Glancing at the thing, my master Zhang Chu said indifferently, "It's just a corpse. Look how scared you are. It's not like you haven't seen the world before, so why are you so scared?"
My master Zhang Chu's words made my face turn red and I didn't know how to start.
My master then took the oar from my hand.
With the oars he tried to free the body so that our boat could pass through the hole.
But what neither he nor I expected was that when the oar in my master's hand just touched the corpse, the corpse seemed to be pulled by something and moved quickly away in the opposite direction of our direction.
You should know that the direction of water flow is outward along the hole.
"Master, something is wrong. He moved the body away..." I was a little nervous and stuttered.
My master frowned and said in a deep voice, "Tianyi, there may be some unclean things behind this stone wall. We must be careful when we go in."
My master Zhang Chu actually still wanted to go in, but I was a little hesitant.
I swallowed and said, "Master, why don't we do as I said just now and leave the cave first? Then we can seal the cave entrance and the black fish here won't be able to get out. The problem of corpse worms will also be solved."
But my master snorted coldly and said, "No! Now that we are here, we must find the source of the corpses. I am a corpse breeder. Although it is not a glorious profession, I still respect corpses."
"The corpse is the root of the soul. If the corpse is still in the world of the living, it will be a burden to the soul or ghost. So I have to do a good thing and take a look."
Seeing that my master was a little angry, I had no choice but to nod and say, "Okay then!"
Then my master handed me the paddle and said, "Come on, Tianyi, don't be afraid, let's go in and take a look."
Slowly we rowed the boat through the hole.
The hole looked passable, but it took us a lot of effort to get through it. The water splashed against the boat, and a lot of water fell on me and my master Zhang Chu.
In an instant, our originally dry clothes became wet, and we looked like two drowned rats.
I put my flashlight in the cloth bag, but my master's flashlight was still on.
The beam of the flashlight shines forward.
After we passed through the hole, we actually came to a large pool of water. It was surrounded by pitch-black water, very humid, and the water vapor was mixed with a strong stench of corpses.
My master waved the flashlight around, as if he was looking for something.
I knew he must be looking for the body that had just blocked the hole.
But he found nothing. The water was dark and there was nothing in it. Not to mention a corpse, even the huge black fish that he had seen before was nowhere to be seen.
I tugged at my clothes, shook off the water on my hands, and whispered to my master Zhang Chu, "Master, there's nothing here!"
But my master ignored me.
At this time, the singing voice that had previously appeared in the cave rang out again.
Earlier, the singing had been going on and I didn't know when it stopped. I was too nervous so I didn't notice it. But I knew my master Zhang Chu must have noticed it.
"The sound seems to be over there! Let's row over there!"
My master raised his hand and pointed to the left side of the pond.
Then, I lowered my head and paddled quickly.
The boat was moving forward. I rowed with great effort and was out of breath. I was still angry just now because I felt that my master was not
I should just go into this hole regardless. Now that I'm already in, I have no choice but to keep going.
I was also curious about who was singing in such a gloomy and dark place. It was really an oddball.
Soon a stone wall appeared in front of us.
The stone wall was very long, dividing the space into two parts, the right part had water flowing into the pool, while the left part had no water and the ground appeared.
When I saw the ground, it was as if I had seen a relative. I said excitedly, "Master, there is ground ahead. We are here."
My master Zhang Chuze didn't show much joy and just nodded.
After we stopped the boat, my master Zhang Chu took out a hemp rope from his body and fixed the boat to a stone.
As for me, after putting away the oars, I got off the boat.
Wading through the water that was barely above my knees, I came to the ground on the left, followed by my master Zhang Chu.
The singing continued, as if guiding us forward.
The stench of corpses has become more and more pungent.
"Come on, don't just stand there, let's go inside and take a look."
I took out my flashlight, nodded, and turned to leave.
But at this moment, I felt an itch on my thigh.
I subconsciously reached out to scratch it, but unexpectedly, I touched something soft.
I quickly shone the flashlight downwards, and it almost scared me to death.
It turned out that on my right thigh, which had already rolled up its trouser leg, there were actually black corpse worms crawling towards me. And I found that there were actually quite a few of them.
There were not only a lot of corpse worms on my thighs, but also on the ground.
Those corpse worms were like dense woodlice, densely packed together.
I was startled and quickly dodged backwards, but unexpectedly I bumped into my master Zhang Chu.
"What's wrong? You look so flustered!"
My master looked me over and asked.
I stuttered, "Master, there are corpse worms right in front of us, and there are quite a lot of them!"
"Corpse worm?"
After muttering something, the flashlight in my master Zhang Chu's hand also waved over.
When he saw the black, scattered corpse worms on the ground, he was also shocked.
But the next moment, his expression returned to calm, and he tilted his head and said to me, "Don't worry, they are all corpse worm larvae. As long as they don't get into your mouth, they can't hurt you."
The corpse worms were obviously afraid of the beam of light. After the flashlight passed by, they quickly crawled towards the darkness.
But thinking about the sticky and wet feeling just now, I really feel a little scared.
I thought to myself, there are really a lot of strange things in this cave this time. First, a shabby boat appeared, then I encountered that huge black fish. Then, I heard the woman's singing, and then I encountered the white corpse, and now I encountered a large group of corpse worms... ...
I don’t know what I will encounter next, but I think this is much scarier than catching ghosts.
Then my master led the way and I followed behind him.
His legs and feet were not in good condition, so I hurried over to support my master Zhang Chu for a while.
In this way, the two of us quickly moved towards the cave on the left.
I encountered a lot of corpse worms on the road, but they all ran away when they saw the beam of the flashlight. Some of the ignorant corpse worms were stepped on by me and turned into meat paste.
Their bodies would ooze out black liquid that gave off a foul smell. They looked and smelled equally disgusting.
After walking for about ten minutes, the singing in front suddenly stopped.
After turning a corner, what appeared in front of us was a space as big as a football field.
The sunlight outside shines in through a hole and into the space.
What was even more surprising was that there were actually quite a few houses in the space. Those houses were all made of stone and were neatly distributed in the space.
I made a rough estimate and estimated that there were probably several hundred stone houses.
Could it be that there is a group of people living here, isolated from the rest of the world? Just like the Peach Blossom Spring described by Tao Yuanming.
I also noticed that in the middle of those stone houses, there was a pile of stones. The pile was very high, with tattered pieces of cloth hanging on it. Those pieces of cloth were actually white.
This surprised me and made me think of the graves in the countryside and the spirit-calling banners standing next to the graves.
What was even more surprising was that a woman holding a red oil umbrella appeared in front of the stone pestle. The woman was wearing gray-red clothes and had her back to me and my master.
Her hair was very long and fell to her waist.
She looked very slim, which highlighted her exquisite figure.
Suddenly I thought of a sentence: When my hair grows to my waist...
The song came from the woman's mouth, and it sounded mournful, sentimental, and full of silent affection. But in this dim space, it was indescribably strange.
"Master, there, there... there is a woman!" I said in a low voice.
My master tilted his head and whispered to me, "Tianyi, open your third eye and see if that woman is a human or a ghost."
I nodded and was about to open my third eye.
At this time, the woman under the red umbrella actually turned around slowly.
Her face was hidden under the red umbrella, so we still couldn't see it, but judging from her clothes and her sexy breasts, the woman should be very young.
"Who are you and why are you here? Have you seen my brother?" The woman stopped singing and asked in a tearful voice.
I looked at my master Zhang Chu.
Zhang Chu urged me, "Open your third eye quickly and don't be influenced by her."
I said "Oh", and quickly stimulated my good energy to open my third eye.
The energy of Yin De was focused on his right hand, and he chanted the eye mantra. Suddenly, his third eye opened.
My third eye opened, and I quickly raised my right hand with my palm facing the girl.
There was a faint ghostly aura around the girl, indicating that she was a little ghost.
"How is it? Is it a human or a ghost?" my master asked me.
I whispered, "It's a ghost! A little ghost."
My master Zhang Chu nodded and said, "If it's a little ghost, it's easy to deal with. You are a Taoist priest who catches ghosts, she shouldn't be able to hurt us."
The female ghost in the distance was still repeating what she had said before: "Who are you and why are you here? Have you seen my brother?"
I didn't know how to reply, so I looked at my master Zhang Chu next to me.
My master Zhang Chu was calm. He cleared his throat and said softly to the woman, "Girl, we don't know your brother, and we have never seen him. Can you tell us where this place is? And why are you here?"
But the girl didn't answer at all, but just cried silently.
Her body was trembling slightly, and her breasts were rising and falling, which made my heart beat fast.
After a while, she muttered, "Why, why? You haven't seen my brother. He has been away for so long, doesn't he miss me? No, he must miss me, he must miss me..."
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