Chapter 4 Chapter 4 The Secret of Longevity

The giants in the distance are running around, seemingly never getting tired. There are countless night pearls scattered in the soil under the ruins of the palace, which radiate even and soft light, making this underground cave even if there is no need. Lights can also see objects. As the giant ran in a hurry, there were strange things coming out and going in from time to time in the underground soil, which seemed extremely busy. My father leaned over the stone wall that was toppled and cracked by the earthquake, his head full of tears. It was cold sweat dripping from my cheeks. "Looking at it this way, even though the bandit leader, Big Pimple, deserves to be shot 10,000 times, what he said when he was dying was not crazy raving."

My father murmured in a low voice. "This... is this too mysterious?" The simple and honest Li Tianxi couldn't understand anything: "That Wang Mang has been dead for almost two thousand years, and even his bones have rotted into ashes. Could it be that he knew today's truth two thousand years ago? There is a big gangster? You know that big lump will rob a woman to come here? And you know that Ding Sifan will definitely come here by himself? This... this is definitely not the case. " "I agree with Comrade Ding Tianxi's point of view." Since Yang Ji's death, Feng Yong'an has never spoken again, but the matter in front of him is too mysterious, and it would be inappropriate for him not to express his opinion: "I also think this painting is similar to Comrade Ding Sifan's. It doesn't matter at all. Although I don't know Comrade Ding Sifan's family status, since the superiors value her so much and sent so many comrades to rescue her, it can be seen that she must be from a poor peasant and our revolutionary comrade. What about the leaders of the feudal exploiting class standing together?"

"What are you talking about, even class distinctions are revealed," Sun Boru speculated after reading a few ancient books: "Chief, from the murals here, it can be seen that the treasures here need nine women to guard them. But one of the women escaped, and it said that the escaped woman would come back by herself, but the woman who came back could not be Ding Sifan, it must have happened in Wang Mang's era, and has nothing to do with us now." My father was about to shake his head, but changed his mind: "I agree with Comrade Sun Boru, now, let's look for it again, and find Ding Sifan no matter what."

"Chief, there's only such a big place up there, where do we start?" Ding Tianxi looked at my father in bewilderment. "It's just below here," my father instructed, pointing to the collapsed stone wall, "throw all these ruined walls down for me, I don't believe I can't find a hole." With an order, the four of them worked together, lifted the toppled boulder and threw it down. Together with the statues of the eight mountain god grandmothers, they were pushed down by everyone.Not long after, a hole appeared on the ground made of stones, and there was a faint light shining through it, reflecting a row of stone steps that were also hewn from huge stones.

The lights made everyone startled, and they hurriedly put their guns in their hands: "Chief, why are there lights here? It's been so many years." My father replied casually: "We will know when we go down." After saying this, he walked down first, Li Tianxi took the first step, covered my father with his body, and everyone filed down. Below, is a sealed stone chamber. This stone chamber was chiseled inside the huge cylindrical stone, with only one entrance on the top, and it was airtight on all sides. Inside, there was a long, ordinary-looking table covered with apricot-yellow satin cotton cushions, and a transparent coffin in the center. , lying inside was an old man with white beard and hair. The old man had a ruddy complexion and a lifelike appearance. He was wearing a dragon robe, but there was a very weird smile on his face, which made people feel very uncomfortable.

In front of the transparent coffin, lay a woman in white. The woman was slender and slender, and her body was still trembling slightly. Surrounding the woman in white were eight naked women. Their appearance was similar to the eight above. The statues of Zunshanshen's grandma are exactly the same. Obviously, they are the eight women who were willing to stay here to die for the treasure. Seeing this strange scene, Li Tianxi was stunned: "These women...why don't they wear clothes?" "They are wearing them," my father told him briefly, "It's just that two thousand years have passed, and the clothes on their bodies have turned to dust."

Two thousand years have passed, and the clothes of these eight palace maids are all rotten, but they are still here. At first glance, they are still rosy, white, elastic, and it seems that they will turn their heads at any time and smile at everyone. What is the reason for their corpses not to rot? Maybe that's just because they're not human anymore. This is the mysterious alchemy. This evil alchemy is to turn a living person into a terrifying thing that is neither human nor ghost. My father's eyes fell on the old man in the transparent coffin: "Who is this guy? Why is he lying here?"

"Wang Mang, he must be that Wang Mang!" Feng Yong'an blurted out: "Look at the dragon robe he's wearing and the strange hat next to him, who else could it be if it wasn't Wang Mang?" "What kind of strange hat? It's called the Taiping Crown," my father said with a laugh, "It's also called the Mianguan. It's one foot two inches long and seven inches wide. Red and green, divided into twelve strings of white jade beads... But it's not right, Wang Mang should have been killed by the rebels when the Han soldiers broke through the palace. According to historical records, Wang Mang's body, limbs, joints, muscles, and bones were all chopped up by the rebels. Broken, how could it be..."

"Chief, didn't you tell us? Don't underestimate the enemy's cunning at any time." Feng Yongan insisted on his point of view: "Look at how cruel and vicious this Wang Mang is, who killed so many people, how could he be willing You must have hid here by pretending to be dead, fanned the ghostly fire in the dark, and waited for an opportunity to counterattack our new regime. Wait until I drag this granite head out of the coffin to criticize..." "It's really possible," Sun Boru supported Feng Yong'an's point of view: "Sir, I have also read a few books and know that Wang Mang is very cruel and cunning. Before he became emperor, he pretended to be kind and kind every day to deceive the people. The masses, in order to pretend to be impartial and selfless, he also killed his two sons. Later, when he became emperor, the masses rose up to rebel. Unfortunately, a rebel leader named Wang Sunqing was captured. Wang Mang actually let the imperial physician, pharmacist and Together the butchers skinned and dissected Wang Sunqing, measured the position of the kidneys, and pierced the blood vessels and every tendon of Wang Sunqing with bamboo sticks. Comrade Wang Sunqing would rather die than surrender, shouting long live the Chinese Communist Party, and defeat the evil Wang Mang reactionaries..."

Li Tianxi was stunned when he heard it: "Old Sun, didn't you say that Wang Mang was from two thousand years ago? At that time, the peasant uprising army called Long Live the Communist Party?" "...This..." Sun Boru realized that he had slipped his lips, and he copied the words he used to educate recruits when he was in the army, and hurriedly covered it up: "I don't know whether Comrade Wang Sunqing shouted or not, but If it was now, then he would definitely shout... I mean, Wang Mang is so vicious, people like this are greedy for life and afraid of death, if he didn't escape with makeup before the Han soldiers liberated the palace, then It's almost impossible..."

Even though my father was well-informed, he was dazed by Sun Boru's words: "Sun Boru, I never thought that you have a different way of doing ideological and political work... It's really possible what you said, come on, let us all take a closer look around. , but don't touch those eight women..." At this time Li Tianxi called out: "Chief, look at your feet..." My father hurriedly lowered his head and noticed the clear lines engraved on the stone under his feet, and suddenly realized: "No wonder there are only eight relief murals at the entrance. It turns out that the murals behind are all hidden here." The reliefs on the ground really came after the eight reliefs at the entrance. First, there is a picture of a group of rioting soldiers wielding knives and hacking. The people in the picture wear a crown of peace on their heads and are angrily rebuking the soldiers who hacked and killed. It is true, this is indeed the battle for the great treasure at the end of the Western Han Dynasty. However, the face of the person wearing the flat sky crown is somewhat blurred. On the contrary, a person in the corner is drawn more clearly. The person's forehead is slightly bald, and he is very imposing. At first glance, he is the emperor who appeared in the eight reliefs. At that time, he was sitting on a chariot pulled by six dragons, and the driver of the chariot was whipping the horse desperately. The panic and sorrow when he fled was clearly evident. In the next picture, the fleeing emperor arrived in front of a palace, and a huge giant was kneeling on the ground. In front of the giant, eight women in white clothes were prostrating. They were still kneeling on the ground at this moment. These eight palace maids from the Han Dynasty are old, but on the screen, there are lush and beautiful flowers and leaves growing between the fingers of the eight palace maids, but here, apart from being gloomy, there is nothing unusual about them. In the next painting, there are four vague-faced men carrying a sedan chair with a sliding pole that does not resemble a sliding pole. On it sits a woman in white. This should be the one who escaped two thousand years ago. A woman, because at her feet, there are eight other palace maids bowing down. Next, the picture is divided into layers. The bottom layer is three men carrying sedan chairs. They are in a place surrounded by a group of evil spirits, surrounded by raging hellfire.The Yin fire scorched the surface of the upper layer, and the eight palace maids were lying in the soil, countless flowers, plants and trees grew from their bodies, which were extremely luxuriant.Among the flowers and trees is the fourth man carrying a sedan chair. He is sitting cross-legged with the ninth woman in white clothes. A few simple lines are drawn on the relief, symbolizing the connection of yin and yang. The flowers, plants and trees penetrate their bodies. , become fatter, and then re-grow from their heads and bodies, it is already extremely prosperous, forming a tripod-shaped container that circles around and spreads upwards endlessly.And the man wearing the flat sky crown stood in front of the strange vessel formed by the Cordyceps sinensis grown from the human body, with his arms raised high and his head looking up at the sky, as if he was invincible. At the highest point of the picture, there are clouds and colorful clouds in the sky, auspicious lights, and countless immortals riding dragons and phoenixes are playing fairy music, welcoming this man with the crown of the emperor on his head to step into the fairy world. After seeing these reliefs, my father only felt a shock in his heart and was terrified. The meaning on this relief is very clear. The ninth woman who escaped will be sent back by four men one day, and then three of the four men will turn into evil spirits, while the fourth The man, together with the ninth woman, becomes the Cordyceps sinensis that yin and yang complement each other and give birth to each other. What my grandfather said to my father when I was a child, can't help but emerge at this time. My grandpa once told my father: The secret of the prescription can lead to ghosts.The so-called Tongyou means that this kind of alchemy can penetrate the unborn world, and the so-called Dagui means that it can reach the secret realm of death. In modern terms, this kind of alchemy can penetrate time and space. The caster can not only drive the people at that time, but also make arrangements for things and people in the future. Grudge Keeper, but also allows the later ones to be part of the process as well. The ninth woman was actually Ding Sifan who was rescued by my father and his party. This most unlikely assumption was actually confirmed. "Chief, what do these strange paintings mean?" Seeing my father's silence, Li Tianxi asked urgently. "This..." My father knew that with the comprehension ability of these fighters, it was impossible to explain the mystery of the method of removing prescriptions, so he laughed nonchalantly: "What do you mean? You think that dreaming of restoration What else can they mean? They just want to live forever, and want to continue their rule over the working people forever." "He's dreaming!" Li Tianxi was furious, and was about to raise his arms to shout slogans, but suddenly heard a rumbling sound from above, and Feng Yongan, who was waiting at the entrance, screamed: "Chief, that... big guy below... it climbed up..." It was not just the big guy who climbed up, but also many small monsters that could not be named. Those things can make you see at a glance that they are nothing more than the remains of dead people. They were originally a mass of flesh and blood, but because of some mysterious The soaking in the potion kept the cells on these physiological tissues still alive, but they mutated into an inexplicable strange substance.These monsters, neither human nor ghost, have been dormant underground for two thousand years. They also have a name, Fu Zi, which is no different from the giant monster Luo Ying. Luoying and Fuzi, these human alienated tissues that survived after being processed by evil means, after thousands of years of underground deposition, most of them have become fossilized, or have grown thick silkworm shells. They drilled out of the ground, crawled up, and when they hit the stones, they would make a huge impact sound, which sounded heartbreaking in this deep underground cave. My father realized how these things would suddenly rush to the platform earlier than anyone else. He opened his throat and shouted desperately: "Grenades, detonators, quick, quick, throw me everything that can explode, please don't let me go!" Don't let these things block the entrance..." With a few loud bangs, the three of Li Tianxi threw out the last few grenades and detonators that were left on their bodies, but this was of no avail at all, because Luoying and Fuzi had no brains, no senses, and even nerves. Whether the system still exists is a problem. They have no feeling or concept of life and death at all. Although the powerful gunpowder blasted them to pieces, they are unaware. You bomb yours, we are busy with us. Yes, just hearing the loud rumbling sound above the head, Luoying and Fuzi have piled all the boulders on the platform to the entrance, completely sealing the stone room. Seeing that the entrance was sealed, Li Tianxi, Sun Boru and Feng Yongan unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. It's good to be sealed here, but it's better than having to face those strange things that are neither human nor ghost. But in this stone room, it is also full of eerie atmosphere, not to mention the eight motionless two-thousand-year-old palace servants, but the dead Wang Mang in the transparent coffin, which makes people unable to tell Uncomfortable, everyone has a vague ominous feeling in their hearts, this guy, maybe it will suddenly sit up at some point, and run around chasing everyone... At this time, there was a faint groan in the stone room. Everyone hurriedly raised their guns and stared nervously at the source of the sound. I saw the body of the woman in white move slightly. "She..." Li Tianxi was about to speak, but my father stopped him with a gesture. Then my father walked over slowly and approached the woman. At this time, his body was in the center surrounded by the eight Han Dynasty court ladies. The body of the woman in white trembled again, and her eyelids were slowly opening. She opened her eyes and saw a face of my father. To be honest, the faces of the soldiers on the battlefield are completely lacking in beauty. They are all dark and shocking at first glance, and everyone has been in this place since they came here In the cave, the water from the yin-yang boat at the entrance is poured on the face, and everyone's face is basically similar to the person who got out of the soil. So when the woman saw my father's ugly face, she immediately showed a frightened expression, and opened her mouth to exclaim, but my father put his finger on his lips and hissed: "What's your name?" my father asked. "My... name is Ding Sifan." The girl replied. "It's really you." My father bared his white teeth and smiled: "Comrade Ding Sifan, you are safe now, we are the team that came to rescue you." Ding Sifan was about to speak, but suddenly pointed at my father's back and screamed. At the same time, Li Tianxi, Sun Boru and Feng Yongan also screamed in surprise. fly outside. Later, my father once said that as early as when he entered the stone room and saw the unconscious woman lying on the ground, he knew that she must be Ding Sifan, because she was a living person full of youthful vitality. How could there be a second living person in this hidden treasure cave that had been sealed for thousands of years? However, since entering that stone room, my father has never dared to take a step closer to Ding Sifan, especially when he found that Ding Sifan was surrounded by those eight Han Dynasty courtiers, he dared not do anything wrong.He already knew that once he walked into the circle of the eight spirit fou, something would definitely happen, but he couldn't escape, because he came here to rescue Ding Sifan, and five of them had already been damaged in this operation. General Tiger, he has no idea whether the rest of the people can get out alive.However, now that Ding Sifan has been found, he can only take one step at a time. No matter what, he must take this young girl out, otherwise, she may be imprisoned in this maze forever If it is eroded by the spell of the evil spirit into a spirit fou that is worse than death, the result will be terrible. According to my father's initial thought, he wanted to delay the time until Ding Sifan woke up naturally, and then asked her to walk out of the circle surrounded by the eight palace men, so that the risk factor was the lowest. However, the entrance above his head was suddenly sealed, which caused his father to be confused for a while. When Ding Sifan regained consciousness, he involuntarily walked to Ding Sifan's side and walked into the circle surrounded by the eight palace men. . So when he heard Ding Sifan and Li Tianxi exclaim in unison, his heart sank. He made a mistake. Then he saw a strange scene, the bodies of the eight palace maids who had been motionless all of a sudden grew a variety of stems, leaves, flowers and fruits, and these stems, leaves, flowers and fruits surrounded each other in the air, forming a closed circle, Closed my father and Ding Sifan in the circle.If they want to go out, it is impossible not to touch these flowers and plants, and once a person's body comes into contact with this evil thing, something invisible to the naked eye will quickly penetrate into the body and suck the life of a stranger. Flesh grows rapidly, and eventually, my father and Ding Sifan will turn into two weird plants. Now my father understands why the eight palace maids are all naked, not because their clothes have weathered into dust, but because they don't need clothes in the first place. Only human beings need clothes to wear, and any kind of flowers, plants, fruits and trees do not need to wear clothes. As the old saying goes, grass seeds of thousands of years, and fish seeds of ten thousand years, these eight palace people are just like women in appearance, with complete facial features and five slender bodies, but in fact they have already alienated into seeds of an evil plant. The dormant state is maintained in the closed cave, and once the environment changes appropriately, it will immediately spread and grow rapidly from the dormant state. This kind of grass seed is neither yin nor yang nor life nor death, so it has no reaction to the impact of yang qi, and it has no reaction to the impact of yin qi, but when it encounters the intersection of yin and yang, it will immediately Woke up. So my father said that he should not approach Ding Sifan at that time, let alone touch her, as long as he gently called her name at the entrance and let her go out by herself, there would be no danger. But now that this step has been taken, he can only bite the bullet and move forward until these strange things are completely resolved. As soon as the Cordyceps sprang up, Li Tianxi and the three reacted quickly, and immediately rushed forward, took out a sharp dagger, and quickly cut off the slender branches that sprung up. My father was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly shouted: "Stand back!" , you must not come near..." But it was too late, the branch that fell on the ground scurried like a poisonous snake, Li Tianxi jumped a little slower, and his ankle was entangled. Li Tianxi's expression suddenly changed. The branches wrapped around his body didn't feel terrible, but he could clearly feel that these things were piercing the capillaries on his ankles, and rushed in along the blood vessels.That thing had already taken root in his body, and it spread rapidly. Li Tianxi smiled suddenly: "Chief, the entrance was closed too quickly just now, and I still have a grenade that I didn't throw out... Now it finally came in handy." When he was speaking, he had already pulled out his grenade, and immediately hugged a palace man who was rapidly diluting and evolving into emerald green branches and leaves—most of the palace man had degenerated into a vegetative state, and Li Tianxi only hugged a small piece between An in-between state between humans and plants, but that's enough. "Li Tianxi—!" My father and the others exclaimed at the same time. They couldn't stop Li Tianxi's actions at all, this heart-piercing roar was just because they couldn't keep calm. With a bang, a dull explosion sounded, and the Cordyceps sinensis was torn into a big hole by the powerful explosion. At the place where the explosion started, everyone lay down on the ground at the same time to avoid splashing the broken branches and rotten leaves, but before the smoke cleared, just as the remaining cordyceps sinensis twisted its stems and leaves to close again, my father had picked up Ding Sifan involuntarily. The action jumped out quickly. Landing on the ground and turning around, my father turned his head again, only to see that the remaining seven palace-shaped grass seeds were still growing luxuriantly, and a tripod-shaped altar of flowers and plants really sprung out, but there was only one left on the tripod. The gap seemed to be waiting for my father to take Ding Sifan into it again. Now, only Sun Boru and Feng Yongan were left among the eight predators. The two of them surrounded my father with guns in their hands, looking at the airtight stone room: "Chief, is it time for us to fight out?" "Get out?" My father looked at the two of them in surprise, "Do you still have any explosives?" "Glorious bomb!" Sun Boru and Feng Yongan triumphantly revealed the last grenade close to their bodies: "This is for keeping and perishing with the enemy. It is our last property." "How many bullets do you have left?" My father asked them with his heart sinking. "There are more than a dozen bullets for submachine guns, and a dozen bullets for pistols," Sun Boru and Feng Yongan replied, "But we still have machetes and daggers on our bodies. With these two things, the world has it all." My father grunted and turned his gaze to Ding Sifan. My father said that it was the first time he looked at this girl carefully, and he didn't see any elements of fear or timidity on the young girl's face, only a kind of indifference and calmness of resigning to God's fate, What's more, she was staring at the place where the soldier Li Tianxi died, with endless sadness in her eyes. My father commented: At that time, I could tell at a glance that the girl had a conscience. The words "conscience" are simple to say, but they are the highest evaluation of the bloody soldiers on the battlefield to those who have received their favor.During the war, my father and these predators saved countless people from the critical moment of death. Everyone is grateful to my father and them, but only Ding Sifan, she is the only one who puts Li Tianxi's life-saving grace above her own life and death. because she asked about Li Tianxi's name. "That person—" Ding Sifan supported my father's arm, pointed at the place where Li Tianxi died, and asked, "I want to know the name of the soldier who rescued us." "You should know," my father agreed. "They are Lou Zhiguang, Wang Youcai, Ma Tianzong, Wei Xincun, Yang Ji, and Li Tianxi." Ding Sifan's face showed surprise: "So many people...just for me?" Her question was difficult to answer. My father hesitated for a while, but finally shook his head: "I can't say that, they are for the liberation of the world..." "But here, they are for me!" Ding Sifan said firmly, "As long as I live, I will always remember them." "Good girl!" My father, while admiring her, raised his big bear-like palm habitually, aiming to pat Ding Sifan's back.This is a good habit that my father, who was born in a family, developed on the battlefield. On the battlefield, soldiers were born and died, bleeding and sacrificed. That kind of performance cannot be expressed in any words. The only reward is the leader's slap. The slap is very dark, and a weaker fighter will lie on the ground for a long time with a slap. It means a high honor to be slapped by Crazy Xia. People say that Crazy Xia is a total lunatic. The man is, at least, a half-mad. That slap went down and was about to slap Ding Sifan on the back. My father suddenly came to his senses. , the altar of the lapis lazuli was actually cracked in the middle by my father. The altar roughly hugged, although it was exquisite, it was carved out of solid stone after all, and it was broken into two pieces with a single slap, which made both Sun Boru and Feng Yong'an speechless at the same time: "Chief... what a strong wrist!" My father himself was dumbfounded. It is true that his wrist is not weak, but he can break the boulder with a single slap. Isn't this too outrageous?Seeing that there was nothing wrong with his big slap, and looking at the altar again, he couldn't help laughing. The altar turned out to be hollow, and there was a dark passage going straight up and down inside. "So it's here!" Seeing the secret passage exposed on the altar, my father suddenly realized, and exclaimed overjoyed. "Chief, how do you know there is a secret passage here?" Sun Boru and Feng Yongan were also overjoyed when they suddenly saw life in the secret room. "I don't know that there is a secret passage here, but I know that there must be another exit in this seemingly impenetrable stone room." My father explained: "You must know that those craftsmen who were forcibly recruited , They are absolutely unwilling to be slaughtered by others, they will use various methods to resist, and secretly building a secret passage for themselves to escape is the most commonly used method." Turning around, my father continued: "Since the escape tunnel was dug secretly, it must be in a place that no one would expect, and it can only be dug during normal working hours. If there is any negligence, you will be imprisoned." Therefore, when I entered this airtight stone room, I thought that if such a secret passage really existed, it must be inside the stone room. The only feasible escape plan for the craftsmen was to cut through this huge stone, and then Then dig all the way down to the natural cavity formed in the underground rock formation, then there is a possibility of escape." Feng Yongan jumped over: "Chief, let me go first to explore the way." "Wait a minute," my father said, "this secret passage has not been used for two thousand years. It must be tried with fire first." "Okay." Sun Boru took out a match, tore off a piece of clothing from the front of his clothes, lit it with fire, and took it to the entrance of the secret passage, and saw the flames violently rolled up. Sun Boru was so excited that he couldn't get any more excited: "Chief, what a strong wind, This secret passage must lead to the outside..." Just as they were talking, they heard a slap behind them, and everyone couldn't help feeling tense. Looking back, they were surprised to see a slanted branch sprouting from the Cordyceps sinensis, which actually wrapped around the transparent crystal coffin. They didn't know it was a coffin. The cover was not closed tightly, or there was a gap in the coffin, the branches and leaves stretched into the inside of the coffin, and a strange fruit the size of a fist formed at the end of the branches and leaves. The fruit exploded automatically, and in an instant, the transparent coffin was surrounded by a cloud of scarlet smoke, and it was no longer possible to see clearly what was inside. "What's going on here?" Feng Yong'an was astonished: "What the hell is that reactionary Wang Mang doing?" But my father suddenly felt ominous, and hurriedly shouted: "No, Wang Mang is going to crawl out... Let's go!" Feng Yongan jumped into the secret passage, supported the stone wall with both hands and feet, and quickly fell to the bottom like a gecko. After leaning slightly, he heard his muffled voice from above: "Chief, I have reached the bottom!" Yes, there is indeed a dark hole ahead." "Comrade Ding Sifan, I will tie you up with a rope and let you fall." My father spoke quickly, and took the rope handed over by Sun Boru, and was about to wrap it around Ding Sifan's waist when, at this moment, With just a loud bang, the lid of the transparent coffin was lifted from the inside. "Chief, look quickly..." Sun Boru couldn't help exclaiming when he saw something unbelievable.But at this critical moment, my father didn't even dare to look back, because turning back would definitely delay the rescue of Ding Sifan, and he had no time to waste. With a strong force, my father lifted Ding Sifan up, and was about to stuff it into the secret passage, but only heard two weird sounds, which came from the inside of the transparent coffin, which made people feel uneasy. My father Involuntarily glanced towards the direction of the coffin, just in time to see Wang Mang's body curled up suddenly, his legs bent over to hug his head, forming a weird posture. Seeing this thousand-year-old corpse moving, my father was shocked at the time, thinking that Wang Mang had come back to life.After all, this is an ambiguous zone between Yin and Yang, and it is not surprising that anything happens. My father would never be surprised if Wang Mang suddenly got up and punched him. But Wang Mang's corpse did not get up. Although the corpse did not get up, a more terrifying and strange thing happened. There is nothing new about corpses animating. Some corpses have been lying quietly in the coffin for thousands of years, and their appearance is still lifelike, but once they are stimulated by human yang energy, they will quickly grow white hairs all over their bodies, and some corpses with green or red hairs will also grow. See, this is also called corpse change, which is most often encountered by tomb robbers. However, the vast majority of corpses are "too late" to change, often before this natural phenomenon occurs, the corpses have already decomposed, but each corpse will still "move" after death, European researchers in the early years excavated In the coffin of the deceased, it was found that the postures of the corpses in the coffin had all changed, and some corpses scratched deep marks with their nails on the inner wall of the coffin. These corpses were also called "fake deaths", but in fact they were just unconscious. They wake up, but they look like they are dead. After burying these unlucky people in the tomb, their brains and hearts regain their functions, but they can't get out when they want to crawl. Scratching the wall of the coffin with his nails... Andersen, a Danish fairy tale writer, knew these things best, so what he feared most was that if he passed out one day, he would be stuffed into a coffin and buried alive, so every day he Carry a note with you, which says: "I just look like I'm dead, but I'm still alive. Don't bury me..." The Chinese also have a good way to deal with suspended animation. This method is called stopping the spirit. In ancient times, it often took seven to forty-nine days for people to stop the spirit. Come here, don't blame us for burying you now... However, most of the corpses have not been inactive for seven to forty-nine days, and the phenomenon of "necromorphosis" has already occurred. Caused by corpse gas. The so-called corpse gas, the current scientific explanation is called "Giant View", the origin of this name is unclear, but the Giant View refers to the dissolution of human cells and autolysis of human tissue due to lack of oxygen after death, and the death of corpses. Bacteria that enter from outside multiply rapidly inside, and secrete a large amount of enzymes that decompose organic matter, such as protein, etc., thereby causing the corruption of the corpse.A large amount of gas is produced during the decay of the corpse, which squeezes the tissues and internal organs of the whole body, causing the corpse to swell, open the mouth, protrude the tongue, protrude the eyeballs, and protrude from the anus... If the deceased is a pregnant woman, the gas pressure will push the fetus out Vagina, the official name in medicine is called internal childbirth. Ordinarily, no matter how evil Wang Mang was, he was just a big man, no matter whether he was alive or dead, it was impossible for him to give birth.But my father had a strange feeling at that time, this man's body, it was indeed in the process of giving birth, my father even heard the cry of a baby. "Croak—croak!" The cry of the baby inside the corpse was like a ghostly howl, which made my father tremble with fear. “不要听——”我父亲惊心之余，还没忘脱手掩住丁思梵的耳朵，担心那邪恶的声音弄脏了这个女孩子，可是忙中出错，这时候丁思梵已经身在暗道之中，我父亲用手揪住绳子，正要将她徐徐放入，不曾想那男尸突然发出的怪婴啼号之声，让我父亲乱了方寸，竟然忘了手中的绳子，只顾松手去捂丁思梵的耳朵，一捂之下，只听丁思梵惊呼一声，跌了下去，幸好我父亲猛可的意识到了自己的错误，一把揪住了绳子，这才没有将丁思梵摔到。 动作飞快的将丁思梵放下去，我父亲急忙跳上祭坛，扭头看时，就听那男尸的身体发出一声爆裂之声，只见一堆让人恶心的白腻腻的东西喷飞开来，那些东西类似于人体的内脏器官，却又象巨大的白色虫子，哪怕只是眼角上瞥一下，也足以让人做上半年的噩梦。 看到那纷飞的白色粘腻物，我父亲脑子里猛可的闪过一个记忆片断，他听到自己脱口喊了一声：“我操，这下子我老夏是真的完蛋了……” 再仔细看，尸体并不是爆裂开来，而是有什么东西从尸体里挤出来，反而把尸体包裹到了里边。好象有一只看不见的大手突然伸进了男尸的体内，把男尸由里而外翻了过来，男尸的内里是一种颜色粉红，质地细嫩，状如桃子，上面布满了密集的毛细血管的东西，分明还在一下一下的颤动，表明在这东西里边有什么活的东西正在蠕动。 子宫！ 我父亲一眼就认出了这个东西，差一点呕吐当场。 这是从一个男人身体内部翻出来的子宫，子宫是雌性哺乳类生命用来延续新生命的重要组织，新的生命就是在子宫中受孕，形成胚胎，并通过脐带汲取母体的营养，慢慢的成长起来。但是这个怪异的子宫却是把一具男尸由里而外翻出来而形成，试想这种事情是何等的诡异。 非阴非阳，非生非死，正常世界的规律与法则，在这种怪异的地方已经不再起到作用。 见到这东西，我父亲生平第一次产生了恐惧的绝望心理，他怎么也不会想得到，世界上居然真的有这东西，真不知道遇到这种东西，到底是他运气不好，还是合该这个世界倒霉。 中国道家中有元婴的传说，说是修道之人年代久了，体内的内丹就会形成元婴，元婴是人类生命与智慧的精华所系，道行足够高的人能够做到让元婴出窍，骜游于云海之际，天地之间，驾雾腾云，往来于古今，穿棱于阴阳之界。但是道家的元婴终究要“回窍”，而人体却又是最靠不住的载体。曾有个故事说，一位修道之人元婴出了神窍，朋友故意与他取笑，取了污物弄脏了他的额头，结果那元婴归位不得，很快就萎焉化去，而那位修道之人，也就此一命呜呼。 在这世界上，无道亦无魔，有道必有魔，但凡有了是非之心，必生是非之事，所以道家既然有元婴练就，那么魔家自然也会有相应的东西出世。 这个东西，名字叫阴姹。 阴姹之物为瘗方之术的最高境界，系由人体内的血姑主宰习练。 道家《云笈七签》中云：人身有三尸神，又称三虫，上尸名彭倨，又号青姑，好宝物，令人陷昏危；中尸名彭质，又号白姑，好五味，增喜怒，轻良善，惑人意识；下尸名彭矫，又号血姑，好色欲而迷人。三尸欲人速死，是谓邪魔。 道家祖师爷葛洪认为三尸无形，实际上是鬼神或灵魂的同类，若服用小丹、羡门子之丹、雄黄、丹砂等药物则能制服三尸。但瘗方之术与道家所持反道行之，是滋养三尸，以成阴姹，进而生生不息，长生不老。 古之帝王若是将此修练到家，就会化生转世，生生不息，所以有古时的帝王就会将自己与那无数的财宝埋藏在一起，传说曹操死后建了七十二疑冢，而他自己却携了无数的宝藏躲到了世人永远也找不到的地方，化为了阴姹，如果他老人家自己不乐意从土里钻出来的话，那这世界上的人谁也别想找到他。 道魔二者的区别，就在于道家修其自身，而魔派却是求助于外力，说清楚了就是，道家是通过自己的禁欲与苦修修练内丹，而魔派却是通过剥夺别人的精元而获得阴姹，所以在本质上元婴与阴姹都是化生转世的生命现象，但元婴是善种，而阴姹则因为吸收了别人过多的怨毒而变得邪恶凶狠。 明朝时有一个嘉靖皇帝，此人为了修习阴姹，曾问于道家的偏门，那道士授予了嘉靖皇帝九阴之术，要配合这九阴之术，须求天下至纯绝美之女，以为鼎镬，于是嘉靖帝问谁是天下至美至纯之女，人答曰是嘉靖皇帝生的两个女儿，于是嘉靖帝便将两个公主唤来，由嘉靖帝和那道士轮流奸淫，并询问二女的感受如何，两个女儿答曰：皇帝是禽，道士是兽。再后来嘉靖帝于宫中修练阴姹，每日里取处子十二名，采取阴精，以供滋养，宫人不堪其苦，竟尔合谋勒毙嘉靖皇帝，御于亲女，采阴补阳，由此可知这阴姹修习之术是何等的邪恶。 我祖爷爷曾告诉过我爹，那些破亡之国的君主们在将财宝秘藏起来的时候，是极不甘心的，所以有些君王就会在最后的时刻孤注一掷，求助于瘗方之术，将自己和宝藏埋藏在一起，修练阴姹。大凡帝王之属莫不是掌握了许多人的生杀予夺之大权，不乏甘愿为其牺牲效死之人，所以帝王们只要找到真正忠心于皇家，甚至甘愿让灵魂沦为万劫不复之地，以帮助帝王习练阴姹的奴才，则阴姹就不难练成。 我祖爷爷警告过我爹，如在上古秘宝之所遇到阴姹，当丢下所有的宝物，掉头快速离开，一旦为阴姹所获，其精元必为其所夺，意识犹存，狱火焚身，那是比之于落入十八层地狱还要可怕的折磨。 所以我父亲一看到那子宫形的丑陋东西，顿时魂飞魄散，急喊望着那东西惊愕不已的孙波茹：“孙波茹，快逃，快快快……” 孙波茹不知厉害，但听我父亲的声音中充满了恐惧，知道这东西不是好对付的，就急忙后退到暗道前：“首长，我来断后……” “这都什么时候了……”我父亲惶急之下，一把揪住孙波茹，想以最快的速度把他拉进暗道之中，这时候那丑陋的肉团突然跳动了一下，跳得足有半人之高，竟似要跳到我父亲的身体上来，孙波茹一见大怒，骂了一句：“什么鬼东西！”一脚踢了过去。 “千万别碰它……”我父亲急忙阻制，但还是慢了一步。 孙波茹一脚踢在那东西之上，本打算把它踢飞出去，不曾想那东西有很大的粘性，竟然一下子粘到了孙波茹的脚上，那东西是一种邪恶的肉瘤状寄生物，它能够在转瞬之间浴解掉人体表层的细胞组织，将人体的细胞成为它自身的营养来源。这东西一旦粘附到人体上，就万难挣脱开来。 只在眨眼之间，那东西就已经和孙波茹的身体形成了一体，顺着他的大腿迅速的窜到了他的小腹处，让孙波茹成为了它的寄生宿主。 “孙波茹！” 眼看着那东西已经进入到孙波茹的体内，并在孙波茹的腹部形成一个可怕的隆起，我父亲失声的喊了起来。 孙波茹的表情极为困惑而怪异，他茫然的看着自己隆起的腹部，呆滞的目光转向了我的父亲。 “孙波茹，那东西……你怎么样？”我父亲拿出手枪，知道在这种特殊情况下，只有帮助孙波茹结束生命，才能够让他避免更多的痛苦，可是这一路上的生死与共，小分队如今只剩下他们三人，让我父亲如何能够下得了手？ 那东西突然在孙波茹的腹部窜动了一下，孙波茹惨叫一声，跌坐在地上。 “孙波茹……”我父亲又叫了一声，声音颤抖。 孙波茹慢慢的摸着腹部，吃力的爬起来，突然之间他向我父亲扑了过来，满脸的狰狞凶恶，喉咙中喷射出不类于人的恐怖怪叫声，此时他的意识已经被那邪恶的寄生阴姹控制了，沦为了阴姹的儡傀。他再也不是孙波茹，扑过来时的那狞恶表情，透露着对我父亲的仇恨与阴毒。 我父亲的手指扣在了手枪的扳机上，虽然他还是狠不心来开枪，但是他已经别无选择。 孙波茹堪堪扑到父亲的身边，突然之间他吼叫了一声：“王莽你个王八蛋，老子不怕……”一声吼未止，他的眼睛复又变得凶恶起来，其意识再度为阴姹所夺，表情狞恶的向我父亲扑了过来，但又一次，他把自己重重的摔倒在地。 “走，走，快走！”我父亲听到孙波茹用最后的理智喊出了这样四个字，霎时间我父亲泪如雨下，这是第七个战士了，他带他们来到这里，眼见得他们就这样一个个死去，纵然是在战场上之时，那横飞的血肉也未曾让我父亲如此动情。 轰的一声巨响，孙波茹用尽了最后的力量，拉响了他的最后一枚手雷。 与敌偕亡。 但我父亲知道，那是孙波茹杀死了王莽练就的阴姹。 我父亲失神的从暗道里垂直的跌了下去，幸好冯永安扶住了他：“首长，上面发生了什么事？” 我父亲摇了摇头，看见黑暗中对他若有期待的丁思梵：“不必问了，我们，也应该走了。” 丁思梵失声的啜泣了一声，上前和冯永安一左一右的搀扶着我父亲，三个人深一脚浅一脚的向前走去，连续七名战士的死亡，给了我父亲心理上以沉重的打击，他在想是他低估了这次行动的困难性，只以为他们的对手是花疙瘩一伙不成气候的匪帮，却不曾想他们遭遇到了千年不遇的阴姹，误入这两千年之久的埋宝之地，面临着诸多的险恶却缺乏足够的心理准备，这一切，都是他的责任。 但是他们终于找到了丁思梵。 This is enough. 感受到身边丁思梵的啜泣声，父亲的心突然变得柔软起来：“丁思梵同志，你哭什么，难道你还担心我们救不出去你吗？” “我不是担心这个，”丁思梵的声音浸透着无尽的酸楚：“我是在想刚才那两个士兵……他们还是那样的年轻……” “他们是最优秀的军人。”我父亲简捷的告诉她。 突然之间，冯永安的身体呆了一下，他扭头看了看：“首长……后面有东西追来了。” “什么？”因为心情过度悲痛，我父亲刚才对周边环境的变化感应明显不够敏感，这时候听到冯永安的警示，倏然心惊，急忙停下来侧耳听了听。 后面果然有什么东西追了上来。 那东西追逐的速度并不快，黑暗中无法看到它的形状，只能听到一声又一声的震动之声：扑通，扑通，扑通通……那声音每颤动一下，和他们之间的距离就近了一些。