Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Chapter 188: Crossing the Yin, Yongguo

I slapped the bugs off my body frantically.

But the bugs were crawling all over my body in layers.

They began to tear at the clothes.

With a creaking sound, my coarse cloth clothes were torn into pieces, and more and more insects crawled into my clothes.

There was also a burning pain from being bitten all over the body.

If this continues, I will be eaten alive by insects!

I gritted my teeth and rolled back and forth on the ground, trying to crush the bugs on my body to death.

After rolling a few times, it did crush a lot of insects to death.

But the crushed insects spray out juice, which attracts more insects.

Buzz!

Countless insects weighed down on me like a mountain.

The pain from being bitten by insects spread all over my body.

My skin swelled up as if it were inflated due to the burning and stinging pain, and blood kept oozing out of the wounds bitten by insects.

I didn't even have the strength to roll over.

My consciousness began to blur, and I felt like death was approaching.

Woo~!

The melodious flute sound came again.

I tried hard to open my eyelids which were swollen from insect bites.

He opened his eyelids with great difficulty and looked in the direction where the flute sound came from.

My vision is blurry, and everything I see is foggy and has double images.

It is probably the insect's toxin that affects vision.

I saw a monkey mask swaying back and forth not far away.

It's that water monkey!

It held a white flute in its hand and waved it back and forth.

As the flute was swung, it made a continuous humming sound.

This flute doesn’t even need to be blown!

Just wave it and it will make sound!

Isn't this a flute?

Actually, I was not very knowledgeable at that time.

I thought flutes were played horizontally and required skill to play them.

There is actually a kind of recorder with a mouthpiece that can make sound when it is blown by the wind.

What the water monkey holds in his hand is a recorder with a mouthpiece.

Woohoo~!

The water monkey waved its arms faster and faster, and the sound of the flute became more and more urgent.

Flutter.

A crow flew over.

It landed on the water monkey's masked head and stared at me with its scarlet eyes.

crow!

Looks so familiar!

Isn’t this the crow that landed on the old man’s shoulder in Xiangxi that night!

By the way, the white flute in the water monkey’s hand is exactly the same as the bone flute hanging around the neck of the old man in Xiangxi!

Did these two things come in with the coffin?

But what is the relationship between the water monkey and the old man from Xiangxi?

I felt like I was in a huge trap.

But my mind was too hazy to think further.

The sound of the flute seemed to have a hypnotic effect.

I forced my eyelids open, but they relaxed involuntarily and my consciousness became increasingly blurred.

I felt cold all over, and my whole body was shaking.

I felt my body become lighter.

The light ones can fly.

Is this going to kill me?

It’s like the soul leaves the body and you feel very light.

I opened my eyes while I was lost in thought.

My eyelids opened easily and I didn't feel any pain at all.

I was surprised to find that Baoer was standing next to the water monkey!

It’s the dead Baoer!

The corpse turned into corpse fluid, leaving only the bones of Baoer!

Is this an illusion?

Or am I really dead?

I looked down and saw another me lying on the ground.

His clothes were torn to shreds by insect bites, his body was covered with scars, and blood kept flowing out of the wounds.

Then I became a bloody man!

Maybe he has already become a corpse!

Am I out of body now, or am I a ghost?

In fact, I was in a very mysterious state at that time.

Later, when Taoist Master Zhang rescued me, he said that I had been induced into a state of Yin.

Crossing the Yin means passing from the world of the living to the world of the dead.

The first time a person passes through the Yin often happens unconsciously in a dream, and the age at which they pass through the Yin for the first time is not fixed.

The period before and after festivals such as Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, and Cold Clothes Festival, which are festivals dedicated to the worship of the dead, is a peak period for the occurrence of the Yin.

There is a saying that during these festivals, a large number of dead souls return to the world of the living to visit their families, and the underworld does not have enough ghost messengers, so they will look for people with ghost powers from the world of the living to help.

Usually, people who have experienced the Yin several times will gradually realize that they have experienced the Yin in their dreams.

Some people keep their experiences of the Yin very secretive.

But some people take the initiative to use their Yin abilities and become Yin-walking people by practicing some magical methods.

Compared with the passive nature of traveling to the underworld in dreams, people who travel to the underworld can use magic to actively enter the underworld to search for dead souls, gather information, etc.

Among the ghost masters of the Miao and Dong ethnic groups, the methods of using underworld tactics are still popular.

Let me go back to my situation at that time.

I felt so light that I felt like I could be blown away by a gust of wind.

Baoer kept waving at me from a distance.

He tilted his pale, blue head, his eyebrows and eyes squeezed together, and white nematodes crawled out of his nostrils and ears.

The white nematodes shook their heads and slowly crawled on his face.

But he seemed unaware of it. Instead, his mouth was stretched into a square shape, revealing eight teeth, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised as if he was smiling.

I looked at his smile, then turned to look at the water monkey's mask.

His smile is exactly like the monkey mask!

"come."

"I'll take you to find the treasure." Baoer said softly.

I thought to myself that I had become a soul, so there was nothing to be afraid of.

Things that are not figured out before death must be figured out after death.

Otherwise I would die with regrets.

"What treasure are you looking for?" I walked towards Baoer.

It might not be appropriate to say leave.

I felt like I was floating as I walked.

"Hehehe, their baby." Baoer smiled innocently and pointed to the cave I came from.

My vision flickered.

Immediately afterwards, fire was seen from the direction of the cave entrance.

Are the rescuers coming in?

Just when I was wondering, a group of wounded young men, old men, women and children were taken into the cave and made to kneel in front of the altar.

Two large flags stand behind the throne in the center of the altar.

The flag on the left is embroidered with a monkey with horns on its head, which looks exactly like a monkey mask.

This is a totem flag from the tribal period!

Totem worship was popular among tribes and states in the early Shang Dynasty, and each tribe had its own totem.

A muscular man wearing leather armor raised a torch and lit the totem flag with a grim smile.

At the moment the totem flag burned, everyone kneeling in front of the altar cried out in grief.

Immediately afterwards, the flag with large characters on the right was also set on fire.

The words on the flag are similar to the bronze inscriptions on bronze ware, and I actually recognize them!

That character is similar to the character "yong" in bronze inscriptions.

The mediocrity of a mediocrity country!

When Ai Wuba helped me translate the inscriptions on the bronze plate, I paid close attention to them.

And carefully read the inscriptions and compared them with the translation.

I especially remember the word "yong"!

Because Yong State is also an important clue.

The burning flag at this moment and the scene of the tribe being invaded match the legend that Han Gaotian had told before.

According to legend, the local king went into the cave to look for the messenger of God and prayed to Black Tai Sui to grant him the magical item of immortality, but he never returned.

It wasn't long before his vassal states were invaded and annexed by outsiders.

Isn’t the scene before our eyes an invasion?

While I was thinking, a dozen strong men came over carrying a scarlet bed on their shoulders.

The stretcher is surrounded by a fence wrapped with gold wire and inlaid with various colorful gems.

What shocked me the most was that there was a giant snake coiled on the bed!

A giant snake with a pair of claws on its upper body!

It is almost the same as the two-clawed snake in the tomb of the King of Bi State!

Could this be the Baon snake?