Chapter 62: Destiny
Lao Du roared angrily: "Just to prove that you are the best, you can go to all odds to open a tomb that everyone thinks is dangerous?" β
Xie Wanhua smiled and said, "Isn't this reason sufficient?" I think that's enough. Don't tell me that starting the tomb to release demons will be devastating, I don't care! β
"You ......" When Lao Du was trembling with anger, Xie Wanhua turned his head and looked at me: "Wu Zhao, next time before you want to do those small actions, I hope you can think about a spell in the magic path called Ghost God Judgment." β
My eyes couldn't help but shrink suddenlyβXie Wanhua actually knew the ghost and god verdict.
The Demon Judgment is an extremely old spell, but it has been abandoned by most warlocks, and the reason is that it restricts the initiative of warlocks.
In ancient times, employers could use oaths and contracts to bind sorcerers from repenting or intentionally quitting the business. Once a contract is signed between the warlock and the employer, the contents of the contract are invisibly supervised by the spirits.
Once the employer finds out that the warlock is pushing back on the business and has signs of repentance, he can hold the contract and ask the ghost to arbitrate. At that time, the warlocks did not dare to break the contract even if they died tragically at the hands of the ghosts.
I don't know when it began, the warlock no longer made a contract with his employer, and all business was agreed orally. This kind of thing can only happen to warlocks who cooperate with each other.
I don't know how long it took, and even this spell was gradually forgotten by the magic path. Warlocks seldom swear to each other, after all, no one wants to put their lives in the hands of others.
Xie Wanhua would have known about the Ghost and God Verdict?
What I said just now really carried the intention of making Xie Wanhua give up going to the tomb, if the other party once he used my oath to attract ghosts and gods, it would definitely be me who suffered. If I'm unlucky, I might even be wiped out by the ghosts on the spot.
I gave Xie Wanhua a thumbs up: "You won." Lead the way! β
The further down Xie Wanhua led us, the more cold the cave became, until Xie Wanhua led us to a cave with stone steps, and the temperature in the cave had reached the point where it was about to turn into ice.
Lao Du, who walked at the end, his teeth had begun to tremble uncontrollably violently, if it wasn't for Monk Shi pouring him a few sips of spirits, he would not have been able to accompany us through the last distance.
Xie Wanhua pointed to the stone steps at the entrance of the cave and said, "After you saw the stone steps, didn't you want to say something?" My Feng Shui Master! β
"A hole in a hole?"
If I'm not mistaken, this should be a typical hole-within-a-hole. The power of feng shui gathered at the entrance of the outer cave was suppressed right where we were standing now. Three or five meters further from where I stood, there was another hole, and the artificially built stone steps climbed diagonally to the southeast outside the hole.
I kept going down all the way, and now the stone steps suddenly went up, doesn't this mean that we have walked in the shape of a "V" in the cave? I don't understand the layout of this cave.
Seeing that I was silent, Xie Wanhua smiled faintly and strode up the stone steps. I followed her all the way to the platform at the end of the stone steps, and Xie Wanhua pointed to an iron door in the distance and said, "We have arrived." β
After I followed Xie Wanhua into the cave, a circular platform appeared in front of me. The place where we landed happened to be northwest of the platform, and under the platform, in the abyss, which went straight up and down like a well, was a deep pool that seemed calm and seemed like a rough wave.
When I took the flashlight and shone it on the water, the cave suddenly burst into flames, and the whole cave was instantly illuminated by the flames rising from the surrounding oil tanks.
Xie Wanhua put away the lighter in his hand: "Don't look at it, there is a bottomless pool below." Yang Jiakai said that the tomb should be under the water. β
I looked down into the water and instinctively felt that something was wrong. It is not that there is no legend of "underwater tombs" in the art road, but such tombs are basically hidden tombs formed by the flooding of the mausoleum in the later period. There are very few tombs that are actually excavated directly underwater, and behind every underwater tomb lies a terrible legend.
Things have come to this point, even if I know that the future is dangerous, I can't help but move forward.
When I looked up at the waterhole, I saw a ghost carved on each of the four squares around the platform. The faces of the ghosts and gods of the four directions were lowered, and although the cold light could not be seen in the eyes of the angry eyes staring at the water, it could make people feel a faint murderous intent. They seem to exist to guard the waterhole beneath the platform.
Strangely, two iron cables protrude from each of the four statues, and the iron ropes that run across the cave hold a wooden altar above the waterhole, and from the altar down is the center of the water.
I pointed to the improvised tent on the altar and said, "Is Tom in there?" β
Xie Wanhua spread his hands and said, "If he is not dead, he should still be inside, you can go over and take a look." β
"Monk, press me down!" After I gave an explanation, I stepped on the chains and slipped into the tent.
Tom, who was already unkempt, was still in the tent, and when he saw me, the first thing he said was, "Is there anything to eat?" β
Tom speaks Chinese, which is much easier. I took a few compressed cookies out of my backpack and threw them over, and after Tom devoured them, I asked, "Have you communicated with the ghosts below?" What's down there? β
Tom said in a hoarse voice, "It's a devil, a devil who is going to sacrifice with the soul of a maiden." He kept asking me to help him find women. He said that he could give me anything I wanted, as long as I gave him enough soul, I could have anything I wanted. β
That's right! I've been wondering why the ghost collected the soul of the virgin, it turned out that the ghost was just a "worker bee" serving the "queen bee", and the final destination of the soul was in this tomb.
I quietly asked, "Can the things below come out?" β
"I don't know!" Tom shook his head and said, "Xie Wanhua asked me to find a way to lure him out." However, I talked to him for a long time, and he seemed to be limited by something, and it was impossible for him to get out of the water. β
Can't get out? I couldn't help but frown.
Tom and Yang Jiakai's judgments are very different, but one of them is definitely false.
The ghosts can't get out, how did the original bewildered ghosts leave the secret burial? If it can come out, why can't Tom convince the other party?
I couldn't help but look at Tom, who hurriedly said, "I've done my best." Xie Wanhua, they gave me something called Gu poison, it was simply the fruit of the devil, it was terrible......
Gu poison enters the body, life is better than death. Tom is just a scholar, he doesn't have the courage to fight against Gu poison, even if he knows that he is drinking to quench his thirst, he will spare no effort to convince the goblins to leave the underground.
I took out the fortune money from my body and threw it on the ground, and after rolling around a few times, one of the big coins was stuck between the two empty bottles, and leaned on it without going up or down.
Nonsense? If the big money does not land, either there is some kind of force that prevents the hexagram, or it is not suitable for divination now. When the master encounters this situation, he must stop calculating, otherwise, even if he forcibly deduces, the conclusion will be nine out of ten wrong.
After taking a deep breath, I finally took out three ghost coins from my body, spread them out in my hands, raised them above my head with my hands hollow together, and after shaking them three times, I raised my hand and threw the big money into the air.
My eyes followed the three golden copper coins that sparkled upward, and the blood in my eyes also burst out. At the moment when the blood light and golden light suddenly intertwined, the speed of the three ghost coins falling to the ground seemed to suddenly slow down several times, and I could even clearly see the ghost coins rolling in the air again and again under the resistance of the air.
When the sound of three ghost coins landing at the same time suddenly started, a pool of red water appeared in front of my eyes. In an instant, I saw a corpse facing the bottom of the water, undulating with the waves. I was about to take a closer look at the corpse when a slick head popped out from the side of the corpse.
Monk! I was startled, and the image in front of me disintegrated.
When I suddenly looked down at the ghost money, I felt that the world was spinning in front of me. It was not easy for me to stabilize my mind, but it was as if I had just experienced a big battle, and not only was my sweat soaking through my clothes, my heart palpitated, but I also couldn't exert any strength in my body. If someone tries to kill me at this time, they can send me down to the underworld with just one sword.
Tom exclaimed, "Sir, what's wrong with you?" β
"Shut up!" When I turned my head to stare at Tom, there was a murderous look in my eyes, and Tom quickly retreated into the corner of the tent.
I didn't really want to kill, but I couldn't let people know that I was in a weak state. However, Tom's exclamation attracted Xie Wanhua's attention: "Wu Zhao, what are you doing?" β
I shouted, "Shut your mouth up for me!" Whose responsibility is it for disturbing the hexagram? β
Although I was weak, fortunately, my voice was quite loud, and I finally deceived Xie Wanhua outside.
I sat for more than ten minutes before I could recover.
No wonder my lord didn't let me use the ghost money easily, it turned out that the ghost money was directly peeking into the way of heaven and seeing a fragment of the future.
Although this method is magical, the caster itself is resisting the coercion of the Heavenly Dao. Fortunately, the scenery I saw didn't travel for a long time, and I was awakened by the scene in front of me in time, otherwise, even if I wasn't seriously injured and vomited blood under the pressure of the Heavenly Dao, I wouldn't want to recover in a short time. If you extrapolate more, you may even be punished by heaven!
Using the hexagram of fortune money, although it is extremely vague, it is much safer than ghost money. It seems that unless it is absolutely necessary, it is true that you can't use ghost money to peep into the heavens.
This time, I rashly used the ghost money, which can be said to be more than worth the loss. Just now, I didn't see who the corpse in the clear water was, nor did I see whether the monk was dead or alive, which was tantamount to a failure in the deduction. What do I do next?