Ghost Blowing Lantern II

The "Guanshan Taibao" excavated ancient tombs from various places and filled the "Dixian Village" with treasures and artifacts. These incomplete murals should be decorations in an ancient tomb from the Tang Dynasty, but although the three of us have read countless ancient relics , but it is difficult to determine which "mountain tomb" these two murals came from.

Walking along the slightly sloping tomb passage, incomplete Tang Dynasty murals kept appearing. They were all plump ladies with numb expressions and the devil-like little old man. I don’t know what means were used, and in the humid and leaking environment everywhere, The colors of the murals were still as bright as new. I was so anxious to find Mr. Sun Jiu that I had no time to pay attention to the evil paintings in the tomb. I just waded forward through the water, but secretly I was on guard and didn't dare to do anything. slack off.

As far as I know, the tomb passage on the bottom floor of the "Wuyang King" mausoleum is an extremely ancient tomb structure. The "Golden Well" inside the mausoleum of later generations is a derivation of this. In ancient Feng Shui, the four "situation regulating qi" Words come second. Ancient people paid most attention to the intuitive "good and evil" of soil.

Because no matter whether the tomb soil is backfilled or not, a large part of the soil in the tomb site will still be excavated. The soil in the "holes" is extremely precious. Therefore, in relatively large tombs, several shafts will be dug at the bottom to remove the original soil. Part of the soil is filled into the wells, which can keep the vitality inside the ancient tomb alive. It can also be used as a "drainage channel" to invade the underground lake water in the underlying tomb passage. In all likelihood, it seeps into the shafts that backfill the original soil. Because the groundwater is perennial After being soaked, the tomb bricks under my feet have become loose and broken, and the terrain cannot be seen through the water. Every step I take has to be explored three times. It is extremely difficult and the forward speed is also very slow.

In order not to slip on the underwater rocks, I had to walk close to the tomb wall. The tomb bricks were cold and slippery, and I couldn't breathe smoothly. After walking a few steps, I suddenly heard a sound from the wall, which made me feel strange. , put his ear against the wall and listened, and faintly heard someone shouting deep in the tomb passage. The voice was transmitted along the tomb wall. Although it was not real, it was definitely a human voice, and it was a woman's voice.

In our expedition team of five people, only Yao Meier and Shirley Yang were women, so my first reaction was that Yao Meier was at the far end of the tomb passage. I quickly said to Shirley Yang and Fatty: "Listen, it seems to be Yao Meier." Sister..."

The fat man leaned on the tomb wall and listened for a while, then nodded and said: "Yes, but the distance is far enough, so you can't hear clearly what you are shouting. When encountering this situation, you must be shouting for help. Let's go there quickly." Go get her, if you wait a little longer, in this dark place, I can scare my sister to death."

I said that Yaomei'er girl is very courageous. She has defeated the true disciples in Fengwo Mountain and participated in militia training. She probably won't be scared to death. The fact that she shouted for help means that nothing serious happened to her, but I didn't hear Sun Jiuye's voice. I don’t know whether the old man is dead or alive now.

As I spoke, I was about to fumble forward again, but Shirley Yang grabbed me and said, "No... Listen again, Yao Meier's voice is from Sichuan, but the sound coming from deep in the tomb passage is different, like... ...A middle-aged woman, I can’t tell what she’s shouting, but it’s definitely not Yao Meier.”

I heard that Shirley Yang's ears were much sharper than Fatty's and mine's, but apart from her and Yao Mei'er, how could there be a third woman in the tomb? And she’s a “middle-aged woman”? I couldn't help but wonder, if it wasn't Shirley Yang's lackey, could it be the "person" in the ancient tomb in Dixian Village? In that case... it would be hard to tell whether it was a "human" or a "ghost". How could there be any living people in an ancient tomb that no one has entered for hundreds of years?

I listened again on the tomb wall, and the woman's voice deep in the tomb passage was intermittent, as if there was nothing there, and the voice seemed ethereal and empty. Although I couldn't hear it clearly, but if I listened carefully, it really wasn't Yao Meier's accent. I believe that there are people who have survived in ancient tombs for hundreds of years. It is better for me to believe that it is a "ghost" who is causing trouble. But regardless of whether she is a ghost or a phantom, I have to go over and see it with my own eyes, so I can calm down and be brave. We waded into the water and walked in.

As soon as I took a step forward in the water, someone grabbed my shoulder from behind. At this time, Shirley Yang and Fatty were both in front of me, and my attention was completely focused on the front of the tomb passage. Suddenly, there was this sudden attack from behind me. , I was not mentally prepared at all and was really surprised.

I exclaimed, holding the engineering shovel in my hand, and looked back. I saw Yaomeier standing behind me all wet. She panted and said to me, "What are you doing? I can't even scream from behind until my throat breaks." Wait for me."

I wondered: "Sister, where did you come from? Why did you run behind us? The shouting in front of the tomb passage was not made by you?"

Shirley Yang saw that Yao Meier and I were asking each other questions in a confused way, but they all failed to make sense, so she asked her to take it easy and speak clearly, were there any injuries on her body?

Yao Meier calmed down and talked about what happened. She was lying on the lid of the coffin and swimming down the river. When she got to the tomb passage of the ancient tomb, the underground water was pouring down. She didn't know where the lacquered coffin would be taken. She wanted to jump at that time. She jumped into the water to escape, but she didn't know the depth of the water in the tomb, fearing that she would drown in the water. When the water rushed into the tomb passage at the bottom of the coffin, her vision went dark, she let go of her hands and fell into the water, and then she fainted. He was carried into a side room by the lake water. When he woke up, he saw the light flickering outside the tomb door, so he hurried out to look for the source of the light.

At that time, Fatty and I were walking through the tomb passage with Tang Dynasty murals. We neglected to search the half-collapsed side chamber and went straight to the direction of the sewage. Yao Meier chased after us, but on this sloping road In the tomb passage, the sound can only be transmitted upwards, and the movement above is completely invisible at the lower level. She had to follow us all the way until we stopped to catch up. She was so brave that she couldn't help but be frightened at this moment. .

I saw that Yaomei'er was fine, but I still couldn't rest assured. Firstly, Master Sun Jiu's whereabouts were unknown, and secondly, the woman's shouting deep in the tomb passage was indeed someone else. At first, I speculated whether it might be from the tomb passage. The structure is special, which produces some kind of distorted sound echo, causing people to misunderstand Yaomei'er's voice. However, the reality immediately denies this possibility, because the hoarse screams in the tomb passage are still there. Keep coming.

My mind turned around, and a thought flashed across my mind: "The woman deep in the tomb passage? Could it be the lady in the Tang Dynasty murals?" I thought this was unbelievable, and it was useless to think about it. If I had gone too late, Professor Sun might have died. I was really killed by the female ghost in the Tang Dynasty tomb. The matter has come to this, and we can no longer worry about it. I asked Shirley Yang and Yao Meier to follow me and the fat man. The four of us held our breath and stood there. Under the weak spotlight, I waded towards the end of the tomb passage. I seemed to feel some kind of alarm. The woman's scream in the tomb suddenly fell silent.

This is a small chamber in a stone tomb. There is a shaft filled with original soil under the tomb bricks in front of the chamber. Although the terrain is the lowest in the entire ancient tomb, the underground water flows here and seeps into the underground rock cracks in front of the tomb chamber door. There was no water at all in the tomb. Two red lacquer coffins with pictures of Zhong Kui eating ghosts were stranded in the east and west of the tomb.

I saw a faint light flickering on the lacquered coffin near the door of the tomb. Sun Jiuye was still lying on the coffin lid, holding on to the iron chain on the coffin board with both hands. The lighting spotlight on his mountaineering helmet had been damaged. Glittering like a will-o'-the-wisp.

I saw Master Sun Jiu's body motionless, and I was surprised and thought something was wrong. Master Jiu might have returned to his position. Everyone hurriedly stepped forward and were about to check his pulse to see if there were any signs of life. Who knew that Professor Sun seemed to be dead? Normally, he jumped up and sat up on his life cover. His pale face was full of panic, which actually startled us.

Before I could ask him, Sun Jiuye said: "Did you...did you hear it just now? Is there any strange sound in this ancient tomb?"

I knew that Professor Sun might have heard that "strange" sound, so I asked this question, but instead of telling him immediately, I asked him instead: "What sound are you talking about?"

Sun Jiuye said in a daze: "It seemed like... a ghost sound, yes... I'm sure it was a ghost sound! I was lying on the coffin and was washed all the way into the tomb at the end of the ancient tomb by the lake, and my head became dizzy. , I don’t know if I fainted, but I could hear clearly that someone was singing ghost music in this tomb..."

Shirley Yang interjected and asked: "Professor, you often say that people should not mention strange powers and chaos. Why do you suddenly say that the sound you just heard was... a ghost sound?"

Professor Sun said: "What? Don't you know? Ghost music is a kind of singing style in the Tang Dynasty. In the quiet night without accompaniment, it is sung by a woman without any accompaniment. The tune is extremely weird and ethereal, imitating the cry and lamentation of the dead souls. , Now ghost music has been completely lost in China. It flowed into Japan in the Tang Dynasty, and Japan has preserved it to this day. I heard ghost music performances when I went to Japan for academic exchanges the year before last, so I could recognize it as soon as I heard it."

Only then did I understand what Professor Sun meant by "ghost sounds". However, regardless of whether the "ghost sounds" imitated the ancient music lamented by ghosts, at least it should not appear in this ancient tomb. Wouldn't it really become a "ghost sound" worthy of the name? sound"?

Along the way, we saw the terrifying murals of the Tang Dynasty and the "ghost sounds" that have been lost for thousands of years, as well as the empty ancient tomb of "Wuyang King" and the missing "Dixian Village". Only the first half is the real "mountain viewing guide". "Mysterious Fu", countless questions are tangled in one place, and there is no clue at all. People don't know where to start. They want to steal the "Alchemy Book" hidden in the tomb, but it is not easy. They must find another way. Find a new "breaking point" to solve these mysteries.

Thinking of this, Fatty and others looked around, trying to find out the source of the "ghost sound", but the tomb chamber at the end of the tomb passage had empty walls like the entire ancient tomb, with only some messy masonry and tiles. utensil, or the two red lacquer coffins.

The coffin under Professor Sun was still well sealed, but another lacquered coffin hit the tomb wall. A large gap opened in the front of the coffin and it fell upside down. From the crack in the coffin, a withered and fossilized arm of a female corpse drooped out. There are also jade bracelets, rings and other accessories on her hands. When the beam of the "Wolf Eye Flashlight" shines, they look jeweled and eye-catching.

The fat man's eyes widened when he saw it, and he swallowed and said to me: "Old Hu, Old Hu, there is a saying - in the deserted village, people are weaving their arrows, and thousands of trees are desolate, and ghosts are singing. Could it be that the rice dumplings in the coffin are singing?" Why don't we light a candle and open the coffin on the spot, pull it out of the coffin and have a clear look, so as not to create suspicion and become more and more frightened."

I shook my head and said: "This time I entered the Coffin Gorge to fight, I came here for the Alchemy Cauldron and the Zhou Tian Gua Diagram. It is important to do business, and it is best not to get involved. Don't worry about the ghosts and birds, they have nothing to do with us. If you are worried about anything, just set fire to these two lacquered coffins."

I kept doing it, but I expected that the ethereal "ghost sound" was ominous and not auspicious, so it was better to try to get rid of this hidden danger in advance. I immediately wanted to go over and set fire to it, but when I got closer, I suddenly saw There were some writings on the death plate at the bottom of the coffin, so I hurriedly got closer and looked at it carefully.

Seeing my strange behavior, Shirley Yang also followed me. After a moment of concentration, she read out the inscription hidden at the bottom of the coffin: "Women are ominous..." Professor Sun lay on the coffin and listened clearly, and said in surprise: "Is it the content behind the Guanshan Zhimei Fu?" He was about to ask something else, but Shirley Yang made a silent gesture to everyone: "Shhh... there is a sound in the lacquer coffin!"

While Shirley Yang was talking, I also heard something strange in the coffin. The weeping "ghost voice" appeared again. I hurriedly pulled her back a step. The faint voice was like a "ghost" , making people tremble with fear, but how could there be a sound in the coffin?

Sun Jiuye was so shocked by the phenomenon that went against the common sense of physics in front of him. The view of the universe he had formed over the years was overturned at this moment. He jumped down from the lacquered coffin, hid behind me and said: "In the coffin... ...is...what is it?”

I was indeed a little flustered at first, but then my blood boiled. I thought there was a "person" talking in the coffin, and there were only three possibilities. The first was that it was really haunted; the second possibility was that the person in the coffin was not dead and had been alive until now. ;The third is that there is a "recorder" in the coffin. Mr. Hu, what weird thing have I not seen in my life? The only thing I have never seen is these three things. Today I will see them and learn about them. In the future, I can have more "talking points" with my colleagues, and I can't show panic at this time, so as not to worry about them. This emotion was conveyed to Yaomeier and Professor Sun, so he told them: "I think there is probably an old-fashioned tape recorder in the coffin. If you listen to its babbling sound... what is playing is probably the little widow." A play about crying at the grave." (To be continued, if you want to know what happened after the funeral, please log in, there are more chapters, support the author, and support genuine reading!)