Chapter Thirty-Three: The Three Corpses Talisman

  Qin Feng originally thought that nothing would go wrong, according to reason, the Jiugong Feixing borrowing yang method had successfully borrowed the yang energy and suppressed the San Sha Liu Yin Ju of the Liuding Array. But for some reason, the Kuiguan sword itself began to tremble without any reason, as if something was about to happen.

  As expected, before he could figure out the reason, a red shadow flashed by, followed by a fierce blow, and with a loud "bang", Qin Feng was knocked out of the tomb.

  It took a while for him to come back to his senses. When he finally did, Qin Feng was shocked to see the huge snake in front of him.

  The first person to react was not Qin Feng, but rather the little Chen standing beside Lin Ruochen. As the saying goes, "once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the rope", now little Chen is particularly sensitive to this big snake, staring with wide eyes and shouting loudly: "It's this snake, it's it!"

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  The crowd was frightened and didn't know what to do, so they could only hide behind the locust tree. They had a place to hide, but those nine strong men saw that there was no escape, just as they were about to run away, Qin Feng called out: "Don't leave! Otherwise we're all done for!"

  But now that they've reached this point, what else can they do? The terrifying and frightening appearance of the giant snake makes people really fearful. Just as they were about to prepare to escape, Qin Feng immediately stepped forward and said to them: "You absolutely cannot leave, or else the nine stars will move wildly and we'll all die here!"

  In the blink of an eye, Qin Feng immediately swung his Kuixing sword to slash at the giant snake. The blood-red snake spat out scarlet tongues staring at Qin Feng, but strangely it didn't actively attack anyone, instead circling around the tomb, as if guarding the grave.

  "I get it, this snake is here to guard the tomb. This must be a snake that the spellcaster intentionally left behind, with the purpose of preventing people from intruding!" From this, Qin Feng finally understood the reason why the snake existed.

  In fact, the phenomenon of snakes guarding tombs is very common. For example, in Ming Shisanling, there is a golden snake guarding the tomb. In fact, this phenomenon not only exists in graves but also in many rural families. (When I was young, I saw two kinds of house snakes with my own eyes. One was as thick as a strong man's arm, and the other was pure white. House snakes are auspicious symbols, generally assumed to live under the foundation of houses. We don't know how they survive, but in fact, it is true. When our old house was demolished, I saw one with my own eyes. Having a house snake means that there is divine protection. Of course, as urbanization progresses, this phenomenon is becoming less and less common in rural areas.)

  The snake coiled for a while, then stayed by the tomb, coiling its body and looking around. Qin Feng saw this and was even more certain that this snake was the guardian of the tomb. However, with the snake here now, things had become tricky. Moreover, time couldn't be delayed, as the Nine Palaces Flying Star Array would gradually weaken and eventually disappear with the passage of time. Therefore, a solution had to be thought of immediately to drive the snake away first.

  "Old Zhang! You guys hurry up and get a basin of vinegar and some dry hay!"

  "Qin Feng, what do you want to do?" Zhou Qin asked, poking her head out from behind the locust tree.

  "No matter what kind of snake it is, it's most afraid of smoke and vinegar. You guys go take care of it quickly, there's not much time left."

  "Alright, let's go!" He Suo Lang responded with a sound, and immediately led Zhang Lao Han and the remaining few strong men to find a basin of vinegar and a large pile of dry grass according to Qin Feng's intention.

  Qin Feng carefully sprinkled the dry grass around the edge of the tomb, then poured vinegar on the grass and ignited it. A wisp of smoke and vinegar smell wafted through the open space.

  To say that this trick really worked, after a while, the snake ran away. Next, Qin Feng signaled He Suo and others to quickly bring over tools such as iron shovels to dig open this grave.

  "Qin Feng, this won't cause any trouble, will it?" He Suo was still a bit worried, afraid that those two policemen had gone crazy.

  "Don't worry, nothing will happen. The Nine Palaces Flying Star Borrowing Yang Method has already calmed down the Three Killings and Six Harms formation. You must dig up this grave before 1 pm, that is, after noon, and take out the three corpses talisman inside. Time is running out, let's hurry!"

  After listening to Qin Feng's explanation, these people all took up their shovels and started digging. To say that the efficiency of farmers is high, in no time at all, the four or five people including Zhang Lao Han had dug out the bottom of this grave, even exposing the bottom of the coffin.

  "It's a golden nanmu coffin, who is inside and why use the coffins of ancient emperors and generals?"

  As an archaeological professional, Fang Yu took one look and knew what the situation was. It was indeed high-quality golden nanmu wood. "There must be a big shot inside; otherwise, who would have the money to buy something so expensive?"

  "Be careful, there might be some mechanism or something, everyone be careful!" Zhou Qin was directing everyone's work at this time. Looking at the situation below, Qin Feng also had no bottom line in his heart, didn't know if there would still be other traps or not, so he let Zhang Lao Han and others come up.

  "Wait a minute, look!" Just as people were discussing it, Zhou Qin discovered some mystery and pointed with his hand.

  "What is this?" he said, looking closely at the outer wall of the coffin.

  Fang Yu looked along Zhou Qin's fingers at the outer wall of the coffin and indeed, there were some patterns carved on each side of the outer wall.

  It looks like some seal script-like characters, but more cursive than regular seal script.

  "This seems to be a talisman...". After staring at the pattern on the coffin for a while, Qin Feng felt more and more that it was indeed a talisman, but he couldn't be sure. After all, the patterns on the coffin had become blurry, and with the remaining soil not yet completely removed, it was still impossible to confirm for the time being.

  At this time, He Suo walked to Qin Feng's side and looked at the coffin in the grave, saying with some trepidation: "Qin Feng classmate, what are you doing? Isn't it serious to dig up someone else's grave like this?"

  Nowadays, these considerations can no longer be taken into account.

  "What's going on, can't you let them carry the coffin out!?" Qin Feng pleaded with him, He Suo Chang was perplexed, but he knew Qin Feng must have had his reasons for doing so, and thus allowed them to carry the coffin out.

  Just as the coffin was about to be lifted out, some sticky grayish-yellow liquid suddenly and mysteriously seeped out of the coffin. It flowed slowly along the seam at the bottom of the coffin, although very little, but Fang Yu still noticed it.

  "Qin Feng, come quick and see! What are these?"

  Fang Yu's loud shout attracted everyone's attention, and they immediately gathered around. "What is this? Could it be the residue on a corpse?" "It's possible!" Everyone was guessing about the sticky liquid, Qin Feng looked at it but didn't speak, while Zhou Qin saw through the mystery and said: "This is corpse oil."

  "Corpse oil? This tomb looks like it's been here for a long time, how can there still be corpse oil?" Fang Yu looked at Zhou Qin with curiosity. To think that corpse oil only appears when the body is about to rot, could it be that the body in the coffin is...

  This idea suddenly occurred to everyone's mind, Zhang Lao said that the village had not been old for three years, let alone they all had government-planned graves, it was impossible to bury them here casually. In this case, Li's body in the coffin is not from Dongtou Village.

  "It's still open, only when we open it will we know the mystery inside." Qin Feng had a surplus in his heart, but now that things have come to this point, he could only do so. Several strong men along with Qin Feng and his group finally lifted out the coffin, the huge coffin was surprisingly light, no one knew what was inside.

  Carefully opening the coffin lid, the smell that came out was really unbearable. Even before approaching Qin Feng, a nauseating stench of rotting flesh could be smelled. When they saw the corpse inside, everyone present was shocked, including Qin Feng, who had several brushes with the law and still couldn't understand what was going on.

  "What's going on here?" Fang Yu and Zhou Qin were both engaged in cultural relic research, or more or less had some experience, but they couldn't have imagined that after seeing the corpse, they would be left speechless and staring blankly.

  Yes, it's strange. The corpse in the coffin in front of me hasn't rotted yet. The red and blue cheongsam-style funeral attire made of satin is still brand new, with wrinkles on the skin, but it can be seen that this is a male who has obviously lost water. According to Zhou Qin's calculation, the deceased was from the early days of the Republic of China.