Book 1: The Cave of Snow Ridge Chapter 28: The Tomb (2) The Human-faced Spider

We marched to the second part of the ditch, also in the middle of the ditch, which was a damp and slippery black mire, surrounded by black oppression, and overhead was the sound of the wind grinding against the cracks in the ground, roaring like a devil's mockery.

We walked forward in the quagmire through the pillar of light projected by the wolf's eye, and I couldn't help but worry about this environment, but I was not afraid of encountering anything unclean, and I didn't have to be afraid of any fierce ghosts and monsters in the ninth uncle, just afraid of some strange birds and beasts.

After walking a short distance, the fat man suddenly patted me on the shoulder and said, "Ngawang! I found the baby. Then pointing ahead, I looked down and saw something glistening in the mire in front of me glistening under the pillar of light from the wolf's eye.

When the fat man and I approached, the fat man picked it up and saw that it was a "D" shaped thing, but one end was narrow, and it felt very familiar.

The fat man wiped the black mud off with his sleeve, and I recognized that it was a threaded iron lock, which was the same iron lock we had used before, and it turned out that the position we were in now was the bottom of the crack in the ground last time when I, the fat man, and Xiao Jing had just gone down the valley.

This made me even more worried, because last time we obviously heard the strange screams of unknown creatures at the bottom of this dragon ditch, and I could see a trace of uneasiness from the fat man's face, so I told Uncle Nine and Uncle Zhang about the strange sound I heard last time, and consulted Uncle Zhang, saying, "Uncle Zhang, did you meet any monsters when you passed by here twenty years ago?" Uncle Zhang frowned, "No!" Twenty years ago it wasn't like this, and who knows what has changed here in the last twenty years. ”

It is also said that after 20 years of vicissitudes, the world is unpredictable, and who can know what changes have been made here.

The fat man threw away the buckle and scolded, "Damn, make me happy in vain." As soon as the fat man's words fell, the wolf eye in his hand also fell into the quagmire.

"Fatty! What are you doing? Seeing this, I asked the fat man curiously.

The fat man picked up the wolf's eye flashlight and said to us with a panicked expression: "A child just ran over, did you see it?" "Since I, Uncle Zhang, and Uncle Nine were just chatting, I didn't see any children.

But the fat man's words reminded me that last night I saw a child running past me in the woods. So I told Uncle Nine, and at this time, Uncle Zhang patted Uncle Nine in a panic, pointed to the front and said, "I also saw it, so I ran over from the front." ”

Uncle Jiu's face sank, his brows tightened and he shone forward with the wolf's eyes, and the other three of us also shone it together, and the four pillars of light projected by the wolf's eyes illuminated the dragon ditch that was only eight or nine meters wide, and everything in front of him was unobstructed, except for a dense black thorn and black mud on the ground a hundred meters ahead.

The four of us walked side by side, and after walking for a short time, we still didn't see any children, so I asked the fat man, "Fat man!" Were you just dazzled? There are no children. ”

The fat man said affirmatively, "I must have seen it, a little girl is about six or seven years old, I don't believe you ask Uncle Zhang, didn't he see it too." ”

"That's right! Right! It was a little girl, wearing a very thin dress, with a pale face and two small pigtails, but she didn't see what she looked like. Uncle Zhang nodded hurriedly.

In this ghost place at night, how can anyone haunt except ghosts? All of us were a little timid, except for Uncle Jiu, who looked calm and calm.

Suddenly, the fat man shouted, "Look! Ran over again. "I saw it this time, too, and a little girl ran over with a swish, and then ran back and stood in front of us, stretching out her fleshy little hands, and kept waving to us, muttering to herself, "Come!" Come here. ”

Seeing this, Uncle Nine stepped forward, and the little girl saw that Uncle Nine might be out of fear, and immediately burrowed into the black thorns.

Uncle Nine said to everyone, "Everyone should be careful, the thorns in front of you are full of demonic energy, there must be some demons doing evil, wait a minute, everyone will follow me." ”

Uncle Nine is worthy of being a Taoist, and he is much calmer when he encounters these demons and monsters, unlike those strange birds and beasts that he was helpless when he met them before, and Uncle Nine's calmness also made me feel at the bottom of my heart.

I asked Uncle Nine curiously, "Uncle Nine!" What was that little girl just now? Uncle Nine replied, "That little ghost just now is the legendary ghost blindfolding, she is nothing to be afraid of, just some tricks to cover the eyes, and confusing techniques, that day we met a ghost summoning spirit, and your soul was summoned away that time it was this little ghost." ”

Uncle Nine said as he shoveled the sapper to Uncle Zhang, took out his wooden sword engraved with Tai Chi gossip from behind, and continued, "Without further ado, let's hurry up and find the ancient tomb, let's go!" ”

After that, all of us quickened our pace and walked towards the thorns that were so black that I didn't know the end, the thorns crisscrossed and criss-crossed, dense and black, and the length was three or four meters high, encircling the dragon ditch without leaking any layers.

Uncle Nine asked me and the fat man to open a way, I and the fat man didn't say a word and picked up the sapper shovel in his hand, and the quick knife cut the mess is a slash, these thorns are like sentient nerves, and when they are cut, they retract and flow out of black liquid, accompanied by a smell of blood.

Under the constant shoveling of me and the fat man, a hole was cut out after a while, and the black inside of the thorns was bottomless, although our wolf eyes could shoot out a pillar of light of more than 300 meters, there was still no end to the thorns, and after we walked into the thorns, the hole that had just been cut out by me and the fat man closed by itself.

Seeing that we were a little panicked, Uncle Nine said calmly, "Don't panic! If you panic, you will be chaotic, and chaos will defeat you. Hearing Uncle Nine say this, the three of us took a deep breath and cheered up our courage.

Inside the thorns is a large space, all entwined by thorns, which feels as if we are in the stomach of the devil, and we have just walked for a short time, and all that appears in front of us is a rugby-like chrysalis, hanging from the thorny rattan everywhere.

The fat man was curious and directly split one of the chrysalis with a sapper shovel, and everyone took a look with wolf eyes, and when I saw the contents of the pupae, my scalp was numb, goosebumps immediately rose, and my stomach was tumbling with a feeling of nausea and wanting to vomit.

I saw a bloody corpse in the chrysalis, it was a little girl, and I couldn't see the appearance, because the skin of the little girl's whole body had been stripped off, leaving only a bloody body, and the figure of this little girl was somewhat similar to the little girl who just beckoned to us.

After seeing this scene, I directly split a chrysalis on the side, and what I saw was also a corpse, which was different from the little girl in front of me, this was an adult male corpse, not skinned, the corpse's mouth was wide open, and its eyes were open and dead, it seemed that it should have been frightened before death, and the whole body had been dried up, like a mummy that had been drained of water, and the corpse was all connected with thin rattans.

Uncle Nine told us that this is called "blood chrysalis" to provide blood to these thorns, and the rattan on the corpse is used for blood sucking, no wonder there was a smell of blood when I cut these thorns with the fat man just now.

According to Uncle Jiu, this blood chrysalis is different from the little girl's chrysalis in front of her, the little girl's chrysalis is called "ghost chrysalis" is specially used to raise ghosts, and the raised ghosts are specially used to lure living creatures to come to this black thorn for these thorns to suck blood.

According to the records in Uncle Jiu's "Hundred Ghosts and Evil Arts", these are all witchcraft. The demon is a kind of spiritual, supernatural existence of the individual, by absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, "gathering is formed, scattered is zero." ”

Demons are both good and evil like humans, and they have experienced the three tribulations of heaven, earth and man into human form. Those who have a human form are demons, those who do not become monsters, and there is a kind of elf that has no physical body.

Just as Uncle Nine was explaining to us what a demon was, I accidentally saw a pale face that was particularly conspicuous in the dark from the black thorns in front of us looking at us, and under the pillar of light from the wolf's eyes, I could clearly see that it was a little girl's face.

In the darkness, the little girl's face was as pale as a piece of white paper, without a trace of blood, and her eyes were as black as black holes, or rather no eyes at all, only a pair of black eye holes, and her lips were not bloody, and the whole face seemed to be stretched open.

I could tell at a glance that this face was the little girl who had just beckoned to us, but it looked like nothing, and the whole face looked like no expression at all, it looked like a dead man's skin, and the body of the face was hidden in the darkness by thorns, and it was impossible to see it with the pillar of light of the wolf's eyes.

There were two fist-sized spheres on each side of the face, like two black gems, black to shiny, and the two black gems lit up two highlights under the pillar of light of the wolf's eyes.

Suddenly, the two jewel-like orbs moved, and then the body behind the little girl's face slowly moved out of the darkness.

When all the bodies behind my face appeared under the wolf's eyes, I was shocked, terrified, and trembling all over.

It turned out that behind the face was a huge spider, the size of an adult male, not counting the eight legs and the body alone was so big, the spider's head was wearing a little girl's human skin face, and it seemed to be smiling and looking at us gloomily, not to mention how much panic it was.

And those two orbs like black gems are the eyes of the spider, the spider's head is much smaller than the body, it only occupies a small part of the body, the butt is very large, it is basically the whole body, the body is covered with colorful hair, the more bright things usually grow in the wild, the more poisonous they are, so I guess the spider must be very poisonous.

Just when all of us looked stupid, Uncle Nine immediately wrapped two yellow talismans around the two copper coins and shouted, "Demon, die." Then he threw it directly at the spider's two jewel-like eyes, and as soon as Uncle Jiu's thing touched the spider's eyes, a puff of green smoke immediately rose up, and the spider screamed in pain.

At this time, Uncle Nine had already held a wooden sword in his hand, two or three arrows to catch up, not far from the spider, the spider's two front feet were as sharp as a scimitar to the ninth uncle, the ninth uncle was not covered, jumped sideways on the thorns and stepped on the two feet as light as a swallow, and then a side flip, dodging the spider's attack, the ninth uncle sideflip at the same time sprinkled the glutinous rice in his hand on the spider, the glutinous rice corroded the spider's body like sulfuric acid, the spider screamed in pain and immediately shrank forward, the whole body arched, Then spider silk continued to squirt out from its buttocks, wrapping Uncle Nine around the thorns, and Uncle Nine couldn't move.

After Uncle Nine was entangled, he immediately yelled at me and the fat man, "Two stinky boys, don't help yet." ”

I and the fat man reacted at this time, and at the same time copied out the sapper shovel and rushed over, before I and the fat man rushed to the ninth uncle, the spider had already stabbed its sharp front foot to the immobile ninth uncle, at the last moment, the fat man reacted quickly, a sapper shovel threw out, a shovel hit the bull's-eye to cut off the spider's foot, I immediately threw the scimitar on the waist to the fat man so that he could cut the spider silk to save the ninth uncle, and then did not wait for the spider to make the next move and ran to the spider to swing the shovel and slash.

Out of my fear of these hairy insects, I cut a little uncontrollably, and a few shovels slashed at the spider, but instead of killing it, it made it angry. Just when I was about to cut it again, the spider suddenly spewed out some liquid, my first reaction was venom, panicked to dodge and accidentally fell, and then the black thorns around me took advantage of me to fall to the ground, immediately tied my hands, although I used all the strength to feed, still can't break free, seeing that the spider's bloody mouth is about to bite me, I thought to myself, I won't see tomorrow's sun.

And at this moment, there was a loud bang of "bang", which shook the dragon ditch and echoed in the valley, this deafening feeling was too familiar, it was Uncle Zhang's homemade old-fashioned musket.

After the spider was beaten, it fled directly into the dense thorns, and at this time the fat man had already rescued Uncle Jiu, and then used a scimitar to cut off the thorns that bound my hands one by one, and after the scimitar was returned to me, he picked up his sapper shovel.

After the spider fled, Uncle Nine immediately chased in the direction of the spider's escape, and me, the fat man, and Uncle Zhang also followed, but before we could take two steps, the thorns kept whipping at us, and they just scattered us.

I immediately held the sapper shovel in one hand and the scimitar in the other, and opened the bow left and right to slash the thorns that surrounded me, but no matter how I cut them, I felt that these thorns could not be cut completely, and after cutting it it and regenerating it, I don't know how long it took to cut, I was exhausted and had no strength to slash anymore.

In this way, the thorn strips tied me up layer by layer, and my breathing became weaker and weaker as the thorn strips tightened, and I began to hallucinate before death.

I saw the smoke and rain in front of me and still smiled at me so freshly, she was so close to me, I wanted to reach out to touch her face, but I couldn't do anything, my whole body was already unable to move, I could only feel the weak heartbeat beating at the end, breathing became more and more difficult, my eyes began to trance, and then slowly lost consciousness, as if I had fallen asleep and closed my eyes.

I seemed to have had a long dream, in the dream the smoke and rain were not far away and smiled at me like a flower, I ran towards her, but no matter how much I chased her, I couldn't catch up with her, and then the smoke and rain gradually disappeared in front of me......

Suddenly there was a pain in my body, I fell heavily from the thorns, it turned out that the fat man cut down all the "blood chrysalis" for the blood of the thorns, and the thorns without blood supply lost their ability to regenerate and move, and I went straight to the direction of Uncle Nine after the fat man Uncle Zhang reconciled.

When I arrived, Uncle Nine was fighting with spiders, and when the three of us were trying to help, suddenly our feet slipped and the three of them fell down, not that we didn't stand firmly, but some soft creatures like earthworms drilled out of the mud, these creatures were huge, and their exposed bodies alone were more than two meters long, and I didn't know what kind of monster it was, no head, no eyes, only a bloody mouth, and two rows of white sawtooth in the mouth, a total of five.

These unknown creatures arched their bodies, swooped and pounced on us, we each dodged, I rolled forward with a fish to dodge, Uncle Zhang was directly shot and killed, the fat man was a little miserable, the fat body was not flexible enough, did not dodge, but the fat man had great strength, directly broke the mouth of the unknown creature with both hands, screamed and called Uncle Zhang for help, Uncle Zhang directly picked up the sapper shovel and stepped forward to cut it.

I didn't have time to take care of the fat man, because there was a sneak attack on Uncle Jiu, so I immediately rushed up to help, first kicked my legs up, and then shoveled a sapper shovel and a knife into it, and cut the unknown creature in two in three or two.

Uncle Nine was caught off guard to deal with these unknown creatures, and while cleaning up the spiders, he shouted at me, "Nephew! It's your responsibility not to let these "ground worms" distract me. ”

"So easy!, leave it to me!" As I spoke, I waved my hands, slashed at these ground insects with a knife and shovel, and the fat man and Uncle Zhang fought back to back with the ground insects.

It seems that the spider deliberately brought us here, wanting to let these ground insects help, but unfortunately its wishful thinking was wrong, and we are not vegetarians, after a fierce battle, the body of the ground insects has been cut to pieces by me, Uncle Zhang and the fat man.

After we cleaned up the ground worms, Uncle Jiu's side had almost cleaned up the spiders, only to see that the eight spiders tightly wrapped their bodies, and Uncle Nine's wooden sword penetrated the body from the spider's head, and the spider was dying and shrunk into a ball and lay on the ground.

Seeing this, the fat man hurriedly stepped forward and volunteered to say to Uncle Nine, "Uncle Nine! The latter was handed over to me, and I cut off its head with a shovel. ”

Uncle Nine stopped the fat man while holding the talisman paper, "Don't come nonsense, this spider has become a sperm, and my current wooden sword is only to suppress it, but it can't kill it." You wait a moment to cut off my wooden sword, and the spider will come back to life, and it will be difficult to collect it again. ”

After hearing this, the fat man didn't dare to cut off the spider's head anymore, but asked Uncle Jiu rhetorically, "Then how can we completely destroy this thing?" Uncle Nine seemed to want to popularize the knowledge of me and the fat man, and deliberately added a sentence, "What I will say next, nephew, you and the fat man must listen carefully", and then said while preparing things, "The demon becomes a demon before becoming a demon, and after becoming a demon, it is not enough to destroy the body alone, and the three souls and seven spirits must be cultivated." ”

Saying that, he took out a special vessel, and the utensils were densely packed with runes, looking like simplified characters, but a bit like hieroglyphs, or a font like oracle bone inscriptions, it seemed to be a certain number of years, maybe it was an ancient thing, or it was handed down by the ninth uncle's ancestor.

I didn't have much interest in Taoism, so I didn't take Uncle Jiu's hand very seriously, but the fat man was very obsessed with this aspect, and his eyes looked directly at the utensils in Uncle Jiu's hand, and after Uncle Nine received the spider essence into the vessel, the fat man couldn't wait to ask, "Uncle Nine!" What are you holding in your hands? Show me."

Uncle Nine was very generous to the fat man, and then replied to the fat man, "The record of "Hundred Ghosts and Evil Arts" mentions that this is called "Qiankun Tube", the origin is ominous, the material is ominous, and it is said that it was first known to the world in ancient times.

In ancient China, it mostly refers to the era of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, or the era before the officials, also known as the age of mythology. ”

Although I am not deeply interested in Taoism, but I am particularly interested in those mysterious things and things, as soon as I heard Uncle Nine talk about the power of the Qiankun tube, I was aroused interested, and I took the "Qiankun tube" directly from the fat man's hand and looked at it.

The overall shape of this "Qiankun tube" is a straight cylinder, about 15 centimeters long and about 5 centimeters in diameter, like a flashlight in the hand.

The two ends of the Qiankun tube are also different, there is a button on one end, just now Uncle Jiu is to smash the spider with this end, the spider immediately turned into a puff of white smoke, and was inhaled by this Qiankun tube, the cylinder body has dense reliefs and words, these hieroglyphs are very similar to the tattoo on my back, and it is uneven to the touch, but it is very comfortable like a palm massage, and the barrel body is divided into two sections that can be rotated.

When I was about to turn out of curiosity, Uncle Nine immediately grabbed my hand, stopped me and said nervously, "Don't move, this will release the soul of the spider spirit when it turns." After speaking, he took back the Qiankun tube, and then said, "Every time this Qiankun tube collects a demon and a monster, it will automatically divide into sections, and whichever section is rotated, which demon and monster will be released." ”

Due to the urgency of time, Uncle Nine asked us to hurry up and continue on the road, and I saw that the little girl's body was left here, so I was very pitiful, so I said to everyone, "You go first, I will go and dispose of the little girl's body, see that she is very pitiful." ”

The fat man nodded in agreement and offered to go with me, and Uncle Nine also agreed with me, and said to me and the fat man, "You guys go and come back quickly, Lao Zhang and I are waiting for you here." ”

The little girl's body was not far from us, just at the entrance of this thorn, because the spider spirit was collected by Uncle Nine, the thorns in the dragon ditch also withered, and it was no longer as difficult to move an inch as before, we and the fat man quickly returned to the chrysalis that wrapped the little girl's body, I used a scimitar to cut off the surrounding thorns, and then cleaned up the chrysalis on the little girl's body.

During this time, the fat man asked me, "Ah Wang! What are we going to do with her in a minute? ”

I didn't know what to do for a while, but I couldn't put her here, so I took off my coat, wrapped the little girl on my back, and said to the fat man, "Anyway, you can't bury it here, just wait out of the dragon ditch and find a better place to bury her." ”

The fat man lit a cigarette and put it in my mouth and said, "Yes!" Uncle Nine will look at feng shui, wait a minute, let Uncle Nine choose a good place and bury her. ”

Say it! The fat man and I hurried to catch up, and together with Uncle Nine, we continued our march towards the third section of the Fudi Dragon Gully......

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