Chapter 36: The Walking Dead
In my opinion, Sun Jiuzi’s behavior has never been “normal”, all people in the world are tired of the word “fame and fortune”, in order to some empty fame to leave their families and businesses, but also by all means to fabricate lies, underhanded to the point that even his old friend, Prof. Chen lied, and his paranoid personality as a thief, sneaking into the museum in the middle of the night, the so-called “archaeological research”, and so on. And personality paranoia, even with a thief thief, in the middle of the night quietly climbed through the window to sneak into the museum, the so-called “archaeological research”, ask him this kind of human behavior, can use “normal” to describe it?
But Shirley Yang wants to say does not seem to be these, she did not want to cause Professor Sun’s idea, just lowered his voice and told me: “Just now when the group behind the coffin, I saw Professor Sun from …… from his own ear to pull out a fly.”
I heard this, nearly fell headlong to the tomb wall, this guy is also too unhygienic, how many years have not pulled out the ear? Either he is suffering from otitis media, pus in the ear canal stinks, all attract flies.
Shirley Yang looked a little hesitant, and did not continue to say, just let me pay attention to is, I know she must have found Sun Jiuji some abnormalities, but she was afraid of me and Fatty to Sun Professor blindly move, before there is conclusive evidence, she is not willing to make things clear.
I think about it Professor Sun does suffer from otitis media, and this person is always buried in his work, has always been unkempt, and can not be dismissed from this operation because of his lack of hygiene, Shirley Yang is not the kind of person who is picky about the details, since she said this, I think there must be a real abnormality in Professor Sun’s behavior.
I suddenly remembered something, my heart snapped, and turned my head to ask Shirley Yang: “What did you just say was in Prof. Sun Jiu’s ears? The corpse-eating flies in the ancient tomb?” Shirley Yang gently shook her head at me, just now the firelight in front of the door of the tomb dim trance, do not dare to lightly confirm.
When she said so, I could only assume that what appeared on Prof. Sun’s body was the “corpse-eating black fly”, and in the “Mausoleum of the Woolly Goat King”, which had been emptied by the “Guanshan Taibao”, wherever there were corpses, there was the “corpse-eating black fly”. “Corpse-eating black flies”, including those dead rats and snakes, as well as the dead fish in the water pool, without exception, have become the black fly’s food and spawning ground, “Corpse-eating black flies” are not like ordinary insects, it is only close to the corpse, why did Prof. Sun’s body appear to be “corpse-eating flies”? “Why is there a corpse-eating black fly on Prof. Sun? Is he already dead? How could a dead body follow us all the way into the depths of the tomb?
A series of questions flashed through my mind. According to the viewpoint of “Corpse Transformation” encountered by “The Golden Touches” in grave robbing, dead but not transformed is called “stiff”, and dead but alive is called “walking”, and “dead but alive” is called “walking”. “Could it be that Mr. Sun is a “walking corpse”? Thinking of this section, I just feel a chill from the top of the head along the spine straight through the heart of the foot, subconsciously turned back to look at Professor Sun.
A look at the crypt doorway Professor Sun is staring at me, he looks as usual, in an old-fashioned expression, with a few slightly neurotic eyes, looks a little cynical, and then intuitively make people feel not too friendly, and the first time I saw him in Shaanxi Gutian County, not much different.
I just put my heart down, secretly thought: “the crypt is gloomy and damp, the anger dragon vein has long been broken, dead rats and insects are all there, the lacquer coffins in the object of the female corpses will attract black flies, we and those ancient corpses repeatedly contact, inevitably carries some corpses on the body, how can we rely on a corpse-eating black fly, to determine that Master Sun Jiu is a walking corpse?”
I turned upside down in my mind a few times, not afraid of 10,000, just afraid of the unlikely, after all, there is a one in 10,000, “in case” Sun Jiuji is really “walking corpse” how to do? “Black ass hooves” specializing in zombies, I heard that it can also deal with “walking corpse”, according to legend, “walking corpse” is a demonic corpse, talking and behavior and the same as the living, but specifically to eat people’s hearts and livers of the devil, my grandfather Hu Guohua met a few years ago. When my grandfather Hu Guohua met this kind of thing, everything is afraid of the first as the main, I have this idea in my head, I always think that Professor Sun has a problem, and would like to signal Shirley Yang and the fat man to help me do it to put him down.
Shirley Yang said: “You must not act rashly, perhaps in the tomb in addition to the corpse fly, there are other flying insects, I just want to remind you to pay attention to some, the coffin gorge in more than odd, I have a …… not very good premonition, our action this time may not go smoothly. ”
I nodded, decided that in the absence of conclusive evidence that Professor Sun is a corpse demon before, temporary patience first not to make trouble, there is a “touch gold schoolmaster” “black donkey hooves” in the hand, but there is a danger can ensure that all the body back, I’m afraid of him how?
At that moment, Prof. Sun urged us in front of the door of the tomb, “How is it? Have you found anything? I estimate that the belly fairy may be a kind of illusion, in the south of the tomb chamber in the burning object female corpses will appear, in ancient times there is indeed the use of incense hypnosis formula, I’m afraid that this chamber may not really have what the belly hidden belly fairy of the Tang Dynasty zombies.”
I heard a stunned, think the matter of the strange really difficult to think about, said Professor Sun: “the previous tomb there is a kind of anti-theft means, is in the crypt of the oil lamps, candles, water, wine, potion, hidden with poison or mirage incense, a touch, can make people suffer from the round light system illusions, Feng Shigu surprisingly will be able to Guanshan pointed out that fans of fugue with the blindfold like illusions hidden in the crypt? How did it happen?”
Prof. Sun said: “The gang of Guanshan tomb robbers, what they do is not what people think, if I know the mystery, directly run to the village of the Earth Immortal to get the trigrams of the week, but also with you guys in this empty dungeon around what?”
Fatty and I, see the bottom of the Nandou chamber can not find any clues, we had to follow the proposal of Master Sun Jiujiu, to the highest part of the tomb “group of dragons spitting water” place, “Wuyang King Tomb” main from the superposition of the many chambers, corridors and twists and turns, but the pattern of feng shui is not far from the ancient method, is based on the stars, stars and stars, and the ancient method of Feng Shui. But the pattern is not different from the ancient method of feng shui, it is arranged in the direction of the stars, I led the people to walk through it, and I didn’t worry about losing the path.
All the tomb way to go through the tomb owner’s “outer coffin hall”, walk to the middle of the outer coffin hall, only to see the huge stone masonry temple of the underworld, but also a mess, stone slaves stone beasts fell all over the place, the tomb wall is still chiseled to take the traces of the gold beads, the hall of a large stone outer coffin, the outer coffin wall embossed with the lofty mountains and rivers, a number of coffins have been uncovered to turn over in the life of the lid, inside the corpse Ming Ming, the body, the body of a dead body, the body of a dead body, the body of a dead body, the body of a dead body, the body of a dead body, the body of a dead body, the body of a dead body. aside, inside the corpse of the Ming ware all gone.
The fat man is still not dead, playing a flashlight with a military shovel in the inside of the scratching: “This group of mountain watching and fighting the grandson, engaged in the three light policy than the Japanese devils are still ruthless, and even a little bit of dregs are not left for us …….”
I said to Sun Jiuzi: “The whole tomb is almost empty, according to those folk legends, when the Earth Immortal Fengshigu is to bring tens of thousands of people into the tomb to avoid the military disaster, people over 10,000 such as the mountain as the sea, so many people are hiding where to go?”
Prof. Sun thought for a moment, said: “Coffin Gorge, there are many witch salt mine site, the mountain caves are very many, think the Immortal Village is in the Wu Yang Wang Palace near a cave, we want to find its location or to rely on the view of the mountain refers to a fan, in addition to this there should be no other way to think about it.”
Prof. Sun thinks that the clue “Guanshan finger fan foo” is very important, his friend in the labor farm Feng, may not know the whole foo, because this all the way down, from the entrance of the tunnel at the nameless body, until the “shadowless immortal bridge” and the “Guanshan divine brush”, the “Guanshan divine brush”. “Guanshan divine brush”, and finally the “belly fairy” in the tomb, every place is hidden in a “Guanshan refers to the mystery” of the hints, the immortal Feng Shigu this is certainly out of fear of disclosure of the tomb Confidential considerations, can be described as “deliberate, far-reaching planning”.
Now from the belly of the fairy to find this “Guanshan pointing to the fan fugue”, should be the key among the key, “witch gorges coffin mountain, the earth fairy recluse; group of dragons spit out the water, the ancient tomb of the map; Wu Hou hide soldiers, coffin building soul; life door connected, a song and a tail; 24,000, a hundred single have seven,” this hint, as if the mystery of the mysterious, as if it were a mystery. This hint, as if the mystery of the subtle, teach people no way to figure out.
We on the “Guanshan pointed to the fan fugue” words completely difficult to understand, had to discuss the proximity of the front again to do calculations, and I am also very skeptical, if it is Sun Jiuzhi heard the content of the wrong word, only one word, can be fallacious, to the Tomb group of dragons spit the water, there will be no unexpected dangers waiting for us?
At this time, the youngest sister gave us some very valuable information, she said that the “honeycomb mountain” in the craftsmen, specializing in “machine springs, pins, rotating core gong wire, eight treasures dark shaft”, and even design some of the best-conceived fortifications, so this line of work, the minimum must have a “machine spring”, “pins,” the core gong wire, eight treasures dark shaft. So the people in this business, at least have to have “Za Lou ink master” skills, but also know “five elements gossip” the reason for the change of the birth of grams.
“Beehive Mountain” in the tradition of two masters, a tie floor of the old ancestor of the “Master Lu Ban”, the other is the design of the “wood and cattle flow horse” Zhuge Wuhou.
“Bee Box” has a secret book at the bottom of the box, called “Wuhou Zangbing Tu”, can be built according to the diagram of the wooden people and wooden cattle, the principle of mechanism is similar to do the transportation of grain and grass “Wooden Cow Liu Ma”, but are in the hidden military map. However, all of them are hidden troops in the map of the machine spring pin, all are killing with the organs, according to the ancient array of birth and death of the road arranged and buried, according to the changes in the terrain, you can build a building to hide the soldiers, can also start the wall to hide the soldiers, the most subtle and unpredictable.
But just because this set of machine charts is “honeycomb mountain” in the “treasure of the town”, so the circulation is not wide, in the Song and Yuan has been lost, the world will no longer build “Wu Hou hidden soldiers building! “The youngest sister heard Sun Jiuzi repeatedly recited “Wu Hou Zang Bing”, will tell this matter, perhaps “Guanshan pointed to the fan fugue” mentioned in the “Wu Hou Zang Bing”, is that mysterious and incomparable killing mechanism. Perhaps the “Wu Hou Hidden Soldiers” mentioned in the “Guan Shan Finger Puzzle” is the mysterious and incomparable killing mechanism, because “Guan Shan Finger Puzzle” also mentions the “Sheng Men” in the latter part of the article.
“Beehive Hill” Li old shopkeeper had told the youngest sister, “Wu Hou hidden soldiers map” must have an organ pivot for the “well”, not to remove its “pivot well”, the “pivot well”. Pivot well” removed, will be endless organs and traps under the death, this “well” must be in the door of life, but the well has a “bright, dark” points, if it is a dark well, it is very difficult to find, and according to the design of different structures, only those who mastered the map of organs, will be able to find the well. Only those who have mastered the diagram of the mechanism know where the real “door of life” is located.
The last sentence of the “Guanshan pointed out that the assignment”, “the door of life is connected, a song and a tail; twenty-four thousand, a hundred single have seven”, probably refers to the “dark well” orientation, but with the youngest sister’s knowledge of the learning, it is completely I do not know “24,000, 100 single has seven” language is what the cloud, not “bee box recipe” in the content, even if the replacement of the old shopkeeper Li here, but also more than half a guess can not be solved.
I think of the Shifting Ridge thief Chen blind man, was in the Republic of China in the years of the big break Bottle Mountain organs city, according to him that “urn” should belong to the “Mingjing” pin, in the bucket line, often in the tomb of the king’s mausoleums encountered in the hidden military building traps to send the tomb robbers, but really seen the physical People should be few and far between.
The Ming Dynasty “Guanshan Taibao” specialized in stealing ancient tombs, it is not possible to do from which to do the mausoleum, dug out such a set of “Wu Hou Hidden Soldier Figure” organs, hidden in the “Wuyang King’s Palace” as a village of the ground fairy A life-threatening barrier, do not unlock the “life door connected, a song and a tail; 24,000, a hundred single have seven” hints, I’m afraid I can not pass this “doorway”.
People look at each other, you look at me, I look at you, are at their wits’ end, even the “honeycomb mountain” in the connoisseur is difficult, let alone our “gold inspector”, this is like a mountain apart, how can we come up with a good idea in a short time?
I said to all of them that I have never encountered such a deep hidden tomb as the “Earth Immortal Village” in my life, and in my opinion, Feng Shigu, the leader of the “Guanshan Taibao”, is a madman, and it would be extremely difficult to guess his intention with a normal mind. But there is another saying, Chairman Mao said, “If there is love in heaven, heaven is old, the right way is the vicissitudes of life”, do not encounter hardship, do not show benefits, as long as the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal is really “Dan Ding” a rare treasure, it is not in vain that we have gone through this many twists and turns of the hardships and dangers, and at the moment do not know how the hidden military map of the Earth Immortal is arranged. At this moment, we still don’t know how to set up the map of the Earth Immortal’s hidden troops. Is it a building? Or something else? But don’t worry too much, the law is a person think out, the road is a person walk out, first go to the field to survey some, we may not be unable to find countermeasures.
Sun Jiuzi, however, frowned and said: “said so, this time in front of me is afraid that the setbacks are not small, can not think too optimistic ……” said the words, he stepped on the stone steps in the tomb to the upper floor of the outer coffin hall.
I worry that Professor Sun walked too fast off the team, immediately to the rest of the three people a wave, in his back closely followed, up the tomb steps under the water, walking on the top can hear the sound of water splashing, surrounded by a number of dark springs through the tomb, the tomb is really taken from the vein of the water dragon, at this time, I feel the buzzing sound in my ears, it turns out that there are a few more black flies in our side of the whirlpool.
I hastily waved my hand to repel, in the beam of the overhead tactical spotlight shaking, is to see Sun Jiuji master lying on the back of the neck of a black fly, corpse-eating flies on the body of the fluorescence is good like a faint ghost fire flickering.
This time is to see clearly, can not be wrong, I tugged Professor Sun said: “Wait a minute, nine masters on your body how there is a corpse-eating black fly? Are you a dead person or a living person?”
Prof. Sun was flabbergasted, then said angrily, “What are you talking about? It was just enough to label me earlier, why are you saying that I’m a dead person now? I’m not dead yet, and if I’m going to die, I’ll die because you’re angry.”
I said: “line, you really enough justified, you see this is what?” Said open palm, the hand holding the “black donkey hoof” in front of him shook.
Sun Jiuzi’s face suddenly changed, like a snake and scorpion like “rub” back a step, back against the tomb wall behind, pointing his finger at me and said: “Hu Bayi, you kid bullying too much, now what era, you take the black donkey’s hooves for what? I won’t allow you to insult my character like this! If you take one more step over, I’ll fight you to the death!”
I used to know that Prof. Sun in the Cultural Revolution was seized and fought many times, wearing a high hat, also pouted over the “jet”, the daytime criticism is over, the night will be shut up in the cowshed, so to me and Fatty, such as when the Red Guards, he has always been a kind of antipathy from the bottom of his heart, easily stimulated, but I did not expect that Prof. Sun has such a fierce reaction, but was He was startled.
At this time Shirley Yang also came up to persuade me, I asked my heart, I do have some apologies, but on second thought, I never saw the outer coffin in the hall of the corpse, even if there is a corpse gas in the empty coffin, over the centuries have been dispersed, the appearance of Professor Sun’s side of the “corpse-eating flies” is definitely an abnormal sign, can not be a moment of weakness to leave the root of the problem, the nine masters of Sun is not a “corpse-eating fly”, but also a “corpse-eating fly”. Sun Jiuzi is not a “walking corpse” a test will know.
I thought of this, I grinned, said to Sun Jiuzi, “misunderstanding, I see you are heavy hearted, in order to let you maintain the spirit of revolutionary optimism, only deliberately with you to play a joke, how can you take it seriously? This black donkey’s hooves if you do not look good, throw it is, then ……” said I raised my hand, the “black donkey’s hooves” to Professor Sun threw over.
I think Sun Jiuzi as long as to catch the “black ass hoof”, he is not “corpse demon”, who knows Professor Sun see “black ass hoof” from throwing in front of him, but also a flash to hide in the side, the “Black ass hoof” hit the tomb wall on the potential fall, and was kicked into the groundwater at the bottom of the stone steps, and then glared at me, rebuked: “If you can help me find the trigrams of the ZhouTian map, I ate this black ass hoof in front of you can, but now I which have the mood to fool around with you! ”
I was stunned on the spot, cursing how this old thing is so cunning, not only do not pick up the “black donkey hoof”, and kicked into the water, it can not be that this lead us into the tomb of the “Sun Jiu Master”, is really a dead after the transformation of the “walking corpse”, “walking corpse”. “Walking corpse”?
These years in the edge of life and death experience, so I have to become a “skeptic”, I let the fat man behind me quickly give me another “black ass hoof”, the fat man said: “which time to go out with, but did not see the top of any great use. But I didn’t see any great use of it, this time you didn’t say that you are lightly loaded, so I see you brought one. So I see you brought a, I did not bring, I’m not trying to …… want to give the bag to leave a little place, more …… more loaded Ming ware.”
I looked at Shirley Yang, she shrugged her shoulders, said also did not bring the “black donkey hooves” in the side, my heart immediately cooled half, if I had known that just now will not be smart to throw to the Sun Jiuji masters, this came back to make a mistake, and now how to identify him is a living person or a walking corpse? At this time suddenly heard Professor Sun in the tomb on the stone steps of a cold laughter, laughter in the hidden kind of hideous horrible meaning, in the already eerie silence of the tomb to listen to, exceptionally shrugged human hair bone.