Ghost Blowing Lantern II

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Lao Yangpi suddenly opened his mouth and told us that when he was a tomb robber, he had heard of this kind of ticks that live on zombies. He never thought that such a thing existed in the world. If it weren't for the water gall in the golden well that saved his life, everyone would have been dead for a long time now. Yes, this kind of lice is actually not a living thing at all. The old Huangpizi refined the inner elixir as big as a blood egg during his lifetime. After his death, his flesh and gallbladder did not change, giving birth to countless lice, which were knotted by his spirit, like a magnet. The mother-of-pearl in it is usually attached to the hair of a corpse like skin flakes. It comes alive when it encounters anger and cannot be extinguished by water or fire. It specializes in absorbing the essence of living people and then replenishes it in the mother-of-pearl. It can kill lice on a zombie. There was not a single living person left within a radius of more than ten miles. Fortunately, the fat man stepped on the blood egg. Otherwise, even though we had water bladders to save our lives, the ticks in Huangpizi's corpse would continue to appear until all the nearby living creatures were wiped out. People's souls are sucked clean. I'm afraid that people in this institute were not prepared for this, so they all lost their lives. The chairman's educated youth was lucky. Lao Yangpi thought he was with us and saved his life. These centipedes are sucked. They are full of raw water, but the mother beads have been destroyed. Soon they will dry up and dissipate, and they will no longer pose any threat to living people.

I asked Lao Yangpi what happened to these? It's really a bit foggy now, and I'm getting more and more confused. We have gone through these life and death tests, and we are all grasshoppers on the same rope. We have to die together, and we have to live together in a pile. There is no need to hide it anymore.

Lao Yangpi stood up from the water with difficulty. He admitted that although he had told us most of it, there was indeed a hidden secret inside. Now is not the time to talk about it. It may not be safe in this golden well. We have to leave quickly and wait until we get out. After that, it’s never too late.

Everyone was immersed in the clear water in the water bladder. Although their whole bodies were shivering with cold, their wounds no longer hurt and they had some strength. At this time, when they heard Lao Yangpi said that there was still danger here, they felt like drowned rats. Climbing out of the Jinjing from the water, I planned to go back to the building of the research institute to find some dry clothes to change into, otherwise I would not be able to return home. As soon as I walked to the hole in the ground covered with turtle bones, I heard an evil wind ahead. , large pieces of black ash drifted past the eyes, and when I grabbed it with my hand, it was all the ointment from the body of the dead.

The sound of the evil wind coming from outside the corpse cave brought together the cries of ghosts and gods from the heaven and the earth, like the roar of a dragon in a long valley. It made the cave walls tremble, and patches of black dust floated in the air. We waved our hands casually. When the black smoke hit my face, I felt that my fingers were slippery and greasy, filled with hot grease. I couldn't tell whether it was human fat or butter.

Lao Yangpi shouted, "No, the demon dragon is about to return to its nest. Being swept up by this black wind is like being incinerated by the high temperature of a crematorium. A living person will be turned into ashes in an instant."

I knew this was no child's play, so I kept my feet on my feet, urging everyone to run away. The terrain inside the Turtle Bone Cave was flat. If the cave was blocked by that blast of foehn wind, no one would be able to survive. The only way to survive was to rush out of the way of that hopeless wind. Before the invisible demon wind appeared, he fled into the Yin River under the Luoshui Bridge. At this time, no one could think about the cause and effect. He threw away everything he could and rushed forward lightly.

The sound of ghosts crying outside the cave entrance became louder and louder. We almost crawled to the bridge, and slid along the smooth rocks beside the falling water bridge into the cold and biting underground water, but the water was not deep. It's almost as deep as the chest, and the feeling of an eyeless blind fish under the water is slipping past, as if there are many cold and slippery strange hands on the body, which is even more frightening, and there is an endless stream of hell karma on the head. The fire roared and burned, and as long as you put your head out of the water, you would hear the shrill whine of the hot wind passing by.

We lay in the water and waited for a long time. The wind suddenly stopped in the cave on the Luoshui Bridge and everything was quiet. The four of us poked our heads out from the Yin River, dripping wet. We didn't crawl back tremblingly until we were sure it was really safe. On the bridge, my whole body was shaking with cold, my upper teeth were chattering and my lower teeth were chattering. I couldn't open my mouth to speak, so I had to fumble out of the cave. In the huge corpse cave outside, almost all the corpses were blown away by the foehn wind. , turned into black ashes, which is exactly the same as the legend of the turtle's sleeping place. The corpses buried in the turtle bone cave eventually all became feathers, leaving not even a bone or residue.

We returned the same way. By this time, the fire underground in the institute had been extinguished, and the fire had not spread to the floors above. In a room upstairs, we wanted to pick up some clothes worn by dead people and change them, but we felt that the clothes were I couldn't wear anything, so I had no choice but to light a fire in the middle of the building to keep warm. I was so cold in the Yin River that my face turned pale and my lips turned blue. Thinking of this experience in Baiyan Cave, it was really unbearable to look back. , especially when Lao Yangpi saw the body of his brother Yang Erdan, he paid no attention to many things in the basement, and even advised everyone: "Why do you look so dejected and listless? Aren't we still alive and well?" This time, not only did I appreciate the cruel and ruthless power of nature, but I also honed my own perseverance to a great extent. This small situation is nothing. You must know that the torrent of revolutionary struggle has just begun. The sea is flowing, and in the future, On the battlefield between China and the United States, our true heroes are revealed." The dead were burned together. He was very disgusted with cremation. In his hometown in Shaanxi, he always buried his body in the ground. After his death, his body was buried with a handful of loess, which was considered worthy of his ancestors. "Buried in the ground" The thought of "for peace" is deeply ingrained. At this moment, the half bag of tobacco leaves hanging on the pot is soaked. He is even more uneasy without tobacco. He shakes his head and sighs at other times. I really don't know what he is thinking in his heart.

But the fat man has no idea what happened today

My mind was in confusion, and I was lowering my head to think about my thoughts. I ignored the fat man who was singing a high-key tone. Only Ding Sitian was busy checking the wounds for everyone. Although the wound on my shoulder was deep, luckily it did not hurt any muscles or bones. As long as it was not infected or inflamed, it would be fine. There shouldn't be any danger, but a piece of meat was bitten off by the old sheepskin on the fat man's neck. The injury was not serious. Any movement of the body would cause the wound to ooze blood, but he was as thick as a black bear and as thick as an iron bull. Naughty, don't take these pains to heart.

The fat man discovered that the wound on Ding Sitian's palm had not healed. It was left when he grabbed the knife in the tree hole. Along the way, four people were trapped in the tree hole, facing two people who could read minds. It was the most dangerous when it was just yellow skin. Looking back now, if it hadn't been for the narrow terrain and special environment, I would have been buried in that old tree hole.

The fat man was unforgiving. He asked Lao Yangpi to take a good look at the wound on Ding Sitian's hand. Such a tender and beautiful little hand was cut so hard that the bones were almost visible. This was Lao Yangpi's fault. If the truth had been told earlier, everyone would not have almost lost their lives. But so far, this hateful old sheepskin, disguised as a poor and lower-middle peasant, with a face full of class bitterness, seems to have a lot of conspiracy and tricks that he has not revealed to everyone. Frankly speaking, it is really annoying and hateful. It seems that he is determined to die for the landlord class. It is necessary to call on the revolutionary masses to take action and hold a reasoning and struggle meeting against him.

Ding Sitian disagreed with Fatty’s point of view: “Chairman Mao once emphasized repeatedly that we must adhere to the principle of seeking truth from facts, and that everyone must be equal in the face of the truth. When the truth is unknown, we must never act as arbitrary and oppressive as warlords. , I believe that Old Yangpi Grandpa has his own reasons, and Xiaopang, don’t forget, he also saved our lives."

The fat man said to Ding Sitian: "The principle you mentioned only applies to internal conflicts among the people. There is absolutely no room for reconciliation on the line issue. We must have a clear position on the relationship between ourselves and the enemy. I think Lao Yangpi has ulterior motives. Who knows what he is thinking Isn't there some kind of heavenly tent you're hiding?" After saying that, he turned to me and asked, "Old Hu, you also want to express your position, do you agree with what I said?"

I said to Fatty and Ding Sitian: "Normally, the matter of the herd getting lost has nothing to do with me, but in the past two days, we have gone through life and death without blinking an eye, and no one has done anything. Why is this? I think It is because we believe that Lao Yangpi is the third generation of abject poverty. We educated youth are connected with the poor and lower-middle peasants. We cannot describe two proletarians in one sentence. I don’t agree with the views you just said, although I hold the opinion of Lao Yangpi’s class composition. I have reservations and even doubt the motives of what he did. I don’t know what kind of medicine he is selling in the gourd. But I am also extremely nervous, worried and uneasy about your radical actions just now, because it is not in line with Marxism-Leninism. The basic objective attitude of concrete analysis of specific issues.”

The fat man still insisted on fighting and shouted: "Old Hu, I'll fuck you, second uncle, don't mention anything about objectivity and attitude to me, you are practicing naked eclecticism! If you say it, you haven't said it. I want you to act as a The position of the descendants of revolutionary soldiers shows your attitude!”

Just when the three of us were arguing, Lao Yangpi suddenly said: "Stop arguing, what's the point of arguing? I don't want to hide some things from you educated youths, but I'm afraid that Chief Ni in the organization will know..."

These words are so unexpected. We don’t know why Lao Yangpi suddenly got involved with Chief Ni. Could it be that he also has an unknown relationship with the Baiyan Cave? They stopped talking for a moment and let Lao Yangpi explain the matter clearly. Otherwise, when he went back to the pastoral area and was interrogated, he really wouldn't be able to explain it.

After Lao Yangpi said it, it turned out that he didn't want to hide any facts from us, but at that time...

The reason why Lao Yangpi knew the situation in Baiyan Cave so well was because his brother Yang Erdan found the copper coffin and brought it to the Japanese military research institute in Baiyan Cave and then disappeared. Lao Yangpi was cowardly and did not dare to He went in to find out the truth, but he has not been idle these years. Back then, he learned some tricks of fighting from the bandit chief named Chen, and knew that there are many special ways to fight dragons, such as dressing up and changing his appearance. Explore places where ancient tombs and tombs are said to exist, and learn intelligence clues from local people, such as whether there are any legends on this mountain and whether there are any relics. Through these clues, firstly, you can find the location of the ancient tombs, and secondly, you can also find out the location of the ancient tombs. Learn about the dangers around the ancient tomb. In the underworld, this is called stepping on the plate. Stepping on the plate is a folk juggling act, which means to be cautious and has the meaning of testing the reality of good and bad luck. This method is useful for those who fight upside down. The important clue is called "tongue leakage".

Lao Yangpi picked up countless "tongue leaks" in the nearby mountainous pastoral areas, pieced together these scattered folk legends, and then filtered and eliminated them based on past experience, and gradually learned some of the inside stories of Baiyan Cave.

In fact, "Baiyan Cave" is not a Xianbei corpse cave at all, and there are very few Xianbei corpses in it. However, Baiyan Cave is indeed the same as Gaxian Cave, representing the two holy places of yin and yang, life and death. , because the ancestors living on this land found the bones of many giant tortoises buried here, and fairy scenes of palaces and buildings often appeared in the cave. The ancients did not know that this was a ghost city produced by the sea air in the tortoise shells, and thought it was a human being. After death, you go to your destination in the underworld. However, nomadic people have always advocated sky burial and do not have a strong concept of burial. However, there are still many ethnic groups with different cultural backgrounds and religious beliefs who come here to offer sacrifices to the mountain.

Until a kind of "Yuan religion" appeared near the Daxingan Mountains. Yuan was Huang, and the immortal he worshiped was Yuan Daxian. The word "Huang" coincided with gold, so it was called "Yuan" without mentioning Huang. It was very prosperous for a time and had countless followers. The Yuanjiao shaman is said to be a female humanoid transformed by Wong Tai Sin. He wears a mask and sits in the hall all day long. Devoted men and women worship him and respond to all requests.

In fact, the so-called Huang Daxiangu was just an unknown female corpse made into a human skin body. The magicians put Lao Huangpi inside and used illusions to confuse the people. However, Lao Yangpi didn't know this, he also said The female corpse was really Wong Tai Sin's remains, but Fatty and I had seen this kind of hollow human skin under Huang Pizi's grave and in the secret room, and we knew what was strange about it.

When Lao Yangpi heard what I said about the human-skin puppet, he suddenly felt enlightened. Then he talked about Yuanjiao intermittently. Yuanjiao absorbed many local witchcraft in the Northeast, such as dancing with the great god. Dancing with the great god means dancing. Shaman, but his behavior was very secretive. Later, the scope of activities gradually expanded to the grassland. Baiyan Cave was an important place connecting the grassland and the desert. At that time, people and animals often disappeared near the mountain pass. After Wong Tai Sin died, Yuanjiao's The magic stick announced to the outside world that there was a ghost dragon underground, which jumped out from the underworld to cause trouble. As long as Wong Tai Sin's remains were buried in Baiyan Cave, the ghost of the dragon could be suppressed, so he built a tomb with a golden well. They buried Wong Tai Sin in it. In fact, they did this to occupy this treasure land where turtle bones were buried and water condensed. They also preached that believers in the religion would give up their money and belongings and be buried here after death, so that they could become immortals and ascend. There were many consequences. Everyone spent all their wealth, and there were so many followers for a while. In two hundred years, no one knows how many dead people were buried in the Baiyan Cave.

The Wong Tai Sin that Yuan Jiao refers to is actually the female corpse with an empty shell. There is also a copper soul summoning box, which contains an old weasel whose corpse has been transformed. The soul summoning box is hidden in the golden well, nearby There are also some yellow skins kept to guard this soul-calling box. It is said that the souls of all the deceased in this big tomb will be included in this box. If the widow of a family member needs to talk to someone who has been dead for many years, she only needs to pay Yuanjiao money. Wong Tai Sin can summon the souls of the dead through this copper box.

Everything must be reversed. After experiencing its heyday, Yuanjiao was finally suppressed by the ruling class and gradually declined. The remaining believers took soul summoning boxes and hid back in the deep mountains and old forests of Daxinganling. They built the Huang Daxian Temple and continued to engage in their secret activities. At that time, in the mountains There are gold veins, and there are many people digging for gold. Since it was said a long time ago that the gold in the mountains is hidden by Huangpizi, gold diggers have to burn incense and offer it to Wong Tai Sin. The incense in Huangpizi Temple is Awakened again.

But the good times didn't last long, because a few brave people were curious and secretly looked at the things in Wong Tai Sin's copper box. As a result, many people died around them. I don't know if the gold veins in the mountains were dug out or they grew their own legs. He ran away and disappeared without a trace. Later, a mudslide buried the Wong Tai Sin Temple, and no one saw the contents inside. It was because of this incident that the mound in Tuanshanzi was called Huang Tai Sin Temple. Pizifen, but very few people know the origin of this name. Lao Yangpi also got this "tongue leakage" unintentionally.

Later, the Kwantung Army established a secret force specializing in the study of murderous weapons, and declared it a water supply and epidemic prevention force. They were very interested in this legend and believed that the box was a mysterious and ancient weapon. They did not find it during the excavation of Baiyan Cave, so they bought it. The traitors searched everywhere and finally got their hands on it. However, after the copper box was brought to Baiyan Cave, a huge disaster followed, leaving no one alive. As for how the people in the research institute died, then There are many possibilities, and not all of them were sucked out of life by the centipedes in the copper coffins. It may even be those lean yellow-skinned people with white hair who innately knew that their ancestors were in the coffins. , followed them all the way, killing all the living people in Baiyan Cave overnight. With their weird and terrifying methods, it is definitely not impossible to do such a thing. From this point of view, Huang Pizi can be regarded as Of course, this is just our guess afterwards. Unless the dead are resurrected and tell us what happened that day, there will never be a real answer. In short, not a single living person in the institute is left. It must be the Hu bandits from the Ni'er Society who brought this box in.

Although Lao Yangpi knew that the soul summoning box had fallen into the Baiyan Cave, and that his own brother Yang Erdan probably died in it, he had not been able to muster the courage to go in and take a look in these years, because after all, there were legendary living people there. There was a "ghost government office" with no way out, so he stayed on the grassland doing odd jobs to make a living. After liberation, he was classified as abject poverty. When he became a herdsman in a pastoral area, he had no chance to go to Baidu. Eye hole.

However, there are unforeseen circumstances. There have been disasters in various pastoral areas this year. Only this grassland is peaceful and has become a model of grasping the revolution to promote production. The "Chief Ni" sent here also conveyed an instruction that there are still large areas of idle land near Mobei. The pastures should be fully utilized, and a group of herdsmen affected by the disaster should be moved there with their livestock to survive the winter famine.

Lao Yangpi was frightened when he heard about this. Due to all kinds of sensational legends over the years, no one has ever really entered the hilly jungle of Baiyan Cave. Once herdsmen move there, sooner or later the Revolutionary Committee will discover that there is something hidden in the mountains. A soul-calling box is all that matters. The soul of Sheep Erdan is probably still locked in it. Besides, we can’t just watch people die. But how can we dare to say this directly? When I was worried, the cattle suddenly escaped in the morning. , he had no choice but to take us to chase the cattle. The less he wanted to go into the Baiyan Cave, the deeper he went, until he saw Yang Erdan’s body wrapped in corpse ginseng. He lost control of his emotions for a time and almost opened the soul-summoning box. He summoned the spirit, but fortunately the fat man stopped him in time.

While we were falling asleep due to exhaustion, Lao Yangpi, who had not slept much in his old age, woke up after being confused for a while. He had been fighting for nothing in those years, and his escape technique was very good. He used a knife to cut off the knots. With the belts on his hands and feet, he sneaked back into the secret room and cried loudly over Yang Erdan's body. The sea of ​​evil was boundless, so why not turn back early.

The fat man listened to Lao Yangpi's pitiful words, and suddenly his heart softened again, and he intervened to persuade: "It is lighter than a feather to die as a gangster or a traitor..." Ding Sitian was afraid that the fat man would not speak carefully, so she said something else. The ridiculous nonsense hurt Lao Yangpi's pain, so he raised his hand and pinched his mouth.

Lao Yangpi let out a long sigh. Death is indeed lighter than a feather. When a person dies, he leaves his name, and when he passes by, he leaves a voice. If he dies worse than a feather, it would be considered a great sadness. After returning for the second time When he saw the dead body of Yang Erdan in the secret room, Lao Yangpi finally came to his senses. This man had walked out on his own path. He had advised him hundreds of times. Even if he was a biological brother, he could be regarded as having done his utmost kindness to him. Lao Yangpi was worried that things about the Baiyan Cave would be exposed in the next few days, and that the box would be opened by someone who didn't know the truth and hurt innocent lives, so he decided to bury it in the gold well under the turtle bone cave, and accidentally broke the box. He hurriedly led everyone to jump into a golden well to survive, and only escaped death. Wong Tai Sin's soul summoning box was completely destroyed.

When I heard this, I felt that the copper coffin containing the old weasel's body could summon souls. I'm afraid it's hard to judge whether it exists now. In the early years, the gods and goddesses had similar means of deceiving people by eating and drinking, and summoning the dead souls to prison for interrogation. The case has been around since ancient times. Who knows whether it is true or not, but I would rather think that it is a deceptive illusion. Otherwise, people will not be able to escape after death. The people above can pay money to get you back and talk about it. This kind of The situation is really unacceptable to me, a materialist.

Lao Yangpi didn't tell us the details about Soul Recruiting and Wong Tai Sin. Before the liberation, he had been fighting with the bandits for several years. He was very knowledgeable and knew a lot of things. However, he usually kept it secret. Although he I don’t understand the theory of Feng Shui Qingwu, but I have been exposed to ancient tombs and mounds, and I can get some ideas from hearsay. In the eyes of those physiognomists, the water in the golden well is the gathering of dragon energy, and the dragon spits out the liquid, which has the effect of resurrecting the dead This is the source of the invisible dragon energy at Baiyan Cave Mountain Pass. In his eyes, the dragon energy that devours living beings is a real dragon. At this point, Lao Yangpi stretched out his clenched fist, spread his palm, and revealed a bronze eyeless dragon talisman. He put it in front of everyone for everyone to see, and told us the last "tongue leak".

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