Chapter 54: The Taoist Priest Who Became a Seated Priest
At this time, Fan Qunping also came over, took a look at the cannibalism in the river, and said to me and Quanzi, "Animals are like this, aren't humans like this!" ”
"You have something to say!" I said.
"I want the four major families to unite and unite with the outside world, but now? The four major families are each in their own faction, and they hate each other and can't kill each other, which makes foreigners see a lot of jokes! So, human beings do anything for their own benefit, which is more cruel than this cannibalism! Fan Qunping said.
"We don't know what you're talking about, and we don't want to know!" I said.
"You're all still a few stunned young people, you'll know later!" Fan Qunping raised his hand and said to us, "Thank you two for saving your life!" ”
I joked, "Don't mention thank you, let's tie the bill, I don't owe you any life-saving grace!" ”
Quanzi didn't have a good impression of Fan Qunping, and didn't say a word.
At this time, Ah Fang came over from behind, "The baby fish in this dark river is definitely stimulated by the smell of blood, it seems that the next road, we can only walk along the river beach, the river is too dangerous!" ”
"There may be hidden clues in these big bat nests, should we go back and look for them?" Aichen asked.
"No, no, looking for clues in these bone forests, it's too eerie and terrifying, I won't turn back!" Jeonko said.
"Ai Qin, let's keep walking, I won't go back!" I said.
Ai Qin said, "Actually, I don't want to go back either!" ”
The five of us formed a battle queue and continued downstream along the not very wide river beach, and the next road we had to focus on the baby fish in the river, except for the whole child who was exploring the road in front, the four of us all shone their flashlights into the river.
Not long after walking forward, Quanzi, who was walking in front, made an emergency stop, and took a flashlight to shine on the stone wall not far in front, I turned my flashlight and shone forward, only to see a 'person' sitting quietly in front, but under the faint lighting, that 'person' didn't seem to be a person.
"Ah, there's a guy here!" At this time, Ai Qin, who was walking in the middle, screamed, and I hurriedly turned my head, only to see that there was a cave hidden in the stone wall next to Ai Qin, the size of the cave was similar to what we had seen in the sinkhole before, and the appearance was basically the same. The difference is that an old man who looks like a Taoist priest in this stone cave is sitting safely inside.
I shone forward with a flashlight, and saw a row of identical caves on the stone wall next to the river beach, extending to the end of the light source.
Ah Fang was not too alarmed, raised the flashlight to make a general observation of the Taoist corpse in front of him, and I also followed the look at the Taoist priest in front of me, who had been dead for many years, only to see that he was like the Tai Bai Xing painted in the book, with a long white beard, white hair, and a long white robe that had been corrupted into ashes and fit on his body, his hands were placed on the lower abdomen, and he was still holding a bamboo Tao Te Ching in his hand.
"It turns out that these caves are the places where these Taoist priests sit and ascend to heaven!" Ah Fang looked left and right and said.
The appearance of these Taoist mummies was something we never expected, and we would never have thought that such things would appear in such a place, and in this environment, we felt in a trance that we were not missing people who came to search and rescue, but came to rob tombs and explore.
Quanzi looked at me blankly, and guessed, "Isn't the Taoist priest pursuing feathering and returning to immortals, how could he choose to be under this sinkhole, according to the people around here, isn't this hell?" ”
I couldn't help but joke, "Yo, when did the whole master become so cultured, and he still knew the word feather returning to immortal?" ”
Quanzi was not annoyed, and replied to me, "Who doesn't understand bullshit like you, I'm originally a cultural person!" I wonder why these Taoist priests would choose to bury themselves in this place. ”
"Don't make a fuss, this place is a treasure. How many years have they all been dead, and their bodies are not rotting, which means that this place is good! Ah Fang said on the side.
I didn't have the heart to continue arguing with Quanzi at the moment, so I turned to Fan Qunping and said, "You said that since the Wansheng Stone is something that makes people immortal, then how did these people grow old like this?" ”
Fan Qunping said, "That's what I said wrong, the Wansheng Stone can make people immortal!" ”
We all laughed, and then Ah Fang stared at the old Taoist priest in front of him for a long time, and said in disbelief, "This person seems to have been dead for hundreds of years!" ”
Ai Qin said in disbelief, "No, how is this possible?" ”
Ah Fang replied, "I can't say the exact time of death, but I'm sure this person has been dead for two or three hundred years!" Look at his shoes! ”
We all followed Ah Fang's words and looked at the feet of this Taoist priest, only to see a pair of linen uppers and cloth boots with mille-feuille bottoms, Ah Fang said, "These are the shoes of the Ming Dynasty!" ”
Quanzi said in disbelief on the side, "It's really fake, Miss Afang even knows this!" ”
Ah Fang replied, "You don't know that you don't read much, the shoes of the Ming Dynasty are a little different from the shoes of the Qing Dynasty, in general, even if it is the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it is three hundred years!" ”
We all nodded, Ah Fang was indeed the most knowledgeable among us, and what she said was basically verifiable.
"According to this Miss Ah Fang, if these corpses have been here for three hundred years, and their bodies have not shrunk and have not decayed after such a long time, it makes some sense in this place with such heavy humidity?" Fan Qunping, who had not spoken, suddenly interjected.
Jeonko joked, "Could it be that this moisture has a moisturizing effect, and does it also help maintain the elasticity of the skin?" ”
I couldn't help but scold, "Shut up! It's also moisturizing, why don't you say that it has a whitening effect! ”
Fan Qunping ignored me and Quanzi's informality, but he continued to say seriously, "The science can't explain it, so it proves that the Wansheng Stone really exists from this thing." Taoist cultivators practice in order to become immortals, and they will not choose a place to practice for no reason, and early Taoist cultivators generally choose a place where they think there is aura and immortal energy, that is, a good location for feng shui. Now that there are so many Taoist corpses here, wouldn't it prove the existence of that thing even more! ”
I really can't help but want to smoke this demagogic guy in the mouth, and finally we forgot about the stubble of Wansheng Stone, and he fanned the flames next to him, I said, "The reason why these Taoist priests chose here is that the feng shui here is good, and the feng shui and Wansheng stone have a woolen relationship!" ”
I paused and continued, "I don't dare to say anything else, one thing we know for sure is that the purpose of those caves we found in the sinkhole should be the place where these Taoist priests dug to sit. ”
"But those stone caves in the sinkhole don't have the corpses of Taoist priests?" Aichen asked.
"Probably moved!" I said.
"No one will be so bored to come in and remove the corpses of these Taoist priests, the reason why they are missing shows that the corpses of these Taoist priests must have value worth studying, and if it weren't for the inscriptions around those caves, they wouldn't have been destroyed!" Ah Fang said on the side.
"Well, by the way, why aren't there any inscriptions next to these caves?" Jeonko asked.
"Yes, if the Taoist priest does have something to do with the existence of the Wansheng Stone, why is there no inscription next to these stone caves?" Ah Fang also said strangely.
"Is it possible that the older the corpse of a Taoist priest, the more indicative it is? Didn't this young lady just say that these Taoist priests were from the Ming Dynasty, for those who study the corpses of Taoist priests, these Taoist priests have existed too early and have no value! Fan Qunping said.
"So you know the secrets of these Taoist priests, right?" I glanced at Fan Qunping and said.
"Will you believe me when I say it?" Fan Qunping asked us really.
"You say!" Quanzi, Ai Qin and Ah Fang said in unison.
"These Taoist priests have been dead for hundreds of years, and they have lived for hundreds of years!" Fan Qunping said, "The value of their corpses is not worth the study!" ”
"So all this has something to do with Wansheng Stone, and it's also done by the four major families, right?" I asked.
"Eight or nine is not far from ten!" Fan Qunping said.
Ah Fang and Ai Qin were already skeptical of Fan Qunping's words, and Quanzi now completely believes in the existence of Wansheng Stone, and I am the only one here to die.
In fact, judging from what we have experienced and seen in the past and now, the existence of the Wansheng Stone is by no means groundless, otherwise there would not be so many creatures that violate the laws of nature living in this world.
However, we don't know whether the existence of the Wansheng Stone is good or bad for human beings, and whether it is harmful or not. If it is really like Fan Qunping said that the Wansheng Stone can prolong people's life, and these old Taoist priests in front of him are also good proof, then shouldn't the existence of the Wansheng Stone be the gospel of mankind? Why, then, is this secret only known to the four major families? Why do they hide it from the world?
We don't have time to study these old zombies that have been around for hundreds of years now, after all, we are not an archaeological team.
After thinking that there was nothing to see, we continued along the not very wide river beach, bypassing this huge bay, and a huge stone wall appeared not far in front of us, this stone wall was lying on the ground, and the wide river water flowed over the stone wall, forming a different scenery.
Part of the river was intercepted by the stone wall, and from here it branched off into another cave, and the other part went deeper into the cave. Passing through this stone wall, a naturally formed stone gate appeared in front of it, and there were traces of destruction around the stone gate, so that we instantly understood what the previous group of people destroyed was.
I pointed to the marks on the stone door in front of me and said, "Those people destroyed the road signs or instructions left by the predecessors, in this case, as long as we follow these traces, we will definitely find valuable clues!" ”
We felt awkward from the beginning of this trip to the sinkhole, and the fifth child was not accompanied this time, so I felt that the mission goal was more blind than every time before. Finally, there were some clues, and a group of foreigners suddenly appeared to stir up the situation.
As soon as I finished my words, Fan Qunping on the side immediately objected and said, "Why don't we continue along the river under the stone wall, this underground river must have an outlet, don't you think that our top priority now is self-preservation?" ”
What Fan Qunping said is not unreasonable, the underground river water will not always be hoarded in the mountain, and it will definitely flow out of the ground at a certain time, and at this time, we can occasionally feel some faint cool breeze standing on the Manshui Bridge, proving that the exit should be not far ahead. For us who are covered in bruises at this time, a safe evacuation is undoubtedly the best choice.