Just when I was hesitating whether to put my hand into the water and explore it, Shiry Yang, who was inspecting the patterns on the tripod, had already discovered something.
She asked me to squat down and look at the patterns on the tripod.
I looked at what she said and saw that the cauldron was divided into eight sides, all with negative marks.
It seemed that the copper had been embedded with gold wires, and over time the gold fell off, forming sunken patterns, which showed the detailed expression of Hentian.
After his death, he was buried in the rising moon.
We only watched half of it before we suddenly realized it.
We looked back at the row of ancient corpses.
It turned out that they had not had time to be officially buried after death, but stayed here to wait for the full moon to come.
It seems that they have not yet reached the "moon".
At the moment when "seeking immortality", the ancient city on the island fell into the sea, and the surviving residents scattered like stars and smoke, becoming "dan people" who lived on the sea and made a living by fishing for pearls and whales.
I was about to turn to the back of the bronze tripod, but I heard Uncle Ming calling me in front of the whale bone fossil.
I had to turn around and take a few steps back, asking him what was wrong with this old loser.
Uncle Ming wiped the hair on his head.
Xuhan said to me: "Have you noticed that there are dead children with missing arms and legs hidden in the bellies of these zombie women in the tomb?"
It turned out that Uncle Ming and others were guarding the whale bones in fear.
They saw a row of corpses lined up in the tomb, covered under the skin with vertical and horizontal scales, like a big quilt.
The bulging bulges in the dragon wrap were very unusual.
He thought that the five corpses that had not changed for thousands of years all had funerary objects.
Even if he didn't take them, he would open them and take a look.
Those ancient objects that had been preserved in the ruins for thousands of years were all extraordinary.
It would be good to just open his eyes.
Unexpectedly, when the "dragon cover" was opened, the three female corpses juxtaposed in the middle were found, all of which had suffered disembowelment during pregnancy.
The fully formed fetuses in the belly, which were at least eight or nine months old, were all dug out and placed on the open belly of the female corpse.
The belly of the corpse was filled with a kind of cold jade called "cold jade".
"round stone.
The female corpse's cheeks were slightly bulging, and there was a pearl in her mouth.
The abdomen of the corpse was full of things, so it still looked swollen, as if she was about to give birth.
The dead baby seemed to have not been treated in any way, but based on the cold jade and Zhuyan beads inside the female body, the body was still there, and the carbonized hair was coiled in black, making it look like the roots of the hair were hairless.
If you take a closer look, you will see that these three dead babies are either missing arms or a leg.
It seems that they are all congenitally deformed.
Uncle Ming was taken aback, fearing that there was something strange in this.
There was a widespread rumor among tomb robbers who carried corpses in the past that there were ghosts of children and fetuses.
Some tomb owners deliberately hid fetuses that died unjustly in their tombs.
Any tomb robbers would steal them.
If there are visible objects in the tomb, or if the body of the tomb owner is damaged, they will be haunted by imps.
They will not be able to live in peace day and night, and will be killed sooner or later.
So when Uncle Ming saw that something was not going well, he quickly called me to see if the Hentian family had raised a kid in the tomb.
As he spoke, cold sweat dripped down his face, and he was obviously very frightened.
After hearing this, I immediately looked at the several corpses covered by the "dragon skins".
At first glance, it was true as it was said.
The three dead babies that were taken out seemed to still retain the painful and struggling posture at the end of their lives.
However, one of their four limbs, an arm or a leg, is missing.
It does not appear that it was cruelly amputated, but due to congenital deformity.
If you look carefully, you can distinguish human hands as small as rat paws.
I don’t know if they were born.
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For some reason, it failed to develop and grow together with the rest of the body.
It is rare to see ghosts in graves.
It only occurs in some remote areas in the south.
Most of the craftsmen who fight upside down have never seen it in their lives.
However, there are many such legends in eastern and western Guangdong.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there was a group of tomb robbers who were active in the Guangdong and Guangxi areas, carrying corpses and digging through graves.
Some of them actually carried little ghosts back home from the tombs and lost their lives.
These are modern events and are not a fiction. nonsense.
It can be seen that this is a regional custom, and it is said that it only began to appear in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Guangdong and Guangxi are located in remote areas.
It was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that the cultural economy was able to develop, so no one can verify that ghosts are hidden in tombs to prevent theft.
Where did the tradition of tombs come from.
However, this kind of thing is extremely rare in other provinces.
It may not come from ancient methods.
How can there be such evil magic in "Guixu", a ruins thousands of years ago?
But these babies are about to be born. , and what was the reason why they were attacked like this?
In addition, all three of them were born with deformities and disabilities, which is a bit too coincidental.
We are in a dangerous situation, so we cannot say that we don’t believe in evil spirits, but there are some things that we must guard against.
Thinking of this, I already wanted to destroy the corpse and eliminate the traces.
I asked Uncle Ming and others what to do.
Uncle Ming had always believed in some old things handed down from his ancestors.
When I asked about the countermeasures, he hurriedly said: "This time Let's not be merciful, otherwise even if we return to the sea, there will be at least three people carrying the little ghosts on their backs.
Why are there little ghosts in the ancient tomb?
Because the fetus has already formed.
The reincarnated souls and wild ghosts are already attached to it, and they are dug out alive from the belly of the pregnant woman.
Those little ghosts are greedy for their own bodies, so they refuse to leave.
The dead ghosts are the most narrow-minded and evil-hearted.
If you don't kill a living person, it won't be complete, so according to my uncle's opinion, the best thing to do is to burn the bodies of the little thieves without stopping. " As he spoke, Uncle Ming patted the mermaid lantern in his hand.
Under the candlelight, his face looked extremely ugly.
It must have been a taboo in his bones to carry a kid home on his back.
The fat man also wanted to light a fire, but before burning the corpse, it was best to dig out everything from the dead man's mouth, otherwise it would be wasted.
I looked at Guchai again.
The boy was in a daze.
He had not yet figured out what the relationship between his "dragon household" and the ancient tomb under Haiyan was.
He didn't care at all about setting fire to the corpses of these dead babies.
Duoling was the least courageous among the group and did not dare to come over to see the zombies in the whale bones.
Judging from my past experience, it is better to believe that there is a kid on your back than to believe that it is not.
There must be something fishy about the dead baby in the tomb.
Instead of letting trouble come to the door, it is better to burn it in advance.
Why bother to trace the source to find out what happened?
So I made up my mind and nodded to Uncle Ming.
Uncle Ming, with Fatty Guchai and others, swarmed up and wanted to take the "Zhu Yan Bead" first and then put the "Go to Make Fire".
As soon as everyone was about to take action, they were stopped by Shirey Yang.
She had been looking at the nine-legged tripod.
When she heard our discussion about setting fire to the zombies in the tomb, she hurriedly asked Uncle Ming and others to stop first.
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She said that there were stories of little ghosts being recited from tombs, and there were similar rumors among Taoist monks who moved mountains.
These were folk magic that only appeared in mountainous areas in the past two or three hundred years.
How could it be found in Guixu, and they had never heard of tombs?
There is a little devil in China who deliberately chooses deformed and disabled fetuses.
Is there any reason in the world to set them on fire and burn them rashly, which will really cause trouble?
We were all speechless by what she said.
The fact that the fetus had a shortage of limbs was extremely strange and really difficult to understand.
After all, no one had ever seen how the ancient tomb where the ghost of the child was hidden was arranged.
Shiry Yang said: "The Hentian clan cast this incident on the Nine-legged Cauldron.
If we want to escape from the ruins of this coral cave on the bottom of the sea, I'm afraid we have to count on these South China Sea zombies."
When everyone heard that they had a plan, they were all moved.
Uncle Ming was so excited that his eyes blurred with tears: "Miss Yang, your uncle is old and his mind is a little slow.
Are you saying that these ancient corpses can take us back without knowing how to get them out?"
Make it clear to clear up the foolishness."
Shiry Yang asked everyone to look at the back of the "Nine-legged Cauldron".
It turned out that the coral cave, which was deep under Guixu and isolated from the outside world, was not an ancient tomb.
The matter of the fetus missing legs and arms actually happened in ancient times.
The "lunar eclipse" is related.
The five ancient corpses covered with dragon skin in the whale bones, one old and one young, were all the deceased who were about to be buried in coffins.
However, the three pregnant women whose bellies were cut open were unfortunately due to seeing the "lunar eclipse".
Sacrifice used for burial.
"Solar eclipse" and "lunar eclipse" are two major astronomical phenomena.
Although the ancients did not understand their reasons, they have known about these astronomical phenomena for a long time.
There is a legend from ancient times that pregnant women cannot see the "lunar eclipse".
Once it is seen, the fetus in the fetus will have incomplete limbs after birth.
This mysterious legend is not based on mere rumors.
Even in the modern era of science and medicine, the mystery cannot be fully explained.
Nine out of ten babies born to pregnant women who have seen a "lunar eclipse" will be deformed and disabled.
The proportion is so high that it is difficult to understand.
In the ancient understanding full of superstitious concepts, this is because the "total lunar eclipse" is a "big break", and the rest are "small breaks".
The moment the moon breaks, it is the moon's yin essence that has been invaded by heaven and earth, and those with fetal energy You must feel something when you see it.
Ancient civilizations all originated from "big rivers".
The Hentian clan originated from the Yellow River Basin.
After crossing the sea and moving south, they still retained the ancient mythical totem worship.
In addition to "shooting the sun" symbolizing war and massacre, they also pursued immortality.
The name of the immortal "Flying to the Moon", a country that hates the sky, was made up by later generations of scholars based on the records on the bronze tripod during the period of King Mu of Zhou Dynasty.
It may not be accurate.
The Kingdom of Hatred used dragon fire to create an unprecedented bronze civilization.
However, probably because of its excessive superstition in the legend of the elixir in the Moon Palace, the entire country devoted all its efforts to digging out the sacred trees on the seabed and casting bronze.
Thousands of people felled the trees, but no one was able to do so. ascended to heaven, resulting in the ancient city sinking into the sea.
According to the record of the Nine-legged Giant Cauldron, there is a larger copper cauldron at the bottom of this coral cave.
It takes three deformed children injured by the moon to be thrown into the giant cauldron at the bottom of the sea, so that the undead can pass through the oak tree to the moon palace where the elixir is hidden.
Shiry Yang said: "The disabled fetus caused by the lunar eclipse was called eclipse in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and was used to refine the elixir of death.
This concept was very common in ancient times.
From the Yin and Shang Dynasties to the Qin and Han Dynasties, there are a large number of cultural relics with it. relevant traces.”
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I nodded and said: "The Qin and Han Dynasties were the most enthusiastic eras of seeking immortality and immortality.
If you think about it, you can understand that it is difficult for mortals to understand where a person was during life and where he will be after death.
After all, life is so short.
In the blink of an eye, black hair turns to gray.
Compared with the limited time, people are of course more concerned about whether they can obtain eternal life in the eternal nothingness.
This trend became popular after the Tang and Song Dynasties.
It gradually faded away, and even the emperor refused to deceive himself.
Once he walked in the world, he could not escape birth, old age, illness, and death.
How can there be immortal gods?
The ancients can be forgiven for being superstitious, but it is inappropriate for us to be superstitious.
Throw these three babies with missing arms and legs into the big cauldron under the water, and we can follow the two zombies, the old and the little, to fly to the moon palace to take the elixir."
The fat man also said: "That's right, if you put it this way, why are you still building moon landing rockets?
Isn't it that the United States and the Soviet Union have been working in vain for so many years?
The ancestors of Guchai climbed trees thousands of years ago and climbed to the moon
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Uncle Ming said anxiously: "You two bastards have never believed in anything, so you can't let Miss Yang finish her words and then talk nonsense."
He then said to Shiry Yang, "Miss Yang, don't be bastard with these two bastards."
I have ordinary knowledge.
Uncle, you are the one I trust the most.
Please tell me quickly, after we take the elixir of immortality on the moon, can we still come down?
Although immortality is a very exciting thing, we still have to be able to return below.
It’s better to enjoy the glory and wealth” Shiry Yang said: "I didn't say that you can actually climb into the Moon Palace from the sacred tree on the seabed.
I just used the patterns cast and painted on the nine-legged tripod to explain.
This burial method evolved from the legend of the undead, and it may be a part of sea burial.
The giant cauldron under the water is a mechanism, and there are signs of Zhen Gua hidden in it.
It seems that it can lead to undercurrents or something else.
In short, it can lift the corpse out of the sea.
But I don’t know if this mechanism is still there after so many years.
It works."
I hurriedly looked at the patterns cast on the tripod.
Indeed, as Shirey Yang said, there was a huge tripod marked with the "Zhen Gua" mechanism in the water.
Looking at it now, the symbols on the top and bottom of the shock seemed to be some kind of mechanism. , once it is opened, the seawater in this coral cave will lift the huge "barbaria tree" out of the sea.
But whether this is the case, we still need to dive to find out the truth.
I suddenly thought of the tattoo on Guchai's back.
Under the coral cave with zombies, there should be a shark's tomb.
Deeper there is a piece of dragon bones.
I wonder where the giant cauldron with the "Zhen Gua" mark is. .
The "sea-penetrating formation" passed down from generation to generation on his back hides the truth about the Guixu ancient tomb.
Perhaps it was the ancestors' hope that some descendants could return to the sea and bury their ancestors' remains formally, but until the end of Guchai Only a "dragon household" has the opportunity to stray into this place with us.
Judging from the water flow in this coral cave, it seems to be closed and isolated from the outside world.
We don’t know how deep the water under this tomb is.
If the depth of the cauldron exceeds the limit, we will not be able to reach it.
I decided that Fatty, I, and Guchai would dive immediately to reconnoiter the location of the giant cauldron under the water to see if we could open this huge mechanism.
But I knew in my heart that this was just a matter of luck, a blur from thousands of years ago.
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Recording, how can we do it accurately?
Maybe the ancestors of these Dan people remembered it and made up some random jokes to scare people.
So I asked Shiry Yang and Uncle Ming to stay on this reef and not to take care of them.
We are worried and have to continue to think of other ways.
Shiry Yang and I briefly discussed the diving plan and brought Hentian's "Water Dividing Sword" with us for self-defense.
Even if there were any accidents underwater, we should be able to cope with it.
Shiry Yang said: "Don't forget, it's just a diving reconnaissance.
Come back as soon as you see the big cauldron under the water."
I knew that if she kept talking, I would follow her.
The scuba tanks we carried were limited and we had to be cautious when moving.
Therefore, when the situation was still unclear, it was impossible to dive into the water all at once.
So he quickly diverted her conversation away and asked her to take good care of Uncle Ming and Duo Ling.
The water surface is quiet and calm.
It seems that the underwater situation is not dangerous.
We just went down to do some reconnaissance, and the information is fine.
Then he, Guchai and Fatty ate some compressed biscuits, and then they all packed up.
Each of them picked up the decomposed remains of an eclipse fetus and put them into their diving bags, and then they came to the water's edge.
Continuous actions in a short period of time have allowed Guchai to gradually develop some tacit understanding with us.
I don't need to tell him anything anymore.
Moreover, he has excellent eyesight in the dark underwater.
We rely on his help to search for the cauldron and confirm the route.
He still didn't wear scuba, his arms were bare, and he held in his mouth the short dragon-arc blade used by the Eggman to scrape clams.
Seeing that Fatty and Guchai were ready, I pointed at my frog mirror and told them to pay attention, and then the three of them entered the water at the same time.
The water in the coral cave is unfathomable and pitch black.
We have lost all our underwater searchlights and can only rely on diving flashlights for illumination.
A few meters in front of us, it is already dark and unrecognizable.
The underwater space of the coral cave is deep and vast, which makes people feel at a loss for a moment.
Occasionally, some aquarium animals with bioluminescent devices approach.
No one can see what they are, but they pass by like meteors and disappear into the darkness. of water.
Suddenly, I saw a flash of light in the darkness.
Although I was underwater, it felt like I was in a sea of stars.
I was dazzled and took a closer look.
It turned out to be thousands of "ghost octopuses" swimming back and forth under the water.
These "ghost octopuses" can emit a will-o'-the-wisp blue light all over their body.
They can use the blue biological light to attract small aquatic animals to approach, and then look for opportunities to devour them.
Luminators can also be used to scare away deadly enemies in the sea, but they do not actively attack divers.
Instead, they provide us with good lighting.
The deeper the water gets, the clearer it becomes.
However, the "ghost octopuses" gather and disperse suddenly, rolling up waves of light mist at the bottom of the water.
The blurry and changing scene is dazzling.
We hugged the fossil of an ancient coral tree and took the opportunity to look around.
We couldn't see it from too far away.
There are all kinds of coral fossils in front of you, and there are large groups of crustaceans crawling quickly in the gaps and holes.
I was about to lean down and continue diving, when I suddenly discovered that the coral tree fossils next to me were like sieve holes, densely covered with countless holes.
Each hole was big enough to accommodate one person, and there seemed to be something hidden inside.
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Wearing something.
I waved to Fatty and Guchai, and the three of them came closer and shined the beam of the diving flashlight in.
They saw a shark's corpse lying in the cave in the body of the coral tree.
The skin and flesh had been eaten away by fish.
What was left was a messy skeleton with some scales connected to the tendons hanging on it, and the jagged fangs were exposed, making it look so ferocious and terrifying.
I looked at several caves in succession.
Almost all of the countless caves in the coral tree fossils were filled with the corpses of sharks.
This coral tree was the tomb of the underwater scale tribe.
I saw thousands of mermaid corpses, and I couldn't help but feel a little scared.
Fortunately, they were all dead.
Otherwise, if we encountered such a group of evil ghosts under the water, how could we still be alive?
But these mermaids' faces and bodies were all gone.
They were eaten up by small fish, but the bones were not melted away.
It is said that this is because they have fish beads in their brains.
Clam pearls are divided into sea pearls and lake pearls.
Like fish pearls, they are all rare things in the water.
The reason why fish pearls have not been spread in the world is because if they leave the water for a long time, their essence will be lost, so they have never been as good as Clam beads are precious.
I don't know whether this legend is true or not, and I also thought that since there is a mark of the shark's tomb on Ryūdo's tattoo, it must be an extremely important place, and of course it should be clearly understood.
So he gestured to the fat man, reached into the hole, and pulled out a shark's head.
The fat man then used the "Water Dividing Sword" to thrust into the shark's eye socket.
There is a dim light at the bottom of the water, and the image of a shark spitting out a blade may have been a weapon used in ancient times to deal with the evil underwater shark.
When the blade of the sword was turned up, the ferocious fish head had already been cut in half, and there was indeed a black bone ball the size of a nugget, without luster.
When the shark dies, the fish bead itself should also have some light.
After preserving the bones for many years, the essence dissipates and dims.
With a twist of the hand, the fish bead immediately turns into powder.
Guchai was curious about what he was looking at in the water, and he boldly put his arm into another cave, wanting to touch the head of a mackerel that looked like a human head and come out to see if there were any fish beads.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he stretched out his hand, a withered claw covered with black scales silently came out of the tomb on the coral tree, firmly grasped his wrist, and dragged him inside.
One hand of Guchai was tightly held, but the other hand was holding an air snail, and he was holding a sealed bag containing the remains of the stillborn fetus in his arms.
The sealed bag was always on his body, but this guy was so reckless that he didn't know how to let it go.
After dropping the dead baby, he took out the sharp knife in his mouth and killed himself.
He just used his feet to support the coral tree and tried his best to get rid of it backwards.
There was a stalemate for a while.
The fat man and I were both shocked when we saw this.
The shark in the sea had tricked the corpse, so we didn't even think about it.
We raised our hands and swung out the sword.
The water-dividing sword was so well made that it didn't feel like it was swung in the water.
Without any resistance, the ancient sword slashed down, immediately removing the weapon protruding from the hole.
The claws were swung into two parts, and a stream of dirty blood emerged immediately.
Blood appeared in the water.
In the light waves of the ghost octopus, in the dense caves of coral trees, there were countless mackerel fish covered with black scales.
Like streams of black turbidity coming out.
A large number of sharks suddenly appeared from the coral fossils, like a black hurricane rolling up in the water.
Some ghost octopuses nearby escaped a little slower, and were swallowed up by the black tide of sharks, and the blue light waved like a will-o'-the-wisp.
Due to the countless fleeing meteors, in an instant, large areas of colorful coral fossils were covered in black by this turbid current
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