Nuqing Xiangxi Chapter 38 White Ape
Partridge Whistle is dressed in a night suit, and the red girl and the seedling are carried out, and the three of them are looking for sound in the night. The direction in which the crying sound in the forest came happened to be at the place where the boulder fell, and the closer it was, the clearer the sound of whimpering and sorrow, and the crying and screaming were extremely miserable and chaotic, as if a large group of people were crying in unison, only listening to the cry echoing in the forest with the wind, it was not a movement from nature such as the wind moving the forest and the Tao.
Is it not unusual for a partridge whistle to see such a strange sound in the middle of the night? He secretly wondered in his heart, so he mentioned the spirit of the twelve, held his breath and grabbed his footsteps to move forward for dozens of martial arts, and a dense old tree appeared in front of him, and the movement of the ghost crying and howling came from it, and the moon shadow in the forest was sparse, and the ghost was compelling.
The guide was already frightened at this scene, and he knew that he could not make a sound at this time, so he even gestured to Partridge Whistle and the Red Girl not to take another half step forward. Where are there any others in the dense forest in the middle of the night, it must be the ghost in the ancient tomb of Bottle Mountain who saw that the tomb was destroyed, and the ghost lingered nearby, even if the three of us ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, we didn't dare to go inside.
Where was the partridge whistle willing to pay attention to the seedlings, he saw that the shadows of the trees were dense and covered with moonlight, and it was not safe to pass through the forest, so he pulled the seedlings by the collar, pointed to the treetops of the red girl, and immediately climbed an old tree with the seedlings. The branches of that forest are so thick that the branches of the treetops can bear a lot of weight.
The seedlings among the three are also local natives who are accustomed to climbing trees and drilling mountains, and the red girl and the partridge whistle are even more dexterous, silently climbing the canopy, lowering their figures, hiding in the branches and leaves of the treetops, and quietly peeing under the trees from a high place by the hazy moonlight.
Under the shadow of the moon, I saw that the back of the forest was the mountain that had broken off from the front end of the bottle mountain, sleeping on the ground like a huge monster that was sleeping and not moving. The mountain has cracked countless large and small cracks, and many rocks have collapsed from it, and the interior of the mountain has been exposed, but Partridge Whistle and others are at the far end, and they can't see the situation in the mountain rock clearly.
In front of the rock, there are scattered broken tiles and all kinds of Ming utensils everywhere, gold, silver, copper and jade, think that the tomb has been violently impacted, the internal masonry utensils have fallen apart, and there is a tall and abnormal purple gold coffin oblique in the ground, the purple gold coffin is so luxurious, surrounded by a pearl jade box, the so-called pearl chest. It is the pearl tabernacle, and the coffin is covered with flawless jade.
But this purple gold coffin has been shattered, the pearl jade is broken and shattered, scattered all over the ground, in the coffin is a lacquered coffin with golden silk nanmu, the coffin lid has been shaken open, only a seven-star plate, half-covered and half-hidden on the coffin. This board is made of fir wood, the size of the coffin can be accommodated, placed in the coffin lid, the board is chiseled with seven round holes of size such as copper coins, and the seven holes are connected by carving the groove, so it is called the seven star plates, and there is this custom since the Sui and Tang dynasties.
The seven-star plate half-covered the coffin, and nothing could be seen in the darkness inside, and I don't know what happened to the corpse of the Yuan general, only countless sorrowful cries floated around in the forest. At this moment, in the forest, the night fog flowed between the trees, and the moonlight was also blocked by the light clouds in the sky, and it was hazy in all directions. The three partridge whistles crouched in the treetops, and although they could hear the cries in all directions, they could not make out where the wailing came from, so they made up their minds to wait and see what was happening, and lowered the muzzle of the mirrored box with the nose open, and stared at the movement under the trees with eagle-like eyes wide.
As she watched with bated breath, the red girl suddenly tugged at the sleeve of the partridge whistle, raised her hand and pointed to the purple gold coffin, indicating that at the angle she was, she could see something very unusual at the bottom of the coffin. The partridge whistle moved lightly on the branch, changed the angle, opened its eyes, and suddenly felt a pang in his heart: "What is that?" ”
It turned out that under the purple gold coffin was a white Sensen's human arm, which was thick and long, with five fingers and claws several inches long, white and fluffy, and most of them were exposed from the bottom of the coffin, and they did not move.
The zombie body appears to be mutated and suddenly gives birth to corpse hair, which has always been said to be "fierce", which is a synonym for stiffness, known as black murder, white murder and hair. But during the Republic of China, the scientific concept was far more prosperous than in the feudal era, and even the partridge whistle knew that the corpse turned into cow hair due to mildew.
The coffin has been sealed for thousands of years, as long as the internal air has not flowed, the thousand-year-old corpse will still be like a living person after the coffin is opened, but after coming into contact with the air, the thousand-year-old zombie will definitely change in an instant, and the change is related to the coffin material, the corpse is related to the bright vessel hidden on the corpse, if the coffin is covered with moisture-proof corpse ash or mercury, the corpse must be a corpse, and there will be no mildew.
If the thousand-year-old corpse containing pearls and jade and blocking the nine orifices is properly preserved, it will mostly be a wet corpse when the coffin is opened, that is, the moisture contained in the corpse is still locked firmly, and the hair and nails of the ancient corpse can even continue to grow in the coffin for a hundred years.
For Partridge Whistle, the leader of the mountain who specializes in robbing ancient tombs, the phenomenon of corpse mutation and corpse fraud, and even the horror of zombies and people, are common things, and he has seen many of them, how strange is it. But looking at the purple gold coffin inlaid with beads and jade, I can't help but feel very strange, the mountain that collapsed from the bottle mountain wrapped the tomb, and the coffin fell out of it, just facing up, could it be that this coffin coffin is not as strong as the coffin, and the ancient corpse inside is exposed from the bottom of the coffin? Or is there a zombie hidden in this forest, but it was smashed and crushed by this purple gold coffin?
The burial chamber was hidden in the top of the mountain and hung in the air, and then the mountain collapsed and the ground cracked, and the coffin fell from the burial chamber into the dense forest, such a situation I am afraid that no tomb robber has ever bumped into it, and the partridge whistle certainly did not have this kind of experience, and the demonic atmosphere in the forest was strong, and he refused to act rashly until he found out the situation.
The guide saw that the partridge whistle and the red girl were staring at the side of the purple coffin on the tree, and he didn't know what the two of them were looking at, so he also used his hands and feet at the same time, climbed the branch and moved over, rubbed his eyes and took a closer look, and saw a zombie with white hair pressed under the coffin, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
There is a saying: "Huangkou Ruzi, how dare you listen to the roar of thunder and lightning?" How can a sick woodcutter smell the roar of the tiger and the roar of the dragon? "The people in the remote mountains and wilderness are the most superstitious, and the fear of the ghost fox zombie is deep in the bone marrow,—— and they are shocked when they look at it, lying on the tree and trembling all over, only more than the wood carved clay sculpture to tremble.
The red girl was frightened when she saw that the cave brute was so frightened that his hands and feet were useless, and he might fall down from the tree at any moment, so she hurriedly grabbed him by the waistcoat. At this time, I only heard the mournful cry in the forest gradually gathered, and the figures in the trees were chaotic, and the branches and leaves were rustling.
Partridge Whistle knew in his heart that this was the "right idea", and waved his hand lightly to the red girl and Miaozi, and signaled: "Don't make any more noise, just stay still, first see what is going on in the forest, and then pay attention." Before he could put his hand down, a group of black shadows had jumped under the tree.
At this moment, the night fog was thin, and the moon was halfway out of the clouds, and I saw a group of monkeys in the woods, and there were about 100 monkeys in the group of monkeys, and even the young monkey cubs who had just been born. I was also picked up by a female monkey. The group of monkeys rushed to cry, and when they were a few steps away from the purple coffin, they immediately stopped, as if they were very afraid of the broken coffin, and no longer dared to approach half a step forward, but only gathered around scratching their ears and cheeks to hide their faces and cry, and jumped up and down, refusing to have a moment of peace.
Partridge Whistle and the Red Girl saw this large group of monkeys, all like the world is in mourning, and they also felt horrified, and Partridge Whistle's heart moved: "Could it be that the coffin killed a white-haired old ape?" With this thought, looking at the arm under the purple gold coffin, it does look different from ordinary people, just like the arm of an ape, it seems that there is a white ape in the forest who suddenly flew into trouble and died tragically under the coffin.
It is said that all kinds of living beings in the world have a fixed number, and if they live for a long time, they will be destroyed by heaven and earth. The white ape took a step forward, a wrong step, and would not be hit by the purple gold coffin that fell from the sky, if there was no fixed number in the underworld, how could he be killed by this?
Partridge Whistle couldn't make sure for a while, so he continued to spy on the monkeys. The monkeys gathered around, wailing and crying loudly, as if they intended to go over and lift the coffin to bring out the white ape corpse under it to see what was going on, but as if they were extremely afraid of something, they took half a step forward with a noise, and flew back with a strange cry like a burning buttocks.
The three of them could see clearly in the tree, and they didn't know why the monkeys were so afraid of the purple gold coffin, could it be that the monkeys also knew that the zongzi in the coffin were powerful? As the saying goes, "Chenzhou's zongzi, Liuzhou's ghosts", the most famous local products in Chenzhou, Xiangxi, in addition to the cinnabar known as Chenzhou sand, and Chenzhou seedlings, and then the zombie is the most famous. The custom of sending corpses has a long history, and the legend of corpse transformation is also the most, so it is not strange to see any corpse mutation in Xiangxi Bottle Mountain, I am afraid that even the monkeys in the mountains know that ancient corpses cannot be touched lightly.
The seedling was only afraid of the fox and ghost, but he was not surprised when he saw the monkeys, because there are often groups of wild monkeys in the Mengdong River Valley, and there is also the famous White Ape Cave in Laoxiongling, and these monkeys are one of the great enemies of those who travel to and from the mountains to trade. The monkeys all know that the passers-by have wine and dry food on them, and they will smash people with stones in the deep mountains and old forests, and then snatch food, so the local guides for the merchants will sing "monkey songs" to dispel the harassment of the monkeys.
Partridge Whistle is good at ventriloquism, and can also sing monkey songs and monkey praises to drive away monkeys, but at this time, the group of monkeys gathered, all around the purple coffin jumping and crying, the action is extremely abnormal, before seeing what happened, Partridge Whistle hinted that the other two companions peeped at the top of the tree, not to alarm the group of monkeys.
At this time, I saw that the hundreds of monkeys were so anxious that they were spinning around, among them there seemed to be a number of wise people, who squatted on the ground after a few turns, picked up stones and threw them at the coffin, and the rest of the monkeys followed suit, and for a while countless stones fell like raindrops, and smashed into the purple gold coffin with a crackling sound, but the coffin was dead and silent, and there was no movement.
The partridge whistle said secretly: "Such cunning, they know how to throw stones and ask for directions, I don't know what they are going to do, and I will look at them carefully." Then he thought, "There is no movement in the coffin when it is hit by rocks, it seems that this group of monkeys is going to pass......"
As soon as this thought was initiated, I saw several bold and fast monkeys jumping out of the monkey group, one of them seemed to be a little timid, and when he came out, he was driven out by an old monkey in the monkey group. Five or six monkeys trembled and approached the purple gold coffin with heavy yin qi, scratching the monkey's cheeks and screaming indiscriminately, looking panicked and anxious, eager to move the coffin away immediately, but fearing that something terrible in the coffin would suddenly appear, three steps forward and two steps back, and finally the monkey gall came to the front, still vigilantly looking around, as long as there was a slight wind and grass, it would immediately escape like a gust of wind.
At this moment, the arm of the white ape that was pressed under the giant coffin moved suddenly, and he didn't know whether it was a corpse or a return to the yang, so frightened that the hair and tails of several monkeys nearby all stood up, jumped up on the spot, and swooped back to the monkey group. The rest of the monkeys were also frightened and immediately fled.
After a while, the fleeing monkeys probed their heads to look this way from a distance, and there was a lot of chatter before they gathered again and gathered in front of the purple gold coffin again. The partridge whistle looked aside, and they were all secretly anxious for this group of monkeys, only to see that the monkeys gradually calmed down from their panic, and found that the white apes pressed under the coffin seemed to be alive, and they all jumped down in the bushes, and they all seemed to be happy.
At that moment, a few monkeys crawled over with their tails crossed, tentatively stretched out their monkey paws and touched the coffin, wanting to move the heavy purple gold coffin, but they didn't know where to start, so they jumped forward and backwards in a hurry. Among them was a large bald-tailed old monkey, who seemed to be the most courageous of the monkeys, and he tried several times, and when he saw that there was nothing abnormal in the coffin, he jumped on the seven-star board and tried to remove the plank.
At this moment, a burst of black gas suddenly emerged from the coffin, and an ancient corpse sat up. This zombie is burly and tall, with a blood-purple face like ox liver, no crown on his head, his hair is scattered, and he is wearing a fierce funeral robe with a splendid purple robe, and a jade and gold belt inlaid around his waist. The corpse rose as fast as electricity, and without waiting for the bald monkey to react, it screamed and was pulled into the coffin by the zombies, and there was no one in the dark coffin, the coffin was deep and large, and the situation inside could not be seen in the tree, only to hear the screams of the bald monkey in the coffin suddenly cut off, and there was no movement in the purple gold coffin.