped part has The look of tearing hair.

Shi Shangzuo nodded and said, "Actually, the sound of footsteps we heard just now was not the sound of someone walking back and forth in the cave, but the sound of the corpse up there kicking on the ground as it broke free from the rope."

As soon as the words came out, everyone was silent, and after a while, someone from another group in the hall asked, "Since he was hanged, then he... the feet of these corpses must not be able to reach the ground, so what?" Can you pedal on the ground?"

Wu Xiajiu said, "Because the neck is stretched."

"How long is that... is that still a neck?" Fang Zi murmured.

Tang Yunsi's peach blossom eyes rolled, and he said with a smile, "I'm not human anymore, do you still care about the neck?"

"you're right……"

"The problem now is, where do those corpses go, and which of the three exits should we choose?" Lu Nan asked.

The rest of the people didn't speak, Wu Xiajiu glanced at Shi Shangzuo and said, "You decide."

Shi Shangzuo said, "Then the middle is fine."

The group who came with them chose the exit on the left, so starting from this hall, the two parties separated.

Entering the exit in the middle, the passage is similar to when they first came in, but this time the passage is covered with long and narrow gaps on both sides, as if the walls are cracked.

There was no sound in the passage, Shi Shangzuo and Wu Xiajiu walked in the front, Fang Zi and Professor Zhou walked in the back side by side, the passage started to turn around after walking a little, and there was another turning point in front of us , but when he got here, Shi Shangzuo suddenly stopped.

He raised his hand, signaling the people behind to stop and keep silent, and listened carefully.

Slowly, a dragging, heavy footsteps came from the front...

Their flashlights didn't shine straight ahead at the moment, but hit the ground or the wall, blurring the shadows. Wu Xiajiu whispered, "Let's lean against the wall, and turn off the flashlights."

The voice fell, and the others followed suit. For a while, the darkness in the cave fell, and Shi Shangzuo was behind the front corner. When the sound of footsteps and dragging began to grow louder, he retracted his head and moved back. "coming…………"

What's coming?

Everyone didn't know it, but subconsciously, the sound of breathing began to slow down.

Gradually, a beam of light hits first, and hits the corner of the wall from a corner. The beam shines very unstable, as if it was thrown on the ground, and the light hits the ground or the bottom of the wall from time to time.

As soon as the dragging sound sounded, the light beam changed, and everyone guessed that the flashlight was on the person being dragged...

It didn't take long, because of the beam of light, as the sound got closer, a distorted black shadow gradually appeared on the wall.

The black shadow was very strange. At first, everyone thought that the person's height was different from ordinary people, but when they looked closely, they were shocked to find that it was not the person's abnormal height, but his neck!

It was a corpse hanging from a rope!

Wu Xia licked his lips for a long time, and noticed that another shadow began to appear on the wall, another shadow held by the corpse...

Finally, the sound of dragging was already heard, first there was a slight sound of wheezing and panting, and then a shriveled corpse appeared, with tattered clothes still hanging on his body , but many places have been exposed, and the exposed places are blackened, as if dyed with thick blood-stained skin, thin and terrifying, and the light and shadow sway on the wall, forming a distorted appearance.

But the most terrifying and strange thing is his neck, which seems to be unable to bear the weight and falls on the side shoulders, forming a small curved arc, but there is still a long neck supporting the head...

This is a living mummy.

Although the passage is not very wide, but Wu Xiajiu and others are clinging to the wall on one side. It just so happens that the place where the mummy walked was on the other side. When the mummy completely turned the corner, everyone kept swaying It was only through the bright light that it was clear that the one being dragged by the mummy's hand was a man.

At this time, his face was covered with blood, he couldn't see clearly, his eyes were closed tightly, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive. The flashlight happened to be stuck in his clothes, the light was weak, and it was facing forward.

There were only two holes left on the face of the mummy, and even after turning around, it seemed that he ignored the people who were sticking to the wall on the other side, and everyone watched him tilt his neck, walking towards the way they came little by little.

However, at this moment, the man with the dead body in his hand suddenly woke up. He let out a breath in horror and his eyes rolled around. Naturally, I saw the crowd posted on the wall.

He moved forward and seemed to be aware of his situation. Before Wu Xiajiu waited for someone to stop him, he yelled out in horror, "Help me! Please help me!!"

With a "swipe", the terrifying face turned around, those black eyes looked straight at the direction of Wu Xiajiu and others, Lu Nan and the others finally couldn't help but gasp in shock, holding back so hard that they almost died Get angry.

"Ahhh!" The man couldn't stop struggling, and everyone saw that something was hanging around his neck, and the other end was tied to the mummy's wrist, and one of the man's hands was twisted weirdly, looking It looks broken.

The mummy rushed towards Zhu Lanmeng. Tang Yunsi pulled her by her side, but the arm that was stretched out to stop her was grabbed by the mummy. The strength of the mummy was astonishing, and the speed was also Don't be slow, grabbing Tang Yunsi's arm with one hand, he lifted him up and threw him on the wall. The next moment, he swung Zhu Lanmeng, who hadn't reacted, to the ground.

"Ahem, be careful..." Zhu Lanmeng covered Fangzi's chest and said humanely.

The mummy moved with both hands together, but the man was still hanging on his other hand. With this movement, the man's whole body was pulled up straight, his neck was strangled fiercely, his flesh was red, and he could only roll his eyes. .

"Save people first!" Wu Xiajiu shouted, and if he didn't save people, the man couldn't hold on anymore.

Shi Shangzuo restrained the mummy, Wu Xiajiu, Fang Zi and others rescued the man, but when they got closer, they discovered that what was strangling the man's neck was a chain, and there was a heavy stone and iron stretched under the chain.

"I can't open it!" Fang Zi shouted profusely, not only to pay attention to the movements of the mummy, but also to be careful not to strangle the man with all his strength, he was so anxious to death.

Sweat began to drip from Wu Xiajiu's forehead. He just hit the corpse on his stomach, and now his abdomen felt a little cramped. Shi Shangzuo's dagger was inserted into the arm of the mummy, and he turned his wrist to move it neatly. The whole arm fell to the ground.

There was a "clang" sound, which was the sound of iron pieces falling down.

Wu Xiajiu waited for someone to take advantage of this time to drag the man aside, but at this time the man's face was already blue and purple, and he was unconscious while clutching his chest.

"He has a wound here!" Lu Nan pointed to the man's chest and said, just now he was holding the man's chest and happened to touch the blood on his hand.

Wu Xiajiu looked up at Shi Shangzuo, and found that he was able to deal with mummy with ease, so he lowered his head to check, "The heart and lungs are damaged..."

Now with the difficulty of breathing, it is estimated that...

At this time, Shi Shang kicked the mummy against the wall with a sharp left kick, held down his twisted and slender neck, ended it with a dagger, walked over and looked at the man and said, "It's not from our group..." Said while squatting down to check his pulse, "It should be that the other passengers have already entered the cave."

"Front?" Wu Xiajiu said.

Shi Shangzuo nodded, turning his dagger in thought, "This mummy looks like a craftsman who carved reliefs. He was executed here after completion. If the prediction is correct, you can see ghost face reliefs when you go out of this cave."

"But what do they have to do with those hanging coffins?" Wu Xiajiu whispered.

Shi Shang shook his head left, Tang Yunsi coughed, sat on the ground covering his abdomen, looked at the man and whispered, "Is he hopeless?"

No one spoke, and the answer seemed self-evident. Everyone sat or stood in silence. After an unknown amount of time, Shi Shangzuo stretched out a finger to probe the man's nose, then got up and said, "... let's go."