Chapter 325: Picking Up the Book
I accompanied the girl around the town with all my might, and at last, the two of them went back, but I couldn't understand the girl's unusual behavior, whether she wanted me to let my guard down against her, or whether she had some other purpose, I couldn't figure it out.
The next day, I got up before dawn, so I thought, knocked on Chen Hui's door, and told him about the girl, so that he could be on guard against the girl, but as soon as I walked to the door of Chen Hui's room, the girl actually came up from the stairs.
I frowned suddenly, and the girl smiled at me and said playfully, "I knew you would get up early, come, I've already cooked the meal for you, come down to eat with me." ”
I didn't move, don't look at the two of us last night like lovers, but my heart didn't get close to her, I said, "I have to talk to the Taoist before leaving, or ......"
Before I could finish speaking, the girl walked up to me, interrupted me, and said, "You don't have to tell them, just leave after dinner, and I'll do the rest for you." ”
I frowned even more, you come and tell me, you can't fool them to death!
"What's the matter, don't you believe me?" The girl asked me with a tilt of her head.
I nodded hurriedly, "Believe, believe......" I said in my heart, it's strange to believe you, but I thought about it again, the girl actually has no enmity with us, as long as I honestly give her the book back, she shouldn't do anything to us. Last night, she took my arm around like a lover, probably to show me affection, probably to make me feel at ease with her.
Imagine, if I tell the lame couple about her, what will happen to the lame couple when they know the truth, and they will definitely not let her go. The girl has been in the lame man's house for so long, just for this book, before the lame couple invited their own acquaintances, the girl did not dare to threaten to take advantage of them, this time it was hard to catch a few of us strangers, before she got the book, she would never do anything stupid to us. Besides, I feel ...... She really seemed to appreciate me.
Follow the girl downstairs to the kitchen, the girl brought me a bowl of porridge, and handed us two pancakes, I looked at it, and asked in surprise, "Are you really from Henan?" ”
Because, the porridge is corn porridge, and the cake is the mille-feuille cake that we often eat there, and the combination of these two things is enough to prove that the girl is from Henan in this life, or in her previous life.
The girl smiled: "My previous life was in Luoyang, Henan." ”
"Oh" I nodded deeply, picked up the cake and took a bite, the cake revealed a familiar hometown taste, at that moment, the tears almost fell, I couldn't help but ask the girl, "You, where are you in this life?" ”
The girl sat down across from me with a look of vicissitudes in her face and whispered, "You don't need to know this, you just need to remember to bring the book back." ”
I hesitated and asked, "I heard the lame man say...... It's an evil book, and the living can't read it, so why do you have to do that? ”
The girl smiled, and did not answer me in a hurry, I took the bowl and drank the porridge and ate the cake, and the girl looked at it and smiled stupidly, as if she was glad that I could enjoy the food she cooked, and after a pause, the girl sighed and said, "As for why I want that book, I can't tell you, maybe ...... You'll know one day in the future. ”
"In the future?" I was stunned for a moment, and she looked at me and smiled.
After I had eaten my fill, the girl couldn't wait to urge me to take advantage of the cool weather in the morning to leave quickly, and she would take care of the affairs of the house. I nodded again and again, but I had already made up my mind that when I got the book, I had to open it and read it!
Cripple their town, the west is a mountain, the south may be a river, we followed them from the northwest, where is this, I estimate, it should be in Anhui Province, where is it, I don't know.
The mountain to the west, about an hour away from their town, is not very high, but it is undulating and extensive.
I found a path on the side of the mountain and followed the path into the mountain. According to the specific location given to me by the lame man before, I walked in the mountains for about three hours, at this time, the mountain in front of me suddenly became much shorter, and a waterhole appeared in the surrounding mountains, compared to the surrounding mountains, the waterhole is not big, the diameter is only twenty or thirty meters, the water in the pool is clear, and the surrounding vegetation is dense and lush.
Directly south of the waterhole, there stood a mountain peak, surrounded by low mountains, set off the tall and strange horses, I looked at the peak, relaxed, and finally arrived at the place.
The zombie tomb, just halfway up this mountain, is a treasure of feng shui, with water in front and back, surrounded by mountains, Tibetan wind and water.
At this time, there was no road in the mountain for a long time, so I carefully bypassed the edge of the waterhole, went around to the bottom of the peak, looked up at the peak, and stood tall into the clouds, the whole vegetation on the mountain was covered and lush, just like in the painting, green mountains and green waters.
It's just that there is no road on the mountain, I looked around the peak, this area, there is no trace left by humans, and I don't know how many years there have been no living people, fortunately the mountain peak is not so steep, and finally I gritted my teeth, since there is no road, then I will go out of a road by myself.
It took about two hours, and finally climbed halfway up the mountain. Because my body has not fully recovered, I am tired and weak and my limbs are weak, at this time, the time has also come to noon, it is time to eat lunch, and my stomach is gurgling.
When I came, the girl wrapped a few pieces of pancake in a plastic bag for me as dry food, and I took them out and looked at them, but I was not in a hurry to eat, because according to the position given to me by the lame, I was about to go to the cave, and if I was full now and went into the cave to open the coffin, in case I choked on the strange smell in the coffin, and then spit it out, it would be eaten in vain.
Smoke a cigarette on the mountainside and rest for a while, then continue to climb. The cripple said before that this small cave was sealed with stones after they put the book in, and it was almost twenty years from now, but there was no need to worry about not finding it, because three or four meters in front of the cave entrance, there was a neem tree, which was already thigh-thick twenty years ago, and at this time, it might be a little thicker.
It took more than half an hour to climb up, and there was really a neem tree on the mountain, and the neem tree was surrounded by dwarf weeds, which set off the neem tree very abruptly, and I quickly encouraged myself to climb to the neem tree in one breath.
After resting for a few breaths with my back against the neem tree, I looked three or four meters away from the neem tree, and the location of the hole should be there, but perhaps because of the age, I couldn't see any stone holes, all covered with vegetation.
The cripple said that as long as he found the stone wall that held the entrance of the cave, he pushed the stone wall hard and it overturned, and there was a cave behind him.
I climbed to a height of three or four meters from the neem tree, and looked at the mountains in this area, and found that one of them was indeed made of stones, but the whole thing, like the rest of the place, was covered with vegetation, and if it were not for the wall, no one would have found it at all.
I pulled the weeds from the stone wall, and as I pulled them, I felt the rocks shaking, and they all grew out of the cracks between the stones.
After pulling out a patch of weed, the general outline of the cave entrance came out, and the stacked stones were clearly visible, but the gaps between the stones were filled with grass mud and grass roots, forming an impermeable earth and stone wall.
I tried to push the stone wall with my hand, it's okay, I can feel the stone wall shaking slightly, as long as I try to overturn it, but I don't do that, I'm not so stupid, the wall is not one, it is made of a single living stone, I push it in, the stone on it will be smashed out due to inertia, and if it is not good, it will hit me, and it can only be pulled out from top to bottom one by one, although it is slow, but this is the safest.
It took more than half an hour to finally dig out all the holes, and at this time, the holes were about two meters high and more than one meter wide.
I didn't rush into the cave, I took a breath at the entrance of the cave, and looked at the entrance of the cave again, and I wondered, this mountain peak is so steep, and the hole is so small, how did this coffin be carried in?
After resting for a while, I felt that the bad luck in the cave was almost dissipated, so I took out the candle prepared in advance from my body, lit the candle with a lighter, and tried it at the entrance of the cave first, but the candle flame was motionless, which showed that it was a dead hole, and there was no other exit inside.
After taking the candle and getting in, the inside is not as narrow as I imagined, this hole belongs to the mouth is small and large, the top of the cave is about three or four meters high, and the two sides are also three or four meters wide, the wall of the cave is uneven, obviously very irregular, it should be naturally formed.
The hole is not too deep, seven or eight meters away, like a passageway, without a bend, straight to the end.
In the middle of the bottom of the cave, there was a lonely coffin, a very ordinary coffin, and there was nothing else in it except the coffin.
When I walked to the coffin, I shone it with a candle, and I was stunned, and I saw that on the coffin lid, according to the position of the Big Dipper, seven old coins were nailed, and they were nailed to the slender coffin.
This should be what the cripple said, the objects that are put in the corpse, I know, this is called the "outer seven stars", and there is also an "inner seven stars", which are placed in the coffin, the inner seven stars are used to prevent the corpse from changing, and the outer seven stars are used to suppress the corpse after the corpse changes.
However, I'm very strange, the zombies in it are turned into evil, pull them out and dry them in the sun, or just burn them directly, why do you have to use this to stop it, this is not good for the corpse, and it is not good for the people in the town.
Maybe because of the dampness in the cave, the coffin has almost rotted, after I saw it, the candle glued to the cave wall, both hands picked the coffin lid and tried, maybe because the lame two opened it once, plus the age, the coffin lid has not much weight, the arm lightly forced, opened a big hole, and then made another effort, directly lifted the coffin lid from the coffin, "poof", the coffin lid fell to the ground next to the coffin.
I followed and looked into the coffin, it was pitch black, and quickly took the candle and looked inside in the light.
Secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it was similar to what the cripple had told me before, the zombies inside had long since melted, and only a pile of bones remained, and the bones were covered with a thin coat, which looked like a long shirt, but it was rotten and full of holes.
On the top of the robe, on the chest of the dry bones, there was a black object, and I put the candle into the coffin and looked at it carefully, it was a book, and it should be the book that the girl wanted.
The cripple repeatedly warned me that this was an evil book, and that his leg was lame because of this book, so I encouraged myself and reached out to take the book out of the coffin.
With a candle illumination, the front and back of the book cover are all black, the black are reflective, the inside seems to be a dark yellow page, the book is not too thick, and the thickness of the palm, I said in my heart, this book just looks a little darker, can it be so evil? The candle has a limited light source and can't be seen clearly, so I'll look at it when I get outside.
After putting the book away, I wanted to put the coffin lid back on, but before I could lift the coffin lid from the ground, the coffin lid shattered into several petals, and it was too long.
However, I suddenly figured out something......