Poplar's heart tightened.

Tie Niu is not only his good brother who has played since he was a child, in fact, after his grandfather and parents passed away one after another, he has become Tie Niu his only relative in this world.

But what does he do now? How can he be sure that Iron Bull is okay?

Even if he rushed to the city right now and saw with his own eyes that the Iron Bull was fine, what if he was bitten by this blood-red monster and had an incubation period like rabies?

Bai Yang hopes that his grandfather Old Man Bai is still alive, because Old Man Bai has encountered more than one or two monsters in his life, and even Old Man Bai has been bitten by monsters-

Old Man Bai once showed Poplar a very hideous scar on his leg, saying that it was bitten by a monster called "two-headed snake".

Bai Yang was stunned when he was a child, but when he became an adult, he began to think that the stories told by Old Man Bai were all made up to coax him as a child.

But now that he has encountered the blood-red monster, he knows that there are really monsters in the world, and maybe there are really zombie dumplings.

So if Grandpa is still alive, maybe he can tell him if Iron Bull will be okay, and if so, how to save it.

But grandpa is dead—

Wrong!

Poplar suddenly remembered that although his grandfather was dead, one of his grandfather's notebooks was still there.

From that notebook, you might be able to find a record of the blood-red monster.

Poplar immediately left the black hole and did not rush to fill it, but sprinkled a layer of incense ash along the hole, and then sprinkled a circle of loose salt.

Doing so won't necessarily stop any of the remaining monsters in the cave from escaping, but if any monsters do, they'll at least leave a mark on the loose salt and incense ash.

After that, Poplar hurried back to the ranger hut as fast as he could, and quickly found a wooden box left for him by the old man.

The wooden box was covered with dust, and Poplar picked up a piece of dirty clothing thrown on the ground and wiped the dust off the box.

There is a lock on the wooden box, but there is no padlock on the lock, but it is wrapped with wire.

The wooden box had not been opened for many years, and the wire on the lock had rusted into a ball.

Poplar didn't bother to look for the iron tongs, and directly twisted the rusty wire on the lock with his hand.

There are many large and small objects in the wooden box, which were used by Old Man Bai when he robbed the tomb.

Poplar left nothing else, and only pulled out a notebook that he had wrapped in old newspapers.

This notebook is his grandfather's treasure, and it is also a legendary record of his grandfather's tomb robbing career.

But because his father hated tomb robbing, he never let Bai Yang look through this notebook when Old Man Bai was alive.

It wasn't until after his grandfather's death that Poplar hid the notebook to avoid being burned by his father.

It wasn't until his father died that Poplar took out the notebook and looked through it twice.

It was an old notebook that briefly described how to identify and excavate the tomb, but described in great detail how to deal with zombies and various monsters.

Perhaps for a top master in the tomb robbery world like Old Man Bai, how to identify and excavate the tomb is not difficult at all, and naturally there is no special feeling.

On the contrary, encountering zombie monsters is a thrilling legend that Old Man Bai will never forget for a long time.

Poplar opened his notebook and searched carefully, and it took about half an hour to finally find four fonts: Blood Wolf Guarding the Tomb!

Under these four fonts, the description is made as follows:

Legend has it that the blood wolf guards the tomb, which is a technique used by Taoist masters to take care of their own tombs. It is said that once a tomb robber is bitten by a blood wolf, even if he does not die at the time, he will not live for three to six months. And between these three and six months, every full moon night, he will go berserk and turn into a bloodthirsty wolf. But since ancient times, no one has personally encountered a blood wolf guarding the tomb, so how to rescue the bitten is unknown. Perhaps the answer can be found in the tomb guarded by the blood wolf.

Poplar couldn't help but feel cold, he believed that what he encountered was 100% "blood wolf guarding the tomb".

He had judged that there was an ancient tomb hidden under that crack in the ground, and now it seemed that his judgment was completely correct.

And the two blood-red monsters he destroyed were the tomb-guarding blood wolves.

But today is already fourteen, and tomorrow night is the night of the full moon, if what is recorded in his grandfather's notebook is true, then tomorrow night, won't Tie Niu go berserk and turn into a bloodthirsty wolf?

What should he do? How can he save the Iron Bull?

Poplar thought about it, and felt that the only hope was to enter the ancient tomb and see if it could find a way to rescue the people bitten by the blood wolf.

He had never been in the tomb, but he had heard too much from his grandfather, and for the sake of safety, he felt that he should follow the rules.

He thought back to the legends his grandfather had told him, and compared them with the objects that his grandfather had used in the wooden box.

Eventually, he picked up an old bell from the wooden box, which was a "treasure" that his grandfather had used for many years, and it was said that the effect of warding off evil spirits was very significant.

Four more candles are required.

There is no electricity at the ranger station, and candles are usually used for lighting, except for kerosene lamps.

So Poplar took two candles out of the drawer and cut them into four pieces about the height of the same height with a knife.

Think about it, find a few more blank pieces of paper and add a pencil tip. After that, I went out and rushed to the hillside again.

The black hole on the hillside that had been blown out by the aspen was still there, and it looked like the mouth of a giant beast.

Poplar suddenly had a fear: if he just walked in like this, would this giant mouth suddenly close and devour him whole?

But no matter what, even if he had to risk his life, he had to go in.

Poplar first examined the ash and loose salt on the ground to make sure that nothing had ever come out of the hole.

However, he did not dare to burrow into the hole immediately, but stood on the slope and shouted a few times.

After a while, nothing came out of the black hole.

Only then did Poplar jump into the hollow that had been blown up, and used his black sword to reach into the black hole and play left and right a few times, only to hear two "ding" sounds, and the black sword touched it like a stone bar.

Poplar cheered himself up again, and finally took a look into the black hole.

At this glance, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Inside, it was nothing more than a very narrow burial chamber, in which a sarcophagus was barely placed, and the sarcophagus was covered with dirt.

Poplar estimated that the original tomb must be more than that, otherwise the two tomb guards would have nowhere to stay.

It's just that most of the tomb was blown up by him, and only the few squares where the sarcophagus was placed remained, because there were a few stone bars on both sides and on the head, so it did not completely collapse.

Just now, he used his black sword to make a tinkling sound, and it hit the stone bars on both sides.

Poplar ventured into the burial chamber with confidence.

The cave looked dark from the outside, but if you really go into the tomb, you will find that the light is shining through the opening, and the small tomb is not dim.

However, Bai Yang still followed the rules that the old man Bai had said, first removed the soil from the coffin lid, and then lit four white candles and placed them in the four corners of the sarcophagus.

This has three meanings.

The first floor is for lighting – which is not needed today, of course;

On the second floor, the light and shade of the candlelight are used to judge the air quality in the tomb and whether there is any yin wind and evil spirit.

On the third floor, because white candles have been a necessary item for sacrifices since ancient times, lighting four white candles and placing them at the four corners of the coffin is also a kind of respect for the deceased.

After that, Poplar took out the old bell and tied it to his wrist, and with the movement of his hand, the bell kept making the sound of "jingle bell jingle bell".

It wasn't loud, but it was crisp and pleasant.

This is also a kind of exquisiteness, and it is said that this old bell not only has the function of warding off evil spirits, but also can predict danger.

If the bell suddenly changes from crisp to hoarse, it means that there are fierce zombies in the tomb. Those who entered the tomb quickly put down the burial goods in their hands and exited the tomb, and they could barely save their lives.

If you covet the treasures in the tomb and refuse to withdraw easily, you will surely die.

Poplar ignored the sarcophagus for the time being, instead looking at the few stone bars that held up the burial chamber.

He found that several stone bars were very rough, and judging from the scale of this tomb, the owner of this ancient tomb was by no means a high-ranking nobleman -

Poplar suddenly thought of a question: what kind of person would build an ancient tomb in this deep mountain and old forest?

This old forest has existed almost forever, and the area of this old forest has been greatly reduced as the range of human activities has increased.

In other words, the more ancient it is, the larger the area of this forest. What is this person who went to great lengths to build an ancient tomb deep in the woods and used such a hexical technique as "Blood Wolf Guarding the Tomb"?

Poplar could not find an answer on the stone strips that supported the tomb, and in fact there was not even a single pattern or inscription on the stone strips.

However, on the lid of the sarcophagus, there are clearly engraved several vertical lines of font.

The stone bars were very rough, but this sarcophagus was carved and smooth.

Poplar used a brush to sweep the dust off the lid of the coffin, and then carefully identified the fonts.

He couldn't help but have a secret headache, because those fonts were not modern characters, but like very ancient official scripts, and with his cultural level, he couldn't recognize a few words at all.

Fortunately, he was prepared, and hurriedly took out a few pieces of white paper and spread them neatly on the lid of the coffin. Then he carefully stretched out a few lines on the lid of the coffin with the tip of a pencil.

After that, he picked up a few blank sheets of paper and examined them one by one, and was very satisfied that all the lines were very clear.

He noticed that on the bottom piece of white paper, there were several numbers, which he felt should be the birth and death years of the tomb owner.

He tried his best to identify the fonts before and after the numbers, and finally determined in a semi-guessing way that the meanings of those numbers were: born in the forty-third year of King Zhao of Qin and died in the second year of Emperor Jianping of the Han Dynasty.

His history is not good, but he also knows that King Qin Zhao must be a certain king of Qin before Qin Shi Huang. And Emperor Han Ai must be an emperor after Emperor Wu of Han.

If these numbers really represent "born in the fifty-third year of King Qin Zhao and died in the second year of Emperor Jianping of the Han Dynasty", then wouldn't the person in the sarcophagus live for at least two hundred years?

It seems unlikely!

(See Chapter 005 "Ancient Elixir")

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