Chapter Twenty-Seven: Corpse Worms
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Although we were on guard against the "assault boat", we did not expect to encounter this situation, so we all clenched the "sapper shovel" and raised the flashlight at the same time.
A few beams of light swept in the air, I looked up with everyone, not to see everything disappear, a look at it, I saw it, my heart was really surprised and surprised, opened my mouth for a long time and couldn't close it, I was so surprised that it jumped from the lake to four or five meters that thing was a "fish". White flower skull in the open spot.
Strangely after the dead fish corpse left the water, it was stagnant in mid-air, everyone was surprised and inexplicable, at this time the two lacquer coffins floated along the water, and got a little closer, this is more real, the original rotten dead fish body, covered with countless strange black flies, black flies as big as fingernails, all firmly on the dead fish, frightened after wrapped in the fish corpse jumped out of the water, noisy and messy, Wu self-dispersed, those huge earth black flies on the body of rotten gas accumulation. With a lot of phosphides, it flies like a faint and faint firefly, and it seems like a thousand ghost eyes are changing brightly and diligently.
This black fly has a scientific name called "large corpse eating fly", although the name has the word "fly", but it is actually a "corpse insect", which likes to eat carrion corpses the most, sometimes on the deserted graves of violent corpses. Ghoul flies can also be seen, but this creature has a special habit of never touching living creatures and poses no threat to living people.
Previously when I was in Panjiadi. I once heard a story about the corpse insect land, saying that before the liberation, there was a folk thief Ma Wuzi, who was a perennial lamp thief and robbed the cemetery, and usually only dug up the small graves of the landlord's rich households. I exchanged the silver dollars from the jewelry of the burial ground for some food and drink, and I did not make a fortune. Life is barely passing.
Until one day. Ma Wuzi dug a grave in a mass grave ridge and accidentally found a Song Dynasty crypt with a lot of valuable things inside. Ma Wuzi has lived for more than thirty years, and he has never seen so many bright weapons, and he is the only thief who can't finish moving them. He knew that if outsiders knew about this, it would definitely cause trouble, so he rolled up a few of the most valuable gold and jewelry, and the rest of the things were intact, and planned to wait until the future when the land was tight, and then come to find out for help.
When he was leaving, he suddenly saw a corpse insect drill out of the crack of the coffin, Ma Wuzi pinched the corpse worm casually, and the ghost sent him at that time, and he didn't know what he thought, so he took out a piece of oil paper from his arms. This oil paper was used to wrap the pig's head in the flesh ground, so I used it to wrap the corpse worm and stuff it into the brick cracks of the tomb. He probably wanted to suffocate the corpse to death.
Then Ma Wuzi covered the thief cave and returned to the town to exchange the Ming utensils for money. Bought a house and landed to live a rich life, and also married a wife and had children, and when Ma Wuzidi's son was a teenager, both of them became addicted to gambling. As the saying goes, "gambling on immortals for a long time loses", let alone these two ordinary people?
Gambling money and winning or losing is like filling a well with snow, and there is no longer a dissatisfied day, but the addiction is endless. lost his soul and went bankrupt, and Ma Wuzi saw that there were only four walls left in the house. Remembering that there were still many treasures in the ancient tomb in the place of theft, he took his son to steal them again, and the two of them found their way into the ancient tomb, Ma Wuzi remembered that he had wrapped the corpse worm in the crack of the wall more than ten years ago, and he didn't know if it was dust at this time? I looked for it from the same place, and when I found it, I really found it, and the oil paper bag was untouched, and I opened it to take a look. The corpse worms were withered and shriveled, almost turning to pieces of paper.
But the insect limbs and insect whiskers still seem to be lifelike, he and his son are curious, take it to the front and watch carefully, but forget the taboo of robbing the cemetery, the living do not wait to breathe on the dead and untransformed, the yang touches, the corpse insect suddenly came to life, a bite on Ma Wuzi's finger, Ma Wuzi suddenly foamed at the mouth and pumped the whole body, and when his son carried him home, it was too late to ask the doctor for treatment, and he was already dying.
It is said that later Ma Wuzidi's descendants made a living in Beijing. I made a buddy for Qiao Erye, the second master of the Liuli Factory, this matter was described by him personally, in the two major "cultural play" distribution places of Panjiayuan and Liulichang, I have heard that there are many people, but everyone said that this section is a fake land, and few people are willing to believe it, just listen to it after dinner.
But I think this matter is more real, if you don't have a personal experience, you can never say "the eye of the sea", corpse insects, corpse wax are all in the tomb, proficient in feng shui changes to know the mystery, when in the Hundred Eyes Cave, I was almost bitten to death by corpse insects, but there are many kinds of corpse insects, "ticks, corpse flies" and other things are like this, so it is not strange to see corpse insects near the "ancient tomb of Dixian Village", but I don't know what kind of corpse insects Ma Wuzi encountered back then, various corpse insects have different habits, and some have to eat corpses. There is land, but they eat living creatures;
In front of us in this mass grave cave. Although it was a gathering of insects and rats, I didn't expect that the dead fish floating on the surface of the lake would attract corpse insects to gnaw and devour, and provoked a false alarm out of thin air, at this time, I saw the dead fish on the head shook violently, and a large group of "corpse eating flies" fled in a hurry, and half of the rotten fish fell into the water next to the lacquer coffin, and splashed a large splash with a "bang".
The fat man scolded a few words, waved the shovel to puff the water, and drove away the corpse-eating flies that did not escape far in the air.
Professor Sun is a landlubber, and he is most afraid of water, so his face suddenly changed color in fright, and he hurriedly grabbed the lock ring on the lacquer coffin to stabilize his center of gravity, and shouted: "Slow down, slow down...... You're going to overturn the coffin! ”
The fat man turned around with a look of disdain and said, "Look at how scared you are, you definitely don't dare to eat wontons, but don't worry, Ninth Master. If you turn around and hit a ghost on the water, the fat man will greet you with a board knife face."
I noticed something wrong with the water flow in the underground lake and quickly reminded them to stop fighting. Pay attention to the rapids ahead, as soon as I finished speaking, the vermilion lacquer coffin temporarily used as an "assault boat" was hit by the current and began to lose control.
The fat man looked at the air and threw out a cold firework, only to see a cliff at the end of the underground water lake, the stone wall is full of springs, distributed high and low, among the two big springs at the mouth of each carved a bearded old dragon, there are two white like small waterfalls, poured down from the faucet, just like the water of the double dragon. Among the two water dragons, a strange building similar to the Que Plateau was found, carved with hundreds of beasts and birds, and those rare birds and beasts were not common things in the world. Filled with the mysterious color of the ancient kingdom of witchcraft, my heart moved: "This is the tomb gate of the ancient cemetery of the Black Sheep King?" ”
There are a number of stone doors under the majestic dungeon, and the cave wall is built with huge bricks, and it is very like a figurine road in the tomb. The tomb gate is divided into three layers, the bottom row of city gates, have been flooded by the lake more than half, the groundwater discharge is very urgent, floating on the water surface of the ground paint coffin as soon as it approaches, it is swept into the turbulent current.
I know very well that Sun Jiuye and my sister don't know the nature of water, and if they fall into the dark and cold lake, they may not be able to be saved, and the vermilion coffin is not really a boat. The slightest tilt will tip over, and it is impossible to expect to float the coffin down the water into the cave, and then whistle and beckon everyone to abandon the ship and go ashore.
But at this moment, the lacquer coffin was driven by the rapids on the lake surface, and the speed of the drifting ground accelerated in an instant, only to feel the wind whistling in the ears, and the two lacquer coffins turned on the water surface, colliding with each other and hugging into the hole under the platform.
In an exclamation, the vermilion coffin went down the river in the tomb, rushed forward more than 20 meters, in the dark wide terrestrial tunnel, I couldn't see the surrounding situation clearly, I heard the roar of the water in front of me, I wanted to come to the middle of the tomb road was soaked in water all the year round, it has sunk as a whole, collapsed in the middle of a large hole, the water flow runs through the lower tomb, if it is rolled down by the underground lake water and the coffin with people, most of them are difficult to survive.
This thought flashed, and I didn't dare to hesitate anymore, beckoned Sun Jiuye and my sister, and asked them to get ready to jump off the coffin.
The groundwater in the graveyard is not waist-deep, and shirley Yang and I "Flying Tiger Claw picked one hand into the gap in the tomb bricks, and hurriedly turned around to drag Professor Sun.
At this time, another lacquered coffin was floating by. Unexpectedly, the surging water was so fast that I grabbed it. The three of them didn't have time to stretch out their hands, and they fell in front of me on the lacquered coffin, and Shirley Yang and I shouted in unison. The three of them followed. In the cave of the collapsed ground in the middle of the road.
My eyes were dark, thinking that this time it was probably broken, and I was busy shouting the names of the fat man and others, and I only heard the sound of water in my ears, even if someone answered, it was all covered, and I panicked for a while, and then froze, knowing that there was no point in rushing to the fire at the moment, only to hurry down to find the survivors.
I raised a flashlight to look at the surrounding terrain, and speculated that the tomb door in front of the underground lake had entered the coffin hall of the mausoleum of the "Wuling King of the Moving Mountain", and the main hall coffin was inside this underground building, and the entire ancient tomb was constructed in a master-slave superimposed situation. In front of the coffin hall that is divided into three floors. There should also be a closed stone tomb road, we entered from the mass grave cave under the tomb road, and directly "entered the hall", but there is no trace of "Dixian Village" here.
At present, the search and rescue of companions is a top priority, and for the time being, I don't care about where the "Dixian Village Ancient Tomb" is hidden, Shirley Yang and I climbed the tomb wall and waded forward, and saw that there were small caves on both sides of the tomb road, and the caves were empty. Only the tomb wall is left with incomplete murals, and what you can see is a group of people who have been swept by a large group of tomb robbers. This situation is also a big flaw of the master-slave superimposed mausoleum. Therefore, after the Tang Dynasty, the stacked layout was no longer used.
Due to the rapid flow of water in the cemetery, it is impossible to gain a foothold. We had to go around from the side room, and finally from the other side to the middle of the cemetery collapsed, the ground bricks and mud were mixed, revealing a sinkhole with a diameter of several meters, no matter how you look at it, it seems that a thief hole collapsed hundreds of years ago, it may be that the Guanshan Taibao from the ground to the bottom of the robbery hole bypassing the tomb wall inverted bucket, and then the thief hole gradually collapsed and soaked in water.
There is another layer of burial chamber under the robbery cave, and the internal bricks are toppled and the walls are tilted. Messed up, I'll take the next one. I saw that the black water in the bottom tomb was half flooded, and the soil at the bottom of the ancient tomb was not dense. Groundwater seeps into the ground. Suddenly, I saw the beam of light swaying on the water surface in the corner of the tomb, and I looked at it, and it turned out to be a fat man looking around with a flashlight.
When I saw that he was fine, I put down half of the hanging center of the earth and shouted at him, "Commander Wang, are you okay?" Where are Sun Jiuye and his sister? "But the sound of falling water was so noisy that I couldn't even hear what I was saying. Look at the deep water in the burial chamber below, and find a place where the water is not in a hurry. With Shirley Yang climbed the "Flying Tiger Claw" one after the other and hung down.
I touched the fat man's side. Seeing that he had fallen into a daze, and that he had broken a few pieces on his body, but that he had a mountaineering helmet on his head, and leather protective gear on his shoulders, elbows, and knees, and that he was fine if he fell into the water, he asked him again.
The fat man shook his head vigorously and said, ", why are there all Venus in front of you?" The water in the graveyard was too fast just now, and I was going to jump off the coffin. But Sun Jiuye's old thing was afraid of water, and he was almost scared of peeing pants, and he dragged me alive and didn't let go, but let him drag it like this, almost causing the fat man to hit his head back into the cavity...... It seems that he didn't dare to let go of the coffin after falling into the water, if it wasn't in this tomb, then it would be ...... It must have drifted with the lacquered coffin to a nearby graveyard."
I saw that the fat man was fine, and I guess Sun Jiuye and my sister would not have much of an accident. But I don't think something is right inside this tomb, it's empty and cold, and there's an indescribably strange atmosphere. For now, we must find the rest of the people as soon as possible to avoid accidents.
There are openings on all sides of the waterlogged burial chamber, and one of the tombs has a strange mural painted on the wall, of an expressionless obese woman, holding a thin old man the size of a baby's fist. In a hurry, it was difficult to figure out what legends were depicted in the murals, but I felt that it was particularly strange, and the inadvertent glance made people uncomfortable, and I had to avoid it as much as possible.
On the wall of the mural tomb, there is a large arched tomb door. A meter deep water slowly surging into the door, after the lacquer coffin falls into the water, it is very likely to drift into the graveyard behind the door, because there are several other gaps in the surrounding ground. They were all narrow, and we shouted a few times in front of the door of the tomb, and when we saw that no one answered for a long time, we turned on the spotlight on the helmet, and each of us took out our self-defense equipment, and waded into the water.
The cemetery is flooded all the year round, there is a clear waterline on the brick wall, it is covered with dark green thick moss, the air is humid and gloomy in the dark, and the visibility of the lighting spotlights is so low that it can't be lower.
The unique structure and feng shui veins of the superimposed ancient tomb make the sound of the ancient tomb can only be transmitted from bottom to top with the ground qi. In the dark and cold underground graveyard. I couldn't hear the sound of the sinkhole in the tomb behind me at all, I only heard the sound of the water flowing softly, and the surroundings were even more frightening, I was worried about the safety of Sun Jiuye, and I couldn't help but feel a little anxious, and I was about to call out the name of the missing person again, when I suddenly saw that on the top of the tomb road nearly one meter above my head, there was a freak and mutilated mural. Similar to the style of the tomb in the middle of the earth, it depicts a woman with a clay sculpture of wood, opening her cherry mouth and sticking out her tongue, and on her bright red tongue sits cross-legged an old man who looks like a ghost. It's just as small as a walnut.
In the moss-scarred sewage all over the graveyard, this mural is particularly abrupt, I looked at it coldly, and I was really taken aback, and the fat man who walked in the head also said: "Old Hu, I see how this mural is so familiar. If this commander is not mistaken, we seem to have seen it in Longling, Shaanxi, and you said at the time that only the Tang Dynasty had such a fat landlord and mother-in-law......"
I feel the same way. Nodding, his feet did not stop, and he asked Shirley Yang beside him as he walked, do you think the mural is very evil? No matter how you look at it, she looks like a noblewoman in the Tang Dynasty.
Shirley Young said: "It is very evil, the frescoes are as new as new, look at the woman dressed in Tang, and she is an old man on the tongue...... It's like a demon."
Shirley Yang said that these murals are supposed to be from the Tang Dynasty, which seems to be "incompatible with the historical background of the earth, presumably the earth immortal seal master Gu stole them from the ancient mounds in other places, but I don't know what is the intention of deliberately hiding them at the bottom of the ancient tomb?" Beware of "traps" in this passage.
I heard Shirley Young mention that the mural was depicted as a "demon", but I didn't realize that the Westernized term had no specific image in my mind. But I actually think that this word is used to describe the "old man" on the tip of the tongue of the noble lady of the Tang Dynasty, which is very appropriate, the thin old man has sharp ears and a hateful face, as if he has crawled out of the eighteenth layer of hell.
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