Keli looked into the arch and continued: "This matter is just a legend in the end, and no one has seen any ghost monks with their own eyes, the people only saw that the Qinling Heavenly Master Dao had done a few Dharma deeds, and then the news of the ghost monks in the Hexi Corridor couldn't stop. ”

"As for the real situation, whether it is a ghost monk who has been dead for thousands of years, there is still no conclusion, and all this is just a legend so far."

Yue Guanchao pondered the current situation carefully, since the noisy ghost sound was related to the bones of this monk, then they could be regarded as finding the root cause: "Anyway, we have already found the root of the ghost sound, if we can't go over and look at it because of the legend, this is somewhat unreasonable." ”

"Keli, aren't you curious about what this monk corpse that can ring the bell is?"

After that, the two walked into the arch, Song Siyuan and Xu Xiake also strode in, only Wang Yuanji stood outside the door, trembling and not daring to come in.

In the shrine, the details of the monk's corpse gradually come into view.

Judging by these two characteristics, he was probably a strong eight-foot man when he was alive, and his body was covered with red and yellow shawl robes, which were completely different from the robes of the Han Dynasty.

Through these monk's robes that have been broken off the line, they can directly see the degree of decay of the monk's body, due to the Tang and Song dynasties after a thousand years, the land of Hexi gradually dried up and dried, this arid and rainless environment, very suitable for preserving the body, probably because of this reason, the monk's body was preserved quite intact, except for the arm that often ringed the bell, it can almost be said that there is no decay at all.

Whether it is the skin, legs, feet, or skull, the outer skin of his body is extremely complete, as if it has been steamed dry by something, forming a complete corpse with a head and tail, and the outer skin of the corpse is covered with gray and black corpse spots in the case of a thousand years of lack of water, showing a yellow-brown sauce color covered with gray and black corpse spots, and the fat under the skin has completely dried up, making the skin completely attached to the bones.

Looking at the head of the monk's corpse, the eye sockets are sunken, the nose is collapsed, the ears are shrunken, and the mouth is like the skin of an old man lacking elasticity, full of folds after dehydration, and the skin on the entire skull has been dry like numbness, showing a state full of markings.

On the top of the head of the monk's corpse, there is a bronze bell made of brass, which is directly embedded into this Chinese niche from the ground, and the flashlight is lit upwards, and the brass tower body of five meters high can be directly seen from the inside of the copper bell, in this case, it means that the brass tower body has been linked with this copper bell to form a through structure from the ground to the ground.

There is a protruding handle copper ring on both sides of the bronze bell, and it can be seen that there is a red cloth knotted into a rope ring to blow down the copper bell, and the side close to the monk corpse directly strangles the waist of the monk corpse, forming an upward traction road, directly fixing the corpse of the monk corpse in place.

They turned their eyes to the arm of the monk's corpse, his hand showed a state of holding the prayer pestle, and at the same time, the arm was wrapped with a red cloth strip, and the arm and the prayer pestle were directly tied together to form a dead knot, and the arm that rang the bell compared to the body, even if it was not complete, the skin was completely tribal, and the muscles inside were shattered and blackened, revealing the dried tendons and veins, and it was this arm that was ringing the bell, which frightened them.

At this moment, Kerry's bow and arrow directly fixed his arm to the beam frame, and the monk's corpse was fixed and stopped moving.

Song Siyuan picked up the flashlight and shone on the nose of the monk corpse, which was full of dust, if it was still panting, it was estimated that the dust around the nose would be blown away, in the bright beam of the flashlight, the dust near the nose of the monk corpse continued to fill the air, and there was no sign of disturbance, which showed that the monk corpse was not a breathing creature.

"Could it be that it was parasitized by some desert sand vine, so that it can be active after death."

Xu Xiake remembered the sand vine he mentioned, and looked near the monk's corpse, there was nothing else underground except for a layer of sand and some animal skeletons.

Song Siyuan proposed: "If this corpse is really alive, how can it be fixed by the bow and arrow and not move, according to the behavior of the living creature being attacked, he should have to break free, how can it be as static as now, unless, this corpse can move not because it can move, but because some external force has affected him." ”

Speaking of this, her eyes lit up: "I propose to pull out the bow and arrow, let's see if the bow and arrow are drawn, whether the corpse will still move, if it can still move, then it may be caused by external forces, not that the corpse is alive." ”

Keli nodded, pulling the arrow directly from his arm, and at the same time, the group began to retreat towards the arch.

As soon as the bow and arrow were completely away from the monk's corpse, the originally static corpse immediately returned to its original position under the drive of the rope around his waist, and at the same time, his arms also began to ring the bronze bell in the back and forth swing of the body, and continued to sound a buzzing noisy ghostly sound.

Song Siyuan shone a flashlight at the corpse, seeing that the corpse had no sense to strike the bronze bell, she unconsciously approached the corpse, began to observe the movement of the monk's corpse, and wanted to understand the details and reasons, her eyes lit up: "I know what's going on." ”

Then, she grabbed the sand from the ground and placed it near the monk's corpse, and the moment she let go, the sand was blown backwards, and then quickly blown away by the wind in the opposite direction, directly on the bronze bell.

Although the weight of the yellow sand is different from that of the corpse, it at least shows one point - when the corpse moves, it is affected by two completely opposite winds, and then it appears to pitch backwards and then tilt forward and ring the bell.

After watching the whole process, everyone's thoughts suddenly brightened, and Song Siyuan continued to explain: "We can also see from the outside that there are culverts under the iron plate, and in the case of water, these culverts act as water diversion......

For thousands of years, the qanats have dried up, and there is no river water in the culverts, but due to the special structure of the qanats, these culverts lead directly to some of the outside channels, and if the rivers dry up, there will be wind through these culverts to enter the shrine.

Only then can they feel that the alcove is very shady, even a cold wind blowing.

This zizi shrine is built in the center of the shrine, just above these culverts, and the cold wind blowing from all directions will continue to blow into the zizi shrine through the holes in the iron plate, forming a cold wind from all directions.

At this time, the monk's corpse was fixed by the ribbon on the handle, if there was no influence of the wind, it was completely able to fix the corpse, but as the water level of the underground culvert fell, a large amount of wind entered the shrine and blew the corpse to the ground.

And because the monk's corpse was completely fixed at the waist and could not move, these cold winds could not blow the corpse elsewhere, so they could only be bound by the silk ribbon on the waist, and they were blown down by the wind and lay down on their backs and fell to the ground, thus forming a state of lying down and lying down.

Because the arm of the monk's corpse was tied with a prayer pestle, the corpse was unconsciously blown by the wind and pitched back and forth, and rang the bronze bell in front of him, which lasted for nearly a thousand years, the corpse did not decay at all in the dry condition, but became dry because of the lack of water, during this period, the cold wind that continued to pour into the culvert made the corpse unconsciously ring the bronze bell for a thousand years.

"That's not right, no matter how durable the corpse is, it is impossible to persist for a thousand years without falling apart, if it has been blown by the wind and cold for so long, how can it be preserved so completely, only the arm shows signs of decay."