Chapter 432: Under Mount Fuji, Tomb of the Living Dead (3)
The door was hidden, and I only pushed open a crack and dodged in, as light as a tanuki.
There was no light in the house, and only an ice coffin was placed in the main room, so naturally there was no movement. I listened closely, and there was always the sound of water in the east room where the three clay pots were placed.
I walked forward slowly, and after touching the ice coffin with my right hand, I immediately walked towards the west side of the ice coffin.
The Ice Coffin is heavy and sturdy, making it an excellent defensive barrier in the event of a battle.
I didn't say anything, but waited until my eyes were used to the darkness before I took any further action.
Five steps forward, I approached the head of the ice coffin when my fingers touched something unusual. It should be a person's arm, to be precise, a person's elbow, elbow crook. According to common sense, the reason for this is that the person lying in the ice coffin raised his left arm and put it on the side wall of the ice coffin - however, lying in the ice coffin was Jingguan Xiaowu, a "person" who had been dead for more than forty-eight hours.
Dead people don't move, and they don't stretch their arms out.
I held my breath, and the index and middle fingers of my right hand were juxtaposed like swords, and I pressed the elbow recess of that arm accurately. It is the place where the important veins of the human body pass, and as long as it is a living person, there must be the sound of the veins beating.
In five seconds, I made the most correct and terrible judgment, it was a dead man's arm, without the slightest sign of a pulse.
In an instant, countless thoughts went through my mind, but none of them made sense.
"She's alive? She was alive, and then she died, she's half-dead, half-alive, she's being resurrected, her body is changing, who moved her body......"
I couldn't explain a single one, and my fingers were still pressed against the crook of the elbow of that arm, and I couldn't move it.
With a click, someone in the east room wiped a lighter and lit a cigarette.
The lighter went out, and the fire on the cigarette went on and out, as if mocking me.
I withdrew my hand, straightened up, and took a deep breath.
There was also blood in the house, and it was even stronger than in the courtyard.
"I can't help but come in and take a look? Don't worry, I said that if I save people, I will definitely save people." The ancients Ji Bu Yinuo weighed more than a thousand gold, although my old king could not compare to Ji Bu, but he promised others that he would go all out. Jinan gentlemen, what is particular is the word 'faith', no letter can not stand...... You should know that I saved people for the sake of Guan Yousheng. She died, and I used to think that I would never pay her back, and it would be a lifelong regret. Now, God has mercy on me and has given me such a chance...... Thank you, little brother. โ
In the darkness, Wang Yu's voice was dull and difficult, like a traveler in the desert who had traveled thousands of miles with a heavy burden and finally saw an oasis in the distance.
"Don't thank me, thank God. I said.
This is true, in fact, I always feel that all people live in a big circle drawn by God. All parting encounters are at the mercy of God. I can't even accurately control my own fate, how can I be worthy of Wang Yu saying this?
"Little brother, if you have the chance, you must go to the tomb of the living dead. He said again.
I shook my head: "Mr. Wang, it seems that you care more about the tomb of the living dead than I do, and you are the one who should go to see it." โ
Wang Yu shook his head and smiled, and the fire on the cigarette drew a circle in the air.
"I know how many pounds and taels I have, Guan Yousheng didn't look down on me back then, and I was still not convinced. Now, I finally understand that there is an unknown number of social classes between me and her, and it is impossible for me to be together. She is optimistic about you, so you may not realize it yet, but she has put a seed in your heart, and when that seed sprouts and takes root, you inherit her Japanese royal lineage. You and I both know that only people in the royal family can enter the tomb of the living dead, so I can't get in, you can go in. Little brother, I'm really ashamed, brother, I am in vain to be in your twenties, but I have achieved nothing. This time, I tried my best to tell the official Yousheng under Jiuquan that I, Wang Yu, am not a second bastard who relies on the ancestral signboard to deceive the world and steal his name......"
At this moment, he has lost his previous arrogance, and only full of regret remains.
Compared with Wang Yu, I pity the official aunt more.
The old neighbors of Qushuiting Street have never seen her extravagant side, and they completely regard her as an ordinary Jinan person, who is called by a phone call to come whenever there is something to do, and leaves alone after the event.
She was like a pearl buried in the dust, and she did not show her brilliance for the rest of her life, until she died suddenly.
"Thank you, I believe that Aunt Guan Jiuquan will be able to feel Mr. Wang's deep affection. I said.
As I spoke, I had already bypassed the ice coffin and entered the East House, five steps away from Wang Yu.
The smell of blood in the air was so thick that I felt as if I had walked into a bloody slaughterhouse.
"You killed them?" I asked, in a whisper.
In the face of the truth, there was no anger in my chest, only deep disappointment.
"What do you think?" he asked.
"I think you have to have a reason to 'have to do it'. If it's convenient, tell me?" I said.
In a harmonious society, no one has the privilege of taking the lives of others, even if the three are from Japan. Regardless of nationality and ethnicity, we are all equal and ordinary members of the world, if Wang Yu can easily kill any three people, then in another country, its citizens can easily kill one of our compatriots.
Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you, this is a universal truth.
With a click, Wang Yu polished the lighter again and stretched out to the nearest clay pot.
Most of the water in the clay jar was still half-watered, and it was already stained red with blood. A visitor from Mt. Fuji reclines in the water, arms outstretched, resting on the edge of a tank. A half-inch-long fresh knife cut appeared on the inside of both of his wrists, and Bai Sensen's muscles turned outwards prominently.
The blood on his body had dried up, and there was not a trace of blood on his face and neck, all of which had turned lifeless pale.
The only thing to be thankful for is that he is still alive, and his chest is still slowly heaving, like a stranded whale.
"Three people, all the same. Wang Yu said.
"Can you give me an explanation? I trust you, but in this case, there has to be a reasonable explanation, right?" I asked.
"Explain?" Wang Yu laughed silently and let go of the lighter.
"Explanation...... Explain, I'll ...... Interpretation...... The three of us have been in Jinan for half a year, and we are at the disposal of Master Zhang at any time. There are many kinds of people in the Tomb of the Living Dead, and we are ...... This is the ...... It is the "soldier character department" in the nine parts of "Lin, Bing, Fight, Person, Both, Array, Split, In, and Front". We are soldiers, and your Chinese often say, 'Raise soldiers for a thousand days, use soldiers for a while'...... We came here to exchange our lives for the lives of Princess Jingguan. Don't ask, that's the truth, that's the ...... Explanation ......"
This is the visitor from Mount Fuji in the tank talking, Wang Yu does not need to explain, they are the ones who should explain.
"Okay, I got it. I gasped.
Compared with the dead soldiers left by Zhang Quanzhong in the backstreets of the Tongyuan Bureau, these dead soldiers from Mount Fuji have done more thorough and radical. They disregard their own lives, and have long rooted the outlook on life of 'renewing the lives of their masters', and if they don't move, they will die.
This has surpassed the "foolish loyalty" behavior of "the king calls the minister to die and the minister has to die" in ancient China, but has risen to a strange belief, which is in line with the bushido spirit of the Yamato nation and the ritual of disembowelment.
"They were born knowing that they were going to die for their masters, and this is one of the great inventions of the tomb of the living dead. I don't interfere in people's internal affairs, I just try to feed them with snuff and prolong their lives until the person in the ice coffin wakes up. I'm too lazy to kill them, and even if you misunderstand me, I'm too lazy to explain. Wang Yu said.
"When will Jingguan Xiaowu wake up?" I asked.
"I don't know, you have to ask Lao Zhang. I am a snuff maker, not a doctor who sells medicine. Wang Yu laughed cynically.
I did misunderstand him, and if the visitor from Mt. Fuji didn't explain, the misunderstanding might last for a long time.
The words "too lazy to explain" fully show Wang Yu's arrogance, he is not afraid of being misunderstood, even if the world misunderstands him, he will never care.
After being silent for a while, Wang Yu spoke again: "Little brother, tell me about Guan Yousheng." Never in decades have I wanted to talk to someone so strongly about her. I want to forget about her, at least keep everything about her in my heart, and never mention it. But now, I feel more and more that she has always lived in my heart, more and more vivid, more and more real. โ
"Aunt Guan is a warm-hearted and good person, and almost every old neighbor on Qushuiting Street has worked hard for her and owes her favors. She never mentioned her past to anyone, and when everyone mentioned her, they felt as if she had jumped out of a crack in a stone, with no home, no siblings, and no life history. I once noticed that she was very fond of spring water, especially in the dead of night, sitting by the river at the south end of Baihuazhou, sitting alone and watching the water. In the early days, I remember seeing her use a bamboo basket to fetch water several times, that is, she tied a rope to the handle of the bamboo basket, and then threw the bamboo basket into the water, and then lifted it up again after a long time. We all know the truth of 'the bamboo basket is empty', and the result of her doing so is no exception. Later, we all thought that she was 'fishing', and gradually we became strange......"
When I tried to recall those details, I suddenly felt that what Mrs. Guan did was quite strange.
Have you noticed that there is a yellow paper charm attached to the bottom of the bamboo basket every time?" asked Wang Yu.
After he reminded me, I did see the charm on the outside of the bamboo basket.
"All the water in the world is connected, and she is delivering a message to the tomb of the living dead. Wang Yu exclaimed in a low voice, "I know, I know, everyone knows the truth, only we are kept in the dark." The original owner of the tomb of the living dead was the lord of the mermaid in the East China Sea, and later the royal family sacrificed 3,000 boys and girls to the sea, and sincerely moved the lord of the merman, so the tomb of the living dead was given to the royal family. Since ancient times, the merman has a unique way of transmitting the message with the 'bamboo basket support symbol' - little brother, and now, the truth has been revealed, Guan Yousheng is a shark from the East China Sea, but for some purpose to stay in Jinan City. We're all fooled, we're all fooled......"
I was a little confused by the sudden turn of events, and the blood in the room was so thick that my nasal passages were so full that I couldn't meditate at all.
"Little brother, if you smoke my snuff, you will be able to figure it out!" Wang Yu took out the snuffbox again.
I didn't doubt his sincerity, so I naturally reached out and let him slam the snuff into my right wrist snuff hole.
"Hehe, little brother, last time I let you suck another thing in order to explore the news of Guan Yousheng, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Wang Yu is worthy of being a gentleman in Jinan, right and wrong are clear, and he immediately apologized to me.
I shook my head, too late to dwell on this, and inhaled the snuff.
After a brief period of cold, spicy sensation, the smoke quickly burrowed into my respiratory system, cooling from top to bottom.
"The official lady is a shark, so Jingguan Xiaowu must also have the blood of a shark. Zhang Quanzhong, as a master of arithmetic, knows all this 100%. So, why didn't he explain it to me? What did he want to hide? The Lord of the Sharks is the overlord of the sea, and the absolute master of the SharksโI know why Zhang Quanzhong and Jingguan Xiaowu must take a complicated and difficult way to pursue eternal life, it turns out that he not only wants to avoid the old government and the Japanese, but also does everything possible to avoid the Lord of the Sharks. It's a pity that as long as you are born as a merman, you will be a slave of the master of the merman for the rest of your life, which is a law of nature that cannot be changed. Now, what does Zhang Quanzhong want? What kind of role does he want me and Lian Chengbi to play?"
Once again, I felt the power of Zhang Quanzhong's "calculation", and once again, he treated everyone as pawns and took advantage of everyone's emotional weaknesses to build a treacherous mess.
There is only one beneficiary in this game, and that is himself.
"Little brother, do you understand?" asked Wang Yu.
I shook my head: "I don't understand, what I can figure out is just the tip of the iceberg." Maybe I should go out and ask Mr. Zhang at this time, and hear what he has to say?"
With a bang, the door opened behind me and quickly closed again.
I heard familiar footsteps belonging to Lianchengbi, but that didn't seem to be a good sign.
"Tianshi, is there any progress?" Lian Chengbi turned on the flashlight on his phone, and the beam of light shot straight at the clay jar in the house.
I didn't want her to witness the strange appearance of visitors to Mt. Fuji, but as soon as the flashlight turned on, the bloody scenes in the east room were all displayed in front of her.
"They are self-harming, exchanging their lives for their lives, and saving Jingguan Xiaowu. I explained in the briefest of words, and then asked, "When you come in, who is looking out at the wind?"
Lian Chengbi's words made my heart fall into the bottomless ice cave: "Mr. Zhang has come down from the roof and is doing his best to watch the enemy for us. Rest assured, in order to save Jingguan Xiao Wu, he has already made the fullest plan. โ
This time, even Wang Yu realized that the situation was different, spit out the cigarette butt, and ran to the south window.
"The latticework is welded, go look at the door, go out first!" he reminded loudly.
I dragged Lianchengbi to the door, and in the midst of her busy schedule, she shone a flashlight on the ice coffin.
The right arm on the edge of the ice coffin did belong to Jingguan Xiaowu, but she still closed her eyes and lay quietly.
"It's amazing, I seem to believe Mr. Zhang's words a little bit nowโ" Lian Chengbi said.
When she first entered the door, she just closed the door with her backhand, and she would never lock it inside or outside. However, when I reached the door and reached out to pull the door, I found that the two doors were locked from the outside, and they were tightly sealed and impermeable.
Outside, only Zhang Quanzhong watched the enemy plundering for everyone, and only he would lock the door.
"Mr. Zhang, open the door, I know you're outside. I raised my hand and knocked gently.
"Why did he lock the door? What was he going to do? What happened? Didn't he want to save Jingguan Xiaowu?"
Zhang Quanzhong would never answer such a question, because if he wanted to take Jingguan Xiao Wu to avoid the Lord of the Sharks, he would have to do a lot of work, and constantly bring in the backers to die for them.
I suddenly felt that here in Zhang Quanzhong and Jingguan Xiaowu, I had wasted my kindness and kindness. This has become my obvious weakness, and I have been successfully used by Zhang Quanzhong every time.
"Mr. Zhang, open the door, open the door!" Lian Chengbi raised his hand and slapped the door.
"Don't scream, you can't scream. I now have another clue, the official aunt has the element of a merman, so Jingguan Xiaowu is also a merman, a slave under the command of the lord of the merman in the East China Sea. Zhang Quanzhong fled all the way, and he was also evading the pursuit of the Lord of the Sharks. Now, he is trapping us here, probably to coerce us into helping, so that we can avoid all sides, buy time, and escape to Europe and the United States. I explained a second time.
Lian Cheng was depressed and then retreated: "Is this the case? He is really shameless to the extreme, opening his eyes and talking nonsense, just like the truth." โ