After smoking, he sighed, is it a blessing or a curse, it is a curse that can't be avoided, what should come will always come, thinking of this, he copied the white fox and covered it on the face of the dead corpse, out of sight, at this time this is very applicable to the two of us.

The tip of the knife rushed down, gently pressed on the belly, a little harder, the belly was much more brittle than I imagined, just used two percent of the force, "poof" sound, the knife actually pierced in, this is what I didn't expect, I couldn't help but be startled, and hurriedly relieved myself, dead for so many years, very normal, very normal.

With this knife, I grasped the measure in my hand, and prepared to slowly cut along the outside of the rectangular object little by little, but as soon as the knife moved, from the previous opening, a puff of black smoke suddenly erupted, and at the same time, a rotten stench came to my nose, I hurriedly drew the knife and took a step back, covered my mouth and nose, and frowned to wait for it to finish.

At first, I thought it was just the corpse gas in my stomach, and it would be fine for a while, but the black smoke seemed to be endless, and I waited for a cup of tea before it gradually disappeared.

I covered my nose and was about to take a step forward when I heard a "whoosh" sound in my ears, which was very small, like a mosquito flying next to my ear, and then all the fire behind me was extinguished, except for the torch that was about to burn out next to the coffin.

I hurriedly turned around, the second master and Yuanmei disappeared with the candlelight, in the boundless darkness behind me, there was no sound, I hurriedly ran to the coffin and picked up the torch, the light of the torch was only a little brighter than the candle, I couldn't care so much, and hurriedly came to the position where they were standing before, empty, no one was seen.

I stood at a loss with a torch and shouted softly, "Second master? Yuanmei? ”

The voice was not loud, but there were still bursts of echoes, and I was suddenly enraged, and shouted: "What are you looking for, you have the ability to come by yourself, I don't fucking do it!" The coffin Lao Tzu has opened, and the stomach has also been opened for you, so return the person to me! ”

The roar crashed around in the cave, smashed into pieces, intermittently, and lingered, I turned around and picked up the sword on the ground, untied my belt, hung it on my waist, and said while hanging: "This is Lao Tzu's reward for opening the coffin, you have to give it, and if you don't give it to Lao Tzu, you won't pay it back." "Tie up your belt, the sword is a little long, it doesn't matter, when you have time to turn around, you can clean up well, put the fishskin knife into the sheath, carry it in your hand, pick up the torch, turn around and go back the way you came.

Resolutely strode to the middle of the bridge, I stopped, just stood stunned for a moment, looked up to the sky and sighed heavily, turned around and returned to the coffin, looked at my belly, and said to myself: "Hey, this life is his mother's life." ”

There's no way, after the angry words are finished, the work still has to be done, the person is still saved, nothing can be delayed, after all, human life is at stake, I can't afford to delay, I really hope that it's me who is on the body, dementia doesn't know anything, at least I don't have to suffer from this nest.

Pull out the fish skin knife, hold the torch in one hand, while inserting the knife into the stomach, continue to cut, this toss, I am not afraid, just look at this belly as a piece of pork, three times five divided by two to cut the skin, the knife is picked and turned, revealing a black mass inside.

This thing looks rectangular through the belly, but when you open the belly, it looks like a black lump? I looked around, but there was nothing to take advantage of, so I simply cut off a piece of white fox skin, put it on my hand, and reached in to take it out.

It turned out that this thing was packed in a cover of unknown material, and the cover was relatively loose, so it looked like a ball.

Squatting on the ground to untie the sleeve, take out a silver-white metal quadrant from the inside, from the color and brightness, not like silver, from the weight of the hand, but not like iron, this thing is closer to dead white than the silver kind of delicate white, and much heavier than iron, I feel even heavier than the white copper, search the intestines and scrape the belly for a long time, I have never seen similar metal in my impression.

It is not carved or carved, there is no decoration, it is like a boxy scrap iron, this ancient man is also interesting, pretending to be a ghost for a long time, just for such a piece of scrap iron, now I also got this scrap iron, the second master and Yuanmei should show up, right?

I took this piece of scrap iron, gathered in front of the faint light of the torch and looked at it carefully, so carefully looked at it, and found that there was a neat black line on the narrow side of the scrap iron, which divided the scrap iron into two parts, is this a box?

I hurriedly followed the black line and tried to break it open, but it was completely the diamond head of the rolling pin, and it didn't move. Could it be that there is a mechanism? Hold the scrap metal in front of the torch again, this time while looking at it and gently touch it along the black line, because this thing is too white and bright, plus the light of the torch, if there are some small mechanisms, it is easy to flicker, which can only rely on the touch of the hand to find it slowly.

Sure enough, at the top of the rectangular scrap iron, in the middle of the black line, I felt a groove the size of a finger's belly, the groove was too shallow, I am afraid that it was only a piece of nail thick, and the black line in the groove also seemed to be cracked, no wonder I didn't see it for the first time, if I didn't touch it with my fingertips, I would definitely miss it again.

I squinted my eyes and stared at this groove for a long time, the more I looked, the more familiar I felt, this must be the keyhole to open the tin box, so where will the key be?

Because the keyhole was too bright, I simply rubbed some black soil from the ground, touched it, and the shape of the keyhole was instantly revealed, and when I saw it clearly, I hurriedly put down the iron box and groped around my body to find the gold piece on the neck of the white-haired gecko.

The curved shape of the keyhole recessed into it, very similar to the pendant of the gold piece, finally turned it out, with a nervous mood, tried to insert it in, sure enough, tightly fitted, the size is just right, the moment I went in, I only heard the sound of "click", the box shook slightly, my heart also trembled, tried to twist left and right, but found that the twist could not move, what is the situation?

Since the tin box rings, it proves that the key is correct, but why can't it be twisted? Could it be that it was not inserted to the end? But this gold piece is so big, and if you insert it in, the whole thing will be submerged in it, so how can you screw it? Could it be that this lock is the same as a door lock, and the key can be inserted directly into it?

I faintly felt that something was wrong in my heart, but there was no other way, so I had to hold the idea of trying it out, and continue to insert it, as the gold pieces in my hand became less and less, and my heart also mentioned my throat and eyes, if I inserted it and found that it was wrong, it would be miserable, such a small thing, go in together, and I can't pull it out if I want to, and at that time, the keyhole is blocked, even if I find the real key, it is in vain.

As the saying goes, when the gold flakes are completely submerged in the keyhole, I break the iron box vigorously, and the solid feeling brought by the whole piece of metal makes me cold from head to toe like a cold water pourer.

I continued to try unconvinced, and continued to try until my fingers were sore and unbearable, I lifted the iron box and smashed it on the ground, and after going up and stepping on it twice, I sat on the side of the coffin like a deflated ball, my hands twisted together, and my heart was numb.

This time the whole army was really wiped out, I wanted to take a shortcut to seize the opportunity, which Cheng wanted to break the two of them as soon as he came up, these female ghosts who couldn't die well, why didn't they get up to me? Let me go with them, so I can be regarded as going together, and everyone can take care of each other when they are ghosts, but now it's okay, I'm left alone, even if I go out, what can I do? If the Li family doesn't go, is there any point in the trip to Longchang? In other words, without Yuanmei's guidance, I would be blind even when I arrived in Longchang.

Besides, the second master is gone, he can't see anyone alive, he can't see his body when he dies, even if he has no family, how can I get through myself? Anyway, his death was a direct result of me, and those words like I tried my best fooled others, but I couldn't fool myself.

Thinking about it, a strong sense of misanthropy was born from the heart, the whole person seemed to have been pulled out of the bones, limp from the inside out, took out the last cigarette from his pocket, lit it with the spark of the torch, held it in his mouth, inhaled it slowly, and gradually closed his eyes.

There is only one thought in my heart, I hope that those white-robed female ghosts will come to me as soon as possible, and the three of them will reunite as soon as possible, of course, they must have a grudge against me, it doesn't matter, as long as they can still meet, as long as I don't leave me here alone, I will be beaten and scolded, and there will be no complaints.

After waiting for a long time, the cigarettes were almost finished, and there was no ghost on the body, so I couldn't help but be annoyed: Why is this ghost still picking people? Before, it was because I was asked to take the contents of the box, but now the box can't be opened, why are you keeping me? Do you think I'm uglier than the second master? No, although I can't talk about being dignified, but compared with the second master, I still have confidence, so why only go to the second master's body, not mine?

A flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in my mind, I sat up suddenly, yes, this is the root of the problem, why did even Yuanmei get hit, but kept me? If it's just for this iron box, you should keep the second master, whether it's from physical strength or guts, he is the most suitable among the three to open the coffin and dissect the body, if it is to decipher the words on the coffin, or to explore the secrets of the dead body, it should also be Yuanmei's specialty, no matter from which point of view, there is no reason to leave me, but the reality is now just the opposite, what do I have in this matter that they don't have?

Choosing me proves that these white-robed female corpses are not about skills, indeed, looking back on the whole process of finding the iron box, it was not difficult to open the coffin at first, except that the coffin lid was heavier and the autopsy was more scary, and there was nothing very testing of the characteristics.

Then it seems that the difficulty is that after the coffin is opened, what can I do after the coffin is opened, but they can't do it? I looked at the tin box on the floor, and my mind raced back to what had happened since the coffin was opened.

Right! Stuff! There was one thing they didn't have, the gold piece that had been inserted into the box, and with that thought, I crawled to the side of the tin box, picked it up, wiped the dirt off it, and stared at the keyhole that had been completely blocked, and after looking at it for a while, I slowly pulled the sword out of my waist, and looked at the little dragon carved on the flat round copper ball at the head of the sword, and the little dragon's mouth was slightly raised.

I reversed the sword, inserted the dragon's mouth into the keyhole, impartially, the dragon's mouth just bit the tail of the gold piece, I held my breath and gently turned the sword, accompanied by a crisp "gaba" sound, a strong blue light flashed in front of my eyes, and then, a huge, landslide explosion suddenly sounded, I was lifted into the air by a powerful wave of air, like a small boat in the stormy waves, powerlessly struggling to fly out.

The sound of the explosion instantly turned into thousands of incantations in the ears, recited by thousands of people, not the kind of whispered chanting, but almost hysterical shouting, every word, every note was shouted hoarsely at the top of the voice, the sound from the ears into the brain, the shock of the people dizzy.

The eyes were closed but still could not block the dazzling bright light, this light did not flicker at all, straight to the eyes, flying in the air, my mind was blank, the whole body was numb, but the nose kept itching, as if something was flowing out, before I could figure out what was happening, the person had hit the stone wall heavily and fainted.

The moment I fainted, I heard someone calling me in a trance, and slowly I felt a feeling in my body, someone shook my shoulders while constantly slapping my face, I tried to open my eyes slowly, my eyes were dry and sore, and I could only squint into a slit, and when I saw the big face of the second master from the gap, my head was splitting.

I was helped to sit up, someone poured water into my mouth, I swallowed a few mouthfuls mechanically, only to hear the second master shouting in my ear: "Wake up!" ”

I had the heart to push him away, wanting to continue lying down, but before I could move, I was immediately slapped twice in the face, and then a hot pain went straight to the bottom of my heart, I gritted my teeth, opened my eyes, and the second master smiled and said: "It's still a good trick, get up quickly!" ”

I looked around and found that Yuanmei was standing behind the second master, looking into the darkness with a panicked face, I was sitting on the path paved with black stones, next to the three torches piled together, my ears were still rumbling, although my head didn't hurt anymore, it was still blank.

The second master dragged me up and said, "I said that I would take a break, why did I fall asleep without looking, you kid is not authentic, don't call me if there is a good thing!" ”

I didn't know what he was talking about, I looked down at the black lacquer sheath sword on the ground, and looked at him blankly, at this time Yuanmei came over and shouted: "Hurry up, I didn't hear this movement right, hey, where did you find this sword?!" ”

I shook my head and nodded again, she looked at me, and looked at the second master again, the two shrugged their shoulders and began to pack up, I just picked up the torch, only to hear the second master shouting on the side: "Hey, why is my knife dark?!" ”

The three of them were just about to hit the road, when they heard Yuanmei, who had been looking at the darkness from behind, suddenly shouted, "Run!" ”

I looked back, and saw a vast white smoke gushing out of the darkness, and the white smoke was wrapped in an overwhelming white bone, like a thousand horses galloping, and the top of the snow-capped mountain rushed straight forward.