Jiajing Spiritual Records

The depth of the nearby water was relatively shallow, and after the two of them swam forward for a while, the entire underground river was completely bottomless.

Su Xian stopped suddenly, "What's wrong?" Ning Huan asked.

Su Xian frowned, and said: "There is something under the water, I'll go down and have a look." After speaking, he plunged into the water and dived directly.

Ning Huan waited on the surface of the water for a while, but there was no sign of Su Xian.The surroundings were quiet, Ning Huan panted in a low voice, and called out "Su Xian? Su Xian?", but no one responded.Ning Huan thought for a while, but he still held the mermaid pearl uneasy, and then dived into the water.

It's late winter outside, and although the water in the dark river is warmer than outside, it won't freeze, but it can't stand the biting cold, and Ning Huan's hands and feet are already stiff from the cold.The water in the dark river has reached two feet deep, Ning Huan touched the rock wall beside him and dived to the bottom.It was pitch black all around, and there was no trace of Su Xian.Where did you go?Ning Huan was a little anxious. He was about to go back to the water to have a look, but he saw a faint green light approaching him in the distance.

Ning Huan's heart trembled suddenly, a green face was gradually revealed behind the flames, Ning Huan gasped for breath, and turned to run.Unexpectedly, the "water ghost" behind him swam so fast and grabbed his ankle to drag him underwater.Ning Huan gritted his teeth, pulled out the short knife by his side and slashed at the "Water Ghost"'s face.Ning Huan took the opportunity to kick the "water ghost" on the chest, turned around and swam to the surface of the water.

"Suxian! Where are you? Help, there are water ghosts!" Ning Huan shouted.

A familiar face appeared on the water behind "Putong", "Su Xian!" Ning Huan shouted excitedly, "You are finally back!" Said and swam towards him.

But soon Ning Huan found that Su Xian's complexion was not very good, "Are you okay?" Ning Huan asked with concern.

Su Xian turned to Ning Huan, and laughed dryly a few times: "It's okay, but I was almost stabbed to death."

"You also met that water ghost?" Ning Huan looked at Su Xian suspiciously at first, seeing that he was not joking at all, he wondered in his heart, could it be that all the water ghosts have learned to use knives now?I can't help but feel that even Su Xian's skills are no match for him. It seems that this man probably had high martial arts skills during his lifetime, but it's a pity that he died here.Then Ning Huan rejoiced for a while, fortunately he had just pulled out the saber wittily earlier, but he gradually realized that something was wrong. "Fang... That person just now can't be you, right?"

Su Xian snorted coldly to express his acquiescence.It had been a long time since Ning Huan had heard him moaning and chirping, and he was in a bad mood, it seemed that he was really in a hurry.But he can't be blamed for this, anyone would draw their sword in that situation.

"Then, that side... What did you want from me just now?" Ning Huan's heart tightened, seeing that Su Xian still looked unfriendly and asked cautiously.

"There's something down there, just now I saw you at the bottom of the water, so I wanted to take you to see it." Ning Huan thought that this was a big misunderstanding, he thought it was some water ghost who wanted to drag him down to act as a substitute for the dead ghost.He squeezed out a smile and said, "What's down there?"

Su Xian frowned and thought for a while: "You should go down and have a look yourself."

A green dot flashed by the water's edge, Ning Huan poked it carefully, feeling curious since just now, so he asked, "What is this?"

"Road Guide Talisman." Su Xian said, "Things under the water can be clearly illuminated with this thing."

Ning Huan nodded with a half understanding: "Then let's go down."

The two dived into the water, the road guide talisman flashing a faint green light ahead, Ning Huan followed behind Su Xian, the underwater scene gradually became clearer.Su Xian stopped and pointed to Ning Huan.Ning Huan lowered his head, and saw that the bottom of the river was densely packed with layers of earthen pots almost half the height of a person.

Ning Huan looked at Su Xian with doubts on his face, Su Xian opened one of the pots and motioned Ning Huan to look inside.Ning Huan poked his head slightly, and saw a gray-white skeleton curled up inside. The whole skeleton showed a shrunken and deformed posture. The hands and feet were completely misplaced, and it seemed that someone had forced it into it.Su Xian opened another clay pot next to it. Similarly, there was a skeleton lying in it.Almost all of the dozens of clay pots around were like this. Ning Huan glanced at the pile of pots that were so densely packed that they couldn't even reach the edge, and felt a chill down his spine.With such a large number of clay pots, this place is probably a "thousand people's pit".Just why are there so many weird clay pots here?

The green light of the road guide talisman flashed, and Ning Huan saw a black figure in the distance, he pulled Su Xian's sleeve violently, and pointed to the black figure in the distance.The black shadow didn't move, Su Xian swam over first.Soon, Su Xian came back with a piece of blood-stained black cloth in his hand, and motioned for Ning Huan to follow.It was a crack that could allow one person to pass through. The black shadow that Ning Huan saw just now was the black cloth stuck on it, and the blood on it was still fresh.It must have been left by the group of "Wang Scar".Su Xian and Ning Huan decided to walk along this crack to find out.

The crack was in the shape of a slope, and the water became shallower as it went deeper. When it reached the end, the two had completely left the water.The scene in front of Ning Huan became real. This is a dilapidated ancient village. The word "Xu Village" was written in small seals on the stone plaque, but most of the red paint was off, and it could only be vaguely seen. a mark.

Ning Huan looked at Su Xian: "Could this be the Immortal Village?"

Su Xian shook his head and said, "Go ahead and have a look." After experiencing the scene in the "Thousand People's Pit" just now, neither of them dared to relax their vigilance.After walking around in Xu Village, I found that there was no one at all.Su Xian gently pushed open one of the doors, and the host's bowls and chopsticks were still on the table, as if he had just left.The dishes were heating up in the nest, the quilts on the bed were stacked properly, and there was a half-finished embroidery on the head of the bed.But where did those people in the village go?Is this Xu Village the legendary "Eternal Life Village"?

Su Xian pushed open the door of the back room, and there were five black coffins lined up in the middle of the room.Will those people who disappeared in the village be inside?Su Xian stepped forward and walked around the coffin, but found nothing strange, "It's a very ordinary coffin." He opened the coffin lid, raised his head and said to Ning Huan, "It's empty inside." The two ran all over the place. Almost all the houses are like this. The dead objects in the house are well preserved as when the owner just left, and there are different numbers of black coffins in the inner room.The treacherous scene in front of him made Ning Huan shudder.

The two stopped in front of the Xucun ancestral hall. The black paint with the words "Xu Family Ancestral Hall" on the door plaque had not yet fallen off, and a couplet was pasted underneath, "Life, old age, sickness and death are bitter, and yin and yang return together."Through the bricks of the bluestone slab, the eight carved doors are wide open, and there are 110 eight spiritual seats on the table facing the door.

"Do you remember how many houses we passed by when we came?" Su Xian asked suddenly.

Ning Huan thought for a while, although he didn't understand why Su Xian asked such a question suddenly, he still answered truthfully: "There are almost twenty households."

"There are a total of [-] spiritual seats here, all of which are newly painted." Su Xian turned around, looked at Ning Huan and said, "Do you think so many people will die at one time in such a small village?" ?”

"But..." Before Ning Huan could finish his sentence, Su Xian tore off the yellow cloth under the spirit table and hid in.At this time, the door of the ancestral hall creaked open. Through the gap between the yellow cloth and the corner of the table, Ning Huan saw a group of men in white walking in carrying a black coffin. Yellow paper money was scattered all over the ground, and the black coffin was placed on the ground. In front of the spiritual seat.

"Birth, old age, sickness, and death are suffering, and yin and yang return to the same end."

"Birth, old age, sickness, and death are suffering, and yin and yang return to the same end."

"Birth, old age, sickness, and death are suffering, and yin and yang return to the same end."

Everyone was expressionless. After the man in white finished reading these three sentences, he walked away with a "boom" and "boom".There was a "squeak" sound from the black coffin, the coffin was pushed away, and a person sat up inside, also dressed in white, with dull eyes.He climbed out of the coffin, followed the group of men in white, and left.

Ning Huan shuddered solidly, not only because the corpse in the black coffin was suddenly deceitful, but because of that face, the face of the man with the "knife scar" who had already been buried in the mermaid's belly!

"Follow." Ning Huan heard Su Xian say.The two left the ancestral hall, but the group of men in white were nowhere to be seen.

Ning Huan took a deep breath: "What's going on? The person in the coffin just now died tomorrow."