Mantra

Chapter 61

The three words "Yin Bing Tomb" were definitely not carved on it temporarily.

Under the double illumination of the moonlight and the mobile phone, those two ancient fonts surprisingly radiated a dark red vicissitudes of life.

The... grave of the Yin soldiers? !

Under the moonlight, I can see that the tomb of the "Yin Bing Tomb" is not big.Compared with the majestic and full of ancient rhyme tombstone, it looks shabby and small.Suddenly, I even felt that it was smaller than the tombs of ordinary people in the countryside.

This situation will inevitably make people think of something.

The first thing I thought of was the black moldy glutinous rice near the three tables of "Yin Banquet" under the "stone man" beside Lao Qi Road, and the gray cat wrapped only in Wang Hou's jacket.

Especially the gray cat, which impressed me so deeply that when I think of it, I can't help but shudder.

The ghostly eyes of the cat, the moldy glutinous rice all over his body, and the faint smell of blood that still exists on my body made me shudder.

This bloody smell seems to remind me at this moment... There is no connection between the gray cat and this grave, right? !
While I was thinking indifferently, Zhao Hong led his dog and walked in from the woodland one after the other with little Ah Si.

Three people and one dog were a little dumbfounded looking at this ancient tomb specially built for the "Yin soldiers".

I have no idea what this means, and I can't figure out why Wang Hou's cell phone is on the stone altar in front of the tomb.

"This is a very old tomb!" Little Ah Si looked at the tomb from afar and said, "The tombs of ancient tombs will gradually collapse, and the longer the days, the more severe the collapse will be. Even earthen tombs over a thousand years old are sunken , I look at this grave, at least five or six hundred years..."

"I'll go!" I turned around and listened to Xiao Si's expert explanation, and couldn't help asking: "Have you ever robbed a tomb? You know this..."

Ah Si's next answer made me widen my eyes.

He actually admitted it.

Ah Si told me that when he was begging for food, he was once tricked into joining a gang of tomb robbers, and he really did the job of "touching the gold captain" for half a year.

Ah Si recalled that the reason why the tomb robbers took a fancy to him was because he was short, and he was able to do the work of drilling tunnels with ease, and he "shipped" faster than ordinary people when he "fighted upside down".

However, also because of his short stature, the gang of tomb robbers often bullied him, let him do the most dangerous work, but even withheld his salary in different ways, and took revenge on him for the uneven distribution of spoils.

Later, when those tomb robbers stole a "Scorpion Tomb" in Baoshan, Yunnan, they all fell into it, and none of them died. Only Ah Si barely escaped by virtue of his small size. Dare to get involved in that business.

When he said this, little Ah Si suddenly looked up to the sky and screamed: "The past is too bad to look back on! It's all the mistakes I made when I was young and ignorant! If I had learned the 'Law of Cultural Relics' earlier, how could I have fallen into the company of criminals? ..."

Ah Si Mochizuki's expression of long sigh made me feel uncomfortable, so I casually taunted him and said:
"Okay, it's like being abducted by someone else. If you study the law, you will be killed by a crime! If you have the time to express your thoughts, use your professional knowledge... Tell me why Wang Hou's mobile phone is in this Yinbing grave Come on? What is in this grave?"

Facing my expectations, little Ah Si sticks out his long tongue, expressing his bewilderment.

I saw that he couldn't say anything, so I was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and I gave Zhao Hong a wink and said: "Old Zhao, you are a local, do you know how particular this 'grave' is?"

Old Zhao was smoking. He scratched the back of his fat head, but couldn't say anything.

At this point, we have to admit that the clue we just found is broken again.

In desperation, the three of us had no choice but to walk around the Yinbing Tomb first, and try to find any clues about the disappearance of Wang Hou and Xian Hongye while being cautious.

As soon as I walked, I realized that the land near the tomb was very difficult to walk, and there was a danger of falling at every step, so I was also extra careful.

But even so, when I walked six or seven steps around the grave, I was still not sure where I was, and with a "click", I stepped on something.

The sound was crisp and sweet, which made me hurriedly lower my head, and then, I immediately saw a piece of broken bone.

It seems that my foot must have stepped on these bones.

The bones that I crushed were already unrecognizable. In the mess, I can only guess what kind of small animal remains, and the most likely ones are the bones in this grave.

But... why are the bones outside the tomb?
I don't know, nor am I interested.So, I looked up and continued to look for useful information.

What I didn't expect was that just when I looked up and wanted to move on, little Ah Si rushed over to me.

After he rushed to my side, he hurriedly pulled down my cuffs, and then pointed to the tomb of this tomb.

"What?" I don't understand.

"This tomb..." Little Ah Si trembled a little with his pointing hand, "...it's a tomb of bones!"

I don't know what a "Bone Tomb" is, but I know that little Ah Si must have seen something rather sinister from this tomb, otherwise he wouldn't speak in such a hurry and be terrified, let alone shake his hands.

Following Ah Si's words and gestures, I immediately picked up the flashlight, walked forward a few steps, and came straight to the tomb which was not that big.

At that moment, I completely saw the "true face" of this tomb.

Immediately, I showed the same astonishment and inexplicable shock as Xiao Ah Si, and... a little more shock.

Under the moonlight, the tomb looked gray and white at first glance, much smaller and darker than ordinary old tombs.But when I looked carefully, I found that the tomb was very unusual.

Because what was covered on it was not soil, but cat corpses of varying degrees of corruption.

The cat corpses are densely packed, most of which are rotten and only bones are left, but many of them still have hair, skin bags and even eyeballs. They are intertwined, scattered, and closely arranged. The head of each cat is facing the outside of the tomb , bared his fangs, and roared outrageously.

Hundreds of cat corpses make up this small "graveyard". The sharp fangs on the cat's head are sharp and angular, and they glow green and cold under the moonlight, making our backs numb.

Little Ah Si followed me and pointed out: "Bone mounds are tombs made of bones."

I didn't answer him, but I was fascinated and continued to observe this puzzling "masterpiece" in a state of apprehension.

After a while, I suddenly realized that the most amazing thing about this tomb is the way the bones are squeezed out.

The stack of cat corpses was very special, completely criss-crossed, like a knitted sweater, each dead cat's paws and tails were entangled with the cat corpses beside him, hooked together.

In this way, cats and cats are spread and connected, like a finely woven net, enclosing all the bones on the tomb, and the occasional gaps are also covered by the hair of the cat corpse and the gray glutinous rice. added together.

This is a real "cat grave"!

Facing the unique tomb, Ah Si and I were all confused, and I didn't know what was going on. Why are there cats on the Yinbing Tomb?Why is there glutinous rice?Could it be that cats are evil soldiers?And glutinous rice is really the ration of Yin soldiers? !

In a daze, I couldn't analyze the information clearly, and even for a while, I couldn't figure out whether this grave was erected by a human...or a cat.

If this grave was done by a human, then the guy who built this grave is perverted enough, either he likes cats very much, or he hates cats very much, but no matter what kind of feelings, in my opinion, they are all deformed.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, this tomb is a unique unknown phenomenon in nature, and it is a "cemetery" where the nearby cats and cats collectively come to sleep forever.

If it is the latter possibility, I can't help but ask, what kind of power has attracted these creatures here?Is it the unique atmosphere of the mountains and rivers here, or something buried under the tomb...

What exactly?I have no idea.

Because of my ignorance, I couldn't help but turned my head and asked Ah Si: "Si, do you know what this cat corpse grave means?"

"This..." Little Ah Si hesitated to speak, as if he had something to consider.

Seeing his shyness, I felt upset, so I urged him, "There are no policemen here, don't scribble, just tell me if you know."

After thinking about it, Ah Si still opened his mouth and told me what he knew.

According to him, the elder brother who led him to rob the tomb once "opened" a similar bone tomb in Changsha.

According to that person's recollection, the appearance of that mound was similar to this one, the only difference was that instead of cat bones, it was piled up with dog bones.

The boss of Ah Si when he robbed the tomb heard from the Changsha locals that it was said that what was buried in the bone mound was a "sloughed out dog essence" that had attained enlightenment and became immortal.

Ah Si told me: "They thought that the things left by the goblins must be treasures! So they went to steal them."

Later, the tomb robber took a lot of effort to pull away the pile of dead dog bones. Among the rotten dog corpses, all he got was a copper box.

"What's in the box?" I asked immediately.

Ah Si recalled a little playfully: "How should I put it... To put it bluntly, it is the slough of the 'wild dog spirit' who became an immortal. To put it bluntly, it is a dog's tooth! It is not as valuable as the box containing it Woolen cloth."

Ah Si's answer left me speechless, but what he said next made me even more speechless.

When talking about this, Ah Si told me that after his former boss got the dog tooth, he insisted that the thing could ward off evil spirits, and even made it into a talisman and carried it with him every day, but the result was very unsatisfactory. He died within a year. In the "Scorpion Tomb" in Baoshan, Yunnan, not even the bones were left.

After that incident, little Ah Si, who escaped from death, no longer believed in ghosts.

"...So, feudal superstition kills people! It's better to study law!" Ah Si recalled this, sighing and sighing.

I nodded to dismiss him, and stared carefully at this hideous tomb for a while.

If things were as Ah Si said, then there should be some remains of "cat spirits and dog monsters" buried in this cat grave, but why is it not called the cat grave, but the "Yin Soldier Tomb"?

Could it be that Yin soldiers are cats?
Or, there is also a copper box underneath, hiding some ancient symbols that are regarded as miracles by the locals?

To be honest, I'm not interested in it.

After all, what's buried there has nothing to do with us at all. If it was a normal day of strolling in the garden, I might go to find out, but now, I don't care.

The disappearance of Wang Hou and Hongye, and the "free food Gu" on us are all fatal things.With these things under pressure, who would take care of others.

But just when I was about to divert my attention to other places, something suddenly happened to Zhao Hong, which made us have to refocus our attention on this weird tomb again.

Without warning, Zhao Hong's black dog roared again like an alarm, and the object of its roar... was a cat's head on the tomb.

(End of this chapter)