Chapter 46 Chapter 45: Hall of Yama

Ding Sitian suddenly vomited a mouthful of black blood and fell to the ground. Fatty and I panicked, and hurriedly helped her to sit against the wall. I thought that the anaconda poison she had been poisoned by Shou Gongxiang had suppressed it, but who would have expected it? Vomit black blood.I was very disturbed, wondering if I had overdose?Or did it not play a detoxification effect at all, just delaying the onset of toxicity? But Ding Sitian struggled to stand up and continue to look for Lao Yangpi: It's okay, I just feel a little stuffy in my heart, but I feel more comfortable after vomiting this blood, and I'll be fine after a while.Bayi, what kind of antidote did you and Xiaopang give me?Why do I feel the taste in my mouth and stand up unsteadily as I speak, wanting to move forward.

I saw that she was barely holding on, and it was difficult to judge her physical condition at the moment, but vomiting black blood was definitely not a good sign, but Ding Sitian was very stubborn, so I had no choice but to support her and continue walking, and was asked by her what she was eating What kind of antidote is it? Naturally, I dare not tell her the truth that what I ate was the meat bumps on the Dashou Gongbiao itself. I only said: good medicine tastes bitter and good for the disease, and even medicine has three parts of poison.Medicine, of course it’s not as delicious as fruit candy, and this research institute has been abandoned for many years. Although the medicine stored in the warehouse has not deteriorated, it will inevitably have some peculiar smell. When we return to the pastoral area, I will tell you about the antidote History, guaranteed to make you find it interesting.

The fat man said: That's right, I promise Chairman Mao that you will find it interesting, so before you listen to Lao Hu explaining the story of medicine, you'd better review Ostrovsky's "How the Steel Was Tempered" again, and do a good job. Fully mentally prepared. I glared at the fat man. Fortunately, Ding Sitian didn't understand too much. I thought the fat man wanted her to learn from Paul.Kochakin didn't ask any more questions about his tenacious perseverance in the face of the illness.I saw that her face was like gold paper, and she was struggling to walk, but I knew it would be futile to persuade her to wait outside the cave. This girl is too stubborn. Carried her away, and the three of them walked deep into the cave to find the missing old sheepskin.

There are flickering lights everywhere in the mountainside, like will-o'-the-wisps and ores. With these many star-like lights, we can roughly see the outline of this huge excavation site.The ground that has been excavated layer by layer is distributed in a ladder shape. It is difficult to see what is in the deepest part from the outside, but there are some limbs of dead bodies exposed in each layer of loess above, some with half of their heads, and some with an arm. They have not yet been dug out of the soil, almost all of them have emerged, and all the corpses are full of fur, as if they will crawl out of the soil at any time.Looking at a corner of it, one can already imagine that this excavation site used to be a mass grave, where countless ancient corpses were buried.

Probably the so-called sleeping place of the tortoise in Feng Shui is here.What is the use of the special soil composition that produces a feather-like state of the corpse?Eternalization failed to ascend to heaven, so many people were buried in this cave with sincerity after death, probably because of the ancient people's understanding and fear of the law of life and death, they could not accept the fact that people can only live once, It is hoped that life can continue in other forms after death, so there are legends such as Hades and the underworld.If there really are undead after death, seeing one's own corpse turned into such a strange appearance, being dug up and digging without respect, one does not know how one would feel.

There were corpses of all ages, men, women, and children, in strange attire, all of which we had never seen before.We have seen too many strangely shaped corpses today. Our nerves were a little numb at first, but standing in front of the excavation site where tens of thousands of people hide their corpses, looking at the countless layers of zombies, we are still a little terrified .No wonder it is said that this ghost yamen is an eighteen-story hell, and the living will be frightened to death when they arrive here. In this big cave full of dead bodies, apart from the three of us, there is no living person at all. God knows what Lao Yangpi is doing here dragging that copper box.We guessed that it was meaningless for Lao Yangpi to go to this loess pit full of dead people. He probably walked deeper into the cave, so he continued to walk along the aisle on the edge of the excavation site, looking around anxiously on the way. While calling Lao Yangpi's name, let him come back quickly.

Seeing that there was no one there, the fat man became more and more anxious. Subjectively, he always believed that Lao Yangpi had defected to the enemy and treasoned the country.The cave runs north-south, and going north through a plateau is the national border, so he asked me if I wanted to take a political offensive and disintegrate Lao Yangpi's psychology through propaganda.I thought to myself that this cave is really too big, and it is not a solution for us blind people to ride blind horses to find it. Why don't we just follow what the fat man said and shout first. If Lao Yangpi hides nearby, he may be able to persuade him to change his mind and come out of the cave. , then nodded in agreement.

At that moment, the fat man yelled into the depths of the cave: I said Lao Yangpi, but those who fight against each other rely on their craftsmanship to eat. It is a contradiction among the people with us. Don't try to join the Soviet revisionists and do stupid things like severing yourself from the people. That's a dead end! Bozhilev betrayed Marxism, Leninism, and the October Revolution. Moscow is crying, and the Monument to the Unknown Hero is also crying. Don't just repair it for two pieces of butter bread , it doesn't matter if you stand on the wrong team, just stand up again

I couldn't listen anymore, so I stopped Fatty quickly, he was yelling nonsense, his level was too low, I was about to continue promoting policies to Lao Yangpi for him, but was grabbed by Ding Sitian, she pointed at The foot said: You see, there is a road going down here, and there are fresh marks left by dragging heavy objects on it. Did the old sheepskin grandpa go down to the depths of the excavation site from here? I looked down and saw that, as Ding Sitian said, every corner of the excavation site has gentle stone slopes, extending to the depths in twists and turns. The stone slopes are all paved with stones, and they may have been buried in the In the soil, every layer of corpses was buried to cover a section, and later they were dug out by the Japanese. The scattered debris and mudstone in the soil layer filled the slope, and there were traces of dragging things on the debris.The evil wind howled in the cave, and the chilly air was very unobstructed. If the traces on the slope were left a long time ago, they would never be as clear as they are now, which means that the old sheepskin probably went down not long ago.

The three of us were eager to find the old sheepskin, and then leave this nightmare-like Baiyan Cave as soon as possible. Seeing that we finally had a clue, we cheered up and walked down the stone road.At this time, it is different from the feeling of looking at the corpse cave from outside the pit. It is getting lower and lower, and the corpse is almost close to the section of the loess. The cold and lifeless touch of the arms, hands and feet of the dead made people's nerves even more tense. Even though it was fear and exhaustion, no one offered to give up, and they all went down with a hard scalp.The fat man hung an engineer lighting tube on his chest to explore the way ahead, and the three of them held hands and slowly walked down the winding stone path to the next step.Looking down, the middle section of the road is getting darker and darker, and the deepest part is like a huge strange mouth. It looks gray and hazy, but it is not completely dark, which is very unusual. The fat man is right. We said: Why is this big pit where the dead are buried so deep?What do you think will be in the deepest part of the world?

Ding Sitian said: "It's not an earthen pit. There are so many corpses buried here, and there are probably countless corpses underneath. This is a large tomb with tens of thousands of people buried. I don't know if Grandpa Yangpi went deep into this large tomb." After talking about what to do, she couldn't help worrying about Lao Yangpi again, and wanted to speed up her pace, but her legs and feet were weak and recalcitrant. If it wasn't for being pulled by me and the fat man, she would almost fall down again. I felt cold sweat on her palms, and knew that she was worried and frightened. I thought to myself: This excavation site of the Japanese devils is obviously digging deeper. Could there be something important under these layers of corpses?Could it be that I was worried that under this ancient tomb of ten thousand people would be the legendary hell where the Foehn blows out, so I had to be more cautious.So I told Fatty and Ding Sitian not to worry, even if the mouse comes out of the hole, we have to figure it out first, so we have to be more careful, walk slowly and use our brains, and carefully observe everything here. It's good to advance and retreat. Ding Sitian agreed with me very much. She asked me: Your grandfather seemed to be a Fengshui master. You learned a lot of miscellaneous things from him. Feng shui reason right?They shouldn't suddenly come alive, right? I knew she wanted me to give her some reason not to be afraid, so I said to her: My grandpa's set is all about the four olds. Although I think the things he said are reasonable in recent years, they are still Don't listen to one side or believe one side.As far as I know, besides Feng Shui, there are many other factors. After a person dies, the body will usually rot under the action of bacteria, but the bacteria that make the dead body rot must live in a suitable temperature and relatively humid environment. environment.The climate is cold, or the weather is dry and hot, such as deserts and snow-capped mountains, there will be no such bacteria, so the mummies in the desert and the ice corpses on the snow-capped mountains will not rot. There are also man-made factors, such as the death of the deceased, the thick and elegant wood of the coffin, the material is airtight, and then lime and charcoal are placed in the coffin to prevent moisture, forming a dry and constant temperature closed space, so that bacteria cannot move. The corpse in the coffin is not easy to rot, and may turn into a mummy, or even a wet corpse that still has moisture.In addition, there are some special cases, such as those who died of cholera or suffered from diseases during their lifetime. Most of the water in the body has been lost before death.The shape of the mummies is shriveled, and the weight is more than half that of the new dead. The skin is wrinkled and shrunk, usually black or light brown, and the hair and nails may continue to grow. The most rare is corpse wax, such as obese or fatty corpses, if they are thrown into the river or buried in saline-alkali soil, it is easy to form corpse wax on the surface of the corpse, making the dead body not rotten or rotten.Because in the water flow, the decayed matter produced by the corpse will be washed away by the water, and the putrefactive bacteria will also be taken away by the water, and the fat in the corpse will become something like soap, which is slippery and greasy, called corpse wax. Salt-alkali intrusion into the corpse will also produce this creamy corpse paste. The corpse is wrapped in corpse wax, so it is not easy to rot. When I was in middle school, I visited an exhibition of corpse specimens organized by the Public Security Bureau. At that time, as a kind of popular science knowledge education to break superstition, I watched it with my grandfather Hu Guohua.He said that although the exhibition is popular enough and reasonable, it is not comprehensive. There are too many reasons why people do not rot after death. It is not possible for such a small exhibition to cover all of them. However, those special things that my grandfather said, I naturally He didn't dare to tell Ding Sitian, so he only told her some of the memories of that popular science exhibition, so that she didn't have to worry about the dead people in the grave. However, a person with a normal imagination can easily associate with what he hears. The more scientifically speaking, the more people will think of some feudal superstition legends, especially the fat man's inappropriate mouthful of ghosts, always talking about the legend of the ghost yamen. It's so evil, and now I don't feel anything when I walk in the depths, let alone a ghost, isn't it just a pile of hairy dead bodies?What the fuck is the big deal!We were suspicious in the crematorium and thought there was a ghost locked there, but in fact it was the old Huang Pizi who was causing trouble.Our minds armed with Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought should not believe in that set of idealist theories. This is a shame, a shame to materialists all over the world!But why are you being fooled over and over again?It seems that the lessons of history have not always been a lesson for future generations. This is the objective law of class struggle, not the will of people. While the fat man was making excuses for himself, we circled around and reached the end of the spiraling and falling stone path.There is a hole here, which is blocked by piles of white round gravel, and many oriental ghost symbols are pasted on it.The Japanese devils suspect that the Baiyan Cave is haunted by ghosts. There are similar ghost-suppressing charms in many places, including the peculiar structure of the incinerator, all for the purpose of warding off evil spirits, but the so-called haunted may be just haunted. The gravel wall in front of us has been ripped away, and a large hole is exposed in front of us, with a gray light shining inside. I thought this big tomb was the bottom layer, who would have thought that there is a deeper space below , We didn't dare to go in directly, and called Lao Yangpi a few times at the entrance of the cave, but we couldn't see a response, so we had to decide to go deeper, and we didn't believe that the cave was bottomless. The fat man was still the first to clear the way. He held the Kangxi sword, and while calling Lao Yangpi's name, he walked in with deep kicks and shallow kicks. I supported Ding Sitian and followed him.After walking more than 20 steps, the fat man suddenly stopped, and whispered to us in a flustered expression: "Old Hu, Si Tian, ​​which of you two said there is no ghost?"Too irresponsible, what do you see in front of those? I walked up a few steps, looked forward, and felt goosebumps all over my body, the secret passage is not good, such a large piece of ancient buildings and palaces, where the hell is this?Moreover, there seems to be something moving in those ancient buildings. Could it be that they entered the Hall of Yama by mistake?