Maoshan ghost hunter

"Be careful, it's leveled!"

Under Miao Xin's instructions, the three of them put the removed coffin lid on the ground, and Ye Shaoyang immediately picked up the three-color lotus lantern and shone it into the coffin——

A glistening liquid.

Looking closer, it was a puddle of water, very clear, and there was no corpse in it, but...a fish floating in the water.

The fish is about the length of an adult's hand, and the scales on its body are dark green, reflecting a cold light under the light.

"What the hell!"

Several people present were shocked.In their vision, they were already looking forward to seeing corpses in coffins... No matter what kind of corpses, even zombies, are completely acceptable, but in the end there were no corpses, there was water, and fish... This is simply far beyond Contrary to everyone's expectations, they all stared at this fish for a while.

"This is a ghost fish." Ye Shaoyang said.

Everyone gasped.

The word "ghost fish" has not only been heard by mages, but even among the people, there are many legends about it: in many places, there are such ghost fish in waters, ponds, or ditches. It is strange to say that this kind of fish has no official name, and no one knows what species it belongs to, and the number is very small. Sometimes when fishing with nets, this kind of ghost fish will occasionally be brought up, usually not big. At most, it is as long as a finger. If you catch this kind of fish, you must absolutely not eat it. You must release it quickly.Because of folklore, this fish is turned into a dead person, so it can only be seen in waters where people have died.

Of course, this is just a legend. According to the magic world, ghost fish are transformed after the death of a resentful person. The premise is that the corpse rots in the water.This kind of ghost fish is not considered a decent creature, strictly speaking it is an evil spirit, but it does not hurt people and does not eat. It consumes the resentment of the dead, and when the resentment is exhausted, the ghost fish will melt and disappear.

Therefore, ghost fish generally do not grow large.

Everyone was surprised to see the ghost fish in the coffin.Can't help but look carefully.Lu Xiaoqing moved the candle closer, and just about to take a closer look, the ghost fish suddenly slapped its tail, and some water splashed up, which just splashed onto Lu Xiaoqing's face.

This sudden turn of events startled Lu Xiaoqing too, and hurriedly backed away, wiping the water off his face with his hand.

Several other people were also taken aback by this sudden change, and retreated one after another.

"It's okay, Senior Brother Lu, is there a problem with the water?" Chen Xiaoyu was still very concerned about Lu Xiaoqing.

Lu Xiaoqing kept wiping his face, spit on the ground, and cursed: "It's okay, it's just too disgusting, what kind of water is this, there are ghost fish, it must have been lying on the corpse..."

The more Lu Xiaoqing thought about it, the more disgusted he became. He turned on the kettle he carried with him, washed his face with his hands, then went back to the side of the coffin, took a look inside, was stunned, and asked in a low voice, "Where's the fish?"

Ye Shaoyang pointed to the bottom of the coffin, where there was a circular hole. After the ghost fish was startled by Lu Xiaoqing, it swam down this small hole. When it was illuminated with a candle, it was dark and there was nothing there. Know where it leads.

The discovery of this situation is even more shocking than the discovery of ghost fish before.

"How could there be a hole in the coffin, and where did it go?" Mao Xiaofang's words expressed the doubts in everyone's mind.

"The most important thing is, why doesn't the water flow down?" Wutong murmured.

Ye Shaoyang said: "Since the fish can swim down, it means there must be water below."

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"Then where does the water below come from?" Indus asked.

Ye Shaoyang had no choice but to shrug his shoulders, "If you want to find out, then you have to go down and have a look."

Chen Xiaoyu said: "I think it's ok, would you like to go down and have a look at Ye Tianshi?"

"You really think I'm an idiot, why don't you go?" Ye Shaoyang rolled his eyes. Although the water looks clear, there are ghost fish in it. There must have been corpses in the water. It feels disgusting to think about it. I don't want to go down either.

Cao Yuxing proposed to smash the sarcophagus, let the water flow out, and then explore the cave below, but Miao Xin and others disagreed, for fear that doing so would trigger some mechanism or irreversible events. Before everything is clear, it is best not to Destroy things in ancient tombs.

In the end, Ye Shaoyang suggested to go to the next tomb to see if the sarcophagus is the same as here.One sentence woke everyone up, and they went to the tomb next door together, and then opened the sarcophagus as before. It was still a pool of water, with a hole in the middle, and a ghost fish lay motionless in it.

"How about we take this fish out and have a look?" Chen Xiaoyu suggested.

Miao Xin immediately expresses her disapproval.

"Fill it out, I agree." Ye Shaoyang said.Miao Xin looked at him with some surprise.From the time he went down to the tomb, Ye Shaoyang has always been relatively calm. Standing on her side refreshed Miaoxin's impression of him. He felt that although his strength was not great, he was not a reckless person. I don't know why he agreed with Chen Xiaoyu's recklessness. suggestion.

Ye Shaoyang expressed his own thoughts, Miao Xin thought for a while, suddenly realized, and said: "There is no need to catch it at all."

Then I took out a wooden box from the bag, opened it, and there were a lot of needles inside, but they were not metal, and the golden yellow ones were slightly bent.

"This is the pine needle that is commonly used in my family. I have soaked it in lotus heart water, and it is conjured by the Qizi Lianxin Formation. It can be traced for ten miles."

After Ye Shaoyang heard her finished, he wanted to ask her how to use it. Miao Xin picked up a pine needle and threw it into the water, just right on the ghost fish. The ghost fish wagged its tail and dived into the bottom of the water. into an underwater cave.

Miao Xin took out a fist-sized lotus flower from her small bag, it was golden, and she didn't know if it was real or what material it was made of.

Miao Xin held the lotus in her hands, covered it with her upper hand, closed her eyes, and chanted a mantra in her mouth, the lotus in her hand lit up with golden light, and turned into virtual leaves, spinning in Miao Xin's hands, Suddenly, the lotus flower opened, and the golden light converged into a bunch, falling into Miao Xin's hand, and then the illusion disappeared.Miao Xin took a deep breath and said, "Come with me."

"What do you mean?" Ye Shaoyang asked, "Do you know where that ghost fish went?"

Miao Xin didn't speak, turned around and left the tomb, and walked quickly towards the depths of the tomb passage.

The group of people followed closely and came across several tombs with sarcophagi inside. Although they don't know what these sarcophagi and the ghost fish inside were used for, such a large formation and the strange atmosphere revealed, It made everyone curious and a little nervous.

Walking all the way, I finally came to an arched stone gate. The stone gate was open, and gusts of wind blew out from inside.

"Don't go in yet." Miao Xin took the lead, blocked everyone behind her, took the three-color lotus lantern from Ye Shaoyang's hand, and pointed it at the stone gate. , The roulette is made up of a number of small stones, and each stone has a mark of the heavenly stems and the earthly branches.

Needless to say, this looks like a "combined lock" made of nine palaces and gossip.

"Has anyone gone in here before?" Lu Xiaoqing wondered, looking at the combination lock and then at the open stone door.

Miao Xin bit her lips and said: "It may be my ancestors who escaped from here and were hunted down by the evil things in the corpse refining jar all the way. Naturally, they didn't have time to close the stone gate."

After finishing speaking, she carefully looked at the roulette for a while, and said for a while, "Fortunately, my ancestors opened the stone door mechanism, otherwise it would be really difficult for us to get in."

Lu Xiaoqing stepped forward to look at it for a while, and said: "This is the combination of heavenly stems and earthly branches. There are sixty changes in total, and only one group is correct. It is really difficult to judge." He is a Buddhist disciple, but such a simple gossip formation, he A monk can also see the general idea.

Cao Yuxing blurted out, "Just try one by one."

As soon as this sentence was said, even Lu Xiaoqing felt that his pig teammate had a problem with IQ. He glanced at him and said, "If you can try it in groups, what do you need this mechanism for? I suspect that there must be a There is an ambush, and if the combination is wrong, something irreversible will happen."

Everyone raised their heads and searched around Shimen. Although they couldn't find the location of the agency, they didn't doubt Lu Xiaoqing's words.

"It's not that simple." Ye Shaoyang illuminated the roulette with a three-color lotus lamp, and said, "This is not a simple gossip mechanism, but a set of innate gossip's easy numbers."

"Innate gossip?" Chen Xiaoyu snorted, and retorted without thinking, "Are you kidding, there is no innate gossip in this world, even if there is, how could you know?"

Miao Xin gave him a hard look, then turned to look at Ye Shaoyang with suspicion, "How do you know it's innate gossip?"

"Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things... The eight trigrams are machine-changing, and the nine yao are assisted. This is the acquired gossip. Look at this roulette. Although there are only two pillars, they correspond to Guihai and Yiyin. Do your own calculations, it is completely impossible for these two groups of collocations to appear in Houtian gossip..."

After listening to the few people present, except for Wutong and Lu Xiaoqing who are Buddhist disciples, who have no in-depth study of gossip, and stand in a daze, the rest of them have made their own calculations, only to find that what Ye Shaoyang said is correct.

In fact, this principle is very simple, even beginners in gossip can see the problem, because it is too basic, so it was ignored by others, only after Ye Shaoyang reminded him to realize it.

"That means that the roulette has misplaced the positions of the heavenly stems and earthly branches." Cao Yuxing said without hesitation.