Chapter 17: Inverting Yin and Yang
Although it is not a cold winter wax moon, the water in this Tan is flowing, and it is bitterly cold when you jump down.
Jiang Li kept covering my mouth and nose and didn't allow me to breathe, I couldn't open my eyes because I was nervous, there was a sound of water all around, and I don't know how long it took, even the sound of water around me was gone, I could feel that I was about to faint, Jiang Liti slipped me out of the water.
I shivered with cold, but it was dark all around, and I couldn't see any light, so I grabbed Jiang Li next to me: "Master, it's so dark here." ”
"Follow me." Jiang Li took me a few steps, and I didn't know what to do, and a few candles were lit next to me, and the dim light illuminated the place.
That's when I saw the scene in front of me.
Behind me is a waterhole, the water in the pool is still rippling, we are in a sealed stone cave, about two meters high, three or four meters wide, the stone cave is surrounded by traces of human chisel.
I wrapped myself in wet clothes and shivered, Jiang Li glanced at me, bent down and picked up the only piece of clothing from the ground next to me and handed it to me: "Take off your wet clothes, put this on." ”
I took the clothes and asked Jiang Li, "How can there be clothes here?" There is only one piece, Master, aren't you cold? ”
Jiang Li smiled: "It will take at least a year to dig this stone cave, and it has not been discovered by the villagers for so long, the person who excavated the stone wall must have lived here, and this clothes were left by the person who excavated the stone wall." ”
Jiang Li didn't say whether he was cold or not, while he spoke, I also changed into dry clothes, Jiang Li just wrung out the water on his robe, and then said: "Let's go to the front to have a look, you follow me closely, don't get lost, the terrain here is complicated, and if you take a wrong step, you may be doomed." ”
There are a lot of candles on both sides of this stone cave, which were left here by the people who dug the cave before, except for these, it is some remnants of life, I have lived in this mountain village for so many years, I did not know that there was such a stone cave at the end of this ditch.
Even the old people in the village never mentioned this cave.
"Master, what kind of place is this?" I couldn't stand the dead silence here, I broke the silence and asked, and then my echoes came from all directions in this cave, which was particularly terrifying, and subconsciously grabbed the corner of Jiang Li's clothes.
After I asked, Jiang Li walked in his footsteps, because there was a vertical fork in front of him, one on the left and one on the right, Jiang Li looked at it for a while and said: "The Taoist Nine Palace Array, there are a total of three million six hundred and eighty-two thousand and eight ways to move, once you enter the Nine Palace Array, only five thousand and forty ways can leave this Nine Palace Array, once you make a mistake, it will be difficult to go out again." ”
Five thousand and forty correct moves sound like a lot, but compared to the total number of moves, this number is so small that it can almost be said to be hopeless.
I swallowed my saliva as I listened to the echoes coming back from the passage.
Jiang Li looked at these two entrances left and right, and said by the way: "I can completely place this Nine Palace Array, except for the Dragon and Tiger Sect Sect, I really can't think of anyone else, this Nine Palace Array is very likely to have been placed by your grandfather." ”
Although I couldn't get a glimpse of the whole picture of this Nine Palace Array, but I think about it, the project is huge, how could my grandfather carve out this vast project by himself? Naturally, I was a little unconvinced.
Jiang Li looked at it, squatted down, drew a nine-palace grid on the ground, pointed to the middle square and said: "The eye of the nine-palace array is generally in the middle palace, this is the position, if you want to figure out what your grandfather wants to do with this nine-palace array, you have to go to the middle palace position." But there are too many passages around here, and it is easy to go in other directions, so you must follow my footsteps. ”
I took Jiang Li's warning to heart, and then pointed to the nine-square grid he drew and said, "Then how are we going to get out?" ”
"The Nine Palaces Array can enter but not exit, the way out is definitely not the way we came just now, if we are entering from the Qiangong, then we must go out from the Xun Palace, you just listen to my command." Jiang Li threw away the stone in his hand and stood up, took out a copper coin from the capital, threw it up and threw it on the ground, and then pointed in the direction pointed by the dry character, "Go this way." ”
"Is this exquisite?" I asked him.
Jiang Li smiled: "Personal hobbies, follow the guidance of God, completely random." ”
I was a little speechless, followed Jiang Li for about ten minutes, and finally saw the first fork in the road, the fork in the road did not know where it led, Jiang Li stopped and frowned: "How did your grandfather dig up such a big Nine Palace Array without others knowing?" Some are puzzling. ”
I looked at the swarthy passage and said, "Master, let's go quickly, it's scary here, it's so cold in the back." ”
Jiang Li'en sighed: "Try your luck." ”
After speaking, he took me to turn around and enter this fork in the road, and walked for a few minutes, the passage in front of me became more and more spacious, I looked around in horror, and Jiang Li concentrated on lighting the candle next to him.
When the candle was lit, I was suddenly stunned, pulled Jiang Li, knocked my teeth and said intermittently, "Master...... Master, there is a red-haired ...... on the ground."
The passage was covered with red hairs, about five centimeters long, and the air wafted with a strange stench, consistent with the smell of some old graves.
Jiang Lien sighed: "I saw it." ”
After saying that, I looked up and sat on the ground in fright.
In front of it was a stone chamber of dozens of square meters, surrounded by rusty shovels and hoes, and red hairs had piled up on the ground to knees high.
On the roof of the stone chamber, there were dense corpses hanging upside down, their feet were embedded in the stone wall on the top, the corpses were dressed in different clothes, but their bodies were all blackened, and the red hair on the ground fell from them.
I was so frightened that I almost fainted, I have never seen such a scene, there are one or two hundred corpses hanging upside down, to say the least.
Jiang Li saw that my eyes were white, and knocked me: "What are you afraid of, they are all stuck in the stone wall and can't move." After finishing speaking, he smiled again, "I understand, your grandfather used these walking corpses to open up such a Nine Palace Array, and after the Nine Palace Array was completed, he sealed them here, this kind of method, sure enough, only a person at the level of a Heavenly Master can make it." ”
I straightened my tongue and said with difficulty, "Are these all red-haired ghosts?" ”
Jiang Lien said: "Yes, zombies don't have souls, they need to absorb goblins to walk, and now their feet are stuck in the stone wall at the top, they can't contain the essence, and they have no ability to move, and the red hair on their bodies will slowly fall off, this method is called inverted yin and yang." No wonder there were a lot of red-haired ghosts in your township during that time, it turned out that your grandfather recruited him, and your grandfather was a talent. However, although your grandfather trapped them with inverted yin and yang, the wind and rain were blowing above, and the feet of the red-haired ghost would occasionally be exposed outside, and after being discovered by the people of your village, he reached out to pluck the feet of the red-haired ghost, and once the red-haired ghost came into contact with popularity, he would wake up, and the sound from his mouth was similar to the mooing of a cow. ”
What Jiang Li said, and the legend of the red-haired ghost that circulated in our village before is basically exactly the same, they all say that after the rain, the red-haired ghost will burrow his head into the soil, leave a pair of feet outside, reach out to pull out, and there will be a cow cry in the soil, but then it will be gone, it should be that after the grandfather found out, he used means to deal with this mistake.
This stone wall is supported by logs to prevent it from collapsing, and there are a lot of rune papers pasted around the stone wall, which are used to suppress these red-haired ghosts.
"How far are we from the Middle Palace?" I don't want to stay here for a second, there are hundreds of corpses on it, and I feel palpitations just thinking about it.
Jiang Li said: "Dry is the sky, isolated from the earth, here should be the Qiangong, and the front of the Qiangong should be the middle palace, don't be afraid of them, we will walk over generously." ”
After Jiang Li finished speaking, he stepped forward, and I immediately followed.
However, after only a few steps, there was a knock behind me, and Jiang Li immediately pressed my shoulder and shook his head at me: "Don't look back." ”
I nodded my grace.
Because I already felt it, there was a man standing behind me.
Jiang Li stared at me for two seconds, and then suddenly turned around and kicked me, only to hear a dull thud, and a heavy object fell to the ground.
I looked back, but I saw a guy covered in red hair, staring at us with bared teeth, Jiang Li's kick just now didn't have any effect, he quickly got up again.
"It seems that your grandfather deliberately left a zombie to guard this place in order to prevent others from coming in." Jiang Li said and took me behind him, "Stand behind me." ”
I went behind him, Jiang Li and the red-haired ghost looked at each other, the red-haired ghost is an unconscious thing, Jiang Li couldn't scare him like scaring the ghost, it was only less than three seconds, the red-haired ghost suddenly jumped over.
Seeing that he was about to pounce on Jiang Li, he stayed in mid-air, his feet were suspended in the air and he couldn't move, and when he looked at it, it was Jiang Li who reached out early and stuck his neck, his thumb against his chin, and he couldn't even open his mouth.
"Even if you are a little stiff, you dare to be presumptuous in front of me." After Jiang Li finished speaking, he used his hand hard, and with a bang, the zombie was actually choked off by him, and then a punch smashed into his throat, and a black gas spit out of his mouth, Jiang Li threw the zombie aside, and there was no movement.
I breathed a sigh of relief and urged Jiang Li to leave quickly, but Jiang Li looked up at the hairless red-haired ghosts hanging on the stone wall and said, "I can't leave for the time being." ”
As soon as the words fell, the corpse qi just now actually entered the mouths of these red-haired ghosts, and some of them opened their eyes and began to struggle.
I panicked and hurriedly shouted, "Master, let's go quickly." ”
Jiang Li said, "You go to the front and wait for me first, and I'll go find you right away." ”
I definitely can't help him here, he asked me to leave, I naturally want to leave, so I pulled my legs and ran forward, and only stopped when I couldn't see the light at all, and turned back to wait for Jiang Li.
At this moment, there was a sudden bang from the stone chamber, followed by a firelight, and it exploded.
My body softened suddenly, because Jiang Li was still there, trembling and going to that place, Jiang Li was so powerful, he would definitely not have an accident there.
I only walked a few steps, but a hand pressed on my shoulder in the dark curtain: "Stinky boy, what are you doing?" Tell you to go forward, what are you doing running back? ”