Chapter 38: The Place to Feed the Dead
Seeing that I didn't speak, Kong Sanye didn't speak either, and the big head and the big group over there were also silent. I looked up at them and saw that they were all looking at me, and I was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”
A few of them looked at me, and Kong Sanye smiled at me and said, "Qiangzi, what should I do next, everyone is waiting for you to make an idea." Hearing Kong Sanye's words, the big head and the big group over there also nodded at the same time.
"Third Master Kong, what should we do now?" In this regard, Kong Sanye must be much more experienced than me, and it is definitely right to ask him about this matter.
Kong Sanye was not polite, and said directly: "It's impossible to go up now, so you can only go out from here." Besides, someone should have been out of here before. ”
Hearing Kong Sanye say this, I remembered that he said that he saw the blood stains on the ground before entering, and the bloody footprints were not left by him, so who could be the person who left the bloody footprints?
The first thing that came to my mind was Crooked Mouth, because there were a few who were left alive, and Crooked Mouth was left alone. After hearing this, Datuan was obviously a little excited.
"So, let's get ready to go out, shall we?" I stood up and asked a few of them, and the big head immediately stood up and put on his backpack.
Over there, Kong Sanye and Datuan's bodies are a little weak now, but Kong Sanye has eaten some things to recover a little while resting, and Datuan has heard the news that there may be crooked mouths, and his spirits have become invigorated.
After everything was ready, Datou and I went to prepare to open the stone gate, although this stone gate had been out before, but for the sake of safety, we still did not forget to check on the stone gate first. Wait until you confirm that there is nothing wrong with the stone door before you go to open the stone door.
Outside the stone gate, there was still a dark tomb, and he was still relatively weak due to the injuries of the large group, and although his arms had returned to their normal color, he still had no strength. So this time, I walked in the front to open the way, the big head was in charge of the back at the end, Kong Sanye walked behind me, and the big group walked in front of the big head.
The reason why I dare to use a flashlight with the eldest head is because although Kong Sanye lost a lot of things in his backpack, the flashlight and torch were still picked up, which also made our road brighter.
"Hadron, pay attention to the ground and see if there is any blood." It was Datuan who spoke, and it seemed that he still hoped to find the crooked mouth as soon as possible. I answered, and watched the ground carefully.
After his reminder, I did find the blood on the ground, but the blood was very shallow, almost a little unclear, and if I hadn't paid close attention, I might have ignored it.
The bloodstains were a little unclear at intervals, and they turned directly to another tomb in front. We kept following the shallow bloodstains, hoping to meet a crooked mouth in front of us, preferably a crooked mouth that was still alive.
"No, it's not right here, hadron stop." Just as I was about to continue walking, Kong Sanye grabbed me and told me to stop first, and he lay on the ground and looked at the shallow bloodstains.
"Third Master Kong, what did you find?" The big head who walked at the back saw me and Kong Sanye stop, so he surrounded him with Datuan and asked loudly.
Kong Sanye didn't answer the big head's question, but looked at the blood stains carefully, I don't know what Kong Sanye was looking at, but I knew that it would definitely not be good to disturb him now, so I made a silent gesture to the big head and the big group, and turned around and looked at it carefully.
After a long time, Kong Sanye stood up and said to me and Datou Datuan: "This road is not right, and this bloodstain is not the person who left the bloody footprints on it. ”
"And whose is it?" The big head asked Kong Sanye a nonsense, if he knew who it was, he would still have to guess like this. Instead, Datuan was calmer and asked, "Shall we continue to follow this bloodstain?" ”
I have the same idea as Datuan, whether I want to move forward now depends on the opinion of Kong Sanye. Kong Sanye glanced forward, shook his head and said, "We can't go forward, otherwise we will encounter great trouble." ”
"What's the trouble?" I'm a little curious, what trouble would make Kong Sanye show such a shocked expression, and he was already about to retreat before he saw it.
Kong Sanye sighed and said to me: "Actually, you have seen that trouble, but what you have seen above is only a little bit, and there will only be more here." ”
"You mean, the living corpses?" I don't want to talk about the troubles I've seen, but when Kong Sanye talks about the above, then the first thing that comes to mind is only the living corpse.
Kong Sanye nodded, and said a little to himself: "Long fish blood, night flying squirrel; sarcophagus gathering, Shengmen Road; The dead come in, the living corpse comes out, that's what it means, I should have thought of it a long time ago. ”
Listening to Kong Sanye say these words, I asked with some doubts: "Kong Sanye, what do you mean?" The big head and the big group next to him also looked at him with some doubts.
"Long fish blood, that's what it is." When Kong Sanye heard our question, he pointed to the shallow blood stains on the ground and said, "This thing is actually the blood of an eel, and the eel is also called a yellow eel, a long fish, and different places have different names." ”
I looked carefully at the shallow pool of blood that Kong Sanye pointed to, and now I know why he was lying on the ground and smelling that smell just now, it turned out to be sure if it was eel blood.
"What about the other sentences, what do they mean?" I asked with some curiosity, especially when I heard the last two sentences "the dead come in, the living corpses come out", I felt that it must have something to do with the living corpses.
Sure enough, Kong Sanye continued: "This is actually a description I saw in an ancient book describing the place where the corpses are raised. Night flying squirrels, also known as bats, are also called fairy rats, flying squirrels, or salt rats in many places. ”
"The sarcophagus gathers, and the way to live is born. It refers to a formation of many sarcophagi gathered together to besiege the city, but I don't know how many doors there are, but only the living door can enter, and other doors can not enter or exit. The dead go in, and the living come out. These two sentences are simple, as long as the dead person enters, he will become a living corpse and come out. ”
Da Tuan asked with some doubts: "Third Master Kong, does the book say how this living corpse was formed, and does it record any defects of the living corpse?" ”
Kong Sanye shook his head and said: "There are only a few sentences recorded in the book, and I saw that the living corpse paid a little attention to it at that time, but it only described the place where the corpse was raised, but did not write the method of raising the corpse. ”
Listening to Kong Sanye say this, I suddenly thought that when I was on it, there were bats and sarcophagi, but I didn't see the eel blood, and I didn't feel that there was any formation, so I opened my mouth and asked about Kong Sanye.
"It's not that there is none, but there is little need, and it is just not exposed. There must be a formation there, and the seven burial chambers correspond to the seven gates, and the stone gate that enters should be the birth gate. Kong Sanye continued: "The one above is just a small formation, and the one below should be a big formation. ”
After Kong Sanye's words were finished, I looked ahead, and instantly felt eerie, thinking of the scene surrounded by hundreds of living corpses, and I couldn't help but shiver.
"Let's turn around and go back and find another way." I rubbed my arm that was a little cold, and said to Kong Sanye, Datou and Datuan also nodded in agreement, it seems that not only I feel afraid of the living corpse in front of me, but they are the same, besides, Datuan is still suffering from it, and now that arm is still a little painful.
We had already turned around and were about to go back, but Kong Sanye stood there and said a word, which made us suddenly feel like falling into an ice cellar, only to hear him mutter: "I can't get out, I have entered the life gate." ”
"Third Master Kong, do you mean that the gate at the mouth of the stone steps is the Shengmen?" After we came down, there was only one stone gate that we entered, and if we had entered, there was only that gate that was the birth gate.
He nodded to the three of us and said, "Yes, there is the Shengmen, but now that the formation has moved, the Shengmen is not born." So instead of going back, it's better to keep going. And no matter which fork in the road you take, you will end up in one place, the pool of blood. ”
"Pool of Blood, what is that place?" Datuan asked with some curiosity, and Datou and I also looked at Kong Sanye with puzzled eyes, although the blood pool literally means a pool full of blood, but we don't know what the effect is.
"Yes, it's a pool of blood. That's where the corpses are fed. "When I heard the place where the corpses were fed, I was immediately startled, it seemed that I couldn't hide, I couldn't get out, and I had to go down from where I had to go.
I glanced at a few of them, nodded, carried a backpack and a flashlight, and continued to walk forward, still in the order just now, I took the lead, the big head pressed the tail, and Kong Sanye and Datuan walked in the middle.
While walking, Kong Sanye did not forget to remind us: "Qiangzi, the three of you must remember that from now on, no matter what the door is, whether it is open or closed, or the tomb without a stone door, you must not enter." ”
"Why?" The big head is like a curious baby, and he wants to ask what Kong Sanye said. Actually, I wanted to ask too, but the big head asked, so I waited for Kong Sanye's explanation.
Kong Sanye said as he walked: "Although I don't know what formation is used to feed the corpse, but that formation only has one living gate to enter, and the other doors must not enter." ”
Hearing Kong Sanye say this, I asked with some curiosity: "Kong Sanye, when we were up there, all the stone gates basically went in, and nothing happened." ”
Kong Sanye said a little angrily: "That's your fate, and I don't know who was the first to activate the mechanism and let all the living corpses in those sarcophagi come out, so all the sarcophagi you saw when you went in were empty." And the following is not necessarily, after entering there may be no return, so you must be careful and do not enter. ”
Although I think he is making a fuss, but in this ancient tomb, especially in a place full of dangers, there is nothing wrong with being careful, so we don't say anything, as long as we don't enter the stone gate, we don't enter through the door.
But no matter how you go, you have to go to the place where the corpses are fed, can you find a way out there, will there be hundreds or even more living corpses waiting there?
In fact, I still have a question in my heart, that is, according to Uncle Zheng, it should be the mausoleum of Princess Tongchang in the Three-Phase Tomb, but Princess Tongchang is such a good person, how can someone raise a corpse here in his mausoleum, which is not in line with the praise of the outside world for her.
"Third Master Kong, do you know the Three-Phase Tomb?" I asked Kong Sanye beside me, hoping to learn something from him.
Kong Sanye looked at me curiously, and said a little jokingly: "Qiangzi, yes, I even know about the Three-Phase Tomb." According to legend, the so-called three-phase tomb refers to the three cemeteries connected to each other, which is only one tomb from the outside, but there are actually three tombs inside, and three people are buried. After Kong Sanye finished speaking, he smiled at me again and asked, "What, Qiangzi, you can also see that this is the Three-Phase Tomb?" ”
I didn't answer Kong Sanye's words, but continued to ask: "Kong Sanye, then which three people should be buried in this three-phase tomb?" ”
Kong Sanye looked at me, pointed to the top and said, "If you ask me who is buried in the three-phase tomb above, I still know who is buried here, I really don't know." ”
His words shocked me again, "Third Master Kong, are you saying that this place and the top are not the same tomb?" Kong Sanye smiled at me and nodded.