Changsha Dart Summit

**The Dart Summit (镖子岭)** is the first tomb mentioned in *Cavern of the Blood Zombies*. It was robbed by Wu Xie's grandfather Wu Laogou and his family.

## Appearance

The tomb is located in the plain of the valley, surrounded by mountains. There are many pythons in the area and the tomb is just below the valley. Now, it's covered by a lush, green canopy of treetops with a bare red mound of clay which is the dart summit.

## Tomb Raids

### Wu Laogou

Wu Laogou, his grandfather Lao Yantou, his father Wu Dagui, and his brother One-Eye, attempted to rob the tomb. Wu Laogou did not go down into the tomb with them and instead waited at the edge of the grave. He was handed a rope that was tied to a bucket and was told to pull it up when given a signal.

Wu Laogou heard an eerie rattling noise was coming from the grave, when One-eye yelled to pull the rope up. A gunshot came from within the grave and his father told him to run. Suddenly, the rope gave way and Wu Laogou ran clutching the bucket. Once he was some distance away he checked the bucket and found a severed hand still attached. The hand had belonged to One-eye and Wu Laogou decided to go back and save his family.

When he turned around, there sat a creature the color of blood staring directly at him. Wu Laogou went for his pistol and the creature stood up. The creature was a man that had no skin and was raw and bloody. Wu Laogou speculated that it has been a blood corpse and shot at the creature but when the pistol jammed he ran.

As he ran, he tripped and fell and the creature soon approached. The creature walked on top of Wu Laogou's back and he began to feel an itching burning sensation where the creature had touched him. He thought he had been poisoned and was going to die when he saw that his brother's severed hand still had something in its grasp. Wu Laogou crawled over to see what it was and discovered it was a piece of silk.

Suddenly, he heard the same rattling noise that was coming from the grave earlier nearby. He did not believe it was the blood corpse from earlier because it did not make a sound when wounding it. Wu Laogou lifted his head to see what it was and there before him was a gigantic unearthly face. Its eyes had no pupils nor any emotions. Wu Laogou then passed out.

Wu Xie learns of his grandfather's encounter at the Dart Summit from his grandfather's journal. The story abruptly ended when he encountered the blood corpse. Wu Laogou never liked to talk about the incident with anybody else including Wu Xie.

### Wu Sanxing

Around 1982, Wu Sanxing wanted to explore the same tomb his father did so many years ago. After some time investigating he was able to find the tomb in the Mang Shan mountain range. When he arrived, he discovered that Jude Kao had set up camp there and was ready to explore the tomb. During the night, Wu Sanxing dug a grave robbers' tunnel into the tomb to circumvent Jude Kao's team. After navigating through the tomb, Wu Sanxing reached a room with an opened coffin and two rotting bodies leaned against it. A box gun on one of the corpses had a name on it, "Wu Dagui," the name of Wu Laogou's father.

Beneath the coffin was a trapdoor which Wu Sanxing opened. A wrinkly face was waiting at the opening and Sanxing dropped the door and it smashed into the face. After discovering it was a blood corpse, he then poured rice wine on it and lit it on fire. After it had stopped moving, Wu Sanxing beheaded it. After the flames died out, Sanxing inspected it and found that the now blackened skeleton was missing a hand. Wu Sanxing surmised that it was his uncle, One-eye.

Wu Sanxing then went down to the secret room under the coffin. After crawling around in the passageway, he came upon a stone wall covered with bas-relief. The carving on the wall was of a figure with a human face and the body of an owl-like bird. Its mouth was open which led to a space just large enough to have held the silk book that One-eye's severed hand had clasped. The creature had four eyes with circular pupils. The two eyes on top had dark pebbles inlaid with the pupils while the bottom pairs' were pried out. Wu Sanxing believed that his uncle had somehow set off a trap while prying out the pebbles. So, Wu Sanxing also pried out the two pebbles on the top to see what would happen. He pulled out the first pebble and nothing happened but when he pulled out the second, it had fallen onto the floor.

As it hit the floor, a cloud dust arose from the pieces and the larva of a red corpse-eater, making a strange, creaking sound, had emerged. The corpse-eater took flight while Sanxing attempted to kill it before it could him. He smashed it with his machete to no avail and realized the insect could not be killed easily so he needed to run away. He managed to get through the trapdoor and slammed it shut before the insect could get out.

Wu Sanxing gathered the bodies of his relatives, cremated them, then returned home. He never spoke to anyone about what had happened. He kept the pebble and showed it off at a funeral. The funeral director recognized it as a capsule of immortality.

## References

1. ↑ Cavern of the Blood Zombies (Print), Chapter 1, pages 5-7
2. ↑ Cavern of the Blood Zombies (Print), Chapter 1, pages 8-9
3. ↑ Cavern of the Blood Zombies (Print), Chapter 1, pages 9-10
4. ↑ Cavern of the Blood Zombies (Print), Chapter 1, pages 10-11
5. ↑ Cavern of the Blood Zombies (Print), Chapter 1, page 11
6. ↑ Deadly Desert Winds (Print), Chapters 2-3, pages 9-15.
7. ↑ Deadly Desert Winds (Print), Chapters 3-4, pages 15-19
8. ↑ Deadly Desert Winds (Print), Chapter 4, pages 19-21
9. ↑ Deadly Desert Winds (Print), Chapter 4, pages 21-24