Chapter 9: The Thousand-Year Female Corpse
"That's right, as long as you help me open this bronze coffin, I can promise not to embarrass you." Hearing this, Teacher Feng nodded and said.
"Why don't you do it yourself?" I asked again.
When I said this, my eyes were fixed on the dagger in Mr. Feng's hand, and I kept thinking about how to subdue him.
"Your ultimate goal is to let us help you get something out of the coffin, right?" Before Teacher Feng could answer my question, Li Huiyan continued.
"You don't care what my purpose is, as long as you help me open the coffin, I will let you go." It seemed that Li Huiyan guessed the idea in her heart, Teacher Feng was slightly stunned for a moment, and then said.
"Why should we believe you, and what if you regret it then?" I said again.
"Do you think you still have a choice?" Teacher Feng sneered, raised the dagger in his hand and said.
At this time, my heart was extremely nervous, not because I was afraid of death, but because I was a little worried about how to ensure the safety of Li Huiyan behind me if I inevitably had a conflict with Teacher Feng in a while.
I saw Mr. Feng's right arm before and it seemed that he was not lightly injured, but now even if he has a knife in his hand, I am confident that I can subdue him.
If he really goes crazy, it will be extremely dangerous for me and Li Huiyan, and it will inevitably cause injury and bleeding if one is accidentally injured, and there may even be a danger of life.
"Okay, as long as you don't mess around, I'll help you open this coffin, but then you must fulfill your promise and let us go safe and sound." In the end, after careful consideration, I still gave up my plan to go head-to-head with Mr. Feng.
"No problem." Teacher Feng replied without thinking about it.
After speaking, his eyes turned to the bronze coffin in front of him, looking a little excited.
Hearing Mr. Feng's answer, although it was impossible to trust him, I was still relieved. As long as he doesn't mess around for the time being, I will take out the contents of the bronze coffin in a while, and there will naturally be a way to clean him up when he is distracted.
But at this moment, I looked at the bronze coffin in front of me, which was more than two meters high, and I was a little embarrassed.
With my height, I had just reached out and touched the edge of the coffin lid, and the lid of this bronze coffin was so thick and heavy that my two arms could not exert any strength at all, so it was impossible to open the lid like this.
I tried several times in succession, but the lid of the bronze coffin did not move.
"You climb up to it and find a way to remove the lid of the coffin." Seeing this, Teacher Feng seemed to have lost some patience and instructed me again.
In desperation, I had to climb onto the lid of the coffin.
"This ...... How could it be...... How can there be such a thing here?"
As soon as I climbed onto the coffin of the bronze coffin, I was stunned in place, and my thoughts were complicated.
"What's on the lid?" Seeing that there was no movement for a long time after I climbed on the lid of the coffin, Li Huiyan couldn't help but ask.
I didn't speak, my eyes fixed on the end of the coffin, where there was an identical grimace that had appeared countless times in my dreams.
On the lid of the coffin, there is a sneering grimace on the corner of his mouth, which also makes people feel weird and unpredictable, and it also makes people feel cold in the bottom of their hearts.
After a while, I finally recovered from my state of absence, and I heard the constant urging voice of Teacher Feng in my ears.
In fact, there was no need for him to urge me at this moment, and after seeing the grimace pattern, I already had the idea of opening this coffin immediately to find out.
However, the lid of the bronze coffin was extremely heavy, at least hundreds of catties.
I stood at the end of the coffin near the shrine, almost using all my strength, and only moving less than an inch wide.
"I'll come up and help you!" It seems to see that I am a little exhausted, Li Huiyan said below.
"Well, be careful." I didn't refuse, and if I were alone, I guess I wouldn't be able to open the lid of the coffin even if it was dawn.
Of course, another reason is that I am still not at ease with Teacher Feng, and I am worried that it will be dangerous for Li Huiyan to stay on the ground alone.
After speaking, I squatted down and stretched out my hand to pull Li Huiyan to the coffin.
"Grimace ......" was beyond my expectations, as soon as I pulled Li Huiyan into the coffin, her eyes fell on the grimace pattern carved on the coffin lid, and she muttered to herself in distraction.
The change in Li Huiyan's expression immediately caught my attention, but because the situation at this time was too special, I didn't ask her anything.
Despite this, Li Huiyan's performance at this time also left some doubts in my mind.
Why is she so sensitive to grimaces, is she having the same nightmares as me, or has she seen the same grimaces somewhere?
Many questions can only be buried in my heart for the time being, and I secretly think about waiting for this place to get out of danger, and then find time to ask her carefully.
The terrifying dream that has plagued me for many years since I was a child is like a fog that I can't see through, and if I don't solve the mystery in it, I always feel uncomfortable.
After a while, Li Huiyan also seemed to realize her gaffe, and the expression on her face instantly returned to normal, but her eyes were still attracted by the grimace pattern on the coffin lid, as if this weird grimace pattern everywhere had an indescribable magic.
"What are you still rubbing, why don't you hurry up and remove the lid of the coffin." Seeing that Li Huiyan had come up for a long time and didn't move, Teacher Feng below was a little impatient.
I glanced at Li Huiyan, and she immediately nodded knowingly, and we tried to work together again to remove the lid of the bronze coffin.
As the saying goes, many people do more than one effort, and this is not true at all.
Although Li Huiyan is a girl and does not have much strength, but after her joining, the speed of moving the coffin lid is obviously several times easier than before.
In just a few moments, the lid of the bronze coffin was moved by us to be more than two feet wide.
Because the bronze coffin is too deep, and the position where Li Huiyan and I are standing at this time is facing away from the shrine, the light from the two candles on the shrine happens to be completely blocked, and there is no way to see the contents of the coffin.
"Take it." Teacher Feng immediately saw our situation on the coffin, threw up a small flashlight, and said.
I caught the flashlight, turned on the switch, and shone it into the coffin.
The next moment, I couldn't help but gasp.
Relying on the bright light provided by the flashlight, I could clearly see that at the bottom of the bronze coffin, there was a corpse in a big red robe, or a zombie, lying upright.
The corpse in the coffin was not decomposed, but the skin looked like it was rusty, and it was a little dull and yellow.
Judging from the dress and appearance of the corpse, this should be a thousand-year-old female corpse that has been lying in the coffin for an unknown amount of time.
The moment I saw the corpse, a cold sweat broke out.
How could a bronze coffin that looked so old be lying in it with a corpse intact and not decomposed at all, no matter how you look at it.
"What's in the coffin?" As if seeing the sudden change in my expression, Teacher Feng's tone became a little excited.
"A corpse, not a corpse that is not decomposed." Hearing this, I immediately said.
"Just a corpse? Other...... Is there anything else besides the corpse accident? Teacher Feng's tone was even more excited than before, and he asked again.
I didn't speak, but turned my eyes to the coffin again, and when I looked at it again, I saw that there seemed to be a bronze box under the corpse's head.
Previously, because the corpse's hair was too messy, and I didn't pay much attention to what was under his head, I mistook it for a pillow.
"There's a size-long bronze box under the corpse's skull." I said.
"Yes, yes...... That's right, it's the bronze box, hurry up, take out that bronze box and give it to ......"
Before Mr. Feng finished speaking, there was a muffled sound behind him, and then his hand was held tightly, and the dagger in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.
I was startled by the sudden change, but when I saw the person coming, I was relieved that it was Xiao Yue, Xu Hao, Qin Dong, and Lu Cheng who came here at some point.
Since Li Huiyan, I, and Teacher Feng were all focused on this bronze coffin, they didn't even notice that the four of them had entered the ancestral hall properly.
"Dead rice cakes, you sneaked out in the middle of the night, why didn't you call us?" Xiao Yue's dissatisfied voice instantly sounded in the ancestral hall, and after speaking, he couldn't help but kick Teacher Feng and asked, "Who is this raunchy and sloppy guy?" How can I be with you? ”
"He is the teacher Feng who has been teaching in Yaojia Village for four or five years as the village chief said before." I said.
"Hmph, I'll just say, how can anyone teach in such a poor ravine for so many years without wanting to reciprocate, it turns out that he is uneasy and kind." After Xiao Yue finished speaking, he couldn't help but kick Teacher Feng twice.
"Alright, don't make a fuss, you guys hurry up and take a look at the contents of this coffin." Seeing that Xiao Yue seemed to be ready to trouble Teacher Feng unrelentingly, Li Huiyan, who was standing next to me, hurriedly said.
"And what about this guy?" Xu Hao pointed to the subdued Teacher Feng.
"Let's knock him out first." I thought about it and said, there is no rope or anything like that in this ancestral hall at the moment, so I can only do it first.
Bang...... As soon as I finished speaking, Lu Chengcheng immediately raised his hand and knocked Teacher Feng to the ground.
After a few moments, everyone climbed onto the coffin.
After seeing the corpses in the coffin, the four of them were stunned in place, just like we had behaved before.
"By the way, how did you find here?" Seeing that no one had the intention of speaking, I quickly asked the question in my heart.
"Oh, it's me, I woke up in the middle of the night and wanted to go to the bathroom, wanting Sister Li Zi to accompany me, but I found that Sister Li Zi was not in the room at all. I had to go to the next room to knock on the door, who knew that Xu Hao and they said that you were gone after they got up, so we came out to find you together. After walking around the village for a long time, I finally came outside and heard this guy's voice, so I happened to come in and take a look. Xiao Yue said with an unhappy face.
"Then again, how can you two be with this guy? And running to such a strange place, what kind of place is this? ”
"This is the ancestral hall of the Yao family." I said, and then I told me about the process of following Teacher Feng with Li Huiyan.
Xiao Yue had a skeptical expression, but finally didn't ask any more.
"Let's move the lid of this coffin first, Mr. Feng seems to be taking out the small box at the bottom of the coffin, let's take it out to see what is inside, and then put it back untouched after reading."
Originally, Teacher Feng was subdued by Xu Hao, and we should have closed the lid of the coffin and left here, but for some reason, I actually said something to the gods.
If I had come to the lid of the bronze coffin, I would not have said such a thing, but after seeing the grimace carved on the bronze coffin lid, I couldn't suppress the urge in my heart to find out.
It's just that how to get this bronze box that is used as a pillow for a corpse?
The rusty corpse in the coffin always makes me feel a little uneasy, and it can't help but remind people of some zombie movies I've watched before.