Chapter 1 Introduction
Sixty years ago, three farmers in Jiazigou, Chengdu, surrounded a dark and bottomless hole.
A young man took a hard puff of the soil smoke in his hand and said to the old man next to him: Second uncle, can you enter this hole?
The old man snatched the cigarette from the young man's hand and put it in his mouth and took a few puffs.
The young man saw that his second uncle had smoked a few puffs, and the dry tobacco was about to burn to the butt of the cigarette, and he was immediately reluctant to do so, this dry tobacco was one of the few that he had finally stolen from his father, and he was usually reluctant to smoke it, so he reached out to snatch the dry tobacco back, but was glared at fiercely by the old man, and retracted his hand cunningly.
The old man smoked the dry tobacco so much that he couldn't smoke it anymore, so he threw it on the ground and stepped on it with his feet, and said to the young man who was still sulking for himself: What about you two children, when you dig out the treasure from under this hole, I will help you propose to Juan Wazi in the next village.
When the second baby heard this, he hurriedly said: Second uncle, are you telling the truth? On the other hand, when I thought about it, I felt that my heart was too anxious, and my face couldn't help but turn red to the base of my neck.
Yo! You're embarrassed about the second baby, the old man looked at the second baby with a thief smile.
The second baby saw that his second uncle was going to make fun of him again, so he immediately changed the topic and said to the middle-aged man who didn't open his mouth on the side, Master Li, do you say there are any treasures down here? We've been digging for 2 days now.
The old man scolded, you little cub knows a fart? Master Li is a famous homesick man in ten miles and eight towns, is there any treasure underneath, Master Li will not know? (Homesickness, it is said that he can communicate with ghosts and read inscriptions, but he is a great character, also known as the earth fairy) Although the old man scolded the second baby in his mouth, his eyes were staring directly at the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man named Master Li grabbed a handful of soil from the mound on the side and put it on his nose to smell it, but did not answer their words, only said: "I have to dig down."
As soon as the second baby heard that he picked up the hoe thrown aside, he was about to go down to the hole, but he was stopped by his second uncle, and the second baby looked at his second uncle with a puzzled face.
The old man opened his mouth and said: Master Li can't dig it, I went down to the hole yesterday to take a look, and estimated that this hole is three or four zhang deep, and if we dig it again, it will definitely collapse, and then we will be buried alive by the soil.
The man named Master Li sighed: "Hey"! There should be an ancient tomb down here, and this tomb is very dangerous, and we may all explain it to us when the time comes
The old man stopped hearing this, why do you say that there is an ancient tomb down here? Didn't you say that this is the treasure that your grandfather buried? Why is it now digging someone else's ancestral grave? I thought to myself, I can't do that heartless thing, I threw the hoe in my hand and pulled the second baby to go back.
Hmph, what's wrong with the tomb? Master Li snorted coldly, looked at the second uncle and the second baby who were leaving, and said: When the time comes, you can take it out of it casually, and it will be enough for you to have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life.
The old man is an honest farmer, but he heard Master Li say that there are treasures buried underneath, and he also asked him how he knew that there were treasures underneath.
He said that this was when the Eight-Nation Coalition entered China, and his grandfather secretly buried it here in order to prevent being robbed, so that future generations could pick it up, and said that when the time came, he dug it out and let him pick one at will.
The old man sighed, "Oh, what a sin!" Master Li said that I can't do this thing that lacks yin virtue. As he spoke, he beckoned the second baby and let us go.
Master Li looked at the second uncle who was leaving, and shouted out the second uncle's real name in a hurry, what morality do you care about in these years? It's good to be full, but half of the village next door is starving, and I remember that you have a sister who starved to death. Master Li paused and slowed down, besides, even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about him, don't you? As he spoke, he looked at the second baby standing aside.
As soon as the second baby heard that she had an aunt who was starved to death, she had never heard her father and second uncle mention it, and she opened her mouth to ask the second uncle what was going on!
Before he could ask, Liu Lao Er gritted his teeth and said: Okay, it's okay for me to go down with you, but the second baby has to stay on it.
Before Master Li could speak, the second baby on the side was immediately unwilling, how could he stay on it if he came to touch the treasure.
So he immediately said: Second uncle, let me accompany Master Li down, you are old and inconvenient
Before he finished speaking, Liu Lao Er slapped him over, didn't you listen to Master Li, it's very dangerous down here, let's all explain it here, the eldest brother is finally old and has a son, if you have three long and two short, how can I explain to your father.
Master Li on the side also spoke at this time, Erwazi, you listen to your second uncle, put a rope on it, and when you touch something good, you will definitely have to leave a piece for you.
After listening to Master Li's words, the second baby reluctantly packed up the rope and went.
Liu Lao Er here lifted the hoe and walked to the edge of the dark hole, and said to the second baby holding the rope: I'll go down first, and then I pull the rope three times and you will pull it up, if you find something wrong, you will leave us alone, and you will run desperately when the time comes.
The second baby agreed, and slowly lowered the hole of the second uncle with the hoe and the master Li with the shovel.
After a while, the sound of digging began to be heard below, and from time to time the second baby pulled up baskets of dirt from under the cave and poured them into the open space beside them to form small mounds.
I pulled more than a dozen baskets of dirt up, and the second baby was so tired that she was out of breath, and at this moment the soil pulled up from below began to become a little red, and then a few baskets of dirt came up, and the soil began to become more and more red, and in the end, the soil pulled up seemed to be stained in blood.
I used to hear the old people in the village say that if the mud dug out is like blood, then you should be careful, don't run as far as you can when digging down, if you dig down, you will die, because there are man-eating monsters underground.
Thinking of the words of the old man in the village before, the second baby hurriedly squatted at the entrance of the cave and looked down, and wanted to ask the second uncle if they were okay.
Before he could speak, he suddenly heard a "ding" sound, which was a crisp sound of iron hitting the stone, and then there was a heart-rending roar from the second uncle, the second baby pulled quickly.
The second baby heard the roar of the second uncle, and hurriedly grabbed the rope next to him and pulled it up, the other end of the rope seemed to be grabbed by something, and the rope was stretched straight at once, and there was a vague tendency to pull himself down the hole.
The second baby itself is next to the entrance of the cave, and was pulled forward by this strange force, and he slipped forward two steps and saw that he was on the edge of the hole, if he went on like this, he had to be pulled down the hole, and at this moment there was a sound from under the hole, bang, bang, bang, a few gunshots, this is Master Li's box cannon, usually very cared for, and is generally reluctant to use it, is there really something wrong with the bottom of my heart?
Heart-rending roar "Ah"! The second baby leaves us alone, you run, this is clearly the voice of the second uncle.
At this moment, the rope that had been so tight suddenly loosened that the second baby couldn't bear it, and the whole person took 5 or 6 steps back in a row, and then sat on the ground with a butt.
The second baby felt that there seemed to be something tied to the other end of the rope, and hurriedly pulled it over to see that there was a bronze mask like a grimace tied to the rope, why did it say that it was a grimace, because the mask was almost twice as long as a normal person's face, and there were two black holes in the eyes, revealing two bloody teeth, which looked a little chilly and terrifying.
Quack, quack, a frog-like cry interrupted the second baby who was staring at the mask, and when he looked up, he saw a person without human skin (it should not be called a human) crawling out of the hole, as if soaked in blood, step by step towards the second baby sitting on the ground, his mouth closed as if he was saying something, and every few steps there was blood falling down, leaving a curved blood line as he walked forward. (Later, Liu Lao Er learned that the monster was called a blood corpse)
Where has the second baby seen such a terrifying monster, sitting on the ground and being stunned directly.
Step by step, the monster without human skin finally approached the second baby sitting on the ground, and stretched out his bloody hand to grab the bronze mask in the second baby's hand.
With a choking smell of blood coming to his mouth and nose, the stunned second baby immediately reacted back, this is something that his second uncle and Master Li finally worked hard to get out, how could this monster be robbed, the whole person suddenly lay on the ground and then rolled to the side, dodging.
The monster without human skin grabbed an empty space and immediately pounced on the second baby.
Erwa hurriedly got up and wanted to run, but he forgot the rope on the sole of his feet, and as a result, he fell on his head and hit the stone directly, and suddenly the whole person fell dizzy, and the bronze mask also fell out 4,5 meters away.
It took about ten minutes before my head cleared up a little. After slowing down, he looked up and wanted to find where the mask fell, and when he looked up, he saw a bloody giant face and eyes without pupils staring straight at him, could he have died like this, and he was unwilling to be twenty-three years old for a while, and then he didn't know anything when it was dark in front of him.