Chapter Twenty-Six: The Ghost of the Underground Palace
We feel like we're in a fantasy world, and all the stone things that grow in this world are special. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 For example, a stalactite called a goose tube, which is as white as jade, hangs down from the top of the stone, and the end of the stone has formed a crystalline body similar to a snowflake in the long-term change, which looks fantastic.
At the top of the cave there are layers of eaves that have been extended, and the eaves are composed of ancient and complex bow-shaped bucket arches, which blend with all the scenes, without a trace of rigidity and unnaturalness.
The natural stone waterfall borders a clear pool on the ground, which is not deep, and it reflects the beauty of the entire top of the cave in the water mirror.
The strange stalagmites, stone mantles, and stalactites similar to marine corals in the cave are not enough to shock us, because we see a red and black lacquered wooden bridge on the stone shield on both sides of the waterhole, and there are many colorful paintings similar to cranes on the bridge, and the place where the bridge leads is a water dry column pavilion of the same color, which is the architectural form favored by the Chu people. In the pavilion there is a piano table and beautifully embroidered cushions, on the table there is a copper incense altar, and there is a jade vase, which is inserted in a chalcedony glauder, which is very transparent.
There is also the viewing pavilion, which is surrounded by rows of crystal stone flowers that grow wantonly, and the pavilion connects to the Xuan Corridor, which stretches out to every part of the underground palace.
The stone cave is like the ribs of the Yin Dragon, combined with all the Chu style buildings, and the beauty and shock under this kind of precision work are integrated into the Chu people's idea of "the unity of heaven and man".
We were dumbfounded, and after the injured Chen Yu saw the baby, both eyes were about to fall out. Bao Cai's rapid breathing didn't seem to be due to his previous fear, but the adrenaline that was rapidly rising in his body under the temptation of various rare artifacts. At this time, he hummed a voice of extreme surprise from his throat, and it seemed that he had completely lost his fortune.
The feng shui layout here is just like what the little Taoist priest said before, if the world outside the waterfall is the outer garden of the witch of the Chu State, then the world behind the curtain is her private little paradise, no, it should be said to be a small palace.
There's everything here, all kinds of treasures that flash blind eyes. After being shocked, the old ancestor analyzed that the cave mouth we had just passed through might be the tomb passage of this Chu tomb, and this is the front room, a place similar to the Hades Temple.
On the edge of the waterhole of the temple are stalagmites of various shapes, stone plates, and on them are inhabited cranes, elk, and snakes made of bronze, which are wrapped around the stone pillars to come to life.
Looking at this pomp, I believe that the identity of the witch should be the supreme nobleman of the Chu period, but all the treasures here have not been taken away, obviously because of those skeletons, I saw the corpses lying in this beautiful place, these people have been pulled out of the flesh and blood, and they can no longer see clearly, and judging from their degree of decay, they should have been dead for a while.
When I saw these people, the first thing I thought of was Wang Laohan's son, Wang Yu, but after thinking about it, Wang Yu came back from the dead and became a moving carrion corpse, and he shouldn't have become like this.
The color of the skeletons is very similar to the cave, they are hidden in the abrupt and craggy cave cracks, it is not easy to recognize, and the oxygen content in the cave is low, we only have two torches for lighting, so the fire is not burning, and it is not the first time to shine on the figure of these things.
The other thing I don't understand is how something like a dead man's bones that has no soul or flesh can move freely?
There was no time to think about that, because the skeletons felt the living energy in us, so they twisted their joints and were coming out of the cracks one by one.
"Black Qi ......," the little Taoist priest stared directly at those skeletons.
I asked him what he meant, and he looked at me very seriously and said, "Grievance, these people are in pain before they die!"
Hearing this, my heart sank, and I hurriedly went to look at those skeletons, but I didn't see any black gas, and I thought to myself: Could it be that only the little Taoist priest can see that kind of supernatural thing? Before I could figure it out, the old ancestor on the side said: "The people in the ancient tomb who have deep resentment are either unjustly killed, or those who are buried." ”
"Martyrdom!" I couldn't help but feel creepy when I heard these two words.
In early antiquity, human martyrdom was a common funerary custom. In our modern parlance, there is nothing humane about this brutal system of human burial. Those who were pushed into the abyss by fate were either voluntary, or they were killed alive and then dragged underground for burial.
This kind of death is very aggrieved, and often accumulates a lot of resentment, and it will raise the danger and horror of the ancient tomb to the maximum. This also means that the skeletons we are facing are extremely ferocious, according to superstition, the little Taoist priest is the descendant of the old ancestor Heavenly Master, and he may have seen some things that we can't see, such as the ghosts of those skeletons.
I shuddered at the thought and felt a chill all over my body. The little Taoist priest glanced at me and said, "Those evil things came suddenly just now, so the resentment has been contaminated with you......
"Yes...... Yes......" My lips trembled, and so did Chen Yu on the side, he said, "That...... So what's going to happen?"
"The black qi on your heads is condensed, but fortunately it hasn't penetrated into the ......bones," the little Taoist priest said, taking out the rune paper from his sleeve, he pierced his five fingers one by one with a wooden awl, and then asked Chu Ha to get a bamboo jar. When the rune paper waved in his right hand, it suddenly burned, and when it turned into starry ashes, the little Taoist priest quickly put it into the bamboo jar and dripped a few drops of blood into it.
He drank all seven of us, and at first I felt nauseous, but as the runic water entered, the strange feeling on my body suddenly dissipated. I glanced at the little Taoist priest in disbelief, and thought: I'll go, the blood of the little Taoist priest can still ward off evil spirits?
"How?" he asked with concern.
The old ancestor said: "It's much more comfortable! But if you deal with those things after drinking them, won't you fall for evil?"
The little Taoist nodded, and we were relieved, and returned to combat mode, looking closely at the skeletons that were slowly approaching us, I was surprised to find that they were all missing arms and legs, and it seemed that they had been tortured before they died.
At this discovery, I wondered: "It's okay if this tomb owner is ruthless, but if a group of crippled people are buried, how can she be served underground when she gets underground?"
"She may hate these people!" the old ancestor analyzed: "I saw the bamboo slips in the tomb of the qin master before, and there is a paragraph in it that says that some people got a death order and split the qin master, among these people are Tingli, Lang Yin, Si Gong, and some people who should have been indirectly involved in the death of the qin master back then, these people add up to more than a hundred, but whether it is these bones in front of us, it is difficult to say. ”
Hearing this, Bao Cai interjected: "If so, then this woman's identity is too bizarre, she can kill so many officials with one witch!" Bao Cai looked at the skeleton, swallowed his saliva, and then slowly moved to Chu Hachi's side, as if he could find some peace of mind.
Chen Yu added: "I said, this girl's methods are vicious, even if you let people be martyred, you have to break people's hands and feet!" He said, glanced at the Miao witch, and raised his voice and said: "Sure enough, women's hearts are as poisonous as snakes and scorpions!"
His words were obviously sarcastic about the Miao girl, but at this time, the witch covered her wounds, her eyes were confused at this gorgeous and dangerous world, and she didn't pay attention to Chen Di's words.
While we were speculating, the little Taoist priest took out a piece of talisman paper and reminded us: "Don't say it, those evil things have already come, let's think about how to break through first!"
He reminded me that the skeleton was clinging to the stalactites like Spider-Man, and its teeth rattled as if calling for a partner.
Chen Yu looked at this scene and scolded: "Damn, it's all ****** to bones, and I still know how to play the code!"
When the ancestor heard this, he held the copper scimitar in his hand and said: "Everyone was an official before his death, and all of them have grown up to survive Huigen, and they have to be bones, and they are also the leaders in the bone world!"
"Yes, besides, didn't the little Heavenly Master say it, they have grievances, and now they just catch us to be angry!"
Now when this is fatal, I can't make any jokes, but my ancestors have encountered a lot of dangers, so they learned to make fun out of suffering.
Looking at the skeletons that were crawling on the ground and moving like spiders, I wanted to cry without tears, and I wished that there would be a cannon at this time, and I would directly blow them to pieces.
The sound of bones touching the stalactites came to us like a tide, and when the first skeleton jumped up with full elasticity and stretched out its claws, the little Taoist priest flashed in front of us like a gust of wind, and he still had something in his mouth, but he had a lame awl in his hand, and he had no advantage at all. And just as the skeleton was about to touch him, he quickly pasted the rune paper in his hand to his head. Just when I was worried about his loss and was about to step forward to help, the old ancestor suddenly stretched out his hand to stop me and said, "These are evil things, if the little heavenly master is really the descendant of Zhang Tianshi, then the ghosts of these skeletons are just up to him." ”
I was very anxious about the ancestor's stop, but at this moment, I only heard a bang, and the bones fell apart in an instant.
"No...... Isn't it......" I muttered to myself, and I was joined by Chen.
I looked at the little Taoist priest in a daze, and the blood on his five fingers was flowing more and more.
"Your hand!" I looked at him worriedly, and he said awe-inspiringly, "It's okay!
Hearing him say this, I breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the skeleton on the ground, there was a pool of blood under it, this look, I couldn't help but be a little stunned, thinking: The skeleton is just a bone, no skin and no flesh, how can it bleed?
Just when they were in confusion, the skeletons collectively let out a scream, like the screams of a woman being tortured in prison. The sound spread through the cavern, and it sounded particularly poignant.
Seeing this, Baocai's body trembled like chaff, and he said timidly: "It's over, did they go crazy when they saw their companions hanging?"
"It's not...... If I'm not mistaken, the ghosts of these people may have been imprisoned in their bones, and they have been controlled by the hatred of the witches of the Chu Kingdom, so when the little heavenly master used the talisman, the yin spirits in that skeleton were liberated!" the old ancestor explained.
"Yes, but these spirits can't control their minds, they want to be free but can't help themselves, so it's painful now. The little Taoist priest said, took out another piece of talisman paper, and quickly drew a talisman spell on it with his fingers.
When the old ancestor heard this, he praised from the bottom of his heart: "You are really a descendant of Zhang Tianshi, and you can read the yin soul with your eyes...... But how can this formation be broken?"
The little Taoist priest stood in front of us with a talisman paper in his hand, and he replied: "The tomb master is a powerful witch, since these people are imprisoned by her and cannot have their own minds, it is difficult to break them, with my current spell, I am not her opponent at all, so I can only take the opportunity to run away!"
As soon as I heard this word, I just felt that the idea of the little Taoist priest's might was extinguished in an instant, and seeing that those skeletons that had stopped suddenly showed a fierce face again, distorting towards us, I clenched the Mongolian knife in my hand and prepared to fight for my life.
And just then, my eyes caught a glimpse of the shadows standing in the corner, their shoulders drooping, lifeless, a little wicked, and I was short of breath, and cold sweat ran down my neck.
I looked at the figures in amazement, and they stared at me motionlessly, with a wicked smile on their lips. Just as I was about to rub my eyes when I wondered if I was wrong, those people disappeared......
"Where have you been?" I said to myself, calmed down, walked a few steps forward, and in my eagerness, I suddenly heard the little Taoist priest calling anxiously: "Brother Feng!
My brain buzzed when I heard his voice, and when I looked ahead, a bunch of bones were already swarming.
I was so shocked that I immediately waved the Mongolian knife in my hand, which was as iron as clay and could be sold for a good price in modern times, and most importantly, when the knife cut off the skull's head, the thing suddenly screamed and seemed to be in pain.
I took a breath, looked at the treasure knife in my hand, and suddenly remembered that someone once said that some Mongolian knives can ward off evil spirits.
As I was rejoicing, I felt a heart-rending pain in my shoulder, and the smell of blood spread to the tip of my nose, and I turned my head to see a skeletal tooth biting my flesh.
"Damn!" I cursed angrily, grinning in pain, and this angle was not strong with the Mongolian knife, and when I was dripping in cold sweat, a figure ran towards me, and looked at it as a shrine maid! Unfortunately, her dagger was just an ordinary dagger, so it couldn't pierce the bone, and the shrine maiden was choked by the neck in an instant.
I had to get rid of it, and I covered my wound with my hands, and suddenly realized that the girl was only trying to get the skeleton's attention and let me get rid of it. At this thought, my blood surged, and I used the Mongolian knife to aim at the ribs of the skeleton, and the thing screamed, and a white shadow appeared, and a piece of rune paper was pasted on the skeleton's body. After I saw it fall apart, it turned into a pool of blood on the ground, and the shock in my heart was self-evident.
I looked up at the little Taoist priest in surprise, he told me to be careful, and then went back into battle.
The shrine maiden fell to the ground and covered her neck, I reached out to help her up, but she looked at me coldly and got up on her own, and didn't talk much nonsense. This look, I think the ancient girl is not so pretentious, it's just the rescue of the witch, which reminds me of the joke between Chen Yu and Baocai, isn't this girl really interested in me?
I shook my head and answered in the negative. At this time, the fire flickered and dimmed, and Liang Jiu and Chu Ba stuck them in the cracks of the cave, and they went to fight hard. And Bao Cai was hiding in Tibet, and the Mongolian knife was almost a decoration in his hand, and he screamed, being forced by two skeletons to a dead end behind the waterhole.