Ghost Blowing Lantern II

Something suddenly jumped up on the lake. Although we were on guard in the "assault boat", we did not expect to encounter such a situation. We all held the "engineer shovel" tightly and raised the flashlight at the same time.

Several beams of light swept through the air, and I looked up with everyone else. Not only did everything disappear, but when I saw it, I was really surprised and surprised. I opened my mouth and couldn't close it for a long time. I was so shocked that I jumped out of the lake. The thing that is four to five meters long is a "fish". It is a common phenomenon for fish to jump out of the water. However, this fish is not alive, but a dead fish about three meters long. This big fish has begun to rot and smells fishy. Soaring to the sky, there were several big holes in the belly of the fish, and half of the fish's head was missing, exposing the white skull.

The strange thing is that after the dead fish body left the water, it actually stagnated in mid-air. Everyone was surprised and confused. At this time, the two lacquer coffins floated along the water and got a little closer. Only then could they see more clearly. It turned out that the rotten body was The body of the dead fish was covered with countless extremely large black flies. The black flies were as big as fingernails. They were all clinging to the dead fish. After being frightened, they jumped out of the water wrapped in the fish carcass, making a noisy and chaotic mess. Scattered, those huge black flies accumulated rotten air and contained a lot of phosphorus. They flew like dim and weak fireflies, and like thousands of ghost eyes that flickered on and off.

This kind of black fly has a scientific name: "giant corpse fly". Although the name contains the word "fly", it is actually a "corpse insect". It likes to eat carrion. Corpse flies can also be found on burial mounds, but this creature has special habits and never touches living creatures, so it does not pose any threat to living people.

When I was in Panjiayuan, I once heard an anecdote about corpse bugs. It was said that before liberation, there was a private thief called Ma Wuzi. In a small tomb, I used the jewelry and silver coins from the burial of the tomb owner to exchange for some food and drink. I didn't make a big fortune, so I lived a meager life.

Until one day, Ma Wuzi was digging a grave in a mass burial ridge and accidentally found a tomb from the Song Dynasty. There were many valuable things in it. Ma Wuzi had lived for more than thirty years and had never seen so many ancient artifacts. Only he A thief couldn't move it all. He knew that if outsiders knew about it, it would definitely bring disaster, so he took away a few pieces of the most valuable gold, jewelry, and jade, leaving the rest intact, planning to wait until money was tight in the future. Let’s dig out the emergency again.

Before leaving, he suddenly saw a corpse insect emerging from the crack of the coffin. Ma Wuzi pinched the corpse insect casually. At that time, some strange combination of circumstances, and I don't know what he was thinking, he took out a piece of oil paper from his arms. This oil paper was He used it to wrap pig head meat, so he used it to wrap the corpse worm and stuff it into the cracks in the bricks of the tomb. He probably wanted to suffocate the corpse worm to death.

Then Ma Wuzi covered the thief's hole, returned to the town to exchange for money, bought a house and land, and lived a wealthy life. He also married a wife and had children. When Ma Wuzi's son was a teenager, the father and his son They are all addicted to gambling. As the saying goes, "If you gamble for a long time, the gods will lose", let alone two ordinary people like him?

Winning or losing in gambling is like filling a well with snow, and there are no more days of dissatisfaction. However, the addiction is endless, and the losses are so dizzy that the family is bankrupted. When Ma Wuzi sees that only four walls are left in his home, he thinks of the ancient tomb that he stole in the past. There were many treasures, so he took his son to steal them again. The two found their way into the ancient tomb. Ma Wuzi suddenly remembered that he had wrapped corpse insects and hid them in the cracks of the wall more than ten years ago. He didn't know if it was now. Turned into dust? So he searched for it from the original place, and he found it. The oil-paper package was intact. When he opened it, he found that the corpse worm was withered and shriveled, almost turning into pieces of paper.

But the insect's limbs and whiskers still seemed to be lifelike. He and his son became curious and took a closer look at them. However, they forgot the taboo on tomb robbing. A living person would not wait to breathe on the dead thing, and the Yang Qi would touch it. The corpse bug suddenly came to life and bit Ma Wuzi's finger. Ma Wuzi was foaming at the mouth and convulsing all over his body. When his son carried him home, he died before he could call a doctor for treatment.

It is said that the descendants of Ma Wuzi later made a living in Beijing and worked for Mr. Qiao in Liulichang. This incident was said by him personally. In Panjiayuan and Liulichang, the two major "literary and entertainment" distribution centers, I heard that Many people have said it, but everyone says this passage is fake. Few people believe it and only listen to it for fun after dinner.

But I think this thing is more real. If you have not experienced it personally, you will definitely not be able to talk about "undersea eyes". Corpse worms and corpse wax are all products found in tombs. Only those who are proficient in Feng Shui changes know the secrets. At that time, in Baiyan Cave Here, I was almost bitten to death by corpse bugs. However, there are many kinds of corpse bugs, such as "corpse lice and corpse flies", so it is not surprising to see corpse bugs near the "Dixian Village Ancient Tomb". It's strange. I just don't know what kind of corpse bug Ma Wuzi encountered back then. Various corpse bugs have different habits. Some eat corpses, while others eat living things.

Although there were insects and rats gathering in the mass grave in front of us, we did not expect that the dead fish floating on the lake would be eaten by corpse insects, causing a false alarm out of thin air. At this time, we saw the dead fish above our heads fiercely. As soon as the ground shook, a large group of "corpse flies" fled in a hurry, and half of the rotten fish fell into the water next to the lacquered coffin, making a large splash with a "crash".

The fat man cursed a few words and waved the shovel to stir up the water, driving away the corpse flies that were still in the air. He exerted so much force that the coffin beneath him shook wildly.

Professor Sun is a landlubber, and he is most afraid of water. His face suddenly changed color with fear. He quickly grabbed the lock ring on the lacquered coffin to steady his center of gravity and shouted: "Slow down, slow down... you are about to overturn the coffin!"

The fat man turned back with a look of disdain on his face and said, "Looking at how scared you are, you must not dare to eat wontons. But don't worry, Master Jiu. If you bump into a ghost on the water, the fat man will bring you flat noodles." Greeting you."

I noticed that the water flow in the underground lake was different, so I quickly reminded them to stop being bored and pay attention to the rapids ahead. As soon as I finished speaking, the red lacquer coffin that was temporarily used as an "assault boat" was hit by the current and began to lose control.

The fat man looked at a cold firework thrown into the air, and saw a cliff diagonally inserted at the end of the underground water lake. There were springs on the stone wall, distributed at random heights. There was an old dragon with a horned head carved at the mouth of two large springs. There are two small white waterfalls pouring down from the faucet, just like two dragons coming out of the water. A strange building like a tower protrudes from the two water dragons, with sculptures of hundreds of animals and birds. Those rare birds and animals are not common in the human world. The object was full of the mysterious color of the Wuxie ancient country. I thought: "Is this the door of the ancient tomb of King Wuyang?"

There are several stone gates under the majestic city gate, and the walls of the cave are lined with huge bricks, which are very much like the tomb passages. The tomb gates are divided into three floors. The bottom row of gates has been more than half submerged by the lake water, and the underground water has been released. The situation was so urgent that as soon as the lacquer coffin floating on the water approached, it was swept in by the rushing water.

I know very well that Sun Jiuye and Yao Meier do not know the nature of water. If they fall into the dark and cold lake, they may not be able to save themselves. In addition, the red lacquer coffin is not a real boat, and it will capsize if it tilts slightly. On the contrary, it is absolutely impossible to expect that the coffin will be floated into the cave by the current, and then the whistle will be blown to invite everyone to abandon the ship and go ashore.

But at this moment, the lacquer coffins were driven by the rapids on the lake, and the drifting speed accelerated in an instant. I could feel the wind whistling by my ears. The two lacquer coffins spun around on the water, collided with each other, and crowded into the hole under the platform. Everyone wanted to dive into the water to escape, but it was too late. They had no choice but to regard their lives as if they were picked up for free, and leaned on the coffin lid to resign themselves to fate.

Amidst the exclamations, the red lacquer coffin rushed down the tomb passage for more than 20 meters. In the dark and wide passage of the figurines, I could not see clearly what was going on around me. I could hear the roar of the water in front of me. The middle section of the tomb passage has been soaked in water all year round, and has completely sunk. A large hole collapsed in the middle, and the water flow penetrated the lower tomb chamber. If the coffin and the people were swept down by the underground lake water, they would probably not survive.

As soon as I had this thought, I didn't dare to hesitate anymore. I called Sun Jiuye and Yao Meier and asked them to get ready to jump from the coffin into the water. At this time, Shirley Yang, who was behind me, had already thrown out the "Flying Tiger Claw" and hung up. On the stone at the top of the tomb passage, she hugged me from behind. As soon as our feet were loosened, the lacquered coffin was immediately swept into the dark depths of the tomb passage by the current.

The underground water in the tomb passage was waist-deep. Shirley Yang and I used "flying tiger claws" to fix our center of gravity, dug one hand into the gap between the tomb bricks, and hurriedly turned around to grab Professor Sun.

At this time, another lacquer coffin was floating past me. Unexpectedly, the surging water was too fast. I caught it empty. The three people didn't have time to reach out their hands and leaned on the lacquer coffin and passed me suddenly. I He and Shirley Yang shouted in unison, and before they finished speaking, the three of them followed the rapids and fell into the cave that collapsed in the middle of the tomb passage.

My vision went dark, and I thought it was probably broken this time, so I shouted the names of Fatty and the others. I only heard the roar of water in my ears. Even if someone answered, they were all covered up. I panicked for a while, and then calmed down. , knowing that there is no point in getting angry at this moment, the only choice is to go down quickly to find survivors.

I held up a flashlight and looked at the surrounding terrain. I guessed that the tomb door in front of the underground lake had entered the coffin hall of the tomb of "Yishan Wuling King". The main hall and coffin chambers were all inside this underground building. The entire ancient tomb It was built in a master-slave overlapping situation. In front of the three-story coffin hall, there should be a closed stone tomb passage. We entered from the mass burial cave under that tomb passage and directly "entered the hall", but There is no trace of "Di Xian Village" here.

Searching and rescuing our companions is a top priority right now, and we don’t care about where the “Dixian Village Ancient Tomb” is hidden for the time being. Shirley Yang and I climbed on the tomb wall and waded forward. We saw several side chambers and holes of different sizes on both sides of the tomb passage. The room was empty, leaving only fragmentary murals on the tomb wall. What you could see was a desolate scene after being raided by a large group of tomb robbers. The figurine passages inside the ancient tomb were crisscrossed, and many of the longitudinal tomb passages had collapsed. This situation is also a big flaw of the master-slave stacked mausoleum, so the stacked layout was no longer used after the Tang Dynasty.

Because the water flow in the tomb passage was too fast and we couldn't stand on it, we had to go around from the side room, and finally reached the collapse in the middle of the tomb passage from the other side. The floor was mixed with bricks and mud, revealing a sinkhole with a diameter of several meters. What do you think? They all appear to have been formed by the collapse of a robber's cave hundreds of years ago. It may have been caused by the Guanshan Taibao digging a robber's tunnel from the ground and bypassing the tomb wall. Later, the robber's cave gradually collapsed and became flooded.

There is another level of tomb below the Robber's Cave. The bricks inside the tomb are tilted and the walls are tilted. It's a mess. I looked down and saw that the tomb on the bottom was half-flooded with black water. The soil at the bottom of the ancient tomb was not dense, and the groundwater that had been poured into it seeped into it. When I got to the ground, I suddenly saw a beam of light shaking on the water in the corner of the tomb. I took a closer look and saw that it was the fat man looking around with a flashlight.

Seeing that he was fine, I put my worries aside and called to him: "Commander Wang, are you okay? Where are Sun Jiuye and Yao Meier?" But the sound of falling into the water was so noisy that I couldn't hear it myself. When I realized what I was talking about, I saw that the water in the tomb below was very deep, so I found a place where the water flow was not fast, and I climbed down with Shirley Yang on the "Flying Tiger Claw" one after the other.

I touched the fat man's side and saw that he was dazed from the fall and had a few bruises on his body. However, he had a mountaineering helmet on his head and leather protective gear on his shoulders, elbows and knees. It was no big deal if he fell into the water, so I threw him into the water again. I asked what I said before.

The fat man shook his head vigorously and said: "Damn it, why are all the stars in front of me? The water in the tomb passage was too strong just now. Fatty, I was planning to jump off the coffin, but that old guy Sun Jiuye is afraid of water. I was so scared that I almost wet my pants. He dragged me and refused to let me go. As a result, he pulled me so hard that the fat man almost banged his head back into his cavity. Yao Meier and Jiu Ye, these two landlubbers... seemed to have fallen into the water. I didn't dare to let go of the coffin. If it wasn't in this tomb, then... it would have followed the lacquered coffin and drifted into the nearby tomb passage."

I saw that the fat man was fine, and I guess Sun Jiuye and Yao Meier would not have any major accidents. However, I felt that something was not right inside this ancient tomb. There was an indescribable strange atmosphere in the empty and cold atmosphere. At the moment, I must Find the rest of the people as soon as possible to avoid anything unexpected happening.

There are door openings on all sides of the water-logged tomb. There is a strange mural painted on the wall of one of the tombs. It is a fat woman with an expressionless face, holding a skinny old man the size of a baby's fist. In a hurry, it is difficult to figure out what is depicted in the mural. What kind of legend is it? I just feel that it is particularly weird. An accidental glance at it makes me feel uncomfortable all over, and I have to avoid looking away as much as possible.

On the tomb wall with murals, the largest arched tomb door suddenly opened, and water about one meter deep slowly surged into the door. After the lacquered coffin fell into the water, it was very likely to float into the tomb passage behind the door. , because the other gaps around were relatively narrow, we shouted a few times in front of the tomb door, and when no one answered for a while, we turned on the spotlights on our helmets, each took out self-defense equipment, and waded through the water to touch it. Go in.

The tomb passage is flooded all year round. There are obvious water lines on the brick walls, which are covered with thick dark green moss. The humidity in the dark air is gloomy, and the visibility of the lighting spotlights is extremely low. I left the sinkhole and moved forward. It's far away, and the end of the tomb passage is still not visible.

The unique structure and geomantic omen of the laminated ancient tomb mean that the sound in the ancient tomb can only be transmitted from bottom to top according to the ground air. When you are in the dark and cold tomb passage, you can no longer hear the sound from the sinkhole in the tomb behind you. I heard the soft sound of water flowing, and the surroundings were even more frightening. I was worried about Master Sun Jiu's safety, and I couldn't help but feel a little anxious. I was about to call out the name of the missing person again, when I suddenly saw the top of the tomb passage nearly one meter above my head. , there is another chipped mural, similar to the style in the tomb chamber, depicting a woman with an expression like a wood carving and clay sculpture, opening her cherry mouth and sticking out her tongue. On her bright red tongue, there is an old man sitting cross-legged. It looks like a ghost, but its body is as small as a walnut.

In the tomb passage covered with moss and sewage, this mural looked particularly awkward. I looked at it with cold eyes and was really surprised. The fat man walking in the lead also said: "Old Hu, let me see why this mural is like this." Looks familiar. If my commander remembers correctly, we seem to have met in Longling, Shaanxi. At that time, you said that only the Tang Dynasty had such fat landowners..."

I felt the same way, nodded, kept walking, and asked Shirley Yang next to me as I walked, if she thought the mural was very evil? No matter how you look at it, she looks like a noble lady from the Tang Dynasty.

Shirley Yang said: "It's very evil. The colors of the mural are like new. The woman's clothes and demeanor should be from the Tang Dynasty, and the old man on her tongue is simply... almost like a devil."

Shirley Yang said that these murals should be from the Tang Dynasty and appear to be incompatible with the historical background of the "Wuyang King Tomb". They must have been stolen from other ancient tombs by Dixian Fengshigu, but they were hidden deliberately. What do you want to do at the bottom of the ancient tomb? Beware of "traps" in this tomb passage.

I heard Shirley Yang mention that the figures in the murals were like "devils", and I suddenly felt wary. Although this Westernized title did not have a specific image in my mind, I actually felt that this word was used to describe the "demon" on the tongue of a noble lady in the Tang Dynasty. "Old man" couldn't be more appropriate. The skinny old man has pointed ears and a hideous face, looking like a ghost crawling out of the eighteenth level of hell. (To be continued. If you want to know what happened, please log in. There are more chapters. Support the author and genuine reading!)