According to legend, in the late Song Dynasty, there was a sect hidden in the Qingyu Mountains six hundred miles northwest of Luoyang, called the Qingshan Sect.
Many of them are mountain people, all dressed in green clothes, worshiping the mountain gods and water gods.
But the world calls it a cult because many of the activities of one sect are conducted at night, and the believers wear very ugly masks that look like devils and mountain monsters.
Secondly, for the people of the Song Dynasty who had strict etiquette, the members of the Qingshan Sect could be described as promiscuous and immoral.
They have no actual marriage, they just stay together if they like each other, and they even live together. Partners change as they please, and there is even group promiscuity at gatherings. Most of the children even do not know who their biological fathers are.
Thirdly, human beings are sacrificed to the gods at least once a year.
The process is to dig out the heart of a living person on the altar of the holy place, pray and offer it to the priest, and leave the body to be eaten by wild beasts in the mountains.
If outsiders enter the holy land by mistake, they must also sacrifice alive on the altar to worship the gods.
What is frightening about the Green Shirt Sect is its extremely cruel methods, especially towards enemies and apostates.
Legend has it that people will be descended, and the most brutal method is to cut off their limbs, put the person alive into a sarcophagus and bury him deep in the ground. The person will suffer in the sarcophagus for several weeks before he is considered dead.
But death is not the end, but the beginning of suffering.
Although the body dies, the soul is immortal and will never be reincarnated, and is forever imprisoned in the body.
What is even more evil is that the soul will not know that it is dead, but will feel alive due to the magic. Hunger, thirst, cold and heat, pain, suffocation... none of the body's feelings will disappear.
Imagine being in a small space, so dark that you can't see your fingers, you can't breathe, you can't breathe, your body is cold to the bone, and you are extremely hungry and thirsty. I feel like my body is being corroded by my own gastric juices, I feel like my flesh is festering, I feel like maggots are growing on my broken limbs, biting and biting in the gaps between muscles and bones... But I can't shout, I can't move, I can only endure it silently . I can't stop thinking about it, I can't stop thinking about it, I don't know day and night, I am suffering from loneliness, and I am suffering every second.
And the caster used some method to slow down the decay of the corpse. It will take at least several decades or even more than a hundred years for a corpse to turn into a skeleton, and it will take a round trip even to the eighteenth level of hell.
The sarcophagus will be buried deep underground in the wilderness at the foot of the mountain. Legend has it that the maximum depth is 100 meters.
The black soil covering the coffin lid is also not simple. Legend has it that it is the meat of the mountain spirit (a kind of lizard) who ate the limbs of the person in the coffin and then chopped it into paste.
When the mountain spirit eats the body parts, it will remember the smell of the soul in the coffin - the soul is tasteless. Doing so is like marking the soul so that the mountain spirit will not admit it.
Then, when the mountain spirit is halfway digested, use a wooden hammer to carefully smash it from the tail to the head. The tragic death arouses the resentment of the mountain spirit, and is finally mixed with the black mud under the dead trees in the swamp. Apply corpse oil, sheep blood and other substances every day and dry in the shade for seven days before solidifying.
If someone protects the person in the coffin, he or she will be chopped into pieces and mixed with black mud, and his soul will never be reincarnated.
The black soil will stick to the coffin lid like concrete, and its resentment will press down on the sarcophagus like an invisible mountain, making it impossible for the soul in the coffin to escape.
It becomes toxic three years after being buried, forming an extremely powerful protective shield that no one can touch, otherwise the soul in the coffin will suffer forever and cannot escape.
Since this method is only known by the law enforcement elders in the religion, outsiders have no way of knowing its name.
Later, someone found one in Luoyang and named it "Luoyang Coffin".
There is only so much introduction in the book, and there is no record of how to break the coffin.
However, it mentions the dangerous nature of this coffin and believes that the soul in the coffin is suffering in a state that seems to be dead but not dead, and its resentment is different from ordinary ghosts. In addition, the soul of the mountain spirit who died tragically is attached to the coffin lid, which may turn into an evil spirit over time. It is unknown whether the coffin soul will still be restrained by the soul after the coffin is broken.
There is also poisonous mud that has been suffocating for countless years. It is not easy to open the coffin. Even if it can be opened, the situation is that if the tiger comes out of the cage, anyone who comes close will suffer disaster, and even the upper body of the ancestor may not be able to cover it.
In order to confirm whether this was the mud from the coffin, Qinxuan asked the villagers to dig up the sides.
Not long after, a rectangular bluestone appeared in front of everyone. Its surface is uneven and looks like a rock at first glance.
However, if you look closely, you will find that there is a round surface as big as a basin in the center that is very smooth. There is paint on it. Although it has fallen off a lot over time, it can still be seen that it is a symbol, which is very similar to the recorded emblem of the Qingshan Sect. This is really the Luoyang coffin!
But Qinxuan couldn't figure out why Luoyang's coffin appeared in Shaanxi. Could it be that there were law enforcement elders from the Qingshan Sect who escaped and hid here? And reestablished the denomination? Or is the record wrong?
Putting aside these things for the time being, now that part of the descending coffin is revealed, there is no disorder on the compass. There are only slight beats occasionally, indicating that the Yin energy of the descending coffin will not escape.
Why does the yin energy become so strong at night? Form a Yin Qi circulation?
Before long, all sides of the sarcophagus were dug open. It seems that the workmanship of the sarcophagus is very rough. It only wants to have a coffin shape but not a smooth wall.
The middle and lower parts of the north stone slab and a small part of the bottom of the coffin were damaged, leaving a large hole. Looking at the marks on the edges, it is obvious that they were left by sharp tools such as chisels.
Seeing this, the Qin brothers and sisters and Master Xu concluded that the coffin had been stolen before, or that it might be a trace left by someone cracking it.
But this doesn't make sense, since the broken coffin should be haunted by something, but I haven't heard of Weiyang Nancun and its surroundings being haunted for many years.
Theoretically, this place should be filled with yin energy and become an ominous place, and there are no basic conditions for the formation of a yin-returning bureau.
But not only that, it is also an agricultural base with good harvests year after year, forming a return to Yang situation, which is simply unreasonable.
In order to get more clues, we need to find a way to see what's going on inside the coffin.
Qin Zhaoyun presented a high-tech product "electronic mouse".
It looks like a cartoon mouse, its feet are four wheels, and its eyes are wireless cameras. It has night vision function and an effective transmission distance of 300 meters. There is a searchlight on the forehead, specially used to explore narrow holes or pipes.
After the electronic mouse went down, the scene inside its coffin appeared on the monitor.
The first thing that catches the eye is an iron rod about 30 centimeters long, nailed to the coffin lid. It was stained with rust, the tip was a little bent, and there were no rust spots on the cross section. It seemed that this iron rod was originally an iron hook, and now the hook part is broken.
The coffin lid is engraved with a circular pattern about the size of a washbasin centered on an iron bar. It was covered with dirt, like congealed blood stains, almost covering the graphics, making it impossible to tell what was engraved on it.
There were many ancient characters engraved around the circle, which Master Xu and the Qin brothers recognized. They were about the crimes and curses committed by this person.
Moreover, the writing paint is very special. It appears bright white on the display when reflected by the light, and the reflection is obvious.
Based on the guesswork from the environment, it is estimated that it is a kind of saltpeter powder that allows the soul to see, or some other negative material. So that the deceased can forever see the crime they committed and be cursed by it.
Looking at the four walls inside the coffin, they are as uneven as the outside. It seems that the builder of the coffin did not pay attention to aesthetics at all. But there were scratches all over the coffin wall, as if they were scratched by the claws of some kind of wild beast.
In addition, there is a round ball as big as an egg placed in each of the four corners of the coffin. Its texture and function cannot be seen.
Looking at the bottom of the sarcophagus, there is a human-shaped groove. The depth cannot be seen. It is filled with some kind of black object. There are no graphics or characters on it. I don’t know what its function is.
But... there is no body in the coffin... but there is a dark cat, huddled on the humanoid belly!
Taking a closer look, the four of them had goosebumps all over their bodies.
I saw that the cat's eyes were open, and the pupils shrank into a thin black line. The whites of the eyes were different from ordinary cats, they were actually white! The light of the searchlight emits a cold cyan light, and the monitor looks very ugly.
"Brother, tell me... is it dead or alive?" Qin Xuan pointed at the cat's nose and said, "I always feel like it's still breathing."
"It's probably your imagination. There isn't even a trace of blood in this cat's eyes. It should be dead. It can't be alive." Qin Zhaoyun looked at the sarcophagus and wondered, "Why is there a cat in it?"
Logically speaking, grave robbers would not use animals like cats to explore coffins.
First of all, cats like to wander in the dark, and they are afraid of being put in a coffin and unable to come out. In addition, it is very curious and is afraid that it will damage things unintentionally.
Secondly, cats don’t like to bark very much. If they don’t bark when they need to hear a cry, it will cause trouble.
Therefore, most tomb robbers use small birds or pigeons. If they are put into the robber's cave and survive, they will fly towards places with wind or light. It will fly out of the hole, so the tomb robbers will know that it is safe inside.
At this moment, the four of them were each thinking. Suddenly, there were several women's screams, followed by various exclamations. Someone ran directly to Master Xu, pointed at the excavated mound and said in panic, "Master Come and see what that thing is!?"
The four people went over and took a look. There was a thick hemp rope in the mound, with one end deep into the soil. However, where the rope connected to the surface of the mound, there was a dark red thing, with a white object in the middle, which looked like... a bone!
"Pig head! Go and pull the rope." Qin Xuan pushed Jiang Jinjiu.
Jiang Jinjiu was very reluctant, "Um, my arm hurts. Can I call someone else?"
However, when he looked around, no one wanted to help, which made him want to cry.
Qin Xuan pushed him again and scolded, "Are you a man? Go quickly!"
Helpless, he had no choice but to pull the hemp rope.
Although he was mentally prepared, the touch from his hand made his teeth itch.
The thing on the other end of the rope seemed to be very fragile, and even something as round and blunt as a rope could cut it open, creating a shock like a bubble bursting. It felt very uncomfortable as it passed along the rope to the palm of his hand.
He was so uncomfortable that he didn't want to take any more pain. He thought that the long-term pain would be better than the short-term pain. He gritted his teeth and exerted force, and everyone present exclaimed.
The rope was tied around a body without limbs!
He was naked, and the only remaining carrion was covered in a layer of mucus filled with maggots. The stench was so overwhelming that it was impossible to identify whether he was a man or a woman. Moreover, there was a curved iron bar stuck to the mouth of the corpse, which was clearly a broken iron hook.
There was a loud vomiting sound for a while, and many people ran aside to vomit.
Although Jiang Jinjiu was sickened by the smoke, it was not the first time he saw a dead person. This time he was able to hold on and look at others with gloating.
Suddenly Qinxuan shouted "Ah! I understand!" The people present were frightened and all stared at her.
Qin Xuan gave an apologetic smile, calmed the nervous mood of the villagers, and then turned around to tell Jiang Jinjiu, Qin Zhaoyun and Master Xu his suspicions.
"Although I don't know when the coffin was buried, judging from the gouge marks, it must have been done by tomb robbers, and it happened not long ago. I think it was between 20 and 40 years ago."
"How do you know it was a tomb robber?" Jiang Jinjiu interrupted and asked.
"Zhutou, do you think ordinary people can cut open such a thick sarcophagus now? And it's buried so deep! It's true! Don't interrupt if you don't understand, and listen attentively!"
"But……"
Jiang Jinjiu still wanted to know, Qinxuan sighed helplessly, "Okay, let me explain to you, big reporter... This professional tomb robber will not start digging from the top of the grave, but dig a hole diagonally from the side, going straight to the soles of the deceased's feet." Position, open the coffin wall and search inside. Once it is done, no one can see the traces of theft from the outside. This is called the method of tomb robbers. Look at the holes at the soles of the sarcophagus, you understand what happened Bar?"
