Chapter 45: The Hall of Yama

On the soil on the ground in front of the building, there is a trace that extends to the back mountain, which is left by someone dragging things, "Hundred Eyes Cave" has a rare natural environment in feng shui, the temperature difference between day and night on the grassland desert is very large, but it is not obvious here, the overall temperature and humidity are higher, in addition to the special components in the soil, there is a natural preservation effect on the corpse, most of the deceased corpses are turned into bird-like corpse "feathers", the world may not be able to find a second such place.

It is precisely because of the unique soil, the gap between the soil particles is larger, so the soil is relatively loose and soft, so that the drag marks on the ground are very obvious, when we first arrived at the main building of the institute, we have not seen this trace, no need to ask, it must be the old sheepskin to drag the yellow copper box into the mountain, although the copper box is not big, but it will be very difficult to hold it for a long time, he is even dragging and dragging, dragging the copper box into the corpse cave, God knows what he will do next.

Ding Sitian thought about the good, she thought that maybe the old sheepskin was trying to find a place to destroy the dangerous soul summoning box, so as not to stay in the world, before I saw the old sheepskin, it was difficult to make a conclusion, I just said that I hope so, and then the three of them followed the trace up the mountain.

The tingling and itching on my hands with the fat man gradually became unbearable, but I didn't dare to scratch it, as soon as I touched it, it flowed water, and the pain was so painful that I inhaled again and again, I was afraid that Ding Sitian would worry or blame her for causing us to be affected, so I didn't dare to tell her about the poisoning on my body, so I had to forcibly endure it, but I really can't say how long I can hold on to this situation.

But the most gratifying thing for me is that I finally saved Ding Sitian's life, seeing that her body and spirit are much better, the pressure in my heart has also been reduced a lot, and I walked into the hill behind the research building with vigor, this hillside does not know whether it is a landslide or the reason for artificial blasting operations, showing a cross-section of the mountain, and the large and small holes in the belly of the mountain are all exposed to "exposed" Undoubtedly, there is a huge stone man and stone beast arched by the hole, which is the largest in the many caves, like a big mouth of a black hole, want to go into the depths, This maw-like cavern is the only way to pass.

We helped each other to "touch" the cave, the ghost fire in it was phosphorescent and flickering, the scenery was faintly visible, but it was not pitch black, there was no fork in the road in this cave, it was extremely high and wide, the stone wall was shady, the deepest part of the cave was full of bad wind, making people "hair", about two hundred steps away, there was a stepped deep cave the size of four or five football fields, the square earth platform around it was layer by layer, in the shape of an inverted gold tower, judging from the various tools and lighting facilities left inside, this was a large-scale excavation site, but this area was too big, I was worried about how to track the traces left by the old sheepskin, when Ding Sitian, who was following next to me, shook his body, vomited a mouthful of black blood, and collapsed to the ground.

Ding Sitian suddenly spit out a mouthful of black blood and fell to the ground, the fat man and I panicked, and hurriedly helped her sit down against the wall, thinking that the oyster poison in her had been suppressed by Shougong Xiang, who expected that there would be black blood vomited, I was very uneasy, wondering if it was too much "medicine"? Or did it not play a detoxification role at all, and only delayed the time of the onset of toxic "sex"?

But Ding Sitian struggled to stand up and continue to find the old sheepskin: "It's okay...... I'm just a little stuffy in my heart, but I feel more comfortable after spitting out this mouthful of blood, and I'll be fine after a while, Bayi, what kind of antidote did you and Chubby give me to eat? How do I feel the taste in my mouth......" As he spoke, he staggered to his feet and walked forward.

I saw that she was barely supporting, and it was difficult to judge her physical condition at the moment, but vomiting black blood was not a good state, but Ding Sitian was very stubborn, I had to help her continue to walk, and she asked what kind of antidote she was eating, so she naturally didn't dare to tell her the truth that she was eating the lumps of flesh on the Dashou Gongbiao itself, and only said: "Good 'medicine' is bitter and good for disease, and 'medicine' has three points of poison, 'medicine', of course, is not as delicious as fruit candy, and this institute has been abandoned for many years, although the 'medicine' stored in the warehouse has not deteriorated, But there will inevitably be some peculiar smells, and when we get back to the pastoral area, I will tell you about the origin of this antidote, which is guaranteed to make you find it interesting. ”

The fat man said: "That's right, I promise you that you will find it interesting, so before you listen to Lao Hu explain the story of 'medicine', it is best to review Ostolowsky's book "How Steel is Made" again, and be fully mentally prepared." ”

I glared at the fat man, fortunately Ding Sitian didn't understand too much, and thought that the fat man was letting her learn the tenacious perseverance of "Paul Kochakin" in the face of illness, and didn't ask more, I saw that her face was like gold paper, and it was very difficult to walk, but I knew that even if I persuaded her to stay outside the cave and wait, it would be in vain, this girl's "sex" personality was too stubborn, and she would never turn back easily if she recognized one thing, so I had to let the fat man carry her, and the three of them went to the depths of the cave to find the missing old sheepskin.

There are flickering lights everywhere in the belly of the mountain, like ghost fire, like ore, through these many starry lights, we can roughly see the outline of this huge excavation site, the ground that has been dug up layer by layer is distributed in a ladder shape, it is difficult to see what is in the deepest part outside, but there is no layer of loess above that "exposed" some dead body limbs, some "exposed" out of half of the head, some "exposed" out of an arm, all of which have not yet been dug out of the soil, almost all of them are feathered, and each corpse is "hairy". It seems that it will crawl out of the soil at any time, and looking at its corner, it is conceivable that this excavation site used to be like a mass grave, and how many ancient corpses were buried.

Probably the so-called "turtle sleeping place" in Feng Shui is here, and the special soil composition makes the corpse produce a similar state of feathering, but what is the use of this? Feathering and failed to immortal liberation to ascend to heaven, so many people were sincerely buried in this corpse cave after death, I am afraid it is also out of the ancient people's understanding and fear of the law of life and death, they can't accept the fact that people can only live once, and hope that life can be continued in other forms after death, so there are legends such as the underworld, if there are really undead after death, seeing their corpses become such a strange appearance, being dug around without respect, but I don't know how to feel.

There are corpses of men and women, young and old, strange costumes, all of which we have never seen before, today we have seen too many strange corpses, originally our nerves are a little numb to the dead, but standing in front of the excavation site where thousands of people hide their bodies, looking at the layers of countless zombies, there is still a little frightened, no wonder it is said that this ghost yamen is eighteen layers of hell, and the living are scared to death when they arrive here.

This is a big cave full of dead bodies, except for the three of us, there is no shadow of half a living person at all, God knows what the old sheepskin dragged the copper box to do here, we estimate that the old sheepskin went to this pile of dead people in the loess pit is meaningless, it is likely to go deeper along the cave, so along the aisle at the edge of the excavation site, continue to walk inside, on the way while anxiously looking around, while beckoning the name of the old sheepskin, let him come back quickly.

The fat man saw that he never saw a human figure, and his heart became more and more anxious, he subjectively always thought that the old sheepskin was a traitor, this cave is a north-south direction, and a plateau to the north is the national border, so he asked me if I wanted to take a political offensive to disintegrate the psychology of the old sheepskin through shouting propaganda, I thought to myself that this cave is too big, and it is not a way for us blind people to ride blind horses to find the past, it is better to follow what the fat man said, shout first, if the old sheepskin hides nearby, maybe he can be persuaded to change his mind and come out of the hole, He nodded in agreement.

At that moment, the fat man shouted into the depths of the cave: "I said that the old sheepskin, the one who fights upside down also eats by skill, and we are internal contradictions among the people, you must not try to take refuge in Su Xiu and do foolish things that cut yourself off from the people, that is a dead end...... Bruzhlev betrayed Marxism, betrayed Leninism, betrayed the October Revolution, Moscow wept sadly, and the Monument to the Unknown Heroes wept...... You don't want to fix it all at once for two pieces of 'milk' oil bread, it doesn't matter if you're on the wrong line, you just need to stand up again......"

I really couldn't listen to it anymore, so I quickly stopped the fat man, what kind of "mess" was all this shouting, the level was too low, I was about to continue to promote the policy to the old sheepskin for him, but was dragged by Ding Sitian, she pointed to her feet and said: "You see that there is a way down, and there are fresh traces left by dragging heavy objects on it, did the old sheepskin grandpa go down to the depths of the excavation site from here?" ”

I looked down, as Ding Sitian said, every corner of the excavation site, there are gentle stone slopes, twisting and turning to the depths, the stone slopes are paved with stones, maybe they were also buried in the soil before, each layer of corpses was covered with a section, and later they were dug out by the Japanese, the broken soil and mud and stone scattered in the soil layer filled this ramp, and there were traces of dragging things on the broken soil, the evil wind howled in the cave, and the cool and swishing air was very smooth, if the traces on the ramp were left for a long time, it would never be as clear as now, It shows that the old sheepskin probably didn't go down for long.

The three of us were anxious to get the old sheepskin back, and then leave this nightmarish "Hundred Eyes Cave" as soon as possible, seeing that there was finally a clue, we all worked hard and walked down the stone road, at this time it was different from the feeling of looking at the corpse cave outside the pit, gradually getting lower, almost clinging to the corpse of the loess section forward, the stone road was very narrow, and the body rubbed against the dead man's arms and feet from time to time, and the cold and lifeless touch made people's nerves more tense.

Even if it was fear and exhaustion, but no one proposed to give up, they all went down hard, the fat man hung a sapper lamp on his chest to explore the road in front, the three of them held hands and slowly rubbed from the Pantuo-like stone road to the next step, looking downward, the middle of the road became darker and darker, and the deepest part was like a huge strange mouth, which looked gray and hazy, but it was not pitch black, it looked very unusual, and the fat man said to us: "How can this big earth pit bury the dead man have such a deep age?" What do you think will be in the deepest part of this? ”

Ding Sitian said: "It's not a dirt pit, there are so many corpses buried here, I'm afraid there are countless corpses below, this is a big tomb where tens of thousands of people are buried, I don't know what the old sheepskin grandfather is going to do in the depths of this big tomb......" After speaking, she couldn't help but worry about the old sheepskin again, and wanted to speed up her pace, but her legs and feet were weak and kept calling, if she wasn't pulled by me and the fat man, she almost fell.

I felt that her palms were full of cold sweat, and I knew that she was worried or scared, and I thought, "This excavation site of the Japanese devils is obviously digging deeper, is there something important under the layers of corpses?" "I'm worried that this ancient mound will be the hell where the legendary "foehn wind" blows, so I have to be cautious, so let the fat man and Ding Sitian not worry, even the mouse out of the hole has to be calculated first, so we should be more careful, walk slower and use our brains more, carefully see everything here, in case of danger, it is better to advance and retreat in moderation."......

Ding Sitian agreed with me very much, and she asked me: "Your grandfather used to be a feng shui master, you learned a lot of miscellaneous studies from him, and the corpses in this big tomb are all dead and not rotten, is that the reason you said feng shui?" They...... It shouldn't come back to life all of a sudden, right? ”

I knew that she was going around the bend to ask me to find some reason for her not to be afraid, so I said to her: "My grandfather's set is all four old, although in recent years I think there is some truth in what he said, but I still can't listen to it." "As far as I know, in addition to feng shui reasons, there are many other factors, after a person dies, by the action of bacteria, the corpse usually has to decay, but this kind of bacteria that make the dead body rot needs to survive in a suitable temperature, and relatively 'damp' and humid environment, the climate is cold, or the weather is dry and hot, such as deserts and snow-capped mountains, there will be no such bacteria, so the dry corpses in the desert and the ice corpses on the snow-capped mountains will not rot.

There are also human factors, such as the deceased after death, the coffin is thick and elegant, the material is dense and impermeable, and then put lime and charcoal in the coffin to prevent "moisture", forming a dry and constant temperature closed space, so that the bacteria can not move, the body in the coffin is not easy to decay, maybe it will become a dry corpse, and even the water still exists wet corpse, in addition, there are some special cases, such as dying of cholera, or suffering from disease before death, most of the water in the body has been lost before death, The shape of the dried corpse is shriveled, the weight is more than half that of the new deceased, the skin is wrinkled and contracted, generally black and light brown, and the hair and nails may continue to grow.

The rarest is the corpse, such as the fat or fatty corpse, which is thrown into the river or buried in the saline-alkali ground, it is easy to form corpse wax on the surface of the corpse, so that the corpse does not rot, because in the water flow, the decay produced by the corpse will be washed away by the water, and the decaying bacteria will also be taken away by the water, and the fat in the corpse will become something like soap, which is slippery and greasy, called "corpse wax", if the salt and alkali invade the corpse, it will also produce this slippery corpse paste, and the corpse is wrapped in corpse wax, so it is not easy to decay.

When I was in middle school, I visited an exhibition of corpse specimens run by the Public Security Bureau, and at that time, I visited as a kind of popular science knowledge to dispel "superstition", and I watched it with my grandfather Hu Guohua, he said that although this exhibition is popular science and very reasonable, it is not comprehensive, there are too many reasons why people in the world do not rot after death, and it is not such a small exhibition that can cover them all, but those special things in my grandfather's mouth, I naturally dare not tell Ding Sitian, only the memory of the popular science exhibition, according to the gourd to tell her some, So that she no longer has to worry about the dead in the grave.

However, a person with a normal imagination is easy to associate with what he hears, the more scientifically speaking, the more people will associate some feudal "superstition" legends, especially the fat man who takes a "ghost" out of place, always muttering that this ghost yamen is so evil "sex", and now I don't feel anything when I walk in the depths, and I can't see a ghost, isn't it just a pile of dead bodies with "hair", there is a big deal, we are suspicious in the crematorium and think that there is a ghost there, but in fact, the old yellow skin is a troublemakerIt seems that ghosts are born from the heart, mediocre people disturb themselves, our minds armed by Marxist-Leninist "Mao" Zedong thought, we should not believe in that set of idealistic attention theory, this is a shame, it is a shame for materialists all over the world, but why are we fooled again and again, it seems that the lessons of history have not always been able to be taken as a warning by future generations, this is the objective law of class struggle, not the transfer of human will......

In the fat man's verbosity to excuse himself, we have walked around in circles to the end of the spiraling stone road, there is a hole here, sealed with white "colored" round gravel piles, on which are pasted with many Oriental ghost paintings, the Japanese devils suspect that this hundred-eyed cave is haunted, many places have similar ghost pressure charms, including the strange structure of the incinerator, all for the purpose of warding off evil spirits, but the so-called haunting, maybe just the yellow skin.

The gravel wall in front of us has been opened, the big hole is exposed in front of us, there is a gray light inside, I thought that this big tomb is already the bottom, who would have thought that there is a deeper space below, we didn't dare to go directly in, shouted the old sheepskin a few times at the entrance of the cave, but could not respond, so we decided to go deeper, I don't believe that this cave "hole" is bottomless.

The fat man still took the lead in opening the way, he carried the Kangxi treasure knife, while greeting the name of the old sheepskin, while walking deep and shallow, I helped Ding Sitian to follow him, walked more than 20 steps, the fat man suddenly stopped, and whispered to us in a panic: "Old Hu, Sitian, which of you two said that there was no ghost just now?" It's so irresponsible, look ahead...... That...... What are those? ”

I walked a few steps, looked forward, and felt goosebumps on my body, the secret road is not good, such a large area of ancient buildings and palaces, where is this? And in those ancient buildings, there seems to be something moving, it must have strayed into the Yama Palace.