Amidst the incomprehensible words of the fat man and the swallow, I hurriedly pushed away the dead man's feet hanging on my chest and moved my body back a little. Unexpectedly, there was also a dead body hanging on my back, and I bumped into it.

It started to shake immediately, and there was a sound of thick hemp ropes rubbing against the wood above my head. I didn't know how many hanged people were around in the darkness, so I had to lie down on the ground, but I could still feel the pairs of feet wearing cotton shoes like "pendulums."

Generally, it hangs above my body and rocks back and forth.

I was already breaking out in a sweat. I just fell down the stone steps and I didn’t know where I had left my satchel. I couldn’t find it in the dark, so I had to quickly say to Yanzi: “Swallow, come on up to Liangzi! Look where we fell.

Here we come." You must not mention the word "fire" near the forest farm, or even words with "fire" next to it, such as "light up" or "candle". If you have to say "light up", etc.

If you can only use "Shang Liangzi" instead, this is not superstitious, but out of taboo, just like the fire department that responds to fires, the font name must always be "fire" instead of "fire extinguishing".

Swallow just rolled down the stone steps and was knocked to pieces. She was a little confused. After hearing my greeting to her, "Go to Liangzi," she finally came to her senses. She took out a pine candle and lit it.

Although the air could circulate in the depths, it was still full of turbid gas that made people's eyes water. It was good to light a pine candle. The weak light was green and cold and clear. There were too many impurities in the air, which blocked the light.

Due to conduction, the light of a pine candle is not much stronger than a will-o'-the-wisp, and cannot even illuminate an area of ​​one meter square.

Under the flickering candlelight, I was eager to see if there was a hanged man above my head, but I didn't know whether it was because the light from the pine candle was too dim, or because I was just dizzy because I had just rolled over.

However, it was covered with a layer of gauze. No matter how hard I opened my eyes, I couldn't see anything clearly. The only thing that could be vaguely discerned was the light of the candle. But in my eyes, the candlelight turned into a hazy green light.

, fluttering in front of me, sometimes far away, sometimes close.

I rubbed my eyes hard, but I still couldn't see clearly, but I heard someone whispering behind the light, as if he was talking to me. I couldn't help but wonder, who was talking? Fatty and Yanzi.

They are all big guns, and they speak with loud and confident voices, but if it is not them, who is mumbling behind the candle? I can neither see clearly nor hear it really, but people themselves have a kind of subconsciousness. The harder they can't hear, the more they think.

Hearing what was being said, I stretched my neck to get closer.

As my body moved, I suddenly felt a chill in my heart. I vaguely felt that something was not right. Although I had not yet figured out what was wrong, the hazy light shadow in front of me seemed to have been seen somewhere before.

The pine candle that was too close was dangerous, and I repeatedly warned myself in my mind, but the thought of realizing the danger of the candle could not overwhelm the desire in my heart to get closer to the candle. I still continued to move forward involuntarily, and was already far away.

The green light from the pine candle is getting closer.

Just now I clearly touched the feet of the hanged man wearing cotton shoes, and after lighting the candle, the hanged corpse, the swallow and the fat man all seemed to have suddenly disappeared, leaving only the flickering bit of the candle.

Light, I suddenly thought of the hanged man looking for a substitute, which is to lure people into the noose. Seeing that green light was so close, I wanted to shrink away quickly, but my body was as if it was in a nightmare.

I kept using it, but only my head and neck could move at this time. They were all damn will-o'-the-wisps. I was completely out of survival instinct. Without thinking, I tried my best to aim at the green light of the pine candle and blew it out in one breath.

The pine candle's green light, like a will-o'-the-wisp, was extinguished by me in one breath. Instead, the whole cellar suddenly lit up, and the choking stench disappeared. I lowered my head and saw that I was standing on an earthen bed.

On the edge of the kang, I was holding a thick hemp rope with both hands and putting it around my neck. I cursed secretly and quickly pushed the hemp rope aside.

Before I had time to take a closer look at where I was, I found Fatty and Yanzi standing next to me. They were pulling on the hemp rope that fell from the roof and planned to hang themselves. Yanzi was holding a lit candle in his hand.

Pine candle, but the flame was no longer green. I quickly reached out to take the pine candle from Yanzi's hand, and pulled down the hemp rope in front of them. The two of them coughed and woke up again from their trance.

I didn't bother to think carefully about the nightmare-like and frightening experience just now. I first looked at the surrounding situation. I looked up and saw that deep in the underground cellar was a small house with an earthen kang. We fell down from the stone steps and fell in a pile.

On the ground, I didn’t know when I climbed up on the earth kang in a daze, and almost hung myself in the house by stepping on the edge of the earth kang. The size of the inside of this underground cellar is similar to that of an ordinary house. The interior is very dry, with earth stoves, earth platforms and fire pits.

, just like ordinary people in the mountains, there are several beams and citrons on top, and there are countless nooses tied with thick hemp ropes hung on the wood. Raw silk copper wires are added to the hemp ropes, so they will not decay and break like ordinary hemp ropes over time.

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Among the countless nooses, four male corpses were hung. The corpses had been dried by the cold wind in the cellar. The four "old men" all stuck out their tongues and stared. The purple skin of the mummies made death...

The expression at the end was even more horrifying. Because the rope had been hanging for so long, the deceased's neck had been stretched a lot.

Swallows are so afraid of ghosts, whether they are mountain ghosts, water ghosts or hanged ghosts. When they saw the four thrilling "Old Diao Lords" in the bright light of pines and candles, they were so scared that they quickly covered their eyes.

He and Fatty didn't say anything for a long time, and it was really unlucky to meet someone asking for help.

I saw a copper oil lamp at the end of the kang with residual pine oil inside, so I took the pine candle and lit it. The room became much brighter. I held up the oil lamp and shined it with the light, and found four hangings.

The dead male corpses were all dressed in the same clothes, black clothes, black shoes, black trousers, and even the hats on their heads were black, except for the belt and socks tied around the waist, with bright red hat spikes.

, in fact, there are many kinds of red. They are bright red, pig blood red. I don’t see anything special about this outfit, but it shouldn’t be too old. It seems to be from twenty or thirty years ago.

I guess the Wong Tai Sin Temple buried in the ground was probably dug out by this group of people. Unexpectedly, they could not get out after entering. As soon as we entered the underground cave, we started to rope ourselves as if we were paranoid.

If I hadn't blown out the will-o'-the-wisp, there would already be three more dead people hanging in this cellar. People say that a dead person who hangs himself must trick a living person into hanging himself before he can be reincarnated.

Could it be that we were just possessed by "Old Diaoye" and fell under a demonic barrier?

The fat man regained his composure at this time. He pointed at the four "old men" and cursed loudly. He almost let these hanged ghosts get in. Thinking about it made his teeth itch with hatred. There was a vat for lamp oil in the cellar.

, the fat man kept cursing and making plans to pour lamp oil on the hanging dead people and light their sky lanterns.

I thought it would be better to burn them to prevent them from causing trouble and killing people in the future, but as soon as I got up, I found a crack in the wall on the side. The crack in the wall was not cracked by the old house, but was left out intentionally.

There was still space behind the cellar, but it was partitioned off by an earthen wall. We couldn't notice it in the darkness, but there were two small green lamps peering at us from the cracks in the wall above the earthen partition.

The light in the underground cellar was too dark, and the two small green lights disappeared in a flash. My head felt hot, and I quickly jumped off the earthen kang without thinking too much, pushed aside the hanger hanging in front of me, and rushed to the one on the side of the wall.

In the gap, we saw "Huang Xiangu" who had slipped away from our hands, clinging to the wall with her two front grips, peeking through the gap and peering into the room.

Behind the partition wall is also a large room built underground. However, there are no hanged people in this room. Instead, there are a row of dead yellow skins hanging. The legend of yellow skins exchanging lives with people has a long history. It is said that

Huangpizi is an immortal who is good at harming people, bringing misfortune to people, or charming people, but his abilities are limited. Even if Huangpizi, who has been practicing for hundreds of years, becomes a spirit, it is not easy for the elves in the mountains to become spirits.

This so-called "becoming a spirit" is just a matter of being psychic for a long time, such as being able to understand people's speech, or imitating people's forms and behaviors. However, people are born as human beings, so even if the old yellow skin becomes a spirit, he still can't.

It is much inferior to human beings who are the spirits of all things. No matter how powerful it is, it cannot kill people easily. If it wants someone's life, it must find a little yellow skin in the tribe to hang with that person. This

Many people have heard of this kind of thing, but no one can tell the truth. Maybe Huangpizi confuses people's minds because it produces a hypnotic effect through the special smell it secretes.

Yanzi, who grew up in the mountains, knows these things best, followed by Fatty. Fatty’s father once participated in the anti-bandit work in the Northeast before liberation. He knows a lot about the legends in the deep mountains and old forests of the Northeast, and told him some. The three of them

I was the least knowledgeable among them. I didn’t know much about Huang Pizi at that time, but when I saw “Huang Fairy” lying behind the wall and sneaking around, I knew it was probably causing trouble, so I rushed over and caught it.

Lifting it up by its hind legs, I saw that the wire on its hind legs had not been broken, and its mouth was still blocked by "muggle". "Muggle" is a wild plant in the mountains, which is harmful to the tongue.

Due to the anesthetic effect, if you catch a wild animal and put a "muggle" in its mouth, it will not be able to scream, its mouth and tongue will be paralyzed, and it will not be able to open its mouth to bite.

The fat man behind me also followed in, and I handed "Huang Fairy" into his hands. I couldn't let the little yellow skins escape this time. I looked at the yellow skins hanging in the back room, and there happened to be seven of them.

The corpses of the three were still warm. They had just died not long ago. They must have been the three who wanted to trade their lives with us. The bodies of the other four were all shriveled and hard.

I suddenly remembered something and looked back at the smart little eyes of the "Huang Fairy" in the fat man's hand. Then I glanced at the direction where we had just hanged ourselves. I thought that at that time, Huang Pizi was obsessed with me and stretched his head to reach for the noose.

I blew on the green will-o'-the-wisp in front of me and extinguished it, so I survived. Now that I think about it, it was not a will-o'-the-wisp at all, but Huangpizi's eyes. I blew them out and blinked.

After breaking the soul-obsessing spell, I couldn't keep the thieving eyes open any longer, so I took out a leftover sticky bean bag, took out a piece, and glued the eyes of "Huang Fairy", and then I felt at ease.

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In the back room, everything is symmetrical to the front room. There is also an earthen kang. There is an ancient painting on top of the kang. The paper has turned dark yellow and the color of the painting is blurry, but you can still make out the painting on it.

A human figure wearing a woman's ancient costume but with a yellow face is exactly the same as the clay sculpture on the altar table in the temple. It seems that this is the portrait of Wong Tai Sin, but in the painting, there is also a strange shape painted on the fairy's feet.

The box, that part of the picture is extremely blurry, and I can’t see it clearly no matter how I look at it. Local legend says that Wong Tai Sin has a box for carrying treasures. Could it be the box in the picture?

The fat man and I didn’t hesitate at all at that time, and immediately rummaged through the boxes in the house to find it. The underground cellar secret room under the Wong Tai Sin Temple was intentionally designed to imitate a human living room, but its shape was very weird and there was an evil atmosphere everywhere. For example, the whole room was full of evil spirits.

It is divided into two, but it is completely symmetrical. Half of the wooden beams are hanging dead people and half are hanging dead weasels. Everything here is weird and unusual. We really want to see what is in the box.

I had to bite the bullet and ignore them.

But the inner and outer rooms under the cellar were such a big place, and we had already rummaged through them before and after, and there were no boxes or boxes. The fat man and I couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. We heard the house beams above our heads.

From time to time there were sounds of instigation. We held up the oil lamp and looked up. There were several criss-crossing wooden beams on the ceiling of the cellar, and there were large holes one after another on the dome higher up. I suddenly realized

Judging from the direction and distance, this underground cellar that leads diagonally down from the Wong Tai Sin Temple has reached the bottom of the large mound of Huangpizi Tomb. The people crawling and making noise on it are all small yellowpipes.

The cold wind in the cellar also pours in from the holes above.

I said to the fat man: "It seems that there must be something good in that box. The four people hanging in the outer room probably wanted to come in to dig for treasures, but they fell into the trap of the yellow leather and died in vain. Maybe they arrived

I didn’t even understand what was going on. Fortunately, we caught the magician Huang Xiangu in advance and tortured her to only half her life, so that she wouldn’t be killed by her. I think if we hadn’t

If we take advantage of this opportunity to find the box and open it, wouldn't we waste this great opportunity? But there is also the worst possibility, that is, the gang has other accomplices, and let the dead guy go first.

If we find a mine and then take advantage of the fishermen and dig up the box, then our joy will be in vain."

The fat man said to me discouragedly: "What good things can be in the box guarded by the big and small yellow men? Is it just a pile of chicken feathers and bones? Can we go through such trouble? In my opinion, this damn place will be burned down."

Let's go back and have dinner as soon as possible." Yanzi had long wanted to leave this place of trouble as soon as possible, and also advised me: "I heard that there are things belonging to the mountain god hidden in that box. If a mortal sees it, it will cause disaster. Isn't this even the Wong Tai Sin Temple?

Have you been buried by a landslide? What else are you looking for? Go back to the forest farm quickly."

I listened to the two of them nagging in my ears, but my mind kept spinning. After they had almost finished speaking, I said to them: "You two, don't shake the morale of the army. I remember Yanzi just said that the gold veins in the mountains

They all belong to the Wong family of Wong Tai Sin. I think the thing in that box is most likely gold, and..." At this point, I looked around the walls, paused and then said: "And in this room
Chapter completed!