Chapter Forty-Six: The Mysterious Corpse
Every time Ye Fan took a few steps, he had a feeling of being peeped at, this feeling did not come from behind, but from the wall, which made him feel very strange, could it be that there were eyes on the wall.
He groped carefully for the walls, which were full of dirt and stones, and nothing special, and he pressed back the doubts in his heart and continued to walk forward.
But before he had walked a few steps, a coffin appeared in front of him, a mini coffin to be exact, about the size of a 10-year-old child, square, made of mahogany, and there were some strange patterns on it, these patterns he had seen, it seemed to be the soul pattern of the ancient tribe, which had disappeared for a long time.
"Could it be that there is a ghost suppressed in this coffin? However, no matter how he looked at it, it was an ordinary coffin. ”
The coffin was not sealed, there was a small slit, and when he looked inside, it was all pitch black, and he did not feel any ghosts or other strange breaths inside.
He didn't understand why there was a coffin here, this coffin blocked his way, could it be that the tomb robbers had stolen it from the tomb, but who would want this ordinary coffin, but it felt like telling him that things might not be so simple.
Just as he leaned over to examine the coffin carefully, in this dark thief hole, a withered ghost hand suddenly appeared on his right shoulder, and the ghost hand appeared silently, but he didn't notice anything, still looking at the coffin by himself.
After thinking about it for a while, he decided to open the coffin and take a look, so he reached out and put it on the coffin lid, but the tentacles were warm.
He frowned, and had a faint premonition of bad feelings, and the ghost hand on his shoulder was already attached to his shoulder, and he still didn't know it.
At this time, the feeling of being peeping at him from before reappeared, but this time behind him, he quickly turned to the left, turned his mana into his eyes, and looked behind him, there was nothing in the darkness.
And the yang fire on his shoulders and the top of his head was originally burning very strongly, but who knew that when he turned around, the yang fire on his left shoulder was actually extinguished, and the ghost hand on his right shoulder began to move to his left shoulder silently.
Although Ye Fan was puzzled, he still turned his head to look at the coffin in front of him, and suddenly, it lit up from the crack of the coffin and disappeared in a flash. The eyes looked like they were definitely some kind of animal, but they glowed a faint green.
The ghost hand that had climbed to his left shoulder, when he saw the green light, paused obviously, hid in the darkness, and when the green light disappeared, he climbed to Ye Fan's left shoulder again, and the green nails swiped around next to Ye Fan's left carotid artery.
The yang fire on his right shoulder and the yang fire above his head were getting weaker and weaker, and it seemed that they were about to go out, but he himself didn't know it.
He looked at the coffin in front of him, which had blocked his way, otherwise, he could only retreat and enter through the thief hole on the right, but driven by curiosity, he still wanted to see what was in this coffin.
The right hand fell on the coffin lid again, but this time it was slightly cool, and with a little force, the coffin lid slowly retreated backwards, and the entire interior of the coffin gradually appeared in front of him.
He used his mana to his eyes again, only to see a light shoot out of his eyes, and all the things in the coffin were in his eyes, and the moment he saw that thing, his heart trembled, it was him.
An embroidered shoe appeared in the corner of the coffin, but this was only the left foot, the one he found before was only the right foot, but how could there be an embroidered shoe in the coffin, and this one was obviously worn, and the cloth bag just now was very new.
In the middle of the bottom of the coffin, there is a deep hole, which is very dark and impossible to see at a glance.
He took out the embroidered shoe, looked left and right, the flower on it didn't seem to be an ordinary flower, as if he had seen it somewhere, suddenly, his mind lit up, this flower, he had indeed seen, but in an ancient book, it was the manzhu in Manzhu Sahua, that is, the legendary flower on both sides of Hell Huangquan Avenue, the flower is Manzhu, and the leaf is Shahua.
The flowers on the other side bloom for a thousand years, fall for a thousand years, the flowers and leaves will never meet, love is not cause and effect, fate is destined to life and death, and they will always know each other but cannot fall in love.
"The flowers and leaves are born and lost, and they will never lose each other," Ye Fan muttered.
As if trying to test his thoughts, he quickly retreated, and soon found the pit full of dead bones that he had encountered when he had just come, but his face changed greatly, and a feeling of fear instantly spread throughout his body.
The army-green cloth bag he threw here was gone.
He dug up some more holes, but still didn't find the cloth bag.
"Not good,"
He moved forward quickly, the yang fire on his right shoulder and the top of his head became weaker and weaker, and it seemed that it would be extinguished soon, and the ghost hand on his left shoulder was hanging on his shoulder, and he didn't know what it wanted to do.
He came to the coffin again, and the embroidered shoes he had just found were gone.
His eyes changed, he was silent, looked at the big hole at the bottom of the coffin, and jumped down without hesitation.
In the process of falling, he suddenly found that there were many holes in the walls, and in each hole there was a miniature coffin, these coffins were very dilapidated, and some of them were even decaying to the point that only the coffin board was extremely broken.
After discovering this, he quickly grabbed the wall of a hole, because the falling hole could only hold two adults, his feet stepped on the edge of the hole in the two walls, and the whole person seemed to be suspended in the middle of the well.
He looked into the hole on both sides, it was a small hole no more than one meter deep, the mini coffin inside had decayed, and the corpse in the coffin was also presented in front of Ye Fan's eyes.
He thought to himself, if the wooden board can decay like this, it must be at least a few hundred years old, and if there is a corpse in it, it must have rotted and only white bones remain.
However, he found that this short corpse had its own flesh and blood, but there was no water, the hair on the skull was very long, and there was a lot of hair coiled next to the skull, and then look at the nails of this corpse, which were also very long, and look at the curly appearance, at least one meter long.
The growth rate of nails is very slow, especially in the later stage, it is even more slow, such long nails, at least more than 10 years, but this corpse is obviously only about 10 years old, or even smaller, even if he has had nails since birth, it is impossible to grow so long.
There is only one possibility, and the hair and nails continued to grow after the corpse was buried.
Thinking of this, he was disgusted.
He pulled the hair away, and found that the corpse's head was different from normal people's, relatively long, with a slightly pointed nose, and very high tank bones, which would be a deformity if put into modern times.
The key is that there are actually two arms under the hair, which are long on the shoulders, but they are shorter, only half the length of the two arms below, but they were blocked by the hair just now, so Ye Fan didn't find it.
"Is it because of this that he died prematurely and was buried here?" Just as he was about to continue, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a relic next to this corpse, about 20 centimeters long and 5 centimeters thick, which looked like the skin of a centipede, which reminded him of the corpse of a millipede he encountered when he came in.
The skin was pressed under the corpse's skull, and the millipede in the skin was more like crawling out of the skull, and thinking of this, he turned the corpse's head to the other side, and sure enough, a small hole was found in the occipital part of the skull, and the millipede could enter through that small hole.
It seems that the cerebral marrow in this corpse has been eaten by this millipede, Ye Fan thought so.
He continued to climb down, and on the walls around the well, there were dense holes, and in each hole there was a miniature coffin, and he counted in his heart, there were hundreds of them, and he had opened several other coffins in the middle to check, the same deformed children, the same hair and nails, the same millipede skin.
It's just that he found two empty coffins in the middle, and he didn't care about it at the time, thinking that the corpses inside had decayed and turned to ashes.
Seeing everything clearly, he couldn't help but shudder, what happened here back then, there were hundreds of children who died tragically here, it stands to reason that such a large-scale child death incident is generally inseparable from plague and infectious diseases, and there should be a record in the log of the nearby county, but he has not heard of this kind of incident nearby.
He went down to the bottom of the cave and did not send anything of value, but had to jump from the bottom of the well and fall to the ground, only to find that it was a spacious stone cave, more like a hall, and in the middle of the hall there was a stone coffin, and there was nothing else around, and there was a hole in the north and east of the cave.
On the wall of the cave there was a strange stone, about the size of a fist, that emitted a soft light that looked like a glow-in-the-dark stone.
Such a large luminous stone is really rare.
He was about to inspect the coffin when a voice came from the cave to the north.
"Hey, I said Xiaoliu, how far do you have to go, my legs hurt."
"It's coming soon, why are you in a hurry?"
Ye Fan heard that it was the voice of Xiaoliu and Weisheng, so he was relieved, although he didn't know how he was separated from Weisheng and them, but it was good to hear that they were fine.
Xiao Liu and Weisheng walked in from the entrance of the cave with flashlights, and took a positive picture with Ye Fan, Weisheng saw Ye Fan, and was immediately overjoyed, and asked with a big grin, "Boss, when did you run ahead of us, just ......?"
Weisheng took a few steps closer, and before he finished speaking, he suddenly showed a frightened expression on his face, his eyes widened, and he pointed at Ye Fan trembling and speechless, "You... You... You...."
Xiao Liu followed, and he also made the same expression as Weisheng.
Ye Fan suddenly felt bad, and quickly turned around to look behind him, but there was nothing except the light emitted by the luminous stone, he turned around again, looked at Weisheng and asked, "What's wrong with you, Weisheng, why are you so scary?" ”
Weisheng swallowed his saliva, only to be a little shocked, and said, "Old... Big, you.. Your shoulders... Yes... One hand..."
Ye Fan frowned slightly, he believed that Weisheng would not lie to him, first looked at the right shoulder, there was nothing, and then looked at the left shoulder, and suddenly his face changed greatly.
He saw a ghost hand, his skin was wrinkled, his green nails shone green, and there was a tattoo of a flower on his skin, and at this moment, the ghost hand waved as if to greet him.
Ye Fan didn't have time to think about it, the thunder in his hand flashed, and he pointed at the ghost hand, and an electric light shot towards the ghost hand, who knew that the ghost hand stretched out a finger, the green nails were dotted on the thunder light, and the thunder light disappeared in the air with a "poof" sound.
The index finger of the ghost hand shook in the air, as if mocking Ye Fan's indiscretion.
Ye Fan was suddenly shocked, this ghost hand is very powerful, he once again cast the "Five Thunder Method", five fingers shot out five thunder lights at the same time, condensed into a one-meter thunder sword in the air, the thunder sword flashed around the divine thunder, faintly with the power of punishment, and slashed at the ghost hand again.
The ghost hand seemed to know the power of the thunder sword, and jumped into the air.
The thunder sword slashed into the air, Ye Fan breathed a sigh of relief, but who knew that after the ghost hand dodged a blow, he grabbed his thunder sword, and countless divine thunders exploded in the ghost hand, but it couldn't damage it at all.
Moreover, the ghost hand suddenly exerted force.
"Click,"
The thunder sword burst directly in the air. After the thunder sword exploded, Ye Fan quickly retreated, but the ghost hand came to his shoulder with a dodge and stuck to it again.
Ye Fan fell to the ground, and his whole body was in an extremely nervous state, but no matter what he did, he couldn't shake off this ghost hand, as if the ghost hand was stained with glue on his shoulder.
In the end, Ye Fan stood still not far from them, looking at the ghost hand on his shoulder, speechless for a long time.
He couldn't feel any breath on the ghost hand, he couldn't even feel the existence of the ghost hand, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have even believed that there was no such thing as a ghost hand at all.
"Boss,..... What is he? Weisheng suddenly asked at this time.
"Don't come here." Ye Fan hurriedly stopped the movements of the two of them, he was also panicking now, this ghost hand of unknown origin seemed to follow him, but at present, it seemed to have no malicious intent, just stayed on his shoulder, and he didn't dare to make extra movements, for fear of annoying this ghost hand.
Ye Fan stood there, motionless, looking at the ghost hand on his shoulder, and said, "Little Liu, when you came here before, did you encounter this thing?" ”
"No... No," Xiao Liu said, and his tone was not lightly frightened.
Ye Fan looked at the nails that were shining with a faint green light, and he had no doubt that as long as this ghost hand was swiped, he would split his head.
"What now?" This is the only thought in his heart, with this ghost hand? If it is seen by others, it will inevitably be the biggest news of the new century, and he may be directly arrested in the bureau.
Without it, it seems that with his current strength, he is not enough to drive it away, and the only thing he can be at ease with is that this ghost hand seems to only use his shoulder as a sojourn, and he can only understand it this way.
There is no way, now he can only do this, but with a ghost hand on his shoulder, there is a creepy feeling when he thinks about it.
He beckoned Weisheng and Xiaoliu over, and Weisheng asked, "Boss, it, it, what should you do?" ”
Ye Fan said helplessly, "I can't help it, it's better not to provoke it now, the three of us together are not his opponents, let's deal with other things first." He then said to Xiao Li, "Is this coffin the one you sent at that time?" ”
Seeing that Xiao Liu nodded, he pointed to the small hole above and asked, "What about this, did you find that there is a patio here before?" ”
Xiao Liu glanced at the hole above, scratched his head suspiciously, and said, "No, when I came in, there was no hole on it, strange, who dug a well and dug it here?" ”
"Then when you came in from the thief hole, did you come across a three-way intersection, where there are three holes leading in different directions?"
Xiao Liu shook his head, "No." ”
Weisheng also said, "I didn't either, we came in through a hole, and you were still following us at the time, boss, let's hurry up?" ”
Ye Fan asked suspiciously, "You mean I've been following you all along?" ”
"Yes, Boss, you've been behind us, and it's not until we came in just now that we found that you had run in front of us, which is quite strange."
Ye Fan didn't speak, everything he encountered today was beyond common sense, it seemed that there was something outside the three of them.