Chapter 37 Liu's Tomb II
Behind the stele are two broken gray-white stone pillars, which are full of cracks, and yellow and twisted thorns climb on them.
The cemetery looks like a hill, and there are many potholes on the yellow-black dirt road that look like they have been blown up by cannonballs.
There was no snow here, and Bai Shisan and the others stepped on it sticky, as if it should be fully melted.
Li Er squinted at the surrounding potholes, and his face was a little gloomy.
"I'm afraid this is not an ordinary pit, it should be a coffin burial cave. ”
Bai Shisan's heart sank, he looked around, and sure enough, these holes were all around the tombstone.
"Although I used to rob tombs, the first thing I learned was Feng Shui. It is located in a hilly area, surrounded by shrubs, and the trees on the edge of the hills are all abnormally bent and growing here, blocking the sun. I really can't figure out what the people who buried the tomb think, so they chose such a place where yin and yang are gathered. ”
Li Er squatted down and pinched a handful of soil next to the tomb, his brows furrowed slightly.
"The soil around it wasn't soft, but it was muddy with snow. But the soil here is as cold as ice. There is a saying in general burials that people cannot stand behind the grave, and that is because the head of the deceased is facing backwards. But the tombstone here is interesting, it actually stands behind the tomb, and the existence of the tombstone blocks the way of the souls of the dead. ”
Li Er explained, watching the blood-red centipede desperately drill into the place where Li Er pinched the soil just now, and everyone knew that there was a tomb underneath.
"Do you smell anything?" Zhang Hatshui twitched his nose, and there was a faint smell of rancid smell in the wind, like the smell of rotten meat.
Zheng Tianyun nodded when he heard this, he and Hua Sheng glanced at each other, and each clenched the long knife in his hand. Here the two of them are stronger, and some necessary vigilance is essential.
Li Er looked at these inexplicable pits around him, he knew that these were the original pits.
And why were these caves blown open? He crawled on top of a pit and probed inside.
It's black and oppressive, giving people an inexplicable sense of upset.
Ahh
"Who!"
Bai Shisan and the others were quickly alerted, and just now they suddenly heard Li Er's screams, and thought that something had happened to him.
"Help me, I can't go up. Li Er didn't know why, he was in a trance for a while, and he slipped and fell into the cave.
The cave is not deep, but the surrounding walls are slippery and abnormal, even if Li Er has light skills, there is nowhere to borrow strength, there is nothing to do.
Fortunately, the bones in the cave have been weathered and decayed, otherwise the impact of Li Er's fall, his body will be pierced by the bones.
Everyone looked at Li Er speechlessly, and Hua Sheng found a withered vine soaked in snow water that was relatively resilient and extended to the bottom of the cave.
Li Er took advantage of this to be pulled up.
In just such a moment, Li Er's hair was covered with white frost, which was enough to show the coldness underneath.
"It's getting late now, should we go back the way we came or just rest here for the night?" Zhang Hatshui said, his eyes inadvertently caught a glimpse of a copper coin stuck in Li Er's waist, and he didn't care.
At that moment, a light rain suddenly fell in the sky, thunder rolled, and white lightning tore through the thick clouds.
Hua Sheng looked at the sky, and just as he was looking for the vines, he accidentally found a Yizhuang.
"It's raining harder and heavier, and I'm afraid I won't be able to go back tonight. I just saw a righteous village in the cemetery, so why don't we spend the night there? Huasheng proposed.
He turned his head to look at Bai Shisan and the others and some of the officials who came with him, and saw that they had no objections, so it was decided.
Speaking of which, there is a small village not far away, and next to the village is a mine owned by the Soul Gang. Over the years, Zheng Tianyun, as one of the local land snakes, it is impossible for him not to have some property under his hands, otherwise how to support the brothers under his hands.
This village was also built by the village to park the bodies that were not buried in time.
The destination of Bai Shisan's party was there.
The gray and white walls of Zhuangzi are mottled and somewhat dilapidated, and when you turn the road, you can see that a corner of the wall is missing, and there is a quiet and dead silence in Zhuangzi.
It stands to reason that there should be a keeper here, and the tall gray and white wall is also to defend against beasts in the forest, but there are some jackals who sneak in and take away the corpses, so there is a keeper of the village.
But seeing that the village was dim and dark, and there was no light, and the corrupted fallen leaves had not had time to fill the yard, and no one cleaned it.
"It's been a long time since I've lived here, and I remember passing by a few months ago and seeing the old man rocking a chair in the yard and smoking a big cigarette. Zheng Tianyun felt strange, because the cemetery was in a hilly basin, so he rode by on a dirt slope, and it was easy to see the scene in the Zhuangzi.
Zheng Tianyun said, and pointed to the old withered rattan chair placed in the center of the courtyard, where the keeper surnamed Liu used to sit.
There is a water tank next to the chair, and Lao Liu Tou sits on the chair facing the yellow wooden gate of Yizhuang, and scoops a scoop of water in the tank to drink when he is thirsty.
I have to say that when Bai Shisan just pushed the door and entered Yizhuang, he was really startled by the old withered vine chair facing him.
I don't know if it's because the wind and rain are too strong, Bai Thirteen actually has an illusion, the chair seems to be shaking slowly before.
But when they came in, the chairs didn't move.
If you look closely, the legs of the chair are also pressed by some red bricks, which plays a fixed role.
Ruined courtyards, dry flowers and plants, ground covered with fallen leaves, bare branches.
All of this sends chills down the back, especially since the house where the corpses are parked is actually a Gothic-like building.
"Let's go inside. Zheng Tianyun was a little drumming in his heart, and the buildings in the courtyard were dilapidated together, and they slowly became weird and weird that made people feel chills down his spine.
Everyone entered the room where the corpses were parked, and the house made of black rock barricades had no windows, and when they stood in the house and looked up, they could see that the roof was ridiculously high.
The bottom is wide and the top is narrow, I don't know if it's Bai Thirteen's illusion, this Yizhuang seems to be an upside-down coffin.
Looking at the coffins lined up in the room, even Zheng Tianyun and Zhang Hatshui, the faces of murderers who licked blood from the knife all day long began to become a little unnatural, and they all felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong.
The house was dilapidated, but it was not too late, and several people found a place with a relatively intact roof that could keep out the rain and sit down.
Everyone sat together, remembering that they hadn't eaten anything since the afternoon, so they took out the water bladder and dry food they had prepared in advance and ate it.
Because of the rain, the surrounding firewood was damp, and there was no fire at all, so everyone could only rely on their own qi and blood to resist the cold at night.
It doesn't hurt that the roof is broken, at least the moonlight can let in so that the surrounding environment is not too dark.
There were a dozen or so people in total, each divided into a pile and squeezed into the four corners of the room, and the terrifying atmosphere between talking and laughing was gone.
Bai 13 didn't have the heart to talk to them, he approached the coffins parked in the house, and found that the coffins here were all hanging in the air.
Some coffins fell to the ground because the pillars that supported them were rotten, or the ropes were broken.
Nevertheless, the coffin seemed to be very strong, and the black lacquered wood had not decayed like the pillar, but was as new as new.
It's getting late, and people here don't have the habit of staying up late, and most of them rest at sunset.
These people are also big-hearted, and some of the doors of the old houses are not closed tightly, and some wooden doors sway with the sound of the wind, making a creaking sound.
The moonlight sprinkled down like a gray veil, and Bai Thirteen looked at the cold and cold courtyard through the crack in the door that was not tightly closed, and vaguely saw a gray shadow flashing.
If it weren't for Bai Thirteen who couldn't open his eyes when he fell asleep, he naturally wouldn't have found that gray shadow. Bai 13 lifted the long knife and walked towards the wooden door with heavy steps, only to see a black palm print on the edge of the wooden door.
It's as if a person is holding on to the door and secretly looking into the house.
Bai Thirteen shuddered, tightened his robe, and looked around the courtyard.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Hatshui walked over with a hint of sleepiness, his eyes worried.
Bai Shisan breathed a sigh of relief, he pointed to the black handprint printed on the wooden door and said, "I'm afraid there are more than us in this Zhuangzi." ”
Zhang Hatshui, who saw the black handprint, immediately lost his sleepiness, jokingly, he was asleep aside, and there were still people who were stunned and peeping at the door.
Between the sweat and hair, Zhang Hatshui woke everyone up.
Zheng Tianyun, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by Bai Shisan, and unconsciously shouted angrily: "Looking for death!"
When he opened his eyes, he found that everyone was staring at him speechlessly, and Zheng Tianyun's scalp was numb when he was also seen, and he got up a little bit of anger.
"Can you sleep so soundly in a place like this?" Hua Sheng spat.
Zheng Tianyun said angrily: "I'm the most annoying thing for others to wake me up." ”
"Alright, it's unjust to be killed in your sleep. Zhang Hatshui said, leading Zheng Tianyun to see the black palm print, and the faces of the two were not very good-looking.
"Damn! I'm annoying you Zheng Ye! Whether it's a demon or a ghost! I have the ability to come out and compare with your Zheng Grandpa twice, see if you kill me, or if I hack you to death, !! you"
Zheng Tianyun practiced a hard skill called Crazy Lion Jin, and he needed to take the blood of fierce beasts to assist him when he practiced.
Others are also like wild beasts, although they are usually unruly but quite straightforward, but once they start a fire, they are like a mad lion.
Boom!
Zheng Tianyun stepped on the broken wooden door, and the whole person jumped into the courtyard like a cannonball, and his body seemed to swell around.
"Lao Zheng, what are you crazy about!" Zhang Hatshui scolded.
"I'm not crazy, don't ghosts just want human flesh and blood? I'll give it to see if it can gnaw on it!" Zheng Tianyun's exercises worked, and his blood boiled, and the whole person was panting for white air.
"Don't be impulsive, this Zhuangzi is so big, if we search, he won't be able to hide for long. Bai Thirteen said in a deep voice.
Hua Sheng also recognized Bai Shisan's statement, and the dozen or so of them were divided into two groups, each looking for the front yard and the back yard of Zhuangzi, and they could soon find out who was pretending to be a ghost.
The team was quickly divided, and Bai Shisan and Hua Sheng were in a group, leading a group of people towards the backyard.
Because it rained too much in the first half of the night, they didn't explore the backyard at all, and it was still full of many unknowns.
There is a cyan stone well in the backyard of Yoshiso, and on the left side is supposed to be the so-called stable.
Whew-
A gust of wind blew, and the sound of windows closing one after another suddenly sounded, Bai Thirteen glanced at it sharply, suddenly pulled out the long knife behind his back, and rushed towards a place with a huge red horse training.
"Pretend to be a ghost, give me !! death"
The red blood refining sword qi was like exploding fireworks in the night sky, and as the blade fell, a miserable scream resounded through the night sky.