Chapter 25: A Person Alone

As soon as the lid of the coffin was opened, I felt a foul smell coming towards me. I looked closer and saw that the coffin was full of black water. There was mist and steam on the top. I could vaguely see the limbs of the corpses intertwined below. I didn't know how many corpses were inside. They had all been waxed and stuck together to form a huge corpse. I could count 12 with my hands. This scene was so disgusting. Seeing this scene, Menyouping frowned, but his expression relaxed and the gun in his hand dropped. Judging from his changes, I guess this thing should not be dangerous. I don't know what he was nervous about just now. There were several rows of dark golden round nails in the coffin, nailed from top to bottom every few centimeters. It was unclear whether it was pure gold or gold-plated in the water. There was a strange thing under the corpse. The fat man used a flashlight to shine from bottom to top inch by inch. It seemed to be a stone slab with words engraved on it. There were jade and ivory objects between the corpses and on their hands. This kind of thing is valuable and easy to carry. The fat man was tempted to look at it, but the corpse was too disgusting. No matter how reckless he was, he didn't dare to reach into the coffin with a layer of human fat floating on it to fish out something. He pondered for a long time, but couldn't come up with a solution, so he had to give up and turned to study the corpse inside. He shook his head as he looked at it, "This is too miserable. They said that the owner of this tomb was a Taoist practitioner. How could he be a Taoist practitioner with such evil things displayed? He deserves to be robbed by us." I didn't understand what was going on, but when I saw the scene inside, I felt a little nervous. I didn't dare to take a second look and asked, "Why is this double burial coffin so disgusting." The fat man laughed: " Little comrade, are you stupid? Have you ever seen anyone buried like a dough twist? This thing was obviously buried alive. These people were piled together, drugged and suffocated to death. This is called nourishing qi and hiding the corpse." When I heard him mention the dough twist, my throat started to itch. I was already very hungry at this time. The body parts overlapped with the big dough twist, and I felt like bile was about to rush out. But from what he said, it seemed that he knew the background of this thing. I calmed down and asked him for details. The fat man saw that I didn't understand, and wanted to show off, and said: "You don't even know this? Then this is a child without a mother. It's a long story. When I was in the mountains of Changbai Mountain-" I heard him start talking nonsense again, and said: "Stop talking nonsense to me, don't you see what time it is? What does this corpse-raising coffin have to do with Changbai Mountain ? If you don't know, don't talk nonsense!" People like Fatty are afraid of being provoked. He stiffened his neck and said: "Who said I don't know? I just want to talk about it from a big perspective. If you don't want to listen, forget it. This thing is called a corpse-raising coffin. It is a Feng Shui knowledge. Generally, it is used in some mountain tombs. If there is this coffin, it means that there are two coffin positions with excellent Feng Shui in this ancient tomb. If coffins are not placed in the coffin positions, the empty coffin position will attract those demonic things because of the gathering of Haichuan's spiritual energy. Therefore, putting a corpse-raising coffin here and burying a blood relative of the tomb owner in it is considered a joint burial. This coffin must be exactly the same as the one in the main tomb. This is called nourishing qi in Feng Shui, do you understand?" The fat man finished speaking in one breath as if he was reciting a text. I half understood what he said and couldn't help but be amazed: "Then all these people in here are--" The fat man slapped his thigh: "So, this guy may have crammed his entire family in there. How tragic!" I yelled: "How could this be possible? The feng shui was chosen for the sake of future generations. Now the whole family is buried together. What's the use of good feng shui!" The fat man saw that I took it seriously and said, "Why do you believe what I say? How can those rich people be so stupid? They must have found a few poor nephews of their in-laws to be buried with them. These things are most common in Ming tombs. I've seen quite a few, but never seen one this big." I looked at the body parts and thought about the scene of the burial. My heart was moved. It was still what my grandfather said, the human heart is the most unpredictable. For a little bit of something that has no factual basis at all, these people's lives were taken away like grass . But since the coffin lid has been opened, Fatty will not give up so easily. He scratched his head and said, "Look at how pitiful these people are. I think we should go to the next door to get a few jars to scoop out all the water. Water in the coffin is the most unlucky." I knew what he wanted to do and said, "Looking at your thief's look, I know you are still planning to take these underworld objects. Can't you just stay calm? There will be plenty of things for you to take in the underworld palace later." Fatty blushed and cursed, "Damn, am I such a person?" I was too lazy to talk nonsense with him and said, "Now is not the time to care about this trivial matter. We can't get out and suffocate here. I'm afraid there won't even be a coffin. No one will pity us then." When we mentioned this matter, we immediately became nervous again. Fatty didn't say anything and searched around in this ear chamber first. Unfortunately, except for a cat corpse, there was nothing else that could be used. Menyouping had been staring blankly at the pile of corpses. He looked for a long time and suddenly seemed to see something and took a breath. This person is usually very calm, but once he gets nervous, something big must happen. So I was startled by his action and quickly crouched down and raised my gun. He still stood there with a frown on his face, staring at the coffin. He was silent for five minutes before he turned to us and said, "There's actually only one person in here—"