Chapter 9: The first sight with the archaeological team
Wenbin was a Taoist priest, and he had done many funerals for others. In front of him, the coffin was no different from the opening of an ordinary cupboard. He opened the coffin with the brass stick he had brought. After lifting it, he found it was cumbersome. One person could not lift it easily. He turned around and called one pig killer for help, one of them carried the coffin at the front, and the other carried at the back. As they nearly lifted the coffin, suddenly found that the incense sticks in front of Supreme Lord mural stopped burning.
Wenbin secretly thought that this was a bad sign and asked the pig killer to quickly put down the coffin board. He looked down cautiously to see the incense that was inserted at the front of the coffin, but though it was not stopped, it was almost burned out.
Strangely to say, he is also a Taoist disciple, the incense is a tribute to the founder, the dead man has no opinion, why did the founder have a problem? Wenbin went over to the mural.
Just as he was walking towards the mural, suddenly a shot rang out across the sky. In the middle of the night, a shot rang out in the dark hall, and the shock was palpable, so everyone turned to look at my father, my father was staring at the direction where Wenbin was walking, the muzzle was pointed at the wall and shotgun bullet holes instantly filled the wall.
Wenbin Zha asked my father what happened, my father said: ""there was an old man with a white beard, was going to reach out to touch your head, I thought the situation was not right, so shot him straight away.""
Wenbin immediately stepped back, and the two pig-killers heard the gunshot and also stood over. The four men were in the temple in this way. Wenbin then took out the compass, clearly seen that the compass needle kept shaking back and forth. Which indicates that there is indeed something going on around him, but he, as a Taoist Priest, did not recognize anything strange, especially he did not find the old man with a white beard.
While he was still thinking, a voice rang out: "Look,"" it was from one of the pig killer called Yao Chen. Everyone looked along his direction, where the dark-red liquid was flowed out from the bullet hole on the wall, just as blood. After seeing this scene in this unknown Temple of Generals, not only those two pig killers and my father, even Wenbin, was shocked.
Four people just stood in the temple and did not dare to move. After the smoke cleared, in addition to the smell of gunpowder, there was also an endless bloody smell accompanied them. Two pig killers were used to the smell of blood, but at the moment they also covered their noses, one of the pig killers even started vomiting because the bloody smell was so strong.
Wenbin frowned and went forward to have a look with tools in his hand. Three bright mining lamps shone on the wall. The snow-white light was mingled with mottled walls and the blood, and unspeakable fear rose from my father's back. My father quickly changed a bullet to follow up, this bullet usually hit wild boar, which when a 150kg wild boar was caught within 50 meters will undoubtedly die. Dad is generally a bold man, but now his legs trembled with fear.
Wenbin walked to the wall and carefully uttered a mantra of Taoism directly.
After three spells, the bloody smell in the temple seemed to reduce. Wenbin then asked the pig killer to take the crowbar, inserted it into the bullet hole, and then push hard. Inevitably, the brick walls slowly fell down, and the scene that followed was unforgettable to all of them. My dad and one of the pig killer just vomited.
They saw that there was a human wax cocoon hidden in the wall, and the blood was through the bullet holes above. Why there is a wax cocoon in the wall of this ancient temple, the truth may turn out to be beyond our imagination. Could it really be a human being in this wax cocoon?
Just then, there was a sudden sound of wooden planks moving on the wall. Before everyone could turn their mind back, the wax cocoon on the other side suddenly fell off. Falling right in front of Wenbin, Wenbin shouted: ""no." " He hurriedly looked back and saw that there were some gaps in the coffin board that couldn't be pried before.
Wenbin turned over quickly and flashed to the side of the coffin, pushed the coffin board hard to cover the casket again.
Then he told the two pig killers, one at the front and the other at the back, to hold the coffin board. And let them stick their pig-killing knives on the coffin board. Then he took out the ink fountain and immediately drew a rune on the coffin.
After all this, Wenbin went to check the wax cocoon, although it was wrapped in a thick layer of wax, still vaguely can identify a person. Wenbin Zha made a retreat gesture, before locked the door before leave and then returned to my home.
Through the way home, they have to go through a bridge. Before crossing the bridge, Wenbin took out three symbol paper, one form per person and let them take back and boil it in water and drink it. After arriving at my home, Wenbin asked my father to report to the village head and police the next day and then went to bed.
The next morning, the police chief came to the village with policemen to investigate. He opened the door, the police chief asked the forensic doctor to uncover the layer of wax. When they opened it, it was the dead body of an old man. The old man was dressed in a Taoist robe, a purple robe made of gold and silver thread that had been stained with blood. The skin was blackening after a night of air exposure. Later in the news, the dead body was taken by the provincial archaeology team. A few days then, a provincial archaeology team went to our village.
During that period, my strange illness was also on and off. Wenbin said that we will need to wait until the archaeological work is over to get the answer because the answer was hidden in the coffin. The coffin has now been protected, and no one except the archaeological team is allowed to enter the Temple of Generals.
Many people in our village were happy when the archaeological team stayed there. As the community was remote, a group of old men and women gathered around with the archaeological team to have dinner and chat. Many of them were the Red Guards who burned the temple many years ago.
Within a month, people in the archaeological team began to get sick, with similar symptoms as me. The chief captain, who has been dealing with these old things for years, knew what is about to happen. Then began to ask people in the village if there was anyone who showed similar symptoms in the town, and they introduced the archaeological captain to my house.
They all called the team leader Wang. He was a fat middle-aged man with round glasses. He has a short neck, which is about to draw in the body, and his eyes are very bright. Captain Wang was a straightforward man and asked me what had happened. After hearing my father's account of the day, he decided to go for Wenbin. That night, my father went with him to Wenbin's house with a couple bottles of good wine.
Captain Wang visited many ancient tombs and saw many strange things in his life. He loves studying paranormal phenomena, so hearing that Wenbin is the Taoist Master, naturally with a few awe.
Wenbin was studying the characters on the wall when they went. He had moved the characters to his own home by using his own memory and painted a part of them on the wall, which Captain Wang was impressed: ""how do you have these things at your home."" Wenbin was embarrassed, explained the reason, then they sat down to start talking.
After the captain Wang introduced himself, Wenbin also did not hesitate to directly ask Wang if he knew the meaning of these characters from past archaeology. Captain Wang said that these characters had never been seen, and with his decades of archaeological experience, these characters probably represent a kind of lost writing. As for whether it is the ""Ruyi Book of Magic"" he cannot guarantee it. There was an ancient Chinese expert who knows a lot about old writing in the provincial museum, he can take it back with him and try to crack it.
Wenbin said that there was indeed something weird in the temple, but with his current knowledge, he could not figure out what the problem was. However, this strange seems to be protected by another mysterious force, so it can not hurt human lives, for the time being, perhaps the answer lies in the coffin and the writing on the wall.
The captain Wang said that the coffin had been pulled back to the province and was still waiting to be opened by an expert. Judging from the shape and material of the casket, it was at least 1,000 years old and was so well preserved that the province attached great importance to it. They do not rule out the existence of the underground palace in this temple, but many people got sick suddenly, which make people panic. Also, people do not dare to continue working, hence can only pause and ask Wenbin for help.