Chapter 27: Jiulongzi Subdues the Demonic Coffin

  "What's going on?" Oil Water Belly stops his action and walks towards me with vigilance.

  Taking advantage of this opportunity, I didn't bother with the oil drum, and slowly walked past it. I wrapped the clothes that had been torn off her body by the oil drum around her exposed skin. I saw her mouth hanging open in a silly smile, her eyes unfocused, her body trembling all over, and she kept muttering to herself "I've already chosen, I've already chosen". It seemed like she was completely unaware of what had just happened to her.

  A woman's reputation is the most important thing, some women abandon their reputation and gain rich material benefits, while others who abandon their reputation will inevitably become degenerate, because this thing called reputation has been taken very seriously by men whether in ancient or modern times, sometimes it may just be a matter of time.

  Oil and water suddenly understood my intention

  "Brother, what's the origin of this woman? We don't know anything about her. Are you going to waste your own food on a half-dead woman like that? You should know that no one who can enter and dig up graves is as simple as they seem." Oil Barrel said, pointing at me.

  "I have plans for this matter myself, he is now my pawn, so she must be intact"! I said calmly.

  Yu Shui Du slowly put on his clothes and pants, jumped up and down a few times to shake off the clinging clothes, with a stiff expression.

  "Are you going to intervene in this matter or not?!" Oil Barrel's voice was very low.

  I know this is like hitting a water balloon in the face but since I've already started I won't back down and besides I don't want to back down

  "She's my trump card, your purpose has nothing to do with me, nor do I want to know, but I also have a purpose, and she is my bottom line. I'm a businessman just like you, I won't do anything that doesn't benefit me." I said indifferently, pointing at the woman in the corner to Oil Barrel Waist.

  Neither of us would give in, our eyes locked in a stare. The atmosphere in the air was completely chilled, colder than the biting wind of November that seemed to cut through bone. In the dark and dimly lit corridor, we rubbed against each other, colliding.

  "Haha..." Oil Barrel's dry laughter broke the awkward atmosphere: "Brother, Fat Brother was just joking with you, I just wanted to test whether this woman is pretending to be crazy or not, why take it seriously?" Oil Barrel said.

  I know this is an excuse he found for himself and me, since he's already lost face, I don't need to dwell on it with her. With a sharp gaze, she said: "You're being overly cautious!"

  These past few days, I've been eating the food that "Blackie" brought for me. Originally, I had only planned to be in the mountains for two or three days, but a series of events on the road delayed us, and now my food is not much, barely enough for another two days. If we were outside, I wouldn't have to worry about food, but now that we're stuck in this ancient tomb, there's a shortage of food - it's not like I can eat dead people! And now with the addition of this crazy person, I'll have to re-plan the water and food I brought with me.

  I divided the edible things in my equipment bag into two portions, one for me and one for that female lunatic. I took out a packet of compressed biscuits from her share, broke off a piece with my hand and threw it to her. She looked at me very vigilantly, her eyes revealing endless fear, after a while, seeing that I had no hostile intentions, she slowly stretched out her hand, tremblingly picked up the biscuit on the ground, and slowly put it into her mouth to chew and swallow. Fortunately, she was not completely crazy yet and could still feed herself, otherwise I might have to be both father and mother to her.

  After a small episode, we continued to move forward on this stone path with our wolf eyes. Da Fu and Da Gui were still the vanguard. I used a rope to help that crazy woman, taking out the cloth from the equipment bag to stuff into the oil water bottle's mouth, in case she got startled and tried to escape.

  Oil-water belly speculation, this road may be the passage leading to the main tomb chamber, the passage for transporting materials when the slaves built the tomb chamber, so there should not be any mechanisms or other dangers here. Although it is said that we are still very careful, things buried deep in the ground, as long as you relax your vigilance, you will encounter something that you don't understand in the next second!

  The eerie green moss on the wall gets thicker and more abundant as you go up, attached to the wall like a piece of human skin that has just been peeled off, with red spots like blood on it, making people feel nauseous!

  The deeper we went, the more humid it became. We walked on the ground as if treading water, making "drip, drip, drip" sounds. The stone wall at the top of the tunnel kept dripping water onto the ground, and a lot of water had already soaked through our jackets.

  The passage was not as long as I had imagined, and it only took us about five minutes to walk through at our pace. Based on the distance we traveled, this stone path should be over 600 meters long. Our wolf-like eyes had reached the end of the road, and there were no other paths to move forward. In front of us was a solid wall, and there were no other ways to proceed. What appeared before our eyes was a stone coffin shining with golden light.

  This stone coffin is over 2 meters wide and 1 meter long, weighing at least one ton. The surface of the stone is extremely hard, with some patterns and four lines of ancient text that I don't recognize from ethnic minorities in Guangxi. Each character is as big as my fist. The most striking feature is the nine golden dragons on the coffin, or more precisely, the nine sons of the dragon: Qiānguī (囚牛), Qiánpí (睚眦), Shàofēng (嘲风), Púkuò (蒲牢), àoxuè (狻猊), Xìxì (赑屃), Xiǎo (狴犴), Fùxī (负屃), and Chīwěn (螭吻).

  They emitted golden glows under the illumination of Wolf's Eye flashlight, moving on the surface of the stone coffin. Truly moving, living and breathing movement.

  His face was a mixture of shock and incredulity as he, Da Gui, and the others carefully examined the stone coffin. There were no roads ahead, so could it be that the person lying inside the coffin was indeed the Demon King? The grandeur of the coffin suggested that this was possible, but there was one thing that didn't add up - why hadn't they found Liu Lao and the others? They couldn't have just vanished into thin air. Where had they gone? I pondered these questions in my mind.

  Oil Water Belly's face was stern and serious, generally when he had this expression, Oil Water Belly definitely had a matter of utmost urgency.

  "It seems like this is the place" Oil Barrel didn't evade me and said to Da Fu Da Gui.

  Good fortune and wealth nodding towards the oil jar

  "This is where Jiulong Town's monster lives, and below should be that place"! Da Gui said.

  "Great fortune, can you sense those things down there?" asked You Shui Tou.

  Da Fu slowly closed his eyes, and after a while, Da Fu's whole body was in disarray, his eyelids rolled up and down, and his head and palms were all covered with cold sweat as he stood on the ground panting heavily.

  "My mind can't penetrate the Nine Dragon Subduing Coffin at all, and I don't feel anything below it!" Da Fu panted heavily.

  "Lu brothers, what do you think?" Oil Barrel Belly said to me.

  I didn't understand what they were talking about, and this isn't something I should be considering anyway. But the oil lamp said those things below, what are those things? Da Fu's special function is to sense ghosts and gods, could it be that below is hell, and the ones locked up are evil spirits?

  I slowly opened my mouth and said, "The entrance is under the coffin"?

  "No, this is a Feng Shui coffin, called the Nine Dragon Son Suppressing Evil Coffin. It's a Feng Shui secret technique to suppress evil spirits. As far as I know, the true creator of the Nine Dragon Suppressing Evil Coffin was a Western Zhou Dynasty Feng Shui master named Lu Yan. He used humans as dragon mothers and gave birth to nine sons to suppress evil spirits.

  Legend has it that during the Western Zhou period, a flying star descended from heaven and opened the gates of hell, allowing evil ghosts to crawl out and devour living people, causing widespread slaughter and chaos, creating a hellish scene on earth. Lu Yan couldn't bear to see this human tragedy, so he used the nine sons' bodies, each with an inverted scale, to create the Nine Dragon Son Suppressing Evil Coffin, which finally suppressed the gates of hell.

  I also learned about it from an old ancestor's Feng Shui book, 'Nine Palaces Reversal Wind Water', which is used to suppress those things below," said Oil Barrel.

  "What thing?" I asked again.

  "Like the corpse of Xie we saw and those things I don't know," You Shui continued.

  If there were no accidents, Liu and the old man would have entered this place too, so this stone coffin shouldn't be dangerous. But why is there no sign of anyone opening it before? Thinking about it, all the signs on the way here should have been deliberately erased by that person who was mentioned by the oil-water bucket. If not for the special function of the treasure map, I think we wouldn't have arrived here no matter what. And in the four-dimensional space, we almost died, but Hei Zi's voice appeared and let us narrowly escape death. Who is he and what is his purpose?