Chapter 223: Who Is It? The early bird gets the worm
Shen Bao gasped heavily, his face full of horror for the rest of his life.
"It's so terrible that it almost became the monster's mouth."
Thinking of the disgusting appearance of the floating corpse, Shen Bao still couldn't help but want to vomit.
"Wash it up."
Seeing that Shen Bao's face was full of pus, and at this time there was a foul smell, Ye Fan reminded him with a wry smile.
Only then did Shen Bao remember that the floating corpse's severed arm had sprayed his face dirty.
Hurry up and wash it up by the river.
"There are not only monsters like Chiyu in this river, but also floating corpses, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a place for living people, Ye Fan, our eight achievements are in the ancient tomb."
Thinking back to what happened before, Shen Bao said in a deep voice.
Ye Fan frowned slightly, what they saw and heard along the way did not look like they were used by the living, whether it was a white bone man, or a red silk, or even a floating corpse that they had just encountered, these things could only appear in the land of extreme yin when the dead gathered.
If this logic is followed, it is really possible that the place where they are right now is a cemetery.
"Whether this is a cemetery or a palace, we must find a way to it, or we'll be trapped here."
Ye Fan's face was calm, and his eyes were dyed with deep worry.
This place is too wide, two people have walked for half a day, I'm afraid they haven't even walked half the distance, and it is even more difficult to escape.
What's more, since this place was designed at that time, it definitely didn't want people to leave alive, so the passage to the top must be very hidden.
It's not easy to get out.
Shen Bao nodded heavily, and the two rested by the bridge for a while, ate some dry food, replenished their strength, and then got up again and walked forward quickly.
Leaving the underground river, there was an open field ahead, with only a few dilapidated houses scattered on either side.
Seeing these small houses, Ye Fan's face became more and more gloomy.
"What's wrong?"
Looking at Ye Fan's gloomy cheeks, Shen Leopard asked puzzled.
"The House of the Underworld."
Ye Fan opened his mouth lightly, only spitting out two words.
But these two words made Shen Bao's whole person nervous, and his face suddenly turned pale.
"You mean, these little houses are all netherworlds? How do you know?"
Before, it was just a guess, but now when he heard Ye Fan say this, his heart suddenly swelled with horror.
saw Ye Fan squinting his eyes, and the depths of his eyes were stained with indifference.
"These houses have no windows, only the places where the dead live will have no sunlight, and these small houses sit south and face north, generally speaking, the houses where the living live are sitting north and facing south, because this can make better use of the light, but the dead are heavy and cannot be contaminated with sunlight, so they sit north and face south."
Hearing Ye Fan's explanation, Shen Bao hurriedly looked over.
I saw that these small houses are really sitting south and facing north, and they are very well closed.
"Why are there so many mansions here? This is neither in line with modern funeral customs, nor in line with ancient funeral customs, if this is really the place where those princes and generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are buried, then the tomb and the underground palace should be built, and this kind of small house should not be built."
Ye Fan frowned constantly, feeling very strange about the scene in front of him.
Such a strange situation, Rao is that he can't explain it clearly.
Looking at the doubts in Ye Fan's eyes, Shen Bao also had a calm face at this time.
"Could it be that they did it on purpose? After all, at that time, they failed too suddenly, so they didn't have time to build an underground palace for the deceased, so they had to bury them hastily?"
saw Ye Fan shake his head: "Since they can all build the seven-hole bridge, why is it too late to build the underground palace? Besides, even if it's just a tombstone, it's more grand than building a small house like this."
The ancients attached great importance to etiquette, and all behaviors that did not conform to etiquette would be abandoned.
Therefore, for these yin houses in front of him, Ye Fan was puzzled.
"Open it up
Just look at it, what can you guess just by guessing outside?"
Shen Bao said in a deep voice, and then slowly walked to a yin house, and moved a few times on the wooden door, and suddenly the wooden door was unloaded.
"Ye Fan, come quickly."
Shen Bao hurriedly greeted Ye Fan.
"What's wrong?" Ye Fan walked over quickly, and before he could get closer, he smelled a rotten smell.
When he saw the situation behind the wooden door, Rao is Ye Fan couldn't help but feel nauseous and almost vomited.
I saw that behind the wooden door, there was a person lying quietly, this person's body was very badly rotted and crawling with maggots.
However, judging by the person's dress, it should be a modern person.
"How so? Has anyone ever come in here?"
Ye Fan frowned and said incomprehensibly.
"How could there be anyone else but us? If someone really found the Heavenly King's treasure, I'm afraid that the entire Taiping Town would have spread a long time ago, why haven't we heard even a trace of news?"
Ye Fan sighed and shook his head: "But if no one breaks in, how can this corpse be explained?"
"Judging from the bones, this should be a male corpse, about 1.75 meters tall, thin, because the bones are very large, judging from the bones and teeth, the deceased is about 50 years old, and the time of death is more than half a month."
As a grave keeper, you must know the corpse very well.
In his previous life, Ye Fan didn't know how many corpses he had seen, so it was easy to guess the age and gender of the deceased.
"But who got there first?"
Seeing that Ye Fan's analysis was the head, Rao is Shen Bao couldn't help but believe it.
Ye Fan shook his head helplessly, at the moment they didn't find any trace of a living person other than themselves.
If someone did come here, there would have been traces of existence, but it was as if no one had been here for hundreds of years.
"Let's go check out the other mansions."
Ye Fan said in a deep voice, and then walked to another yin mansion on the side.
Because of the long time, the wooden door has decayed, and it only takes a light foot to rest the wooden door.
This second mansion is no different from the first.
The difference is that the deceased in this hut turned out to be a woman.
Wearing a white dress, half of his face was already crawling with maggots, gnawed clean, and his eyes kept falling outside, which was very hideous.
This scene made Shen Bao frown tightly, and he couldn't bear to watch it anymore.
"There seems to be a piece of paper here."
Ye Fan's eyes were sharp, and in the woman's left hand, he seemed to be holding a piece of paper.
Bending down, he pulled out the paper, and there was a line of small print written on it.
"In distress in the mountains, I am ashamed of the young master's entrustment, and I have no shame to face the family's expectations."
And just behind this sentence, there seems to be a hurry to write down three words: regret, regret, regret.
The three words of repentance were scribbled and seemed to be written in a panic.
Putting the paper away, Ye Fan couldn't help but have a calm face.
"What are these people? Why did you die here?"
If they belong to a family, why doesn't that family bring their bodies back?
You must know that the Chinese people, the most important thing is to return to the roots, even if they are thousands of miles away, once they die, they will want to return to their hometown.
But the people here have been abandoned at will.
What is this for?