Chapter 33: The Soul Hosting Platform
To say that Zhang Guozhong is a newborn calf, that old Liu Tou can be considered a veteran. First of all, he drew two live talismans and pasted them on the two people, in which case the evil spirits would strike at the live talismans first, which could buy a little bit of time for meeting the enemy or escaping; furthermore, looking at Zhang Guozhong walking towards the center of the cave, Old Liu Tou dragged him to the edge of the cave. Because if there is really a trap in this place, it must be in the center, rubbing against the wall is slightly safer.
Under Lao Liu Tou's instruction, Zhang Guozhong had to explore his feet first every step of the way, stepping on any empty chamber to avoid falling into the trap. Since both sides of the cave are full of natural stalactites, so there is no need to worry about what darts and arrows, this kind of natural cave, in addition to the ground are crushed stone slag, if there is a little bit of artificial traces on the wall will be very obvious.
Walked about a dozen meters, Zhang Guozhong suddenly found that the cave wall suddenly inward, the original hole is a "convex" shape, they came in the place is "convex" top.
In the flashlight can be illuminated by the place is always dark, Lao Liu head now the folding shovel hanging in the waist, from the bag to take out the compass, along with Zhang Guozhong walk, while looking at the compass. I don't know what is in this hole, the compass is always messy and chattering.
Walking, Zhang Guozhong suddenly saw a clump of light in front of him, like a flashlight. This cave is indeed a little strange, according to reason, just for this kind of flashlight strange shape, it should also be a military flashlight, and the brightness is not weak, but in this hole, the light range seems to be very short, through the limited flashlight light observation, this hole seems to have a fog, sometimes Zhang Guozhong if you walk faster, look at the back of the old head of Liu's flashlight, only a few meters away, but it seems very weak.
"Mr. Qin!" Zhang Guozhong yelled.
There was no answer from the opposite side.
Zhang Guozhong slightly accelerated his pace at this point and realized that Qin Ge was standing behind a stone pillar looking around.
"You guys changed your minds?" Qin Ge coldly said.
"Why don't you reply?" Zhang Guozhong's voice shook with anger.
"Talk back? Talk back to what?" Qin Ge was full of confusion instead.
"I shouted out to you, there's no way you can't hear me this close!" Zhang Guozhong snapped.
"You shouted me?" Qin Ge's voice also trembled, "So the person just now, wasn't you?"
"Just now...? Just now... what person!?" Old Liu Tou walked forward with a cold sweat on his face and lowered his voice.
It turned out that Old Liu Tou's compass had just shaken violently, and this shaking made Old Liu Tou's heart tremble with fear. To be honest, the old Liu head is not afraid of death that is false, but more deadly, is more than death, he can not afford to give up home that a house of treasures.
It turns out that Qin Ge himself into the hole, also know the reason to stick to the side of the walk, along the wall to the "convex" zigzag inside, suddenly in the range of flashlight to see a person, this person clothes can not see too clearly, but from the body type is by no means a Li Erzhuang, a flash on the absence of the Qin Ge shouted two times, there is no echo, they quickly chased after it, chased to this stone pillar place, the person will never be able to find the stone. Pillar place, the person is no longer found.
"Sect Master Zhang, I want to ask a question, you must answer it seriously... "Qin Ge wiped his sweat and didn't pay any attention to Old Liu Tou, "In this world, are there really ghosts...?"
"Mr. Qin, this cave is very evil, I hope you can come out with us, let's discuss this in the long run!" Zhang Guozhong did not answer Qin Ge's question.
After a moment of silence, Qin Ge gradually calmed down, the strange silhouette just now did give him a big shock.
"Alright..." said Qin Ge helplessly.
The three of them turned their heads and walked back, but the more they walked, the more wrong they became, and as they walked, Qin Ge suddenly shouted without any bottom.
"Stop walking!" Qin Ge shushed to.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Guozhong and Old Liu Tou also felt that something was wrong, when they came, they only took a few steps, how come they went back and walked for so half a day without seeing the cave entrance?
"This pillar... this pillar, is the pillar you guys just found me in..."
Stalactite pillars come in different shapes, this strange pillar Zhang Guozhong and Old Liu Tou also saw it just now, there can be no mistake.
"Ghost... ghost hitting the wall!" Old Liu Tou seemed to be about to have a seizure, "You...what did you have to come in here for!?" Old Liu Tou roared at Qin Ge.
Ghost hitting the wall, is a folk saying, and often occurs in places similar to graveyards and torture chambers, mostly at night, the person who runs into the ghost hitting the wall will keep circling around the same place, but the person concerned will feel that he or she walks in a straight line all the time. For this phenomenon, there is no relevant scientific explanation, and the explanation in the Maoshan art is only "ghosts are obsessed", the way to crack, is to turn 90 degrees along the original direction, although the direction may not be right, but can get out of this endless circle.
Seizure to seizure, but stay in place is not a way, at the moment the three are tense to the extreme, a do not do not rest, simply a turn around to the middle of the hole to go.
This walk only to find that the hole is not big, at most two or three hundred square meters, a few people did not take a few steps to the opposite wall.
Qin Ge took out his compass, "The place we came from is in the north, go this way."
Old Liu ignored him and focused on his compass, suddenly the compass needle shook violently again.
"Stop!" Old Liu Tou shouted, and when he shouted, Qin Ge and Zhang Guozhong immediately copied their weapons.
"Slow down..." old Liu Tou gulped and looked around to see nothing moving.
At this moment, Zhang Guozhong, who was walking at the front, suddenly tripped over something under his feet and fell with a thud.
Several beams of flashlight immediately focused on the place where Zhang Guozhong tripped, Old Liu Tou and Zhang Guozhong did not feel anything, only Qin Ge covered his mouth with his hand and almost vomited.
Just see a person embedded in the ground diagonally, look at the body has been corroded tattered clothes, should be an ancient people, because of the "falling cliff" chakra qualities, so although the clothes are rotten, but the person is not completely rotten, but also maintains the expression of pre-mortem agony, open-mouthed, half of the face buried diagonally in the earth, half of the face is exposed to the outside, but the two eyes are already black holes. eyes were already black holes.
"Guo...Guozhong ah..." old Liu Tou's tone had choked, "This...this is a lodging...soul...stage ...!" Old Liu Tou sighed word by word and glared viciously at Qin Ge again.
The Soul Hosting Platform is not a formation of Maoshan, Zhongge, or any of the Suttu schools, but something formed by chance. In ancient times, when any emperor built a tomb, all the craftsmen would be executed or buried with him to keep the secret, and the grievances of these unjustly dead people could coalesce and remain intact for thousands of years, and anyone who violated the tomb would be attacked by these grievances in the first place, and this would form a natural barrier to protect the tomb.
To the Sui and Tang dynasties, there are some see profit and forget the righteousness of the high people, the direct use of this principle to repair the tomb, simply even the organs and traps are not repaired, so that the strong man in the mountains and peaks, directly to the construction of extremely difficult to fix the chamber, and then the strong man directly killed or closed in the inside, and then in the perimeter of the cloth on some formations, or to repair an aqueduct to artificially create a "corrupted ground ", or use some other methods to strengthen the grievances of these souls, so as to guard the grave, both cost and time.
Later generations of people for this kind of unethical method named "host soul method", if the application of this method, or coincidentally this principle works, is a tomb, it is called the host soul mound, is a hole, it is called "host soul hole", and now encountered is the town with the "burin dragon formation". If it is a tomb, it is called "Soul Survivor Mound", if it is a cave, it is called "Soul Survivor Cave", and now we have come across the town platform that holds the "Burin Dragon Formation", so naturally it should be called "Soul Survivor Platform".
Along the direction of the body embedded in the ground, three people and carefully with a flashlight on the ground to shine up, this time can not help but be surprised, the ground, three by three are human faces, some face half of the face are buried into the ground, the ground only exposed a row of teeth.
"Ah!" Qin Ge yelled, Zhang Guozhong and Old Liu head rushed back, can Qin Ge scared out of the sound of things can be deadly...
Unexpectedly, what Qin Ge came across was a corpse that was not buried in the ground, this corpse was lying diagonally on the ground, a sharp blade was inserted vertically from the front chest, obviously killed by someone else.
Old Liu Tou bent down and took a closer look with his flashlight, "It seems... it's dressed in the Ming Dynasty..."
"That's impossible!" Qin Ge also crouched down, only to see this person wearing a Zhongjing crown, dressed in black satin robe, from the hat alone, can already be concluded that it is the Ming Dynasty "from the third grade" level or higher position officials.
In this Ming Dynasty official's body directly across the four or five meters away, Zhang Guozhong found a body as if the Ming Dynasty official, but this body and the first few corpses are not the same, the decay and its serious, in addition to clothes barely recognizable, the body is basically only white bones, with a dagger inserted in the ribs, as if it is the opposite of the people with the same death.
"Master Qin, someone has arrived at this place before us..." old Liu Tou sneered, and kept fiddling with the dagger pulled out from the ribs of this dead Ming Dynasty corpse.
Qin Ge was grimacing at this moment, not saying a word, carefully using his hand to touch the clothes of this Ming official's corpse.
"Master Qin, we are late..." Old Liu Tou was also searching all over the place at this moment, and at this moment, he squatted down on a one-foot-square, only an inch or so above the ground, but empty stone platform.
Qin Ge came over, only to see old Liu Tou is using his hand to wipe the mud on the stone platform, a series of strange patterns gradually appear.
"Qi...even...Kun Burgundy, Gan, Xin..." old Liu Tou muttered.
"Mr. Liu, what do your words...mean?" Qin Ge slowly said.
"Master Qin, look, this is the burin dragon formation town platform, which is empty at the moment." Old Liu Tou caressed the stone platform with his hand, still pondering over the mystery.
"It's possible that this is the place where the piece of jade from the Wang family was put." Qin Ge did not think so, took out his camera and clicked it at the town platform, under the strong light of the camera flash, a black shadow flashed quickly where the flashlight light could not illuminate.
"There's a situation!" This flash did not escape Zhang Guozhong's eyes, just as Zhang Guozhong put his dagger across his chest and posed, he only felt a gust of cloudy wind blowing his neck, coldly turned around and slashed, only to see a black shadow quickly dodging, and then owed and retreated to a place a few meters away from himself.
Bang bang two gunshots, Qin Ge also stood up, old Liu head hand picked up the folding shovel, will shovel handle on the other side of the small pickaxe also folded out, a few beams of flashlight calendar all around.
Zhang Guozhong's flashlight fixed on the opposite point silhouette, it is Li Erzhuang, but with the previous Li Erzhuang is different, at this moment Li Erzhuang is standing on two legs, and no longer limbs on the ground, and the expression on his face seems to be grinning, constantly grinding his teeth.
Qin Ge had just turned his gun towards Li Erzhuang, when he suddenly felt a gust of cloudy wind at his back, Qin Ge instinctively leaned forward, and the things in his backpack behind him fell to the ground with a crash, Qin Ge turned around, only to see a mountain man dressed as a mountain man standing across from him, with an expression exactly like Li Erzhuang's, and staring at himself with his teeth in a grimace.
"How... two...!" Old Liu Tou was also dumbfounded.
