Chapter 51: Mass Graves
"The quieter the cicada forest, the more secluded the birdsong mountain." At this moment, everyone in this situation where they couldn't see their fingers did not feel the slightest silence and leisure, but loneliness and fear. Although there was a birdsong nearby, it was not the chirping of cicadas, but the cry of crows. The smell of corpses and decay that permeated the surroundings couldn't help but make everyone sick. When you touch it, you can feel the stiff and cracked flesh, and you can feel that the surrounding area is full, and you only have the place where you are sitting now, and you can't move as if you have been subjected to a meditation spell. The unknown picked up a soft thing in his hand, leaned in front of him and looked at it desperately, and when he saw it clearly, he was shocked, and hurriedly threw the thing in his hand, as far as he could, and then retched irrepressibly for a while, and then picked up the eyeball of a fresh dead corpse next to him. The breath of death has not dissipated, and in the darkness, it seems to hear a melodious song not far away, accompanied by bursts of piano sounds, such as crying and complaining, and the aftermath is endless.
"Wu Gexi was rhinoceros armor, and the car was wrong and short-handed.
The sun covers the enemy like a cloud, and the arrows and fallen soldiers compete for the first.
Ling Yu staggered for the rest of his life, and his left side was injured and his right blade was injured.
The haze is two rounds and four horses, and the jade is beating the drum.
The days are full of power and anger, and they are all killed and abandoned in the wilderness.
Can't get in and out, and the plains are far away.
With a long sword, he carried the Qin bow, and his head was not punished.
Cheng is both brave and martial, and he is strong and invincible.
The body is dead, the god is the spirit, and the soul of the child is the ghost. ”
Ouyang Ruolin: "Isn't this Mr. Lingjun's "Nine Songs: National Martyrdom"?"
Mu Zhixi: ""Nine Songs: National Mourning" is one of the eleven poems in "Nine Songs". It seems to be a sacrifice to the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country. ”
Xuan Zhuyi: "If that's the case, this "Nine Songs" is a group of poems, with a total of eleven poems, so what about the others except "Nine Songs: National Martyrdom"?"
Yu Tzu He: "There is also "Donghuang Taiyi", which represents the gods; "Jun in the Clouds" represents the god of clouds; "Xiang Jun" and "Xiang Lady" represent the god of Xiangshui; "The Great Priest's Order" represents the god of longevity; "Shao Si Ming" represents the god in charge of the heirs; "Dongjun" represents the sun god; "Hebo" represents the god of the Yellow River; "Mountain Ghost" represents the mountain god; Then there is "National Mourning", which represents the sacrifice of soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country; Finally, "Rite of the Soul" is a divine comedy. "Nine Songs" is based on folk songs, so it has many characteristics of Chu folk songs of sacrificing gods and witches. ”
Xuan Zhuyi: "So the "Nine Songs" are all gods, and the "National Mourning" we hear now is to sacrifice the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country. Don't...... The dead bodies in this mass grave are all soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country? ”
As he spoke, everyone heard a burst of chanting words not far away, as if they were summoning spirits. Suddenly there was more light in the environment where they couldn't see their fingers, and everyone noticed that something shiny appeared around them, like fireflies, and they were bigger than fireflies. After a while, the shiny thing was completely floating in the air, and everyone could see that it was a glowing soul. In this way, it seems that the recitation just now is to attract the souls of these dead bodies in the mass graves. The glowing things all floated in unison to the same place.
Xuan Zhuyi: "Why can these souls still be lured to the past?" Although we can't see these corpses clearly, we can feel the extent of the damage by touching the surface of the corpses, so the corpses around us have been in a state for at least half a year. Man has three souls and seven souls, and his soul has three, one is the heavenly soul, the second is the earth soul, and the third is the life soul. There are seven spirits, one is the sky, two are the wisdom, three are the qi, four are the force, five are the center, six are the essence, and the seven are the Ying. For a dead person, the three souls and seven spirits in the body will gradually detach from the body, not to mention that it will take half a year, the three souls and seven spirits should have left long ago, how can it be recruited again? ”
Shang Ling: "If you say that, it means that someone deliberately forcibly left these souls in these people's bodies."
Mu Zhixi: "It's just that we don't know what this person wants to do with these souls?"
Ouyang Ruolin: "The person who recited the soul conjuring words must have something to do with this matter, let's follow these souls to see if we know?"
After listening to Ouyang Ruolin's words, everyone realized that they could have moved a long time ago. Everyone stood up crookedly, like a child who had just learned to walk, and like an old man, trembling and walking forward step by step. Everyone walked for a long time, and finally walked out of this mass grave. Fortunately, those neat souls had not gone far, and everyone patted their legs, and their consciousness was almost restored, and they hurriedly followed.
These spirits drifted far away, and the sound of singing and piano wandered in the air for a long time. Everyone cautiously followed behind the spirit, and saw a delicate and small water pavilion hidden in a blue waterfall. The souls all walked neatly into the water pavilion, passed through the Blue Waterfall, and disappeared in front of everyone's eyes, and the Blue Waterfall also became an ordinary waterfall, where the singing and piano sound came to an abrupt end. Xuan Zhuyi and the others walked a few steps quickly and came to the water pavilion. I looked around to see if there was any mechanism, or if someone was lurking nearby, but unfortunately I didn't find anything. Just as everyone was hesitating, the waterfall behind them suddenly turned blue, and it kept flashing with light. Dozens of birds and butterflies emitting blue light flew out of the blue waterfall, which was very similar to the spirit dancing water butterflies that everyone saw in Lingxian Pavilion. These birds and butterflies rushed out of the Blue Waterfall in one go, circled around everyone, and slowly surrounded everyone. After these blue birds and butterflies flew away, Xuan Zhuyi and the others surrounded by the center of the bird butterflies had already disappeared.
Xuan Zhuyi and the others, who were taken away, passed through the Blue Waterfall and appeared in the world inside the Blue Waterfall. Inside the Blue Waterfall is a cave, and only some light from the Blue Waterfall shines on the cave. Several people lined up neatly and walked towards the depths of the cave. After walking for a short time, I saw a very wide space not far ahead, and in the center of this space was a coffin that emitted blue light like the Blue Waterfall and had an abnormal fragrance. Behind the coffin are three separate narrow paths. The crowd walked into the wide space and stood around the blue coffin.
Xuan Zhuyi: "Why is there a coffin here?"
Mu Zhixi: "Where else did those souls go?" Even the song we heard and the piano disappeared. ”
Shang Ling: "Could it be...... Is it in this coffin? ”
Mu Jinggong: "Could it be that we want to open the coffin?!"
Ouyang Ruolin: "Destroying people and purity, this is a matter that damages yin morality!"
Mu Zhixi: "Aren't our immortal cultivators often dealing with these Yin Spirits?"
Mu Jinggong: "But this one is different. Sister, we cultivate immortals to protect the peace of the world, not digging people's graves like tomb robbers! ”
Shang Ling: "You see that this coffin is very weird, how can you ensure that there are people inside?" Also, Who would put a coffin behind a waterfall? We don't know how we got in, how could there be people in this coffin? ”
Xuan Zhuyi: "You mean it's not a person in here?"
Shang Ling: "Of course it's not human. As soon as I entered the pavilion outside, I noticed that it was very strange all around. Not only the water pavilion, but also the mass grave is very strange. Let's talk about the conjuring word first, and those souls are a big suspicion, and we can still sit up when we wake up, but not long after sitting up, it is like being immobilized. When those souls follow the requiem and the conjuring words and leave, we suddenly move again, isn't this someone deliberately trying to lure us over? Let's talk about the birds and butterflies outside this waterfall. They brought us in, and it was obvious that someone had instructed us to bring us in, and the birds and butterflies must have received some special training to be so uniform. And then there's the coffin we saw when we came in. Why did you bring us in? Why was this coffin placed here? Obviously, we want to see the coffin and open it. So, I speculate that the people behind the scenes have done so much, probably just to get us to open this coffin. If we don't open it, we probably won't be able to get out. ”
After listening to Shang Ling's analysis, everyone felt quite reasonable.
Yu Tzu-hyuk: "You said that this coffin is not filled with people, so if it is something strange, how do you deal with it?"
Shang Ling, who asked this sentence, was speechless, and the rest of the people did not dare to guarantee that after opening it, the contents of the coffin would be able to cope with it. Yu Tseng Hyuk walked around the coffin and stood in front of one of the three roads behind the coffin to take a look. The path is only a stretch of walking that is visible to the naked eye, with some ice at the end of the walkable range blocking it. She went to the other two roads to observe, and the result was the same. The ice cubes block the passage of pedestrians, so the people in the cave don't know what the road behind the ice cubes is like. Yu Tzu Hyuk turned to the crowd and said, "It seems that you can only go out if you open the coffin."
Everyone looked at each other, helpless, Xuan Zhuyi and Shang Ling stood at both ends of the coffin. The two of them worked together in the same direction, gritting their teeth and pushing the lid of the coffin a little distance. The two looked at each other, and with a little effort, the lid of the coffin moved more than half. The situation in the coffin could already be seen clearly, and everyone gathered around it. In the coffin lay a very beautiful woman, dressed in a green robe, lying in it not as if she was dead, but asleep.
Xuan Zhuyi: "There is such a beautiful woman in the world. Shang Ling? Didn't you say there wouldn't be anyone in this coffin? ”
Shang Ling: "I...... How do I know there's a beautiful woman here? All...... It's all guessing! ”
Mu Zhixi: "If it's really just this woman in this coffin, then why are so many weird things happening outside?" And what did the people behind the scenes ask us to open this coffin for? ”
Now Yu Cihe, who was opposite everyone, said lightly: "Have you ever heard of the drought?"
Ouyang Ruolin: "I saw this name in the library of Lingxian Pavilion, but I didn't look at it too closely, what does this mean?"
Yu Tzu-hyuk: "After the corpse is put into the corpse ground, it begins to grow fluffy white hair after a month, this kind of zombie is slow to move, very easy to deal with, it is very afraid of the sun, but also afraid of fire, afraid of water, afraid of chickens, afraid of dogs, and more afraid of people. The corpse was fed with the essence of cattle and sheep, and after a few years, it was stripped of its white hair, replaced by a body of black hair a few inches long, and at this time it was still afraid of the sun and fire, and its movements were relatively slow, but it was not afraid of chickens and dogs at first. After decades of sucking blood, the black hair fell off, and the action began to be mainly jumping, jumping faster and farther, afraid of the sun, not afraid of people and not afraid of any domestic animals. And the corpses that are more than 100 years old or even hundreds of years old move quickly, jump on the house and trees, jump vertically like flying, and suck in the spirit without leaving external injuries. This drought is almost demonic, after absorbing the spirit for hundreds of years, its appearance is becoming more and more hideous, it can be described as a blue-faced fanged rakshasa who eats people, and can also change its body shape and appearance to confuse everyone, and can slay dragons and drought the world can extradite the plague god. But according to legend, this drought is the daughter of the ancient Yellow Emperor, who died during the battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou, but her soul is not scattered and she has become a walking corpse. When she appeared on the battlefield, the storm disappeared immediately, followed by the scorching sun, which was hotter than the scorching heat, and the brothers of Chiyou were instantly frightened and surprised, and at a loss, Ying Long took the opportunity to rush forward, kill the soldiers of Chiyou to cry wolf, and fled in all directions. Therefore, the drought is also called the female fish, that is, the drought god. ”
Shang Ling: "Oh~ So she is a god?!"
Yu Tzu-hyuk: "...... How to put it, it's probably a very powerful, terrible corpse. If the corpse in this coffin can be called a dry fish, it should be more than a few hundred years old, and the whole body is not decomposed, also because of this corpse raising ground and this corpse keeper. As soon as he finished speaking, the cave began to shake violently. The woman in the coffin suddenly opened her eyes, sat up from the coffin little by little, and stared at everyone. The female corpse opened its mouth and exhaled a breath of qi from it, which encircled everyone. Yu Tzu Hyuk threw the whip at the female corpse from behind, and the female corpse flexibly grabbed Yu Tzu Hyuk's ice splitting whip and threw it forward, actually throwing Yu Tzu Hyuk from behind to the front. A burst of aroma filled the air, and everyone became groggy and unconscious.