Chapter Twenty-Four: Gu Lingyu
After a while, eight Qing soldiers with hoes and shovels cleared out a grave pit. The grave was seven and a half feet long and six feet wide, and when it was dug nearly seven feet deep, it seemed to be at the end.
A Qing soldier raised his head and shouted: "Master Qian, Shi Dao Chief, you have dug up the solid soil, and it should be the end." ”
Shi Jian leaned down and asked, "Did you dig anything?" ”
"Nothing, empty."
"It shouldn't be."
Shi Jian muttered in a low voice, let the Qing soldiers below dodge, and jumped down in person, the injury was not good, and the power of the shock stirred the qi and blood in his body, and it took a while to ease up.
"Give me the shovel."
took the shovel handed over by the Qing soldiers and shoveled it to the ground, Shi Jian's face changed instantly, and he felt that he was not shoveling on the soil, but on the granite, which was hard and abnormal, and the shock made the tiger's mouth numb.
"So hard?"
It is not normal to be hard, it stands to reason that the soil will not be so hard, unless the soil is special, and the water dries up and condenses into lumps, which is indeed very hard. But the bottom of the tomb was nearly seven feet above the ground, and the soil in the tomb was much wetter than that on the ground.
Shi Jian squatted down and touched the ground with his hands. As soon as his fingers touched the dirt, they shrank sharply, as if they were electrocuted.
Soil can't generate electricity out of thin air, it's cold, the temperature is absolutely below freezing, and it feels like ice.
In more than one place, the soil at the bottom of the entire grave has condensed into a hard, cold mud slab, much like the frozen soil of an extremely cold region.
"Shi Daoyou, what did you find?" Xu Zhenren stood on it and asked.
"There is another mystery in the tomb."
Shi Jian got up, with a confident and excited smile on his face, pinched the trick with one hand, and said something in his mouth, and cast a 'slashing spell' on the shovel.
A scene that made the eyes of the eight Qing soldiers almost stare out appeared, only to see the brilliance on the shovel in an instant, Shi Jian held the shovel with both hands, and it didn't seem to be very hard at all, and the shovel was shoveled into the soil like a knife cutting tofu.
"It's amazing!"
"We couldn't shovel it in with all our might, but the stone road chief easily shoveled it in, amazing!"
"Shi Dao Chief, what's going on?"
Shi Jian explained: "The tomb is covered with the method of sealing the town, and the yin qi circulates up and down, and after years of baptism, the soil here has become an extremely cold yin soil similar to frozen soil, which is harder than the stone slab, and must be eradicated by Taoist techniques. ”
The shovel suddenly shoveled onto a layer of soft things, Shi Jian didn't care to speak, hurriedly squatted down to inspect, picked up the soil, and a touch of yellow suddenly came into view, it was actually a brand new yellow cloth, with a vermilion line on it.
Shi Jian thought of something, and beckoned to the eight Qing soldiers: "The spell in the tomb has been broken by me, everyone will work together to dig up the soil on the yellow cloth." ”
They moved quickly, and as the soil covering the yellow cloth continued to decrease, the yellow cloth gradually revealed the true face of Lushan, a yellow cloth talisman equal to the length and width of the tomb, and the familiar dark red runes on it reflected Shi Jian's guess.
"If I'm not mistaken, there is a foot-deep yin soil under the yellow cloth, and there must be something underneath the yin soil. Keep digging. ”
Sure enough, the eight Qing soldiers tore off the yellow cloth talisman and shoveled it down, feeling that they were shoveling on a hard object, and they admired Shi Jian's ability more and more.
The one-foot-thick yin soil was removed, and there was a black lacquer coffin underneath, the same as the yellow cloth charm, without the slightest dilapidated appearance, and the black lacquer was bright in color, as if it had just been brushed up.
Shi Jian grabbed the rope thrown by Yao Qian and climbed out of the tomb, and ordered the eight Qing soldiers under the tomb to tie the coffin with a rope, intending to pull the coffin up.
Mr. Yao Qian brought a lot of people, and more than a dozen strong soldiers worked together to pull the coffin out of the grave without much effort.
A group of people gathered around, Yao Qian swallowed his saliva, and said in horror: "Shi Dao Chief, there won't be a zombie in the coffin, right?" ”
Shi Jian saw everyone's nervous appearance, even Xu Zhenren had a solemn expression, and said happily: "You were bitten by a snake once, and you were afraid of the well rope for ten years, how can there be so many zombies in the world, open the coffin." ”
Shi Dao Chang ...... "Qing soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, and I look embarrassed."
"No zombies?"
"There are no zombies." Shi Jian was speechless, "Zombies don't dare to come out in broad daylight, not to mention what are you afraid of with me here." ”
Mr. Yao Qian gritted his teeth and said, "Open the coffin." ”
The Qing soldiers carefully and tremblingly removed the coffin nails, and violently pushed the lid open, but the imaginary scene did not appear, as Shi Jian said, there were no zombies in the coffin, only a human-tall scarecrow lying inside.
Shi Jian strode to the coffin and looked down at the scarecrow with a thoughtful look on his face. Suddenly, he reached out and grabbed a blackened piece of paper from the side of the scarecrow, faintly recognizable in handwriting.
Looking at Shi Jian, whose face was uncertain, Xu Zhenren's heart was like a cat's scratch, and he said curiously: "Shi Daoyou, what is written on it?" ”
"See for yourself." Shi Jian handed the paper to Xu Zhenren.
Xu Zhenren hurriedly took it and read it out in a low voice, "I was chased and killed by the same door, I didn't cross the catastrophe of the full moon, I went crazy and sucked human blood, and made a big mistake, only with the remnants of my wisdom, I used the law of death to seal myself here, if the descendants accidentally found the yin coffin here, I must immediately pull out the seven soul killing nails on the corpse, and then ask the master to subdue ......"
After reading it, Xu Zhenren was shocked, "He sealed himself here?" ”
Shi Jian corrected: "It should be someone else who followed his wishes and sealed him here, otherwise this piece of paper would not be in the second coffin, it should be placed on the coffin above." A tragedy could have been averted, providence. ”
Yao Qian was confused, but as long as there were no zombies in the coffin, he didn't bother to get to the bottom of it, and asked, "Chief Shidao, what to do with the coffin?" ”
Shi Jian didn't answer immediately, staring at the scarecrow in a daze, what kind of person is this! In order not to endanger the common people, he not only killed himself here, but also ruthlessly left himself a dead hole.
The seven slayer nails on the zombie's body are its death holes, and the seven slayer nails on the scarecrow are also its death holes, that is, he uses a special method to channel himself with the scarecrow and purposefully create a second way to destroy him.
A few days ago, if Shi Jian had been a little more bold and found this coffin in advance, maybe he wouldn't have to fight so hard, and he would have directly pulled out the soul killing nail on the scarecrow, and the effect would be the same.
"I've killed you, and you can rest in peace."
Shi Jian said in a low voice, leaning over and pulling out the soul killing nail from the scarecrow. The Soul Destroyer was inserted very deeply, and with one force, the scarecrow was also brought up.
"Bang dang!"
Something fell on the coffin board, Shi Jian grabbed the scarecrow and looked at it, and found that it was a slightly yellowed jade piece.
The jade piece is the size of a palm, the surface is delicate and smooth, and it is cold to the hand, even Shi Jian, who doesn't know much about jade, can see that the quality of the jade piece is very poor, and it is not worth a few dollars.
Shi Jian couldn't get the details of the jade piece, but the experience of being a human being in two lifetimes and the experience of many traversers told him that if the jade piece could be left in the coffin, it must be related to zombies, and it was absolutely extraordinary, so he put it away.
The seven soul-killing nails were also wrapped in yellow talismans and put into the satchel, and then instructed the Qing soldiers: "Let the scarecrow lie in the coffin, cover the coffin, and bury the coffin in the grave just now." ”