Chapter 818: Tomb Robbers
In the middle of the night, in Li Baxian's house, the lights had been extinguished and it fell into darkness.
Lu Hao lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep, thinking about the affairs of the Yin and Yang ghost house. Suddenly, an earth-shattering sound sounded outside, like an earthquake, which woke up the villagers of Lijia Village.
At this time, a man's voice sounded outside: "Earthquake, earthquake, it's so fun." ”
Lu Hao's spirit was shocked, he suddenly stood up, pushed the door out, and saw Li Baxian's stupid son jumping and jumping in the yard, shouting that there was an earthquake, an earthquake.
Li Baxian walked out of the house and scolded, "Little rabbit, go back to the house." ”
"Dad, it's a loud noise, there's an earthquake." Li Fool smirked. At this time, Li Fool's mother walked out, grabbed her son's ear, and dragged him back into the house.
Lan Ruoxi walked out of the house, rubbed her eyes, and asked, "Brother Lu, what happened scared me." ”
"I don't know what's going on, let's go out and see." Lu Hao walked onto the street and found that the villagers were carrying kerosene lamps and gathering on the street, gossiping and discussing the loud noise just now.
Some people say that it was an earthquake, and some people say that the mountain god is angry, and all kinds of rumors are flying all over the sky, which are unreliable.
Lu Hao looked into the distance and said, "The loud noise just now came from the southwest, let's go over and take a look." ”
Li Baxian nodded, led some bold villagers, took shovels, hoes, axes and other tools, and followed Lu Hao to find the source of the loud noise.
Lu Hao led the way in front and looked for it to the southwest. Out of the village, to the southwest was a hill with dust and a deep crater.
When Lu Hao and the others came here, they were startled, and a dirt pit with a radius of dozens of meters appeared in front of them, which was shocking.
One villager shouted, "Who did this, so bold that you dare to dig a pit here." ”
Lu Hao glanced at the villagers and found that their expressions were frightened, as if they were afraid of this place.
"What's so strange about this place, why are you so nervous?" Lu Hao felt strange, so he asked.
Li Baxian said: "This hill is connected to the Daliang Mountain behind, which is strange and evil, and people and livestock often disappear mysteriously. ”
"A few years ago, a group of soldiers came to Daliang Mountain to look for treasures, but they never returned, and there was no trace."
"This Daliang Mountain has been an unclean place since ancient times, and we villagers have to take out tributes to worship the mountain gods during the New Year. If the mountain god is angry, it will affect our village. ”
At this time, a villager interjected: "In the middle of the night, a deep pit suddenly appeared here, and it must be that the mountain god is angry and wants to punish us." ”
As soon as this sentence came out, the villagers were frightened, and quickly knelt down and kowtowed, praying for forgiveness from the mountain god.
Lu Haocai didn't believe that the deep pit here was caused by the anger of the mountain god, and there must be something else strange.
Lu Hao carried a kerosene lamp and jumped into the pit to look for clues.
This pit is three meters deep and can accommodate dozens of people, and the reason for its appearance is very complicated, it may be that someone has hollowed out the bottom, and there is a landslide, causing a loud noise.
Lu Hao searched for a while and found a hemp rope in the dirt pit. Most of this hemp rope is buried in the earth, and only a section is exposed.
Lu Hao stretched out his hand to grab the rope and pulled it out, the rope became longer and longer, and gradually became several meters.
Lu Hao dragged for a while, gasping for breath, the rope had been pulled out more than ten meters, and he still didn't see the other end.
Lu Hao shouted: "Senior Li, you help me up there and pull the rope out." With that, he threw a section of the rope over the pit.
A villager reminded: "This hill was originally fine, but suddenly a deep pit appeared, and there must be mountain spirits and monsters in it. This outsider is not afraid of death, so we don't want to die with him. ”
"A bunch of cowards." Lan Ruoxi despised them, reached out and grabbed the rope, and shouted, "Brother Lu, I'll help you." ”
"Brother Lu, I'm here to help you too." Li Baxian was bold, reached out and grabbed the rope, and pulled it hard.
Lu Hao and the others dragged for a while, stopped, and the rope seemed to be stuck, and they couldn't be pulled. Lu Hao exerted his strength, suddenly tugged, and miraculously pulled out an arm.
This arm gripped the rope tightly, and blood flowed from the other end. Blood on the rope, very scary.
Lu Hao was shocked and shouted, "Hurry up and pull, there is something strange on the rope." As the words fell, the three of them pulled the rope out of the pit.
When the end of the rope appeared, everyone's faces changed because there was a corpse tied to it.
The corpse was a male, dressed in black, and the flesh on his body seemed to have been eaten by some kind of monster, leaking large pieces of white bones.
After the corpse appeared, the villagers panicked, kowtowed and prayed, and talked nonsense.
Li Baxian dragged the corpse tied to the rope, and after a closer look, he found that the person's face was well preserved, and he could see his appearance before his death.
"Grave robbers." Li Baxian exclaimed.
Lu Hao jumped onto the dirt pit and asked in surprise, "Senior, do you know the deceased?" ”
Li Baxian nodded and said, "This person's name is Hu Jie, he used to be a hooligan, and he often came to our village to molest women from good families, and he was taught by me. ”
"I heard that Hu Jie left the village and followed a group of people to become tomb robbers, and made a lot of dead money. How could this Hu Jie die in an earthen pit? ”
Lu Hao said in a deep voice: "Could this be the case, Hu Jie and his group are looking for the ancient tomb here and digging a robbery hole." ”
"The gang got in, and as a result, the cave collapsed and buried the place."
Li Baxian nodded and said: "There is this possibility, the rope that binds Hu Jie is the tomb robber's body tied up for safety when he goes down to the tomb." ”
This is a rare way in which several people are tied together with a rope. For example, when climbing a mountain, in order to prevent someone from falling into the ice pit, tie them together with ropes, and if one person is in trouble, the rest can be rescued in time.
The rope pulled out of the pit was 100 meters long, and there was blood left in several places, and one arm was grasping on it, which was shocking. The corpse at the end of the rope was only half of the corpse that had been eaten by the monster.
Lu Hao looked at it for a while and realized that there were at least four people tied to this rope, and in addition to one body at the end of the rope, three more bodies were buried in the dirt pit.
Lu Hao shouted: "Fellow villagers, saving people is like fighting a fire, there are people buried alive in this pit, we must rescue them quickly." ”
One villager shouted: "The people in the pit are grave robbers, and they deserve to die, so we won't save them." ”
Someone else shouted, "There are evil things in this pit, what if we save people's lives?" ”
Lu Hao took a deep breath, took out a handful of silver dollars, threw them on the ground, and shouted, "If any of you want to save someone, each of you will be rewarded with a silver dollar." ”
Money can make ghosts grind, money can make ghosts push ghosts, and the villagers are also open-minded when they see money. Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men.
The villagers were eager to try it, and they were all attracted by the bright silver dollars on the ground. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and with the silver dollar, there is no need to worry about the New Year's goods.
A villager picked up a silver dollar and said with a smile: "I took the silver dollar, and I will go down to save people." ”
"My daughter is getting married next month, and I want to prepare a dowry for her." Another villager picked up a silver dollar from the ground. One by one, the villagers picked up the silver dollars on the ground.