Chapter 58: The Call in the Bone Cave
This stone path is very hidden, recessed into the mountain wall, and the outside is basically covered by green vines, which can never be found without careful observation.
As I saw just now, there were countless small caves on the mountain wall, these caves were like small holes that had been mothed out of the core of a century-old tree, and the density was extremely high, and I circled all the way down the stone path, and I came across another cave after walking less than a circle.
It seems that the excavators omitted the section of the stone road connecting the cave in order to save the work, and if you want to get to the other end of the stone road, you must climb into the cave and go down from the other end of the cave to the stone platform.
After passing through the gloom of the previous bone cave, I didn't want to go into the cave again, but the situation in front of me was obviously not mine.
The cave in front of me is also covered with vines, only a few gaps are exposed, because the pit wall is also overgrown with vines and various moisture-loving mosses, so at a glance the entire rock wall is the same, if it is not for the abrupt fracture of the stone path in front of me, otherwise I will definitely not be able to find it.
I carefully pushed the vines away, and it was pitch black that I couldn't see anything, but as I cleared the vines, the situation in the cave gradually became apparent. White, white, and white. My heart sank, and sure enough, in the last bone cave, I saw a faint white color in the cave opposite the sinkhole, and I guessed that it might also be a bone, but at that time it was more of a subconscious association, but I didn't expect it to be like this.
As far as the eye can see, there is a forest, full of shocking white bones, I really don't know where these bones come from, even if it is a slaughter pit in the war, it is nothing more than that, right?
The cave in front of me was more than twice as large as the previous one, and the situation inside was much the same, with stalactites, stone pits, and piles of white bones.
Although it was more than twice as large, the bones in it were no different from the previous one, which shows how shocking it was. The bones are still mainly human bones, and the stone pit on the cave wall also hangs dried corpses that have not completely decayed, which is very scary.
Out of fear, I didn't dare to enter the bone cave, but quickly passed along the stone platform at the entrance of the cave to the other side, and then went down to the stone path.
Just as I had just descended to the stone platform, and was about to continue on, I suddenly heard a slight murmur coming from the cave behind me, and it was very soft, very thin, and it was a woman's voice, very beautiful.
I subconsciously turned my head to look, but I didn't see anything, and just when I thought I had heard it wrong, the voice rang out again, and this time it was very clear, no longer a murmur: "Don't go!" ”
"Who? Who's talking? ”
I began to panic, my heart was pounding and pounding, and my eyes were sweeping around in the piles of bones. In the leisure days after returning from Fengyang, Taoist priests and I popularized a lot of things, saying that after death, the soul will disperse and turn to the netherworld, but not all souls will disperse, some souls with strong obsessions, or souls with monstrous resentment will not turn to the netherworld without understanding cause and effect, they will wander in the place where the yin qi gathers, and over time, some souls will dissipate due to the erosion of the yang breath, while some will become more and more powerful, these are the so-called powerful ghosts and evil spirits.
Of course, the odds of forming a ghost or ghast are very small, basically similar to winning the lottery, but there is one place where you can raise 100% of the ghosts, and that is the place where corpses gather.
The so-called gathering of corpses naturally means that a lot of corpses are gathered together, and there are many here, not in the general sense, but in the hundreds or thousands. When a large number of dead people gather together, the resentment that arises after death will be stagnant, and in the end, the people buried in this place, whether they have resentment or not, whether they want to stay in the yang world or not, are not under their control, because the powerful resentment will erode their mindless souls, turning them into powerful ghosts manipulated by resentment.
And because the corpse qi of the corpse gathering itself has the effect of nourishing the soul, it can form a powerful soul in the place where the corpse gathers 100%, which is why people are prone to hitting ghosts in mass graves.
There are thousands of bones in the bone cave in front of you, and with so many bones, it is not impossible to breed some evil and terrifying things. But what is in front of me are the dry bones of dozens or hundreds of years ago, and the flesh is already rotten, even if there is something, it should have dissipated a long time ago, but if you are afraid of anything, the voice that calls me may be the ghost of someone who died here, it doesn't want to continue to stay in this dead and desolate place, and wants me to stay with it?
Thinking of this, I felt a thrill all over my body, and at the same time my eyes had already scanned the dry bones of the entire cavern, and I found nothing special. And when I asked, my voice fell silent.
It must be that I think Sister Bailing is crazy and has hallucinations! Even though I knew that this could not be a hallucination, I forcibly comforted myself in my heart, and at the same time turned around and wanted to leave, for fear that the voice would sound again after I turned around.
It is said that this person is unlucky to drink cold water and stuff his teeth, he is really afraid of something, as soon as I turned around, the voice really sounded again: "Don't go, stay with me!" ”
The faint sound came into my ears, and there was no longer the softness and melodiousness I had just heard, and I only felt goosebumps wrinkling all over my body, as if it were a life-threatening sound from hell.
I turned my head suddenly, I don't know why, this time I subconsciously looked up at the top of the cave, and suddenly my heart was cold, only to see that there was also a huge round crater on the top of the cave, some of which looked like craters formed by the impact of meteorite falls, because the surrounding stones showed a cascading wavy shape. In the middle of the pit, a dead corpse dressed in national costume was tied to the pit by countless dried vines, a face was shriveled by dehydration, a pair of eyes were not completely dry, a little gray staring at me, the corners of the dried mouth still maintained a slight arc, like that, as if smiling at me.
This feels quite weird, this is a woman, judging from her face and figure at this time, she is still a very beautiful woman, and she will not die for too long, and I have seen this kind of clothes on her body, this is the costume of an ethnic minority near Dingyan Village, I think she also accidentally broke into Yeling, and finally died inexplicably inside. But it's a little strange that the rest of the corpses are piled up haphazardly in the cave, why is she the only one entangled in so many vines on the roof of the cave?
I'm not sure if it was her who called me just now, but since they are all people from the nearby mountains, they are more or less fellow villagers, and if they don't see it, it's just that, since they saw it, they naturally can't just leave, even if it was she who called me just now, with this relationship, I believe she won't hurt me.
"You called me?"
I asked tentatively, but the corpse didn't respond.
"If it's you, don't do anything, don't make a sound, don't move, alas, we're also fellow villagers, I'll see if I can put you down, you still suffer this sin when you die, it's pitiful!"
After waiting for a while, the corpse still didn't respond, so I breathed a sigh of relief and crawled into the hole again, wondering how to put the corpse down.
The top of the cave is six or seven meters high from the ground, and it is absolutely impossible to climb up from the cave wall, not to mention that the cave wall is also full of rows of skeletons.
After thinking about it for a while, I decided to try to see if I could smash it down with something, because I saw that the vines that were entangled in the corpse had completely dried up, and many of them had broken off, and at this time there were only two or three still wrapped around the corpse, and with a little external force, it should be able to be smashed down.
I just did it, but I didn't have anything to keep in my hands, and there wasn't a stone in the huge cave except for bones. I picked up a loose leg bone, and I didn't know whose it was, so I bowed it indiscriminately, and said that it was strange, and I would help you pick it up when it ran out. After the worship, regardless of whether it could really be picked up later, he picked up the bone and threw it up.
To say that my head is really not covered, originally I thought that at least a few times to succeed, but I didn't expect the first hit to hit the dead vine that entwined the corpse, only to hear a click, the dead vine broke two, the corpse suddenly sank down, I thought the corpse was about to fall, busy holding his head to the side to hide, although the corpse is a fellow villager, but it is not a pleasant thing to be smashed on the head by the dry corpse.
After waiting for a long time, I didn't see anything falling, I felt strange, I looked up, and found that there was a tail-like thing behind the corpse that penetrated the corpse's chest, and although the dead vine that wrapped around the corpse was broken, the tail was still there, and it was still hanging tightly from the corpse.
I felt that the tail was somewhat familiar, but the corpse was falling underneath and I couldn't see it very clearly. I picked up the leg bone, aimed at the corpse and continued to smash, but the tail itself was unstable, the corpse was shaken a few times, I smashed it a few more times, and the tail that was hanging from the corpse suddenly swooped back into the hole in the roof of the cave.
The corpse finally fell, and I could see that there was a fist-sized hole at the bottom of the pit, from which the tail had come out.
The tail shrank so fast that I couldn't see it clearly, but the corpse had already fallen, and I didn't bother to dig deeper, so I leaned over to the corpse, and I was sure that it was indeed someone from a nearby village, because I used to follow my grandmother to visit the village when I was a child, so I was familiar with this kind of clothing.
Looking at this hideous corpse, I sighed and said to myself: "We are all fellow villagers, I really want to take you out to the earth for peace, but I can't protect myself now, I don't know if I can get out alive, so I can only bury you here!" ”
After that, I found a place with few bones at the mouth of the cave and began to dig a pit.
There were no tools, and it was all fine rock, so I had to pick up another sharp rib to dig into. Half an hour later, I dug a pit the size of a bathtub at the mouth of the cave, hesitated, picked up the dried corpse, and put her in the pit.
What I never expected was that just as I put her down and was about to get up, the corpse's hand was hanging on my clothes, and I couldn't pull it away.