The moment the coffin board was opened, everyone was stunned, what was in the coffin was not a human corpse, but an animal with red hair, looking about a meter long.

Looking at the head of this thing again, although it has been shriveled, it is still significantly larger than his body, and it looks very incongruous. In addition to the large head, the animal's mouth was distinctly protruding, and its chin was pointed and thin—I could tell at once that it looked like a monkey or an orangutan!

"How can it be an ape?" Zhang Kailong looked puzzled.

The others also started talking about it.

The monkey in the coffin was shriveled, but its hideous face was still visible, as if something terrible had happened before it died.

When they saw that it was a monkey, everyone froze. Could it be that this monkey is more terrible than a man? Otherwise, why would you use eleven soul needles to nail it into the coffin!

Next, we opened several more coffins with confusion, and without exception, the apes lying inside were turned into dried corpses, and they all looked hideous.

When it came to the sixth coffin, the old man surnamed Wen waved his hand and said to Yang Guoshan: "Director Yang, I don't think there is any need to open the coffin again, I'm afraid the rest are all such monkeys!" ”

Yang Guoshan nodded, let's stop first.

"These coffins are all small-leaved sandalwood! It's very precious, but why are apes buried here!"

Zhang Kailong frowned and asked the three archaeological experts.

"Ahem...... This thing isn't an ape, it's an imp! ”

Lao Wen coughed twice and replied: "In ancient times, there were many witches or wizards who raised imps, and these imps were divided into three categories, the worst is to use witchcraft to control dead people who have just died for less than two days, this kind of imp is similar to the zombies on TV, because they are not sensitive enough, and their lethality is not ...... enough."

Professor Wen also introduced two other types of imps.

Even more powerful than raising imps with dead people is imps raised with children. To nurture such imps, it is necessary to raise children from infancy, and the process is very complicated.

The first thing to give to this child is very special, they are all cold-blooded animals such as geckos, scorpions, snakes, etc., and before the age of five, these children must be placed in a huge jar, which is dense and can only show their heads, so that after a few years, the child will become deformed.

Of course, there are other secret cultivation methods, which outsiders do not know.

Even more powerful than this kind of ghost is raising a "yin ghost", which is a real ghost.

Halfway through listening to Lao Wen, I understood that this way of cultivating little ghosts was exactly what the old man who Zhang Kailong took me to drive for a few hours to his hometown said about raising little ghosts.

The souls of Yanli and a few other girls almost became such little ghosts.

After a pause, Lao Wen continued: "These are the three types of ghosts that ordinary people know, but there is a fourth category in the world, and this way of raising ghosts is relatively secret, it can be said that there are very few people who know about it, and even fewer people who can raise them......"

The object of this way of raising ghosts that Lao Wen finally mentioned is neither a dead person, nor a child, nor the soul of a person who has just died, but a very spiritual animal.

He didn't know exactly what was going on, but when he saw the ape in the coffin and thought of the "Eleven Soul Needles" on the coffin board, he naturally remembered these things.

Since eleven coffin nails are used on the coffin board, the contents of this coffin should be extraordinary! Perhaps the most powerful imp in the legend.

Although everyone is at a loss now, looking at the shriveled ape in the coffin is not harmful, and everyone's hearts are steady.

At this point, only the huge platform in the center remains.

In order not to destroy the platform, many people hold a small shovel in one hand and a brush in the other, and shovel off the layer of attachments on it little by little.

We didn't know what this thick layer of attachment was, it seemed to be a kind of concrete, in addition to soil and lime, there were also a lot of bones of small animals such as cats and dogs, and some small things like shells.

I guess the reason why these things are mixed together is like concrete!

The twenty or so people stopped until half past three in the afternoon, when the real thing below was revealed, which turned out to be a translucent rectangular urn.

I say it is an urn because I don't have a more appropriate name in my head, and this thing is very huge, more than fifteen meters long, at least seven or eight meters wide, and about one person high.

It was not until about six o'clock in the evening that the layer of concrete on the huge square urn was almost removed.

It can be seen that there is some liquid in this rectangular urn, and you can faintly see that there is a rectangular thing floating in the liquid, but the transparency is not enough, and you can't see what is inside.

Hearing that there was a huge discovery below, the people above couldn't sit still, and went down to the pit one after another.

"This thing is so long! It looks like a whole! ”

Someone in the crowd shouted.

"It looks like it has bulging claws!"

Xiao Zhang, who ran to the opposite of us, shouted.

"This shape looks like a dragon!"

Chen Laosan looked very carefully at the other side from one side, and suddenly shouted in horror.

"It's a dragon! It's a dragon! It's really like the legendary dragon! Several expert old men also shouted.

I looked at the whole huge rectangular urn as a whole, and there was no gap in the whole surface, as if it was naturally formed, because it was translucent, and I could only vaguely see a long and slightly curved thing floating in the liquid, which seemed too arbitrary to judge that it was a dragon.

Soon it was more than seven o'clock, the sun was setting, the light in this huge pit was already very dark, Zhang Kailong and Yang Guoshan and Lao Guo discussed a little, the things in this pit only have archaeological value, but there is no economic value, so there is no need to leave someone to guard at night, everyone is busy for a day, do it here today, what is there tomorrow!

Soon everyone packed up their things, and batches were pulled up by cranes.

Me and the three old man experts were the first ones, and the three of them kept muttering.

Lao Huang said: "Is this the 'Hundred Ghost Town Beast'!" There are no hundred ghosts, but only ninety-nine beasts! ”

The other was also full of doubts and said: "What puzzles me the most is this huge translucent coffin, I have looked closely, this thing seems to be carved from a whole piece of jade, this is a big project!" ”

The old man surnamed Huang should be the most powerful of the three, he coughed lightly and shook his head and said, "You two didn't get to the point!" The 'Hundred Ghost Town Beast' is just a legend, and even if this legend is true, it may not be very accurate. As for the huge jade sarcophagus, it can only be said to be a masterpiece of ingenuity, the wisdom and ability of the ancients are by no means as simple as we imagined, there are many capable people! ”

The old man surnamed Huang looked left and right, smiled lightly at me, and continued: "The most confusing thing is the contents of this coffin! Do you believe that dragons really exist in the World Mountain? Even if it existed, how did it get into this huge translucent coffin!"

Hearing him say this, I thought it made sense, so I subconsciously looked down at the huge coffin again (listening to what they said, I knew that this thing was called a coffin, to put it bluntly, it was a big coffin), and at this look, I saw that inside the coffin, there was a faint long strip of things, and there was a small shadow, which looked like a person.

I was shocked, but I still pretended to be calm, thinking that this is the point, so I won't cause trouble for everyone, no matter what is inside, I will definitely see tomorrow.

That night, Zhang Kailong followed the car of the task force back to the district, first, he changed his clothes, which he had been wearing for several days, and he had already gone bad, and second, he discussed tomorrow's affairs with Yang Guoshan, Lao Guo, and the three old men, and listened to his tone, as if he had to report to the city and province overnight.

Chen Laosan took the initiative to stay, saying that he was tired and didn't want to run around in the car, so he would simply continue to stay in the village tonight! Looking at his dodgy eyes, it felt like he was hiding something from me.

After a few cars left, the village was quiet again, and we were about to walk back when we saw Wang Jiliang and Yang Guoshan walking over.

"How's that! Xiao Zhen, what did you find today? ”

Li Xiaobai's curiosity is also very heavy, and he has long wanted to sneak over to have a look, but Zhang Kailong told Wang Jiliang that today's archaeological site cannot be approached casually, otherwise it will be illegal.

Wang Jiliang naturally complied without discount, not only did he not approach, but also took the initiative to act as a volunteer guard and did not let anyone approach. The village party secretary is not allowed to approach, who dares to approach?

So Li Xiaobai held back at the entrance of the village for a long time.

I told me what I found today, and the two of us were stunned when they listened.

"There are so many dead monkeys buried in this ruined temple, and these dead monkeys are still surrounded by a dragon?" Li Xiaobai's eyes widened and he muttered to himself.

"I can't draw conclusions yet, I just said that it looks like a dragon, but where in the world is there a dragon!"

Li Xiaobai sighed, nodded, his eyes wandered around, and he didn't know what he thought of.

Wang Jiliang beckoned us back to the village to rest.

I took Chen Laosan to Yanli's house, first washed their own clothes, and then changed their clothes.

As soon as I opened the closet, a pinprick pain shot over, my clothes were neatly arranged in the closet, and there were a few new sets of clothes, which should have been bought by Yanli, but unfortunately she was no longer there before she could wear them on me.

Chen Laosan's figure is about the same as mine, and after wearing my clothes, the size is quite appropriate, but there is a big age gap between the two of us, and my clothes look nondescript when I wear them on him.

I secretly decided in my heart that after this incident passed, I would bring back the gorgeous body and hold a grand funeral for her, which was buried by the Yellow River in the west of the village, which was the place I chose for myself to live in a hundred years.

On the way back to Wang Jiliang's house, I was nearly hit in the knee by a sheep, scratched by a cat that jumped off the wall, and even a calf a few months old tried to attack us, and I heard the sound of chickens, ducks and cattle in the village.

I felt uneasy in my heart, what's the matter! Why did the livestock in the village become so restless?