Chapter Forty-Nine: Walking by Candlelight

Shirley Yang, Sun Jiuye and others also don't remember that there was such a situation in "Bing Candle Night Walking Map", it is impossible for the painting scroll to be taken wrong, could it be that when they entered the ancient tomb and the yin mansion, the vision appeared in the painting itself?

Shirley Yang shook the torch in his hand, and the ghost shadow in "Candle Night Walking" also flickered, and everyone woke up: "In ancient paintings, cuttlefish were depicted with a dark brush, and these ghosts and ghosts can only be seen in the firelight. ”

Sun Jiu Ye gasped: "Where is the immortal mansion?" It's simply a ghost cave hell, and there must be something terrifying in the Earth Immortal Tomb, but it's just ...... Why did Feng Shigu hide this information in the painting? Does this imply some secrets? The people in Dixian Village have long since died, so who is he left to see when he does this? ”

Everyone saw that there was a "vision" in the "Candle Night Walking Map", and they were all shocked and suspicious, what Professor Sun said was really good, but when I thought about it deeply, although there were examples of "jealousy of fire" in the coffin mountain, but in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, it still mainly relied on "lamps, candles, and torches" to illuminate in the dark. A few paintings depicted by the earth fairy himself are hung in the dark underground pavilion, and outsiders do not know the reason, so they will naturally watch it with the lamp, presumably deliberately left it for those who have the opportunity to enter the mountain in the future.

Tomb robbers in the past dynasties rarely use the "mineral light source", although the legend has that in ancient times there were also people who used the "luminous pearl" to rob the tomb, but the luminous pearl is extremely precious and rare, and it is rare to see leisure, and can not detect the underground air quality and self-defense, so it is only a special case among the tomb robbers, and has never been widely circulated in the "official thieves and scattered thieves", and the grave digging is inseparable from the fire candle.

The ancient immortal Feng Shi Gu gave the "Guanshan Finger 'Mystery' Fu" to the descendants of the Feng family, leaving a secret path that appeared once in twelve years, so that they would have the opportunity to enter the ancient tomb in the future, which is also a big violation of common sense, most likely because the Feng Shi Gu knew it well, knowing that there is no grave in the whole world, and no mausoleum in the world is always strong and always secret, even if it is not stolen and excavated by the inverted people, with the changes of mountains and rivers, it will be destroyed sooner or later.

Feng Shigu is so arranged, the depth of its scheming is really chilling in the bottom of the heart, the mystery of this earth immortal tomb is not "hidden", but a "out" word, when outsiders enter the coffin mountain, it is the time when the earth immortal comes out of the mountain. Not only Professor Sun, the descendant of the Feng family, but even our group of "touching" Jin Xiaowei are all "chess pieces" controlled and used by him, and they entered the ancient tomb with nine deaths, just to come to the earth immortal Feng Shi Gu to lead the saint, knowing that entering the underworld temple in the belly of the "corpse vein" will definitely encounter accidents, but the situation is forced, we have to be different from the previous martyrs, step by step towards the abyss, the only difference is that we know that this is very likely to be a dead end with no return.

At this time, only listen to the sound of biting rotten wood in the distance of the tomb road gradually "approaching", the innumerable "coffin worms", after entering the "Dixian Village", drill around, chasing the rotten qi and moving, there are many copper coffins and iron coffins in the ancient tombs, there are no gaps to enter, but some lacquered wooden coffins are inevitably gnawed by them along with the coffin and corpse.

Our group of people were contaminated with a lot of obscure corpse qi in the "Black Sheep King Underground Palace", and Sun Jiuye's condition was even more serious, I still haven't figured out whether he is dead or alive, and even suspect that he will "mutate" at any time, so we have all become the target of activities to attract nearby "coffin worms" at the moment.

In fact, although the corpse insects and coffin chrysalis and other things are terrible, they may not be able to resist it, and the most terrifying and headache-inducing thing at the moment is the "Nine Deaths and Horror Tomb Armor", once it penetrates the wall of the coffin mountain, it is bound to smash the Dixian Village and the headless corpse veins, "under the nest, there are no eggs"? At that time, whether it was the ancient corpse in the Yin Mansion or the living people in the ancient tomb, all the jade was burned.

I stared at the "Picture of the Mountain and the Mansion" for a while, and several thoughts turned in my mind one after another, but there was no good way to get out, and now I can't blame the situation of the class struggle for being too complicated, but only for the paralysis of my own thoughts.

Shirley Yang reminded me, "We are running out of torches, and we can't afford to delay too much in a mansion with crevices everywhere." ”

I gritted my back molars, thinking that this time I couldn't get out, it was a big deal to fight together, and with mental preparation, my heart was much more steady, so I said to everyone: "The Dixian Village in the Coffin Mountain and the ancient tombs below it are all connected, and only the Dixian Tomb in the belly of the corpse-shaped mountain is relatively independent. Judging from the map, we are not far from the Earth Immortal Tomb, or according to the previous plan, no matter what is inside, we have to venture into the tomb and find a way to find out the body of Feng Shigu and burn it to prevent future troubles. ”

Sun Jiuye was a little in a trance, the "Guanshan refers to the 'mystery' endowment" handed down by Feng Shigu seems to be a "mystery" spell that hooks people's souls, and has deceived Feng Shiqi and his descendants for hundreds of years, and now he has a faint premonition that this is a conspiracy, and he does not advocate entering the Earth Immortal Tomb again, and regrets that he did not have a thorough plan at the beginning, and he should have collapsed this mountain directly with explosives from the outside.

The fat man scolded: "Don't dream again, if you want to blow up so many mountains in Coffin Gorge, how many military-grade high-explosive 'medicine' do you need?" Where are you stinky intellectuals? Immediately stretched out his hand and dragged Sun Jiuye, who was squatting on the ground, and dragged him to the front of the tomb, while saying to him: "Strengthen discipline 'sex', invincible, do you understand?" Sun Laojiu, you must be right to listen to the highest instructions of the fat master and Lao Hu, hurry up and let me go. ”

I also beckoned, called Shirley Yang and my sister, everyone shook the torches in their hands, and went straight forward along the tomb road, referring to the square position in the map, turning a "hole" of the Northern Song Dynasty tomb with an iron rope hanging coffin, and it was already at the edge of the Yin Mansion of "Dixian Village", so far there are only three torches left in our hands that have not been extinguished.

In my "carrying bag", there is still a can of fire oil fuel, which is enough to increase the fire and disperse the coffin insects that are pouring in from all sides, but I have doubts about whether the Guiru Ancient Mirror can suppress the Earth Immortal Sealing Master Gu, and I also pointed out that I forgot to leave these fire oil as the last "killer weapon", so I will not use it easily, so I have to force my heart to break out.

So I took everyone to push open the broken stone door at the exit of the secret passage, opened the way with a torch, and pounced out, but I didn't expect the situation behind the village to be very unexpected, thousands of coffin insects that were alarmed by copper erosion did not climb to the belly of the corpse-shaped mountain, and there was still a strange atmosphere of gloomy silence here.

I fixed my mind, I saw a huge monument on the hillside outside the village, the stele wedged with the six characters of "the star hall of the tomb of the earth immortals", and carved with exquisite star palace ornamentation, the stele surface has a stone carving of the spirit beast carrying each other, I want to see the situation in front clearly, so I climbed to the top of the stele, and looked around at a high place.

I saw that there are several arc-shaped shallow ditches in the abdomen of the corpse-shaped mountain, every dozen steps, there is a burly and tall one-legged bronze man, the bronze man is naked and "naked", the appearance is seven points like a ghost, three points are like a person, their face is angry and terrifying, angry eyes are round, and the mouth continues to gush out of the yang sui, flowing in the stone trough in the ditch, like a dark red "color" blood river winding cycle, blocking all the coffin insects crawling from all around, although the yang sui belongs to the cold minerals, there is no heat in itself, But it was enough to make the coffin insects afraid of the light not dare to cross the thunder pool by half a step.

It is located in the mountain in the middle of several circular Yangsui rivers, trapping a deep ravine formed by a mountain crevice, the wall is apologetic plank road, there are several archways on both sides that cross the sky, the eaves and pillars, the height is staggered, it looks like the weather is extraordinary, and the tomb of the earth immortal depicted in the "Bing Candle Night Walking Map" should be at the bottom of this deep ravine.

I returned to the bottom of the stele, beckoned everyone to jump over the surging stone trough of the sun, everyone temporarily got rid of the coffin worm chasing behind them, and the heart was a little more stable, but walked to the front of the archway to the deep ravine of the Pangu corpse vein, and saw that it was dark inside, the silence was strange, and there was a sense of "just left the tiger's den" and re-entered the wolf's den "ominous".

Although the younger sister is bold, but what she has seen and seen in the past few days is all the amazing and terrifying things that have passed from the side of death, and it is inevitable that some of the six gods have no owner, and the legend that the earth fairy deceived the living into the tomb for burial has been spread in Qingxi Town since ancient times, she looked at the bluestone plank road on the wall, like a green python winding into the depths of the cave, and she was even more panicked.

I had to give her some relief pills, while extinguishing the torch and replacing the last spare battery for the tactical "spotlight", while telling her that the legend of the Earth Immortal Seal Master Gu came up with the legend of the Shandu people, it was very unreliable, this person had been dead for many years, and the corpse was either stiff or rotten, at most it was a mummy, where did he become an immortal? In my life, I have traveled from south to north, and I have entered many ancient tombs, but I have never seen any corpse immortals in any mausoleum; Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if Feng Shigu, the old landlord leader, really wants to go out of the mountains and harm people, it will never succeed, and I believe that history and the people will definitely not allow this kind of thing to happen.

The younger sister nodded, saying that although she was too nervous, she could still follow the team, and the fat man said: "You can rest assured, I think that if you want to die, it will be Sun Jiuye, the filial son and virtuous grandson of the Guanshan Feng family, who will return to the throne first, and when the time comes, we will have to pull the Guanshan Taibao of the whole group in the tomb to back us, and it will not be over if we don't mess them up." ”

Sun Jiu Ye shook his head helplessly: "It's all at this time, why do you still care about the speed of your tongue?" Then he said to me, "Don't pick up the big blows, do you still have some oil to burn the ancient corpses in the tomb?" When the time comes, don't be reluctant to do it when you see the room full of bright weapons, don't hesitate to be soft, if the corpse fairy in the tomb really escapes from the coffin mountain, we will be in big trouble. ”

I was about to say, "I don't need to tell me anything about this, I know what's at stake," when I heard a crackling sound from the rock formations above me. The cracking sound was endless, and it hurt people's ears.

Everyone subconsciously looked up, but first, the ground was dark, and secondly, the crimson "color" fog in the air was filled, and they couldn't see the situation in the rock formation. Shirley Yang said: "No, the coffin mountain is an uncovered sarcophagus, as if the Nine Deaths Tomb Armor buried in the crust of the mountain is about to fall off. ”

Although in the past thousand years, no tomb robber has ever encountered the "Nine Deaths Horror Tomb Armor", but for the sharpness of this thing has also been heard, this kind of underground plant mixed with bronze and flesh growth, by no means three or five people can deal with it, the sound of copper erosion blood armor struggling and wriggling in the rock formation, in our ears to hear, is like the roar of death, every time we hear a crack in the air, it is just like pouring a basin of cold water on their body, can't help but be frightened, the chill increases sharply.

We were worried that the Shocking Armor would appear from the dense fog at any time, so we didn't dare to stay too long on the surface of the corpse-shaped mountain, so we hurriedly wrapped Professor Sun and my sister in the middle, and walked down the stone steps embedded in the wall.

Above the Lingxing Hall is a deep ravine where the two walls confront each other, very narrow and steep, the ancient wall on both sides is as neat as the knife chopping axe, in the beam of the "spotlight", you can clearly see the undulations of the rock veins in the stratum, but from a close point to watch, the soil is also full of jagged and convex places, there are many strangely shaped jade bibs buried in those places, the jade "color" is ancient, some are red, some are gloomy, are not modern things, most of them have been broken, according to the records in the "Guanshan Excavation Tibetan Biography", these jade artifacts are all witch culture period, Sacrifices buried in the mountain of coffins.

I remembered the scene I saw in the scroll before, those who were buried in the tomb through this road, in the wall where the jade artifacts were buried, there were many ghostly ghosts, but when I was in this scene, I did not see the scene depicted in the "Candle Night Walking Map", and the rest of the people must have this thought, everyone felt that there was a cold swishing behind them, as if there were evil spirits quietly following behind, and they had to look back from time to time, and the deeper they went, the stronger this uneasy feeling became, and the surrounding was gloomy, and there seemed to be no direct threat in the darkness, But I could feel that there was a strange atmosphere hidden in this silence, as if I had entered the Longtan Tiger's 'Cave', and everyone couldn't help but have a slight tension in the muscles of the whole body, and their bodies were on alert.

Shirley Yang suddenly remembered something, and she whispered to me: "In that "Candle Night Walk", all the people are holding lanterns and torches, and we also light the candles to see the black shadow hidden in the painting, maybe this is a hint that in front of the Lingxing Temple, we need to rely on the light of the fire to see something that is not usually seen. ”

My intuition also tells me that there is indeed something buried in the rock and soil layers of the Pangea vein, probably the "ghosts" depicted in the painting, because I don't know what its true face is, it is difficult to distinguish the good and the bad, and if we continue to walk deeper, we may encounter accidents at any time.

Anyway, lighting the lamp is a common act of "touching" Captain Jin, since I am in the belly of the mountain, I have no worries, I immediately "touched" half of the candle, lit it in my hand, held the flame with the palm of my hand, and continued to walk down the stone steps while slowing down, while holding a candle to shine on the rock wall around me.

The candlelight shines on the wall, reflecting the fragments of jade with a dripping "color", which is more magnificent and mysterious than under the miserable beam of the tactical "spotlight", and the fat man can see it, and suddenly he is greedy, and he can't help but reach out to "touch", wanting to pick a few pieces of it as a "souvenir".

Sun Jiuye was worried that there would be branches next to the fat man, so he had persuaded him many times before, but the result was that he was prevaricated by the fat man's strong words, so he had to change his way and stretched out his hand to stop him and said: "These jade artifacts as sacrifices are very evil, Wang Fatty, don't be greedy for a while, just 'Mao' hands and feet 'mess' to move these things, to fight for private criticism, to fight for private criticism!" ”

The fat man said with an innocent face: "The world is afraid of the word serious, fat man, I chiseled a few pieces of it and went home to study it carefully, to see where the evil of these jade is, is this also selfish?" ”

I saw that at this time, Sun Jiuye intended to let me come forward to emphasize the important principle of emphasizing "strengthening discipline and 'sex'", so I turned my head and pretended not to see it, just focusing on observing the stone wall under the candlelight, but I didn't find anything abnormal.

I went down a few more steps, but I heard the fat man and Sun Jiuye, who were arguing behind me, suddenly calm down at the same time, and I walked with Shirley Yang and my sister who were walking in front of me and quickly stopped, turned around to look at the situation behind me, only to see that the fat man and Sun Jiuye were stunned on the spot, staring at the rock formation motionlessly.

I pulled my feet back to the high place of the stone steps, and glanced at the two of them, it turned out that the fat man smashed the jade embedded in the wall with a sapper shovel, and the soil and stone fell at the shovel, so that the things inside were exposed, and the floating soil was a whole piece of ancient jade, stacked and piled up for the wall, and there seemed to be a ghost-like blurred outline in the jade wall, when I held the candle and looked closer, the vague ghost suddenly became clear, and what was even more surprising was that it seemed to be tangible and insubstantial, and it could move in the wall, and the trance of the candlelight and light shadow, The black shadow suddenly raised its hand and moved its feet to crawl forward, and was about to pounce out of the wall, only to feel a dark wind blowing in my face, and the flame of the candle in my hand shook twice, and it was about to be extinguished in the swaying and fluttering.

I noticed a gust of wind blowing in my face, and hurriedly put my hand on the candle flame that was about to be extinguished, although the candlelight was covered, but the tactical "spotlight" light on the mountaineering helmet was still on, and when the beam flickered, I and the fat man and Sun Jiuye could see it clearly, just at this glance, I could see that the roots of human hair were standing up all at once, and there were more than 108,000 sweat "hair" holes around the body, all of which were in cold sweat.