Chapter 49: A Vicious Circle
Although the silk book was stolen by Cao Qiuji in the tomb of Sima Yan's son, the content was written by Sima Yan himself, which is relatively true. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Right now, all of us sighed, full of sympathy for the dried corpses that surrounded us. Innocent and tragically dead, and still being made like this after death, no wonder the green light on the Netherworld Dead Water is so terrifying. There are too many grievances, so they will surround the place of death and not disperse for a long time, right?
Sometimes the beginning of sorrow is a vicious circle, it seems to never end, I thought that this is the end of the story of the owner of this Chu tomb, but it does not come to an end.
After the death of Qi Ling, in addition to the King of Chu's crazy admiration for his daughter's ability, in fact, there were several other people who had some kind of distorted beliefs since they followed her. They are sick, forever living in unrealistic fantasies, longing for the day when they can enter the divine realm like Qi Ling.
It is these fantasies that cause their descendants to live in dark places, to become ugly, weird, and to lose the original beauty of human nature. And the idea of keeping the tomb from generation to generation has become a foolish belief and a sad habit.
These people are the eight witches beside Qi Ling and the two maidservants around him back then.
Part of the next thing was recorded by Sima Yan's son, that is to say, some of the silk books that Cao Qiuji took out were written by Sima Yan, and some were written by his son Sima Xun. What happened after they passed away is known to Lan Quexi, so I summarized the whole of the three parties, and I feel a little disgusted with ignorance and irresponsible thoughts for future generations. Because I can't stand it, their pedantic thinking that they think they are loyal has hurt too many people who should be happy, such as Lan Yuyu and Lan Quexi.
I didn't experience it, but it was so desperate to think of being in the dark forever, looking at the faint lights, and missing my family.
I looked at Lan Quexi, and combined her mission with the strange combination I had when I first saw her, and she had become a victim of clichéd thoughts, a person who didn't know what happiness was. At this moment, Lan Yu, who suddenly felt that there was a poisonous snake in his stomach, was not sad, he at least broke through his own clan rules. And those who have devoted their lives to it, they are trapped in a narrow vision and ideals, which is sympathetic.
They were poor people in the ranks of the martyrs after the death of the spirits, but they had their own ideas, and for the sake of greater faith, they fled to where we are now.
One of the two maidservants is also a barbarian girl, she can use Gu magic, she is familiar with all kinds of herbs, and she is an amazing person. She established a secluded Miao village in the deep mountains and gathered the people who originally lived here. This person is the ancestor of Lanquexi, that is to say, the ancestor of the Miao people in the deep mountains is not the Chu princess Mi Ling, the misunderstanding of Liuhua and Tie Niu, probably because of the time interval is too long, so he has always thought that his ancestors are the people who exist in the ancient tomb.
In this way, the Miao people guarded the ancient tomb outside, and made a lot of stone statues. These stone carvings we have seen before are very terrifying, as the little Taoist priest speculated that this is a kind of sacrificial idol used for worship, and another function is to deter tomb robbers.
And in the eight witches in the tomb, it is unimaginable that they were four men and four women united and gave birth to offspring. These descendants multiplied and created a group of tomb keepers. They are inbreeding, so slowly, certain diseases begin to come to grip them, which makes them pale and distorted. And because they have lived in the dark world for a long time, the functions of various parts of their bodies are the same as the blind fish caught in the eighth day of the first month, and they have changed.
These people guarded the inside of the ancient tomb, and the Miao people outside began to appear in a cooperative situation. The Miao people in the deep mountains will select a suitable tomb keeper at a certain time and go to the ancient tomb, so that the two families can restrain each other and not cause the loss of the ancient tomb.
At this point, I suddenly felt that the so-called balance between the two families was not as simple as it sounded, although their original intention was to protect the ancient tomb, but I can't believe that their descendants would have no other thoughts if they stuck to such a cold place for a long time. Sure enough, Lan Quexi's next words confirmed this, she said that in the early years, the original intention of the tomb keeper was for Princess Chu, but after a long time, there was estrangement, contradictions, and suspicion between their descendants. It's just that because the other party hasn't done anything to cross the line, everything is quite peaceful, but this peace is just an illusion, in fact, both groups of people are secretly harboring ghosts, and each other is waiting for the opportunity to break out.
Hearing this, Chen Yu asked Lan Quexi: "How many descendants of the Eight Witches are here?"
Lan Quexi shook his head and said, "I guess my grandmother can't be sure......"
Speaking of the descendants of the Eight Witches, I suddenly remembered the shadows I had seen earlier, these shadows were more eerie than the cave monsters I had seen, and I saw that they were wearing purple and black witch robes, and their shoulders were drooping, not like the good ones, and I couldn't help but wonder if these people were also the descendants of the Eight Witches? Why were they dressed so differently from the weirdos? Could it be that there was also a hierarchy among them.
Lan Quexi said that although it is not certain how many strange people are in the tomb, their minds only exist in this ancient tomb, and if we stay here for a long time, we will be killed. So she was quiet when the tomb warned us of danger, because she knew that somewhere in the cave, these people were spying on us. When I finished saying this, my heart sank, and I couldn't help but look at the grotto above my head, the entrance of the cave was very dark, and it was suffocatingly dark, and I thought to myself, at this moment, maybe someone inside was looking at us excitedly, ready to hunt us down and make us into lepers like Liang Jiu.
I didn't dare to think about that scene anymore, I retracted my senses, and suddenly remembered something, and asked Lan Quexi: "You said earlier that those six Gu Keepers drew swords against you because they hated your grandmother and you, where did you start?"
Lan Quexi sighed, saying that it was her grandmother who inherited the will and was the elder of the Miao clan in the deep mountains. She is a very conservative person, and she also firmly believes in the things passed down by her ancestors about Princess Chu's heavenly becoming a god. She had always believed that she would one day lead her people to that height. The emergence and fermentation of this view made her always have only one thought in her mind, and she did not have any care and warmth for her relatives, on the contrary, as long as she could achieve what her heart desired, she could kill her own flesh and blood and bury her own people.
She chose her nephew Lan Yu and his sworn brother Tao Yao to guard the tomb, accompanied by six clansmen. These six people had been in the outside world for a while, and then suddenly came back halfway, and these people were the Gu Keepers we had encountered. After these people came back from outside, they stayed in the village for two whole years, and some of them were selected to guard the tomb, but a few of them went voluntarily.
Hearing this, I thought they were for an ancient belief, but what Lan Quexi said made us realize that people's hearts are not so simple.
It turned out that these people had been outside for a while, and then they began to covet life outside the mountains. They wanted to become human beings, so they spied on the burial utensils in the tomb of Princess Chu. They spent two years in the village to reintegrate and gain trust, but things went out of their control......
After they entered the ancient tomb with Lan Yu and Tao Yao, they disappeared. Lan Wei knew the route of the ancient tomb and began an escape plan, at that time, he, Tao Yao and Lan Quexi agreed to meet in the magpie forest, and then leave the hometown where they were buried together.
And the purpose of the six Gu keepers was very clear, that is, the artifact in the tomb, but although they had a plan, they didn't expect the complexity and danger of Princess Chu's tomb, so when they had just stolen the artifact, they were caught by the stranger.
At that time, Lan Quexi's grandmother was holding a sacrificial ceremony on the stone pier trail at the mouth of the waterfall, and seeing that the six clansmen had lost their faces, the descendants of the Eight Witches had a reason to blame, and in a fit of anger, they immediately carried out a cruel punishment on them, and this punishment was to let the Blood Tail Gu drill into their flesh and skin, let them become the cultivators of Gu worms, and they could only guard the ancient tomb for life.
Lan Quexi said this, and Chen Yu and I finally understood why the six Gu Keepers didn't have a trace of concern when they saw me raising their knives to aim at her, but approached step by step. To put it bluntly, the Miao girl is lying on the gun, these people vent their hatred for their grandmother on her, and we almost became substitutes for the dead who were borrowed to kill people with knives.
At that time, Lan Sorrow and Tao Sickle, who entered the ancient tomb with the six Gu Keepers, were also caught by strange people, at that time, the clan rules of the Miao people in the deep mountains were strict, and Lan Quexi's grandmother was a ruthless horn, and when she saw that everything was out of her original thoughts, she dedicated Lan Sorrow and Tao Sickle to the Spiritual Snake who guarded the tomb in order to warn and continue to balance the descendants of the Eight Witches.
This kind of thing has to be dealt with by the enemy, and it will not make us feel so disgusted, but it happens to a grandmother and nephew, and it makes people feel disgusting. I wondered if this grandmother was perverted, that she could do such a cruel thing to her relatives, and that her heart was really made of iron? But then I thought about it, all the time in such a closed world, all the thoughts and eyes were imprisoned, what made her so mad, and gave everything for a foolish faith. It's as if we can't imagine that the unscrupulous king can invent the punishment of cannon branding, and can chop people into meat sauce...... Sometimes, a certain environment has created a person who ordinary people can't imagine.
After Lan Yu died, Lan Quexi naturally did not succeed in escaping, and she was naturally selected as the next grave keeper. When we met her, she was escorted by six Gu Keepers to the ancient tomb, but someone found us halfway, so there was a series of things that followed.
Most of the truth is already clear, and the next road, as we planned earlier, is to the center of the ancient tomb, the main coffin room of Princess Chu.