absurd deduction game

Chapter 326 The Legend of the Gatekeeper
The team members took a big breath of fresh air. The oxygen here was sufficient, unexpectedly, and the air was humid with a touch of coolness.

Yu Xing fiddled with the surface of the water twice with his hands, looked up, and always felt that the top of the wall seemed familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

It's just that with his increasingly blurred memory, he doesn't remember whether he entered a similar place a long time ago, or if he experienced something during the few minutes lying in the coffin and then forgot.

Not long after, the stone platform was full of people wearing tights. After confirming their safety, they took off the tights one after another, put them in waterproof bags, hid them in the water on the edge of the stone platform, and hooked them with hooks.

In this way, you will not be discovered, and you will not be out of equipment to wear when the time comes.

Yu Xing was also planning to go ashore. He swam a little forward and suddenly noticed a ripple in the water that was not in the same direction as him.

The backward waves slipped past his calf quietly, and something passed by his leg, but it didn't go far, it kept lingering beside his leg.

"..." He stopped his movements and looked down. Unfortunately, the water surface was dark, and he could only reflect himself, and he couldn't see anything underneath.

That is why the unknown is the most frightening.

"It's strange. I didn't see any ghosts in the water along the way. Could it be that it came in from another way." He knew very well that this was not an illusion. The underwater things not only entangled him, but seemed to reach out to touch him.

——With such a short pause, Yu Xing was noticed by something in the water.

He felt something soft and strange around his calf, and then - a downward pushing force suddenly surged out, causing Yu Xing's body to sink involuntarily.

That thing was trying to drag him down!
Yu Xing wasn't panicking, but as he sank, his arms subconsciously slapped on the water surface, attracting the attention of his companions ashore.

Ash was the first to notice the anomaly. He yelled something, immediately pulled out his dagger and jumped back into the water, swimming towards Yu Xing. Others also reacted. Master Li cursed and walked quickly to the river to meet him. .

"Ash, pull San up and go ashore quickly, don't fight any monsters in the water!" Carlos didn't know Yu Xing's water quality, and a paper figurine appeared in his hand at some point, the white and beautiful paper The whole body of the person is soaked with a layer of tide, as if submerged in water.

Carlos's paper man is not as effective on others as it is on himself, and it takes a lot of effort to use it every time.But he was clearly helping Yu Xing share the pain.

Yu Xing didn't need Ash to rush over, he touched his waist, and brought out the unsheathed Tang knife, the straight blade was full of hostility, and cut towards the leg.

"Pfft."

The blade hit something, the pressure on Yu Xing's leg lightened, he floated up, and was held by Ash.

The blood color spread to the water surface, staining the vision, and the pupils of the people on the stone platform constricted. Only Carlos looked at the paper figurine suspiciously, and his paper figurine did not bleed.

It shouldn't be that Yu Xing was injured.

Carlos was clear in his heart. It seemed that the bleeding was something that attacked Yu Xing.

Gee tut.

Ash saw the blood rushing up from the water, and checked Yu Xing in surprise: "Are you okay? What is it? Where is the injury?"

"It's okay." Yu Xing grabbed by his leg and brought it in front of him. He grabbed a lot of hair, which was knotted and tangled together. "The blood is not mine."

The knife in his right hand is very intimidating.

"Oh my God!" Ash's first reaction when he saw the hair was to drag him upstream to the stone platform, and Yu Xing was happily led by him.

"San, your leg must be hurt."

Uncle Zhang on the stone platform stretched out his hand, as if planning to pull him up.The others stood nervously and scattered, staring at Yu Xing intently.

Yu Xing blinked, looked at Uncle Zhang's outstretched hand, and at the stone platform that could be climbed up with a push, and shook it symbolically, then retracted his hand under Uncle Zhang's bewildered eyes, and climbed up by himself.

Not to mention that he was injured, he didn't even have a single tear in his clothes, anyone with long eyes could see that he was very real, and he didn't suffer any injuries.

"..." Uncle Zhang wiped his clothes in embarrassment, pretending to be nonchalant, "So, what happened just now?"

Ash: "There's something in the water, very long hair!"

"Maybe it's a water ghost?" Yu Xing tasted it, "With hair and hands, it can last for a long time without breathing, it's not a normal thing anyway."

Everyone: "..." Isn't this nonsense!

"I stabbed it, it must have run away by now." Yu Xing didn't care about this little water ghost, compared to the strange fish, it was like a play house, even if he stopped there and let the water ghost go Pull down, even this water ghost can't drown him.

However, this water ghost doesn't know how long it has been here, and the gender is also uncertain. Although they have long hair, their corpses hanging outside also have long hair.

Yu Xing frowned slightly, thinking that he should have just dived down to take a look, but Ash discovered it too quickly.

"When did the water ghost catch up?" Carlos murmured, and pressed the communication device, "Did you see it on the screen?"

Shijiu was watching outside, her voice was distorted from the device.

"I didn't see it. There was no strange thing flashing in the screen. It definitely came out from the inside, rather than following you from the outside."

This is also normal.

Everyone has seen water ghosts more or less. In the tombs that have been lowered before, as long as they are related to water, whether it is the owner of the tomb or the descendants making trouble, it is easy to raise water ghosts.

Water ghosts are also divided into strengths and weaknesses. Here, the water ghost was relatively weak even if it held Yu Xing and failed to do anything to Yu Xing.

"If there is one, there will be a second one. The feng shui in this tomb is not good, and it is easy to raise things." Lin reminded in a low voice.

"Well, be careful when you see water in the tomb later, there may be something in it." Master Li nodded, looking at the blade of the Tang knife held by Yu Xing, and praised, "San, your knife Where is it from? It’s really beautiful, it’s a treasure.”

In Master Li's mouth, where the goods are equal to which tomb was dug out, Yu Xing smiled: "I bought it from someone else before, and the seller and I didn't know the goods at that time, and the other party sold this knife as a handicraft. The sharpness of the knife, as well as the blood groove on the knife, I discovered later that it was not easy, and I really don’t know which tomb it is.”

"This luck is really against the sky." Master Li was speechless, envious, and didn't know how many words he believed.

After the small episode, everyone tidied up their equipment.

Fortunately, Yu Xing's knife and painting tube have been separated and protected with a waterproof bag. Otherwise, the drawing of the knife just now would have to let the painting tube enter the water, and the paper and pen inside would be unusable. Now, everything should stay with him.

The man with glasses pointed to the stone door, the light inside the door was faint, and the color should be the same as the night pearl on the top of the wall: "There is no one at the door, I have been looking at it for a long time, the people who entered first should have gone deep, we will not meet you for the time being .”

"That's not necessarily true." Lin took off his glasses and wiped his face, "If there is a labyrinth corridor in the tomb, then we may run into other living people at any time."

"There were other dead people," Ash added.

Regardless of whether there is a maze or not, they must go in.

Master Li looked at the man with glasses encouragingly, and walked to the front naturally.

Among the people present, Uncle Zhang and Master Li are the most experienced. Although Eunika is from abroad and doesn't pay attention to seniority, she is a serious historian after all. She has never done tomb robbery before and lacks experience, so she also listens to this Two conductors.

"Now that everyone is here, let's go." Master Li pushed open the stone door vigorously, the veins on his arm bulging, it can be seen that the stone door is actually very heavy.

How did the man with glasses push it just now?
Yu Xing then moved closer, looked at the keyhole, and found that the lock is actually connected to a mechanism. As long as the mechanism is activated, the door will automatically open a certain distance, so it will be easier to push the door for a short distance at the beginning.

Barely reasonable, Yu Xing suppressed the doubts he had raised about the man with glasses for a moment, and lowered his eyelids.

Everyone entered the stone gate one by one. Behind the gate was a large stone room, square in shape, with a corridor on each side. Several night pearls were dotted on the wall like stars. Although it was covered with dust, it was still pure and bright.

The most attractive thing is not the mysterious corridor or the beautiful and priceless luminous pearl, but the coffin placed in the center of the stone chamber.

This coffin is very formal, with a large front and a small rear. From Yu Xing's perspective, it looks like a half log.

No one went up to touch the coffin directly, because the ground was made of stone, and once there was a gap, they would be able to see it more clearly. They were not blind, and they could see some hard-lined cracks on the ground around the coffin, obviously something was stuck.

Similar to the one that triggers arrows as soon as you step on it.

"Who is in this coffin?" Uncle Zhang glanced at Eunika first, then turned to Lin, "Do you have any ideas?"

"This is the entrance to the tomb. The coffin is placed in such a conspicuous position. It is obvious that the person buried in the coffin is not of high status, but it is important enough." Lin's eyes wandered, as if he was frantically doing Feng Shui calculations in his heart.

"Lin is right. This arrangement has to mention the ancient history I have studied." Eunika took a step forward, looking at the coffin analytically and longingly, and mentioned her research field, her eyes sparkling. .

She didn't know the specific history when she told Yu Xing, so she just listened to it by the way. The summary is that more than 200 years ago in this world, there was a very popular method of burial. A coffin is placed at the entrance of the mausoleum, and the person lying in the coffin is called a "gatekeeper".

The gatekeeper must have been a strong and extremely heartfelt person, or a powerful and extremely treacherous person. The two choices are a bit extreme, but they are both feasible.

After the death of the owner of the tomb, later generations put the owner of the tomb into the tomb, and then sealed the living gatekeeper in the coffin and placed it behind the entrance gate.

This candidate must not know in advance that he will be buried with him. Whether it is sincere or treacherous, the former will turn into a terrible evil spirit because of being betrayed, and the latter will turn into a terrible evil spirit, wandering in the tomb. The organ will definitely be discovered by the gatekeeper and then killed.

The reason for evil spirits is resentment and hatred. In order to prevent the gatekeepers from throwing their grievances on the tomb owner, a maze must be set up around the coffin where the gatekeepers are located. The gatekeeper will only find the tomb robbers who cannot escape in the maze, but not the place where the owner of the tomb is sleeping.

It can be said that during that time, the custom of gatekeepers was popular all over the country, which also led to the tombs of that period of 200 years ago that were most feared and most wanted to be encountered in archaeology in later generations.

Eunika said proudly: "These abilities are miracles! Our archaeologists are most afraid of this kind of tomb, because the existence of the gatekeeper itself is easy to hurt people, but we also look forward to this kind of tomb because it has too many secrets." Each one can bring us endless knowledge and precious materials.”

Not every gatekeeper can be successfully set up. When the dynasty at that time collapsed, many people tried to imitate this approach, but they all failed without exception.The gatekeeper has been left in the long river of history forever, and it is extremely precious in just a dozen years.

Apart from the academic value, among the cemetery elements that tomb robbers are most afraid of, the gatekeeper deserves to be ranked in the top five. Whenever the coffin of the gatekeeper appears, it means that the tomb robbery will not go smoothly from the beginning, because it is all "disrupted by the maze" Now, the maze is difficult to navigate, not to mention that there is a dead gatekeeper waiting for them somewhere.

"What will happen if you are discovered?" Lin was a little curious. He listened carefully, but he didn't understand something.

"Discovered?" Eunika was stunned for a moment, and recalled: "If discovered, all kinds of symptoms can occur, such as loss of soul, fainting, amnesia, death... I have a former colleague who met him during archaeology. The gatekeeper, unable to get out, is like a maze. After coming out, he suffers from depression, lack of energy, and his memory becomes very poor. At first glance, he knows that it is difficult to go to the grave and then he will be tricked by something.

"Later, he asked the witch in his hometown to heal him, so he managed to save his life." Eunika smiled casually, "But that time we found a lot of things that were different from other tombs. Big."

There are only two ways to avoid this kind of disaster. The first one is to avoid the mechanism after their coffin finds the range of the mechanism, kneel down in front of the coffin, and sincerely kowtow three times.

The gatekeeper thinks that this person respects him, and will not take the initiative to fight, provided that this person does not take away the things in the tomb, because everything is considered by the gatekeeper to be the key information for him to find the owner of the tomb .

The second is to unlock the mechanism near the coffin and follow the correct steps to put the mechanism to sleep. They can stand here anytime and anywhere without worrying about anything.

"I've heard of this legend too. The gatekeeper ghost is very fierce, no worse than Maozongzi. We have to be careful." Uncle Zhang said.

"Since it's so dangerous, wouldn't it be better not to touch it?" Ash didn't know much about the customs of his country, so he was puzzled.

"Hehe, boy, don't think the ancients are too stupid, there are treasures hidden in the coffin." Master Li smiled, and Ash knew that they had to open the coffin.

(End of this chapter)