45. Puzzle solving
Mr. Zou turned his head to look at me, and then said, "The date of the death written above is exactly the same as the month and day of your birth, and you are now twenty years old, that is, this tomb is more than a year ago. ”
I didn't know what was going on, but I looked at the inscriptions carved on the grave in disbelief, and looked at them one by one for fear that I would miss something. Then I was completely shocked and said to myself, "Is it true?" ”
When Mr. Zou heard me talking to myself, he asked me, "What is true?" ”
I said, "I had died once in my imagination, but then I crawled out of the grave, and I always thought it was my imagination, but now that I see this tomb, is it true, not my imagination." ”
Mr. Zou had never heard me talk about this passage, so he asked me, "You tell me in detail about this passage that you remember." ”
I reminisced about it. So I told Mr. Zou in detail about 1510, and Mr. Zou was surprised when he heard it, and then said: "What you said is not in an orderly manner, and it is not at all like a conjecture and a boundless imagination." ”
I didn't answer Mr. Zou's words, but just looked at Mr. Zou, who thought for a while and said, "If this tomb is really yours, then your family definitely knows about it, and you can only understand what is going on after asking your family." Don't worry, maybe there is something else hidden here. ”
Mr. Zou comforted me in this way, but it could not dispel the doubts in my heart, but I still held back the anxiety and anxiety in my heart first, and nodded at Mr. Zou, who stood up and walked around the edge of the grave, as if looking for something, and then he said to me: "There is no corpse overflowing from this grave, I suspect that it may be an empty grave." ”
Empty graves?
I've never heard my family talk about it, and if it's an empty grave, why can't they tell me, I always feel that there is something in it, and there are even secrets that I don't know.
After that, Mr. Zou went up again, and I followed Mr. Zou up, but not far away, I saw the mountain temple where I was hiding that night, and there was a tomb under this mountain temple, and I didn't even find it that night.
When he saw the mountain temple, Mr. Zou turned his head and asked me, "Is it here?" ”
Although I didn't see the whole picture of the mountain temple, I knew from its looming eaves that this was the one I was hiding, so I said to Mr. Zou, "This is it." ”
Then Mr. Zou and I came to the outside of the mountain temple. But when he got close to the mountain temple, Mr. Zou frowned and said, "It's so strong." ”
And I didn't smell anything, Mr. Zou just said this and walked to the front of the mountain temple, but he seemed to be stunned when he saw the situation in the mountain temple. I didn't understand what was going on, but when I saw the scene in the temple myself, I was shocked because I saw a corpse standing in the place where the mountain god was supposed to be. And at a glance you can tell that it is a corpse.
It's just that this corpse is a little too terrifying, this appearance is no different from the zombies I have seen in the movie, I was startled when I saw this corpse standing in it, so I looked at Mr. Zou and asked, "What is this?" ”
Mr. Zou had already put away the look of surprise just now, just looked at the corpse and said, "This should be Wu Xiaoquan's corpse." ”
I have never seen Wu Xiaoquan, and it is difficult for such a horrible corpse to associate him with a living person, when I heard Mr. Zou say that he might be Wu Xiaoquan. I was even more shocked in my heart, is this to say that Wu Xiaoquan is indeed a problem, and my family has such a good relationship with him, could it be that these things in my family are really related to him.
I thought so in my heart. But I still asked Mr. Zou, "How did you recognize him?" ”
When Mr. Zou heard me ask, he glanced at me, and his eyes were a little sharp, as if I had asked a question that I shouldn't ask, but he still told me: "I'm just guessing, after all, we only saw Wu Xiaoquan's grave dug up when we came, and this mountain temple said that there is a statue of a god, since now the idol is no longer but a corpse." So much of it is Wu Xiaoquan. ”
I thought Mr. Zou's explanation was far-fetched, so I said, "Mr. Zou, you have something to hide from me, right?" ”
When Mr. Zou heard me ask, he took one look at it, and then asked me, "Why do you think so?" ”
I said, "I don't know." There are a lot of corpses in this mountain forest, your explanation just now is very far-fetched, if this is just one of the corpses hidden in this mountain forest, why are you so sure that he is Wu Xiaoquan, it is obvious that there is something on him or what characteristics he has, you recognize it. ”
Mr. Zou looked at me with some surprise, as if he was a little surprised by my subtle observation, and then I heard him say: "I used to think that your family called you wood because you were really as stupid as a piece of wood, but now I find that you are very perceptive, and it seems that I don't see people correctly." ”
I didn't know how to take Mr. Zou's words, and I didn't know if he was praising or belittling me, so I didn't say anything and just looked at Mr. Zou, and Mr. Zou looked at me, but soon he looked away, looked at the corpse again, and then said to me: "You're right, I recognized some of his characteristics, before saying this, do you know why Wu Xiaoquan was buried in such a deep mountain?" ”
Mr. Zou suddenly asked. I hadn't really thought about it, but I replied with my own speculation: "People in the village have a habit of being buried in the mountains when they die, but that's not the reason, right, there is only one grave around here." That is to say, this should not be a burial place, so I guess it should be Wu Xiaoquan; Before he died, he named him to be buried here. ”
Mr. Zou looked at me and said, "Yes, he named him to bury it here." ”
As he spoke, Mr. Zou looked at the forest here, but I fell into deep doubt. I asked Mr. Zou, "Why, why is he buried here, did he know that he was going to raise the corpse, so he specially kept himself in this corpse raising ground?" ”
Mr. Zou said: "But anyone who is alone. I don't want to raise my body after I die, so this is definitely not Wu Xiaoquan's will, this matter is not far from ten is that he named him to be buried here, but he didn't expect that after he was buried, this place would become a place to raise corpses. He also became a corpse. ”
I didn't understand what Mr. Zou was trying to say, so I asked, "Is there anything special about this, or will there be anything special about being buried here?" ”
Mr. Zou looked at me and said, "And I guess that Wu Xiaoquan was not dead when he was buried." And he was buried alive. ”
I was completely stunned, and I just instinctively asked: "The living are buried, why is this, even if Wu Xiaoquan is a half-immortal who borrowed the corpse to resurrect the soul." There's no need to do such an extreme trick. ”
Mr. Zou said: "The problem lies in this borrowing corpse to return the soul, after all, this body is not suitable for the half-immortal himself, he just lives in this body, and this body will decay, he chooses to bury the living, just to keep the body, although he can't walk around with the help of his body, but it is better than the corpse decaying and becoming a lonely ghost." So he chose to bury the body here as a place for himself to possess, that is, the demi-immortal should also be here. ”
I heard Mr. Zou say this. I looked at the corpse standing in the mountain temple and said, "But what is the situation now, why did the corpse run out on its own, and where did the half-immortal go?" ”
As I was talking about this, Mr. Zou suddenly asked me, "Do you remember the first time we came here, your father remembered the road here very clearly, even though it had been more than 20 years, but he found it immediately." ”
I said, "You explained this to me because of the ghost guiding the way." ”
But Mr. Zou asked me, "What the hell?" ”
I was stunned for a moment, then looked at Mr. Zou and said tentatively, "Is it Wu Xiaoquan?" ”
Mr. Zou looked at me solemnly and said, "Strictly speaking, it should be a half-immortal." ”
I immediately realized what Mr. Zou was going to say, and my mouth opened wide in surprise, and then Mr. Zou said, "I finally know what's wrong with your father, and the half-immortal regards him as the next possessed host." ”