Keli looked inside the arch and continued: "This matter is just a legend after all. No one has seen any ghost monks with their own eyes. The common people only saw the Qinling Tianshi Taoist priests who came to perform rituals a few times. Later, there was a ghost monk in the Hexi Corridor. The news about the ghost monk can’t stop.”
"As for the real situation, whether it is a ghost monk who has been dead for thousands of years, there is no conclusion yet. All this is just a legend so far."
Yue Guanchao carefully considered the current situation. Since the noisy ghost sounds are related to the monk's bones, they have found the source: "Anyway, we have found the source of the ghost sounds. If we don't go there to take a look because of legends, it is somewhat unreasonable. .”
"Keli, aren't you curious about what this corpse of a monk who can ring bells is?"
After that, the two walked into the arch, and Song Siyuan and Xu Xiake also strode in. Only Wang Yuanlu stood outside the door, shivering and not daring to come in.
In the niche with the word "Mi", the details of the monk's corpse gradually came into view.
This monk corpse was very tall, with broad shoulders and slender legs. Judging from these two characteristics, he was probably a strong eight-foot man when he was alive. His body was covered with red and yellow mixture. The miscellaneous shawl monk's robe is completely different from the monk's robe in Han Dynasty. Judging from the Tubo flowers and grass patterns on the waistband of the cassock, he is probably a monk whose identity is related to Tubo Buddhism.
Through these stripped and broken monk robes, they could directly see the degree of decay of the monk's body. Due to the thousands of years since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the land in Hexi gradually dried up and dried up. This arid and rainless environment was very suitable for preserving corpses, and probably also For this reason, the monk's body is relatively intact. Except for the arm that often rings the bell, it can be said that there is almost no decay at all.
His body, including the skin, legs, feet, and head, was extremely complete. It was as if it had been evaporated dry by something, forming a corpse with a complete head and tail. The outer skin of the corpse was covered with gray and black after thousands of years of lack of water. The corpse spots were a tan color, and the fat under the skin had completely dried up, leaving the skin completely attached to the bones.
Looking at the head of the monk's corpse, the eye sockets are sunken, the nose is collapsed, the ears are shrunken, and the mouth looks like an old man's skin that lacks elasticity and is full of wrinkles after losing water. The skin on the entire head is as dry as numbness, showing a full appearance. It's a striped state.
On the top of the monk's corpse, there is a copper bell made of brass, which is embedded directly into the Mi-shaped niche from the ground. If you shine the flashlight upward, you can directly see the five-meter-high brass tower body from inside the copper bell. In this case, it means that the brass tower body has been linked with the copper bell to form a through-structure from the ground to the underground.
There is a protruding copper handle ring on each side of the bronze bell. It can be seen that there are red cloth knotted into rope rings and blown down the bronze bell. The side close to the monk corpse directly strangles the waist of the monk corpse, forming an upward pulling force. Said, directly fixing the monk's corpse in place.
They turned their attention to the monk's arm. His hand appeared to be holding the sutra pestle. At the same time, a red cloth strip was wrapped around the arm, directly tying the arm and the sutra pestle together to form a knot. The arm that struck the bell was tied to the sutra pestle. Compared to the body, it was not even complete. The skin had been completely cut off, and the muscles inside were broken and black, revealing the dried tendons and veins. It was this arm that was ringing the bell and startled them.
At this moment, Kerry's bow and arrow directly fixed his arm on the beam, and the monk's corpse was fixed and stopped moving.
Song Siyuan picked up the flashlight and shined it on the monk's nose. It was filled with dust. If he was still breathing, the dust around the nose would have been blown away. In the bright beam of the flashlight, the dust near the monk's nose was visible. It continues to fill the air without any sign of disturbance or blowing, which shows that the monk corpse is not a breathing creature.
"Could it be that he was parasitized by some sand vine in the desert, so he can still move after death?"
Xu Xiake remembered the sand vine he mentioned and looked around the monk's corpse. Except for a layer of sand and some animal skeletons, there was nothing else underground.
Song Siyuan suggested: "If this corpse is really alive, how could it be immobilized by a bow and arrow? According to the behavior of a living creature being attacked, he should have to break free. How could it be possible to return to static state like now, unless, this The corpse can move not because it can move itself, but because some external force affects it."
When she mentioned this, her eyes lit up: "I suggest that the bow and arrow be pulled out. Let's see if the corpse can still move after the bow and arrow is pulled out. If it can still move, it may be caused by external force, not that the corpse is alive. of."
Keli nodded and pulled out the arrow with his arm. At the same time, everyone began to retreat out of the arch.
As long as the bow and arrow were completely away from the monk's corpse, the originally static corpse immediately returned to its original position under the guidance of the rope around his waist. At the same time, his arms began to ring the bell while swinging back and forth, and continued to ring. A buzzing, noisy ghostly sound.
Song Siyuan shined a flashlight on the corpse. Seeing that the corpse was knocking the bell without any consciousness, she unconsciously approached the corpse and began to observe the movement of the monk's corpse. She wanted to understand the details and reasons, and her eyes lit up: "I You know what’s going on.”
Then, she grabbed the sand from the ground and placed it near the monk's corpse. The moment she let go, the sand was first blown backwards, and then quickly blown away by the wind in the opposite direction, directly towards the bronze bell.
Although the weight of the yellow sand is different from that of the corpse, it at least illustrates one thing - when the monk's corpse moves, it will be affected by two completely opposite winds, and then it will pitch backward and then tip forward to ring the bell.
After everyone watched the whole process, their thoughts suddenly became enlightened. Song Siyuan continued to explain: "We can also see from the outside that there are culverts under the iron plate. When there is water, these culverts serve as water diversions..."
For thousands of years, the karez has continued to dry up, and there is no river water in the culverts. However, due to the special structure of the karez, these culverts directly lead to certain rivers in the outside world. If the rivers dry up, wind will enter this niche through these culverts. .
From this, they can feel that it is very cool under the niche, and there is even a cold wind blowing.
This Mi-shaped niche is built in the center of the underground niche, just above these culverts. Cold wind blowing from all directions will continue to blow into the Mi-shaped niche through the holes in the iron plate, forming cold winds from all directions.
At this time, the waist of the monk's corpse was fixed by the ribbon on the handle. If there was no influence of wind, the corpse could be fixed completely. However, as the water level of the underground culvert dropped, a large amount of wind entered the Mi-zi niche and blew the corpse away. Blowing all over the place.
And because the monk's corpse was completely fixed at the waist and could not move, the cold wind could not blow the corpse elsewhere. It could only be restrained by the silk belt around the waist, and it was blown down by the wind and lay on its back and then on its face. This formed a The state of lying down and lying down again.
Because the monk's corpse had a sutra pestle tied to its arm, the corpse was unconsciously blown back and forth by the wind, ringing the bronze bell in front of him. For nearly a thousand years, the corpse had not rotted at all when it was dry, just because The lack of water caused it to dry up. During this period, the cold wind that kept pouring into the culvert caused the corpse to unconsciously ring the thousand-year-old copper bell.
"That's not right. No matter how durable the corpse is, it cannot last for thousands of years without falling apart. If it has been blown by the cold wind for so long, how can it be preserved so completely? Only the arms show signs of decay."
