Chapter 86: Resurrection
It was also pitch black inside the door, but as the three of them entered, the biting cold wind stopped instantly, without even a sound.
It was quiet, as quiet as death. Apart from the breathing of three people, no other sound could be heard.
The three of them shivered at the same time because the temperature inside the door was obviously much lower than outside.
"Such a strong negative energy!" Old Qiu couldn't help but shout. He knew he had come to the right place without surveying. He shook himself, put the compass back into his bag, took out a talisman and stuck it on his chest, then held the Lu Ban ruler in his hand tighter, and his expression became more cautious.
Tan Xuan shone the flashlight inside, frowned, shook his head, and said, "No!"
"What's wrong?" Xiao Di and Old Qiu both looked at Tan Xuan. The flashlight's beam was limited, and they didn't see anything clearly after just shining it. They just knew that this place was bigger than the one before.
"The yin energy here is very strong, and mixed with a lot of evil energy, but I didn't find any yin objects."
"Did they hide?" Old Qiu asked in a deep voice. Even he, an insider in the industry, did not agree that there was no ghost here.
Tan Xuan shook his head again and walked to the middle, saying as he walked: "No, if there is a ghost, it can't escape my eyes, unless it is much stronger than me."
"Did it discover we were coming and run away?" Old Qiutou followed.
Tan Xuan nodded with a cold face, "It's possible. The last time I got rid of Wang Dongxue's ghost, I had contact with the evil ghost's Yin consciousness. Maybe I alerted the evil ghost at that time."
It seemed that all the trouble tonight was in vain. Tan Xuan was very angry, but he still walked forward carefully. Now that he was here, he had to check everything first before being disappointed, just in case there were any accidents.
"ah!"
Xiao Di suddenly screamed and then hugged Tan Xuan's arm.
"There are bones on the ground!"
Xiao Di said in panic, shining the flashlight on the ground. There were indeed bones under her feet, and more than one. They were all under their feet, and she was sure that they were human bones, because that was the position of the person lying on the ground. The bones in various places could be seen clearly, but they were so old that they turned into slag after being stepped on. Xiao Di didn't dare to look at it. Even though she had seen corpses, she didn't dare to face this scene at this time. There was no comparison at all. Xiao Di closed her eyes, hugged Tan Xuan's arm tightly, and tried hard not to cry out.
Tan Xuan shone the flashlight on the ground and couldn't help but grin. This was a road paved with human bones, with bones placed in between. It was nearly three meters wide and stretched from the door all the way inside.
"What does this mean? Paving the road with human bones, does it mean that one general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of bones?" Tan Xuan shook his head and pulled Xiao Di to the side, not continuing to stand on top of the human bones. He hadn't seen such a scene in several years, and now he suddenly couldn't accept it.
Old Qiu turned his head and sighed, "I guess so. This kind of burial is not uncommon. No wonder the evil spirit here is so strong. These corpses should be the servants of the tomb owner. It seems that the owner here is not a good person, and the person who built this tomb is even more vicious."
"It's not just vicious, it's simply worse than humans and beasts. They have corpses but no souls. From life to death, they will not tolerate any resistance." Tan Xuan continued to move forward. He knew that the end of the road paved with human bones must be the resting place of the owner of this wooden thing.
Sure enough, after walking for a distance, they found that the bone road finally came to an end. It was about 30 to 40 meters from the entrance to here. There was a one-foot-high stone platform on the ground, with cloud patterns carved on the side of the stone platform. There were also lamp stands around the stone platform, but at night it was just a decoration. Not only was there no lamp oil, but the lamps were also incomplete.
On the stone platform sat a coffin that was more than one person tall. The coffin was very large, about two meters wide and three or four meters long. It didn't look like it was made of wood, but rather rusty. When a flashlight was shone on it, it was dark green, vaguely reflecting a bit of metallic light. Old Qiu took the Lu Ban ruler and knocked on it. There was a "dangdang" metallic sound, and judging from the echo, the thickness of the coffin seemed to be quite thick. Tan Xuan turned the coffin around, and the temperature at the coffin was lower than other places, as if it didn't contain a person, but a slow block of ice. Tan Xuan didn't stay nearby for long, and walked to another place to look at other places.
The main room is rectangular. Except for the direction where it comes in, which is quite far, it is only about ten meters wide horizontally. However, there are three small doors in the other three directions. There seems to be a room behind each door. Tan Xuan took Xiao Di and Old Qiu to visit every room.
The small room on the left should be the study. It is filled with collapsed and rotten bookshelves. As for books and documents, they are nowhere to be seen. I don’t know if they were taken away by the “rats” that came before, or if they have already rotted into ashes. Anyway, it is empty.
The small room on the right is a warehouse, filled with ceramic wine vessels. It seems that the owner of the tomb was very fond of cups during his lifetime, so much so that he even set up a special room to store wine after his death. Unfortunately, those wine jars and wine pots have now been broken into pieces, even more fragmented than the bones in the main room. No metal cups or bowls were found among them.
When he reached the door of the small room behind the coffin, Tan Xuan stopped Xiao Di and Old Qiu behind him, because he finally smelled a familiar scent here. Although it was very faint, he still caught it.
Tan Xuan shone the flashlight inside and then flashed in, clenching his fists, ready to deliver a fatal blow that would scare both humans and ghosts. However, when he saw that there was no ghost in the empty room, Tan Xuan's excitement instantly dropped. The room was very clean, and not even a piece of messy debris was found.
While Tan Xuan was in a daze, Xiao Di and Old Qiu came in. Xiao Di stretched his hands in the air, pursed his nose, and said, "Why is there wind here? And it's so humid."
"Is there?" Tan Xuan looked at Xiao Di, then at Old Qiu. When he came in just now, he was thinking about how to defeat the enemy with one move. All his attention was focused on finding a hiding place for the evil ghost, and he didn't pay any attention to the air circulation and humidity here.
After all, women are very careful. Xiao Di soon discovered the difference and pointed to the wall behind her and said to Tan Xuan: "Look, there are cracks on the stone wall here, and the stone wall is also very damp."
"Are there caves and groundwater nearby?" Tan Xuan looked confused. Today's efforts were completely wasted.
"It should be like this." Old Qiu walked over and held Tan Xuan's head and said, while spreading out his palm. Under the light of the flashlight, there was a piece of paper ash the size of a millet grain on the palm of his palm.
"You see, my talisman bird flew to this place, which means this is where the dead soul went."
"So that's how it is. No wonder the victims are all near the water, hum!" Tan Xuan suddenly sneered. Then he walked around the small room, confirmed that there was no place to hide, looked at the cracks that Xiao Di pointed out, turned around and walked out of the small room, walked to the cold coffin, and patted the front of the coffin with his hand.
"You used the method of abstinence to nourish your yin, intending to conquer the four corners of the world in another world, but you didn't expect someone to usurp your throne, and you ended up like this. How sad! Not only did a ghost dare to come and act recklessly in your place, but you didn't even stop rats from taking away your belongings. It seems that you are not a very good general. Let me see what kind of person you are now. Now that you are dead, don't even think about staying in this world in another form."
As he spoke, Tan Xuan put the flashlight in his mouth, stretched out his hand to hold the cover of the coffin and pushed hard, but the cover did not move at all. Tan Xuan continued to push hard, but there was still no response.
Xiao Di thought that Tan Xuan was insane because he could not accept this reality for a while. He ran to the stone platform regardless of the pain in his ankle, grabbed Tan Xuan's arm and shouted, "Don't be like this. If it runs away, it runs away. We can find a way. Don't fight with it. Let's go."
"Tan Xuan, I beg you, let's go. There are ghosts if there are ghosts. When we meet them again, we can just kill them. What are you doing..." Xiao Di started to cry as he became anxious.
"What are you doing?" Tan Xuan suddenly put down his arms, picked up the flashlight, and asked Xiao Di with a smile.
"Ah! Are you okay?" Xiao Di felt for the first time that Tan Xuan's playful expression was kind and immediately burst into laughter. She pulled Tan Xuan's arm and said, "Let's go quickly then."
Tan Xuan shook his arms, "Why are you walking? I still have things to do."
"Is there anything else?" Xiao Di asked puzzled.
Tan Xuan patted the coffin and asked Xiao Di, "This is the only coffin in the entire tomb that is intact. Don't you find it strange?"
Xiao Di shook her head vigorously, "It's not strange, let's go." She didn't want to stay here any longer and wanted to get out immediately. It would be strange if there was no coffin in the grave.
Tan Xuan waved his hand, "This is the center of the formation, gathering the evil spirits from the entire tomb. The corpse in the coffin is nourished by the evil spirits and will not decay. After a long time, it will become a corpse, and when the right opportunity comes, it will transform into a corpse. When it breaks out of the ground, it will be a disaster again. I encountered it today, so I cleaned it up to prevent it from harming people in the future. You hide aside first, and we can leave after I clean it up."
"Old Qiu, come here and give me a hand." Xiao Di couldn't be relied upon, so Tan Xuan could only ask Old Qiu for help. No matter how old he was, as long as he could lend a little help, he would be a good helper.
"okay."
Old Qiu agreed and went up to the stone platform and stood beside Tan Xuan. Seeing that Tan Xuan was determined to do this, Xiao Di obediently stepped aside and stood under the stage.
"One, two, up..."
"One, two, up..."
Two people are just stronger than one. After the joint efforts of Tan Xuan and Old Qiu, the heavy cover of the coffin was finally pushed open a gap. It turned out that the cover of the coffin was not lifted but pushed. Tan Xuan's method of opening it just now was wrong, and it was completely in vain.
“Bang!”
There was a burst of dust, and with the joint efforts of the two, the cover was finally pushed to the ground.
Tan Xuan asked Old Qiu to step down from the stone platform. He climbed onto the coffin, stood at the four corners, reached his hands inside and started patting it. When the whole coffin began to shake, he immediately jumped down and hid far away.
"Squeak...clang...clang..."
The coffin on the stone platform shattered into pieces as if it had bloomed. It turned out that this metal coffin was connected by a mechanism. Just now, when Tan Xuan broke the mechanism, it collapsed directly.
Tan Xuan clapped his hands and said with a wry smile: "Fortunately, people in ancient times did not know about electric welding. If it was welded, we would never be able to open it."
Xiao Di looked at the wooden coffin in the middle of the metal plates. Although it was much smaller than the one outside, only two meters long and half a meter high, it was in perfect shape and looked like a moon surrounded by stars. He asked in confusion, "Why is there another coffin inside this coffin?"
Tan Xuan didn't expect Xiao Di to be so ignorant, and explained: "The broken one is called a coffin, which is used to hold the coffin. The one inside is the coffin for the corpse."
When it came to the wooden coffin, Tan Xuan didn't need help from anyone else. He walked up to the coffin and patted the lid, walked around the coffin, found the eight wooden wedges that nailed the coffin, knocked and hit them one by one, then stood in front of the coffin and lifted it up with a bang, pushing the entire lid aside. Then he jumped onto a lampstand nearby and looked down at the coffin with a wary look on his face.
The entire main room was completely silent, not even the sound of breathing, and the three living people stared at the coffin without blinking. According to Tan Xuan, once the coffin was opened, the aura inside and outside collided, and the corpse inside would rise. But now there was no reaction at all. After a burst of cold air, a red quilt embroidered with bat patterns covered the coffin. There was a bulge under the quilt, and it was impossible to tell whether the corpse was rotten or intact.
"What's going on? Hasn't it absorbed enough evil energy?" Tan Xuan was also confused. He turned around and jumped onto the stone platform. He walked around the coffin half a circle and came to the end of the coffin. He suddenly reached out and removed the quilt in the coffin, which turned red and no longer bright when it came into contact with air.
“Gah…”
Before the quilt fell to the ground, a scream suddenly came from the coffin, and then the corpse inside stood up straight .
"Ah! He's resurrected!"
Although she was mentally prepared, Xiao Di still covered her face and screamed.
