I heard Wei Shengnan's voice in my dazed state and subconsciously tried to open my eyes.
But as soon as the thought crossed my mind, I quickly suppressed it.
Because her voice didn't come out alone, but was mixed in with crying and screaming.
My understanding of shamanism is limited; I only know that shamanism uses spirit drums and clothing to communicate with spirits and exorcise evil spirits.
The sounds I heard earlier were clearly Wei Shengnan's drumming and chanting, which were then replaced by other sounds.
Although I don't understand the underlying principles, I think it has a lot to do with Wei Shengnan's actions.
In other words, I heard other sounds through her drumming.
Logically speaking, if she stopped playing the drums, I should only be able to hear her voice.
Thinking of this, I kept my eyes tightly closed.
"Be careful! Open your eyes!"
"it's over!"
"It's all over!"
"Be careful!!"
Wei Shengnan's voice was extremely gentle; I could almost feel her breath.
Soon, her voice was replaced by cries and screams, and the sounds of wooden fish being struck and sutras being chanted filled the air around me.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Suddenly, two loud bangs rang out, startling me.
Similarly, the chaotic noises around me gradually faded away, allowing me to hear Wei Shengnan's chanting and drumming again.
A few seconds later, the drumming stopped abruptly, I was tapped on the head, and then Wei Shengnan's voice said, "That's enough!"
Although Wei Shengnan's voice was convincing enough to fool people before, when I actually heard her voice, I felt like I was waking up from a dream.
I did nothing the whole time, but when I opened my eyes, I found myself drenched in sweat.
Looking at the area around the arm, the hair that had grown out was gone, and the sweat that flowed out was like ink. When you touched it, you could feel the grainy texture and it had a fishy smell.
Before I knew it, I had been sitting for a full ninety minutes.
And Wei Shengnan actually managed to resolve my arm issue in this way.
Wei Shengnan, wearing a priest's robe weighing dozens of kilograms, was also exhausted. Beads of sweat streamed down her snow-white neck, making her look extremely sexy.
She put down the divination drum, her eyes showing weariness: "How are you feeling?"
I moved my arm around and indeed the soreness and swelling were gone: "Has the Wei family always practiced shamanic secret arts?"
"The Four Gates are a special existence, not only in tomb raiding but also in exorcism! The Wei family lineage has many cultivation methods and has dabbled in almost every field."
The shamanic ritual I just performed for you wasn't a form of spiritual communication, but rather a healing method. The shamanic ritual was secondary; the burnt incense stick was the real medicine.
Although I learned this method, I don't really understand the underlying principles, but it does work in certain specific situations. As you said to the monkey, any custom that seems strange to us is the optimal solution at the time of its formation.
Seeing that I had recovered, Wei Shengnan breathed a slight sigh of relief: "You can go out now. I need to change my clothes. There was a gunshot outside just now, and I need to check it out! We're going down into the tomb tomorrow. Don't mention your possession and my exorcism to anyone else, so as not to put anyone on a psychological burden!"
When I first heard the sound, I thought it was Wei Shengnan making it, but I never expected it to be gunshots.
When I left the tent, the people outside had already gathered together, and everyone was using flashlights.
I peeked through the gap and saw that they seemed to be surrounding someone.
Could it be that what we've encountered is like the Li Fan tomb incident, where someone is playing tricks on us?
When I got closer, I realized that what they were surrounding was not a person at all, but a strange-looking animal that was about 1.5 meters tall and looked like a monkey.
The monster was entirely blue, with two tufts of white hair growing from its ears. If you only looked at its face and not its body, it would clearly be an elderly woman.
Seeing that Xu Hu was still holding a gun, I asked him, "What happened?"
"After the young lady led you back to the tent, she instructed the others to stay far away and not to come near. I was worried that you might be in danger, so I stayed outside to keep watch."
Xu Hu pointed at the monster on the ground: "I vaguely saw a figure outside the tent and thought it was one of our people. I shouted but got no response, so I fired a warning shot. It actually charged at me, and I fired in a panic!"
"Damn it, why does this thing look so weird?" The monkey looked at the monster's corpse on the ground. "It looks almost exactly like the marmosets I've seen at the zoo!"
"This is definitely not a marmoset. Marmosets usually weigh only a few hundred grams and live by eating insects, so they are also called insectivorous monkeys. But look at this thing, it's almost as big as a human. Apart from mandrills, I've never heard of a monkey this big."
Old Song kicked the corpse on the ground: "When I was a child, I heard the old folks say that when a monkey sheds its fur, it's not far from becoming a spirit!"
“The location we are in is a desolate wilderness, a place that locals dare not easily set foot in. The animals have a better ecological environment, so it is understandable that they are larger in size.”
Seeing everyone staring at the monster, Qu Ruilin waved his hand and said, "Everyone, stop looking! Let's dig a hole and bury it! We don't know if this strange monkey is a social animal, so those of you on night duty tonight should be more alert."
I saw the others carrying the strange monkey's corpse to dig a pit some distance away, and I suddenly felt nauseous.
According to Wei Shengnan, what I experienced last night was being haunted by a nightmare ghost.
Does that mean the teeth marks on my arm were very likely left by this strange monkey?
Could it be that the fake Wei Shengnan was impersonated by something like this?
Or perhaps, as Wei Shengnan said, there are hallucinogenic substances in this valley, and this strange primate took advantage of my moment of dazedness.
Just thinking about its disgusting appearance gives me goosebumps all over. I keep reassuring myself that everything I experienced yesterday was just an illusion.
For others, the fear emanating from that strange monkey lay solely in its appearance.
But to me, this place felt eerie.
Wei Shengnan knew about my situation and that night made up an excuse, saying that I had to go down into the tomb the next day, so she didn't arrange for me to be on duty.
Having learned from the previous night's experience, I deliberately called the monkey into my tent as well, and cut wood shavings from the dragon-taming wood, twisted them into the red rope, and connected our wrists together.
On my second night in Hengji Mountain, I finally got a good night's sleep.
When I woke up, I found that everyone was already working inside the dungeon.
I asked around and found out that the ground under the suspected tomb was made of a mixture of lime, sand, and clay, so Qu Ruilin's Luoyang shovel couldn't penetrate it at all.
So everyone took their tools and went down to dig the ground, trying to find a place where Qu Ruilin could lower his shovel.
Seeing that everyone was busy, I felt bad about just sitting around, so I picked up a pickaxe to help.
I'd barely dug a couple of times when the translator, not far behind me, used a hammer drill to break through the ground and exclaimed excitedly, "I've made a breakthrough! I've reached the soil layer below... Ah!!"
Hearing the translator's wailing, I instinctively turned around and saw a stream of orange-red flames erupting from beneath the pierced ground, instantly engulfing him.
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