entire corpse storage pavilion was pitch black. The light spots of several flashlights intersected each other, making the light messy. The corner where the fat man was was far away from us. When the flashlight shone over there, the corpses around blocked the view, and the shadows overlapped one another. Even if the light was clear, we couldn't see clearly.
However, the purple color on the fat man's face was unmistakable. That weird, wooden and eerie expression was too similar to the corpse next to him, which made people break out in a cold sweat.
Pan Zi originally thought that Fatty was making trouble again, so he called out again, but Fatty still didn't react, as motionless as a sculpture. Pan Zi also noticed that something was wrong, and said to us, "It seems like something happened?"
I frowned, not knowing what to say. The fat man's expression and movements were so similar to the corpses here. If he wasn't playing a trick on us, something must have happened. But everyone else was fine, so why did it have to be him? Looking at his behavior, was he possessed by the ghosts here? Or was he cursed by the shaman?
We gradually slid down the steep slope, approaching the place where the fat man was squatting, and did not see anything around him that was different from other places, only corpses with purple fangs. When we were about four or five meters away from him, Pan Zi waved his hand, asking us not to move, and made a gesture to Monk Hua.
In Chenpi A's team, Lang Feng is a pioneer like Fatty, Hua Heshang is a master, and Ye Cheng is a handyman. They all have their own special abilities. Now Lang Feng is dead, but Hua Heshang's ability is not weak, so Pan Zi will give him gestures.
I felt the gap. If it were our team, there would be a lot of people who could play as vanguards, but I was too weak to barely be the master. Think about it, after Men Youping was gone, if the other side didn't have Hua Heshang, then I would have to take action if anything happened. The gap between my abilities and Hua Heshang's was too great.
Monk Hua saw Pan Zi's gesture and nodded. The two of them each took out their hunting knives, held them in their backhands, and moved towards the fat man.
The two men quickly reached the fat man, but the fat man did not turn around to look at them. He stood still like one of those statues pretending to be statues in performance art.
My palms were full of sweat, and I didn't know why I felt something was wrong. At this time, the two people in front stopped, and Pan Zi was very close to the fat man, almost touching him with his hand. But the two people suddenly waved their hands to the back, asking us not to get closer, and they began to retreat.
My heart started beating wildly, and I had no idea what they had seen. I saw Pan Zi retreat to my side, turned around and said to us, "We're in trouble. There's something wrong with the body behind him."
"What's the trouble?" I asked, "Is it in the big Zongzi?"
Pan Zi told us not to ask any questions and gestured for us to follow him.
We followed him through several corpses, down several terraces, and came to the side of the fat man. He pointed, and I looked in his direction, and saw several dark blue corpses sitting cross-legged behind the fat man, but one of them was different from the others!
The head of the corpse was extremely large, almost three times the size of an ordinary person, and the facial features were not clearly visible, like a big-headed, immature baby. A strange tongue stretched out from the mouth of the corpse and was actually coiled around the fat man's neck.
My scalp immediately exploded, my heart began to beat wildly, and my neck almost froze. I covered my mouth to prevent myself from screaming, and whispered, "What is that?"
"This could be a fetus. The location of the corpse must be the corpse-raising cave of the entire Ling Palace. The corpse happened to be at this point. After a long time, it changed and became like this. In a few hundred years, it will probably become a spirit." Chenpi Ah Si said softly on the other side. After he finished speaking, his expression suddenly became strange, as if he thought of something, and then said: "No! But isn't this dragon vein fake? How can there be a corpse-raising cave? This..."
When Monk Hua saw Chen Pi Ah Si's strange expression, he seemed to understand it all of a sudden, and his expression changed (I feel that Monk Hua had actually thought of it a long time ago, but in order to save Chen Pi Ah Si's face, he often waited until Chen Pi Ah Si thought of it before reacting). He asked Chen Pi Ah Si: "Old man, is this a 'chain buckle'?"
The "chain hook" is a kind of deception, a trick used by the "sparrow" game of the "outside eight" gang. It is about making a real thing fake, and then making it real, and then leaving a little flaw, so that when others see it, they can see the flaw and see through the outermost "real" veil, thinking that this thing is fake, but in fact it is really real, which is a kind of empty city plan.
Chenpi Ah Si sneered, "Yeah, it's fake. How can there be a corpse-raising cave on a fake dragon vein? Old fellow Wang Canghai is very good at playing the 'chain buckle'. It's a pity that you made a mistake and finally found a flaw."
I didn't understand yet, so I asked Monk Hua what was going on.
Monk Hua explained, "It was really close. We were almost fooled. Fortunately, we fell here. Do you remember, after we found out that the direction was faked, we thought this dragon vein was fake, but a corpse appeared here. There is no treasure cave on the fake dragon vein, so it is impossible for a corpse to appear. This revealed a flaw. It seems that the magnetic turtle is also part of Wang Canghai's trap. He wants us to mistakenly believe that we have been fooled and that the entire dragon vein is fake. In fact, the dragon vein is real, but the pattern is not a three-headed dragon. The magnetic turtle just modified the pattern of an ordinary dragon vein into the pattern of a group of dragons. This is actually very easy."
I said "oh" and immediately got some clues. Feng Shui orientation is actually very important in determining the quality of a dragon vein. For example, if there is a one-eyed dragon, it is a Tenglong if it goes from west to east, and it is a Fulong if it goes west automatically. If you bury a magnetic turtle and change the local Feng Shui orientation, the Fulong can disguise itself as a Tenglong.
(Later I looked up the Qunlong constellation. It turns out that only when all three dragon heads face east can it be called a Qunlong constellation. The three sacred mountains in Changbai Mountain all face north, so only the three sacred mountains in the middle are the dragon heads. The other two on the sides are called the Twin Snakes, which are also good feng shui sites, but not suitable for burying people. Instead, they are suitable for building temples. Once the magnetic turtle was placed there, north became east, so Chenpi Asi made the wrong judgment.)
I couldn't help but sigh, such a complicated setup, such a level of wit, is simply incredible. Think about it, we have been completely deceived just now, if we hadn't found the corpse here, we would definitely go back in disgrace.
A thousand years separated us from Wang Canghai. But I suddenly felt his thoughts almost flowing in front of me. The plan he made a thousand years ago could still fool us. Where did this man come from?
Pan Zi said softly, "You guys still have the energy to talk about this. What should we do with the fat guy now? Will the black donkey hoof work against this thing?"
Chenpi A Si shook his head, indicating that he didn't know. Monk Hua also frowned, obviously not knowing how to deal with it.
This was the most annoying time. We didn't know if Fatty would be in any danger with his tongue tangled around him like this, but if we tried to rescue him rashly we were afraid that the situation would worsen. Both sides were helpless. Pan Zi and I were so anxious that we were sweating and didn't know what to do.
Unexpectedly, while we didn't move, the fat guy reacted first. He suddenly fell to the ground, and then was dragged to move. The big-headed corpse curled up and crawled, pulling the fat guy with its tongue and quickly pulling him down the steep slope. The fat guy was as stiff as a stone, and didn't resist at all.
If it was pulled down, the fat guy would be dead. The situation escalated immediately. Pan Zi shouted to chase, and we rushed down immediately.
As soon as the big-headed corpse saw us rushing down, it immediately sped up. The fat man immediately rolled down the slope, knocking the corpses into pieces along the way. We couldn't run on the slope at all, so we simply slid down like riding a slide.
We quickly chased him down for more than ten meters. Suddenly we saw the fat man disappear on the slope, and he disappeared in an instant. We rushed over in shock and immediately saw a hole on the slope. The fat man had been dragged into the hole, with only two feet left outside.
Pan Zi jumped up and pounced on the fat man like a tiger pouncing on its prey, grabbing both of the fat man's feet and pulling hard. I slid over and then kicked my feet to climb back to help. Then Ye Cheng, Shun Zi and Monk Hua also rushed down. Monk Hua pulled off a climbing rope and tied it to the fat man's legs. This way, unless we pulled the fat man apart, the corpse fetus would not be able to pull faster than us.
With so many of us, the fat man was soon pulled up. The tongue was tightly stuck in the fat man's throat, almost digging into the flesh. The fat man's veins were bulging, his eyes rolled back, and he was almost dying. Pan Zi took out his military knife and stabbed him. Suddenly, a woman's scream came from the cave, and the tongue was broken. The fat man loosened his tongue and was pulled out by us.
We quickly tore off the severed tongue, threw it into the cave, and pressed Fatty's chest. Fatty's body was able to move immediately, and he began to touch his neck, gasping for air and coughing. Pan Zi was afraid that the thing would jump out again, so he pulled out the engineer shovel and went to the cave entrance, shining a flashlight into the cave, but he put down his weapon after a while, as if the corpse had already gone down.
We all breathed a sigh of relief and hurried to give Fatty a back massage. After a long time of massage, he finally recovered. He looked at the hole with lingering fear and said, "Thank you, thank you all." I asked Fatty what was wrong with him and why he was motionless like Maitreya Buddha.
The fat guy himself didn't know. He said that he felt a chill on his neck and he couldn't move. He could see and hear but his body couldn't move at all, as if it was frozen in ice. He tried his best to exert his strength but couldn't even move his eyes. He was very anxious.
Pan Zi laughed: "From the scream just now, this is a female corpse. It must be too lonely here. Seeing that you are similar in size to her, she wants to drag you down to accompany her. This is called a pick-up from hell."
The fat man smiled bitterly and pushed him, "You look like her."
Pan Zi smiled and dodged his push, leaning back. What no one expected was that at this moment, the huge fetal head suddenly popped out of the hole again, with a mouth full of blood, and bit Pan Zi's foot. Pan Zi had no time to react and was dragged into the hole.