Chapter 32 corpse worm

The lake suddenly jumped up a thing, we are in the “submarine boat” on the although some precautions, but did not expect to encounter this kind of situation, are holding the “engineer shovel”, at the same time will be the flashlight up.

Several beams of light swept in mid-air, I looked up with the crowd, do not look at everything disappears, a look saw, the heart is really surprised and strange, opened his mouth for a long time can not close to, shocked from the lake to leap to four or five meters of the thing is a “fish”, the fish jumped out of the water is a common phenomenon, but the fish is not alive, but three meters long a dead fish, this Big fish have begun to rot, fishy gas rushing sky, fish belly broken a few big hole, the fish head is missing half, exposed at the white skull.

Oddly enough, the dead fish body left the water, but also stagnated in mid-air, the crowd was surprised, then the two lacquer coffins floating along the water, and a few minutes closer, this is to see more real, the original decay of the dead fish, covered with countless large black flies, black flies as big as fingernail caps, all firmly paid in the dead fish, after being scared of the fish wrapped in the body leaped away from the water surface, noisy and chaotic, and still not scattered, those large black flies on the rotting gas accumulation, the fish head is missing half of the skull. The black flies on the body of decay accumulation, with a lot of phosphorus, flying up as if the faint faint firefly, as if a thousand ghostly eyes brightly changing.

This kind of black fly has a scientific name called “Big Corpse Eating Fly”, although the name carries the word “fly”, in fact, it is a kind of “corpse insect”, and it likes to eat rotten corpses the most, and sometimes it will also be found in the deserted burial ground where the corpses are exposed. Sometimes, in the deserted burial mound, there will also be traces of corpse-eating flies, but this kind of creatures have special habits, never touch living things, and will not pose any threat to the living.

Previously in Panjiayuan, I had heard an anonymous story about corpse insects, said that before the liberation, there is a folk thief Ma Wu Zi, he always do picking lamps to rob graves of hooks, usually only digging some of the landlords of small graves of the rich, with the tomb owners from the burial of the jewelry for some food and drink, did not make a big fortune, the days are barely living.

Until one day, Ma Wu Zi in a piece of mass burial ridge digging graves, inadvertently found a Song Dynasty tomb, which is worth a lot of things, Ma Wu Zi live more than thirty years old, never seen so many Mingqi, only one of his thieves simply move to take it is not complete, he knows that if this matter to let the outsiders know, sure to attract trouble, on the volume of a few pieces of the most valuable gold, jewelry and precious jade, the rest of the things have not been touched, and intend to wait until the future tight money, then excavate the emergency! When I was leaving, I suddenly saw the coffin.

When I was leaving, I suddenly saw a corpse worm drilling out of the coffin seam, Ma Wu Zi casually pinched the corpse worm, then ghostly, I don’t know how he thought, casually felt a piece of greaseproof paper from his pocket, this greaseproof paper is used to wrap the meat of the pig’s head, and took it to wrap the corpse worm and stuffed it into the cracks of the crypt bricks, and he probably wanted to suffocate the corpse worm alive.

Then Ma Wuzi cover the hole, back to the town to take the artifacts in exchange for money, buy a house and land to live up to the days of wealth, but also married a wife and children, and so on Ma Wuzi’s son when he was a teenager, the two are addicted to gambling, as the saying goes, “long time to gamble on the loss of the gods and goddesses,” not to mention that he was the two mundane people?

Gambling money to win or lose is like snow to fill the well, and then no dissatisfaction of the day, but that addiction is endless, and lost the soul of the straight to the family, Ma Wu Zi see only four walls left at home, remembered that the previous theft of the hair of that tomb there are many treasures, will take his son to go and steal, the two seek the way into the tomb, Ma Wu Zi coldly remembered that he was more than a dozen years ago had been the corpse of the worm wrapped up in the cracks of the wall, I do not know if it is not now into the dust? Then from the original place to look for, a search really found, the oil paper package has not moved, opened to see, the corpse insects and withered and shriveled, almost almost turned into a piece of paper.

But the insect limbs and whiskers still seem to be as vivid as alive, he and his son curiosity, get in front of a closer look, but forgot the taboo of grave robbing, the living do not wait for the dead and not melt the things breathing, Yang Qi touch, the corpse insect suddenly alive, a bite in the fingers of the horse five son, Ma Wu Zi immediately foaming at the mouth, the whole body pumping animal, and so on, his son to carry him back to his home, too late to invite the doctor to save the patient, it has been a dead man.

It is said that later Ma Wuzi descendants in Beijing to make a living, to the Liulichang Qiao two masters as a fellow, this is his own mouth, in Panjiayuan and Liulichang this two “cultural” distribution place, heard a lot of people, but everyone said this paragraph is false, not many people will believe, just as a pleasure to listen to after dinner.

But I think this is more real, if not personally experienced, absolutely not say “under the sea eye”, corpse worms, corpse wax are in the tomb of the material, proficient in feng shui changes in the people know the mystery, when in the hundred eye cave, I was nearly bitten to death by the corpse worms, but the corpse worms there are many kinds of “lice, corpse eating flies”. However, there are many kinds of corpse worms, “lice, corpse-eating flies” and other things are such, so in the “Di Xian Village Tomb” near the corpse worms is not strange, I only do not know what kind of corpse worms Ma Wu Zi encountered back then, a variety of corpse worms have different habits, some have to devour corpses, and some are eating living things.

We are in front of this mass grave hole, although it is a collection of insects and rats, but did not expect the dead fish floating in the lake will lead to corpse worms gnawing, out of thin air to cause a false alarm, this time only to see the head of the dead fish violently shaking, a large group of “corpse flies” coaxed to escape and disperse, half of the carrion fish on the potential to fall in the lacquered coffins next to the water, “” a splash “splash” of the water, and then the “corpse fly”, and then the “corpse fly”, and then the “corpse fly”. Clatter” splashed a large splash.

Fatty cursed a few words, waving a shovel to stir up the water, the mid-air did not escape far away from the corpse flies far away, his force is not small, with the coffin underneath the body followed a wave of chaotic shaking.

Professor Sun is a dry duck, the most afraid of water, immediately scared face changed color, hastily grabbed the lock ring on the lacquer coffin to stabilize the center of gravity, shouted: “Slowly slowly …… coffin are going to be you messed over!”

Fatty turned back with a contemptuous face and said, “Look at you scared of that kind of drowning, surely is not afraid to eat wontons, but nine masters you rest assured, turn back if you hit a ghost on the water pulling feet, fat masters will take the board knife noodles to greet you.”

I found that the underground lake water flow is different, quickly remind them not to fight boredom, pay attention to the front of the rapids, words just finished, the temporary as a “rushing boat” of the lacquer coffins, will be the impact of the water flow, has begun to lose control.

Fatty looked in the air threw a cold fireworks, only to see the end of the underground water lake slanting into a cliff, the stone wall are springs, distribution of high and low staggered, two of the large spring spring mouth each carved with a gnarled head of the old dragon, there are two small waterfalls like a white train, from the dragon’s head down, like a double dragon out of the water, the two water dragons in the middle of the probe out of a piece similar to the que platform of the strange building, skeletonization of the hundreds of beasts and birds, those birds and exotic animals are Not a common thing on earth, full of the mysterious color of the ancient style of witch and evil country, my heart moved: “This is the tomb door of the ancient tomb of the Wu Yang King?”

The towering city under a number of stone doors open, the cave wall is built with huge bricks, very much like a tunnel in the tomb, the tomb door is divided into three layers, the bottom row of gates, have been submerged by the lake water more than half of the underground water drainage situation is very fast, floating in the water on the surface of the lacquered coffins just close to the turbulent flow of water swept into the.

I know that Sun Jiuji and Missy’s two people do not know water, in case of this fall into the dark and cold lake, may not be able to save back, coupled with the lacquer coffin is not a real boat, the slightest tilt will be overturned, and can never be expected to ride on the coffin drifting along the water into the cave, that is, whistling, and greeted the people abandoned the boat and boarded the shore.

But now the lacquer coffin was driven by the lake rapids, drifting speed in an instant to speed up, only feel the wind in the ears whistling swept, two lacquer coffin in the water turned, collision with each other crowded into the hole under the que platform, the people would like to dive to escape is also too late, can only take their own lives as a white pickup in general, hard-headed ambush in the lid of the coffin by God.

In a cry of alarm, the coffin in the tomb channel downstream, forward sprinted more than 20 meters, in the dark wide tunnel, I simply can not see the surrounding situation, ears hear the front of the water roar, think of the middle section of the tomb channel perennial soaked in water, has been to the overall subsidence, in the middle of the collapse out of a small hole, the water flow through the lower chamber, if the underground lake water even with the coffin with the people rolled down, more than half hard to If you are swept down by the underground lake with the coffin and the person, it is most likely difficult to survive.

This idea flashed, no longer dare to hesitate, greeted Sun Jiuji and Missy, let them get ready to jump from the coffin on the water, at this time behind me Shirley Yang early “Flying Tiger Claw” cast, hanging on the top of the tomb on the coupon stone, she will be behind me to hold, two feet a loose, that the pressure of the burial of the lacquered coffins, was immediately swept into the dark tunnel of the water current. The lacquer coffin was immediately swept into the dark depths of the tomb.

The depth of the underground water in the tomb can not waist, Shirley Yang and I have “Flying Tiger Claw” to fix the center of gravity, put a hand in the tomb brick cracks, and then hastily turn back to drag Professor Sun.

At this time another lacquer coffin is drifting from the side, unexpectedly in the surging current is too fast, I grabbed an empty hand, the three people are not as good as reaching out, ambush on the lacquer coffin from in front of me swept abruptly, I and Shirley Yang shouted in unison a bad, the words did not fall, the three of them have been with the rapids fell into the middle of the tomb collapsed in the holes.

I black, thought this time is most likely folded, busy shouting the name of the fat man and other people, ears only hear the sound of the water boom, even if someone answered are covered, the heart panicked for a time, and then set down, know that at the moment there is no point in hurrying to fire, only to hurry down to look for survivors.

I held up a flashlight to look at the surrounding terrain, presumably the underground lake in front of the tomb door, has entered the “Shifted Mountain Wuling King” mausoleum of the outer coffin hall, the main hall coffin room are inside this underground building, the entire tomb to take the main from the situation of the superposition of the construction, in the outer coffin is divided into three layers of the hall before the door, there should be a closed embedded stone tomb, we are from the tomb under the road! We entered from the mass grave hole under the tomb passage and directly “entered the room”, but there is no trace of “Earth Immortal Village” here.

Searching for our companions is the most important thing now, and we can’t worry about where the “Tomb of the Earth Immortal Village” is hidden for the time being. Shirley Yang and I climbed the tomb wall and waded forward, and we saw that there were a number of side chambers on both sides of the tomb passage, and the chambers of different sizes were all empty, leaving behind a piece of incomplete mural painting on the wall of the tomb, and what we could see in our eyes was the scene of the tomb being plundered by the group of tomb robbers. Tomb robbers hair plundered after the desolate scene, the ancient tomb internal canals intertwined, longitudinal tomb more collapse, this situation is also the main from the stacked mausoleums of a great defect, so after the Tang Dynasty no longer use the stacked layout.

Because the water in the tomb is too fast, can not be based on, we had to go around from the side of the room in the past, it is difficult to get from the other side of the tomb in the middle of the collapse, the ground brick mud mixed, revealing a diameter of several meters of the water hole, how to look like a few hundred years ago, the collapse of a robber hole formed, may be the Guanshan taihao from the bottom of the ground to play robber holes bypassing the wall of the tomb upside down, and then the robber holes gradually collapsed soaked in water to.

Under the robber hole there is another layer of the chamber, the internal brick wall pouring, chaotic, I down one, only to see the bottom of the chamber in the black water half flooded, the bottom of the tomb soil is not dense, poured down to the groundwater are seeping into the ground, and suddenly saw the corner of the chamber of the water beam shaking, I fixed my eyes, it turned out to be Fatty is there with a flashlight to look around.

I saw that he was fine, only then put down half of the hanging heart, and called out to him: “Commander Wang, are you all right? Where are Master Sun Jiu and Missy?” But the sound of falling water is extremely noisy, I can not hear myself in what to say, look at the water below the crypt is very deep, looking for a place where the current is not urgent, with Shirley Yang, one after the other, climbed the “Flying Tiger Claw” hanging down.

I touched the side of the fat man, see he fell seven dizzy, body knocked a few pieces, but the head has a mountaineering helmet, shoulders, elbows and knees with leather protective gear, fell in the water is not a big deal, it will be the previous words asked again.

Fatty shook his head vigorously, said: “fuck, how all the gold stars in front of me? Just now the water flow in the tomb channel is too fast, fat master I was going to jump down from the coffin, but Sun Jiuji that old thing afraid of water, almost scared pants, tugged me dead not to let go, the result let him so tugging, almost caused the fat master to hit his head back into the cavity, the youngest sister and the nine masters of these two dry ducks …… seem to fall in the water also did not dare to let go of the coffin, if it did not In this chamber, then …… surely followed the lacquered coffin floated to the nearby tomb passage.”

I see that the fat man is fine, I estimate that Sun Jiuji and Missy will not be too careless, but I feel that the interior of this tomb seems not quite right, empty cold cast an unnameable bizarre atmosphere, now we must find the rest of the people as soon as possible, so as not to have an untoward occurrence.

Waterlogged chamber on all sides of the doorway, which has a side of the tomb wall painted a piece of weird mural, is an expressionless obese woman, holding a baby fist size of the withered old man, in a hurry is difficult to figure out what is depicted in the mural of the legend, just feel extraordinarily demonic, unintentionally glanced at the people all over the body is uncomfortable, had to try to avoid the line of sight.

In the wall of the tomb with murals, there is a largest arch-shaped tomb door is open, a meter deep water to the door slowly surging, lacquer coffins fall into the water, it is very likely to drift into the tomb behind the door, because the other several gaps around the narrower, we shouted a few times in front of the door of the tomb, see no one answered for a long time, the helmet on the spotlight to light up, and each touched out of the self-defense equipment, tripped through the water and touched the inside.

Tomb passage is always soaked in water, there are obvious water lines on the brick wall, covered with thick dark green moss, the dark air is humid and gloomy, the visibility of the lighting spotlight is too low to be low, and after leaving the waterfall hole and walking forward for a long time, we still can’t see the end of the tomb passage.

Stacked tomb unique structure and feng shui veins, so that the sound of the tomb can only be with the ground gas from the bottom up conduction, in the dark and cold tomb, has been completely unable to hear the sound of the back of the tomb in the water hole, only to hear the sound of the water berths, the surrounding is frightening, I am worried about the well-being of Sun Jiuji masters, the heart can not help but be a little agitated, and was about to open his mouth to call out the name of the missing person, and suddenly saw the distance from the top of the head of the nearly a meter high in the On the top of the tomb, there is another side of the mural, and the style of the tomb is similar to the style, depicting a woman like a wooden sculpture, open cherry mouth spit out her tongue, her tongue on the bright red sitting cross-legged on an old man, the old man looks like a ghost like a phantom, only the body is as small as a walnut.

In the moss traces sewage all over the tomb, this mural seems to be particularly abrupt, I cold eyes to see a positive, the heart really ate a shock, walking in the head of the fat man also said: “Old Hu, I see how this mural so familiar, this commander if I remember correctly, we seem to have seen in Shaanxi Longling, you also said at that time that only the Tang Dynasty only have such an obese landlord woman! ……”

I feel the same way, nodded, my feet do not stop, while walking, asked Shirley Yang beside me, is not it think the mural is very evil? How to look like a noblewoman in the Tang Dynasty.

Shirley Yang said: “is very evil, mural color as new, look at the woman clothing and demeanor should be Tang, and her tongue on the old man simply …… simply like the devil.”

Shirley Yang said, these murals should be things of the Tang Dynasty, seemingly out of place with the historical background of the “Tomb of the King of Wu Yang”, must be the immortal Fengshigu from other ancient mound stolen hair obtained, but do not know intentionally hide them in the tomb at the bottom of the intention? Beware of traps in this section of the tomb.

I heard Shirley Yang mentioned in the mural paintings as “demons”, do not feel the heart alert, although this westernized name in my mind no specific image, but actually feel that this word used to describe the Tang Dynasty noblewoman’s tongue on the “old man”, it is more than appropriate! However, that dry, thin and small old man with two pointed ears, hateful face, like a ghost crawling out of the eighteen layers of hell.