Chapter Seventy Don't Go Down

  "I don't know if it's the king of the Ming Dynasty." Although he was wearing a dragon robe, his face was masked, and it was impossible to tell.

  Chou Shen gazed at the pattern on the wall, furrowing his brow. He felt that this pattern foretold something, a plan that had been in place for some time already?

  Just at this moment, Qiu Shen suddenly had a bad premonition.

  He couldn't see a clear image, but he vaguely saw Yingying lying in a coffin, with a black shadow standing in front of her, admiring her.

  "Tian Qi, let's keep moving forward for now. Finding Pangzi and Yingying is the priority." Qiu Shen said calmly, just like his usual tone of voice. He couldn't tell Tian Qi that Yingying might be in trouble, or else with Tian Qi's personality, he would rashly act out of impulse.

  The two of them quickened their pace and continued forward. There were some patterns on one side of the wall, but Tian Qi just took a glance and didn't pay much attention to it. He'll study it when he comes back.

  "Be careful!" Qiu Shen grabbed Tian Qi.

  "Ah! It's actually empty!" Tian Qi was shocked out of a cold sweat.

  Qiu Shen and Tian Qi were almost shoulder to shoulder, Qiu Shen's speed was a bit faster than Tian Qi. He found something wrong and immediately stopped his footsteps. Unexpectedly, the end of the corridor was not a tomb, but a pit. If he hadn't discovered it in time and stopped, pulling Tian Qi back as well, now they might have fallen down.

  "The flashlight doesn't seem to be working well here." Tian Qi took a deep breath and shone the light downwards, but it was as if the light had been swallowed up, only illuminating an extremely short distance before being engulfed by darkness once again. The front was just as dark, making it impossible to see what lay ahead or how deep the pit in the ground was. Fortunately, Tian Qi's backpack had a 10-meter long rope with him, which should be enough.

  Tian Qi said as he let Chou Shen take out the rope, and he went down first to explore the way.

  "We'll just go on like this without knowing what's going on, and if there's something dangerous ahead, we should be prepared," said Qiu Shen.

  Tian Qi also thought of this, because from the darkness here, you can see a few points, why the flashlight can't shine very far, it's not just because it's too dark here, but also because of the black air in the air, just like the village, only thicker than outside.

  When resentment accumulates to a certain extent, it will form evil spirits. Under the influence of evil spirits, even normal people will become emotionally violent and gradually lose their rationality over time.

  However, they had very few things that could be prepared in their hands. Except for the yin-yang mirror and the black stick in Ou Shen's hand, which were powerful magical instruments, there was almost nothing else that could restrain evil spirits.

  After checking things out, they were ready to head down from here, but it wasn't Tian Qi, rather it was Chou Shen. He insisted on going down first to scout the road, his martial arts skills were slightly better than Tian Qi's.

  It's actually Tianqi's karma, or you could say it's his own business. But since entering this place, the most dangerous things have always been deep-seated and head-on. That's just how friendships between men are - no need to say too many thank-you words, as long as we understand each other in our hearts.

  Tian Qi's hatred for Qiu Shi was also deep.

  "Be careful," Tian Qi said.

  Fortunately, there were two stone pillars with a diameter of about five centimeters on both sides at the end of the corridor, and two stone carvings of Pi Xiu were squatting on top, which was still quite solid, and the rope was tied to it, otherwise it would be really troublesome.

  The Pixiu is known as a tomb-quieting divine beast, with the function of warding off evil spirits and is often used to quiet tombs.

  The Pixiu is a ferocious auspicious beast, generally in front of ancient tombs can be seen, just don't know why the tomb doesn't have it, but there are two here, although the body is not big, but the carving is lifelike, especially those two pairs of eyes, as if they have spirit.

  Some tombs are not Qilin but Kirin, in fact, using Qilin to guard the tomb is better than Kirin for gathering wealth and protecting the house (yin zhai), the direction should be west-facing east, same as the direction of the mausoleum; it's not suitable to be higher than the tombstone. Of course, these are all Tianqi's knowledge, obviously not applicable here, he didn't study this aspect deeply, probably has something to do with Feng Shui.

  At this time, the rope was already tied up, and Qiu Shen began to slide down along the rope. Because here, the flashlight could play a very small role, soon, Qiu Shen's figure seemed to be swallowed by the darkness, and couldn't be seen anymore.

  "Nothing's wrong, is it?" Tian Qi couldn't help but ask, the rope was tied very tightly.

  "A deep-seated grudge has a simple answer."

  Tian Qi didn't ask much either, he didn't know what was going on below and couldn't let Chou Shen disperse too much attention.

  "Huh?" A deep voice sounded from below, full of doubt.

  "What's wrong?" Tian Qi asked worriedly.

  "There are words on the wall, it seems to be written in a hurry. I'll take a closer look... don't... go... down..." Qiu Shen read out loud as he identified them, and naturally, he also heard himself.

  "It must have been written by someone who came in before. Hurry up and come here, we'll make another plan!" Tian Qi was anxious, this sentence wouldn't appear out of nowhere, and the aura of death here was thick, it wasn't strange that some monsters existed.

  But almost at the same time as the sky, the two pillars on the passage changed, and the eyes of the two qilins carved on them suddenly lit up, emitting a purple glow, as if they were about to come alive. Then the two pillars also lit up, like an electric current that went deep into the ground, and then returned to silence.

  Tian Qi just felt a bright light flashing behind him, but he didn't see any changes in Qilin and Zhu Zi.

  Then a rustling sound came from the passage, and something was rushing over, seemingly in large numbers.

  Chou Shen had just climbed up from the rope when he also heard the sound coming from the passage. His face changed color as he sensed something, very clearly - a group of purple ants.

  "Let's go down quickly, quickly, together!" Without time to think too much, Qiu Shen began to rapidly climb down the rope.

  Tian Qi didn't know what was coming, but seeing Ou Sheng's expression, he didn't hesitate and started sliding down the rope. Fortunately, the rope was sturdy, but it wasn't tied to him, so his descent was slow, as one careless move would make him fall off.

  The rustling sound soon came close, Tian Qi guessed it was right above their heads, and wondered if it would chase them down.

  "They're biting through the rope, speeding up, or else we won't make it." Qiu Shen's voice became very urgent.

  Tian Qi soon felt it, because one of the four ropes had already broken, and he had slid down more than five meters. How could he still not be at the end?

  The second rope broke, Tian Qi already felt himself swaying precariously. He had a premonition that the next moment the rope would snap and one rope definitely couldn't support the weight of two people.

  At this critical moment, he felt that there was no weight below, and Chou Shen untied the rope and jumped down.

  "Hmm..." A low murmur was heard.

  "Are you okay?!" Tian Qi didn't know how deep it was below, but judging from Ou Sheng's voice, he should be in pain.

  "It's too late, hurry up and jump down, I'll catch you!" Qiu Shen said.

  The bowstring has already broken and is about to break again.

  As soon as Qiu Shen said that, he had a certain degree of confidence. It seemed that the bottom of the cave was not particularly deep. However, it wasn't until Tian Qi let go that he realized this hole was at least over ten meters in height.

  It would be better to say that it was not received, but rather the weight of Tian Qi crashed onto Qiu Shen's body. The two people fell backwards, after all, in the dark state, the position could not be grasped very accurately.

  "Are you alright, Qiu Shen?" Tian Qi was fine and immediately stood up, but his body remained lying there as if he had been injured.

  "I'm fine." Qiu Shen struggled to get up, Tian Qi found that his nose was bleeding, but this wasn't a serious injury. What really caused harm was the back of Qiu Shen's head, which had been knocked against something and was bleeding!

  The medicine pack is with Pángzi, Tiān Qí and Chóu Shēn didn't bring any hemostatic drugs. Fortunately, Tiān Qí observed that the injury on the back of Chóu Shēn's head was only a scratch, without damaging the internal organs.

  What he bumped into when Qiu Shen fell just now was not a stone, but a skull.

  I took a flashlight to observe the surroundings, and it turned out that there were scattered skulls everywhere. It was a white, flower-like scene. Upon closer inspection, these skulls didn't belong to humans, but rather various animals.

  Is this a burial pit? But why are there only animal skulls, and no other skeletal remains of Dong's body? Tian Qi and Qiu Shen shone their flashlights around the area, although they still hadn't determined how large the hole was or whether there were any passageways leading to other places. However, wherever they shone their lights, they saw scattered animal skulls!

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