Volume 1Chapter 6: The Corpse Cave

We stopped the boat. This should be the most dangerous part of the cave. If we weren’t prepared, we shouldn’t have gone in. Uncle San looked at his watch and said, “This corpse cave is a cave that you can’t get in or out of. We’ve been digging for sand for so long, and this is the first time we’ve broken into a place like this. I think there might be something really strange about this cave!”

Pan Zi whispered, “Of course.”

Uncle San glared at him and continued, “But this is just the old man’s word. We have no way of knowing if this cave can only be passed through by the boatman, and no one else can get through. If this cave,” he emphasized, “is really a corpse cave, then there will be danger ahead. As for what we will encounter, we have no way of knowing. Maybe we will be trapped in a ghostly maze and not know where the boat is going. Maybe there will be hundreds of water ghosts coming to overturn our boat.”

Da Kui gasped: “That’s not possible.”

“Anyway, anything can happen. We’ve encountered so many dangers on this sand mining expedition, and we haven’t even reached the cemetery yet. It’s really bad luck, but no matter what, we’re not afraid of ghosts. If we’re afraid of ghosts, we shouldn’t be sand mining. Since we’re in this line of work, it wouldn’t be much fun if we didn’t encounter some weird things.” Uncle San called Pan Zi to take out the double-barreled shotgun from his backpack. “We have high technology now, which is much better than our predecessors in the early years. If there really are water ghosts, it’s their bad luck!”

Da Kui was so scared that he was shaking all over. I said to Uncle San, “Your pre-war mobilization sounds like a ghost story. It’s counterproductive.”

Uncle San pulled the gun’s bolt. “This guy really embarrassed me this time. I didn’t expect him to be so useless. He bragged like a big shot before coming here.” Then he handed the gun to the stuffy oil bottle and said to him, “There are two shots in total. After you’ve fired them, you have to change the bullets. These are all shotguns, so they don’t have much power at a distance. Aim and shoot.”

I was familiar with double-barreled shotguns. When I was a kid, I won a prize for playing skeet shooting. So I took the shotgun, and Uncle San and Da Kui held a saber in one hand and a folding shovel in the other. Pan Zi, I, and Mian Youbing held the guns and slowly headed toward the corpse-filled area, which was glowing green.

Under the dim light of the miner’s lamp, I noticed that the hole was getting bigger and bigger, and the green light was getting closer and closer. I first heard the foreign language coming from the side of the bottle, and then I heard Panzi curse. Then I saw a sight that I will never forget in my life.

The hole suddenly opened up at the point where the green light appeared, and it turned into a huge natural cave. The waterway also turned into a river in the cave. On the shallows on both sides of the waterway, there were all kinds of green, decaying corpses. It was impossible to tell whether they were human or animal. You could see rows of skeletons skulls were very neat and should have been piled up here by humans, while those on the outside were more messy, especially those on the riverbank, with all kinds of actions, and there were also many bodies that had not completely decayed. On these bodies, there was invariably a layer of gray film-like substance, tightly wrapped around them like plastic wrap. From time to time There are several huge maggots breaking out of the bodies. These maggots are much smaller than the one on our boat, but four or five times larger than the average ones. Some small maggots want to get a share of the pie. As soon as they climb onto the body, the big maggots bite the small ones to death and eat them.

“Most of these bodies floated down from upstream and then stranded here. Be careful and see if there is anything strange around!”

“Look!” Da Kui With our eyes peeled, we looked at the cliff face on one side and turned our heads to see a greenish crystal coffin embedded in the air of the almost vertical cliff face. It seemed that there was a female corpse wearing white clothes inside, but the distance was too far and we couldn’t see clearly.

“There is one over there too!” Pan Zi pointed to the other side, and we looked and sure enough, there was a crystal coffin in the same position on the cliff face on the other side, but this one was empty!

Uncle San gasped, “Where did the corpse go?”

“Could it be a zongzi?” asked Dakuai. “Third Uncle, there shouldn’t be any zongzi in this place, should there?”

“Pay attention, if you see something moving, don’t ask anything, just shoot first,” said Third Uncle, looking around warily.

At this At this time, the direction of the river changed, and we bypassed a pile of bones. Da Kui let out a scream and fell into the boat. We looked up and saw a woman in white feathered clothes, her back to us, with long black hair down to her waist. I looked at the decorations on her belt and determined that it was from the Western Zhou Dynasty. Unable to I swallowed my saliva and said, “The corpse is here…”

“Stop – stop…” Uncle San wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, “Da Kui, bring the black donkey hoofs from the bag! This is probably a thousand-year-old big zongzi. Take the hoof from 1923. I’m afraid she won’t accept the new one.”

He said it twice, but Da Kui didn’t move. When we looked back, he was foaming at the mouth and twitching. Otherwise the environment does not allow, I’m afraid I’m going to laugh.

“Pan Zi, you go get it, damn it, next time I’ll bring him out, he deserves to be eaten by the zongzi.” Uncle San took the black donkey hoof, spat twice on his hand, and said, “Look at the skills of Master Wu San, my nephew, look clearly. This thousand-year-old zongzi is rare to see. If I don’t succeed, you’ll shoot me in the head, so that your uncle will die quickly!”

I pulled him: “Do you have any confidence in the end?” In fact, I was not particularly afraid. I had never encountered this kind of thing before, and I always felt that the slender figure of a woman in plain clothes was a little sad. But in horror movies, the woman with long hair and white clothes turned around and was not very good. Psychological effects are here, and my heart is still beating very hard.

At this time, Mufeng also pressed his shoulder and said, “Black donkey hooves are used against zombies. This guy is probably not a zombie. Let me do it.” He took bag, and I recognized it as the dragon-back item he bought from my third uncle. He loosened the cloth on the item, and sure enough, it was a black ancient knife, and it looked like it was made of black gold.

He the ancient knife on his own back, then stood at the bow of the boat and let his own blood drip into the water. As soon as he made the first drop, “splash” all the corpses, as if they had seen a ghost, all crawled out of the bodies, frantically trying to stay away from our boat.

Suddenly, all the corpses in the water and in the bodies around our boat had disappeared. The oil bottle’s hand was soon covered in blood. He pointed his bloody hand at the woman in white, and the woman actually knelt down. We were stunned. The oil bottle said to Uncle San, “Hurry up and don’t look back!”

Although I really wanted to see what the woman looked like, but I decided not to take the risk of seeing the face of a mummy if I looked back. Uncle San and Pan Zi paddled as hard as they could, and finally saw a gradually shrinking hole in front of them. It looked like the hole was in the center of the mountain, and the waterway was only created after the two sides were dug through, so that it became a capillary structure with narrow entrances on both sides. Even if the water on both sides covered the hole, it could still remain dry inside.

We gradually sailed into the cave, and had to lower our heads. Before entering the cave, I paid attention. Didn’t I say I couldn’t look back? I looked at the reflection in the water to see if she was following behind. It was better not to look, but as soon as I looked, I almost fainted. In the reflection in the water, something I didn’t know was lying on my back. I was about to scream, but I couldn’t help but look back. I felt a heavy blow to the back of my head, and everything went dark.