Chapter 20 Chapter 20 Reopening the World

Legend has it that the earth cave under the village is the gate leading to the ghost side. Due to the failure of the last blood sacrifice, the village fell into the ghost side. Tian Muqing must complete the interrupted blood sacrifice, otherwise Tu Longzi will escape from Qiangu Yidi Village. The ghost of the Nuo woman wants to strangle Tian Muqing to death so that she cannot complete the ceremony. If Tian Muqing dies here, the exit of the village will also disappear. Cheeky and I are in a dilemma. Saving Tian Muqing means letting go of Tulongzi. Not saving Tian Muqing, The two of us had to die too. I chose to save Tian Muqing. As for whether I did it right or wrong, the result is unpredictable. However, the altar in the cave has collapsed, and the three of us were trapped in the sacrificial pit by the villagers. Only in an instant, no matter how you think about it, there is death but no life.

I was even more disheartened when a shovel cut off half of the big cigarette's head. I didn't know that when the torch shone behind me, I could vaguely see a "mountain ghost" lying sprawled in the middle of the dark cave. It is said that the mountain ghost is a hairy man, whose limbs are close to those of a human being, but much taller than a human being. The whole body is covered with gray-white hair, which hangs down a few inches long, with a big head and thick lips. It looks three parts like a human and seven parts like a beast. Strange, and with a high bulging belly, it seems that she is about to give birth, but she has been dead for a long time.

When I was in the forest farm, I heard people say that before liberation, a father, a son, and two hunters went into the mountains to hunt deer. The son was a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old. They found an empty wooden house for the night. There are many wooden houses in the deep mountains and old forests. Those left by the thieves were also left by the Anti-Japanese War against Japan, and those left by people digging gold and logging. Hunters who are familiar with the conditions in the mountains can easily find a place to rest. The two stayed here. The father and son hurried out with their guns, and they were so frightened that they were scared out of their wits. It was a furry monster like a bear and an ape standing outside. It was half taller than ordinary people. The hunting dog had been pulled by its hind legs. Pulling it twice, it was torn in half, and it fell into the water and fell to the ground. Before the father could pick up the gun and hit it, the monster slapped it on the ground, grabbed his son and held it under his armpit, and walked over mountains and mountains. I went, my father was still alive, and he was rescued the next day. The mountain people searched in the mountains for half a year, but they couldn't find any trace of the monster. People said it was a mountain ghost. The locals turned pale when they talked about it, not just Xing'an Ling, there are similar legends in other places. For example, someone was captured by a mountain ghost and gave birth to offspring with the mountain ghost. After many years, he escaped from the mountain. His family thought he had died long ago. There are various theories.

I think mountain ghosts may be similar to hairy people. They really existed in the past, and I have heard a lot about mountain ghosts. When I mention them, they are all about how ferocious they are, how they kidnap people, and how they cannibalize people without vomiting their bones. Unexpectedly, in the village In the cave, there was such an ancient corpse with gray and long hair all over its body. There is a large hall above the sacrificial pit, and there is an earthen cave in the hall. The altar for slaughter is suspended in the middle, and there is a bigger cave in the depths, but this ancient corpse is not a human being, and the ghosts will not grow up like this. It is estimated that it was at that time People accidentally discovered the dead body of a mountain ghost in the cave. After the ancient kingdom of ghosts died out, the ancestors of the Nuo religion found this cave again.

But I don't understand why it is said that the earth cave is the gate to the ghost side, and the blood sacrifice of the living god is used. If you say that strange primates such as mountain ghosts and savages may be extinct in modern times, once they show their traces, they will cause a sensation , but it was not very rare in ancient times. There is a clear record in the Fangshan county annals of the Qing Dynasty. Why is that county called Fangshan?Because "there are many caves in the mountains, the caves are like houses, and there are hairy people living in them." On the bronze ware left over from the time, there is already an image of a mountain ghost with long hair all over the body. It can be seen that the ancients knew about the mountain ghost, and they should not worship and sacrifice because of their stiffness and immortality. It's just a mountain ghost. Although we saw it for the first time, it is not unique. It is not different except that it looks like a human being. Although this gray and long-haired zombie has not changed for thousands of years in the cave, it is indeed strange, but to It is not possible to say that the ancients regarded it as a god because of this, unless this zombie...

I believe that the things in the caves are more terrifying than the earth dragons, otherwise there would be no disaster of destroying the village, but I can't figure out why. An unresolved ancient corpse, let alone a human being, but this is because we have limited knowledge and seeing, and have not yet understood the secrets in it. Just now in such a daze, Cheeky and Tian Muqing turned their heads and saw Da Yandie lost half of his head and died tragically on the ground, he was all sad, but he just felt sad, not surprised, and said cheekily: "Da Yan Dier died here, that was his fate, and we will pay him back with cigarettes, wine and snacks when we go back to the grave for three festivals and two offerings..." Halfway through the conversation, seeing the gray and long-haired zombie, he and Tian Muqing couldn't help but sympathize. exclaimed.

I said, "Don't panic, there is only one mountain ghost in the cave, who has been dead for many years, and he won't move anymore." He said cheekily: "The mountain ghost... is a savage? It looks so fucking intrusive..." Then he said anxiously: "Don't worry about this thing, the villagers on the cave have come down!" I looked behind and saw dozens of villagers had already climbed down the slanted stone beam, swaying their bodies, and were coming around from both sides of the bomb. If the cave is surrounded by enemies, the villagers will be attacked to death in an instant, but it is too late to retreat to the corner. The three of them will form a wall of fire with the torches in their hands, ready to resist the surrounding villagers at any time. At this moment, there is still a glimmer of hope. If you hold on for a while, you may be able to find an opportunity to avoid this catastrophe.

I couldn't let go of the mystery in the sacrificial pit, so I couldn't help asking: "The cave under the village is the gate to send ghosts, why is there only one ancient corpse?" Cheeky said: "Ask me? I'm still wondering!" I'm asking Tian Muqing, I can feel her body trembling, but I can't see her face, and she doesn't know the situation under the cave. Descended to the bottom of the cave. I thought about it, those villagers were possessed by the ghost of the Nuo woman, and the ghost of the Nuo woman wanted to put Tian Muqing to death to prevent her from completing the blood sacrifice. In fact, the altar in the sacrificial pit collapsed, so the ceremony could no longer be performed. However, the ghost's obsession could not be dispelled, and he still chased him to the depths of the cave. What kind of monster did the grand Nuo sacrifice in the village worship?Is it this gray and white ancient corpse?Where is the door to the ghost side?I don't know the ancient characters on the stone tablet in the village, and I listened to Tian Muqing alone for everything. As the saying goes, "Drawing a dragon and a tiger is hard to draw a bone, knowing the face but not the heart", can I fall for her?

The death of the big cigarette dish left me in a trance, and I was thinking wildly. Suddenly, I heard a strange sound from the ancient corpse. Yes, I can only see the silhouette of the zombie, the more I can't see clearly, the more uncertain I feel. I thought to myself that I was in a desperate situation at this time, but those villagers couldn't handle it anymore, so it's better to burn the ancient corpse in the cave, and make a decisive decision to avoid other accidents, although I can't see anything wrong with the dead corpse , but I didn't dare to be careless, just as I was about to throw the torch over, I saw a hand moving. It didn't seem to be the hand of the ancient corpse, because it was not that big, and it didn't have such long nails and hair. Even smaller, with five fingers similar to five dead branches.

I was even more horrified in my heart: "However, it is not human hands. Apart from the dead mountain ghosts, there are other things in the depths of the cave?" The other two also heard the sound, and ignored the approaching villagers, they also widened their eyes and looked at the ancient corpse. The branch-like hand protruded from between the legs of the gray-white-haired zombie. I was dumbfounded. The belly of the zombie in the cave was swollen, and it was pregnant when it died. It must have been dead for at least four or five thousand years. It has been a long time, how can the fetus in the womb live again?But looking at the situation, it was clear that the dead fetus was crawling out. In a blink of an eye, the belly of the ancient corpse was deflated, and a huge strange baby crawled out from between the legs. It is not unfolded, its limbs are long in front and short in back, and it is also similar in shape to the mother mountain ghost, but it does not have so many gray and white long hairs, and its skin and flesh are dry. It looks like a stillborn baby, but it can still move?

Although Cheeky was surprised, he was not so afraid. Even if it was a formed ghost, he could dig a hole in its head with a pickaxe. He told me that the cave is empty and easy to besieged by villagers, so we should hurry up. Retreat to the bottom of the cave wall, relying on the terrain to maneuver around, first lead the active villagers to the bottom of the cave, and then look for opportunities to climb up from the inclined stone beams. I found that the villagers came slowly, and they didn't dare to get too close to the bomb. I don't know if it was because they were afraid of the torch, or because they were scruples about this strange baby. A strange baby crawling out of the mother's womb?I can't even open the eyes of this strange baby. Although it's ugly and disgusting, compared to the dangers we encountered in this village, it's not scary anyway, but because it's too weird, it has an ominous aura , I didn't dare to push it too far, seeing that the cheeky man was going to retreat to the far end of the cave, and he would just pass by the strange baby, so I blocked him and said, "Don't go there first, something is wrong." Cheeky said, "Are you afraid of this? It's just a newborn freak, look I'll wring his dick off and make him pee like hell." I said, "Why is it just born? Don't you think it's strange that the womb of this thing has been dead for thousands of years, but it suddenly came out at this moment?" Cheeky said: "Have there been fewer strange things lately? We rely on these few torches for self-defense. When the torches are used up, then you can't find a way to cry if you want to cry!" I thought to myself that I can take risks when I should take risks, and I must be careful when I should be careful. I can't just hope for luck. I only have one life. If I die, I can never live again. I know by what I see and feel on the skin. There must have been a major change in the cave at this moment, but we didn't realize it. I'm not afraid of the strange baby in the zombie's belly, but all the abnormal signs make me feel terrified and extremely disturbed. The three of us confronted those villagers with bombs behind them. It was a strange baby that crawled out of the mother’s womb. Time almost stopped. I felt something was wrong, but I couldn’t find out what was wrong. At this moment, the two seams on the face of the strange baby separated, and the two The small eyes like dead fish looked around, and when their eyes fell on us, I only felt a chill running down my spine to the top of my head. Cheeky and anxious: "You are usually quite timid, how did you become afraid of wolves and tigers, which made this freak shrink back in fright." I stared at the strange baby, and suddenly realized that something was wrong. We stood still, and the torch shone at most seven or eight meters away. Stretching forward, only half of the outline was seen, and it was not clear. At this time, the strange baby crawled out from between the legs of the ancient corpse, dragging its umbilical cord, and lay there without moving. The wrinkles on its face are also clearly visible. Cheeky and confused, he said: "The torch flickers on and off, sometimes you can see clearly, sometimes you can't see clearly, so what's wrong?" I said: "This is a half-lit torch, the ointment on it is exhausted, the fire should be getting darker and darker, how come the strange baby who couldn't see clearly from seven or eight meters away has become even worse?" For real?" He said cheekily, "It's the strange baby crawling towards us..." As soon as he said this, he himself felt wrong, the three of them were still standing in front of the bomb, and the strange baby did not leave the ancient corpse. I found that the position of the bomb and the ancient corpse has not changed, and the torch will not become brighter and brighter. The reason why I can see clearly is that the distance between us and the strange baby is getting closer. Cheeky said: "I think you are talking nonsense in shock, no one moved, how could it be possible to get closer?" I can't figure out why this unbelievable situation happened. Seeing that the range of the torch's illumination has not changed, it is still seven or eight meters. At this time, I clearly feel that the danger is imminent, but I don't know what happened. It is really terrible. My forehead Cold sweat broke out on his face, why did the bomb and the ancient corpse not move, but the distance between them was shortening? Tian Muqing seemed to have thought of something, and said in a low voice, "It's the ground in the middle of the cave that is disappearing." I heard Tian Muqing's words, and my heart trembled. If the bomb and the ancient corpse did not move, but the distance continued to shrink, it could only be that the distance between the two disappeared. In ancient times, there was a saying that the land shrinks and the land grows. For example, there are three mountains in a row, and the middle mountain suddenly disappears. The mountains that were originally separated on both sides are joined together. A mountain popped up, probably caused by a large vertical earthquake that went straight up and down. According to the old saying, it was called "shrinking the ground". The momentum must have been amazing, but there was no movement in the cave. , just shortened without a sound, and in a blink of an eye, the strange baby with a hideous face seemed to be a little closer to us. I couldn't figure it out for a while, what would happen if the ground in the cave disappeared and narrowed?What will happen if you continue to approach that strange baby? But I know that I can't let the strange baby gradually approach without taking action, and I don't have time to think about it anymore. I should make a decision whether to advance or retreat at this moment. I looked behind and saw that the fog was full of villagers who turned into walking corpses. As long as you take half a step back from the bomb, you will be immediately surrounded by those villagers, and there is no chance of escaping from the cave on the stone beam. I told myself that I must hold my breath. At this juncture, every step is a matter of life and death, and I must not act rashly. Cheeky didn't believe that the ground in the cave would disappear. He thought that Tian Muqing and I had misread it, and immediately threw the half-burnt torch in his hand towards the depths of the cave. Strange to say, he threw the torch to see the terrain deep in the cave so as to find a way out, but he didn't know that the torch just approached the strange baby and suddenly disappeared out of thin air. When it falls on the ground, a stone is usually thrown into the water, and it can splash a few circles of ripples, but the three of us watched helplessly, and the torches that were thrown over actually disappeared. The thick-skinned man was terrified enough, as the saying goes, seeing is believing, he couldn't help but not believe it, and said in amazement: "Where did the torch go?" I realized that it was more shocking than cheeky, it wasn't the ground between the bomb and the ancient corpse that disappeared, it was the space that was disappearing. There seems to be an invisible black hole in front of the strange baby. Wherever it faces, the space will collapse towards it. We can't see the process of disappearing, but we can see the result. If we walked past it before, it would probably be the same as the torch just now. The same disappeared without a trace, it was just a thought, thinking of this, I really shuddered. I don't know what this strange baby's true face is, and I don't know why it can make the surrounding things disappear, but my intuition tells me that I must never take half a step closer to the strange baby, let alone wait for it to approach us. At this time, there is no need to discuss any more. Thick-skinned and I have the same thoughts. We must fight our way out of the cave. That is not at all ambiguous. It’s good to be gone, anyway, it’s this life, so I can do whatever I want, but before I turned around, I heard a strange noise behind me, like a dead tree being broken by a strong wind, I’ve never heard such a noise before, I thought to myself : "How could that strange baby make such a movement?" I couldn't help turning my head to take a look, and I saw a big bloody tree growing out of the strange baby two feet away. It was shaped like a tree, but it seemed to be alive. A strange tree in nothingness. I have seen such a record in the "Yin and Yang Baoji" written by Er Lao Dao, which roughly says: "The front, back, left, right, up, down, and top are the Liuhe Hunyuan, which is all-encompassing and omnipresent. The life and death of Yin and Yang are all in the Hunyuan, but the Dao There is not only one element in the middle, but all the elements running side by side. There is a "boundary" between the elements. The "boundary" refers to the nothingness without front, back, left, right, up, down, and heaven. There is a kind of tree that grows in the depths of nothingness and can swallow up the chaos When the yin and yang qi are completely extinct, it will be the time to reopen the world." In the past, I only thought it was a myth, but now that I think about it, most of the monsters under the cave are ghost trees. About thousands of years ago, a mountain ghost died under the cave, and most of the mountain ghosts and savages lived in caves back then. Therefore, the hair color is gray and white. The mountain ghost was pregnant before death, and the place where the strange tree split into nothingness happened to be in the stillborn fetus. It has been immortal for a long time, and later the ghosts found the ancient corpse somehow, and found that under certain conditions, objects close to the ancient corpse would disappear, so they worshiped it as a god. When the Guifang people fled to Monan, the ancestors of the Nuo religion learned that there was such a cave from the bronze mask pattern of the Guifang people. The so-called gate leading to the ghost side is exactly two ancient corpses, one large and one small, which grow together with the strange tree. The Nuo sect summoned the strange tree through rituals, and drove the irresistible plague gods and ghosts into a place of eternal doom. It is very dangerous to let the strange tree appear. Once something goes wrong, not only the whole village will be wiped out, but Hunyuan may also be engulfed. I don’t know the origin of the Nuo God ceremony. It is estimated that there is a very old blood that died. A reincarnated living god can make the strange tree fall asleep. Later, Feng Yiren from the Nuo Religion went to the Yellow River to catch yellow ghosts and ate earth dragon seeds by mistake. The earth dragon seeds took over his body and made him immortal from then on. It took a while to recover. The villagers lied to Tu Longzi and vowed to build a temple to enshrine the god. They buried him in the underground palace with gold figurines and jade coffins. One is to place a yin and yang pillow in the coffin. If the pillow is under the head for a long time, the soul will be scattered. Tu Longzi also wants to find a place to restore his body. I don’t know the trick, so he enters the underground palace, lies on the yin and yang pillow and enters a dream. , You can’t wake up without leaving that pillow. After several years, the ghost of the earth dragon will dissipate, but the body is still there. The second strategy of the Nuo religion is to delay the time to stabilize the earth dragon, and wait for its ghost to dissipate. Send the coffin containing the immortal body into the cave. In the first year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, the Nuo woman betrayed her religion and killed the living god living in the temple. The Nuo ceremony was interrupted halfway through, so that the tunnel under the cave could not be closed after it was opened. All the villagers wore bark masks to worship the gods. , let the village fall into the vortex of chaos, so the strange tree did not grow out of the ancient corpse, the four families who escaped from the village before, sent living gods one after another into the village, but Nuopo and other rioters who died tragically , the corpses were piled up in the mass grave and turned into a mound of meat. It ate all the living gods who entered the village later. Maybe it was because too many people died in this village, and the resentment was too deep, as if cursed, until today , the blood sacrifice ceremony has not yet been completed. Tong Dayandieer and I, three thick-skinned people, were also urged by unlucky ghosts to come here to rob tombs and get treasures to make a fortune. Unexpectedly, we met Tian Muqing, who was also looking for this village, and Huang Foye's gang of robbers, maybe It is destined that something will happen, don't say we didn't know it in advance, if we knew it in advance, we might not be able to hide it. As a result, not only the earth dragon in the underground palace was released, but the big cigarette dish also died, and we watched it in the cave. Arriving at the ghost tree, the surrounding space is being quickly swallowed up by it at this moment, this thorn is really big. So many things turned around in my mind like a revolving lantern, and it was only in a blink of an eye, because I had thought about it countless times before, but there was one thing I still couldn't understand, the village fell into a whirlpool of chaos Afterwards, the strange tree in the cave hadn’t moved for thousands of years, and we didn’t touch the ancient corpse. Why did the strange tree grow suddenly and start to engulf the surrounding space at the same time? We may have done something unintentionally, which disturbed the strange trees in the cave, maybe it was the breath of living people, maybe it was the sound of falling stone beams and bombs. Another thought I dare not think about is that a living god descended into the earth cave to draw out the strange tree that would destroy the world. If Tian Muqing lets it eat it, the strange tree may continue to sleep. I turned my head and looked at Tian Muqing, her eyes in the bark mask were full of panic and despair, I thought I shouldn't have this idea, so I handed the shovel to Cheeky-skinned, dragged Tian Muqing, and walked towards the cave go outside. Tian Muqing was still hesitating, I saw a strange tree growing out of the ancient corpse, it was a few feet taller in a blink of an eye, and it was a few meters closer to us, he said anxiously: "You listen to me right, I have a way to deal with it, you first follow me Walk!" It’s not that I’m talking nonsense, if a living god completes the blood sacrifice, this village, together with the strange tree, will disappear forever. The blood of the less living god, if the strange tree engulfs those villagers, it may disappear from now on. Even if this method doesn’t work, at worst, we and this village will be swallowed by the strange tree, which is the worst result. But once you die, since you have thought of this method, why not give it a try? I didn't bother to tell Tian Muqing more, I just let her believe me this time, without any explanation, dragged her and left. The three stepped over the bomb lying on the ground. I used torches to force the surrounding villagers back. I cheekily swung a shovel in one hand and a pickaxe in the other, and hit the heads of the villagers who did not retreat, but I saw that they were all haggard in the blood mist. I don’t know how many people’s faces were covered by the villagers. After passing the bomb, they could no longer move half a step forward. The snakeskin pocket that was thickly carried on his back was torn off in the chaos. He hurried to pick it up, but there were a few dead wood Stretched out a hand like that, grabbed him tightly, and couldn't break free anymore. Tian Muqing and I saw that Cheeky was in critical condition, so we hurriedly helped from the side. Cheeky also used picks and shovels to knock down a few villagers. The villagers stepped on their feet, and the cave was already dark and covered in blood mist, so they couldn't find it anywhere. Cheeky lowered his head to look for the snakeskin bag, distracted for a moment, and was hugged by a villager with outstretched arms, and immediately rolled to the ground. The villagers behind swarmed forward, and saw dozens of withered dead hands stretched out from the blood mist. I knew in my heart that the general situation was over, and the three of them died here, so I didn't have to think about what would happen next. At this moment, a gust of dark wind swept up, and the breath of corpses filled the air. Tian Muqing and I almost extinguished the torches in our hands. We were shocked, but we saw those villagers vomit blood mist one by one, and fell to the ground from back to front amidst strange screams. , the felled one immediately remained motionless like a rotten tree, the blood mist was too heavy in front of our eyes, we couldn't see what was going on, we picked up the thick-skinned man who was lying in the pile of dead people, and as soon as we looked up, the blood mist was dissipating, and we saw a A face as white as paper. The man's hair was disheveled, and he couldn't see his face clearly. That face was turned around in his neck, and there was another face behind his head, with a huge mouth connected to his cheeks, bloodstains all over his python robe and jade stud, his limbs resting on the ground, dragging a stomach , it was the earth dragon who had escaped from the underground chamber. It climbed down from the height at this moment, turned its head and opened its mouth wide, sucking the surrounding blood mist into its mouth, only to hear the miserable cries of countless innocent souls, in the earth cave echoed repeatedly. Tulongzi has been lying on the yin and yang pillow for thousands of years, his soul has been dispersed, and there may still be some hatred for this village in his body. When he sees a person with a bark mask on his face, he can't wait to eat it alive immediately, bringing a burst of anger. The wind is blowing. I thought in my heart not to be afraid, but my body couldn't help shaking, I gritted my teeth, grabbed the torch and hit Tu Longzi in the face. Unlike the ghost-possessed villagers, Tu Longzi didn't care about the light of the fire at all, and as if he didn't realize it, he opened his huge bloody mouth across his cheeks and bit him face to face. I thought to myself that if it bites me, my upper body will be gone, so I hurriedly pushed Tian Muqing away, and dodged sideways myself. Cheeky got up from the ground, swung away the mountain pick, a pick was chiseled on the earth dragon's head, and made a big hole, but the earth dragon's momentum continued unabated. He yelled "Ouch" cheekily, and sat down on the ground in fright, just avoiding the bite, the earth dragon pounced too hard, it couldn't hold back, and crawled over the bomb with a "huh", turned around Want to continue to eat people. A thought flashed in my mind, just the three of us, it is impossible to fight against Tu Longzi, but now it has sucked away all the blood mist in the village, wouldn't it become a sacrifice? At this moment, Tu Longzi is between the bomb and the strange tree again. I know this opportunity is fleeting, and I don't care about whether it is feasible. bomb. Cheeky saw my intentions, he was still sitting on the ground, before he could turn around, he supported the bomb with his back and pushed his feet on the ground to help push it. The heavy bomb that fell in the village decades ago weighed no more than seven to eight hundred kilograms. Before we pushed it on the other side. Because of the low terrain in the middle of the cave, we couldn’t push it uphill. Now we are pushing it in the opposite direction. Pushing in the direction, the three of them yelled and pushed hard together, and the bomb rolled loudly. The distance was less than two meters, and just as the earth dragon turned its head, the bomb was also in front of it. If it was standing, it might be able to step over, but it always crawls on all fours, with a low body position, watching the bomb coming from the ground. Long Zi rolled over, and the projectile of seven or eight hundred kilograms was no less than a big iron roller, crushing it into a bloody piece on the spot, the bomb rolled to the strange tree, the sound stopped abruptly, and the projectile disappeared without a trace. Panting heavily, I looked closely, and saw that the earth dragon was almost crushed by the bomb, with blood and internal organs everywhere, and the blood flowed to the big tree in the cave. It was strange to say, as soon as other things approached the strange tree It immediately disappeared without a trace, but Tu Longzi's blood flowed from the ground, and its body, which was crushed by the bomb, seemed to be dragged there by an invisible force. The earth dragon child ate the blood mist that the Nuo woman turned into, and the Nuo woman contained the flesh and blood of the living god. At this moment, its blood flowed all over the ground, and its flesh was immediately sucked by the big tree. In order to rescue Tu Longzi from the underground palace, the Nuo woman betrayed her religion and died tragically. After her death, she became a meat mound and ate all the living gods who entered the village. The melted blood mist was eaten, but instead became a sacrifice in the cave, which shows that the cause and effect of the world are unpredictable. Although we reversed the situation in one fell swoop, we couldn't believe that the matter could end like this. The walls trembled all of a sudden, and the sound was like cracking silk, but a big hole appeared around the strange tree, and the bloody earth dragon struggled to get out, but It seemed to be pulled by an irresistible monster, and it returned to nothingness in a blink of an eye, leaving no piece of meat on the ground. The earth cave trembled violently, and the ground in all directions collapsed into the holes around the strange tree, and the body of the big cigarette dish disappeared. We know that once the blood sacrifice is completed, the whole village will fall into nothingness. Now that the thousand-year curse has come to an end, when should we not leave now? Cheeky and unwilling to give up, he also wanted to find a snakeskin bag containing treasures under the corpses of villagers. Inside were bronze mirrors with divine bird patterns, treasure belts with jade hooks, and crowns with the head of a deer. I said anxiously: "Don't ask for things, survival is the most important thing!" Thick-skinned said: "Life is important, wealth is also important, we can't let the big cigarette die in vain!" I said, "Don't forget you have a younger sister in your family, how will she live after you die?" Cheeky sighed, despite all his reluctance, he had no choice but to ignore the snakeskin bag. The three of them climbed the fallen stone beams and climbed out of the cave, passed the hall of the sacrificial pit and the Shinto, and fled all the way into the village. In the mist, we could only hear the sound of houses sinking and collapsing behind us. Dare to stay, fell down, got up and ran again, and fled to the mound in the middle of the village. Seeing that the heights were all covered in fog, the three of us knew that this was either a way of life or a dead end, so we made up our minds to climb up to the heights After climbing, I finally reached the top of the mound, but I felt that the mound began to sink. Soon, the flood flooded the mound, and a beam from the collapsed village house floated up on the surface of the water. As if we had seen a life-saving straw, we hurriedly climbed up the wooden beam. The three of us were so tired that we almost vomited blood, lying on the wooden beam and drifting with the tide , I saw the fog all around, as if I had returned to Xiandun Lake. The three of them never thought that they would be able to come out alive. Looking back on what happened this time, they were all filled with embarrassment. It was like a nightmare. The ancient corpses, gold figurines and jade coffins, deer head shaking crowns, big cigarette dishes, Huang Buddha, water snake waist and a group of bandits all disappeared from this world. It seems that none of this has ever happened. I think I will never dream of the ghosts in the murals of the Liao tomb again, but I will never see the big cigarette tray again. The sadness comes from it, and I can't help but want to cry aloud. At this moment, I am not afraid of letting the Cheeky and Tian Muqing saw it, but just as I was about to cry, I realized that my face was still covered with a bark mask. I was only thinking about running for my life before, so I didn't expect to take off the Nuo mask, and the other two also forgot to take it off. Cheeky stretched out his hand to touch the bark mask on his face, and said, "It's been on my face for a long time, and I really don't want to take it off. It's something thousands of years old. It might be worth some money if you bring it back. If you don't want the two, don't throw them into the water, keep them all for me." I said, "Nuo noodles are all taken from the faces of dead people in the village. We have to use them as a last resort. Anyway, I don't want to see this kind of bark mask again in my life. If you don't think it's bad luck, I will give it to you." He said cheekily, "If you are a bear, forget about it? Without this bark mask, would we be able to survive? Even if I take it back, even if I can't sell it, I can still ward off evil spirits when I press it under the kang." I wanted to take it off as I was talking, but there was a buckle and a rope behind the Nuo mask, and it was tightly fastened to cover the face and it was not easy to fall off. I touched the back of my head, and the buckle was dead and I couldn't get it off, so I asked Tian Muqing to help. Her own mask hadn't been removed either. I was touching the bark mask on my face in my hand when I suddenly saw a large eddy appearing on the water in front of me. Before we could react, the wooden beam was sucked by the vortex and fell into the depths instantly. I suddenly I was startled, and my body fell into an ice cave. It turned out that we hadn't left the whirlpool around the village. What was even more frightening was that all three of us had Nuo masks on our faces. It was too late to take off the bark masks. At the last moment, I thought of the three mummies I saw at the foot of Caoxie Ridge. At that time, the villagers thought that the Tianbao of Tang Dynasty fell into the lake in the first year. Now I finally know who the three mummies with bark masks are. .