Chapter Thirty-Six: The Coffin

I was stunned, there were so many coffins parked in the mysterious cold water cave?

Why have you never heard of it?

After a rough estimate, I found that there were hundreds of coffins in the open field!

If one or two mouthfuls are easy to explain, it is not good that individual people's funeral beliefs are different, in Yunnan, Fujian and other places have found a large scale of hanging coffins, which are also piled up in one place.

Kehong Village has never heard of such a non-burial method, where did these hundreds of coffins come from? Where are the bodies in the hundreds of coffins, and why are they buried here?

"Uncle Jiu, this, what the hell is going on, how can there be so many coffins?"

My teeth chattered, and I turned back to ask Chen Jiutong.

"Don't be afraid."

Chen Jiutong smiled and said, "These are ancient coffins, I'm afraid they have been nearly two hundred years old. ”

I was shocked, and when I took a closer look at the lamp, I found that the style of these coffins was indeed very old, even simple, and even holes could be seen in many places, and the black looked extraordinarily infiltrating, and the copper nails on some coffins grew out of the patina half a foot long, and at a glance I knew that it had corroded for a long, long time.

It's just that what I can't understand is, why on earth are so many coffins stopped here?

Could it be that Hongcun had such an unbelievable funeral custom two hundred years ago?

But it's not right to think about it, the mountain people value tradition the most, if there is really such a custom, how can there be no words handed down?

At this time, I realized that I seemed to have seen the tip of the iceberg of Hongcun's true face.

Whether it is a leather coater, Wong Tai Sin, or Chen Jiutong, they have all more or less reminded me not to leave Hongcun, although I don't understand why, but one thing is certain.

That is, Hongcun is different from ordinary villages!

What happened around the Hong family is very likely to be because of this reason.

Now, I finally came into contact with a different side of Hongcun, perhaps, just a corner of the veil.

I suddenly remembered that the leather coat had told me that Hongcun was surnamed Hong a long time ago, and then they disappeared strangely, leaving only the current Hong Qingsheng family, and the three surnames of Ma Chai and Chen all moved over later, filling the gap of the Hong family's disappearance.

"These coffins can't be the former Hong family's, right?"

I thought of a possibility, maybe they didn't disappear, and they were all buried here, which explains why no grave surnamed Hong has ever been found in Hong Village, except for Hong Qingsheng's family.

A hundred years is a long time for a person, but it is not a long time for a tomb. If the people of Hongcun had been surnamed Hong a long time ago, then it would be impossible for them not to leave some relics in Hongcun.

"Uncle Jiu, they shouldn't be the Hong family from a long time ago, right?" I asked.

Chen Jiutong was slightly stunned, glanced at me in some surprise, and said: "I don't know the origin of these coffins, but this place is indeed a natural mortuary, the corpse is not afraid of ants and insects, it is not afraid of wind and rain, and it can be kept for a long time, maybe it is this reason that someone buried the corpse here." ”

Hearing Chen Jiutong's explanation, I think what he said has some truth, the ancients paid attention to a whole corpse burial when they were buried, and the conditions were more extreme, emphasizing that the corpse would never rot, there were mummies in the Western world, and wet corpses in the Eastern world, and the people who opened the coffins were still lifelike.

If this place really keeps corpses from rotting, it makes sense to be used as a morgue.

I suddenly remembered the big red coffin placed in Chen Jiutong's house, and I thought to myself, could the coffin be moved back from here? But I didn't dare to ask, those things are very taboo, it's better not to ask.

Then, Chen Jiutong took me ashore from a low-lying waterfront, and he took out a flashlight to turn it on, and said to me: "Let's look for it, see if Hai Meirong's coffin is here, do you remember what the coffin looks like?" ”

"Yes."

I nodded, I was present on the day of Hai Meirong's burial, and I drifted so far with her coffin, how could I not remember.

"Okay, then we'll split up and find out." Chen Jiutong nodded, pointed to the left and said, "You look for this side, I'll look for that side." ”

"Do you want to divide it, find it separately?"

My heart was furious, and this place of black winter asked me to face these coffins alone, and I was not afraid to death, so I said, "Otherwise, let's not be separated." ”

Chen Jiutong saw that he was scared, and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, it's not far from that place, and if something happens, we delayed a little too much before, and now the time is very tight, and we must leave here before noon." ”

"Leave before noon?"

I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and suddenly understood what Chen Jiutong meant, this place is gloomy, and at noon there is the most yang energy between heaven and earth, even if there is anything unclean, I don't dare to come out to make trouble, but after this point in time, it is difficult to say, this cold water hole does not see the sun all year round, God knows what there is.

Chen Jiutong nodded and said, "Look for it, time is running out." With that, he walked to the other side with a flashlight and looked for it carefully.

My scalp is numb, but I can't be afraid at the moment, it would be bad if I couldn't find Hai Meirong's coffin, the more it dragged on, the more dangerous it became.

I stubbornly looked for the coffin by coffin, and from time to time I looked back at Chen Jiutong's side, no way, I was really afraid, only seeing the light on his side could make me feel a little more at ease, and then continue to search.

Gradually, I found out that this mortuary is not a complete piece of land, there are many waterways in the middle, which must have been used to transport the coffin at that time, not deep or wide, and the traces of artificiality are very obvious.

Row by row to look for the past, found about 100 coffins, because of the different directions, Chen Jiutong and I walked farther and farther, my heart was furious, I couldn't help but speed up the search, and secretly prayed in my heart that Hai Meirong's coffin would appear soon, and if it went on like this, I would be scared to death.

But at this time, a question suddenly appeared in my mind, how could Jaime Rong's coffin be in this morgue?

Wasn't it carried away by the ghost ray, it should have been eaten by the ghost ray's broken coffin, shouldn't it be here?

With this thought, I found that I had missed an extremely important logical problem, and I had been nervous before, and I would do whatever Chen Jiutong said, but I never thought about it.

Also, how can Chen Jiutong be so sure that Hai Meirong's coffin can be found here?

Could it be that the ghost ray carried the coffin of Mei Rong not to eat the corpse, but to put the coffin in this mortuary? Does it have such a high IQ?

Watching it bite the hook before, there is patience, but the IQ is ......

I couldn't figure it out, so I instinctively turned back to look at Chen Jiutong.

But this look made me tremble.

The light over there is gone!

"Damn!"

I broke out in a cold sweat, such a bright flashlight, as long as it was in this darkness, it must be visible, but now it's gone, where is Chen Jiutong?

He is my guts now, and his guts are gone, and I don't know if it's an illusion, but I always feel that something is staring at me in the darkness around me.

"Uncle Jiu!"

I shouted out to that side, trembling, and my voice changed because of nervousness.

For a long time, there was no response from there, only my nervous trembling words echoing, and the echo sounded extremely distorted and cold.

"What should I do?"

I was completely panicked, and said in my heart that Chen Jiutong shouldn't have left me here alone and ran away, right? The more I think about it, the more scared I become, and the more I am afraid, the more things come.

"Wow!"

At this moment, my flashlight flickered, and I shook a place in the corner of my eye, and felt a dark red thing flash, and then I heard the sound of falling water.

The sound is not loud, but after the strange amplification here, it is heard very clearly.

I froze in fright, and my mind went blank.

Here, there are living things!!

"!!"

I couldn't stand it anymore, and based on people's instinctive reaction to being afraid of things, I ran away in embarrassment towards the way I came.

And at this time, something even more terrifying happened, I found that there were two drainage footprints on the road when I came, stretching along the road from which I came.

In other words, the dark red Dongdong has been following me since I left Chen Jiutong!!

I was so frightened that I ran outside, and I was so frightened that I couldn't do it, and my heart attack was about to come out.

The footprint was like the shape of a maple leaf, triangular in shape, the size of an eight- or nine-year-old child's foot, and it was obviously not human!

"Uncle Jiu, Uncle Jiu!"

I yelled in a hurry, and one of my feet accidentally slipped into the waterway, and my whole body was soaked, and the cold and biting cold water stimulated me, and I felt that my whole body was hard, and I couldn't run.

There was still no response from Chen Jiutong, and I was scared like a lost dog, terrified to the extreme.

What's even worse is that the flashlight fell off and fell into the waterway.

The whole space was so dark that I couldn't see my fingers, and I stood up, but I couldn't see the road at all.

Where can I run without lights?

At this time, although I was afraid, I knew very well that it was impossible to get out without scooping up the lamp, there were coffins everywhere, and if I touched something that I shouldn't touch, I would really die.

Besides, it's so dark, I don't dare to run down.

I hurriedly leaned down again, and reached out to get the flashlight in the water. But as soon as I lay down, there were suddenly two "pops" on the opposite side.

At this time, I saw a pair of feet, appearing on the other side of the waterway.

What kind of feet were they, the color of white pig's trotters, shaped like the flippers of a duck, but much thicker, and the heels were as thick as an adult's arm.

The flashlight sank into the water and only scattered a little light, and I could only see a pair of feet close to the edge of the waterway, but I could not see its upper body, and I could only see a vague phantus, half a man high.

This is definitely not human!

"Ahh

I was completely frightened, and I kept shrinking back, and there was only one thought in my mind, which was to stay away from the thing, and I had to stop until my back reached a coffin.

"Get out!"

Frightened, I screamed, grabbed something on the ground, and threw it in that direction.

To my disappointment, the thing did not leave, but stepped across the waterway and walked towards me step by step, and as it was halfway into the air, I saw a pair of pale vertical pupils, which were by no means human eyes.

I was paralyzed, my body was gradually woodened and uncontrollable because of extreme fear, and my heart kept shouting to run, but there was no strength under my feet, only the frightened shouts could vent the fear in my heart.

What is called dumbfounded, this is.

At that moment, a hand suddenly reached out from the side and covered my mouth tightly.

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