Chapter 17 Retrospective (2)
Scar Lee continued:
"After waiting for about a few minutes, there was a sudden 'gurgling' sound in our ears, which seemed to be the sound of broken bones, and my heart suddenly rose to my throat, knowing that there were at least a dozen coffins lying in the middle of the line. 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!
The grass on both sides of the river was overgrown, and because it was inaccessible, the grass had grown to a depth of more than a person, so I had to go straight up the river for convenience. After a few miles up the riverbank, I suddenly felt a chill in the middle of summer, and the cold pierced my skin like a small, sharp steel needle, and the hairs on my body immediately stood on end.
I thought to myself that this place was really weird, so I slowed down and walked slowly.
But his mother's son had just walked less than half a mile, when suddenly a thick fog appeared in front of him, and the thick fog rose rapidly, forming a pale white cloud overhead. I immediately quickened my steps and walked forward, and suddenly I felt that the chill on my body disappeared in an instant, but after a few steps the chill began to attack me again.
When I was at a loss, the scene in front of me surprised me again, although I was still young at that time, but even if I am now in my old age, traveling all over the country, stealing strange tombs all over the world, I have never seen such a scene anywhere! Scar Li said and couldn't help but shake the pair of "hook" hands.
Although Ding Lingxiu was still a little disdainful of the tomb robber profession before, now he must admit that he has been completely attracted by the story of Scar Li, and his interest has been completely aroused by him.
Scar Lee continued: "There was a pit under the thick fog, the pit was not very large, some river water flowed straight down into the pit, and then a white mist rose, and I slowly approached the big pit, and the heat became heavier and heavier, accompanied by a smell of sulfur. And just then, I suddenly caught a glimpse of another pit not far away.
This pit is even more frightening, it is the height of summer, and the mouth of the pit is hung with a thick layer of frost, and the frost flowers are very large, stretching out into the hole. I had a palpitation, and I cautiously walked over there, and within a few steps, the cold came back at me, freezing cold.
The two pits are less than ten meters apart, but the scenes are very different. It makes me feel that this river is strange and abnormal. I didn't dare to linger too long, and the river gradually became much thinner, until it became a myriad of tiny tributaries.
This is the source of the barren river, I stood there and looked westward, when suddenly I felt that there was a curling smoke rising from the yellow grass not far from me, and my heart suddenly rose to my throat. I quickened my pace in the direction of the smoke, drawing the short knife from my waist as I went.
If I really meet that brute, I will definitely fight for my life to avenge my father. Who knew that when I approached the smoke step by step, I heard a terrible cry, the voice was made by a woman, and I panicked at the moment, saying that there was not even a figure in this barren mountain and wilderness, and where did this woman come from?
Because when I was a child, mobile phones and computers were not as common as you are now, I only often heard and told the story of "Journey to the West", and at the moment the strange monsters in it all rushed into my mind, I hesitated slightly, and then grabbed the short knife in my hand hard, thinking what does she care? This woman in the mountains must not be a good person.
I leapt to the woman, and when the woman heard my voice, she immediately turned her head, and I held the knife in my hand, and the woman wore a sackcloth hat and a small pile of incense behind her. We looked at each other, one with a hideous and vicious face, and the other with tears in his eyes and a face full of panic.
A few seconds later, the knife in my hand fell to the ground weakly, and I actually knew the woman in front of me. Scar Lee said with a long sigh.
Scar Li glanced at Ding Lingxiu, and said with a wry smile: "The person I told you just now about preparing to set up a hanging coffin is surnamed Zhou, there are only two big surnames in our village, one is Li, the era makes a living by setting up hanging coffins, and people within a radius of 100 miles will find the Li family if they want to set up hanging coffins."
And another big surname in the village is the Zhou family, it is said that the Zhou family and the Li family should have moved to the village together, and it is the big surname in the village but it has always been mysterious, and it rarely deals with people with other surnames in the village, unless it is a last resort, such as erecting a hanging coffin, and the Li family will occasionally have some dealings.
All the people of the Zhou family live in a compound in the innermost part of the village, which has never been entered by a person with a foreign surname. A red gate, with two white marble dominators placed at the door, hangs a red sandalwood plaque on the door, with the inscription 'Fukuzawa Zhou'.
When I was a child, I was curious about the Zhou family compound, so I quietly climbed the cliff behind the Zhou family at night, overlooking from top to bottom, the Zhou family compound was in and out, and the courtyard was full of red lanterns, and the lanterns were written with big Zhou characters. By the time it had passed, the lights in the other courtyards had been extinguished, and only the lights in the last courtyard were still on.
But the strange thing is that the windows of the last courtyard are all pasted with red paper, and the red light illuminates the entire courtyard, which makes people feel hairy when they look at it at night. After watching for a while, when I was about to go home, I suddenly saw the door of the last courtyard open, and then the Zhou family walked out of it one by one.
The house was supposed to hold up to twenty people, but hundreds of people came out, and they all came out without talking, and they all headed back to their homes along the path illuminated by red lanterns.
However, these are not enough to tell the mystery of the Zhou family, what makes me most puzzled is that when Little Japan swept into our village, a group of devil soldiers rushed into the courtyard of the Zhou family, just like a mud cow entering the sea, there was no gunshot, no sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping, and even no quarrels, those little devils disappeared as if they had evaporated from the world.
Therefore, there has always been such a rumor in the village that the Zhou family compound is the gate of hell, and ordinary people who enter it will die. Later text. During the revolution, a few did not know the height of the sky and the thickness of the red. The guards broke into the Zhou family compound unreasonably, and the whole village was waiting at the gate of the Zhou family compound, waiting for the repetition of the ghost soldiers.
But things didn't seem to go as expected, and in a quarter of an hour, a few Red Guards. The soldier walked out dejectedly, no different from ordinary people. All the legends about the mansion in the village were overturned in an instant, but only a month later, something strange happened.
Those Red Guards. Less than a month after returning home, the soldier mysteriously disappeared, and has not been heard from since, as if he had disappeared.
And the person in front of me is the daughter of the victim, named Zhou Zhiruo. The girl lived in seclusion and rarely appeared in the village, but the people in the village were very impressed by her, because the girl had a long scar on her face, and many people said that if the girl was not disfigured, she must be a fairy-like beauty, and the heavens left a deep scar on her face as if they were jealous of her beauty. R1058