Chapter 62: Never Transcending Life

  We looked all over the stone platform, but couldn't find any cracks or gaps. It was as if it had been poured with cement and was perfectly rectangular. I tapped on it with my hand, but there was no echo at all. Thinking of smashing it open, I didn't have anything in my hands, so in a moment of urgency, I said:

  "Watch my Heaven's Eye, I'll try to see if I can see through this stone coffin."

  He then struck a pose reminiscent of Chow Yun-fat's classic stance in God of Gamblers, while Peng looked on with some exasperation.

  "Brother-in-law, it's not funny at all."

  "I also know, I'm just trying to liven up the atmosphere."

  "Brother-in-law, you know, this tomb has a name, called 'Never Transmigrate'."

  "What does it mean?"

  "I have seen a handwritten copy of 'Ancient and Modern Secret Places Gazetteer', although it's incomplete, but there is an article that is very similar to the current situation. The tomb by the tower has no return road, the corpse in the stone, the cycle stops, Weng Zhong raises his sword to drive away the evil beast, wood and stone seem to determine life and death."

  "Explain it."

  "Our entrance is not a tower, and now we can't find the way back. It's a tomb beside the tower, no return road. In addition, according to this pattern, these two dead people are lying in stone coffins, stones will not rot, they will stay here forever, that's what the second sentence means. Wood and stone decide life and death, wood plus one stone is what word?"

  Ziziphus jujuba

  "That's right, this '柘' refers to a deciduous shrub or tree, also pronounced as '蔗', which is also extended to mean wooden coffin."

  "Why bother with fate then?"

  "What was the situation we just saw?"

  "The wooden coffin is on top of the stone pedestal."

  "That's right, the wood on the stone is no longer a single character. The stone coffin is just a stone coffin, and the wooden coffin is just a wooden coffin, forming a dead end. Once we take it down and put it next to the stone pedestal, this dead end can be changed into a living situation. This stone coffin becomes a wooden coffin, so wood on the stone is called an eternal lifeless situation, while wood next to the stone is called a harmonious living situation."

  "Alright, there's a set, but now that we've smashed that wooden coffin, it can be considered as breaking the deadlock. However, nothing has happened. Could the problem lie with that sentence 'Weng Zhong raised his sword to drive away the evil beast'?"

  "Maybe, I'm not quite sure either. The coffin script is incomplete and the explanation isn't thorough. There are only two evil beasts in this place, but we're missing the third one, Weng Zhong. Shouldn't we bring the ones outside the door in?"

  That's impossible, the stone statues outside are all connected to mechanisms and can't be moved at will. Fortunately, I have a direction now, and I'm sweeping away the dust of the years on both ends of the stone platform, hoping to find some clues. Sure enough, after I stepped on that broken wood and rotten stone, a circular pattern appeared, with a diameter of about half a meter, which might be where Wang Zhong was originally placed. Now it's gone, maybe it was taken away by someone who came in many years before us, or maybe it was the wish of the person inside this stone coffin.

  We roughly estimated our weights, both over 180 pounds, maybe standing here will have some effect. Under the circumstances, there is only this method left, I stand on the left and he stands on the right, I hold the sword and he holds the scepter, even making expressions identical to those of stone statues. One second passed, two seconds passed, one minute passed, two hours passed, half an hour passed, I feel like a fool, if someone takes our picture, we will definitely be crowned as members of the prankster gang.

  "It's over." I left the circle.

  "I'm the same, it just feels like the circle drawn by Sun Dasheng in 'Journey to the West'," said Pengpeng.

  "What if we're too light? Their stone statue weighs over a hundred kilograms, but ours is only ten to twenty kilograms, not enough weight to trigger the mechanism."

  "No way, how can there be two beams of light here?" Pengpeng turned his head back.

  Because my eyes have gained supernatural power, looking at the darkness is like looking at daytime, and I didn't notice this strange phenomenon at all. Pengpeng also didn't realize it until he left this place.

  "But there are no holes above, where did the light come from?" I asked myself.

  "Never mind him, hurry up and go take a look at the stone platform to see if there's any change."

  I suddenly thought, would there be a meteorite with a magnetic field here, just like in the mortal world?