Chapter 33 Red Lotus Coffin
Those people got up from the ground one after another. No one paid attention to me, but cleaned up the remains of the centipede spider on the ground.
Someone immediately asked, "Why is Captain Hu missing?"
Everyone shook their heads and one said, "Isn't it falling off the cliff?"
After saying that, they picked up the flashlight on the ground and came to the edge of the cliff to check.
Seeing the light of the flashlight, someone shouted in the fog of the abyss: "Come down! There is a bridge below! Follow the stone steps by the cliff.
I heard the voice of the little beard and scolded in my heart, "Why isn't this guy dead yet!" As we walked along the edge of the cliff, we found a man-built step that slanted into the fog.
The steps are built between the cliffs, which are extremely narrow, allowing only one person to pass through, and there is no guardrail, which is very steep.
I knew that these guys would let me go ahead, so I took the initiative to go down the steps without waiting for them to point a gun at me.
I walked down carefully and felt that the stone steps under my feet were still strong, so I was relieved.
The steps are not too long. I walked down more than ten meters and then folded a bend, and I could see a huge dark thing in the fog running through both sides of the abyss.
When I got down on the so-called bridge, I found that it was actually composed of countless black strips, which seemed to be definitely not a stone, but a bit like a tree root.
Several people behind me also went down to the bridge and looked around with a wolf-eye flashlight.
Soon I saw the little beard in the fog not far ahead. He waved to us and said, "Come and see, this bridge is strange!"
We walked over in a circle and watched the little beard squat down, pointing to a broken place on the bridge and said, "Look, this bridge is made of countless hairs!"
I saw that it was true, because countless hairs turned up in the place where the bridge was broken, swaying slightly against the cold wind.
It seems that the bridge is made of a lot of hair made into a bucket of thick rope, and then dozens of ropes are arranged side by side between the cliffs. This is really incredible. It takes many people and how many years of hair to build such a hair bridge!
I saw that the hair bridge was deeply inserted into several round holes in the stone wall behind me. I don't know how long it will be in the hole.
The mustache said, "Just now, I was shocked by the impact of * and fell off this cliff. I thought I was dead, but I didn't expect to fall on this bridge and save my life."
At this time, a soldier asked, "*, * you lost it. Why didn't you lie down?"
As soon as the little beard heard this, he was stunned for a moment. He glanced at me like a thief and said hesitantly, "Oh... Well, it was too big to stop at that time."
Then he scolded, "Why the fuck do you have so many problems? If I hadn't died wearing a bulletproof vest at that time, you should have been happy."
Looking at the little beard losing his temper, the soldiers were speechless.
The mustache glanced at them and said, "This bridge is very strange. Let's go quickly and meet the boss as soon as possible."
After saying that, he started his flashlight and walked to the opposite side first.
I saw that he looked strange just now, and I always felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't grasp the point.
The bridge made of hair is very strong, and there is no need to worry about falling into the abyss when walking on it.
But I found that the closer the bridge was to the opposite side, it became narrower and narrower. When we reached a distance of two or three meters from the other side, we could almost only allow one person to pass through.
At this time, we can already see the situation on the opposite side, but we can't believe our eyes just by looking at it.
The mustache looked at the things in front of him, then turned around in astonishment and said, "What is this...what is this?"
At the end of the hair bridge, a platform was opened up on the cliff. In the center of the platform stood a white stone pillar, about five or six meters high. The stone pillar was carved with a strange bird without legs, shaped like a phoenix.
And the strangest thing is that a coffin is tied with a wrist-thick iron chain on this pillar. The coffin is black, but five blooming lotus flowers are painted with bright red paint. Each blood-red lotus has the size of a human head, and the layers of petals are extremely complicated and exquisite, as if to break away from the chain. There is a feeling in front of me.
However, at the same time, it is very strange, because from both sides of the coffin, countless hairs grow out, densely, fall to the ground, then spread all over the ground, and finally extend to form the bridge we stand on.
This means that the bridge under our feet is actually made of the same person's hair, which is really hard to believe.
Judging from the lacquer decoration of the coffin, there should be a woman in it, and how can there be such a woman in the world, whose hair can be braided into a bridge dozens of meters long?
I couldn't help but have a strong curiosity about the people in the coffin.
"My God! Captain Hu, look!" The soldier turned pale with fear and littered somewhere on the edge of the coffin with a flashlight.
We followed the light and were all stunned.
Around the coffin, it was densely full of large and small centipede spiders. Almost all the centipede spiders were wrapped in a layer of hair. They were motionless and seemed to be dead.
Under the stone platform, there are countless centipede spiders, but all of them keep a certain distance from the stone platform, as if they are afraid of something.
"Don't be afraid, as if these hair can restrain these big bugs." The little beard said.
I said, "Is that why you are afraid? The big bug is so fierce that we have to die near the coffin, and we have to pass by the coffin. Who knows if those hairs will restrain us.
The mustache glanced at me and said, "Well said, don't you know if you go and try it first?"
At that time, I really wanted to smoke myself and said that you would die if you didn't say a word. If you were swallowed by the dumplings in the coffin, you asked for it.
The little beard looked at my face change with a smile, pointed to the opposite side with a gun, and said, "What are you waiting for, hostage comrade?"
I sighed, took a step, carefully crossed the last hair bridge and jumped onto the stone platform.
In fact, although the hair bridge just now is solid, looking at the dark abyss under my feet and hearing the cold wind roaring in my ears, I feel uneasy at all. Now that I am down-to-earth, I feel at ease.
The stone platform in front of me stretched out from the edge of the cliff. It used to be a raised boulder, which was cut in half and hung here.
The whole stone platform is about 100 square meters, all covered with hair. The white stone pillars and blood lotus coffin are located in the center of the stone platform, and there are some rough stone steps on the innermost stone wall leading up.
The first thing I noticed was that as soon as I stepped on the stone platform, some hair raised its head like a snake, as if it was going to attack me at any time.
I was stunned, because these hairs are obviously alive. If I hadn't worn trousers, I might have been stabbed to death here like those big bugs.
I carefully stepped on these hairs and walked forward. From time to time, I could see some mummified corpses wrapped in my hair. Some people, bats and insects were all drained. Did the ancient corpses in the coffin absorb nutrients by these things and turn into corpse demons?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help being secretly surprised and a little afraid of the blood lotus coffin. I carefully bypassed the stone pillars and coffins in the middle of the platform and walked quickly towards the stone steps on one side.
When I was about to reach the edge of the mountain wall, I looked back and found that those guys were still standing on the hair bridge, watching my every move.
I said to myself that these guys are too timid, and now is a good opportunity for me to escape. But when I looked carefully, those guys seemed to have a stunned expression on their faces, and their moustaches frowned at me, and their index finger pointed a few times in front of me.
I knew that there might be something amazing in front of me, which scared these people to turn pale one by one, and their necks became extremely stiff.