The sound came suddenly, and it was obvious that I was not the only one who heard it. Almost everyone in the ear chamber sat up straight at once!
"Did you hear any sound just now?"
Zhang Jinya hesitated for a moment and pointed at me: "It seems to be behind him..."
Fatty, Rosa and Zhou Jing all nodded!
I was already feeling cold in my heart, and after hearing what Zhang Jinya said, I felt even more uncomfortable, with goose bumps running straight up: "Didn't you see anything behind me?"
Zhang Jinya turned on the flashlight and shone it behind me, then shook his head gently. With the dim light from the flashlight, I could see that his face was not looking good.
I was furious at the time. I was a little exhausted from a series of fights, so I couldn't care so much at this time. I stood up with the Baipi knife: "Heizi, find it for me!"
To be honest, after experiencing so many weird things, I am no longer as afraid of these ghosts as before. The most important thing to face such things is to face them directly!
The most frightening thing about all the evil things is the unknown fear they bring to you. The unknown fear alone is enough to scare people to the point of paralysis. They simply won't resist and just wait for the evil things to take their lives. In fact, if there is no fear in the heart, those evil things are not necessarily more vicious than people. Take the evil soldiers I met outside the ancient temple for example. How could I be their opponent when they were alive? The Rouran people are a nation on horseback. Almost all Rouran warriors have the strength to tear tigers and leopards apart. Dealing with college students like me is like cutting vegetables. But after they died, I cut them like cutting vegetables. They are much weaker after death than when they were alive. Of course, the evil things with Taoism are exceptions.
The so-called gods and ghosts are afraid of evil people.
If there is no fear in the heart, and evil is born, gods and ghosts will be afraid of it when you pick up a knife! !
So at this time, although I was also frightened by the sudden sound, I decided to take the initiative based on my experience and find the ghost first. I couldn't just sit here and let it scare me.
Heizi was an out-and-out vicious dog. He roared as soon as I heard my order.
"Get out!"
I also yelled: "Otherwise, you will suffer when I find you!"
"Don't do it, I don't mean any harm!"
The weak voice sounded again: "Please don't hurt me..."
"Then why don't you show up quickly!"
Zhang Jinya shouted from the side: "You've angered me, I'll deal with you first!"
As soon as Zhang Jinya finished speaking, thick white smoke suddenly appeared in the southwest corner of the left ear chamber, and the temperature inside the ear chamber began to drop.
I knew that the dirty stuff was coming out. The temperature dropped without any warning, and the surrounding yin became thicker. For a moment, even my breathing stopped. My eyes were fixed on the southwest corner. At this time, the white smoke in the southwest corner had gradually dissipated. A thin woman in a gorgeous dress was looking at Heizi and me in the corner with a face full of fear. She seemed to be very afraid of both of us.
My heartbeat accelerated at this time. There was no way. The woman was really too beautiful. Although she was a foreigner, her appearance looked extremely beautiful even to me, an Oriental. She was wearing a golden classical palace dress. The style was the round-necked shirt popular in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. She was full of brilliance, fair skin, and three-dimensional facial features. She had a full head of light golden long hair that almost fell to her waist. She looked much more beautiful than some international stars now!
But... how did this woman with a Western face appear in Gao Xianzhi's tomb?
I was full of doubts and couldn't help asking, "Who are you?"
The woman didn't say anything, but looked at Heizi and the Baipi Knife in my hand with some fear.
I understood and saw that the woman didn't seem to be a vicious and dirty thing, so I called Heizi back and put away the Baipi Knife, and then said, "Can you tell me now?"
The woman hesitated for a moment, and then slowly talked about her life experience. It would have been better if she didn't say it, but I was shocked when she said it!
It turned out that the identity of this woman was not simple. She was Princess Jinskaya of the Shi Kingdom!
Shi Kingdom, which was one of the ancient countries in the Western Regions at that time, was one of the nine surnames of Zhaowu, and its location was probably in the current Uzbekistan area.
During the Tang Dynasty, the Great Kingdom, which is the Arab Empire recorded in our current history books, destroyed the Persian Empire, swept across Central Asia, and caused chaos in the Western Regions. In order to protect themselves, the small countries in the Western Regions could only rely on the wings of the Tang Empire. The Tang Empire at that time also gave these small countries shelter, and then a fierce conflict broke out with the Arab Empire in the Mesopotamian Basin. Shiguo was right in the middle of the fierce conflict between the two sides. In the ninth year of Tianbao, in order to compete with the Arab Empire for the absolute hegemony of the Mesopotamian Basin, the Tang Empire sent Gao Xianzhi to lead an army to attack Shiguo. Gao Xianzhi flattened Shiguo, captured the king of Shiguo, his wife, and a group of royal nobles and returned to Chang'an.
It was at that time that Princess Kinskaya was captured and brought back to Chang'an by Gao Xianzhi. Later, in order to reward Gao Xianzhi for his merits, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang gave Princess Kinskaya of Shiguo to Gao Xianzhi. As a result, on the night when Gao Xianzhi married Kinskaya as a concubine, unrest broke out in the Western Regions again. After the capital of Shiguo was flattened, it actually asked the Arab Empire for help. The Arab Empire sent troops to attack the Shiguo Hengrus occupied by the Tang Empire at that time. Gao Xianzhi received the imperial order to go to war overnight, so Gao Xianzhi mounted his horse and went to war without even seeing Princess Kinskaya.
The famous Battle of Hengrus in history broke out.
As mentioned before, the Tang Empire was defeated for various reasons at the time. The Arab Empire was frightened after using hundreds of thousands of people to fight against tens of thousands of people, and simply gave up the attack on the Tang Empire. The Western Regions also calmed down.
Afterwards, the An-Shi Rebellion broke out in the Tang Empire. Gao Xianzhi was busy rescuing the emperor and never went home to see Princess Kinskaya. He even forgot that there was such a princess in his home. When he returned home, he returned to a body with his head cut off.
At that time, Gao Xianzhi's family and generals were busy preparing for Gao Xianzhi's funeral. Many soldiers were willing to be buried with him. Finally, Gao Xianzhi's wife simply proposed this - Gao Xianzhi was dead and lonely in the underground, so a concubine should be sent to serve him! !
This clearly meant that Gao Xianzhi wanted to drag a concubine to be buried with Gao Xianzhi. How could Gao Xianzhi's concubines be willing to do that? One by one, they refused on the grounds that they had given birth to children for Gao Xianzhi. So Gao Xianzhi's wife looked around and saw Princess Kinskaya. This princess had no worries. Wasn't she the best choice for human sacrifice?
Princess Kinskaya was given a cup of poisoned wine to die. After her death, she was stuffed into the left ear chamber of Gao Xianzhi's tomb as a burial companion. As a result, she was unlucky. The tomb was not on any dragon vein. The Feng Shui master was blind and mistook the land of the resentful dragon for the dragon vein. It was strange that Princess Kinskaya could rest in peace after her death. Not long after her death, she turned into a ghost and wandered in this tomb for a thousand years!
After listening to the woman's story, I felt a little pity for her, and my hostility and vigilance towards her were reduced. Although Zhang Jinya kept urging me not to believe this "nonsense", I still felt compassion and put away the Baipi Knife before asking, "Do you know what those things outside are?"
"They were all generals of General Gao before."
Princess Jinskaya hesitated for a moment, and then said with some fear, "They... are all a bunch of lunatics!"
I was immediately curious and asked her why she said that.
Princess Jinskaya said that after Gao Xianzhi died, their family invited a very powerful wizard from the Miaojiang area at that time. The wizard said that there was a way to make the soldiers who were willing to accompany Gao Xianzhi to death protect Gao Xianzhi forever, so they waited for the soldiers to agree and made it into the ghost appearance it is now!
Princess Kinskaya told me exactly what the sorcerer did, and then I remembered that I had seen an introduction to this kind of witchcraft in my family's collection of books. If I remember correctly, it should be called mercury witchcraft!
If you want to perform this mercury witchcraft, you have to make a living specimen first!
The so-called living specimen is actually to make the soldiers who are buried alive take mercury orally, and at the same time dig holes on the top of the head, back, soles of the feet, and palms, and fill them with mercury. After the soldiers who are buried die of mercury poisoning, they are rubbed all over the body with mercury powder, just like a specimen. After thousands of years, the skin and flesh do not rot. This technology is far more advanced than the Egyptian mummies, but the backgrounds of the two civilizations are different, and the value orientations are also very different. Moreover, the method of injecting mercury to maintain the appearance of the corpse must be a living person. The blood of the dead does not circulate, so it is impossible to inject it, so this method of making living specimens is extremely cruel.
After the human specimen is made, it will be placed in an extremely cold place and buried for 49 days. When the body of the human specimen is full of resentment, it will be given a breath of yang energy. In this way, the human specimen will immediately rise up and become a living dead similar to a tomb tiger. However, because the body is full of mercury, its body will not rot and it can guard Gao Xianzhi's tomb forever!
No wonder Princess Kinskaya said that those buried soldiers were crazy. It was really crazy to guard Gao Xianzhi's tomb in this way.
At this time, I remembered that the hand of the mausoleum guard who had just grabbed me seemed to be hanging on my ankle, so in order to confirm my idea, I quickly pulled that hand down and took a look with a flashlight. As expected, there was a hole on the palm of that hand, which was sealed with fire. There were many black and purple spots on this hand. It should be that the mercury has been sealed in the human body for a long time and has produced chemical changes. The "Fa Qiu Secret Art" said that this kind of spots will appear brown-red if they are recent, and turn black and purple if they are old. They are commonly known as "mercury spots" or "mercury immersion". Some places also call them "rotten Yinzi" or "mercury blue".
After figuring out what those mausoleum guards are, I felt much more at ease. Although there are many of them and we cannot match them head-on, they have no thinking ability and cannot break the floor-to-ceiling stone gate of the ear chamber. We are still safe for the time being.
"You need to wash up."
At this time, Princess Kinskaya looked at us and said, "You are very dirty. It's not good for your health if you stay here for a long time. I just know a place with water. I can take you there."
After Princess Kinskaya said this, I realized that when we were fighting with the soldiers guarding the mausoleum, we cut open the soldiers' bodies and sprayed a lot of mercury on our bodies. Mercury is poisonous. If it forms mercury vapor or is accidentally ingested, it will cause mercury poisoning and die directly. Although we didn't inhale mercury vapor or splash it into our mouths, it is not good for the body after all. Mercury has a high specific gravity and will slowly penetrate into the body from the skin. If that happens, we will be finished!
Right now, we really have to wash up quickly. I estimated that we haven't been stained with mercury for a long time, and there are no wounds on our bodies that have touched mercury, so it's okay for the time being. At most, we can drink more milk after we go out.
But... should we trust Princess Kinskaya?
Although it seems that she has no intention to harm us now, after all, humans and ghosts are different, and we can't guess what she is thinking. This ancient tomb is full of traps and unknown dangers. If she takes us to a fatal place, we will be in trouble!
Looking at Princess Kinskaya's beautiful face, we looked at each other and fell into deep hesitation.