Chapter Seventy-Nine: Finding the Source of Corpse Poison!
For lunch, Bai Xiu, Zhang Weiguo, and Cheng Jun ate in the garrison canteen, but the atmosphere during the meal made Bai Xiu very unbearable, and you didn't have much appetite in the face of a group of soldiers who were crying and sad, but had to force a smile.
Although he was very uncomfortable in his heart, Bai Xiu couldn't speak, after all, someone else's person was poisoned by corpses and his life was in danger, from another angle, if this kind of thing happened to him, he was afraid that he would have a similar expression.
"Commander Hu, you just said that your soldiers had an accident while they were on patrol?" Bai Xiu asked a bearded man directly opposite, this person was Hu Laosan, the head of the 315th Regiment stationed in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.
"Yes. Speaking of his soldiers who were poisoned by corpses, Hu Laosan's face was heavy, his eyes were full of tears, and he said in a low tone: "They are all soldiers under the age of thirty, who are in the good years of their lives, and some have even married wives and had children, but now they are ...... with me."
When Hu Laosan said this, his tone had become hoarse, and there were faint tears flashing in the tiger's eyes, so he hurriedly lowered his head and picked up the rice in the bowl, but Bai Xiu clearly saw that the other party had two tears dripping in the bowl.
"How big is the scope of your usual patrols?" Bai Xiu sighed in his heart when he saw this, and he didn't say any comforting nonsense, the only real comfort was to catch the zombies and save the lives of those soldiers, but his good impression of this regiment commander increased a lot.
"More than 50 kilometers, the entire Lishan is the patrol range of my 315th Regiment. Hu Laosan said.
"How can it be so long?" Bai Xiu frowned, the average soldier patrols, the range is no more than a thousand meters, just as he frowned, suddenly, a key point came to mind, and asked: "Then can you tell me, what do the poisoned soldiers under your command have in common? For example, the area they patrol is the same, or where they often like to go to something like that?"
"This ......" Hu Laosan groaned, and said after half a sound: "Your question has been asked by people from the thirteenth place, but they have not got the answer they want, the soldiers under my command who have been poisoned, except for two or three people who are in the same area, the rest of the people are different. ”
"Take me out for a walk. Bai Xiu spoke, stood up after speaking, and Hu Laosan nodded when he heard this.
"Where are you going?" Cheng Jun, who was eating not far away, saw Bai Xiu's movements and immediately asked, this sentence attracted the attention of Zhang Weiguo, Long Tao and others at the dinner table next door, and their eyes fell here.
"I'm going to ask Captain Hu to take me out for a walk. Bai Xiu said.
"I'll go too!"
"I'll go too!"
The two voices sounded almost at the same time, and Zhang Weiguo and Cheng Jun shouted one after another.
"It's okay, since everyone is so interested, I'll go with you too!" Long Tao smiled when he saw this.
The scenery of Lishan is beautiful, spectacular and gorgeous, at a glance, there are lush trees everywhere, which makes people feel refreshed and happy, coupled with those faintly exposed antique buildings in the dense jungle, it is really like a paradise.
Driven by Hu Laosan himself, Bai Xiu and others walked around Lishan, and when Lishan was finished, a map of Lishan given by Captain Hu in Bai Xiu's hand had also been painted in a mess, with more than a dozen black dots drawn on it.
"What do these black dots represent?" Hu Laosan asked, and Long Tao and Cheng Jun next to him also had the same puzzled expressions.
"These black dots represent deflating. Without waiting for Bai Xiu to answer, Zhang Weiguo had already spoken, and then he was afraid that they would not understand his professional terms, so he explained: "The so-called venting of the earth is the theft of the hole. ”
"Thief hole?" Hu Laosan understood this time, and when he heard the words, his driving fingers trembled, and he almost drove the car down the mountain, so frightened that he hurriedly took it back, but his eyes kept scanning the map in Bai Xiu's hand, and he kept muttering: "One, two, three, four...... 112...... There are sixteen thieves in total, this is impossible!"
"Whew!"
With a violent friction sound of tires, the patrol car stopped, Hu Laosan's face was full of shock, and he pointed to the map in Bai Xiu's hand and trembled.
"How is it impossible? I have carefully checked it just now, there are a total of sixteen places in this Lishan that have emitted earth qi, except for the thief hole, there should be no other explanation, and only the thief hole that has vented the earth qi can exude corpse qi. Bai Xiu said lightly.
"No, I have been staying in this Lishan for seven or eight years, according to the reliable information I know, so far, Lishan has had five large-scale digging and theft moves, the earliest one was in 206 BC, Chu overlord Xiang Yu dug up once, after a short time the Red Mei Army of the Western Han Dynasty came again, the Shihu Shile of Hou Zhao also made a scene, the Song Dynasty's Jiedu made Li Zidao, and the Qing Dynasty's bandit Jin Sanhuai also dealt with the imperial tomb, in addition, there was no more. Hu Laosan said angrily.
"Of course, this does not include those thieves who jump alone, even if those people have some ability, they can't enter the real main tomb, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang contains many mechanisms, and anyone who goes in has no return. ”
Hearing Hu Laosan's words, everyone fell silent, but Bai Xiu secretly pouted in his heart, these historical things have little authenticity at all, who said that personal ability can't enter the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang? That is because they haven't met really powerful people, otherwise, what's the difficulty of just a mausoleum?
However, these things are all in his heart, and he didn't say it, he doesn't need to fight with Hu Laosan in public, the main purpose of this time is to catch zombies, as long as he catches zombies, then his task is equivalent to completion.
Thinking of this, Bai Xiu jumped out of the car and said lightly: "You guys go back first, I want to go up to the top of the mountain to go around." ”
"Wait for me, I'll go too!" Zhang Weiguo also jumped out of the car.
"And my ......," shouted Cheng Jun in the car.
Bai Xiu said: "You don't have to go, follow Captain Hu and them back, we may not go back tonight." ”
When Cheng Jun heard this, he opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, he is an understanding person, so he can naturally understand the meaning of Bai Xiu's words, which means that he can only be a burden when he goes, so the best way is to be interesting.
"Okay, you two be careful, remember that tonight's password is: Huaxia is mighty!" Hu Laosan shouted.
Bai Xiu and Zhang Weiguo nodded, and then the two stepped on the ground on their toes, and the next moment, the two of them were in place at the same time, and when they appeared, they had reached a place twenty or thirty zhang away, which was faster than driving a car, and Cheng Jun and Hu Laosan, who were watching, were stunned for a moment, and when they reacted, the two had already disappeared into the vast mountains.
"his grandma, is this still a human?" Hu Laosan muttered indignantly, this person is better than people, he can really be angry, he thinks that his strength is already good in the army, and his fighting skills have always been the top three in his regimental headquarters, which can be compared with others, it seems that a scumbag is not a scumbag.
Cheng Jun stared at the direction in which Bai Xiu and Zhang Weiguo disappeared, his eyes were hot, and he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart?
Long Tao glimpsed the demeanor of the two in the car, and the corners of his mouth showed a smile arc, his special ability is that he has a heart, he can read the thoughts in the hearts of others, and naturally knows the thoughts of the two at the moment......
All the way, Bai Xiu and Zhang Weiguo stopped at the same time to a small dirt recess, at this time, night had fallen, the light was dim, but for the two, there was no effect.
His eyes fell on the ground covered with gravel under his feet, Bai Xiu squatted down and carefully observed the ground, and sure enough, he found that the traces on the ground were very different, one ground was full of messy textures, like human hair, while the other ground was much smoother.
Summoning a fireball technique at random, Bai Xiu brought the firelight close to those black textures, and suddenly, a smell of burning hair came.
"It's sealed soil!" Zhang Weiguo said loudly, saying that he didn't know where to go, he took out the jade ruler and slammed it down on the ground, and the ground that looked like loess actually sparked, and a white trace appeared.
"Sure enough!" Bai Xiu murmured softly.
The so-called sealed soil, refers to the ancient times, people because there is no cement, so it is made of glutinous rice and hair and other things mixed with loess stirring, the effect is similar to the current cement, at the beginning is soft, with the loss of water for a long time, the sealed soil will gradually become hard. Many of the outer structures of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang were gradually built by the sealed soil.
As for this small soil concave, it is where Bai Xiu and Zhang Weiguo found the first thief hole.
The reason why it can be found is that there is usually a large amount of yin qi gathered in the ancient tomb, although the place that was once dug has been blocked, but the soil that blocked the robbery hole must be different from the previous sealed soil, so it will definitely exude a trace of yin qi, and these small yin qi are the reference objects of the two.
"However, there is no corpse qi here that we are looking for!" Zhang Weiguo began.
Bai Xiu nodded, corpse qi is different from yin qi, yin qi can be easily felt, but corpse qi is not good, they can only observe it closely. In addition, the color and nature of the two gases are also very different, the yin qi is black, while the corpse qi is gray; the yin qi does not have much toxin in nature, but the corpse qi toxin contains serious poisoning, so it will cause human poisoning.
"Fill this thief hole, let's look for it separately, so hurry up!"
After Bai Xiu pondered for a while, he said, Zhang Weiguo agreed, and after that, the two of them started at the same time, filling up the robbery hole under their feet, and their bodies swept up and disappeared in different directions.
At about three o'clock in the evening, Bai Xiu and Zhang Weiguo met, they had completely filled the sixteen robbery holes, but in the end, the two of them were discouraged, and they did not find the corpse qi they wanted.
"It seems that we can only use ruthless methods!" Bai Xiu's handsome face revealed a gloomy face, and his voice was low.
"What are you going to do?" Zhang Weiguo's heart jumped, and a strong perception made him know that what was about to happen next was not a good thing.
Bai Xiu did not answer Zhang Weiguo's words, but his expression became solemn, and the ten fingers of his hands suddenly flipped over, forming a mysterious and complex magic seal, and at the same time, a clear mantra came out of his mouth: "Yin and Yang are born together, life is form, the dead are qi, the emperor's mantra is born, and the souls of the Nine Shadows have not yet shown their true form!"
As Bai Xiu's last 'poke' word fell, a yin wind suddenly blew out of thin air in the originally calm mountains, and a stream of yin soul qi appeared densely on the mountain, converging towards Bai Xiu's location.