Chapter 193: Artificial Beasts
The fox-headed monster was lying on the edge of the coffin in the form of a beast staring at me, and she didn't move when I didn't move, as if she was afraid of me.
People are afraid of ghosts for three points, and ghosts are afraid of people for seven points. This principle should be applicable to all demons and monsters, after all, the level of humans is one level higher than that of animals, and it is impossible for them to be unafraid.
I was originally here to find Huang Yunqiu, and I didn't plan to make another incident if I didn't see her, so I smiled awkwardly at the fox's head, "Excuse me, I'll leave now." β
As I said that, I fled quickly, and as soon as I arrived in front of the small stone gate, another monster with a fox head and a human body fell from the top of the tomb with a bang, still with nine tails, learning the posture of a fox to block my way.
The fox-headed monster behind me also crawled out of the coffin, striking back and forth, but it was not that simple, another tail hung down from above, hanging in front of me, I looked up with a flashlight, and was stunned.
"Oh my God, so much."
On the top of this tomb, there were three other identical monsters hanging on it, and they were turning their heads to look at me from above, and then they climbed down the stone wall, and a total of five monsters gathered me in the middle.
I took out a few more pieces of rune paper, and pinched a few copper coins in my hand at the same time, I was already ready to plan, if the rune paper didn't work, then use the 'Yang Fury Array' or the 'Lock Ghost Array', I have seen both of these formations, and I know how to arrange them.
I took a deep breath and tried to act as calm as possible, I didn't know the details of these things, I tried not to do anything if I could, and I was ready to find an opportunity to escape at any time.
After about a minute and a half of confrontation, the monster that crawled out of the coffin suddenly made a loud noise, and the rest of the people immediately pounced on me, their tails floating behind them, looking very weird.
"Come on." I threw away the flashlight in my hand, pointed at one hand and pinched the talisman with the other, and recited the spell at the same time.
Before the spell was finished, a black wolf roared out of the coffin, hit the ground with a bang, rushed in front of me and let out a low beast moan, these monsters stopped when they saw this, the two sides were deadlocked, and then the previous monster made a sound, and the rest retreated at the same time, back into the coffin.
The black wolf then turned into Huang Yunqiu, stepped forward and closed the lid of the coffin, and then looked at me, "Why are you here?" β
I said, "Master asked me to come to you, what are these things?" Monsters? β
Huang Yunqiu shook his head, "If it's a monster, we should all die, more than three thousand years of monsters are not something we can deal with, they are called 'artificial animals', they were turned into this by someone casting a spell, I was ambushed by them when I came in, and scattered the remaining few, I wanted to go into the coffin to solve the first one, you came." β
I have heard of the spell of animal creation, a kind of witchcraft, the black witchcraft of the Maoshan Sect was inherited before, and after the Maoshan Sect eliminated the black witchcraft, this spell was introduced to Xiangxi and became a kind of Zhu Youshu.
During the Qing Dynasty, some people in Yangzhou used this kind of spell, some turned people into donkeys, and some turned people into pigs.
"Liao Zhai Zhi Wei", "Shu Wei Ji" and many other ancient books have records about this spell, "Liao Zhai Zhi Wei" wrote: There are people who become animals, the name is 'making animals', this technique is still rare in the north of the river, and there are many in the south of the river.
This tomb is so strange that I don't want to delve into it, so I say, "Let's go first, or go to the tomb of the king next door." β
Huang Yunqiu said, "The world has said that Su Daji is the incarnation of the nine-tailed fox, and there is a man-made nine-tailed fox in this tomb, and Di Xin is also rumored to have a Vermilion Bird to protect him, and there must be a Vermilion Bird in the tomb over there, which is not easy to solve." However, when I was in the coffin just now, I accidentally found that the bottom of the tomb was empty, and there should be a passage underneath, but I didn't know how to go down. β
Before, I thought that the tomb of King Su and the tomb of Daji were too simple, and there was really something else inside, but Liu Cheng was not there, and we rashly investigated this tomb of Daji, which was extremely dangerous.
These man-made nine-tailed foxes are just the beginning, who knows what will be encountered below when they really enter the bottom, and legend has it that the tomb of King Su and the tomb of Daji are connected to the Qi River, and the Qi River is connected to the Yellow River, if it goes down, it may be drowned.
It's not that I'm afraid, but just to be on the safe side, I said, "We'd better go out first and discuss it with my master, and think about it in the long run." β
Huang Yunqiu also thought so, nodded his head and said yes, bent down to pick up the flashlight on the ground, put away the rune paper, and walked out.
As soon as I walked in front of the stone gate, there were a few rumblings under my feet, and the road at the foot of the stone gate suddenly collapsed, revealing the vast space below, and I retreated with Huang Yunqiu's alliance to avoid falling, and then took a flashlight to shine down, and saw that the water below was sparkling, and it was a dark river under this tomb.
"This should be the dark river that connects Qishui, but aren't these two tombs just a faΓ§ade? Why did Wu Geng go to great lengths to dig such a dark river under this fake grave? "I was amazed.
Huang Yunqiu thought for a while and said, "It should lead to the real tomb of the King of Zhou, this dark river is likely to lead directly to the underground of the Yellow River, fortunately, I didn't go down just now, the real tomb of the King of Zhou is not something you and I can deal with, find a way to go over first and discuss with your master." β
I hummed, and then walked to the side of the sarcophagus with Huang Yunqiu, Huang Yunqiu pasted a rune paper on my arm, called 'Summoning a Powerful Ghost King Fu', pasted the rune paper, she and I opened the lid of the sarcophagus, and the five fox-headed monsters inside grinned at us.
Huang Yunqiu said, "Stay quiet, it's none of your business." β
These monsters didn't dare to move, and Huang Yunqiu and I immediately carried the lid of the sarcophagus and pushed it to the side that connected to the stone gate, making a bridge alive, and then the two of them walked over it.
As soon as I stepped on the sarcophagus cover, as if I had touched some mechanism, the water in the dark river below suddenly tumbled, Huang Yunqiu and I looked down, Huang Yunqiu exclaimed, "Hurry up!" β
At the same time, with a bang, the river water in the dark river seemed to be boiling, and suddenly exploded, and a long black snake suddenly rushed up from the water, as if it would soar into the clouds, directly entangled the coffin lid, and then pulled it down hard, the coffin lid clicked and broke, and Huang Yunqiu and I fell down with the coffin lid, but fortunately, in the end, the coffin Huang Yunqiu split the sarcophagus lid with two palms, and the lid fell into the side and didn't hit our heads.
The water below was not deep, and she and I sank into it not long before we floated, and then quickly swam to a nearby reef and stood on it, standing opposite the black snake.
I swallowed my saliva, this snake is as thick as a big tree, most of its body is hidden in the water, only a few points out, it is already four or five meters, its whole, should not be less than ten meters.
"Is this a dragon, or a snake?" I asked Huang Yunqiu.
This thing has the shape of a snake, but the head does not look like a snake, it has two ears, and the ears are attached to the head flat, like a snake, but it is not a snake, it looks like a dragon, and it is a bit far-fetched.
It stared at us, motionless, and Huang Yunqiu also stared at it, as if it was competing with it.
After a while, the giant snake sank its head into the water, the flashlight shone over, and seeing the black shadow swimming underwater, Huang Yunqiu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The snake, something from the Yin Shang period, but I thought it was just another form of the snake, it was imagined by people, but I didn't expect it to really exist." β
I listened to Huang Yunqiu's words, looked at both sides of the passage at the same time, the dark river was very long, and I didn't know the end, and said, "How many strange things were there in the Yin Shang period, and the things in "Romance of the Gods" don't really exist, right?" β
Huang Yunqiu laughed, "The Romance of the Gods is just, many of them are false, and there is no record of the snake in the Romance of the Gods, and the image of the snake appeared because a cultural relic from the Yin Shang period was unearthed from the Criminal Division, not the record." β
I groaned.
Huang Yunqiu said again, "Now you can't go up and down, you can only advance and retreat, this should be just the beginning of the road to the real Emperor Xin's tomb, there are already snakes and nine-tailed foxes, I don't know what to do next, you have to follow me every step of the way, so as not to encounter danger." β
I nodded again and again, and at the same time said, "Don't you think it's strange, our flashlight is broken, but we can see the situation in this passage very clearly, where is the light?" Not when I was on it just now. β
Huang Yunqiu also reacted at this time, but he couldn't answer this question, so he had to take me forward for a while.
We walked carefully along the rocks at the edge of the dark river, and after walking for a short time, we finally found the reason for the glow behind a stone.
Behind the stone, several chains tied a corpse to the stone wall, the corpse had become black, and there was not much water on its body, and it looked like bacon smoked in the countryside.
The corpse had a hideous face, and in the top part of the corpse's head, a wick popped out, and the wick burned with flames, which was the light emitted by the wick above the corpse's head.
And such points of light are available all the way forward.
"Sky lantern!" Huang Yunqiu looked at it and said, "It's corpse oil that burns." β