Chapter 36: Soul-attracting Chicken (below)
Fatty and I mentioned this matter, we can’t help but suspect that there are many stones buried in this hole in the ground, which are used to suppress the ghosts and demons, these words made Ding Sishen a little nervous, she said to us, “Quickly don’t mention these, I feel my back is cold, what should we do now? We can’t go back the way we came, there are ten passages here, nine are left, which side should we go to get out?”
I found that Dinsitian’s guts were indeed smaller, perhaps because the cattle and horses in the pastoral area had suffered heavy losses, making her heart bottomless, I guess she and the old sheepskin were in the same mood, the pastoral area has to bear the responsibility for the accidents, the only way to minimize the responsibility is to retrieve the missing cows and horses, but the missing cattle and the horses that escaped in fear, ran into this area, which was regarded as “forbidden” area by the herdsmen, and those about the “forbidden” areas, were not able to find out what happened. “area, those about” hundred eyes cave “horror legend, has long been infiltrated into the bone marrow of the local people, is in or out is really difficult to make, but in this particular era, fear of fear, is not as strong as the fear of responsibility, if she and the old sheepskin put themselves in the shoes of a little bit, they must be under a lot of pressure in their hearts. If you put yourself in the shoes of her and the old sheepskin, the pressure on their hearts must be very great, and the fierce ideological struggle must be ongoing.
To say that before the big crosstalk when she is not like this, that time is exactly the students young, spirited, once we crosstalk to a certain place, coincidentally caught up with a local middle school teacher, with a group of junior high school students dug a grave, the tomb is the end of the Qing Dynasty, the celebrities, the body was pulled out of the grave, hanging upside down in a tree to show the public, so that the revolutionary masses to look at the history of the largest royalist ugly face, I and Ding Sistern and other people after hearing the news overnight before the public. I and Ting Si-Tsiang and other people heard about it and went to visit the night, the night of the dark moon and windy, a few people were so excited to go to see the ancient corpse hanging on the tree in the dark, and at that time, I did not see her half a bit of fear.
I came back to my senses, to Ding Sishen and fat man said: “This crypt is a place of wrongdoing should not stay for a long time, let’s first look at the old sheepskin’s situation how is it, and then as soon as possible to think of ideas to go out and then say.” Then walked to the old sheepskin in front of him, he is not eliminated, we lack of medicine at that time, and do not know the human body abdominal intestinal movement mainly rely on the plant nerve innervation, but also by the intestinal blood movement of the intestinal blood movement, excessive satiety, easy to abdominal distension, vasodilatation of the phenomenon, and therefore the intestinal blood movement will be affected by a certain amount of influence.
The only thing we can do is to massage his abdomen, the old sheepskin more or less recovered some of his sanity, the most important thing he can not forget is his horses, the remaining three horses, were fled into the “hundred eyes cave” on the ground of the dense forest depths, the loss of the mounts, even if you want to return to the ranch is not easy, I had to comfort him, and will certainly find the horses as soon as possible.
See the old sheepskin slightly improved, I will discuss with the fat man, Ding Sistern which way to go, this crypt surrounded by ten passages, the construction is almost exactly the same, we entered from a section of the collapsed tunnel, the original road has collapsed, don’t out whether there is still an exit is not yet known, but the crypt should not be an ancient tomb, built not very strong, the possibility of finding the exit is still quite large, I think that since there is a return to the soul here, I think that since there is a return of the soul, the soul of the town of symbolic things, it seems that everywhere involves the dead souls, ghosts, then this around the ten tunnels, most likely represents the ten channels of the underworld, in the interior can not distinguish between the southeast and north and south-west, had to randomly choose a walk.
Fatty asked: “Old Hu you this is not make up ah? I listen to you this statement can be enough suspense, what is the basis for saying that the Underworld has ten channels? Why not eight or nine or eleven paths?”
I said: “I remember my grandfather had a land and water map of the Underworld, that painted on the netherworld just ten channels, as for what is not nine or eleven channels, I heard that the Tang Dynasty will be the world is divided into ten channels, the yin and the yang is the opposite of the netherworld, so there are ten tunnels, but the ten tunnels is not so I can not say, the mind of the ancients, where we go to understand? Anyway, if we want to turn passive into active, we have to walk in and see for ourselves, if we are lucky, maybe there will be the rest of the collapsed gaps underneath to be able to climb out.”
Fatty think think quite reasonable, this time the group rested almost, so I still with the fat man will be the old sheepskin lifted, in the way to make a mark, randomly picked up a channel went in, the underground moisture is very heavy, choking people brain kernel pain, hordes of rats is still disgusting, all the way up to the cracks of the stone tiles, there are a lot of rats holes, it is estimated that can be connected to the ground, but only the size of the rats can go to and from them.
Did not have much farther, the tunnel inside the collapse blocked the way, had to turn around and return, and then another tunnel inside, finally found that there is a shaft, the top space is narrow, only room for one person, I first felt up the steep stone steps, found that the tunnel leads to the upper shaft mouth, was blocked by a piece of gray rock, with a hand, that gray slate is a large piece of cement, the top is also hooped with an iron ring, the most strange thing is that The most strange thing is that there are some Arabic digital on the surface of the cement board, like some kind of number, I was eager to leave this gloomy and damp crypt, did not care to look carefully at what the digital actually has a meaning, the kerosene vapor lamp in the mouth, and stretched out his arm and pushed upward, the heavy cement block was only pushed away from me by a narrow slit, the ground of the cold wind huffing and puffing poured in, but I used up all my strength, the cement board does not move, and never again! I couldn’t push it any further.
I climbed down the shaft, told my companions about the situation above, Fatty and Ding Si-Tian were greatly surprised: “Are you looking at it wrong? This Hundred Eyes Cave should be a monument, although we have no way of knowing exactly what it was used for, but how could there be a concrete slab with a number?” However, the foreign code from what period of time into China, we can not say clearly, and do not intend to do this aspect of the examination, just want to get out as soon as possible.
The three of us belong to the fat man’s strength is the biggest, I can not do anything about that cement board, had to let him try again, the fat man took off his coat and took off his hat, rolled up his sleeves and climbed up the shaft, only to listen to his luck pulling force, while cursing while pushing the pressure of the shaft’s cement, protruding all the body’s sinews and bones, make all the brute force, and drank a word: “open…. …” hard to the cement slab pushed aside, outside the dim starlight immediately spread down, we have a long breath of air, can not help but give birth to a sense of seeing the sun again.
Fatty first climbed to the ground, I and Ding Sistern in the lower side of the old sheepskin, fat man in the upper part of the will also drag him out of the tunnel, and then also followed the climb up, only to see the moonlight outside, around the shadow of the trees rubbing, is still in the “hundred eyes cave” in the forest, there is no centipede and wild rats infested here, everywhere is silent.
While I and the fat man looking around to identify the direction of the time, Ding Sishen carrying a vapor lamp, curious to see that piece of concrete cover: “Hey …… this above in addition to the code and words …… to the water force … … …Wave 3916……”
(Note: the water supply force – the Japanese army in World War II, set up the world’s largest research and preparation of bacteriological warfare secret machine military structure, under the jurisdiction of a number of independent forces, for reasons of secrecy, external and internal, always use “epidemic prevention, water” forces as code names. The code name “Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply” was used both externally and internally.)