Chapter 42: Bones pool

Wenbin walked on with deep doubts. Suddenly he saw a big pool blocking his way. The water in the underground river was icy cold, and in the spotlights can felt the cold, Wenbin thought he was going to wade through the water. He put his bundle aside and sat down, ready to take off his shoes. Just then a voice came out: "Brother Wenbin, don't go into the water."

Almost unconsciously, Wenbin retracted his feet as he was about to step into the pool. It was the voice of the girl——Here she is. Wenbin raised the spotlights quickly. The voice came from his opposite corner. but in the spotlights, just has rocks. But just now, he did hear clearly that "Brother Wenbin" was the voice of the girl he had been looking for -- Yiran Leng?

Wenbin called in the direction, "Girl, is that you? Where are you?"

"Here I am, Brother Wenbin. Please try your best to come and save us. Leader Wang cannot wait longer." Another voice came, almost in tears. This time he heard it clearly, looked in that direction again, and saw a crack in the opposite wall, in which a man was waving a white dress in his hand. Wenbin recognized it immediately, it was Leader Wang's clothes.

That's good. He finally found them. As he put on his shoes, he shouted, "Hold on, stay where you are. I'll come over right now." As Wenbin looked, there was a pool of water between him and the other side. He had to go into the water. Think about it, he took off his shoes again, and now he hasn't entered the water yet, the girl there shouted again: "Brother Wenbin, don't enter the water, there is something in the water."

There is something? Wenbin lit the spotlights brushed toward the pool, and he gasped. It was about four or five meters deep, and the water was very good and clear under the light, except that the bottom was not sand that we usually see in pools. Instead, it was covered with piles of bones, about half the size of a football field. Wenbin saw that as the light moved, the bones shook under the ripples of the water. He could not count how many there were. Far away, they were just white. But what lay near his feet he can see it clearly: all human bones.

As the light swept by, he noticed something else——In the middle of the pool there was a large rock, about five square meters in size, on which stood a bronze coffin. Five large chains ran straight down from the top of the submerged river, connecting the four corners and the middle. At a closer look, it showed that above the coffin were two smaller chains, which hung straight down into the water on either side. The coffin and the chain was covered with small snails, which were very disgusting... Was it because of these coffins and bones that the girl kept him out of the water? How did she find them?

When Wenbin wanted to ask further questions, suddenly two green floating points began to appear on the water surface, more and more, more and more. Little by little the green dot began to move towards the middle coffin, and in a moment the whole coffin was covered with green, turning the spot of the dead bronze coffin green like a huge piece of green jade. This unspeakable weirdness made him freeze. These green things are "phosphorescence", which is also known as "ghost fire" in the countryside. Modern scientific explanation is because the human bones contain phosphorus, phosphorus and water or alkali react together will produce phosphine, which is a gas able to do spontaneous combustion. It is light, it will move as the wind blows, walking will drive it to move at the back, it is very scary when look back. The most common place of the fire was in the cemetery, so Wenbin did not see it as dangerous, but it was not a good sign. Such places were usually full of sinister atmosphere, and it was easy to become the nest of those things.

Looking at this "ghost fire" is still gathering, it seems that there is no meaning to disperse, Wenbin was very worried about the situation of the two people over there, so he made a decision: I don't care if there are any ghosts here, I have to do it. If there is really something, staying in this kind of ghost place, probably not a simple one. Looking at those human bones, he plans to do the dharma for them.

The depths of the cave, which the sun cannot reach are already very cold, and with such a mass of human bones, this is the hell in the world. Wenbin took out two compressed biscuits and made them as a tribute. He looked around and found a large slate, under which two stones were placed, which he regarded as a table. Fortunately, candles and scented paper were all with him, soon he prepared everything required for dharma in the underside of the ancient well, it looked so good that he could not help laughing bitterly at himself.

When he had finished preparing, he remembered that the two men were still at the other end, and shouted again: "Yiran girl, whatever happens later, don't make any noise. Just close your eyes as if you haven't seen anything, can you hear me?"

There was a reply, and he was relieved. Lit the incense, placed biscuit, looked for a few stones to put on slate, inserted 3 sticks of incense in aperture, put a few ghost moneys in front of slate, pressed with stone. Then took out the eight diagrams white bronze ink cartridge and ink-stone, stained with cinnabar, and using the ground as paper, quickly drew four extremely complicated rune spells.

Wenbin wrote the rune spell quickly, and the moment the four rune spells was ready, the green "ghost fires" surrounding the bronze tube began to "shout" with a gust of wind. Then the fire broke loose, apparently was frightened, and after circling for a long time, it fell again, the green color on the coffin was much dimmer than it had been before.

Wenbin pulled out his seven-star sword and "nuked" it. The cold light flashed. His left hand was lifted up and a "Tianshi Operator" was thrown into the air. His right hand drew his sword and thrust it straight into the air. With a sound of "brushing", he saw that the sword had pierced the rune paper. With a turn in the palm of the right hand, the blade comes down, and without any effort, it has been driven into the sand. Then Wenbin loosened his fingers, and the body of the sword swung back and forth as it is excited, making a "buzzing" sound. There were several green "ghost fires" on the side, which quickly drifted toward the middle and plunged into the pile. Without waiting for the sword to be stable, Wenbin took out the evil retreat bell, raised his right hand high, shook his wrist, and made a sound of "ding-dong", echoing for a long time in the empty underground river road. He was whispering with his eyes closed…