Adventure Code

Chapter 471 Peering together (3)

The machete and I took turns digging the stone wall. Our digging hands were numb and painful. Fortunately, we thought it would take a day and a night to dig, but after more than five hours, we dug through the stone wall.

The moment it was dug open, a cool wind blew over from the opposite side.The clothes on our bodies were already wet and couldn't dry in this place, so in order to maintain our body temperature, we had to soak in water from time to time, and at this moment, being blown by the cool wind made me and the scimitar tremble.

Holding the telescopic tube that was rustling with the blown flames, I took the lead in crawling over to observe the situation behind. After looking at it, I realized that the backside was not open-air, but another stone room, but it was very small. It is a natural crack, which should be connected to the outside. The wind pours into the stone chamber through the crack, and then blows in along the crack of the fake stone wall.

At a glance, the stone room is very simple, but the bed, table and chairs are complete, and it looks much more neatly arranged than the living room in the cave above, as if someone has lived here for a long time.

Living in such a small stone room?

Does this separate stone room have anything to do with the owner of the cave above?Why is it separated in the middle?

I walked into the stone room and observed carefully for a while, and found something surprising, because I found that the original user of this stone room should be a woman!The reason why I think so is because there is a rough wooden box near the side of the stone room, which is usually used to store clothes in the past.

The wooden box was obviously not made by a professional craftsman, there was no paint, and it was irregular. I opened the simple buckle cover on the top, and found crude numb clothes inside. Besides, there were a few clothes made of animal skins .

Difficulty Has anyone ever lived a self-sufficient hermit life here?Out of curiosity, I shook off the animal skin and looked at the size. It didn't look like a man's at all. If it was a man, then this man is too petite and exquisite, right?And the waist is very thin.

I immediately judged that this was a stone room where women lived. After shaking off several animal skin coats, I felt my hands tremble a little.

Why is the shape of this animal skin coat a bit like the leather worn by 'Swamp Beauty'?
I suddenly thought of the night of the night watch by the longbone, and the sudden appearance of the beauty of the swamp, which made me almost shoot the cutlass.

"What's going on." Just when I was shocked, the Taoist priest came out with the scimitar in his hand, probably because I looked at the animal skin too strangely, so I asked this question.

I looked at the scimitar and couldn't help but ask, "Do you think there are ghosts in this world?"

He crossed his arms and said, "I don't believe in ghosts. Even if there are ghosts, ghosts are afraid of evil people. Do you think I am a good person or a wicked person?"

I said, "You are the kind of person who walks around when ghosts see you."

Machete said: "Why do you ask this?"

I shook the animal skin clothes in my hand, and talked about the beauty of the swamp.

Scimitar was also a little surprised when he heard what I said. He didn't rush out, but followed the stone room.

I have some doubts, whether I was unintentionally drawn into a dream by the beauty of the swamp again, maybe everything in front of me is another nightmare?I pinched my thigh hard.

Hiss... Pain.

"Huh?" Machete seemed to have discovered something, and jumped onto the simple wooden bed against the wall.The wooden bed was an animal skin mattress, which looked very thick, and the machete directly untied the mattress. For a moment, I was shocked, because there was a dead person lying on it!
To be exact, it was a white bone wrapped in clothes.

Since it is a white bone, it is covered under the animal skin mattress, and the mattress will not stand out too much, because I ignored it just now.The machete was more careful than I observed, so I found the bones hidden under the mattress.

The stone room is relatively small, so I am also very close to the wooden bed. Under the erratic firelight of the telescopic tube, the white human skull is yellow, and the rest of the bones are wrapped in clothes.

The color of the clothes, because of the rotting body water, has lost its true color, but the style, the animal skin gown, is exactly the same as the swamp beauty I saw in my dream!
Could it be that the corpse of the Swamp Beauty is lying on it?
I immediately came up with this idea.

Scimitar squatted on the bed, put on gloves for himself, and went to examine the bones himself. After a while, he said: "It is indeed the bones of a woman. She was killed by someone, and she died in pain. All the bones in her body were destroyed. Interrupted."

I walked to the bed, only to feel that my mind was in chaos: "Her outfit is exactly the same as the beauty of the swamp I dreamed of. Could this be the body of the beauty of the swamp? No, according to the legend, didn't she die in the swamp?"

Scimitar narrowed his eyes and said, "Many times, in order to cover up the truth, people will deliberately spread some false news."

I recalled: "You mean, the fact that she died in the swamp was fabricated by the person who killed her?"

Machete thought for a while, and said: "Half-truth, half-truth, it should be true that she was kicked out by her family and villagers. She probably found this cave and thought it was good, so she settled here."

"But who will kill her?"

Machete pursed his lips and said, "According to the legend, her identity was discovered a few years after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. After the Anti-Japanese War, who else came here besides her?"

"Qingfeng..." I couldn't help but pronounce the name.

Taoist Qingfeng.

It seems that he is really not a good person, the swamp beauty may have been killed by him, and the Taoist next to me, who recognized me as Qingfeng before, said why he hurt me, and looked like he had a deep hatred for me.

I'm almost certain that this Qingfeng is definitely not a good person, and may even be very vicious.

"...If this is the body of the Swamp Beauty, then why did I dream of the Swamp Beauty when I was still in the mountains? Even if there are ghosts, don't they mean that ghosts always stay where they died?"

"It's not a ghost." Machete said while searching out a book from the pocket of the bone leather jacket.

It was an ancient book, but it was also infested with corpse water and turned black. After opening it, the contents inside could not be seen clearly, only some things that seemed to be drawn by ghosts could be seen.

Before I could ask, Machete said: "This is a talisman book." As he spoke, he sighed and said: "Out of print, I don't know if it can be restored." After speaking, he said to me: "You used to Chasing Shuo Suo, there should be some kind of formation in the forest passing through."

I thought of the ecstasy stone pillars in Mihun Village. I have seen the power of the ecstasy stone pillars. I am still in awe of the ancient formations and talismans.

The scimitar was adopted by an old Taoist priest, but he also doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, so he has his own understanding of the talisman formation, and even told me the reason.

(End of this chapter)