Ghost Blowing Lantern II

I thought to myself, "These people are really a ragtag bunch. They don't look like they are fighting for gold. They are similar to the Xidan column composed of those alley gangsters. There is no good or bad thing in the secret road. How can we just stop?" But it seems that they are really exhausted. , and had no choice but to let everyone take a breather here.

I asked Shirley Yang, the "Nine Death Jingling Armor" has torn open the Lingxing Palace at the bottom of the Coffin Mountain. It is expected that this is the case all around. How long can this "Coffin Mountain" buried deep in the ground exist?

Shirley Yang said: "I can't estimate that the Jingling Bronze Armor may crush the mountain at any time, and both jade and rock will be destroyed by then. This devastating disaster may happen in the next second, and may even drag on one or two people." hours, but there won’t be much time left for us.”

Sun Jiuye seemed to have put life and death aside for a long time, and did not care at all about how to escape from Coffin Mountain. He suddenly asked us: "Have you seen clearly... what exactly came out of the Earth Immortal's corpse?"

At that time, the ground cracked in the tomb, and Feng Shigu was sucked out of his blood, marrow, and brains by the Jingling Armor. But before the fire in the ground was extinguished, everyone saw with their own eyes a black shadow emerging from Feng Shigu's mouth, which seemed to be covered with blood. The exact appearance of the moldy corpse hair was unclear.

But one thing is certain, that thing is not afraid of water and fire. It can still move even when the blood-sucking and marrow-scraping "Nine Death Jingling Armor" copper pierces the body. Except for Daluo Jinxian, who can survive the "mountain of swords and sea of ​​fire" without a single scratch Lossless? Could it be that Feng Shigu's true energy came out of his shell and really turned into an immortal?

Yao Meier and Sun Jiuye were convinced of this. Although Fatty and I didn't want to believe it, we couldn't even find a reason to convince ourselves. Only Shirley Yang did not express his position.

Among the five of us, Shirley Yang and Sun Jiuye are the most knowledgeable. However, one of these two people is a theist, and the other is full of superstitious ideas inherited from his family. At this point, I have to force Shirley Yang and Sun Jiuye to be as objective as possible. Analyzing the situation in Dixian Village, are there any gods in the world?

Sun Jiuye sighed and said: "There are all kinds of wonders in the world, and there is no absolute in anything. Feng Shigu's body did not burn when exposed to fire, and it was still able to move after being nailed by so many copper thorns. Physical phenomena such as metal, wood, water, fire, and earth create and destroy. , has completely lost its effect on it, what does this mean? It can only mean that it is a zombie immortal that has exceeded the five elements."

Shirley Yang has a different opinion: "There must be gods in the world, even if they only exist in spiritual beliefs. As for whether corpse immortals exist... I think the so-called corpse immortals may just be ancient people's descriptions of certain supernatural phenomena. Although the Ming Dynasty was only a few hundred years old, it was still popular in the world at that time to burn elixirs and refine medicines in order to seek immortality. Perhaps Guanshan Taibao discovered something special in Coffin Mountain that could prevent people from rotting or stiffening after death. Call it the Corpse Immortal. For example, in the eyes of ancient people, the Tengu eating the moon is called a lunar eclipse by modern people. However, regardless of ancient and modern times, people at that time thought they had mastered the mystery of this astronomical phenomenon. This is the limitation of the times. In fact, even with the rapid development of contemporary science, in-depth exploration of the universe and the world is very small."

After hearing this, Mr. Sun Jiuye nodded and said: "The existence of the Corpse Immortal may be, as Miss Yang said, a mysterious phenomenon similar to the ancient people's view of the Heavenly Dog eating the moon. However, we still don't understand the truth, and it is more likely that it will never be revealed. The mystery of the ancient corpse becoming an immortal has become a mystery. And because of Feng Shigu’s actions, this kind of thing does appear in Coffin Mountain now. If the corpse immortal escapes from this underground world, it is hard to say how much harm it will cause. In short, we still have We have to find a way to get rid of it completely before the landslide and the earth collapse."

The fat man interjected: "Since the old landowner has become invulnerable to water and fire through cultivation, what else can we do? We can't just chew it up and eat it in one bite, right? From what the fat man sees, it's not that we don't want to do this job. But if you really can’t do it, it’s better to just roll up some bright weapons and run away while your legs and feet are still moving. That’s the right way to go.”

Sun Jiuye snorted coldly and said: "Fat Wang, are you still dreaming? It's not like you haven't seen the power of the Jingling Tomb Armor of Nine Deaths. I've said it repeatedly before, as soon as this coffin mountain is finished, we won't even be able to leave a single corpse in the capital. , still expect to escape? Why not listen to my advice - the value of a person's life does not depend on the length of his life, but depends on what he has done in this life..."

Before Sun Jiuye could finish speaking, the fat man became angry and cursed: "Let your Feng family ancestor's dog fart. That old landlord, Feng Shi, can't even burn the ancient fire. How dare you go down and fight with it yourself?" Practice alone with bricks and kitchen knives, don’t drag everyone to support you, the fat man has to escape anyway, life or death, we are the glorious proletariat, we can’t die in the coffin mountain as a burial for the landlords.”

Seeing that Fatty and Sun Jiuye were about to fight, Yao Meier quickly tried to dissuade them, but she could not persuade them. Seeing this, Shirley Yang quickly pushed me behind her. I was just thinking about how to overcome the various difficulties I was facing. , after being reminded by her, she immediately turned around and said to everyone: "You've all had your rest again, haven't you? Stop talking nonsense and listen to me first. I think what happened in Coffin Mountain has gone far beyond what we were talking about beforehand." As expected, the terrain in Pangu Vein is more complicated than a maze. So far, I can't think of any way to escape from Dixian Village. As for getting rid of the corpse immortals in the ancient tombs, I am even more powerless. Now I can only walk Look step by step, this secret passage probably contains Feng Shigu’s ulterior secrets. Let’s take a breather here first, and then go down this secret passage to see if we can find a way to escape.”

I finally convinced everyone that there was no other way to deal with this situation, and no one could think of any clever tricks. It can be said that we have no choice at the moment, and there is only this secret passage, which is the last route of action and the way to survive. It's a dead end, and you have to risk five lives before you know the outcome.

Worrying in one place and being in a hurry will not help. As the saying goes, "If you want to eat spicy food, plant spicy rice seedlings; if you want to eat carp, walk along the Yangtze River." If you want to escape, you may have to dig out the real secret buried in Coffin Mountain, but time passes. Minutes and seconds continued to pass. As the "Nine Death Jingling Armor" tightly hugged the mountain, causing underground landslides and earthquakes to occur continuously. After resting for a few minutes, we had to get up in a hurry and continue to follow the secret passage of the Earthly Immortal to the deepest place. Explore everywhere.

The terrain of this underground passage is irregular. Some places are open and some are narrow. In this underground passage, it seems that there is an invisible and terrifying force tightly surrounding everyone. Maybe it is some kind of mysterious force. The huge shock coming from it made the people who came in involuntarily breathe heavily, and had to feel a sense of fear towards the relics of the ancients.

The recessed wall behind the secret passage is full of ancient bronze statues. Judging from their appearance, they are very ancient objects. However, even Sun Jiuye could not tell the specific dynasty and cultural background. All he could see were those tall bronze figures. Their faces were even more ferocious, with bulging hair and bulging eyes, green faces and fangs. They lowered their heads and glared angrily into the dark passage, as if Shura demons had shown their true form. The bronze men were holding iron weapons in their hands, and their clothes were also very strange, like It is an ancient leather armor.

There are also some bronze beasts trampled under the feet of the bronze man, most of them are ferocious beasts such as bears. The giant bears are all struggling and howling to death, or their limbs are broken, or they are trembling and prostrating, whether they are humans or animals, their expressions They are all so lifelike that one can even feel that this is the scene of witnessing the bloody river when the angry-eyed Golden Steel massacred the giant bear. The bodies of the bronze men and bronze beasts are cast with incomplete heavy chains and copper rings, like some kind of imprisonment. Prisoner's instrument of torture.

I knocked the bronze figures a few times with the "engineer shovel" from a distance. The sound was dull and deep, and it didn't sound like a hollow machine trap. Then I felt a little relieved. Everyone followed the secret passage paved with iron chains on the ground, and then After groping forward for more than ten steps, I found a corpse lying on the ground. This dead corpse was very strange. It looked like it should have been a skinny old man in life, with disheveled hair on his face, and tattered clothes. He was almost half-naked and naked. Every rib on his chest was highlighted.

Because Coffin Mountain is a spiritual vein that hides wind and accepts water, all the dead in Dixian Village have faces that are lifelike. The skin and appearance of all the dead are still well preserved and will never become mummies. And the corpse in the secret passage is not only He was chained to a heavy iron chain, and he was shriveled and skinny, like a hungry ghost, with his hands and feet shackled. As I had expected, he should be a prisoner imprisoned in a secret passage.

I remember watching a documentary about World War II. There were several scenes in the film of Jews who were imprisoned in concentration camps by the German Nazis. They were all skinny and skinny. It can be said that the situation was completely shocking. It’s even unimaginable that human beings can become so thin due to long-term lack of nutritious food. Seeing the corpse of the prisoner in front of me reminded me of that scene in the war documentary.

But I can't imagine why Earth Immortal Feng Shigu would use such a heavy instrument of torture to lock up such a skinny visitor? Who could this prisoner detained in Dixian Village be?

The fat man was always not surprised. He took a quick look and said: "Even people who have never watched Sherlock Holmes can analyze this kind of thing. They must be people who oppose Feng Shigu, and they all suffered at the hands of the old landowner." , locked up in this dark underground place and starved to death."

Shirley Yang and Professor Sun both said it didn't look like it. Looking at the prisoner's body, the clothes looked very strange. It didn't look like the clothes worn by people in the Ming Dynasty, nor did it look like the weird attire of the Guanshan Taibao in Dixian Village. He was imprisoned in a secret passage in such a secret way. , definitely not an ordinary person, but there is no way to judge the identity of the prisoner's body.

Everyone was full of suspicion and took a few steps forward. They saw a spacious cave room. There were more iron chains and shackles in the stone room. There were also hundreds of messy corpses shackled on the iron chains. There were old, young, women and children, all of them were as skinny as firewood. Moreover, there were many corpses with severed limbs and feet, and their death conditions were unspeakable. There were even several giant bronze beasts carefully displayed in the room. Most of the corpses were tightly locked around one of the tall and ancient bronze turtles.

Next to the corpse were scattered countless dead fish as thick as a human finger, shaped like shuttle arrows, which had long been turned into dried fish. I saw that the countless small fish were very strange, with round bodies, and fish scales all over their bodies were like blades, and all of them were It was a motionless dead fish. Yao Meier is a local mountain person. She knew that in a river in Qingxi Town, there was a small fish called "Dangtu" growing in it. It was shaped like a loach and had many scales. Perhaps, the mountain people once used it to make hidden weapons. The "little fish" was dried and soaked in snake venom. When the dried fish smells oily, it will immediately swell and explode. The scales are like knives, and the blood can be seen sealing the throat.

Put the dried fish of "Bomb-Painted Fish" into the bamboo tube used for blowing arrows. When using it, apply lard on the front end of the bamboo tube, blow with air, and the small fish will pop out, which can shoot enemies dozens of steps away. Although "bulk coating" is powerful, it is not easy to capture. Maybe the dead people in the secret room were all massacred with "gun paint" back then. "Bullet paint"

I felt like I was in a fog. How could there be such a place in the Fairy Village on Coffin Mountain? It is not like a tomb where living people are buried, nor is it like an ordinary dungeon where prisoners are held, but this secret room is already the end of the underground immortal tunnel. There is only one entrance to the way in, and there is no way forward.

The rest of the people also felt at a loss. At the moment, they could only speculate that these prisoners imprisoned in the secret room of the ancient tomb in Dixian Village were not ordinary slaves and criminals. Shirley Yang was very discerning, and she soon discovered that there were All the dead had a tattoo that looked like a black sheep on their bodies. Among the corpses was an old man with a gray beard. Judging by the color of his hair, beard, and clothes, his identity was different. I went forward and looked through it, and sure enough I found it in the clothes of the corpse. Some handwriting.

Sun Jiuye asked curiously: "Is it still related to the legend of King Wuyang? Does this mean that...these prisoners are not from Dixian Village? They may be remnants of the Wuxie period. Why were they captured and imprisoned by Feng Shigu? Here?" As he spoke, he couldn't wait to squeeze over and look at the handwriting written on the torn skirts of his clothes.

I lit a candle to illuminate it, and everyone looked carefully at the handwriting. It was indeed in line with Sun Jiuye's guess. It turned out that the corpses in these secret rooms were originally an ancient relic in Coffin Gorge, guarding Coffin Mountain for generations. When Feng Shigu was building the Dixian Village Ancient Tomb, he met the descendants of these witches in Coffin Mountain and killed many of them. Later he learned that these people mastered the astrological techniques of the witchcraft period. They were imprisoned secretly, tortured day and night, and forced to perform divination and predictions for the Earthly Immortal.

Because the Coffin Mountain hidden deep in the ground was a place for death sacrifices during the witchcraft period, countless small coffins containing the corpses of the deceased were buried. Over time, under the accumulation of Yin Qi, "corpse elixirs" were actually produced in the remains of the corpses. After death, people who were buried with corpse elixirs would gradually become like living people after being buried in the soil for hundreds of years, even if they were rotten and fossilized when they were put into the coffin. So the witches would dig out the ancient corpses from the soil to Manifest supernatural powers.

However, it was later discovered that once the dead bodies were unearthed, they would trigger a large-scale corpse plague. As countless people and animals died, the local witchcraft also declined. Therefore, after the death of King Wuyang, "Coffin Mountain" was regarded as a forbidden place, and local people would not even dare to mention it even a word related to it.

When Feng Shigu robbed the ancient tomb of the Wuyang King, he found that the "Wuyang King" who had long been headless was actually alive, so he had evil thoughts. He knew that there was a Pangu divine vein in the mountain, and he planned to use it to refine it. When he became an immortal, he believed that what happened in the past was because the ancients did not know the truth and could not make good use of it, but suffered harm from it, so he tried his best to build the ancient tomb of Dixian Village.

But Feng Shigu was a very suspicious person. In order to be sure, he forced the descendants of the witches to deduce the number of celestial beings for him. The ancestors of the Feng family made their fortune by stealing hanging coffins in Coffin Gorge and stole many astrological magic. From the dragon bones, I also gained some skills in calculation and fortune-telling, but they were all acquired, and many secrets cannot be taught. After all, they are not as sophisticated and broad as those mastered by the followers of King Wuyang.

In ancient times, astrological observation did not necessarily involve looking up at the stars directly. A more accurate way was to use bronze tortoise shells for divination, because the ancients believed that the patterns on the tortoise shells were a direct reflection of the omens of the stars. Although modern science is advanced, the exploration of the human spiritual realm is not It is not as intuitive as the understanding of ancient people, and it is difficult to understand the accuracy of many ancient predictions and revelations. In fact, that is the mystery of astrology.

Dixian Fengshigu robbed several ancient bronzes of the Western Zhou Dynasty from Shaanxi. They were all copper beasts that predict divination and astrology. He secretly hid them in the secret room of the ancient tomb in Dixian Village and locked the prisoners inside. He was still unwilling to violate the taboos left by his ancestors, but later he couldn't bear the severe torture, and Feng Shigu kept killing people, so he had to make assumptions.

The apocalypse is that the Nine-Death Jingling Tomb Armor will gradually devour the coffin mountain, and when tomb robbers enter the ancient tomb to fight upside down, the earthly immortal's coffin will suffer "mountains of knives and seas of fire". Since ancient times, legend has it Immortals must go through several calamities, and then Feng Shigu, who became the Corpse Immortal, will take all the buried victims and follow the tomb robbers to escape from Coffin Mountain when Dixian Village is destroyed, and then the world will be destroyed. It will be a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. In the Celestial Star Method, this is called "breaking the mountain and coming out to kill".