Ghost Blowing Lamp II

Chapter 38
When I mentioned this to the fat man, I couldn't help but suspect that there are many stones buried in the cave, which are used to suppress ghosts. These words made Ding Sitian a little nervous. We are all cold, what should we do now? There is no going back, there are ten passages here, and there are nine remaining, which side do we have to go to get out?"

I found that Ding Sitian's courage has indeed become smaller. Maybe it is because of the heavy loss of cattle and horses in the pastoral area, which made her feel at a loss. The only way for Xiao Xiao is to find the lost cows and horses, but the missing cows and the fleeing horses just ran into this area regarded as a "forbidden area" by the shepherds. Those horror legends about the "Hundred Eyes Cave" It has already penetrated into the bones of the local people. It is really difficult to advance or retreat, but in this special age, the fear of fear is not as strong as the fear of responsibility. If you put yourself in her and Lao Yangpi's shoes , They must be under a lot of pressure in their hearts, and the fierce ideological struggle must be going on constantly.

To say that she was not like this in the big tandems before, at that time, it was the classmates who were young and high-spirited. Once we went to a certain place in tandem, and happened to catch up with a local middle school teacher who led a group of junior high school students to dig a grave. The owner of the tomb was a celebrity in the Restoration period in the late Qing Dynasty. The corpse was pulled out of the grave and hung upside down on a tree to show the public, so that the revolutionary masses could see the ugly face of the largest royalist party in history. After hearing the news, Ding Sitian and others went there overnight During the visit, the moon was dark and the wind was high at night, and several people went into the dark excitedly to see the ancient corpse hanging on the tree. At that time, they didn't see her showing any signs of fear.

I came back to my senses and said to Ding Sitian and Fatty: "This crypt is a place where right and wrong should not stay for a long time. Let's see how the situation of Lao Yangpi is, and then try to get out as soon as possible." Then I walked to the old place. In front of Yangpi, his abdominal distension still persisted. We lacked common medical knowledge at that time, and we didn’t know that the movement of the intestines in the human abdominal cavity was mainly controlled by the autonomic nerves, and was also affected by the movement of blood in the intestines. After eating too much, abdominal distension was prone to occur. , The phenomenon of vasodilation, so intestinal blood movement will be affected to a certain extent.

The only thing we can do is massage his abdomen. Lao Yangpi's sanity has somewhat recovered, and what he can't forget most is his horse. The remaining three horses all fled into the deep forest on the ground of the "Hundred Eyes Cave". He lost his horse, and it was not easy to even return to the pasture. I had no choice but to comfort him, and I must find the horse as soon as possible.

Seeing that Lao Yangpi was getting better, I discussed with Fatty and Ding Sitian which way to go. The crypt is surrounded by ten passages, all of which have almost the same structure. We entered it through a collapsed tunnel, and the original road has collapsed. Well, it is not known whether there is an exit, but this crypt should not be an ancient tomb. , it seems that dead souls and ghosts are involved everywhere, so the ten tunnels around here probably represent the ten tunnels of the underworld.

The fat man asked: "Old Hu, are you talking nonsense? I heard that your statement is quite impressive. Why do you say that there are ten realms in Hades? Why not eight realms, nine realms or eleven realms?"

I said: "I remember that my grandfather had a map of water and land in the Underworld, and there were exactly ten realms of the underworld painted on it. As for what is not nine or eleven realms, I heard that it was because the Tang Dynasty divided the world into ten realms, Yin and Yin. Yang is relative, so there are ten tunnels in the underworld, but I’m not sure if this is the case with the ten tunnels. Where do we go to understand the ancient people’s mind? Anyway, if you want to turn passive into active, you have to go in and see for yourself. , if you are lucky, there may be other gaps in the landslide below here to climb out of."

The fat man thinks it makes sense. At this time, everyone has rested, so I still carried the old sheepskin with the fat man, marked the way we came, picked a passage at random, and walked in. The underground is very humid. The choking is so painful that people's brains hurt, and the swarms of rats are still disgusting. There are many rat holes in the cracks between the stone bricks along the way.

Not too far away, the collapse inside the tunnel blocked the way, so I had to turn around and go back. In another tunnel, I finally found a shaft with a small space at the top, which could only accommodate one person. When I went up, I found that the shaft leading to the upper part of the tunnel was blocked by a piece of gray rock. I touched it with my hand and found that the gray slab was a large piece of cement with iron rings on it. The strangest thing was cement. There are also some Arabic numbers on the surface of the board, like some kind of serial number. I was eager to leave this gloomy and damp cave, and I didn’t care to look carefully at the meaning of those numbers. I held the kerosene lamp in my mouth and stretched out my arms Pushing hard, the heavy cement block was only pushed open by a narrow gap, and the cold wind on the ground rushed in, but I exhausted all my strength, and the cement slab remained motionless and could not be pushed away any more. up.

I climbed down the shaft and told my companions about the situation above. Fatty and Ding Sitian were very surprised: "Did you read it wrong? This Baiyan Cave should be a historic site, although we have no way of knowing what it is for. I know, but how come there are cement boards with numbers?" However, we don't know exactly when the foreign characters were introduced into China, and we don't plan to do research on this, just want to get out as soon as possible.

Of the three of us, the fat man is the strongest. I can't do anything about the cement slab, so I had to let him try again. The fat man took off his coat, took off his hat, rolled up his sleeves and climbed up the shaft, cursing while listening to his luck. While pushing the cement that pressed the shaft, protruding all the muscles and bones of the whole body, and using all the brute force, he shouted: "Open..." He pushed the cement stone slab aside abruptly, and the dim starlight outside immediately fell down. Letting out a sigh of relief, I couldn't help but feel a sense of seeing the sun again.

The fat man climbed up to the ground first, and Ding Sitian and I supported the old sheepskin underneath. The fat man picked him up and dragged him out of the tunnel. It was in the forest of the "Hundred Eyes Cave", there were no gnats or wild rats here, and there was silence everywhere.

While Fatty and I were looking around to find out the direction, Ding Sitian held the gas lamp and looked at the cement cover curiously: "Hey... there are words on it besides the code... Water supply troops... Bo 3916..."

(Note: The water supply unit - during World War II, the Japanese army set up the world's largest secret military organization for the research and preparation of bacterial warfare. It has several independent units under its jurisdiction. Out of secret motives, they all use the "epidemic prevention, water supply" "Force as a code name.)
(To be continued, if you want to know what happens next, please visit www.CMFU.COM, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)
(End of this chapter)