Ghost Blowing Lamp II

Chapter 72

On the soil in front of the gate of the building, there is a trace extending to the back mountain, which was left by someone dragging things. The "Hundred Eyes Cave" has a rare natural environment in Fengshui. Originally, the temperature difference between day and night in the grassland and desert is huge. But it is not obvious here. The overall temperature and humidity are high. In addition, the special ingredients in the soil have a natural preservation effect on the corpses. Most of the dead bodies have feather-like corpse hairs. Find a second such place.

It is precisely because of the unique soil that the gaps between the soil particles are large, so the soil is loose and soft, which makes the drag mark on the ground very obvious. When we first arrived at the main building of the research institute, we did not see this trace. Don’t ask , it must be Lao Yangpi who dragged the yellow leather copper box into the mountain. Although the copper box is not big, it will be very difficult to carry it for a long time. He dragged and dragged the copper box into the corpse cave , God knows what he will do next.

Ding Sitian always thinks about the best. She thinks that maybe Lao Yangpi is looking for a place to destroy the dangerous soul-calling box, so as not to stay in the world. Before I see Lao Yangpi, it is difficult to make a conclusion. Well, then the three of them followed the trail up the mountain.

The itchy hands of Fatty and I were getting unbearable, but we didn't dare to scratch them, water flowed as soon as we touched them, and we couldn't help breathing in the pain. I was afraid that Ding Sitian would worry or blame her for hurting us, so I didn't. He dared to tell her that he was poisoned, so he had to endure it forcefully, but it was really hard to say how long he could persist in this situation.

But what made me most gratified was that Ding Sitian's life was finally saved. Seeing that she has recovered a lot physically and mentally, the pressure in my heart has also been relieved a lot. The hill, this hillside is not known to be caused by landslides or artificial blasting operations. It presents a section of the mountain body, and all the large and small holes in the belly of the mountain are undoubtedly exposed. It is huge, like a big black hole, if you want to go deep, this huge mouth-like cave is the only passage.

We helped each other to go into the cave. There were ghost fires and phosphorescent lights inside, and the scenery was faintly visible, but it was not completely dark. There were no forked roads in this cave. It was very high and wide, and the stone walls were cool. , about [-] steps away, is a step-shaped deep cave with the size of four or five football fields. The surrounding square earth platforms go down layer by layer, in the shape of an inverted pyramid. Judging from the various tools and lighting facilities left inside , This is a large-scale excavation operation site, but the area is too big. I was worrying about how to trace the traces left by Lao Yangpi. Suddenly, Ding Sitian, who was following me, swayed and vomited a mouthful of black blood. Collapsed to the ground.

Ding Sitian suddenly spit out a mouthful of black blood and fell to the ground. Fatty and I panicked, and hurriedly helped her to sit against the wall. I thought that the poison she had been poisoned by Shou Gongxiang had been suppressed by Shou Gongxiang, but who would have expected it? I vomited black blood, and I felt very uneasy, wondering if I had overdose?Or did it not play a detoxification effect at all, just delaying the onset of toxicity?
But Ding Sitian struggled to stand up and continue to look for Lao Yangpi: "It's okay... I just feel a little stuffy in my heart, but I feel more comfortable after spitting up this mouthful of blood. I'll be fine after a short rest, Bayi, you and Xiao What kind of antidote did Fatty give me? Why do I feel the taste in my mouth..." As he spoke, he staggered to his feet and wanted to move forward.

I saw that she was barely holding on, and it is difficult to judge her physical condition right now, but vomiting black blood is definitely not a good sign, but Ding Sitian is very stubborn, so I had to help her and continue to move forward, and she asked her how much she was eating What kind of antidote is it? Naturally, I dare not tell her the truth that what I ate was the meat lumps on the Dashou Gongbiao itself. I just said: "Good medicine is bitter and good for the disease. It is because medicine is three-point poisonous. Medicine, of course, is not as delicious as fruit candy, and This research institute has been abandoned for many years, and although the medicines stored in the warehouse have not deteriorated, they will inevitably have some peculiar smell, when we return to the pastoral area, I will tell you about the origin of this antidote, I promise you will find it interesting."

The fat man said: "That's right, I promise Chairman Mao that you will find it interesting, so before you listen to Lao Hu explaining the story of medicine, you'd better review Ostrovsky's "How the Steel Was Tempered" again, Be mentally prepared."

I glared at the fat man, fortunately Ding Sitian didn't understand too much, I thought the fat man was asking her to learn "Paul Kochakin"'s tenacious perseverance in facing the serious illness, so I didn't ask any more questions, I saw her face like gold paper, Walking was very difficult, but I knew that it would be futile to persuade her to wait outside the cave. This girl is too stubborn, and she will never turn back easily when she decides on one thing, so I had no choice but to let the fat man carry her on her back. Go deep into the cave and look for the missing old sheepskin.

There are flickering lights everywhere in the mountainside, like will-o’-the-wisps and ores. With these many star-like lights, we can roughly see the outline of this huge excavation site. It is difficult to see what is in the deepest part from the outside, but there are some limbs of dead bodies exposed in every layer of loess above, some with half of their heads, and some with an arm, all of which have not yet been dug out of the soil, almost all of them. All the corpses were feathered, and they seemed to be crawling out of the soil at any time. Looking at a corner of it, one can imagine that this excavation site used to be like a mass grave, and an unknown number of ancient corpses were buried.

Probably the so-called "tortoise's resting place" in Feng Shui is here. The special soil composition makes the corpse appear in a state similar to feathering, but what is the use of this?The reason why so many people were sincerely buried in this cave after death was because of their understanding and fear of the law of life and death, they could not accept the fact that people can only live once , I hope that life can continue in other forms after death, so there are legends such as Hades and the Underworld. To disrespect, but do not know how to feel.

There are corpses of all ages, men and women, all in strange costumes, which we have never seen before. Today, we have seen too many corpses with strange shapes. Our nerves are a little numb to the dead, but standing in front of the excavation site where thousands of people hide their corpses , Looking at the countless layers of zombies, I still feel a little terrified, no wonder it is said that there are [-] layers of hell in this ghost yamen, and the living people will be scared to death when they arrive here.

This is a big cave full of dead bodies. Except for the three of us, there is no living person at all. God knows what Lao Yangpi is doing here dragging the copper box. The pile of loess pits is meaningless, and it is likely that they walked deeper into the cave, so they continued to walk along the aisle on the edge of the excavation site. He hastened to come back.

Fatty saw that there was no one there, and his heart became more and more anxious. Subjectively, he always believed that Lao Yangpi had defected to the enemy and treason. , to disintegrate Lao Yangpi’s mentality through propaganda, I thought to myself that this cave is too big, and it’s not a solution for us blind people to find it like riding a blind horse. Why don’t we just follow what the fat man said and shout first, if Lao Yangpi hides nearby , Maybe he could persuade him to change his mind and come out of the cave, so he nodded in agreement.

At that moment, the fat man yelled into the depths of the cave: "I said Lao Yangpi, but those who fight against each other rely on their craftsmanship to eat. It is a contradiction among the people with us. Don't try to join the Soviet revisionists and do stupid things that are self-defeating from the people." Ah, that's a dead end... Bozhilev betrayed Marxism, Leninism, and the October Revolution. Moscow is crying, and the Monument to the Unknown Hero is also crying... You don't want two pieces of cream The bread will be repaired to the end, it doesn’t matter if you stand on the wrong team, you just stand on it again..."

I couldn't listen anymore, so I quickly stopped Fatty, they were all shouting nonsense, and my level was too low, I was about to continue promoting policies to Lao Yangpi for him, but was grabbed by Ding Sitian, she Pointing to his feet, he said, "Look, there is a road going down here, and there are fresh marks left by dragging heavy objects on it. Did the old sheepskin grandpa go down to the depths of the excavation site from here?"

I looked down and saw that, as Ding Sitian said, every corner of the excavation site has gentle stone slopes, which twist and turn and extend to the depths. The stone slopes are all paved with stones, and they may have been buried in the In the soil, every layer of corpses was buried to cover a section, and later they were dug out by the Japanese. The scattered debris and mudstone in the soil layer filled the slope, and there were traces of dragging things on the debris , the evil wind howled in the cave, and the cool air was very smooth. If the traces on the slope were left for a long time, they would never be as clear as they are now, which means that the old sheepskin probably didn't go down for long.

The three of us were eager to find the old sheepskin back, and then leave this nightmarish "Hundred Eyes Cave" as soon as possible. Seeing that we finally had a clue, we gathered our energy and walked down the stone road. The feeling of this corpse cave is different, gradually lower and lower, almost close to the corpse of the loess cross section, the stone path is rather narrow, and the body rubs against the arms, hands and feet of the dead man protruding from the soil from time to time, cold and not The touch of being angry makes people's nerves even more tense.

Even though they were afraid and exhausted, no one offered to give up, and they all went down bravely. The fat man hung an engineer lighting tube on his chest to explore the way ahead, and the three of them held hands and slowly walked down the winding stone road. Rubbing, looking down, the middle section of the road is getting darker and darker, and the deepest part is like a huge strange mouth, which looks gray and hazy, but it is not pitch black, which is very unusual , The fat man said to us: "Why is this big earth pit where dead people are buried so deep? What do you think will be in the deepest place?"

Ding Sitian said: "It's not a pit. There are so many corpses buried here, and there are probably countless corpses underneath. This is a big tomb with tens of thousands of people buried. I don't know how deep the old sheepskin grandpa went to this big tomb." What are you going to do here..." After she finished speaking, she couldn't help worrying about Lao Yangpi again, she wanted to speed up her pace, but her legs and feet were so weak that she would almost fall down again if she wasn't pulled by me and the fat man.

I felt cold sweat on her palms, and I knew she was worried or frightened, so I thought: "This excavation site of the Japanese devils is obviously digging deeper and deeper. Could it be that there are important things under the layers of corpses?" Could it be..." I was worried that under this ancient tomb of ten thousand people would be the hell where the legendary "foehn" blows out, so I had to be more cautious, so I told Fatty and Ding Sitian not to worry, even the rats would have to get out of the hole Let’s calculate first, so we should be more careful, walk slowly and use our brains more, and carefully observe everything here, so that if we encounter danger, we can advance and retreat in a certain way.

Ding Sitian agreed with me very much. She asked me: "Your grandfather seemed to be a Fengshui master. You learned a lot of miscellaneous things from him. All the corpses in this big tomb are dead and not rotted. Is the feng shui reason right? They...shouldn't suddenly come back to life, right?"

I knew that she was going around the corner and wanted me to find a reason not to be afraid, so I said to her: "My grandpa's set is all about the four olds. Although I think the things he said are reasonable in recent years, but We still can’t listen to one’s side.” As far as I know, besides Feng Shui, there are many other factors. After a person’s death, the body usually rots due to the action of bacteria, but this kind of bacteria that makes the dead body rot , need to live in a moderate temperature and relatively humid environment, the climate is cold, or the weather is dry and hot, such as deserts and snow-capped mountains, this kind of bacteria will not exist, so the mummified corpses in the desert and the ice corpses on the snow-capped mountains will not rot.

There are also man-made factors, such as the death of the deceased. The wood of the coffin is thick and elegant, and the material is airtight. Lime and charcoal are placed in the coffin to prevent moisture, forming a dry and constant temperature closed space, so that bacteria cannot enter the coffin. activities, the corpse in the coffin is not easy to decompose, and may become a mummy, or even a wet corpse that still has moisture. In addition, there are some special cases, such as dying of cholera, or being tortured by disease during life, in Before dying, most of the water in the body has been lost. After death, it will quickly become a mummified corpse, which is not easy to rot and disintegrate. The mummified corpse is shriveled and weighs more than half of the new dead. and hazel, hair and nails may continue to grow.

The most rare is corpse wax, such as obese or fat corpses, if they are thrown into the river or buried in saline-alkali soil, it is easy to form corpse wax on the surface of the corpse, so that the dead corpse does not rot, because in the water flow, the corpse produces The spoilage will be washed away by the water, and the spoilage bacteria will also be taken away by the water, and the fat in the corpse will become something like soap, which is slippery and greasy, called "corpse wax". If the salt and alkali invade the corpse, This creamy corpse paste is also produced. The corpse is wrapped in corpse wax, so it is not easy to rot.

When I was in middle school, I visited an exhibition of corpse specimens organized by the Public Security Bureau. At that time, I visited it as a kind of popular science knowledge to break superstition. I watched it with my grandfather Hu Guohua. He said that although the exhibition was scientific and reasonable, but It’s not comprehensive. There are too many reasons why people don’t rot after death. It’s not possible for such a small exhibition to cover them all. However, I dare not tell Ding Sitian about the special things my grandfather said. The memory of the popular science exhibition was told to her according to the gourd, so that she no longer had to worry about the dead in the grave.

However, a person with a normal imagination can easily associate with what he hears. The more scientifically speaking, the more people will think of some feudal superstition legends, especially the fat man's untimely mouthful of "ghosts", always muttering This ghost yamen spreads so evil, I don’t feel anything when I walk in the depths now, I can’t see a ghost, isn’t it just a pile of hairy dead bodies, what the hell is the big deal, we are suspicious in the crematorium Some people thought that there was a ghost there, but in fact it was the old Huang Pizi who was causing trouble. It seems that the ghost was born from the heart and disturbed by mediocrity. Our minds armed with Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought should not believe in the theory of idealism. This is a shame. , is a disgrace to materialists all over the world, but why are they fooled again and again? It seems that the lessons of history are not always a lesson for future generations. This is the objective law of class struggle, not Transferred by the will of man...

Amidst the fat man's nagging sound of making excuses for himself, we walked around in circles to the end of the spiraling and falling stone path. There is a hole here, which is blocked by piles of white round gravel, and many oriental ghost symbols are pasted on it. The Japanese devils suspect that the Baiyan Cave is haunted by ghosts. There are similar ghost-suppressing charms in many places, including the peculiar structure of the incinerator, all for the purpose of warding off evil spirits, but the so-called haunted may be just haunted.

The gravel wall in front of us has been ripped away, and a large hole is exposed in front of us, with a gray light shining inside. I thought this big tomb was the bottom layer, who would have thought that there would be a deeper one below. Space, we didn't dare to go in directly, we called Lao Yangpi a few times at the entrance of the cave, but we couldn't see a response, so we had to decide to go deeper, we didn't believe that the cave was bottomless.

The fat man was still the first to clear the way. He held the Kangxi treasure knife, and while calling Lao Yangpi's name, he walked in with one foot deep and one foot shallow. I supported Ding Sitian and followed him, and walked twenty steps. Suddenly stopped, and whispered to us in a flustered look: "Old Hu, Si Tian, ​​which of you two said there was no ghost just now? It's too irresponsible. Look ahead...then...what are those?"

I walked up a few steps, looked forward, and felt goosebumps all over my body, the secret passage is not good, such a large piece of ancient buildings and palaces, where the hell is this?Moreover, there seemed to be something moving in those ancient buildings. Could it be that they had strayed into the Hall of Yama.

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