In the dark night, Zhang Hazi's words were like a bottomless abyss, swallowing me completely.
Before I could react, I saw Xie Bugui staggering and flopping forward several times before regaining his balance.
He breathed heavily and asked Zhang Hazi, what do you mean by this? He doesn't even have any craftsmanship, how could he possibly repeat the same tactics he did twenty-two years ago?
Zhang Hazi did not answer the question, but paused suddenly, and then ran back faster. Xie Bugui and I didn't know what he meant, so we had no choice but to turn around and follow him.
But before we ran into the yard, we saw Zhang Hazi running out of the yard again, but this time, he had an extra backpack on his back, which was something we had prepared before we entered the village.
I don’t know why, but seeing him carrying this backpack made my blood boil.
Five years ago, as long as Zhang Hazi appeared with this backpack on his back, no matter how dangerous the situation was, he would be able to solve it smoothly, giving people an extremely reassuring sense of security.
It's just that in the past five years, he has rarely carried this backpack by himself, but always let me carry it. But today, he carried this backpack again as always, and the memories of the past swept through my body like a flood that burst a dam.
But I also know that since Zhang Hazi has put on this backpack himself, it means that the matter has reached a very serious stage. A wave of worry rose up unconsciously, slowly drowning my previous memories.
After Zhang Hazi put on his backpack, his speed was not much slower than before, and he ran towards Xie Chuanji's house again.
On the way, Xie Bugui asked the same question again. Zhang Hazi did not answer directly. Instead, he asked him, "Xie Chuan was planning on someone else's house. Did someone die fifty-five years ago?"
Xie Bugui thought about it for a moment, then immediately shook his head and said, no. Their family is one of the few families in the village that is not affected.
Zhang Hazi nodded and said, then the problem is, there are a lot of people in your Xiejia Village, even people who were not affected by the incident fifty-five years ago, there are several households, why does the other party want to take your son? Xie Chuanji's grandson is here to play the dice?
Xie Bugui can't answer this question, and I can't answer it either. I can only understand it as a coincidence?
Zhang Hazi said, "Ring after row" emphasizes cause and effect and craftsmanship. Could it be a coincidence that the choice of dice is a coincidence?
If it is not a coincidence, is it possible that it is inevitable?
Before Zhang Hazi had time to answer this question, we had already rushed to Xie Chuanji's house. What shocked us was that the yard was empty
It was empty. Not only was there no one to guard the corpses, but the two corpses in the main room were also missing!
Zhang Hazi knew something was wrong when he heard the silence in the yard. He immediately shouted thank you for not returning and went to the backyard to see if the two coffins were still there.
Xie Bugui galloped away and came back in the blink of an eye, cursing and cursing. My cousin told me not to put him in the coffin, but he refused to listen. It's okay now, the living dead and the coffin are all gone!
I asked Zhang Hazi, I could understand that the two corpses were missing. Where had the village chief and the others gone?
Hearing this, Zhang Hazi frowned and pondered for a moment, then suddenly reached out and grabbed my right hand, pulled it up into the air and shook it, then let go and said something incomprehensible, I will be a scumbag in your house, so thoughtful. , it turned out to be a serial scheme!
After finishing speaking, Zhang Hazi ignored it, turned around and ran towards the darkness.
Xie Bugui and I looked at each other and hurriedly followed.
After running for a while, I found that the direction was not to thank him and not return to his home, but to run towards the outside of the village. Moreover, the direction I looked at was exactly the direction of the cemetery I had visited during the day.
Seeing Zhang Hazi running so purposefully, I guessed that he knew the other party's plan, so I asked, which grave did they go to?
Zhang Hazi said, you'd better be mentally prepared, I won't be able to see it anyway.
I was already worried, but when I heard Zhang Hazi's words, I felt even more panicked. Before I could ask what exactly we were seeing, we were running out of the village and onto the path to the cemetery.
Although there was still a certain distance from the tomb, through the faint moonlight from a distance, I saw something that seemed to be lying across the road in front of the tomb. And it seems that the thing can still move, but the closer we get, the slower the thing crawls forward.
We were anxious to see clearly what that thing was, so we quickened our pace and caught up with it in a short while. However, when there were still dozens of meters away from the thing, Xie Bugui and I both stopped at the same time. In addition to widening our eyes, we almost forgot to breathe.
Under the dim moonlight, we saw villagers from Xiejia Village lying on the path leading to the cemetery. The three of them were in a row, their heads and feet connected in front and back, all lying on the ground, spreading dozens of feet in front and back.
And this is just one team. There are three teams on both sides of this team, which means there are seven teams on the left and right!
But that's not the most shocking thing. The most shocking thing is that on the backs of these seven teams, there are two coffins, which are the two coffins of Xie Chuanji's grandson!
Hundreds of villagers from Xiejia Village, tens of feet long from front to back and seven to eight feet wide from left to right, are crawling forward slowly but firmly. And on top of them, there were two huge black coffins. The scene was so spectacular and strange that just one look at them was enough to make people forget to breathe.
If Zhang Hazi hadn't reached out and slapped us both awake, I think Xie Bugui and I would have probably suffocated to death here!
"Seven-Level Pagoda"!
After Xie Bugui woke up, he blurted out breathlessly.
Only then did I remember the legend that Xie Bugui told us when we first came to this cemetery. At first I thought that the giant python camel coffin was a 'Nine Dragon Coffin', but both Zhang Hazi and Xie Bugui said that the highest specification of the giant python camel coffin was a 'seven-level pagoda'.
Zhang Hazi also said that it was fortunate that there were only five giant pythons in the humpback coffin. If there had been seven, the world would not be the same as it is now.
But there are seven long teams of villagers in front of them. From a distance, they look like seven giant pythons. Isn't it the 'seven-level pagoda'? I always thought this was just a legend, but I never thought there really was such a thing in the world?
My head buzzed, as if I had been struck by lightning. Xie Bugui said that the seven-level pagoda is sent to people to be born in bliss, not to enter reincarnation, and to become immortals and Buddhas. Doesn't that mean that Xie Chuanji's grandson will become an immortal and a Buddha and enjoy eternal life?
Zhang Hazi cursed loudly after hearing this, saying that he would become an immortal, a Buddha, and enjoy eternal life through bullshit. This was clearly a wishful thinking and a disregard for human life!
After scolding him, he asked if he was going back. Did the legend in your village tell you about the fate of the five giant pythons that your ancestors killed in the coffin?
Xie Bugui nodded and said that he would die from exhaustion and turn into a tomb-suppressing beast, which would forever guard the tomb and protect the ancestors.
Zhang Hazi snorted coldly and said, in other words, these people with the surname Xie in the camel coffins will all die when the coffins arrive at that cemetery!
I say, what are you waiting for, hurry up and save people!
Zhang Hazi smiled bitterly and said, "How about a rescue?" If I had the craftsmanship skills to replace my fellow villagers with paper-cut figurines, I might be able to save some people. But now I have nothing to offer, you want me to save you?
Xie Bugui yelled and said, I can't care how old I am because I am just a cousin, so I will pull them out of the team one by one.
Xie Bugui said that he was about to leave, but was stopped by Zhang Hazi with just one word.
Zhang Hazi said that the reason why the seven-level pagoda requires a giant python to hump the coffin is because the snake's head to its tail are one whole. In other words, as long as one person is missing, they will all die immediately. It's a simple truth, haha, I want it. Teach you how to move?
Seeing hundreds of villagers lying on the ground carrying coffins and slowly crawling forward, a feeling of despair instantly spread throughout their bodies.
Is... is there really nothing we can do? !
