Entering from this entrance, there is a simple escalator made of steel. There is no rust on it and it looks quite new.
After going down the ladder for about ten meters, your feet touched the ground.
It is normal for a house as big as the Cao family to have underground secret rooms, because there are often many secrets that cannot be known to outsiders and need to be buried underground.
But seeing this underground space in front of me still shocked me.
More than ten meters deep underground, the Cao family actually built a building!
Of course, this is not the kind of reinforced concrete building, but an ancient building made entirely of wood!
However, this building does not seem to be completely built, only a skeleton has been erected, with supports in the darkness. The pillars and beams are all painted with vermilion paint, which looks bright red, making it even more eerie and eerie.
And on the first floor of the Zhu Tower, there were dozens of coffins parked!
I am very familiar with coffins. Just by looking at them, I can tell that these coffins are all peach wood coffins.
However, the styles and lengths of the coffins are different, and the coffins are painted with different patterns, mostly of birds and animals.
These coffins are not placed randomly, but according to the sixty-four innate hexagrams.
At a glance, these dozens of coffins form a total of four hexagrams.
They are Qian Gua, Kun Gua, Pei Gua and Gu Gu.
The Qian hexagram indicates manifestation, the Kun hexagram indicates concealment, the Peel hexagram indicates change, and the Gu hexagram indicates chaos.
I walked around this weird Zhulou and came to a coffin on the Kun Gua side.
There is a big python painted on the body of the coffin, and the lid of the coffin is not sealed.
I tapped the coffin lid lightly, and with a little force, I pushed the coffin lid flat to the side.
With a rumble, the coffin lid shifted, and a stream of white smoke rose from the coffin.
When the smoke dissipated, a large blue python was buried in the coffin.
But it's not a living thing, but a python corpse.
Nine long red nails were driven down from the green python's head to the body, restraining the green python in the coffin.
After looking at it carefully for a while, he closed the coffin lid again and opened another door on the side.
This coffin is shorter than the previous one, and it just forms one of the short horizontal lines on the Kun hexagram.
There was a fish painted on the body of the coffin. After opening the lid of the coffin, a strong smell of fish came out.
A huge carp was nailed into the coffin by nine nails, with white eyes rolling back.
I turned to Qian Gua and opened another short coffin.
What was nailed in this coffin was a yellow man whose fur had turned blue.
I was about to pull out a nail and take a look when I suddenly heard an unusual noise.
Looking up, I saw a long coffin with a white-furred fox painted on the coffin.
It was this coffin just now. The lid of the coffin moved half an inch laterally, making a roar.
Then the coffin lid moved half of the way again, and with a burst of white smoke billowing, a white figure sat up from the coffin, stretched out with his hands, covered his mouth and yawned.
From this body shape, you can roughly tell that she is a woman. Her hair is messy and draped over her face, and her appearance cannot be seen clearly. Only her pair of dark eyes are shining brightly in the darkness.
She was yawning, and when she suddenly saw me, she seemed stunned for a moment.
At this moment, suddenly there was a soft bang from the ladder, as if someone was coming down.
The woman scratched her hair and lay back down as if nothing had happened. Then the coffin lid was quietly moved back to its original position.
I quickly took a look around, and immediately climbed up a pillar to the beam above. I closed my body and hid myself above.
Not long after, I saw a group of nine people coming down the ladder. Judging from their attire, they were all Taoist priests.
Two of them were the two people who passed by the courtyard gate before and looked at the door lock.
It is estimated that these two people determined the location and ran to call others over.
I was wondering about the origins of these Taoist priests when I suddenly saw a familiar face in the crowd.
He was a Taoist priest in his fifties, with a high forehead, slender eyebrows, and a dark face all the time, as if someone owed him millions.
Isn't this the one in Cao Xianguan?
At that time, he and his men blocked Shao Zilong and me in the yard, suspecting that we had sneaked into the backyard and damaged the Fu Shou doll.
It’s really a narrow road between enemies.
"You're ready." The black-faced Taoist priest waved his hand.
The other eight Taoist priests immediately began to work.
Two of them moved out an incense case and placed it in front of Zhu Tower.
Another person took three incense sticks, lit them and put them on the incense table.
Each of these three incense sticks is as tall as half a person, and three streaks of blue-white smoke rise straight up.
Others placed forty-nine small plates on the ground, and lit a red candle on each plate.
For a moment, the candlelight flickered and the fire flickered.
I lay on the beam and looked down, and I saw the black-faced Taoist priest frowning and walking around in the Zhulou, looking at one coffin after another, and sometimes touching it.
After checking everything, he looked up again.
I retracted my body and hid myself on the beam.
When he heard the black-faced Taoist priest speaking from below, he looked down again.
I saw the black-faced Taoist priest solemnly holding a box to the incense table, taking the key and opening the box.
I looked down from above and could see clearly.
Inside this box is a cyan disk slightly larger than the palm of your hand. The disk is painted with mountain and river patterns and densely engraved with many symbols. In addition, the disk is also inlaid with seven red beads that resemble the Big Dipper.
This thing looks a bit like a compass used for feng shui, but it only looks a bit like it. It is definitely not a compass.
The black-faced Taoist priest took out the disc and carefully placed it on the incense table.
He stretched out two fingers, hovering vacantly above the disk, and muttered something.
After a while, the disk began to rotate slowly.
After walking around seven times in a row, I suddenly felt that the atmosphere around me had changed.
Originally, the atmosphere in the underground was very chaotic, with various atmospheres constantly changing, especially those coffins parked there, with the birds and beasts buried in them having different auras, colliding with each other, and making it chaotic.
But after turning the plate seven times, the originally chaotic atmosphere seemed to calm down.
It is not easy to do this. It seems that this thing is a very precious magic weapon.
"Let's begin." The black-faced Taoist priest stared at Yuanpan for a long time, then waved his hand and ordered.
The other eight Taoist priests lined up in front of the incense table, holding three sticks of incense in their hands, and knelt down facing the dozens of coffins in the Zhulou.
I was confused.
I have seen Taoist priests worshiping gods, but I have never seen anyone worshiping coffins.
