Who wouldn't be upset by this? It's clear and sunny, and there are so many pairs of eyes looking at it. It's like a big kid. How can he disappear out of thin air?
Turning around again, I found that the child had appeared on the eaves outside the arch on the other side.
Ma Pingchuan felt a little weak now. He secretly gestured to his subordinates to move closer with him. He would go over to talk to the child first and shoot as soon as he found something was wrong.
But when he got closer, he found that the child seemed to be a living person. Not only was he breathing, he was actually sitting on the eaves, looking at him without blinking. He looked very fair and well-behaved.
Seeing that he was as old as his own child, Ma Pingchuan couldn't help but feel happy, "That kid, where did you come in from?"
The child didn't speak, just pointed in one direction.
Ma Pingchuan didn't pay attention at first, but when he thought about it later, he realized that the child was pointing to the location of his ancestral grave.
He asked again, "Do you know whose home this is? How dare you just break in?"
This time the child spoke, "I know where the coffin you are looking for is."
Ma Pingchuan frowned when he heard this. He was annoyed to hear this topic. He thought that this child was an apprentice sent by some ignorant Feng Shui master. He felt a little unhappy, but he still asked patiently, "Where are your adults?" Go, who taught you to say that?"
The child shook his head and refused to speak again.
Ma Pingchuan couldn't help but wonder what was going on. If this kid was really sent to defraud money, there must be other tricks behind him.
As a force, he was naturally not afraid of this, and immediately shouted: "Those old men are trying to cheat me out of my money with this nonsense, you little devil dare to talk too much, be obedient, get down from that roof quickly, and speak carefully and clearly Here, Master Ma will bring you sweet cakes to eat."
The child was not afraid of him at all and said calmly: "I'm here. If you want money, you can take it away. I'm just here to tell you that I know where the coffin in your ancestral grave is."
Ma Pingchuan thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case. His experience told him that the child in front of him was not too simple, because when he talked to him, the child acted as an equal, which even made him feel that he was looking down from above. .
He muttered to himself that he had seen a ghost, and then he calmed down and said, "Then tell me, where are the coffins in the ancestral graves of my Ma family?"
"You won't believe me when I say this. You might as well take a trip to the cemetery with me." The child's expression was still very calm.
Ma Pingchuan was stunned for a moment. He looked at the guards next to him and then at the child. He felt inexplicably that he had been provoked by a little devil.
This kid must have felt in his heart that he was not worth fearing at all, so he looked at him like this, and he immediately felt like he was being laughed at. This kid who was taught by someone has some abilities.
He wanted to see what kind of tricks this little guy could get up to. Guards were always following him. This was his territory, and he wasn't afraid of being plotted against.
If there really is an ulterior motive, it would be a good time for the guards under his command to exercise, and at the same time establish their authority.
Then he came down and said to the child: "Okay, then it's settled. When you come down, can you ride a horse?"
The child didn't say a word, and just rolled down from the eaves. His movements were as light as a civet cat. After standing still, he only said one word, "Let's go."
A group of people rode on horseback and arrived near the tomb mountain in a mighty manner.
The child pointed to the withered fields around the graveyard and said, "Look, what does this withered area look like?"
Ma Pingchuan looked where he pointed, but the location they were on was not high, and it was impossible to see clearly such a large withered area.
So he gave the guard next to him a wink. The guard jumped off his horse, climbed up a big tree not far away, looked around, and then shouted down: "Boss, he looks like a scorpion."
When Ma Pingchuan heard this, he wondered if there really was something famous inside, and he didn't care about the image. He immediately galloped to the bottom of the tree, tightened his belt, inhaled and hugged the trunk, gritted his teeth and climbed up to the crown of the tree. Looking into the distance, my heart suddenly skipped a beat.
The outer outline of the area where the crops had dried up and died actually looked like a very huge scorpion with its teeth and claws, and the shape was very neat. If it was really man-made, how could all the crops die overnight?
Ma Pingchuan immediately slipped down from the tree, mounted his horse and rushed back. His hand was already calmly pressed on the gun at his waist. He suppressed his anger and asked, "What on earth is going on?"
The child glanced at his hand indifferently, his expression unchanged, "There is a big thing buried under this area. The shape you see is just the shadow of the thing reflected on the ground."
Ma Pingchuan frowned, "What do you mean? Are you trying to say that a huge scorpion monster emerged from under my ancestor's graveyard, and that monster ate all the coffins?"
How is this possible? If there really was such a big scorpion monster buried underground, there was nothing I could do except steal it and run away.
"No." The child shook his head, rode on, and said to Ma Pingchuan, "Your cemetery is built right on top of an ancient tomb. This scorpion-shaped dead area is the scope of that ancient cemetery palace. .”
"Recently, a tomb robber entered this ancient tomb and accidentally triggered the defense mechanism inside, causing the poisonous gas in the mechanism to leak out, and the crops on the surface were poisoned to death."
Ma Pingchuan was murmuring in his heart, and he was doubtful, so he asked him, "How do you know so clearly? Is it possible that you have clairvoyance and can see clearly what's going on underground?"
The child looked at him indifferently and said, "Because I am the tomb robber."
Ma Pingchuan was so furious that he almost couldn't help but draw his gun and beat the boy into a sieve, "Well, it turns out it was you who did the good thing!"
The surrounding guards stopped their horses and surrounded the children.
Ma Pingchuan sneered, "Kid, tell me the truth, where did you and your accomplices take all my coffins?"
The scorpion tomb, bullshit, the tomb robbers with this kid must have stolen those coffins in some way, and they actually dared to run up to him and lie to him about the ancient tomb.
"I haven't finished speaking yet." The child said expressionlessly, "Your coffin was not taken away by us, but was eaten. The ancient tomb underneath is alive, and the coffins in the ancestral tombs were all eaten. .”
"Eat?" Ma Pingchuan frowned and thought about it carefully. Who in this land does not know the prestige of his Ma family. There is no reason why he wouldn't be able to notice if there is any trouble. If he really wants to transport so many coffins, he can't There might not be any movement at all.
He began to believe the kid's words. He found that the kid was really serious in talking to him, and he was always at a disadvantage during the conversation between the two of them. He was a hero on his side, but he was actually beaten by this kid. His aura was firmly suppressed.
He tightened the gun in his hand, hoping to regain the initiative, "Tell me how an ancient tomb ate my coffin."
"I don't know," the child said, "but I can help you find them."
"How to find it?" Ma Pingchuan asked, "Where to find it? Do I need to bring someone with me to follow you on your next trip to the Scorpion Tomb?"
"No need." The child said, "If you dig here now from the scorpion pattern and dig down forty meters deep, you will find that all the coffins are attached to the outside of the tomb chamber wall of the ancient tomb below, as if It’s like being attracted to something.”
Ma Pingchuan thought for a moment and put away his gun, "You came to me today just to solve this matter?"
"I'm here to save people." The child said.
"One thing I need to inform you in advance is that within a few dozen miles of this area, there will be no grass growing in a few months. It will not be able to recover within a hundred years, and everyone living in this area will not have a good death."
"I've said this. As the leader of the party, you must know what to do."
Ma Pingchuan rubbed his fingers and began to feel anxious, "We might as well open the skylight and speak frankly. What is your purpose?"
The child said: "Some of my friends are still trapped in the ancient tombs below. I need you to do three things for me."
The child asked Ma Pingchuan to prepare dry food for him for seven days, a short knife weighing six kilograms, an oil wick for a wind lamp, and a bag of charcoal powder. He also asked Ma Pingchuan to lead people to dig out the edges of the dead crops and remove five feet of water from the wet mud. The bamboo poles are filled with lime, and the bamboo poles are hammered into the soil, leaving only one finger. The denser the better.
Ma Pingchuan asked him the reason for doing this.
"The ground is a prison. The things below are too fierce. We must trap them and solve them here." The child said, "This thing started because of us, so I will definitely solve it. If I don't come to you again after seven days, please help me." Send this letter back to my hometown."
The child took out a sealed letter from his arms and handed it to Ma Pingchuan, adding a few final words of warning.
Ma Pingchuan took it and saw "Northeast Zhang Family" written on the cover.
"Whose tomb is underneath this? How could it be so vicious?"
The child stopped answering his question, "I have said too much today, and knowing too many things will not do you any good. Can you help me and give me the right words?"
Ma Pingchuan thought about it for a while and decided to wait until the time came to take advantage of the situation. He immediately agreed and prepared what the child wanted that night.
The child took these things and quickly disappeared into the night.
Ma Pingchuan arranged for people to watch around the tomb that night to prevent the people underneath from escaping.
The next day, according to what the child said, they organized villagers to surround the entire area with long bamboos filled with lime, and still sent people to guard the surrounding area fifty meters away.
However, this guarding lasted for a month. Ma Pingchuan never saw the child again, and the deserted fields remained the same.
Ma Pingchuan was a little unwilling. After waiting for another half a month, he ordered the entire cemetery to be dug up and the top of the ancient tomb underneath to be uncovered to see what was inside.
When the cemetery was excavated to a depth of forty meters, they did find the decayed Ma family coffin, but they did not see any outer walls of the ancient tomb.
Ma Pingchuan was confused, so after moving all the coffins, he ordered his men to continue digging.
However, what no one expected was that something strange happened again.
Another night, after a strong wind, the teams and horses stationed outside the cemetery all disappeared out of thin air, as if they had evaporated from the world without leaving any trace.
The original footprints on the ground were smoothed away by the strong wind last night.
Ma Pingchuan couldn't help but wonder if he had been plotted by someone. He even checked among the people around him and found out a few small and medium-sized tricks. It has nothing to do with this.
In order to give an explanation to the remaining men, Ma Pingchuan hired more than a dozen hounds that were good at tracking and searched the camp carefully, trying to find some clues.
But the strange thing is that after the hounds arrived, they did not stay in the camp, but went straight to the cemetery.
Ma Pingchuan hurriedly led people to follow him. When he arrived at the place, he found that the hounds were digging the soil manically, exhaling while digging, as if there was something terrible buried in the soil.
If something went wrong, there must be a monster. Ma Pingchuan ordered again, asking people to take the dog aside and dig down in those places.
While digging, a soldier got something stuck on his pickaxe. When he pulled out the pickaxe, he found that it had some black hair-like hair wrapped around it.
Xiaobing was eager to make a contribution, so he grabbed the black wool and lifted it up hard. The more he pulled it out, the more things were underneath, and it was heavy and heavy.
Others noticed something strange here, and they all came over to help. As a result, they used too much force and tore off the thing below.
They hurriedly dug into the surrounding soil. Unexpectedly, what they dug out was a whole white horse's bones wrapped in a skin.
They are real bones, with not even a trace of flesh and blood under the skin.
The soldiers were all frightened, because they could clearly see that the horse bones were also covered with the Ma family's exclusive saddle and cage.
The horse that went missing in the camp last night actually appeared here, still in such a strange posture.
After receiving the news, Ma Pingchuan rushed over. His brows were furrowed so much that he could kill a fly. His mind was swinging back and forth between filling the hole back and burying it on the spot, evacuating, and continuing to dig.
He would not be willing to give up at this point, but under the current situation, if he continued digging, the morale of the army might be shaken.
However, the bones must be picked up anyway, and they cannot be left here.
Immediately, Ma Pingchuan gave the order to continue digging, and a total of nineteen human bones and fourteen horse bones were dug out, which was exactly the right number.
And what’s even weirder is that when these human bones and horse bones were dug out, they were all facing down!
Cold sweat began to break out on Ma Pingchuan's forehead. What kind of thing could eat so many corpses in just one night, and then bury the stolen goods in the soil after eating.
Could it be that, as the Zhang family child said, the ancient tomb below is alive?
After eating the corpse of his ancestor, he also ate his own soldiers and horses!
wrong!
Ma Pingchuan's eyelids suddenly jumped. It's over. Since that thing can eat so many horses and people outside, does it mean that the child was also eaten by the fierce thing below when he was solving the problem?
But now that he has dug such a deep pit, wouldn't it be that he has released the contents of the ancient tomb underneath!
As soon as this thought came out, Ma Pingchuan was completely panicked and hurriedly asked his team to evacuate here.
At this moment, the ground beneath our feet suddenly began to collapse on a large scale, and something huge and black seemed to be coming out of the loess mud.
Everyone couldn't care about anything now and ran for their lives.
The whip in Ma Pingchuan's hand was broken, and he finally galloped to the edge at the last moment.
The man who stayed at the edge of the pit quickly lowered the rope and pulled him up.
There was only a loud bang like thunder behind them, and everyone's ears were pounded. Their eyes turned white. Ma Pingchuan was so shocked that his legs went weak and he stumbled to the ground.
It took a long time to regain consciousness. When I turned around, I saw rolling loess and mud waves behind me. The big pit they dug collapsed into a huge funnel.
The horse that was still underneath him a moment ago, as well as those who had not had time to escape, have all disappeared at this moment, completely submerged in it, without any trace at all.
Thanks to the boss [People will die without a knife] for the reward, and show your appreciation
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