Chapter 33: The Devil

“Guanshan Taibao” excavated ancient tombs all over the world, will be the treasures of exotic weapons in the “Earth Immortal Village”, these mutilated murals, should be a certain Tang Dynasty mound decoration, but the three of us, although reading countless antiquities, but it is difficult to determine whether these two murals are from the Which “mausoleum” are these two murals from?

Along the slightly tilted tomb, the mutilated murals of the Tang Dynasty continue to appear, all are the body of the rich and numb look of the noblewoman and the evil ghost-like little old man, I do not know what means, and then everywhere in the humid seepage of the environment, the murals are still as bright as new colors, I am anxious to find the Sun Jiuzi, can not afford to pay attention to the tomb of the evil painting, just focus on the water forward, but secretly raised the heart of the wariness, do not dare to have the slightest slack. I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to do that.

As far as I know, “Wu Yang Wang” mausoleum at the bottom of the tomb, is an extremely ancient form of tomb structure, the later generations of mausoleums inside the “Golden Well” is precisely deconstructed with this, in the ancient feng shui art, “the situation of the gas In ancient Feng Shui, the four words of “situation and qi” are still secondary, and the ancient people paid most attention to the intuitive “goodness” of the soil.

Because whether or not to backfill the grave soil, the soil in the grave site will still be dug out a large part of the soil in the “cave eye” at the soil is extremely valuable, so the larger tombs will be dug at the bottom of a number of vertical wells, part of the original soil will be filled into the wells, you can keep the internal life of the tomb does not dissipate, but also as a “Drainage channel”, invading the bottom of the underground lake water, nine out of ten are infiltrated into those backfilled shafts, due to the groundwater soaked for many years, the tomb bricks under the feet have been loosened and scattered, but also through the water can not see the terrain, every step should be the first to explore the first three exploration, extraordinarily strenuous, the forward speed is also very slow.

In order not to be slipped by the underwater rocks, had to stick to the tomb wall and walk, tomb brick on the cold and slippery, breathing are not smooth, not a few steps, suddenly heard the wall seems to have a sound, I feel strange, put his ear to the wall to listen to a listen, vaguely hear the depths of the tomb channel someone shouting, the sound of the extension of the tomb wall conduction up, although not really hear, but definitely is the sound of the human voice is undoubtedly, but also a woman’s voice.

We are five members of the expedition team, only the youngest sister and Shirley Yang is a woman, so my first reaction is the youngest sister at the far end of the tomb, hurry to Shirley Yang and Fatty said: “You listen to it, it seems to be the youngest sister …….”

Fatty lying on the tomb wall listened to an ear, nodded: “Yes, but the distance can be far enough, shouting what can not be heard clearly, encountered such a situation is certainly shouting for help and so on, let’s hurry over to fish for her, and then delay for a while, in this kind of black Gulongdong place, scared can also be my sister alive and scared to death.”

I said the youngest girl that girl’s courage is quite big, got a beehive mountain of the true heritage, but also participated in the militia training, it is estimated that will not be scared to death, but also shouting for help means that she is nothing big, but did not hear the voice of Sun Jiuji, I do not know that the old man is now dead or alive.

Said I was about to fumble forward again, Shirley Yang dragged me to say: “No …… you listen again, the youngest sister is Chuan tone, the sound from the depths of the tomb is not like, like …… a middle-aged woman! She is shouting something I can not judge, but certainly not the youngest sister.”

I heard Shirley Yang’s ear sound is far more than me and fat man keen, but in addition to her and the youngest sister, how can there be a third woman in the tomb? And also a “middle-aged woman”? The heart can not help but suspect, if not Shirley Yang heard wrong, will not be the immortal village tomb in the “people”? In that case,…… is “human” or “ghost” can be difficult to say, hundreds of years no one came into the tomb how can there be living people?

I listened to the tomb wall, the depths of the tomb of the woman’s voice intermittent, seemingly if not, the voice seems indistinct and empty, although it is not true to hear, but listen carefully, really is not the youngest sister’s accent, if you let me believe that there are people in the tomb survived for hundreds of years, it is better to let me believe that the “ghosts” for the haunting, but whatever she is a ghost is a charm! But no matter whether she is a ghost or a phantom, we must go over to see with our own eyes, so we put our hearts across, and boldly tripped through the water to go in.

I just in the water “clattering” trips open step, shoulder was grabbed from the back of a hand, at this time Shirley Yang and the fat man are in front of me, my attention is also completely focused on the front of the tomb, behind the cold suddenly come so a moment, so that I am not prepared for the slightest thought, really ate a shock.

I exclaimed, hand swinging the sapper shovel to look back, only to see the youngest sister child full of wet standing behind me, she panted and said to me: “you do what yo? I shouted at the back of the throat are not waiting for me to wait.”

I said, “Where did you come from? Why did you run behind us? Tomb Road in front of the shouting is not you issued?”

Shirley Yang saw me and the youngest sister asked each other without a head, are not able to understand, so let her do not rush, put the words clearly, is there any injury on the body?

The youngest sister fixed her mind, said after, just ambushed in the coffin lid downstream, to the tomb of the tomb of the underground water wildly pouring pouring, I do not know will paint the coffin to what place, she wanted to jump into the water to escape, but do not know the depth of the water in the tomb, fear of drowning in the water drowning, and so on when the coffin was washed by the water into the bottom of the tomb of the time, she only felt a black, let go of both hands fell into the water, and then drowsy! She was brought into the side chamber by the lake water, and when she woke up, she saw the light flickering outside the door of the tomb, so she rushed out to look for the source of the light.

At that time, I and the fat man three people are through the tomb passage with Tang Dynasty murals, ignoring the side room collapsed half of the search, straight to the direction of the sewage gush, the youngest sister to catch up, but in this tilted tomb, the sound can only be upward conduction, the fall of the low place can not be heard above the movement, she had to come all the way to the tail, until we stop to catch up, around the courage of the people, at the moment is not free from the spirit of shock! It is difficult to stabilize.

I see the youngest sister is unharmed, but it is still difficult to rest assured that the whereabouts of Sun Jiuji master is unknown, the second is the depths of the tomb that the woman’s cries, is really something else, “people”, initially I also speculated that it will be a special structure of the tomb, which produces some kind of distortion of the sound of the reverberation, so that people have an illusion, mistakenly put the youngest sister’s voice is wrong, but the reality of the situation Immediately negated this possibility, because the tomb passage that passes through the hoarse shouting is still continuing to come.

My mind turned, flashed a thought: “The woman in the depths of the tomb passage? Could it be the noblewoman in the Tang Dynasty murals?” Think this matter is unthinkable, think more is useless, if you go late, Professor Sun may really be that the female ghosts in the tomb of the Tang Dynasty demanded the life to go, things have come to this point, can not afford to have more worries, I let Shirley Yang with the youngest sister to follow me and the fat man behind, the four by the breath, in the weak beam of the spotlight illumination, wading towards the end of the tomb, seems to feel some kind of alarm, the tomb that the woman’s shouts suddenly fell silent As if sensing some kind of alarm, the woman’s cries in the tomb suddenly fell silent.

Here is a stone masonry tomb chamber, room in front of the tomb bricks under the backfill of the original soil of the shaft, in the entire tomb although the lowest terrain, but the underground water flow to here, are in front of the door of the chamber seeped into the underground rock crevice, the chamber is completely free of stagnant water, two depicted Zhong Kui eating ghosts of the vermilion lacquer coffins, one east and one west, stranded in the tomb chamber.

The lacquered coffin near the doorway of the chamber flickers, Sun Jiu master is still lying on the lid of the coffin, two hands are still holding on to the chain on the coffin, his mountaineering helmet lighting spotlight has been damaged, like a ghost flame flickering like a ghost light.

I look at the body of the Sun nine masters do not move, alarmed that not good, the nine masters may be returned to the place, the people rushed forward, and was about to probe his pulse, to see if he still has signs of life, who knows that Professor Sun, as the first corpse in general, “Teng” a moment, from the life of the cover sat up, pale face is full of panic, but we were startled.

Not waiting for me to open my mouth to ask him, Sun Jiuzi said: “You …… have you just heard it? Is there any strange sound in this ancient tomb?”

I know that Professor Sun may also have heard the “strange” sound, so will have this question, but do not immediately reveal, asked him: “What are you talking about the sound?”

Sun Jiuji said in a trance, “It seems to be …… the sound of ghosts, yes …… I’m sure it is the sound of ghosts! I was lying on the coffin by the lake all the way into this chamber at the end of the ancient tomb, my head was dizzy, and I do not know if I fainted or not, but I heard it clearly, someone in this chamber is singing a ghost voice ……”

Shirley Yang interjected and asked, “Professor, you often say that the world should not mention the strange forces messing with the gods, how suddenly said that just heard the sound is …… ghost sound?”

Professor Sun said, “What? You do not know? Ghost sound is a kind of singing in the Tang Dynasty, in the quiet night without accompaniment, by the woman clear sound and singing, the tune is extremely bizarre and ethereal things, imitating the dead souls crying and lamenting things, now the ghost sound of China has been completely lost, the Tang Dynasty had flowed into Japan, Japan retained to this day, I went to Japan the year before last for academic exchanges when I listened to the ghost sound performances, so a listen to hear out.”

I only then understand the meaning of Professor Sun said “ghost sound”, but regardless of “ghost sound” is not an imitation of the ghost lamentation of the old music, at least should not appear in this tomb, then it is not a real “ghost sound “Ghost sound?

The horrible murals of the Tang Dynasty and the “ghost sound” that has been lost for thousands of years, as well as the empty tomb of “Wu Yang Wang” and the missing “Earth Immortal Village”, only the first half of them are true! The “Guanshan Finger Mystery Fugue”, countless questions are entangled in one place, there is no clue to find, so people do not know where to start, want to steal the tomb hidden “Danding Tianshu”, but how easy it is, we must find a new way to find a “breakthrough point”. We must try to find a new “breakthrough point” to solve these mysteries.

Thinking of this, I and the fat man and other people look around, want to find out the source of the “ghost sound”, but the tomb at the end of the tomb, and the entire tomb as empty walls, only some of the masonry and tiles, or else the two coffins painted with vermilion.

Professor Sun under the coffin is still sealed intact, but the other lacquer coffin hit the tomb wall, the front of the coffin cracked open a large mouth upside down on the ground, from the cracks in the coffin, drooping out of a dried and stiffened female body arm, hand and jade bracelets and rings and other ornaments, by the “wolf’s-eye flashlight” beam of light shaking, appearing to be pearl and precious, especially eye-catching. The fat man looked at the two eyes straight away.

Fatty looked straight, swallowed a mouthful of saliva to me, said: “old Hu Lao Hu, there is a – deserted village castor Li people left vector, ten thousand trees rusty ghosts sing. Could it be that the dumplings in the coffin are singing? We might as well light candles on the spot to open the coffin, pull it out of the coffin to see an understanding, lest suspicion begets dark ghosts the more you think about it, the more scared you get.”

I shook my head and said: “this time into the coffin gorge inverted bucket, is running to the Dan Ding and Zhou Tian Gua map, do the right thing is important, it is best not to be a side issue, do not care what the ghost sound bird sound, are not related to us, if there are any uneasy place, simply put a fire to burn these two lacquered coffins.”

I don’t want to do anything about it, I expect that the indistinct “ghost sound” is not auspicious, why don’t we try to get rid of this hidden danger in advance, then I want to go over to set fire, but when I walked close, I suddenly saw that there were some words on the bottom of the coffin’s life plate, and I was too busy to come up to the front to take a closer look at it.

Shirley Yang see me acting differently, also followed over, staring to identify a moment, word by word read out the inscription hidden in the bottom of the coffin: “Things female ominous ……” Professor Sun lying on the coffin to listen to a clear, shocked: “is the Guanshan refers to the content behind the riddle assignment?” He was about to ask something more, but Shirley Yang made a silent gesture to the crowd, “Shhh …… there is a sound in the lacquered coffin!”

At the same time Shirley Yang spoke, I also heard something strange in the coffin, the sobbing ghostly voice appeared again, and I was busy dragging her back a step, if there is no voice as if it is a “ghost”, which makes one’s heart jump, but how can the coffin make a sound? The first thing you need to do is to make a sound.

Sun Jiuzi was in front of this phenomenon contrary to common sense of physics shocked body as chaff, formed over the years of the concept of the universe, in this moment are subverted, even rolled with a sprawl jumped off the lacquered coffins, hiding behind me and said: “Coffin …… is …… what is it? What is it?”

I was a little panicked at first, and then the blood hit the ground, thinking that there are “people” talking in the coffin, there are only three possibilities, the first is really haunted; the second may be the person in the coffin is not dead, has been living to the present; the third is the coffin has a “tape recorder”, and the third is the coffin has a “tape recorder”. What kind of strange things have I never seen in my life? Only these three things have not seen, today on the fucking see see, but also to teach the ear pro strange, in the future you can be more with the peers dish Road “talk”, and at this time can not show panic, lest the mood passed to the youngest sister and Professor Sun, and so told them that: “I look at the burial of that pressure of the coffin I see that the burial coffin is likely to have an old-fashioned tape recorder, you listen to its babbling movement …… broadcast is more than half of the small widows crying graves of the opera.”