Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 120 My Diary
In the dim underground stone chamber, Ran Qing's heart skipped a beat when he saw this lonely line of words.

He subconsciously looked up and looked at Mo Li beside him.

The two looked at each other, their expressions somewhat solemn.

"How can an ancient corpse from the Han Dynasty be chased out of a tomb? And chased for more than two thousand miles?" Ran Qing murmured.

What this group of tomb robbers encountered seemed to be no less bizarre than his encounter with an invisible evil spirit.

The sigh of Miss Shen Er in "The Story of Miss Shen Er and the Demon Slayer" now emerged in Ran Qing's mind.

Even though I've traveled extensively for so many years and have seen countless demons and monsters, I still encountered something so incomprehensible and bizarre. The world is truly full of wonders! Even the most experienced ghost hunters can sometimes be caught off guard.

Miss Shen Er's emotion was due to a strange evil demon she encountered on the ancient battlefield in the Central Plains, which shattered her previous understanding of ghost people.

At this moment, Ran Qing suddenly had a personal understanding of a sentence in the textbook.

——It is better to have no books than to believe in them completely.

The knowledge in books only teaches common sense.

However, if you completely believe in the knowledge in books, it may sometimes blind you to the truth.

Ran Qing turned to the next page of the diary and continued reading.

In the later diary entries, his behavior became more peaceful.

The young tomb robber's mental state seemed to have returned to calm and clarity.

The words he wrote were no longer so psychedelic.

He did not write in detail what happened after the ancient corpse came out. It was obvious that he was deliberately avoiding the horrible ancient corpse and did not even dare to think about it.

His diary jumps directly to the time when the three brothers left their hometown where they had lived for more than ten years, traveled far to the southwest, and hid in the deep mountains of Zangke.

From here on, the young tomb robber began to write his diary more frequently, almost every day.

He seemed to be afraid that his time was running out and wanted to leave more traces in this world.

The diary contains many scattered records of the three brothers' journeys, rides, and lodgings, which are all insignificant little things.

As for hiding in Zangke, it was the Taoist priest with great Taoist skills who taught them.

Taoist priests said that there was a strange and mysterious Wujiang ghost world in the Zangke area, where many ancient evil spirits were lurking, which was completely different from the underworld in the outside world.

Also because of the existence of the Wujiang ghost world, this wild and primitive southwestern mountain range has become a world of its own, and many evil spirits outside of Zangke cannot enter this rugged and steep mountain range.

It is said that even the righteous gods worshipped in the Central Plains will lose their power when they arrive in Zangke and will not be as effective as the evil gods worshipped by the locals.

If I hide in Zangke, the ancient corpse may not chase me.

The three tomb robbers fled their hometown in a hurry and headed southwest, all the way to Yuezhao, the most remote and dangerous place in Qianghe.

Through the Taoist priest's contact, they found a local ghost monk named Mo in Yuezhao to help.

Finally, the three tomb robbers built a Taoist temple on the edge of Yuezhao City, disguised themselves as Taoist priests and hid there to avoid disaster.

The ghost walker named Mo also brought his daughter to visit the three tomb robbers and performed some rituals to exorcise evil spirits.

He even invited three tomb robbers to do something big.

But the three tomb robbers just wanted to avoid disaster at this moment and didn't want to rob tombs anymore.

Not to mention that there could be any ancient tombs or large battles in the wild and primitive southwestern mountainous areas?
What can be dug out here are nothing more than the remains of the Yelang Kingdom from more than a thousand years ago, and the even older, legendary ancient Luo Kingdom.

Those wild and primitive barbaric countries are filled with ancient and evil worship of death and blood.

Provoking an ancient corpse from the Han Dynasty had already made the three brothers extremely anxious, and they were afraid of provoking the local ancient evil spirits.

After the Taoist temple was built, the three brothers secretly enshrined a deity in a cave underground in the temple.

This deity was invited by his senior brother, and the young tomb robber did not know the deity's name.

But the brothers kowtowed sincerely every day for three days, praying for the gods' blessings.

As the days passed, life in the Taoist temple gradually settled down.

They seemed to have escaped from the pursuit of the ancient corpse and no longer had to worry about being scared.

Young tomb robbers no longer have terrible nightmares.

But for some reason, as the days passed, the young tomb robber always felt that some changes had taken place in his body.

He often dreamed of things he had never experienced before. He dreamed that he was wearing very old and strange-style Han Dynasty clothes and talking to some strangers.

Sometimes when he woke up in the middle of the night, he would even feel like he was lying in a cold coffin, and see three excited tomb robbers lying outside the coffin looking at him.

But this illusion always disappears in a flash.

The young tomb robber couldn't even see the faces of the people in his dreams and hallucinations.

But he gradually discovered that his fellow brothers began to be wary of him and avoid him.

Sometimes when they went underground to offer sacrifices to the gods, the brothers didn’t even call him.

[…I suspect that my brothers and the others have been possessed by some evil spirit, contaminated by the evil energy of the ancient corpse, or perhaps bewitched by that deity.]

The deity they worship is not a righteous deity at all! It must be an ancient evil deity from the Zangke region.

[The kind of evil god that specializes in harming and eating people! ]

The young tomb robber's diary entries once again became filled with fear and anxiety.

I can no longer worship that evil god. I can feel that every time I worship that evil god, the statue on the altar absorbs something from me.

I can’t let my brothers and sisters worship evil gods anymore.

[Worshiping evil gods will not end well! Why don't the brothers know this?]

[No! I have to stop them! I have to save them! I can't let them make the same mistake over and over again!]...

From here on, the young tomb robber's diary becomes crazy and sinister again.

It was even more insane and terrifying than the nightmare he had before when he dreamed of the ancient corpse.

Ran Qing looked up silently and glanced at Mo Li.

The two looked at each other and understood something.

But they didn't say anything and continued reading.

July 7th, cloudy

I told my senior brothers and sisters that I shouldn't worship evil gods anymore. I tried to persuade them with good intentions, but they ended up scolding me.

Not only did they not appreciate my kindness, they also called me crazy.

But I am not angry. They are my senior brothers, my best senior brothers. I cannot let them go astray.

[I want to save them. I want to hide that evil clay statue.]

[As long as we hide that evil god, they won't be poisoned by him! ]

……

[July 9th, heavy rain]

"Brother, you're crazy! They're saying that the ancient corpse from the Han Dynasty has already tracked us down to this Taoist temple. If we don't take out the evil god's clay statue, we'll all die."

[How is this possible! There is no such thing as an ancient Han Dynasty corpse! It never existed in the first place!]

[It was an illusion of my brothers! I must protect them!]

……

July 13, heavy rain

My senior brothers actually beat me today! They tied me up, hung me up, and beat me all day long, cursing at me with horrible expressions.

[I am completely convinced that they are crazy and have been bewitched by the evil spirit]

[They would never treat me like this before! ]

They are crazy!

……

July 15th, heavy rain

My brothers and sisters said that if I didn’t bring out the evil god statue, they would kill me… Hehe… My poor brothers.

[Why don’t you know that I’m saving you! ]

"We are brothers who grew up together. I will not watch you get hurt! I will definitely..."

……

Ran Qing was stunned when he saw this.

Because from here on, the diary is blank.

There is no more text after that.

The story of that young and crazy tomb robber ended abruptly here.

But his ending seems...

"Um?!"

Ran Qing didn't have time to say anything.

Suddenly, new content popped up word by word in this blank diary.

Those lines of text, like intermittent text editing, pierced directly into Ran Qing's eyes.

July 17, heavy rain

I am dead

Killed by Senior Brothers

But they didn't know that I had hidden the evil statue under the jujube tree in the yard.

[I don't blame them, because I protected them. We are the best three brothers, brothers forever!]

【hehe……】

The sudden appearance of new text made Ran Qing's scalp tingle.

Because he found that his hands, which were holding the diary with both hands, seemed to be glued to the diary.

This diary suddenly developed a huge sticky force, sticking tightly to his gloves and the hands underneath them!
And on the blank paper, words were still jumping intermittently.

The color of the text began to turn blood red.

Like a pair of strange eyes, opened in the notebook.

[…By the way, who are you?]

The contents of the diary emerged coldly.

【Why are you reading my diary? 】

(End of this chapter)