Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen: Orion’s Fox Demon

There are a few old men in our village. These old men are always idle and bored. They don’t like to get together to play cards or chess, but they like to tell stories to children.The stories they told were varied and varied.In these stories, there are not only my own personal experience, but also the experience of my friends, but when collected together, it is a thick story book. I remember that when I was a child, I loved listening to ghost stories told by these old men. Although I didn't believe the contents of those stories, I loved listening to them the most.Ghost stories are certainly scary, but the more frightening they are, the more addictive they become.For the listeners or readers of the story, most of them hope that the ghost will be subdued by an expert, but this is just wishful thinking.If there really are ghosts, people are lucky as long as they can escape from their hands, so there is no need to talk about subduing demons and eliminating demons.

The people who told me ghost stories are now in coffins; and the people who listened to ghost stories with me are all weeding in the fields at home.In fact, those who have grown up should have forgotten those ghost stories. If I hadn't come to the ancient tomb, I would not have believed that the world is really divided into two poles, and that there are yin and yang in the world. Arriving at the hanging coffin tombs of the Bo people in Furong Mountain, Liu Xuan, whom everyone was looking for on this trip, has not been found at this moment.As for the fourth uncle, no one found any trace.However, the research on the structure of the tombs in this mountain probably surpassed all scientists and historians.The mountain is at least thirty miles deep, and there are nine small hanging coffin burial groups. The number of hanging coffins in each burial group increases squarely from front to back.Among them, Lord Dou and Jiang Qiankun had already visited the first three places, and then visited the remaining six places during the day, spending a total of three months.Hu Songshan and I went to the fourth, fifth, sixth and ninth places. Except for the first three places, we only went to the seventh and eighth hanging coffins.

The four of us came to the bottom of the cliff, separated from Chen Daohe, and fell into the bottom of the mountain, almost being sacrificed.Later we went to the baijiu shop on the second floor, because Hu Songshan still had an earring on his body, so we escaped from danger.When everyone left the wine shop and walked up, they all yelled inwardly.Dou Ye said: "I said, little girl, why do you only have one earring? What if people think that your earring is worthless and don't agree with us?" Hu Songshan said aggrievedly: "This is an ancestral earring. I gave one to Po Meng when I crossed the Naihe Bridge last night."

Master Dou seemed to be enlightened, and said: "So that's the case, I thought you only carried one because of the fashion!" Jiang Qiankun coughed and said: "Master Dou, don't talk about it, the little girl is feeling uncomfortable now. The fight is not finished, and the earrings are still put in, so I feel uncomfortable." Lord Dou looked at Hu Songshan, and saw that Hu Songshan seemed to be about to cry, and said, "Okay, okay, I'm sorry, but you can't cry. If you cry in this mountain, you will attract many souls." When Lord Dou said that, Hu Songshan stopped crying immediately.

Lord Dou was very happy to see that Hu Songshan stopped crying, and said to me: "Little brother, please comfort your wife." Unexpectedly, Hu Songshan was about to cry again, she said: "Who is her wife, he has a girlfriend." When Master Dou heard this, he pretended to be very angry, and said, "Ah, who dares to argue with you so much, I will kill her and drive her back to her hometown! Li Yishui, don't you think so?" Seeing Master Dou always making troubles, I said immediately: "Master Dou, we still have a long way to go, how can we always love each other. Don't you adults always teach us that children should do their studies well first?" , I will fall in love when I grow up. You see, I am only twenty years old, and I am still young!"

It may be that Lord Dou was shocked by my theory, I saw him beating his head vigorously, and he was still muttering "true or false". Hu Songshan was originally holding my arm, but after hearing what I said, he let go again. Lord Dou smiled and said, "Little girl, how about being my sister?" After hearing this, Hu Songshan and I laughed and leaned forward, Master Dou asked, "What's wrong?" I said, "There was also a gangster who asked Hu Songshan to be his younger sister before." Master Dou widened his eyes and asked, "Then did you agree?"

"Yes, I agree." Hu Songshan nodded. "No, then you have to agree to me." Master Dou said urgently. Hu Songshan looked at me, nodded again, and said, "Well, good." "I'm comfortable, I'm comfortable. With such a beautiful sister, I'll be obedient to whoever cares about me in the future." After finishing speaking, Lord Dou made a fool of me and laughed out loud. I didn't expect Master Dou to come here after me, I smiled and said, "Master Dou really thinks highly of me, if we have something to say in the future, we will go through fire and water, and we will do whatever we want."

Hu Songshan was also very happy to hear what I said, and then put my arm on it again. After everyone walked for a while, Hu Songshan said: "Uncle Jiang, do you think we should go in. Let's go up again after dawn. At that time, we will be walking on the ground and there is no danger." Master Dou and I listened Yes, I think this is a good way. I only heard Jiang Qiankun say: "The method is good, but this road exists at night, so I don't know if it exists during the day. If it exists during the day, it's easy to handle. If it doesn't, we will just be stuck in the stone as a fossil." After hearing this, everyone , I think it makes sense, and for a while, no one dares to take the risk of staying here.

Hu Songshan thought for a while, then said: "Then let's rest for a while before going up. We won't go out until we enter the next hole, and wait until dawn." Unexpectedly, Jiang Qiankun still shook his head, and he said: "Actually, we were pulled down during the daytime. Even during the daytime, we are passively beaten. It is better to go up one by one, so that we can find what we are looking for." Listen to Jiang Qiankun When Qiankun said that, I just remembered that I forgot to go to the next room to see if there was Fourth Uncle.But judging from the situation, it is definitely not there; if there is, it is impossible to live.

Hearing what Jiang Qiankun said, everyone decided to go to the upper floor immediately.Jiang Qiankun asked me: "Yi Shui, you said there are two floors below, one is slaves, and the other is merchants. What are these three floors?" Hu Songshan answered quickly: "Nong, in ancient times, agriculture was higher than business." I shook my head and said, "It's hard to say, there is a worker in the middle! A worker refers to a handicraft worker. They are engaged in handicraft workshops, and they are ancient blue-collar workers." Jiang Qiankun said: "That's right, I guess it's also work."

At this moment, everyone quickened their pace, and walked three more turning steps like this, and they saw a cave entrance.When everyone came to the entrance of the cave, they saw that the cave was deep and dark, and they couldn't see their fingers.Holding torches, everyone entered one by one. After entering the cave, everyone found that this place was the same as the lower floor, but a fork in four directions.One is down; one is up; one is left; one is right. Everyone thought that it would be better to go straight up. Taking advantage of the night, and there were no ghosts in the things over there, they went up now.After walking about three folding ladders, everyone thought, this time it was really smooth.Just when he was rejoicing, he saw a person standing on the steps. This person has no head, only a torso, wearing tiger skin, and his body is also extremely shriveled.With a bow in his hand, he drew an arrow and aimed at us.If it was one arrow, how could he stop four people, but this man had five arrows on his bow, and he could shoot through four, so there was still room for him. Everyone was taken aback when they saw the headless man, and then thought that it was a headless corpse that could shoot everyone to death at any time.At that moment, everyone retreated slowly, and finally retreated to the four forks of the cave. Lord Dou said: "Brother Jiang, didn't you say that this place should be a worker? Is this pulling us to make meat dumplings?" Only Jiang Qiankun said: "It seems that we made a mistake in our estimation, and there is a hunter in the middle." Everyone was shocked, unexpectedly there was a hunter in the middle.As soon as Jiang Qiankun said it, everyone realized that there are quite a few hunters in the southwest area who live by hunting in the mountains.There have always been few hunters in the Central Plains, and most of them are farmers, so when people count people from all walks of life, they naturally forget about hunters. Everyone retreated to the fork in the road, and the headless corpse shot five arrows downwards, blocking our way, and we had no choice but to enter the caves on both sides.However, another problem arises, whether to go to the left or to the right.At this time, the headless corpse was shot by five more arrows, blocking the door on the left, and we had no choice but to retreat to the room on the right. The room on the left was pitch black, but luckily everyone had torches in their hands. The interior of the room was simple, like a thatched cottage, with two bows hanging on the wall, and the bows were covered with dust.After the headless corpse forced us into the inner room, it kept standing at the door of the house, as if it deliberately stopped us from going out. Everyone felt strange, not knowing what this headless corpse was up to.At this time, a red shadow appeared at the corner behind the thatched cottage.When everyone saw this shadow, they thought it was not good, they were afraid they would meet another evil spirit. Under the illumination of the torches, everyone could see clearly that it was a fox in front of them.This fox is slightly bigger than a cat, with a red body, a protruding belly and sparkling eyes.Master Dou said: "Strange, this thing seems to be pregnant." Everyone nodded, but they also understood what the fox was going to do.Just when everyone was wondering, the torch in Jiang Qiankun's hand gradually dimmed, and finally went out.The phosphorus content of human bones is limited, and the burning time is not long. Even if it is dipped in oil, it will not burn for a long time. It is a miracle that it can last until now, and the human bone torches of other people are also flickering. It was about to die out. The torch in Lord Dou's hand was the last one to get, and it seemed that it could last for a while, but the room became dark, and everyone still panicked.I looked around, and to my surprise, I saw an oil lamp on the table.However, this oil lamp may have been placed for too long and could not be lit at all. I thought, there is no fire, even if the thatched cottage is burned, the fox will not be killed.Now I continued to look for flammable objects, and sure enough, after searching left and right in the room for a while, I finally saw half of a candle.I immediately picked up the candle and prepared to light it, but there was always a dark wind blowing from the direction where the fox was, making it impossible to light the half of the candle.I was very annoyed, so I put a candle on the bone, and I saw the flame grow brighter. At this time, I saw the fox's eyes staring at Hu Songshan, and I didn't know why, but Jiang Qiankun immediately pulled Hu Songshan away.But it was too late at this time, I saw that Hu Songshan's eyes were also emitting a faint green light, and then she pulled out the military dagger from her waist and stabbed it at her chest.Jiang Qiankun saw that this was okay, and immediately blocked it with his hands. Although Hu Songshan's knife fell to the ground, Jiang Qiankun's forearm was also drawn with a large stream of blood. Blood flowed all over the ground, and the fox immediately ran over and drank the blood that Jiang Qiankun dropped.I was about to kick the fox, but Jiang Qiankun said: "I can't kick it, this is a pregnant fox." I pulled Jiang Qiankun over, tore off a piece of clothing, wrapped it around Jiang Qiankun's arm, and asked, "What happened to the pregnant fox?" "Hitting a pregnant fox will bring bad luck. This is the most taboo for hunters. Didn't you see that this hunter died without a whole body? Maybe he offended this fox during his lifetime." Jiang Qiankun replied. After Jiang Qiankun finished speaking, the fox had finished drinking the blood and was looking at Master Dou.Unexpectedly, at this moment, Hu Songshan stabbed again. It turned out that her real purpose was to attack the enemy, not to hurt herself.She raised the knife and aimed directly at Dou Ye who was closest to her. Dou Ye had been prepared for a long time, and immediately dodged a close-range attack from her.Hu Songshan failed in the assassination, so he switched to fighting, and even started a fight with Master Dou.That Lord Dou is not a man who just goes through the motions, this old Jiang Hu is naturally experienced in many battles, I saw him holding a torch, and kept throwing it into Hu Songshan's eyes.Hu Songshan is very afraid of fire. Every time her green eyes see fire, she blocks it with her arms and dare not move forward. Jiang Qiankun said to me in a low voice: "Go and cooperate with Master Dou to hold the little girl together." At that moment, I handed over the torch to Jiang Qiankun, and attacked with Dou Ye on both sides.When Lord Dou shone the torch again so that Hu Songshan closed his eyes, Lord Dou and I each held her arm, and only heard Jiang Qiankun say: "Yi Shui, spit on her forehead with saliva, and then step on her chest." foot." I didn't think there was another way to cure the evil. Although it was the first time I heard it, I couldn't care less. I spit on Hu Songshan's face and stepped on Hu Songshan's foot hard.Hu Songshan let out a fox-like wail, and then Hu Songshan's eyes returned to light black. She looked at us supporting her and asked, "What happened, have you been bewitched again?" I nod.There is actually a reason why Hu Songshan has been bewitched repeatedly, but not me or Jiang Qiankun.As mentioned above, women rule over yin and men rule over yang. Generally, imps possessed by old people and children, followed by women.Middle-aged men rarely encounter such things, so the business of fighting is only done by men, and few women participate. Although Hu Songshan is a hero of the female school, with good health and good psychological quality, but she can't change the characteristics of a woman, so if there is something evil, she will be the first one. After the evil that Hu Songshan was holding was broken, the fox flashed into a hole and could not come out.We looked at the headless corpse in the shape of a door god at the door, and saw that it was still holding a bow, ready to shoot everyone at any time. I just heard Lord Dou say: "This headless corpse has no eyes, and I don't know how to see us. Let me meet him." Lord Dou took a torch in Jiang Qiankun's hand, and saw him slowly approaching us. Move to the right and get closer to the place where the fox disappeared. I shouted: "Master Dou, be careful!" Dou Ye smiled and said: "Brother, don't worry, look at me." I saw Master Dou swinging the torch left and right, followed by the arrow of the headless corpse moving left and right.Everyone watched, sweating for Master Dou.Finally, at this time, Lord Dou came to the entrance of the cave where the fox disappeared. Everyone saw that there was a pile of firewood, and they thought that it would be great if they could be lit.Everyone was thinking about it when they saw Master Dou throwing a torch onto the pile of firewood, followed by a somersault and dodged aside.Just as Lord Dou turned somersault, three arrows shot to the place where Lord Dou stood just now. Seeing this, everyone lamented Master Dou's skill, and he was worthy of being a veteran tomb robber.After the three arrows fell to the ground, the headless corpse immediately took out three more arrows from behind and set up a bow. Due to Lord Dou's heroic behavior, the thatched cottage-like cave was immediately lit up, and everyone felt courageous. Seeing that the arrows shot out one after another, seeing that the headless corpse only had one arrow in its hand, everyone thought, "That's great, let's see what other tricks you have after shooting this arrow." Unexpectedly, at this time, at another corner of the hut, I saw the fox again, and saw it whining from time to time, as if it hated Lord Dou very much.When I saw the fox coming, I stopped it immediately, and saw it jump over my head and land on Lord Dou's head.I turned around and saw that the fox was biting resentfully, and Master Dou also howled in pain. He tried hard to tear the fox off, but the fox never let go. Seeing this, I rushed forward immediately and pulled the fox hard with my left hand, but the fox couldn't pull it down at all.I saw that in such a situation, Master Dou was bound to be even more dangerous, so I pulled hard and pulled the fox down.At this time, I saw blood everywhere on the ground, and the red fox was still chewing something. After the fox was ripped off by me, I patted the thing in its mouth on the ground. When I saw it, it turned out to be an eyeball.Hearing Dou Ye's painful wail behind him, I knew it must be Dou Ye's eyes.So I took the Xingxiu knife and stabbed the fox hard until I was sure it was dead. Since I was concentrating on killing the fox, I didn't notice what was behind me.I only heard a cry, and I saw Hu Songshan fall to the ground.I thought to myself, what's the matter, turned around and saw that Hu Songshan had been shot in the back by an arrow.It turned out that when I was killing the fox, she saw the headless corpse aiming the bow at me and blocked an arrow for me. After the red fox was beheaded by me, Lord Dou lost his left eye, and Hu Songshan was also shot by an arrow.Now Master Dou is covered in blood, but there is no cure, so he has to hold back the pain.In addition to the loss of eyes, he still has scratches on his face. At this moment, he is sweating all over from the pain, and he is hot and cold.Due to the severe pain, Master Dou kept his hand from his eyes, and Jiang Qiankun and I didn't dare to move forward, for fear that he might accidentally hurt us.And Hu Songshan was also seriously injured at the moment. It was hot in summer, and Hu Songshan didn't wear much clothes. After being shot by an arrow, his body was covered with blood. Since the headless corpse was still standing at the door, Jiang Qiankun and I couldn't be idle.Although Jiang Qiankun was stabbed and bled a little earlier, but at this moment, it seemed that his injury was a little lighter.Now that I am the only one who is not injured, the heavy responsibility of dealing with the headless corpse will naturally be handed over to me.Because I have to find a way to take the two wounded away, so I can't be injured. The immediate question is how to deal with this headless corpse. Although he no longer has a weapon in his hand, he is at least a zombie or a ghost.From the perspective of normal reasoning, unarmed combat is difficult to win.My fourth uncle once taught me the technique of locking corpses, but that is through inducing corpse aura to expel corpse aura from the body. This zombie has no head, so where can I get rid of it?Obviously the traditional method is useless, only Huo Gong has the most obvious effect. This battle plan quickly won Jiang Qiankun's high approval. He went to the firewood pile to retrieve the torch, and picked up the torch that Master Dou dropped on the ground and handed it to me.The two of us immediately approached the headless corpse.Without the arrow, the headless corpse was really headless, and without the fox's control, the headless corpse had no choice but to retreat. The direction of the headless corpse's retreat is naturally to return to the room on the left. After Jiang Qiankun and I entered, this room was also extremely spacious, but the items placed there were extremely scarce, only some coffins were placed in the distance.There are seven layers of these coffins, with seven pairs on the bottom layer, one for each layer. Seeing these coffins, Jiang Qiankun said leisurely, "It's really weird." I asked, "What's wrong?" Jiang Qiankun continued to stare at the coffin, and said: "I have never seen this arrangement. Look at this coffin, there are seven at the bottom, one for each floor, which is the same as what we saw on the bottom floor. It's just that the coffins below are arranged There are nine floors, and here are seven floors. I guess the businessman's building should have eight floors, and every time you go up, one will be reduced until you reach the top floor, and only one will be piled up." I said, "If this is not the case, how can we show the status and dignity of the king? There are nine levels of slaves and eight levels of merchants, but there is only one king. This is in line with the concept of hierarchy." Hearing what I said, Jiang Qiankun also nodded.At this moment, the headless corpse retreated to the corner while I was talking to Jiang Qiankun.I saw him reach out his hand as if touching the wall, and he got the arrow again in his hand.I thought to myself, it's not good, I'm afraid this old monster will show his power again.I saw him stretching his bow and driving us back to the original cave. Back in the original hole, I picked up some bows on the wall.Jiang Qiankun glanced at me and asked, "Do you know how to use arrows?" I shook my head, even if I knew how, a bow without arrows would not be effective, besides, relying on this thing to shoot to death after nearly a thousand years of arrows It is impossible to have corpses of nearly a thousand years.I didn't make a sound at the moment, I just threw the bow to the far corner of the wall, and then I saw three arrows shot out by the headless corpse.After Jiang Qiankun saw it, he was overjoyed. He immediately picked up a stone on the ground and threw it at the wall. The headless corpse shot three more arrows. Not long after this, the bow in my hand was thrown away, and the arrows of the headless corpse were also exhausted.Without the arrow, the headless corpse is like a headless fly. He turned around and turned around, intending to continue to take the arrow. How could Jiang Qiankun and I allow him to go again, so I rushed forward, threw my arms around my back, and pushed him to the ground.This headless corpse is extremely powerful, even though I have practiced Sanda, I am still no match for him.At the moment of crisis, Jiang Qiankun also rushed forward, and the headless corpse could only struggle under us.I took out the stump of candle that was left just now, and painted it all on the headless body.Halfway through the painting, the headless corpse broke free from our control.I saw that he was about to stand up, so I lit the fire, but I didn't expect that the headless corpse was quite flammable, and it caught fire at one point, and the whole room was lit up. When the headless corpse finally fell down, I remembered that Dou Ye and Hu Songshan were still lying on the ground.At this moment, Lord Dou had already fainted; the arrow on Hu Songshan's body had not been pulled out, and the corners of her mouth turned white, as if she had lost too much blood. Seeing this situation, I was also very anxious.Hu Songshan is so affectionate and righteous to me, and I can't be indifferent. Although we are in a team, she was injured for me, and I can't ignore her life or death. The arrow pierced through from behind, because the arrow has been around for thousands of years, and it is not particularly sharp, so its strength has disappeared a lot.Immediately, I carried Hu Songshan into the next room, lit the torch, and burned the Xingxiu Knife red.My fourth uncle once told me that Dahei died in the Guishan Han Tomb because of being hit by an arrow in the tomb.For this, my fourth uncle also taught me that in order to survive, I must not be afraid of pain. I asked Hu Songshan, "Are you afraid?" Hu Songshan shook, she gritted her teeth and said, "Don't be afraid, don't worry." I made Hu Songshan turn around and pulled out the broken arrow on her back, the ground was soaked in blood.I lifted her blouse, picked up the red-hot Xingxiu knife and scalded her back, followed by a loud howl from the tomb, and she, who had lost too much blood, fainted immediately. Seeing her fainted, I was also very nervous, so I quickly grabbed her.She wailed, and slowly woke up, moaning in pain.I was also relieved to see that the blood on her back had stopped, and I hope this ancestral remedy for arrow wounds from the ancient tomb will work.