Endless route

Chapter 297 67. Ancient Oriental Ghost Dream

In the turbid lake deep in the pit, four people from Zheng Yun gathered together back to back and swam cautiously. Flashlight beams dispersed the darkness and illuminated the wooden coffins suspended around them.

"Ahhhh."

"Ahhhh."

The screams were beneath them.

From at least five different people.

These screams are very pure. They are the sounds made by people in extreme pain. The screams are so hoarse that it makes people feel chilled. They are so pure that they cannot distinguish between east and west.

No accent at all.

Nor does it have any other meaning.

No information could be extracted from the screams, except that these people were still alive and had a certain amount of physical strength preserved.

People who don’t have enough energy have stopped barking long ago.

But even though he was talking here and shining the flashlight around, the screams did not change at all. It seemed that the owner of the voice had lost his ability to perceive the outside world.

"Be careful going down."

To Zheng Yun's ears, the nearest scream was at most ten meters away from him, but the wooden coffins were piled up like building blocks, with too many blind spots in his sight, and the sound was mixed in the muddy water.

This is a closed space.

The screams kept echoing and overlapping.

Seriously interferes with people's auditory perception.

They knew the explorers were nearby, but they couldn't accurately locate the sound and had to dig into the wooden coffins to find it.

All the wooden coffins piled deep in the pit were basically broken to varying degrees. The coffins were filled with lake water, and the simple buoyancy of the wooden coffins could no longer make them float.

These wooden coffins are huge, two meters long, eighty centimeters high and wide. They are stacked horizontally and vertically, like a tic-tac-shaped wooden tower. There are always some gaps for people to get in.

After diving a few meters.

They were almost lying on the wooden coffins.

Zheng Yun's face was only ten centimeters away from the wooden coffin. Through the tiny holes, he could directly see the corpses inside the wooden coffin. Their bodies had decayed, leaving only white bones and silver masks.

Shouldn't survive.

Even bones can live.

That would be outrageous.

But when they swam, they created a small flow of water, and the dark mud on the wooden coffin slowly stirred, like a dark wind blowing, making the oily mud and sand swirl and dance enchantingly.

And not one.

Within ten meters to their left and right, the mud on all the wooden coffins was floating, making it impossible to tell whether it was caused by the water flow they created or whether there was something weird happening in the wooden coffins.

"It's even more difficult now. I was thinking just now that the screams are a kind of sound wave that will cause the mud on the wooden coffin to vibrate. We can find the source of the sound through this method."

Li Wu said in a low voice with a solemn expression.

In this situation, all the wooden coffins seemed to be shaking, as if there were living things inside that were about to escape.

This scene is really scary.

Under normal circumstances, if their archaeological team encountered such a mass grave with thousands of coffins, it would be impossible to get down. At most, they would use equipment to clean them one by one.

But things are different now.

Both camps are waiting for the results of their investigation, and the biggest breakthrough now is these suspicious Western explorers. They must know a lot of inside information.

You have to do it even if you don’t want to go down.

This is what they have to do.

You must try even if you die.

"There should be someone over there."

Zheng Yun stared straight at the lower left.

Looking through the gaps between the wooden coffins, six or seven meters below their feet, there was a broken wooden coffin that was mostly rotten, with a piece of red plastic hanging from the sharp fracture.

The wooden coffin was oddly rotten.

It was obviously not naturally decayed, but more like someone had cut it open with an axe. The fracture exposed fresh-colored wood, and the wood thorns were very sharp and could definitely hurt someone.

"Are those pieces of clothing?"

Li Wu heard the sound and swam to Zheng Yun.

Directly below them were five or six wooden coffins stacked on top of each other. There was a hole with a diameter of forty centimeters in the middle of the wooden coffins. The flashlight shone into the gap, and the piece of red plastic was very conspicuous.

Listen carefully.

There was indeed a scream coming from below, and it was so close that they could roughly hear it.

"It looks a bit like a life-saving suit, but I can't be sure whether it's the group of explorers who just arrived or the group of explorers who died yesterday morning." Zheng Yun frowned.

There are actually two teams of explorers down here. The first team has died, but there are still six survivors who are missing.

"He cut open the wooden coffin and got in?"

"And you're still screaming in the wooden coffin?"

Li Wu's scalp was slightly numb. From the traces at the scene, he could only draw this incomprehensible conclusion.

Drilling into the wooden coffin can be understood as hiding. He was avoiding being chased by something and was forced to hide in the wooden coffin, but he finally managed to hide in. Why did he keep screaming?

The screams had been vaguely heard since they entered the ancient ruins, and they continued to scream until now.

If there is really something chasing you.

Can he survive until this moment?

"He may also be sleepwalking."

Zheng Yun took a deep breath and let the ghost general take action.

The wooden coffin was upside down in the deep lake with its crack pointing downwards. They could not see the inside.

The ghost will set off immediately.

They were as nimble as fish underwater. They twisted their bodies in the water and drilled into the holes between the wooden coffins without touching the wooden coffins. They drilled straight towards the rotten wooden coffin.

It looks difficult.

The wooden coffins were two meters long and eighty centimeters wide. They were piled up in the pit on an unknown number of levels, with just enough space for one person to fit in.

But the ghost put his hands together and swung his body by his legs, holding a long and narrow ghost sword in his hand, and arrived quickly one after the other.

Click.

The ghost general turned around in the narrow space, slashed the wooden coffin with his long knife, and used the power of turning to knock down the side of the wooden coffin instantly.

This time it was even more neat.

Zheng Yun and Li Wu only heard a muffled sound, and the side of the wooden coffin was torn apart, and a rotten skeleton fell out of it. At the same time, there seemed to be other things in the wooden coffin.

But they couldn't see it.

Only the ghost generals can see clearly.

Without waiting for Zheng Yun's order, the two ghost generals reached into the wooden coffin and took out a man wearing a diving suit.

He is a Western explorer.

This man was carrying a compressed oxygen tank on his back, and his body was stiff and curled up into a ball. The ghost general grabbed the oxygen tank and panned him out.

But the next moment.

Zheng Yun and Li Wu frowned at the same time, and a chill ran down their backs because the explorer didn't scream.

The ghost turned him over, and under the flashlight, he saw a pair of dull eyes in the diving goggles.

This man is dead.

The screams were not coming from him.

"Pull it up and take a look."

Zheng Yun immediately ordered the ghost general to come back.

Their location is extremely dangerous. They are completely sealed by wooden coffins. Only this gap can escape.

The ghost will move quickly.

Get out of the gap with the explorer's body.

The body floated into the mezzanine first. Zheng Yun used a flashlight to pull the body up and pull it in front of him for a closer look.

The man was drowned.

There was still oxygen in his oxygen tank, but the oxygen tube ruptured, causing his oxygen mask to be filled with lake water. His entire face was white with water, and he had been dead for some time.

There are two weird things.

First, his eyes were open, but his pupils were severely constricted, as if he had experienced something extremely scary before his death.

Second, he was holding a knife in his arms, and his oxygen tube was also cut by the knife. It was suspected that he had cut it himself.

"He should be the victim last night. He died more than twenty hours ago." Li Wu whispered.

"I wonder if he screamed before he died." Zheng Yun frowned deeply, recalling clues in his mind.

He had heard the explorers' cries for help before they died.

In that recording, several people were screaming, while others were communicating with each other. They were divided into two obvious groups, and there was basically no interference with each other.

The few people communicating with each other had obvious cognitive errors, and were probably in a sleepwalking state.

The situation of those people who had been screaming was also very wrong. I don’t know what happened to them.

Probably sleepwalking too.

But I couldn't tell the difference at all.

These are likely to be two symptoms of this magical method, or the early and late stages of the same symptom.

The corpse in front of me survived the explosion, but he cut open the wooden coffin and got in. Finally, he cut off his own oxygen tube and died in his own hands.

What on earth was he dreaming about?

So that he finally died like this?

"His walkie-talkie is waterproof and should not be broken. We can remove it and try to communicate with his teammates."

Li Wu suggested.

"Then you can dismantle it and let's continue looking." Zheng Yun nodded in agreement and continued to search for the sound in the gaps in the wooden coffin.

From the time they came down to now, the screams have continued, making people numb, but the atmosphere of fear has become more intense, just because this environment is really weird.

They managed to find a body.

This incident can prove that these screams must come from humans, and explorers have indeed gotten into these wooden coffins.

But this scene is difficult to describe.

The wooden coffin group is like the coral group on the seabed. When small fish and shrimps encounter danger, they will instinctively hide in the dead corners of the coral to avoid it, but after all, this is not coral... but a wooden coffin.

The ghost will slip back into the gap just now.

Although only one dead person was captured, there was indeed a scream in the gap. Zheng Yun could hear it. The ghost general must have heard it more accurately and even locked onto the source of the sound.

So Zheng Yun did not stop him.

Instead, follow the ghost generals into the gaps.

The ghost general took the lead. Zheng Yun couldn't be so dexterous, so he could only hold on to the wooden coffin and move forward carefully as if going down a well.

Six meters passed quickly.

The wooden coffin from which the corpse was taken was beside him.

The ghost general suddenly burrowed towards his left hand, and two rotten wooden coffins opened a passage leading to their left hand.

After passing through this passage.

The ghost general took the lead and drilled downward again.

They shuttled between the horizontal and vertical wooden coffins, scurrying back and forth in the maze-like gaps. They drilled to an unknown depth, but they were always only six or seven meters deep from the mezzanine.

Look up.

The rotten wooden coffins were staggered horizontally and vertically like multiple coffin towers. The light from above shone in here from above. You could even see Li Wu's figure through the gaps. He was still pulling the corpse.

"..."

Zheng Yun was silent for a moment. Although he was spying on Li Wu from a dark place, this scene sent chills down his back.

Because it was impossible for Li Wu to see himself and know that there was a pair of eyes peering at him from the depths of the wooden coffin.

Think of this.

Zheng Yun subconsciously looked down.

Since Li Wu couldn't see his eyes, could he see anything? Is there something peeping at him?

Following the ghost will continue to circle.

After a long detour, they circled back to the bottom of the gap and returned to the original place, but there was a layer of wooden coffins that could not be drilled.

"Ahhhhh!"

The screams were beneath them.

Wow.

The ghost will swim faster.

The long and narrow ghost knife dragged out a white shadow in the light and shadow, and broke open the wooden coffin beneath him with one blow, causing the mud on the wooden coffin to vibrate violently and atomize into a black mist in the lake.

The screams stopped abruptly.

The ghost general slashed out with another knife. Zheng Yun only heard a muffled clang, as the knife seemed to hit the steel.

A few seconds later.

The ghost was carrying a man out of the black mist. Zheng Yun quickly shined a flashlight, only to see that the man's body was shaking, his limbs were curled together, and his diving goggles were covered with mud.

Reach out and wipe away the mud.

Zheng Yun looked into the diving goggles.

This man was a man, a Westerner. His eyes were wide open and staring at him, but his pupils were out of focus and his expression was extremely frightening. He stretched out his hand and shook it in front of him, but there was no reaction at all.

He 'can't see' himself.

Zheng Yun had a very strong feeling that although this man's eyes were open, he did not see himself in his eyes.

In front of him was something even more terrifying.

He was so frightened that he opened his mouth but couldn't scream.

He turned his head and looked at another ghost general. It was holding a pistol in its hand. There was a fresh knife mark on the gun. This man seemed to have wanted to shoot himself just now, but the ghost general knocked the gun away with his knife.

"Give him a silver mask."

Zheng Yun took a deep breath. He couldn't care about anything else now. He just wanted to try whether the mask was effective.

Several of them were wearing masks.

Although they cannot be put on the diving goggles, they can be put on the bottom of the diving goggles, which is more than half worn.

The ghost general took action immediately, punched open the wooden coffin next to him, and grabbed a mask out of the black mist.

Look at its posture.

It's like taking something from home.

In just a few seconds, the silver mask was put on the explorer's face. Their closed diving suit was very thin and light, similar to a tights, and the mask was buttoned very tightly.

"another one."

Zheng Yun spoke up again.

The ghost general quickly followed the instructions, took out another silver mask, and fastened it on the back of the explorer's head. The front and back masks covered the explorer's entire head tightly.

Waiting with bated breath for the results.

Thirty or forty seconds later, the Western explorer's body suddenly began to twitch, and he made other sounds besides screams. He coughed violently as if he was choking on water:

"Cough cough cough."

Zheng Yun felt happy.

This means that the mask has a door!

After staring closely at the explorer for a few more minutes, the explorer's eyes slowly focused and his eyes gradually became brighter.

This process is very long.

Every minute and every second was excruciating.

Just when Zheng Yun couldn't wait any longer and was about to take him up to talk slowly, the explorer suddenly shouted:

"Help, ahhhh!"

"What happened to you just now? How should I save you?" Zheng Yun quickly switched to English and asked.

"Ahhhhh!"

The explorer just screams.

"..."

Zheng Yun was silent for a moment. The man seemed to be frightened and had no idea what he was dreaming about.

"Here it comes! It's right behind you!"

"I saw it! I saw it!"

The explorer suddenly screamed in fear.

The moment he said these words, other screams stopped at the same time. It seemed that other people also saw something coming, so they quickly shut their mouths and said nothing.

"What did you see? Can you hear me? You were dreaming just now. What did you dream about?"

Zheng Yun grabbed the explorer's shoulders and punched him hard in the chest, trying to wake him up.

"It's here, it's already here! You know, if you are killed in a dream, you will die. This is a ghost dream from the ancient East. As long as you are in the dream, you will die. You can't save me at all!"

The explorer's pupils were completely focused. He could see Zheng Yun, but he still shouted hoarsely at Zheng Yun.