Song Laosan and I were like two wild beasts trapped in a cage, our emotions filled with anger and fear.

On the one hand, we felt bewildered by the current situation, and on the other hand, we became irritable because we had nowhere to vent our anger.

Old Man Song gripped his dagger tightly and shouted into the void behind him, "What exactly is playing tricks on you? Get out here! Even if you want to kill someone, you can't take them by hiding like this, can you?"

"Waaah!"

The woman's sobs still echoed in the corridor; apart from the somewhat frightening sound, there was nothing else unusual.

I moved closer to the wall and carefully observed the surface of the wall.

The material is confirmed to be stone, with many tiny pores on the surface, and it produces a dull sound when tapped.

The stone is not hollow and has excellent light-blocking properties, indicating that the light we saw earlier did not come from the other side of the stone.

There's no passageway nearby, and the stone is matte, so there's no possibility of it reflecting light.

Annoyed by the sobbing, Song Laosan kept a watchful eye on the corridor behind us. He stepped back to my side and asked, "Xiao Duan, have you noticed anything?"

"No, we're trapped."

As I was talking to Song Laosan, I unbuckled my belt and took a piss: "The only thing I can't figure out right now is where that light we just saw came from."

"when!"

Old Song slashed at the cliff face and looked at the cut, saying, "Now the road ahead is blocked, and there's this wailing and howling from behind. What should we do?"

"There's no other way but to find another way out."

Hearing the disturbing crying behind me, I steeled my resolve: "Follow the sound, I'll see who this is!"

"I'll listen to you!"

At this moment, Song Laosan was truly enraged. With no road ahead, he strode towards the direction from which the crying was coming.

The reason I sought out the sound of crying was because it hadn't caused us any harm, which reminded me of the giant salamander in the tomb of the King of Ze.

If the sound is made by some kind of animal, it might lead us to another exit.

So, Song Laosan and I gripped our knives tightly, pressed ourselves together, and cautiously made our way back.

After walking only fifteen or sixteen meters, we were blocked by rocks again.

I stared at the solid stone in front of me, my brow furrowed: "This is the path we just came from, how could it be blocked?"

Song Laosan took a deep breath: "Could it be that we've encountered a ghost wall?"

I kicked the stone in front of me to confirm that it was real, and I couldn't help but wonder: "There is only one corridor here, which should not be a visual misdirection, but the road is blocked off, which is very puzzling."

Suddenly, Song Laosan asked me, "Hey? Have you noticed that the woman's crying suddenly stopped?"

I didn't answer Song Laosan's question, but turned around and walked back: "This place is too strange. Leave marks along the way and see what's going on!"

After walking a dozen meters, I realized that the road ahead was a dead end.

Song Laosan and I were inexplicably trapped inside this tunnel, which was more than ten meters long.

Song Laosan stood still, his flashlight shining along the corridor and onto the rock opposite: "Damn it, there are no other entrances to this cave, only this one road. The road we just took has been blocked off. How is this possible?"

I took a deep breath: "These stones can move!"

Song Laosan was completely bewildered: "Huh?"

I shone my flashlight on the corner of the wall: "Just before we left, I peed here, but the water stains on the ground are gone! This means the stone in front is moving forward!"

"Damn, now that you mention it, the knife mark I just left is gone!"

Song Laosan shone his flashlight on the wall and was dumbfounded: "Could there be a mechanism here? What kind of mechanism would it be to move such a big stone so silently?"

I didn't know how to answer, so I just squatted down, carved a few horizontal lines on the ground with a knife, and then shone a flashlight on the spot where the mountain wall met the ground.

It moved!

At first, I thought I was seeing things.

The small bumps on the stone are moving slowly, and the whole stone is like gel flowing in slow motion, slowly moving forward.

In less than thirty seconds, the edge of the mountain wall swallowed up the horizontal line I had carved on the ground and moved forward ten centimeters.

Old Song noticed this too, and shook his head vigorously: "Damn it, has the stone grown legs? Are we still inside the Hundred Ghosts Banquet?"

I replied with a serious expression, "The situation is probably worse than you think! The rocks here really do move, and at this rate, our tunnel will probably be completely filled in a short time!"

"Little Duan, your Duan family are the inheritors of the Mountain-Climbing Mirror technique, think of a way quickly!"

Song Laosan licked his lips: "We two brothers aren't Sun Wukong. If we get stuck in a rock, we might turn into fossils!"

I shook my head: "You're putting me in a difficult position. Since ancient times, the construction of tombs has always emphasized the need for mountains and water to surround the site, to conceal the wind and gather energy, and to leave a trace for people to follow! But the place we've entered now is an altar, which is completely outside the scope of tomb raiding and is beyond my business!"

The more Song Laosan listened, the more upset he became: "Are we really just going to wait to die?"

"If you want to survive, you have to save yourself."

I looked at the two horizontal lines on the ground that had been swallowed up, and lit a cigarette on the ground next to me: "Judging from the speed at which this stone is moving, it would take at least half an hour for it to seal off the cave from both sides. We've only been here for a little over ten minutes. Therefore, we can infer that the stone's speed is not constant, but can be accelerated by some kind of stimulus."

"hot!"

Song Laosan blurted out a single word: "The bright light we saw earlier was from flares. Besides the bright light, those things can also generate high temperatures! We've been using flashlights since we entered the cave, which means these rocks aren't afraid of light. So, can I assume that the people in front fired flares, causing the temperature to rise, which is why these rocks moved towards us and blocked the passage?"

I nodded in agreement: "If this hypothesis is correct, then these things are not stones at all, but some kind of fungal plant, or even an animal similar to a coral polyp! They're just attached to the cave!"