The fire on the ground was extinguished, leaving only the oil lamp still lit. I saw the five dead ghosts, all skin and bones, very similar to mummies, with black skin all over their bodies, eyes, noses and mouths, all black holes, looking particularly creepy under the shining lights. This is still quite far away, if you look at it up close, it would probably be even scarier.
They were panting around the sedan, as if they had just done a tiring job. After catching their breath for a few times, the five dead guys actually worked in unison, lowered their bodies at the same time, and lifted the sedan. The sedan seemed particularly heavy, the poles were bent, and the spines of the five dead guys were also pressed into a C shape.
The five dead guys carrying the sedan chair had lost the cheerful rhythm they had when they came. They took a breath after every step, as if the sedan chair was pressed down by a mountain, very heavy. From time to time, mud rolled out from the curtain of the sedan chair, leaving a winding trail on the snow.
After they got lucky, the four of us dared to run to the place we were just at. The ground was still flat, without even a crack. We worked together to push the snow on the ground aside. There was solid ground underneath. What the hell was going on
Even if the five dead things didn't come out from here, but Lao Qian just talked about it. If there is no hole below, then he must be a ghost, and he is making a ghost stake here!
Although I didn't find the entrance to the cave in the end, I found four wooden spikes made of willow wood on the four corners of the two-meter radius of the land. They were inserted into the ground, with only an inch of the ground exposed. The wooden spikes were dripping with blood, and I knew at a glance that this was the "Yin Mu Tong Gui" technique. Five dead ghosts just drilled down from here, but people can't go down, but using the Yin Mu Tong Gui technique, the five dead ghosts will open a path to the underworld for you, and you can go down.
The tug-of-war between them just now must have been caused by Lao Qian's use of magic, trying to attack the five dead ghosts, but he almost got pulled down and couldn't get up.
I couldn't help but wonder, what are these five ghosts digging underground for? Seeing the dirt rolling out of the sedan chair, they are not just stealing some dirt to take back? There is dirt everywhere, why do they come here to dig? Can the dirt here turn into gold
I remembered that Su Yao once said that four ghosts returned that night, but one was missing. I guess it was Lao Qian who killed him? Judging from Lao Qian's attitude, he wanted to protect this place as much as possible and not let them dig the soil. So it seems that this soil is really valuable.
Before leaving, I took a look at the oil lamp left by Lao Qian. It seemed to be an ancient thing, with a base in the shape of a monster, but I had never seen such a monster before. I wanted to take it away to study it, but I thought that Lao Qian would have to rely on this thing to deal with the five ghosts in the future, and he would definitely come back to take it back after dawn. So I put away my greed and took the three of them to continue tracking the five ghosts to see where they transported the soil.
Because Su Yao did not mention what the five ghosts looked like when they came back, that is to say, she did not see the five ghosts carrying anything heavy back, so it seemed that the soil was not transported back to the grave.
The four of us ran along the original route for a long time, but there was no sign of the five ghosts. They couldn't move fast with the heavy sedan just now, and it seemed that they didn't carry the things back to their nest. We waited at the edge of the field, and after a while, we saw the shadows of five dead ghosts jumping up and down from the south. They seemed to have unloaded the soil, and were carrying the empty sedan chair and jumping happily as before.