The two legends from the Shanximan and the Han people can be right about the time, the specialty, and even the motives of the Han lord chasing and killing the earth monkey...... Regardless of whether the Han people or the barbarians, tomb robbery is a very evil thing with a thousand knives, and if the people know that their emperor is relying on tomb theft to expand military spending, it is not good. And after sitting firmly in the world, without the war, the expenses are greatly reduced, and the dead people's money is no longer used to maintain the expenditure, and the ghost soldiers under his command are naturally useless.

Maybe Hong Taizu will also be worried that if he leaves this family of earth monkeys, maybe they will dig their own graves in a hundred years...... Gu Zhaojun is also short of money, his situation is even more embarrassing than Song Yang, now that he knows such a way to make money, how can he not be excited, the old fox's eyes are frighteningly bright, and he nodded to Song Yang and said, "I have done it!" I'll go with you... It's better to call Luo Guan, and I'll have to talk to Mrs. Bo about it. ”

Luo Guan is a great grandmaster, and he can protect everyone, needless to say, but what is the use of finding Mrs. Bao, Song Yang was a little puzzled, Gu Zhaojun explained: "The story about the earth monkey, I don't know if you have noticed the last paragraph: an elite Han army entered the crypt and never came out...... It must be extraordinary to be regarded as an elite army by Shanximan, how many earth monkeys were there at that time? Hundreds of them are amazing, even if the earth monkeys occupy the geographical advantage, but with such a small number of people, how can they destroy Hong Taizu's elite soldiers? ”

Speaking of this, Gu Zhaojun clicked his mouth, and the maid on the side understood, ready to serve tea, but he didn't expect Xiao Yu to hear the excitement, and he was in a hurry, so he picked up his teacup casually: "I haven't touched this cup of water, I'll give it to you..."

Gu Zhaojun was startled, he didn't dare to drink this saliva anyway, he quickly shook his head and thanked him, and continued to say: "If you want me to guess, in the nest of the earth monkeys, I am afraid that there is some powerful mechanism, which is why it has pitted that elite army." Originally, the savages were not educated, and they couldn't set any decent traps, but don't forget, the earth monkeys are different, they go out of the mountains to help the ancestors of Honghuang do things, and they have been shuttling underground for one or two hundred years, dealing with various ancient tombs. ”

"What kind of place is the tomb? Especially in the tombs of emperors and princes, the traps of the organs are incredible, and the earth monkeys have a lot of opportunities to learn the methods and principles of these mechanisms. So I'll have to talk to Mrs. Po first... She Lao Tzu Shadow Tuo steals everything, and she is also an expert in tomb robbing, I don't know if the following things have been told to Mrs. Bao, she wants to know something, it is best to take her with her this time, maybe it can help. ”

…… Two days later, in the early morning, a team of eight people set off from Yanziping, including Song Yang, Xiao Yu, Luo Guan, Gu Zhaojun, Nan Rong, Madame Bo and her two men.

Regarding this trip, Song Yang casually made an excuse with Cheng He, only saying that Mu En thought of a way to crack the 'Nine Colors Do Not Stick', he was going to go to the lair of the mountain stream, Cheng He was smart but not a fairy after all, and he was already very busy, so he couldn't see through Song Yang's little lie, but just told him to take care of Xiao Fu. I am confident in taking care of Xiaoyu Song Yang, even if there is really any danger in the crypt, with him and Luo Guan, there is no problem in protecting Xiaoyu and escaping, not to mention that Gu Zhaojun and Mrs. Bo's skills are not under Song Yang, such a formation is enough to go to the rivers and lakes to open a mountain and establish a faction.

As for Madame Silk, she simply grew up listening to the 'autobiography of a grand thief' told by her father, which involves countless stories about the 'underground', and knows a lot about the mechanism design of the ancient tomb. And the two subordinates she brought with her, who were originally in the underworld, had 'gone to the ground' many times, and they were well-known in this industry, because they admired their predecessors Shadow Tuo, and later joined Mrs. Silk.

The two subordinates are in their thirties, one was born in the suburbs of Yanjing, with a slender figure and handsome appearance, a mouth of Beijing, love to talk and laugh, the surname is lively, the surname is Qi, and the single name is the word 'Shang'; the other is a person from the mountainous area in the northwest of Yanguo, who is dark and short and not amazing, like a stone and dull, with the family name 'Ba', born in the middle of summer, and the people in the wilderness are not very particular, so they are named after the season.

Xiao Yu blinked his eyes and smiled: "Qi Shang, Pasha? You two are really good brothers. ”

Qi Shangkou said with a smile: "Your old words are to the point, I used to do business alone, and every time I went to the ground, I always felt unsteady, and I went up and down; Until later I met Pasha, and guess what? Hey, Qi Shang Pasha is a partnership between the two, and his heart is not up and down, and he is so down-to-earth from the bones. ”

Pasha did not react to this, did not raise his head, and followed Mrs. Bo steadily...... When he left the town, the number of people in the team was very small and he looked very thin, but as soon as he entered the deep mountains and joined up with Mu En, he immediately turned into a large team, and Mu En brought all the three hundred mountain streams and accompanied him all the way. Xiao Yu felt that it was a little too 'grand', and said to Song Yang: "You don't need to bring so many people to escort you, right?" ”

Song Yang shook his head: "It's not that there is a temple in the mountain, and there is a golden bodhisattva in the temple, let's just go over and move it." The monkeys have not been seen for so many years, and their former nests have either collapsed or been buried......"

As long as someone spoke, Qi Shang would follow and interject with a smile from the side: "Maybe it's collapsed and buried." If you really want to do this job, I can't have 300 people. Again... You have to use people to move gold out of the mountains. ”

Xiao Zhuha laughed: "The last sentence is good." ”

Walking through the deep mountains of Nanli, there are only two most troublesome places, one is the snake and scorpion rampant and poisonous insect nuisance, but with Song Yang here, he has already distributed deworming drugs to his companions; The other is that the dense forest covers the sky and makes it difficult to distinguish the direction, and at the same time, the quagmire and poisonous swamp under your feet are hidden, and if you are not careful, you will fall into it, and Mu En and Shanxixiu accompany them, and there are barbarians who are opening the way through the thorns, and this heavy harm is almost negligible.

All the way was safe, and when passing through the camp of Shanximan, Mu En also deliberately paused the team and went back alone to visit the seniors of the clan to confirm the direction of the earth monkey's nest...... After ten days of trekking, Mu En led everyone to the edge of a cliff and stretched out his hand to the bottom of the cliff: "There it is." ”

From a bird's-eye view from above, there is only a continuous forest in the eyes, nothing can be seen, Mu En gave an order, three hundred mountains and streams show the movement of climbing down quickly, the cliff is not too high, more than ten zhang of appearance, no matter up and down, it is difficult for everyone, Song Yang and others also spread their figures, and they came to the bottom of the cliff without any effort...... Seven hundred years of jungle growth is enough to erase all traces, and even if they stand here, knowing that this is the place where the two races lived together, everyone still can't see anything.

Everyone will look at Mu En, hoping that she can point out the direction of the entrance to the monkey's crypt, but the latter shook his head impatiently: "I'm not a monster who has lived for seven hundred years, how can I know where the specific entrance is, I have to find it!" As he spoke, he shouted a few times at his subordinates in brute language, and the three hundred mountain streams immediately became busy, sometimes climbing into the distance, sometimes digging in the dirt, looking for the traces left by ancient times.

This forest is really vast and deserted, and 300 people scattered in it and soon disappeared, such a way to find a needle in a haystack, and it may not be possible to find the entrance after a busy year.

It's not much use to look blindly like a lucky one, Song Yang, Lao Gu and others went to Mrs. Bo to discuss with 'seven up and eight down': "What if you make a hole directly down?" Anyway, I'm sure that the earth monkey's crypt is down there, so I don't have to find the entrance, just dig the hole and drill down. ”

It was still Qi Shang who answered, and when he heard this, he shook his head: "It's true that the earth monkeys used to shuttle under this, but it is impossible for the entire area below to be hollowed out by them, otherwise the upper part will have to collapse into a big pit, and now this is not a forest, it should be a big lake or swamp." ”

Song Yang didn't understand very well, Qi Shang loved to speak, and wished he could explain a few more words: "On the way here, our brothers discussed, back then, the two clans lived together, and Shanximan lived very well on it, which shows that the ground is strong enough; So there won't be a huge dungeon underground. Not to mention the underground palace, it is estimated that there are no big holes in the house, at most there are some narrow tunnels and tunnels. We can't find the location of the tunnel from above, and it is useless to dig a hole, and if a hole is dug down, how can it fall on the head of the tunnel so coincidentally? It's not impossible to dig in a daze, but that's a stroke of luck, and if you really do that, it's better to lead the coolies in and open up the entire plot of land to be more worry-free. ”

It is one thing to dig a hole and dig a road, and it is another thing to build a solid huge underground palace, which emperor's tomb with a huge underground palace is not a huge project that has been long and driven tens of millions, with a savage tribe thousands of years ago, it will never have such an ability.

Gu Zhaojun frowned: "There are only some passages below?" Don't even have a house? Where do the earth monkeys live? ”

"No matter which way he is a god, it is impossible for him to stay underground for a lifetime, the earth monkey may like to cool underground, but he can't go down and won't come out, so he is not just waiting for rheumatism." As he spoke, Qi Shang glanced up at Mu En and confirmed that the old woman was in the distance, before he lowered his voice and continued: "That group of earth monkeys is not ordinary cunning, the mountain and stream barbarians are really good-natured, and they are serious about their evil deeds, so they were simply used by the earth monkeys as a guard dog and a shield. ”

Gu Zhaojun understood it at one point: "You mean, the real nest of the earth monkey is not here?" ”

Qi Shang nodded again and again: "Master Gu is wise, as I just said, the ground here is solid, otherwise it would be impossible to set up a camp here seven hundred years ago; Seven hundred years later, such a dense forest will not grow. It's not that I underestimate that group of earth monkeys, at least at that time, with their craftsmanship, they would never be able to dig a cave chamber that could bear a large weight. ”

Xiao Yu was taken aback: "Where is the real camp?" After speaking, he felt that no one could know about this problem, so he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Then this trip is not for nothing?" ”

Pasha finally spoke: "It won't be in vain. ”

After saying four words, he closed his mouth again and said no more, Qi Shang smiled and said: "It's not difficult to think about this, there is no large underground palace below, but the ancestors of the mountain stream barbarians seven hundred years ago also said that this is the old nest of the earth monkeys before they came out of the mountain, according to my estimate, the ancestors of the barbarians also saw some tunnel entrances, when they moved here, the earth monkeys have been out of the mountain for more than a hundred years, and the tunnels have long collapsed, and the mountain stream barbarians naturally can't dig down to see, and it is not strange to know the situation below." ”

"But after the earth monkey came back, he was forgiven by Shanximan, and dug the road again, and hundreds of people went down one after another... Where did they go? Where can they go? ”

The answer was so obvious that even Xiao Yu understood it, nodded and said, "This is not the real nest of the earth monkeys down there, but there is a pit leading to their lair below?" As long as we can find out the way back then, we can still find the nest of the earth monkeys. ”

Qi Shang smiled, revealing a row of neat teeth: "So the earth monkey bastard is hateful, the old ancestor of the barbarian only occupies the entrance and exit of their lair, the earth monkey likes to dig holes, and the old nest cannot have an entrance, this place is occupied, they can go to find other ways...... Even if this is the only entrance, with the number of more than 1,000 earth monkeys, it will not be difficult to change places and find a new way to return to their former residence. ”

It is true that there is more than one secret path to the former residence of the earth monkey, but how can the other roads compare to this one? At the entrance is stationed a battalion of mountain creek barbarians, who hate the Han people, which is simply the doorman of the last earth monkey given by the mountain god's grandfather.

The earth monkey has been in the world for more than 100 years, and he has indeed comprehended a lot of things, at least he has learned a 'bitter meat plan', no way, Shanximan is such a temper, if the earth monkey comes directly to beg, he will ignore the mountain savages who are willing to be slaves and suffer backlash, and he will be sent away directly;

The earth monkey gave up half of the clansmen, and changed the mountain stream barbarians for them for more than ten years, fortunately, the 'twelve corpses' were wise, and they didn't want to be as stubborn as ordinary barbarians, and led the clansmen to move out of here.

Song Yang and his gang are all here to move gold, and they are not very interested in the things of seven hundred years ago, so they probably have to figure out the context, so Song Yang turned to the topic: "Is there a way to find the ancient pit road below?" ”

"Along the way, our brothers thought about it, and they discussed it for several days, but it turned out that my brother remembered the ...... of fishing in the ditch when he was a child" Qi Shang's wordy strength didn't want Mrs. Bo's henchmen, but more like Mr. Bo's personal disciples, Mrs. Bo reprimanded: "If there is, there is, if there is no, there is no, just say it!" ”

"There is a way, but can it be so good that you don't dare to pack tickets, and it will never be troublesome, you have to be busy." Qi Shang knew that the proprietress was hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, and smiled a little disappreciatively: "The first thing to do, this forest is too dense, you have to peel off the canopy, at least you have to open the branches and leaves to reveal the sky; Then there is the construction of the dam, not the dam, I will not tell you more about the specifics, you will give us 200 people to do this work, as short as ten days or as long as half a month, to ensure that it will be done for you. In the end, it's just a matter of waiting...... Wait for a heavy rainstorm! ”

Pasha added: "Also, it's best not to rain heavily when you're working. ”

Song Yang didn't ask much, found Mu En and asked her to allocate manpower, three hundred mountain and stream Xiu soldiers divided into two roads, and two hundred people went up the tree to remove the branches and leaves; Another 100 people followed 'seven up and eight down' and got busy on the ground.

Rather than 'building a dam', it is better to 'build purlins' on the ground, piling up soil slopes of more than a foot high on the ground of dense forests. These purlins are built horizontally and vertically, criss-crossed, the huge forest ground, divided into a piece of square land of half an acre in size, if you can pull out the big trees and then from a high place to have a bird's eye view, the ancient camp of the mountain stream in the past, as if it has become a huge Go board.

Qi Shang's mouth is not idle, but he is meticulous in his work, and his requirements for Shanxi Xiu are also extremely strict, and the 'earth purlin' that he has brought up is very strong, not to mention Paxia, Song Yang, Xiao Zhu and others are embarrassed to just look at it, everyone rolls up their sleeves and follows the work together.

After the purlin, the brothers are not idle, they use the leaves peeled from the tree to cover the purlin as much as possible, in case it will be washed down when it rains, at this time Song Yang can also roughly see some clues, the ancient camp is divided into countless shallow 'reservoirs', where there are tunnels underground, the soil will always be looser, and the leakage will be faster after the accumulation of water.

It's a stupid idea, but at least there is some 'basis', which is less troublesome than looking for reliability aimlessly, and opening the entire ground.

It was already rainy, and there were a few rains in the past ten days, but the rain was not heavy, and it did not have much impact on their project...... At first, I was afraid of heavy rain, but after ten days the 'chessboard' was completed, everyone looked forward to the rain soon.

After another three days, heavy rain clouds gradually condensed in the sky, and the air was visibly suffocated, and if nothing else, it would not be long before a heavy rain fell. And when the dark clouds were on top, I don't know if I was nervous and had nothing to say, or I was afraid that my method would be ineffective and would provoke the nobles to blame, Qi Shang came to Song Yang and the others and nagged: "Master Hou, we will do this for you with all our strength, but you have to have a bottom in your heart, the underground tunnel cannot be too wide, and it has been put for more than 700 years, maybe it has already collapsed into porcelain, and this method of water seepage may not be so good......"

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Song Yang nodded with a smile: "Don't worry, I can only give you credit." ”

Qi Shangle was happy, but what he had to say was not finished: "Besides, even if we can find the earth monkey's way, it may be the wrong way they dug up to confuse the enemy in the first place; If God bless you to find the true way, don't expect to be able to run down in one breath unimpeded, most of the time you still have to dig and go, not in a moment ......and a half."

At this time, even his good partner Pasha thought he was talking too much nonsense, and frowned and interrupted: "Are you annoying?!" ”

Qi Shang said 'hey', didn't mean to shut up at all, turned his head and said to Pasha: "Annoying? You can't speak three sentences a year, my brother has to speak two people alone, just do your work for you, you still ......"

In the middle of speaking, suddenly a lightning light shattered the sky, thunder rolled, and heavy rain roared!

Qi Shang immediately closed his mouth, there was nervousness and excitement in his eyes, and with everyone, he stared at the ground, but after a while, he was taken aback.

The purlins were solid, the rainstorm was fierce, and the canopy of the forest was mottled...... Most of the huge checkerboard grids are visible to the naked eye and are quickly filled with rainwater, but there are also some 'grids' that seep water surprisingly fast, and the rainwater will seep down at the same time, and the water cannot be stored at all.

If there are only one or two lattices, it may be because the purlins are loosely built, but all the 'seepage' lattices are quite numerous, and they are all next to each other, one after the other,...... Song Yang looked at it, and the situation in front of him at this moment was quite spectacular, the surrounding chess grid was rippling and silver; The black ground where there is no water is exposed, one after another, like a huge black dragon, more like a god and Buddha casting immortal methods, splitting the water and showing the road, winding all the way towards the deep mountain.

He gasped in unison: "This... That's going too well, right? ”

The method of water seepage is easy to use, but Qi Shang's previous judgment was almost completely wrong, and now it can be seen from the ground that there is clearly a grand road below!

(To be continued)