Chapter 43: The Corpse of the Seven Stars (Part II)
The method of making the Seven Star Corpse does not start with a single corpse, and it has nothing to do with the legendary corpse raising ground and corpse refining ground. The Seven Star Corpses must select 21 corpses, and the screening process must refer to the deceased's birth date, tall, short, fat and thin, whether there is a disability, and what kind of diseases he suffered from before his death.
The process of finding a suitable corpse for the Seven Stars is extremely tedious and difficult, and there is also a problem that even if you find a suitable corpse, the corpse will already rot in the coffin.
Therefore, the idea of someone in the sewing of thousands of corpses to start beating the living people, after all, it is much easier to learn the relevant data from the living, and it can also prepare for the prevention of the corpse from decomposing before the person dies.
Ni Xiaowan asked puzzledly: "Do you prepare for embalming before you die?" How? ”
"Oil." Tang Qianlin explained, "The word 柩 sounds the same for a long time, meaning a coffin containing a corpse, and this oil is said to be made by sewing thousands of corpses with corpse oil and other medicinal materials, and before people die, they are ingested by the human body in a special way." ”
Ni Xiaowan nodded: "It's too weird." ”
Tang Qianlin continued: "Why does the body have to be buried in a coffin? First, it is a ritual, and second, it does not allow human corpses to touch the soil, which can be contaminated with bacteria and insects. After this series of rituals is completed, the various parts of the corpse are selected by a special calculation method, and then these parts are put together, which is the so-called refining of the seven-star corpse. ”
Ni Xiaowan glared and said, "Piece it together? I see, no wonder those corpses are missing arms and legs, so that's what happened. ”
Tang Qianlin said: "However, as far as I know, so far, no one has refined a seven-star corpse that meets the requirements, because that is simply impossible. ”
As he spoke, Tang Qianlin used a flashlight to shine on the cave wall on the right: "Look over there." ”
Ni Xiaowan looked over along the flashlight and saw the bones of various parts of the human body hanging on the wall.
Ni Xiaowan was a girl after all, she was still scared, and after moving to Tang Qianlin, she asked, "Uncle Shi, why are all bones hanging there, but all the ones in the coffin are fresh?" ”
When Tang Qianlin heard this, he almost laughed out loud: "Fresh? ”
Ni Xiaowan knew that she had said the wrong word, so she quickly corrected it: "I mean, it's like just dead." ”
Tang Qianlin pointed at the skeletons on the wall with a flashlight and said: "The corpses in the coffin are all specially treated, as I said just now, special embalming has been done, and the limbs taken from those corpses must be destroyed once they are found not to meet the requirements." ”
After speaking, Tang Qianlin paused, looked around and said, "It's strange to say, it stands to reason that once the corpses that lose their value should all be destroyed, how can they stay here." ”
"Uncle Shi, look ahead." Ni Xiaowan pointed forward with a flashlight, and at the same time hid behind Tang Qianlin, "Why are those coffins piled together?" ”
Tang Qianlin looked at the flashlight and found that the hole in front of him was much larger, and countless coffins had piled up in the cave, forming a small coffin mountain.
Tang Qianlin was puzzled: "What do you mean?" ”
As soon as he said this, several black shadows suddenly fell from the top of the coffin mountain, and at the same time, several black shadows let out screams.
"Stand back!" Tang Qianlin stood in front of Ni Xiaowan with the lower phoenix spear in his hand, staring at a black shadow that rolled down towards them.
Ni Xiaowan also aimed her gun at the black shadow, and put her finger on the trigger.
"Oh my mother, but I fell to death." The shadow struggled to get up, still muttering.
Tang Qianlin heard the black shadow's voice familiar, and asked tentatively, "Boss Yi?" ”
After the flashlight shone on the black shadow, the black shadow raised its hand to block the light, and then slowly put it down, Tang Qianlin and Ni Xiaowan finally found that it was indeed Yi Mochen.
Yi Mochen was also surprised when he saw the two: "Why are you here?" ”
Tang Qianlin looked up at the top of the coffin mountain: "I still want to ask you, how did you roll down from above?" ”
Yi Mochen said: "We came down from the passage, walking, and there was a slope below, and the people behind couldn't stop and knocked us down." ”
Ni Xiaowan shone a flashlight around her: "What about the others?" ”
At this moment, Li Yunfan crawled out of a coffin and asked at the same time, "Mochen, are you okay?" ”
Tang Qianlin and Yi Mochen stepped forward and helped Li Yunfan up, and as soon as he was helped out, one hand stretched out from the gap between the two coffins next to him, Yi Mochen subconsciously stepped on it, and then heard Qian Sinian's scream.
Yi Mochen reacted at this time, and quickly raised his hand to pull Qian Sinian out: "I'm sorry, Section Chief Qian, I didn't know it was you, I thought it was something else." ”
Qian Sinian rubbed his hands and said, "Will there be anything else in this place?" Yes? ”
As soon as Qian Sinian finished yelling, he realized that there were coffins all around, and he couldn't help but tremble: "What kind of place is this?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "I don't know, it's probably the place where the coffin is hidden, eh, what about Jin Gusi?" ”
Qian Sinian and Yi Mochen both turned their heads to look around, and Yi Mochen said: "I don't know, he fell down with us before, why is there no shadow now?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "This place is too weird, let's look for it separately, and after finding someone, we will return the same way and go out from the underground river, this place should not stay for a long time." ”
Ni Xiaowan objected: "Master Tang, haven't we found out anything?" ”
Tang Qianlin shook his head: "I don't think I can check it anymore, just accept some things when you see them, although I don't believe in the theory of ghosts and gods, but you have also seen the harm of male and female ghost lanterns to people before, I am worried that there are similar things here, these things cannot be dealt with with with the weapons in our hands." ”
The five of them left and divided into two groups, Tang Qianlin and Ni Xiaowan looked for the left side, and Qian Sinian, Li Yunfan and Yi Mochen looked for the right side.
Qian Sinian and the others saw the bones on the wall and the coffins all over the ground, and felt that their scalps were about to explode, and there was no sound here, and even the sound of people's breathing could be heard clearly, which made them even more weird.
Tang Qianlin and Ni Xiaowan walked to the wall on the left, but found countless neatly arranged small holes, some of which were still surrounded by rune paper.
Tang Qianlin stepped forward and found that every small hole was as thick as a person's thigh, Tang Qianlin measured the diameter with the lower phoenix gun, and stabbed the lower phoenix spear into the hole, but it was pierced all the way to the end, but it was not to the end.
Ni Xiaowan leaned close to a piece of rune paper and read the incantation on it: "Amoro Zhen, the offender is regent, the beginning is me, and I am the beginning." Uncle Shi, what does this mean? ”
Tang Qianlin took out the lower phoenix spear, looked at the rune paper, and then looked at the others: "These runes are all from the Taoist book "Three Caves Divine Runes", all of which are used to avoid darkness and exorcise evil spirits, there are strange things here, we have to find Jingusi and leave quickly." ”
When Ni Xiaowan stepped back, she accidentally found that there were holes on the ground, and hurriedly said, "Uncle, look, there are holes on the ground, but there are not so many." ”
Tang Qianlin squatted down and took a look, and found that the ground was full of that kind of holes, and the arrangement was very regular, about every one and a half meters, Tang Qianlin used a flashlight to shine slowly in one direction, and worked hard with Ni Xiaowan to remove the coffin in front of him, and finally came to a conclusion, that is, the ground in this cave is full of this kind of small holes.
Yi Mochen and the others rushed over when they heard the sound, and after learning the situation, Li Yunfan pointed to the wall where the bones were hung and said, "Behind those bones are also those holes. ”
Tang Qianlin hurriedly went over and used the Xia Feng Gun to remove the bones on the wall, and sure enough, he found that they were all dense small holes.
At this moment, several people heard a noise at the top of the coffin mountain, and immediately turned their heads to look, and saw a person standing there at the top of the coffin mountain, who seemed to be looking at them.
"Jingus!" Qian Sinian stood there and shouted, "What are you doing standing there? Hurry up and get me down! ”
The figure was still standing motionless, and at this time, Qian Sinian also realized that something was wrong, and immediately pulled out his gun, and retreated continuously, directly behind Tang Qianlin.
When Tang Qianlin reacted, he found that except for Li Yunfan, several other people were all standing behind him, just poking their heads out and looking at the top of the coffin mountain.
Tang Qianlin frowned and said, "Aren't you guys?" ”
When Li Yunfan shone it with a flashlight, the figure disappeared immediately in a flash.
Li Yunfan held a gun and shone a flashlight around: "That's definitely not Jingus." ”
Tang Qianlin said to the others: "Now start to slowly retreat back, don't worry about Jingusi for now, we have to retreat to a safe distance." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Qianlin heard the sound of something breaking through the wind, he pushed Li Yunfan away, and at the same time turned around and threw down the person behind him: "Be careful!" ”
A huge thing flew over Tang Qianlin's head and shattered in an instant after smashing into the sarcophagus behind him.
Tang Qianlin rolled over and got up, and the rest of the people immediately stood with him back to back, vigilantly looking around.
Yi Mochen used a flashlight to shine on the things that flew before, but found that it was a corpse, and the corpse was like a ceramic, and it shattered all over the ground after crashing into the coffin.
Yi Mochen looked fixedly: "What is it?" ”
Ni Xiaowan kicked the broken arm next to her with her foot, and after the collision, the arm also made a sound of ceramic fragments colliding together, she felt a little strange, and subconsciously leaned closer to look, and then touched it with her hand and said, "How did this corpse become like this?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "It's probably lime, the technique of sewing thousands of corpses has always been very weird, maybe the corpses in the coffin are like this, everyone be careful, pay attention to the surroundings, and slowly withdraw." ”
Everyone nodded silently, and followed Tang Qianlin to slowly retreat towards the back.
As soon as they retreated about ten meters, another corpse flew in the darkness and smashed directly on their retreat, and then the collision sound became more and more, and every time there was a collision sound, a corpse flew out.
Tang Qianlin followed the position where the corpse was flying, pointed to the right and said, "Over there!" ”
After Tang Qianlin finished speaking, Li Yunfan pulled the trigger towards the position he was pointing at, and after Li Yunfan fired, the others also immediately opened fire, and after the intensive fire, the thing that threw out the corpse finally stopped.
At the same time, the three of them, Jiro Takahashi, Qiao Tong, and Keiquan, also ran in out of breath.
Takahashi Jiro said, "What happened?" ”
Tang Qianlin didn't have time to explain to him: "Hurry up and quit, don't ask why!" Hurry up! ”
Just as everyone retreated towards the rear entrance, a huge roar came, and everyone turned around and shone their flashlights in the direction where the roar came from, only to find that the coffin mountain that had been good before suddenly collapsed, and the coffin above rolled down, hitting them like an avalanche.