I originally wanted to turn on the desk lamp and read for a while, but when I was thinking in the dark, I fell asleep without realizing it. When I was drowsy and opened my eyes and woke up, the sun was already shining in through the window. I He rubbed his eyes and looked at the alarm clock on the table. It was already past ten in the morning.

I didn't get up immediately. Instead, I lay in bed and carefully recalled last night. I saw all kinds of magical stories in the professor's book. Those stories were as vivid as if they had really happened. They were also written by the professor. Vivid. Maybe I was too immersed in watching it. Anyway, those plots and the expressions of those characters are deeply imprinted in my memory. It is as if I have experienced these things personally. It is so real.

I quickly went to the table and touched the book. I couldn't wait to read it and see what happened next. Because I clearly remembered where the book was placed last night. So when I touched it with my hands, my eyes were not moving at all. I didn't look. But when my hand touched the expected position, I didn't touch anything.

My heart was shocked. I quickly turned over and sat up. I looked at the table. To my great surprise, the book was not on the table. In fear and panic, I searched desperately for the book. On the bed, on the table. There is nothing on the floor or on the ground. Could it be that some mysterious person, or something more terrifying, stole this book while I was sleeping? Thinking of this, I feel like the hairs all over my body are exploding. Breaking into a cold sweat.

I kept comforting myself in my mind: I must have remembered it wrong last night. The air conditioner was on in my room. The doors and windows were all made of aluminum alloy and were very well sealed. And I checked carefully. All the doors and windows were still closed. It's tight. And it's locked from the inside. There's no sign of anything getting in.

After searching around, I found out that it was a false alarm. It turned out that the book fell in the gap between the desk and the wall. It may have been done by my naughty cat, because it likes to play with everything with its paws. My desk Many things on it are often kicked to the ground by it at night.

I quickly pulled the table out and took out the book. When I took it out, I saw this paragraph written on a page I accidentally opened:

What is the most frightening thing in this world? It is ghosts. Why are you afraid of ghosts? Because all "ghosts" are "irregular shapes" of people. This kind of "irregular state" of people is actually Human freaks. It can also be said that the prototype of ghosts is "freaks". A kind of irregular-looking people. People's fear of ghosts is people's fear of freaks.

In fact, people's fear of monsters is very conducive to human survival and evolution. Freaks have innate defects and are "defective products" of human beings. Human beings' fear of this form ensures that human beings will continue to evolve in the process of evolution. We can find ways to avoid such "defective products" as much as possible to maintain the healthy development of the human population.

I don't know if his theory is correct or not. Anyway, I find it very interesting.

I quickly turned over a few pages and found the place I saw last night. Then I read on. I really want to know what happened to the old eunuch who entered the cave and never came out. Zhao Meng and his wife went to rescue the cave. Did you save him?

But what makes me strange is that the professor stopped writing here for some reason, as if he wanted to leave suspense on purpose. I don’t know where he read these stories, or he heard them told by others. I guess. It should be recorded in local chronicles or other materials.

However, in the supplementary part after the end of this story, the professor also mentioned this:

During the period after the fall of Qin and the beginning of Han Dynasty, in a mountain village dozens of miles away from this valley, many people had seen a monster. This monster was said to be shaped like a fetus rather than any animal.

It is said that the first person who saw this monster was an old man. This old man usually got up very early in the morning. He would carry a dung basket to the mountains and pick up some animal excrement to use as fertilizer for farming. In the past, old men in rural areas usually Have this habit.

This day was no exception. As soon as it got dark, he started wandering around the village. As people get older, their sleep becomes shorter. Therefore, the old man basically gets up at dawn every day, before the night has completely faded. He started picking up dung when he was young. He was the first to get up in the village.

When he walked near the boulder at the east end of the village, in the misty morning light, he seemed to see blood and an animal eating something.

Recently, a lot of chickens have been lost in the village. People thought it must be the weasels or foxes in the mountains. They also put animal traps on them, but it still had no effect. The ones that should be thrown away were still thrown away. So the old man concluded that it must be Weasels, or foxes, etc. And he wanted to walk over quietly and use the shovel in his hand to attack the animal severely.

But as he got closer and closer, he felt something was getting more and more wrong. That animal didn't look like a weasel or a fox in any way. When he got close enough and looked carefully in the brighter and brighter morning light. He finally saw clearly... what kind of weasel or fox it was. It was a fetus that looked underdeveloped. But what was terrifying was that this fetus-shaped monster not only moved quickly, but also seemed to have sharp teeth in its mouth. Eating a chicken.

I don’t know where the old man’s courage came from. He just yelled and then used the shovel in his hand to hit the monster hard. Unexpectedly, the fetal-like monster reacted extremely sensitively and jumped up suddenly. Then he dodged away, and quickly glanced back at the old man. This made the old man tremble with fright, because he felt that there was a fierce light flashing in his eyes that seemed to be half-open.

Then, the monster quickly got under a boulder and disappeared.

After that, people saw this monster one after another. Because this incident was so strange, it had a great impact at the time. Many people even engraved this incident on their tombstones and said such strange things. Since the founding of the world by Pangu, no one seems to have encountered it. Therefore, anyone who can see this kind of monster can count it as one of the most important experiences in his life. It is worthy of being engraved on a tombstone so that this kind of deeds can be left to future generations forever. .In addition, this incident even alarmed the emperor at the time. The emperor also invited many magicians to listen to their opinions on the matter.

Some people say that this is a "ghost baby". What is a "ghost baby"? People at that time were more popular in ghost marriage. That is, unmarried men and women died at a very young age. In this case, the parents of the deceased often gave him Find another dead person of the opposite sex, and then let the two dead people "get married" so that the dead person can live a normal married life in the underworld, and bury the two young dead people together. So, people say that this kind of thing Men and women in ghost marriages can also give birth to children in the underworld. Of course, what they give birth to is this extremely weird "ghost baby". Otherwise, how could such a monster appear?

According to the professor's speculation, this fetus-shaped monster is not a ghost baby at all. It is probably the baby that Zhao Meng and his concubine aborted in the cave. They thought it was a dead baby. But because of the environment in the cave and the The temperature was extremely weird and special, so the baby survived and remained in a nearly fetal state.

This speculation is not unfounded. In Indian mythology, there is a similar cave. The baby inside will always maintain the shape of a baby in appearance, but it can grow in behavior and thought.

I thought about whether there are similar myths in China. There is really no one very similar to this one. If I had to find one, Nezha should be considered one... No matter how long it takes, he will always have the appearance of a young man.

But when I read this supplementary note, I thought of the fetus-shaped monster I saw in the cave with Sister Li. It was very similar to the fetus-shaped monster written in the professor's book. The one written in the professor's book The place can now be determined...it must be that cave. What I didn't expect was that at the end of Qin and the beginning of Han Dynasty, that kind of fetal monster appeared.

Why did Zhao Meng and his wife become extremely afraid of that cave? It was not written in the professor's book. But I seemed to have a vague feeling that the reason why they were afraid of that cave was most likely because they had seen the fetal monster. So A strange thing. Of course it will make them feel extremely scared.

Also, that old eunuch couldn't come out of the cave for so long. He may have entered the labyrinth part of the cave and was trapped in it. He couldn't get out. Maybe we are in the cave. See you. Among the bones that arrived, there was that of an old eunuch. It was really tragic. It seemed that this mysterious cave had swallowed up many people's lives. We were right not to enter hastily.

The reason why the professor wrote this story must be that he realized that from the plot, we can understand some characteristics of the cave. And according to various indications, the place where the Taoist priest hid is this cave. The professor specializes in studying An expert in various human cultures and customs around the world. Of course he has done a lot of research on various mysterious legends and places. Of course he will understand the dangers and mysteries of these places. Therefore, he will make various preparations and come up with countermeasures before going. Strategy. Then you can successfully enter the cave.

This book provided by the Feng Shui master is really important to us. This book can be regarded as a monograph on exploring that cave. And this kind of exploration and research is from the perspective of field investigation, not just theoretical speculation. I You must study this book carefully to see how the professor and his two students entered the cave. And maybe you can also understand what amazing secrets are hidden in this cave that are not known to us.
Chapter completed!