Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Millennium Rouzhi

In the silent tomb, old man Qiao stared at Master Ren who had turned into a strange corpse, without blinking his eyes, like a wooden sculpture.This atmosphere makes people feel very depressing, I approached him anxiously, and just about to speak, I saw him suddenly turn around like a corpse, and shouted at me in a different tone-"I see, it's Rouzhi, It's a thousand-year-old meat cheese." Mushroom?This name is so familiar, I immediately remembered that I just read the introduction in the newspaper not long ago, saying that the ancients invented a planet called Tai Sui. A fleshy thing appeared, which is the incarnation of Tai Sui Xing, also known as Rouzhi.The newspaper also said that Rouzhi is a very strange thing, and modern science can't distinguish its properties, but the ancients have always believed that it is a fairy medicine, and the emperors of all dynasties tried every means to get it. It is said that the fairy that Qin Shihuang asked Xu Fu to look for The medicine is it - Rouzhi.

But this has nothing to do with everything in front of me!Could it be that the strange corpse is Rouzhi? "Ren... Master Ren was borrowed by Tai Sui." Old man Qiao's voice trembled violently, and his face was even more frightening. My heart couldn't help hanging up. "Isn't Tai Sui just a piece of meat cheese! What kind of body do you want?" "I also hope not." Old man Qiao said tremblingly, never taking his eyes off Master Ren's corpse, "This meat mushroom is an immortal evil, and after absorbing the essence of the world, sun and moon for a long time, it will have aura, as the saying goes The higher the cultivation level, the bigger the body of Tai Sui, and when it breaks through a certain limit, it can turn into a liquid, escape freely in the soil, and be omnipotent!"

"Then... so what?" I tried to slow down my tone so that we could calm down. "At this level, it will start borrowing the body, borrowing the human body to continue training until it can turn into gas, form an aura, and finally float back to the Tai Sui star..." Old Qiao’s profile picture is telling a fantasy story. The more I listen to it, the more I find it outrageous, but it’s okay, the inner panic has been offset by a lot, so I plan to pick up this topic and continue the chat. "It's really unlucky for you, Master Ren, to bump into you." "After the meat mushroom has spirituality, it will only find someone with cultivation to borrow its body, so that it can vaporize faster." Old man Qiao murmured, then turned his head suddenly, staring wide-eyed, and said with a look of surprise: "It turns out that Li Zhi set up the seven-star formation to prevent himself from being borrowed."

"That's right! It's all the fault of this stinky Taoist priest. He must have known that his body was being targeted when he was alive, and it would be over if he burned it after death." I said the same thing as the previous sentence.At this moment, a strange sound suddenly came from the entrance of the cave, ticking and ticking, which seemed extremely harsh in the empty tomb.The voice was like a black hand, squeezing old man Qiao's already tense heart, and he immediately turned on the flashlight to shine on it. Under the swaying light and shadow, I saw that Master Ren's body had changed, like a wax figure in a raging fire, with a seemingly sticky liquid secreting from top to bottom.The liquid flowed down the torso and slowly formed a pool on the ground. Afterwards, Master Ren's shriveled body was scattered all over the ground like a dead tree eaten by moths.

"Where's the yellow cloth?" Old Man Joe screamed loudly. But at this time, a more terrifying scene happened—after the sticky liquid accumulated in a pile, it rushed towards the tomb at a very fast speed.The two of us retreated involuntarily, but the tomb was already narrow, and within a few steps our bodies touched the wall of the tomb. In a panic, I saw the sticky substance going straight to Li Zhi's body, and quickly covered it. With a creepy "click", the mummy instantly swelled up like a sponge full of water, and the whole body swelled up. With a strange brilliance.

At this critical juncture, Old Man Qiao became calm. At this moment, he took two steps forward, pulled the coffin lid to the corner, and retrieved the fallen waist card.Seeing the situation, I also ran over to get my backpack back. "Stand up, don't touch the ground with your feet, this evil thing will escape." Turning around, he saw old man Qiao squatting on the coffin lid, fiddling with Li Zhi's copper coins on the ground, and soon he spelled out a Big Dipper pattern. "Will this work? How do we escape?" At this moment, I felt unprecedented fear, especially when I witnessed the changes in Li Zhi's body just now, and the indescribable nausea lingered in my mind.

"Shut up your crow's mouth, can you? Use this as a top, and I'll pierce through the tomb wall first." Old man Qiao stuffed the dagger and whisk into my hand, turned around and went to dig the wall... At this time, the candles at the four corners of the tomb had almost burned out, and the flickering candles shone on us, making ghostly shadows appear, and the sticky matter was slowly overflowing the bottom of the coffin, and it was likely to spread over.In this situation, I couldn't help but feel a sense of desolation in my heart. I looked back at the old man Qiao, who was sweating profusely beating on the wall bricks. So far, I finally realized the hardships and dangers of the tomb robbers. Our ancestors have experienced it.

Suddenly, Li Zhi's body seemed to shake, and my heart tightened immediately. Is it an illusion?However, what happened next proved otherwise. I saw the mucus-soaked corpse suddenly turned to one side, mechanically pushed down with both hands, and straightened up the wet upper body. Then, it wobbled and stood on the broken quilt... "Old...Old Joe..." I shouted with all my strength, but I couldn't make a sound, only my mouth and throat were shaking. "Oops! Just now when I was taking copper coins, I turned over the corpse and broke the corpse array." Old man Qiao turned around with a serious expression on his face.However, he seemed to have expected this to happen, and patted me on the shoulder and said, "Persist a little longer, and it will get better soon."

At this time, the corpse had stepped out of the coffin and stopped a meter away with wet mucus.I stared at it dumbfounded. It can be said that this is the most horrible and disgusting corpse I have ever seen in my life, especially its distorted face-there are only two dimples where the eyes were originally, and the nose is collapsed. Half of it fell off, the lips retracted to the sides, and a row of white teeth were exposed, as if sending out a weird smile... Suddenly, the mouth of the corpse was trembling slightly, as if it was telling me about my life experience, how miserable and lonely I was—the loss of my father since childhood, the remarriage of my mother, and my exile in a foreign land...but it was exactly the same as me.Watching and watching, I suddenly dropped the magic weapon in my hand, and there was only one strong thought in my dizzy mind, which was to go over to hug him and comfort him.

As soon as the foot left the coffin lid, my face felt hot and painful. It turned out that it was old man Qiao who slapped me. "Don't look at it, this thing is so dark and evil, it will make people hallucinate if you look at it for a long time." "Ah!" I suddenly woke up.Is it soul-stirring?Yes indeed!I was fucked once when I came with Master Li last time, but I didn't expect to be tricked again, and this time it was more dangerous.It seems that old man Qiao is right, Li Zhi's practice is far higher than that of Master Ren, and the evil thing became even more powerful after it entered his body.

Although I know that this terrible evil thing will cause hallucinations if I look at it for a long time, but in this situation, if I don't look at it, my heart will be even more empty, and I always feel that it is about to pounce on me.In desperation, I thought of a very ridiculous method, that is, half-closed my eyes to aim, and did not stop my sight for more than a second. At this glance, the corpse was one step closer. It squirmed its body slowly, making mechanical movements, but it always stayed outside the seven-coins array laid down by Old Man Qiao.Even so, if it stretched out its hand, it could still touch me.Why doesn't the old guy move farther away? I tried to squat down, but I regretted it immediately, because my body became very inflexible. If the corpse kicked me, I would have to be kicked, and the bricks knocked down by old man Joe would fall down from time to time. It's really the enemy. I was struggling to stand up, when my finger touched a furry thing, I shivered immediately, I looked down, it turned out to be the fly whisk I dropped just now, and the dagger was just under my buttocks... The corpse started to move its arms. What's worse, the candles inserted in the four corners burned one after another. I had to use the flashlight to dodge left and right. I was chasing flies, but it was empty, so I switched to a dagger and pulled it hard. Hearing a dragon chant, the entire tomb was suddenly shrouded in a cold light.Good guy!It is worthy of being the treasure of the whole truth.I held it tightly, forgetting the situation and fear for a moment, and only felt a chilling murderous aura overflowing from the blade and permeating the surroundings. The corpse seemed to be stunned too, it forgot to attack, and suddenly stopped moving, standing like a statue.And the one who didn’t forget anything was Old Man Qiao. He snatched the dagger, handed me a hammer and awl, and said distressedly: “Use this! Be careful not to damage the treasure.” At this time, the old guy is still so stingy, this hammer and awl have a fart!It's better to go directly to wrestling with the corpse. "The wall was broken by me. Hold it for a few more minutes." Old man Qiao carefully put the two artifacts back into his bag, pulled out the mangy dog, read a few words, and put them into the broken tomb wall .I saw the clods splashing, and in a blink of an eye, the figure of the mangy dog ​​disappeared without a trace.I can't help feeling, what kind of dog is this, it's clearly a mutant pangolin... Look at old man Joe again. He has already put on his miner's cap and is holding a lotus shovel in his hand. He is digging up the small hole that the dog dug just now. At this time, I didn't forget to turn around and take a photo of the corpse. It was quite honest, and it still kept that movement.This is a bit abnormal, the daggers are all put away, why is there still no movement?Isn't it because the sword is intimidated, but because old man Qiao and I are both uncultivated people, so it's not worth attacking?What you did just now was just a pretentious threat to drive him away?It must be so.I calmed down a bit, but I thought that I was an uncultivated person, so it was very unpleasant. I was fortunate but also a little disappointed. Suddenly, the corpse trembled, and I trembled too. Because I was afraid of being insane, I could only look at it out of the corner of my eye. I felt that its body was slowly getting shorter, as if it was sitting down. What was it doing?This situation is really tangled, my eyelids are sore and beating non-stop, my heart slumps, I simply don't look at it, put all my energy on hearing, and listen with breathless breath. I don't know how long it took, and suddenly there was a coldness on my back, as if something was blowing at me. This indescribable discomfort made my whole body stand on end, but I didn't dare to turn my head away. "Tianhua..." Whose voice is it? It's so ethereal, as if it came from the bottom of a well, faintly like a ghost. "Aren't you going to come out?" Old man Qiao raised his voice this time, and when he turned around, he saw a full moon hanging on the deep hole in the tomb wall.It turned out that old man Joe had already opened the tunnel, and it was he who was shouting from it. ... The mountain wind at night brought chills, and we both rolled and scrambled out of the ditch, collapsed on the hillside and gasped for breath.At this time, the moon just rising above the ridge was exceptionally bright and clear, illuminating a vast expanse of whiteness all around.Old man Qiao seemed to have discovered it again. He stood up with his hips on his hips, pointed to the ditch, and said with a serious face: "This ditch must have been artificially filled. You see, it is also in the shape of the Big Dipper, and its orientation corresponds to the sky. It is Li Zhi's first line of defense. No! Not only that, but with this, the entire valley will become It's a geomantic treasure to ward off evil spirits, and the situation is controlled by the locality, master!" Hearing what old man Qiao said, it was really possible. No wonder nothing grew in the ditch, which was in stark contrast to the lush surroundings.Suddenly, an idea popped into my mind—maybe my ancestors discovered such a place by accident, so the whole family migrated here to ward off evil spirits. Unfortunately, the wolf curse is not an easy poison, and it cannot be avoided after all... "Old Qiao, will this weird thing catch up?" I still had lingering fears when I mentioned the thousand-year-old meat cheese, and I kept spitting. "Probably not. Although this thousand-year-old meat mushroom is extremely yin and evil, it can only show its strength in the soil, and it will be discounted once it leaves the ground." Old man Qiao's eyes were a little wandering, and it seemed that he was not very sure. "You said it was found here, or was it trapped here by Li Zhi?" "I think they came after Li Zhi's physical body. A person with profound cultivation like him can't avoid this kind of evil thing! Besides, this thousand-year-old evil thing can't die, so why are you trapped?" "Then why does Li Zhi make such a big move? The body will be fine if it is cremated." I have a problem with this person, that is, I will become verbose after being extremely nervous, and sometimes I can't even control myself, but old man Qiao became impatient, and he said angrily: "Only Li Zhi knows this, you should go down and ask him ?” "Uh... so what should we do now? The mountain array, the corpse array, and the copper coin array have all been destroyed by us. Will it harm the folks?" "That's not true. It already has the precious body of Li Zhi, and it won't move for hundreds of years, unless...unless it has a better body." Old man Qiao patted the dirt off his body, and while packing his things, he said: "Go to your house to sleep first, and we will come back to fill the hole when it is dawn. The feng shui here is good, and I don't have to take the bones of my ancestor Ren back." "What do you mean by a better physical body? Is it a person with more cultivation than Li Zhi?" I pulled up the bicycle on the ground and asked with great interest. "Well! In fact, cultivation is a very general term. It mainly refers to a person's courage, ability, power, fate, and appearance... By the way, can you walk faster?" Old man Qiao put his big backpack on the back of the car. Get on, grab the handlebar, and raise your chin to signal me to lead the way. Leaving the ditch, I finally let go of my tense heartstrings. According to old man Qiao, that thousand-year-old meat will only pester people with cultivation. Anyway, old man Qiao is more useful than me. If he catches up, he will be a meat shield Woolen cloth!Thinking of this makes me even more at ease. ... The two rushed to the village one after the other, and when they reached the top of the dam entering the village, Old Man Qiao suddenly called me to a stop. He stopped and looked around intently. "What's the matter?" I followed his line of sight, but only saw the familiar and hazy mountain scenery under the moonlight. "I'm sure there will be a river coming from the west near here, and after converging here, it will circle into the mountain to the east." "Of course there is a river! Otherwise, why is this place called Dabagou. It's a pity that it has dried up recently, oh! The place we are standing now is the former dam." I replied nonchalantly, but I secretly admired it, the old guy is really evil, This can be deduced, even the direction of the river is correct. Old man Qiao was still watching, suddenly put down his bicycle, took out the compass, and fiddled with it again. "Aren't you tired? What are you bothering about! Go back and sleep for a while! Can't you see better when it's dawn?" I walked over to pull up the car, nagging about going down the slope, but I heard old man Qiao say a very Strange words—— "There is a mountain as a case, with dragons and tigers guarding the corpses on the left and right, and the water melts and gathers to form a spring that swallows the sky. It lies in the southeast and guards the north and south of the map... What is the name of the mountain behind it? There must be a big tomb inside, and it is a dragon. hole." "Oh! That's Baishi Mountain. The entire mountain is almost entirely made of stones. How can there be a big tomb?" "Stone Mountain?" The old man Qiao looked at me suddenly, and asked in a hurried tone, "Have you been there? What's the situation?" "Uh... I've only been there once, so I don't have much impression." The reason why I hesitated was because this Baishi Mountain was a "forbidden place". Since I was sensible, I knew that there was an unwritten rule in the village - no one was allowed to go to collect firewood and quarry stones, and everyone was asked to consciously abide by the rules. Yes, it's all kinds of horror legends about Baishi Mountain, including the mountain charm fox, and the ghost city seductress.No matter who the elders in the village are, they can tell a few examples that happened around them, so as to warn the young people - don't approach this strange rocky mountain lightly. "No, no! It's so obvious, there should be a vision." Old man Qiao kept shaking his head, with a very strange expression on his face. After this adventure, I know that tomb robbery is a life-threatening job. The old man Qiao has been able to do it for decades. In addition to being careful, what is more important is that he has a wealth of experience and knowledge, especially the cognition of Fengshui. There are a lot of articles here, I believe in his judgment, maybe there really is a big tomb, and the appearance of ghosts is exactly what old man Qiao said. "Come on, let's go into the mountain and have a look." Old man Qiao put away his compass, wanting to take advantage of the darkness to find out. "No, no, no!" I grabbed him quickly, feeling really scared in my heart, and made up many reasons at once, "The road is not easy to walk, it's full of big rocks, besides, it's so dark now, you can't see much if you go there .” I quietly went back to my old house, the lights were not on, we both threw ourselves on the kang, neither of us spoke, we just lay panting for breath.This stalemate lasted for at least half an hour, and finally, it was broken by me who couldn't hold back. "Is it dangerous if we go to fill the pit tomorrow?" "What are you afraid of in broad daylight?" Old man Qiao replied lazily. Maybe it was the first time he encountered that thousand-year-old meat cheese, and he didn't know what to do, or maybe it was the experience just now that made him feel lingering. He sat up, slowly Said: "The most yin and evil things are against the positive yang. Let's start at noon. If you want to be safe, you can get a black rooster. When you do it tomorrow, use chicken blood to smear the exposed skin, so that you won't be afraid of being caught. .” Chicken blood?I really can't believe that old man Qiao would use such a "low-level" method. This is a common trick used by country sticks. Can there be a fart?At this time, I really regret not bringing the book handed down by my ancestors. For an "advanced" evil like the Millennium Rouzhi, there must be records in the book, and there must be a way to deal with it. "I said, if the two of us painted that thing all over our bodies and went out, wouldn't we be treated as lunatics? Maybe we'll think we're savages, and we'll arrest them and study the exhibition." "Hey..." Old man Qiao was amused by me. He heard that I was a little disappointed, and said with a smile, "The most common way is often the most practical." After a while of silence, Old Man Qiao suddenly said, "That's right! Your village is only about the size of a palm. If we do it in broad daylight, we will inevitably meet people. We have to fabricate a reason first, so we can deal with it later." I was taken aback, the old guy was really thoughtful, I really had to be prepared for this, and seeing his calm expression, I must have planned it in my heart, so I deliberately said: "Everyone knows that there are monsters in the dirt ditch, it's really not good." Well made up." "Hehe! The country people are so foolish. From now on, I am an archaeological expert. You invited me to investigate in the ditch. How about it? Make sense!" "Okay, okay, even your appearance is too wretched! How do you look like a scholar?" "You are too mean." Old man Qiao put away his smile and said with a straight face: "Just now we opened another tunnel, and it will be very laborious to fill in the soil like this. You'd better talk to the village chief first, see Could you call some people to help?" "It's better not to be too ostentatious. Besides, the village head is not here now, and he went to the city for a meeting." "Then find an elder in the village who has prestige and can make up his mind." elder?Are you going to find Mr. Li?I shook my head subconsciously, if this matter is known to this chatter, I'm afraid it will cause chaos in all directions.What's more worrying is that this old man's good deeds will definitely follow, and he always thought that I would inherit my father's business and work in the archaeological institute.The image plummeted!Why don't you find a strong helper!Tianbao's stunned young man is just right, with a strong body, a greedy mouth, and his own brother... So I recommend it to old man Qiao. In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, the old man Qiao urged me to get up and find Tianbao just after dawn.At this time, the mountain fog was lingering, and it was wet and cold sticking to the body, which made people think of the sticky strange corpse last night.After making seven turns and turns, I finally stepped into the small courtyard of Tianbao's house. My aunt was fetching water and washing clothes by the well. When she saw me, she greeted me with a loud voice unique to mountain people. "Hey! Tianhua, you're back, hurry up and sit inside." I haven't seen her for a few years, and my aunt is haggard and her face is covered with wrinkles from the vicissitudes of life.Since her uncle died with the Wolf Curse, it was really not easy for her to support the whole family.This reminds me of my mother again, wondering if she is doing well now? "Auntie, how are you? I was in a hurry last time, so I didn't come to see you." I leaned forward, took out some "Great Unity" from my trouser pocket and stuffed them into her hand, "You take this money , I will send a little over every month in the future, and you will be at ease when Tianbao is promising." "Ah!" Auntie stood stupidly wrapped in the money. She might not have imagined that the kid back then would become so sensible and sophisticated now.After a while, I managed to utter an irrelevant sentence, "Do you have any news about our sixth master?" "No!" I shook my head and said, "Liu Ye has been missing for almost ten years, and I have no idea to find him!" "The last time he went out was to meet your father. I heard from him before that he seemed to be going to Mongolia together." "Mongolia?" I was stunned for a moment, only feeling that my mind was in a mess. My father did go to Mobei back then, but why did he come back alone?Did the sixth master die?With the experience of last night, I know very well that the tomb robbers will end up like this in all likelihood. "Brother Tianhua." Tianbao called me from the doorway, rubbing his eyes with one hand, obviously woken up by us. "Auntie, how can there be a big black cock? I want to buy one." I changed the subject, not wanting to tire my brain too much. "Black rooster? We have it at home, and I'll catch it for you right now." My aunt shook her hands, and walked carelessly towards the backyard. Taking advantage of this moment, I pulled Tianbao over and whispered in his ear, saying that Houshantugou was a broken tomb, and the things inside would harm people, so I asked him to go to the tomb. Helping to bury it, and finally told not to make a sound.Tianbao scratched his head when he heard this, completely ignorant, but fortunately he was the kind of straightforward person, so he agreed without asking carefully. ... People in the mountains get up early. Even though it is the slack season, I still meet many folks on the way back. They just greet each other warmly and then take care of their own affairs. This kind of simple character makes me less anxious. When approaching the door of the house, I happened to bump into Uncle Li next door. He was carrying a pole, and two yellow dogs followed him, walking slowly. "Uncle Li, why did you go so early?" My father was best friends with him during his lifetime, so I stopped to exchange some pleasantries. "Hey! It's Tianhua!" Uncle Li approached me and said with a smile, "I went to touch the stones in the river. I want to repair the courtyard wall while I have nothing to do." "The last time I came back, I heard that there were stones in the riverbed. Everyone went to move them. Are there any stones?" "It's almost the same, but there are still a lot of them at the foot of Baishi Mountain!" "Baishi Mountain?" I wanted to chat casually and leave, but when I talked about this mountain, I immediately became interested, because what old man Qiao said last night was deeply imprinted in my mind-there is a big tomb in the mountain. "Uncle Li, that's a forbidden place! Are you not afraid?" "Uh... I'm afraid I'm a little scared, but others have taken away all the front ones." Uncle Li looked down at the two dogs beside him, squeezed out a smile and said, "It's broad daylight now, besides, we're not going up the mountain, no It’s a violation of village rules.” After Uncle Li finished speaking, he hurriedly disappeared into the alley with his dog. I smiled, turned around and walked into my yard with the chicken in hand.As soon as he entered the door, the old man Qiao was playing with the two magical instruments under the window. He picked up one and looked at the other, looking like he couldn't put it down. It seems that his purpose of this trip has been achieved. "Are these two things worth much?" I changed the subject. "Well! For those of us who do sand washing, that is an invaluable treasure." The old man Qiao used "we" to refer to me, and I became a tomb robber overnight, which felt a little weird. "This short sword is really powerful, but I don't know what is the use of that whisk?" "Hehe! Get rid of the world..." Old man Qiao stroked the white hairs on the whisk lightly, and said intoxicatedly, "The sword is yang, the whisk is yin, the combination of yin and yang, any evildoer must stay away..." "Okay, okay, you can't even handle a piece of meat cheese, it's better than chicken blood!" I held the black cock in front of Old Joe, and when I looked at it, he was staring at me with extremely angry eyes, and his lips were trembling slightly with excitement. , but can't speak again, it looks so funny. It took him a long time to calm down, and suddenly he screamed loudly, "What kind of black cock is this? It's clearly a chicken head, there's a fart for it!" At this moment, Tianbao came in with a hoe, and when he saw a strange old man losing his temper, he was taken aback for a moment, and then tilted his head to look up and down.I didn't bother to introduce, so I threw the chicken on the ground and urged old man Qiao to leave as soon as possible, so as not to attract crowds in time. "It's not yet the hour of Zhengyang, waiting there stupidly? Let's get something to eat first!" Old man Qiao restrained his emotions in time. "Okay! I'll fix it." As soon as he mentioned eating, Tianbao became full of energy, grabbed the dagger, twisted the rooster and walked carelessly towards the stove. "Forget it, let's go early." The old man Qiao hurriedly snatched the dagger back into his hand, wrapped it tightly with the yellow cloth together with the whisk, hugged him in his arms, and walked out, so hurried that he didn't bring any tools, just Even the "callous dog" who had been regarded as life before was left behind. I pulled out the two extended flashlights and told Tianbao to follow...