Chapter 62: Speculation about the message
The clarity of the traces of the two texts is different, Zhang Tianxing's mark is relatively blurred, and the nick is seriously eroded by the water vapor on the rock wall, while Zhang Lingjin's mark is relatively clear and easy to identify. Obviously, the time span of these two texts engraved is very large.
According to the letter I received from Zhang Juming to Zhang Lingjin, this woman named Zhang Lingjin should not be very old in the eighties, because Zhang Juming is Zhang Lingjin's uncle, and the letter was written in 1984.
In addition to the blurring of the text, there is another thing that can support my conjecture, and that is the font of these two paragraphs.
The lettering in the first paragraph is written entirely in traditional Chinese, while the text in the latter paragraph is in simplified Chinese, which is already very telling. Simplified Chinese characters were first introduced in the Republic of China, but they were abolished in less than a year, and it was obviously impossible to be popularized, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese character reform was implemented again, and by the mid-eighties, it had been greatly popularized and popularized, and Zhang Juming's letter left in 1984 clearly warned against stepping into Yeling easily, so Zhang Lingjin entered the sinkhole and left these simplified Chinese characters later than this time.
Counting the degree of blurring of the text, the time of the text left by Zhang Tianxing must be even longer.
I am already very familiar with the name Zhang Lingjin, and the experience of Fengyang and his entourage is still vivid, and until now I have not found out who sent the letter to the newspaper and then led me to Fengyang. Although I learned from Lin Dongyang that he sent the letter on behalf of Zhang Juming 30 years ago, and also knew that the place he sent it was a newspaper called 'Qianling Newspaper', I still thought about returning to Chengdu to investigate slowly, but the comfortable vacation life after returning made me completely forget about this matter.
The Taoist priest and I both doubted whether these two people would be the Zhang family in Dingyan Village, because it was too coincidental, Zhang Lingjin, Zhang Juming, and me, all surnamed Zhang. I came back this time with a lot of questions waiting to ask my grandmother, and this question is also one of the questions I am ready to investigate, but I didn't expect that as soon as I came back, there would be a series of accidents, and I haven't found a chance to have a good chat with my grandmother until now.
As for this Zhang Tianxing, I feel a little familiar, as if I've heard it somewhere, but no matter how I think about it, I can't remember it, but it is certain that he will definitely not be someone I know. Judging from the tone of the traditional Chinese and semi-literary words he left, as well as the old-fashioned style between these words, I feel that this person should be of a very high seniority, and it may even be from my grandfather's generation, and he is also surnamed Zhang...
When I think of this, I can't help but shudder, the two known people who entered the sinkhole, all of them are surnamed Zhang, plus me now, that is three people, and the three people who arrived here are all surnamed Zhang, is this a coincidence?
Moreover, looking at the meaning of this Tianxing, it seems that he knows that I will come here, and categorically pointed out that I am covered with a curse, could it be that he also had the same curse on his body when he entered here back then, or Zhang Lingjin too? If this is the case, then this is definitely not a coincidence that can be explained, the three of them with a curse, the same surname Zhang, and even there may be a blood relationship between each other, you don't have to think about it to know that there is definitely a problem in this, or this curse is still inherited in the family? No, if it was inherited in the family, then I should have been born with a curse, but that's not the case, my curse was contracted when I was twelve years old because I was naughty and accidentally entered Yeling, which doesn't make sense!
I stared at these two messages for a long time, but I didn't have a clue at all, and my mind was a mess. I shook my head, and said in my heart that it is very simple to know if the curse has anything to do with the family, as long as I find my grandmother and ask if these people surnamed Zhang are our relatives, it is useless to think about it now, and Zhang Tianxing also said on this message that he has left a mark on the Hell Tree, and as long as he finds the underworld along the mark he left behind, he can suppress the curse.
The Immortal Fetus can only suppress the curse, not completely eradicate it, and to completely solve the threat of the curse, the Earth Eye needs to be completely sealed, but what is this Earth Eye?
I don't think this Earth Eye is going to be a good thing, since it needs to be sealed, it must be very dangerous, it's really difficult! For the first time, I felt how difficult it was to live a normal life, not to mention whether I could get out now, even if I really found the ghost fetus in the message and suppressed the curse, and then successfully escaped, the curse still couldn't be eradicated, and if I really needed to seal the Eye of the Earth, then my life might never be peaceful in the future.
It's so hard!
I took one last look at the words on the stone wall, hesitated for a while, and then took out the knife given by the third uncle and engraved another paragraph below the two messages:
Zhang Ziyi mistakenly broke into Yeling, skillfully entered the sinkhole, found the two predecessors to leave a pen, and wanted to go to the bottom of the sinkhole to find a way to solve the curse.
- Zhang Ziyi
After carving this last stroke, infinite emotion suddenly rose in my heart, I really don't know if Zhang Tianxing and Zhang Lingjin left these words when they left these words, they were as full of emotion as me.
If I'm unlucky, at least I've left traces of being here, and I won't go to this world in vain.
Continuing on, I deliberately set aside a part to pay attention to the walls of the sinkhole, because I can't be sure that there are only Zhang Tianxing and Zhang Lingjin who have come here, Yeling has existed for so long, and there are thousands of people who have disappeared in Yeling for countless years, so many people, maybe there are other people who have been here, but they have not left traces or I have not found the traces they left.
But now that I've seen those two messages, I have a deeper understanding of the horror of Yeling. This sinkhole is very weird, don't look at me all the way down very smoothly, but the creepy gray fog I encountered in the morning is definitely not a good thing, and the bone caves on the mountain wall, where did so many bones come from? There is also a dense corpse cocoon on this hell tree, Zhang Tianxing said that the corpse cocoon is fraudulent, and Zhang Lingjin also said that triggering the hell tree will invite disaster, which reminds me of the scene when I saw the corpse tree for the first time in my childhood, and my heart was suddenly a little uneasy.