As more and more dead fish die, the smell of the lake becomes stronger. The waterfowl that roost on the shore of the lake, flapping their wings and fluttering out of the reeds, made strange cries from their mouths, and scurried about as if fleeing for their lives, and disappeared in a few moments.

This series of sudden changes caught the three of us off guard, and we didn't dare to blindly enter the water for a while.

The silver moonlight shone on the surface of the lake, and the white belly of the dead fish could be seen very clearly in the moonlight, and for a moment, none of us spoke, and there was a faint feeling in our hearts that something ominous was about to happen.

How exactly do these fish die?

Could it have something to do with those ghosts? Or is it related to Wei Guangtou and others who jumped into the water?

Just as he was thinking about it, the originally calm surface of the lake suddenly surged, and the dead fish floating on the surface were crowded one after another, and began to roll in the water, as if something huge was about to come out of the depths of the lake. I was startled, and immediately took out the pistol I had found by the corpse of the fat man Lin before, and pointed it at the position of the lake, just in case there was a change. As time went on, the movement on the surface of the water became louder and louder, but nothing came out, and for a while I was a little unsure of what the situation was.

However, at this moment, Feng Ghost Hand seemed to have suddenly discovered something, pointed to the shoreline of the lake under our feet, and said, "Look, this lake is rising. ”

Tofu and I looked down when we heard this, and sure enough, we found that the lake was slowly rising, and the most bizarre thing was that the water was like boiling water, and the water surface was constantly tumbling, stirring the dead fish inside. Tofu speculated in surprise and said, "Could it be that there is underground lava under this lake?" ”

I couldn't help but shake my head, the situation in front of me at the moment is too weird, I can't blindly speculate for a while, Feng Ghost Hand thinks that the current situation is unclear, let's observe for a while better. The three of them stood at the mountain range, only to see that the water level of the lake had been rising for some reason, obviously, there must be something like an underground spring at the bottom of the lake, and this spring had a large amount of water in an instant, otherwise the water level would not have risen so quickly.

After about 20 minutes, the entire lake has been raised by six or seven meters, and the water surface is only about two meters high from our instep.

I stared at the dead fish, and wondered in my heart: Is the sudden and mysterious death of these fish related to Wei Guangtou or because of the problem of the lake? Why did the lake rise suddenly? This lake looks calm, but in this short period of time, so many changes have been born, Wei Guangtou and the three jumped into the water, will something happen to them?

These thoughts just flashed through my mind, and suddenly, I found that there was something hiding in the dead fish in the lake, and the thing disappeared in a flash, but I could see clearly, it was a human hand.

I couldn't help but take a cool breath and shouted, "Is there someone in the lake? ”

Feng Ghost Hand and Tofu didn't see it, and when the two of them saw that my expression changed greatly, they said that there were people in the lake, and they immediately guessed, could it be the three of Wei Guangtou? If it was the three of them, they would definitely show up, and it was impossible for a living person to stay in the water for so long without coming out. Then the human hand I just saw was probably the corpse of a dead man.

Tofu's face changed, his voice became a little hoarse, and he speculated: "It's difficult, could it be that Wei Guangtou and they died in the water?" "Although we have been mentally prepared for this, we are still a little heavy in our hearts at the moment. Wei Guangtou and we don't have much friendship, but we are also a group, this time the plan is thorough, and they have not yet entered the ancient tomb, but they suddenly have an accident, I inevitably have a feeling of sadness in my heart. Tofu has always been soft-hearted, not to mention, looking at the tumbling lake, sighing again and again.

That hand just flashed in the water, the lake was churning, and at this moment I don't know where it was pushed by the waves, there is a way that the living see people, and the dead want to see the corpse, I weighed it, and decided to go into the water, no matter what, or salvage the body first to see what it is. I just don't know if it's my illusion, I just feel that the lake is getting darker and darker and more turbid as time goes by, and I don't know if this jump will cause any skin diseases.

Thinking like this, I couldn't help but glance at Ghost Feng next to me, he simply pretended not to see my gaze at this time, staring at the lake with a heavy face, and didn't know what to think, but he had no intention of going into the water. This surnamed Feng is honest on the surface, but in fact, he is also a man with a full stomach and intestines, and he said that he must fish up the corpse, and his tone changed, but he said that he had old arms and legs, and his old eyes were dizzy, and he was really not suitable to go into the water or something.

I knew that he didn't want to take risks, Tofu had a straight temper, and when I heard that Feng Ghost was farting with his mouth full of dogs, there was an indignant look on his face. Tofu glanced at me, and then winked at me, before I could understand what was going on, this kid suddenly fell down, and pushed Feng Ghost's hand with his hand, Feng Ghost's hand was caught off guard, and he probably didn't expect Tofu to have such a shameless move, and he was pushed into the lake in an instant.

Tofu sat on the ground and pretended to say: "Ouch, I knew that I should have gone to the gym to exercise more, but I have walked too much in the past two days, and my feet are unstable." Brother Feng, I was also careless, I'm sorry. Anyway, you're all in the water, so just fish up the corpse. "I almost didn't laugh out loud, I said that the trick of tofu was shameless enough, and the acting skills were too bad, who couldn't see that he did it on purpose?

Feng Ghost was pushed into the water by the tofu, but we still have a cooperative relationship on the surface, and he is not easy to attack, staring at the tofu skin and smiling without smiling, he turned his head and swam towards the middle of the lake, sometimes burrowing into the water, as if looking for a corpse.

When Feng Ghost swam a little farther away, Tofu got up from the ground, smiled hippie, and said, "This trick is good, right?" The old boy just wanted to take advantage of it, didn't do anything, and really used the two of us as gunmen. How's that, my watch is good, right? I smiled and said, "It's really good, but you have to be careful, I think this person surnamed Feng is already thinking about you." These inverted mushroom diggers are not good stubble, and you'd better stay away from him in the future. ”

As he spoke, Feng Ghost Hand in the water seemed to have discovered something, and suddenly burst out of the water, his face was pale, and he swam to the shore vigorously. He looked strange, and when he went ashore, he didn't say a word, he turned his head to the side and threw up, and he didn't bring the corpse or anything with him.

Tofu and I glanced at each other, both a little puzzled, and when Feng Ghost's hand crackled and vomited, I couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" "Ghost Feng's hands were dripping with water all over his body, and if he looked closely, it was indeed black water, not my previous delusion. There seemed to be something wrong with the black water, and he estimated that his body was itchy, so he began to itch after spitting, and scolded while fishing: "Unlucky, there is more than one corpse in the lake, there are many broken corpses." ”

"Broken corpses?" Tofu was shocked and choked, and said, "Wei Guangtou and they were thrown into the lake by broken corpses? ”

Feng Ghost took off his clothes and threw them aside, wiping the dripping black water, and said with a heavy expression: "No, it's all dry corpses, there is a spring under this lake, and it has been spraying water out, and all the spews out are black water." This black water is mixed with these dried corpses. I suspect that the dried corpses in the water are probably some living people who were buried, and the structure of the burial chamber has been damaged by the lake, so these corpses were brought out when the spring erupted. "Feng Ghost Hand is very experienced, and after going into the water, he made a guess. Eighty percent of the dead fish in the water were polluted by the black water, so they all died.

Tofu felt incredulous and frequently looked into the lake. As the lake water rolled more and more violently, many stumps and skulls in the water began to be mixed with the dead fish, rolling with the fish, the stench in the water was unstoppable, and in the faint moonlight, countless severed limbs sank up and down in the boiling water, which looked very strange.

Tofu said: "Although I am an artist and I am not good at history, how do I remember that during the Ming Dynasty, there was no living burial system, right?" ”

I said, "Who said that?" During the Ming Dynasty, if the emperor died, his concubine would be martyred. ”

Tofu was adamantly skeptical, believing that my words were challenging his memory, so he defended: "Don't bully us people who are engaged in art. Think I'm not good at history, right? The funeral system, since there is research, first originated in Yin Shang and ended in Qin. There will be no living burials after Qin. ”

I couldn't help but say: "You only know one thing but you don't know the other, after the Qin Dynasty, the Han and Tang dynasties abolished the living burial system, and changed it to a burial, that is, near the imperial mausoleum, so that the emperor's relatives and high-ranking officials and eunuchs were buried in the imperial mausoleum after their deaths." However, after the Song Dynasty, the Khitan, Jurchen, Mongolian, and Manchu frontier ethnic groups have all entered the Central Plains, and they have always retained the tradition of martyrdom, so they have promoted the resurgence of martyrdom in the Central Plains. So in the Ming and Qing dynasties, although there were no large-scale human martyrdoms, there were palace martyrs. That is, let the concubine or palace people and guards accompany the burial. ”

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