Chapter 22: The Tomb of Terror
After Zhang Yuan returned to the residence, the old man had returned to the room alone, and still did not seem to come out of his sadness, Zhang Yuan knocked on the door, and there was only a sound from inside that he was tired and then there was no movement, which made Zhang Yuan a little embarrassed to disturb people anymore.
Now it is almost noon, and Zhang Yue is about to return, during the time he has lived here, Zhang Yue will go to a quiet place every day to practice brute force dueling, and will not come back until it is time to eat.
Zhang Yue is already a martial artist who has broken the mortal realm, of course, he no longer needs to rely on food to ensure the energy he needs every day, but Zhang Yue will come back on time every day, obviously afraid that during his absence, Zhang Yuan's enemies will find here.
This is still the case today, when Qin Siyu was ready for lunch, Zhang Yue appeared in the courtyard of the old man's house on time, as if the food Qin Siyu made every day could be fragrant for ten miles, and he came back every day with a smell.
Now Zhang Yuan has handed over the brute force decisive movements he learned to Zhang Yue, as for those that Zhang Yuan himself has not learned, it is difficult to describe them only through narration, so he can only wait for himself to learn new movements before teaching them.
"Zhang Yue, where do you practice every day?" Zhang Yuan asked.
Zhang Yue didn't expect that Zhang Yuan would suddenly ask him about the place to practice brute force duel, after all, the physical conditions of the two are different now, and the direction of the main practice of the two is also different, so what is suitable for Zhang Yue may not be suitable for Zhang Yuan, but since Zhang Yuan asked, Zhang Yue did not hide it.
"It's probably dozens of miles away from here, and when I go and come back every day, I mainly practice Edgeworth, and there is a small waterfall there, so I practice brute force duels under the waterfall every day, and I think it would be better to practice brute force duels while being under external pressure. ”
Zhang Yuan nodded, indeed as Zhang Yue said, if there has been an external force oppressing his body, then brute force can indeed make his own improvement faster, just like when he practiced in the thunder and lightning summoned by the thunder god, not only did he not die in the thunder and lightning, but also made his body stronger, but at this moment, Zhang Yuan was not interested in these at all, so he said directly to Zhang Yue: "You will practice near the village from tomorrow." ”
"What, what's going on here?"
Zhang Yuan told Zhang Yuan and Qin Siyu what he encountered today, so he wanted Zhang Yue to wait in the village, hoping that the next time there was a funeral in the village, he could use his immortal sense to observe and find the reasons for these strange things.
Of course, Zhang Yuan didn't just let Zhang Yue die, if there were no dead people in the village for a year or two, would he have to wait for a year or two, in fact, this is not the case, because he has lived for more than a month, Zhang Yuan also learned about the situation in the village, and there are a few old people in the village who have run out of oil and lamps, and these old people can only lie in bed every day and wait for that moment to come, so Zhang Yuan asked Zhang Yue to wait for a while.
Zhang Yuan is not ruthless, first, he has no ability to treat the aging of their organs, and there is also an ancestral doctor in the village, and their physical condition is directly announced by the doctor, and they may die at any time.
The people in the village seem to be particularly indifferent to family affection, only the old people care about their offspring, and the younger generation will not sympathize with these elderly people at all, even those who are about to run out of oil, their sons and daughters-in-law have not come back to serve, and the daily eating, drinking, and Lazar are all taken care of by other people in the village, and the task of the young people seems to be to leave here to work, it seems that when they leave here, they will forget the curse that has existed here for generations, and leave the nightmare that they have heard and seen since childhood, of course, after the death of the old man at home, the next generation of the family will choose to go home to live, and at this moment, Zhang Yuan thinks that they are choosing to come back and wait for death, because only after the death of the old will it be their turn, and after the death of the old one, the probability of death in the outside world has increased, in order not to let others know the secrets of the village, so they will choose to choose to come back to live after the death of the old man at home.
After Zhang Yuan finished talking about his discovery, Zhang Yue also had some interest, after all, every day is a boring practice, and anyone will be a little bored, so Zhang Yue immediately agreed to Zhang Yuan's request, and prepared to stay near the village to practice recently, so that he could know what was happening in the village at any time.
In this way, the ordinary life continued again, and Zhang Yue began to wait for a long time.
The old man recovered on the second day of the burial of the old man, I don't know if he was used to such things or he didn't have much affection for the old man, but from this day on, the old man never mentioned the old man, as if the old man had passed away, along with the memories in the minds of others, he was buried at the same time.
After waiting for more than a month, Zhang Yue finally waited for the death of an old man again when he was about to lose his patience, and he was one of the ones who had run out of oil before.
On this day, Zhang Yuan was on his way back, Zhang Yuan felt that his emotional perception was becoming clearer and clearer during this time, as if he could return to the past at any time, Zhang Yuan believed that as long as the emotional perception could be restored, presumably as before, his own teleportation could also be used again, and at that time, his life-saving means could be restored.
When Zhang Yuan just returned to the door of the old man's house, he saw the old man who had not gone out all day suddenly walked out with a cane, and when he saw Zhang Yuan appear, he was slightly stunned, but he didn't say anything, and walked past Zhang Yuan.
Looking at the back of the old man Wa, still as lonely as when the old man died, Zhang Yuan knew that someone in the village must have died again, so Zhang Yuan immediately turned around and walked towards the place where Zhang Yue was.
When Zhang Yue found out that Zhang Yuan appeared, he knew that what he was waiting for had finally happened, and he did not hesitate, and directly shrouded his immortal sense in the entire village, and it was difficult to hide any movement in the village at this moment.
"Well, now the whole village except for the ones that can't move, all of them are walking in the direction of one family, it's really strange, who directly notified them one by one, I also checked it out with immortal consciousness not long ago, and I didn't find anything unusual?"
"What are you talking about?" Zhang Yuan was a little surprised after listening to Zhang Yue's words, if what Zhang Yue said was true, then how did the old man who had been staying at home and not going out know that someone had died, could it be that every time someone died, the old man could feel it by himself, if this is really the case, then I am afraid that the secret hidden in this village is really not small.
"I'm pretty sure, I checked the situation in the village not long ago, and I also checked the old people who ran out of oil, but what is puzzling is that just now, they haven't died, no, even at this moment, the owner of the village to which the villagers are going has not died, what's going on?"
At this moment, Zhang Yuan secretly hated that his Tianyantong had disappeared, otherwise he could have taken a closer look, but at this moment, he could only rely on Zhang Yue to tell for himself, but when Zhang Yuan was secretly anxious in his heart, the scene in Zhang Yuan's eyes suddenly changed, a simple house suddenly appeared in Zhang Yuan's eyes, a dying old man was lying alone on the bed in the room, just when Zhang Yuan wanted to see more clearly, the scene in his eyes disappeared, and then no matter how hard Zhang Yuan tried, he couldn't see that scene.
Zhang Yuan was a little shocked, Zhang Yuan believed that he was not dazzled just now, and what he saw must be the person Zhang Yue observed at this moment, this situation is very similar to his Tianyantong has signs of recovery, but there are some differences with Tianyantong, he is not close to the house now, and there is a wall in the middle, even if his Tianyantong is restored, it is impossible to see the situation in the room here, because the remote vision and perspective in Tianyantong cannot be superimposed, but the situation just now absolutely superimposes remote vision and perspective, as if the real Tianyan。
Everyone went in, but they didn't do anything, just watched him quietly. ”
Zhang Yue's voice suddenly sounded, waking Zhang Yuan from his contemplation, and Zhang Yuan no longer paid attention to the condition of his body after waking up, but waited for Zhang Yue to tell about the rest of the situation.
After everyone went in, they waited silently, only a few of the younger ones carried a coffin out of the room, and carried the old man into the coffin before he really died, and let the old man wait for death directly in the coffin.
The old man was carried into the coffin for two or three minutes and swallowed his last breath, and everyone immediately buckled the coffin lid up, and nailed the coffin nail, and also sealed all the connections with tape, but before the coffin lid was fastened, Zhang Yue actually saw an incredible picture, at the moment when the old man breathed, the whole body began to corrode rapidly except for the head, in just a short period of time, the deceased old man in addition to the head intact, other places became a puddle of pus, seeing such a situation, Zhang Yue, who had long been accustomed to seeing the dead, was a little nauseous, and retched a few times, because the scene was really disgusting。
This kind of thing will definitely make people have nightmares at midnight, and after patting Zhang Yue's shoulder with some comfort, Zhang Yuan walked towards the old man's house first.
In the deceased's home, when everyone completely sealed the coffin, Zhang Yue stopped continuing to observe, because the next was the same as when the old man died, and a few younger people went out directly carrying the sealed coffin, obviously to let the old man be buried in the ground as soon as possible.
Zhang Yuan believes that if the deceased old man really has a spirit, he will definitely not be buried in the ground, who will calmly face that he will only have a head left after death.
When Zhang Yuan and the others returned to Old Man Wa's house, Old Man Wa had not come back yet, but Qin Siyu had already prepared the meal, and when Zhang Yue looked at one of the meat dishes with soup, he ran outside again and retched, obviously thinking of the scene he had just seen again.
Old man Wa came back more than ten minutes after Zhang Yuan and the two came back, just like last time, Old Man Wa was ready to return to his room again, but this time, Zhang Yuan was not going to let him go like this.
"Uncle Wa, can you tell us why the old man who died is in such a situation?"
Listening to Zhang Yuan's words, the old man stopped and looked at Zhang Yuan with some surprise, from Zhang Yuan's words, the old man knew that Zhang Yuan had already known the biggest secret in his village, although he didn't know how Zhang Yuan found out, but Zhang Yuan's actions had made the old man completely change his previous views on several people, if the world knew the situation in his village, not to mention what outsiders would think of the people in the village, I was afraid that it would directly lead to no woman daring to marry the young people in this village, so the old man regretted it at the moment, and he should not have left Zhang Yuan and the three of them for a few room fees。
"Get out of here!"
Although Old Man Wa wanted to keep the secrets of the village, he also knew that with these left-behind old people in the village, there was absolutely no way to blackmail Zhang Yuan and the others, so in the end, he had no choice but to let Zhang Yuan leave.
"Uncle Wa, haven't you noticed any difference between us after we have lived for so long, maybe you can tell us something, and we can help solve it. ”
"Let's go, it's not something you can solve, it's a curse from God, and no one can solve it. ”
Although the old man rejected Zhang Yuan's proposal, but the old man was no longer silent, Zhang Yuan saw hope, maybe he worked harder, more sincerely, and the old man would tell him everything, after all, he already knew some of the things.
"Uncle Wa, we don't have any malicious intentions, we just really want to help you, say it, maybe we have thought of other ways?"
Seeing the persistence in the eyes of the three people, the old man knew that if he didn't say it, Zhang Yuan and the three of them would definitely try their best to find out, rather than let the relationship between Zhang Yuan and the three of them deteriorate because of this, it was better to say it directly, and Zhang Yuan and the three of them also knew some of the things.
Old Man Wa went to the kitchen and fetched a pot of mud-sealed old wine and a porcelain bowl back to the table, while Zhang Yuan and the three of them also waited for Old Man Wa without any urging.
The old man first opened the mud seal, poured out a bowl of the old wine that had been dusty in the pot for many years, and poured the whole bowl of old wine into his mouth.
The old man told Zhang Yuan that this place was not originally a village, and the people in this place lived to protect the ancient tombs in the village, but in order to survive better and to protect the ancient tombs for a longer time, this place gradually became a village.
No one knows how long the ancient tomb has existed, the old man just listened to his grandfather once said, in fact, earlier, there were some written records in the village, but in the grandfather's generation, all the records were destroyed in a fire, but the old man's grandfather knew that the earliest record in the village was in the Han Dynasty, but it was not the time when the ancient tomb appeared, because during the Han Dynasty, the ancient tomb has developed into a small village after many years, so the ancient tomb appeared earlier than the Han Dynasty, but there was no record before the Han Dynasty。
Although there is no written record, the most important thing passed on by the people of the village is that the eighty-one families in the village must guard the ancient tomb for generations, and no one can leave, of course, the most important thing is that the ancient tomb must not be opened, otherwise, it will cause the common people in the world to fall into war, plague, natural disasters and other misfortunes.
Of course, some people don't particularly believe in such things, so in order to lift the curse in the village, some people with high prestige in the village will persuade everyone to open the tomb and find a way to lift the curse.
It's just that I don't know if it's a coincidence or something else, the ancient tomb has been opened twice and a half, after the first opening, everyone didn't see any underground palace under the sealed mound, but they saw a simple coffin, but everyone didn't have a way to open it, but when the coffin was found by everyone, Mongolian Genghis Khan led troops to attack the Central Plains, and soon got the world, until this moment, everyone remembered the ban of the old people, when the ancient tomb was opened, the world will not be peaceful.
At that time, everyone quarreled for a long time, firstly, because the coffin could not be opened, and secondly, the world was in war at the moment, and even if the curse was lifted, they could not leave this still somewhat peaceful mountain village, so after building a tomb for the coffin, they filled the sealed soil again.
When it was opened for the second time, the coincidence reappeared, when only the mouth of the previously built tomb was opened, and Nurhachi led troops to invade the territory, so everyone still couldn't find a way to lift the curse.
Originally, after these two things, the people in the village agreed that they would never open the ancient tomb again in the future, but the third time was in one night, there were tomb robbers in the village, and after everyone rested at night, they went to dig the ancient tomb in the village, and thanks to the fact that someone got up at night and found that there was a movement in the ancient tomb in the village, they immediately shouted loudly, and everyone came to the ancient tomb one after another, and the tomb robbers also fled in panic, but at this moment the sealing mound of the ancient tomb was also half excavated.
After listening to Uncle Wa's story, Zhang Yuan and the three of them looked at each other in shock, I don't know if Old Man Wa is telling a story or is it true, if Old Man Wa is indeed telling something, then this ancient tomb is too frightening, and when it is opened, Huaxia will be in danger, but how to listen to this kind of thing is hard to believe, so Zhang Yuan asked: "Uncle Wa, after the third opening, has there been any major incident." ”
The old man did not answer Zhang Yuan's question directly, but fell into memories after drinking a bowl of old wine, obviously the third excavation of the ancient tomb made the memory of the old man more profound, but I am afraid that no one remembered, the person who got up at night was the father of the old man, so the old man clearly remembered the date of that day.
"The third excavation, that day was July 6, 1937!"