Volume 1 Chapter 30: The Legend of the Yin Soldier
The Yin soldier borrows the way, and in layman's terms, it is the Yin soldier borrowing the way.
There are many sayings about the Yin soldiers, as the saying goes, the battlefield is the most ruthless place, swords and guns have no eyes, and it is a common thing in ancient wars, so it has sent countless soldiers to their lives.
In ancient times, in order to win, one side had to have extraordinary means, which could be extremely cruel or indiscriminate. As a result, the soldiers who lost their lives died unjustly and humiliatingly, and the resentment of these soldiers could not be dispersed for a long time, and they remained near the battlefield.
The souls of these soldiers are left near the battlefield for a hundred or thousands of years, and their memories stay in the last scene of their lives.
Another theory is that due to special reasons, there are countless deaths and injuries in a certain place, and these dead souls cannot be exceeded, and they do not know the way to Huangquan to be reincarnated. At this time, the Netherworld will send a team of Yin soldiers to lead these lost souls to reincarnate.
When the Yin soldiers lead the souls back to Huangquan, the living must not stand in the way, otherwise they will be taken to the Netherworld by these Yin soldiers.
It is said that when the Tangshan earthquake occurred, many local people saw the Yin soldiers, and this matter was still in a uproar at that time.
Then there is a local saying in Xiangxi, which is also said by Yu Yang and the second brother.
It is said that during the war, there were a group of mountain bandits on Wulong Mountain, the bandit leader was called Zhang Wenzheng, when he was a child, his skin was burned by fire, and his face was pitted, which was very scary, so people called him Zhang Mazi.
The bandits in Wulong Mountain are serious, and a regular army was sent here to suppress the bandits, and this group of mountain bandits bullied and bullied the local villagers here can be said to be handy. But when this regular army came, this group of mountain bandits was like a lost dog.
After the two teams fought several times, this group of mountain bandits was already overwhelmed. How can this pockmarked man be captured, he recruits people everywhere, and if he doesn't want to go up the mountain to be a bandit, he will grab it back to the cottage first, and even threaten it.
After a long time, Zhang Mazi found that they would arrest people like this to charge bandits, and they would not contribute at all when they were fighting, and from time to time they would escape down the mountain when he was not paying attention.
Zhang Mazi was angry, and suddenly remembered a legend passed down from his ancestors.
Borrow the Yin Soldiers!
Xiangxi has been practicing Gu art and witchcraft since ancient times, and there are countless Gu masters and wizards, among which borrowing Yin soldiers is a very weird witchcraft.
In Zhang Mazi's cottage, there happened to be an old woman who was close to the sixtieth birthday, who was a famous local wizard when she was young. Zhang Mazi thought that since he couldn't find a living person to fight for him, let the old woman teach him the method of borrowing Yin soldiers to use the dead to fight the living.
This borrowing a Yin soldier is not an easy thing, this old woman told Zhang Mazi that borrowing a Yin soldier will cost ten years, and the Yin soldier cannot be controlled by the person who borrowed the soldier, and wherever the Yin soldier goes, there is no grass.
Zhang Mazi had already been beaten by the regular army at that time, where could he take care of this, so the old woman taught him the method of borrowing Yin soldiers. In the next few battles with the regular army, he borrowed two Yin soldiers in a row, so that the regular army was defeated and retreated.
However, in the end, the army sent a killer and assassinated Zhang Mazi while he was asleep, so that the remaining mountain bandits in Wulong Mountain had no leader and dispersed in a hurry.
After listening to the three explanations of the Yin Soldier, I realized it later, and I became scared at first.
I saw the gray mist just now, and I wanted to go out to find out, but fortunately, the second brother stopped me in time, otherwise I would have followed the group of Yin soldiers into the underworld.
After thinking about it, I said, "No matter what you just said, there is a premise.... Even where there are Yin soldiers borrowing the way, there must be a large number of dead people, but this valley is deserted, and it stands to reason that there cannot be a large number of dead people, why is there a Yin soldier borrowing the way? ”
The second brother shook his head, obviously he didn't know the specific reason.
"Okay, you haven't slept since you were caught by Wang Degui and them, hurry up and sleep, you will have to hurry tomorrow no matter if the rain stops."
Dawu took out a jacket from his bag and threw it to me, I didn't hesitate to change it directly, and then directly hugged my arms and leaned against the stone and quickly fell asleep.
In my dream, I dreamed that my second brother and I met a giant python, which came out of the mountains in a thunderstorm and plunged into the lake, and with the lake flowing into the river and into the sea.
When I woke up in the morning, the second brother and Dawu had already woken up, but I didn't see Bai Sha and Tie Nan. Dawu told me that the two of them had gone to the valley in front to explore the way, and that they were almost back.
The rain was still falling outside, and I recalled my dream last night, and it was associated with the legend of Jackie Chan told by Master Cao, and I couldn't help but have a bold conjecture.
When Mr. Feng Shui surnamed Yi met Jackie Chan in Wulong Mountain, it was also raining heavily for several days, and the situation we encounter now is roughly the same as the scene in the legend.
As soon as this idea came out, I denied it, there may be some magical and strange witchcraft and secret arts in this world, but dragons have only existed in mythical creatures for 5,000 years in China, and if there really is a dragon, it will never be so mysterious.
I took out the compressed biscuits from Wang Degui and them, ate a piece, and gave it to the second brother and them, and after waiting for a long time, Bai Sha and Tie Nan came back.
Bai Sha shook the water on his hair and said to us: "The front is still a valley road, it is estimated that this valley road can go out of the mountain at the end, the six-fingered tribe should not live in such a valley, if it encounters the rainy season, this valley is easy to accumulate water, and the entire valley road will become a river for a short stay." ”
The second brother nodded, stood at the mouth of the cave and observed, and then said: "Take the equipment and climb up this valley, those six-fingered people are strong, and it is not excluded that they live in some caves on the waistside of this valley." ”
Subsequently, Dawu and Baisha began to prepare the equipment for climbing the wall, because my second brother and I were not as skilled as Baisha and others, so we could only wait for them to climb up little by little, and then find a fixed position, fix the rope and throw it down, and then we went up again.
After a night of heavy rain, water has begun to accumulate on the ground throughout the valley road, and it has just submerged the ankles. If the rain continues, the water will probably reach our calves by the afternoon.
That's when I suddenly had a thrill and realized a very strange problem.
This kind of heavy rain often falls in Xiangxi, and the current season is precisely the rainy season, so it stands to reason that such heavy rain is very common, so it is very common to accumulate water in the valley.
However, as soon as the water accumulates in the valley road, some of the relatively low karst caves will be flooded, just like the cave where we rested last night.
But in the cave where we rested last night, there was no trace of flooding at all, not even a puddle.....