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Chapter 21 The Man-eating Coffin Stone
"Since we all know the location, why is your cow still missing? Didn't everyone look for it?" I couldn't help but wondered again.

"It's to blame that the people in our village were too timid at that time. Those adults didn't dare to look for that stone, let alone our children. Everyone was afraid that the coffin stone would eat us, even those who Few of the families whose children were eaten dared to go to investigate. You said that other people were even more afraid to go. Everyone just thought that the bones were gone anyway, and it would be fine if they didn’t go there in the future. They lost their lives in vain. It's a good deal." Xiao Fang seemed a little guilty, maybe when he was talking about a coward, he thought that he would not dare to go there either!

"Originally, I didn't go to the east mountain to herd the cattle that day, but went to the neighboring mountain, but the cattle were lost by myself. It's all my fault. Alas, my family almost scolded me to death at that time. In fact, I was also very sad. "

"Since everyone is afraid to go, is it true that no one is looking for that stone afterwards?"

"Yes, after my cattle were also lost, everyone was afraid that other things would happen. Fortunately, the errant master found a Taoist friend of his, who said that he could suppress demons and eliminate evil spirits. In the end The Taoist brought some equipment, and picked a few young men with strong yang energy from the village to go to the top of Dongshan, saying that he wanted to collect the evil spirits in the stone and smash the stone to prevent it from continuing to practice and become a demon. Creatures. Later, after they came back after collecting the evil spirits, I heard about the specific situation of the coffin stone."

From Xiaofang's mouth, I learned that the hidden stone is really mysterious, and it is actually among the most lush forests on the east mountain.Because there are many thorns and dead trees, there is a strong sense of gloom and corrosion. What's even more amazing is that the stone is still hidden at the exit of an ancient tomb that is not easy to find.

The Taoist priest knew the location of the coffin stone with just a compass and two copper coins. Before entering the forest, he sprayed some water on himself and his companions, and he didn't know what was mixed in the water. Anyway, according to the taste and color, it is not the drinking water we usually drink.Spraying water is for accidents, and it is said to be able to block evil spirits and not be disturbed or confused.

After cutting off the branches and vines blocking the way, a strange stone appeared before everyone's eyes.The stone was about two meters long and a little more than one meter wide, with a wide top and a narrow bottom, and its raised head was consistent with the appearance of the coffin.Within a radius of two meters around the coffin stone, nothing grows, and the entire ground is covered with dark red soil that seems to have been soaked in countless blood for hundreds of years.

As soon as they arrived in front of the coffin stone, everyone felt their heart beating faster, their breathing difficult, and their minds became muddy like a paste, and a kind of uneasy fear rose from the bottom of their hearts.The cold breath came to the face, mixed with the disgusting smell of blood and corrosion, the young men were almost unable to hold on. Fortunately, the Taoist master sprayed some water on himself, otherwise he might not have reached the stone. He was deceived by the evil spirits inside and swallowed it.

After chanting the incantation, the Taoist priest took out the magic weapon and did not know what to smear on it, and asked everyone to be firm in their minds and work together to chop at the stone with the sword and ax in their hands, otherwise they would fail with one blow and fear future troubles. "Bold and evil spirit, don't go to the underworld and reincarnate in this world to do evil, see if I don't deal with you..." The Taoist shouted suddenly, his momentum suddenly changed, his whole body was full of solemnity and sacredness, following this drink he The mahogany sword in his hand and everyone's weapons chopped towards the middle of the raised coffin stone.Just one moment, the whole stone shattered, and there was a red liquid that splashed out along with the stone. Just smelling it, you could tell it was the smell of blood.

Just broke the stone?It's too simple.The Taoist priest answered when everyone still lamented that things were too simple.Fortunately, the number of living creatures that the evil spirits turned into stones from this coffin are still relatively small, and their power is not strong enough, otherwise it would be over when they really cultivated into elves.

After careful inspection, everyone was surprised to find that there was a skeleton in the middle of the stone, judging from the size, it should be an underage girl.Judging from the texture of the stone, this is indeed a fossil of the coffin formed by wind and rain. What is even more strange is that there are some children's clothing fragments and buttons among the stones, as well as a few undigested cow bones.

How on earth did these things get swallowed by stones?How did the children and the cow get to this place?These are questions that even Taoists cannot answer.

After cleaning up the surrounding environment, people also found a hole covered by moss and weeds. The bricks and stones on the hole have exquisite patterns, but they are probably old and somewhat unclear.After continuing to dig along these bricks and stones, everyone found that this was actually the site of an ancient tomb. There were some scattered funerary objects and some broken pottery fragments in the tomb. No records about the owner of the tomb were found. A gold bead was found in the dirt, which seemed to be scattered from a whole string of gold bracelets.

According to the above situation, the Taoist made some speculations about the little girl in the coffin.This little girl should have lived in ancient times 900 years ago or even more distant. She had a prominent family background and died young due to illness. She was buried here by her father and built a luxurious tomb. Masonry and coffins made of good wood can be judged.

I don't know whether it was encountered by tomb robbers or because of the impact of water in the tomb, the coffin was left outside the tomb shortly after it was buried, exposing it to the square inch of the mountain forest.Because the grievances were still there and the coffin was moved out of the tomb by external force after death, the ghost of the girl in the coffin wandered around the coffin for a long time, unwilling to reincarnate in the underworld, hoping to put her coffin back into the tomb.

Day after day, year after year, disappointment and resentment gradually increased the evil spirit in the girl's ghost, and while absorbing the rotten cold air from the dead animals and plants in the forest, her soul became an evil spirit.Later, the coffin also became a fossil, and her bones were trapped in it and could not be buried in the soil and could not come out, so her resentment increased greatly.

Because the trapped age is too long, she really wants to reincarnate as a human being, but she can't return to the dust, so she urgently starts to release evil spirits, disturb people's mind, devour living things, speed up her cultivation, so that she can break the coffin stone as soon as possible and reincarnate, but she doesn't know The more evil you do, the farther you will be from being a human being!Because she probably already knew that these people could break the hard coffin that trapped her bones, so she didn't do anything other than the initial evil interference just now.This is also a big reason why the whole thing woke up so smoothly.

Everyone lived up to expectations and returned to the village with good news, and the whole thing came to an end, except for a few memories of the parties, which is a story mixed with many people's self-imagining and guessing.Because he didn't know how many times it was spread by word of mouth before it reached Xiao Fang's ears, so he didn't dare to determine whether some details of this matter were true or false.It is only confirmed again and again that the stone did eat people and cattle, and the clothes fragments, buttons and cattle bones in the stone are the best proof.

The black night sky is like splashed ink, smearing the heavens and the earth. At this time, everything loses its color, leaving only dots of light twinkling in the sky.A strange scene in Snake Bay in the neighboring village is unfolding quietly. By the bay at one o'clock in the morning, a little girl in red is squatting motionless like this. Her black hair is scattered behind her like a waterfall. From the back, she looks like a naive The romantic children are admiring the scenery in the water.But looking down, there are dense red, yellow and black snakes writhing and dancing in the water beside the girl's feet.

She is Xiao Chu, who is called the snake girl by the neighbors. She used to be a lovely little girl.But now the girl in red who often appears by the Snake Bay late at night is a ghost who should have been reported to the underworld long ago, because she had drowned in this bay less than 1.5 meters deep when she was six years old.

The barking of dogs and the chirping of insects pierced the silence of the night.The unknown birds in the mountains sang one after another, like a woman's cry and a baby's strange laugh.

Xiao Chu was destined to be different from ordinary people since she was born, because she was born with yin and yang eyes and could predict death, which is probably one of the reasons for her early death.

It's strange to say that she was born on Ghost Festival, which is commonly known as ghost boy.In the middle of the night of July 12th, the gate between the underworld and the underworld opens, and all ghosts go out on holiday.Everyone in the village remembers that night, the whole village was thundering and lightning, but there was no rain at all. The sky was abnormally blood-red until [-] o'clock in the middle of the night.

The blue-green phosphorous fire illuminated the hills in the cemetery, and the undulating will-o'-the-wisps fluttered up and down continuously. From a distance, it looked like groups of ghosts carrying lanterns from the cemetery walking down the hill in groups.The eerie wind was blowing, and the trees on the entire hill were shaking crazily.Every household turned on the lights and closed the doors, and the windows of each room were closed tightly. The usually lively village seemed to be silent collectively, for fear of disturbing the purity of the ghosts and causing innocent disasters.

Just after 12 o'clock, a loud cry came from a family at the foot of the mountain.Chu Yu was born, when the gate of hell was wide open.A sound of cries pierced through the mountains and fields and reached the sky, and the black-red sky suddenly opened a crack in the middle, as if something had come out of it.

The wind and clouds were surging, and the ghost screams on the mountain were higher than the waves, and the whining sound matched the crying of the baby, which was an indescribably strange feeling.Xiao Chu's birth was too inappropriate. You must know that when the gate of ghosts opens, all ghosts will return to the world of heaven, and the sound of crying is the most likely to attract ghosts to come to the door.But she, who was supposed to be born two days later, was squeezed out of her mother's stomach so abruptly, which also caused her mother to bleed to death.This is a life that should not have been born at this time. No one knows what kind of coincidence caused her to be born two days ahead of her due date.However, a ghost boy who killed his mother, this doomed her future fate.

That night, people in the whole village did not sleep well, because the sound of knocking on the door, walking, talking, laughing, crying, hissing seemed to be close to their ears, and the sudden cry of a baby , the whole world has become a playground for ghosts as if it has become a hell.What's even more frightening is that Xiao Chu's eyes are glowing with fluorescence. At night, they shone with light green light like a cat's. Born with eyes open.

That night, the whole village where the ghosts on the mountain were making noise was full of yin, and the green ghost fires gathered at the door of Xiao Chu's house from the moment the cry came.A naked, blood-stained baby girl was lying on the bed alone, with strange eyes open.Beside her was a woman who had lost her breath. She was Xiao Chu's mother, a widow whose husband died in a car accident not long ago.

(End of this chapter)