When Yang Wei finished the weird dance of their corpse herding sect, I also finished wrapping the talisman paper. I gave the Captain Yang a meaningful glance and he brought the police to take down the last grave on the third floor.
The villagers wanted to watch the show, especially the small shop owner who heard some news, and also saw the jade pendant that her mother was buried with me from the backpack Yang Qunmei gave me. She kept on telling the villagers that Yang Qunmei's family was always in such good condition, that it was just a grave robber, and that it was even a village grave.
Her voice was not soft, so it was clear that Captain Yang had heard her, but she pretended not to hear, allowing the Lady Boss to speak.
He probably thought this was good as well, at least for the matter of digging up the corpses and freezing them in the freezer and eating them alive. The matter of robbing the tomb was not so easy to panic about.
After he dug up the stones and cement outside, Yang Wei told Captain Yang to bring the police out, and he himself picked up a shovel. After thinking for a while, he gave it to me and said, "You won't let me dig it out, right? I still haven't paid the last time, so I'm not going to work for nothing. "
I didn't expect that at this crucial moment, Yang Wei would still have the mood to joke around. I smiled, took the shovel and started to move it.
I really can't do this kind of work, in just a few moments, my hands had started to bubble, and the burning pain in my palms made Yang Wei shake his head.
But luckily the grave was buried together, Yang Wei was quick, within a few breaths, he had already dug up the coffin, Captain Yang immediately called for people to open it, but I stopped them.
I told Captain Yang to first convince the villagers to leave, and they can't look at the rest of the things, I'm afraid there's still something incredible inside the coffin.
When the villagers retreated, Yang Wei and I looked at each other. We took out Little White from our waists and placed it on a shovel, telling it that if there was anything that escaped, it would immediately bite it.
Lil 'White is usually rather lazy, but when I saw him, I just didn't know if he would show off his might.
Then, he ordered the four little ones to guard the side while the Captain Yang and his men surrounded the area.
Then, Yang Wei took out a bell that was completely green, and shook it lightly a few times. The bell did not make any sound, but Yang Wei's expression became heavy, and he nodded at me.
He used the hoe to pry open the end of the coffin bit by bit. It had to be said that this coffin was very real, and there were no signs of decay after so many years.
Yang Wei didn't pry it open once, but slowly pried it loose, allowing me to stand at the side of the coffin.
I had always imagined that there might be living things in the coffin, because curses were usually made on the basis of resentment. Descendants were fed on human flesh, and it was impossible to leave the house because something was so trapped that it could only be fed on human flesh.
But when Yang Wei cracked the coffin and there was no sound coming from the inside, I started to suspect if I was wrong.
After Yang Wei completely released the coffin, he exerted his strength and knocked on the other side of the coffin.
Following that, he called out in a low voice and heard a white thing scurry out from inside.
That thing was extremely fast. It immediately jumped out and flew away with a dense amount of Yin Qi in its mouth.
Unfortunately, no matter how fast it was, it couldn't be faster than Lil 'White. Lil' White just opened its mouth and bit the thing with its tail.
That thing squeaked wildly in Whitey's mouth as it twisted its four limbs. Surprisingly, it was a freak with a huge head and slightly long arms and legs. However, it was as thin as a bag of bones.
His skin was pale and fragile, as if he had been exposed to the sun for years. The green blood vessels were stretched taut under his sickly white skin, and because he was bitten by Whitey. He squeaked, but what he produced was only a low, weird sound, full of sharp teeth.
His eyes had never seen light, so they had already degenerated. However, his two empty eyeballs were like two dead fish's eyes.
That thing wiggled a few times in Whitey's mouth. Its limbs moved randomly, but because it was in the sunlight, it slowly stopped moving.
Yang Wei immediately took out a Taoist robe from his backpack and covered the strange person's body. Then, he started to chant an incantation and told Captain Yang to find something to cover the strange person's body, so that he wouldn't be burnt to death by the strong light.
The policemen were also stunned. No one thought that there would be such a strange person in the coffin.
When Captain Yang locked the strange person in the police car, Yang Wei and I were also filled with suspicions, but when Yang Wei opened the coffin that was in his body, everything came to an end.
He saw that the coffin was filled with bones of all sizes. Many of them still had traces of blood, and some of them had even been bitten into pieces. However, there was a big hole in the center of the coffin.
Beside the coffin, there were words that had been dug out with a fingernail. It was written in traditional Chinese: "Beginning of the Curse".
The words were slightly black. It was obvious that it used to be filled with blood, but after a long time, it slowly turned black.
Yang Wei reached out to touch the scratches on the coffin lid, his face pale white, he smiled bitterly at me: "To be able to curse a family, there must be a bloodline, that weirdo must belong to that family."
As for why they lived in coffins, I think they were buried alive.
Their family had a tradition of being buried together by husband and wife. Perhaps after the death of the man of that generation, the mistake of a woman or some other reason was buried alive in a coffin. She woke up in the coffin and frantically clawed at it, only to dig a tunnel from the ground.
However, thinking about it, there was something wrong —
The coffin was clearly thinner, wouldn't it be easier to climb out of it?
After that, the Captain Yang told me that the weirdo who was stunned was a man.
Yang Wei suddenly became silent, and started to pack up, walking alone to the side.
The policemen brought back this weirdo who might be eating human flesh and bones in the coffin. Yang Wei and I sat on the filled up grave in silence.
In fact, things are even more cruel than we thought. From the examination in the Captain Yang, that strange person's body seems to be lacking a lot of things, as if he was born dependent on human flesh for food.
Yang Wei and I could roughly guess that the woman who was buried alive was pregnant. We didn't know how long she had been pregnant, nor did we know if the person who buried her alive was trying to bury her alive or if he didn't even know that she was pregnant. Or maybe he thought that the woman who buried her alive was someone else's child.
Living burial was an extreme punishment, causing one to die in terror in the darkness.
However, the woman who was buried alive had an endless chance of survival, or maybe it was for the child in her belly.
She started by desperately scratching the coffin. Perhaps it wasn't deep enough for her to be suffocated to death, or for some other reason, her body survived and gave birth to the child in the coffin.
Then the child grew up on instinct, or under the care of the living mother, feeding on human flesh.
When the mother died, the child began to eat the mother. When the rotten meat was finished, he would eat the worms, or the rat and snake bugs that crawled into the coffin. The hole under the coffin could have been created by the rats.
I don't know what kind of fear it is to be buried alive, but to be sure, that freak might be the eldest son of that generation. That's why every generation's eldest son doesn't go crazy until he's thirty.
The one who cursed the whole family was the woman who ate her husband's flesh and gave birth in the coffin. She cursed everyone in the family for feeding on human flesh like she and her children.
When the sun set, Yang Wei and I looked at the cattle returning home and the school kids chasing after them. The two of them surrounded the coffin in tacit understanding and slowly started to recite scriptures.
Her resentment was heavy, and although the power of the curse had already dissipated, it still affected the entire family.
But the person she wanted to punish had already been punished. Even though Yang Qunmei and his wife were hateful for their lives, they still had three innocent children.
Yang Wei and I spent the entire night reciting the scriptures, and the grievances in the coffin slowly disappeared.
Captain Yang called over, saying that the two children had already fallen asleep, while Yang Qunmei and his wife had gone mad.
This time, they had truly gone mad. Perhaps after the curse disappeared, the crazy bloodlust they felt had disappeared. They recalled how they ate human flesh and corpses. It was a difficult thing to accept.
Reason is a good thing, but it is only in the context of sobriety and acceptance of reason.