The long shirt man came over as well, looked at the footprints on the ground for a while and then looked at Wu Jian in doubt, asking, "I don't see anything wrong."
"Me, neither", Huang Xiaolong followed to say.
Wu Jian raised his head and looked at Huang Xiaolong, "Don't you see it yet?"
Then he carefully looked again and I followed. I compared the size using my feet, but I still didn't find anything.
Wu Jian had no choice but to explain, "The footprints are reversed."
I was stunned, so I reached out one foot out to compare it again. Seeing what I was doing, Wu Jian felt speechless and said to me, "Put both your feet on them."
"Oh", I put both of my feet on the footprints and I finally saw the problem. The footprints on the ground were coming out step by step. However, every step was reversed. The left foot became the right foot and the right foot became the left foot, which was totally impossible. The left and right feet couldn't be reversed, whether a man walked backwards or forwards.
Unless two people were walking at the same time, one had left footprints with his right foot and the other left footprints with his left foot. Of course, this was also impossible, because with two people walking, it would be impossible to keep consistent pace and span all the time.
"F**k? How did this happen?" Huang Xiaolong also saw the problem now.
"I don't know, but I think we should consider a different path", Wu Jian stood up and gestured towards the other passageways.
The long shirt man nodded in agreement. After all, we couldn't fight with beasts any more. I'd rather leave at once if possible.
Just when everyone agreed to change passageways and leave, suddenly, the sound of heavy footsteps came from behind, directed towards us.
"What shall we do?" Wu Jian had a serious expression on his face.
"Just wait here. We have so many masters here and if he dares to make trouble, we could kill him", Huang Xiaolong advised.
I also nodded, "If I go ahead, I will never know what danger could come. I'd rather just wait here."
"Right!" Wu Jian nodded his head. So all of us stood to the side of the wall, silently waiting for the approach of the master of heavy steps.
The sound of footsteps became clearer, but we didn't feel very nervous, perhaps because there were a large number of us and most of our abilities had recovered.
The sound of footsteps were approaching and Wu Jian used the torch, shining it into the dark, but there was nothing there at all. It also felt very strange that the sound of footsteps were now in front of us, but we could not see anything. Suddenly, my heart moved and I turned to Sister Hua, saying, "Sister Hua, do you see anything?"
Sister Hua was also terribly confused, just shaking her head. The sound of the footsteps came close and went away. We couldn't see him and it seemed that he couldn't see us either. There was no change in the footsteps, not so much invisible as non-existent.
"Will there be an echo?" Huang Xiaolong was very puzzled.
"Impossible", Wu Jian answered certainly. When the torch shined on the ground, I realized that the footprints on the ground had become clearer, as if someone had just walked by.
Huang Xiaolong kicked the wall of the passage, complaining, "Damn it! What a f**king place!"
"Do you all still agree with changing passageways?" the long shirt man asked everyone.
Wu Jian nodded, "No, just this way."
"Why?" Huang Xiaolong looked very surprised.
Wu Jian smiled bitterly and then used the torch to shine behind us. Then I suddenly discovered that I didn't know when the passageway behind us had disappeared. It had become a wall.
"Maybe this is an illusion", Huang Xiaolong went over and tentatively touched it. Seeing his reaction, it had definitely become a wall.
For a moment, the wall moved a little.
""We have to set off", Wu Jian said. Then the long shirt man also replied and began to lead the way.
The speed of the walls moving was far slower than our speed. After a while, it turned back into a passageway. However, in everyone's heart, they could still never forget the strange scene.
We went through the passageway and entered a large hall. It was almost completely empty without even pillars. There was only a round platform in the middle, not very high, no more than 10 centimeters. The top was covered with a dense indentation. It seems like a pattern, but the top was too big, and from our point of view, there was no way to tell.
I looked up and found that the hall was so high that we could never see the top in the darkness. Therefore, I asked Wu Jian for the torch, but even with the help of the light, there was nothing above but blurry darkness.
There was no passage in the hall and even the passage that we had just used to enter this hall would be blocked soon.
"What shall we do now?" Huang Xiaolong asked me.
"Who knows", I felt a little depressed.
The long shirt man looked back with a smile, saying, "The ghost also didn't know."
Well, well, now he even had the mood to joke. I could say nothing.
But there was no need for me to teach him. Yan'er grabbed his arm but the long shirt man's expression didn't change. It looked more like they were flirting.
"It seems that the problem is with this round platform", Wu Jian was still looking at it professionally. I was bored walking around in the hall, then suddenly, I saw an oblique cylinder on a wall, so I asked Wu Jian to have a look.
Wu Jian looked at it for a while, taking the torch and then he picked it up with his hand.
Without a sound, the whole hall suddenly lit up. Not the kind of light from a torch, this light was more like the sun. There was nowhere that wasn't bright.
The flash of light made me cover my eyes unconsciously. My eyes were burning with pain. We had stayed in the dark for such a long time and no one could adapt to such sudden light.
After a long time I recovered, only to see something was still a little blurred.
Huang Xiaolong's cursed, then suddenly stopped and it finally turned into a cry of surprise. I hastened to look over and found that there was an extremely illusory coffin in the middle of the round platform. The coffin was so small that only a baby could fit inside. The entire coffin, just like clear crystal, reflected the light.
"What? A crystal coffin?" Sister Hua gave a cry of surprise.
I saw that Sister Hua seemed to know something and asked her at once, but she just shook her head, replying, "I occasionally listen to a regular guest in the ghost building, but I don't know the details."
"Maybe we can open it and have a look", Huang Xiaolong suggested.
Yan'er disagreed, saying, "If anyone opened my coffin, I would kill them."
Huang Xiaolong was a little unhappy and didn't say another word.
Wu Jian was very bold and approached the crystal coffin, carefully looking at it, "There is a body in it. I don't recommend opening it."
"Really?" Huang Xiaolong went over curiously. I stayed where I was. No matter how big of a heart I had, after this series of terrible things, I would instinctively remain vigilant.
Everyone started looking for a way out of the hall. I sat down for a rest because I was hurt, and Xiao Lingdang stayed with me. It seemed it had been a long time since I talked to her.
So I searched for a conversation topic, "Xiao Lingdang, what do you think is in the crystal coffin?"
She looked at me doubtfully, "A body, what else can it be?"
I nodded, "That's not necessarily true. Many people are afraid that others will touch their body after their death, so they make fake coffins and just put jewelry, gold, and silver in them, hoping that those grave thieves will leave when they take the treasure and will not disturb their long-sleep."
Xiao Lingdang said innocently, "We are not grave thieves."
"I don't mean that we are grave thieves. I mean I guess that maybe the crystal coffin could be filled with gold, silver and jewelry."
"So what? We can't use those things."
Her words made me speechless. Indeed, no matter how much gold, silver, or jewelry there was, the dead could never use them, unless those things were burned for them.