I saw that this small earthen grave bag actually had a big hole on the side!
This hole is probably just big enough for a child to climb out.
I muttered to myself.
"As the saying goes, you are not afraid of the grave collapsing, but you are afraid of the grave soil being dug up. This has dug a big hole, and I am afraid that..."
Xia Sanjin and Xia Degui were shocked and frightened when they saw this scene.
Xia Degui still had a hint of anger.
Although he has decided to dig out his daughter's body and burn it under my leadership to avoid future troubles.
But it was because he felt it was the right thing to do.
And there is also the guidance of an "expert" like me.
But if someone else dug his daughter's grave for no apparent reason, he would still feel angry.
"Uncle Degui, don't be angry. This is not someone else digging Xia Mi's grave. You are a construction contractor, so you should know about these aspects. Look carefully at the hole..."
My tone was a little solemn.
Xia Degui was stunned.
Then he looked at the big hole on the side of the tomb again, took a closer look, and his expression suddenly changed.
His voice was trembling, and his body was shaking as well.
"This, this...how is it possible?"
Xia Sanjin didn't know why and asked him doubtfully.
"Brother Degui, what's wrong?"
Xia Degui swallowed and answered with a slightly frightened voice.
"Judging from the shape of the hole entrance and the distribution of soil next to it, this hole should be... dug from the inside!"
As expected of someone who is engaged in construction, he could indeed see the clues at a glance.
I nodded and said in a somewhat solemn tone.
"That's right! This hole should have been dug from the inside of the grave. It seems that the evil ghost in the grave escaped from the grave last night. Now it is just an empty grave."
As I spoke, I walked towards the side of the tomb, got closer and looked into the cave, and at the same time gently touched the cave wall with my hand.
There are fingernail scratches on it!
At this time, a picture emerged in my mind...
There is no one in the deep mountains and old forests at night.
There was only deathly silence and the occasional chirping of insects.
Under the moonlight, a solitary grave in the wasteland could hear the sound of nails digging into the soil.
The sharp nails dug a big hole from the inside of the tomb, and the terrifying ghost crawled out of the tomb...
A fierce ghost comes out of the grave, keep strangers away!
Even though I feel that my current cultivation level is pretty good and I have experienced a lot. But when such a picture comes to mind, I still feel a little bit nervous.
As for Xia Sanjin and Xia Degui, they were already a little scared. I wonder if my legs and feet are weak?
This kind of fear imagined in the mind may be more frightening than facing the ghost directly!
Ahem...
Seeing their funny looks of looking around suspiciously and fearfully, I coughed twice.
Then he looked at them and said.
"Don't be afraid. No matter how sneaky you are, on this sunny day, you are just a weakling. Let's dig up this dirt bag first and make final confirmation."
"Okay, Brother Wu. We all listen to you."
Xia Sanjin quickly answered.
Perhaps after leaving the village, in this barren mountain and wilderness filled with a strange atmosphere, they became more convinced of me.
Before setting off, I told Xia Degui to bring a simple shovel.
Coupled with the random sticks we got from the side, we started digging the grave...
Three men, plus a shovel, the speed is not slow.
After about half an hour, the burial mound was completely dug up.
To be honest, it is not easy for Xia Dong and a woman to dig such a grave at night!
I don't know whether to say this is maternal love or some abnormal changes caused by obsession.
It makes people feel a little sad.
Sure enough, as I said just now, this tomb is empty, there is nothing.
The evil ghost transformed by Xia Degui's daughter must have emerged from the grave last night...
I don't know where to hide in a more secluded place, and then come out after dark and go back to wander in the Xia family's yard!
"Brother Wu, what should we do?"
Xia Sanjin swallowed, looked at me and asked.
I found that what he seemed to say the most was "what to do" - even powerful people are just ordinary people in the wilderness outside the environment of human society.
I said, "Although it's broad daylight, you two should look around. I'll check to see if I can see anything in this grave."
After saying that, he squatted down and carefully dug into the dug pit in the grave.
There are some apples, pork and other offerings in this grave, as well as some girls' colorful clothes, and some rag dolls and other things...
It is estimated that when Xia Dong put her daughter's body in, she also put these funerary objects in it.
But these things seem to be quite normal. Apart from being contaminated with relatively strong corpse gas, there are no other problems.
It seems that there is no useful information in this grave.
I was just about to stand up.
Sudden!
I discovered some strange marks at the very front of the pit, near the pit wall. It's like the marks left by putting your fingers there for a long time.
Um?
I moved closer to take a closer look. At the same time, he also pulled some soil nearby with his hands.
Sure enough, clear five-finger prints appeared in front of him.
One left and one right, two hands.
"Huh? Why are there five fingerprints in the burial pit?"
I pinched my chin, a little confused.
Just imagine, under normal circumstances... people should be lying in graves. Then you can't press your hands back into the soil to make such five finger prints.
"Wait! Could it be..."
Something suddenly occurred to me, and then my eyes moved downwards, carefully searching other areas of the burial pit. I peeled away the soil with my hands to see what was going on at the bottom.
It's just as I expected!
At the back of the burial pit, I found two grooves. Near the middle of the groove, there were two smaller, circular grooves that were deeper.
In the middle, you can see fuzzy small grooves arranged very regularly.
My pupils suddenly shrank and my scalp felt numb.
Suddenly, he stood up and murmured to himself.
"I understand! I understand what's going on. I know why Xia Mi turned into a vicious ghost. It turns out that this is..."
I stood up so suddenly and talked to myself, which shocked Xia Sanjin and Xia Degui, who were standing guard next to me like two bodyguards.
Xia Sanjin asked me.
"Brother Wu, what did you find? What did you understand?"
Xia Degui also looked at me with sad eyes: "Brother Wu, do you know why my daughter's body turned into a terrifying sneak?"
I nodded and let them come closer.
Then he pointed to the pit of the tomb and said.
"Look, at the front of the burial pit, there are two five-fingerprints, one on the left and one on the right. At the back, there are two grooves - obviously they were pressed by the legs. But why is there a groove in the middle? Yes. Kneecap!”
"Human knees protrude outward and are higher than the legs. If it were the other way around, it would naturally create a deeper groove in the middle."
"As for the regular small groove in the middle, it is pressed out by facial features such as the nose, browbones, and mouth. I said this, do you understand?"
Xia Sanjin reacted faster, suddenly realized and blurted out.
"That is to say, when Sister-in-law Xia Dong buried Xiaomi's body, she didn't lay it down like a normal person would do. Instead, she turned it over, face down and back up, and buried it like this. Right, Mr. Wu? ?”
That's right!
I nodded, my expression serious, and my tone became more solemn.
"This weird way of burial, with the face down and the back up, has a special name in our industry. It's called... prone burial! Or it can also be called a strange burial directly."
