Chapter 16: The Veil

As if Zhang Gong, who was possessed by a demon, was caught by the smoke man, the third child saw Zhang Gong's trance, and asked the smoke man with some worry: "Was Zhang Gong possessed by a ghost just now, or did he hit an evil spirit?" ”

The cigarette man took out a cigarette roll from his pocket and put it in his mouth, stared at Zhang Gong on the ground with a pair of cold eagle eyes, and then shook his head and said: "It's hard to say, I'm not sure if he is evil, maybe Zhang Gong's body is too weak, and he was affected by some powerful abnormal magnetism in the ground, so he will make crazy moves." Or maybe it was because he was physically and mentally traumatized by Yan zhΓ²ng, so he was temporarily delirious and made abnormal actions. ”

The third child did not agree with the smoke man's statement, he said with great certainty: "There is a mysterious evil spirit in this underground, I guess Zhang Gong is the evil one." ”

At this time, the fat man and the monkey ended their inconsistencious "planting flowers", patted off the dirt on their hands, and walked over to the smoke man. The fat man heard that the smoke man and the third child were discussing Zhang Gong's behavior just now, so he stared at Zhang Gong, who was curled up on the ground and kept moaning, and asked the smoke man in a very dissatisfied tone: "This guy is okay, don't go crazy?" Just now, Lao Tzu really killed his heart. ”

The cigarette man replied to the fat man, "I made him unconscious, and I guess I will go crazy when I wake up." ”

The fat man said uneasily: "What should I do then?" I won't carry him, and if he bites me again, I'll have to sell plucking sugar before him (Beijing dialect, meaning dead)"

The monkey looked at Zhang Gong who was unconscious, and also shirked with palpitations and said, "My hand is injured, but I don't have the strength to carry him." ”

The smoke man glanced at the monkey's injured arm, then opened his own backpack, took out a small bag from it, untied the rope tied to the bag, grabbed a handful of glutinous rice and put it in his mouth and chewed it, then ripped open the sleeve of the monkey's clothes and applied the chewed glutinous rice to it.

Immediately, the monkey was so painful that the sharp-beaked monkey's cheeks twisted together, not to mention how ugly it looked.

The man handed the bag of rice to the monkey and told him, "When the glutinous rice is all black, replace it with some new glutinous rice, until the glutinous rice on the wound is no longer contaminated with black gas, and it will be fine." After speaking, he found a piece of clothing in the backpack, tied the long sleeves of the clothes together, and then spread them on the ground, put Zhang Gong, who was curled up, on the clothes, and then pulled the sleeves and dragged Zhang Gong to the depths of the tomb.

Everyone knows that there is no longer a moment of delay, and the longer you stay in the mysterious underground, the more dangers you will encounter, and the more people may lose their lives, so you must hurry up to find the real tomb and Yue'er, and then leave here as soon as possible.

Everyone was in good spirits, but before they entered the passage of the underground palace, they had already killed two people, and one of them went crazy, and the fat man was seriously injured, and the third child and the monkey were also injured a lot, leaving only the smoke man unscathed. But the heroes are invincible with four hands, and the tigers can't stand the wolves, in case something happens again, it is difficult to protect everyone's thoughtfulness that the cigarette man can protect. All of them mobilized their nerves, and their alertness moved.

The third child twisted his waist, and he could only barely walk with the support of the monkey, and the smoke man dragged the unconscious Zhang Gong, and everyone couldn't help but move much slower, and they had walked in the dirt tomb for a few hours unconsciously. Everyone was so exhausted that they had to stop and rest and eat something to replenish their bodies.

The fat man chewed the dry and hard pancakes, pulling the wound on his neck, which made him frown frequently, and he couldn't help but stare at Zhang Gong lying on the ground with vicious eyes, and he wanted to go up and bite him twice.

The smoker didn't eat, but walked not far away, sat on the back wall of the ground and leaned against the wall to smoke quietly, his eyes closed like a cold stone statue.

The fat man really ate two bites of hard-to-swallow pancakes because of neck pain, so he curiously walked to Zhang Gong, who was lying on the ground, leaned down and looked down, and then stabbed Zhang Gong's face with his fingers, and Zhang Gong was still lying quietly on the ground motionless without any reaction.

At this time, the voice of the third child came from behind the fat man, "Don't kick him secretly while he is unconscious." ”

The fat man turned around and said disdainfully: "I'm not the kind of person who takes advantage of people's danger and takes revenge on people with small stomachs and chicken intestines, you don't underestimate people." I'm checking to see if he's still angry? As soon as the fat man's words fell, his eyes suddenly widened, and he looked directly behind the third child with a stunned expression, and the third child was furious in his heart, and hurriedly turned his head to look behind him. I saw that in the tomb behind him, a group of white figures floated out, like a soul separated from the human body, fluttering from far and near.

The third child was so frightened that he jumped up with a "mom", which made his back injury worse, and he fell directly to the ground in pain.

As a result, Zhang Gong, who had been lying unconscious on the ground, suddenly trembled after the screams of the third child, and then his hands and feet began to twitch non-stop, as if he was crazy.

The fat man was also jumped by the sudden exclamation of the third child, and reflexively bounced up from the ground, as a result, seeing Zhang Gong on the ground constantly squirming his body, he hurriedly leaned down and tied Zhang Gong with the clothes spread on the ground.

At this time, the smoke man heard the cry and ran over, he picked up the third child, shouted to the monkey "help", and then ran to the depths of the tomb with the third child on his back.

The monkey was still chewing bread in his mouth, and he was so sleepy that he dozed off just now, and he didn't understand the current situation at all, and he didn't react for a while when he heard the smoke man's shout.

The fat man looked at the stunned monkey and shouted anxiously: "Dead monkey cub, why are you still stupid?" Hurry over and help. ”

Only then did the monkey see the white shadow that seemed to be a ghost in the distance, and his brain could not help but tingle, and he shouted in panic, "Ghost! "I just wanted to run away, but the fat man grabbed the back collar.

The fat man stuffed a part of the sleeve of his clothes into the monkey's hand, and then carried the sleeve on the other side, and the two of them began to run away like Zhang Gong who was tied to the slaughter like a pig. And Zhang Gong, who was tied up, seemed to be about to start going crazy again, and he was struggling very restlessly.

The narrow pit grave path became wider and wider, and gradually before I knew it, the dirt road under the feet of the people who were eager to run for their lives became a stone grave road. The fat man ran and panted, and the monkey next to him was already so tired that he couldn't breathe, and hurriedly waved his hand to stop and rest, and the two of them stopped, put Zhang Gong on the ground, bent over and gasped.

The monkey raised his head and asked the fat man breathlessly, "Fat brother, what was the white shadow just now?" ”

The fat man gasped, covered his injured neck with his hands, and said intermittently: "Ya, isn't it the ghost you kid said." ”

The monkey stared at the tomb behind him, and the white unknown shadow did not chase after him, and said with a little relief: "I thought it was a ghost, but in fact, I don't know what that white shadow is." ”

The fat man glanced at the monkey angrily, and then said to him angrily: "You are not enough to succeed and more than to lose, I don't know what it means to be scary and scared to death, you are not clear, what are you shouting just now?" ”

The monkey didn't dare to reply, looked at Zhang Gong, who was unconscious on the ground, and said, "This guy can't be a fart, right?" ”

The fat man looked at Zhang Gong's slightly undulating chest and said, "It's okay, I didn't lose my breath after such a toss, which means that this guy has a big life." ”

The monkey looked into the distance ahead, and did not see the shadow of the smoke man and the third child, so he said to the fat man: "The little brother of the smoke man is carrying a person on his back, and he is running so fast, and in a blink of an eye, he will not see the figure, and he has really caught up with the Scud." ”

The fat man bent down, grabbed the clothes that tied Zhang Gong, and then said to the monkey without admitting defeat: "You are running too slowly, if I were alone, with my ability, I would have caught up with him a long time ago." After speaking, he looked at the unconscious Zhang Gong and said, "And this fucking goods, it's too much of a drag." Otherwise, let's find a place to bury him and destroy the body directly. ”

After hearing this, the monkey looked at the fat man with some hesitation. As a result, I saw the fat man laugh and said, "You can't believe it, right?" He is still alive now, and I will never be able to do this inhumane thing, but if he becomes a zongzi in a while, I will never be soft on him. ”

After hearing this, the monkey nodded reassuringly, and said with a flattering face: "The fat brother is really a bodhisattva, if he treated me like that just now, I don't care if he is really crazy or fake crazy, I would have left him here a long time ago." ”

The fat man heard someone patting him on the back, and said flutteringly: "Your fat brother is the reincarnation of a living Bodhisattva, you will never be deceived if you follow me, and you will have a bright future and a bright future, and you will eat and drink spicy food all your life." And I will never let you drink soup when I eat meat, and the brothers are righteous and angry, so it must be right to follow me. After you went back, you were followed by Kun Ba, and you came directly to our alien people to abandon the secret and surrender to the light, with me and your brother Wen covering you, you can walk sideways in the capital. ”

The monkey was very moved when he heard the fat man's impassioned heart-to-heart and lungs of true feelings, and immediately said to the fat man with tears in his eyes: "Fat brother, with your words, even if you go up the knife mountain and go down the oil pot in the future, my brother will definitely accompany you on a journey." ”

The two of them said that they were excited, and they couldn't help but feel that they hated seeing each other, and suddenly came to an affectionate hug. These two like-minded people walked together, completely forgetting where they were, and they were able to stage such an out-of-tune plot in this weird, dim and invisible tomb, I really have to admire the courage of the two of them from the bottom of my heart, or admire their brains burned out Cheng DΓΉ.

After the fat two showed their true feelings, they finally remembered what was going on, wiped away the tears from the corners of their eyes, and began to walk forward with Zhang Gong, who was trembling and curled in his clothes.

As a result, the two did not walk long before they reached the end of the tomb. In front of me was a spacious burial chamber, a lonely square burial chamber, with no transept and no coffin, but in the center there was a high altar-like platform, and on it hung what seemed to be an old-fashioned white mosquito net.

The fat man looked at the altar in the distance and said to the monkey, "Grandma, what is this?" Are dead zongzi still afraid of mosquitoes? ”

The monkey scratched his head with his injured hand and said, "I don't know either." However, it is rare to see a mosquito net on this altar. ”

The two of them carried Zhang Gong to the front of the high platform, which was much taller than what they saw in the distance, and they had to look up to see it when they stood at the bottom of the steps. The two of them put Zhang Gong on the ground, and then slowly climbed the steps, which were made of long stones piled up, and the platform was also paved with large stones that were very smooth in the desert. The two of them climbed several stone steps and stepped onto the top platform.

The smooth stone platform was covered with a white veil resembling a mosquito net, and there seemed to be a stone bed inside, and the shadow of the stone bed seemed to be a person still lying.

The fat man grabbed the monkey who was about to walk forward, and pointed to the person lying on the stone bed, and the monkey asked the fat man softly, "It can't be a zongzi, right?" ”

The fat man did not answer, but put the burden he was carrying on the ground, which he had prepared before entering the mountain, and because time was pressing, he asked the leper for a piece of baggage, and rolled up some utensils that he thought he could use and which were available everywhere in the farmhouse. He spread out his burden on the ground and picked out a half-sharpened wooden stick from it, which he intended to use to roast his prey after hitting it, and secondly, to make a zuΓ² torch, one of the tools he thought he was very proud of. However, this seemingly useless wooden stick is really useful now. The fat man tied the burden anew, and then slowly walked to the gauze tent with a wooden stick in his hand.

This time, the fat man learned to be smart, and he didn't dare to touch the things in the tomb casually, and it was because of his caution this time that he was spared at this time and saved his life.

The fat man had just inserted the stick in his hand into the curtain, intending to lift the veil and look at the stone platform inside. As a result, the wooden stick in his hand was entangled in a white veil.

The fat man thought that the white veil was sticky, and he stuck the stick, and he was very glad in his heart that he had the foresight to lift the veil directly.

As a result, when he looked closely, he found that the veil that looked like a whole piece of mosquito net was actually composed of dense hanging of white silk threads as thin as silk. At this time, the wooden stick was tightly entangled by countless white threads.

The fat man pulled the stick backwards with all his might, and began to pull the big saw with the white veil, and the two sides scrambled for the stick. As a result, the fat man's sharp eyes saw that the white filament wrapped around the wooden stick, as if it was alive, was moving forward along the wooden stick in mid-air, and the fat man hurriedly threw off the wooden stick in his hand.

The fat man couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw this, and exclaimed with palpitations: Fortunately, he didn't reach out and touch the white yarn directly just now, otherwise, at this time, he would have become a not-so-good-looking ornament on the white veil.