Chapter 115: Absolute Encirclement
The various things presented in front of us seem to be a ladder that continues to extend downward, one after another, luring us to the bottomless abyss, the "ghost signal" from the forest at night, the wreckage of the US Air Force C-type transport plane above the canopy, and then the "jade coffin" under the plane, the corpse of the old man in the coffin, and the skinned "python", the red flesh line born on its corpse grows to the bottom of the coffin, and the coffin bottom made of special "succumber" is like a thick layer of soft gum, If the red flesh thread passes through it, not a single drop of fluid in the jade coffin will leak.
Below is the big hole in the body of the old banyan tree, which does not know how many dried corpses of the human body of birds and beasts are filled, these dried corpses without exception, are all wrapped by the red fleshy thin threads that grow out of the jade coffin, these red linear flesh rings are finally pierced into the mouths of animals and human corpses, as if through these tentacles like meat threads, their blood is sucked alive, and then transmitted to the jade coffin, so there will be so much fluid in the jade coffin, which is a kind of embalming liquid formed through transformation, with fresh blood for sustenance, Maintain the freshness of the corpse in the coffin.
The bones on the top of the tree cave are a pilot wearing an air force jacket with a fur collar, although he has long become a dry bone, but he still maintains a momentary posture of death, a hand poked out from under the jade coffin, that is, the hand bone we saw holding the "double-ended clip" earlier, he seemed to have been pulled into the tree hole by those red flesh threads, in the last moment of his life, he was still struggling, one hand just grabbed the trunk under the jade coffin, but he could only stop there, when he poked his hand out of the rotten trees, The blood-sucking red flesh had already penetrated into his mouth, nose, and ears
All this is already obvious, this is the "Tomb of the King" of the tomb, buried a high priest under the king, he used the "scarcity technique" to skin a python and his body together in the jade coffin, the whole two old trees are overgrown with parasitic plants, itself is a relatively independent ecosystem, and many animals nearby have become the "fertilizer" of this jade coffin.
This inadvertent discovery is very important, not only allowing us to further confirm the possibility of the existence of "dust beads" in the "Tomb of King Xian", but also to directly confirm the location of the main tomb built in the "Water Dragon Halo" through this accompanying tomb.
Although the old tree of husband and wife under the "Shalong Mountain" is not a feng shui acupuncture point, it can be inferred that it is a "rotten bone hole" on the body of the water dragon that buried the king. The so-called "rotten bone acupoint" means that yin does not intersect with yang, yang is not as good as yin, the boundary is unclear, the form is blurred, the qi veins are scattered and do not gather, and the yin and yang qi are respectively said that the breath that runs under the acupuncture points is yin, and the qi veins overflowing on its surface are yang. The humidity in the jungle is extremely humid and hot, and the difference between the ground and the ground is not obvious, which is called "yin and yang are unknown". It is said that the earth is the breath of the earth's leylines is endless, and there is no water to intercept, buried here, it is difficult to bless future generations, and it can only be autopsied and rotten, so it is called "rotten bone burial", or "rotting corpse burial".
However, this method of using trees as graves has changed the pattern here, and there are "pythons" in the coffin to plunder the blood marrow of surrounding creatures, completely maintaining the corpse from decay. It can be seen that this high priest was also a master who was proficient in the art of yin and yang during his lifetime, and this strange and completely unconventional method is not something ordinary people can think of.
If it weren't for the U.S. Air Force's C-type transport plane that smashed the body of the tree and exposed this jade coffin, who would have thought that this tree body was a natural coffin, and there was a coffin inside, which could only be attributed to the number of days, and it should have been hit by us.
But in the end, there was only one thing left, and it was hard to understand why we had not been attacked if this jade coffin would have killed nearby creatures, and that there were already many resentful spirits gathered in these two old banyan trees.
The fat man held a deerskin bag containing four or five sacrificial vessels, and was full of pride: "Old Hu, I see that you are frightened by the enemy, no matter what he does so much, if you follow me, burn this ghost tree with a fire, and come to a three-light policy, burn it all, kill it, and rob it all." ”
Shirley Yang looked more carefully, trying to find some clues such as text and graphics in the jade coffin, and finally saw the inside of the lid of the jade coffin that was placed aside, and there were many suns, moons, stars, humans, beasts and animals on it. Regardless of whether this python is transformed by resentful spirits or not, it is at least a latent fungus plant parasitic from the wood and maggots, similar to man-eating grass, and is not active all the time, like most animals in the forest, sleeps at night, borrows food during the day, and is the most active period around the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar every month."
The fat man pinched his fingers and calculated: "The first fifteen, fifteen, twenty, today is more than ten, I really can't remember, but I remember that the moon last night was so big that it was round and red."
At this time, the sky was thick with leaden clouds, but the thunder had stopped, and there was silence in the woods, as if only the breathing and heartbeat of the three of us remained, and as soon as the fat man's voice fell, we thought at the same time that the moon was bright and picturesque last night, and today is sixteen, if not fifteen on the lunar calendar.
Shirley Yang suddenly pulled out the "paratrooper knife", pointed behind me and shouted, "Watch out behind you." ”
I didn't wait to turn back, I first cut the pickaxe in my hand backwards, and suddenly three red threads that had reached my body were cut into six sections, and the severed place immediately flowed out of the black and red liquid, three of which fell on the canopy, and then withered and shrank, and the other three sections that had been drilled out of the hole in the tree immediately healed and rolled up separately.
I took advantage of the situation to look down, and saw that there were countless red flesh threads on the whole big tree, which were slowly moving, cutting off our retreat, and I didn't expect that there were so many red flesh scars parasitic from the jade coffin to the old tree, like red thin water veins, suddenly emerging from the tree hole, Shirley Yang and the fat man were each using the instruments in their hands, cutting off countless wriggling red flesh scars.
However, no matter how you beat it, those earthworm-like flesh seemed to grow more and more, and the ones that came out of the hole and came out of the depths of the tree hole were much thicker than the previous ones, like bloody roundworms, constantly twisting and wriggling and approaching, so disgusting that people wanted to vomit.
The space in the canopy is limited, and there is little room to maneuver with it. If you step on the air, although you don't have to worry about falling to death with a safety rope, once you are suspended from the tree, you will immediately be taken advantage of by these red python flesh ringers and drill into the seven orifices of the human body.
Shirley Yang had been cornered at the end of a section of the treetops, which could break at any moment due to their thinner size, and could only be barely supported by a paratrooper knife. I saw that she was alone and in danger, and I wanted to rush over to meet her, but I couldn't get out. The fat man on the other side was also too busy to take care of himself, and I was so anxious that I wanted to use the "Chicago typewriter" to strafe her and help her out of the siege, but I was afraid that I would break the branches and make her fall down, so I had no choice but to shout to the fat man to save people.
Shirley Young listened to us shouting on the other side, glanced at us in a hurry, and shouted, "I'll jump down and get the bingane spray bottle and burn this tree, and when I light the fire, you two will find a way to climb down from the tree." ”
I was shocked, a tree more than 20 meters high, how can I say that I can jump, the safety rope is only half from the canopy, and the remaining half will have to break my arm and leg if I don't fall to death, and hurriedly said to Shirley Yang: "Are you scared and confused?" Isn't jumping so high looking for death? Don't do stupid things, don't patronize the individual heroism of you Americans, collective strength is the greatest, you hold on, and we'll go over and pick you up. ”
The fat man fanned the flames and shouted at Shirley Young, "Jump down!" Jump down and you'll melt into the blue sky. ”
Shirley Yang didn't say anything more, cut the safety rope on his waist with a paratrooper knife, and jumped off the tree.
The fat man also opened his mouth wide: "Huh? How dare to jump, the Americans are really funny. I saw Shirley Yang in the air, and he had already held the "golden steel umbrella" in his hand, like a parachute, and slowly fell in mid-air.
If it weren't for the sturdiness of the "golden steel umbrella", it would have been rolled into a "trumpet flower" by the air flow from below at this moment, and I didn't expect Shirley Yang Bing to make a dangerous move, but he would have succeeded.
However, we were a little happy too early, just as Shirley Yang had just landed at a height of seven or eight meters, from the body of the old banyan tree, suddenly a thick vine stretched out, and I could see clearly at the top of the tree, there were several red flesh sticks attached to the rattan.
This vine directly enveloped Shirley Yang, wrapping her in the air, and in the face of this sudden attack, Shirley Yang had no choice but to use the armor-piercing cone at the top of the "Golden Steel Umbrella" to poke the rattan.
The great thing about these red flesh ringworms that grow from the carcasses of the python is that there are too many, and like a big earthworm, they can continue to survive by cutting them into several sections, and there is no place to start at all. I have been splashed with a lot of juice on my body, and it smells bitter and smelly, but it doesn't seem to be poisonous, otherwise I would have been poisoned and died.
What I smelled in my nose was full of bitter smell, and a thought flashed in my heart, such a dark red juice may be those people and animals who died in the old banyan tree, those red meat lines, like blood vessels, "fight the snake and hit seven inches, capture the thief and capture the king first", why not try to break the jade coffin directly, and continue to fight on the tree is not a way after all, otherwise after a long time, there will be a slight slack in the hand, and you will have to finish the game if you are entangled.
I asked the fat man to cover me for a while, and then raised the Thompson submachine gun in his hand and aimed at the jade coffin in the tree and fired at it.
As the last blood in the jade coffin flowed clean, the squirming red threads of the python also seemed to have been suddenly drained of their souls, falling one after another, and then becoming dry and shriveled.
Shirley Yang also fell to the ground from mid-air, because she grabbed the old vine, so she was not injured, but she was frightened, and her face was slightly pale. The fat man and I hurried down from the tree, and the three of us were stunned, and the encounter that had come about was only a few minutes, but it seemed fierce and long to us.
I was just about to speak to Shirley Yang and the fat man, when suddenly the whole ground shook strongly, and the two old banyan trees kept vibrating, and the rhizomes under the trees were pulled out, and the sound of the rhizomes breaking was endless, as if there was some huge animal under the tree, which was about to break through the ground, and lifted the whole two-thousand-year-old tree, even the roots and trees, and the thunder in the sky was even more violent, and wisps of black smoke came out of the cracked mouth of the ground. Black storms, black smoke, and ground cracks formed a vortex centered on old trees, encircling us.