Chen Zhan and the three of them set off from Xi'an to Luoyang in a military helicopter, Chen Zhan learned from Zhao Guofeng that the unearthed ancient tomb is located in a place called Potou Township, this place is in the deep mountains, the traffic is very inconvenient, the helicopter can only fly to Potou Township, and then you have to take a car to the ancient tomb.

It took three hours to finally come to Potou Township, where there were already two people waiting, and the three got off the helicopter and got on an off-road vehicle and continued to move towards the mountains, "Where are you going now?" Chen Zhan asked.

"That ancient tomb is here, in a place called Dumb Gully!" Zhao Guofeng said, and the car finally stopped after half an hour.

The three of them got out of the car, "This is the dumb ditch?" Chen Zhan looked at a mountain road paved with stones three people wide in front of him and asked.

"Mr. Chen, this is not the case, if you want to get to Dumbagou, you have to take this mountain road, the car can't get in, and then we have to walk!" The two people who picked up Chen Zhan's three, one of them, Xiao Ye, also got out of the car and replied.

"Let's go!"

The four of them walked along the mountain road, there were no people along the way, occasionally only one or two cultivated fields, surrounded by mountains, the sky gradually darkened, walked for nearly three hours, and finally saw the village in front of them, and still saw that some people's lights had been lit.

It's hard to believe that someone lives here, but fortunately the wires here are pulled in, otherwise it would be inconvenient to do anything at night.

Xiao Ye took Chen Zhan and the three of them to the front of a house, "Bureau Zhao, Mr. Chen, Section Chief Wu, you are here!" In the courtyard in front of the door, two people were sitting there discussing something, and when they saw Chen Zhan and the three of them, they immediately stood up.

"Well, what about the lao hu people?" Zhao Guofeng asked.

Before these two people could answer, a loud voice sounded, and I saw a bearded man walking out of the house, "I heard your voice in the house, Lao Zhao and Lao Chen, you are too late, it's been a day!"

"It's too late for you to be lao, I went to Hong Kong early in the morning, and at that time Lao Zhao called me and said, I dare to come over as soon as this thing is over." Chen Zhan scolded with a smile.

"Okay, lao Hu, let's talk about the situation first!" Zhao Guofeng said.

"Come into the house and say!" When Chen Zhan entered the house, he saw two middle-aged people in the room fiddling with a pair of hexagrams under the lamp, and the two stopped what they were doing when they saw someone coming in, "Zhao Ju, Mr. Chen." ”

"Well, lao Hu say it now!" The whole house belonged to the Security Bureau, and when the people from the Security Bureau came here, they gave some money to the mountain people here and rented two houses as a temporary settlement, after all, what they had to do was not known to these ordinary people.

"Then I'll start from the beginning, a month ago there was a heavy rain here, and the next day the sky was clear, a few mountain people went hunting and unknowingly turned to the dumb ditch, and found that there was actually a landslide there, and a hole more than three meters was leaked at the bottom of the landslide, and those mountain people were curious to go over to see, and went into the hole and found that it was actually an ancient tomb, and they reported it to the township, and then there was an archaeological team and a team of armed police to come, and the excavation took about more than two weeks, and a lot of things came out, I also knew that this ancient tomb should belong to a certain prince and nobleman in the Tang Dynasty. Hu Gang lit a cigarette and said slowly.

"Every two days, someone came to send food to the archaeological team and the armed police there, but once the person who delivered the food came, he found that all the people were lying on the ground, and when he walked in, he found that they were all dead, and there was no wound on his body, so he immediately reported the matter, and there was this strange thing, at first it was the local public security bureau who came, but nothing was found, and then the matter was reported to our bureau, and the bureau sent people to come, thinking that there was a problem with this ancient tomb, But nothing abnormal was found, and during the time when the people in the bureau were investigating, several people died for no reason in the two villages around the dumb ditch, and the symptoms of these people's deaths were exactly the same as those of the archaeological team. ”

"After that, I and Lao Li, Lao Qian and Monk Jingchen came, we looked at the dead mountain people, Lao Qian found that their souls were gone, the first few people died in only six days, the first seven have not passed, how can the souls disappear for no reason, we thought that someone was secretly refining souls and alchemy here, but asked if there were any outsiders in the villages of the dead people who came, but they all said no, we also secretly visited, and we did not find anyone who practiced evil arts."

"Just while we were here, there was another person in the village who died like the previous person, we rushed over at that time, and the monk Jingchen found that there was a faint layer of resentment left around the dead person, this is definitely not done by people, we want to catch this thing to find out, but this guy seems to know what we are going to do, and went in circles with us, and three more people died four days before you came, hey, one of them is a person from this village."

"The three villages, all of them are the closest villages to the ancient tomb in the dumb ditch? And those who died, during the day or at night?" Chen Zhan frowned and asked.

"Well, it's the nearest village, day and night."

"Is the body of the man who died in this village still there?" Chen Zhan asked.

"It's still in that house, Lao Chen, I know you want to see it, but the traces on the corpse only dissipated after a day." Hu Gang said.

"Since you found out that it wasn't done by people, didn't you make some talismans for the people of these three villages who did the work in the first place?" Zhao Guofeng looked at Hu Gang and said.

"We did it too, but it didn't work, it's a guy who can't do anything!" Hu Gang took a deep puff of his cigarette.

"Lao Li, where are they now?" Chen Zhan asked.

"Lao Li, they went to the other two villages, and we found that as long as we are in the village, that guy will not come out to harm people!"

"Lao Hu, you call Lao Li and them, let them come over tomorrow and stay in this village alone, and you and I and Lao Zhao will go to the ancient tomb to have a look." Chen Zhan thought for a while and said.

"Yes."

There was nothing to say all night, the next morning the monk Jingchen came, Chen Zhan and Hu Gang Zhao Guofeng set off towards the ancient tomb of the dumb ditch, it takes more than a day to get to the dumb ditch from here, the three of them are walking in the mountains and forests with difficulty, the forest density of the dumb ditch is indescribable, although it is in the mountains, but there is no way forward, few people come here, the dead branches and leaves on the ground are covered by a layer, take a step and sink it, there is almost no place to stand in some depths, one foot can fall into half a leg, especially a few days ago it rained, The mountains and forests are already humid, and the roads are even more difficult to walk.

I don't know how many years have been at the bottom, the rotting branches and leaves and the beasts that died trapped in it, emitting a burst of rancid smell, this stench is mixed with the fragrance of flowers and plants in the mountains and forests, it smells strange, but after smelling too much, it makes people feel a little weird, and unconsciously at night, they can only vacate a place, light a bonfire, and rest half-asleep against the tree.

At noon the next day, I finally arrived at the dumb ditch, looking there it was really a big ditch, the terrain slowly concave downward, Chen Zhan looked at the gentle mountains on both sides, the whole valley went north and south, the east and west sides were hills, and the middle place had a short sunshine time all year round, and it was gloomy. The valley was full of rotten leaves and grass, and a small stream flowed slowly, and there were no trees except for a few low, sparse shrubs.

It was already noon, the sun in the sky shone down, Chen Zhan and the three of them climbed the hillside, looked up to the sky, only to see the hazy sun, may have rained the relationship, in the mountains and forests are always shrouded in a fog, and in the dumb ditch here more than other places, can only shine on the middle of the mountainside, from time to time there are gusts of wind blowing, here the terrain is stable, the dumb ditch into a funnel shape, avoiding the sun and leading the yin, the wind is not blocked, the water is not blocked, by the mountains and rivers, a gathering of yin has been formed.