The further he looked down, the more frightened Liu Shiba became. The thousand-year-old mystery was finally revealed today...
It turned out that these seventeen corpses were the seventeen gold-touching captains who lived in the same era as his ancestor Liu Yi.
Liu Shiba was also a little puzzled. Since his ancestor Liu Yi already knew about this extremely secret tomb and was proficient in the dragon-seeking acupoint technique and Feng Shui technique, why didn't he move his bones here?
Thinking of this, Liu Shiba looked back at Cao Xiong and said doubtfully:
"Old Cao, why didn't the ancestors of the Liu family move their bones here? At least it could alleviate the curse of the eighteen generations of unlucky people, right?"
Cao Xiong's expression gradually calmed down at this time. He gave Liu Shiba a strange look, and then looked at Li Ergou and his wife who were standing there pointing at the seventeen corpses.
"Eighteen, you might as well take a closer look. What's weird about those seventeen bones?"
There was a faint hint of fear in Cao Xiong's eyes.
"What? Different?"
Liu Shiba murmured, walked closer, and turned to look.
"ah!"
Upon seeing this, Liu Shiba was immediately startled, and his screams echoed in the hall, stirring up a gust of wind.
Li Ergou was also frightened and took three steps back. He stared at Liu Shiba in fear and asked:
"What's wrong? Little Master?"
"Nothing, I'm just curious. Why do these corpses look like living people? Except they have no eyes and teeth."
Liu Shiba stared at the seventeen corpses and explained softly.
"Well, look at the skin and hair of these corpses. They are no different from living people today. There are just two big black holes in the eye sockets. It's really scary."
Cuihuaba licked her lips and added.
In the past, Liu Shiba had seen some celebrity wax figures in the Xuchang Wax Museum. They were so lifelike that if you didn't look carefully, you would have thought they were real people.
The seventeen standing corpses in front of him were just like the wax figures, looking extremely scary.
I heard that in European and American countries, there once was a cruel murderer who made wax figures out of living people, and was later found dead.
"call……"
A strange dark wind blew in the hall, blowing the green flames in the fire tank against the wall and swaying from side to side.
"Do you think... the master of the house is a ghost?"
Cuihua fearfully leaned towards Li Ergou.
"What a ghost? I have never seen a ghost since I was a child. How can such a thing exist in the world?"
Shhh...what are you talking about, you prodigal bitch? If you don't talk about me, I'm not afraid of you. Why do you get so hairy all over when you talk about me?"
The white hair on Li Ergou's forehead was dripping with cold sweat.
"Hey hey hey..."
A sinister laugh came out, frightening Liu Shiba and Li Ergou to look left and right again.
"Old Cao? What are you laughing at? You scared me to death..."
Liu Shiba glared at the sneering Cao Xiong and said angrily.
Cao Xiong was stunned when he heard this, raised his finger and pointed at himself and said:
"Why am I laughing? No!"
"ah?"
When Liu Shiba heard this, his expression changed drastically.
Aren't you laughing?
Am I laughing?
Is there a fifth person in this tomb?
Seeing Liu Shiba looking around in fear, Cao Xiong helplessly touched his nose and said:
"I mean, the person who laughed just now is indeed an old man, but I just smiled casually. It's not as charming as you said. What the hell is it?"
"Are you scaring me? Do you believe that I will shoot you to death with one arrow?"
The frightened Cuihua angrily picked up a crossbow and pointed an arrow at Cao Xiong.
"Ah? Don't... I just want to smile casually!"
Cao Xiong clenched the machete in his right hand and trembled slightly, with a trace of solemnity in his eyes.
He couldn't see through this old woman who was pretending to be stupid, and he wasn't sure she could dodge the arrow.
"Forget it, Aunt Cuihua! Actually, Old Man Cao didn't do it on purpose. We were just scaring ourselves."
Liu Shiba had no choice but to smooth things over.
Then, Liu Shiba glanced at Cao Xiong without revealing anything and asked:
"Lao Cao, what do you know?"
Cao Xiong hesitated, raised his head and took a closer look at the seventeen corpses, and said with some uncertainty:
"Master, your grandfather once told me that there used to be a very evil Feng Shui formation.
The reason why this Feng Shui formation is said to be evil is because the formation is made of human beings, and the people who died must be filled with great resentment."
When Liu Shiba heard this, his face turned pale and he said doubtfully:
"What does it mean to have deep resentment?"
Cao Xiong was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and his face was also ashen...
"This Feng Shui formation is called the Eighteen-Link Yin-Yang Soul Seizing Formation. According to legend, it takes eighteen people with great luck to set up the formation."
Cao Xiong continued to explain.
When Liu Shiba heard this, he trembled and muttered in a low voice:
"Eighteen? The eighteen gold-touching captains under Cao Cao are not only used to rob tombs?"
A trace of fear flashed in Cao Xiong's eyes, and he continued:
"That's right, he used it to create a chain of yin and yang soul-stealing arrays after his death. This array is said to preserve the souls of the people in the array for eternity and to be reincarnated."
"Then how do you explain the evil sect you mentioned?"
Liu Shiba looked at Cao Xiong in confusion and asked.
Cao Xiong's withered tree-like face twitched, the corners of his mouth moved slightly, and finally he sighed and said with a wry smile:
"Actually, this is also the sin committed by Cao Cao, the ancestor of my Cao family."
Having said this, Cao Xiong carefully took a few steps forward and stood side by side with Liu Shiba.
Then Cao Xiong raised his left hand, pointed at the seventeen gloomy corpses not far away, and said in fear:
"Eighteen, do you know how they died?"
"I don't know, tell me!"
A chill ran down Liu Shiba's spine.
"These people were skinned alive and died in an extremely cruel manner."
Cao Xiong explained softly.
At this time, Li Ergou shook his head and interrupted:
"Cao Xiong, don't think I'm stupid. I looked carefully. The body is completely intact. Where is the skin peeling?"
"Yes, yes, the leader is the smartest."
Cuihua wrinkled her old face and gave Li Ergou a compliment with a charming smile at the right time.
"That's right! Apart from my father, I am the smartest person in Liujiatun..."
Li Ergou was so proud that he turned around and kissed Lao Cuihua's ass cheek happily.
"Bah!"
"vomit!"
Liu Shiba looked at Cuihua's face that was uglier than Lao Hei, and couldn't help but retched...
This really fulfills the old saying: Ugly people tend to make mischief...
Cao Xiong's face was livid, watching this pair of living treasures, who were on average sixty years old, showing off their affection, he laughed sinisterly and said strangely:
"Ordinary peeling will definitely not work, Shiba, I wonder if you have heard of a four-character allusion that does not peel and make grass..."
"Skin off and make grass? What do you mean?"
Liu Shiba had goosebumps all over his body.
"This method of arranging the puppets is very particular. First, a pit is dug on the red earth that is as deep as one person, and then a brazier is placed in the pit to make the pit hot.
Then the prepared burial sacrifices were knocked unconscious, stripped naked, and placed straight into the hot earth pit, and the surrounding gaps were tamped with red earth.
The moment the sacrifice is awakened from the scalding, use a silver knife to cut an incision about one foot long on the scalp from back to front at the position of the sacrifice's Tianling Cap.
Finally, varying amounts of mercury were poured into the cut scalp. The weight of the mercury separated the skin and body of the sacrifice.
At this time, the sacrifice began to struggle and howl, but the soil in the pit was compacted, and the bloody body of the sacrifice came out directly from the cut scalp, leaving only a pair of intact human skin in the pit.
Then, a special person filled the remaining human skin with medicinal herbs to keep the skin from rotting. After filling, it restored the appearance of the sacrifice when it was alive, which is the seventeen corpses we see now."
Liu Shiba, Li Ergou, and Cuihua, listening to Cao Xiong's unhurried explanation, couldn't help but shudder at the same time, feeling that there was a cold wind all around...
