Paper Maker

Chapter 153 Rune Corpse
When I woke up, Cao Qilong was checking my wounds. Seeing that I woke up, he moved the backpack for me to lean on, and handed me a well-baked potato after dyeing.

I ate potatoes and asked him, "How long have I been in a coma?"

Cao Qilong looked at the pile of firewood: "It shouldn't be long, the firewood hasn't been burned yet." Then Cao Qilong asked me what happened, and I said it lightly.

"What should we do next?" Cao Qilong asked me while eating potatoes.

I stood up, dizzy for a while, probably caused by excessive blood loss, forced to move my body a few times, and my back hurt like hell: "What else can I do, we can only keep going forward, we have no way out."

Cao Qilong licked his lips: "It's really not an option to go on like this. If we encounter something again, our body can only die here."

I shook my head and pretended to be brave: "No, nothing will happen to us, we still have to go to Wangchuan River to find Lin Xiaoqi, since Huang Daxian said that the time has not come, there should be his reason. "

After resting for a long time, Cao Qilong and I prepared to set off again with our backpacks on our backs. Earlier, because we were in a hurry, we didn’t pay much attention to the nearby structures. Now we can see clearly.

A randomly built stone ladder extends upwards for more than ten meters. I don't know what is on it, but it is the only way for me and Cao Qilong to walk. I am already doubting life. What is all this?To save Lin Xiaoqi, is it necessary for me to experience so many disasters like Journey to the West?All my life, I have always firmly believed in the right way taught by my grandfather and obeyed the call of justice, but there were endless difficulties facing me. It was the first time I had doubts about life. This kind of pain is beyond words, and some are just pale and powerless .

Seeing that I was not leaving, Cao Qilong asked me what I was thinking.

I asked Cao Qilong back: "What do you think we are doing all this for?"

Cao Qilong was caught off guard by my question, and after thinking for a long time, he answered me: "Isn't it to save Lin Xiaoqi?"

Seeing that I didn't move, Cao Qilong persuaded me instead: "Go through this cave, we can find the ship of the underworld, and then rescue Lin Xiaoqi, and then I'll go back to my paper-making shop. You and your little lady will meet each other. How far away is death."

I was amused by Cao Qilong, but I smiled wryly, so I had to walk beside him and walk up the stairs together.When I reached the top of the stairs, I realized that there was a stone door in front of me. There was a big hole in the door, just enough for a person to pass through.

I took a lantern and looked inside, but it was pitch black, and there was a gust of wind inside, which made people very uncomfortable.Cao Qilong was beside him, but he became happy: "Do you think there will be a coffin inside? Let's go in and open the coffin, maybe we can find some artifacts."

I lost my temper because of Cao Qilong, I just felt that the sky was thundering.Cao Qilong said again: "Do you know that Shazi notebook? It's very famous. It's about the story of Hu Bayi and Wu Xie digging other people's graves."

I lost my temper completely, called out a paper man, walked in front of the cave with a lantern, and then I followed into the cave with the Tianzi sword in hand, with Cao Qilong behind.

After entering the cave, I found that there is a large hall, several feet square, the walls inside have been polished, and there are exquisite arabesques carved on it, and the middle of the arabesques is full of Panchi patterns, which looks extraordinary. A suspended ceiling is carved in the middle of the zhang-high top, and in the middle is a very exquisitely carved lotus flower top.

We entered the tomb of General Tang mentioned by the hunchbacked old man. I told Cao Qilong to be careful, maybe there is something weird in it, after all, it is within the scope of the Jiugong Formation.Cao Qilong took out a candle from his backpack and ran to the corner to light it. I couldn't understand what Cao Qilong was doing: "What are you doing?"

Cao Qilong finished lighting the candles and said: "Don't you know? The first thing to do when entering the tomb is to light the candles. This is the way of Captain Mojin. If the candles go out, we can't go forward!"

I waved my hands and hit Cao Qilong: "What the hell are you doing? You always read books about fighting ghosts! We are paper-making craftsmen! We are Yin-Yang! It's not that kind of troublemaker!"

When Cao Qilong saw that I was laughed angrily by him, he laughed too.I didn't bother to pay attention to his mangy appearance. I turned around and looked for the door to go forward. There was a stone door opposite the entrance in the whole hall.

The stone gate is also very beautifully polished. There are two dragons carved on the gate post, and there is a pair of metal knockers in the door. I pulled the knocker and pulled it out, and the whole door squeaked, revealing a passage. As soon as I opened the door, I felt a cloudy wind blowing out.

Walking into the passage, I found that the walls were more exquisite. I became more and more suspicious of the identity of this general. It is said that dragons are reserved for the royal family. How could it be used on a general?Walking in the aisle, a gust of cold wind blows from time to time, which is extremely strange, but the lantern can't shine very far, so the paper figurine can only walk a few meters away from us, and we follow behind.

The passage is not long, only more than ten meters. After walking through the passage, I came to a huge hall. The lights of the paper figurines shone in front of me, but the scene in front of me shocked me.

The hall is relatively large, and you can't see the side at all. In the air of the hall, there are countless bronze "nets", like spider webs, surrounding the entire hall in a haphazard manner. There are countless balls on the bronze nets, big and small. .

Cao Qilong and I lit candles on these nets, hoping to see the structure of the entire hall. After lighting a circle, Cao Qilong and I stood in front of these "nets" to realize how magnificent this "net" is.

The hall is ten feet wide and is in the shape of a square. The "nets" in the air are not intertwined, but form a circle very regularly. The large and small spheres above present a very strange scene. star map!People can use these balls to simulate the orbits of the stars in the sky!
I was stunned by the picture in front of me. You must know that it may take a lifetime to study the trajectory of a star. With so many star trajectories, how many people need to work hard to make this star map?According to the trajectory of each star, a complete map of the planetary movement can be obtained. What was the purpose of the ancients in doing this?In an underground hall, to deduce the trajectory of the stars?
Cao Qilong pulled me by his side, I came back to my senses from the ingenious creations of the ancients, followed Cao Qilong's hand to look over, and saw a few green corpses lying in the middle of the hall!
After making sure that the corpses could not be revived through countless trials, Cao Qilong and I walked over cautiously with amulets, only to see that the corpses were all black and blue in color, and the flesh and blood on their bodies seemed to have been sucked dry. Skinny, hair and beard have long since fallen out, from the clothes can be judged to be an ancient person.

I used my sword and my feet to dig through these corpses, and found that there was no injury on the corpses. What happened here more than 1000 years ago?How could someone die here?
Cao Qilong and I searched around again, but there was nothing else. I walked to the other side of this hall, and there was another passage connecting the inside.At the entrance of the passage, I found a half-burnt talisman. I picked it up and found that only half of the butt was burned. I couldn’t tell what kind of talisman it was. I just knew that someone should have come in here. It was the evil paper maker.

My name is Cao Qilong, I told him to be careful, and then I ran over to join him, and showed him the half-tale: "That evil paper-making craftsman may have been here."

Cao Qilong withdrew his expression, and asked me with a serious face: "What do you think this is?"

I shook my head and said, "It's not as simple as the general's tomb here, let's be careful."

When I was talking to Cao Qilong, I felt someone behind me. I quickly turned around, and with the help of the lantern, I saw a black figure flash past and run directly into the passage.

There are really dirty things, I grabbed a handful of talismans to be on guard, opened my eyes to look around, Cao Qilong called out paper figurines, each paper figurine had candles in their hands, and went to take back all the candles that were lit just now, although we I brought a lot of candles, but I can't waste them, after all, I don't know what will happen next.

Cao Qilong asked me, "Pursue or not."

I shook my head: "This is someone else's territory, I am very familiar with it, we'd better be careful."

Tianyan glanced at the corpses that were thousands of years ago, only to find that there was a burst of yin energy emanating from the corpses. Isn't this fucking dead? How could it still emit yin energy?

I asked Cao Qilong to be on guard against that black shadow, and holding the lantern and talisman in my left hand and the Son of Heaven sword in my right, I leaned over slowly, wanting to see what happened.

I used the Tianzi sword to turn over and look at the corpse, and I didn't find anything strange. They were all done by adults, and it's a bit unreliable to turn the corpse into a corpse. It's been thousands of years.

I used the Tianzi sword to cut open the clothes of a corpse, and only then did I discover the problem. I saw a huge talisman painted with cinnabar on the chest of the corpse.

It is impossible for the talisman itself to emit yin energy. The corpse has been dead for thousands of years, and even if there was any yin energy, it would have dissipated long ago.I carefully looked at the talisman on the chest of this corpse, it turned out to be a talisman for controlling the corpse, and then I picked apart several other corpses, which also had talismans for controlling the corpse.

The corpse control talisman is not a talisman used by paper-making craftsmen, nor does it have anything to do with ordinary Taoist priests, but a talisman used by cadavers in western Hunan.In ancient Xiangxi, it was popular to drive corpses. This is a kind of talisman commonly used by morticians. If you draw this talisman on the corpse, the mortician can control the movement of the corpse, so as to achieve the purpose of driving the corpse!

(End of this chapter)