Chapter 144: The Scientific Explanation Of Ghost Wall
Uncle Tai thought for a moment and stopped dwelling on this somewhat eerie topic. From his experience, there was most likely something wrong here; it always felt a bit dangerous. Because of these people’s cause of death.
He turned his head and solemnly asked Lin Yan: “Do you know whose place this exactly is? Your companion came here before; what does he know?”
Lin Yan looked at Uncle Tai’s serious eyes and hesitated: “.Important?”
Uncle Tai nodded, his face as gloomy as if ink was about to drip from it.
Lin Yan shook his head, not because he wasn’t telling the truth, but because Lao Yang had mostly just told him how he got in and how he got out; the description of the process was very vague in many places. Although he claimed he was too scared to remember, Lin Yan always felt there was something wrong. Because he no longer knew if Lao Yang truly didn’t remember or was pretending not to.
Uncle Tai stared fixedly at him, and after a good while, he seemed to believe that he really didn’t know, then pointed to one of the corpse bones and said: “Do you know their cause of death?”
Lin Yan looked puzzled at the somewhat ghastly white corpse bones underfoot. The bones weren’t black, so poisoning could first be ruled out. Secondly, this corpse looked like it died very peacefully, with limbs all stretched out relaxedly. But from Uncle Tai’s tone, it definitely wasn’t something like dying of old age, so.
“They were killed and put in here?”
Uncle Tai nodded, pointing to the neck of the corpse bones: “Look, there’s a cut here, killed with one stroke.” He stood up and went to flip the bones in the coffin nearby to show him: “This one is the same. I just checked; the other one is too. I’m afraid all of them here are like this.”
Lin Yan frowned, concealing the shock in his heart: “What identity does this tomb owner have, to have so many people buried with him, and they all seem to be of no low status? Even emperors of past dynasties didn’t have this treatment, right?”
Uncle Tai shook his head: “Emperors really didn’t have this treatment! But I think this might not be burial accompaniment, but silencing! Such a large-scale slaughter; very likely they collectively saw something related to the tomb below, so they were killed and placed here. This tomb owner.”
Lin Yan saw the flickering look in Uncle Tai’s eyes, his expression somewhat inscrutable: “You’re not thinking of leaving now, are you?”
Uncle Tai glanced at him, then suddenly breathed a long sigh of relief: “That was my original thought. If it was just me plus Master Liang, and your two friends, this huge tomb really wouldn’t have much certainty. But adding little Lin brother you, the certainty is a bit higher; maybe we really can give it a try.”
Lin Yan was a bit curious: “Before you came, didn’t Master Liang tell you who exactly is down here?”
Uncle Tai glanced at him and inexplicably smiled, as if happy to discover that he also didn’t know something: “Although Master Liang hired us for this trip, it wasn’t him who first proposed going down into the tomb, but Boss Wang. Master Liang is our consultant, but when necessary, we all have to listen to him.”
“Not him? Then why did he act like he knew?” Lin Yan frowned. “Then, whose is that Riverwood Collection? Don’t tell me the person is already gone?”
Uncle Tai nodded: “Indeed, he’s already gone. You’ve seen him too, the other person you saw before going down the waterfall.”
“.That middle-aged man?”
Uncle Tai nodded. Lin Yan felt a bit puzzled inside: All these people are dead, so why does Master Liang still have so much confidence, acting like he knows too?
Uncle Tai seemed to know his concern and reassuringly smiled at him: “Master Liang has an exceptional memory. Boss Wang only took it out and looked at it twice, and he already memorized it all. Once we go down, as long as we can link the coordinates under the tomb with the layout map he remembers, we can find the place.”
Heh, he even has photographic memory? Master Liang is pretty impressive! Pitiful that Boss Wang probably never expected his ancestral thing would end up benefiting others.
Lin Yan nodded. He didn’t expect that timid-as-a-mouse person to have this side! But thinking about it, it made sense; if he didn’t have some special skill, how could he be a consultant? He just didn’t know who was more capable between him and Wu Xie. It’s a pity Master Liang doesn’t know mechanisms; if he even understood mechanisms, he’d really suspect this person was Zhang Qiling.
Uncle Tai roughly gathered the unearthed corpse bones back into that coffin that looked like a simple wooden box, stood up. Since it was confirmed that this was indeed a clearing tomb, and the tomb below definitely had some relation to here, he extinguished the fire starter, planning to return the way they came.
“Now I basically know what I wanted to know; shall we go back?” Uncle Tai looked at Lin Yan, soliciting his opinion. Lin Yan felt that searching further here probably wouldn’t yield any clues, so he nodded in agreement.
The two held flashlights and walked back, but the place the path ahead led to seemed somewhat off.
“Five minutes already; how many minutes did it take us to come over just now?”
After walking a while, they found the path ahead was still that bottomless path with densely packed coffins on both sides. Lin Yan couldn’t help but get goosebumps and instinctively looked at Uncle Tai beside him: “Is this the right path? We came from here just now, right?”
Uncle Tai turned back to look at the path hidden in the darkness; the road they took coming was also swallowed by the darkness. At this moment, the flashlight beam only illuminated the coffins on both sides of the path and the narrow strip of ground in between that they had trodden, nothing else.
He frowned, recalling something: “Sure enough, this place isn’t that simple. Since it’s the entrance to a large tomb, how could there be no mechanism? So the mechanism is here!”
Hearing Uncle Tai’s words, Lin Yan roughly understood what happened: “We’ve been caught in a ghost wall?”
Uncle Tai nodded, looking at both sides: “When we came, the coffins weren’t distributed like this; there weren’t this many broken coffins. We must have taken the wrong path!”
Lin Yan hesitated slightly: “But.there’s only this one path right in front of us, right? Did you turn anywhere when you came?”
Uncle Tai shook his head: “I don’t remember turning, but ghost wall exploits people’s sense of direction illusion. Look, the path under our feet is straight, but it might actually be curved. Believe it or not, in a bit we’ll be back at the starting point?”
Saying that, Uncle Tai started walking forward again, and Lin Yan had no choice but to follow: “Is this ghost wall an hallucination? If not, is there a way to break it?”
“Hallucination? You could understand it that way.” Uncle Tai nodded thoughtfully, not stopping his steps as he went straight forward: “But it’s not as mystical as you think. People’s eyes can deceive them; you see this path as straight, but if measured with a ruler, it might be curved subtly, so walking along, we might loop back to the original spot—it’s just a matter of walking more or less.”
Lin Yan frowned. He and Uncle Tai had been out for quite some time already. If Wu Xie and the others noticed, they should come looking for them too; that would be bad!
Lin Yan suddenly stopped. Uncle Tai walked a few steps ahead without hearing him follow, turned his head to look at him: “What’s wrong?”
Lin Yan looked at him, face serious: “You say.if they notice we’re missing and come looking, and also get trapped, what then?”
One chapter 4000+ and two chapters 2000+, which do you all prefer?
