"Soles of feet?"
Jiang Jinjiu looked at the iron hook in the corpse's mouth, wondering how to hook it so that the feet would face the hole, and murmured, "Why should it be on the soles of the feet?"
"Hey, this will prevent you from being exposed to corpse gas when you enter the coffin. The head is a very dangerous place, such as the mouth, stomach, lungs, and intestines, where gas accumulates. It will be produced when the coffin is opened. The difference in air pressure and external pressure can cause these gases to be released rapidly, so you have to feel it from the soles of your feet. However... this coffin is a bit special. It has no stone tablet or tomb. A regular coffin has a wide head and narrow feet. It's trapezoidal, but it's not as uneven as this coffin. It's roughly rectangular, so you can't tell the position of the head and feet. I think the tomb robber also touched it according to the burial rules."
"What rules?"
"There are so many rules. It can last for three days and three nights. Just say that in this terrain, the orientation of the head and feet is that the head is resting on the mountain and the feet are stepping on the river. The tomb robber followed this rule. Unfortunately, this person was buried backwards. of."
"Did a grave robber put that cat in there?"
"Probably not." Qin Xuan looked at the cat on the screen and said, "I guess it is a wild cat, probably caught temporarily by tomb robbers."
Jiang Jinjiu asked again, "Then why did you put the cat in?"
Qin Zhaoyun replied, "You are such a square stick, you are so stupid. The air in the coffin has been gone after being buried for so long, and there was no oxygen bottle back then. How long will it take to get in after opening the coffin? Of course you have to put a small animal in it and see if it works." You will suffocate to death, don’t you know this bit of common sense?! Listen honestly, don’t interrupt, Qin Xuan continues.”
"Okay, I think this tomb robber is very brave. He was attracted by the glimmer of light on the coffin board and thought it was a good thing. Otherwise, he would have discovered that he had mistaken the location and saw the human head hanging on the coffin lid. Why would you use a rope to get the body out when you should be scared away? However, dragging the body out of the coffin does not mean taking the soul out of the coffin. This coffin can not only imprison the soul in the body, but also be a cage for the soul. He destroys it. The relevant seals were not broken, and at most they opened an iron window for the cage. The bodyless soul was bumping around in the coffin, and there must have been obvious abnormal movements, which alarmed him and did not dare to continue. In panic, he buried the body in the robbery cave. in. And now it’s the cat that’s causing the night anomalies.”
Master Xu continued, "Are you trying to say...that the soul trapped in the coffin possessed the cat's body in order to escape from the sarcophagus, but ended up being trapped in the cat's body instead of getting out?"
Qin Xuan smiled and said, "Master Xu thinks the same as me."
Suddenly he glanced at Jiang Jinjiu who was about to ask a question, so he half-opened his eyes and said lazily to him, "Cats, in the legends of each country, their identities are different. Some are worshiped as gods, and some are regarded as gods." The incarnation of evil, or the messenger of the devil, and the one called the Holy Spirit, but there is no unified explanation here, do you know why?"
Jiang Jinjiu shook his head, and Qin Xuan continued, "Because it's too lazy."
There was silence...
"Haha, I'm kidding. I don't know why. But my master has studied it. According to ancient mythology, it is speculated that the cat may be a clone of the ancient legend Zhuanxu... Zhuanxu is the son of the Northern Emperor Zhuanxu, who looks very similar to Tiger, with long hair, a human face, tiger feet, pig mouth and teeth, a very long tail, and a pig head, don’t expect me to draw it, just look it up online!”
"Oh! How do you know what I want to do?" Jiang Jinjiu chuckled.
"Hey! What else can you think of with your pig head?"
Master Xu interrupted and asked, "So what do you think cats can do?"
"Master is not accurate. Master believes that cats are very mysterious animals. From ancient times to the present, there have been many foreign legends. Some say that cats can channel spirits, some say that cats can absorb people's souls, and that ghosts possess cats. They are the followers of witches. What other cats have nine lives? They are messengers and incarnations of gods, but there are not many legends about cats here."
"Cats in ancient times were called raccoons, but there are very few records after the Western Zhou Dynasty. There are not many characters in the mythical stories. At most, it was a nine-tailed cat demon that harmed an entire village of men. The cat who was cultivated into a spirit was subjected to People always repay kindness. A cat walked across the face of a dead old lady and became the rumored cat-faced old lady. There are good and bad, but none of them made earth-shaking troubles, even "Journey to the West" "In "Liao Zhai", "Feng Shen Bang" and "Shan Hai Jing", the appearance of cats is almost zero."
"But the intelligence of cats is not lower than that of any animal that can cultivate immortality. For such a low-key guy, Master believes that the most likely thing is that cats played the role of road guardians in ancient times. And it is not an ordinary road, it is people, gods, demons, The hub of the intersection of the three realms is called the space of "chaos and void". The passage between chaos and the three realms will open in a certain realm every sixty years, and the time is uncertain. Maybe a moment, maybe a few years, or decades. There are also simultaneous When the passage is opened in two realms, it may even be opened in the three realms at the same time. If the passage in the two realms is opened at the same time, it is equivalent to building a bridge to communicate between the two realms."
"Demons appear in the human world and all life is devastated. Rivers of blood flow. Gods and demons fight against the sky and the darkness. This is not uncommon in myths and stories. The balance of the three realms will be disrupted, which is often very detrimental to the human and divine realms. Because the chaos is filled with the breath of the three realms. , the breath in the God Realm is the purest air, the human world is the pure and turbid air, and the devil world is the most turbid air. Therefore, the air in the Chaos Void has a high probability of being turbid, and the chance of being clear is small. If the channel is opened in the devil world at the same time As with the God Realm, if the turbid air flows into the God Realm, it will weaken the power of the God. As a god or a human, you cannot tolerate the chaotic air in the Chaos Void, so you cannot stop the demons in the Chaos Void, and you can only passively suffer the enemy."
"For the sake of the balance of the three realms, cats were born to become the guardians of Chaos. According to various examples, cats are both good and evil, and the yin and yang are uncertain, which just shows that cats can have no hindrance in Chaos. And it is very like this Maybe, the energy of Chaos and Xu is the source of cat essence. Only in Chaos and Xu will it become very powerful, even the devil will be afraid of it. Although this is Master's inference, I think it is very reasonable."
"In terms of demonic nature, destroying the heaven and destroying the Tao is simply a lifelong wish. However, there have only been two legends about catastrophes in thousands of years. It would be unreasonable if there is nothing to maintain the balance. But one thing my master can be sure of is that cats at least They are divided into two types. One is a pure animal, and the other inherits an extraordinary bloodline. The successor has very strong abilities, but no one has discovered them."
"Also, my senior brother believes that cats are a kind of medium. He once saw a group of wild cats gathering together, and one of them seemed to be their leader. The cats below meowed in an orderly manner, just like the people below during a meeting. He was speaking. But three days later, the senior brother found the alpha cat dead on the roadside. It seemed that he had been bitten to death by a wild dog. Looking back on what he saw that night, there seemed to be a layer of black shadow around him, and his face looked like a human. The eyes did not emit the fluorescence that a cat's eyes should have. According to his estimation, maybe there is something that is 'doing business' in the human world. In order not to attract people's attention, or it is a rule that they are not allowed to use it when they come to the human world to do business. The body must borrow a body, so the cat should have a night-time body."
"It seems that the corpse was dragged out by grave robbers late at night, and the soul was separated from the body because of the seal. The soul attached itself to the cat in order to escape from the coffin, but the seal was aimed at this person, even if it attached to the cat It can't get out. And being attached to a cat doesn't mean it has night vision. It scratches and crawls around in the dark, leaving claw marks on the coffin wall. Even though it can't see the sun until dawn, the cat can't get out. The cat's habit will sense that the cat's function is automatically turned off, and the soul is trapped in the cat's body and continues to suffer. As long as the soul does not escape from the coffin, the coffin will maintain the sealing function, so we cannot detect anything strange from the ground .”
"In this case...it makes some sense." Master Xu and Qin Zhaoyun nodded in unison.
Qin Zhaoyun asked, "How is the Yin Qi current generated?"
"I guess... there is a coffin under another point, and it also has a hole."
"There's another one!?" All the villagers who heard it exclaimed.
"Well, I think so. After the coffin soul is attached to the cat, even if it has the ability to move, it is still blind. The hole is blocked, and it doesn't know where the exit is, so it can only spin around in the coffin. Until there is One day another tomb robber came, maybe it was the same one, and he found the same coffin there and broke it according to the law. He probably also let a wild cat in, creating the same situation as here."
"In this way, at night, because they occupy the same medium, they have a subtle connection with each other and sense each other's existence. Or they can sense each other's strong resentment, and they have a way forward. But they can't go out, but they can't. Unwilling to be imprisoned, there were thousands of collisions. At this time, there was a hole in the coffin, and the Yin Qi leaked out. After the two phases came and went, they gradually formed a vortex, which attracted the nearby Yin Qi. The more they gathered, the stronger they became to form a Yin Qi flow. . And the Yin Qi flow is like a wall that cuts off the Qi flow, forcing the original Qi flow to change its trend, creating a situation where Qiguan has different directions during the day and night, and even cuts off the main vein of Hui Yang Zongju."
"So the loss of life is also due to the fall of the coffin. This is a yin energy full of resentment. When a person is sleeping, the metabolism is the slowest. The body being invaded by this yin energy will speed up the metabolism. This means that the internal organs resume work during rest. , which is equivalent to not sleeping. If it goes against common sense, it is easy to age. Also, this circulation does not last all night, but should be a cycle of several hours. When it stops and resumes operation, the tree mistakenly thinks it is dawn. After a period of time, the Yin Qi circulation occurs again, and the return to Yang phase stops. Repeatedly, the tree feels as if two or three days have passed in one night, and abnormal tree rings appear. The tree's growth cycle is disrupted, and the tree's growth cycle is disrupted. Not to mention it’s human.”
"Well, that makes sense." Master Xu and Qin Zhaoyun nodded in unison again.
Jiang Jinjiu asked, "So as long as there is a lowered coffin under another point, the whole matter will come to light?"
The three of them nodded in unison, and Jiang Jinjiu immediately started digging a hole.
After digging for nearly thirty meters, there was indeed a coffin with a hole in it.
But there was no cat in the coffin, only a body without limbs hanging on a hook in the coffin.
But this does not affect the conclusion. The mysterious double death incident in Weiyang Nancun has since begun to take shape.
Generally speaking, this is the reason why the pair lowered their coffins.
Their presence attracts evil spirits, and they appear in pairs. Just like the ghosts that the brother and sister subdued, they were also attracted here and wanted to use this place to practice cultivation.
However, due to the heavy situation of returning to Yang, they dare not show up during the day and must hide in places with weak Yang energy.
Every household in rural areas has warehouses, vegetable kilns, and toilets. Places such as these that are not exposed to sunlight all year round are naturally the first choice. Even in the Huiyang Heavy Bureau, there will still be locations with stronger Yin Qi, which are also lurking places.
When animals are cultivating the path of demons, especially during the period of rapid cultivation in extremely yin places, they need to eat yang energy to offset the damage caused by yin energy to themselves.
For example, if a battery often times out when charging, it will reduce the battery life. Normal people will get sick if they take too many supplements.
The animal spirit cannot convert the external yin energy into its own power in time, so it needs to eat yang energy as a hedge to avoid being unable to bear it and causing disorder.
Since the people in Weiyang Nancun live in a state of return to Yang, even a dying person's Yang energy is much stronger than that of ordinary people, so eating it once a year is enough.
Those dead people seem to have no connection, but in fact they are all related to the Nine Palaces.
The so-called darkness under the lamp means that under the extremely strong yang energy of the Huiyang Bureau, the fluctuations in the yin energy veins are invisible to people. Only then can they successfully attack without causing abnormal phenomena.
Furthermore, there is no permanent owner of this treasured land, and people will rob it every year.
There is also a saying that "one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers", and there are also fights between evil creatures. The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. The place often changes hands, so the nature of each double-death incident is different.
In summary, the double death incident in Weiyang Nancun was both coincidence and misfortune.
But as long as this hidden danger is removed, the villagers of Weiyang South Village can sit back and relax and enjoy the benefits brought by the return to Yangzhou.
