Chapter Eighty-Five: The Hidden Room
I and the two girls went to the wooden door, Miss Chu said that these wooden door materials are "lightning wood", "lightning wood" I have heard that it is a kind of evil wood, it is said that the wood has changed after lightning strikes, and contains the aura of refuge against evil spirits, so the ancients especially cherished it, so they often placed it in the house, and also made it into a wooden pendant and wore it on the body. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The wooden door here is carefully regarded as wild peach, the peach wood is the evil god wood in the Taoist artifact, and the peach wood here is the color of the color, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, bathing in the sun, stars, rain and dew...... In addition, the older the peach tree is, the more spiritual, it is baptized by nature in the wild all the year round, combined with the five elements of qi, which is the magic weapon to ward off evil spirits and drive away filth. When carving these doors, the craftsman uses its different textures and colors to carve different scenes, just like carving chrysanthemum stones, creating in shape, which is very profound!
The back room is made of about 10 meters of lightning-struck wood to make a wide door, what is there in it, and so much wood is used, is it just for pomp and circumstance? I feel uneasy, but now I have no other choice, no matter what is inside, I have to find the "dust bead". Thinking about this, I came back to my senses and found that there was a pattern similar to the door god at the junction of a door, the pattern was the size of a palm, and there were two hideous door gods carved on it, and the two of them held spears in their hands, crossed in an "X" shape, like a seal, giving people a sense of evil and abnormal.
There are a few words between the two doors, and Miss Chu said that it reads, "Closed place, enter or die".
I smiled bitterly, this girl is beautiful and lovely, how can she say no good words, before the good warrior kills the enemy, he has to say some excited words, but before coming to this ancient tomb, he has been cursed several times, one is that the bones are rotten, the other is five lightning strikes, burning the body, I don't know how I will die in the end, but at this moment I think very clearly, if I can't destroy Sima Yan, then the final outcome may be to be torn alive.
I took out the copper scimitar given by my ancestors, found the deadbolt from the gap in the wooden door, and was about to split it, but I heard a "creaking" sound from inside, like the inexplicable sound of opening the door from the attic at night when I was sleeping.
I was suspicious, so I immediately stopped my movements and listened. At this point, my nerves were extremely sensitive, but I didn't want to make a mistake, so I forcibly controlled the fear in my heart. However, after listening to it for a while, there was no sound. I poked my head over and looked carefully into the hollowed-out wooden door, but after the movement, there was silence and cold inside. I shuddered, looked back and saw that Chen Di and Chu Ba were fighting bloodily, and then gritted my teeth and destroyed the door bolt.
In this way, the door, which had been sealed for a hundred years and had not been entered, opened by itself with a "squeak". I was stunned for a moment, I didn't expect this to be an automatic door, and I had a sense of foreboding in my heart.
At the same time, a chill hit my face, and I thought to myself: "These are all hollow doors, and they are not closed, why is the breath inside so cold?"
Before I could think about it, Miss Chu went in first regardless of it, and Lan Quexi and I followed, only to hear the old door creaking again, and it was actually closed, as if invisibly, there was someone standing there who we couldn't see. I swallowed, I had never felt such a strange thing in my life, and my heart was pounding.
There was a quiet white light in the back room, very shallow, like a layer of white veil floating in the air, which could not illuminate anything, it was cold and cold. There was a rancid smell in the air, and I looked up at the environment, and to my surprise, I saw an extremely tall tree here!
The tree was very tall, black, and had no leaves. Its branches stretched out in the back room, crisscrossing like a giant thousand-handed monster, giving it a sense of oppression and gloom. Because it was dark inside, we couldn't see the higher part of the tree, but we could vaguely see something on the thick branches, and there were so many of them that we couldn't guess what it was for a while.
Blue Magpie Creek told me that this is called the "Wraith Tree". In the past few days, I have seen all kinds of sacred objects that I could only see in books, and the surprises again and again have calmed my heart a lot, but does the "ghost tree" really exist? I have only seen it in ancient books, saying that it is 500 years old for spring and 500 years old for autumn...... Could it be that this tree has existed in the first place, but after a thousand years, it has become extinct like many animals and plants?
I suppressed the pounding heartbeat and took a deep breath. The back storage room is the same as the main coffin room, and there is a large hole in the top, which should be the eye of the mountain. It is unbelievable that in such a place, a tree can grow so tall, because as Miss Chu said before, there are dust beads here, there should be no rain and dew moisture, not to mention how breathable it is in the ancient tomb, it can absorb the essence of the sun at most when the sun is three poles up, relying on the light that comes in from the eyes of the mountain.
But even in our eyes such difficult living conditions, this tree still grows strangely, isn't there really a Netherworld Tree in the world? Can it follow the earth's qi and lead to another world? And the mouth of the mountain is actually the gate of heaven?
This reminds me of what the little Taoist priest once said, the mountains and rivers here have a red and yellow gas, and the qi is strange and comfortable, which is for the sake of luxury. And there is a real dragon on the mountain plate, and its breath of excavation, straight up, is the shape of an oil-paper umbrella, so the trees here are flourishing, the flowers are delicate and lovely, and it is the true energy of the dragon that is condensed. But like the old cedar coffin seen earlier, this thousand-year-old tree will destroy feng shui in the tomb, why did Sima Yan put it in the back room?
Miss Chu looked up at the tree stupidly, and said, "The ...... of the Spirit" Then, she stretched out her hand and slowly approached, I was afraid that she would be contaminated with the evil nature of the tree, so I immediately grabbed her and said, "Hey, don't touch it." ”
Miss Chu listened to me, just out of her body, she was startled, she immediately retracted her hand, and finally glanced at the Spirit Tree with infinite affection, looking indescribably strange.
I looked at her appearance, and paid a little more attention to it, after all, she has been immersed in Sima Yan's immortal thinking for more than ten years, and it is indeed a bit fast to be completely sober, if she plays Infernal Affairs with us, it will be in vain.
Thinking of this, I said to the two girls: "Don't worry about the trees for now, there are ghosts here, and you can't see the objects around you, it's better to be careful, the three of you try to be together, don't touch anything casually." ”
Miss Chu lowered her head, thoughtfully, reacted, and responded lightly.
The floor of the back room is covered with thick soil, and the smell of dirt is particularly strong, and I don't know why there is such thick soil in the tomb.
There was no sense of groundedness when stepping on the soil that gave birth to all things, but I panicked, and the soles of my feet couldn't stop getting cold, for fear that as I walked, some ghost would quietly grab my legs.
This is a cave-shaped mountain, there should not be soil, it is estimated that craftsmen and some poor people spent a lot of energy to move it, in order to plant this spirit tree. Looking at the height of this tree, it is estimated that its root system is also very developed, and the height of the mound is the distance between here and the lower sacrificial place.
The wraithical tree's messy root system is exposed, making it easy to trip over if you're not careful. The three of us walked cautiously, there were layers of dark green fire on the earth, like a ghost lantern carried by the king of Yama, I had thought that it was phosphorus fire, but there were no corpses here, and I don't know how this faint fire came about, and why it always followed us.
Although I was scared, but for me, the most restless thing now was that they were suffering on the eighth day of the first month outside, and the dust bead was the only hope to save them, but this back chamber was higher and bigger than I imagined, and I didn't know where it would be hidden.
The strange thing is that since I entered the back room, there seems to be no movement outside, I stopped and listened carefully, but there was still no movement, the sound of fighting, shouting...... No, it's quiet outside. I was in a hurry, and strode towards the door, but at this moment, I tripped over something, and fell and gnawed on the mud.
I thought it was the root of the tree, clapped my hands, and was about to get up, when I heard Miss Chu shout and said, "Hand...... Hearing this, my hairs stood on end, and I immediately turned around, and saw that Bai Sensen's hands were bare outside the dirt, and the flesh on them was mottled and rotten. At this sight, my scalp tingled, and I suddenly realized that in addition to being used to breed the spirit tree, this soil may also be used to bury the dead. It's just that I don't know the identity of this dead man, but if that's what I think, the number of corpses under the soil is terrifying.
First of all, carrion can be used as fertilizer to nourish large trees. And just now Miss Chu said that the ghost is connected to the underground, that is to say, this tree is the connection channel between the yin soul and the underworld, and Sima Yan planted the spirit tree here, isn't it to raise a group of resentful ghosts? After all, "the old tree accumulates souls, and it will not disperse for a long time", I remembered the strange scene where the door closed by itself just now, thinking about the shadow of this tree, the invisible thing smiled fiercely, staring at me, and my heart was furious, what kind of back room is this, it is a corpse, a place for accumulating souls!"
Just when I couldn't believe it, a few white corpse worms came out of the flesh of the carrion, I covered my mouth and nose, and immediately stood up, and suddenly felt my legs weak, because under my feet was a great burial pit, a dark place to live for a long time.
I was flustered, and I unexpectedly found that I had been cut off from the outside world, I looked up and wanted to ask Miss Chu what was going on, but I saw her standing behind Lan Quexi coldly, and Lan Quexi looked at me with a silent expression, and said, "Feng Gongzi, what's wrong?"
Just as she was asking, the Chu girl behind her grinned, smiling, looking at me with her eyes hooked, I saw the sharp knife in her hand, and a chill suddenly rose in my heart.
She was...... She was the woman I was hallucinating in front of the four bronze shrine statues that wanted to kill me! What the hell was going on? Could it be that all her performances just now were premeditated? They were all acting? If so, how deep was her city? But what was her purpose in doing this? Separate me from my ancestors? Is the existence of the dust bead real or not?