Celestial Masters Alliance

I glanced at my watch. There were still five hours until dark, including the climb up to the lake shore and down the mountain. Since I couldn't charge the Wolf Eye flashlight, I had to reduce the chance of using it.

The tall doorway behind the stairs was like the devil's open mouth, waiting for my arrival. From the dark mouth, the hot air sprayed out had a rotten smell. I held the wolf-eye flashlight low with one hand, and held the folding shovel horizontally with the other hand, trying to protect it as close to my chest as possible.

There is a downward staircase in the doorway. The moss on the steps has turned yellow, but it still retains a certain amount of moisture. It feels like stepping on a high-quality wool carpet. It is soft and fluffy, not slippery, and not brittle. ring.

The stairs soon reached the end, and there was a cave further inside. I scraped away the moss on the rock walls and saw the same red rocks full of bubbles as on the coast. It's not diamond, which is kind of interesting.

The entire cave was wrapped in thick moss, and the green and astringent fragrance was too strong. It made my nose itchy. I couldn't help but sneeze. The uncontrollable sound echoed in the cave, scaring me out in a cold sweat. The cave is steep and sloping downwards, and there are no corpses of any aquatic creatures along the way.

After walking for about an hour, I started to give up. Is this a bottomless pit? To the center of the earth? Since there is nothing, there is no need for me to find out. After all, further down, the heat wave is beyond what I can bear.

Just as he was about to turn around, the light of the Wolf Eyes flashlight flicked into the distance. It felt like the light was not hitting a real object, but being swallowed up by the darkness in the distance. I had a hunch that if I walked further, it would be empty. Anyway, we’re already in, so let’s take a few more steps to have a look!

A dozen meters away from where I turned around just now, there is a large pit dug downwards. There is no dome on the pit. This form is a bit like a large pit where materials are accumulated in a locust tree cave.

But the situation was different. There was a wide and gentle staircase leading from the cave to the big pit. In the middle of the staircase was a sliding platform more than one meter wide. I quickly used a shovel to sweep away the moss on the sliding platform. Usually, there is a sliding platform in the middle of the stairs. The sliding platform will be equipped with exquisite carvings, but this sliding platform has nothing and is polished very smoothly. It is more like an auxiliary tool for transporting goods.

I slowly walked down the stairs. Every fifty steps there was a buffer platform. There was a half-person-high cylindrical fire platform on the platform. Now there was nothing on the fire platform except dry moss.

The whole building is a bit like the observation deck of a large football field. I was counting in my mind as I walked. Under the more than 500 steps, grooves like those in the Phoenix Mausoleum Hall began to appear. Although the grooves were covered with moss, I could not count them one by one. They are clear and confirmed, but by the different shades of colors highlighted by the moss, it can be concluded that they are extending to form a circle.

In the center of the hall, there are five square pillars that are as tall as a person and covered with moss. Each square pillar is connected with an iron chain as thick as an arm. Four of the square pillars are evenly scattered around the circle. The center of each square pillar is There is an iron chain in the middle leading inward. At the other end of the iron chain, at the center of the entire pit, stands the largest square pillar.

what is it then? Another rhinoceros horn cup used for sacrifice? impossible! Even dinosaurs couldn't grow such big horns. I carefully scraped away the moss on the building closest to me with a shovel. Its entire shape was roughly a rectangular parallelepiped, with a round arch toward the center, which was a sarcophagus!

My feet slipped and I fell to the ground, touching the iron chain connecting the coffins. The iron chain was covered with copper bells, which seemed to be shouting together in protest against my neglect of them. I was so scared that I shrank into a ball and covered my ears. It was over! Although I don’t understand Feng Shui, it is often shown in TV movies that if a coffin is placed vertically, it must be a bad ghost. What's more, there are iron chains between them, what a disaster it would be.

The ringing gradually subsided while I was waiting for the great disaster to break out of the coffin. The iron chains and all the moss on the coffin were shaken off by the vibration of the ringing, and the coffin showed its original appearance.

I held my breath, climbed up gently, and picked up the fallen wolf-eye flashlight from the ground, for fear that if I moved too much, it would trigger a big disaster.

I focused the light in my hand on the nearby coffin, and found that the coffin was black with red in color, and it was fully engraved with characters. The characters were filled with gold paint and were well preserved. impossible! This coffin should have been soaked in water all year round, so it is impossible to leave the gilt characters on it.

Seeing that the coffin was quiet, I boldly stretched out a finger to touch it. The feeling from my fingertips was cold, hard and slightly moist. I put it under my nose and smelled the green and astringent smell of moss. The taste is definitely not that of metal. I questioned, walking towards the other three coffins, the situation was the same.

I looked at the big dark thing in the middle and approached slowly and hesitantly. This coffin is larger than the other four. The difference is that the iron chains between the four coffins extend directly into the inside of the coffin, so there are round holes on the front and both sides of the coffin.

This coffin was cross-bound with iron chains extending from all directions, and the iron chains were finally locked on large iron rings bound on all sides of the coffin. In other words, of the five coffins, only this one is fully sealed, and the other four are all water-permeable. .

Why is water permeable well preserved? What's inside? If the coffin in the middle is completely sealed, then there must be air inside the coffin. If it is in the lake, it will float to the dome. But the length of the iron chain between the coffins tells me that it does not float. What is the principle of this? Woolen cloth?

My heart began to beat erratically again, a sign of curiosity-driven curiosity. I raised my hand and glanced at my watch, no! too late! I can't waste the only power resources I have here.

I looked around this strange hall again, and began to think in my mind, open the coffin? Not opening the coffin? Based on my current situation, it is definitely open! But not now. If the things in the coffin don't mutate and come to me tonight, allowing me to live until tomorrow, I will definitely bring everything to open the coffin and find out.

After leaving the cave, the sky began to darken. I checked the time again. Today's darkness came two hours earlier than before. The air felt dry and even a little cool, of course because I had just come out of the high-temperature cave.

I wrapped the rope hanging from the lake shore around my waist and shoulder armor. Although this could prevent me from falling suddenly in the middle, it also delayed a lot of time and wasted a lot of energy in adjusting the rope. I got back to the tent almost in the dark. The leaves that had been dried in the morning were already dry. I lit the fire and ate something casually.

Quiet, as quiet as usual. I was lying in the tent, looking heartless. My mind was spinning around today's discovery. The sinkhole was a huge tomb, but there were no tombstones or grave goods on such a huge scale. This completely violated the specifications of a tomb.

The upright coffin also completely ignored the etiquette of burial. The stone carvings at the bottom of the lake were huge, but there was no explanation of who was buried in the tomb. The people in the coffin could not date back to ancient times until World War II.

What do the four totems on the top of the stone carving represent? Is it the totem of the family that built this tomb? The fat man warned me not to touch the water in the lake. He told me not to drink the water in which the coffin had been soaked! In other words, he knew that there was a coffin at the bottom of the lake, and he also knew who was in the coffin. Could it be that Fatty is one of the families represented by those four totems?

Could the calming pestle that the fat man mentioned be in the coffin? Ah! We will find out when the coffin is opened tomorrow.