Chapter 82: The Twin Ghosts of the Gatekeeper
If you want to say that the giant gate in front of you is a mountain temple built by people and something like that, it is not quite like it, I don't believe that this is a temple, because there are mountain temples built in various places in the past, and every year in the first month of the mountain, they will go to the mountain god to make offerings, so as to be safe and auspicious when they go to the mountain.
But I haven't heard that the mountain temple was built in the crater, not the mountain temple built by the common people, and this giant gate may be the place where the so-called mountain god lived in ancient times.
Because the so-called mountain gods in various places are just a belief of the common people, and they are all imaginary gods, but the gate in front of us really exists.
I can see that this is not an ordinary door, this kind of door, the people simply can't have it, the lacquered copper gate, I don't know how many years it has been buried here.
The patent leather on the door is peeling off a little, and the copper nails are rusty and can't be seen as they are, but on this door, you can still clearly see the ten horizontal and ten vertical door nails. The ancients generally valued the etiquette and system, and the name was originally false, but the ancients just recognized death.
What kind of identity, what kind of clothes must be worn, what kind of utensils to use, what kind of house to live in, this must not be mistaken, in some years, if you wear the wrong clothes and use the wrong things, you will be killed.
Let's take the recent Qing Dynasty as an example, those who can afford this kind of lacquered copper gate are some dignitaries and nobles with great wealth and power, because the imperial court at that time had a canon and the main gate of the marquis's house.
The door nail is five horizontal and five vertical, the duke plus the king of Bezi Baylor, the door nail is seven horizontal and seven vertical, and the door nail of the prince's palace is seven horizontal and nine vertical, which is a symbol of identity and status, and the provision of a few is several, whether it is one more, or one less, it may lead to death.
Under the whole world, only in the ancient palace, can be qualified to use nine horizontal and nine vertical door nails, with ten vertical and ten horizontal door nails of the door, should never appear in the yang world, that is only something in the underworld, the door nails represent the underworld is divided into ten ways, ten halls and ten Yamas.
I had a puzzle in my heart, the giant gate in front of me is definitely not the gate of the legendary underworld, but if the door is built like this, it must also be related to the underworld or dead things.
"Get the door open." I said hello to Uncle Wang and the others, and then I started to prepare to pry the door.
"Isn't it okay to just pry the door like this?"
Lei Zi spoke directly: "There is a huge door here, should we knock on the door first, see if there is anyone in here ......"
"Knock, if there's something inside that opens the door for you, will you be able to stand it?" Lone wolf replied to him directly
I kept scanning the giant door with the Blood Demon Pupil Technique, reaching out and touching the door nail of the giant door back and forth, judging by my feel, this door should not be locked, and there was no deadbolt inside, but it was choked by the eruption of volcanic ash and lava after cooling.
I directly sent the plum blossom to start pushing the door hard, at this time the spirit bone saw that we tossed too slowly, just stretched out his hand and gently pushed the door, the giant door was pushed out of a gap, once again made me feel terrible, this is not the bone of the terrible.
The soil leaked out of the back, so we started digging hard, and the hands of the plum blossoms frantically dug the soil, and it didn't take long to completely clean out the whole door.
A few of us pushed a huge door, and with a sudden force, the door suddenly split into a gap large enough for people to get into.
At this time, we saw the situation behind the door, it was very dark behind the giant gate, even if the light of Leizi and the lone wolf's night vision device shone in, the light of Uncle Wang's wolf's eye flashlight seemed to be swallowed up by the darkness.
But I can feel that there is a lot of space inside. I'm going to go in and have a look, everything in this place is unknown, but I can't miss it.
Uncle Wang walked in the front, and I gave him a flashlight to illuminate, and behind this huge gate, there was a long passageway, and it was clean and clean, and there was nothing.
The four of us walked slowly, although we walked very lightly and carefully, but only a few steps away, the very solid ground under our feet suddenly turned over, and I reacted immediately, but Lei Zi and Lone Wolf did not react, and the two of them were lifted down at once, and fell heavily on a very steep slope, and rolled down five or six feet with a rolling belt.
During the fall, the two grabbed back and forth with both hands. Supporting each other, they barely stopped a little, and rolled down from such a high place, and their bodies and heads inevitably bumped, but when they stopped, they couldn't care about these things, and just wanted to know where they were now.
Uncle Wang and I jumped up and leaned directly against a wall, shouting for the falling thunder and lone wolf, and touching the flashlight on our bodies.
But fortunately, the infrared night vision devices of Leizi and Lone Wolf emitted some light, and when I saw the night vision devices shaking, I was sure that they were okay.
Uncle Wang's wolf-eyed flashlight lit up, and I felt something touch my head at this time, and I reached out to touch it.
Right above his head, there was a shoe. When you touch it, it is the kind of earless mille-feuille cloth shoes that mountain people only wear during the New Year's holidays.
As soon as he touched this shoe, his hand naturally continued to touch upward, and at this moment, he suddenly touched a cold foot and neck, this is a corpse? I immediately confirmed my conjecture.
I quickly let go of my hand and looked up with the Blood Demon Pupil Technique, and directly above my head, there was a dead corpse hanging over, hanging its head on tiptoe, and it was already dead.
Uncle Wang and I are nothing, Lei Zi and Lone Wolf have also seen dead people, but this sudden, I was still startled, but I replied immediately.
No one knows who this corpse is, no one knows why it was hanged here, and the reason why it is weird is that the first one is that it is a male corpse, but it is dressed in blood-red clothes.
Second, this corpse will not be hung for too long, at most three years, and the corpse does not decompose, but gradually dries like bacon.
In this environment, the corpse is in such a state, as if someone deliberately hoisted the corpse to the tuyere and then moved in, because it is impermeable underneath, and once the corpse slowly decays, it will not be able to enter the people, and it will stink to death.
"There's something evil about this corpse," said Thunderbolt and the lone wolf, crawling out behind us. looked at it for a while with eyes with night vision devices, and said: "This seems to be hanged, well, it should be hanged, yes, but why is this hanged person still wearing red clothes, a man is hanging in red clothes, this is a bit infiltrating"
When I saw the corpse clearly, I could also roughly see the surrounding environment, in front of me was a tunnel-like passage, very wide, and the passage branched off a few feet in front of it.
But after the fork was gone, we were all clinging to the wall on the left, and the hanged ghost in red was hanging on the left, and next to the hanged ghost was a large piece of black cloth that hung down, splitting the aisle in two.
"What are you pulling a piece of cloth for?" The lone wolf is an iron-blooded soldier, and when he comes to this place, he is still a little scared in his heart, so he can only keep whispering questions to strengthen his courage.
Seeing this piece of cloth, and then looking at the layout in front of me, I faintly had a judgment in my heart, and immediately stood on the spot, the lone wolf at this time gently pinched the corner of the black cloth, trying to pull the cloth down slowly, the black cloth was already a little bad, and it was pulled open with a sting.
"Don't!" The sound of the black cloth being torn woke me up, and I was about to take the lone wolf's hand: "Lone wolf, don't pull away!" ”
"What? Why can't it be pulled apart? Is there anything over there? Lone Wolf asked me.
"If my guess is correct, on the other side of this black cloth, there is also a hanged ghost, and it is a female corpse, which should be dressed in white." I said, "This is a ghost guarding the door, male and female corpses can't meet, and if they do, it will be very troublesome for us." ”
At this time, the lone wolf stopped, but still dared to get under the black cloth, and nodded to me when he came back, I guessed correctly, on the other side of the black cloth, there was a lonely hanging female corpse, wearing a white shroud-like clothes, also disheveled.
"How do you know there's a female corpse over there," Leizi suddenly interjected and asked me.
"No, I've just heard that the two corpses of this man and a woman, before they died, were two people, and they were hanged here. This is a kind of evil spell outside the square, two corpses are used to guard this giant gate, usually may be silent, if there are outsiders who don't understand the doorway, enter here, roll down from such a high place, unobstructed, tear off the black cloth, as soon as the two corpses meet, two grievances will erupt. "When I saw these two strange corpses, I was even more sure.
"This place, it may be a hole or something" I pointed ahead, and said: "There are a lot of forks, the same as the Ecstasy Array, outsiders can't figure out the situation, it's easy to break in, it's estimated that it's difficult to get out, there is a high possibility of being trapped inside, I just don't know the layout here, it has nothing to do with fire zombies"
"What then?" Lei Zi looked around and asked me cautiously, "It's better to be careful." I thought about it for a while and said, "Don't go too deep, let's go in with the two of us, you stay here and take the lone wolf, responsible for answering, if something really happens, it won't end in one pot, I have a hundred ways to save you out" I walked forward with Lei Zi one after the other.
Uncle Wang stopped me: "Xiaolin, you have to be more careful, you still call the plum blossom to open the way, you can also take the paper man, the worst thing is that you still have the spirit bone protection, although she doesn't listen to you much"
In front of this passage, there were three forks, we could not separate, so we picked the leftmost one and continued to walk, as I thought, the passage became short and narrow, and I walked very slowly, trying my best to keep the road in mind, while walking, I had to guard against any murderous opportunities around.
I have some suspicions, judging from the lacquered bronze gate and the two yaksha ghost statues outside, this place is somewhat stained with some yin qi, because of the slow walking, gradually there is no concept of time, I don't know how long I walked, the passages in all directions have suddenly decreased a lot, the road in front of me is simple and spacious, it is a horizontal and vertical crossing, but I obviously feel that the road we are walking is going down, and we have at least a hundred meters down from the position of the crater.
"Xiaolin, it's almost time for the two of us to get here, otherwise let's go back first, discuss it with Uncle Wang and them, and then let's make plans."
As Lei Zi spoke, the sweat on his head also came down at this moment, and he dragged the strip of cloth in his hands in turn, and he didn't know if it was because he was afraid, or because he was in the volcano and the air was not circulating, which caused it to be stuffy.
But I found that Lei Zi's head was sweating, and it also made me have a trace of thought, that is, is it possible that the two of us approached the place where the fire zombies were stored, and the heat emitted by the fire zombies caused the temperature in the vicinity to rise?