Chapter 423: Beast face and human body, a sunken ship with a light head and a heavy tail (5k big chapter)
The sun is shining high, and the heaven and earth are completely bright.
On the crystal clear sea, under the direct sunlight, the blue glow shines brightly.
An old object and ancient ship floats quietly on the vast desert sea. The ancient ship is as small as a fallen leaf floating on the water, making gentle ripples.
The desert is a desert where the wind is bone-chilling at night and can freeze people to death, but it is so hot during the day that the sun makes people sweat profusely on their backs and on their foreheads.
Fortunately, the water here is very clean, so a boatload of people and livestock don't have to worry about the difficulty of drinking water in the desert.
The wind was leaking from all sides, and the doors and windows had long since disappeared. As soon as Ari got off the cabin to take care of the camels and sheep, the sun was unbearable to him from the boat to the cabin. Even through a turban, he still felt a headache.
Feeling as hot as if he was on fire, he quickly quickened his pace and ran into the ship building.
After running to a shady place and drinking half a bottle of water, he felt like he was alive again.
Although the distance from the cabin entrance to the ship building is only a few feet, it is so hot in the depths of the desert that the basin becomes like a big steamer placed on a fire.
As soon as Yali entered the boat building, Surti and others' eyes lit up, and then they ran to Yali to whisper a few words, saying that Yali had the best relationship with Taoist Jin An, and asked Yali to ask Taoist Jin An who had kept them where they were.
On call.
"how?"
Although Jin An was closing his eyes to recuperate his energy, his six senses were not closed and he looked over with his eyes closed.
Ari scratched his head in embarrassment. This tanned desert man smiled naively at Jin An and said, "Taoist Master Jin An, they said that I talk to you too much. Let me ask you why we have found Guchi."
National Holy Mountain, why don’t you rush to enter Guchi National Holy Mountain?”
Hearing this, Jin An pursed his lips and smiled.
He asked patiently: "Don't you notice that the water flow is accelerating and it is flowing rapidly towards the Holy Mountain of Guchi Kingdom?"
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Ari and the others shook their heads in confusion, saying that they didn't feel anything unusual.
"The speed of the water is accelerating, rather than being still, which shows that this time the earth is shattering and the water level is falling. The sea surface on the side of the Holy Mountain of Guchi Kingdom will not be very calm. There should be a huge cave or an underground river break there.
Mouth, which way can we suck all the sea water. If we rush over there now, we will most likely be sucked into the water by the whirlpool of the current, and the boat will be destroyed. So after the water there calms down, we can't go there again.
Late."
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Jin An waited for a whole day. At dawn the next day, he ordered the ancient ship to move at full speed in the direction of the dust that he saw yesterday.
A towering and majestic mountain peak suddenly appears at the end of the desert sea. It shines goldenly under the eastern sun, like an isolated island in the vast blue sea. It is magnificent and incredible.
This mountain is so majestic that even the desert sea cannot submerge it. There are still mountain tops above the water. Such a high mountain peak, covered with a layer of sand on the surface, is a large sand dune that is rare in the desert.
"Mountain!"
"Mountain!"
"A majestic mountain appears in the desert. This is a sacred mountain. It turns out that there really is a sacred mountain in the desert!"
"We finally found the Holy Mountain of Guchi Country!"
When they saw the majestic mountains for the first time, many people shouted excitedly, some were shocked, some were horrified, some were stunned and in disbelief.
No wonder they are so excited. Most desert people will never see a mountain once in their lifetime. They can only see various aspects of mountains in the stories of old people or in the murals of some ancestors, not to mention that this is still a mountain.
According to legend, the sacred mountain of Guchi Kingdom, which has been searched for a thousand years and cannot be found, is full of mystery.
Between the mountains, there is a crack at the entrance of the cave, and a large amount of lake water is pouring into the cave, and it is unknown where it is flowing.
As expected, Jin An was right.
There is a huge cave here.
Fortunately, Jin An acted cautiously and did not rush in rashly from the beginning. With such a large cave whirlpool, before they could see the mountain, the ship would be sucked by the whirlpool current.
Now that the water surface has dropped to almost the same level as the cave, and the water flow has become calm again, Jin An drove the ancient boat and began to slowly sail into the Guchi Kingdom's Holy Mountain Cave.
This cave is very large and can easily accommodate ancient ships. The cave is humid and the rock walls are filled with water vapor. There is a light breeze in the cave. The wind carries the moist water vapor, bringing a rare coolness in the desert. Everyone ran excitedly
on deck.
"It's windy. It seems there is an exit at the other end of the cave." Jin An stood on the bow of the boat, also enjoying the rare cool breeze in high spirits.
It had been three or four months since he had been in the desert, and no one knew how much he missed the cool breeze of Kangding Country.
At this time, someone who saw the mountain for the first time leaned out half of the railing and touched the rock wall with excitement and surprise. The cold and moist touch made him excited for a long time.
Then more people ran over to touch the slippery rock wall.
Even the four sheep and twenty-odd camels who were staying in the cabin all ran to the deck and looked at the cave ceiling above their heads in shock.
Some camels without hands even leaned out, stretched out their necks and tongues to lick the rock wall, imitating other people's "feeling" the temperature of the rock wall.
Jin An can understand everyone's excitement. After searching for so long and suffering so much, he finally found the Holy Mountain of Guchi Kingdom and was one step closer to finding his disciple to sharpen his sword. Even he was feeling excited at this time.
, but as excited as he was, Jin An still had to remind everyone: "You can't swim, be careful not to fall into the water. The water level here is the same as that of the desert sea outside, which means that there are cracks in the mountain and cliffs of 100 feet under our feet. Here
The water is very deep.”
As soon as they heard that there was a cliff at the foot of the mountain, Ari and the others were so frightened that they all took a few steps back.
The cracks in the mountain were somewhat deep, and the ancient ship bumped forward for a while. The environment was deep, and it felt like it was getting deeper and deeper. Later, Ari and the others began to put torches on the railings of the ancient ship for lighting.
"Taoist Master Jin An, this cave is so deep. Why do I feel like it's getting colder and colder the further I walk in." Ari held a torch and came to Jin An, who was standing on the bow of the boat.
Jin An nodded with a calm expression: "I observed carefully along the way. There are traces of artificial excavation on the rock wall of this cave. It is very likely that it was dug by the Guchi Kingdom."
"Why did Guchi hollow out such a big mountain? Guchi doesn't live in the mountains." Yali said subconsciously.
Looking at the dark cave in front of him, Jin An frowned and pondered: "Holy Mountain, that is the name of the people of the Guchi Kingdom. The Holy Mountain of the Guchi Kingdom has another name in the outside world. Do you know, Yari?"
Ari nodded without thinking: "I know, Hidden Corpse Ridge."
Jin An raised his eyes and looked around: "The name of Corpse Hidden Ridge comes from the fact that Guchi State used it to bury the bodies of ancestors, but we have always ignored a question. Are the dead people of Guchi State buried outside the mountain?
Or inside the mountain?"
Ari was stunned by Jin An's words.
Think about it carefully.
There are indeed very few records about the Holy Mountain of Guchi Kingdom. Outsiders are prohibited from setting foot on the Holy Mountain. Naturally, it is not clear what is going on inside the Holy Mountain and whether the dead are buried outside or in caves.
Jin An stared at the surroundings and continued: "Now it seems that the most important thing about this corpse ridge is the word 'hidden'. The real corpse ridge should be in these artificially widened mountain cracks. If buried in
Outside the mountain, the wind and sand in the desert are so strong that Tibetan Corpse Ridge is buried by wind and sand for eleven months of the year. It is estimated that the people of the Guchi Kingdom want to go up the mountain to worship their ancestors and they can't even find the bones of their ancestors, so why worship their ancestors?
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"Yari, please ask everyone to pay attention. Don't let down your guard. Draw your weapons and be ready to fight at all times. We are trespassing into the Guchi Cemetery. I'm afraid this mountain won't be clean. We also need to stay away from the railings. The most dangerous thing in the water is
It's easy to hide dangers, so be careful when sailing a thousand-year-old ship." Jin'an asked Yali to warn everyone to be careful, and at the same time, take all the camels and sheep that ran on the deck back to the cabin. It would be too much of a hindrance to stay here, in case something happens.
There is something that cannot be taken care of for them.
"Taoist Master Jin'an, why do your words sound so scary? Are you saying that there is a big tomb inside this mountain and we are walking in the big tomb?" Ari shuddered and couldn't help but curse in his heart.
It was really too cold in the cave, making his whole body feel uncomfortable. He still felt that the scorching sun in the desert was more suitable for the living habits of desert people like them.
I don’t know that the coldness in the cave is a result of his psychology.
It's still really cold.
The ancient ship continues to sail in the cave. The water here is living water and has been flowing slowly forward.
Maybe Jin An is just too cautious.
It was very peaceful along the way.
No abnormal phenomena were encountered.
Just when everyone was gradually relaxing their vigilance, suddenly, a man's high-pitched scream suddenly sounded in the quiet cave. Such a startled scream suddenly sounded in the already extremely deep and quiet cave, and everyone's heart skipped a beat.
He jumped hard as if he was hit hard by a fist.
"Nanbi, what was your kid's name just now? Don't you know that scaring people can scare them to death!" Both Yali and Sureti deliberately lowered their voices to criticize the man who just screamed.
Nanbi was still jumping and grabbing his body, as if something had crawled into his clothes. After jumping a few times, he finally shook the thing out of his clothes.
That thing was very fast and wanted to run away as soon as it fell to the ground.
Just at this moment, Jin An, who came over to check the situation, put his index and middle fingers together and quickly clamped the thing.
It turned out to be a small insect, twisting and struggling in Jin An's hands.
"Taoist Master Jin'an, what kind of insect is this?" Yali, Sureti, and Nanbi, who were still scratching their bodies with goosebumps, came over.
Looking at the struggling insect in his finger, Jin An said calmly: "It's nothing, just an ordinary dragon louse."
"Dragon louse?"
"Dragon lice are also called corpse lice. They like dark and moist places by nature. The most common place is that they like to hide in ancient tombs and eat carrion. Once there are many corpse lice, you should pay attention. Either there are large tombs or there are many carrion corpses.
Nourish this little creature.”
After Jin An finished speaking, he threw it away, and with a pop, the corpse in his hand disappeared without a trace as soon as it fell into the water.
This little guy ran away pretty fast.
How could Yari and the others know that there are such disgusting things in the world? The climate in the desert is dry, and the corpses will dry into mummies within a few days. There is no nourishing and living space for those strange and weird bugs.
The worst thing is Nanbi.
He was so frightened that he took off his clothes and pants on the spot and checked his whole body for any wounds or blood stains caused by insect bites. His face turned pale with fright.
"Huh? Master Jin'an, why did you release the corpse insect again? Didn't you say that the insect grew up eating dead human flesh? What if it resents us and comes back to bite us?" Yali said in surprise, by the way.
Take a sympathetic look at Nambi.
Jin An smiled and said, "Don't worry. According to the physique of that little thing, it's not that ferocious now. It will bite people when it eats more carrion and grows older."
Although Jin An said it in the calmest tone, it made Ari and others feel a scalp-tingling feeling of horror.
At this time, Jin An looked at Nanbi: "Don't worry, you are safe without any wounds. What happened just now?"
At this time, Ari was very helpful in translating.
After listening to the translation, Nanbi breathed a sigh of relief and told what happened. It turned out that a bug had just fallen from the wall above his head into his collar, crawled around on him, and its claws were very painful.
I screamed out in pain subconsciously.
Cave wall?
Jin'an, Yali, and Sureti subconsciously took torches and shined them above their heads.
However, the cave wall above the head is a bit high, and the torch lighting is limited.
Jin An jumped up and jumped to the top of the ship building as light as a swallow. This time he continued to raise the torch to shine on the cave wall above his head.
At this time, the agile Yali and Sureti also climbed to the roof of the ship, and together with Jin An held torches to illuminate the cave wall.
Tick tock.
Tick tock.
Except for the high humidity and an occasional drop of water dripping from the cave ceiling, there was nothing unusual about it. Not even a corpse cricket was seen.
The torch swayed back and forth, the light and shadow flickered, sometimes darkening and sometimes brightening. Just when Ari was about to give up, suddenly, a ghostly figure with eyes open above his head flashed.
"ah!"
Ari was so frightened that he lost his balance and almost fell. Fortunately, Jin An reacted quickly. He grabbed the waistband of his pants with his left hand and brought him back. He raised the torch with his right hand and shined it at the place where the ghostly figure had flashed.
Under the dim light of the fire, a hollow was dug out on the rock wall near the top of the cave. A plump, lifelike hairy human face sat cross-legged in the cave. His eyes were open, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.
It was as if we were looking down from above at this group of outsiders who had entered the sacred mountain of Guchi Kingdom without permission.
The corners of his mouth were slightly raised as if he were teasing and mocking, giving people a chilling and gloomy feeling.
Even though they were mentally prepared, Yali and Sureti, who were standing behind Jin An, were frightened by this evil scene again. Their body muscles tensed up and they pulled out the sword from their waists.
Only Jin's safety scene looked calm, and the man holding a torch continued to look at the people in the pit.
The people in the pit had tattered clothes and a thick layer of dust covering their bodies. It looked like they had been there for many years.
Poisonous insects and beasts are afraid of fire. Several corpse crickets crawled out of the man's shabby clothes, fled in panic along the rock wall, and quickly disappeared into a dark corner where the torch could not reach.
Seeing the two people behind him nervously drawing out their swords, Jin An said comfortingly: "Don't be nervous, this is just a dead person. To be more precise, he is guarding the entrance and exit of the tomb to drive away snakes, insects, rats and ants to prevent them from invading the empty tomb and eating them."
The elephant-like tomb-suppressing beast that drops the bones of the owner of the tomb is also called the tomb-suppressing beast with an animal face and a human body.”
"Logically speaking, tomb beasts are all stone beasts. This is the first time I have seen such a cruel method of directly making people and beasts into tomb beasts."
This was not comforting, but after listening to it, the two of them had goosebumps all over their bodies.
The ancient ship continued to move forward, and the strange figure of the tomb-suppressing beast with an animal face and human body quickly disappeared from the sight of several people.
I don't know if it was because they were too nervous, but the two of them always felt that there were two beast-like blue eyes behind them watching them leave.
To be able to scare two desert warriors into such an overly nervous state, the beast-faced tomb-suppressing beast with a human body is truly terrifying.
It wasn't until they were very far away that the two of them felt that the eyes behind them disappeared. At this moment, they both looked at Jin An with admiration: "Taoist Master Jin An, you looked calm and calm just now. What's that name? What kind of tomb beast is it? It looks so scary.
, appears suddenly above your head, are you not nervous or scared at all?"
With a calm expression, Jin An continued to hold a torch and inspect the cave wall above his head, looking for any other tomb-suppressing beasts with animal faces and human bodies or more ferocious tomb-suppressing beasts with human faces and animal bodies.
While searching, he calmly replied: "Well, I'm afraid."
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Yali and Sureti looked at Jin An in confusion. Is this because they are afraid? Why do we see you, Taoist Jin An, looking so calm?
"Taoist Master Jin'an, you are not only very capable, but also knowledgeable. You even know something as terrifying as a tomb-suppressing beast. In addition to the tomb-suppressing beast with an animal face and a human body, are there also tomb-suppressing beasts with an animal face and a human body?"
"These are actually the secret techniques of yin and yang Feng Shui from the Central Plains. It's normal that you haven't seen them before. It seems that the Corpse Hidden Ridge in Guchi Country has been instructed by an expert, and it is not as ignorant and barbaric as it appears on the surface. However,
Ari, you are right about one thing. Don't look at the scary Tomb Beast with a human face and a beast body. This thing also scares snakes, insects, rats, and ants. The most powerful one is the human-faced beast with a human head on its body.
Grave Beast.”
Ari shrank when he heard this, but couldn't help but continue to ask out of curiosity: "Does this man have anything to say about the tomb beast?"
People are so contradictory.
The more mysterious and unknown it is, the more curious it becomes.
Jin'an: "The human tomb beast is actually very rare, because this thing is too evil and likes to eat human flesh. It will accept all comers, living or dead. It is not as gentle as the monster, elephant or human-faced beast. It only scares people."
Venomous snakes, scorpions, rats. Humans attacking tomb beasts are too harmful to the moral character and can easily backfire on the owner of the tomb, so they are generally rare..."
"The beast-faced tomb-suppressing beast with a human body just now used a Tibetan fox head, but there was no Tibetan fox body or human head. If Guchi Guo really dared to use the Tibetan fox body and human head to make a human tomb-suppressing beast, I would respect them for being honest.
Man."
Yali and Sureti both looked at Jin An with shocked expressions. Just now, the Elephant Grave Suppressor was so scary. Priest Jin An, you actually said it looked gentle and kind?
What they saw today somewhat overturned the world view of the two people's peaceful life. After a while, they thought of another thing: "Taoist Master Jin'an, didn't you say that the elephant tomb beast can drive away poisonous insects, poisonous snakes and rats? Then why just now?"
Will there be corpse crickets on the body of the tomb-killing beast?"
Jin An: "That's why they are called corpse crickets."
Jin An looked very matter-of-fact.
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The boat moved along the river and saw several fox-headed tomb-slaying beasts along the way. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve seen too many tomb-slaying beasts, or because Jin’an has popularized the knowledge about tomb-slaying beasts, and I no longer have the fear of the unknown.
, or maybe in the perception of Yali and Sureti, Jin An is very capable and feels very safe. When they saw the tomb beast next time, the fear in their hearts gradually decreased, and instead they felt that
The square-headed Tibetan fox is quite funny.
It's just that I never saw any human beings or tomb beasts along the way. Not only did Jin An feel lost, but these two people also felt lost.
I don’t know whether I should say whether they are big-hearted or brave.
"Taoist Master Jin'an, be careful! There seems to be a huge rock blocking the road ahead!" Yali raised his finger and pointed at the dark water ahead as a reminder.
In fact, no need for Ari to say, Jin An has already noticed the movement in front.
There was indeed a black object standing straight in front of them blocking their way.
The boat drifted along the current and soon approached the obstacle. When they saw clearly what the thing was, everyone on the boat took a breath, including Jin An, who was also stunned for a moment.
It was an old merchant ship that ran aground on a reef. The head was light and the tail was heavy. It was tilted upright on the roof of the cave. A big hole was made at the stern of the cabin by the reef. Many coffins poured out and were piled high on the reef. There were many coffins.
The young corpse fell out of the rotting coffin and soaked in the water.