Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Ghost Lights the Lamp
At this moment, hearing the voice of Baocai's humble price, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they didn't expect that this girl was alive and well, and she had found a way out. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoThis confirms what Chen Yu said before: When this guy has a big heart, he is not like a mortal!
There were a lot of skeletons with missing arms and legs crawling over on the back road, some of them were climbing on stalactites, some were standing on the lacquered wooden bridge, and some were already in front of us.
The overdraft of physical strength and energy made sweat run down his face, the ancestor solved the cocoon that blocked the way, and the skeletons gradually closed like an open fishing net. Time is too rushed, and the gap definitely can't accommodate the eight of us to enter at the same time!
Just after we approached the gap, a skeleton sneaked up on Liang Jiu beside me, one of its claws grabbed Liang Jiu's shoulder, Liang Jiu was in pain, bared his teeth and scolded an ancient Chinese saying, I was about to step forward to help, the old ancestor suddenly appeared in front of me, and said to us with a side face: "After touching the golden gate, Chen Yu, you take Xiaoliuzi and they go first!" While speaking, a skeleton flew over, and the old ancestor blocked the skeleton's claws with a knife, and at that moment, I saw the red copper scimitar emitting a red light.
I looked at the majestic and domineering ancestor and the fearless appearance of the enemy before, and I thought about advancing and retreating with him, but when I was very young, my grandfather said: "When the people of Kinmen dig graves and are in danger, they have the idea of sacrificing their lives, and if they can help others successfully get out of danger, they will choose to sacrifice without hesitation." And it is the ancestors in front of me who carry forward this spirit of self-sacrifice.
"Oh, let's go, I have to have a nine-headed body to take care of all of you here, hurry up, don't let me be distracted!"
"Boss Feng, let's go, why did you retreat?" Lao Yu blocked the attack of the two skeletons, with his temperament, he really wasn't the kind of person who would leave behind the friend of life and death.
"I can pass through the heavens and the earth, how can I be the kind of person who dies at the hands of bones. Don't say more, you just go!" The old ancestor's eyes were like a rock, and what he said was categorical and irresistible.
When Chen Yu and the little Taoist priest heard this, they seemed to be soldiers who had won the order, and they had no choice but to turn their heads into the cracks. I watched as the sturdy figure of the old ancestor shuttled between the white skeletons, the speed was so fast that it was elusive, and the three of them controlled the speed at which the skeletons closed the net.
I choked in my throat and stood at the mouth of the gap, unwilling to leave, when suddenly a rough hand grabbed me, and when I looked back, it was a witch, and she said to me seriously: "Go!"
In front of the girl, I had to adjust my emotions, I gritted my teeth, walked into the small crack, listened to the death fight of the ancestors outside, I stopped again, the Miao witch turned around and glanced at me, and said: "Feng Gongzi, this gap is small, the corpse is heavy, if you stay for a long time, you may lose your life." ”
I looked up at the Miao witch who reminded me without the slightest warmth, she passed through the gap before me, I had to comfort myself, "the ancestor is very long-lived, he will not hang so early, he will definitely be out of danger" I suppressed the thought, because I was worried that the fishy smell and sticky rotten meat in the gap had no disgusting effect on me, but what made me feel strange was that there was a slight yellow light emitted in front of the crack.
How could there be light when we came in without a torch? I walked in curiously, and accidentally kicked something protruding. I squatted down and was about to rub the surface of my feet, but I saw a small stone sculpture. It was about the size of my feet, hideous-looking, a bit like a cow, but a one-horned one. I looked at it and found the stone statue. I once saw such a passage in an old book in my grandfather's collection, "there are many rhinos, tigers and bears on it", which is very dangerous for the road ahead.
Just as I was worried about the warning brought by the statue, Bao Cai suddenly appeared and said to me, "This is the mechanism, I accidentally touched this thing when I was retreating just now, so the stone door between the cracks opened!"
The explanation of the treasure reminded me of the sound of some kind of gear turning I had heard outside, and I had to admire the care that the ancients put into the design of the tombs.
I followed him into a short passageway, the walls of the cave were not as eerie as the outer layer, they were relatively smooth, and there were various colorful frescoes of sacrifices. There is also the witch of the Chu State wearing a veil in this painting. However, it was not only these that shocked me the most, but I saw the legendary unquenchable flame - the everlasting lamp.
There are more than a dozen lanterns on the aisle wall of this tomb, it resembles the bronze tripod-shaped lamp of the Warring States Period, the lamp is engraved with inscriptions and elk, auspicious clouds, it looks very ancient and exquisite, like a product in the palace.
In the history of tomb robbery during the Republic of China, there were people who had seen the ever-bright lamp, but no one could accurately explain why it could not be extinguished for a hundred years, or even a thousand years.
Once my grandfather and I studied the lantern when we were bored, we started from the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, flipped through the books, and there was a paragraph in the "Historical Records of Qin Shi Huang Benji": the first emperor ascended the throne at the beginning, wore the Li Mountain, and the world, the world sent more than 700,000 people, wore three springs, and went down to the copper to the coffin, and the palace was full of strange and strange artifacts.
With mermaid paste as a candle, the one who will not be extinguished will last for a long time.
At that time, I thought that the principle of the ever-bright lamp was due to the materials used by itself, but this statement was quickly opposed by my grandfather. It is said that after a thousand years, the mermaid paste will always be used up, unless there is a tomb keeper who can be ready to replace the oil at any time, but even if there is oil, no one can live that long and take care of the tomb all the time.
I joked that it might be a family of tomb keepers, and my grandfather said that people will always be greedy for the red dust and the world with sunshine, who wants to take care of some netherworld people in this underground palace for the rest of their lives, and also carry him on to future generations, if this mission is given to me today, I will definitely go crazy.
The mystery was not solved in the casual chat between my two grandfathers and grandchildren, at this time, I really looked at the legendary fire that would not be extinguished for thousands of years, and I had a little more fear in my heart, because all the reports and records did not reasonably explain the reason why the ever-bright lamp was not extinguished, human beings are always afraid of the unknown, today I saw the skeleton that will move, and I saw the ever-bright lamp that cannot be extinguished by external forces, it is inevitable that I will be cranky, thinking about whether this is a ghost lighting the lamp, because there is a saying in the folk, that is this kind of inextinguishable lamp is lit by people in the underworld, if you want to blow it out, the little ghost will take the opportunity to entangle himself to destroy his yang life, and he has exchanged identities。
I shuddered at the thought of this, and was about to walk forward with the treasure, when suddenly the flame flickered, and then the dim light just now turned into a faint green light. I looked around and wondered, "How can this light change color on its own like an LED light?"
Baocai shook his head in confusion and replied to me, "I don't know......"
When he said this, his voice was on the high side, different from the past, I looked at him more attentively, and asked, "Why don't you see them?"
He pointed to a cave in front of us and said, "They, go in first!"
Bao Cai always likes to make a fuss on weekdays, but when he sees the sudden change of the ever-bright lamp, he is extremely calm, and in this faint green light, his figure is a little rickety, and that monkey face makes me feel a little hypocritical.
I was beating in my heart, and I thought to myself: The little Taoist priest will definitely come out to see my situation after seeing that I didn't come in, just like the treasure in front of me, he will come back to me, but what's wrong?
Just as I was thinking about it, Bao Cai's somewhat strange figure walked up to me, and I felt his breathing, and a strange taste in his mouth.
"Liuzi, let's go......" He held out his hand to me, and for a moment I touched some kind of coldness, and my hand bounced away like an electric shock.
"Why are your hands so cold?" I looked at him with a hint of surprise, the treasure in front of me striking strange.
"It's cold. Bao Cai explained innocently: "In this underground, we are no different from the dead......
Looking at his mysterious appearance, I was a little delirious, constantly suppressing my fear, and comforted: Feng Liu, this is a buddy who has traveled from modern times with you, don't be suspicious. That being the case, for the first time in my days with Baochai, I felt how unreal he was in front of me. I looked at him with a hint of caution, and his gaze was right on me, smiling rather than smiling, but pretending to be serious.
Just when we were in a state of stalemate, the firelight turned a miserable green, illuminating this small space for a while, like the underworld on TV. I pricked up my ears, wanting to feel the breath of the ancestors who were surviving outside, but there was no sound, the space we were in seemed to be closed, and I and Baocai were separated, and even the little Taoist priests were gone.
Sensing that something was wrong, I swallowed and took a step back in panic, as if my body was instinctively resisting the best friend in front of me.
At this moment, in the faint green light, the treasure did not move, but stood in place, and I was surprised to find that the corners of his mouth were raised, revealing a sinister look.
"Liuzi, what's wrong? Are you avoiding me?" said Bao Cai, yin and yang, and pressed towards me again.
I clenched the Mongolian knife in my hand, thinking that this treasure that I did not know at this time was even more terrible than poisonous snakes and ghosts. And I suddenly realized that he didn't have a Mongolian knife in his hand, and the most important thing was that he called me "Liuzi", not "Gongzi"!
"Who are you?" I shuddered at the question of myself, how could a man be turned into a treasure to deceive me, either with a mask of human skin, or with some terrible sorcery?
"Who am I?" the rickety treasure in front of him suddenly laughed, and with his shrill laughter, an everlasting lamp suddenly went out, and the place became a strange dark corner.
I gasped, a cloud of black gas unleashed in front of me, and the person in front of me finally revealed her true face, only to see her long hair hanging down to the ground, wearing a black and red robe, the placket and cuffs of the robe, wrapped with red cannibal vine patterns, and the brocade on a black background, woven with bright red flowers of death. This dress, compared to the murals on the cave, is not the witch of the Chu State!
I was shocked, and when I looked at her face again, I could see clearly, only a cloud of black gas that kept tumbling. My heart tightened, could this be a ghost? Just as I was thinking, another everlasting lamp went out, which reminded me of the folklore of ancient times, could it be that this girl wanted to find me as a substitute for the dead ghost and resurrect herself?
"It's been too long...... I've waited too long......" The face made of black qi could vaguely see the outline of the facial features. She tilted her cheeks back with a hint of sadness, looking at the firelight, as if reminiscing about the past. At this time, I was like a chess piece in her hand, as long as she moved casually, she could decide my life and death.
What should I do? I complained in my heart, sweat on my forehead, this is to deal with a thousand-year-old female ghost, it must be done by the little Taoist, but in this situation, the old ancestors behind are silent, and the little Taoists they don't know where they went. I'm afraid I'm going to be killed by this female ghost before I can say anything. The only thing I can be thankful for now is that I still have the last bullet in my gun, and if I am sure to die, it is better to solve it myself, than to be scared and weak like now.
Just as I was preparing for the worst, the lantern suddenly flickered, and the candles that had been extinguished sprouted a little fire. The witch of Chu State glanced at her very coldly, and my heart twitched, thinking that it was over, and I was going to hang up. In the midst of desperation, I noticed that her illusory robe began to slowly disappear, as if some kind of beautiful special effects had been added to the movie.
I was happy in my heart, thinking that if all the everlasting lights went out meant that my longevity was coming to an end, then it would rekindle it, which meant that my life should not be extinguished. Thinking about it like this, I felt a little lucky, and even the leg that had just been weak had strength.
The shadow of the shrine maiden staggered towards me, and she reached out a little reluctantly to grab my cheek, but unfortunately, the black aura on her body gradually dissipated, and in the end only the black head remained. I saw her grinning as if to say "we'll meet again".
I watched her disappear and couldn't help but be smart. Strangely, however, after shivering, my mind was sullen, and it seemed as if something was attached to my eyes, and it still smelled of blood. In a trance, I tried to open my eyes, and in some kind of yellowish world, I saw a familiar monkey face in front of me, which seemed to be observing. I became resistant to the face and leaned back involuntarily.
After seeing that I had moved, the face stood up straight, and said to a tall white figure beside me in confusion: "Little Heavenly Master, when will Gongzi Ye recover?"
I happily took off the things in front of me, which were two bloody talismans, and the person standing in front of me was a little Taoist.
I stood up, and there was a burst of excitement, but the little Taoist priest was still indifferent, and he explained to me everything that had just happened.
He said that although the lantern is a lighting tool, it is a yin fire that illuminates the underground. Yin fire can charm people's minds, if you don't know its nature, you will be tricked and fall into chaos if you keep looking at it. If I don't make a timely move, then I will follow the flame of the extinguished candle to another world.
When he said this, I felt even more that the ever-bright light was evil, it could make people forget everything that had just happened, just like that kind of hypnosis. But in any case, thanks to the little Taoist priest's repeated rescue, he saved me and Baocai in this strange world. In order to express my gratitude, I put my arm around the little Taoist priest's shoulders, as if I had already regarded him as my own brother, and Baocai was even more exaggerated, directly regarded him as a god, and gave him a new nickname - Zhang Banxian.
Hearing this familiar title, my eyes widened and I lost my voice: "Zhang Banxian!"
Baocai looked at me suspiciously and said, "What's the matter, isn't it enough image?"
I looked at Chen Yu, a name I had heard my grandfather say when I was two years old. If the little Taoist priest is really the Zhang Banxian we know, it will be amazing. Because his family was a warlord organization in Hanzhong in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, his father was Zhang Daoling's grandson, and Zhang Lu, the Marquis of Xiangping, was known as the third generation of Heavenly Master of Wudou Midao, above my ancestor's family, extremely rich and powerful!
I glanced at the little Taoist, and in my grandfather's description, he could be regarded as a "strange man like jade, and the son is unparalleled in the world". It's just that I don't understand one thing, why did he only mention his master from beginning to end, but not his father, and why did he call Zhang Daoling his ancestor, not his great-grandfather?