Chapter 238: Footprints in the Snow
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We don't know if the village Yang Si went to is a Yin Yang Cottage, judging from the geographical location, it should be correct, but what is the Fierce Ghost Cave?
We asked Yang Si, but Yang Si couldn't say why, he only knew that he was passing through the ghost cave in absolute darkness, what was inside, whether there were ghosts or not, even he was not sure.
After coming out of the ghost cave, the polar night in Verkhoyansk has also passed, although the day is still very short, but after all, it gave Yang Si the last hope, and then with his rich experience in surviving in the wilderness, he found a shortcut to return to Verkhoyansk.
It is precisely because of this that Yang Si has a high prestige among the local lumberjacks, and those bearded Russian strong men obey him if they are not convinced.
We discussed for a while, and finally decided to take the shortcut that Yang Si took to leave the Yin-Yang Cottage, which is the so-called Fierce Ghost Cave. As for the words Yang Si said, we didn't pay attention to them at all.
Let's not talk about whether there are really ghosts in the cave, and even if there are, the five of us can handle it. Taking this road can help us save a day or two of time, at least in front of the old monks in Tianzhu.
After tidying up our things, we carried the package into the moor. Siberia in October is extremely cold, with snowflakes and a chilly wind coming out of the Arctic Circle.
Needless to say, the hardships along the way naturally went unquestionable, and we arrived at the entrance of the Fierce Ghost Cave late at night the next day after comparing the electronic map and Yang Si's memory. It was a nondescript hole in the inner side of the valley.
The entrance to the cave was covered with snow, all of which were covered with snow swept by the wind, and if Yang Si hadn't been here before, I'm afraid he wouldn't have been able to find this place at all.
We peeled off the snow and stood at the entrance of the cave, Zhang Wuren took the yin and yang compass and measured it, and his face became a little unnatural.
I leaned over to take a look, and saw that the hands on the yin-yang compass kept shaking, and a series of strange symbols lit up one after another, like flickering lights.
Zhang Wuren said, good guy! It's a ghost cave! It's definitely a great place to hide the ghosts!
The wind in the cave was gusting, and the people who blew it had a chill down their spines. People in the industry know that this is actually yin qi, which can blow through people's clothes and act directly on the body. That is, the cold-proof combat clothes on our bodies are lined with Buddhist robes, so that we can withstand this yin qi.
But I also think it's strange, why didn't Yang Si die here when he ran out at that time?
Zhang Wuren said, the yin qi here is very heavy, I don't know how many fierce ghosts are hidden, everyone extinguish the yang fire on their bodies, don't alarm the guys inside.
There are three fires in the body, one in the center of the eyebrows and one in the shoulders. Extinguishing the yang fire on the body, in a short period of time, is actually the same as a dead person.
Yin ghosts are very sensitive to the use of yang energy, and if there is no yang energy on their body, they can pass through the fierce ghost cave smoothly.
We all know how to extinguish the yang fire in the body, but Yang Si doesn't understand, when Zhang Wuren was about to help him extinguish the yang fire in his body, he was suddenly stunned.
Then I heard Lao Zhang say, strange, you have ...... Why is there no yang fire?
Don't look at Yang Si has a Chinese name, but he knows very little about Chinese culture, and he can't understand what Zhang Wuren said. But I thought of a terrifying possibility.
As long as it is a living person, there will be these three fires, just like a person must drink water and eat in life, it is a theorem. And the three fires on Yang Si's body seem to have been extinguished a long time ago, in a sense, he is not a complete living person at all.
I whispered, "Ghost cave, the living go in, the dead go out, the dead go in, the living come out." Then he instantly understood why Yang Si was able to come out of the fierce ghost cave unharmed.
It is estimated that he was already dead when he entered the Yin-Yang Cottage, but he didn't know it.
In fact, this situation is very common, in rural China, there are people who die and do not know that they are dead, and still go out to work on the farm at night. In fact, it is the Yin Soul controlling the corpse doing its familiar work.
At this time, you can't tell the deceased that you are dead, otherwise your soul will leave your body and you will turn into a lonely ghost and suffer in the yang world. The deceased must be led home, lying in a coffin, and then lit with wormwood to draw out the soul of the deceased for rebirth.
Yang Si's situation is relatively special, there is no yang fire, but the functions of the body are very normal, walking, sitting and lying down like an ordinary person. Could it be that this is the so-called living person half alive and half dead in the Yin and Yang Cottage?
We haven't been in the Yinyang Cottage yet, so we don't know much about the situation over there. Zhang Wuren glanced at Yang Si meaningfully and said, let's go!
The inside of the ghost cave is gloomy, and the people who blow it are very uncomfortable. Prince Wen turned on a small blue lamp, and inside was a cold light source formed by the burning of phosphorus fire. This light source does not have the nature of a little yang fire, and naturally it will not attract the attention of the fierce ghosts in the cave.
The cave is full of potholes, difficult to walk, and there is serious water seepage. Don't look at the gloomy air in the cave, but the temperature is higher than the ice and snow outside, which makes it more difficult for us to walk.
Where the lights couldn't shine, there were ghostly whispers from time to time, and some shadows passed by in the lights. We didn't provoke each other, we just silently counted the time.
It took about seven or eight hours to walk for more than seven or eight hours before it came to an end. Because of our fears, we didn't even rest and stay in the cave.
It was about mid-morning when we left the cave, but it was still dark outside, and we couldn't see anything clearly. Zhang Wuren suddenly said, the polar night in the wasteland is probably coming.
It is close to the Arctic Circle, and there are more than 20 days of polar night every year, especially this year, the situation seems to be particularly special, only in October, Verkhoyansk ushered in the first polar night of the year.
For ordinary people, the polar night is just that the sun is not visible, but for us, the polar night is a special period of time when yin energy rises and yang energy does not exist.
The harmony of yin and yang is the simplest and most practical principle between heaven and earth. Yang energy is strong during the day and yin energy increases at night, which is a normal yin and yang cycle. And once the polar night comes, the yang energy will subside and the yin energy will rise, no matter what demons and monsters will take advantage of this time period to jump twice.
This also means that the situation we face will be more complex.
Except for Janssen, everyone knows what the polar night really means, and I thought it was only October, even if the night was a little longer, there would always be a time when the sun would come out. But now that the polar night is coming early, we have to pay attention to this problem.
It's not our style to retreat, so we left the Ghost Cave and found a place to rest and eat. I walked around with Janssen, and he quickly remembered where the cottage was.
After we had eaten and drunk enough, we slept in our sleeping bags again and slept in turns, waiting until four or five o'clock in the afternoon to put away our sleeping bags. During this period, the sun has not appeared, and the sky is always white with fish belly, as if the sun will emerge the next moment, but wait and wait, until the white of the fish belly disappears, and the sun does not appear.
Zhang Wuren said that the appearance of the polar night is easy to disturb the yin and yang of heaven and earth. Prince Chik and Tianzhu's old monks should have come specifically for this time period, Lao He, I'm afraid we are going to encounter some amazing things.
I was about to ask something terrible, when I suddenly heard Prince Wen whisper softly, as if he had found something.
He said, Zhang Wuren, He Zhonghua, you'd better come and have a look.
I picked up the packed package again and strode towards Prince Wen, but as soon as I walked over, I couldn't close my mouth in surprise.
A series of footprints on the snow led directly into the distance, and the footprints were very deep, but they were only half buried by the wind and snow, so they could be seen clearly.
Judging from the traces on the ground, the person who left the footprints has been gone for about ten hours, that is, someone passed through the Fierce Ghost Cave ahead of us and entered the Yinyang Cottage.
I whispered, strange! Who is this man?