Chapter 53 Hidden Ghosts in Ancient Paintings

Sun Jiuzi ignored the sarcasm of Fatty and I, hurriedly stuffed a few pamphlets of Fengshi’s ancient handwritten books into his bag, pointed downstairs and said, “There is a netherworld house underneath the Earth Immortal Village……. The bottom of this hidden bone building is definitely a burial chamber, we can not only avoid the coffin worms by ducking into the ground, but also follow the tomb passageway to the Earth Immortal’s Tomb,” he said. Otherwise how can we be trapped in the building?”

Shirley Yang stopped Master Sun Jiujiu and said, “It’s even more dangerous in the tomb passage, I saw that there are many gaps in the tomb walls of the underground houses in the Earth Immortal Village, and the coffin worms are pervasive, so they may not be able to stop them.”

I heard Shirley Yang’s words are very reasonable, “Coffin Mountain” in the shady houses are connected horizontally and horizontally, one of the different dynasties of ancient tombs stacked on the ground, the structure and building materials of each chamber are different, resulting in the existence of gaps and loopholes between the tomb passages. If a large number of “coffin worms” come overwhelmingly, it is difficult to cope with them in the narrow and closed tombs.

Listening to the sound of insect feet crawling in the distance gradually approaching, more and more people panic in the heart, I calmly thought about that “Coffin Mountain phase house map” depicted in detail the topography of all parts of the Coffin Mountain, at the entrance to the Tomb of the Earth Immortals, painted a few metal rings around the mark, although in the map can not be seen in the end of what is the name of the game, but is located at the entrance to the tomb, and in ancient times there is a “circle of the heavens, the concept of the earth”, the circle is a circle of the sky, a circle is a circle of the sky. “concept, round for life, square for death, in the trigrams arc implies” life “meaning, it is reasonable to assume that these rings should be the tomb before the” break bugs, anti-theft “things, retreat into which may be able to avoid the attack of the coffin bugs, so that this also This is also a plan of “retreat for progress”, which is better than being trapped in a lonely building and house.

At this time, I do not care about the immortal village really have “fire” of the old rules, I immediately greeted the fat man and other people to do it, swung open the shovel dismantled a few wooden chairs and wooden cases, and ripped some cloth wrapped in the above, to be lit as a torch to drive away the insects.

Sun Jiuzi saw the situation anxious voice is mute, pulling my arm hissed: “can not light a fire, the village of the village of various homes in the wood is all the old Gotham tree, the head of the fire together, not to the stratum of the nine deaths of the surprise Ling Ling A introduced out of the inevitable.”

Mr. Sun looked at the “Guanshan Digging Book”, from which he learned that all the buildings in the coffin mountain, all the “Old Gotham Tree” as raw materials, which is related to the geomancy layout of the “Earth Immortal Village” yin and yang two houses.

Old Gotham Tree” is a kind of evil wood, cold in winter, hot in summer, such as making coffins, containers of the dead in the ground are not peaceful, mostly grown in the deep mountains and poor valleys, but the wood contains yin corrosive gas, yin and yang two phases of the hybrid mansion can not be separated from this thing, Feng Shigu in order to make the coffin mountain in the Pangu Divine Vein back to its original state, deliberately ordered a large number of people to cut down the “Gotham Wood”. In order to restore the Pangu vein in the coffin mountain to its original state, Feng Shigu specially ordered people to cut down a large amount of “Gotham Wood” and build a yang residence modeled after the original shape of the ancient town.

“Earth Immortal Village” although it seems to be a Yang residence, but if you look into it in the Feng Shui way, but belongs to the “Shadow House”, the dead used to be buried, often with white paper tied into the oxen, horses, cars and sedan chair and servants, but also white paper tied table of the buildings and palaces, are to be burned for the deceased in the netherworld These are all objects to be burned and used by the dead in the underworld. Created in the ground in this village also have this intention, designed for the spirits of the martyrs to live, but also because the “ghosts do not see the ground”, the ghosts do not have flesh and blood form, it is called “Shadow Mansion”.

The reason why “avoid fire and candles” in the village of the Earth Immortal, it is because of the coffin buried outside the mountain “nine deaths shocked mausoleum armor”, this extremely scary shocked mausoleum armor has “hold yin and tend to the nature of the sun”, if the mountain yang Qi Too heavy, surrounded by dense as a cocoon of bronze blood corrosion, will be through the wall into the mountain; the end of the Ming Dynasty, “Guanshan Taibao” to the old goblet wood as a building material, but also in order not to make those who proliferate on their own, “shocking mausoleum armor” close to the mountains in the veins of the earth.

At this moment, I can not talk about it, but Sun Jiuzi said the meaning of the words, I quickly understand eight or nine points, “coffin mountain” in all kinds of abnormal signs, all of which indicate that the mountain will happen a huge change. The root cause, I’m afraid that we entered the village of the Earth Immortal caused, to say that the candle fire dragon gas, just lit a candle may not count for anything, the worst thing is not the “return to the market mirror” properly collected, “copper mirror, copper talisman” are by the South China Sea dragon fire tempering forging, the ancient mirror, the bronze mirror, the bronze talisman, the bronze mirror, the bronze mirror, the bronze mirror and the bronze talisman. The bronze mirror and the bronze talisman are all tempered and forged by the South China Sea dragon fire, although the dragon gas in the ancient mirror is about to disappear, but after all, it is the gas of the dragon fire, which finally attracted the terrified Lingjia to drill into the mountain wall, and first drove out a large number of “coffin worms” in the craggy rock crevices.

Shirley Yang said, “Without fire, we will be surrounded by coffin worms and cannot get away. Although the Earth Immortal Village avoids fire, there are fire offspring pins hidden in the tomb passage of underground houses, and we should be able to light a fire in the tomb for defense, so let’s quickly take a torch to avoid entering the tomb.”

The people claimed that yes, will “Guanshan hidden bone building” in the things can lead to fire are taken, and then immediately rushed to the downstairs to look for the entrance to the yin house, yin and yang two houses of the passageway, each place is different, in the “cannon temple” in the shrine near the residential houses in the stove, there are also under the bed, all in accordance with the “temple”, there are also under the bed. Under the bed, all according to the “eight house mirror” reason hidden set, previously seen a few places, since I broke through the mystery, the eight house mirror naturally difficult to “touch the gold mystique”, soon led the crowd in the Feng’s ancestor hall, found the tomb passage.

We pry open the floor tiles, I feel that the ground wind and cold fog forced people, this time there are many “coffin bugs” from the door cracks and windows in the influx of the crowd do not dare to hesitate, hurriedly down the tomb, and will be re-sealed the passageway, so a twinkling of an eye, there have been a number of coffins bugs followed into the tomb, all were shot dead on the spot with a spatula. The ground.

Shirley Yang and the youngest sister to light up two torches, “Coffin Hill” although buried deep in the ground, but a group of dragons intertwined with a strange vein, the tomb wall has a slight gap, if there is air circulation, although it will feel breathing is not smooth, the fire also dim, but as long as the fire candle does not go out, it is not so much as to have to wear a gas mask, I do not dare to be careless, reminded the crowd will be carrying gas masks. I dared not be careless and reminded the crowd to hang the gas mask’s carrying bag on their chests in case they needed to use it at any time.

Earth Immortal Village, the two houses stacked on top of each other, the upper side of the house, the bottom is the burial chamber, but different, large and small scale, but all are the big nobles and some high recluses of the tomb, in the joint “tomb museum”, all kinds of rare and rarely heard of “coffins and coffins, tripod, the ancient corpse beads and jade”, the ghosts of the past generations. In this “Museum of Ancient Tombs”, all kinds of rare and rare “coffins, coffins, tripods, ancient corpses, jewels and jades”, and all kinds of things from the underworld through the ages, all of them have become part of the “Pangu Feng Shui” of Dixian Village.

Located in the “hidden bone building” under the chamber, is a spring and autumn and warring states period of the tomb, the outer chamber is mainly “copper, wood” structure, four sides of the tomb walls are black ebony, the chamber piled up a lot of bamboo slips, there are a lot of swords and shields and other ancient weapons, more rusted no way to use again, among which there is a body of the ancient weapons, the body of the dead. The way to use again, there is a well-preserved “shackle furnace tiger bronze coffin”, that is, the bronze coffin hidden in the burning mercury prairie furnace, only the two ends of the tiger animal head exposed in the outside, the black mercury furnace filled with mercury, if the tomb robbers break down the walls of the furnace, the tomb will be mercury out of the hurt, not surprising.

I in the light of the torch in the four a, see this tomb of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States is not solid, the age of the tomb room is too long, the wood has been more broken and decayed, can not stay here for a long time, and hastened to greet the fat man to go together to pry open the door of the tomb in order to let the group to take the road out, who knows that the tomb wall of the ebony although rotting rotten and decayed, but is very thick, and had to do his best to use the engineer shovel layer by layer to throw the digging.

Being “anxious like fire, sweating like rain” at the same time, heard behind Shirley Yang and others called “bad”, busy to look back, only to see the tomb wall gap seems to be turbid flow surging, countless “coffin bugs “The “coffin worms” in the tomb are unusual, there is also a kind of strange bugs called coffin worms in the countryside, the body secretes acid, wherever it crawls, where it rots, and the coffin worms in the graveyard are even more powerful, when they bite into the skin and flesh, it will immediately cause a high degree of ulceration, first a numbness and itching, then a high degree of ulceration, then a high degree of ulceration. First, it is itchy and itchy, then it bleeds and pus flows, and it can rot all the way down to the bones.

Professor Sun also copied a torch, connected to the torch in the hands of Shirley Yang lit, plus one of the youngest sister, three torches meteoric wave to and fro, will be crowded to the front of the coffin worms repelled away, these torches are tied with a few bandages and cloth, and then poured some compressed fuel to ignite the fire, able to burn time is not too short, but the tomb in the heavy obscurity, the head of the fire is not strong, some of the coffin worms have no head and no head, also do not know fear of fire, are all by the fire. Ground also do not know fear of fire, were three people with a torch poked on the ground burned to death, as more and more bugs were burned to death, there will be a share of the strong smell of burnt out.

This ancient tomb of the warring states, the outer coffin room is a thick square wood pile, huge wood was pulled from the original site, has given birth to “rotting insects, maggots”, usually hidden in the crevices of the lurking immobile, at this moment was drilled into the coffin insects alarmed, also have to wriggle with the clumsy body, from the holes in the walls of the tomb between the cracks will be escaping out.

Those born in the wooden coffin maggots, some have borrowed the tomb in the yin qi born out of mutation, human fingers thick and thin maggots will be “squeaking” screaming, was bitten by the coffin worms after the sound of desperate struggle, like a baby crying blood, cry, in the darkness of the cold tomb, enough to make a person’s heart jumping, a few want to go crazy, hold the hand of the engineer shovel and the torch are The hand holding the sapper shovel and torch were trembling a little.

See can no longer support, thanks to Shirley Yang in a hurry, she pulled out from my back Fengshigu that sword, snatched out two steps, raised the sword into the prairie stove Fu Hu coffin in the mouth of the beast, triggered the furnace in the mechanism, there are a stream of mercury water gushing out, will be the coffin near the coffin of the swarms of coffin worms and maggots all swallowed up.

This sword should be when the coffin mountain meets the immortal, Fengshigu used to stab the sharp blade of “the king of the goats”, I brought this sword out from the Guanshan hidden bone building, originally intended to use it to deal with the “Immortal Fengshigu”, but was used by Shirley Yang to inserted into the “Vuhu coffin”. “Fuhu coffin”, at this time has been invaded by mercury can not be retrieved.

I also know that the matter is urgent from the right, there is no way to take care of the back plan, only to take a step to see a step, the mercury in the chamber is filled with gas, the flame has become weaker, swarming coffins insects are afraid of mercury poison, tidal wave like retreating to escape, all the people covered with gas masks, and all hands to move away from the blocking of the door of the tomb of the rotten wood, but also to pry open the incomplete copper door, successively ran into the tomb.

Various relatively independent tombs, there are the same tomb passages through each other, crisscrossing as if the streets, the brick walls are still relatively strong and intact, not like the heavy yin qi in the crypts, the flame on the torch in the hand once again burned normally, the crowd identified the direction, while there is not a large number of coffins worms drilling in the time, quickly through the tomb passages to the “Immortal Tombs They quickly traveled through the tomb passage towards the “Tomb of the Earth Immortal”.

“Coffin Mountain” in the Pangu corpse vein, shaped like a headless corpse lying on its back, the Earth Immortal Village was built in front of the ancient corpse’s chest according to the mountain terrain, and the Earth Immortal Tomb plunged into a deep ravine was located in the abdomen of the Pangu vein, the tomb paths were twisted and turned and interlaced, and the surrounding burial chambers and pits were one next to another, and it seemed that they could never come to an end.

The people ran for a while, still no trace of the “Tomb of the Immortals”, the fat man muttered: “Old Hu, are you leading the wrong way? How come we can’t get to the end after running for half a day? Our principle has always been – bragging about not blowing shallow, walking not to go far …….”

The youngest sister can’t hold on any longer, and asked me how far this road is. I had to take before from Shirley Yang that pontoon a sentence support said “you can never discourage ah, do not ask how far the road, but ask yourselves – have the confidence and courage to finish the road, no matter how far the road.”

Fatty said: “Rest, do not forget that the earth is round, do not ask the road just blindly walk forward, that is not a melon child?”

At this moment, I also have no idea in my heart, so I told everyone frankly: “This tomb is dark and twisted, to be honest, I’m a little confused, look at the compass pointing, we are surely correct in the direction of the big to, but can not be prepared to walk through.”

The people a little discussion, decided to look at the “Coffin Mountain phase house map”, to confirm what position, otherwise in the tomb around and around is not reasonable, so more point two torches, in the tomb to clear a small safe area, from the backpack to take out the rolls of ancient paintings, one by one, want to find out from the drawings painted with the village of the Immortals of the yinzhu to the drawings.

I saw the first open is “Guanshan encounter immortal picture”, then casually handed to the fat man to let him put away, just the second volume of ancient paintings unfolded, but it is that depicted into the tomb martyrdom situation of the “candles walking at night picture”. My heart more and more anxious, “immortal” hand-painted several broken paintings, paper mounting all exactly the same, rolled up after there is no way to distinguish between, was about to take the third painting out, but found that this “Candle Night Walking” and I had previously seen in the “Bone Building” in the I remember very well.

I remember very clearly, the original “walking at night with candles” in the picture, is a lot of people with lanterns and torches, into a stratum of buried jade, copper cave, and now in front of this ancient painting, but more “things”, in those sacrificial vessels, appeared a lot of fuzzy black shadows, a closer look is like a fierce and vicious “Ghost”, but also seems to be the netherworld in the ghosts, in the netherworld peeping into the tomb in the martyrdom of the living life, teach a person to look at, suddenly born “shudder” feeling.