Chapter 14 Yin General, Stone Weight?

“Yin General, the Yin General who summons ghost soldiers?”

Old Suanpan's words made Hu Ma's heart tremble slightly, and a careful thought sent chills down his spine.

Old Suanpan, however, stomped his feet in anger, and suddenly reacted, shouting, "Never mind him for now, quick, go and see what's inside the mine, is there anything else left?"

"Anything else?"

The people around him hadn't yet recovered from the panic just now. They wiped their faces, which were covered in blood. Turning their heads to look at each other, they all looked like bloodied figures, and were so frightened that they were gasping for breath.

Hu Ma, however, was relatively calm. As soon as Old Suanpan spoke, he had already arrived at the entrance of the mine and looked inside, his expression strange.

Just now, this mine was full of strange and bizarre things, but after that thing ran out, the strange bloody smell in the cave was gone, and it looked like an ordinary mine.

Strangely enough, when there was a bloody smell inside, people felt strangely frightened just by looking at it. Now that the bloody guy had crawled out, people felt a lot more at ease when they looked at the mine again.

Hu Ma didn't say much, lit a torch, bent down, and鑽 into the mine. Under the gaze of the people holding their breath, he crawled inside bit by bit.

The torch flickered, illuminating both sides of the stone wall.

Hu Ma came from Da Yang Village, which had many meat-cutting craftsmen, but strictly speaking, this was the first time Hu Ma had entered this kind of mine. He saw that both sides of the mine were stone walls, but in the gaps in the stone walls, strange textures of flesh and blood could be seen from time to time.

First white matter, then blue matter, and further inside, there was actually blood matter, all closely connected to the stone wall, like soil in the stone crevices. The surface showed a large number of traces of being mined and cut.

Was this how those meat-cutting workers cut off all kinds of flesh and blood of the Tai Sui (mythical creature said to grant immortality) and transported them outside?

Hu Ma sighed in his heart, but continued to go inside, and gradually found that as the bloody Tai Sui became more and more numerous, the surrounding area was already crimson. The stone walls had crystallized, looking like dried flesh and blood.

But in the depths, golden lines could be seen on both sides, which were golden-patterned Tai Sui. From this change, it could be determined that Zhuang Erchang was not lying about this.

These were all good things

But he knew that he hadn't seen the main point yet, so he forcibly restrained himself, slowly approached the inside, and felt that he had gone very deep, almost a dozen zhang. Finally, the light of the torch seemed to be blocked, and when he looked closely, a dark, mushy thing appeared in front of him.

The vaguely visible gold threads on the stone walls on both sides became more and more dense, and spread all the way inside, but when they reached here, they converged on this dark, round thing. Inside the black material, there were cold, faint golden threads and blood.

"Is this what they call the *shi tuo* (stone weight)?"

Hu Ma's heart sank, and he looked intently, and saw that this thing was neither bone nor stone, and was connected to the surrounding remnants of flesh and blood.

If he hadn't known that this thing was strange, and that there were golden threads and remnants of flesh and blood on it, it would have looked like a stone encountered during the mining process.

Taking a few deep breaths, he mustered up his courage, turned his palm into death, and stretched out to push it.

This push used the strength of a watchman, but it didn't move at all.

After a slight hesitation, he first stuck the torch aside, took out a serrated knife, and cut off the connection between this thing and the stone cave.

Then he came out again, found a few sturdy ropes, wrapped them together, and then re-entered the cave, wrapped the ropes around the stone a few times, tied it firmly, and pulled the other end out.

"Come over and help, pull the things inside out to see, and bring the animals from the mine over here."

Seeing his instructions, everyone became busy. Some people moved the wooden frame over, and the rope was wrapped around the frame. Some people went to the back of the valley to pull the animals from the pen in the southeast corner.

Fortunately, the animal pen was located far away, so it was not bitten to death by the Gu worms in this chaos.

The rope was wrapped around the wooden frame a few times, and put on the animals. Then the meat-cutting worker who knew how to raise animals raised the whip and made a false chop. The four mules exerted their strength at the same time, and the rope was immediately straightened, but the hooves of the four mules were slipping, and they didn't pull it at all.

So they took another rope, distributed the positions, and the other two horses in the valley, as well as the donkey that Hu Ma brought, were also put on.

No one cared about the Horse Lord seeking death, after all, this horse looked like it was about to die

So many animals were put on, and they used all their strength to tighten the rope. Even the wooden frame used as a pulley was creaking and about to fall apart, but the thing inside still didn't seem to be pulled out at all.

Hu Ma frowned when he saw this. Zhou Datong and others beside him had already stepped forward to help, so he also reached out and grabbed the rope.

Using all his strength, he suddenly shouted, "Come out!"

Finally, with the addition of this Fu (Prefecture)-level watchman, the thing in the mine was finally pulled out. Because it came out too fast, the animals were shaken and fell into a pile, and several of them looked like their legs were crippled.

Fortunately, this was a blood food mine, and applying some black oil ointment could cure it. If it were outside, these animals would be useless.

"What is this?"

Finally, the thing inside was dragged out, and whether it was the miners or Datong and others, they were all curious and came over to look at it, their eyes full of surprise.

Now that it was outside and there was plenty of light, Hu Ma could see the appearance of this thing clearly. It was about four or five chi (a Chinese unit of length) tall, dark, and at the very top, there was an irregular round hole.

Originally, there were golden patterns on the surface, but now that it had been dragged outside, they had dimmed. The whole body was only dark and mushy, like iron but not iron, and there was nothing special about it at all.

"It is, it is"

While the others were looking at it in confusion, Old Suanpan had already squeezed up, his eyes wishing to be glued to it. He touched it here and knocked it there. After a long time, he sighed softly, looking a little lost.

"It's not a *shi tuo* (stone weight), it's a *shi tuo* (stone weight), this is what was used to suppress the things inside"

""

Not only did the people next to him not understand, but Hu Ma also glanced at him strangely: "This thing is called a *shi tuo* (stone weight)?"

"Yes."

Old Suanpan waved his hand, his expression looking a little uninterested, and said in a low voice: "This is a strange thing made during the Grand Sacrifice in Shangjing (historical name for Beijing) back then. It is said to be used to weigh the weight of the world."

"Weigh the world? What operation is this?"

Hu Ma frowned when he heard this, and reached out to push it: "Just based on this thing?"

When he was inside just now, he felt that it didn't move at all when he pushed it, but now that it had been dragged outside, it didn't seem to have that weight anymore. When he pushed it with one palm, although it was heavy, it wasn't as completely immovable as before.

"It's just a saying, how can you take it seriously?"

Old Suanpan sighed and said, "Presumably, there should be an expert who wanted to use this meaning to suppress something. Think about it, if you can weigh the world, it means that this *shi tuo* (stone weight) has the weight to be discussed with the world. How heavy would this thing have to be?"

"It is precisely because of this weight that it can suppress some extremely evil things"

""

Hu Ma frowned slightly when he heard this, and said, "Is it that Yin General?"

"Yes."

Old Suanpan said in a low voice, "That thing is used for fighting, it's very evil!"

"Wherever it goes, all living people will die and turn into a troop of ghost soldiers, following him to charge into battle. No matter how great the ability of living people, how can they resist the existence of this evil thing?"

"It is also for this reason that there has always been a rumor that when the Lord of the World is born, there will be an Yin General to help him, commanding the ghost soldiers to help him seize the world."

"Similarly, the birth of the Yin General also means that the troubled times are about to begin, but this thing in our mine seems to have been dug out, and it has not really taken shape, so it may not count."

""

"Commanding ghost soldiers to charge into battle?"

Hu Ma was shocked by his words. It was hard to imagine the scene of such a monster leading countless ghost soldiers to charge, and he suddenly had a better understanding of the power in the world.

"But"

Old Suanpan thought, and frowned even more. He suddenly glanced at Hu Ma suspiciously, and said, "Is there only the *shi tuo* (stone weight) inside?"

"Logically speaking, since there is a *shi tuo* (stone weight) and an Yin General has been formed, there should also be a General's Token. The ancestral master said that these things should be put together"

The more he spoke, the more suspicious he became. He suddenly reached out and patted Hu Ma's sleeve: "Is it on you?"

"What the hell?"

Hu Ma immediately became annoyed and shook his sleeves frankly, saying, "How could I have time to take this broken thing? Even if I did, I wouldn't recognize it. If you don't believe me, you can go in and take a look yourself?"

Old Suanpan could indeed see that Hu Ma didn't look like he was hiding anything. He also knew that this thing was probably not something that a watchman could hide. He chuckled twice and said, "Why are you getting annoyed? I'm just asking"

But as he spoke, he actually mustered up his courage, took a torch, ran into the mine and turned around, and then came back with a long face.

Hu Ma had already seen clearly that the mine was already empty.

"Why are you so regretful?"

Hu Ma patted the *shi tuo* (stone weight) in front of him and said, "Since this thing is said to weigh the world, can't it be considered a treasure?"

"It's useless. This thing is just a lock. The General's Token that can control the Yin General is the good thing"

Old Suanpan listened, but he was a little disdainful: "It just seems that there is really no trace of it. Could it be that the ancestral master has calculated it wrong again? This old thing can't enjoy three animals in his life"

Hu Ma watched him in regret, but didn't interrupt, just stood silently on the side, lost in thought.

At this moment, the meat-cutting craftsmen next to him saw that only a *shi tuo* (stone weight) had been dragged out, so they dispersed. Some people discovered the abnormalities on the surface of several surrounding mines and exclaimed in surprise: "Why are the meat mines here so dry?"

Old Suanpan suddenly froze and slapped his thigh hard: "Damn Zhuang Erchang!"

(End of this chapter)