25. Mezzanine

This is really an unthinkable situation, and everyone panics.

Pan Zi flipped up the folding shovel on his waist with one hand, and had already jumped into the pit, and cut it when he got up, but the fat man's foot was thrown around, but he didn't hit it, and he was suddenly on the stone on the side, and sparks splashed everywhere. The fat man saw that Pan Zi used so much force, and shouted: "You fucking cut on time, don't cut my feet to the fat man!" ”

Pan Zi also shouted: "Don't fucking move, otherwise Lao Tzu will be cut off from your thigh!" "Saying that, the wheel is up again, but I didn't expect to miss this time.

The fat man shouted: "Change people, change people, this kid doesn't like me, and he wants to declare his personal vendetta." ”

Ye Cheng and Monk Hua on the side jumped down to help, wanting to hold down the fat man's legs, but he didn't expect Ye Cheng to stand firm when he went down, and suddenly the person also fell, and the entire stone corridor below collapsed again, and his whole person shrank down.

This is just a fucking mess, Monk Hua hurriedly went up and grabbed him, and he didn't stand firm, and he bumped into my hand holding the fat man, my angle was not good to exert force, and I got rid of it as soon as I hit it, and the fat man dragged down the whole person.

It happened so fast, and the light wasn't good, that's why it's so panicked. Several people rolled into a ball, and the fat man fell into the bottom of the pit like a ball of meat, and I fell heavily on the slope of the brick pit. I felt a little bad at the time, and before I could stand up, I heard a series of 'click-la-la' sounds coming up from under the brick floor.

As soon as I heard it, my face turned white, this sound is too familiar to me, this is the sound of large-scale longitudinal cracking of frozen stone materials when we are doing architectural stress experiments.

Before I could figure it out, there was a sudden earthquake around me, and the whole pit slammed down, and the stone corridor under the pit collapsed. Everyone didn't react, and suddenly they lost their balance. They all rolled down the slope like a slide, wrapped in bricks and fell into the hollow of the wooden corridor.

Before I could rejoice that I had foresight, my ass went numb and I fell down a slope, and then the man went straight down. Fortunately, there was a rope tied to it, so he didn't slide down, and then the bricks around him smashed down on his head.

My butt hurt and I covered my head and tried to sit up, but the slope under my butt was so steep that I couldn't borrow strength from my feet. Use your hands to block the bricks and ask the others if anything is wrong. No one answered me, only a series of curses and the clashing of bricks.

Finally, the bricks stopped, and I was able to raise my head and look around, and there was a mess, several flashlights were wrapped in the bricks, and a few fell down the slope into the darkness very below. Fortunately, these German goods for mountaineering are sturdy and not a single one of them is broken. But a little light came through the gap between the people and the bricks, and still nothing could be illuminated, and it was pitch black on the side. A large hole could be seen faintly on our heads, which was a hole in the stone corridor, from which we slid down.

This should be the space below the main hall of the Spirit Palace, in the space that is overhead on the steep slope of the mountain rock. We were falling down a steep slope, and if it weren't for the rope, we would have rolled down to the bottom.

Ye Chengcheng hung on the side of my head, and smashed it not lightly, I grabbed him and asked if there was anything wrong, and he replied that I had eaten lunch. It's stupid.

Monk Hua shouted in the dark: "Be careful that there may be a zongzi here, copy the guy." If you have hooves, take them out! Fatty, where are you? Is that thing that grabbed your foot still there? ”

The fat man is at the bottom, and we and the bricks all fall on him, which is really enough to choke. I heard his moans coming from the pile of bricks: "Still grabbing, it's almost touching the root of my thigh, Lao Tzu clamped him, fuck me out, otherwise your fat master and my dick won't be able to keep it!" ”

"That's my hand!" Panzi on one side scolded!

"I'm Kao!" The fat man said angrily: "You fucking hooligan won't pick a time?" ”

There was no flashlight, and a few people who didn't hold it down had to pull the bricks in the dark and pull the bricks down the slope. Pan Zi dug it out for me first, but his hand was clamped by the fat man, and he couldn't pull it out. We continued to dig again, and soon the fat man also dug it out, relieved, gasping for breath and said: "You guys are really willing to press me after a thousand cuts, fortunately Lao Tzu has a god fat, otherwise this time he will return to his position." ”

Pan Zi didn't have time to argue with him and said, "What about that thing on your feet?" ”

In the dark, the fat man moved his feet, seemed to feel it, and said, "It's gone!" It's impossible to fall like this and still catch it, maybe we will hit the bottom of the slope, how can there be zongzi in a place like this? ”

Monk Hua said: "It must still be nearby, be careful, take the black donkey's hooves, and find out the flashlight first!" ”

I was busy touching the flashlight under the brick, but I couldn't touch it, but Ye Cheng on the side touched it. Pulling out the pile of bricks, the surroundings suddenly lit up, and he picked it up and immediately looked down.

I was under him, disgusted to block the flashlight, and just wanted to make him dim a little, suddenly, I saw Ye Cheng's face turn green in an instant.

As soon as I saw his expression, I immediately began to break out in a cold sweat, and my heart said Is it next to me again? Hurriedly gritted his teeth and turned his head to look, and suddenly saw a bruised and dry face on the side of my shoulder, only a foot away from my nose.

I was frightened 'oops', the person shrank back, picked up a green brick with his left hand and slapped it, I don't know if I hit it, I turned around and climbed up.

At this time, several other flashlights were dug out, and all of a sudden all around were lit up. I climbed up a few steps, because it was Ye Cheng above, I couldn't let go of it at all, and I slid down again, looked to the side, and couldn't help but gasp.

I saw that on the steep slope and cliff under the main hall of the Spirit Palace, it was cultivated into a layer of simple terrace-like protrusions, and on top of these protrusions, almost neatly sat full of such frozen blue and purple ancient corpses, layer by layer, it looked like the Arhat Hall in the temple, shrunk together, densely packed, with hideous faces, and the body shape was obviously frozen to death, all of them were meditating here like monks, and the black shadows were wrong and could not see the end, and I didn't know how many there were.

Ye Cheng was the least daring here, and said tremblingly: "**, this is the monk's golden-body corpse pavilion?" As he spoke, he felt a little weak.

Chen Pia Si held him down, waved his hand, and said to him, "Don't be afraid, it's just a corpse." He gestured to my feet. I looked down and saw a mummy that had been trampled into powder among the bricks beneath our feet.

"The dead here are frozen like stones, and they shatter when touched." Chen Pia said: "It is impossible for these things to be transformed, there should be no zongzi here." ”

"And what was it that grabbed my foot?" The fat man asked.

Chen Pia said: "Your feet, maybe they happened to be hooked by the corpse's hand just now, otherwise if it's a zongzi, do you think you still have legs?" Don't believe you, look at your pants. ”

The fat man looked down at the trouser tube he had just caught, and sure enough, there was a hole, a hook-like dry hand, which was in the pile of bricks not far from his feet. When I picked it up, it was so hard that it was impossible to stretch and grab someone's leg.

Suddenly, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Pan Zi also sighed exaggeratedly: "If you are so timid, you will be wrong to see it." ”

The fat man was furious, and he wanted to refute but couldn't find a reason, so he had to sulk there and muttered: "That hand really grabbed my foot just now, and I can't tell the difference between being hooked and being caught?" Fucking unbelief pulls down. ”

We used our flashlight to shine around, and this is under the main hall, and there is a lot of space. Because of the dense line of corpses, we couldn't see the end, but there was nothing suspicious other than the corpses.

Pan Zi asked Monk Hua, "How can there be so many dead people here?" Lao Tzu has never even heard of it. ”

"It looks like it's supposed to be a burial compartment, this ...... I don't understand it at all, there is no imperial tomb of any dynasty like this...... Who are these dead people? Monk Hua muttered to himself.

I suppressed my fear, shone a flashlight on one of the dead people, and found that the corpse's facial features were still well preserved. The eyes are closed, the face is wrinkled, but there is no beard, the whole body is covered with a thin layer of ice, what is frightening is that the skin of these ancient corpses is bruised, the mouth is wide open, and there are fangs inside.

"These may not be human." The fat man looked at it and said, "Look at this tooth, a Boer can take away people's faces." ”

"Not human?" Ye Cheng's face turned white again, "What's that?" Monster? ”

"It could be the legendary snowman, but it's hairless." The fat man began to ramble nonsense.

"Fart!" Monk Hua shouted: "What a monster snowman, the teeth of these corpses are sharpened by themselves, this is a custom of ancient shamanism. Later, because it was too troublesome, it was replaced with a mask. These are certainly not the Jurchens of the Ming Dynasty, you see the clothes of these corpses, they are very primitive, not Jurchen or Mongolian style, and you see, some of the corpses are still wrapped in linen. This is a mummy formed by ice burial. ”

I remembered the ice burial pits I had seen on the night I camped in Xiaosheng Valley, and said, "Could it be that these corpses are the bones of the ancestors who were buried in ice when Wang Zanghai was digging up the mountains and building the tombs?" ”

Monk Hua nodded: "That's right, this fetal-shaped cave may have been a cemetery in the past, and the local ancient ancestors carried out ice burials here, but the land of Wang Zanghai was planned as a fake burial mausoleum, and these corpses must have been dug up when the cave was excavated." ”

The fat man asked, "If it's as you said, why don't you just burn it, and what is the purpose of putting these corpses here?" ”

"Who knows, you see these mummies are so terrifying, shamanism has a lot of primitive and weird witchcraft rituals and curses, which are said to require the help of corpses. The arrangement here may be related to shamanic witchcraft, maybe something strange will happen, maybe we can't get out of it, just because of these corpses, we have to be careful. ”

I think of the corpse array in the Qinling Mountains, where there seems to be a large number of corpses, this kind of thing similar to a ghost hitting a wall will always happen, is it really an evil magic that is doing evil?

Shamanism is not a religion at all, it is actually a primitive witchcraft, which means that it has practical value, and it is quite related to pharmacology and jīng god worship. My knowledge of shamans is limited to the dancing shamans in Qing court operas. However, it is said that shamanic witchcraft, like the Chinese Qimen Dunjia, has been lost in history, with some good things introduced into Tibetan Buddhism and some evil things suddenly disappearing. It can be seen from ancient books that many rituals of shamanic witchcraft in the early ancient times were extremely perverse, with a lot of content about curses and corpses, and they were inextricably linked with Gu magic, and the Ku people believed in Gu magic, is there anything in common between the two?

The fat man listened to Monk Hua's words, and suddenly realized: "No wonder, when I enter this spiritual palace, I always feel that my feet are burning, and I feel uncomfortable. ”

Monk Hua said: "I also speculate, the most important thing now is how to get out, let's look separately, is there an exit around?" ”

After speaking, Monk Hua said: "But be careful, how to say that this place also looks a bit evil, there will always be hidden dangers of safety, and the cliff here is too steep, once something happens, you can't run if you want to." ”

Everyone agreed, and the fat man couldn't wait for a long time. A few people unbuckled the carabiner, picked up their flashlights, and dispersed, and began to carefully search for the steep gorge wall.

It's not a pleasant thing to walk among so many corpses, but it's a bit strange that the more corpses there are, the more you don't panic, probably because you're scared to a certain extent.

The rows of corpses were so dense that there was no room for people to walk in the middle of each row, and we almost always squeezed through the gaps between the corpses and the corpses. The corpses, old and young, were all frozen like bruised rocks, and I saw that some of them were still carrying bronze ritual vessels, all of which were completely rusty green, and almost all of the lower bodies of the corpses were fused with the rocks below, and you had to move them unless you smashed them.

After looking for a long time, I didn't gain anything in this direction, watching myself getting farther and farther away from others, I always felt uneasy, and I was about to pretend to finish the search and return to the hole to ask the results of others, when I heard Pan Zi shout: "Dead fatty, what are you doing?" ”

We followed Pan Zi's voice and looked in the direction that the fat man was looking for just now, only to see that the fat man stopped searching for some time, but instead squatted there facing us in the pile of corpses below, with his mouth open expressionlessly, at first glance, his face was flushed with a bruise, no different from the corpse on the side, I don't know what the hell he was doing.