Chapter 22: The Human-Skin Turtle
"You don't have to worry about that." As soon as he finished speaking, suddenly, there was a dull "boom" sound in the depths of this corridor, that is, behind this huge stone door.
Including Meng Lao Er, all of us saw a crack slowly crack in the middle of the immovable "wall", and with a slight vibration, the door opened on its own.
A strong smell of mold gushed out, Liu Ruxiang took the flashlight and shone it twice casually, she couldn't see anything clearly, and she could vaguely see some reflective things.
"Stop! Lean into the back. Meng Lao Er suddenly spoke, scolding the cooking woman.
His hand holding the knife tightened again, and I pressed it against him with all my strength, and my heart was about to burst out in fright.
Liu Ruxiang's face was not angry, but the handle was pinched in her hand, so she had no choice but to do so, and according to Meng Laoer's instructions, she retreated behind her little by little, that is, on the edge of the big hole we just entered.
"Boy, hurry up!" Meng Lao Er rubbed my knee on my back, and dragged me to the dark space behind the door.
The knife was on my neck, and my body was not mine, my legs trembling and limp, and I gasped for breath little by little, towards the dark world behind the door.
When I got in, Meng Lao Er turned on the searchlight on his head a little and twisted it to the side, so that I could see the surrounding environment clearly.
I couldn't see far from the corner of the eye, but when I got closer, I immediately noticed that something was wrong.
To my left was a half-man-wide canal made of stone bricks, with only a thin layer of water in it, and in the center of the canal lay a strange monster as huge as a basin.
It had a long neck, four short legs, and a head similar to that of a turtle, but its back and waist were covered with long, thin black threads.
Meng Laoer's eyes seemed to be attracted by it, and he walked towards the thing in surprise.
As I got closer, I saw the guy slowly moving towards the other end of the canal, and the thin black lines even gave off a shiny sheen, and I couldn't help but feel that it seemed to be human hair.
I was taken aback as soon as this idea came up, and quickly denied it, how can human hair grow here, it is estimated that it just looks more like.
Meng Lao Er smiled cruelly: "God help me." ”
He grabbed my neck tightly with one hand, and swung his knife quickly with the other, and the blade cut through the air and nailed directly to the black-haired monster's body.
The dagger was drawn, and blood gushed from the wound, wetting a small drain.
I was horrified, I didn't expect him to come out like this. At that time, his brain was spinning rapidly, and he quickly turned his head and bit his wrist, then pulled off the searchlight on his head and lay on the ground and slipped away.
The only light is a searchlight, and when I turn it off in my hand, he will naturally be blinded.
", little brute." His angry curses came from the darkness.
I held my breath, broke out in a lot of cold sweat on my back, and walked lightly on tiptoe.
"Don't run for Lao Tzu, see if I don't kill you today!" A rush of footsteps suddenly approached.
I was scared away, so I quickly turned around and ran.
I clearly felt the breeze brought by Meng Lao Er when he chased after him, and my heart was beating violently.
"I see you!"
There was laughter in the darkness, and I was so shocked that I crawled and rolled on the ground, and hit my head against a hard stone wall.
"Shhh
There was blood on my neck and head, and I was so afraid that I would die in the next moment, and this sadness welled up in my heart, and I fell to the ground and sobbed.
But the hunt I had expected seemed to come to an abrupt end, and there was no sound.
It wasn't until the light of a flashlight came that I saw Liu Ruxiang running towards me quickly.
Liu Ruxiang didn't speak, squatted down and found a few strips of cloth, washed my wound with water, sprinkled with medicinal powder, and wrapped it carefully, before she breathed a sigh of relief.
"What about Meng Laoer?" She asked me, and there was an angry hint in her dull tone, as if it were a high explosive on the side of the stove, and it was about to explode at one point.
I shook my head and described to him what had happened to Fang Cai, the black fur monster, the counterattack, and the pursuit. Liu Ruxiang slowly turned her head, stared at the black long-haired monster in the canal next to her, and walked straight over.
I limped back to my feet and followed behind Master.
I saw Liu Ruxiang stretch out his hand and gently poke the monster's body, twisted a few hairs, and then lowered his head to pick up the monster's abdomen, and said incredulously: "This is a human-skin turtle, I didn't expect what was recorded in the ancient books to be true." ”
Liu Ruxiang saw that I didn't understand, so she smiled and explained to me.
In the ancient classics of Shigongjiao inherited by the Liu family, there is such a story:
Once upon a time, there was a landlord named Da Wei Gong, with countless cattle and sheep, and hundreds of slaves.
Before he died, he wanted to give all the inheritance to his young son Wei Chongping, but he was afraid that the robbers would covet it, so he found his master Shen San and said to him: "After I die, my inheritance will be handed over to my grown son, but it must be placed in a place that no one can touch, and he can only be taken away, and he cannot use a lock, please agree to my request." ”
So, Shigong Shen San found a white turtle and said to Da Wei Gong: Please build a solid secret room in the cave first, and let the turtle be used as a divine beast to lead Wei Chongping to take away the treasure.
After Dawei Gong built the secret room and put the treasure inside, Shen San used a knife to split the turtle's shell.
Da Wei Gong was worried that the turtle would die, so Shen San said to him: "Peel off your scalp, wrap it around the turtle's body, and sew it tightly with needle and thread, the turtle can live again, it inherits your last wish, as long as Wei Chongping drops the blood into the pool in front of the secret room, the white turtle will come and touch the mechanism and lead Wei Chongping to take the treasure." ”
Da Wei Gong was very satisfied with this design, he used a knife to cut his scalp himself, asked Shen San to sew the turtle well, and put it in the pool in front of the secret room, until he walked out of the secret room and filled it with earth and stones, and then fell off the cliff from exhaustion.
When the news of Dawei's death came back to his hometown, the servants fled in all directions, and the robbers took away the cattle and sheep, but they did not find his infinite treasure......
When his youngest son, Wei Chongping, grew up, came back from the field, came to the door of the cave built by his father, dripped his own blood into the sink, and the gate was opened. Immediately a turtle covered in black hair appeared in the canal behind the door, which was the hair that grew from the scalp of his father, Da Wei Gong, and the color and texture were exactly the same.
When Wei Chongping saw it, he talked to the black-haired turtle and called it father. Tears also flowed from the corners of the black-haired turtle's eyes, and the black-haired turtle shook its head, crawled forward, and led the mechanism to open the innermost gate of the cave, helping Wei Chongping take all the wealth treasures.