Chapter Eighty-Nine: A Coffin in a Three-Tiered Coffin
Time passed in my thoughts, until I felt the weather slowly getting colder, I was relieved from my thoughts, and then I realized that the sky did not know when it began to drizzle, the night in the mountains was much colder than outside, and now it was even colder when it rained, but the group of old men were still gathered around to discuss and study something.
(Lin Zongran) had already instructed the soldiers to follow the next matters and arrangements, and slowly walked back to his side, I looked at his trembling body and suddenly realized something, and suddenly yelled: "(Lin Zongran) Hurry up and let the soldiers set up their tents, quickly... Be sure to cover the coffin before the rainstorm, otherwise it will be troublesome. ”
After saying that, I desperately stepped forward to catch up with the group of old men who were still studying around the coffin, those old men were very stubborn and did not cooperate, but then I heard (Lin Zongran) shout, so I had to complain and follow me back to the tent at the edge of the platform, I stood in the tent and watched the rain outside getting heavier and heavier, and the anxiety in my heart was even worse.
(Lin Zongran) knew that I must have some reason for this, so he asked: "What's the matter, you will ask me to find someone to bleed, and then let me find glutinous rice, and now suddenly set up a tent again, what is going on?" After that, (Lin Zongran) looked at me with a puzzled expression, and the old men who followed him to the tent also turned their heads to look at me curiously, as if they wanted me to give them an explanation.
I glanced at (Lin Zongran) and then looked at a few old men, didn't pay attention to them, but walked to the brazier by myself, shook the water stains on my clothes, and said slowly: "Needless to say, the things buried in the coffin must be clear to you, if there is no accident, seal the nine holes with glutinous rice, and then use blood to sacrifice the zongzi inside, the coffin will naturally open, but..."
"Just what?" I was only halfway through my words, and I wanted to take a little breath to continue, but one of the old men from the group next to me suddenly interjected, obviously they were more concerned about this coffin than (Lin Zongran).
I glanced at the old man, only to see that he was wearing a pair of thick reading glasses, his face was full of vicissitudes, and the skin of his wrinkled hands was burnt yellow, probably caused by too much smoking, and when he spoke to me, I could still ask a very stinky smell of bad breath, and the moment he opened his mouth (Lin Zongran) couldn't help frowning, and moved to the side inattention.
But I saw that the old man was very anxious, and a wrinkled face looked at me deadly, and I didn't want to dwell on those anymore, so I could only respond: "It's just that tonight is the fifteenth day of July, and it happens to be the Zhongyuan Festival, which coincides with this festival, the sky is not beautiful and rainy, if you don't come to this kind of place, forget it, but now we are still deep in the mountains, and there is a strange coffin in front of us."
There are zombies buried in it, the midyear festival is originally heavy, but no good thing will happen when it rains on this kind of day, if the coffin on the platform is let tonight's rain rain again, I am worried that we don't need to seal the nine holes, and the things inside will jump out by themselves, now I don't dare to guarantee whether my idea is correct, but it's better to be safe, and now it's not time for us to leave there first, so as not to really jump out of something for a while, the first bad luck is us. "(Lin Zongran) and a few old men looked at each other, and then looked at me, and knew that I didn't seem to be lying.
"So what now, or let's leave this coffin alone!" At this time, everyone didn't speak, (Lin Zongran) also lowered his head and thought about something, there were still a few old men who were afraid of death, and when they saw that we didn't speak, they spontaneously nodded and asked.
"No," I said in unison with (Lin Zongran).
(Lin Zongran) couldn't help but be surprised when he saw me say the same thing to him, looked at me and said: "Lao Tzu has been busy for this coffin for a few days, and it is impossible for thousands of soldiers to give up like this, even if there are really zombies inside, Lao Tzu will pick it out and destroy it." ”
A group of old men didn't want to say anything when they saw (Lin Zongran) like this, so they just asked me in a low voice: "What do you think, little brother, if it is really because of us running out of the zombie scourge, then our sin will be great." ”
At this time, I was also a little at a loss, watching the rain getting heavier and heavier, and the soldiers in a hurry to set up the tent, I had a feeling of panic, I could only perfunctory say: "It is irresponsible to just leave like this, this coffin came out of the ground because of us, if we just walked away, we don't know when the things inside will run out, if we don't get rid of it now, wait until we are gone, and then come out to make trouble, then the villages below will suffer." After speaking, I looked at it (Lin Zongran).
When he saw me looking at him like a spring, he couldn't help but feel a chill and hurriedly took two steps back and said, "You kid, don't look at me with such eyes, if you have something to say, talk quickly and fart quickly." After that, he couldn't help but glance at him with contempt.
I didn't talk to him either: "When you wait for a while, it doesn't matter if it rains or not, you let the soldiers pour the prepared blood on the coffin, and once the Jiukong Town corpse coffin comes into contact with blood, it will have a corpse gas effect, and the chain that locks the coffin will be automatically untied, and the coffin will open by itself." ”
(Lin Zongran) saw that I said that the coffin could be opened, and the excitement on my face just wanted to ask, I hurriedly waved his hand to him to signal him not to be in a hurry, and continued: "As soon as the coffin is opened, it is estimated that the zombies inside will not be born even if they don't jump out immediately, and if there is a change in the corpse, you immediately give the order to fight to the death, and you must kill the zongzi, otherwise we will suffer first." ”
The more I spoke, the more heavy my tone became, and (Lin Zongran) didn't look like he was begging for money after I finished speaking, but his face became solemn, and he didn't see him speak and only nodded to me.
When I had explained everything, I ignored them, leaned on a stool and squinted, there was a fire in the tent, and I had been busy all day, and I fell asleep in a daze, and I was very uncomfortable with the pain all over my body, I stretched out my hands and rubbed my eyes and looked around, and I found
The entire tent was empty, except for a pot of firewood that was about to go out.
My heart "clicked" and I thought: It's over... Wouldn't it be the zongzi who ran out and killed (Lin Zongran) all of them, the idea turned around in my mind and was immediately blocked by me. I thought again: No, if the zongzi ran out, there was no reason to be so quiet, and besides, they were also next to me before I went to bed, could it be that what happened to me while I was asleep?
I immediately had the answer as soon as I thought about it, and I didn't care about those messy thoughts, I stood up and ran out of the tent quickly, and when I ran out of the tent, I found that the weather didn't know when it was no longer raining, the moon had risen high, the fifteenth moon was not generally bright, the platform at this time was already full of people, it originally took thousands of torches to illuminate the entire platform, and now even if you don't need torches, you can clearly see everything on the platform, and the bright moonlight is sprinkled on the platform, with a cold feeling.
I walked slowly into the crowd, and one by one the soldiers consciously got out of the way, and when I came to the center of the platform and looked at the coffin by the moonlight, the scene in front of me surprised me again, (Lin Zongran) and a few old men were already looking left and right next to the coffin.
I looked at the coffin in front of me and looked up at the moon, swallowed my saliva fiercely, and then raised my trembling steps and walked forward, (Lin Zongran) saw me coming, and immediately stepped forward to hug me and said, "Brother, what's going on?" How is there still a coffin, and what to do now? ”
At this time, even I didn't know what to do, and I was a little confused when I looked at the coffin in front of me, which looked like an ice cube. I really can't figure out what this coffin is made of, and more importantly, if you don't get close to this coffin, you can feel a very heavy cold coming.
(Lin Zongran) saw that I was silent, and pushed me with his hand, I was shocked by the scene in front of me, and he suddenly pushed his footsteps and did not stand firmly, and took several steps back, and when I stood firm, he glared at (Lin Zongran) fiercely, and now he didn't dare to provoke me so he shrank his head and didn't dare to look at me.
I didn't bother to care about him anymore, so I took a deep breath and cautiously walked towards the ice coffin on the altar, but I couldn't stand it before I got close to the coffin, and was forced back by the cold of the coffin.
"It can't be the ice bed in (the Condor Heroes), there really is such a thing." Zimeng didn't know when he jumped out of such a sentence, and interrupted his grandfather who was about to talk next, and everyone looked at him embarrassedly by his thunderous words.
"You are warm, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, the cold ice bed in (The Condor Heroes) is fictional, there is no such thing at all, if my estimate is correct, the coffin is made of 10,000-year-old cold iron stone at the bottom of the West Sea, also called (Xuanyu coffin), but it is not right to say that it is jade, because the 10,000-year-old cold iron that exists on the bottom of the sea no longer belongs to the iron minerals, which belongs to half stone and half jade, but it has not yet reached the level of real jade, and the cold iron stone is only because it exists on the seabed all year round, and it has been nourished by some minerals, will show a strong coldness.
But it is not an ordinary difficulty to find such a large piece of cold iron stone to make a coffin, and with the ancient technology at that time, it could not sink to such a deep bottom, and just according to what his grandfather said, he was forced to retreat before he got close to the cold iron coffin, so it is conceivable that the cold will be heavier when it is just salvaged, and what method did the ancients use to do this. It was Zhou Fan who spoke, and he couldn't help but shake his head with a blank look as he spoke.
Grandpa didn't say much about the ice coffin when he saw that Zhou Fan helped him explain, and continued: "I also thought about this question at that time, and even doubted for a while whether this coffin was really not a mortal thing. Grandpa smiled self-deprecatingly: "But at that time, no matter how much I doubted, I didn't dare to tell the matter, tens of thousands of soldiers in front of me were looking at me, I really said that this was not a mortal thing, I was afraid that tens of thousands of soldiers would not be able to withstand the fright."
I couldn't get close to the ice coffin, so I had to come to (Lin Zongran) and say to him: "I can't help this coffin, the coffin in the three-layer coffin is something I haven't seen before, originally I thought that the coffin made of golden silk nanmu was luxurious enough, and the one lying inside must be the main owner, but now I see that this ice coffin is the real host coffin."
The ancients were able to use these three such precious materials at the expense of a lot of materials to build this three-layer coffin, presumably the things lying inside will definitely be earth-shattering, we still don't want to move it, it's really not good, tomorrow I will find a feng shui mausoleum vein to bury it, although I am afraid that it will come out in the future to make trouble, but look at this situation is no longer something we can deal with, if it is let out for no reason, our people here are estimated to be finished.
(Lin Zongran) heard it in a cold sweat, this was the first time he had the idea of giving up since he knew that there was an ancient tomb in the mountain, and he looked at the cold ice coffin and said intermittently: "This, that, I..."
Before he could finish his sentence, he heard a "click." A sound came from the coffin.
A group of us were startled by the sudden sound, and I jerked back to look at the coffin, only to see that the ice coffin had already had a crack the size of a thin line at some point, from the surface of the coffin to the bottom of the coffin.