Although the words on the tombstone are ancient Chinese, fortunately, Grandpa Niu's language has always been learned well, and he also has a preference for ancient Chinese, and he also studied it attentively during school, so his literary skills are still relatively deep, and these inscriptions are not difficult for him.

There are not many words on the front of the stone tablet, only three big characters - the tomb of the dead

Seeing these three words, Grandpa Niu was shocked, he had never heard of a tomb of the dead, which was generally common in a well-dressed tomb, and there was no one's body in the grave, just the clothes of this person's life, which belonged to the form of symbolic tombs.

If taken literally, isn't this tomb the souls of the dead?

Can the dead be buried?

Is there really an undead in this world?

Grandpa Niu stared at the words on the tombstone, constantly recalling the books he had read about the undead, and gradually, he remembered that it seemed that there had been a record in an ancient book, and that ancient book described the undead like this:

Undead creatures are most commonly represented by common skeletons, zombies, and ghosts. Most of the undead creatures are characterized by sluggishness and lack of self-awareness, and the undead creatures are considered to be the attachment of the living to the present world before death, as well as the deep grievances that cannot be resolved, and the special form of life that arises, among which the disembodied ghost ghost is more special, and the ghost ghost is considered to be the materialized manifestation of the pure spirit body, and usually requires the use of weapons attached to magical power to cause substantial damage.

After recalling this text, Grandpa Niu suddenly remembered that in the absurd dream he had last night, wasn't he a skeleton?

There were also people who were also skeletons, who came to him with their hearts, and when he put a label with their names on their hearts, these skeleton people disappeared inexplicably.

Could it be that this strange dream also has something to do with this tomb?

Because there is nothing on the tombstone except these three words, not even time, and no name appears, so whose grave is this grave of the dead?

You can only see if there is a special text on the back of the tombstone.

When Grandpa Niu went around to the back of the tombstone, he saw a lot of small characters densely packed, because there were too many contents, and considering that the ancient text was difficult to understand, so when Grandpa Niu told me, he simply picked the key meaning and translated it into modern Chinese, which is roughly as follows:

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Since ancient times, people have believed that the form of life is living flesh and blood, and once it dies, life ends. As everyone knows, the living body is only a small part of life, and the real source of human life is the soul.

As long as the soul is well, one can live forever through samsara.

The human appearance, and body, that is, the skin, flesh and bones, will age over time, and will age faster due to injury, but the soul never ages.

As long as the soul is immortal, human life can be reincarnated again.

The so-called undead is a life form that can produce strong resentment because the body is dead and the soul is not extinguished, and because a long-cherished wish has not been fulfilled, it refuses to reincarnate.

The undead who are left with only a complete soul are called ghosts, and ghosts are ethereal and can change their forms at will to hurt people by creating illusions. However, because the soul has no bones or flesh to attach to, it is easy to dissipate, and the vitality is the most fragile, because there is no entity, it can only indirectly harm the living through virtual illusions to scare and threaten, so the degree of damage to the living is the least.

Only the mutilated soul remains, the bones and flesh of the undead are called zombies, zombies because they do not have a complete soul, do not have the ability to think, so they move slowly and stiffly, and prevent flesh and blood from rotting by sucking the blood of living people, although the soul is only fragments, but because of the protection of bones and flesh, the soul is not easy to dissipate, so the vitality is medium, because zombies have entities, they can directly harm living people, so the degree of damage to living people is medium.

Only the undead who have both a complete soul and bones are called skeleton people, and they are also the most powerful undead, such undead have the strongest vitality, this kind of undead is not only intelligent and witty, but also has great strength, and can do the most harm to the living, and can even forcibly seize the body of the living and turn it into an undead puppet.

This tomb of the dead is the final destination of all the dead in the mortal world, a place to resolve the grievances in the soul, and a place of transition to the reincarnation realm. Because it is the gathering place of all the undead, so the resentment is the strongest within a radius of ten miles, except for the babies born in this resentful environment, that is, the local villagers can live normally, outsiders are not allowed to enter this range, otherwise they will lose their nature due to resentment poisoning and lead to self-harm, and those who are poisoned are incurable, and they will die every night and become undead.

The local villagers are also not allowed to approach the core cave of the grave between midnight and dawn, otherwise they will lose their nature and jump into the cave to harm themselves and turn into the undead. As for the core cave, only the undead can enter and leave at will, and anyone who is not undead will also lose control of their emotions and harm themselves, becoming undead within half an hour.

The ancient tree next to the grave of the dead, called the fruit tree of life, lives by sucking resentment, transforming resentment into vitality, every fruit on the tree corresponds to a part of a person's body, and all living people eat this fruit, which can automatically discharge the old human body structure and regrow a new human body structure, which can only be taken once in a person's life. If the soul of the deceased is mutilated, it can recuperate under the tree, and over time, the soul can be completely repaired in order to participate in reincarnation.

This tomb of the dead belongs to an independent closed underground world of the dead, is a special burial space, there is a strong seal outside, only the dead can enter to recuperate, and after the resentment is resolved, they can be reincarnated in the mortal world, but once they enter the tomb of the dead, they can never go out, so it will not affect the normal life of the mortal world, and it will never communicate with the mortal world. If the seal of the tomb space is broken due to tomb robbery, then this independent world will be connected to the mortal world, and at that time, a large number of undead in the tomb of the dead may flood into the mortal world, and within a thousand years at most, it will definitely bring destruction to all mortals in the mortal world.

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It seems that there are really a lot of words on the tombstone, Grandpa Niu picks the key points, and says so much, after listening to Grandpa Niu's description of the words behind the tombstone of the tomb of the dead, I know that this world is really magical, and there is actually this kind of tomb of the dead, which is an independent burial space that is unimaginable to mortals.

And after Grandpa Niu read the text introduction on the tombstone, he suddenly realized that it was strange that the children and adults born in the village could not survive that night.

It turned out that a powerful resentment was at work, and this cemetery cave turned out to be a burial space where all the undead in the mortal world must come, and it was also a transitional world where the souls of the undead reincarnated after exhausting their grievances, so this is also the only way for the undead to go to the world of reincarnation.

Presumably, between the beginning of the day and dawn, it should be the time when all kinds of undead come here, so during this time, the yin qi and resentment are the heaviest, which causes all the villagers who are close to the black hole to be evil at least and die on the spot.

The thought of countless undead gathering here from all directions at midnight every day made Grandpa Niu's scalp tingle when he thought about it.

However, when he remembered the ancient tree mentioned at the end, Grandpa Niu was very excited and glad that he had accidentally eaten five fruits last night, and actually replaced the five most important internal organs in his body with new ones.

But there is one thing, Grandpa Niu still doesn't understand, that is, last night when he was in the black hole between the time and dawn, it stands to reason that he should be hurt by resentment, why is he safe and sound?

Was it because he had eaten five fruits?

Thinking of this, Grandpa Niu felt even more lucky, if he hadn't been drunk and thirsty at the time, he wouldn't have picked fruits from unknown sources to eat.

It seems that it is all providence in the dark.

After that, Grandpa Niu picked a few more fruits from the important organs of the tree, put them in his arms, and left quickly, anyway, the fruits could grow again in one night.

Because the village is remote and the medical conditions are extremely poor, some people who are seriously ill, especially those whose internal organs are necrotic and are about to fail, can only wait for death at home.

If they were allowed to eat this fruit, wouldn't it be another chance to live? Of course, Grandpa Niu also knew that this secret could not be passed on, and he would not easily use this fruit to save people, otherwise he would know that there were too many people, and once it was spread, it would inevitably cause people to want to dominate this fruit tree of life, and perhaps it would bring disaster to the entire village.

When Grandpa Niu left, five meters away from the black hole, he found that the little rooster was still waiting for him, so he took it home and has been raising it to this day.

It stands to reason that the life span of the rooster should not be so long, it is every once in a while, Grandpa Niu sneaks into the black hole in the middle of the night and picks a few life fruits for the big rooster to eat, but I didn't expect this fruit to have a miraculous effect on the life of the big rooster.

It's just that when Grandpa Niu told me the story of the big rooster to me and Niu Wa, he lied to us that he lived a long life by eating strange insects near the burrow, because it was inconvenient for him to tell us the truth about the burrow at that time.

But tonight, when my grandmother and Grandpa Niu and I followed the funeral procession of clay sculptures to the cemetery, Grandpa Niu told me the truth about the cave.

I also understand that the reason why Grandpa Niu told me all this is that I am an adult and very calm, and I will help him keep this secret.

Second, I listened to his tone, and it seemed that the village would really disappear after tonight, so if he didn't tell me, he wouldn't have a chance to say it.

It's just that I still don't believe that such a big village will disappear inexplicably, but recalling the text description behind the tombstone of the tomb of the dead that Grandpa Niu described before, I feel that Grandpa Niu is still hiding something from me.

Because it is mentioned in that passage that this tomb of the dead is an independent and closed underground world, and it is not allowed to communicate with the mortal world. However, at present, our village is not underground, and it is connected to other counties and cities in the outside world. So I have reason to suspect that our village should be the small world where the Tomb of the Dead is located, and it should have been inadvertently broken by someone.

Although there are currently armies surrounded, it is strictly forbidden to enter and exit, but those ethereal undead armies are invisible and unstoppable, that is to say, over the years, there have been many resentful undead trapped in the tomb of the dead to return to the mortal world, wouldn't that kill how many innocent mortals?