"King Lao, your two grandsons were beaten to death half a month ago!"
When the young man finished speaking these words, he fell into dead silence in the darkness.
Suddenly, without warning!
Suddenly, a strong wind rose in the belly of the mountain.
"I'll give you one last chance. If you say a false word, I'll break your neck."
An old dull voice sounded in the dark wind, and the voice came from one of the intact coffins on the pile of corpses. It seemed that with suppressed anger, he said every word with a sullen tone.
"In front of King Lao, I dare not lie. Your two grandsons were indeed beaten to death by the same person half a month ago!"
…
Still at the seventy-two ghost gates.
in the dark,
Time passed minute by minute,
Except for the piles of corpses and the icy fire on both sides of the waterway, there is only the sound of waves washing against the banks from time to time.
Sand, sand, there was the sound of footsteps stepping on the gravel, and walking on the soft gravel. Not long after, the mysterious young man returned again.
Nothing unusual was seen on him.
It seems that it is safe to return.
Crashing... The water covered his ankles. After the young man waded for a distance, he saw the boat and the boatman in the shroud that only the dead would wear.
It seems that the boatman has been waiting for the young man to return.
As usual, after the young man boarded the boat, he blindfolded his eyes again with cloth strips, and then as the boat swayed from side to side, and there was the sound of water waves hitting the hull, it seemed that the boat in the cave waterway had already returned on the same road. .
In the waterway back from the original road, those movements can still be heard, and there is something crawling on the rock walls on both sides.
Something under the surface of the water swam quickly, making the sound of huge waves,
There was also a strange movement overhead.
The young man remained silent, counting the time silently in his heart. Referring to the time of his first visit, he calculated that there was still one-third of the remaining waterway distance, boom!
The body of the boat floated suddenly, just like the previous time, as if something else was on board, the sound of someone's footsteps and panting began on the boat.
But this time is different. After lingering for a while, the footsteps did not leave like the first time, but approached the young man who was heading towards the bow...
When I don't know how much time has passed,
A small boat came out of the thick sea of fog on the river.
Boom... The hull collided with the river bank lightly, and the hull stopped.
"It has reached the shore." The voice of the boatman came from the stern of the boat.
However, no one disembarked for a long time.
Just at this time, a gust of river wind blew past, and the thick fog was blown away. The young man who was standing on the bow of the boat, at some point, was left standing with only the lower body below the waist! The upper body had been eaten, and the wound looked like it had been bitten by some ferocious beast. The flesh and blood were bloody, and a lot of blood gushed out.
…
after one day.
Changxi Village.
This is a small remote mountain village, but before the season for melons and fruits to be purchased, it is rare for a small truck with a foreign license to drive into the village today.
The pickup truck with a foreign license plate finally stopped at the door of a family at the west entrance of the village.
Then two big men got out of the cab and started to lift an ice coffin from the truck.
Some nearby villagers saw this scene and were about to crowd around to watch the excitement, but at this moment, the door of the villager's house opened, and an old man, a young man and a grandson came out. After driving away the nearby villagers who came to watch, they began to let The two big men carried the ice coffin into the house.
After about ten minutes, the two big men drove away from the village without stopping after placing the ice coffin.
Wang Youcai just graduated from high school this year. His parents died early, and he and his grandfather have been dependent on each other since childhood. All the nearby towns and villages respected his grandfather very much. Whenever there is a dead person, when there is a funeral, his grandfather must be invited to preside over the funeral, especially the elderly, especially respect his grandfather.
Even before he died, he specified that his grandfather would preside over the funeral after his death.
The reason why the old people in the neighborhood respect his grandfather so much is because his grandfather was a mortician in the past. However, with the reform and opening up, every village has access to cement roads and small cars, and the industry of carrying corpses, which has been passed down since ancient times, has gradually been lost.
But the old people believed in this the most, and they all thought that his grandfather was a man of great ability, so even now, they are willing to come to his grandfather to preside over the funeral, so that they can rest in peace.
However, today's grandfather has a strange and serious expression on his face.
All because of an ice coffin transported today.
Wang Youcai, who happened to be at home after school, watched his grandfather send the two truck drivers out. Out of curiosity, he couldn't help coming to the side of the ice coffin. Through the transparent crystal cover, he secretly took a look at the people inside the ice coffin.
Lying in the ice coffin was a woman. Looking at her fair skin, she seemed to be a very young woman.
Estimated age is in the twenties.
Died at such a young age, how jealous of beauty, Wang Youcai said regretfully, he wanted to see the facial features of the woman in the ice coffin, but he froze, the woman was wearing a stone mask made of Huang Daxian.
It's a weasel mask with a sharp beak and thin eyes.
Weasels are all over the country, and there are activity traces all over the country.
However, this Huang Daxian mask is a bit strange. There is a place that seems to be spliced, and it was inlaid later. The color is slightly different from the surrounding area, and it occupies about one-third of the area.
While Wang Youcai was looking at the stone surface on the woman's face, the grandfather who came back after delivering the driver saw Wang Youcai lying beside the ice coffin, and immediately scolded Wang Youcai nervously: "You little bastard! Get out of there quickly!" An ice coffin, have you never seen a woman in eight lifetimes, can you see the person in the ice coffin!"
Wang Youcai, a boy with a hairy lip that hasn't fully grown yet, curled his lips in disbelief: "Isn't it just a corpse, what's the big deal."
"Grandpa, you presided over funerals for other people's homes when you were young, and you went there overnight. I followed you, grandpa, and saw these corpses a lot."
Unexpectedly, Grandpa's face trembled in fright: "My little ancestor, don't toss my old bones one more time, is it so difficult?"
"The people in this ice coffin are different from those dead people before. If you don't say a word, maybe our grandpa and grandson can survive tonight."
Seeing the expression on his grandfather's face, Wang Youcai didn't look fake, and then he looked at the woman wearing a strange stone mask in the ice coffin beside him, and he became even more curious: "Grandpa, why did someone suddenly throw a woman's body to us for no reason? Home delivery?"
silence,
Grandpa sighed: "The one who should come has come, and I haven't been able to hide after hiding for a lifetime."
Then he looked at Wang Youcai with a very serious face, and solemnly told Wang Youcai as if he was confessing his last words: "Youcai, grandpa will resume his old skills tonight, and he will carry the corpse of the woman in the ice coffin. Grandpa has a few words of advice You, you must keep it in mind, and don’t miss one.”
(end of this chapter)