Chapter 49: The Seven-Colored Lotus in the Hanging Tomb

  The fresh blood on the bone suddenly evaporated, revealing a clean and flawless bone texture. The bone was surprisingly smooth like jade, and it even felt like a piece of jade to the touch.

  Bring it closer to the fire and take a closer look. There are indeed words on the bone stick, but the font is not modern simplified Chinese characters, but rather the traditional Songti font commonly used on computers.

  "The lamp monk was a great ghost who had been in the town for thousands of years and attained enlightenment here, his body oil became the lamp, his bones became the wick, and his skin became the shade."

  After reading this sentence, I roughly understood that a monk named Rán Dēng used his body fat to make oil lamps, his bones to guide the way, and his skin to cover the entrance of the tomb in order to calm down a thousand-year-old ghost.

  The tomb of the Song Dynasty, which is now over a thousand years old, should have been where the monks at that time suppressed a big ghost. Now that a thousand years have passed, it's not just rumors from outside that in previous years, the country had sent an archaeological team to excavate this Song tomb. At that time, only burial objects were dug up, but no coffin was found. However, why are these several tomb chambers preserved so well? Either the archaeological team missed the upper layer of the tomb chamber and the layer under the stone bed; or they knew there was something inside and didn't dare to enter it privately.

  I think it's the latter, I remember that at the entrance of the previous chamber there was a thief hole, which is where I fell down. Since there is a thief hole, it means that someone has broken in here before, and why the layout of the tomb remains intact, it shows that even grave robbers have scruples.

  But now I have entered this tomb. The first floor of the tomb has giant bats, and the second floor has blood-sucking butterflies. Who knows what will appear next?

  I have some curiosity but also some fear, anticipation and terror.

  Boom boom boom... I suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the front. A very rhythmic sound, every jump makes my heart tremble, as if this sound has a great impact on my mind.

  The sound was too small, and I could only hear it vaguely. I involuntarily walked in the direction of the sound.

  "Come over, come over." A faint cry echoed in his ears.

  "Who?" I was taken aback.

  Arriving at the entrance of the fourth tomb, this entrance is very strange, it's very low, and you have to stoop to enter. Inside, it's pitch black, making people involuntarily feel a sense of fear, my heart also started to struggle, if I don't go in, there's no turning back, what if going in means falling into the tomb's taboo?

  With a deep breath, he crawled into the fourth tomb, trying to see if it was better than having no way out. As soon as he stretched out half of his body, he felt a suction force, and the torch was instantly sucked away and quickly extinguished, and there was actually light in front of him. Resisting the still weak suction force, he made an effort to shrug, and the back half of his body completely entered the tomb.

  What? Tree trunk? The surroundings are full of twinkling lights, and upon closer inspection, I see that they are small insects emitting green light surrounding the tree trunk. As I gaze at this dreamlike scene, I think about walking towards the tree trunk, without noticing what's under my feet. I didn't realize that all around me were cliffs, and with one misstep, I fell off into the abyss below. Fortunately, a branch broke my fall, or else I would have been smashed to pieces.

  The cliff wasn't too high, but the branches of the trees were entwined in a complicated manner. I brushed off the layer of dust on my body and looked up to be thoroughly shocked.

  The cliff was surrounded by tombs, layered down, and I clearly remembered that the tomb I had just been in was only a few layers in the middle. It seemed that there were at least seven layers of tombs or more. Now I had an idea in my mind - this place was originally a hanging tomb. Just like the principle of a hanging coffin in a cliff, a hanging tomb is a tomb built on top of a cliff. In fact, what looked like a cliff here was actually a large underground tomb carved out by a giant tree.

  This is the real root of the banyan tree, and the ones above are just false roots. Unexpectedly, the banyan tree extends downward for hundreds of meters. Several particularly thick tree roots extend from the base of the tree to the underground of each tomb chamber, making this space like a spider web, with tree roots intertwined in various tomb chambers.

  It's breathtaking, I thought I had entered a fairy tale, the green glow combined with the intertwined tree roots, looking up from the bottom, as if entering the castle of trees.

  I was fascinated by the little green-glowing insects and wondered how fireflies could produce such a dreamy green light, so I decided to climb up the tree to catch one.

  I climbed up along the tree roots and caught a small insect that was nearby. When I caught it and looked at it carefully, I regretted it. This was not some cute little insect, but rather a strange insect with sharp teeth and a menacing grin. I had never seen this type of insect before. Suddenly, a memory flashed through my mind - Mu Shiying had mentioned to me that there was a type of insect that specialized in eating rotting things, often found on zombies, corpses, and rotten tree trunks. They had a green fluorescent substance at the end of their tails that could emit a faint green light, and were called "Corpse Insects". They could often be seen in cemeteries. Mu Shiying also warned me that these insects had an insect king, which didn't like to eat corpses but instead liked to eat living people. If you encountered the insect king, you'd be doomed - it would command a swarm of Corpse Insects to attack and pursue living humans.

  I gently released the caught corpse worm, afraid of startling the worm king. I climbed down the tree trunk again, with every move being extremely cautious, just as I was halfway down, the corpse worms above seemed to stir up, green lights flashing everywhere, making my eyes dizzy.

  Oh no! Did I just disturb the Worm King?! Instantly broke out in a cold sweat, quickly slid down. Wouldn't be that lucky, would it? Just now I caught was actually the Corpse Worm King?! This is totally unlucky! I shouted in discontent.

  A large group of green lights rushed towards me, I accelerated my speed and slid down, after landing smoothly, I quickly escaped, beside which happened to be a tomb chamber, I crawled in without caring about my image, the corpse worm landed and could still crawl, also followed me into the tomb chamber, this is the deepest tomb chamber underground.

  Inside, a fiery red expanse left me stunned on the spot. Molten rocks were boiling and bubbling, with a seven-colored lotus flower right in the center of the magma. This was a scene from my dreams! It was a dream on the stone bed! Now, it can no longer be described as unbelievable. This kind of situation is like when you sometimes arrive at a place and feel that the scene is extremely familiar, as if you had experienced it before. In fact, this is just your subconscious playing tricks on you. But my situation was different - it happened on the same day in the same place, only on a different level of the tomb chamber. It was the same magma and the same seven-colored lotus flower; I'm sure I wasn't mistaken. This was a kind of self-suggestion, and this Song Dynasty tomb wouldn't be so simple.

  The corpse worm was still crawling behind me, I reacted and walked towards the lava pool. There were a few large stones in the lava, as if they were paved for me. I stepped on the first stone, looking at the corpse worm behind me, and it seemed to be afraid of the high temperature of the lava. Insects are insects, no IQ, I smiled. Unexpectedly, the corpse worm flew up, and I forgot that corpse worms can fly. I quickly ran towards the direction of the seven-colored lotus flower, but throughout the journey, I was extremely careful, afraid of falling into the lava and leaving nothing behind.

  The corpse worm flew over in waves, and suddenly a fiery red line appeared before my eyes. It turned out that the corpse worm was burned by the high temperature, and the first one to burn caused a chain reaction, and all the subsequent corpse worms were burned to ashes. I was so excited that I started dancing with joy, whoa, almost lost my balance and fell into the lava. I calmed down and walked a few steps to come before the Seven-Colored Lotus.

  The seven-colored lotus petals are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. It looks very strange, with a small, unopened lotus flower in the center. In my memory, there was a chubby little boy smiling at me surrounded by the seven-colored lotus flowers, but now he's not here. I'm curious about why the lotus flowers are growing so lushly in the magma - could it be that this magma is fake? I decided to try something out and reached into my pocket, only to find a single 100-yuan bill, nothing else. This was embarrassing - I couldn't bear to part with even 100 yuan! Let alone 100, even if it were just 5 yuan, I would have hesitated for half the day! In the end, I still couldn't bring myself to throw it in, so I tore off a piece of my pants pocket. As soon as I did, I regretted it - these pants were a gift from Lin Mo, and not only was their price far higher than 100 yuan, but they were also priceless. I regretted it to death! But there was no other way, the tear had already been made, so all I could do was go back and explain things to her. As soon as the object was thrown in, it immediately caught fire and was reduced to nothingness.

  "This is really true!" I muttered to myself.

  I turned around again and saw a meat doll smiling at me, rubbed my eyes, and it actually looked exactly like me, only to become a baby.