Chapter 54: The Shadow
Hai Dongqing is a professional tomb robber, right?
That's right, that's right.
Hai Dongqing is a compound talent who digs people's ancestral graves, right?
Seems like that's right.
In any case, he still has an ordinary layout of the mechanism in the ancient tomb, which should be considered too clear to be clear, but
How did this grandson get us into the predicament we are in?!
The entrance has been tightly sealed by a stone slab, the thickness of which is unknown, but I feel that this stone slab is definitely not thin, and just by looking at it I feel that "we will definitely not be able to get out." ”
"This slate seems to have fallen out of the crack above, and it shouldn't be thick." Hai Dongqing's casual words broke my speculation, his face was very calm, and he said: "Blow up the door and go out, we are now"
"There's no way that door can be blown open." The fat uncle shook his head, and his tone was very helpless: "This is not the fourth (is) ancient tomb, the four (is) the relics left during the Anti-Japanese War, and there were aircraft and cannons at that time, why would you use a stone slab as a door?" ”
Hearing this, Hai Dongqing was slightly stunned, nodded and said, "Yes, it makes sense." ”
said this, and then in the next second, Hai Dongqing took out the pistol pinned to his waist violently, not very standard, and raised his hand towards the "stone door" is a shot.
When a bullet hits a slate door, it makes a strange sound, not like the sound of a bullet hitting a stone, but like the sound of metal clashing.
"It's metal inside, and you can't break through." Hai Dongqing sighed, took out the processed explosives on his body, three cylinder explosives, and the detonator had been plugged in, and everything was ready to go, but he didn't dare to use it to blast at all.
Let's not talk about whether we can blow up the door, let's just say that the structure of this stone room, if it collapses, what will it do?
At this moment, there was an inexplicable smell outside the door, not pungent, not disgusting, just unpleasant.
At the time, I wondered, what does this smell like? But wait until I think about my grass!
Isn't this the yin he smelled at Luo Dahai's house at the beginning?!
But when I sniffed it carefully, I found that something was wrong, there seemed to be more coldness in this smell, yes, it was the kind of coldness that people could smell, just like the feeling you feel when you inhale through your nose at more than ten degrees below zero in winter, only to feel that your nose is sour, and your nasal cavity is full of cold feelings.
"It turns out that the killing move is here" The fat uncle seemed to think of something, his face turned white in an instant, his hands trembled a few times, and he walked to my side: "Thin man, give me the dagger." ”
"Huh?" I didn't react.
"Give me the dagger!" The fat uncle suddenly yelled, so frightened that I trembled, and hurriedly pulled the dagger out of his waist and handed it to the fat uncle in confusion.
At the same time that the fat uncle took the dagger, he only heard Hai Dongqing shouting: "Something has come in, look at the ground!" ”
Hearing this, I subconsciously turned my gaze away, and looked in the direction of Haidongqing's flashlight, and my legs and stomach immediately moved forward, almost "hitting the street".
The door didn't block the exit (and entrance), it just left a slit, a slit no thicker than a palm
Seriously, I'd love this door to block the entrance, and better not leave us with a crack at all.
"What are those things?"
Some unknown green liquid was flowing through the cracks into the stone chamber, and I don't know how much of it was, but my instincts told me that staying in the chamber was a matter of waiting for death.
In just two minutes, the faint green smoke liquid had already flowed to the ground at the very edge of the stone chamber, at least it had occupied one-sixth of the entire stone chamber.
Even so, they are still spreading, surging, as if endless, and continue to flow towards us.
They seem to want to cover the entire floor of the stone chamber without leaking any leaks.
"Yin 爩 (yu fourth sound, the meaning of smoke) is!! How can there be such a thing here!! The fat uncle scolded the street with an ugly face, acting hysterical.
At that time, the situation could be said to be critical to the point where every second counted, and Hai Dongqing and I didn't ask any more questions, after all, we can't be curious babies now, and it is impossible to give time to let Uncle Fat act as a professor to explain too many things to us.
A few years later, I happened to receive an ancient book at an antique stall, and after reading the book, I clearly understood the origin of this thing.
In a way, Yin Qi is also a kind of gas, full of energy, but it is unpredictable.
Yin Qi is absolutely invisible to the naked eye alone, but if you wait for this Yin Qi to "liquefy" completely, I am afraid that no one will be invisible.
The liquefied yin qi is the yin.
"Born in the sun, touch it and die."
"When ordinary people touch it, their bodies are torn and their flesh is rotten, and blood and water surge."
"If the Taoist touches it, his life will disappear, and his body will be rotten."
"If you are evil, you will chase the sun to harm people, but you can't get as fast as cattle and horses, and ordinary people will run away when they see this thing, and they can avoid difficulties."
(Note, the above 殂 (cu second tone) all mean death.) )
According to the records, there are many people who died in the scourge of the shadows, and the book is actually quite interesting, it is very much like a serious formatted record of the major events of the era, but the records in it can not be beaten together with the official events, and the records are all appalling and strange events.
Because of the clarity of the format, I was also impressed, especially the three evils in history.
The first calamity occurred in the first year of Shenlong during the reign of Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty.
The second calamity occurred in the third year of Chongning during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.
The last calamity occurred during the Ming Dynasty, during the Hongwu period when Zhu Yuanzhang was in power.
No matter which calamity it was, it caused a shock to the imperial court at that time, and the number of casualties was also appalling, such as the incident in the first year of Shenlong.
"The celestial phenomena are dangerous, the great evil is coming, the filthy air is rushing, and the emperor star is dead."
This is the news given to her by Wu Zetian's warlocks, and unexpectedly, this news is not only known to Wu Zetian, but it didn't take long for many officials in the court to hear the news, and Wu Zetian was half angry at that time.
Although she was angry, Wu Zetian at that time was not as good as before, she was already seriously ill and bedridden at the beginning of the first month of the first year.
Perhaps because she knew that her fate was near, she didn't punish the warlock much, but only asked the warlock, "Where was the evil born?" ”
"If it is like a spring, it was born in the Xijiang River and appeared in the southeast for 300 miles."
Sure enough, the day after the warlock came to a conclusion, three hundred miles away from the imperial capital, in the southeast, in a mountain village that was not prosperous, a sinkhole suddenly appeared inexplicably.
(Note: Sinkholes, large pits that have collapsed from the ground, vary in depth.) )
The pit is not too deep, but it is two zhang deep, and the volume in it is not large, so it seems that there is nothing special, but when the government received the news and went to the mountain village, everyone found a strange phenomenon.
At the point of the pothole, there is a shallow layer of green water, which seems to be thick, but it gives people an inexplicable sense of thoroughness.
It was getting late, and the officers and soldiers also settled down in the mountain village, saying that they would wait for the "special commissioner" from the imperial court to come to observe, and the place would have to be temporarily blocked.
At that time, no one expected that it would be such a casual effort, but more than 300 people would die in this catastrophe.
Early the next morning, the nearby county commander mobilized a lot of officers and soldiers to go to the mountain village, and this group of officers and soldiers didn't think much about it, so they obediently entered the mountain and entered the village, and then
"To the mountains in the south, to Songtou in the north, and to the land of three miles long, it is covered with blood."
"The rotten flesh is everywhere, the filth is smoking, and the people who come are disgusted with it, and their hearts are so frightened that they can't do it."
These few words alone are enough to illustrate the scene at that time.
In fact, I blame those who died too unlucky, I don't know how I died, I don't know how I died, I don't know when I see the yin, so I set up camp next to it, and no one notified me when the yin came at night, I estimate that the officers and soldiers who kept vigil in the mountain village were either asleep or inattentive, and when the people who kept vigil noticed this, I am afraid that the yin had spread to their feet.
Yin is indeed insidious and terrifying, appearing and disappearing, never making a sound, just a strange smell, but not so pungent, it is an "assassin-type" character, and likes to sneak up on you unconsciously.
As for how this matter was solved later, it really wasn't clear in that book, it just said that there was such a thing, and it also said some unrelated things, for example, this yin disaster is a sign that Wu Zetian is going to die and so on.
The second appearance of the evil of the shadows is similar to the third appearance.
The location where the Yin Yin appeared was only three miles away from the imperial capital, and the number of dead and injured was also about 600 people, which made me a little puzzled.
This is how it was written in the original book. (I won't move a large paragraph, and I won't mention the specific things for the time being, and the literal understanding is almost that meaning)
"In the third year of Chongning, at noon on July 17, under the scorching sun, the ground gushes clear water, breaks the ground, from the East River Trail to Xichang Mansion, there is no living person in the land of two miles, the broken corpses are stacked, the resentment is soaring, the blue water suddenly enters the crack in the ground, however, the trace is difficult to find."
"In the seventh year of Hongwu, when the third son of the first month of March, the clear moon was bright, and there was a sudden sad cry outside the city, and the sad cry was sheng, and the people only smelled the fishy wind, the stench came to the nose, and the chickens and dogs were exhausted, and there were no pedestrians in the south corner."
(Note: The above content is excerpted from the "General History of the Three Dynasties", written by a wild historian at the end of the Ming Dynasty, named Wu Sijiang, the word Changshui,)
"Trouble, back off, these things can't come over for a while." The fat uncle gritted his teeth and said,
"This thing is very capable?" I saw that Uncle Fat's face was getting whiter and whiter, and I couldn't help asking, "It's okay for us to inhale those smokes, right?!" ”
To put it bluntly, Hai Dongqing and I are really a little afraid of those green smokes, if those smokes are all poisonous smoke, then we have no place to cry.
"The smoke is fine, but the green water can't be touched, and if you touch it, you will die immediately." The fat uncle's hand trembled slightly, took out three copper coins from his pocket, cut his fingers with a dagger, stained the blood on the copper coins, and then threw them far away to the spreading green water
I saw the fat uncle quickly using a dagger to hang on the ground and draw, as if he was drawing some kind of charm, and then, he took out a stick of tribute incense from his bag, lit it and put it on the ground, looked up at the copper coin that had been flooded by green water, did not hesitate, held the dagger high, and slammed it into the ground.
At that time, I was afraid that this dagger would be broken by him all at once, but after we took a closer look, all of a sudden, Hai Dongqing and I were surprised and couldn't help ourselves.
The blade of the dagger was like inserting it into tofu, and it was inserted into the stone slab on the ground without hindrance, leaving only a little blade and the handle of the fat uncle holding it outside.
Before we were surprised, Uncle Fat suddenly sighed.
"It's useless, this thing can't be done by Taoism, no, it should be said" The fat uncle muttered to himself: "It's not something that ordinary magic can do, it's because its yin qi is too heavy or"