When I woke up again, it was already dusk the next day. My head was still groggy and I had no strength at all. I still felt a slight pain in my shoulder. The wound was wrapped in thick gauze. I didn't know who bandaged it for me. It looked like the bandage was good. Next to me was Rosa, the cold woman. She looked a little tired. She must have taken care of me during my coma.
"Are you feeling better?"
Rosa asked me when she saw me open my eyes. Although her face was still as cold as ever, her tone was a little concerned. At the same time, she handed me a bottle of mineral water and helped me unscrew the lid.
I didn't expect this woman to be so careful.
I really had no strength at this time. I might not be able to unscrew the lid of the mineral water bottle. After I took a sip of the water she handed me, I felt much more comfortable. Then I nodded and said, "Thank you."
Rosa shook her head and said nothing.
After spending two days with this woman, I have more or less understood her personality. I know that this woman doesn't like to talk actively, so I asked about our current situation.
This time Rosa told me in detail.
It turned out that because of my injury, we have stayed here for a whole day. Zhang Jinya and Qingyi went out to investigate the situation. After all, there was a tomb tiger nearby, which meant that the owner of the Ten Deadly Evil Tomb had probably come out. The situation had changed, and the entire Qinling Mountains might also be in trouble. After all, the Ten Deadly Evil Tomb had existed for a long time, and the owner might have become a big shot. Once he came out, it would definitely be a scene of devastation. Zhang Jinya and the others went out to see if they could find any clues.
As a result, they really found traces of people in the Qinling Mountains, but they were not good people. They were tomb robbers who came here to "mine the mountain". The two sides almost had a conflict. In the end, Rosa arrived and shot and wounded one person, which made the tomb robbers retreat.
I didn't expect so many things to happen in just one day. Fortunately, there were no casualties, but you can imagine the pressure in my heart. It can be seen that Rosa was not relaxed either!!
As for me...
My situation is quite interesting. The reason I say this is that this time I "turned a disaster into a blessing"!! After being bitten by the tomb tiger, I was poisoned by corpses. I fainted because of this corpse poison, but this thing in my body was absorbed by the corpse qi of the smiling corpse in my body by chance.
In other words, the corpse qi of the smiling corpse that has been bothering me has been completely removed now, and I don't have to worry about being found by that thing anytime and anywhere.
The corpse poison in my body was also removed by Qingyi for me. Fortunately, the tomb tiger was just formed a few days ago, and the toxicity is not particularly strong. Otherwise, under the limited conditions in this desolate mountain, even Qingyi would be helpless, and I could only wait for the ghost to take me away.
Thinking about this, I can only smile bitterly-it's only been a few days? I have fainted twice. Just like my father said, I am not strong enough to deal with these dirty things. It is like walking on thin ice. If I don't do it well, I will have to give up my life.
After adjusting my mood a little, I asked Rosa what we were going to do next?
"Of course, keep going."
Rosa sighed softly, looked at me with some complexity, and said: "Some things are not something you can give up just because you want to. Even if you know that there are many dangers ahead, you still have to bite the bullet. This is what it means to be in the rivers and lakes. Your father was like this at the beginning, and so am I."
After telling me this, Rosa got up and left my tent. Looking at her back, I fell into deep thought.
Is she hinting at something?
That night, because I was injured, I was not assigned to keep watch. After dinner, I felt a little better. I applied some of the herbs Qingyi gave me on my wounds, and then I went back to sleep in the tent. I slept until dawn. After we packed up the camp, we set off.
This is the third day since we entered the mountains. We are walking further and further in the Qinling Mountains. The vegetation here is dense, with vines everywhere. Even the sunlight is getting thinner and thinner, almost blocked by the leaves of the trees. The woods are gloomy and the road is getting harder and harder to walk. I can clearly feel that the mentality of our group has become depressed after encountering the tomb tiger.
What is scary is not the tomb tiger, but the appearance of this thing means that something has happened to the Ten Deadly Tombs in the Qinling Mountains.
Fortunately, we didn't encounter any hardships on the road that day, nor were we attacked by wild animals. We walked nearly 60 miles a day and arrived at a valley at night. Strangely, there was an ancient temple here. I don't know who built it here. It has been a few years. It looks shabby, but it can shelter from the wind and rain.
"Haha, finally we don't have to camp anymore!"
Zhang Jinya grinned when he saw the ancient temple, and the big gold tooth in his mouth was particularly eye-catching: "We will spend the night in this ancient temple? I have walked for a whole day, and I really don't want to move anymore. It's too annoying to camp at this time!"
What he said really touched the hearts of many people. The journey this day was much more difficult than the first day. The physical strength in the deep mountains could not be replenished well. The continuous consumption was not only me, but even Rosa and Qingyi, who were in better physical condition, could not stand it.
At least on the first day, I saw no sweat stains on Qingyi's body, but today, he was obviously wet with sweat as he hurried on the road.
So, after a discussion, we all agreed with Zhang Jinya's opinion and stayed overnight in this ancient temple.
As soon as he entered the ancient temple, Zhang Jinya started to mutter: "Damn it, why do I feel something is wrong with this place? In a good temple, they don't worship Guanyin or Buddha, but all the gods are from the underworld?"
I didn't pay attention to these at first, I was busy spreading hay on the ground, and when I heard Zhang Jinya's call, I looked at the shabby Buddha statues on it, and I was a little dumbfounded. Aren't the statues on it the Ten Kings of Hell and the Hades of the underworld?
Generally speaking, the larger temples are divided into several halls, including the main hall and the side halls. The main hall is definitely dedicated to the Buddha, and the side halls on both sides are dedicated to the Bodhisattvas of all directions. The Ten Kings of Hell are usually dedicated to the hall on the right hand side of the entrance. Of course, the Guanyin for praying for children is basically not worshipped in the hall, but at the entrance!
Smaller temples cannot afford to cast so many Buddha statues, so basically they only cast one Buddha and one Guanyin. As for the current temples that do not worship Buddha or Guanyin but worship the Ten Kings of Hell, I have never seen it.
"I say, Lao Zhang, can you stop being so startled all day long?"
Fatty Wu said dissatisfiedly: "If you keep going like this, I won't be scared to death by ghosts, but you will scare yourself to death."
"You know nothing!"
Zhang Jinya spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground fiercely: "It's called being careful, right?"
Fatty Wu was about to refute at that time, but Qingyi suddenly shouted: "Okay, stop arguing, this temple is indeed not an ordinary temple. If I'm not mistaken, this temple should be used to suppress evil. There may be ghosts rampant here in the past. In order to suppress those ghosts and report peace, such an ancient temple to suppress evil was built here. It does not worship Buddha and Guanyin, but only the Ten Kings of Hell!"
Suppress evil?
I was shocked by Qingyi's words. Could it be that we rushed to a place we shouldn't have come to?
Without waiting for us to ask, Qingyi continued: "I don't know if you have noticed anything unusual before coming here. Less than 20 miles away from our ancient temple, there is a wasteland!"
When he said that, I really remembered that we did pass by such a place. It was completely different from the lush trees around it. The terrain was very low, and there were almost no trees on the surface except for some knee-high weeds. It was very strange.
"If I am not guessing, the wasteland we passed by was inhabited before. Maybe a long time ago, a group of ancient mountain people lived there! You also know that building a house requires laying a foundation. Generally speaking, where the foundation is laid, there is something in the soil, so no trees can grow at all, because the roots of trees are too deep underground, and the cornerstones used when building the foundation inhibit the growth of trees!"
Qingyi said slowly: "Combining the ancient temple and the wasteland in front of us, I have such a guess that there was a village here a long time ago. It's just that the village was harassed by ghosts, so this ancient temple was built here. It's a pity that it doesn't seem to have much effect now, otherwise the village would not disappear, but we don't know how it disappeared. It may be a collective escape, or it may be slaughtered by the things that this ancient temple wants to suppress."
Hearing Qingyi's words, our faces became ugly.
"Damn it, what are you waiting for? Run!"
Fatty Wu immediately shouted: "The things in the Qinling ancient tombs are enough for us to drink a pot. We should not provoke this kind of lonely ghost that can kill a village, so as not to make trouble for ourselves."
"Too late."
Qingyi sighed and looked up at the outside of the ancient temple: "The sun has basically set. This deep mountain forest is not like the city. The yin energy here is heavy. Once the sun sets, those dirty things dare to come out. In the wilderness There is no point in getting entangled with them in the ridge. If we are beaten up, it will be even more troublesome. It is better to stay here and fight them! "
"Damn it, it looks like tonight is not going to be easy!"
Fatty Wu said "Damn it" all the time, which sounded very imposing, but he was quite cowardly and sat down on the ground: "This Qinling ancient tomb group is too fierce. Since we are next to it, why have we never had any good luck? I really don't know how cruel the real owner is!"
We smiled bitterly and ignored this guy.
Are you still thinking about the real owner in the Qinling ancient tomb?
Just survive tonight first, this thing that can massacre a village is not easy to deal with!!