Chapter 44: The Path of the Underworld

I couldn't hide it, so I briefly told her the reason for her after she passed out, and the fat man added that the old sheepskin was a class enemy who infiltrated the people, Ding Sitian said how could this be possible? The fat man pointed at me and said, "He said that when he went back, he would hold a reasoning struggle meeting to expose the gangster's face of the old sheepskin." ”

I had to tell the truth: "We haven't closed our eyes for two days and one night, I'm worried that everyone is too tired to resist, after they all fall asleep, the old sheepskin will do something stupid, so I found an excuse to tie him up, I can't think of a thousand careful, ten thousand careful, or something went wrong, you don't see the old sheepskin usually doesn't talk much, but he has a very good idea, and the nine cows can't pull it back, I think he must be "superstitious" and has serious thoughts, and wants to go to his brother and the sheep and eggs to summon spirits. ”

From this period of contact, I dare to assert that the old sheepskin must have woken up early, and then secretly went back to the underground chamber to find the mysterious copper chest, but we slept too deeply, and I don't know how long he had been gone, and now it was too late to catch up with him.

The fat man said: "Okay, old Hu, you unlucky bastard and don't come out with a new cut to play me as a big blade, I thought you were vigilant enough to find out the new trend of the class struggle, it turns out that the old sheepskin is still the old sheepskin, what should I do now?" Shall we hurry back to the secret room to find him, or what's the matter? I...... I had just fallen asleep, and I dreamed of the corpse of a woman in the secret room, and that grimace was really evil, but my heavenly soldiers were so angry that they swept through thousands of armies, and kicked them into the garbage heap of historical dust, including their souls and bodies. ”

Ding Sitian listened to the fat man's words and exclaimed in a low voice: "Ah...... Why did you dream of that female corpse too, Chubby? I...... I dreamed it just now, I don't know if you feel it, but I think it...... The corpse of the woman...... She...... She's still alive......"

I just heard the fat man's dream words, I knew that he dreamed of the big Xianbei witch, I didn't expect Ding Sitian to have the same dream, the two people may be a coincidence, all three of them dreamed of the same deceased, that's really a hell, and the kind of feeling that Ding Sitian said, I also really have experienced, but it doesn't seem to be the feeling of a living person, it's not intuitive, it's difficult to describe in words, it's just a strong feeling, a feeling that makes the whole body hairy, and it is a clear feeling that the ghost of the deceased is still wanderingAlthough materialists should not have such an idea of horror in the vicinity, if the ghosts and ghosts of people after death have a certain aura, then in that secret room, this undead-like aura is particularly strong.

I and the fat man, Ding Sitian and the three of them after a little discussion, and made a decision, even if there is really a ghost in the secret room, you have to go back, you must find the old sheepskin, you have to see people in life, and you have to see corpses in death, even if he has been a tomb robber in the past, according to the composition, it should also belong to the majority that can be united, the inverted bucket is a craftsman, who eats by his craft, and has no production capital, at most he is a handicraft, and we belong to the internal contradictions of the people, and the tomb owner of the tomb that was stolen, Almost all of them are the exploiting ruling class standing on the opposite side of the working people, and then in a big way, most of the heroes and heroes who have rebelled and revolted in the past have unearthed the heroic deeds of the emperor's tomb, from the Red Eyebrow Army to Zhang Xianzhong, there are not many ancient peasant armies who have not done this kind of thing, so at that time, none of us felt that there was anything unjustifiable about the craftsmen who fought backwards, and how many poor people's blood and tears were in the evil old society. The old sheepskin must be retrieved no matter what.

I wanted Ding Sitian and the fat man to stay, and I went to find the old sheepskin, but Ding Sitian didn't care about his weakness, gritted his teeth and wanted to go with him, and in desperation, he had to go back with the three of them, at that time we had a preconceived and subtle concept of the incorruptible female corpse, although I didn't say it, but in the subconscious in my heart, I regarded it as a female "sexual" monster like a white bone spirit, so I unconsciously read "The golden monkey rose up a thousand sticks, Yuyu clarified thousands of miles, cheered Sun Dasheng today, only because the demon atmosphere came again" To give ourselves courage, we walked and encouraged each other, and it was strange to say that there was no sense of fear at all, so it can be seen that the spiritual atomic bomb really did not blow out, and found the original way, and soon circled back to the door of the secret room again.

The fat man was still babbling on and saying that all reactionaries were paper tigers to give everyone courage, so I pressed his mouth and said to him and Ding Sitian: "Do you feel any changes around here?" It doesn't seem to be the same as when we first came. ”

Ding Sitian is naturally sensitive: "It seems to be ...... It's as if the ghost in the secret room is gone, and there is no more "hairy" feeling that I felt when I first came here......"

She was right, I already felt something different in front of the door of this secret room, the sense of intimidation that came from the darkness in the darkness did not exist, not because our spiritual atomic bomb had added to our own courage, but because the unsettling things in the secret room had disappeared, could it be that the female corpse wearing the mask was no longer there?

The anxiety of not knowing the truth, more uneasy than the direct threat, rather than guessing in front of the door, it is better to see is believing, go in to see the truth, think of this, the three of us called the name of the old sheepskin a few times into the room, and saw that there was no response, so they leaned together and entered the secret room, and the sapper lamp shone around, and it was still full of wolves, dead corpses and those rotting corpses were piled all over the ground, and then looked inside, we couldn't help but "huh".

Unexpectedly, the masked body of the shrine maiden was still lying peacefully on the stone table, but when I saw it again this time, I could clearly feel that it was not a soulless shell, just like the rest of the dead in this institute, and the layer of power in the room that seemed to be haunting by the ghost was gone.

When we were too tired and fell asleep, something must have happened here, I took the fat man and Ding Sitian to look at the rest of the place, there was no old sheepskin in the secret room, the black clothes and the red silk rotten and white sheep eggs were still flat on the ground, the fat man guessed wisely: "The old sheepskin may be afraid of opening his reasoning struggle meeting, and as a result, the soles of his feet are oiled - slipped, I think it is most likely to escape to the border to join Su Xiu to eat 'milk' oil bread." ”

I shook my head and said, "Impossible, if he wants to defect to the enemy, he won't come to this secret room again, when we left, I obviously remember kicking the Wong Tai Sin box into the corner, but look at it, why is the copper box missing?" It must have been the old sheepskin that came back and took it away. ”

Ding Sitian asked worriedly: "What is the old sheepskin grandfather doing this for?" Where is he now? ”

I said, "Maybe he still has something ......to hide from us about the soul box" Speaking of this, I suddenly thought that there was suddenly no ghostly feeling in this secret room, probably because the yellow copper box was gone, maybe we made a wrong judgment from the beginning, because when we saw the female corpse in this secret room, we felt as if there were undead wandering here, but in fact, the cold atmosphere that made people feel uncomfortable from the bottom of my heart came from the copper box engraved with yellow skin, The bronze chest had been taken away by the old sheepskin, so there was no such thing as a dark and invisible atmosphere in the secret room.

So far, we don't know what exactly was in the box, but it seems to be a bad luck, we can't think of what the motive of the old sheepskin is, is it not the corpse in this secret room is not a sheep egg at all, otherwise how could the old sheepskin leave him alone? Whatever the old sheepskin's intentions were, he was now a very dangerous uncertaintie.

I said to the fat man and Ding Sitian: "Now I don't know where the old sheepskin is going, the terrain of the Hundred Eyes Cave is complicated, and the danger is everywhere, just the three of us, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack to find him, withdraw first and then discuss a way." ”

The fat man said, "Before you leave, give this a fire, so that you will not leave trouble." He had a special interest in setting the fire, and did not wait for the consent of others, but when he had finished speaking, he went to the head of the fire, and there was a wooden plank in the secret room, and he tore a white cloth for covering things, and poured some alcohol on it, and immediately lit the fire.

I thought to myself that it is okay to burn, dust to dust, dust to earth, leaving a hundred years of incorruptible corpses, not necessarily the deceased's wishes, burn the remains, so as not to let them remain ugly, see the fire gradually increasing, we had to start to exit the secret room, when the female corpse entered, I could no longer control my curiosity, there should be no more danger, I want to see why the dead man wears a mask, so he used the Kangxi treasure knife to pick off the mask on the face of the female corpse, who knew that at a glance, the corpse did not have a face, The human face under the mask has been dug with a large hole, which looks extremely terrifying.

I just glanced at it and felt terrible, at this time Ding Sitian saw me rubbing behind, so he turned to look at me, I quickly told her not to look back, but after speaking, she also saw the hole on the face of the female corpse, and was stunned on the spot.

My heart suddenly moved, this faceless female corpse may be very strange, but it is too late to look at it again, the raging tongue of fire has swallowed the body of the witch, in fact, it is a corpse, but it is only a human skin shell, and it was burned to ashes in the blink of an eye, only the metal mask glows with a strange brilliance of golden red in the fire.

Unexpectedly, the fire spread, burned so violently, and the smoke in the underground passage surged, the fat man and I grabbed the frightened Ding Sitian, and the three of them smoked and broke through the fire to leave, until they returned to the door of the ground building, and then stopped and discussed what to do next.

I just ran too fast, the wound on my shoulder that had healed was faintly painful, I covered the wound and said to the fat man and others: "Under the Huangpizi Temple in the Northeast, there are two weasels buried in human skin, the hollowed out body of the dead is like a human skin coffin, I just saw that the body of the witch is also empty, behind the mask may be a place for the old yellow skin, it hides in the human skin and pretends to be a ghost to 'confuse' people's hearts, the so-called witch may be like this, it seems that in the Huangpizi tomb of Tuanshanzi in the Daxing'an Mountains, It's almost a replica of the Hundred Eyes Cave, but it's much smaller. ”

The fat man suddenly realized: "It turns out that the ghost yamen of Tuanshanzi is a fake imitation, and this Hundred Eyes Cave is the entrance to the underworld?" Shall we put another fire that burns the mountain and destroy that exit, lest the resentful souls and hungry ghosts inside crawl out and try to seize power and change the sky, and then plunge the vast number of working people into the fire pit. ”

In the folklore of the Northeast, there are stone beasts towering on the mountain caves, the depths of which is the gateway to the underworld, after the death of a person, a wisp of ghosts does not disperse, have to go to that place, that is the world of the dead, the city and pavilion are no different from the world, but the world of the dead, not belonging to the living.

If there are ghosts in the world, my attitude has been a little vague recently, because some things are really difficult to understand, but when it comes to the pavilion and palace of the underworld, I absolutely refuse to believe it, hearing the fat man say this, I scolded: "Nonsense, broad daylight, the sky is clear, how can there be any door to the underworld, the so-called ghost yamen, is just a large tomb 'cave' buried in a group burial, and there are many dead buried in it, so it is more and more spread more and more evil, and it is said to be the underworld where the undead gather." ”

Ding Sitian said: "When I was a child, I heard my grandmother tell many stories in the land and water maps, there were many tortures in the underworld, and the deepest impression was that there was a little daughter-in-law 'woman', who was stuffed into the grinding eye of the stone mill by the little ghosts, and crushed into flesh and blood foam, there was a black dog adding blood to the grinding edge, and the minced meat that was not added was dripping into a tile pot, and in the next life it will become maggots and mosquitoes and flies for the world to beat, and the upper body of the little daughter-in-law 'woman' who was half ground is still alive, listen to my grandmother, A woman who is not filial to her elders will end up with this kind of fate after death, and it really scared me all over my body with goosebumps, that kind of underworld is simply terrible, I hope the old sheepskin grandfather did not run into the ghost yamen in the back mountain. ”

The fat man said: "Si Tian, why are you becoming more and more timid, even if there is really a yin underworld in the world, we revolutionary materialists will go there to kill Yama with a banner of 100,000 people, and give him a bull head and horse face to post big-character posters one by one, and fight against the king of Yama Laozi." ”

I saw that the fog around me did not gather, the sky was dark, and it was going to be dark again, and we had been away from the ranch for two days and one night, and I didn't know if Chief Ni had sent someone out to look for us, or he had to find a way to find the old sheepskin, otherwise he would not be able to explain to the people in the pastoral area, so he interrupted the fat man and said: "Okay, okay, you haven't posted enough big-character posters?" I don't have any direct stakes in what ghost yamen or what ghost gate passes, but now we have to go to the cave in the back mountain, because the old sheepskin has already entered the back mountain, if the ghost yamen is really the entrance to the underworld, the old sheepskin is afraid that he has now stepped into this underworld. ”