Chapter 14: The Coffin of the Hundred Witches
On the left bank of the underground river, probably because of the impact of the sun and the moon, a huge clearing was formed on the mountain wall, and above that clearing, a huge triangular pyramidal building stood. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoActually, I'm not sure if it's a building or not, but from a distance, the shape of the "building" emits a faint green fluorescence, which is so huge that it really hits everyone's visual nerves.
We carefully paddled the inflatable raft to the shore and tied it up, standing on its feet, to make it even more huge. I saw the "building" in front of me, like a hollow pyramid, the bottom layer of the side is only afraid of 100 meters, the whole shape seems to be composed of a stone pillar superimposed upwards, between the stone pillars and the stone pillars, there are some things tied, the distance is too far to see clearly.
"The Hundred Witch Coffin, it turned out to be the Hundred Witch Coffin, I didn't expect this thing to really exist!" When we were hesitating whether to take a closer look, Professor Jia was so excited that he couldn't stop talking to himself.
"Hundred Witch Coffin, what is that?" Naturally, I wondered and asked out loud.
"I didn't expect that when we were looking for the tomb of the King of Nanyue, we found this thing first, and this must be the Hundred Witch Coffin." Professor Jia still had an excited look on his face, and when he saw that we were all looking at him blankly, he said, "Do you know what ethnic group lived in the land of Nanling before the Nanyue Kingdom?" ”
"Before the Han people moved in from the Central Plains, the land of Nanling was originally a place where the Baiyue people lived, I don't know what it has to do with the thing in front?" Bai Bai thought about it and said.
Professor Jia slapped his palms and said, "Yes, it's this Baiyue tribe, in fact, it's not entirely true, the Baiyue tribe is just a general term for many ethnic groups living in Nanling by our Han nationality." I have seen in some materials that the Baiyue tribe actually has many branches, and each branch has different customs and cultures, but the only thing that is the same is that the clan is headed by a sorcerer, asking the way of heaven, divining the harvest, and the status is higher than that of the patriarch. ”
I vaguely guessed something and asked, "You mean that this huge pyramid in front of you is the tomb of those wizards?" ”
Professor Jia nodded and said, "After the invasion of the Han people, the Baiyue tribe was massacred in large numbers because they could not compete with advanced weapons, and the land was occupied, and the few remaining people were driven into the mountains and forests. It's just that the place where the wizards of the Baiyue tribe are buried, but there are not many records of the official history, and even if there is, it is only a few words, I have studied why the rulers at that time did not destroy the burial place of the wizards, and later I knew that it was not that I didn't want to, but I didn't dare. ”
"Why? Could it be that these sorcerers left behind some terrible curse when they died? Mango looked at the huge coffin, but shrank behind me.
When everyone heard this, the hairs on their bodies stood on end, but they saw Professor Jia shake his head and said, "I don't know if there is any terrible curse, but there is a legend that is worth studying." ”
Professor Jia pointed his finger at the witch coffin and said: "Legend has it that the top layer is buried with the first generation of wizards, and before he died, he instructed the next generation of wizards, along with their relatives, to be buried in this witch coffin after his death, so that after a hundred generations, he will be reborn with everyone and lead the Baiyue people into glory." ”
I listened to this mythical legend, looked at the dark witch coffin, and suddenly felt an inexplicable chill in my heart. But I heard Professor Jia continue: "It seems that the corpse oil at the bottom of the underground river was formed after the death of the slaves who were buried for the wizards of the Baiyue tribe, and I don't know how many years it has been accumulated. If the place in front of you is really where the coffin of the Hundred Witches is located, there is an easy way to seal it......"
"What is it?" I asked.
Professor Jia stretched out a fat finger and pointed to the three corners of the ground of the Baishi Witch Coffin, and said, "There are three points on the ground, there must be a burial pit, just take a look at it." After speaking, he glanced at me and raised his eyebrows.
I didn't know what he meant, but I was naturally curious, so I chose a place with two foreigners, and under the flashlight that everyone could see, although I was scared, I was also bold to walk forward.
After walking for a short time, I came to a stone pillar, the stone pillar is thick and environmentally friendly, but it is several meters high, and I don't know how it was transported to the ground when the productivity was so backward, but I don't think it is strange to think about some man-made miraculous buildings found so far, and I can only sigh that the wisdom of the ancients is really endless.
I took a flashlight along the stone pillar, and sure enough, I saw a huge hole, two or three meters deep, with a radius of more than twenty meters, and the bottom of the pit was full of black bones, layered on top of each other, and I don't know how thick it was. Due to the limited light of the flashlight, it is impossible to tell whether they are human or animal bones.
I shook the flashlight to Professor Jia behind me and they signaled, and they quickly approached me, and there were also the two foreigners, who also said that they had found two holes when they arrived, similar to the one in front of me, one was also full of white bones, and the other was covered with broken pottery, jade pieces, bird and beast carvings, bronze and other burial goods.
"That's it, one of these three pits is a pit for people and animals, one is a pit for beasts, and the other is a pit for burial objects, and the top must be buried the first sorcerer of the Baiyue clan and all his secrets, including the secret of rebirth." Professor Jia raised his fat head and looked at the dark witch coffin, and his eyes flashed with light.
I was shocked, could he be trying to climb up and dig up someone's grave? Even if it were needed for archaeological work, the project would be too big in today's circumstances.
But at this moment, the glasses suddenly screamed and said, "What is that?" I saw him pointing to a faint mark on the ground, but the person walked over to check it first. I thought to myself that this person was really reckless, no wonder he had just fallen into the water, and he followed everyone at the moment, only to see that under the faint light of the flashlight, I found that the trace was actually a line of blood.
Could it be that there is someone in the stone pillar of the witch's coffin?
"There it is!" The glasses walked in front, and suddenly shouted happily, only to see a person sitting in front of a stone pillar, leaning against the stone pillar, bowing his head, and not knowing life and death, the blood stains were directed at him.
"It's Kobayashi!" Glasses exclaimed, saying that it was Xiao Lin, a member of the archaeological team who came first in the advance team, and ran over at the moment, and was about to touch him, when suddenly Professor Jia shouted: "Don't move him!" ”
The glasses were stunned for a moment, probably remembering the carrion fruit flies they had met before, and their bodies suddenly shrank back, and asked, "Professor, this is Xiaolin, look at him......"
Professor Jia squatted a meter away in front of the man, holding a flashlight to look at him carefully, but he didn't find anything wrong, the man seemed to simply sit there and fall asleep.
"Professor, is Kobayashi okay?" Glasses leaned in and asked, maybe he was familiar with this person named Xiaolin, so he was very nervous.
Professor Jia stood up and said, "I don't know, but I always feel that something is wrong, and I can't touch him anyway." ”
Hearing this, the glasses became anxious and said, "Professor, how can you not care, didn't we come in to save them?" He's my cousin. ”
Professor Jia glared at him, and then lowered his head and stopped talking, but his expression was obviously unwilling.
"Uncle, why is that kid missing during the day?" Suddenly, the mango head standing next to me said.
I was stunned, turned my head to look, and found that the kid was really gone, his leg was injured, and he was limping, where could I go? Could it be that we just found him with blood and left him behind? I was about to go back to look for it, when I suddenly heard a scream from the right, and I ran with Mangohead, only to see the boy standing in front of a stone pillar during the day, trembling with fear, and in front of the stone pillar, there was also a person.
However, this person did not sit "leisurely" like the previous Xiao Lin, his head was split from the middle, revealing the white brain, his eyes drooped on his face, and he was frightened by this terrible death during the day.
Professor Jia and the two foreigners ran over, and when they saw the man's death, they also gasped.
"It's the people of the engineering team, it seems that they fled here, and what happened to them, so they died here." Professor Jia shone a flashlight on the man and said.
The two foreigners walked around the stone pillar together, and found two people under several stone pillars, the situation was different, but the only thing that was certain was that they were all dead, dead in this Baiyue witch coffin burial place called Baishi Witch Coffin.
"Uncle, what do you think is that?" The mango head had sharp eyes, and turned the light of the flashlight to the strongest, shining on the stone pillar behind the broken skull.
I opened my eyes wide, took two steps closer, and suddenly I saw a red line on the stone pillar, as if it had been born from the stone pillar, inserted into the back of the head, and I could see clearly that the red line was still beating slightly.
I was bold, approached a little closer, and slowly looked at the flashlight in my hand, but the more I shone it, the more frightened I became, only to see that the original smooth pillar body, slowly emerged a human face, short forehead and wide nose, eyes closed, as if the person was sealed alive in the stone pillar, and could come back to life at any time.
Professor Jia saw that I was staring at the stone pillar without speaking, and approached me and followed my eyes for a long time, before he said that this is the relatives of the wizards of the Baiyue clan, and after the death of the wizard, they were sealed into this stone pillar, so that they could accompany the wizard to be reborn after a hundred generations.
I listened to Professor Jia speak, but in my eyes I didn't dare to leave the person in the stone pillar for a moment, and there was always a feeling in my heart that that person might open his eyes and come back to life at any time. Could it be that after staying in such a strange place for a long time, people have become neurotic?
But what is that red line? How can it beat? I was about to tell Professor Jia when I suddenly heard a scream of glasses coming from the place behind us.
We rushed over, but we were so frightened by what we saw in front of us that we took a few steps back, only to see the glasses sit down in front of the corpse named Xiaolin that happened before, and his feet were pierced by a few red threads, blood was dripping down the reservoir pipe, and there was a faint smell of blood in the air.
I looked along the red lines, and found that this living thing, actually came from the body of Xiao Lin, and the stone pillar behind Xiao Lin also had a "person", but the round head was half exposed from the stone pillar, looking at that posture, as long as it took a while, the person who had died for thousands of years would jump out of the stone pillar.
The scene in front of us was too weird, but the screams of the glasses stimulated our nerves even more, and suddenly a foreigner took out a dagger, flew forward and slashed at the red line that penetrated the glasses' feet. The red thread snapped and writhed on the ground, like a severed gecko's tail.
The foreigner was about to pull his glasses back, and suddenly a red line twisting on the ground jumped up and shot at the foreigner's face, which was so fast that he reacted quickly, turned his head sideways and avoided it, but in a panic, he turned over and retreated, and the red line missed, and it was twisting and turning, and it was about to shoot again.
The glasses were not so lucky when they fell to the ground, two of which jumped up and stuck in his face, the squirming red threads that did not move into his flesh like living creatures, and the other jumped directly into his mouth, he choked his throat with both hands, and made a "hehe" sound in his mouth, but his hands became more and more forceful, as if trying to prevent the red thread from burrowing into his stomach.
"Uncle, run, the monster is out." Mango Head screamed and pulled me by my side, drawing my gaze away from the glasses to the stone pillar. My face changed greatly, and I saw that the "person" who was originally only half of his head exposed, but at some point, even his body was exposed from the stone pillar, and his eyes were still closed, but what made me break out in a cold sweat was that the "person's" stomach was full of that kind of wriggling red line.
"Da Da Da!" A series of rapid gunshots rang out beside me, and the submachine guns in the hands of the two foreigners finally came into play, and when the "man" had not completely fallen from the stone pillar, his body was beaten to shreds, and the originally smooth stone pillar was suddenly beaten into potholes.
The sound of the gunfire echoed loudly underground, making my eardrums ache, and although the danger was relieved, I thought it would be worse. Sure enough, the entire Baishi Witch Coffin unexpectedly lit up after the gunshot, it was the kind of fluorescent pale green light, and then there was a thin rustling sound constantly coming down from the top of the head, as if something was climbing down.
Above and around us, countless "informants" who had just been shattered appeared, constantly jumping from the stone pillars above our heads and around us. "Da Da Da!" The foreigner's gunfire rang out again, and as it was shattered by the bullet, the "informant" continued to burst out of green liquid, which was extremely fishy. Those "informants" were like an endless number of people, fearless of death, at first they only squirmed slowly, but later they became faster and faster, rushing at us from all directions.
My hand holding the dagger was already soaked with sweat, and I looked at the falling monsters, thinking that I was going to give an account for today. Suddenly, the foreigner next to me stopped the submachine gun in his hand, I thought it was out of bullets, but he took out a grenade from his belt and threw it at the dense "informant" in front of him.