Chapter Seventy-Eight: Tubao
After about twenty minutes, the width of the cave gradually increased, as if it were an open flare. It was also the first time he had entered the cave, and from the moment he entered, he had counted his steps, and now he was almost a mile from the entrance of the cave.
At this time, the eyes of the four people suddenly opened up, and there was no previous sense of depression, followed by another space - a narrow mountain hollow. There was not much light left in the fire fold, and all that could be seen was a mud field filled with dense piles of small dirt bags, each with a wooden sign inserted on it, neatly leaving an invisible passage in the middle, and it was impossible to see what was ahead due to the dim light.
Chang Butong walked to the left hand side to the nearest small dirt bag, and when he got closer, he saw that the wooden sign vaguely said "990", and the left side was "989", "988", "987", and not surprisingly...... Until the end of this row - "981", that is to say, there are a total of ten small dirt bags in the left row of the middle passage, and from the neat arrangement, the right side should also be ten small dirt bags, and this was confirmed later, and the last wooden sign is written "1000".
Seeing Chang Butong going back and forth left and right in front of his eyes, with no tendency to stop, Qin Ling immediately stopped him and asked, "Mr. Chang, is there anything wrong with these little dirt bags?" ”
"It's too bad, it's too bad, it's more complicated than the old man thought, what do you think this looks like?" Chang Butong led them to look at the wooden number on the small dirt bag in turn.
Qin Ling asked puzzledly: "Is it a grave bag, impossible, who would make it so small, and it doesn't write the name of the deceased." ”
Daema suddenly said, "What if you don't care who the dead are? ”
"Where do you start?" Qin Ling stared at Dai Ma tightly, eager to know the reason.
Daema came out of his mouth a word that no one had mentioned in a long time: "Flying corpses stand in the cave." ”
Qin Ling opened his mouth wide, he couldn't believe that the legendary "Flying Corpse Standing Cave" was right in front of him, and he was speechless for a moment.
I saw Chang Butong looking around with his right eye again, and after a while, after he put on his glasses, he said with a solemn face: "Dai Ma is right, this way of burial is not a normal horizontal lay, but an upright burial, so the grave bag looks very small, but there is a big article underground, which is very in line with the way of 'flying corpses standing in caves'." ”
Dai Ma was an earth fairy earlier, and he heard his master talk about what it was like to "fly corpses and stand in caves". And Qin Ling, as a Taoist priest, has more or less heard about the history of "flying corpses standing in caves".
The matter goes back to the early years of the Qin Dynasty. Legend has it that although Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms at that time, many of the remaining orphans of the Six Kingdoms still tried to recover their own countries, and gradually formed a group of teams known as "dead soldiers", the purpose of which was to assassinate the First Emperor Yingzheng and regain power. But groups of dead soldiers went and did not return, and the hope of recovering the country became more and more slim. At first, the "Flying Corpse Cave" was only aimed at the dead, after the death of the person, the corpse was buried upright in a murderous hole, and then the corpse was given a mixed herb, after 7749 days, the corpse would jump out of the pit, just like a cannonball shot out of the barrel of the cannonball, until the target was found, it would not land, and after killing the opponent, it would fly up again to attack the next target. But the dead are dead after all, they can't be controlled, which brings inconvenience to the assassination, and they don't distinguish between the enemy and me, and it is easy to kill their own people by mistake, so Fang Shi replaced the burial of a living person and became a real dead man, but unfortunately he was not able to successfully assassinate Yingzheng in the end. After Ying Zheng's death, because this method was too cruel and this way of hurting people had little effect, no one used it anymore.
Later, there were also many evil sects who wanted to use the method of "flying corpses to establish holes" to do evil, but because the method of making herbal medicine has been lost, no one has ever succeeded. "Flying corpses and caves" has also become a strange talk of three religions and nine streams, five elements and eight works.
If you really encounter the "Flying Corpse Standing Cave" here, you can imagine how terrible it will be, and Chang Butong and the others shudder.
"No, the 'Flying Corpse Cave' is just a legend, no one has really seen it, how can they draw conclusions so quickly, if it is really the 'Flying Corpse Cave', it is absolutely impossible for the Yin and Yang Array of the Poor Dao to be undetectable, absolutely impossible, unless it is ......" Qin Ling explained, but he couldn't convince himself.
Dai Ma directly skipped Qin Ling's "unless" and asked Chang Butong: "Mr. Chang, if it is really a 'flying corpse standing in the cave', is there a way to save it?" ”
Chang Butong said something that made everyone unspeakable, but helpless: "Yes, that is death." ”
After saying this, Daima fell into the abyss and unconsciously retreated into the cave.
Chang Butong realized that Qin Ling still had something to say, so he asked, "Unless what?" ”
Qin Ling said: "Unless the things in the tomb are not yin or yang. ”
Chang Butong thought for a moment and said: "There is this possibility, the old man just looked around and found that the space here is huge, not to mention anything else, this tomb is shrouded in a layer of shadows, it is difficult to tell what is there, the situation is too complicated, we should go back first, we can't go any further." ”
Qin Ling and Dai Ma agreed. As soon as the three of them turned around, they realized that Wu Santong had not spoken for a long time, which was not like his person, so they searched nearby, only to be sure that he had disappeared unconsciously.
"It turned out to be him." Daema squinted at the cave, "Oh no, we've been tricked." ”
Dai Ma raised his legs and rushed towards the cave, leaving Chang Butong and Qin Ling unclear.
The words were divided into two ends, after Dai Ma left, Qin Ling asked Chang Butong: "What's going on, is Wu Santong a spy, should we also go with him?" ”
"No, I'm afraid it's too late." Chang Butong said regretfully.
Sure enough, when Dai Ma chased after him, there was still a figure of Wu Santong, and only a fishy wind that overwhelmed people came from inside the cave......
"What's that?" Dai Ma looked at it, and his heart was half cold, it turned out to be a pair of pairs of countless red eyes, layered on top of each other, with a chaotic "hissing" sound. Without thinking for a second, he knew that it was a large snake, so he pulled his legs back, and after seeing Chang Butong and Qin Ling, he reminded loudly: "Run, there are snakes." ”
Chang Butong and Qin Ling were surprised, but they didn't bother to ask carefully, and ran directly inside.
The fire fold was quietly extinguished at this time, and the three of them ignored the darkness in front of them, and rushed directly to the middle passage like headless flies.
In the blink of an eye, Daima had rushed to a stone wall, and when he touched it with his hand, there was a rusty iron door embedded in the stone wall. He pushed and bumped several times, and except for the "clang" collision, the iron door was still tightly closed. Then, Chang Butong and Qin Ling also arrived.
Qin Ling asked anxiously, "Why did you stop?" ”
"The iron door is locked, and it can't be opened." Daima explained.
Qin Ling was out of breath and asked, "How many snakes are there, do we have to escape?" ”
"There are many, too many to count, I'm afraid the snakes of the entire Python Mountain have gathered here." Daima recalls the anomaly after entering the mountain.