Chapter 159: Soul Snatching
While I was dismantling and peeling the white brocade, I briefly told Shirley Yang about something that happened not long ago, the witchcraft punishment of “soul snatching” has been extinct until the Warring States period, once in the Panjiayuan antique market, a few things suddenly appeared, it was an old farmer from Anyang in Henan Province who took more than a hundred strange bone objects to find the next family, those things are somewhat like “bone needles”, but thicker and longer, the center is hollow, all contained in an ancient tile jar full of ancient characters. Those things are a bit like the “bone needle”, but thicker and longer, the center is hollow, are installed in a full of ancient characters in the ancient tile jar.
The old farmer said it was dug up in the ground, because the upper side of the oracle bone text, of course, he did not know, but his family that area, unearthed a lot of valuable cultural relics, he just think that these “bone needles” can be taken to Beijing to sell large amounts of money, when we have a lot of people to see, but at that time too many counterfeits, who are not sure, after all, this is something of the years! After all, this thing is too old, no one has seen, not even clear what it is.
As a result, there happen to be two Japanese eyes, then to be all wrapped up, did not expect this time Lei Zi came, even people with things all deducted, it turned out to be the old farmer’s hometown, some people see him digging out of the antiquities feel red, the matter stabbed out, and has been chased to Beijing, and later heard that he dug out of a pot of “bone needles”, is the Shang Dynasty used to “capture the soul”. Execution of the “soul” witch torture instruments, now this thing, fell in the local museum in Henan.
Fatty added: “I also deliberately inquired about, this set of soul-capturing needles to rest now, one can change an imported car, when we did not have enough eyesight, or else …… otherwise now go in the squatting kiln is our gang.”
Shirley Yang said, “So, soul snatching, is a kind of torture to drain human blood?”
I have removed all the white brocade wrapped around the bones in the coffin, and a pair of human legs were exposed, the dried skin was purple-brown, with round black marks all over it, which should be the location where the Soul Snatching Needle stabbed into the blood veins. I said to Shirley Yang and Fatty, “Letting out all the blood at the same time is not the end of the matter, and it is said that they also need to give the tortured person a large amount of cows, goats, chickens and so on, mixed together. Chicken and so on, mixed together with the blood of livestock, these blood have been added to the bird’s eye and corpse rats that kind of things that have long been extinct, in any case, is to turn the living into zombies, to be thorough after our investigation, in order to prevent necrophilia, it is best to the two legs of the dried corpse, as well as the bronze coffin in the coffin, are all burned together.”
“Corpse mutation” can be divided into several kinds, some is the corpse up, the newly dead soon dead, suddenly up to pounce on the yang qi chasing people; some is the corpse dead and not rot, although the death has been a long time, but the hair and nails are still growing slowly; there are also some corpses due to feng shui is not good, buried in the ground vein stagnation, the body of the body born fine hairs, in the grave for the evil; another Another kind of corpse buried in the ground, by some of the old fox, weasel, or the plague god, drought demon, the evil spirits paid, but also can be a scourge of the party, the harm is very great.
In this king’s tomb bronze coffin in the corpse, it is fully equipped with the signs of “necrophilia”, I think that since the encounter this situation, if there are conditions, we should find ways to have signs of necrophilia of the corpse destroyed.
I think so in my heart, and even the benefits, is to make up for some of the loss of virtue, of course, if the zombies encountered in the “evil”, it is better to slip away before it is too late for good.
Three sections of the body have been examined, there is no extra things in the coffin, as long as the body in the bronze coffin burned, and confirmed that only the upper half of the coffin, it can be completely confirmed that our deduction, the remaining two coffins in the above chamber, there is no need to open the coffin again.
I said to Shirley Yang: “Now I can guarantee, although the layout of King Xian’s tomb is strange and weird, but since the lower level has shadow bones, it must be divided into heavenly gates, earthly households, so that the dragon’s potential lurks to be up, this is a shrimp tail, crab body, goldfish eyes composed of three layers of the water tomb, the location of King Xian’s real body bones, it must be a complete overlap with the wooden coffin’s shadow bones, since it has been confirmed that the shadow bones, you can directly follow the trail to pull out the bones. we can directly follow the trail to dig out King Xian.”
Since we entered the gourd cave, until now, we have almost been in continuous action for more than ten hours, and our energy and physical strength have been depleted, but at present, we finally have some clues, and our spirits are invigorated when we think of this.
I made a short deployment, let Shirley Yang and fat man first stay in the “wooden coffin”, burn these two corpses, one is broken “dedicate the tomb of the king” layout, the second is to avoid the future of this bronze coffin in the body to occur “necrophilia! “Of course, you can also take the bronze mirror, which will always be used in the future.
I went up to look for the “goldfish eyes”, before I went up I specially instructed Shirley Yang to let her look after the fat man, be sure to light the coffin in the bronze coffin, and then take away the bronze mirror, Shirley Yang nodded her head to agree to the “Flying Tiger Claw” to me: “You yourself, you’ll be the first to see the bronze mirror,” she said. Shirley Yang nodded in agreement and handed the “Flying Tiger Claw” to me: “You should be more careful yourself, don’t be so adventurous.”
Then I climbed the rotten “wooden square” climbed back to the middle of the tomb, the nine blue “longevity candle” has not yet extinguished, the southeast corner of the three candles, but also still in the normal combustion, the light is weak, but people feel at ease.
Looking up at the broken copper beam at the top of the tomb, due to the lack of light, it is difficult to see whether there is space above, just in the broken beam, there is a large white thing, I see that the helmet on the spotlight does not work, and then take out the “wolf’s eye”, only then can I see it clearly, it turns out that the top of the tomb exposed part of the tomb, is a kind of and the outer wall of the Palace of the underworld of the similar flower-white quartz, about the same time as in the “Eternal Life candle”, it is the same as in the “Eternal Life candle”. The exposed part of the top of the tomb is a kind of white quartz similar to the outer wall of the Yin Palace, which is right above the “shadow bone”, and if I didn’t know that there might be another layer of the tomb above, I wouldn’t have noticed this tiny trace at all.
I also use Shirley Yang’s tiger claws, up to the top of the tomb remaining section of the copper beams, will cover the inside of the white rock broken tomb bricks to remove, it really took a lot of effort, the area of white rock above the gradual increase in the area, revealing a long and narrow olive shaped entrance, took off his gloves and reached over to try, there is a whooshing of the cold airflow, and then use the “wolf’s eye” flashlight to the top. “Flashlight upwards, the height of the tomb above is difficult to confirm.
A cursory look, it seems that the above is a large circular cavity, and outside the waterhole at the funnel terrain similar, but this is artificial repair, the scale is much smaller, the diameter of the large cavity is only a dozen meters, there is a circling slope winding up, and then up beyond the range of the “Wolf Eyes”, a pitch black.
I cursed in my heart: “Even though King Xian is dead, he still wants to put himself in the highest place of the Yin Palace, his obsession with power and immortality has reached a perverted point.” I still remembered my companions in the “wooden coffin” in my heart, seeing that the entrance had been confirmed, I tied up the rope and rock wedge, and returned to the floor of the middle chamber, only to see the flames flickering in the “wooden coffin” below, and I knew that Fatty and the others had gotten their hands on it as well.
Not long, fat man and Shirley Yang climbed up from the bottom, the bronze mirror is considered to be in hand, this is after the jade letter in the back of the Palace of Heaven, the second most valuable trophies, fat man met and asked: “bronze coffin in the dry body does not have a leg, there is a stone leg instead of, how about Hu Commander, you see in the upper side of the valuable artifacts? ”
But at this time I am staring at the “wooden coffin” in the fire froze, to the words of the fat man turned a deaf ear, after a long time to come back to God, always feel that there is an important thing, always but can not think of, in fact, I do not know is can not think of, or can not bear to think of, the more I think of the more headache, will try not to think of, I turned to the fat man and Shirley Yang said: “The bronze coffin in the dry body does not have legs, there is a stone leg instead. Shirley Yang said, “The middle chamber above, is a large cavity, King Xian is definitely hanging in the uppermost, the position corresponds to the shadow bone in the wooden coffin.”
Who do not want to stay in the dead long sleep in the Yin Palace, said they split up with a rope to climb up to the top of the three-meter-high tomb, drilling into the entrance I cleared out earlier, the circular cavity is too high, in the bottom can not look at the top, where there is no any other brick and wood materials, a water of all white quartzite, surrounded by the walls of the cavity.
Surrounding the wall are painted with large colorful murals, Han Yi color and religious colors compatible and eclectic, the king’s style and the immortal way of the ethereal coexistence, which has never been handed down to the world of a style of painting, a close look, but also feel the layout of a well-thought out, rigorous intent, teach people to marvel at, I estimate that so beautifully mural inside the tomb, the core of the King’s Tomb of the dedication should not be far away.
The characters in the painting are all angry eyes of the gods, almost equal to the proportion of normal people, are bent head down to stare, seems to be watching the bottom of the cave, their eyes are all three layers of crystals, saltpeter stone inlaid, streaming light, with the movement of our position, the light of the eyes of the portraits are also followed by the movement of, in a word, this is the feeling of a lot of portraits staring at the look is very bad.
Fatty was those paintings in the characters to see hairy, take the engineering shovel to dig down a few crystal stone eyes, but the mural scale is huge, hundreds of characters, a moment and where to dig over, had to try not to look at the eyes of those portraits, lest the heart of the fear.
My heart has been repeatedly thinking about the burning flame breath, the shape of the strange bronze man, also did not pay much attention to the big empty hole in the portrait, along the circling ramp up a section, in the finally remembered, about ten years ago, people are: ten years of flick of the finger, especially remember that year in the beacon, nine deaths such as yesterday ……
I did once see this kind of dress posture strange bronze man, but they …… that is in the Kunlun Mountains under the flying snow full of days of the Kangba Qingpu ……
A variety of mixed thoughts come and go, unconsciously, has gone to the highest part of the hollow, ahead of the fat man and Shirley Yang a turn of the distance, the end is sealed by a wall of white stone wall, I raised my eyes to see, in front of the wall painted a woman, which eighty percent of the dedication of the wife of the king of the painted image, right?
I thought in my heart, even before I saw the woman’s costume in the painting, I felt a sudden tightness on my wrist, as if it was held firmly by an iron hoop, hastily shrinking backward, but it was held extremely tightly, and could not break free, and immediately felt the pain into the bone marrow, and looked down, and saw that a white man’s hand, from the opposite side of the woman’s painted image stretched out, and caught me in the arm.
That man’s hand five fingers long and thin, and white without half a bit of blood, is a woman’s hand, but the power of the strange, is this wall is dedicated to the wife of the king’s bones, under the severe pain, too late to raise his head and then look at the opposite side of the mural what changes, had to endure the pain and sucked in a breath, with the other hand to raise the “Chicago Typewriter”, the muzzle of the M1A1 has not been raised, from the mural in the cold. Lift up, from the mural of a cold and unexpectedly reached out a hand, like a cold iron pincers, dead choke my neck, the feeling of suffocation suddenly make my eyes black.