Chapter 17: Guarding the Tomb? (a)
Ding Lingxiu heard him say this, he didn't believe it very much, if there are more strange monsters in the ancient tombs, then it is true, but that is for ordinary people, in fact, from the perspective of Ding Lingxiu, these demon hunters, these demons and monsters in the ancient tombs are generally below the level of demons, and they are not powerful at all.
In fact, if it weren't for the higher income of the demon hunters, these demon hunters could completely change careers and become tomb robbers, as long as they learned some ways to crack the tricks, if those old gourds came to rob the tomb, it would be the same as digging for things.
Scar Li saw Ding Lingxiu's disdainful face, and thought that he didn't believe it, so he was a little angry, and he didn't even care about eating the chocolate, so he stretched out his right hand and pestled it straight in front of Ding Lingxiu: "Hey, brother, don't be unconvinced, my Scar Li has always been a big man who says the same, that's a mouthful of spit and a nail, although we spend all day drinking, but we are also the master who never speaks!" You open your belly button and give me a good look, you see what this is! ”
Ding Lingxiu smiled noncommittally. I saw Scar Li pull his arm for Ding Lingxiu to take a look, and he began to feel that the situation was a bit strict: there was a strip of red marks on Scar Li's right arm, one finger wide and two fingers long, and it looked relatively shallow, as if it had been burned by some kind of flame with a lower temperature, which looked very weird.
The scar was definitely not caused by those leeches just now, the color of the wounds they caused was somewhat similar, but the shape was all punctate, and the area was never so large, if the leech's mouth was so big, Scar Li would have confessed a long time ago. So, since it is not a leech, and it is even more unlikely that it was caused by some kind of fire in the water, where did such a scar come from?
"How did you do that? How did it come to this? Ding Lingxiu asked Scar Li Dao.
"Who knows! Just now when you shouted at me above, those ghost leeches pounced, you know that although Lao Tzu doesn't pee these things, but he can't be caught with his hands, I was there to dial the flute, and my hand touched a thing, and it was like this. ”
"Let's be clear, what kind of guy is that? You say that, who knows if it's a dinosaur or a monster? ”
"At that time, I was in a hurry, where can I take care of the careful touch, and the water is still dark, I can't see clearly, I feel that thing is the size of a basin, soft, messy big mess, definitely not a common thing like fish, shrimp and crabs."
Hearing Scar Li say this, Ding Lingxiu was even more bottomless in his heart, looking at Scar Li's injury, he could already rule out the possibility of him bragging, and the leeches in the water had grown like that, maybe there were any monsters down there. Ding Lingxiu is an expert in dealing with demons and monsters, but in the face of the monsters in the tomb, Ding Lingxiu is also helpless.
Originally, the mica roof was used by the designer of the tomb to induce vitality, and the water under the flap should have been a part of it.
The so-called "Qi Qu is auspicious, Qi is straight is fierce", "Qi meets water is stopped" and other people know that Feng Shui theory has said that this set of devices can well connect the heaven and earth and the surrounding vitality, and store it in the water under the flap, so that the tomb owner will be immortal for thousands of generations. It's a very ingenious design, and you can see that its builder must be one of the masters! Most likely, it wasn't even built by people.
But there is a problem, since the stagnant water under the flap has not dried up for thousands of years, and can maintain good water quality, there must be groundwater to replenish it, or it is simply connected to an underground river somewhere, otherwise where will there be the strange creatures that Scar Lee said? If it is living water below, then it can explain what happened just now, and it is not surprising that the mica rooftop attracts a large amount of heaven and earth vitality and accumulates it in the water below the flap, artificially creating a living pool, and under the action of abundant vitality, it is not surprising that the creatures that grow in it undergo some kind of mutation that is difficult to explain by common sense.
After thinking about this, Ding Lingxiu was relieved, if it was just an ordinary creature, it would be easy to do, at least he could use brutal means to deal with them, I was afraid that I would not know their actual situation, and I would be blinded by two eyes when the time came. But now that Scar Li has come up safely, no matter how powerful the things below are, after all, they are aquatic animals, is it possible that they will fly up and hurt people? As long as you don't provoke it, even if you can afford to provoke us, you won't mess with it, it's okay to avoid it, right? That's kind enough, right?
Ding Lingxiu suddenly remembered something, so he asked:
"By the way, you said you were here to save people, what the hell is going on?"
Scar Li sighed, stopped talking, and after a while, seeing that Ding Lingxiu had no intention of giving up, he had to mutter:
"Well, it's a long story, and since you've always been so curious, I'll tell you.
This actually has to start when I was a child, my ancestral home is in Sichuan, in our hometown there are many mountains, the mountains are majestic and dangerous, there are often caves and other wonders on the mountainside, the caves are warm in winter and cool in summer, and the locals believe that the high places are closer to the gods, so that the corpse does not rot and the soul does not die. So at that time, many people chose to keep the bodies in those caves, that is, hanging coffins.
Another function of the hanging coffin is to prevent tomb robbery, because the mountain is extremely dangerous and difficult for ordinary people to approach. However, it also takes some skills to send the hanging coffin up. And my family has been erecting hanging coffins for generations. Speaking of this, Scar Li was silent for a long time before opening the conversation box again.
After saying these words, Scar Li slowly took off his gloves and stretched out his hand, at this time Ding Lingxiu finally connected his profession with the pair of hands that grew like claws, where is this a pair of hands, it is clearly a pair of hooks.
"We were trained to climb rock from a young age, and the training was extremely hard, and after more than ten years of training, we were able to climb that cliff like a fly. I was twenty-three years old, and in the summer of that year an old man in the village died, and my father and I began to prepare for the obituary, and the old man's wife had died a few years earlier and was buried in a cave on the Holy Spirit Mountain, where my father and I had hung the coffin. Now the old man is going to be buried with his wife, so we are already familiar with the cave in the Holy Spirit Mountain.
At that time, it coincided with the text. During the Revolution, storms swept across the country, and of course my hometown was no exception. Because the hanging coffin itself was set up out of superstition, it was beaten into a cow ghost and snake god, so we chose to send the hanging coffin in the middle of the night.
After dark, the old man's family quietly sent the hanging coffin to the foot of the Holy Spirit Mountain, where my father and I had been waiting for a long time, and my father took a big puff of hookah, and after a 'grunt' sound, he put down the hookah, hung a rope around his waist, and carried a short knife with him.
I also had a knife in my bag, some yellow paper and incense, and a torch in my mouth, and jumped up the cliff. Since it was summer and it had just rained, it was a little difficult to climb. However, it is not a problem for us who are family climbers, so we can move up and hook the boss on the cliff with our hands, and keep our body close to the rock wall, so that we can transfer the weight of our body to the rock wall as much as possible and reduce the load on our fingers.
There are many karst caves on the Holy Spirit Mountain, and the cave where the coffin of the old man and his wife is hanging is located in the upper part of the cliff, we climb like the wind, hand and foot together, and the cliff of dozens of feet is half climbed in a short time. My dad stopped, and we hung on the cliff for a short rest. At this moment, a black figure suddenly burst out of the cave beneath us, and then ran towards another cave at a very fast speed.
My dad and I were watching it, and our family had never heard of a monster that could climb a cliff at such a fast speed, and I wanted to go over and see what was going on, but my dad stopped me. Our first task now is to arrange the hanging coffin for the victim. Although Ding Lingxiu had doubts, he had to give up, and we didn't rest after the monster appeared.
Suddenly there was a bell in our ears, and the sound was so disturbing that I almost fell off the cliff. At that moment, the black thing sprang out of the cave and hung on the cliff, making a 'gurgling' sound in its throat. Its position was only a dozen meters away from me, as if it was observing my movements, and I was a little drumming in my heart, but at this moment, the monster suddenly pounced in my direction. ”
Scar Lee swallowed as he spoke......
"Is that a human-faced cat?" Ding Lingxiu interrupted Scar Lee's words at this opportunity.
Scar Li nodded, and did not ask Ding Lingxiu why he knew about the human-faced cat, he continued: "At that time, the speed of the black shadow was extremely fast, because I had already noticed that it was moving, so when it pounced on me, I was already prepared, and hurriedly stuck to the cliff, hanging my body with both hands, and the monster did not continue to attack when it failed to strike.
As soon as it touched the cliff under my feet, it immediately jumped upward, like a black lightning bolt, and disappeared into which cave in an instant. My dad looked at me and made sure I wasn't hurt, so we paused for a moment to move on, but a sense of foreboding crept up in our hearts, as if something terrible was about to happen.
Although we worship ghosts and gods, we don't believe in evil in our hearts, so even if the sense of foreboding was very strong at that time, we couldn't turn back until we completed the task assigned by the owner, and it was not easy to secretly transport the coffin to the bottom of the mountain this big night. We rested for a while and then continued to climb upwards, and then we were much more alert, because we didn't know where the monster was hiding, and it might come out of nowhere and surprise us.
It took about half an hour or so for us to finally arrive at the mouth of the cave, a cold air blew, the cold air was mixed with a strong smell of corpses, my father first noticed the abnormality, and then quickly extinguished the torch in my hand, and it immediately became dark in front of me, my father and I held our breath, only the sound of 'dong dong' heartbeat in our ears. R1058