Chapter 31: The Tomb of the Spirits
In the dark night, the village was silent, the back mountain tomb was shrouded in black black branches, the gusts of wind danced the melody of death, and the owl let out a low cry like a seduction again, and the eerie atmosphere seemed to warn those who delusionally snooped into the secrets of death that they would be beaten into endless ends
At this moment, a black figure appeared in the corner of the village entrance, and he poked out half of his head to spy on the surrounding situation, and there was no half of a figure on the village road.
He staggered down the gloomy corner, and as he passed the last corner he pressed against the corner and looked up the hill, where the path opened up the hegemony of death, and the black shadows rushed to the back hill with lightning speed, and the crooked paths, the chaotic weeds, and the thin trunks of the trees, rendered the whole back mountain in an ancient tone.
Just today there was a black figure on this unattended path, he walked quietly forward, his eyes scanned the surrounding situation from time to time, his heavy breathing revealed his nervous mood, he lowered his body and pressed his hand to the ground and cautiously approached a tomb not far away, the dark path revealed an unusual aura, and a strange cry sounded.
The black shadow immediately held back his breath, trying to hide his breath, and just as the cry approached the figure, a gray-brown owl landed above him, the owl's hearing seemed to be very sensitive, and it spotted this uninvited guest in the night, and it landed quietly on the branch of the tree, staring at the black figure below.
When the black shadow noticed the owl appearing in the sky, the nervous mood was slowly relieved, he slowly walked to the back of the tombstone, and threw the tool in his hand on the ground, "Don't be surprised, I hope you will bear with me," the black figure waved the hoe in his hand after speaking, and actually began to dig the graveyard where the dead were sleeping, and the sound of waving was even more terrifying mixed with the beat of the leaves blown by the wind.
The owl began to croak incessantly, as if to warn the figure under the tree, the demon would finish his life, the chaotic sound kept intertwining like a ghost crying ghost, it sounded creepy, a pitch-black coffin slowly emerged from the ground, the soul that had been sleeping for a long time had not seen the light of day, and now it would be the time to break through the ground.
The sound of whistling leaves began to become more and more rapid, it was a spell from hell that was about to resurrect the dead corpse, the black shadow carefully turned over the loess around the coffin, and then squatted down to pick up the last layer of loess with his hands, so that the original shape of the entire coffin was presented, the black shadow turned on the small searchlight above his head at this time, and then carefully inspected the entire coffin, the black shadow did not know when there was another crowbar in his hand, he carefully squeezed it into the thin slit of the coffin lid, and then kept prying it up, One by one, the iron nails were slowly pulled out.
Just as the figure finished prying the last corner, a foul smell wafted from the coffin lid, and the black shadow immediately covered his mouth, and then slowly opened the coffin lid, "Huh? With a dull sound of doubt, the coffin had been opened, there was no corpse in the empty coffin, only the smell of decay, the black shadow carefully examined the surroundings of the coffin, but the soil of the coffin was not turned over.
The coffin was buried by Uncle Ergou himself, so why did the body disappear out of thin air? The black shadow carefully examined the inside of the coffin with doubts, gently stroking the thick coffin, and there were bursts of mutual resonance from the depths of the ground, it was a voice that crossed the space to tell the world the truth step by step, "I see," after carefully examining it, the black shadow already had a satisfactory answer.
He smiled and closed the lid of the coffin again, and slowly climbed out of the tomb, the cold wind kept blowing, the owl looked at the figure below and let out a strange low sound again, and then spread its wings and left here, the black shadow backfilled the excavated loess to the cemetery, the black shadow looked at the tomb that had been filled in with satisfaction, and then quietly left the terrifying back mountain with his own tools.
When the sun shines on the village, the back mountain full of weeds seems to be still, everything last night does not seem to disturb the original rhythm of this cemetery, I woke up when it was already more than seven o'clock in the morning, I rubbed my confused eyes and prepared to get up and go out, I didn't expect
When I got up early in the morning, Uncle Chen called me and told me to go to his house, "Guoyuan, are you up?" Come on my trip," Uncle Chen looked a little nervous in his words, and his voice was not as low as usual.
"Well, well, what's the matter? Uncle Chen," my mind hadn't fully sobered up, I shook my head and asked suspiciously, "Let's talk about it later, Guoyuan," Uncle Chen seemed to be reluctant to reveal too much on the phone, but just urged me to go to his house, "Well, I'll come over now," I felt that something was wrong with Uncle Chen, and countless thoughts flashed through my heart.
I quickly got up and got dressed, hastily ate a little breakfast and rushed to Uncle Chen's house, when I passed by the third aunt's house along the way, I thought about it but didn't walk in the door, or take Uncle Chen's things first, and I continued to move forward when I thought of this, but I didn't expect it to be this turn, which became the most regrettable one in my life, that is, strange things happened one after another on this day.
When I rushed to Uncle Chen's house, the door of Uncle Chen's house was open, "Uncle Chen, are you inside?" Before entering the door, I seemed a little hesitant, and began to call Uncle Chen at the door, but I didn't see Uncle Chen respond after several shouts, and a sense of foreboding suddenly rose in my heart, I rushed into the door with an arrow, and there was no one in the empty room, and the room was filled with wooden furniture that was usually used.
There was a pile of water stains and a crooked cup on the dining table, and further on was Uncle Chen's bedroom, I knocked on the door and there was no response, and I couldn't care so much about it in a hurry, I opened the bedroom door with both hands, the bedroom was empty, there was no one in it, there was nothing abnormal in the tidy room, only a bag of things was faintly visible in the corner of the bed that was overturned.
I looked around the room, and a strong curiosity drove me to the head of the bed, it seemed that this package was hiding a heavier object, and my mind kept thinking about why Uncle Chen himself disappeared since he called me over. I slowly walked out of the bedroom, and continued to wait in the living room, I pulled out Uncle Chen's phone again and again, but no one answered, and I felt uneasy in my heart, could there be any clues hidden in that package, I decided to open this package to find out.
I walked into the bedroom again, I approached the bedside and lifted the package, a whole bag of bronzes and jade bracelets appeared in front of my eyes, my mind instantly became blank, in this bag of things I actually saw the national first-class cultural relics horn-shaped jade cup that had been dug up, I couldn't believe what I saw in front of me, could it be that Uncle Chen secretly hid the cultural relics in his own home? Where did Uncle Chen go? Did he abscond in fear of crime after being discovered? Then why did he call me to his house early in the morning?
And why did this bag of valuable artifacts remain in his own home and not be taken away? My mind went over and over again to find a plausible explanation, but I was wrong, and I couldn't find a plausible explanation for all of this.
Just when I was looking at this pile of cultural relics in a daze, a message from hell put me on the verge of collapse again, just when I was about to get up to check all the places in the house, a hurried phone rang, I quickly picked up the phone and thought it was Uncle Chen calling, but I didn't expect the phone to show Han Dong, "Hey, Guoyuan, where are you?" Han Dong on the phone looked very anxious, and before I could say what I saw, he asked.