1157. Tusi King's Tomb (100) Ghost Head Knife

Is there something in the water? ?

"With such a heavy rain, there might be some rotten wood and rocks washed down from the mountains."

An Xuefeng fixed all three wooden boats in front of the main room. The tourists crowded around him and entered the room, feeling a little nervous. Wang Pengpai calmed down the atmosphere and said a few words pretending to be relaxed.

But it's a pity that the only thing that can row a boat is definitely not wood or stone. An Xuefeng put the thing in his hand next to the fire. Everyone came up to take a look, and couldn't help but gasp. It was a big fish with long arms. It was black and strong, with fine scales all over its body, and a swollen head and a thin tail. , the fish head was slashed deeply with a knife at an angle, almost cutting off the entire fish head. At first glance, it must have been An Xuefeng's hand.

The strange thing is that the pectoral and caudal fins of this fish are extremely short, and the dorsal fin is only a little bit. At first glance, it does not look like a fish, but looks like a black club. Now the fish's head is tilted to one side, and it can be seen that there is a tumor-like thing on its head, which is partially ulcerated and flowing with black water, but it is not smelly or fishy, ​​but it exudes a cold aroma.

But now the passengers are considered veterans. As soon as they smell the fragrance, they feel something is wrong. They subconsciously hold their breath and take a few steps back. If it weren't for the security team still standing firmly here, I'm afraid the passengers would have retreated far away. However, someone took a few steps forward instead of retreating, bending down to look at the black fish with great interest. It was Yi Ling. He circled the black fish twice and made no sound when walking. It reminded Wang Pengpai and the others of the live broadcast. The big white cat I saw.

No wonder Captain An wants to bring back a fish.

Wang Pengpeng took out the medical bag and thought about it while treating the wound. This fish looked abnormal, which made people feel a sense of resistance in their hearts. They were unwilling to touch it. Team An even carried it all the way back to the B&B. This ghost thing needs to be carefully verified to be real, but Captain An probably also thought that Director Ling would be interested in it, so he brought it all the way back.

Otherwise, why not carry those bugs and snakes?

"There's so much in the water, not just fish."

When Director Ling looked at the black fish, the passengers whispered and asked about the people who went out with him. Wang Yushu smiled bitterly. His face was pale. He looked like he was frozen by the rain in the dark outside, but when he returned to the main room, he was hit by the fire. , there was still no color on his face, and his eyes were a little dazed, obviously frightened. Even after drinking half a tank of hot water, he still hadn't recovered, and his voice sounded a little weak.

"First came a swarm of bugs, then a bunch of fish, and then a bunch of snakes swam behind the boat."

Before the water rose, they also went around the back. Although the ground was very muddy, there was nothing strange at all. Who knew that once the water flooded the land, all kinds of ghosts would come out.

"Insects are in groups, white thorns are still glowing with fluorescence, and they are gathered together like dirty foam, floating and swirling on the water. It's fine if they don't touch, but if they touch, they will explode the nest, and the water will crackle like cockroaches. Crash on the boat.”

Wan Xiangchun also rarely opened his mouth and said a long series of words: "Use a stick to shoot down a large area from the boat. It looks like bran skin. The bugs are soft and have no hard shell on the outside. If you sweep them hard, they will rot into a puddle of water, but this It attracted the fish.”

They couldn't smell the smell of dead bugs in the heavy rain, but the effect of making nests was amazing. As soon as a piece of them was swept into the water, the water started to boil as if it was boiling. The jet was too dark to see clearly, but An Xuefeng's sharp eyes were able to tell that they were groups of big black fish. The dorsal fins exposed out of the water were also black, and they couldn't be seen without light.

I don’t know where so many fish came from when the water rose in the mountains. I think they ran out of the surrounding rivers after the water rose. These fish were also very big and very energetic. When they were fighting to eat insects, they occasionally bumped into the wood. The collision made the boat bang, as if it was pushed by a small wave. It's not enough to eat the bugs that fell on the water, so they have to rush to the boat.

Not only do they look like cannonballs, but they are also very destructive. The wooden boat shook violently when they hit it, and you can almost hear the rattling sound of the wood being overwhelmed.

"My grandma was really flustered at that time. Lao Wang, I have never been out of trouble in my life. I have been down-to-earth since I was a child, but I thought I was going to die in the water."

Wang Pengpai was obviously better at speaking than Wang Yushu, and he spoke vividly, with a hint of fear in his tone: "These fish are very ferocious, they eat bugs so well, and their teeth are so sharp that a piece of flesh fell off the back of my hand after being rubbed off." , my fat body is not enough for a fish to take a few bites if it falls into the water.”

He exposed the back of his hand. His fat hand, which was red from the cold, was covered with mud and water. There was an ugly scar on the back of his hand, like an earthworm. The wound was so deep that you could almost see the bones, and the flesh and blood turned white by soaking. . He had just wiped it with alcohol, and he should have grinned in pain, but the back of his hand was numb and he couldn't feel the pain at all, which was actually worse. When they saw Miao Fangfei, they all frowned and looked worried.

There were too many fish and they were vigorous, not unlike a swarm of insects. Even if An Xuefeng killed very fast, he couldn't kill them all. He almost couldn't pull out the knife when he pierced it. Their three wooden boats were originally tied together, but they were hit by a school of fish and almost fell apart.

"It was really dangerous at that time."

Wang Yushu was also frightened: "Then the school of fish surrounding the boat suddenly retreated in disorder, and another group of big anacondas came, which should have scared the fish away."

"No, those anacondas came later."

Wang Pengpai laughed happily and patted his belly: "Old Wang, I scared them away. It was too dark at that time and you didn't see it."

The situation was really dangerous at that time. The three wooden boats were swaying and about to capsize at any time. An Xuefeng killed a lot of fish. Wang Yushu and others kept hitting the water and hitting the fish with wooden sticks to scare them. However, the fish became even crazier when they saw blood, and they were not afraid at all. They rushed to their boat desperately, and it was as painful as being hit by a stone when they hit people. There was no way out at that time. An Xuefeng was ready to turn into a white tiger to fight, but Wang Pengpai brought a turning point.

The fish was covered with fine scales and was slippery. It jumped onto the boat and jumped around. When Wang Pengpai was hitting the water with a wooden stick, he accidentally stepped on the fish and slipped and fell flat on his face. He almost fell into the water. It was An Xuefeng who was quick to grab his clothes on the back and pulled him up. Even so, Wang Pengpai almost fell into the water with his face, almost face to face with these crazy fish, and the fish tails were hitting his face.

But he also smelled the strange cold fragrance, and he was startled and remembered something recorded in his family's old book.

"Ghost-head knife, this fish looks like a ghost-head knife."

Wang Pengpai said with some fear: "It's a very evil thing."

This book was passed down in his family, and it should have been passed down by word of mouth. There were only a few words about each thing in the book, and the handwriting was unclear. There were only a few words about the ghost-head knife.

"It is said that in the deep mountains of Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou and Chongqing, in the tombs of the old kings, nobles, priests and wizards, some coffins would have big pythons buried with people."

The higher the status, the bigger the python buried with the people, and the different names, from small snakes and pythons to Jiao and dragons. The big pythons were carefully prepared and fed, which was more like a kind of witchcraft. Even in a coffin with a lack of oxygen, no food and no water, they could survive for more than ten years or even dozens or hundreds of years. The big witch used special means to make the python grow with the human corpse. The python was alive, and the person buried in the tomb was also considered "alive". The dragon python was used to feed the dead, and after many years, the time and place were right, and the dead were resurrected.

"These dragon pythons were raised by the witch doctor. They are said to be ghost-headed knives. Ghost-headed knives eat fragrant meat and have a cold fragrance. They are the favorite food of dragon pythons."

Wang Pengpai's elders went to a large tomb in Xiangxi when they were robbing tombs. The journey was dangerous and they finally failed to reach the tomb. Instead, they found ghost-headed knives that were not dead yet in the underground river in the tomb. They almost died. Fortunately, the things they carried saved their lives and they did not die in the tomb.

"Ghost-headed knives are afraid of cinnabar. At that time, I just tried to save the dying horse and sprinkled cinnabar powder. I didn't expect that the group of fish really retreated at once."

Wang Pengpai exclaimed in distress: "I didn't expect it to be a ghost-headed knives. This thing eats people."

Legend has it that people who are eaten by fish will have their souls eaten by fish and die miserably. The witch deep in the mountains used insects and special herbs to prepare slaves. After the slaves turned into fragrant meat, they were used to feed ghost-headed knives. When they had a cold fragrance on their bodies, it meant that their souls were full. If you feed the dragon python with this ghost-head knife, the dragon python will grow a huge body beyond the ordinary python. When it is full of souls, it will shed its skin for the last time and then fall into a deep sleep.

The dragon python that falls into deep sleep and does not resist tossing can be used for burial.

"Those in the water can only be considered small pythons, not as big as dragon pythons. Maybe they are the descendants of dragon pythons in the past, attracted by the smell of ghost-head knife meat."

Wang Pengpai frowned: "Those white insects, I think they may be the insects in the stone figurines."

The closer you get to Wuluo Mountain and the Tusi King's Tomb, you can see a lot of stone figurines covered by weeds and shrubs in the wild. Yi Ling has also seen a few on the first two mountains. Some of the stone figurines were smashed, with only a thin layer of stone shell on the outside, and dense gray-white insect shells inside, and occasionally a few dry bones.

In the old days, slaves might have been fed with insect eggs and herbs, and then sealed alive in stone figurines to breed fragrant meat. After so many years, those cruel and ignorant sacrifices in the past have been crushed by the wheels of history, but there are still moss-covered stone figurines deep in the mountains. The seemingly dead insect shells and eggs were submerged and soaked in the polluted water, and new "fragrant meat" was quickly hatched.

The passengers were in a heavy mood, and they were even more anxious and uneasy when they thought about going into the mountains tomorrow. The breath of living people attracted swarms of insects, swarms of insects attracted swarms of swordfish, and swarms of fish attracted water pythons. It would be a tough battle to go into the mountains by water tomorrow. The key is that they have no experience in "fighting" on the water, and none of them were born by the Haihe River and are good at water. The feeling of fighting on the boat is different from that of stepping on the ground. There is a feeling of uncertainty and uncertainty on the boat.

Although only An Xuefeng, Wang Pengpai, Wang Yushu and Wan Xiangchun went out tonight, their overall combat effectiveness is probably stronger than if all of them went out tomorrow, especially since Mao Xiaole, Bai Feibai and Wei Xun are all children now, and they can't sleep if they think about it.

But in order to maintain their energy, An Xuefeng asked everyone to rest for two hours without question, and then discuss other things.

Who would still want to sleep in this situation? It's just resting with eyes closed. The sound of the rainstorm outside became hazy at some point, as if there was a layer of water between them. Miao Fangfei suddenly felt a palpitation in her sleep, and woke up in a trance. She saw Ling Dao and the night watchman An still sitting around the fire, and her beating heart gradually calmed down. She was about to close her eyes and sleep again, but she saw Ling Dao and An Dao leaning against each other, with the ghost-headed knife in front of them. Ling Dao held a burning branch in his hand, with a red rope tied to the end of the branch, which was slightly swaying in the wind--

No, it's not a red rope, it's a worm, a red maggot. Miao Fangfei's mind was not fully awake yet, her eyes that were about to close were already wide open, and she watched Director Ling holding the branch and putting the red maggots into the mouth of the swordfish!