Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Changing Tanuki
I wandered around the dark passage of the dirt pit, only to be dragged to the left by Zha Ling'er, saying that I was going to explore. I felt that Zha Ling'er was acting abnormally, so I paid attention to it. It turned out that Zha Ling'er, whose voice and walk were very strange, suddenly appeared a tail behind him, although it was fleeting, but I was convinced that I was not mistaken, and I knew that in this dark dirt passage, I must have encountered a strange spirit.
The fake Zha Ling'er has a physical body, it is definitely not a phantom conjured up in a weird pit, it must be a strange and strange person, who wants to deceive me, so he transforms into the appearance of Zha Ling'er, and the purpose is definitely not just to tease me.
Now that I'm entangled by monsters, I have to find a reason to get out, and if it's too late, it will definitely become the belly of this monster. In case I was startled, I pretended to be calm and said to Zha Ling'er: "Let's go back!" If you go too far, your uncle won't be looking for us. ”
Zha Ling'er still held my arm and said coquettishly, "No, I'm going to be alone with you." ”
If it was in normal times, I would definitely scold Zha Ling'er for messing around, but at this time, I didn't want to annoy this demon turned into Zha Ling'er, so I had to keep coaxing her to go back. But he secretly held the King Kong in his hand, and said in his heart: see the opportunity and do it immediately, and you must not miss the opportunity.
But I still haven't been able to make the first move, first, because the cave is dim, I'm afraid that I have seen it wrong, if it is really Zha Ling'er, I can't regret it; The second is that the space is small, and it is inconvenient to fight, and the ghost in front of him who can vividly transform into a human is not an ordinary person.
But I still made up my mind, and dragged Zha Ling'er back vigorously, and was about to reach the turn of the previous fork in the road. Zha Ling'er, who was clinging to me, suddenly let out a very charming "giggle" smile, and then said coldly in my ear: "It's a pity! So you can see it. ”
I was prepared. Hearing this, the vajra held in his left hand immediately stabbed to the right. I heard a terrible scream, and the fake Zha Ling'er suddenly dodged and disappeared into the darkness.
All of my teammates who had climbed up to the cave heard the terrible and strange screams and immediately rushed to me. I wiped the cold sweat on my forehead, looked around the crowd, and found that Zha Ling'er was standing by the side of Zha Qiye intact, which made me feel a lot more relieved.
The fat man seemed to see the scene just now and asked me, "Lao Zheng." What's going on? What's that? ”
I asked him, "You see?" ”
The fat man shook his head at first, and then said to me, "All I saw was a cat-like animal jumping past you and making a terrible cry." Didn't you step on a feral cat's tail? ”
I secretly cried out in my heart, and said to myself, "If only it were so simple."
So, I told everyone what had just happened. After listening to this incredible story, the expressions on everyone's faces were different, and this story was so sensational that even I experienced it myself, it was like a dream. There is no sense of reality.
After listening to what I said, Seventh Master Zha frowned, and after pondering for a moment with a very stern expression, he suddenly pointed the flashlight at Zha Ling'er who was standing beside him. Begin to look up and down.
When Zha Ling'er saw her seventh uncle looking at her, she immediately pouted unhappily and said, "Seventh uncle, what are you looking at." I'm real. ”
Seventh Master Zha didn't pay attention to Zha Ling'er's pouting protest, but looked around Zha Ling'er up and down. Stretched out his hand and picked up a leaf from the hem of Zha Ling'er's clothes, and took it in his hand to examine it carefully.
Zha Qiye is half a Maoshan Taoist. Knowing some spells, I saw him behave like this, and knew that there must be something strange in the leaves, so I also looked at it carefully. found that the leaves were just ordinary "elm leaves", and there was nothing strange about them, so he couldn't help but ask the seventh master curiously: "Seventh master, is this leaf weird?" ”
Seventh Master pinched the leaves and nodded first, then immediately shook his head, and then explained to me: "This leaf is just an ordinary leaf, but it has been spelled, I don't know if you have heard of the legend about the tanuki turning into a human?" ”
The fat man was on the side, and immediately shook his head and interjected: "I have heard the story of the tanuki changing the prince, and I often told it in opera commentaries when I was a child. ”
I also nodded immediately, the wild history story of the Song Dynasty raccoon cat changing the prince can be said to be a household name. But the legend of the tanuki turning into a human has never been heard of.
At this moment, the monkey standing on the side suddenly jumped out and said that he had heard the legend of the tanuki turning into a human, and told him about the absurd version he had heard. It is said that the tanuki in the mountains are very intelligent and like to live close to the crowd, so that they can steal or pick some fruits and vegetables in the fields, and even like to build their nests in deserted houses. Over time, the extremely intelligent tanuki can imitate human speech and behavior, and unknowingly fall in love with humans. Then he practiced a spell that could transform into a human, and after becoming a human, he tricked a beautiful woman or a handsome man into marrying him.
After hearing this, the fat man immediately smiled and said to me: "Brother, you have been taken by the goblin again, could it be that you are the reincarnation of Tang Seng?" ”
When I heard this, my head was big, and my heart said: It is outrageous for a fairy to become a human, and it is even more unheard of to be deceived into a marriage, and I don't believe that such a bizarre thing is true. But what Seventh Master said next really surprised me.
Zha Qiye very much agreed with the bizarre legend told by the monkey, but said that the monkey's story was not comprehensive and specific, and then added: "The tanuki is a very mysterious animal, they will cast a spell on the leaves, secretly stick to the person's body, and they can become that person's appearance." However, if an animal that has generally cultivated to become a human wants to dress up as a human, the most difficult thing to hide is the tail. It was precisely because the tanuki accidentally exposed its tail just now that it was recognized by Sven. After speaking, a flame suddenly appeared from the hand of the seventh master, burning the leaves pinched between his fingers.
Seeing this, regardless of whether they really believed it completely in their hearts, they cautiously began to check whether there were any leaves stuck on their bodies.
Walking through dense woods with leaves and weeds stuck to your body is not unusual, but now it has become an explosive heavy incident.
I also have a half-believing attitude towards what Seventh Master said in Zha Qiye. When I first heard about the tanuki turning into a human, I didn't believe it from the bottom of my heart, but Zha Qiye is a Taoist priest who knows how to spell, and he is a senior in the inverted bucket world, even if he doesn't fully believe what he said, he has to take it to heart.
Faced with the ever-changing tanuki spirit that can transform into acquaintances around me, and it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity from the fake, in the dark underground, I can't help but be very worried about the comfort of everyone, and tell everyone that it is best not to act alone, so I led everyone to the fork in the road.
The tanuki had taken on the form of Zha Ling'er and lured me into the passage to the left. So, for safety reasons, the team decided to go into the right passageway.
The incident of Fake Zhai Ling'er is not completely over, and I think that the tanuki is not really able to transform into a human form, which is really too appalling. The tanuki must have used some unknown method to hallucinate people, but just like that, it's enough to make people's hairs stand on end. The thought of the people around you may be transformed by the monsters that want to harm you, which is undoubtedly very effective in cooling down in the hot summer.
Although I am uneasy, I am also quite glad that this slight sense of anxiety and uneasiness can keep everyone vigilant and no longer underestimate the adventure of this trip north.
The dark passage soon came to an end, but when it came to the end, everyone was really surprised. At the end of the passage of the cave was a cave with collapsed dirt walls, and behind the swarthy entrance was a crypt with a strong smell of earth. I immediately took the map and compared it, and I arrived at my destination by mistake, and I couldn't help but sigh at the impermanence of the world, which makes people often unprepared. However, everyone could not hide their excitement, and immediately drilled through the collapsed hole.
The earth cave chamber is only the size of a palm, the whole cave is clear at a glance, there is neither the front and back rooms, nor the ear room, only a very corrupt coffin, there are some scattered human bones in it, and there is a nest made of branches and mud.
When everyone came to the coffin, they couldn't help but cover their mouths and noses, because from the coffin, a very unpleasant fishy smell wafted out.
The fat man took a branch and began to pick out the contents of the rotten coffin one by one, but I found a very unusual thing, that is, the coffin was rotten and strict, and it was full of dirty branches, dirt, and some black things, and I couldn't tell what they were. But the human bones are unusually clean, as if they have just become dry bones.
Yan Nan and Seventh Master also obviously noticed this anomaly, and they all walked to the coffin and squatted down, and began to look at the new and clean dry bones.
When the fat man saw that there was no clear vessel in the coffin, he stopped stirring with branches, and together with the monkey kept complaining that the coffin in the pit and tomb here was too poorly preserved.
The fact that the rotten coffin contained too fresh and clean dry bones made me feel very different.
The smoke man and the seventh master put some dry bones on the ground, and then they couldn't help frowning.
I saw several leg bones of various sizes, apparently not from the same person, and even some scattered bones, which were not human at all, but animal bones. I couldn't help but look at the nest inside the coffin again, and I thought to myself.
These bones are not the remains of the owner, but the bones left over from the eating of the animals living in this nest, which can eat both animals and humans, and are definitely not friendly people, and it seems that this place is not easy to stay for a long time, so you have to leave as much as possible.
Everyone turned around and prepared to leave this crypt tomb, but I suddenly found that Zha Ling'er was missing. (To be continued......)