"My real name is Li Ruiqi, and Scar Li is my nickname. My ancestral home is in Sichuan, and in our hometown, there are many mountains, the mountains are majestic and dangerous, and there are often karst caves and other wonders on the mountainside, which are warm in winter and cool in summer, and the locals believe that the high places are closer to the gods, so that the corpse does not rot and the soul does not die. So at that time, many people chose to keep the bodies in those caves, that is, hanging coffins.

Another function of the hanging coffin is to prevent tomb robbery, because the mountain is extremely dangerous and difficult for ordinary people to approach. However, it also takes some skills to send the hanging coffin up. And Ding Lingxiu's family has been erecting hanging coffins for generations. After a long time, Scar Lee finally opened up the conversation.

After saying these words, Scar Li slowly took off his gloves and stretched out his hand, at this time Ding Lingxiu finally connected his profession with the pair of hands that grew like claws, where is this a pair of hands, it is clearly a pair of hooks.

"We were trained to climb rock from a young age, and the training was extremely hard, and after more than ten years of training, we were able to climb that cliff like a fly. I was twenty-three years old, and in the summer of that year an old man in the village died, and my father and I began to prepare for the obituary, and the old man's wife had died a few years earlier and was buried in a cave on the Holy Spirit Mountain, where my father and I had hung the coffin. Now the old man is going to be buried with his wife, so we are already familiar with the cave in the Holy Spirit Mountain.

At that time, it coincided with the text. During the Revolution, storms swept across the country, and of course my hometown was no exception. Because the hanging coffin itself was set up out of superstition, it was beaten into a cow ghost and snake god, so we chose to send the hanging coffin in the middle of the night.

After dark, the old man's family quietly sent the hanging coffin to the foot of the Holy Spirit Mountain, where my father and I had been waiting for a long time, and my father took a big puff of hookah, and after a 'grunt' sound, he put down the hookah, hung a rope around his waist, and carried a short knife with him.

I also had a knife in my bag, some yellow paper and incense, and a torch in my mouth, and jumped up the cliff. Since it was summer and it had just rained, it was a little difficult to climb. However, it is not a problem for us who are family climbers, so we can move up and hook the boss on the cliff with our hands, and keep our body close to the rock wall, so that we can transfer the weight of our body to the rock wall as much as possible and reduce the load on our fingers.

There are many karst caves on the Holy Spirit Mountain, and the cave where the coffin of the old man and his wife is hanging is located in the upper part of the cliff, we climb like the wind, hand and foot together, and the cliff of dozens of feet is half climbed in a short time. My dad stopped, and we hung on the cliff for a short rest. At this moment, a black figure suddenly burst out of the cave beneath us, and then ran towards another cave at a very fast speed.

My dad and I were watching it, and our family had never heard of a monster that could climb a cliff at such a fast speed, and I wanted to go over and see what was going on, but my dad stopped me. Our first task now is to arrange the hanging coffin for the victim. Although Ding Lingxiu had doubts, he had to give up, and we didn't rest after the monster appeared.

Suddenly there was a bell in our ears, and the sound was so disturbing that I almost fell off the cliff. At that moment, the black thing sprang out of the cave and hung on the cliff, making a 'gurgling' sound in its throat. Its position was only a dozen meters away from me, as if it was observing my movements, and I was a little drumming in my heart, but at this moment, the monster suddenly pounced in my direction. ”

Scar Lee swallowed as he spoke......

"Is that a human-faced cat?" Ding Lingxiu interrupted Scar Lee's words at this opportunity.

"Be honest!" Xia Xianyao scolded sharply.

Scar Li sighed, and then looked in Xia Xianyao's direction, and Xia Xianyao gave him an unceremonious look.

Scar Lee seemed to have fallen into deep thought, not hearing her words, and he continued: "At that time, the speed of the black shadow was extremely fast, because I had already noticed that it was moving, so when it swooped down on me, I was already prepared, and hurriedly clinged to the cliff, hanging my body with both hands, and the monster did not continue to attack when it failed to strike.

As soon as it touched the cliff under my feet, it immediately jumped upward, like a black lightning bolt, and disappeared into which cave in an instant. My dad looked at me and made sure I wasn't hurt, so we paused for a moment to move on, but a sense of foreboding crept up in our hearts, as if something terrible was about to happen.

Although we worship ghosts and gods, we don't believe in evil in our hearts, so even if the sense of foreboding was very strong at that time, we couldn't turn back until we completed the task assigned by the owner, and it was not easy to secretly transport the coffin to the bottom of the mountain this big night. We rested for a while and then continued to climb upwards, and then we were much more alert, because we didn't know where the monster was hiding, and it might come out of nowhere and surprise us.

It took about half an hour or so for us to finally arrive at the mouth of the cave, a cold air blew, the cold air was mixed with a strong smell of corpses, my father first noticed the abnormality, and then quickly extinguished the torch in my hand, and it immediately became dark in front of me, my father and I held our breath, only the sound of 'dong dong' heartbeat in our ears.

After waiting for about a few minutes, there was a sudden 'gurgling' sound in our ears, which seemed to be the sound of bones breaking, and my heart suddenly rose to my throat, knowing that there were at least a dozen coffins placed in the horizontal and vertical places. The first thing that came to my mind was the corpse, although I had never seen it, but I had heard the elders say that the corpse was so powerful.

My father had quietly pulled out the knife hanging from his waist, and I reached out to my bag and groped, when I suddenly felt a strong gust of air rushing in front of me, and I felt bad in my heart, but it was too late to dodge at this time. Anyway, Jiang is still old and spicy, at that time my father had already made a move, kicked me away, my body with my father's strength suddenly rushed to the edge of the cliff, fortunately my reaction was not slow, hooked the protruding stone on the edge of the cliff with my hand, and hung on the cliff wall, and then a black shadow flashed in front of our eyes.

I knew it was the monster I had just seen, my father picked up the torch, and after lighting it, the true face of the monster finally appeared in front of our eyes, a sallow shrunken human face, and the lower body was in the shape of a giant cat, and the mouth of the thing was holding a yellowed leg bone, and the bones were still sticky with black and red carrion.

It seemed to be enraged by the torch in my father's hand, and suddenly thought that my father pounced, and my father must have been frightened by the monster in front of him, and he didn't dodge, the monster shook off the bone in his mouth, and then bit my father's neck, and only then did my father react, his hand reflexively stabbed the dagger into the monster's body, and the monster opened its mouth in pain, and a stream of blood immediately spurted out of my father's throat.

The monster turned around, picked up the bone and disappeared between the cliffs, and when I climbed the cliff, my father was still breathing, his body was trembling violently, and a pair of eyes were staring at me, as if to say something, I put my ear close to my father's mouth, and vaguely heard my father say a few words, 'Xingtian...... Ancient...... The hand that had grabbed me finally hung down.

The next morning I buried my father, and the victim's family came to my house to help with my father's funeral in order to apologize, and at the end of the funeral, the victim found me and wanted to ask what kind of monster my father was injured. I told him about 1510, and he listened attentively, frowning sometimes furrowed, sometimes tightened. When he heard my father's last words, the expression on his face froze.

After a long while, he suddenly grabbed me and asked loudly, 'You said the Xingtian Ancient Tomb? ’

I nodded blankly, then asked, 'Do you know?' ’

The man hesitated, then shook his head in obscurity. ”

Scar Li sighed, although those past events have been sealed for many years, but still can't hide the pain in his heart, after a while, the corners of his mouth hung up on the initial smile, coughed lightly twice and said: "I know that this family must know what the Xingtian Ancient Tomb means and what kind of secrets it hides, but it is inconvenient to say, there must be a secret inside."

That night I crept to the cave where my father had an accident, and chased after the blood marks left by the monster, and all night I chased to a torrent that had been turned into a barren river by the mountain people before stopping, and when the east showed the white of the fish's belly, I was already tired and panting.

The mountains around this barren river are dangerous, the barren grass is overgrown, poisonous insects and beasts are often infested, and legends about this place abound, and the barren river has always been a mystery to everyone, because no one knows where the river originated, and probably no one has seriously explored this question.

Therefore, unless you have to go, no one will ever come close to this place. I was a little hesitant at the moment, but thinking of my father's tragic death at the hands of that monster, I decided to risk my life, as a son of man, I couldn't avenge my father, how could I be safe?

Thinking of this, I rested for a while, and then dared to walk into the depths of the barren river. The river was probably less than ten meters wide, the water was crystal clear, shining in the sun, like gold falling on the water, the water was very slow, the only thing that was strange was that there was not a single fish in such a river! R1058