#Which one is the scariest in the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series#
In the story of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", each one has its own unique little fragments that make people palpitate. However, if you want to say the most chilling one, it is undoubtedly "The Grave of the Yellow Skin".
The brilliant novel "Ghost Blows the Lantern" is divided into two parts, each consisting of four volumes of stories. The main line of the first part is to find the dust beads and break the curse, including the four volumes of stories such as "Exquisite Ancient City", "Longling Grotto", "Yunnan Worm Valley", and "Kunlun Divine Palace". The second part uses dragon talismans as the objects that connect the stories, including the four volumes of stories such as "The Tomb of the Yellow Skin", "The Return of the South China Sea", "Nuqing Xiangxi", and "Wuxia Coffin Mountain".
Each of these eight volumes of stories has a chilling fragment. "Exquisite Ancient City" is full of mystery, which makes people fall into endless reverie; the soul ladder in "Longling Grotto" makes people suffocate, as if they are trapped in a sealed secret room; "Yunnan Worm Valley" is full of monsters and harsh environment, which makes people always worry; "Kunlun Divine Palace" is like entering a bizarre fantasy world, which makes people lose themselves; "Return to the Ruins of the South China Sea" goes to the sea to collect pearls and salvage the bone mirror, and the risk is so great that people can't help but pinch a cold sweat; "Angry Qing Xiangxi" It shows more of the inverted means of moving mountains and unloading mountains, which is dizzying, and the plot change of "Wuxia Coffin Mountain" is unbelievable and unexpected. However, the most terrifying thing is "The Grave of the Yellow Skin", in which the weasel has all kinds of weird legends, especially the two white-haired and yellow-skinned people who can read minds, and follow Lao Hu and others into the strange operation of the Hundred Eyes Cave, which is really frightening!
The background of the story of the Yellow Skin Tomb
The story of the Yellow Tomb takes place in the era when Hu Bayi cut the queue, when he was only a young man under the age of twenty.
He cut into the queue with the fat man in Gangganglingzi, which was a little-known ravine. Just over the middle of that autumn fell on the mountains when heavy snow fell. The inhabitants of the mountains went into the mountains one after another, carrying hunting dogs and hunting rifles to "catch the winter famine" and prepare enough food to survive the harsh winter. Hu Bayi and Fat Man are both energetic people, and they can't wait to go into the mountains to hunt. However, the village party secretary did not let them follow to make trouble, but instead asked the two of them to follow the swallow to guard the forest farm.
The forest farm is next to Tuanshanzi, and there is another mysterious name called Huangpizi Tomb. Legend has it that this was once the paradise of the yellow skins, and they were all over the place. When Lao Hu and his two friends arrived, they chatted and told strange stories about Huangpizi. They decided to go on their own quest for these mysterious creatures. As soon as the fat man heard this, he immediately jumped up excitedly, and couldn't wait to catch a yellow skin.
And above Tuanshanzi, there is indeed an extraordinary yellow skin. Lao Hu and his friends accidentally caught a yellow fairy girl, and since then, a series of strange stories have begun......
The three of them returned to the forest farm with Huang Xiangu and suddenly heard a knock on the door outside the house. Lao Hu opened the door to visit, but saw that there was no one outside the door, only the sound of wailing came from the direction of the Huangpizi grave in the distance. Looking down again, there was a broken bowl on the ground, containing six golden beans, obviously Huang Pizi wanted to exchange the golden beans for his life.
In order to go into the mountains to hunt bears, the three of them strayed into the tomb of Wong Tai Sin, and were almost fascinated by Huang Xiangu's mind-reading skills, and died in Huangquan. However, Huang Xiangu could not escape after all, and was taken out of the mountain by the fat man to peel the skin for fruit candy.
This story is far from over here, it has only just begun......
A trip to the Hundred Eyes Cave
Lao Hu and the fat man received a letter from the grassland, which was a letter from their former comrade-in-arms Ding Sitian asking about the current situation. The two idle fellows immediately embarked on a trip to the grassland, originally to visit their comrades, but unexpectedly fell into an adventurous journey.
The cattle herd on the grassland disappeared, and Lao Hu, Fat Man, Ding Sitian, and Lao Sheepskin went deep into the forbidden area of Baiyan Cave in the depths of the grassland. The Hundred Eyes Cave is a mysterious place that has been visited many times by the loss of people and animals, so it is known as a forbidden area on the grassland. The old sheepskin claims that there is a demon dragon in the Hundred Eyes Cave that can devour people and animals, but in fact this is just a special natural phenomenon.
After the formation of the earth, mountains and seas were gradually formed. There is a condensation of sea gas in the dragon veins of the South China Sea to produce a yin fire, which will not be extinguished when exposed to water. There are countless giant tortoises in the South China Sea, because the tortoise shell is full of yin essence qi, when the dragon fire and sea qi are turbulent at the bottom of the sea, the tortoise shell contains the hot wind like invisible ghost fire.
Later, countless giant tortoises buried their bones in the Hundred Eyes Cave, and the tortoise shells piled up to form the phenomenon of "foehn wind". Later, the Japanese army discovered the mysterious supernatural phenomenon of the Hundred Eyes Cave and established a research institute here to conduct research.
Hu Bayi and his team, a group of four, in the process of searching for cattle, crossed the winding worm ditch, crossed the rat hole, and finally arrived at the mysterious research institute. This three-story building seems to be ordinary, but when they walk in, they find that there is only an empty corridor inside, there is no room, and the surrounding area is pitch black, giving people a strange feeling. What's even more amazing is that they found a floodgate, like a prison, that could only be opened from the outside. When they entered, the gate became their only escape route. The building seemed to have turned into a huge labyrinth, putting Hu Bayi and his family in an unpredictable and dangerous situation.
In this extremely strange house, the four of them are already extremely nervous. Just then, there was a knock at the door, and in this dark night, the sound was like a ghostly call, which made people feel creepy.
Lao Hu was about to kick the door open, but found that a pair of white hands scratching the glass appeared on the door, and the rusty iron door was slowly pushed open. The foot that Lao Hu raised instantly stiffened, and he originally planned to bite the bullet to take a look, but the fat man and Ding Sitian in the back couldn't bear this horror, they told Lao Hu to retreat and began to retreat into the building.
As soon as Lao Hu turned around, he found that there was no one behind him, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated. When he stepped back, his legs were as weak as cotton, and when he looked at the fat man and Ding Sitian, their faces had become as white as paper. At this moment, they were really scared, and they knew in their hearts that there were probably ghosts in this building.
The doorway was no longer accessible, and the only option was to take the stairs up or into the basement. However, while they hesitated, the only escape gate was pushed shut by someone else. In desperation, the four of them could only choose to walk to the second floor. All the rooms on the second floor were still sealed, and the four of them struggled to tear down the brick walls and finally open a room, but they were horrified to find that it was a crematorium.
Lao Hu tried to climb to find a way to escape, but in the middle of his journey, a monster suddenly fell from above, which was very dangerous. With a sharp reflexes, he got away with it. He immediately closed the lid of the stove with his backhand. Although Lao Hu didn't see exactly what the monster was, he could be sure that it was by no means a friendly creature.
Just as Lao Hu was thinking about countermeasures and preparing to ignite the ointment in the stove to burn the monster to death, there was a faint sound of footsteps in the darkness, which seemed to be approaching the stove. Lao Hu anxiously slapped his companions around him, the fat man, Ding Sitian and Lao Sheepskin were all there. However, a fifth figure, or a ghostly being, suddenly appeared in the darkness.
When their footsteps were so soft that they could barely be heard, the four of them were terrified. Lao Hu hurriedly asked Ding Sitian to strike a match to light it, but she failed to light it because she panicked. At this moment, the door of the furnace suddenly opened, and a fast-moving brocade scale oyster burst out of it, bringing great danger to the four of them. They didn't know what was in the building, but it clearly didn't want them to leave alive. Eventually, the four escaped the institute through the sewers and entered a basement.
On the way to escape, Lao Hu felt that there were a pair of resentful eyes staring at them behind him. Upon entering the basement, they discover that a corpse has been turned into a zombie. To be on the safe side, they decided to burn it. Due to the fatigue of several days in a row, the four of them fell asleep on the table as soon as they sat down. However, when they wake up, they find the charred zombie on the table. It made them feel very weird, as it seemed like it was just a dream. However, when they woke up, they found the remains still on the table. This left them very confused and frightened because they didn't know what was going on.
Who the hell is it? Who has been secretly following these four people? As they walked out of the gloomy basement, Old Sheepskin suddenly fell, and then Old Hu was shocked to find that two white furry arms were sticking out of the burden behind him, exactly the same as the arms that appeared on the glass window before. Lao Hu and the other two went to help the old sheepskin, but unexpectedly fell into a mysterious tree hole. The fat man tried to illuminate the surroundings with matches, but two strokes were blown out by a gust of wind, and he cursed loudly in anger. Suddenly, a pair of green eyes lit up in front of them, like two flickering ghost fires. Lao Hu and the fat man were frightened, they thought that this was Huang Xiangu's eye of revenge, did she come to ask for her life?
However, this is not the case. It turned out that these were the other two white-haired and yellow-skinned eyes. All kinds of strange phenomena along the way, such as the knock on the door of the building, the two human hands on the glass window, the mysterious figure in the secret room, and the zombies on the table, are all caused by these yellow skins.
Of course, once the problem is solved, the fear will disappear. However, "The Grave of the Yellow Skin" is indeed the most terrifying one when you first watch it. Especially when you don't know anything about the plot, that fear of the unknown makes people's hearts beat faster. Looking back now, I have watched "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" many times, and all the plots and details are already well understood, so I no longer feel scared.
However, when I first opened "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", the atmosphere of mystery and horror did make me a little timid. Especially at night, when the lights gradually dim and the eerie feeling of flipping through the pages of a book is even more eerie. However, it was this mixture of fear and curiosity that kept me wanting to keep exploring.
Of course, as Mr. Lu Xun said, "the joys and sorrows of human beings are not the same", and the same is true for fear. My personal experience is that what I'm afraid of doesn't necessarily scare you. So these are just my personal feelings and may not apply to everyone.