Wushan Demon Coffin Chapter Seventy-Four: The Coffin of Death
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Then we pulled the rope down, and I was worried that the rope would not be long enough, but the further down we went, the denser the distance between the caves became, and in the end, we hardly had to rely on the strength of the rope.
Soon, we reached the ground with both feet, and by the faint green light, we found the flashlight, which happened to fall in a soft position, and I turned on the switch, and it actually lit up, but the light was much dimmer, and it was estimated that the power was almost out.
As the light of the flashlight shone out, a stone path appeared in front of our eyes, the stone path stretched straight to the opposite side, and we didn't know where the end was, and on both sides of the stone road, there were densely stacked corpses, because we had been prepared before, so when we saw these huge number of corpses, there was no special feeling.
This scene reminded me of the corpse array in Qinling Dou, but in Qinling's corpse array, most of the corpses have turned into white bones, but this place, probably due to feng shui reasons, the corpses inside are intact, and I don't know how much has been piled up.
I don't think it's right, it stands to reason that during the Ming Dynasty, there was no such large-scale burial of living people, so how did these corpses come from? Even if that alchemist used the power of the prince, it would be impossible to find so many living people to be buried.
The corpse array in the Qinling Mountains can make people lose their way in it, what is the use of piling up these corpses here?
I subconsciously looked at the hanging lamp on the cave wall, and I couldn't help but feel a creepy feeling in my heart.
At this time, Lao Hu said: "It is likely that this is the old nest of the corpse leader, and I don't know what there is, everyone should be vigilant." β
Then, the three of us began to walk towards the stone path, because I had the experience of the Qinling Corpse Formation before, so I walked extremely carefully this time, every few steps, I had to turn around and take a look, I was afraid that I would break into some strange gate formation again.
The fat man took the lead, and the three of us formed a triangle and pushed forward with the dim flashlight, and at this moment, at the end of the flashlight, a stone wall appeared.
It's the end?
I was stunned, thinking that it should not be so fast, the width of this cave is at least about 100 meters, and at this moment, we have only advanced fifty or sixty meters, and we have almost reached the center of the cave.
The fat man hissed in his mouth, turned the flashlight up a little, and as the light spread, what appeared in front of us couldn't help but make us look at each other, because it was not a stone wall at all, but a corpse platform about two meters high.
The place where the main coffin is placed in the tomb of Dafan, there must be a corpse support table, just like a bed when a person sleeps, I have thought about many situations, but I never thought that I would see the corpse support platform where the main coffin is placed here.
Could this be the main burial chamber?
Lao Hu obviously felt strange, his brows furrowed into pimples, and he kept shooting flashlights at other places, but the location of this cave was too big, except for the densely arranged corpses, there was only this stone path in front of him.
What is placed on the corpse table must be the main coffin, but there is a very strange rectangular thing placed on the table in front of us, about one person long, highlighting a lot of sharp edges and corners, if you want to describe it, it is a bit like a pile formed when many knives are piled together, at this moment we are about ten meters away from the corpse table, and we can't see what is inside.
The three of us glanced at each other, and the fat man said: "No matter how you look at it, it looks like a trap, this old zongzi is too shrewd, don't be a false coffin." β
I think about the same as the fat man, but the corpse support table where the main coffin is placed suddenly appeared in front of me, as long as it is an inverted bucket, no one can resist this temptation, can I see the main coffin and go around? Is that still a butt?
I thought about it for a while and said, "Don't care if it's a false coffin, now the coffin is in front, do we want to go around?" β
The fat man hissed and said, "Around? Fat man, in my life, I opened the coffin when I saw it, only the zongzi saw me and made a detour, and I haven't made way for the zongzi yet, brothers, copy the guys. "The fat man's words are in my mind, and immediately, we walked towards the corpse platform, Lao Hu is thoughtful, it is estimated that there are some taboos, so he walked in the last one.
Soon, we arrived at the corpse table, only to find that what was placed on the platform was actually a strangely shaped iron coffin.
Old Hu Dengshi gasped and said, "It's an iron-locked coffin, be careful." β
Iron lock coffin?
I seem to have heard this name somewhere, but I couldn't remember it for a while, so I hurriedly asked, "Brother Hu, is there something wrong with this coffin?" β
He nodded, made a careful gesture to us, and then said: "This iron lock coffin, also known as the coffin of death, you see, this whole coffin is made of iron locks, and these iron locks are a large mechanism, don't believe it." Then the old man looked around, and finally went to the left, raised his dagger, and sawed off the arm of one of the corpses, and the knife fell without any mud and water, as if he were cutting cabbage.
I shuddered when I saw it, for fear that the corpse would explode, but the corpse was motionless except for a bounce, obviously a dead dumpling.
Immediately afterwards, Lao Hu put on the gloves to touch the corpse, held the arm in his hand, just like a cricket, and probed the bruised hand towards the coffin, which had just touched the iron coffin, and suddenly heard a click, and then, those protruding edges and corners were like blades, spinning rapidly, Lao Hu's hand trembled, and the arm he was holding came out of his hand, and the whole arm was stirred into pieces in an instant, and many of them were splashed on us.
The fat man was dumbfounded, smacked his lips, and said, "This ...... Is this coffin, placed here, for grinding meat? β
The raised edges and corners on the iron coffin stopped after a moment of turning, Lao Hu glanced at me and the fat man, and said: "Not only that, this fatal coffin, it is said that it was passed on to a folk Karakuri in the Warring States, the iron coffin was woven like a sweater, the corpse was put inside, and the mechanism was ever-changing, even if the ancestor who touched the gold and fought was coming, don't want to touch the corpse out of it, the only way to open it is only to open it from the inside, this kind of fatal coffin in history, almost a flash in the pan was lost, I thought it was just a legend, I didn't expect... β¦ There will be one here. β
Open from the inside?
I felt a chill in my neck and said, "Is it possible...... Waiting for the corpse to open the coffin on its own? β
Lao Hu was silent.
The fat man hissed, looked up at the coffin, and suddenly put his hands on the corpse table, and his fat body jumped on the edge of the corpse platform like a light swallow, and I was so shocked by his movements that my heart almost didn't scream.
At this time, the fat man cautiously poked his head out and stared at the coffin from top to bottom, and after a while, he shook his head at the two of us, his face was gloomy, and said, "The coffin is sealed and has not been opened." β
Haven't opened it? So there are still corpses inside?
This corpse support table plus the coffin of death, no matter how you look at it, it is the specifications of the main tomb, is this the main tomb?
I think something is wrong, according to our previous analysis, the priest set up eighty-one locks, just to trap the tomb robbers, but now, the main coffin appeared behind the tomb, so it seems contradictory, the tomb robbers have already entered the main tomb, so there is no need to set up the eighty-one locks.
And this alchemist, after all, does not have much financial and material resources, and he has to use the prince above to live here, where is there any ability to make a fatal coffin? Moreover, the corpses piled up around here are too bizarre, and it is impossible for such a large-scale martyrdom during the Ming Dynasty.
I told Lao Hu and the two of them what I thought, and the fat man said, "I have an idea, you say...... Could it be, this is also a fake tomb? I was stunned for a moment and said, "Fake tomb? "No, if this is really a fake tomb, then this fake tomb can also be fake.
I shook my head and said, "It can't be fake, it's just that this coffin really shouldn't appear here, if I'm not wrong, this place should be the central axis of Long Yin, the location of the dragon's head, and it's a real fairy cave, who would use the fairy cave to set up a virtual tomb?" β
The fat man said again: "Do you still remember the King of Lu Yan?" β
I suddenly chuckled in my heart, understood what the fat man meant, and couldn't help but look at the hanging lights around me, and said, "Fat man, what do you mean...... This is another drama of a dove occupying a magpie's nest? β
Lao Hu's face changed, and he said, "The dove occupies the magpie's nest...... I understand. β
After speaking, the three of us looked at each other, and no one expected that this time we would encounter three tombs at the same time.
If I'm not mistaken, this place is actually a main burial chamber, which occupies the dragon's head, and the fatal coffin in front of me is at least a product of the Warring States Period, and these martyred corpses are not buried for the priest at all, but for the owner in the coffin.
The monk must have taken a fancy to this tomb, but he didn't expect to be taken by the master of the Warring States.
Lao Hu hissed and said: "Wang Fatzi, you are to the point this time, this should be a Warring States Tomb, it is estimated that it has been transformed by that monk, do you remember the mural on the door of the tomb, the last pair of the mural, the monk is indeed sitting, that is, he must also be buried in this bucket." β
The fat man sighed and said, "This immortal cave has been occupied by this zongzi, and the coffin can't be opened from the outside, so the priest is still buried in this place, what's the point?" "What the fat man said happened to be the most important place.
The coffin in front of us was intact and placed upright on the corpse table, that is, from beginning to end, the coffin was placed on it and was never moved.
If I were this alchemist, I would definitely find a way to destroy the coffin and lie down on it, but now, this coffin has not been touched, what does this mean? The only possibility is that the priest can't deal with the coffin, so he has to be buried elsewhere.
I said my analysis to Lao Hu, Lao Hu immediately denied it, and said: "At first, I thought this was a Ming Dynasty fight, so I didn't expect this layer, now I know that it is actually a Warring States fight, I have some eyebrows, in the Warring States Period, with a large number of living people to be buried still exist, you see, this life-killing coffin is in the central axis of Longyin, that is, in the fairy cave, around these living people are buried, called' Immortal official', is to wait for the resurrection of the tomb owner for the resurrection of the slave, it is estimated that they are prisoners of war before their death, this is also a kind of feng shui layout, called 'sucking treasure', can gather the surrounding dragon qi here, if that Fang Shi really wants to be buried here, he will definitely find a way to get rid of this life-killing coffin, but now it is good, indicating that the person is definitely not buried here! β
Not buried here? In order to resurrect from the dead, even the prince dared to use it, and also set up eighty-one self-destruction locks, could it be that he would be abandoned halfway because of a fatal coffin?
The fat man said impatiently: "Don't care where the monk is buried, this zongzi is buried in the hole in front of me, there must be an elixir in the mud pill, let's fight this time, isn't it just for this thing?" I think we will find a way to open this deadly coffin first, and then plan later. β
I didn't say anything, now among the three of us, only Lao Hu has some understanding of the coffin, and he himself said that the coffin can only be opened from the inside, do you really have to wait for the zongzi to open the coffin by himself?
Besides, if this is really a Warring States zongzi, after a thousand years, the elixir has already matured, it stands to reason that this person should also die and be resurrected, and the coffin was opened, but now the coffin is sealed, which makes me feel a little bottomless, could it be that the elixir that the old nonsense said is actually just the ancients pulled out of the nonsense?
Lao Hu shook his head and sighed: "I can't open this coffin, and I don't have that ability." "He has already said this, even the fat man has no rut, this two-story tomb is enough to make people's heads big, and now there is a Warring States tomb, I am a little worried, can the stuffy oil bottle find here, is it that the three of us, today is really going to die here?
Just when we were speechless, the flashlight in my hand, the light suddenly jumped twice, it seemed to be about to go out, I quickly took it on my hand and slapped it twice, the light of the flashlight immediately became flickering brightly and dimly, at this moment, my eyes suddenly glimpsed, under the deadly coffin, there seemed to be a recessed thing, the two times my flashlight shook, from that recess, actually emitted a kind of light, as if there was something underneath.
I was startled, and immediately imitated the appearance of a fat man, and pushed my arm over the corpse platform, and then I lay down my head and hit the flashlight into the place where the coffin was connected to the stone platform.
There was only a very thin slit in it, and I lay on the ground and looked at it several times, but I couldn't see what was pressed under the coffin.
The fat man hissed and said, "I said naΓ―ve, are you so stimulated that you are delirious, how can you be like a monkey?" β
I scolded my mother and said, "Don't talk nonsense, come and see, what is in this?" The fat man immediately lowered his head, looked in opposite me, and then said, "What a nest." β
I shook the light of the flashlight a few times, and a kind of light was immediately reflected in it, as if some jewels were reflecting, and the fat man was dazzled by the light, and immediately rejoiced: "It seems to be some kind of treasure...... I said Lao Hu, is there any way to remove this iron lump? β
"The mechanism is different, don't move, no one can predict that something will come out."
When I thought of the hand that was crushed just now, I was also a little worried, but since that thing would be pressed under the coffin, it must be something terrible, the third uncle once said that the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the things inside can only be said to be ingenious, but only the tomb before the Warring States period is the place where the artifact is produced. I was dazzled by that burst of light just now, and my heart was like a cat's paw.
The fat man was so anxious that he almost didn't scold his mother, but suddenly, he paused and said, "No, you say, if this coffin really can't be moved, how did the corpse fit in?" And also...... How did the coffin move to the top of the burial table? β
Lao Hu was also stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't expect the fat man to think of this level, his eyes flashed a few times, and he said after a while: "You mean there are other living mouths?" I listened to the fat man's words and felt reasonable, and hurriedly said: "After all, the coffin is just a legend, it has been handed down for thousands of years, and it is inevitable that someone will add fuel and vinegar, and say that things are bizarre and strange, and lose their original appearance. β
Lao Hu frowned, but did not refute, next, the three of us climbed up to the corpse platform, and looked at the entire coffin almost all over, except for the raised edges and corners, I found nothing, I did not give up, and looked at it again from beginning to end, at this moment, I found a protrusion the size of a fingernail at the bottom of the coffin, if I didn't look so carefully, I'm afraid it would be easy to ignore the past.
"Fat man, old Hu, look here." I quickly gestured to them to come closer.
Lao Hu stared at it for a long time, and hesitated: "It's like a trap buckle, you can try it." "Immediately after, we got off the corpse platform, half-squatting, as far away as possible from the coffin, Lao Hu wore gloves to touch the corpse, his head only half of his head came out, and pressed the button very quickly, my heart suddenly jumped, I was afraid that there would suddenly be some poisonous gas or crossbow spewing out of it.
'Click'
After a soft sound, nothing happened.
Lao Hu saw sweat on his forehead, and waited for a long time before his head appeared, and a scene that surprised us appeared, because the deadly coffin was actually opened.
The fat man was dumbfounded, shook his head and said, "Therefore, the words of the ancient people cannot be fully believed, they are too capable of nonsense." β
I immediately looked at it and couldn't help but be a little stunned.
There was indeed a corpse in the coffin, but even the clothes were rotten, the bones were already yellow and blue, and it was estimated that it would not be long before there were even bones left.
I felt something was wrong and said, "This ...... This is the Immortal Cave? "Can this bone be resurrected?
Lao Hu was obviously stunned, and muttered, "No, this is impossible!" I saw that Lao Hu was hit harder, it seemed to be bigger than me, and I was about to comfort him, Lao Hu suddenly raised his head, stared at the coffin viciously, and said, "There must be a problem!" After speaking, without waiting for me and the fat man to react, he suddenly pushed the coffin fiercely, and his push, my heart almost jumped out, only to find that this so-called deadly coffin was actually fragile, and the inside of the iron was rusty.
The fat man was startled, threw Lao Hu to the ground, and shouted: "The surname Hu, what are you crazy about!" β
With the sound of the coffin approaching the shelf, half of the groove at its bottom was exposed, and in the light of dusk, a dazzling brilliance was reflected, and the contents inside were undoubtedly revealed, neither a jewel nor a shocking artifact, it was actually a pool of black water!
In the water, there was still a goldfish with little fingers, already dead, and its belly was turned up.
Under the coffin...... How do you raise goldfish?
At this time, Lao Hu and the fat man also arrived at the corpse platform at some point, and Lao Hu seemed to have woken up, staring at the black water on the corpse platform, as if he was distracted.
The fat man's mouth couldn't close, stared at the black water and the dead fish for a long time, and said to me: "Innocent, you pinch me, how do I feel that I am still dreaming." I just screwed him, and the fat man screamed.
I said, "It doesn't look like I'm dreaming. β
The fat man looked like he had eaten a fly, pointed to a pool of black water, and said, "Then tell me, what's going on with this fish?" Fat man, I'm here to get the elixir, to touch the device, not to touch the fish, damn, where is there no fishing, I'm full of food, go to this deep mountain and old forest to touch the fish? This fish is too small, still golden, and if you don't eat it, you won't be hungry, and maybe it's poisonous. β
I struggled for a long time and said, "Probably because the owner of the tomb likes to raise fish, and when he died, he raised one under the coffin." β
At this time, Lao Hu suddenly exhaled a long breath, and the whole person suddenly became paralyzed, as if he had been drained of all his strength, he sat on the ground with his buttocks, and suddenly said: "That's the end of it." β
The fat man and I looked at him at the same time, and suddenly, I almost went crazy, because I don't know when, Lao Hu's face was actually covered with dense corpse spots!