Chapter 56: Sacrifice

The pupil didn't bother Ding Xiaocong, just watched from afar.

Ding Xiaocong didn't do it for a while, he was already sweating, and ordinary people really couldn't do the work of digging graves, and the professionalism was too strong. In addition, he was really a little nervous, saying that no one came, but if someone really came to see this scene, then he couldn't eat and walked around, don't think about the money, he had to run for his life quickly!

In fact, Ding Xiaocong is not inexperienced, if he is a real tomb robber, he will never do this during the day, he doesn't pay attention to these, he is only afraid that it will be too dark at night to see clearly.

"Walter...... Whoa, whoa, owes it to your village. Ding Xiaocong was chattering while digging, panting, getting hotter and hotter the drier, so he simply threw off his clothes and did it bare-chested.

Eventually, both layers of slate were pried off, revealing the dirt layer inside. Fortunately, it was not rammed earth, but only the mountain mud mixed with lime particles, which was used to prevent insects, and if it was a rammed earth layer, he would probably have to give up directly.

After all, Fang Datong was just a petty official, and he didn't have the ability to build a rammed earth tomb.

The mountain soil mixed with lime is actually quite hard, but it is much better than the slate, and after seeing the progress, Ding Xiaocong has the strength again and begins to plan. The hole he dug was not big, and it was enough to drill in and out by himself, mainly to dry and backfill it properly.

About an hour later, the earth hole was drilled more than a meter deep, and a curved layer of bricks was encountered underneath, and the real burial dome was dug up. After all, it is a small family, and it is on the mountain, and the construction is not easy, and this tomb is not buried deeply.

The bricks are wedge-shaped, and after forming an arch, they are very strong downward, but easy to take out upwards.

Things went very well, Ding Xiaocong suddenly felt a little proud, it seems that his talent as a tomb robber is also good.

There was no time for self-absorption, so he quickly put down his hoe, took out his mobile phone, turned on the flashlight, and reached into the hole to shine down.

Below is a semicircular space, not very large, only about 5 meters in diameter, completely made of blue bricks, with a brick platform in the center, on which lies a black humanoid object, which should be the tomb owner. Around the brick platform, there are thin water troughs, which form a spiral array in a radial shape, and there is water flowing in it, all of which flows into the brick platform and disappears.

After seeing this strange burial method, Ding Xiaocong smiled bitterly in his heart, it seems that his guess is really good, this reincarnation bureau is not for the benefit of future generations at all.

Normal people are buried, they sleep in the coffin, and then bury them in the soil, if they are placed in the tomb like this, the coffin also needs a layer of coffin, so that they can sleep soundly. And although the black thing below is not very real, it must have no coffin or coffin, and it is placed directly in the air...... Even if you are a destitute household, you have to sweep it with grass, right?

The mobile phone was about to run out of battery, and the light intensity was not enough, so Ding Xiaocong simply grabbed it with his mouth and flipped in from the hole. The hole he opened was less than two meters above the ground, and it was easy to get in and out.

Jumping into the tomb, Ding Xiaocong stepped on the small water tanks, stepped to the brick platform in two steps, and took a photo with the light of his mobile phone, dumbfounded, this is Fang Datong?

The "thing" lying on the brick platform is indeed in the shape of a human being, but it is covered with long black hair all over its body, and even its face is covered, and it looks like a long-haired monkey, thin and thin.

At first glance, Ding Xiaocong felt that this thing was a little familiar, and after looking closely, he immediately recognized it. He remembered that the water ghost who had been burned to death in Guojia Village three years ago had exactly the same characteristics except that he was a little "fatter" than this one.

After Ding Xiaocong was sure that this thing was indeed dead, he boldly raised one foot and stepped on it, and the feeling of his feet was extremely bad, as if this thing was a pile of bones wrapped in fur, and it had been completely dried. There is an imbalance of yin and yang here, and the yang energy as a cemetery is too heavy, and the corpse has become a dried corpse.

has reached this point, things must be completely clarified, Ding Xiaocong simply groped on the monster corpse, and when he finally opened his mouth, he found a relatively well-preserved copper coin. Take it out and take a look, the copper coin is cast with a hexagram on one side, and there are four big characters on the other side - dragon and tiger Fengyun.

Obviously, the corpse of this monster is the same as that burned to death in Guojia Village.

Ding Xiaocong took two steps back and concentrated on thinking.

In fact, now the answer is about to come out, this monster should be Fang Datong, but he is a victim, and even his children and grandchildren have been dedicated for hundreds of years.

The floor of the burial chamber is densely covered with small waterways, which should lead to various places underground, and the spiral water net covers the entire ancestral cemetery. Once someone is buried and the soul sinks, it enters these small canals, and then is attracted by the spiral of qi, which merges into the passage under the brick platform, and finally flows into the canal that passes through the village.

These souls flow down the water, and after passing through the hot spring wells, they are boiled by the earth's qi, carrying a large amount of yang qi on their bodies, and flowing downstream again.

Ordinary Yin Spirits, once they bring Yang Qi, will exist for a short time, and they will die out quickly. However, before they could wait for this step, these spirits with yang energy flowed to the entrance of the village, met the yang souls living in the old willow tree, and then were devoured.

If a soul wants to exist for a long time, the most direct way is to devour other weaker souls to replenish its soul power, just like a human eat.

In other words, this is actually a game within a game, and the reincarnation game is actually an appearance, and the real purpose is to provide the soul of the "tree man" as food. That Yang Soul was definitely not so powerful at the beginning, but after being nourished by the souls of the people of Woniu Village with Yang Qi for generations, it finally accumulated to this point.

This bureau, subtle, vicious, hidden, there is no difference between eating souls and eating people, this parasite hides in the old willow tree and secretly eats the snail villagers for five hundred years, and the villagers know nothing about it.

Further speculation, the person in this tree is likely to be the Taoist priest who took Fang Datong to practice back then, and he should have more than Fang Datong on this path, which can be seen from the fact that there is another water ghost, but the others did not succeed in the end, and Fang Datong did it.

Whether Fang Datong was voluntary or not, or whether he was deceived or not, it is impossible to verify now, but it can only be determined that after the plan was successful, this person used some kind of evil method to seal himself in the willow tree, and then hid in the tree in the state of his soul, hibernate for hundreds of years, and grew little by little.

This scheming and courage is really amazing and chilling.

Some time ago, Lao Dao, who passed by here, saw through this situation, and then used the old village chief to release this yang soul, and he used a powerful spell to detain the yang soul in the stone mill, preparing to slowly wear it out.

This old man's ability is indeed breathtaking, but he is not very responsible in doing things, the yang soul is so powerful, if he wants to be grinded to death, it is estimated that he will not be able to do it for a year and a half, during this time, how will the villagers live?