Chapter 56: The Law of Sealing the Coffin (II)
Because Zhong Jizhuang was the one who opened the coffin, He Chenxue pinned her hopes on him, so she informed Zhong Jizhuang of the matter on the premise of hiding Ma Tong's name and asked him what to do.
Zhong Jizhuang's first reaction was to define Ma Tong as a "living dead", but it was quickly completely overturned in the details of his inquiry.
First of all, the definition of the living dead is a person who has clearly died and then resurrected, loses his original memory, loses his consciousness, becomes a walking corpse, hunts and eats like an animal, and horse children obviously do not meet these characteristics.
Zhong Jizhuang asked He Chenxue: "What was this person like when he was rescued?" ”
He Chenxue replied: "There is no difference from ordinary people, after waking up, his expression was sluggish, he didn't know anything except eating and drinking, almost a month later, he started to speak, but he didn't remember everything that happened before, he didn't know who he was, he didn't know where he came from." ”
When Tang Qianlin heard He Chenxue recall this, he immediately said, "Wait, you said that when Ma Tong was rescued, he lost his memories of the past?" Don't know who you are? Where did it come from? ”
He Chenxue said: "Yes, that's what Mou Zheng said. ”
Zhang Liankai! Tang Qianlin's first reaction was to think of Zhang Liankai of the Hailar Local Security Bureau, isn't this exactly the same as when Zhang Liankai was found at the scene of the murder?
It's just that Zhang Liankai was a child at that time, while Ma Tong was an adult.
At the same time, Tang Qianlin also thought of the scene when Zhang Liankai slaughtered the sheep and cleaned up the internal organs, when Zhang Liankai stared at the sheep, his eyes were like beasts, and he couldn't wait to eat it directly without cooking.
Tang Qianlin gasped, and He Chenxue asked when he saw this, "What's wrong with you?" ”
"Nothing." Tang Qianlin immediately said, "You go on." ”
He Chenxue said: "Zhong Jizhuang just gave me an idea at that time, and he didn't reveal the slightest intention of going to the Northeast, and he didn't seem to be very interested in Ma Tong's affairs. I remembered that Zhong Jizhuang was very interested in the Shaman Spirit Palace, and Ma Yanqing had indeed found Ma Tong on the grounds of the Shaman Spirit Palace, so I told Ma Yanqing about it, and also told him the truth, and promised that if he helped me get rid of Ma Tong, after Liu Mouzheng became the head of the Eight Phases Sect, I would go all out to help him find the clues of the Shaman Spirit Palace. ”
Hearing this, Tang Qianlin was basically sure that Zhong Jizhuang should be a lone soldier, because the person who opened the coffin would not have such a great interest in the Shaman Spirit Palace.
Tang Qianlin asked: "What method did Zhong Jizhuang use to kill Ma Tong?" ”
He Chenxue said: "He said that it is necessary to use the sealing method, which is safer." ”
Hearing the words "coffin sealing method", Tang Qianlin couldn't help but be stunned: "Isn't the coffin sealing method used to sew thousands of corpses to deal with zombies?" The person who opened the coffin will not use it. ”
He Chenxue was also puzzled: "I don't understand this, after all, he is a professional, and besides, Mouzheng and I don't know what Ma Tong is." ”
The sealing method is used in legend to sew thousands of corpses to deal with the so-called thousand-year-old zombies, and it is actually an artificially made method that can lure zombies into special coffins.
In the legend, people take the house as their home, and zombies also use the coffin as their home, and to deal with the legendary thousand-year-old zombie and the like, they can only be lured into the special coffin, sealed up, and sleep forever.
The special coffins used in the sealing method are actually two coffins, one with a sarcophagus inside and one with a wooden coffin outside. The outer wooden coffin must be made of a superba tree, and the sarcophagus inside must be made of crystalline silica, which is also called a fire crystal in the other ways.
Whether it is a superba tree or crystalline silica, it is fire-resistant, but the trouble is that the body of the superba tree itself is not big, it is very troublesome to make a coffin, and crystalline silica is the same, so before He Chenxue returned to the northeast with Zhong Jizhuang, he had already taken a telegram to Liu Mouzheng and asked him to start preparing immediately.
When He Chenxue and Zhong Jizhuang returned to Harbin, everything was ready, and Zhong Jizhuang immediately locked himself in a factory building, leading a few carpenters and stonemasons who were secretly hired to work day and night.
After He Chenxue and Liu Mouzheng waited patiently for seven days, the sealing of the coffin was finally completed and immediately sent to the slaughterhouse.
He Chenxue recalled: "That night, I was ambushed in the slaughterhouse, and I had prepared explosives and heavy weapons, and I thought about killing the horse boy no matter what means were used that night. ”
Tang Qianlin asked, "And then?" ”
He Chenxue sighed: "What happened after that was completely beyond the expectations of a few of us, originally we asked Master Zhong to play the role of Ma Tong's food, lying in the coffin, and luring Ma Tong into the coffin, who knew that after Ma Tong saw the coffin, he didn't wait for Mou Zheng to say anything, he went directly to the coffin, standing there with an excited face, and also grabbed Master Zhong, who was lying in the coffin and pretended to be unconscious, and threw it aside." ”
Tang Qianlin was also surprised when he heard this, he didn't know what was going on, he couldn't say that Ma Tong was really a zombie, right?
Tang Qianlin had seen countless so-called zombies, most of them were living people under the influence of drugs, and there were no real zombies in that kind of legend, so he never believed in the existence of real zombies.
He Chenxue saw Ma Tong standing by the coffin in the corner and looked excitedly, stretched out his hand to caress it, touched it and muttered to himself: "No, not this, not this ......"
As he spoke, Ma Tong turned around and looked at Zhong Jizhuang, who was still lying on the ground.
Seeing this, Liu Mouzheng immediately said, "What's not it?" What's wrong? ”
At this moment, Ma Tong leaned over and rushed towards Zhong Jizhuang, Zhong Jizhuang's eyes were quick, and he directly stabbed two coffin nails directly into Ma Tong's chest.
The moment the coffin nail sank into Ma Tong's chest, Ma Tong retreated again and again, hit the coffin, and looked at Liu Mouzheng with shocked eyes.
Liu Mouzheng also looked directly at Ma Tong, and Ma Tong at this time already understood what was going on.
Ma Tong roared, raised his fist and swung at Zhong Jizhuang, that Zhong Jizhuang's kung fu is also superior, it is completely easy to avoid this punch, but what he didn't expect was that Ma Tong raised his foot and kicked Zhong Jizhuang directly by leaning against the coffin.
"Wait." Tang Qianlin immediately asked, "Kick Master Zhong away while punching?" ”
He Chenxue said: "Yes." ”
Tang Qianlin stood up and tried: "Even if it can, there is no strength, what is this horse boy?" ”
Even if you are not a martial arts practitioner, it is impossible to punch and kick at the same time when fighting with others, and even if you do, the body loses its support point and foothold, which is just a completely impractical posture, which is useless, but will harm yourself.
Even if you have your back against the wall and exert force in both directions, the power cannot be concentrated at one point.
At the same time that Zhong Jizhuang was kicked away, Liu Mouzheng gritted his teeth and pounced, and pushed Ma Tong directly into the coffin with all his strength.
When Tang Qianlin heard this, he subconsciously said: "Liu Mouzheng's strength is quite big. ”
He Chenxue said: "Mou Zheng knows some fist and foot kung fu, but they are all three-legged cat kung fu, and the strength is all practiced when he is doing coolies." ”
After Ma Tong was knocked into the coffin, Zhong Jizhuang pounced, took out the coffin nail hidden under the coffin, and continued to insert it into Ma Tong's body, inserting several sticks in a row, and when Ma Tong couldn't move, he beckoned Liu Mouzheng to lift the coffin lid with him to seal the coffin.
He Chenxue also hurriedly came out of the corner to help, and after the three of them worked together to close the lid of the coffin, the sealed coffin was still trembling, and there was a roar from the horse boy inside.
"Help! Seal the coffin! Zhong Jizhuang picked up the coffin nail and nailed the coffin to death, and at the same time pasted the coffin with the prepared rune paper, and after all this was done, the coffin was still shaking.
Zhong Jizhuang frowned and said: "The rune paper is completely useless, the coffin nail only plays a fixed role, and it can only be opened!" ”
After Zhong Jizhuang finished speaking, he twisted the mechanism next to the coffin, raised his hand to look at the watch, and after about five minutes, Zhong Jizhuang opened a box in the mechanism, threw a lit match into it, and then said: "Retreat!" ”
He Chenxue and Liu Mouzheng immediately retreated, and soon they felt the heat emanating from the sealed coffin, as well as the screams of the horse boy among them.
And Zhong Jizhuang stood next to him and told him from time to time: "Don't be soft-hearted." ”
After waiting for four hours, when the sky was about to dawn, Zhong Jizhuang carried buckets of ice water and continued to pour them on the sealed coffin, until the sealed coffin changed from hot to warm, and from warm to cold and piercing.
Zhong Jizhuang put the back of his hand on the sealed coffin and felt it for a while, then said, "You can open the coffin." ”
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When He Chenxue recalled this, Tang Qianlin interrupted her and asked, "Why do you want to pour ice water on the coffin, and then open the coffin?" Isn't it a complete seal? ”
He Chenxue said: "I didn't understand it at the time, but after the coffin was opened, I understood what was going on." For example, what happens if you put a fish in a fire and bake it into charcoal, and then suddenly put it in ice water? ”
Tang Qianlin said: "The meat will spread out." ”
"That's right, when we opened the coffin, Ma Tong's body had already dispersed, and the skin, flesh and bones were separated, and at that time Zhong Jizhuang told us that he hid fire oil between the two coffins, and when we opened the mechanism, the fire oil would fill the coffin." He Chenxue was still a little scared when she thought about it now, "Seriously, I also feel cruel, but if Ma Tong doesn't die, there will be more and more innocent people who die." ”
Tang Qianlin said: "The corpse in the courtyard has not separated from the flesh and skin of its hands, what is going on?" ”
He Chenxue said: "When the coffin was opened, Ma Tong's hands were raised, maybe it was because they were not burned directly in the oil, it stands to reason that at such a high temperature, the hands should also be scorched." ”
After a few days, Ma Tong did not appear, Liu Mouzheng pretended to send someone to look for him, and then announced that he had found Ma Tong's body, which had been assassinated, and offered a reward for the capture of the murderer.
At the same time, He Chenxue also actively contacted and cooperated with the puppet Manchurian government and the Japanese, and at the same time let out the wind, saying that it was because Ma Tong was unwilling to cooperate with the Japanese that he was assassinated by the Japanese.
As soon as the news was released, no one dared to trace the cause of Ma Tong's death.
After Liu Mouzheng succeeded to the position of the head of the gate, he immediately began to renovate the courtyard, apparently to design feng shui, but in fact to bury Ma Tong's body.
After Tang Qianlin knew all the causes and consequences, he also understood Zhong Jizhuang's intention in designing feng shui, which was to leave a back move, so that people who understood the different ways would know that there was a problem with the courtyard at a glance, and it could also be said that he should have deliberately left a clue, and this clue should be left for himself.
But what made Tang Qianlin wonder was that Liu Mouzheng knew everything, but he still dug up the corpse below according to what Tang Qianlin said, why is this?
Thinking of this, Tang Qianlin said tentatively: "Your man doesn't look as simple as the folk rumors, maybe he is wise and foolish." ”