In the summer of the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, a severe drought broke out in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, and the water level dropped to the lowest level in three hundred years. The riverbed in western Henan is exposed and the mud is cracked like a chessboard. A shepherd boy was chasing a hare in a dry river when he suddenly saw something strange in the mud. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a huge animal skull, half-buried in the mud, shaped like a dragon's head.
When the news came out, the whole country was shocked. The village elders burned incense and worshiped, saying that it was the Dragon King who appeared. However, after hearing the news, geologists from the provincial capital came to investigate for three days and concluded that they were the fossils of prehistoric giant beasts. It was a time of war and the government had no time to take care of it, so it hired local men to dig.
At dusk on the seventh day, the hoe made a clanging sound when it touched the stone. After clearing away the floating soil, a hand-carved bluestone slab was revealed, with patterns of strange birds and insects engraved on it, which looked like seal script but not seal script, and looked like a picture but not a picture. A pair of bronze animal rings are embedded in the center of the board, stained with rust.
The scholars were shocked and realized that it was unusual. They urgently ordered the work to be stopped and wanted to send a telegram to the provincial capital. It was night, and there was a sudden heavy rain, with thunder and lightning. The next morning, the tent was completely destroyed, and the scholar and three assistants were missing. Only a bottomless black hole was left in the center of the river bed, where turbid water poured in and there was a whimpering sound.
In the next three months, seventeen civilians who participated in the excavation died suddenly one after another. The death pattern was strange: their eyes were wide open, their faces were frightened, and there were no scars on their bodies, except for a cinnabar-like red mark between their eyebrows.
The villagers were afraid, so they filled the holes with earth and kept it secret. But the legend of "Yellow River Dragon Bone Cave" quietly spread among strange people in the world...
