Chapter 31 eighteen mass graves

Professor Sun said that the cave was too damp, and whatever was inside was ruined. Although Feng Shigu, the Guanshan Taibao, behaved strangely, he was after all a master of supernatural arts in his lifetime, and how marvelous was the Guanshan Finger Mystery? Why would he choose such a dark and damp place for his tomb? We’re probably looking for the wrong place again.

I also feel that things are strange, at this time took off the gas mask, you can hear the sound of water flowing in the depths of the rock layer, it seems that there is a Yin River or underground lakes and other water systems in the depths, there is no real “Guan Shan Zhi Mui Fu” as a reference, so it is difficult to determine whether or not the cave under the “Silver Screen and Iron Wall” is the same as the cave under the “Silver Screen and Iron Wall”, or not. The cave under the “Silver Screen Iron Wall” is the entrance to the “Tomb of the Earth Immortal Village”.

I thought for a while, I made up my mind to continue to venture into the depths of the cave, only to see it clearly with my own eyes, so I said to the crowd: “We have a team of gold detectives, as well as experts in the honeycomb mountains and experts in interpreting ancient texts, there is no ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal Village, as long as there is a real tomb, there is no worry about not finding it, and now there is no point in making any wild guesses! Now it’s pointless to make wild guesses, we might as well follow the cave to the depths to see what’s really going on, and all of us will put on our bright spots on the way.”

I said on the half-supporting the “golden steel umbrella” cover in front of the body, holding a “wolf-eye flashlight” first step down the stone steps, the rest of the people followed closely behind, we all know that the future is uncertain, can not help but mention the twelfth degree of vigilance, the speed of travel is very slow.

Cave in the wet, dripping water everywhere, the terrain is suddenly high and low, man-made cut simple stone steps are intermittent, sporadic, here in the hole set of holes, around the fork in the road from time to time, but the stone path is only the only one.

Walked to the deepest part, the rock layer in the phosphorus material gradually increased, a group of bright flickering ghost fire dazzle people, occasionally there are one or two living in the ground snakes, rats leaped from the side, I saw this scene, the heart is more seven on eight down, water immersion ants food are buried taboo, so in the real hidden wind and water in the auspicious soil and good land, will never appear insects, ants and snakes and rats.

On second thought, the message left by the head of Feng before his death, only mentioned that the place where the divine brush painting door opens the mountain is the entrance of “the ancient tomb of the earth immortals”, but this “entrance” left to the descendants of Feng, maybe it is not hidden in the “tomb door” of the ancient tomb. But this “entrance” for Feng’s descendants may not be hidden in the “tomb door” of the ancient tomb, but unconventionally hidden in the periphery of the ancient tomb, “Coffin Gorge”, the interior of the mountain is full of natural caves and mines, even if this cave really leads to the ancient tomb, I don’t know how many miles to go before arriving.

Just thought of this, suddenly heard the sound of water in front of the gradual increase in the natural tunnels inside the mountain turned a corner, the grotto suddenly became open up, the cave is filled with a large amount of underground water, dark water with scaly light, the water reveals a cluster of stalagmite-like rock columns, the way ahead are blocked by the deep underground lake.

Although you can’t see the far side of the lake, but listen to the sound can be known, the far end of the underground lake may have waterfalls or springs, in the continuous Yin River lagoon into the lake area, look at the near side of the wave is flat like a mirror, the bottom of the lake is a stagnant pool of water, the groundwater from the heights pouring in, are discharged by the caves around the pool of water.

Cave in the stone steps into the water, around no road can go around, and then forward can only wade through, fat man threw a stone to try the depth of the lake, sculling sleeves pull pants legs ready to go into the water.

Professor Sun said to me on the side: “We have to swim across? I …… I will not water ah.”

I said with difficulty: “Nine masters you are a dry duck? Why did not you say earlier? Or …… you discuss with Fatty Wang, he has more meat, buoyancy is bigger, maybe he can take you to swim over.”

How is Fatty willing to take on this hard job? However, wherever there is an opportunity, as usual, the first to self-promote some: “I am a fat master is a brick in the construction of the Four Harmonizations, where the need where to move …… Lei Feng also back the old lady across the river it? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. Then the words turn: “But then again, to be honest, I have this body swimming skills recently really a little bit of regression, Sun nine masters you look at this underground lake water is so deep that can not touch the bottom, we swim to halfway, in case the lake encountered in the lake there are water ghosts in the water came out to pull the ankles of the people, you do not blame me for not righteousness, then we can only care about each one of them, so I have to ask in advance! So I have to ask in advance whether you plan to have wontons or board knife noodles?”

Prof. Sun angrily said, “What are wontons and board knife noodles? Are you going to throw me into the river? This is what you call unloading a donkey.”

The fat man said: “fat master I am solid heart straight man, tell you in advance this is called the bright people do not do anything in the dark, the lake is cold and deep, there may be something dangerous under the water, then if you are not willing to let the water ghosts drag down the water as a substitute, I will give your old man in advance to the heart on the stabbing of a quick, and then I escape, better than both of us die in the water, the fat master of this push yourself from the The fat master of this push himself from the people’s hard heart how you do not understand it?”

Just when Professor Sun in front of the underground lake, Shirley Yang said to me, “We do not carry airbags, weight swim across is not a law, and the youngest sister can not swim, really want to swim through the waters can only leave her and Professor Sun, or …… find a way to find a water crossing Carrier.”

In fact, I am also very clear about the underwater situation is not clear, and did not intend to swim directly across the water, and then borrowed the light of the flashlight in the vicinity of the search, the beam of light shook, see some fuzzy paintings on the rock wall, take a closer look, it seems to be the legend with the “Tomb of the King of the Wu Sheep” related to the folklore described as the “King of the Wu Sheep”. The character described by folklore as the “Wuyang King”, according to Professor Sun’s analysis may be the “Longchuan King”, let’s call it “Wuling King” according to folklore, in the “Coffin Gorge”. In the “Coffin Gorge” mausoleum area, everywhere you can see the remains of the ancient tomb of the Wuling King.

Just see that shed most of the petroglyphs, most of them are execution scenes, painted “waist, split the body” of the various torture, I thought this can be strange, is this underground water hole is not leading to the tomb, but an ancient “torture chamber”?

Gazing thought, but may not be, according to the “sixteen words of yin and yang feng shui secret art” in the description of the ancient burial system, Bashu Wu Chu area, that is, Sichuan and Hubei regions, in ancient times, there is a kind of burial, using the rare master-slave stacked structure from the burial of the matter of the “accompanied, martyred” two kinds of martyrdom is mostly the social status of the relatively low people, such as Most of the martyrs were people of lower social status, such as “slaves, artisans, and torturers”, who were executed or buried alive together with the sacrificial animals and spirits when the tomb owner was buried.

In the main from the superposition type of burial, these martyrs buried bones, known as the “mass grave hole”, generally have a eighteen holes mixed burial, so also known as the “eighteen mass burial”, the main structure of the tomb to be built in a central axis, take the best place to take the veins of the earth to build the inner coffin room meditation hall, as the “martyrdom”, “slaves, artisans, torturers”, they will be buried with the livestock and animals when the owner was buried, and executed or buried alive. As a martyrdom “eighteen mass burial holes”. The tomb is buried under the outer chamber of the tomb.

The feng shui situation is ever-changing, the main from the superposition of the tomb generally have the Yin River from the bottom through the “I Ching” in the “dragon leaps in the abyss”, this “dragon building treasure hall” of the mountains and rivers of the aura, is from the bottom up to the rise of the winding, the tomb below the mass grave hole is a murderous hole, from the From what we can see, “Guanshan Taibao” is in the eighteen mass graves left a road, want to enter the ancient tomb above, only from the Yin River across the water.

Mass grave holes there are eighteen as many as, the underground lake in the hole in the vicinity of the water, most likely buried “criminals, prisoners” area, I asked Professor Sun over to see, asked him if there is such a possibility?

Professor Sun out of personal habits, never easy to jump to conclusions, but at this time he said I was right, ancient times do have this system, although no one has ever excavated such tombs, but there is a lot of historical evidence can be used as a basis, if we can find a large number of martyrs of the bones of the criminals, and then there is no half a point of error.

So we followed the water beside the rocks continue to look for, found in the cave wall has many cracks, inside all the scattered human bone residue, only teeth and skull can still be recognized, in addition, there are connected to a string of shackles and chains, are used to will be tortured rows of rope as a place, “eighteen mass burials” is a grave robbers do not send the place, there is no any valuable The “eighteen mass burials” is a place where grave robbers do not send, there is no valuable artifacts, probably “Guanshan Taibao” has not touched the bones of these criminals, only insects and rats gnawed.

To roughly estimate the scale of the terrain, dozens of rock crevices in the mass grave caverns, at least buried thousands of bones, which is also horizontal and vertical, sleeping dozens of simple pine coffins, coffins are bound with chains, that the depths of the rock gap seems to be the accumulation of grudges condensation, so far, the living person to the nearer a leaning, can not help but you do not feel the heart of the chills.

Although the youngest sister is too bold, but see this situation is horrible, still some fear, asked me if there are ghosts in the world?

I see a hole full of bones of the martyrs, estimated that this time really has entered the bottom of the tomb, is speculating in the brain of the specific structure of the tomb, but the youngest sister asked such a sentence in a cold moment.

I thought to myself how to do the first time to do the bucket of people, will have this question? Remember in the South China Sea, Guchai also asked Uncle Ming this question, but I will not be like Uncle Ming that answer, I told the youngest sister nothing to be afraid of, regardless of whether there is no ghost exists, I now have no way to prove it to you, the world of everything is impermanent, the change of the strange is not one, inadvertently, there will often be a heavenly bizarre, not what you see with your own eyes, by others out of the empty mouth out of the mouth, also makes it difficult for you to be convinced, but why under the sky! Often people talk about ghosts and gods, I think that is because people’s hearts are not fair, if there is really no deception in the world, even if there are ghosts everywhere, what is there to be afraid of?

I said here, the heart suddenly born of emotion, self-deprecating: “We are not going to go to heaven, there is no door to hell since the cast, put the good life but not, but trekking, digging into this ghost of the ancient tomb of the village of the immortal, deep down still feel that this kind of action is particularly refreshing, is not a bit of inverted bucket addicted to it?”

Fatty complained: “Old Hu you and blind talk, I told you how many times before, do not engage in revisionist fighting line for the time being, there are ghosts on the ghosts, afraid of it a handful of birds? Besides, can you not devote yourself to the cause? How can you call it an addiction? If you say so,……, too sorry for us to treat the cause of touching gold full of passion.” He took a flashlight and said: “You see this is not a coffin, the coffin life cover is the most thick and wide, on the water on the drift, I think it can be used as an assault boat to make ……” said the words he jumped into the chaos in the stone, to turn over those ancient broken pine coffins, want to tear down a few pieces of Down to tie a raft, in situ, better than going back to the gorge to move hanging coffins.

The coffin near the skeleton of the criminal, where the body is mostly some of the captives in the status of the aristocracy, but as a martyrdom generation, but do not get any preferential treatment, those pine coffins are extremely simple, but also by the chains wrapped around a long time, a touch under the scattered, which still have a good coffin board available.

Fatty kicked several thin-skinned pine coffins one after another, he can squeeze the others when the mouth is never idle, and nothing to ask Professor Sun, there is no suitable coffins to do the “submarine boat” can do?

Prof. Sun did not seem to hear his words have something in them, did not get angry, said carelessly: “Well …… this …… this superimposed martyrdom cave is a mixed burial area, coffins press the corpse, the bones and buried coffins, I used to work in Henan. When I was working in Henan, I had seen rectangular stakes at the bottom of the martyrdom cave during an excavation.”

I look at the side of a cold eye, thought Sun Jiuzi this is the rest of his life are betting on the hook into the tomb to find the Book of Heaven, made a desperate throw, win or lose in this decision, even on the fat man’s actions turn a blind eye, most of the time, he simply pretended to not see and hear, and at this time even hinted at the fat man, so that it to the depths of the remains of the mass grave cave to find a well-preserved wood, I can not help but cursed this guy is really a I can’t help but curse this guy really is a “fake Taoism”, although I sympathize with him for his rough life, but I can’t help but look down on his character a few points.

Fatty in the ground turned over for a while, did not see any stake, but found six or seven “vermilion lacquer against gold” red coffins, the same wrapped iron rope, coffin body decorated with secret color shells, and depicted a steel beard halberd born of the gods, the mouth fell half of the bloody ghosts, and eat roast chicken like a big mouth to tear, it seems very bloody and cruel to look at the lacquered coffins. Coffin form, are the Yuan Ming before and after the coffin, the people feel that this matter is strange, Wu Yang Wang tomb of the criminals under the mass grave hole, how can hide the Ming Dynasty lacquer coffins? I don’t know what kind of weirdness, is the immortal Fengshigu buried here?

Prof. Sun jumped down to look, said the mass grave hole was changed into a “tomb well”, is a custom of the Ming Dynasty, this “well” and the “well” of the Golden Well jade burial is different, the shape is not a “well”, the shape is not a “well”, the shape is not a “well”, the shape is not a “well”, the shape is not a “well”, the shape is not a “well”, but a “well”. “Well”, just means “not buried directly buried” meaning, because the Ming Dynasty continued the Yuan Dynasty’s system of living martyrdom, so the “tomb well” buried in the people must be living martyrs, you see! These lacquer coffins are painted with “Zhong Kui eat ghosts”, which is used to suppress ghosts, I do not know what kind of people are martyred to the “Earth Immortal”, but in all likelihood, they all suffocated to death in the coffins.

I nodded and said: “The old site of this tomb has been occupied by the Guanshan Taibao, Feng Shigu is good at counting, he must be in accordance with the ancient method of feng shui, still nailed the living in coffins buried here, refused to make the mausoleum area has the slightest wind exposure, the vermillion-painted coffins well-preserved, we can take it as a carrier to cross the water.”

Coffin floating this is the Xiangxi row of religious hooks, commonly known as “carry loud sedan chair”, similar legends I have heard Chen blind man told, wrapped in several layers of lacquer coffins, are impermeable to water seamless, do not leave a seam is to prevent the ghosts out of the living people locked inside suffocation suffocated to death, the coffins naturally have a resentment does not dissipate, so the floating water is not sunken, but this is all folklore. However, this is folklore, in fact, the so-called “hiding ghosts of the coffin, can cross the Yinhe” phenomenon, mostly in the coffin in the corrosive gas is full of related.

At this time to dismantle the coffin board is extremely time-consuming force, it would be better to use the method of carrying a loud sedan chair, the coffin as a “punch boat” to cross the water forward, the people do not have a good idea, only according to the ancient method of implementation, can not line is not yet sure that the vermilion lacquered coffins are extremely heavy, which is called “dead heavy, dead heavy “, “death and not melt” of the dead all gas blockage, far heavier than the living, but there is a “prescription to cure a serious illness”, sometimes folk methods do not believe it really can not be dragged into the water, the coffin hard not to sink.

Speaking of this recipe, prescription, there are many from the old society, some of the teachings of the door handed down, those who acted as a magician of the year, “Taipao, Shi Maiden”, often used to fool the people, but here there really work, and the effect of God, for example, the wind in the eyes of the eye, eyes into the sand and immediately spit, and immediately can be restored to normal; for example, “hiccups”, “hiccups”, “hiccups”, “hiccups”, “hiccups”, “hiccups” and “hiccups”, “hiccups”. “Hiccups”, a gas even drink seven mouths of water that is healed, more drink a mouth less drink a mouth can not be, just seven mouths of water can be.

These “tai pao, shi niang” of the prescriptions, in modern medicine are difficult to explain, even they may not know their own reasoning, only to say that it is the immortal family passed down to the world’s magic, after liberation of the barefoot doctors training manuals can not be separated from these recipes, I have never seen a variety of strange “earth” in my life. Methods”, so I have more confidence in the sedan chair to cross the water, when the first to jump up and try the buoyancy, although the coffin is not much wider than the canoe, but the underground lake water flow is smooth, ride on the top of the paddling forward is not a difficult task.

A lacquered coffin is not enough for five people to play ride, and then dragged another one into the water, Shirley Yang and I ride one of them, the rest of the three ambush in another coffin, ride the coffin across the water thing no one has experienced, experience two words can not be talked about, that is, on the basis of the people more courageous, or else alone, who have the courage to sit in the coffin equipped with ancient corpse ghosts across the River Yin? Spare me to think of myself as a hard-hearted and courageous, but in the subconscious from time to time there is a kind of illusion, always feel that there seems to be something moving in the coffin underneath, lacquered coffins near the occasional fish flipped out of the water, let out a “wow” sound, and see the ghost fire on the surface of the water fluttering, as if the ghosts into the River Styx in general, in this strange and unpredictable atmosphere, the surrounding darkness In this strange and uncertain atmosphere, the surrounding darkness seems to be a crisis, I can not help but put my heart in my throat.

All people with sapper shovel dial water rowing, looking for the sound of water forward, two lacquer coffins for a moment but also floating extremely smooth, suddenly saw dozens of meters away a ghost fire flashes violently, bleak light, can vaguely see a piece of black fish spine fin-like things, the surface of this underground lake also looks black, but that thing also has many bright spots, like a thousand eyes, is now floating on the water surface, and the fat man three people supported that mouth! “Floating coffins ringing sedan chair” is gradually close to.

Fatty stretched his neck and raised the flashlight to light, to see what is a thing in the water, I want to remind him to be careful, the words are not yet exported, see that the group of things suddenly jumped up from the water, rushed up into the air.