Chapter 12: Into the Ancient Tomb
The moonlight was hazy, Li Xiaoqing was ordered by the master to go to Liu Chuan to get the things that had been prepared a long time ago, and the old Taoist priest stood on the edge of the thief cave and said to Zhang Xuanhe, "After this matter is over, I will go back to the sect with you to worship the master and his old man." ”
That Zhang Xuanhe just nodded and acquiesced, and the Hui Shiren couldn't help but smile lightly, and jumped into the thief hole, and then Li Xiaoqing and the little girl who didn't speak also jumped in, and finally Zhang Xuanhe also jumped down.
This thief hole is very cleverly opened, narrow on the outside and wide on the inside, and I don't know how those earth rats dug it. (These people deal with the graves of the dead all day long, and they smell of dirt, so they are dirt rats.) )
As soon as he entered, Li Xiaoqing's foot stepped on an iron shovel, Li Xiaoqing picked it up gently, and the shovel still smelled of green brick ash and gunpowder. Li Xiaoqing also knew that the reason why the hole dug by these guys was narrow on the outside and wide on the inside was that these guys first used this Luoyang shovel to hit a robbery hole, then stuffed it with gunpowder little by little, and finally lit the fuse and blew up the robbery hole in the cemetery from the inside. After the explosion, the air was compacted, and the hole in it instantly expanded. I thought that these people did it manually, but I didn't expect to use gunpowder, but such a big movement did not alarm the villagers, but these earth rats really had two hits.
"These bastards, blowing up holes with black powder, are so losers!" the old man was angry when he saw the debris all over the ground in this tomb. So saying, he took out a miner's lamp from the basket and carried it in his hand, picked and picked on the ground, and picked out a few complete utensils and put them aside, so that those who would jump into the cave would not step on it.
As soon as the lamp was lit, Li Xiaoqing knew that this should be a funeral room, because there were some utensils in it, and there were also some murals on the wall.
And the old Taoist priest looked at the blue brick door that opened in front of him, frowned, and walked out, this tomb is located underground, so the temperature of this tomb is extremely cold, Li Xiaoqing couldn't help frowning, the smell of blood from this tomb is too heavy, and there is also a smell of corpses.
The old Taoist priest walked over and saw the bat corpses all over the ground, these bat corpses were all with purple and black marks, Li Xiaoqing knew that these were highly poisonous vampire bats, as long as someone broke into their living area, these bats would attack them in groups, but now these bats were actually poisoned to death, Li Xiaoqing also felt inexplicable in his heart.
"This group of people is so poisonous, use their own people as bait!" Zhang Xuanhe pointed to a dried corpse on the ground and said, this dried corpse seemed to be wrapped in a layer of plastic sheeting, Li Xiaoqing knew that this corpse must have been a fat person before, just because the blood and oil in this body were sucked away, and this remaining pair of skin and bones, his expression was very frightened, obviously he was also very frightened before he died. The most bizarre thing is that this corpse also exudes an extremely strong and intoxicating sweet smell, and you don't have to guess to know that this corpse has a kind of poison on it, and those bats probably died after sucking the blood of this corpse.
Looking at this person's costume, it is obvious that this person should be a tomb robber, not those demons, with a compass, candles, black donkey hooves, fire folds, and Li Xiaoqing holding a stick to pick up the contents of his bag.
Li Xiaoqing also felt nauseous, but on the other hand, the little girl who had not spoken all this time looked at the corpse on the ground very calmly, and took out a mantra to save people and read: "Heaven and Earth Xuanzong, the root of ten thousand qi, the vast cultivation of billions of eons, the supernatural powers, inside and outside the Three Realms, only the Tao is the only one, the body has golden light, covering my body, there is a thunderbolt inside, the thunder god is incognito, the hole and wisdom are intertwined, the five qi are soaring, the golden light is flashing quickly, covering the real person, and it is as urgent as the Jade Emperor's light to descend the law." After saying that, the talisman flew out, only to see a turbid gas fly out of the corpse, and then slowly rose into the air and turned into nothing. Li Xiaoqing knew that the girl just now used a talisman to dispel the resentment and anger on this corpse, otherwise maybe when this side would turn into a powerful ghost and harm the party.
"Be careful. Zhang Xuanhe looked at Li Xiaoqing and the little girl who were walking behind, and said earnestly.
"Bang!" A loud bang sounded again, Li Xiaoqing and the others only felt the earth shake, and the two old Taoist priests immediately pulled their respective apprentices to the front, and the more they walked, the more frightened they became, the ground was actually full of dead corpses, some were killed by crossbow arrows, and some were stabbed to death by the sharp blades under the trap.
"How can these people be willing to die?" Li Xiaoqing didn't understand why these people would willingly give their lives to Song Duanqiao's gang, this Song Duanqiao is the descendant of Song Chaolun of the Mahayana Sect of Jizu Mountain, when Song Chaolun caused an incident in Sichuan, Shu and Hejiang during the Qianlong period, causing the southwest ****, defrauding the people, and deceiving Jian women, and was sentenced to Ling Chi capital punishment.
But despite the government's efforts to investigate, there are still fish that have slipped through the net, this Song Duanqiao is the direct descendant of the Song Dynasty, and now a son of heaven and a courtier, this Song Duanqiao has become a little thing, after the liberation, he reported the Taoist priest of Longhu Mountain in Sichuan to engage in superstition, and as a result, Zhang Xuan and his disciples ran away and scattered the old Zhang who chased and killed this Song Duanqiao everywhere, but Song Duanqiao was incognito, what kind of character is this Zhang Xuanhe, he couldn't find this Song Duanqiao, and he could only vaguely see that the two had some cause and effect without ending.
The situation in this tomb is indeed very infiltrating at this time, this blood-red rope starts from this burial room and extends forward, and there is a candle lit every ten meters, and the candle with blue light illuminates this tomb road cold.
When Li Xiaoqing and the others walked to the nearest corridor from the tomb, the scene in front of them made everyone take a cool breath. For the corpses lying on the ground were not people, but soldiers in armor, their facial skin clinging to their skulls, their hair was all yellowish and white, and the seven orifices were almost sunken.
"Is this a zombie?" asked Li Xiaoqing.
"It should be. "It's just that the group of people is really well prepared. In ancient times, it was believed that the only effective means was to burn it to pieces with a flame. Zombies must be completely restrained in their bodies and their mouths are stuffed with straw to ensure safety. All limbs and organs must be removed and no contact with bodily fluids must be avoided. Every part must be burned to ashes and then separated in at least 12 directions, and zombies before the Tang Dynasty could not be suppressed with talismans. There is no other way to deal with this kind of zombie, only to decapitate and burn. Physicians like ancient Egyptians would remove the brain tissue of their mummies to prevent the creation of ghouls. The explorer Marco Polo also wrote about the Yuan Dynasty about the wounding of zombie heads in his travelogue, but his book was later banned by the Catholic Church. In the capital, the shadow wall wall at the entrance of the courtyard in the past is indeed used to prevent zombies from ghosts, because the door is facing the shadow wall, the zombies will only move forward, will not turn and retreat, so a little capable family will build a shadow wall at the door.
Generations of Taoist priests have become more and more sophisticated in the study of ghosts, and gradually discovered that some talismans can be used to suppress zombies, and some magical spells can destroy zombies. In fact, ordinary Taoist priests are not very good at ghouls and the like, and the sect that is best at dealing with ghouls is the Maoshan faction.
Daoist Hui looked at these corpses that were torn apart and died very miserably, and his eyebrows seemed to be twisted together. He said heavily, "They have firearms! "Actually, the man was really carrying a firearm, a firearm, and a powerful shotgun, even though these zombies were very terrifying, but after all, they were unconscious corpses, and with guns, this was still very simple to kill.
"Since there are guns on the other side, let's be careful. "This front is actually divided into eight tomb gates Qian, Kun, Xun, Dui, Gen, Zhen, Li, Kan, in the faint green candlelight, this often bluestone tomb road is particularly silent, and at this time the eight gates have been blown open. Hui Laodao took out the paper money, lit it at the eight tomb gates, and waited for the paper money to be burned to ashes, and said this "Yin soul leads the way, gossip sets up cards, leave the money to buy the road, and the ghost door will open for me?" A gust of wind blew, and the paper money swirled on the ground and flew towards the door. This is the little ghost in the Maoshan spell to guide the way, there are a lot of burial creatures in this tomb, and there are always a few lonely ghosts and wild ghosts to guide the Taoist priest for money.
The old Taoist priest took out the paper money again, scattered it as he walked, and after walking for a while, he saw a big man in a gray military uniform, his face was like white paper, and he was sitting there with a depressed expression, foaming at the mouth and swinging all over his body.
"This man has been demonized. Zhang Xuanhe took out the talisman as he spoke, lit it and rushed in, who knew who knew that he would pour it into him. The man trembled vigorously a few more times, and then gradually regained consciousness, gasped and looked at Zhang Xuanhe in front of him and asked, "Are you a Taoist priest?" Only Zhang Xuanhe was wearing a Taoist robe, and the old Taoist priest and Li Xiaoqing were wearing the kind of green military uniforms that educated youths cut into the queue.
Zhang Xuanhe nodded and asked, "What did you encounter?"
The man scratched his head in pain and said, "Dead, all dead, those people tricked me into coming here and let us die." From this man's intermittent words, Li Xiaoqing didn't know what he meant, but this person was very emotional, Li Xiaoqing immediately handed him a Qingxin Pill to take, this Qingxin Pill is actually a pill made from peppermint, lily white peony, salvia, Ganoderma lucidum, Yuanzhi, Acacia skin, Rehmannia, Gum Goulan, lotus seed heart, etc.
After a quarter of an hour, the man calmed down and said, "My name is Liu Baozi, I am from Kang'an, southern Shaanxi, after I was released from prison a few years ago, I followed my fellow inmates to look for work everywhere, and there was a man named Pan Dacheng who was a gold toucher, we followed him to do a few jobs, and after selling the money, we were ready to go home to farm." Half a year ago, he said that there was a big job, someone paid a lot of money to find a group of inverted fights, we thought about the work under the ground, we are familiar with the doorway, and this Sichuan and our southern Shaanxi are next to each other, close to me I will go over to do it. ”
"As a result, I found out that there were three groups of people brought by these people, all of whom were in the industry, and they had many more means than us. Liu Baozi's teeth kept knocking, as if he remembered something unpleasant.
"Before we went, someone gave us a pill and said what can we do to get rid of miasma, this pill we don't usually eat, but this tomb is obviously an imperial tomb, afraid to say, and it was hired to give, we just took it, I was greedy, thinking that this treasure that can go to miasma should be kept, in case it can be used one day. ”
"After we went down to the tomb, there was a beautiful girl girl sticking to Pan Dacheng to go, ask this and that, the two of them were tired, when we walked to the tomb road, we saw the girl push hard, this Pan Dacheng was one meter nine, was pushed out of ten meters before falling to the ground, he just wanted to scold people when he saw a large group of bats behind him, that Pan Dacheng's body was covered, old scary. The man cried when he finished speaking, and this sour smell came from under his crotch.
"That woman should be the woman who charmed the grave keeper, I didn't expect to be so ruthless. Li Xiaoqing sighed.
"That's not all, they have trolls, there are a lot of them, we went to the back and met the zongzi, the zongzi can seep people, the previous stuffed black donkey hooves are almost the same, but this thing is not good, you have to use the trolls to break it. After this person finished speaking, he looked at Li Xiaoqing and them with a blank look.
"What did the guy who hired you do?" asked Li Xiaoqing.
"It seems to be an official, a cadre of the supply and marketing cooperatives in this town, he invited us to have a meal before, white rice, big steamed buns to eat casually, take whatever you want, I see that the ** in his house is gold-plated. The man said, and the courage grew a little.
"Okay, you climb out along this red line, someone is waiting for you outside, and then go to the local police station to turn yourself in, otherwise your retribution is not over. Hui Lao Dao probably knew the ins and outs of this matter, so he didn't ask much.