Tang Xu waited for the changes under his feet, and even fantasized about whether the demons and monsters would really emerge from the ground, after all, where there are ghosts and fires, there must be dead corpses, although he firmly believes that there are no ghosts and gods in this world, but this kind of grave digging is not encouraged or promoted. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He dug with a shovel, although Bai Lun was also with him, but obviously a little scared and didn't dare to exert himself, and after a while, Tang Xu dug a small pit at his feet, and Bai Lun's side was small and shallow.

It seemed that it was almost half a meter deep, Tang Xu picked up the lantern on the side and squatted down to shine into the pit, except for some sticking out roots and black soil. Tang Xu felt strange, thinking why he hadn't seen a corpse or anything like that, but he thought maybe it was too shallow, so he stood up and continued digging. Bai Lun saw that he had been digging for a while without results, and thought that it would be over, but he never thought that Tang Xu would do it again. Bai Lun was a little worried, he vaguely felt that if he dug any further, he might really dig up something weird.

"There you have it!" Tang Xu went down with the last shovel, and the hand holding the shovel rod was shocked, as if it had hit a hard object. But instead of digging at once, he stood on the edge of the pit and put the shovel down for the time being. He was afraid, the closer he got to the truth, the more hairy he became, he firmly believed that there were no ghosts and gods in the world, but if there were no ghosts and gods and those supernatural powers, how could he appear in this world? But he felt that these two things could not be compared, in the final analysis, he still did not want to believe in ghosts and gods, if he believed that ghosts and gods existed, maybe he would not be able to have the courage to face all kinds of difficulties that might arise as he is now, and maybe he would become like others who pleaded in the face of difficulties, and would lose all faith.

"Yes. . . What is it? Bai Lun didn't dare to move even more when he saw that he didn't move, and the expression on Tang Xu's face was blurred in the faint light of the lantern.

"Let's see." Tang Xu took a deep breath, he couldn't just give up halfway. He picked up the shovel again, slowed down his movements, and reduced his force, little by little, digging out what he had dug out from under the ground.

The thing gradually revealed a shape, a large box-like thing, surrounded by tree roots, and the appearance and color of the inside could not be seen. It seemed that what was revealed was not the whole picture, Tang Xu looked deep along the roots of the tree, as if there was still a part of it still at the bottom of the tree, and the whole tree seemed to grow from this thing.

"It could be a coffin." Tang Xu breathed a sigh of relief, everything was still within the scope of his acceptance, there were dead bodies in the coffin to provide nutrients to explain why this tree could grow so luxuriantly, the ghost fire was produced by the phosphorus contained in the bones, these books have all talked about, although the appearance of the ghost fire was the first time he had seen it, but he could find the facts and according to the fact that he was a lot less afraid in his heart. Bai Lun shuddered when he heard the two words of the coffin, but seeing that Tang Xu relaxed and shuddered a second time, he didn't understand why Tang Xu could say such things calmly, could it be that there was something more terrible than what he said?

"This thing. . . And those ghost fires. What does it matter? Could it be that the soul of injustice is not gone? Bai Lun asked in a low voice, for fear that he would be heard by the invisible guy if he spoke loudly.

"It's not a ghost, it's a ghost fire from the bones of a corpse in a coffin." Tang Xu saw that Bai Lun was frightened, although he didn't know if he could understand it, he still explained it to him.

"I see." Bai Lun nodded, but judging from his blank expression, it was obvious that he didn't understand Tang Xu's words. Although Bai Lun was still very confused, since Tang Xu said that it had nothing to do with ghosts, his courage followed.

"I'll talk to you more when I have time, let's move on." Tang Xu smiled and patted Bai Lun's shoulder.

"Still digging up?" Bai Lun couldn't help but ask, although he tried his best to believe Tang Xu's words, knowing that it was related to the dead and continuing to make him feel very uncomfortable.

"Let's take a break." Tang Xu didn't know how long they had been in this mansion, but at this moment, the sky above them was exceptionally clear, with a crescent moon and stars hanging in the night sky. Tang Xu thought that it would be nice if he was not digging other people's coffins now, but drinking tea and chatting with Xiaocui in the courtyard. But fortunately, what is being done now is not dangerous, but the atmosphere is a little permeating. He and Bai Lun walked not far to sit on the ground, each thinking about their own thoughts.

I don't know how long it has been, but in the quiet night, there was the sound of a husband and a watchman, Tang Xu counted it carefully, it was already three watches.

"We..." Tang Xu was about to say that if it didn't end today, it was already so late, and Xiaocui's mother and daughter must have been very worried. But before he could finish speaking, he suddenly saw a green glow appear again in the place where he had been dug up.

"Here we go again!" Tang Xu exclaimed, and Bai Lun was still frightened when he saw that scene.

Tang Xu suddenly came to his senses, got up from the ground and walked to the edge of the pit, until he walked in front of those fluttering ghost fires.

If you don't know it's a ghost fire, it looks pretty good. Tang Xu had never seen fireflies, but maybe he didn't look as good as ghost fire. After a moment of distraction, Tang Xu pulled back his thoughts, and he squatted down and reached out to touch the black hole.

"Ichichi, what are you going to do?" Bai Lun followed to see that Tang Xu was about to reach out into the pit, and quickly pulled him out. He knew that Tang Xu wanted to touch the heat and cold inside, but he didn't know before, now that the weird coffin was in front of him, wouldn't he touch the soil that had just been cut off from the coffin? How can such a scary thing be done casually.

"It's okay, it's fine." Tang Xu knew that Bai Lun was worried about himself, but he was already halfway there, how could he give up halfway, ghosts did not exist, and what would come out of the soil and hurt people was nothing more than poisonous insects, rats and ants, but he didn't think that there would be these things here.

"Huh?" Tang Xu put his hand on the pit wall, feeling that the temperature had not changed significantly, he frowned and looked at those ghost fires puzzled, how could there be ghost fires without a change in temperature? Suddenly, he had a bold idea, he put his hand on the big box under the root of the tree, and immediately felt that the temperature was much higher than just now, and even felt a little hot after a long time. He looked up at the ghost fire floating in front of him, and secretly thought that it must be because the temperature was high, these things appeared again, as if something was under the box to transfer heat to the box, so it made the air around the corpse heat up and produced the ghost fire. But what's going on underground? Why does the temperature come and go? Tang Xu looked at the ghost fire in a daze.

"Is there geothermal heat down there?" Tang Xu suddenly thought, but what is the matter with geothermal heat, probably mentioned in the book, but he has forgotten it.