Chapter 55: The Flesh Coffin
"I lied, I'm not from the dumb village, but from the Yin Mansion Village, I was born and raised here, and I escaped here with my own strength." Guan Hongru threw a piece of firewood into the fireplace, "For the people here, this is their underworld, and for the people who built this place, this is a factory." ”
What's the same thing? Wei Chiran frowned, completely unable to understand what Guan Hongru was saying.
Guan Hongru got up and walked towards Feng Rui: "Do you believe that people will die?" ”
Feng Rui didn't know why Guan Hongru suddenly asked this, he just looked at Guan Hongru and didn't answer.
Wei Chiran asked, "What do you mean?" ”
Guan Hongru said: "Yin Zhai Village was established after 1944, and the people who established Yin Zhai Village were the people of Dumb Village, after that incident, the people of Dumb Village realized that maybe there were really immortal people in this world, and they wanted to explore this secret, so they established Yin Zhai Village, trapped the people who strayed into this place, and used them to complete their own exploration. ”
Feng Rui and Wei Chi glanced at each other, still not very understanding.
Guan Hongru hesitated and asked, "Have you all heard that story?" About the story that happened in 1944 in the jungle crying village of Mongun, how many people survived in that story? ”
Wei Chi said: "I don't know, the story is not clear." ”
Guan Hongru said expressionlessly: "What I know is that there are two people who survived that story, one is a young man named Fengrui, and the other is the blind old man, and this Yin Mansion Village was established by him!" ”
Feng Rui was extremely puzzled: "The blind old man established this Yin Mansion Village? In search of the secret of immortality? Why? ”
Guan Hongru said angrily: "After that night, Feng Rui left, and the blind old man continued to stay in the Crying Village, but after several days, the blind old man did not die, and it is not strange that an elderly person has not fallen down without eating, drinking, or sleeping?" At that time, he didn't find out that his body was abnormal, but he didn't want to live anymore, but he couldn't choose suicide, because in the dumb village, suicide could not put the body into the crying village, so he continued to wait, just like that, he waited in the crying village for three months, he still didn't die, he was still alive and well, at this time, the blind old man found that he didn't seem to be going to die......"
The blind old man returned to the Dumb Village, but the Dumb Village did not accept him, because according to the rules of the Dumb Village, the return of those who were supposed to die would bring bad luck to the village, so they decided to use the traditional way to let the blind old man be buried in peace.
Wei Chi Chi asked: "The traditional way?" ”
Guan Hongru nodded and said, "That is the flesh coffin buried alive." ”
Feng Rui wondered: "What does the flesh coffin mean?" ”
Guan Hongru explained: "The corpses in the crying village are covered with black mud, this way is the flesh coffin, that is to say, with a special black mud wrapped in the appearance of the corpse, it replaces the traditional coffin, this is the so-called flesh coffin, they directly wrapped the blind old man with black mud The whole body, saying that it is the flesh coffin, in fact, they want to suffocate it directly to death, but what I didn't expect is that the blind old man was sent to the crying village shortly after his death, and he came back to life. ”
The old man came back to life in front of the dumb villagers, and tore off the layer of soil that had been dried up on his face, which surprised all the people in the dumb village, and then, under the leadership of the village chief, all the people bowed down to the blind old man.
From that day on, the blind old man became a living ghost in the mute village.
"Living ghosts?" Wei Chi wondered, "What does this mean?" ”
Guan Hongru said: "Dumb village is a very peculiar place, they don't worship any gods, but worship corpses and ghosts, there are corpses to have ghosts, and ghosts are made after death, in their legends, if a person comes back from the dead, it is a living ghost, in other folk worship, it is equivalent to the existence of a living god, so you understand?" ”
Feng Rui asked: "Then since the blind old man himself is not dead, then why do he still establish the Yin Mansion Village and study the secret of immortality, does he want to make all the people in the Dumb Village the same as him?" ”
What Feng Rui didn't dare to ask was, didn't the blind old man find out that the reason why he didn't die was because of the seven courages?
Moreover, he was very strange, if he was really Feng Rui, then how could he affect the blind old man if he swallowed the Seven Spirits and became immortal?
Guan Hongru shook his head and said: "No, he wants to be younger, to change back to his young appearance, although he is not dead, but his body still maintains the appearance of seventy years old, even if a person does not die, but he is already old, what is the point of living?" So he established the Yin Mansion Village, trapped those who strayed here, and used the people here for experiments. ”
Wei Chiran asked, "Then how to do the experiment?" ”
Guan Hongru said: "The dumb village was originally a village that studied the dead, and they were also studying how to resurrect the dead, and it is said that the ancestors of the dumb village had done this, so the blind old man used the legend of the dumb village and their holy land to do all this, but they have been failing and have never succeeded." ”
Feng Rui asked, "What about you?" How did you get out of here? And why come back? ”
Guan Hongru hesitated and said: "The story about the coming-of-age ceremony of the dumb village and the twelve holy places on that road is true, the reason why we can't leave here is because further north is the territory of the dumb village, we can't escape through there, if we want to leave, the only way to leave is the other side of the valley, but since the beginning of the record, only the people of the dumb village can pass, and the people trapped here, as long as they try to leave through the other side of the valley, will die in the valley." ”
Wei Chiran pointed at Guan Hongru and said, "You passed, right?" ”
Guan Hongru nodded and said: "Yes, I passed, I am the only one who left the Yin Mansion Village through the other side of the valley, I never want to come back after I leave, because this place is really the underworld hell for me, the outside world is really heaven for me, I have no other ability to survive, I can only choose to do illegal things, because at that time, I didn't even have the concept of law in my head, I only knew what to do to make money." ”
After Guan Hongru left Yinzhai Village, he came to Chinatown, and quickly rose to the top in a short period of time with his ruthlessness and thinking different from others, and soon became one of the most famous drug lords in Chinatown, so he met and fell in love with his wife.
Maybe it's really because of love that Guan Hongru has changed a lot, he gradually let go of his previous desire for a normal society and devoted himself to the family, but he didn't expect Wen Wen to have a strange disease, which made him fall into pain, and after the way provided by Gan Le couldn't let Guan Hongru save Wen Wen, Guan Hongru had to lead Wen Wen back to Yin Zhai Village again, trying to find a solution here.
Because the Wailing Village is a mysterious place, when he was young, he once saw the people of the Wailing Village heal the seriously ill in a special way.
But when he returned, although the people of the Crying Village accepted him, they were unwilling to treat Wen Wen, because Guan Hongru was a betrayer, and accepted him because he successfully crossed the other side of the valley.
Guan Hongru decided to plead with the blind old man, but learned from the villagers that the blind old man had lost news after entering the holy land many years ago.
Therefore, Guan Hongru had to leave with his wife again and return to the Chinese town, during which he tried everything he could, and finally at the instigation of the sudden appearance of Gan Le, he tried to treat his wife with the creature corpse ant, but he did not expect his wife to die tragically.
In addition, Wei Chiran and Fang Xunyi also found him at that time, and he was disheartened, and finally decided to bring his wife's body back for burial.
After listening to Guan Hongru's story, Wei Chiran immediately asked, "What about Xiangsha?" Where are the others? ”
"In bed, I put him to sleep." Guan Hongru looked at the bed in the corner.
Wei Chiran and Feng Rui immediately stepped forward, and found that the sand was indeed there, and he was still breathing, so he should be in a coma.
Feng Rui pointed to the elephant sand on the bed and said, "Who is he?" Do you know? ”
Guan Hongru shook his head and said: "I don't know, but I know that he seems to have been here before, but when it was, he doesn't remember, and I don't know what happened to him, and I don't know why he was asked to be this guide." ”
yes, why did they arrange it that way? What exactly do you want to do? Lure the snake out of the hole? The military didn't show up, huh?
The secret may be in the blind old man.
Wei Chiran and Feng Rui both knew that as long as they saw the blind old man, the blind old man could recognize whether Fang Xunyi was the Feng Rui who fled from the Crying Village back then.
It's just that the question arises again, if Fang Xunyi is really Fengrui, then what will happen in the future?
If Lone Jun also confirmed his identity, then what will Fang Xunyi face in the future?
Wei Chiran looked at Feng Rui, Feng Rui pondered for a moment and said, "Where is the Holy Land?" I'm going to find that so-called living blind old man. ”
Guan Hongru looked a little surprised: "What are you here for?" ”
Feng Rui said: "Don't care! I'm going to the Holy Land! ”
Wei Chiran interjected: "Mr. Guan, before that, I need to know more about this place, can you take us to the dumb village?" ”
Guan Hongru hesitated: "Why do you want to go to the dumb village? You are outsiders, and it will be dangerous to go there. ”
Wei Chiran asked, "Will they kill us?" ”
Guan Hongru said: "That's not going to happen, but I think it's pointless to do that." ”
Feng Rui also said: "For me, the dumb village and the crying village have no value, I want to go to the holy land to find the blind old man." ”
Wei Chiran said stubbornly: "This kind of place is full of secrets, if we don't understand the background and customs here, once we enter the holy land, we will be like being blind." ”
Feng Rui's emotions seemed a little excited, and he looked restless.
Guan Hongru said: "You are also kind to me, I will help you, tonight, you rest here, don't go out, early tomorrow morning, I will take you to the dumb village." ”
Wei Chiran asked curiously, "Why did those people from Yin Mansion Village come out at night?" And, why can't they see us? ”
Guan Hongru said lightly: "They are used to this kind of life, they are obviously human beings, but they have to live like ghosts, they turn a blind eye to you, and they are also deceiving themselves, they can't leave the people here, they can only adapt to the life here." ”
Wei Chi said: "In other words, they have been brainwashed a long time ago, right?" ”
Guan Hongru nodded and said: "That's right, I was brainwashed, I had no choice but to accept all this, anyway, I can't leave here, I don't have the courage to cut myself off, and I don't dare to resist, it's better to die than to live, even if I live like a ghost, what about it?" ”
Guan Hongru said this, Feng Rui interjected next to him: "Aren't most people in this world like this? Even if you are born in the world, you don't dare to rebel against your fate, you don't make any real efforts, you choose to accept the so-called fate, if you want me to say, this is what you deserve. ”
Originally, Wei Chiran thought that Guan Hongru would be angry, but he didn't expect him to echo: "Yes, that's right, I deserve it, and this is also the difference between me and them." ”
Guan Hongru left the tomb and went to sleep elsewhere, because there was no room for so many people in this yin house.
This night, Wei Chiran slept very unsteadily, but Feng Rui, who didn't need to sleep, closed his eyes all night, for him, this place was very comfortable, because he, a person who would not die, could experience what it was like to live in a tomb after death.