Forty-nine people, more than a dozen carts, and dozens of horses all entered the abandoned gold camp. The deserted camp, which was originally empty and lonely, suddenly became a lot more angry.

Especially the horses that snorted and spewed white gas, making a lot of noise.

Li Yang ordered a bonfire to be lit, and at the same time ordered the horses to be fed. Then, the collapsed masonry at the entrance of the barracks was removed, and several horse-drawn carriages were used to block the barracks gates.

He was very cautious. As soon as I came in, I planned how to evacuate in case of an emergency. He had to keep the horses physically fit and ready to rush out of the gate with the team at any time.

Yan Falcon and the others also took people to investigate everywhere to see if there was any danger.

The quality of the Tang army was also reflected at this time, and there was no need to give orders, just a group of four or five people, some with swords and some with bows, and carefully probed around.

"Yan Falcon, look over there, it's a school field, there are a lot of wooden stakes for special mothers. Could it be the place where Temujin crucified the golden soldiers? Liu Dadao said.

Yan Falcon walked over slowly, and while the sky was not completely dark, he saw some wooden stakes, but there was nothing on them, and there were no bones nailed to them.

The well-preserved wooden stakes were sparse and most of them had fallen to the ground and rotted. Yan approached a wooden stake and found that the top of the wooden stake was pointed, and there were black residues on it.

This is blood rust. Something that infects the blood for a long time will give birth to this kind of rust.

Yan Falcon suddenly thought of a terrible torture: laughing.

"There are bones on the ground." Suddenly, Liu Dadao said, pointing at Yan Falcon's feet. Yan Falcon looked down, and there was indeed a skull not far from his feet, half of which was sunk into the dirt.

Yan Falcon squatted down and took a closer look, and said, "You are not a bone of my clan, and you will not be dead for more than ten years, but since I saw it, I still buried you." After saying that, he used a knife to pull the earth and bury the skeleton.

Bones have also been found elsewhere, but in small quantities. Overall, it's normal.

Everyone gathered and sat around the campfire, all a little apprehensive. This place is still a bit weird.

Li Yang said: "There are few bones, and no abnormalities have been found in the intact house, and even the earthen kang can still be used." But I don't think it's that simple. Let's go to bed at night and keep an eye on it. For those on night duty, a minimum of five people should be arranged. ”

After everyone discussed for a while, Li Yang let everyone rest, but asked that there should be no less than four people in a room.

Li Yang and the other five took the initiative to stay on duty for two hours at night. Of course, these five people are the ones who know the secret of the jade seal of the country.

Seeing everyone return to the house, Li Yang lowered his voice while roasting the fire and said, "The important things that the king has told me must be completed. As long as there is something, even if there is only one person left, the treasure must be brought back to Lin'an. ”

Yan Falcon said: "Look at the picture given by the king, I have to walk for three days, and this snow, why do I have to add another day to travel." In addition, the search for Xiao's grave could not be done in ten days. In my opinion, when the time comes, we will divide into five teams and look for them separately, so that it will be faster, so as not to have many dreams at night. ”

Liu Dadao also agreed: "That's it. Dozens of us are looking for things in circles in the mountains, the target is too big, and it is not good to be discovered by someone with a heart. ”

Li Yang nodded and said, "I think so too." Then they will be divided into five teams, and each of the five of us will lead a team. ”

"Whew—"

At this moment, suddenly there was a wolf howl in the wind and snow.

The five of them climbed the beacon tower to take a look, and saw that in the grass and forest to the north, there were many green and faint eyes.

"It's a pack of wolves." Li Yang smiled, "It's really here." Good guys, there are at least a hundred of them. ”

Yan Tong said: "Fortunately, we have a wall. Otherwise, with so many wolves, it would be impossible to sleep peacefully, even if they were chased and killed, they would not be able to be hunted and killed. ”

The wolves outside had apparently tracked the breath of humans and animals, but they were helpless through the walls.

In fact, these more than 100 wolves can't help the Tang army squad, even if the Tang army doesn't have a wall, once the two sides face off, it will definitely be the wolves that will be destroyed.

The five of them watched the bustle for a while, and found that the wolves were not near the wall, so they returned to the fire with little interest.

It was already late at night, the wind and snow were much lighter, and everyone else had already slept.

Suddenly a man sat up in one room and said, "Listen, someone is beating a drum." ”

The other three also sat up together, stunned and listened with straight eyes.

Sure enough, there was a "knock-knock-" sound outside.

The four of them went out together, looked at the beacon tower, and in a trance, they found a tall samurai in tattered armor, standing in front of the abandoned drum rack, beating a snare drum.

Strange to say, it was dark on the beacon at this time, but they could see someone beating a drum.

"Look there!" Another person pointed in the direction of the school field with a frightened face, and found that the original school field was overgrown with grass and trees, and there were many people standing at this time, these people were wearing tattered armor, and a battle flag embroidered with the word "gold" was also tattered.

And on the originally collapsed point general platform, there was a Jurchen general in black armor, who opened his mouth and laughed silently with a hideous expression.

Smiling and laughing, his jaw suddenly dropped. But the jawless Jurchen general was still laughing silently.

"Sneaky!" A samurai drew his sword, "Wait for you!" Kill! ”

At this moment, many people who rushed out of the house noticed this strange scene, and those who found it drew their knives and prepared to fight.

"What's going on? They slept well, but what did they come out to do? Why draw the sword! Yan Falcon was the first to notice that something was wrong, and Huo Ran stood up.

"What?" Li Yang also stood up with a spirit, "Something happened!" Fast! ”

All five of them drew their swords and rushed over.

At this time, the Tang Army squad was already slashing indiscriminately, slashing in the air, like crazy.

"Stop! What have you done? Stop it! Li Yang shouted, but although the movements of his subordinates paused, they had no intention of stopping.

"Yan Falcon! Fast! Take out the handcuffs! Liu Dadao! Grab the ammo! Li Yang shouted anxiously, "It's weird here!" They're stunned! Shock the devil with a firearm! ”

At this point, he really believed that there were ghosts here. But he is not afraid of ghosts, he is afraid of accidents to his subordinates.

Yan Falcon and Liu Dadao rushed to different carriages respectively, and hurriedly took out handcuffs and ammunition from the ground of the carriage.

There were very few handcuffs made by the Tang Kingdom, and they were only equipped for close guards. In this operation, just in case, Li Luo gave them five handcuffs. But the firearms of the Tang State were very important, and for fear of being searched by the Yuan army, the handguns and gunpowder were hidden separately.

"Stop!" Li Yang was sweating profusely, and the eyes of the subordinates he found began to redden, and he even began to swing knives at his companions.

At this moment, there were two explosions of "boom-boom", and the sound was particularly amazing in the night.

Liu Dadao and Yan Falcon finally fired the handcuffs.

After the loud noise, all the Tang soldiers who were indiscriminately slashing stopped their movements, and their eyes were blank.

"Boom-boom!" After two more loud bangs, everyone finally came back to their senses, and their eyes regained their clarity.

Everyone was sweating profusely, looking at each other with knives, not knowing what was going on.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know."

"I saw a lot of ghost soldiers just now, so I wielded a knife and slashed and killed."

"Where's the ghost soldiers?"

Li Yang saw that the ghost was frightened away by the firecracker, and everyone also came to their senses, so he let out a long sigh. The ghosts here are really more dangerous than the enemy. Fortunately, the fire bolt broke the evil spell of the evil ghost.

Although Li Yang is Cui Xiuning's proud disciple, he is a native of the ancients after all, how can he believe that there are no ghosts in the world?

Even Cui Xiuning, after experiencing the crossing incident, did not dare to completely deny the existence of the mystery.

Yan Ying and Liu Dadao and the other four were also sweating profusely, full of fear.

Dozens of subordinates almost fought each other.

"Did you see the devil wreck?" Li Yang stepped forward and asked.

Everyone said that they saw a ghost, and even Gao Yao said conclusively that the ghost would order soldiers.

Li Yang, Yan Ying and the others glanced at each other, their eyes full of doubts. Why didn't the five of them on night meet a ghost?

It doesn't make sense.

"Who else hasn't met a ghost? All stand up. Li Yang commanded.

Four people stood up, "The four of us are in the same room, and we didn't hear the drums or see the ghosts." ”

Another person stepped forward, "I haven't met you either." I disliked Wang Biao's snoring too loudly, so I didn't sleep in the house. ”

Another person said: "I haven't met it either." I watched the horses feed the horses tonight, and before I could go into the house to sleep, I found out that something was wrong. ”

Li Yang immediately released something wrong.

The ghosts are all met by the people in the house. As long as there are people outside the house, none of them have encountered ghosts.

Also, not everyone who sleeps in the house will meet ghosts. There are four people who don't. But the problem is that these four people are in the same room.

How is the house of these four different from other houses that can ward off evil spirits?

"Let's go and have a look at the four of you." Li Yang said.

When they came to the room, they found that although it was very old and the floor was covered with moss, the doors and windows were intact. No anomalies were found.

Li Yang went to other rooms to investigate, and the situation was similar. The house is very old, the doors and windows are still functional, and there is nothing abnormal.

Li Yang became suspicious.

This is a barracks built 90 years ago, and even if it was repaired later, it would be decades old. Although the degree of obsolescence is enough, why can the doors and windows still be used?

Thinking of this, it seemed that a flash of fire flashed in Li Yang's mind, and it suddenly made Li Yang stop.

Wrong!

As soon as Li Yang turned around, he looked at the houses where everyone had lived again, and slowly, the expression on his face became gloomy.

Yan Ying and the others were confused, but they didn't bother Li Yang. Everyone could see what Li Yang was pondering.

After seeing the last room he had lived in, Li Yang gathered everyone around the campfire.

"Let me tell you what I have discovered, and let you brothers hear what is going on tonight's strange thing." Li Yang said with a sneer.

The crowd pricked up their ears together.

Li Yang picked up the water bladder and took a sip of water, "You all live in a total of ten best-preserved houses. Except for one room, the people in the other nine rooms all met the ghosts. Right? ”

Everyone nodded in unison.

Li Yang continued: "So what is the difference between a house without ghosts and a house with ghosts? I only found two things. First, only the windows of this room were open, while the windows of the other nine rooms were all closed. ”

At this time, unlike in the afterlife, the windows were closed when I slept at night.

A person interjected: "The window I was waiting for was also closed, but Zhang Gui's feet were too smoky, so I had to open the window to breathe." ”

Li Yang asked him not to interject, "There is a second point. There was a bit of fog in all nine rooms, but there was no fog in the room with the windows open. Isn't that weird? I don't think it's fog at all. That should be a smoke! ”

Yan Falcon was surprised: "Brother Li is saying that tonight they didn't meet a powerful ghost, but they were caught in the smoke and were plotted?" ”

Li Yang nodded and said with certainty: "Not bad!" That's it! There are enemies here, and we are waiting to be plotted! ”

Gao Yao said: "I've heard of smoke, it can make people fall asleep and be unconscious. I've never heard of any smoke that can make people see ghosts! ”

Li Yang sneered: "Who knows! Maybe it's a smoke that can attract ghosts. This smoke must have been put by someone! There are enemies hidden here! ”

Yang Yu said: "The enemy shouldn't have much strength, otherwise he would just kill it directly, why use this method?" ”

Li Yang stood up suddenly, "Everyone is in a team of ten, and the careful search of room by room, even the earthen kang, must also be checked!" ”

"No!"

And they all received their orders together.

The Tang army squad rushed into the house, searching inch by inch, to see where there were holes, where there were gaps, where there were mezzanines and hollows.

Even the clay kang was opened and searched.

It didn't take long for someone to be the first to discover the anomaly under the ondol.

There is a pipe hidden inside the ondol, and the pipe leads to the outside of the house. Slowly, the crowd discovered that the pipes in each house led to a half-collapsed house beneath the beacon.

Li Yang cautiously approached and observed, and finally found an abnormality at the location of the fire kang.

This place has been touched!

Li Yang once explored the tunnels of Pu Shougeng in Quanzhou. He immediately judged that there should be a tunnel here, too.

Li Yang ordered several fires to be lit and dug overnight, and before digging twice, a wooden board was exposed.

"Open! Alert! ”

At the sound of an order, everyone's swords and bows were ready to attack, and at the same time the planks were opened. Under the firelight, there was a stone staircase that stretched down. The stone steps were built in a rudimentary way, and the materials used were the ruined masonry of the barracks.

There are also footprints on the steps, indicating that someone must be hiding inside.

"Listen to the people inside, if you don't come out and surrender, I'll kill you later, and no one will be left!" Li Yang shouted loudly.

Such a big movement just now must have alarmed the enemy inside, and there is no need to sneak around.

"Come out and surrender! Don't wait for Lao Tzu to kill in! Slay them all! Liu Dadao also shouted.

Slowly, there was a little movement inside, and after a while, a white head poked its head out from under the steps, he raised his wrinkled face, squinted his eyes and said, "I'll wait for it to fall, can I not die?" ”

Li Yang pointed at him, "You come up and talk about it." ”

The old man sighed faintly, like a sigh from the underworld. He was holding a cane, and he was a little struggling to kick the steps, panting up.

He was over 80 years old. In this era, it is definitely a rare advanced age.

After the old man came up, he saw forty or fifty murderous people, and couldn't help but say, "It's all elite." ”

His face was full of desolation, and he laughed miserably: "I knew there was today, but I didn't expect it to come so late today, enough, enough." He looked at Li Yang, "You're their leader, right?" Let me ask, I am an old man, and I will die without regrets, but there are women and children below, can I live? ”

Li Yang sneered: "You are plotting against me, and I will wait first." Whether you survive or not depends on your luck. You honestly tell me where you came from, how did you plot against me? How many of you are there? ”

The old man simply sat down by the fire and said without concealment: "The old man Wanyan Weihuo is the young soldier of this battalion back then, well, it is estimated that it has been more than seventy years, Zhenyou has been in the third year, the Mongolian army broke the camp, the robes were all dead, and only the old man survived." ”

At that time, there were also family members in the battalion, all of whom were killed, and only a few children were not found by the Mongolian army. The old man hid them in the basement and escaped. ”

Today, there are 32 people in the basement, all of whom have been bred over the years. We have made this our home, escaping the troubled times for decades, and today we are finally going to be punished. ”

"There are three kinds of herbs on the Yin Mountain, and burning them together can produce ghost smoke, which is ghostly. The old man then came up with this plan and secretly repaired the flue to lead to each room. If a caravan of pedestrians is found to stay overnight, they will burn ghost grass and set off ghost smoke, summon evil ghosts, make pedestrians kill each other, or throw things to flee for their lives, so as to obtain food, oil, salt and other goods carried by the caravan. ”

The so-called ghost smoke is, of course, a hallucinogenic poisonous smoke, but everyone doesn't know it.

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and they couldn't imagine that this old man had lived in this basement for seventy years, and that several children had multiplied thirty people.

Li Yang sneered: "In this way, you are living with what the caravan left behind, then you are really robbers." ”

Wanyan Weihuo said: "There is no paradise here, and it is not inappropriate to say that it is a den of thieves. The old man is eighty-five years old this year, and he is guilty of a lot of sin, and he should have died a long time ago. It's just that there are still young children, ignorant and innocent, please spare them. ”

Li Yang laughed and said, "Why do I want to spare your life? Do you have any benefit to me? ”

Yan Falcon and Yan Tong couldn't bear it, but they didn't squeak.

Wanyan Weihuo's expression was sad, he opened his hands and burned the fire, squinting his eyes as if thinking about something.

A louse fell from his silvery hair and the stench of the fire seemed to bring him back to his senses.

"There is one thing that the old man knows is extraordinary, it is priceless. The old man knows the whereabouts of this treasure. If you swear not to harm the children here, the old man will tell you. ”

After Li Yang and the others heard Yan Weihuo's words, they were all shocked in their hearts, and said in their hearts: This person is old and refined, won't he also know the whereabouts of the jade seal of the country?

"Good. If there is really a priceless treasure, I promise not to hurt the children..."Li Yang said very happily.

He observed his words and found that Wan Yan Weihuo was not lying, he should really know the great treasure.

Wanyan Weihuo stood up and saluted tremblingly, "The old man wants you to swear." ”

Swearing is not really safe, but if you don't want to swear, it is insincere.

Li Yang and the others didn't talk nonsense, and swore happily. They wouldn't have slaughtered children.

"Everyone, please." Wanyan Weihuo seemed to be out of the way. At this point, I am content to be able to save the lives of some children.

Li Yang and the others cautiously followed Wan Yan Weihuo in, and found that this basement was very deep and large. And when the torch shone up, I found that there were murals on the stone wall.

Is this the basement of a barracks? No way.

Li Yang asked coldly: "This basement was originally a tomb, right?" ”

Wanyan Weihuo said with a smile: "This place, even the head of the thousand households back then didn't know. There was never a basement in the camp, and although this place was in the camp, it was discovered by the old man. The old man later built a stone staircase, and it became a basement. ”

"However, it would not be wrong to say that this place was originally a burial chamber. But to say that it is really a tomb is not right. ”

Li Yang was a little confused when he heard this, so he simply stopped asking, but followed with all his body on guard.

Soon, there was a fire in everyone's eyes, and in front of them was a huge stone chamber covering an area of more than half an acre, and then they saw more than 30 men, women, and children. Among them were seven or eight young men, armed with swords, guns, bows and arrows.

The rest were all old and weak women and children, all looking frightened. At a glance, there are more than a dozen children alone.

"Taigong!" A man shouted, "Is it negotiated?" ”

Wan Yan Weihuo said lightly: "These distinguished guests have sworn not to hurt children, you can rest assured." ”

When these people heard this, they were all relieved.

They have been waiting for this day for a long time. They can get daily necessities such as food and salt here on a regular basis, and they don't have to worry about food or clothing. Every time they succeeded in an overnight caravan, it was enough for them to eat for a year or more. Grain merchants, in particular, can feed them for many years.

They can also sneak up on it to see the scenery and breathe.

Life is actually not bad. For them, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an underground paradise.

But this kind of rat-like life, the days of unearned gains, are destined to be impossible to live for generations, and there will always be a day when they are found and slaughtered.

Because this is retribution.

They only hope that once they are discovered, they can keep a little incense and not be killed.

"I want your guests to count." A Jurchen man said, "We can die, as long as the distinguished guests can spare their lives, they are benefactors." He pointed to a group of children.

This group of children is male and female, because they have no worries about food and clothing, so their faces are very good, but they rarely get in the sun and look too fair.

"I promised, let them live." Li Yang said with a knife, "But your grandfather has also promised a certain thing, and he has not yet fulfilled it." ”

Wanyan Weihuo waved to the clansmen and said, "You go over there and stay, the old man and the distinguished guests have something to say." ”

When the clansmen walked a little farther, Wanyan Weihuo invited Li Yang and the others to sit down on the stone bench and said, "Don't hide it from your distinguished guests, that treasure is here." ”

He pointed to this huge stone chamber, "This stone chamber is the tomb of the treasure, and when the old man accidentally discovered it, he also saw the dry bones of human martyrs. What kind of treasure needs a living person to be buried? It's unheard of. But it would not be surprising if you understood the origin of the treasure. ”

Li Yang is the most read in the Tang Army squad, and he knows the most allusions, when he heard this, he suddenly remembered an ancient wild history record, and his heart couldn't help but thump, and he felt that his throat was a little dry.

Obviously, although this Wanyan Weihuo was a young soldier back then, he could not be an ordinary soldier, this person should be from a rich background, and he must have read. His origins can be seen from his name.

"What kind of treasure is it? Where is that? Li Yang suppressed his excitement and asked.

He felt like he might be overthinking. Could it be that the king's destiny is so powerful that there is a treasure to come into the world?

However, although they are in the Saiwai grassland, this place is actually still within the scope of Jizhou. In this way, it is not completely impossible!

ps: I'm still taking medicine, that's all for today, my family forced me to rest early. Crab crab everyone's support. It's really warm to have you, crab crab, good night! Please take care of your health and wish you all peace and health forever!

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