Daomu Biji

The fat man patted me, and he, like me, was trembling all over.

I said to myself, it’s finally here, it’s not easy. Tears are coming.

The whole building was dark, without any light source, giving it an ominous atmosphere. I never thought that the Zhangjia Ancient Building would be such a huge building.

where are they? The eagerness in my heart suddenly burst out: "Zhang Qiling!" I yelled.

There were echoes from the empty mine cave. I roared several times, and the echoes almost filled the entire space.

I said in my heart: It is absolutely impossible not to hear it. There's no way they wouldn't have heard it if they were still alive.

Wait until the echo slowly disappears, and the entire space returns to a cold silence.

I waited breathlessly, waiting for a response from anywhere.

However, I waited for a long, long time, and the silence was still not broken. My insecurities began to boil over, along with that nightmare that had always existed in my mind.

What if they really all died?

Problems that I have always been unwilling to consider have now rushed in front of me, and I can no longer escape.

There was no reply, everything was deadly quiet, as if we were the first visitors in the past thousand years, and even the sleeping undead could not be awakened.

"Let's go." The fat man patted me on the shoulder, "Whether you are dead or alive, you have to see it with your own eyes. Didn't your uncle say that?"

I lit a cigarette, took three puffs, and then threw it to the ground: "Let's go!"

The door of Zhangjia's ancient building was completely gray-white. When I touched it, I found that it was covered with dust. The door was very badly rotted, the window paper on it had all rotted away, and it was pitch black inside.

I looked at those square lattice windows - typical Qing Dynasty architecture, and they were indeed the work of Shi Lei.

"Here." The fat man said to me. I saw it on the window pane. There were a few places where dust had been knocked off. The fat man went up and pushed, and the door was pushed open.

The door hinge made a sharp creaking sound, and then dust rose up everywhere.

Fatty and I immediately took a step back. Cover your mouth and wait for the dust to slowly fall.

Fatty and I looked at each other. The fat man made a "you come first" gesture. I tilted my head and said, "Weren't you the one who took the lead in the past?"

The fat man said: "Isn't this a chance for you to show off?

If you can't, then I'll do it. "

I took a breath and said, "Okay, you're welcome then." Then I walked towards the door.

It was pitch dark inside. I scanned it with my flashlight and saw a huge space. It is a huge floor with four pillars standing in the middle of the hall.

There was nothing on this floor. I only saw a lot of equipment spread out on the floor in the middle of the room.

We walked over and found that it was indeed Menyou Ping's equipment bag. It's all covered in white dust.

The fat man looked at the beams above his head. It was completely in the architectural style of the Qing Dynasty. There were countless patterns on the roof. Nowadays, the entire building is pale white no matter from which angle it is viewed.

"Why is this place so big?" The fat man squatted down and shook a package, and I discovered that it was a food package.

The white ash on the bag was shaken up, and I suddenly felt uncomfortable, so I immediately pulled the fat man back.

The fat man covered his mouth and looked at his hands. His hands were already burned red.

"Strong alkali dust," he said, "Brother Deformed didn't lie to us. It seems that they encountered it once. Otherwise, the equipment would not be covered with such thick powder."

"The things are here, but where are the people?" I said, thinking that they would all melt away. Even if they melted away, there would still be traces.

I thought the atmosphere was a little weird, but I couldn't figure out what the problem was. The fat man asked me to take care of my wound first. There is strong alkali dust here, and it will be troublesome if it gets on the wound.

I didn't notice in the chaos just now that the insect bite stopped bleeding, but if left untreated, it would probably fester.

After I bandaged it. After looking at the fat man's watch, the fat man asked me if I wanted to go look for it separately. I thought about it. Still don’t think it works.

Who knows what will happen in this building, two people will die together. It's all over once and for all, not that much trouble.

The fat man used his flashlight and slowly shook off the powder on the equipment bit by bit, and saw that many of the equipment were open. He went up to take inventory and said: "The gas masks and flashlights are not there. They should have put down their equipment here and then went exploring lightly."

There is a huge hole in the center of the ceiling of the ancient hall, which must have been formed by corrosion. The edge of the hole is very irregular in shape.

There are also a lot of broken pieces on the ground, all of which have turned into cotton-like things, covered with a thick layer of white powder.

When we shined a flashlight upward, we could see the ceiling of the upper floor, and it was the same situation.

The first floor was clearly visible and we walked to the edge. According to Feng Shui theory and consistent design habits, the best location for the stairs in an ancient building should be on the edge of the building, usually on the east side.

Of course, in such a large building, there should be stairs in all four directions, otherwise the running distance will be too long and it will be too troublesome.

But we searched carefully around the hall several times and couldn't find the stairs going up. The fat man muttered: "Is it possible that the stairs are outside the ancient building? The design of the ancient building has a special staircase for viewing, which goes up around the ancient building."

I said to myself, ***, what a beautiful sight this place has. After walking around for a while, I found that Shi Lei and I had the same idea. We also thought there was nothing interesting to see. There were still no stairs outside.

Damn it, is it possible that the Zhang family are all Ximen Chuixue, who just go upstairs and pick up their pants, so there is no need for stairs at all?

Back inside the building, the fat man went to look for the rope in their luggage and found that the rope was not there either. He said, "Maybe there are no stairs in this place. They took the rope with them. Maybe they used the rope to go upstairs."

"There must be a place where I can use a rope," I said to myself. There is strong alkali powder everywhere here. There are no gas masks. Dust is everywhere when there is a vibration. Needless to say, if you inhale it, you may go blind in an instant if you squint your eyes.

Just when I was puzzled, I suddenly remembered what Xiaohua told me about the Feng Shui problem here by the lake.

The ancient building of the Zhang family is located in a place that knocks the bones and sucks the marrow. The so-called Dragon Tower Palace is all aimed at long-term peace, but the ancient building of the Zhang family is the opposite. It swallows the energy of the dragon vein and destroys the momentum of the dragon vein.

I seem to have heard before that stairs need to be abolished in some places to achieve a certain Feng Shui effect.

But abolition does not mean that they are not really used, it just means that they will not build visible stairs, but will mark invisible stairs. If you are willing to walk here, you can go up to the second floor.

We continued our search and soon focused our attention on a few pillars. There are several unicorns carved on the pillars. Their bodies look like dragons, and their heads are very prominent.

The fat man kicked a few times to knock down the floating dust and hid aside. When the dust calmed down, he wrapped his mouth and nose with clothes and climbed up.

Sure enough, this is it. We stepped on the unicorn's head and quickly climbed to the top of the pillar. After pushing it, I found that the floor above was not moving at all.

"It's stuck." Fatty said. After saying that a large amount of white ash fell from the top, the fat man immediately jumped down and ran away. He kept coughing, and the phlegm he coughed up was already bloody.

"You can't stay here for a long time. Even if the mechanism doesn't activate, your internal organs will rot if you stay there for a long time." He said.

Just as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a click, and the Qilin he had just stepped on actually moved. Then, a staircase came down from above.

The fat man and I looked at each other and immediately climbed up cautiously. When we took the flashlight, we were all shocked.

We saw that on the second floor of the ancient building, there were countless shelves. There were hundreds of them at a glance. Each one looked like the upper, middle and lower bunks of a train, but with more layers.

What is very uncomfortable is that we can clearly see that the shelves are filled with iron figurines. To be continued