Chapter 38: The White Ape
Partridge Whistle raised his hand to grab him by the collar on the back, did not let him sit on the ground and make a noise, and made a silent gesture to the two, took the lead in covering his mouth and nose with the black veil, covering the breath of the living, and then pulled out the German mirror box, opened the nose of the machine and carried it in his hand, so that it was ready to shoot at any time, pointed in the direction of the red girl and the cave man, and signaled the two to follow closely behind, and he took the lead in sneaking down, and slowly followed the crying and howling in the forest.
Partridge Whistle dressed in night clothes, with the red girl and the cave man, the three of them in the night to find the sound of the three of them forward, the direction of the crying in the forest, happened to be in the place where the boulder fell, the closer to it, the clearer the sound of whimpering and sorrow, the cry and scream is extremely sad and messy, it seems that a large group of people are crying in unison, only listening to the cry echoing in the forest with the wind, by no means the wind moving the forest and other movements from nature.
Is it not unusual for a partridge whistle to see such a strange sound in the middle of the night? He secretly wondered in his heart, so he raised the spirit of the twelve, held his breath and grabbed the footsteps to move forward for dozens of martial arts, and a dense old tree appeared in front of him, and the movement of the ghost crying and howling came from it, and the moon shadow in the forest was sparse, and the ghost was compelling.
The guide cave barbarian was already frightened at this scene, and he also knew that he couldn't make a sound at this time, so he even gestured to the partridge whistle and the red girl not to take another half step forward, where are there people in the dense forest in the middle of the night? It must be that the ghosts in the ancient tomb of Bottle Mountain saw that the tomb was destroyed, and the ghosts lingered nearby, even if the three of us ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, we didn't dare to go inside.
He saw that the shadow of the tree was dense and covered with moonlight, and it was not safe to pass through the forest, so he pulled the collar of the cave barbarian, pointed to the red girl, and immediately took the cave barbarian to climb an old tree, the branches of the forest were thick, and the branches of the tree whistle could bear a lot of weight.
The cave barbarian among the three is also a local native who is accustomed to climbing several drill mountains, and the red girl and the partridge whistle are even more dexterous, silently climbing the canopy, lowering their figures, hiding in the branches and leaves of the forest whistle, and quietly peeking under the trees from a high place by the hazy moonlight.
Under the shadow of the moon, I saw that the back of the forest was the mountain that broke down at the front end of the bottle mountain, sleeping on the ground like a huge monster that was sleeping and not moving, the mountain has cracked countless large and small cracks, many rocks have collapsed from it, and the interior of the mountain has been exposed, but the partridge whistle and others are at the far end, and they can't see the situation in the mountain rock clearly.
In front of the rock, there are scattered broken tiles and all kinds of Ming utensils, gold, silver, copper and jade, think that the tomb has been violently impacted, the masonry utensils inside have fallen to scatter, and there is a tall and abnormal purple gold coffin leaning on the ground, the purple gold coffin is so luxurious, surrounded by pearl jade box, the so-called pearl shirt, is the pearl tabernacle, the coffin body is embedded with flawless jade.
But this purple gold coffin has been broken, the pearl jade is broken and broken, scattered all over the ground, the coffin is the lacquer coffin with gold silk nanmu, the coffin lid has been shaken open, there is only one "seven star plate", half covered and half covered on the coffin, this board is made of fir wood, the size of the coffin can be accommodated, placed in the coffin cover, the board is chiseled with seven round holes of size such as copper coins, and the carved groove makes the seven holes linked, so it is called "seven star plates", there is this custom from the Sui and Tang dynasties.
The seven-star plate half covered the coffin, and nothing could be seen in the darkness inside, I don't know what happened to the corpse of the Yuan general, only countless sorrowful cries drifted around in the forest, at this moment in the forest, the night fog flowed between the trees, and the moonlight was also blocked by the light clouds in the sky, and it was hazy in all directions, and the three partridge whistles were lying in the tree whistle, although they could hear the cries in all directions, but they couldn't identify where the wails came from, so they had to make up their minds to "watch the changes without moving like a mountain", and pressed the muzzle of the mirror box with the head of the machine open to the bottom, and stared at the nighthawk-like eyes, Gazing intently at the movement under the trees.
Just watching from her own breath, the red girl suddenly gently tugged at the sleeve of the partridge whistle, raised her hand and pointed to the purple gold coffin, indicating that at her angle, she could see some extremely unusual things at the bottom of the coffin, the partridge whistle moved lightly on the branch, changed the angle, opened her eyes, and suddenly felt a pang in her heart: "What is that?" ”
It turned out that under the purple gold coffin was a white Sensen's human arm, which was thick and long, with five fingers and claws several inches long, white hair, and most of them were exposed from the bottom of the coffin, and they did not move.
Zombies appear corpse changes, suddenly give birth to corpse hair, has always been rumored to be "fierce", both for the "stiff" synonym, known as "black fierce, white fierce" and "fur shady" said, but in the Republic of China, the scientific concept has been far more prosperous than the feudal era, even the partridge whistle also knows that the corpse change hair is due to mildew.
The coffin has been sealed for thousands of years, as long as the internal air has not flowed, the thousand-year-old corpse will still be like a "living person" after the coffin is opened, but after coming into contact with the air, the thousand-year-old zombie will definitely change in an instant, and its change is related to the coffin material, which is related to the bright vessel hidden on the corpse.
If the thousand-year-old corpse containing pearls and jade and blocking the nine orifices is properly preserved, it is mostly a "wet corpse" when the coffin is opened, that is, the water contained in the corpse is still locked firmly, and the hair and nails of the ancient corpse can even continue to grow in the coffin for a hundred years.
For Partridge Whistle, the leader of the mountain who specializes in robbing ancient tombs, the phenomenon of corpse mutation and corpses, and even the horrific situations such as zombie smashing people, are all things of the same kind, and he has seen many things, so why is it strange? But looking at the purple gold coffin inlaid with beads and jade, I can't help but feel extremely strange, the mountain that collapsed from the bottle mountain wrapped the tomb, and the coffin fell out of it, just facing up, could it be that even the coffin coffin was not strong, and the ancient corpse inside was exposed from the bottom of the coffin? Or is there a zombie hidden in this forest, but it was smashed and crushed by this purple gold coffin?
The burial chamber was hidden in the top of the mountain and hung in the air, and then the mountain collapsed and the ground cracked, and the coffin fell from the burial chamber into the dense forest, such a situation I am afraid that no tomb robber has ever bumped into it, and the partridge whistle certainly did not have this kind of experience, and the demonic atmosphere in the forest was strong, and he refused to act rashly until he found out the situation.
The guide cave barbarian saw that the partridge whistle and the red girl were staring at the side of the purple coffin on the tree, and he didn't know what the two of them were looking at, so he also used his hands and feet at the moment, climbed the branch and moved over, rubbed his eyes and took a closer look, and saw a zombie with white hair all over his body pressed at the bottom of the coffin, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
There is a saying: "Huangkou Ruzi, how dare you listen to the roar of thunder and lightning?" How can a sick woodcutter smell the roar of the tiger and the roar of the dragon? "The people in the remote mountains and wilderness are the most superstitious, and the fear of the ghost fox zombie is deep in the bone marrow, and they are shocked at a glance, and they tremble all over the body when they climb on the tree, only more than the wood carved clay sculptures.
The red girl was frightened when she saw that the cave barbarian was so frightened that her hands and feet were useless, and she might fall down from the tree at any time, so she hurriedly grabbed his vest, and then she heard the mournful cry in the forest gradually gathered, and the shadows in the trees were chaotic, and the branches and leaves were all chaotic.
Partridge Whistle knew in his heart that this was the "right idea", and waved his hand lightly to the red girl and the cave man, and signaled: "Don't make any more noise, just lurk and don't move, first see what is going on in the forest, and then pay attention." Before he could put his hand down, a group of black shadows had jumped under the tree.
At this moment, the night fog has been thin, and the moon has also poked out half of the clouds, only to see that a group of monkeys appeared in the woods, the monkeys are about a hundred of them, and even the little monkey cubs who have just been born are also hugged by the mother monkeys, and the group of monkeys rushed to the distance of more than ten steps from the purple gold coffin, and they immediately stopped, as if they were very afraid of the broken coffin, and no longer dared to approach half a step forward, only around scratching their ears and scratching their cheeks to hide their faces and cry, and jumping up and down, refusing to have a moment of peace.
Partridge Whistle and the Red Girl saw this large group of monkeys, all like the world is in mourning, and they also felt horrified, and Partridge Whistle's heart moved: "Could it be that the coffin smashed a white-haired old ape to death?" With this thought, looking at the arm under the purple gold coffin, it does look different from ordinary people, just like the arm of an ape, it seems that there is a white ape in the forest who suddenly flew into trouble and died tragically under the coffin.
It is said that all kinds of creatures in the world have a fixed number, and if they live for a long time, they will be destroyed by heaven and earth, if they can avoid all kinds of heaven and earth disasters, they can jump out of the suffering of the five elements of reincarnation, and get a fugue too void and immortal.
The partridge whistle couldn't bear his own inference for a while, so he had to continue to peep at the movement of the monkeys, who gathered around, wailing and crying loudly, as if they intended to go over and lift the coffin to bring out the white ape corpse under it to see what was going on, but as if they were extremely afraid of something, they took half a step forward with a clamour, and flew back with a strange cry like a burning buttocks.
The three of them could see clearly on the tree, and they didn't know why the monkeys were so afraid of the purple gold coffin, could it be that the monkeys also knew that the "zongzi" in the coffin was powerful? As the saying goes, "Chenzhou's zongzi, Liuzhou's ghost", several of the most famous local products in Chenzhou, Xiangxi, in addition to the cinnabar known as "Chenzhou sand", and Chenzhou seedlings, and then the zombie is the most famous, the custom of sending corpses to zombies has a long history, and the legend of corpse transformation is also the most, so it is not strange to see any corpse mutation in Xiangxi Bottle Mountain, I am afraid that even the monkeys in the mountains know that ancient corpses can not be easily touched.
The cave barbarian is just afraid of the fox ghost stiff, but he is not very surprised to see the monkey group, because there are often groups of wild monkeys in the Mengdong River Basin, and the old bear ridge also has the famous white ape cave, these monkeys are one of the great enemies of the people who travel to and from the deep mountains, and the monkeys all know that the people passing by have wine and dry food, and they will smash people with stones in the deep mountains and old forests, and then rob the food, so the local guides for the merchants will sing the "monkey song", which can dispel the harassment of the monkeys.
Partridge Whistle is good at ventriloquism, and will also sing "Monkey Song, Monkey Praise" to drive away monkeys, but at this time, the group of monkeys gathered, all around the purple coffin jumping and crying, the action is extremely abnormal, before he understood what was happening, Partridge Whistle hinted that the other two companions peeped at the top of the tree, not to alarm the group of monkeys.
At this time, I saw that the hundreds of monkeys were so anxious that they were spinning around, among them there seemed to be a number of wise people, who squatted on the ground after a few turns, picked up the stones and threw them at the coffin, and the rest of the monkeys followed suit, and for a while countless stones fell like raindrops, and smashed onto the purple gold coffin with a crackling sound, but the coffin was dead and silent, and there was no movement at all.
Partridge Whistle said secretly: "Such cunning, they know how to throw stones to ask for directions, I wonder what they are going to do?" I'll take a closer look. Then he thought, "There is no movement in the coffin when it is hit by rocks, it seems that this group of monkeys is going to pass......"
As soon as I started this thought, I saw a few bold and fast monkeys jumping out of the monkey group, one of them seemed to be a little timid, and wanted to retreat after coming out, so he was driven out by a husband monkey in the monkey group, five or six monkeys trembled and approached the purple gold coffin with heavy yin qi, and scratched the monkey's gills "squeak" and screamed, looking panicked and anxious, eager to move the coffin away immediately, but I was afraid that something terrible in the coffin would suddenly appear, three steps forward and two steps back, and finally the monkey gall came to the front, Still looking around vigilantly, as long as there is the slightest wind and grass, it will immediately escape like a gust of wind.
At this moment, the arm of the white ape that was pressed under the giant coffin moved suddenly, and I don't know whether it was a corpse or a return to the yang, so frightened that the hair and tails of several monkeys nearby all stood up, jumped up on the spot, and swooped back to the monkey group, and the rest of the monkeys were also frightened and immediately fled.
After a while, the escaped monkeys probed their heads to watch from a distance, and there was a commotion for a while, before they gathered again, and gathered in front of the purple gold coffin again, and the partridge whistle looked aside, and they were all secretly anxious for this group of monkeys, only to see that the monkeys gradually calmed down from the panic, and found that the white apes pressed under the coffin seemed to be alive, and they all jumped up and down in the bushes, and they all seemed to be happy.
At that moment, a few monkeys crawled over with their tails cocked, tentatively stretched out their monkey paws and touched the coffin, wanting to move away from the heavy purple gold coffin, but they didn't know where to start, so anxious to jump forward and backwards, among them there was a large bald-tailed old monkey, it seemed to be the most courageous one in the monkey group, it repeatedly tried several times, and saw that there was no abnormality in the coffin, so it jumped on the seven-star board, wanting to move the wooden board away.
At this moment, a burst of black gas suddenly emerged from the coffin, and an ancient corpse sat up, this zombie was burly and tall, with a face as blood-purple as ox liver, no crown on the head, a head full of scattered hair, wearing a splendid purple robe, and a jade and gold belt embedded around the waist, which was the appearance of a noble and powerful person, and the corpse rose quickly like electricity, and without waiting for the bald monkey to react, he screamed that he was pulled into the coffin by the zombie, and submerged in the dark coffin, the coffin was deep and big, and he could not see the situation inside the tree. I only heard the screams of the bald-tailed monkey in the coffin suddenly stopped, and there was no movement in the purple gold coffin.