Ghost Blowing Lantern II

These remnants of King Wuyang knew that they would be killed when Feng Shigu was buried. Before execution, many of them hid blood letters in their clothes and issued many extremely vicious curses. Even after death, he turns into a ghost and wants to take revenge.

We looked through the curses and suicide notes left by several corpses one after another, and the more we read, the more frightened we became. These dead people died when the earth immortals were buried hundreds of years ago. They used ancient bronzes from the Western Zhou Dynasty to divine the number of elephants, and the results they obtained were probably... Even if we die, we don’t know whether it can be fulfilled, but the five of us are all clear. These profound and subtle secrets must be true, and they have actually happened to us. If the zombie immortal coming out of the mountain is destined to happen, then we It is an important link in promoting this matter, and no matter what we do, what should happen will inevitably happen. Human beings are like ants with no room to fight in the face of a destiny that has been destined for a long time.

Although I have never believed in fate, combined with all the experiences I have experienced since entering the mountain, and seeing these blood-stained handwritings written hundreds of years ago, everything is secretly consistent. It is like having a bucket of snow poured on my head. The top of my head was as cold as the soles of my feet, and I had an ominous premonition of inevitable doom. Could it be that life in this world, whether it was food, drink, words or deeds, was already doomed? So what's the point of living?

Mr. Sun Jiuye had had this premonition for a long time. Now that he saw that the iron plate was fixed, he felt like banging his head against the wall. But he suddenly thought of something, grabbed my arm suddenly and said, "No! Absolutely." It won't happen! You must not let the Corpse Immortal come out. I have an irresistible way. As long as you... all die now, the destined things can be changed!"

Sun Jiuye emphasized very seriously: "Ever since I read the "Guanshan Excavation Record" left by Feng Shigu in the Dixian Village Ossuary Building, I began to worry that our attempt to rob the tomb in the mountain was a trick. This person's trap and all the sacrifices he made along the way ultimately led to the horrific consequences of the corpse immortal coming out of the mountain. Now it seems that it is true. At this point, if you want to change this upcoming disaster, everyone has to give up their own life."

Sun Jiuye's ancestor Feng Shiqi once turned against the Earth Immortal. His descendants spent hundreds of years deliberately trying to find Coffin Mountain and destroy the corpses left by the Earth Immortal. This old grudge has already seeped into Sun. In the bone marrow of Master Jiu, his father and brother, his closest relatives, had been left dead in the wilderness for many years because of this. In addition, it is now known that the descendants of Feng Shiqi are just pawns in the earth immortal palm. This kind of humiliation And resentment is even harder to bear.

Therefore, Sun Jiuye felt that even if everyone was allowed to die in Coffin Mountain, none of the dead in Coffin Mountain could be allowed to leave, otherwise the corpse plague would spread and the consequences would be disastrous.

The fat man and I listened to half of what he said, but we couldn't listen anymore. No matter how hard we thought about it, we couldn't commit suicide just because of this kind of thing. Moreover, the results deduced by these wizards for Feng Shigu were very obscure. How could we really? We never believe in fate. Nothing is predestined.

Sun Jiuye asked me: "You also know some principles of Qimen Bagua. Since ancient times, it has been known as the magical power of numerology. You touch your conscience and say, you really don't believe in fate?"

I sneered and said: "This is how I have made money over the years. Of course I believe in these ancient maths. I touch my conscience and say that I do believe in fate. Everything in the world is fate, and fate is fate. We know a person. We have boarded your pirate ship to find Dixian Village. This may all be fate." I paused and then said: "But the fate I believe in also has my standards, and the standards are based on my It’s up to my personal needs to decide, whatever I can accept, that’s my true destiny; whatever I can’t accept, that’s fucking bullshit.”

Sun Jiuye said angrily: "You are obviously using strong words. If you weren't so smart, you wouldn't have forced me to take you into Coffin Mountain. Since this disaster has been caused, you should dare to take responsibility. If we don't die, what will happen to the earth?" Once the fairy village begins to be destroyed, it will be time for the corpse immortal to come out and save the world. Now we still have a chance to change everything. The reason why I tell you frankly is that I don’t want to do anything to you behind your back, otherwise I can kill you secretly. , I know you are a sensible person, think about it carefully, now there is no other way but to die."

I didn't want to talk to this old madman anymore, and was about to find a rope to tie him up to prevent him from doing something that would threaten everyone's lives. At this time, I heard Shirley Yang say to Sun Jiuye: "Professor, you are I'm confused, think about it carefully, if it is really destined to happen, and we are involved in this incident, no matter what measures we take to avoid it, it will never change the already destined fact, otherwise we can't It’s kind of destined.”

Sun Jiuye was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then squatted on the ground, holding his head and falling into painful thoughts. Indeed, as Shirley Yang said, there will never be a second possibility for what has happened in this world, if To say "there is no accident, everything is inevitable" means that it cannot be reversed by the strength of just a few people.

In fact, I am also very worried about the results of the calculations deduced by these prisoners. My experience and intuition tell me that the zombie immortal coming out of the mountain will happen in nine cases, but under any circumstances, I will definitely not do it. Don't give up your life easily, and never say the word "sacrifice" lightly until the critical moment.

When I saw Mr. Sun Jiu was silent for a moment, I winked at Fatty and told him and Yao Meier to keep an eye on Sun Laojiu. Then I continued to search for clues in the stone room. If the results of those revelations were true. , then as long as we don't go out of the mountain and stay in the Earthly Immortal Secret Room for the time being, there won't be any danger, so we calm down and stop thinking about the many crises in Coffin Mountain.

The top priority is to find evidence first to confirm whether the huge disaster in the revelation will really happen. It doesn't matter if you don't find it. After searching carefully in the stone room full of prisoners' corpses, more and more "truths" will appear one by one. In front of everyone.

This broad and dark secret room is where the descendants of the evil witches perform the "Apocalypse". Behind the stone prison secret room, there is a secret passage. The door is tightly closed and impassable. We have to go and check the secret room first. It is now impossible to speculate how the Earth Immortal Feng Shigu judged the authenticity of these revelations, but the foresight of the "Earth Immortal" is simply beyond the reach of ordinary people. Since he can be convinced, he must have had his basis back then. However, after we discover these secrets hundreds of years later, we can make judgments about some things that have already happened. The accuracy of the various revelations deduced back then is beyond doubt.

Shirley Yang and I peeled off the dust on the stone wall and found some painted murals with symbols such as astrology and hexagram numbers, as well as figures, mountains and rivers. It seems that at that time, tortoise shells and bronze beast plates were used to deduce the number of elephants, and then based on the symbols Numbers are drawn into patterns.

Shirley Yang said that these symbols and patterns seem to represent events, which are similar to the "prophetic prophet" of Zagrama Mountain.

I told her that this was so different. Although I didn't know what the "prophet" of Zagrama predicted, my experience at that time could prove that it was really a "divine number". If fate really exists in the world, then The prophecy of a "prophet" is evidence. No matter you turn it over and over, everything that should happen will happen as described in the prophecy. The behavior of the "prophet" in painting may be similar to a support, which is an ancient and mysterious way. Spirituality.

But what appeared in this cell was the most profound "deduction" technique in Chinese metaphysics, because since ancient times, astrology has been all about observing signs, and its purpose is nothing more than "the unity of heaven and man", the emergence of the sky and the earth The different signs are the foreshadowing of various phenomena in the human world.

Methods of deduction such as "celestial phenomena and celestial signs" all belong to the "ghosts and gods" in ancient hexagrams. The so-called "ghosts" refer to the trajectory of things, such as the movement of stars; and "gods" It refers to time, such as the twenty-four solar terms or the twelve hours of the day. "

To give a relatively simple example, a long time ago, people knew that the morning glow does not go out, but the sunset glow travels thousands of miles. There is also a saying that "the clouds are bright and the rain is continuous; the corrugated clouds are good for farming." This is by observing the changes in the clouds in the sky. It is the oldest weather prediction to judge whether it is cloudy or sunny. Today, of course, it is called meteorology, but the ancients believed that it was based on different signs in the sky to make simple and accurate predictions. Modern meteorology often studies clouds, wind speed, and air pressure. Waiting for the data, it turns out that no ancient people could judge the weather accurately by watching "Xingyueyunxia". Therefore, although the "weather forecast" broadcast by radio and television stations now looks quite professional, it is basically as inaccurate as a child peeing.

Observing stars and signs is far more mysterious and complicated than predicting the weather. I only have half of the "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", and this half is just a broken Feng Shui book. Although I have continued to learn and study over the years, I have no idea about the real "divination". But I have just started to learn the art of "stargazing". I only know that this method has always been "creating phenomena by numbers". The prisoners in the stone prison should all use this ancient method to calculate. For example, the star in the sky shows "Star Stealer" Palace", and by deducing the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, we can conclude that in the future, "at a certain time of a certain year, a certain month, there will be tomb robbers entering the Coffin Mountain Lingxing Palace and stealing the apocalypse of the Earthly Immortal's coffin." The derivation process is extremely complicated and takes a lot of time. For a long time, the corpses of hundreds of prisoners in the stone prison were as thin as firewood. This may be due to excessive energy and mental consumption, not necessarily due to hunger.

It is said that as long as you master this ancient divination technique, have enough bronze vessels and tortoise shells and dragon bones, and use it well in a specific area and time, you can get "revelation" from the heavenly signs, which is more accurate than the predictions of the prophets. , so sometimes it’s not okay for people not to believe in fate. Maybe there is really an ambassador in the dark who secretly advocates that he controls the rise and fall of all things in the world.

In the "Apocalypse" recorded in Shilao, there are descriptions of "broken coffins, burning fires, and chaotic blades". After the Earthly Immortal Sealing Master experienced various tribulations in ancient times, the corpse was reborn and turned into a true immortal. Let's not say whether there is such a thing in the world. Immortals, at least pry open the coffin, tie the corpse with immortal ropes, pour fire oil and burn it, until the end - when Feng Shigu was pierced by the blades of the "Nine Death Jingling Armor", we witnessed with our own eyes.

The final "Apocalypse" is hidden on the ceiling of the stone prison. Judging from the figures and murals, it is the Corpse Immortal sitting on the Stealing Star, flying in the sky in the sky, and below are the corpses and bones of the victims in Dixian Village. Piling up like a mountain, countless dead people escaped from the mountain of corpses and jumped in all directions. Below the mountain of corpses was a sea of ​​blood. The situation was full of terror and despair, as if it was the end of the world.

Sun Jiuye was so frightened by the mural above his head that he opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it for a long time. He kept saying, "It's over, it's over, it's really over. This time, it's really over. Master Feng's ancient practice is the way of killing. The more dead people he saves, the greater the Taoism will be." If our group is the thief star that appears in the sky, the corpse fairy will definitely possess all of us in the end, or one of us will escape from Coffin Mountain. Will it really happen? What is destined to happen...is there really no way to change it?

At this time, my mind was confused and I had nothing to say. I did not answer Sun Jiuye's question. It was obvious that no matter what we did, the disaster in the "Apocalypse" would definitely occur.

Shirley Yang sighed and said: "There is a metaphor that may not be appropriate, but I think this is the power of fate. The terrible disaster that Dixian Village is destined to cause is like a novel that has already been written. As this The characters in the story who want to change on their own have already been written by the author - and are destined to become the final truth. The possibility of success... is probably not even one in a billion."

When Yaomei'er heard that even Shirley Yang had said this, she said that she would die and never see her godfather again. Her nose felt sore and tears began to well up in her eyes, but she had to hold back to stop them from falling.

Seeing this, Shirley Yang comforted her and said: "Don't be afraid, Yaomei. Whether it's life or death, we will all face it together, and...and I always believe that God exists, and God will not let this happen." of."

Only the fat man didn't understand what was going to happen at all. He rummaged through the pile of prisoners' corpses and didn't find any valuable weapons. Seeing that everyone looked heavy, he said casually: "How can God have time? Listen. He said that he has moved his headquarters to Beirut to watch the US military fight. He doesn't care about us uncles who don't love grandma. If you ask me, we can't count on others, but we can't help but love ourselves. , as long as you see the opportunity, you have to run if you can, don't let it get away from you."

I suddenly thought of something and said to everyone: "There is no need to be too pessimistic. Think about it. This Dixian Village is completely crushed under the mountain. Sooner or later, the Jingling Mausoleum of Nine Deaths will tear the mountain to pieces, and everything will have to be buried under it." Underground, just because of this, the last scene in the apocalypse will not happen. These prisoners were tortured by Feng Shigu, and they couldn't prepare for it. In the end, they just made up a random story and got through. If this is really the case, wouldn't we be unfounded? ”

I say this mainly to give everyone a reassurance. Although I can't figure out how the immortals in the ancient tomb escaped from Coffin Mountain, I know that this will definitely happen, sooner or later. Under the current situation, I am full of heart. Panic is meaningless at all. Just like the fat man said just now, no one can count on us except ourselves.

Although Mr. Sun Jiuye seemed to be very cunning in deceiving us into the tomb of King Wuyang, in fact he has lived in seclusion all his life. He has no knowledge. It was just a surprise. Even I didn't guess that his background was like this. Deep, but now, his mind has long been confused and he can't come up with any ideas at all, so he has no choice but to agree to let me arrange it.

I thought to myself that the current plan was to find a way to escape the catastrophe of Coffin Mountain's destruction. Depending on the situation, it would be impossible to escape. I could only stick to it and wait for changes, and then see how the situation would develop before I thought about it. Dang Ji took out the "Picture of Viewing Mountains and Residences" and asked everyone which part of the "Coffin Mountain" is the strongest? To find a safe place, it is best to be able to advance and retreat to avoid the "Nine Death Jingling Armor" from all directions.

Sun Jiuye said that if the "Apocalypse" is true, we will be safe wherever we escape. Before the "Corpse Immortal" comes out, we will not die even if the sky collapses and the earth breaks apart.

I said this shouldn’t be viewed this way. Will the final “disaster” in the apocalypse happen? And what is this disaster like? No one can tell until that moment actually comes, and there is only one stolen star. Do all five of us correspond to this star? Or will some people die in the coffin mountain, and some people will take the corpse fairy out? There are too many uncertain factors. The only thing we can do at the moment is to "do our best and rely on destiny." There is a saying that "fate is destined by heaven, and everything depends on human actions." Our principle is to "better to take the tenth step." "One step goes a long way, no step is dangerous." Whatever you can do, you should try your best to do it.

Everyone felt that this was the truth, so they made their own plans. Finally, referring to the opinions of Yao Meier and Sun Jiuye, they all agreed that the old house of the Feng family in Dixian Village was the strongest, because in the main hall of the Feng family house, in addition to the tomb, there should be Several cellars that are the same as those in the Feng family's old house in Qingxi Town are "war preparation areas" where gold and silver are stored and where military disasters are avoided. Their locations are also marked on the map. They are absolutely closed and strong, and even the nearby coffin insects cannot crawl in. .

I saw that there were lamps, candles and residual oil used for candlelight calculations in the stone prison. I thought that these things were of great use, but they still lacked some things. I frowned, thought of it, and worshiped the corpses in the room first. I bowed: "You old and young men, it stands to reason that the enemy of our enemy is our friend. Even though we come from all over the world, we all have a common enemy, so... So if we are in trouble, you can give us more support. If you wait a moment, If you have offended me, please forgive me. It is too salty and annoying to talk too much, so I will not say more to you comrades. If the person named Hu can still go back alive, he will definitely burn more paper horses and incense sticks. I would like to recommend to you all in the morning. After escaping from the netherworld, I am guaranteed to be a leading cadre in my next life."

After saying that, I asked everyone to peel off some of the prisoners' clothes, find some withered legs and feet that had been severed and had no owners, soaked them in lamp oil, tied a few simple torches, and prepared to use them to drive away the coffin bugs when I returned to Dixian Village. The only thing is to find the exit and return to the "Dixian Village". The door behind the stone prison is heavily locked, but Yaomei'er has the "bee box" skill of picking locks with a pin remover, so she can deal with a few iron locks. Down.

Pushing open the back door of the stone prison, they saw another section of sloping stone steps. In short, the higher they went, the closer they were to Dixian Village. Everyone didn't want to think about it anymore. They filed into the secret passage and walked all the way up. At the end there was A locked lid, I pried open the lock pin again, and my eyes lit up. I took a closer look and found that I had gone around in a circle and returned to the deep ravine where the belly of Pangu Vein split open. Not far from the entrance of the village, there are stone troughs where the sun fire flows around, still flowing endlessly.

"Earthquakes and ground tremors" continue to occur in Coffin Mountain, but the houses in Dixian Village are still strong and have not collapsed on a large scale. The coffin worms that crawled into the mountain are still scurrying around, but they are afraid of the sun and do not dare to approach. The jade cave leading to Lingxing Palace.

I made a gesture and asked everyone in the secret passage to come out. I was about to light the torch and go to the Feng family mansion, but something unexpected happened around me.

Those "coffin worms" that crawled into Dixian Village from the mountain wall seemed to be suddenly driven away by something terrifying. They rushed towards us like black tides. They seemed to have lost their normalcy and did not care about the stone trough. Due to the threat of "Yang Sui", the coffin worm crawling in front fell into the stone trough and died immediately. However, the worms that kept dying filled the trench in an instant, and the rest rushed in one after another.

I thought to myself that either the "coffin bugs" were crazy, or they had a premonition that something worse was about to appear in Dixian Village, and when they were desperate, they desperately tried to escape into the Pangu Vein Jade Cave. This situation There is no use setting down torches anymore. If the five of us don’t escape, we will all be eaten alive by coffin worms.

I was horrified. I was about to tell everyone to quickly retreat into the secret passage to hide. Unexpectedly, Sun Jiuye had already locked the iron lock of the secret door again behind him, and filled the keyhole with soil. If he wanted to go back again, he would I couldn't go back. There was a "buzz" in my head. I could no longer suppress the anger in my heart. I grabbed his collar and cursed: "Sun Laojiu, you are so fucking crazy! Believe it or not, I will kill you." Cut it into pieces!"

Sun Jiuye's face was expressionless and he said coldly: "I just want to see if the destined things can be changed. If the final disaster in the apocalypse is destined to happen, no matter how many coffin bugs crawl over, they won't be able to bite us. , On the contrary, if we are all eaten by insects, the dead in Dixian Village will never see the light of day again."