Chapter 67: The Underground Palace Surprised
I handed the beautiful lady Gu's pistol at Tofu's hand and said, "If she comes again, you will shoot." Tofu held the pistol with her backhand and cursed, "Damn, she's all corpses, and it's useful to shoot."
Zhuan Rui behind him said: "The weakness of people is human, and the weakness of corpses is corpses. As long as she dares to appear, you shoot at her upper dantian." The so-called dantian in traditional human body science is divided into three dantians, upper, middle and lower dantian. The upper dantian is located in the center of the human eyebrows. It was considered by the ancients to be the place where the soul lives. The Danzhong point in the middle dantian is located in the center of the chest and is the life point of living people. The lower dantian is located in the lower abdomen and qi sea to store the essence of the human body. This traditional theory is inherited from the lineage, so in ghosts and theology, the upper dantian is also one of the methods to eliminate corpses and ghosts.
Although Tofu was cursing, he did not retreat and began to climb forward slowly. I could only see his feet. Everyone untied the equipment bag and pushed forward. It was extremely difficult. Now, Tofu has become our pioneer. While crawling, I cheered Tofu for fear that he would suddenly become cowardly and remained there.
After about twenty minutes of touching, we turned a corner in the Z-shaped hole. At this moment, Tofu was happy and said, "I saw the exit, hiss..." Then, he hissed suddenly, and then we heard a bang of gunshots in the narrow hole, which seemed even more deafening. The hole was impacted by this huge sound wave, and for a moment, the broken soil rolled down one after another, and the fascinating eyes were hot.
I spit out a mouthful of fishy soil and coughed, "Xiaodou, is she here?"
Tofu stopped in place and said, "No, Xiao Jing didn't see it, but we couldn't get out of the hole. There was a spider web, and a spider larger than a human head was squatting on it."
spider?
Gu Wenmin said in surprise: "There are spiders so deep underground?"
I said, "I know there is a kind of earth arachnid, which is said to be a remnant of the Cretaceous period. It is good at digging holes and living in the deep underground, feeding on gophers, young earth pythons, etc.." Then, I asked Tofu: "What does that spider look like? Does it have white patterns on its head, like the Peking Opera facebook?"
Tofu said, "Yes, how do you know!"
I said, "Don't be afraid, this is the earth spider. It doesn't eat people. Did you hit it? If you don't hit it, give it another shot." In fact, I said this to comfort the tofu. The earth spider is actually extremely cruel. He also feeds on other similar species and is good at storing prey. It is said that its spider silk is very sticky and can trap a human child. The most terrifying thing is that the thing is highly toxic. A pair of big ash in the mouth that has not yet been degraded can secrete venom, and a bite can poison a big cow.
If I tell the truth, don't you have to pee your pants in fright? The hole is narrow now and the tofu is blocked tightly in front of you. Only when he moves forward can we move forward. Therefore, I lied and encouraged Tofu to take action first. Otherwise, we will be in a big trouble when the earth spider crawls in.
Tofu is easy to fool. After hearing what I said, he immediately became arrogant and said, "It turns out that it is a bad thing, look at me." After that, he heard another gunshot, and Tofu said, "OK, I've shot it away." As he said that, he began to crawl forward.
In a moment, everyone finally found out the entrance of the cave. After being depressed in the thief hole for so long, everyone shook their hands and arms to move their muscles and bones, while moving, they observed the surrounding environment.
Outside the entrance of the cave was the spider shot to death by tofu. It was not completely dead yet, and several furry legs twitched from time to time. With the light of the headlight, we were now in a gourd-shaped cave. Not far away, there was a narrow round arching aisle, like the thin waist in the middle of the gourd.
And above our heads, there was the treetops of the Yellow Spring Ghost Tree. The thief hole of Grandpa and his group was so skillful that they not only avoided the poisonous needle, but also went straight to the ground.
This cave has very obvious artificial traces. There are fire troughs dug into square holes on the surrounding rocky and earth walls. They should be the place used to place to place torches a thousand years ago. Tofu hissed and looked around, saying, "This place seems to be dug out by hand. It seems that the disappearance of Zimu Kingdom has nothing to do with the earthquake, otherwise the cave would have been destroyed in the earthquake. What do you think is such a deep underground cave for?"
According to the height of the Yellow Spring Ghost Tree, we have already reached about a hundred meters, and this depth is terrifying. Why did the Guzmu people built such a deep underground cave? Why did they suddenly disappear into history? Is their disappearance related to this underground cave?
While observing, Tofu said, "Will Xiao Jing hide near here? Let's not be separated and walk together safely." This boy was timid, but I was also afraid of Xiao Jing, so I nodded and walked in front to open the road. The place was empty and the ground was a little wet, and I didn't know what it was for. While guarding everyone, they headed towards the waist of the gourd. When they reached their waist, I could no longer see the Yellow Spring Ghost Tree behind me, but at this moment, I suddenly glanced at the corner of my eyes, as if a white thing was hanging above the top of the cave.
I was shocked, stopped and looked up suddenly. In an instant, everyone exclaimed. It turned out that countless corpses in white clothes were hanging in the cave above our heads. These corpses were floating in white clothes, and their shadows were hidden in the darkness. If it weren't for the brightness of our headlights, it would be really hard to detect.
When I suddenly looked up and saw this scene, my heart skipped a beat, and it sank down like a stone fell. At this moment, Gu Wenmin's sharp eyes and suddenly said, "No, it seems to be some dummies." In the dim environment, I squinted my eyes and looked carefully. Sure enough, I found that these people hanging were originally mounted on wooden racks. A strange iron mask was tied to the top of the racks and covered their bodies with white clothes. At first glance, they looked like a hanger.
Gu Wenmin said: "These dummies wear masks, which seem to represent the people of the Earth Ghost Clan."
Tofu said: "The whole dummy is scaring people here. It seems that the people in Zimu Kingdom are not as terrifying as the legend."
At this time, Zhuan Rui seemed to have thought of something, looked at Tofu, and said lukewarmly: "What do you know? This is called the 'hanging corpse array', which is an evil array in the ancient tomb. Look, these people are hanging on top, with masks facing down, are they like staring at us?" I looked up and saw that although the masks were tied to wooden shelves, the angle was a bit drooping, just like the person hanging on top was looking down at us. Even though they knew that these were dummies, they still made people feel a little creepy.
I have also heard of the hanging corpse formation. The ancients believed in ghosts and gods. In some large tombs, in addition to the anti-theft technology of the dark crossbow mechanism, some evil formations were often set up to block tomb robbers. For example, the corpse raising bureau encountered in Princess Geer's tomb and the strange jade bridge was one. The hanging corpse formation was initially replaced by a dummy and hung at the entrance of the underground palace to scare tomb robbers. Later, it evolved into a formation with a living person to bury for burial. Later, some evil magic was added, which made the hanging corpse formation from the initial scare and warning tomb robbers to a dangerous and extremely evil formation.
The hanging corpse array in front of us is a dummy made of wood, that is, it is still in its initial stage, which mainly plays a role in intimidation.
I found it strange and said, "This hanging corpse formation has been circulating for a long time and is used for protection of the underground palace. How could it appear here? Could it be..." My eyes couldn't help but look at the waist of the gourd. Behind the waist was a wider space. When our lights came across, it couldn't be shining. Everyone obviously thought of a place: There is a hanging corpse formation here. Could it be that behind the waist of the gourd is an underground ancient tomb that was a thousand years ago?
Who is the owner of the tomb?
We ignored the original hanging corpse formation above our heads, but walked into the space behind the gourd waist with cautious steps.
As soon as he entered, Gu Wenmin shivered and said, "It's so cold." Tofu also shrank his neck and said, "This temperature difference is too strong."
We looked around and immediately discovered the source of the cold air. To be precise, this is not cold air, but yin air.
The cave is irregularly rectangular, with a spacious avenue in the center. On both sides of the avenue are typical ancient burial pits for livestock. At first glance, it is covered with ceramic clay pots and sheep heads and cow bones. On the two walls on the left and right sides of the cave, there are countless holes dug into square holes.
The pits are arranged in a very orderly manner, just like the square lattice writing book I used when I was a child. Due to the location, we cannot see how deep the pits are, but judging from the things vaguely exposed at the entrance of the cave, there is a kind of black bamboo strip inside.
When I came here, I had a general understanding of the customs and customs of the cinnamon land. I immediately recognized that the black bamboo shoots were made of a plant similar to dog tail grass. They were called black bamboo mats. They had a fragrant taste and had a natural deworming effect.
There are many insects and snakes in the cinnamon field, and mosquitoes and flies are fighting. In ancient times, the people of the cinnamon field used this straw to make bamboo mats and slept under their bodies. They could be protected from mosquito bites in summer. Until modern times, in some remote mountainous areas, they were still far away from mosquito coils and insecticides, and slept in summer through ancient methods.
In addition to sleeping with living people, black bamboo mats are usually wrapped in black bamboo when they are put into the coffin, indicating that things are like life. Although they do not have the luxury of the tombs of emperors, generals and ministers, they have been passed down. Now, with the compulsory nature of cremation and people gradually pay less attention to funerals, this custom of wrapping corpses with black bamboo mats is rare.
Chapter completed!