Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

As Old Man Su told the story.

The image that emerged in my mind was a fifty-year-old man on all fours, leaping like a cat with a pheasant in his mouth.

call!

The night breeze blew gently, and I got goose bumps all over my body.

The two boys, Su Lou and Su Sheng, both crawled into Su Meng's arms, and the three of them, father and son, hugged each other and trembled.

"Dad, stop talking."

"Grandpa, I'm so scared!"

Their family doesn't look like they are pretending.

Instead, it indirectly proved that Old Man Su was not lying.

Cui Hao and Wang Hu hugged each other without knowing when. They both pretended to be calm, but Ju Lie's shaking legs betrayed them.

Shi Nianzi, however, remained calm and tilted his head as he said, "That sounds quite interesting. Is he practicing Xingyi Kung Fu?"

"My grandfather said that to practice tiger boxing, you have to learn from the tiger, or at least the cat."

"Your brother-in-law might be practicing tiger boxing."

His words broke the tense and terrifying atmosphere.

Old Man Su was stunned for a while, then he raised his pipe to his lips and took a deep puff.

"This guy is joking."

"My eldest brother-in-law can't even do horse stance, how can he possibly learn tiger fist or cat fist?"

"In the middle of the night, he would leap and run on all fours like a cat. I watched him do that for several nights in a row."

"I go out every night in the early morning and come back at daybreak with small animals like pheasants and hares."

"By dawn, chicken feathers, rabbit skins, bones, and blood were found outside his room."

"He ate all the things that were caught!"

“Eat it raw!”

"Hiss!" We gasped at the same time.

The image of catching pheasants and rabbits and eating them raw came to my mind.

He bit hard at the still-breathing chicken and rabbit, blood spurting onto his face and the ground, and the air was filled with the smell of blood...

Just thinking about that scene makes me want to vomit.

Old Man Su walked up to me with a wry smile.

In a voice that only I could hear, he said, "This isn't the scariest part."

"The scariest thing is that I found out the other night that he didn't leave the yard, but went into my grandson's room."

"He jumped onto the kang like a cat, sniffing Lou'er and Sheng'er's faces, and several times opened his mouth towards their necks!"

"He, he, he wants to eat people!"

"I was so anxious that I grabbed a kitchen knife and prepared to fight him. He was startled and left my grandson's room, jumped over the wall and disappeared."

"But the next day... a three-year-old child disappeared from the village."

"Villagers searched everywhere and found the body in the woods outside the village. The child had been gnawed to a bloody pulp, with his internal organs ripped out!"

"I'm scared! Really scared!"

"I didn't dare tell the villagers anything. I took my children and grandchildren and ran away, thinking of leaving here and living somewhere else."

Old Man Su couldn't hold back his emotions any longer.

Tears rolled down his wrinkled cheeks.

"Master Chen, listen to my advice, that cave is not a good place!"

"My eldest brother-in-law is a warning to you!"

"He's become neither human nor ghost, a monster!"

I couldn't help but think of Meng Jingye.

In the tomb of the king of Bi State, he was bitten by a snake and scales grew on his body and became like a snake.

Could it be that Old Man Su’s brother-in-law is in a similar situation?

After entering the cave, he was bitten by a strange cat.

Then they become ferocious cats like bobcats and lynxes.

"Are you sure your uncle entered the cave?"

"This... I'm not sure. I guess he went to the cave, otherwise there's no way to explain the injuries on his body."

"What kind of injury is it?" I asked.

Old Man Su gestured with his hands and said, "These are very thin and long wounds. They don't match the claw marks of wild beasts in the mountains at all."

Shangluo is located in a mountainous area.

There are ferocious beasts such as leopards, black bears, and golden cats in the deep mountains and forests.

These beasts all have sharp claws.

One claw can tear off a large piece of flesh.

Moreover, when cats such as leopards and golden cats start fighting, they often bite the throat.

Strive to kill with one blow in the shortest possible time.

Old Man Su's brother-in-law was covered with scars, but his throat was not injured.

It is indeed inconsistent with the attack habits of wild beasts in the mountains.

"I don't think those wounds were caused by wild beasts in the mountains. They are so thin and long that they look like they were caused by fish teeth."

"I guess it was the fish spirit in the cave who did it."

Old Man Su’s guess makes some sense.

But only his uncle knows what exactly happened.

But his uncle's current situation...

"Lao Su, do you want to save your uncle?"

"Of course I do. Do you have a way to save him?"

"Of course I can't do anything, but I know someone who might be able to save him. If you trust me, come with me."

I thought of Taoist Master Zhang.

This kind of weird thing is exactly what he is good at.

And you can also see how capable the elderly are.

I briefly explained the situation of Taoist Master Zhang, and Old Man Su nodded immediately.

"Okay, okay, let's go find Taoist Master Zhang!"

We rushed to Miaowan Village overnight.

The atmosphere on the road was very depressing.

Cui Hao came close to me and whispered, "Brother, what's going on?"

"Remember Meng Jingye's body was covered with snake scales?"

"How could I forget? I even dreamed about it in nightmares...hiss! Are you saying that his brother-in-law is similar to Meng Jingye?"

I nodded slowly.

Cui Hao's expression became serious.

The horror of the tomb of the King of Bi State is still vivid in my mind.

The sudden change in Old Man Su's brother-in-law seemed to indicate that things would get even more horrific in the cave.

"Meng Jingye turned into a snake because he was bitten by one, and his brother-in-law turned into a lynx. Could there be a cat demon in the cave?"

He has similar ideas to mine.

We are all making speculations based on the experiences found in the tomb of the King of Bi State.

So it is inevitable that there is a bit of a "sticking to the boat to find the sword" approach.

We hurried on the road and arrived at Miaowan Village in the early morning.

Last time I came here, I pretended to be a Hong Kong businessman, thinking that I must not meet the village chief Han Gaotian this time.

I simply woke up Taoist Zhang and rushed to Old Man Su’s village overnight to check the situation.

But when we were still three or four hundred meters away from Miaowan Village, we saw flames rising into the sky at the village entrance.

It wasn't that the village was on fire.

Someone lit a huge bonfire at the entrance of the village.

The bonfire dyed the dark night red, but it made me feel weird.

Who has nothing better to do than light such a big bonfire so late at night?

Looking more closely, I saw a dozen people in white mourning clothes scattering paper money into the bonfire.

The scattered paper money was blown up by the heat wave and floated into the sky.

What's going on? !

At that moment, all of us felt numb from our heels to our brains.

"Do you have the custom of burning paper in the early morning?" I asked, suppressing my fear.

Old Su shook his head stiffly.

"No, no!"

"I've lived for most of my life, and I've never seen anyone burning paper in the early morning!"

"Or, let's run away quickly!" Old man Su said with tears in his voice, obviously he was very scared.

Cui Hao and Wang Hu grabbed my arms, one on each side. "Brother (Master Chen), let's go first. Safety first!"

I nodded slowly.

When I was about to leave with them, I suddenly heard the sound of suona behind me!

The suona plays sad music!

We heard the sound and looked back.

Just one look and our scalps were about to explode!