Chapter 15: The Shadow of Man (Part I)
The appearance of ghosts is expected and unexpected, Cha Wenbin wonders if he will meet the thing that night, or the child Ma Wenjun who has become a zombie, but the appearance of this kind of ghost is indeed extraordinary.
In ancient times, there were people who used cards to do ghost things on paper, and there were also people who made straw people to do ghost things, but for example, murals can also go down, that is the first time, Cha Wenbin decided to go to the mural to find out.
There are seven or eight of these murals, each of which features a number of figures, some of whom are of different shapes, some of them are of different shapes, some of them are ghosts, and one of them has a mouth wide open and even his chin is already dislocated.
If a child sees such a thing, he will definitely be able to cry in fright, but the fat man said that it is normal for a mural to appear in the tomb, and the disappearing mural that Ye Qiu said is indeed as if it has been peeled off, and the traces are still very fresh.
The fat man said that this is easy to do, and he took the dagger and cautiously stretched it towards an old woman on crutches, don't you become a ghost?
Then the master scratched you with a knife first, what else can you become?
"Lad......"
There was a sudden eerie voice behind him, and the fat man turned his head, but there was no one.
"Cha Ye ......"
Cha Wenbin gave him a look, which meant to let him continue, it seemed that there was indeed something strange just now.
"Fuck,"
The fat man looked at the mural as it was, he compared the knife and said, "Old lady, if you really become a fine, I won't stop there, who told you to run out and be scared if you don't care for the elderly?" ”
A knife slashed through the old lady's arm, and suddenly, an area of the mural along with the arm fell, and then a voice came from behind: "Why did you cut off my hand!" ”
"Don't look back......"
While talking, Cha Wenbin bent down and picked up the mural, took it in his hand and weighed it, it was still a little soft, and it was slightly elastic when he pulled it lightly with his hand, and he secretly said that it was really this thing!
After that, he said to the mural: "He was skinned and nailed here, why do you have to guard this acre and three points of land for him?" ”
Suddenly, the old lady's mouth on the mural opened slightly, and the fat man saw it clearly, and shouted again and again: "Alive, the people in the mural are alive!" ”
The voice behind him said, "Then why do you bother to bother us dead people? ”
Cha Wenbin "Whew"
I had to blow off the fire fold in my hand, and suddenly it was dark all around, and the fat man just wanted to hit the flashlight Cha Wenbin stopped him: "Don't turn on the light, as long as there is no light, this mural is dead, this thing is called a human shadow shadow, you can come out when you see the light, and it is just a painting if you don't see the light." ”
"You're saying these murals are human skins......"
The fat man didn't dare to think about it anymore, what kind of torture should this be?
Cha Wenbin said: "I have seen a record of this kind of evil arts, saying that the centipede is used to bite the Luhua chicken, originally the Luhua chicken is the natural enemy of the centipede, so this centipede will suck this chicken blood with the help of people to refine the soul." When a person is alive, he first pierces the seven orifices of a person with a silver needle dipped in the blood of this centipede, seals the three souls and seven spirits of the person, and then opens a small opening on the top of the head and pours mercury. Mercury is heavy, and it will slowly peel off between the skin and muscles, and by the time the mercury reaches the feet, the person is still alive, and at this time, you can peel off a complete piece of human skin like undressing......"
This method is said to have been invented by King Yin Shang to deal with what he considered to be rebellious ministers and thieves, and the skins were opened with bamboo sticks and dried in the sun, and then sealed into the walls to paint with the outline of the skin.
It is said that such paintings are so realistic that they have a spirituality, so that even when people die, they think they are still alive in the paintings.
When they meet the light, the mural will show its soul like a projection, but these things Cha Wenbin has only seen in the book, and now it is the first time he has seen the real thing.
"When the lights are turned off, we are blind, ......"
As soon as the fat man finished speaking, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and he hurriedly protected Cha Wenbin behind him and said, "There is something!" ”
"See,"
Cha Wenbin said in a low voice: "A child." ”
His eyesight is better than ordinary people, especially in the dark, which has been cultivated since childhood, like Cha Wenbin in order to protect his eyes, he has to wash his eyes with cold tea water every morning, and he hardly eats heavy food, in order to maintain his sensitive sense of taste and smell.
There are a lot of ghosts that are not easy to detect, and any slight change may kill the Taoist priest, and it is no longer appropriate to describe his life with coarse tea and light rice.
"It's the one I saw before,"
Ye Qiu said: "But I'm sure it's not Ma Wenjun." ”
"You two can watch, what the hell am I going to do, the stone is still in the water, or you two can watch, I'll go to the water and run first."
Not being able to light the lamp was a problem now, and the three of them touched the wall and began to swim towards the main burial chamber in the middle, and suddenly, the fat man felt that he had smeared a furry object, and he was so frightened that he immediately retracted his hand.
"Something!"
"Giggle......
A string of silver bell-like laughter accompanied the footsteps "plopping"
With a bang, the fat man couldn't hold back any longer, turned on the flashlight and shone into the water, which was still splashing in circles.
This side has not stopped, there is something happening again, his flashlight was turned on and soon the old lady came next to him, she held another broken arm in one hand, and walked towards the three of them with a slight tremble, the mouth laughed so that there was no tooth in it, and kept squirming up and down: "You cut off my hand......"
This person's shadow shadow really can't see the light, this is only one, if all the murals run out, it is estimated that there will be seventy or eighty.
If you want to say how powerful this kind of thing is, Ye Qiu can bear fruit with one knife, if you want to say that it is not powerful, then the ants can still bite the elephant to death.
In fact, the main function of this kind of thing is to "scare"
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Nine out of ten tomb robbers would have been frightened when they saw this kind of thing appear, if it weren't for Cha Wenbin's estimation that the fat man would have gone crazy, he picked up five or six halves and "snapped" towards the old lady
It was two bursts, and a burst of powder exploded, and the old lady suddenly scattered...... The fat man only feels that his adrenaline is soaring rapidly, in fact, this is equivalent to killing people, in Cha Wenbin's words, they are not much harmful, from a certain point of view, they are still a victim, but the poor people must have something to hate, these individuals are angry because of the resentment of death, and they will give you the opportunity to do it, and they can't prevent it.
The fat man roared: "Or I'll go out first and shovel all those murals, Lao Tzu really can't stand it, come here for a while, I've never seen such a ghost in eight lifetimes, and today I met all the fuck." ”
"They don't hurt you......"
Before Cha Wenbin finished speaking, two piles of powder on the ground suddenly began to gather again, and in the blink of an eye, the old lady with a broken arm appeared again, and there was another middle-aged man with a hoe beside her...... "Will you reunite......
Cha Wenbin did underestimate this man's shadow shadow, and he immediately remembered the tragedy that happened near Dunhuang in Gansu Province sixty years ago.
During the Guangxu period of the late Qing Dynasty, a Hubei Taoist priest named Wang Yuanqi had to go outside to find a way out because of the famine in his hometown for many years, and went all the way north to the vicinity of Jiuquan and began to enter the Taoist practice.
Later, Wang Yuanqi traveled to the vicinity of Dunhuang, climbed Sanwei Mountain, found the Mogao Holy Realm, and was full of emotion, and urgently exclaimed, "The Western Elysium is in Sihu"
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So he stayed here for a long time and dedicated the rest of his life.
And then the story everyone knows, this arrangement seems to be a irony, Mogao Grottoes was originally a Buddhist holy place but let a down-and-out Taoist disciple find out, let the disciples of Taishang Laojun serve Sakyamuni for the work of dogs and horses, I don't know whether it was Wang Yuanji's Taoist behavior moved the Buddha, or unintentional arrangement, but the secret in the Buddha cave let a Taoist priest to discover, strange people met strange things, and there were dramatic results.
At that time, when the Taoist priest first arrived at the Buddha cave, it was already in ruins, and when he saw such a sacred Buddhist holy place unattended, he ran around at his own expense, spending the rest of his life cleaning up the Buddha statues that were buried under the wind and sand.
In the sixteenth year of Guangxu, Wang Yuanqi revealed the secret of the Tibetan scripture cave.
The epitaph of Wang Taoist priest is written like this: "The sand is out of the wall and cracks a hole, as if there is light, and when the wall is broken, there is a small hole, suddenly it is open, there are ten thousand volumes of the Tang Dynasty Sutra inside, there are many antiquities, the people who see it are many wonders, and those who hear it are said to be divine objects." ”
This Taoist disciple did everything he could, and after discovering this cave that shocked the world later, he first walked more than 60 miles to the county seat, found the county order at that time, and presented the two volumes of scriptures that had been excavated.
His purpose is very clear, let the official take action immediately, but the ** and mediocrity of the late Qing Dynasty have reached the extreme, and after the county commander walked on the front foot of the Wang Taoist, the back foot burned the two yellowed priceless treasures as garbage...... In the British Museum in London, there is a world-famous secret room called the Stein Secret Room.
It was in 1907 that the Englishman Stein used only four horseshoe silver in China to exchange 29 boxes of rare classical scriptures, silk paintings and silk fabrics from Wang Daoshi.
The government still thought it was garbage, so the Taoist priest Wang sold the excavated classics to the foreigners as tattered under the coaxing of the British, and he also kept an eye on them when he sold them, and sold them all in tatters, totaling more than 500 pieces, but they didn't know that those that were broken and old meant that they were more ancient and more valuable