Chapter 0011: Rising Dragon Coffin
The calling voice was very ethereal, faint yet very clear.
The road leading into the mountains from the village was very flat. Although my hands were tied and I walked a little unsteadily, I still walked slowly forward.
But before I had walked far, the sound started to move away and I stepped into the bushes.
Something pierced my pants and I gasped in pain, but my feet still uncontrollably waded through the bushes towards the calling voice.
My body was constantly scratched by trees and other things, and it was burning with pain all over, but I couldn't stop.
I don’t know how long I walked, but it was so long that I could clearly feel the sun slowly becoming hotter, and then slowly starting to become milder.
The sound seemed to be getting closer and closer, and my body was getting hotter and hotter. The feeling of being poisoned by the snake last night came back again, and this time it was even worse. It seemed that my whole body was hot, and itchy everywhere.
I felt sweat all over, my legs were weak, and I was stumbling, but I couldn't stop.
In addition to the calling sound, there seemed to be a hissing sound of a snake spitting out its tongue in my ears.
Faintly, my feet seemed to step into the water, and then I stumbled and fell.
The eye mask he was wearing seemed to be hooked by something and was torn off.
Only then did I realize that I seemed to be in an abandoned grave.
However, the bottom of the grave was covered with waist-high grass, and it was obvious that it had been dug for a long time.
Countless snakes were lying on the edge of the grave, stacked up on top of each other, with their heads half raised, hissing at me.
The eyepatch I had fallen off was still hooked on the tail of one of the snakes.
I was suddenly shocked to see so many snakes and was shaking all over, but I didn't dare to move.
Not to mention anything else, if so many snakes pounced down, they would fill up the grave and I would be buried alive, not to mention that these snakes would bite me to death.
I took a deep breath and made sure that these snakes were just staring at me before I slowly lifted my bound wrists.
My uncle might really just want to bury me in the snake coffin, so the rope around my wrists was not tied into a knot. I slowly bit the knot with my mouth.
At the same time, he slowly knelt down. The grave pit is usually half a person deep. If you kneel down, you can see the situation outside.
The snakes followed my movements and slowly raised their heads, but still did not rush in directly.
After taking a good look at the situation outside and determining the escape route, I also bit the rope open.
I took out the glass bottle from my jeans pocket very slowly. When the snakes saw the glass bottle, they immediately hissed at me, showing their fangs.
I quickly opened the glass jar and waved it around.
As the powder in the glass bottle spread out, I quickly pulled the clothes tied around my neck to wrap my hands, leaned towards the edge of the grave, turned over and jumped out, using the clothes and the snake as a barrier.
The glass bottle contains snake repellent powder that I took from home. My father collects snakes to make wine, and he also asks people for snake repellent powder. He also sells this on a regular basis.
The snake incidents I encountered throughout the day yesterday forced me to be careful, so I put a few bottles in my backpack, but I was still worried, so I put another bottle in the side pocket of my jeans.
My dad also told me that if you are really scared of a snake, take off your clothes and throw them at the snake. Snake fangs are curved and cannot penetrate clothes. As long as you are not injected with venom, your life will not be in danger.
I didn’t know if it was true at this moment. I put my hand on the clothes, turned over and ran outside quickly.
At this moment, I suddenly felt grateful for the physical fitness test before the college entrance examination.
I ran with all my strength, not caring about the bushes and thorns. I just rushed past them no matter what they were.
But I hadn't run far when I felt something tripping my legs and I fell heavily to the ground. My face was scratched by the thorns and it was burning painful, and something warm was flowing down.
I stood up with my hands, and saw a huge snake coiled around me, which was even bigger than I could wrap my hands around.
The snake was so big and long that its body almost completely encircled me.
Just then, snakes slowly began to hang down from the surrounding trees, and snakes slowly emerged from the bushes, hissing at me.
The big snake swam towards me slowly, hissing and spitting out its tongue.
"Long Ling..., Long Ling..." The calling voice from the grave began again.
I turned my head to look at the grave, looked around, reached out to touch the snake repellent powder in my other pocket, and slowly backed away from the grave.
From where I was standing to the snake grave, countless snakes coiled on both sides, as if "lining up to welcome you."
"Long Ling." As the call from the grave sounded, my feet involuntarily walked towards that direction again.
Standing at the edge of the grave again, my feet seemed to walk inside on their own. The snakes kept roaring at my feet, forcing me to jump into the grave.
My legs were so weak that I tried to stay calm and turned my head to look in another direction of escape.
Seeing the big snake that I couldn't pinch with both hands roaring and swinging its tail towards me, I dodged sideways, took out the only remaining bottle of snake repellent powder, sprinkled it on the snake, then turned around and ran towards the mountain.
My dad never taught me whether snakes run faster uphill or downhill.
I just instinctively ran downhill, but was stopped. Now I can only run up the mountain.
But not long after I ran out of the grave, I heard a loud "bang".
The air was filled with the strong smell of saltpeter after firecrackers.
The sudden sound startled me, and then I saw two of my fellow villagers holding sticks appearing uphill.
I know these two people. I went to my grandmother's house yesterday to help carry the dead pig. It was obvious that they came to stop me.
I didn't expect that I could escape from the snake's mouth with the help of snake repellent powder, but was stopped again.
Behind me were the hissing sounds of snakes and the rustling sounds of them swimming.
I looked back and saw my cousin with a few relatives. Each of them was holding a large bag in one hand and they kept taking out huge firecrackers that made a loud noise.
One is as big as a pinch of two fingers. It is sold in the village store during the Chinese New Year. Older children often buy it and throw it into the fish pond. Sometimes the fish will be stunned and float up.
My uncle and the four relatives all pointed and threw paper money towards the grave.
In addition to those individual large firecrackers , my uncle and his men also prepared a lot of firecrackers, which they threw over here in bunches.
The booming sound of firecrackers, mixed with a strong smell of saltpeter, soon drove away all the snakes.
My uncle stood by the grave and waved at me: "Come here, Long Ling. I'll show you what a snake coffin is."
"Don't go over there." Mo Xiu's voice suddenly came to my ears.
But his voice was still weak, perhaps he was awakened by the firecrackers, and he still whispered to me: "Run."
But my parents didn't know where my cousin was imprisoned, so I could only look at my cousin and say, "Now that you have found the snake coffin, you can dig it out and do whatever you want with it. Release my parents and we will leave as far away as possible."
My uncle laughed, waved to the two family members, looked at me and said, "Long Ling, I didn't expect the snake coffin to be here. This is where the grave was dug when it was moved."
I said that the grave had obviously been abandoned for a long time, and it was originally from eighteen years ago.
The two clan members holding sticks came up to me, took out their cell phones and handed them to me.
This time, the video above was not of my parents, but of Zhang Hanzhu.
"Are you thinking that Taoist Zhang will come to save you?" The cousin stood beside the grave.
He sneered at me: "You are indeed quite smart. You know that if you tell these things to others, they may not believe it. Even if they do, they may not be able to save you. Yet you still know to go find Taoist Zhang."
In the video, Zhang Hanzhu was locked in a cage, and there were several cages next to her, all filled with poisonous snakes.
I know that after this video appears, Taoist Zhang will never come again.
Reaching out and stroking the black jade bracelet on my wrist, I slowly walked over and said coldly: "What else do you want me to do?"
The uncle looked at the grave and sneered, "Lie down in it."
I looked at him in surprise: "Then release my parents and Zhang Hanzhu first."
"Long Ling, I told you, the snake coffin is neither a coffin nor a snake." The uncle took out a cigarette case and lit a cigarette.
But this time, the cigarette went out as soon as it was lit.
I was shocked and looked at the grave: "Why here?"
My uncle seemed to be certain that I couldn't escape. He looked at the extinguished cigarette in surprise and lit it again: "You were attracted here, which proves that the snake coffin is still here. The relocation of the tomb did not include you, so it was unsuccessful."
"Aren't you poisoned by the snake? As long as you lie down in there, the dead snake will come to find you and the snake coffin will appear." My cousin's face showed fanaticism.
Seeing that the cigarette had not been lit, he did not care and looked at me and said, "That snake coffin can make a corpse snake so powerful. What do you think would happen if a person lay in it? That was originally the Dragon-Rising Coffin prepared by the ancestor of the Long family for himself. Why should a snake enjoy it?"
