Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 127: Things Become Monsters

The flashlight swept across the entire stone chamber.

But the space in the empty stone chamber is not big.

Apart from an altar and a metal box, there was nothing else, and no place to hide.

Where could a dried corpse hide in such a small and empty space?

Mo Li's eyes widened in surprise, and he kept looking around: "He came in? How is it possible..."

None of the three people could see any foreign objects in their field of vision.

Little Mianhua hesitated for a moment and asked, "Ran Qing, did you make a mistake?"

Ran Qing looked at the empty stone chamber and could not find any trace of zombies.

But he took out the gloomy little wooden plaque and said, "The destiny plaque does point here..."

On the blank and gloomy little wooden sign, there was a cold and sinister power that seemed to be pointing to the underground stone chamber in front of him.

This is a prompt that appears after you get close to the cursed target.

The mummy cursed by the destiny card has come to Ran Qing and the others.

Mo Li stared around and asked, "Can this zombie become invisible? Is it a zombie with special abilities?"

In the 1990s, countries around the world were vigorously researching qigong and special abilities, and the enthusiasm of the times affected all aspects.

Not only did elements related to special abilities frequently appear in magazines, movies, and television during this period, but some eccentric people who hyped themselves up to fame were even able to enter and exit the residences of politicians in various countries and become upper-class people.

Even in remote and isolated southwestern mountainous areas like Yuezhao, there are legends about people with special abilities.

Mo Li, a girl who seems to have been to many places and seen the outside world, is naturally no stranger to special abilities.

but……

"Zombies have special abilities?"

Ran Qing's heart moved, and he thought of the story in "The Legend of the Second Sister Shen and the Demon Slayer" where the second sister Shen encountered a strange mountain ghost in Nanzhao Province. That mountain ghost could summon spirits and control beasts. It was said that it had lived in the mountains for hundreds of years and had become a powerful force.

It has a special ability that allows it to enter other people's dreams and kill people in their dreams.

Anyone killed by a mountain ghost in their sleep will also die from the same injuries in reality.

The local Zen Master Mi Zang called him a demon from the earth who had developed the ability to know fate.

The mountain ghost's terrifying power left a deep impression on Aunt Shen Er. When Aunt Liu was a child, she was even frightened and cried in the middle of the night because the mountain ghost chased her in her dreams.

Of course, this part about being scared and crying was erased by Aunt Liu.

But based on the context, we can still roughly guess Aunt Six's reaction when the mountain ghost entered her dream as a child.

Recalling the contents of "The Trial of the Second Sister and the Demon-Slaying", and looking at the empty stone chamber in front of him, Ran Qing narrowed his eyes.

"This old ghost is an ancient corpse from over a thousand years ago. It has been absorbing the evil energy of the earth veins in that underground tomb. It wouldn't be surprising if it really became powerful and possessed some kind of magical power..."

As the saying goes, old things become monsters, and old people become spirits.

Even some ancient trees and stones will become monsters over time, not to mention a corpse buried underground for thousands of years.

Little Cotton said, "How can it be so terrible?"

Mo Li and Ran Qing discussed special abilities, but Xiaomianhua directly denied it.

"If that corpse can really become invisible, then what is it waiting for?"

"It rushed over after becoming invisible and bit each of the three of us to death. We are dead now."

Little Cotton doesn't believe in invisible zombies at all and has a very simple mindset.

But what she said does make sense.

Mo Li and Ran Qing looked at each other, and Mo Li said, "Sister Mianhua is right. If zombies could become invisible, they would just run over and bite us to death. It's impossible for them to hide until now and not move." Ran Qing thought, his eyes silently scanning the stone chamber.

"It can't be stalling for time, right?"

The time given by the evil god to Ran Qing is limited. After dawn, the evil god and the mummy will enter a dormant and weakened state.

If the mummy cannot be killed before dawn, the power of the evil god will appear again, and he will not allow Ran Qing to leave without fulfilling the agreement.

By then, Ran Qing will have to face both the evil god and the thousand-year-old mummy at the same time...

"It's a bit overwhelming," Ran Qing frowned and looked at the dark stone chamber.

But the ceremony of asking gods and ghosts was carried out in the fog, and only the strange evil god and Ran Qing knew about it.

Even after the ceremony, Ran Qing's related memories became vague. He could not remember the evil god's weird and terrifying appearance, nor could he recall the specific details of the negotiations. Only the results of the negotiations with the evil god remained in his mind.

A thousand-year-old mummy could not possibly know the content of the negotiation between Ran Qing and the Evil Lord.

It drags on and seems to serve no purpose...

"You can't say it's meaningless," Ran Qing said after expressing his doubts. Mo Li shook his head and said, "Maybe it didn't intend to kill us here."

Mo Li pointed to the three corpses next to the metal box.

The three bodies of the tomb robbers, piled up like meat blankets, with all their bones broken and their deaths in extremely miserable conditions, are still piled on the ground, ignored.

But their tragic death is the starting point of everything...

Looking at the three miserable corpses and thinking about the contents of the young tomb robber's diary, Ran Qing's heart was shocked and a flash of lightning suddenly flashed through his brain.

He immediately understood what Mo Li meant: "You mean, that mummy wants to leave this Taoist temple with us?!"

Ran Qing's face turned extremely ugly.

When the mummy woke up in the tomb, it did not kill the three tomb robbers immediately.

Instead, he lay dormant for a while, then quietly caught up with his fellow tomb robbers and followed them all the way to the Zangke Mountains.

Even though the three brothers had asked the evil god for protection, it still bewitched the youngest tomb robber, buried the evil god statue, and finally killed the three brothers in a cruel way.

At first, Ran Qing thought that the zombies were possessed by some evil spirit or ghost, and turned into evil spirits to haunt the tomb robbers.

This would explain why the three brothers brought the old ghost from the tomb to Zangke without realizing it, and after the evil god looked at the Taoist temple, the mummy was still able to bewitch the youngest of the three brothers.

——If it was a zombie walking into the yard at that time, the evil god watching over the Taoist temple would not have failed to notice it.

But just now in the yard outside, Ran Qing clearly bumped into the mummy.

It is not a ghost at all, but a thousand-year-old mummy with a physical body.

Twelve years ago, this zombie really walked into the Taoist temple quietly, hid beside three tomb robbers, and killed the three brothers under the watchful eyes of the evil god.

And now, this mummy is also hiding in this stone chamber, hiding beside Ran Qingmoli and the other two.

But Ran Qingmo and the other two could not find any trace of the mummy...

"This mummy's magical power isn't invisibility, it's possession!"

Ran Qing said with an ugly expression: "It possessed one of the three of us and hid!"

This is the only and most likely guess that Ran Qing can think of at this moment!

The three people in the stone chamber looked at each other.

The girl's expression under the flashlight looked a little eerie.

"The question now is, which of the three of us is it hiding in..."

(End of this chapter)