Chapter 69: The sarcophagus
At this time, we have approached the nearest sarcophagus, the shape of the sarcophagus is very different from the coffin of modern times, the overall design is very round, there is no mausoleum at the four corners, the color is gray and white, probably due to long-term water vapor erosion, many places show a mildew black color.
The lid of this sarcophagus was opened, the lid of the coffin had been broken into two and fell to the ground, I looked down at the inside of the sarcophagus, I thought I would see the dried corpse dumplings, but who knew that it was empty, only a pile of tattered cloth, crumpled into a ball, and the color could no longer be seen.
This is located in the Kunlun snow region, the temperature is extremely low, the corpse can not be decomposed, I walked all the way, the corpse saw a bunch, but they were not explicit, I thought I would see a dry corpse again, who knew that the coffin was empty.
Where did the bodies go?
At this time, the sixth turned the flashlight, shining to the west position, suddenly, more sarcophagi from the darkness revealed, I looked, but also quickly turned the flashlight, this time, I saw clearly, I couldn't help counting in turn, it was nine sarcophagus.
The nine sarcophagi are neatly arranged in the northeast corner of the burial chamber, four of which have their lids opened, and the rest of the coffins have varying degrees of damage. The sixth man gestured to me to look separately, so he went west to check the four coffins on the west side, while I flashed my flashlight to the corner of the tomb.
The second coffin, the lid is only half covered, and the inside is still empty.
I think this situation is a bit weird, firstly, judging from the things left inside these coffins, there were once corpses here, and secondly, this is located inside the Kunlun Mountains, and the corpses are in the coffins, it is impossible to disappear for no reason, there are only two possibilities, one is that someone pulled them out of the coffin, and the second possibility is that the corpses crawled out of the coffin by themselves.
If the first case is the case, where are their bodies placed? Why did those people do this? Are those people the third uncle and the black blind man and others? I can't help but think of the horn with the echo worm in his body, since he can find this place, then in the past thousands of years, there are definitely more than a few of us who have been to this tomb, could it be that the ancient Tufuzi did it?
If it's the second case...... The corpse got up on its own...... When I thought about this, I couldn't help but shudder, thinking that I was thinking too much.
I heard the third uncle say that most of the Zongzi corpses in the ancient tomb were disturbed by the yang energy of the living, and with scientific explanation, it was probably the difference between the bioelectricity of the dead and the living, but I had never heard that the Zongzi would crawl out of the coffin by themselves if they were fine.
Thinking of this, I settled down and turned on a flashlight to look at the third coffin. The lid of the coffin was flipped to the side, only halfway up, and I turned the light on, and suddenly I saw a pair of dark eyes staring at me.
There was no psychological defense at this time, and my whole hand shook a little, and then, a pair of hands suddenly poked out of the coffin, and before I could make a sound, one hand covered my mouth, grabbed my shoulder with the other, and pulled me into the coffin.
But I didn't struggle at this time, because I found that the hand covering my mouth was warm, and it didn't have the unique taste of zongzi, so I concluded that it was not zongzi, it was a person.
Who is it?
I didn't move, pressed against the man, it was pitch black in front of me, I couldn't see anything, but there was a faint smell of blood on the tip of my nose, and suppressed breathing, and the air jet was spraying next to my cheek.
Then, I heard a noise outside, it was the sound of the sixth man running, he had already run past to check, there was a hazy flashlight light through, through the faint light, I saw the person who attacked me clearly, and suddenly, I felt my brain roar, because what I saw was Xie Yuhua, and at this time, he was covering my mouth with one hand, and the other hand propped up, slowly moving the lid of the sarcophagus to the side.
I heard a slight grinding sound in my ears, the sound of the coffin lid moving, how hard did it take to move a stone slab with one hand?
The lid was closed, and darkness fell in front of my eyes, and at the same time, I heard footsteps stop in front of our coffin.
Xie Xiaojiu is not dead? So Xiuxiu and Passerby A, are they also alive? How did he end up here? How did he get in? Why are you pulling me in? Why hide in a coffin?
Hide? What is Xiaohua hiding?
In the dark, I stared and my head was a mess, and then, I reached out and patted Xiaohua on the shoulder, signaling him to let go, I couldn't speak.
Then, Xiaohua let go of the hand covering my mouth, and I noticed that his body seemed to shake when his arm moved, and then I connected to the smell of blood in the sarcophagus, could it be that he was injured?
I had a lot of questions, but I couldn't ask anything.
The sixth man has been standing on the edge of the coffin without moving, he seems to be observing us, he is a very careful person.
Then, I heard a grinding sound in my ears, and the sarcophagus was removed a crack. There was a faint light coming in, and then, Xiaohua quickly stretched out her hand and covered the sarcophagus in an instant, I don't know if the sixth child found us, but anyone facing a coffin that can't be opened will have taboos.
There was no movement for a long time, and at that moment, I heard the footsteps of a second person.
Immediately, there was a faint voice of conversation: "Master, why are you?" ”
"Why are you alone?"
The sixth said: "I'm sorry, I lost him, but his nephew is in my hands...... Hiss, it seems to have been lost. At the end of his speech, his voice seemed to be a little helpless, and he pressed it lower, faintly taboo.
"Whatever he is, where did you come from? Let's get out of here first. ”
Lao Liudao: "What? Leave...... Be! He seemed to have a lot of questions, but he listened to the man and immediately nodded in agreement.
Although the conversation between the two was only for a moment, I could still hear the second voice, which was passerby A.
Lao Liu and Passerby A are a group of people, and listening to this conversation, Passerby A seems to be his head, so the person Xiaohua wants to hide from is Passerby A? What exactly happened to them? Who caused Xiaohua's injury?
I thought the two of them would leave, but just as the two of them finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of gurgling teeth grinding in my ears, which I was too familiar with, it was the sound of the dumplings after the corpse.
Since the next bucket, I have done a lot of learning about the knowledge of zongzi, such as the earliest record of zongzi book "Funeral Theory", this book was written earlier than the "Funeral Book", so far handed down, there are only remnants, due to the remoteness of knowledge, the market is not easy to find, I was in the corner of an old library to turn out a copy, and it was published in 89.
For the first time in the "Funeral Theory", the zongzi was recorded, and the scientific name in it was zombie, which said: Dead but not dead are puppets, dead but not rotten are stiff, and stiff and strange people are harmful. In the teeth, if the sound is knocking, it is a hard corpse, the sound is a living corpse in the bones, and the sound is a fake corpse in the soles of the feet.
The general meaning of this passage is to say: Those who are dead but are like living people are puppets, and those whose bodies do not rot after death are zongzi, and zongzi will harm one party when the corpse is raised. The difference between zongzi is distinguished from the sound, the sound comes from the teeth, like knocking on a wooden door, it is hard brown, the sound comes from the bones, the joints are active, it is a living corpse, and the sound comes from the soles of the feet, it is a fake corpse.
I haven't seen a puppet in it, but when it's dead, it can say and move like a living person, and I don't think it's possible to think about it.
I have seen hard brown and living corpses, the blood corpses of the Lu Palace, with flexible joints and heartbeats, are a kind of living corpses, and other hard browns have been seen a lot.
Although I have not seen a fake corpse, but I have heard that many rural villages still retain the custom of mortuary, that is, the mortuary is seven days after death, and there are large and small rituals after the seven days are full, often ten days and half a month to enter the ground, and in this process, sometimes the corpse will suddenly sit up from the coffin, and the eyes can even be turned, as if the corpse is about to become hard brown, but it will not really be a corpse, only need relatives to come forward to comfort or put rooster blood around, the corpse will lie down, this situation, that is, the fake corpse in the "Funeral Theory".
And the sound I heard now, like the rubbing of teeth, was a real hard brown, and then I heard an incomprehensible sound from the mouth of passer-by A, followed by gunshots, cheers, and fights, as if singing a big opera.
It is estimated that passer-by A and Zongzi got involved, and at this time, I asked Xiaohua in a low voice: "What's the matter?" ”
Xiaohua was about to speak, when suddenly, I noticed that his eyes were wide.
No, there's no light here, it's pitch black, how could I suddenly see Xiaohua's expression?
Could it be...... The coffin lid is open?
My heart jumped, and I immediately turned my head sideways, and sure enough, the coffin lid revealed a thin slit at some point, and the thin slit revealed a faint light, and outside the slit, a pair of eyes stared straight at the two of us, and I don't know how long I had been looking.
Those eyes only have the whites of the eyes, and there are no black pupils.
My scalp suddenly became numb, as if I had been splashed with a layer of cold water, from head to toe, and at this time, a pair of dry purple hands inserted from the slit, on the hands, the blue and black nails were a finger long, and the green tendons on the fingers were coiled like tree roots, and its palms were facing up, and then it touched the sarcophagus on our bodies and was suddenly slapped out, and at the same time, a male corpse with a full body was exposed in front of my eyes.
Immediately after, my whole body was pushed hard by Xiaohua, like a mortuary bounced out of the coffin, before I came back to my senses, a cool breeze suddenly blew in my ears, a foul smell suddenly rushed over, a sharp pain came from the arm, and there was hot water flowing down.
Damn, this zongzi is too fast.
I noticed the pain in my arm, and suddenly I kicked my foot backwards, but my right foot was like a cripple, and my left foot kicked as if it had hit an iron plate, and my right foot was unstable, and it was planted in the coffin again.