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 for the plane to finally arrive at Potou Township, where there were already two people waiting to pick up Chen Zhan and the three, 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.

Zhao Guofeng said: "That ancient tomb is here, in a place called Dumb Ditch!" After nearly half an hour of sitting in the car, it finally stopped. Chen Zhan and the three got out of the car, Chen Zhan looked at a mountain road paved with stones in front of him and asked, "This is the dumb ditch?"

One of the two people who came to pick up Chen Zhan, Xiao Ye also got out of the car and replied: "Mr. Chen, this is not here, you have to take this mountain road to Dumb Valley, the car can't get in, and then we have to walk!"

The four of them walked along the mountain road, there were no people on 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 the lights in some people's houses had been turned on.

It's hard to believe that anyone actually lives here, but fortunately, the wires here are pulled in, and they can be connected to electricity, otherwise it is inconvenient to do anything at night.

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

"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!"

Chen Zhan scolded with a smile: "It's too late for you lao hu, I went to Hong Kong early in the morning, and Lao Zhao called me at that time to say, I will rush over as soon as this matter is finished."

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

"Yes, come into the house and say!" Chen Zhan and the three of them followed Lao Hu into the house, and when they came in, they saw that there were two middle-aged people in the house fiddling with a pair of hexagrams under the lamp, and the two of them stopped their work when they saw someone coming in, "Bureau Zhao, Section Chief Wu, Mr. Chen, you are here." ”

Zhao Guofeng waved his hand and said, "Well, you guys are busy with you, Lao Hu will say it now!" The people in the whole house belong to the Security Bureau, and this house belongs to the mountain people here, and after the people from the Security Bureau came here, they gave the mountain people here some money and rented two houses as a temporary settlement, after all, what they had to do was not allowed to be known by these ordinary people.

Hu Gang lit a cigarette and said slowly: "Then I'll start from the beginning, a month ago, there was a heavy rain here, and the next day it was clear, a few mountain people who went up the mountain to hunt unconsciously turned to the dumb ditch, and found that there was actually a landslide, at the bottom of the landslide leaked a hole about three meters big, those mountain people were curious and went over to look, and found that it was actually an ancient tomb inside, these mountain people were simple-hearted, and did not think about taking a few antiques or something from it. They directly reported the matter to the township, and then there was an archaeological team and a team of armed policemen who came to excavate for about two weeks, and found a lot of things, and also knew that this ancient tomb should be a prince and nobleman of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"In the past, every two days, someone came to deliver food to the archaeological team and the armed police there, but once the food delivery person came, found that all the people were lying on the ground strangely, walked in to check, and found that they were all dead, and there was no wound on the body, so they immediately reported the matter to the police station, there was such a strange thing, and the movement caused was very big, at first the people from the local public security bureau came, but no clues were found here, After this matter was known to our bureau, the bureau sent a few people from our eighteen places, thinking that there was a problem with this ancient tomb, but nothing abnormal was found, in the past few days of the bureau's investigation, 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. ”

"Things are getting weirder and weirder, and then 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, because the first few people died was only six days, the first seven have not been how can the unprovoked soul disappear, we thought that someone was secretly refining soul and refining evil art here, but asked if there were any outsiders in the two villages of the dead people who came, but they all said no, we also secretly visited, We didn't find anyone practicing evil arts, and we also went to see the ancient tomb in the dumb ditch, and we didn't find anything abnormal. ”

Lao Hu continued: "During the time we were here, there was another villager in a nearby village who died exactly the same as the person who died before, we knew that we immediately rushed over, and the monk Jingchen found that there was a faint layer of evil qi left around the dead person, we suspect that the cause of these things should not be done by people, we want to grasp this thing to find out, and secretly investigate, but this guy seems to know what we are going to do, and he went in circles with us, Three more people died four days before you came, and one of them was from this village. ”

Chen Zhan thought for a while and asked, "Are the three villages where the dead people are the closest to the ancient tomb in Dumbagou?" And did the people who died happen during the day or at night?"

Lao Hu replied: "Well, that's right, these three villages are the closest villages to the dumb ditch around, and those who died were there day and night."

Chen Zhan asked, "Old Hu, is the body of the person who died in this village still there?"

Hu Gang opened his mouth and said: "It's still in that house, Lao Chen, I know you want to go and see this corpse, but the traces on the corpse have all dissipated after only one day, I don't think it's better to disturb that family."

"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.

Hu Gang took a deep puff of cigarette and said, "We did it at the time, but it was useless, that guy is not shallow!"

"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!"

Chen Zhan thought for a while and said: "Lao Hu, you call Lao Li and them, and ask them to come over tomorrow and stay in this village alone, Xiao Wu, you also stay here, tomorrow Lao Hu, you and I and Lao Zhao will go to the dumb ditch and then go to see the ancient tomb."

"Yes."

There was nothing to say all night, the next morning the monk Jingchen came, Chen Zhan and Hu Gang Zhao Guofeng took their backpacks and set off towards the dumb ditch, Hu Gang knew how to go, led the way in front, it took more than a day to get from here to the dumb ditch, the three of them were walking in the mountains and forests with difficulty, the forest of the dumb ditch was still dense, the trees here were basically not cut down, although there were people living in this vicinity, there were often villagers hunting in the mountains, but there was no way forward in the mountains, few people here came to the dumb ditch here, There are a lot of dead branches and fallen leaves on the ground, the leaves on the ground are covered by a layer, step by step, some of the depths have almost no place to stand, it is directly a pit, one foot can fall into half a leg, especially a few days ago it rained, the mountains and forests were already humid, the road was a little muddy, and it was even more difficult to walk.

I don't know how many years the dead leaves here, the rotting branches and leaves and some dead animal corpses, together emitted a burst of rancid smell, this stench is mixed with the fragrance of flowers and plants in the mountains and forests, which makes people smell weird, but after smelling too much, it makes people feel a little weird, fortunately, the mountain breeze here is relatively smooth, otherwise there will definitely be a miasma here, and unconsciously at night, Chen Zhan and the three of them can only vacate a place, light a bonfire, and rest half-asleep around the bonfire against the big tree.

At noon the next day, the three of them finally came to the dumb ditch, looking there it was really a big ditch, the terrain slowly concave downward, Chen Zhan looked at the dumb ditch, the mountains on both sides of the ravine were gentle, the whole valley was north-south, the east and west sides were hills, and the middle place seemed to be irradiated by the sun for a short time, and there was a gloomy feeling. There were some dead trees and barren grass in the valley, and a small stream flowed slowly in the valley, unlike the many trees on the hills that had been all the way before, and there were hardly any trees in the dumb ditch except for some low and sparse shrubs.

Chen Zhan and the three of them climbed the hillside, it was already noon, the sun in the sky should shine down, look up to the sky, can only see the hazy sun, may have rained relationship, in the mountains and forests are always shrouded in a fog, and in the dumb ditch here is more than somewhere else, now the sun can only shine on the halfway up the mountainside, there are gusts of wind blowing here from time to time, the terrain here is stable, the dumb ditch is funnel-shaped, avoiding the sun and leading to the yin, the wind is not blocked, the water is not blocked, by the mountains and rivers, Chen Zhan looked at the terrain, It seems to be a feng shui gathering place.