Chapter 9: Ghost Hands

I held my breath and thought to myself, what does that severed hand have to do with this picture? Because I knew in advance that except for the father and the old man in the photo, the rest were dead people, so my attention was still focused on those dead people, and after looking at them for a long time, I kept thinking about the problem of hands, so I couldn't help but look carefully at the arms of those dead people, and then I suddenly found that all those dead people did not have their right hands! Everyone's sleeves are empty, and although the photo is dead, it looks so weird!

"Does that severed hand have anything to do with the dead man in the picture?" I noticed that my voice was a little hoarse, which showed how nervous I was.

Uncle Yu shook his head: "I don't know, this photo was given to me by a foreigner named Charlie De half a month ago, it was the foreigner in the photo, when he asked me to contact your father, I didn't agree at first, when he showed me this photo, I noticed the dead man on it, I guessed that it must have something to do with the severed hand, so I contacted your father and arranged for them to meet." Charried organized an expedition all the time, and your dad also joined it, they came here ten days ago, because of your father's special identity, I had to send someone to follow him, until three days ago, all the people in the camp of Charried's expedition suddenly disappeared out of thin air, and we didn't find any clues for three days, it is estimated that something happened to them. ”

I don't understand, you have so many people under your hands, why do you ask me to help? How can I help you?

Uncle Yu said that it is not a matter of manpower, I guess your father is not missing, but found some large ancient tomb, everyone entered the ancient tomb, and now they have not come out, maybe they have encountered an accident. It is Lin Maungtang's meaning to call you here, he said that your Guan family has inherited a gene called "ghost sorrow", this gene is very special, and has a certain effect of warding off evil spirits, we plan to find the ancient tomb and then go down, Mr. Lin said that you must help him before he is willing to enter the ancient tomb.

Walt? Do you believe this kind of nonsense? I stared at Uncle Yu, isn't this a trick to coax children?

"You don't believe me?" Uncle Yu glanced at me and said, "It seems that I really have to tell you the origin of that severed hand." ”

Uncle Yu stepped on the cigarette butt, lit another one, and then told a story about our Guan family.

I will sort out and analyze the story told by Uncle Yu, and the matter still needs to start with the severed hand.

The severed hand, called the ghost hand by my great-grandfather, has been passed down to this day. The ghost hand also has another title, called the hunt and kill order, who invented it, no one knows so far, and those who may know have died under the ghost hand.

Uncle Yu said that our family is a family of tomb robbers, and we have been robbing tombs since our ancestors, and the craftsmanship has been passed down from generation to generation, and both men and women can inherit the ancestral business. Until his grandfather Guan Zhentian was thirty years old, he found a ghost hand from a Chu tomb, and then he was assassinated by someone else inexplicably.

When grandpa died, grandpa was still young, and he was raised by a housekeeper named Big Tobacco Bag, and a guy named Huoyazi. At that time, the warlords were divided and wars broke out, and many warlords followed Cao Cao's example for military expenditures and started digging graves, but some special tombs always had strange things happening, and there were countless casualties. What's even more strange is that once the great warlord Sun Dianying robbed and dug a large tomb, many people were bitten by the insects in the ancient tomb, and the wounds were bleeding nonstop, and finally the blood ran out and died.

Later, Sun Dianying didn't know where he heard about the "ghostly and sorrowful" physique of our Guan family, so he sent someone to arrest his grandfather, who had just turned ten years old at the time, into the ancient tomb.

Grandpa was very curious at the time, but Grandpa was in too much of a hurry to tell future generations the origin of this physique, so he decided to find out what was going on.

In order to get rid of Sun Dianying's clutches, with the help of a big tobacco bag and a fangzi, his grandfather fled to the northeast and worked as a guard for Zhang Zuolin. The ghost hand was accidentally lost on the way to escape, and Grandpa was annoyed for a while, because apart from the tiger tattoo, it was the only relic that Grandpa left him. After many inquiries by the big tobacco pouch, I heard that many people have seen ghost hands, but those who have seen ghost hands have become dead people. At that time, the news of the ghost hand killing people spread far and wide, causing a sensation in many ways, and the grandfather also secretly did a lot of investigations, and finally he found a suspicious point, everyone who was killed by the ghost hand had a scratch on his body, and the deceased's face was as pale as paper, and it was determined that he died of excessive blood loss, which reminded his grandfather of the subordinates who died in the ancient tomb of Sun Dianying's troops, and aroused his grandfather's curiosity even more.

By chance, the ghost hand fell into the hands of one of Zhang Zuolin's adjutants, this adjutant was born with a red belt (the red belt was once a kind of tomb robber in the Northeast, but most of them made a living by robbing homes and houses, and the old people in the Northeast thought that the red belt could ward off evil spirits, so many tomb robbers in the Northeast at that time were wearing red belts), disdainful of the rumors of the ghost hand asking for his life, but the bad luck finally fell on his head, fortunately, the grandfather knew that the ghost hand was in the hands of the adjutant, and he had already targeted him, just when the adjutant was cut by the fingernails of the ghost hand and his wrist was bleeding, Grandpa took action to save his life, and the adjutant thanked him for putting his brother with his grandfather, and the situation calmed down, but he didn't expect that a few days later, the adjutant was hanged on the city gate tower, and his hands were also cut off.

Hearing this, I couldn't help but think of the story that Lei Zi told me, and I don't know if it was this adjutant.

Because of this incident, grandpa was wary of Zhang Zuolin, grandpa thought that under Zhang Zuolin, it would not be a long-term solution, so he left Fengtian (Shenyang) with a big cigarette pouch and open teeth, and began to continue to rob tombs for a living. Because his idea is that the ghost hand was brought out of the ancient tomb by his grandfather, so if you want to find out the truth about the murder of the ghost hand, you must also start from the ancient tomb, and the physique of "ghost seeing sorrow" is also aimed at the things in the ancient tomb to play a role, if you want to know the origin of this special physique, you must also start from the ancient tomb.

It turns out that Grandpa's idea is right, he found several ancient books from the ancient tomb, which recorded a lot of information about "ghost sorrow" in history, but unfortunately, the origin of the ghost hand has not been ascertained so far.

Later, in the process of robbing the tomb, due to the fact that Huoyazi touched the mechanism, he was separated from his grandfather, and when he found Huoyazi, he had bled to death, which made Grandpa even more eager to find out the origin of "Ghost Sight" and Ghost Hand. Later, the big tobacco pouch suffered from severe lung disease due to the poison of the corpse, and died a painful death.

Grandpa saw that he couldn't do it alone, and at that time he already had a high prestige in the industry, so he established a tomb robbery organization - Siberian Tigers. This is also the reason why Uncle Yu introduced me and said that I was the son of the Siberian Tiger.

In the sixties of the last century, the power of the Siberian tiger continued to grow under the painstaking management of the grandfather, and many tomb robbery organizations disappeared in New China.

Until one day, a scientific expedition team found his grandfather and invited him to be a special adviser to the scientific expedition team to go to the Taklamakan Desert for archaeological excavation.

Three months later, my father brought my grandfather back from the military hospital in Lanzhou, and I heard that the scientific expedition team had an accident while excavating an underground ancient city, and all the others died in the ancient city except for my grandfather. Grandpa seems to be mentally stimulated, and when he comes home, he has been in a trance, and he can't help it.

Half a year later, as soon as the grandfather recovered, he immediately decided to wash his hands in a golden basin and quit the tomb robbery industry, but he didn't expect that the second year after he washed his hands, the country had ten years of turmoil, and the grandfather was not able to be criticized, and he was buckled up with the hat of the tomb robber king, and died depressed. Before leaving, Grandpa told Dad that the pursuit of ghosts and ghosts can only stop at his generation, and the next generation must not be burdened with this fate.

Uncle Yu said this, half a pack of cigarettes had been smoked, I sat there, thinking about the cause and development of the whole story, the story sounds very plain, but I can't hide the bizarreness, I always feel that there are a lot of key details Uncle Yu didn't tell me, but in fact these are all he heard from his father, specific details, I think my father can't tell a policeman.

"So, my dad isn't really a tomb robber, he's just tracking down the wishes of those older generations?" I asked.

Uncle Yu nodded: "Sort of, that's why I didn't arrest him, if it weren't for the files of the scientific expedition team in the sixties, I don't think anyone would have paid attention to your father." ”

What happened to the expedition team? It's been so many years, and it's still going to be turned out!

"I'm afraid no one else knows about this except your grandfather." Uncle Yu still wanted to light a cigarette, but finally gave up and said: "Even if you know, you are chasing after the wind, and the person who really experienced this, that is, your grandfather, refused to reveal half a sentence when he was dying, I think this must have something to do with the ghost hand or your Guan family, otherwise his old man would have no reason to bite so tightly." ”