Chapter 54: Walking by Candlelight

Shirley Yang and Sun Jiuji and other people, also do not remember the “Candlelight Night Journey” in this situation, the scroll can not be wrong, is it into the tomb in the mansion, the painting on its own to show the vision?

Shirley Yang shook the torch in her hand, the ghosts in the “Candlelight Night Moves” also appeared with the ghosts, and then everyone realized: “The ancient painting has been depicted with the ink fish dark brush, these ghosts and ghosts will only be visible in the firelight.”

Master Sun Jiu inhaled a breath of cold air: “Where is what immortal mansion? It is simply a ghost cave hell, there must be some frightening and horrifying things in the Earth Immortal’s tomb, just …… why did Feng Shigu hide this information in the painting? Is this hinting at any secrets? Everyone in the Earth Immortal Village died out a long time ago, who did he leave this for?”

When everyone saw the “Candle Walking at Night” with “visions” appearing, they were all shocked and skeptical, what Prof. Sun said was really good, but when they thought about it in depth, although there was a case of “avoiding fire” in the Coffin Cai Mountain, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was still the main reliance on the “lamps and candles” and “torches”. “Lamps and torches” in the darkness to get bright lighting. Earth fairy personally depicted a few scrolls, hanging in the dark underground pavilion, outsiders do not know, naturally, will be watching the lamp, must be deliberately left to the future have the opportunity to enter the mountain of the people to see.

Grave robbers of all dynasties rarely used “mineral light source”, although legend has it that some people used “luminous beads” to rob tombs in ancient times, but luminous beads are extremely precious and rare, and it is hard to get a glimpse of them at leisure, and they can’t detect the quality of the underground air and defend themselves, so they are only an exception among grave robbers. It is only a special case among the grave robbers, and has never been widely spread among the “official robbers and casual robbers”, and the fire candle is indispensable for exploring the earth and digging the graves.

Earth Immortal Feng Shigu put “Guanshan finger fan fugue” flow to Feng’s descendants, leaving a twelve-year hidden road, so that they have the opportunity to enter the tomb, which is also against common sense, mostly because Feng Shigu know, know that the whole world from the mound of no hair, there is no mausoleum in the world is always strong and secret, even if it is not by the reverse Fighting generations of excavation, with the change of mountains and rivers in the vicissitudes of life, also sooner or later to be destroyed.

Feng Shigu so arranged, the depth of its heart is really chilling, the mystery of the tomb of the Immortals is not “hide”, but a “out” word, in the outsiders into the coffin mountain, is the time of the Immortals out of the mountain. Not only the descendant of Feng’s Professor Sun, even our group of gold detectives, are all “pawns” controlled and utilized by him, and they entered the ancient tomb with nine deaths, only to receive and guide the saints for the Immortal Feng Shigu, knowing that they would definitely encounter misfortunes if they entered the “Corpse Vein” in the belly of the Underworld Temple, but the situation was not favorable. Encountered untoward, but the situation is forced, we have to be different from the previous martyrs, step by step towards the abyss, the only difference is that we are clear that this is very likely to be a dead end road with no return.

At this time, only to hear the sound of biting and eating rotten wood in the distance of the tomb gradually approaching, uncountable “coffin worms”, after entering the “immortal village” drilling in all directions, chasing the yin corrosive gas and move, ancient tombs have copper coffins and iron coffins, there is no gap to get into, but some lacquered coffins and outer coffins, they can’t be avoided! They were chewed up by the coffins with the corpses.

Our group has been contaminated with a lot of shadowy corpse qi in the “Palace of the Woolly Goat King”, and the condition of Master Sun Jiu is even more serious. I still don’t know whether he is a dead person or a living person, and I even suspect that he will turn into a corpse at any time, which is why we are now attracting “coffin worms” in the vicinity. Therefore, we have become the target of the nearby “coffin worms”.

In fact, although the corpse worms and coffin chrysalis and other things are terrible, also does not necessarily have no way to resist, now the most horrible and most teach people a headache to get people but also counted “nine deaths scared mausoleum armor”, once it pierced through the wall of the coffin mountain, is bound to will be the village of the earth fairy and headless corpse vein stirred to a shattered “under the nest, how can there be any egg? “What’s left of the nest? At that time, no matter whether it is the ancient corpses in the mansion, or the living people in the ancient tomb, all will be burned with jade and stone.

I stared at the “Guanshan Xiangzhu” for a while, my mind turned a few ideas, there is no good strategy to get out of the situation, now can not be blamed on the situation of the class struggle is too complex, can only be blamed on their own thinking is too paralyzed.

Shirley Yang reminded me, “We’re running out of torches, we can’t delay too much in a house with gaps everywhere.”

I bit my back teeth, thinking that this time I can’t go out, the big deal is to die together, with the spiritual preparation, my heart is much more solid, I said to the crowd, “The Earth Immortal Village in the Coffin Mountain is connected to the ancient tombs below it, only the Earth Immortal Tomb in the belly of the Corpse-shaped Mountain is relatively independent. From the map, we are not far from the Earth Immortal Tomb, or according to the previous plan, no matter what is inside, we have to take the risk to enter the tomb, and find a way to find Feng Shigu’s body and burn it to prevent future problems.”

Sun Jiuzi is in a trance, Feng Shigu passed down the “Guanshan finger fan Fu”, as if it is a spell that hooks people’s souls, Feng Shiqi and his descendants have been blinded for hundreds of years, and now he vaguely foresees that this is a conspiracy, and now he does not advocate to go into the tomb of the Earth Immortal, and regrets that he didn’t have a thorough plan at the beginning, and should have crashed from the outside with explosives directly to this mountain. This mountain.

Fatty scolded: “Don’t fucking dream, want to coffin gorge so many high mountains to blow flat, how many military-grade high explosives need? Where would you stinking intellectuals get it?” Immediately reached out to the crouching on the ground Sun Jiuzi dragged up, while dragging him toward the front of the tomb road, while he said: “Strengthen the discipline, inverted bucket without victory, understand? Sun Laojiu you listen to Master Fatty and Old Hu’s highest instructions is definitely right, hurry up and give me a go.”

I also beckon a hand, called on Shirley Yang and the youngest sister child, the people shake the hands of the torch, extended the tomb straight forward, with reference to the orientation of the map, turned a rope hanging coffin of the Northern Song Dynasty tomb, has reached the “ground immortal village” the edge of the mansion, so far we only have three remaining in the hands of the torch has not been extinguished.

In my “carry bag”, there is still a can of kerosene fuel, enough to increase the fire to disperse the coffins from the four sides of the insects, but I have doubts about the return to the market mirror can suppress the Earth Immortal Fengshigu heart, but also refers to forget to leave these kerosene as the last “killer”, so absolutely refused to use easily. So absolutely refused to use easily, had to cross my heart to break out.

So I led the crowd, together push open the broken stone door of the exit of the dark passage, with torches to open the way, together pounced out, I did not expect the situation behind the village is very surprising, thousands of copper corrosion was startled out of the coffin bugs, and did not climb to the abdomen of the corpse shaped mountain, which still maintains the weird atmosphere of the netherworld of silence.

I saw the corpse shaped mountain abdomen has a few arc-shaped shallow ditch, every dozen steps, there will be a tall and sturdy one-legged bronze man, bronze man naked, the appearance of seven points live like a ghost, three points like a man, their faces fearful and angry, angry eyes, mouth constantly gushing out of the flint, flowing in the ditch in the groove of the stone, as if a dark red river of blood winding cycle, from all around the coffin worms crawling all the way outside the flint, though Although the flint belongs to the cold mineral, itself does not have heat, but enough to make the fear of light coffin worms do not dare to transgress half a step.

Located in the middle of several ring-shaped flint rivers on the mountain, trapped in a deep ravine formed by mountain crevices, the wall apologized for the trestle, on both sides of the construction of a few sky-spanning pagodas, flying eaves bucket columns, staggered heights, it looks like the weather is not extraordinary, “Candlelight Walking at Night” depicted in the tomb of the Earth Immortal is supposed to be at the bottom of this deep ravine.

I returned to the bottom of the stone monument, greeted the people jumped over the flint flurry of stone grooves, the group temporarily get rid of the poor chase behind the coffin insects, the heart a little more stable, but walked to the front of the pagoda to the Pan Gu corpse veins in the gully of a picture, to see inside the darkness of the darkness, silence and weird, and have a kind of “just away from the tiger’s lair, into the wolf’s lair,” the feeling of ominous.

Although the youngest sister is too bold, but she has seen these days, all from the side of the death of the shocking and horrifying things, inevitably some of the six gods, and the Immortals will be cheated into the tomb of the living legend of martyrdom in the town of Qingxi since ancient times, she looked at the wall of the green stone stacks, as if a python meandering drilling to the depths of the caves, but also the heart of the panic.

I had to give her some peace of mind, while extinguishing the torch, to the tactical spotlight to replace the last spare batteries, while telling her that the legend of the immortal Fengshigu want to come out of the mountain to help people, is very unreliable, this person has been dead for many years, the body is not stiff that is rotting, at most, a mummy, where to be an immortal? I have traveled all over the world in my life, into a lot of tombs, never seen which tomb has what corpse immortal; back a million steps, Fengshigu this old landlord head even if the real first corpse want to come out of the mountain to harm people, it will never succeed, I believe that history and the people will not allow this kind of thing to happen.

The youngest sister nodded, said that although the tension is excessive, but can still follow the team, the fat man said: “You can rest assured, I think dying is also Sun Jiuji this Guanshan Feng family of filial son of the virtuous grandson of the first to return to the position, then also have to pull on the grave in the whole group of Guanshan Taibao to our backs, not to them this matter is not the end of the yellow stirred up.”

Master Sun Jiu shook his head helplessly, “At this point you are still concerned about the speed of speech?” He also said to me, “You also do not pick up the big blow, is not still some fire oil ready to burn the tomb in the ancient corpse? When the time comes, don’t see the room full of artifacts, never hesitate to do it, never hesitate to be soft, if the corpse in the tomb really escaped from the coffin mountain, we will be in big trouble.”

I was about to say, “There’s no need to tell me this, I naturally know what’s at stake in terms of priorities”, when I suddenly heard a cracking sound coming from the rock formation above my head. The cracking sound was so continuous that it hurt the bottom of one’s ears.

The people subconsciously looked up, but one to the darkness of the ground, two to the mid-air fishy red fog filled, can not see the situation in the rock layer, the youngest sister wondered: “This mountain to collapse?” Shirley Yang said: “No, the coffin mountain is a mouth without a lid sarcophagus, seems to be buried in the mountain shell of the nine deaths in shock mausoleum armor is about to fall off.”

Although no grave robber has ever encountered the “Nine Deaths Surprise Tomb Armor” in the past thousand years, but we have heard of the sharpness of this thing, this kind of underground plant mixed with bronze and flesh and blood growth, is by no means three or five people can cope with, the copper corrosion of the blood armor struggling and writhing in the rock layer of the loud sound in our ears, as if it is the God of Death’s roar, every time we Hearing a burst of cracking sound issued in mid-air is just like splashing a pot of cold water on oneself, can not help but be alarmed by the heart, the chills increased steeply.

We are worried that the frightening mausoleum armor will appear from the fog at any time, do not dare to stay too long on the surface of the corpse-shaped mountain, hastily wrapped Professor Sun and Missy in the middle, stepping on the embedded wall of stone steps downward.

Latticework Hall is above the two walls facing each other in a deep ravine, very narrow and steep, both sides of the ancient wall knife chopping axe chopping like neat, in the beam of the spotlight, you can clearly see the stratum of rock veins undulating, but away from the close view, the soil is also all the differences in the uneven unevenness of the place, those places there are many buried in strange shapes of jade jade jade, jade color is old, some crimson, some pale and rich, are not recent, most of them are already broken and incomplete, and the ancient jade, the color of the jade is very old, some crimson, some pale and rich, not recent, most of them are not recent. According to the records in the Guanshan Digging and Collecting Biography, these jade objects were all those buried in the coffin mountain for sacrifices during the period of the Wuxi culture.

I remembered the scene I saw in the scrolls earlier, when the martyrs entered the tomb, they went through this road, and in the wall where the jade artifacts were buried, there were a lot of ghostly shadows, but when I was here, I didn’t see what was depicted in the “Walking by Candlelight at Night”, and the rest of the people must have had this same thought, everyone felt a cold whooshing sensation at their backs as if there were evil ghosts following them silently, and from time to time they had to turn back to look at it, and the deeper we walked, the stronger this feeling of unease became. This uneasy feeling will be more intense, surrounded by eerie, darkness seems to be no direct threat, but can feel the silence contains a bizarre atmosphere, as if it has entered the dragon pool and tiger’s lair, the people can not help but the whole body muscles are slightly tightened, the body is in a state of readiness at a moment’s notice.

Shirley Yang suddenly remembered something, she whispered to me and said: “In the picture ‘Walking by Candlelight at Night’, all the people are holding lanterns and torches, and we also lighted candles before we could see the black shadows hidden in the painting, perhaps this is implying – in front of the Latticework Hall, we have to rely on the light of the fire to see something normally invisible.”

My intuition also told me that in the rocky soil layer of the Pangu Vein, there was indeed something buried, probably the “ghosts” depicted in the scrolls, and since we didn’t know what it really was, it was hard to tell if it was good or bad, and we might encounter it at any time if we continued to walk deeper. If we continue to walk to the depths, we may meet with misfortune at any time, after Shirley Yang said so, I intend to light a candle to see the truth.

In any case, light on the bright son are often do the action of the gold detectives, since in the belly of the mountain, there is nothing to worry about, I immediately touched out half a candle, in the hands of the light up, with the palm of my hand to gather the flame, while slowing down the steps continue to walk down the stone steps, while holding the candle to light the side of the rock wall.

Candlelight on the wall, will be a piece of broken jade reflecting the refreshing color, than in the tactical spotlight under the beam of light seems to be more magnificent and mysterious, Fatty look into the eyes, and then greedy, can not help but reach out to touch, want to gouge it a few pieces down as a “souvenir”.

Sun Jiuzi is worried about the fat man side of the branch, how can not help earlier has been persuaded a number of times, the result is the fat man is a strong excuse over, this time only to change the way, reach out to block said: “These as offerings of jade evil very, Wang Fatty you don’t want to momentarily move the idea of greed, on the hands and feet of the mess these things, to fight private criticism of the cultivation of the fighting to fight private criticism of the cultivation of the ah! ”

The fat man full of innocence said: “The world is afraid of fear seriously two words, fat master I chisel it down a few pieces of home to seriously study research to see where these jade is evil, is this also counted as selfishness?”

Sun nine masters encountered fat this number of meat rotten mouth not rotten people, even if it is really reasonable is also absolutely difficult to understand, I see at this time Sun nine masters intend to let me emphasize emphasize the important principle of “strengthening discipline”, then turned his head pretending not to see, only to focus on the candlelight under the observation of the stone wall, but did not find any abnormality.

I went down a few steps, but listened to the back of the endless arguments of the fat man and Sun Jiuji suddenly at the same time quiet, I walked with the front of the Shirley Yang, Missy three people hurriedly stopped, turned back to look at the situation behind them, only to see the fat man and Sun Jiuji were stunned on the spot, staring at the rock layer motionless to watch.

I pulled my foot back to the stone steps, to the two of them to look at a glance, it turned out that the fat man with an engineering shovel smashed embedded in the wall of the jade jade, falling shovel at the fall of the soil and stone, so that the inside of the things exposed, the floating soil within the whole piece of jade, stacked stacked as a wall of jade wall seems to have a ghostly vague silhouette, I hold up the candle close to look at the ambiguous ghostly shadow suddenly became clear, more surprising is that It seems to have shape without quality, but also able to move in the wall, candlelight shadow of the trance, the black shadow suddenly lifted his hand and moved his foot forward to crawl, gesture to lunge out of the wall, only to feel a gust of wind blowing to the face, I hold in my hands the candle flame shook two shakes, swaying in the fluttering look to be extinguished.

I sensed a gust of wind coming to my face, and hastily used my hand to gather the candle flame will be extinguished, although the candlelight was covered, but the tactical spotlight on the mountaineering helmet is still on, the beam of light when a shake, I and Fatty, Sun Jiuji masters see clearly, just this one glance, to see people’s hair roots “swish” a vertical, more than one hundred and eighty-thousand I’m not sure if you’re a good person or a good person.