Chapter 58: The Giant Coffin Fantasy
It can be said that Wang Xiaoya's fate has been in the hands of Li Xuyang from the beginning, this time, it is the most important, Wang Xiaoya can live, if not, then Li Xuyang will always fall into a kind of guilt, which is also a debt to Wang Xiaoya. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
After walking for a long time, I finally saw a kind of building similar to the ancient city gate in front of me, surrounded by high walls, and in front of the gate, there were two monster stone statues with human and animal heads, carved lifelike, and the facial expressions were even more fierce and vicious, extremely terrifying.
The stone statue on the left is two meters high, holding a three-pronged steel fork with a foot of two and a half meters in its right hand, and its head is the face of a lion. The lion's fangs were exposed, his eyebrows were rough, and his eyes suddenly seemed to glow with a ghostly light, and he looked like a messenger of hell no matter how he looked.
The stone statue on the right is about the same height as the one on the left, but it is holding a hammer in its hand, and its head is somewhat like a dog, but if you look closely, you will find that it is not like it, this animal Li Xuyang is still the first time to see it, so I can't tell what it is.
When Li Xuyang came to the stone statue, he looked at the tightly closed wooden door, and there were no ghosts patrolling back and forth on the city wall on the door, which made Li Xuyang embarrassed, how to get in?
His eyes looked around, the city wall that was only five meters high made Li Xuyang find some hope, maybe he could climb up along the city wall, five meters is not high, according to Li Xuyang's previous training in the army, this is a breeze.
Even if it's a soul now, you can give it a try. Thinking of this, Li Xuyang came to the city wall, looked at the five-meter-high city wall, and touched the wall of the city wall, there were some uneven places, which may be weathered because of too long of age, or it may be other reasons. It's not too difficult in the first place, and with the protrusion on the wall as a support point, it's even easier.
Li Xuyang stretched out his right hand, grabbed a small piece of brick protruding, and then tried to grab a piece with his left hand, and then stepped on the recessed place and slowly climbed up.
At first, Li Xuyang didn't feel anything wrong, but after climbing for a while, Li Xuyang found something not only wrong, but also very strange. That is, no matter how you climb, when you look up at it, it is always so far away, and it is like no matter how long you climb, you will never be able to touch the wall.
In addition, Li Xuyang climbed close to the wall, and it was particularly difficult to turn his head to look down, so Li Xuyang was already too nervous, and he didn't care too much and continued to climb up.
This time, Li Xuyang looked at the wall above and climbed, that is, this time Li Xuyang completely discovered that everything before was not his fault or hallucination, but that there was something wrong with this wall, and it would rise by itself.
As Li Xuyang saw, at the beginning, when his whole body was attached to the wall, as he slowly climbed up, the wall was also slowly rising, of course, the elevation was not obvious, so Li Xuyang never found this problem. It was only now that Li Xuyang knew that the low construction of this wall was not because it was so low, but because it could grow at will, making it impossible for people to surpass the past.
Helpless, as long as Li Xuyang slowly jumped off the wall, the distance from the ground was only more than one meter, but the wall was more than one meter.
Finally, Li Xuyang gave up the hope of climbing the wall to get in, and returned to the wooden door again, looking at the dark wooden door, Li Xuyang had the illusion of looking at the coffin. The original design of the wooden door is like the design of the front of the coffin, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and it is also painted black, and there is a character "Shou" in the middle of the wooden door.
"No, this is a coffin. Li Xuyang accidentally shouted out, where is the wooden door, it is obviously a huge coffin, and the city wall, it should be the other side of the coffin.
Since the end of the Han Dynasty, there have been many kinds of coffins after people's death, and the coffins used by ordinary people are still the common kind, but if there are rich families, they will spend thousands or even thousands of taels on the coffin to build a coffin of their own.
The selection of wooden materials must be of the highest quality, such as the precious golden silk nanmu, as well as small-leaved sandalwood, and of course, the poplar tree known as "a thousand years of immortality, a thousand years after death, and a thousand years of decay" as the main wood material of the coffin.
After the continuous changes of the times, and the continuous study of the carpenters, they skillfully used the carving and the coffin together. In front of the coffin, some ghosts are carved with non-human, ugly appearance, and vicious spirits, which are used to protect the dead in the coffin from being disturbed by other spirits, and can also avoid corpse transformation, of course, this is all hearsay.
Later, in modern times, the technique of carving was somehow replaced by painting, which was directly from the coffin after applying black lacquer, and then painting all kinds of things in color, including figures, flowers and trees. And now, the engraving and painting have been removed and replaced by paste, or canvas.
And now in front of Li Xuyang, the stone statue is placed in front of the coffin, this is a method that few people use, and no one even uses it. Because the stone statue is a cold thing, it is even more lifeless, and being close to the coffin or close to the dead person may cause a corpse change or other bad things to happen.
But the more Li Xuyang thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, this was the underworld, and he was going to find Judge Cui Yu Cui, but why did he encounter a giant coffin for no reason?
Just when Li Xuyang was still hesitating, the two stone statues of the human body and beast began to fall dust, and the sound of friction between the stones became louder and louder, Li Xu instinctively took a few steps back when he heard the sound, and just watched the plaster on the two stone statues fall off and turned into two giant monster-like things, screaming and standing in front of him.
"Oh haha. ā
The lion-headed stone statue waved the three-pronged steel fork in his hand, roaring at Li Xuyang, and the spit in his mouth was also squirted out by it. And where the dog-headed stone statue stood, he just moved his arms and neck, and then stood there looking at Li Xuyang, and did not rush forward.
The dog-headed stone statue looked at Li Xuyang and asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, I'm X, can this dog head still talk? ā
Although Li Xuyang was scared in his heart, he still mustered up the courage, tried his best not to make the poodle look scared, and kept his very firm tone and said, "I'm here to find Judge Cui." ā
"Oh?" the dog-headed stone statue looked at Li Xuyang with suspicious eyes and asked again, "What are you looking for him?"
"It's inconvenient to tell the two of you, it's okay to trouble the two of you, let me go!" Although Li Xuyang said this, he had already scolded this poodle in his heart.
"If you don't say it, we won't let you pass. As soon as the dog-headed stone statue finished saying this, the lion stone statue immediately blocked in front of it, preventing Li Xuyang from passing.
Your uncle, why is it so hard to talk?
Li Xuyang scolded again, and then asked, "How can you let me pass?" ā
"Hehe, human life is at stake, don't forget where this is, even you are souls, we are also messengers of hell, and the dead are welcome, haha. After speaking, the lion statue smiled towards the dark sky.
As soon as the lion statue finished speaking, Li Xuyang's anger didn't hit anywhere, if it weren't for the fact that it was a few heads taller than Li Xuyang, he would have gone up and started with it, so much nonsense?
"Will you let me pass?" asked Li Xuyang in an angry tone.
"No. The lion statue replied very simply and decisively.
"Then don't blame me for being rude. As soon as Li Xuyang finished speaking, before the lion could react, his fist beckoned towards the lion's stomach with a gust of fist wind.
The lion didn't dodge, just looked at Li Xuyang with a weird smile, and just as it was about to touch it, its body was like dust, floating around. And the dog-headed stone statue next to it also disappeared at the moment when the lion stone statue disappeared.
"Illusion?" Li Xuyang said in surprise as he looked at the disappearing stone statue of the poodle.
This Nima tossed for a long time and turned out to be an illusion, damn.
scolded and vented his inner dissatisfaction. The huge coffin also slowly disappeared, and after it completely disappeared, a path appeared in front of Li Xuyang.
The road is narrow enough to accommodate only one person, and both of them will appear crowded. There is a bottomless abyss on both sides, and what is under the abyss, then I don't know, at least I won't know if I don't fall down.
Li Xuyang walked cautiously on the narrow road, and after walking for a long time, he saw the outline of a somewhat vague house in front of him from a distance, and thought to himself, "That's right this time, it must be Judge Cui's lawsuit ahead." ā
Seeing the judgment also saw hope, Li Xuyang hurriedly accelerated the pace of walking, but when he was getting closer and closer to the judge, a cliff blocked Li Xuyang's way, if Li Xuyang hadn't reacted in time, he would have almost fallen, one foot went out, and after seeing that it was a cliff, he hurriedly took his foot back.
"What's going on?"
Li Xuyang slowly stood up, looking at the cliff in front of him, and the judge who was looking at him from afar, the little hope he had just discovered was instantly extinguished by this cliff.
Although it looks like a cliff, there is only a chain the thickness of a child's arm on both sides, which means that if you want to go to the court, this chain becomes the only way, otherwise you can only return the same way.
When Li Xuyang was still unsure whether to climb along the chain, a cold wind blew up from the abyss, making Li Xuyang shiver coldly. And not only that, but after the cold wind blew, another layer of ice solidified on the iron chain, which was originally smooth on the surface, but now it has solidified another layer of ice, and it has become even smoother, and it is even more difficult to pass through it.