"Bones?" Chen Ziyang and Liu Cong glanced at each other, and both of them showed surprise in their eyes. Could it be that the appearance of this evil thing has something to do with the bones in the old tree? What kind of corpse is it that can give birth to such an evil thing.

While the two of them were surprised, Chen Benzhong seemed to have guessed that there should be a corpse there, and he didn't react to Chen Sanjin's words, and he was not surprised at all. Instead, he asked in a very smooth tone, "Describe to me in detail, what does the tree hole look like?" What do the bones look like? ”

As soon as Chen Benzhong's words fell, the branches and leaves above the old tree shook violently, obviously Chen Sanjin, who was hidden in the branches and leaves, was approaching the direction of the tree hole, probably wanting to see more clearly, so as to tell Chen Benzhong everything he saw.

The people standing under the tree all looked up, but they could only see the light of the flashlight shining from the branches and leaves of the old tree, and they couldn't see the tree holes and bones there at all, and even Chen Sanjin couldn't see it, so they could only do it in a hurry.

After a long period of effort, it may be that he has seen the tree hole and the bones clearly, or it may be that Chen Sanjin, who is standing on the tree, has organized the language, and he said to Chen Benzhong below:

"The hollow looks very weird, it doesn't look like it's artificially made, it doesn't look like it's been eaten by insects, it's like it's natural.

The hole is vertically downward, in the same direction as the trunk of the tree, and is not very deep, about just over a meter and less than two meters. It's not so much a tree hole as a depression formed by the trunks of this old tree being crammed together.

The inside of the hollow was covered with a thick layer of dirt and some rotting leaves, and it looked like it had been there for many years. There was nothing strange about the tree hole, the strangest thing was this skeleton. ”

"Strange?" The person standing under the old tree didn't understand what Chen Sanjin meant, there was a corpse bone that appeared in the hole of the old tree, which was a very strange thing in itself, why did this Chen Sanjin still say that this corpse was very strange.

Then Chen Sanjin's words made everyone really understand what he meant, this corpse is indeed strange enough, and even the word strange can no longer express the doubts in everyone's hearts.

"The lower body of the skeleton is already connected to the bottom of the tree hole, as if the lower half of the man's body is wrapped in the old tree, or if the man has grown out of the old tree.

However, I prefer that the skeleton is wrapped in this old tree, because the upper body of the skeleton is erect, and I can clearly see that the junction between the skeleton and the trunk is very obvious. ”

Chen Ziyang sketched a picture in his mind that Chen Sanjin described. Chen Sanjin described it very carefully, Chen Ziyang felt that what he was thinking in his head should be the same as what Chen Sanjin saw, but he was also like Chen Sanjin, and he couldn't understand why this corpse and this old tree were so strangely combined.

"In addition to the fact that this skeleton is very strange, there is another place that is also very strange, this corpse is not decomposed, the corpse does not turn into white bones, but looks like a dried corpse, the surface is covered with folds like tree bark, at first glance it really looks like a tree man."

"Third child, don't be alarmist there, how can the corpse be combined with the old tree, is it that you are too old and your eyes are not enough, so you can't see clearly at all.

As you said earlier, the inside of the tree hole is covered with a thick layer of dirt and rotten leaves, is it possible that the bones are standing there, and the underside of the bones is actually fixed by the dirt and rotten leaves accumulated over the years, so the bones will stand upright. ”

Turning his head, Chen Ziyang saw that the person who said this question was none other than Xu Yi, the rolling dragon. It's no wonder that he, like Chen Benzhong, directly called Chen Sanjin the third child.

Chen Ziyang, the person who rolled the earth dragon Xu Yi, did not have much contact, or in other words, Xu Yi did not attract Chen Ziyang's attention at all, because he was too inconspicuous.

Xu Yi is about fifty or sixty years old, similar in age to Chen Sanjin, he is not tall, and can even be described as very short. Xu Yi's height is only 1.5 meters at most, and his back is a little hunched, which makes him look even shorter.

Xu Yi looks thin, and coupled with his height, he can be described as a hemp pole. In addition to being unnoticeable, this Xu Yi's personality is also very introverted.

He couldn't say a few words every day, and whenever the team rested, he always hid alone, and didn't like to join in the fun at all. Only in the vicinity of Chen Benzhong and Chen Sanjin could Xu Yi say a few words.

But such a person who does not show the mountain and does not leak water was able to carve out a passage through the mountain within three days, which made Chen Ziyang admire it very much.

In the Dragon Entangled Qinglian Mountain Range, the reason why everyone was able to quietly come out under the supervision of the Dragon Digging Society was because of the passage opened by Xu Yi and his subordinates.

While walking through that passage, Chen Ziyang took a closer look. The mountain where the passage is located is a stone mountain, that is to say, it only took Xu Yi and his men only three days to chisel a stone mountain, what a skill this must be, no wonder he is called a rolling dragon.

But think about it, if you can call Chen Benzhong a brother and a brother together, Xu Yi's skills should be no worse than Chen Sanjin.

After Chen Sanjin described what he saw, it was obvious that this rolling dragon Xu Yi was a little impatient, even if he usually said little, he took the initiative to refute Chen Sanjin.

"Do you think I didn't think of it? I tried it just now, and although there was a lot of dirt and rotten leaves in the hollow, the thickness of these things was only thirty or forty centimeters, and below that was the hard trunk.

And I shook this corpse a few times just now, this corpse is not half-body, it should be a complete corpse bone, the lower part of the corpse is perfectly combined with the old tree, not fixed by these dirt and rotten leaves. ”

After following Chen Benzhong for so many years, Chen Sanjin is not an ordinary person, and he will definitely not make low-level mistakes easily, through Chen Sanjin's second description, several people standing under the tree nodded.

Chen Sanjin's words and his actions and analysis just now have sealed the speculation in the hearts of these people, and it seems that this corpse should indeed be integrated with this old tree.

Other people may have some doubts in their hearts, but Chen Ziyang and Liu Cong are very sure of Chen Sanjin's statement, because when these two people were fighting with that evil thing just now, they found that this huge head evil thing couldn't leave the surface of the trunk of the old tree. If this evil thing has nothing to do with this old tree, the two of them will not believe it anyway.

"Hey, you kid is still energetic, isn't it, this tree is so thick, I don't know how many years it has grown, if the bones are really combined with this tree, it will be a long time, but why hasn't this bones rotted yet, it's so wrong......"

Xu Yi was still a little unconvinced, he said as he walked in the direction of the old tree, it seemed that he didn't believe Chen Sanjin's eyes at all, so he planned to go up to the tree to take a look in person, so as to dispel the doubts in his heart.

"Xiao Xu, don't quarrel with the third child, the third child is not wrong, nor is he wrong, the corpse bone should indeed be integrated with this old tree, and the evil thing that these two juniors dealt with before is also related to this old tree and this corpse bone.

What they deal with should be the resentment formed by the materialization of a large amount of resentment after a large amount of resentment gathers together. Chen Benzhong's voice full of anger came from the side.

Although they had guessed that Chen Benzhong might know that there was a corpse hidden in the old tree, and also knew the reason for the appearance of that evil thing, when Chen Ziyang and Liu Cong heard Chen Benzhong's words, the two of them still couldn't believe their ears.

It's not that two people have never met. When the resentment is strong to a certain extent, these evil qi will slowly condense together, first attaching to some items that are easy to absorb resentment, and then continuing to condense until one or more evil things that are completely condensed by resentment appear, which is also the resentment formed by the materialization of resentment.

However, the materialization of resentment requires a large amount of resentment to come together before it can appear. Although the evil creature that the two people fought with before was very heavy, it was not yet heavy enough to materialize the resentment.

Moreover, the resentment around here is all left over from the long hair of that evil thing, and there is not a large amount of resentment gathered here, and this environment is also inconsistent with the environment where resentment materializes evil things, so the two of them don't quite understand what Chen Benzhong means.

"Hey...... These current generations are really not as good as the generation, so today I will rely on the old and sell the old, and tell you in detail what is going on. ”

When he said this, Chen Benzhong's face was full of smiles. Obviously, he was very confident in what he was going to say. He hasn't been out of the mountain for a long time, and he has no skills but can't use them for decades, which makes Chen Benzhong feel very depressed.

Now it is rare that so many people don't understand the things in front of them, and these things are exactly what Chen Benzhong knows, so this hundred-year-old man is very happy, what is happening now seems to be back to decades ago, back to when he was young, and it also makes him get back to the feeling of the past.

"The reason why this skeleton is perfectly integrated with this old tree is actually deliberate, and this is a unique form of burial, called tree burial."

"Tree burial?" The people around Chen Benzhong all had such a question in their minds, what is called a tree burial? It sounds like burying people in a tree, but isn't it a tree as a coffin?

"Tree burial is a deformed manifestation of tree worship by ethnic minorities in the north. However, this unique burial custom is very rare, and it is difficult for ordinary people to encounter it, and even rarely hear about it.

Originally, I wasn't very sure, but through your previous description, I guessed that there were very likely bones buried in this old tree, so I asked the third child to go up and take a look, and sure enough, the truth was just like I guessed.

The reason why I was able to think of this, in addition to the fact that I know a little more than you, is also a very important reason, that is, this is near the treasure of the dragon vein of the Great Qing Dynasty, and according to legend, the tree burial was invented by the Manchus.

In Manchu mythology, Nurhachi's father died, so he ran away with his father's body on his back, looking for a place where he could bury his father.

Nurhachi carried his father's body on his back to Hetuala, and suddenly he felt the urge to free his hand, so he placed his father's body in the middle of a large tree.

When Nurhachi returned from untying his hands, his father's body was missing. At that time, he was very anxious, and kept searching nearby, thinking that some animal had taken away his father's body, but there was no trace of animals around.

Later, Nurhachi found that his father's body had not disappeared, but had been wrapped in a tree and had grown into the trunk.

It took a lot of effort for Nurhachi to get his father's body out of the book, and in the time he was free, his father's body had merged perfectly with the tree. In desperation, Nurhachi had no choice but to bury his father in a tree.

It is said that in that year, all the feng shui treasures in the Kanto region were destroyed, leaving only this tree, which was monopolized by Nurhachi's father. So Nurhachi became the first emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

This myth is a self-justified explanation for the practice of tree burial by the Manchus. In fact, the custom of tree burial is relatively old. The ancient Khitan people had the custom of tree burial.

According to historical records, the northern ethnic minorities in the Tang Dynasty had the custom of tree burial, they hung the deceased on the tree, dried it, and then collected their bones after three years and burned them with fire, which was the first tree burial and then cremation, that is, the second burial.

After many years of evolution, tree burials have gradually emerged as other uses. After the blessing of the formation, the tree used for tree burial will have the effect of absorbing evil qi.

I once saw such an old tree near a tomb group in the Qing Dynasty, and the old tree at that time had a skeleton that was perfectly combined with the old tree, but the tree was not as tall and thick as this one.

Later, I analyzed that the purpose of the old tree buried by that tree is to absorb the evil qi in the tomb group and prevent these evil qi from forming evil things, the purpose is to protect the tranquility of the tomb group and prevent these evil things from interfering with the people buried in the tomb.

So I guess it's not just the bones in the hollow of the tree here, but also the underground around here, where a lot of people are buried.

It is very likely that these people are the people who died of exhaustion from building the Great Qing Dragon Vein, or it is also possible that the craftsmen who built the Great Qing Dragon Vein before were all killed and buried here.

A great deal of resentment gathered here, absorbed by this old tree, and that's why the evil thing you saw was formed. ”

(End of chapter)