chsdbacks Chapter 78, Section 3 Tomb
Chapter 78, Section 3 Tomb
Three sticks of incense were lit on Zhang Fang's head. His soul, which was about to return to his body, followed the guidance of the incense and darted back into his body.
Zhang Fang snorted, his eyes widening as he looked around blankly.
Lin Pangzi ignored him, grabbed a handful of remi from the bowl of five remi on the altar with his left hand, and threw it out with his other hand.
Remy struck the three Japanese soldiers, creating a loud explosion that instantly blew away half of their bodies.
I arrived at that moment and lashed out with my tiger-tail whip, striking the remaining half of their bodies.
With a crisp snap, the three Japanese soldiers turned into three wisps of dark smoke and slipped back into the east wing.
"My Remy!"
I breathed a sigh of relief; everything was alright. But then I heard Fatty Lin's heartbroken howl behind me.
I turned around and saw Fatty Lin, whose face was contorted with grief and tears were streaming down his face.
"Little, little devils?"
It wasn't until then that Zhou Yuan and Dong Zhou came to their senses and sat down on the ground with a thud.
"Holy crap, you two are really something!"
Leaning against the gate, his legs trembling uncontrollably, Village Chief Wang, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, spoke at that moment.
I glanced at him; the cigarette in his mouth was trailing long ash. When he spoke, the ash finally fell off.
He was also terrified.
"Alright, stop howling, it's embarrassing!"
I tugged at Fatty Lin, and gestured towards Village Chief Wang and the others.
"What a disgrace!"
Fatty Lin, with a mournful face, pointed to the bowl of five bowls of remi rice, which was half empty, and said, "I've been saving up this bowl of remi rice for a long time. Last time, when I was fighting with Granny Long, I only used less than twenty grains. This time, in my haste, half the bowl was gone!"
"Do you know how difficult it is to draw incantations and spells on such a tiny grain of rice?"
"I can't even save up one pill a day!"
As he spoke, Fatty Lin trembled with heartache.
"I know, I know!"
While trying to soothe him, I said, "How about I give you my Kongmei.com account and password later?"
Remi is made from brown rice. When making it, a complete Five Thunder Talisman must be carved on the brown rice and then incantated. Because the rice grains are so small, carving is very difficult.
The key is that the carving cannot be stopped; it must be completed in one go. If there is any mistake in the middle, the rice must be replaced and the process must be started again.
Once, Fatty Lin started carving talismans at eight in the morning and didn't finish a single one until one in the morning.
Carving the talisman is not the end of the process; an incantation must also be performed.
In short, refining Remi is a labor of love.
After each training session with Remy, Fatty Lin needed to rest for three or four days to recover.
I used to joke with Fatty Lin, saying that if he didn't become a Taoist priest, he could do micro-carving.
This bowl of Remy must have been saved up by Fatty Lin for several years. He usually couldn't bear to use it and always used it to weigh down the jar.
If it weren't for the warning from the patriarch, he wouldn't have brought Remy along. Unexpectedly, half of them were used up in one go.
It's also because he's too fat and his hands are too big; he grabbed one and half a bowl of remi was gone.
"Really for me?"
Upon hearing that I was going to give him my Kongmei.com account, Fatty Lin instantly became fully energized.
"You really gave it to me!"
I gritted my teeth and said, "When have I ever lied to you!"
"Don't tell my younger siblings!"
Fatty Lin made a threat, then looked at the remaining half bowl of Remy with a pained expression, and beckoned to Village Chief Wang, saying, "Uncle Wang, come here!"
"Why!"
Village Chief Wang trotted over like a lackey.
"Uncle Wang, something's not right about this house. We'll go in and check it out in a bit!" Fatty Lin pointed to the east wing, hesitated for a moment, then counted out fifteen grains of rice from the bowl of five thunder rice. He handed five grains to Village Chief Wang, and five each to Zhou Yuan and Dong Zhou, saying, "You two keep an eye on things outside. If you find anything wrong, throw out the thunder rice you're holding. Don't throw it all out at once, just throw out one grain at a time!"
"Why!"
Village Chief Wang held Remi in both hands, as if he wanted to offer the rice as a sacrifice.
Zhou Yuan and Dong Zhou reacted much like Village Chief Wang, both looking at the rice in their hands with obvious delight.
After giving his instructions, Fatty Lin poured the remaining rice from the rice bowl into a rice bag and carried it with him.
"Walk!"
After dealing with Remy, Fatty Lin nodded to me.
"Um!"
I didn't say much, I just gripped the tiger-tail whip tighter.
The appearance of those three Japanese devils was too suspicious, and we didn't wipe them out just now, we only seriously injured them. They are still in the east wing.
Upon entering, we found that the room contained nothing but a kang (a heated brick bed).
Something's not right here; there's definitely something fishy going on.
"Crazy, I'll check the wall, you check the ground!" Fatty Lin said after thinking for a moment.
"good!"
I nodded.
Over the next few minutes, Fatty Lin tapped on the wall to test if there were any hidden compartments inside, while I checked the floor to see if there were any tunnels or similar structures.
"This brick is wrong!"
Soon, I noticed that the sound of stepping on a blue brick was a bit hollow.
Fatty Lin quickly came over and we checked the brick together.
Two minutes later, we found a loose brick. We pried it open, and there was light underneath. I looked inside and could vaguely see a large rock.
Because the light was too dim, it was difficult to see exactly what the stone looked like.
After getting up, Fatty Lin and I exchanged a glance. We grabbed the bricks next to us through the gaps in the exposed bricks and pulled them up. A brick door, about half a meter square and made up of more than ten bricks, was pulled up by us, and a cold aura rushed out.
"Whoa!"
I stood up and stepped back. The smell was pungent; it had a musty smell, a foul smell, and a burning incense smell. All sorts of smells mixed together, making it very irritating.
After the smell dissipated a bit, Fatty Lin squatted down on the side and looked down.
"A three-section tomb!"
With just one glance, Fatty Lin's expression changed.
"The grave of the Japanese devils?" I immediately realized what that stone that looked like a monument I had just seen was.
What is a three-section tomb?
The graves of Japanese soldiers are generally composed of three stones: the top one is the tombstone, the bottom one is a square base, and the bottom one is another base.
Because of these three stones, the Japanese soldiers' graves are generally also known as the Three-Section Graves.
The question is, why is there a Japanese soldier's grave here?
It would be one thing if they had it, but to keep it in the basement is quite another.
Moreover, the light we see is provided by an ever-burning lamp.
The four eternal lamps were placed in the four corners of the wall, while the three sections of the tomb were located in the middle.
The presence of an ever-burning lamp indicates that someone comes regularly to provide lamp oil for it.
"Damn it, setting up three sections of a tomb here, they're definitely up to no good!"
Fatty Lin muttered something to himself.
"Could it be the same as Fourth Sister's factory last time?" I asked.
"Possibly!" said Fatty Lin.
"Let Village Chief Wang go find a ladder. The two of us will go down and see what's going on. If it's really as we guessed, we'll call Third Master immediately and have him send someone to handle it!" I said.
"Okay!" Fatty Lin nodded.
Half an hour later, the ladder arrived.
Fatty Lin went down first, then it was my turn.
After landing, I immediately saw the skeletal human head placed in front of the tomb.
That's not the point. The point is that the bottommost layer of the three tombs is deeply embedded in the ground.
This reminds me of the term: nailing down the dragon vein!