The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 315
When I got very close to the stone sheep, I suddenly saw that the stone sheep's eyes were not right.

There is no reflection of evil spirit that Yang Ming said, but Shiyang's eyeballs have a little eye-catching bright red, which is very eye-catching.

What the hell is this?

Yang Ming never mentioned this, what is this red thing?
I didn't want to look into its eyes at first, thinking to stay away from evil things, but the crimson red on its stone eyeballs is so conspicuous that you can't control your gaze at all.I took a deep look subconsciously, and suddenly recognized it.

It is cinnabar.

Immediately, I understood where the cinnabar in its eyes came from. It must have been made by Zhou Xuanye. He often makes talismans when he has nothing to do. In his bag, cinnabar and vermilion pens are indispensable. He likes to practice his hands when he is free.

In addition, Zhou Xuanye also told me about the finishing touch.Everyone knows this story. In ancient times, he used personal painting to make it come alive. He drew a dragon but didn't draw eyes. When someone asked why, he said: Once he painted eyes on the dragon, the dragon would come to life.Everyone didn't believe it, so he put the brush on the dragon's eyes, and sure enough, the dragon broke through the mural and went away.

Historically, in scientific ceremonies to consecrate things such as god statues, there will be a ceremony of using a pen to touch the eyes of the god statues.The eyes are the place where the divine light lives, and if the gods do not open their eyes, they will have no spirit.Some old and incensed ornaments are also easy to breed evil spirits, such as the story of "the potter's son calls the soul" that Zhou Xuanye told me.

It is said that in the early years of the Republic of China, there was a dilapidated village in Huainan, where dozens of families lived.

There is a custom of inviting dolls, which are divided into male dolls and female dolls. If you want to add a boy to your family, you can invite a few male doll pottery figurines; if you want to have a daughter, you can make a female doll pottery figurine.People in that era had a heavy feudal mindset, and almost every household had boys.

But there is one family in that village that is an exception. They don't invite dolls, but there is a pottery figurine of a baby girl in the house, which is covered with dust.It is said that the ancestors of this family were a wealthy family.

In ancient times, most people were begging for a living in the soil. Having a son can inherit the family business, do farm work, and increase production. The poorer the family, the more they want to have a son.On the contrary, families with good conditions are not so obsessed with only males. Most of the families with good conditions want to have both sons and daughters.

The ancestors of that family had a lot of money and had several males, but no daughters, so they wanted to have a daughter, so they invited a female Tao Rener.Later, after several changes, it also became a dilapidated settlement, but the female pottery was kept unintentionally, and rolled into a corner without being known.

This is more than 200 years ago. At that time, the property of the houses was passed down from generation to generation. They were all ancestral houses. Unlike now, new houses usually live for five or sixty years, and they are basically demolished due to urban planning. It is difficult to have old houses. stay.

The female Taowa has been kept in the corner of the old house for more than 200 years. When she was first invited here, she worshiped the gods. In the past 200 years, she has been incensed by the surroundings and has gradually become an evil thing.Of course, the family didn't know about it, but strange things began to happen in the village one after another.

The children in the village fell ill one after another, and the symptoms were all the same. Sleepwalking, not only sleepwalking, but also dreaming several times, they would become idiots.

For a while, the people in the village were in panic. Later, some parents found out that their children were sleepwalking.As long as someone follows them, the child will soon wake up from sleepwalking. You have to ask him what he dreamed, and the dreams they had were all similar. They dreamed that a little girl called their names and asked them out to play.

The adults asked what to play?
The child said shyly and kissed.

When the experienced old man heard this, he was horrified: "There must be something evil. It's not a kiss, it's clearly sucking people's brains!" Immediately, the villagers found a Taoist priest who exorcises evil spirits and catches ghosts.The Taoist also had two brushes, and quickly found the problem, and directly found the troublesome female Tao Wa from the corner.

The villagers said angrily that they had smashed the thing, and the Taoist said: "This evil thing has developed spiritual wisdom, and I am not good enough. If I smash it, it will find other things to live in." It is said to seal the evil thing in the pottery man so that it cannot come out to cause trouble, and then find a place to bury it so that it will never see the light of day.

At night, that thing will roam around, and it can only be done during the day.In the daytime, the Taoist priest took a vermilion pen, occupied the cinnabar, and drew amulets in the air. Finally, the vermilion pen touched the eyes of the pottery woman, sealing the divine light and sealing up the evil.

Later, the villagers buried the things in a deep slope and called that place Taowapo.

Cinnabar, recorded in "The Classic", can: nourish the spirit, soothe the soul, replenish qi, and improve eyesight.In Taoism, cinnabar has always been hailed as a sharp weapon to exorcise evil spirits. It is cinnabar that is used to draw symbols, and the Taoist priest used cinnabar to seal the aura of the pottery baby and suppress evil things.

At this moment, the eyes of this human body and sheep's head in front of me are dotted with cinnabar, no need to guess, it must be Zhou Xuanye who has suppressed this evil thing.

Immediately, I felt refreshed, and I only felt that Zhou Xuanye was too awesome.Yang Ming was so frightened that he ran away, but instead he used the ink pen to suppress the stone sheep.Now that I am more courageous, I stopped looking at the stone sheep and walked around it.

There is no gazelle at the back, but there are some bones, like the bones of some animal. Reminiscent of what Yang Ming said, I can't help guessing, is there some monster living in this cave?Did the four members of the engineering team have an accident here?

The stone sheep outside was obviously placed here by someone. What is the significance of it?
The stone statues have already raised evil spirits, which means that this cave has existed for quite a long time.

Just when I was puzzled, I suddenly heard a voice.The sound was just like what Yang Ming described, like the sound of wind passing through a large cave, and also like the roar of some large creature, like the roar of a tiger and the roar of a dragon, it was frightening.

Accompanied by this sound, there was a sudden gust of wind in the darkness ahead, as if something rushed towards me.Yang Ming also described this situation, I was mentally prepared, but I couldn't run like Yang Ming, because I knew I couldn't run, and if I ran, I might end up in a coma like Yang Ming. midnight.

These thoughts flashed in my mind, and I put the dagger across my chest, staring at the front, not daring to breathe.At this moment, a black figure sprang out from the darkness, swift as lightning, and slammed into me.The thing was so fast that I didn't even see what it looked like, but I was prepared and didn't fight hard. The moment it rushed over, I immediately turned to one side. At the same time, the dagger in my hand also moved from above At the bottom, he suddenly stabbed towards the black shadow.

That thing came very fast, this stab, I felt that I was stabbed, but the impact force was completely added to my arm holding the dagger, and my whole arm twitched in pain for a moment, and I immediately let go, the whole body Taken a step back.

And that thing stopped when I stabbed it, and fell to the ground.When I looked at it, I realized that it was a thing with long hands and long legs, a short neck and a triangular head. It was covered with long black hair and looked like a deformed monkey.

It has almost no neck, and the body and shoulders are connected under the inverted triangle head. The two slender hands hang down to the knees, and its feet are also slender, and the body is bent. It looks so strange up.

My dagger happened to stab it at about the waist, this guy suffered from pain, and reached out to pull out the dagger at his waist.

I looked through the idle books in Zhou Xuanye's room before, and I seemed to have seen something similar in the "Shan Hai Jing". There are too many contents in it, and I don't remember the name of the thing. Dunxue is said to be able to walk through the snow, and when hunting, it pulls living creatures into the snow to make them die.

The scope of Xishan is very large, generally referring to the Kunlun Mountains in the west, and walking in the snow is very consistent with the environment in front of me. I suspect that this thing should be the thing recorded in the Shan Hai Jing.It's a pity that there are too many aliases for things recorded in "Shan Hai Jing", and I can't remember the specific names.

According to the description in the book, this thing lives in groups, so, in this cave, will there be...

I had a sudden shock in my heart and didn't give it a chance to react. When it was going to pull out the dagger, I pulled out another dagger from my thigh, this time cutting directly towards its neck.This thing is probably used to running rampant in the snow-capped mountains. I have never encountered such a fierce resistance. I immediately cut my neck and let the blood out.

To tell you the truth, it was the first time for me to strike at such a big thing. As soon as the dagger swiped across, a burst of stinky hot blood hit my face, not to mention how disgusting it was.There was a strange cry from this thing's mouth, which was very similar to that whistling sound, but it was much smaller.

Immediately afterwards, he fell to the ground dripping with blood.

Fortunately, I pulled out the dagger at its waist and inserted it back into the other leg. Several times of experience made me realize the importance of weapons. I bought four daggers alone.Wiping the blood from my face, I realized that the whistling sound just now knew so well that the interior of this cave might be the lair of this kind of thing.

Did the two of Tan Ren go in?
Can they handle it?
Looking at the corpses on the ground, the smell of blood became more intense, and the blood that could not be wiped off his face was even stickier.I took a deep breath and knew that I had no choice. No matter how many dangers lay ahead, it was impossible for me to retreat, and it was even more impossible for me to ignore Zhou Xuanye and the others.

In order to deal with the next danger, I pulled out the telescopic stick for self-defense, stuck it section by section, and connected it into a stick about one meter long. Shine forward and start to move forward.

Only the sound of my footsteps remained in the cave. Although there was no snow here, the temperature was lower than outside, an indescribably coldness.

(End of this chapter)