Chapter Thirty-One: The Pit of Corpses

  After making preparations, our group began to descend onto the Ghost Road. Da Fugui was still in the lead role, but this time it was me who pushed the Female Lunatic's sedan chair all the way. In order not to get distracted, I shifted my gaze upwards, focusing on the nape of the Female Lunatic's neck, and held back from taking a single glance.

  We were on high alert, moving at a very slow pace. As we journeyed deeper into the mountain path, it became increasingly narrow. I felt that the air around us was getting hotter and hotter. On both sides of the path, there were many stone vessels from the Western Zhou period, neatly arranged in rows, with a jar containing black water, I don't know what kind of thing it is!

  "These are offerings for the lonely spirits and wild ghosts in the tomb," said You Shuiguo.

  "What's inside?" I asked.

  Oil and water walking side by side glance back at me for a moment

  "They are all internal organs stripped from living people. In ancient Guangxi, the local customs were not yet civilized and it was believed that human internal organs were things that ghosts and gods liked, so they would put human internal organs in bronze vessels on the road to the afterlife, for the lonely souls and wild ghosts in the tomb to eat. If not, it would disturb the peace of the tomb owner." Oil Water Belly explained

  The five internal organs of a living person! I feel a wave of nausea and shift my gaze away.

  "What is it?" cried out the big fellow at the front.

  I took a glance forward, and oh my god, it was a white stone statue that looked like a real person but was extremely tall. It depicted a figure wearing a Taoist robe and shoes, with wrinkles all over its face, a long white beard that reached down to its throat, and an air of immortality about it. However, its eyes were staring straight at us with an eerie glare, sitting right in the middle of the ghostly path, blocking our way. If I sucked in my belly, I could just barely squeeze past, but for Oil Water Belly, his physique was a bit too tight!

  Oil and water belly is indeed a master, just took one look and immediately thought of something, "Oh"! Exclaimed in surprise.

  "This is a god image used for 'walking gods' in the Beihai and Guilin areas of Guangxi. Lu brothers, you're a native of Beihai, don't you know what this thing is?" said You Shuizhuang.

  Although I am a native of Beihai, I rarely go out when I'm not doing business, and indeed I don't know what "spacing out" is.

  I shook my head and gave Oil Barrel a chance to show off his ink skills. Oil Barrel chuckled with a smile.

  "Going god", not the spirit of absent-mindedness, is a traditional custom of Guangxi ethnic minorities. On New Year's Eve, there will be a group of people beating drums and setting off firecrackers, carrying a smaller statue of the gods walking through the streets to drive away the lonely souls and wild ghosts on the road, in order to have a peaceful new year. Speaking of this, I've seen it before, said You Shui Tou.

  The oil and water belly makes me puzzled, this is obviously a ghost road, why put up something to drive away ghosts isn't it self-contradictory?

  "That's not right, this doesn't make sense!" I retorted to Oil Barrel.

  "What's wrong?" asked Oil Barrel Face, turning towards me.

  I rolled my eyeballs around the room, and here were still those bottles and jars, that is, the offerings that Oil Water Belly was talking about. "Will you offer sacrifices to ghosts and then kill them?" I said coldly.

  Oil and water can't mix, nothing can be said.

  We all looked at each other in dismay and stood there stupidly staring at the stone statue.

  "I don't feel anything unclean here, rather than wasting time guessing about it, why not just blow the whole thing open?" Da Fu said suddenly.

  Dah Fu is also a down-to-earth person, this thing weighs at least 500-600 catties, if we really have to carry the stone statue all the way as Oil Water Belly said, I think we'll be exhausted before we even reach the exit. It's better to blow it up and make it easier! But when I checked their equipment packs, I didn't see **, isn't Dah Fu just talking nonsense?!

  This sentence is a slap in the face of Da Fu's oily and flattering words.

  "You numbskull, following me for so many years and still so useless! Is this a place where we can stay? If the rocks above us collapse even a little, we'll all be done for!" Oil Barrel cursed loudly.

  I didn't think of that, Oil Water Belly looks like a careless person, but he's actually very meticulous. As soon as he said this, our group suddenly lost its main idea and could only follow Oil Water Belly's previous plan. I wasn't included in Oil Water Belly's plan to "walk the divine" lift the god statue, so someone had to stay behind to cover. Oil Water Belly, Da Fu, and Da Gui walked up to the statue, Da Gui crouched down and circled around to the back of the statue, they rolled up their sleeves, spat on their palms, and applied some paste, the three of them shouted "Rise" in unison!

  Suddenly, the huge statue was lifted by them and moved forward slowly. The two people behind the oil drum didn't seem to be exerting much force, but their center of gravity was all on Da Gui's body. I saw that Da Gui's legs under the statue were trembling slightly, which could last for another two or three minutes at most!

  It was just as I had expected, but after about two or three minutes, the big guy in front suddenly loosened his grip, and the statue slipped from their grasp. This was a disaster, with all the weight on the big guy's body, and when he let go, Oil Barrel Waist and Big Fortune lost their balance point, their hands also softened, and the statue fell to the ground with a loud "boom", rolling continuously down the ramp with a series of "隆、隆、隆" sounds.

  "Tai Gui is still ahead!" I shouted loudly at the sight.

  You Sha's eyes widened in shock. Such a huge statue, if it fell on him, wouldn't be just a joke, that would be a possibility of being crippled or even killed!

  "Great nobility..." The oil-water belly looked at the god statue rolling down the road, shouting several times, but there was no response from the great nobility. The empty stone path only had the "rumbling" sound of the god statue rolling on the ground!

  "Go!" You Shui Du suddenly became anxious, his belly rising and falling at a faster frequency. "What are you still dazing about? The water and food are all in the Da Gui equipment bag, if we can't find Da Gui, the few of us will all become starving ghosts!" After finishing speaking, You Shui Du quickly followed after Da Fu like a fat pig with trembling muscles.

  I watched the back of the oil drum and cursed in my heart: I'm going! It turns out that he was after the equipment package on Da Gui's body! Also, speed up and push the female lunatic forward. Who knew that the female lunatic suddenly took off her anti-toxic mask, her eyes no longer scattered, nor did she mutter crazy words, and with one hand, she stopped me

  "Are you crazy? We can't go any further!" she said!

  I stared at her in surprise

  "You're pretending to be crazy, you're good at it! Miss!" I said coldly, staring at her.

  "You people have an unknown origin. If I didn't pretend to be crazy, I wouldn't be able to survive until now." She stared at me and asked back.

  This little girl is so cunning, I suddenly regret why I saved her, and coldly laugh twice.

  "Are you also of unknown origin?" I said.

  Her eyes twitched twice, and then she changed the subject suddenly.

  "This is not the time to talk about these things, where are we going from here, those things below are not what we can handle"!

  I looked stunned, Da Fu's special function I have seen with my own eyes, but looking at Xiao Niu's expression doesn't seem like nonsense either. Could it be that there really is something in front? I'm a bit suspicious.

  "It seems you're quite clear about the situation ahead, so how did you end up trapped in a four-dimensional space?"

  Her face was awkward, and she reached out to pull down the gas mask on my face. I'm usually a good-tempered person, but she didn't say a word and pulled off my gas mask in one go. The flashlight tied to my head fell to the ground with a "clunk". Fortunately, the light only flashed once and didn't shatter! I couldn't take this anger, so I picked up the flashlight that had fallen to the ground, held back a breath, and stared at her intensely.

  She pointed at her nose with her finger.

  "With this thing on, you can't smell it now, just take a sniff!" She said with one hand on her hip.

  What the hell is this? I thought for a moment, and then exhaled the stale air in my lungs, taking a deep breath of the surrounding air. Suddenly, a strong stench was sucked into my lungs, making me roll my eyes back in disgust and cough violently! This was the smell of rotting corpses, extremely pungent! The smell of human decay is different from that of other animals, and I've been forced to smell it many times before, so I knew it right away.

  "How can there be such a strong stench of corpses here? I feel very uneasy in my heart, and my face turns extremely ugly. 'How can there be such a strong stench of corpses'!"

  The little girl turned around and pointed at the stone path leading down in front of me.

  "Below is a large pit of corpses, if you run like those people in front, you will definitely fall and hit your head. If you don't believe me, can you still hear the sound of the gods rolling down now?"

  Just now I wasn't paying attention, I came back to my senses, tilted my ear and listened carefully, and indeed there was no more rumbling sound of the statue rolling down, and the stone path was as silent as death!

  "What's in the pit of corpses? Great fortune and wealth, you knew it when you were pretending to be crazy. Why didn't they realize?" I feel a bit unconvincing!

  "No! They knew long ago. Da Gui was also pretending to be soft-handed on purpose. Didn't you notice that when the statue rolled down, Da Gui was gone?" she said.