Chapter Thirty-Three: The Moving Charred Corpse

After He Yuejia found the person, the cup in her hand shook, and she immediately got up and pointed outside: "Someone!" ”

Before the words fell, the moment she got up, Mu Tianjian had already run to the side of the cave, threw the dagger in his hand, and flew towards the mouth of the cave, although he hadn't seen whether there was anyone there, but he knew the importance of seizing the opportunity.

The dagger was stuck in the ground at the entrance of the cave, and at this moment a lightning bolt struck, and everyone saw that the man changed positions, and then slowly raised his head.

After Yuan Zhenba saw the man's face, he subconsciously said, "Xu Dao? ”

"It's me!" After Xu Dao finished speaking, he rushed towards Mu Tianjian, and after jumping in the air, one side leg was directly pressed against Mu Tianjian's shoulder.

Mu Tianjian looked at his running and jumping posture, and knew that this guy was not an ordinary person, and he didn't use kung fu, but free fighting, which softened the martial arts of many countries, so to speak, for people like Xu Dao, as long as they can win, they can use anything.

"Stand back! Let Tianjian deal with it! Yuan Zhen Bahu was in front of Sheng Yutang, and at the same time raised his hand to signal Fan Meng and He Yuejia to stay away, he didn't want these two precious guides to be injured.

Xu Cai's leg pressed on Mu Tianjian's shoulder, and while Mu Tianjian pushed Xu Dao away, he kicked Xu Dao's abdomen, and then turned his head and asked, "Eldest son, is it okay?" ”

Mu Tianjian's words are only a few words, but the meaning in them is: I can't be a killer?

Sheng Yutang subconsciously looked at Yuan Zhenba, Yuan Zhenba squinted around the cave, and nodded slightly: "Yes!" But as soon as he finished speaking, he noticed that something was wrong, because it was raining heavily outside, and Xu Dao was not wet in front of him, but it was wet behind him, indicating that he had been here for a while and had been staying at the entrance of the cave.

So, what was the reason he didn't come in? It's easier to ambush inside a cave than at the mouth of a cave, right?

"Tianjian, be careful of deception!" Yuan Zhenba immediately reminded.

"Yes!" Mu Tianjian nodded, his eyes swept at both sides of the hole, and then through the light of lightning, he saw two ropes close to the ground, that kind of thing is equivalent to a tripline, in the fierce fight, once you are tripped, there will be a big gap, and if you fall, you will fall into the mud outside, once your feet are stained with mud, it will definitely be inconvenient to move again.

Mu Tianjian didn't rush forward, just stood there and looked at Xu Dao, and Xu Dao was not in a hurry to attack, but raised his head and said slowly: "I have no way to do this, if I don't do this, my other brothers will be killed by him!" ”

"Him?" Sheng Yutang frowned, "Who is he?" ”

After Sheng Yutang asked, he obviously saw Xu Dao shudder, and after waiting for a while, Xu Dao looked at the ground and said, "He's not a human at all!" He's so terrifying, the third brother is right, he's a ghost, a ghost! ”

When he said the last word "is a ghost", Xu Dao dragged out his voice and shouted hoarsely, accompanied by the lightning from the sky, and the deafening thunder, which made the five people in the cave shudder.

Mu Tianjian took this opportunity to rush up, and suddenly stopped when he rushed to the tripline, but at this time, Xu Dao continued to retreat, turned around and ran into the woods outside the cave, Mu Tianjian also smelled a familiar smell, he immediately turned around and ran in the direction of Sheng Yutang, and shouted at the same time: "Get down!" ”

At the same time that Mu Tianjian knocked down Sheng Yutang, both sides of the cave mouth exploded, although the explosion was not too big, but it exploded the stalactite pillars supported on both sides, causing the cave entrance to collapse.

Xu Dao, who was in the woods, watched this scene, grabbed the hat behind his clothes and put it on his head, and turned to leave.

In the cave, everyone slowly got up and waved away the dust in front of them with their hands, Fan Meng dragged He Yuejia and immediately hid in the depths of the cave, he was worried that the collapse of the cave would expand.

"This sucks!" Sheng Yutang got up and looked at the blocked cave entrance, "How is it blocked!" ”

"There is another way, that is, you have to take a long detour, if you start now, non-stop, you can reach the basin almost tomorrow at noon." Fan Meng got up and helped He Yuejia pat the dust, and He Yuejia also nodded towards Sheng Yutang at the same time, indicating that what Fan Meng said was true.

"Tomorrow at noon?" Sheng Yutang frowned and looked at Yuan Zhenba, "Zhenba, what do you think?" ”

Yuan Zhenba stood there and looked at the blocked cave, calculating in his heart, and then said: "Dig and plane, the cave is not too serious to collapse, just dig a hole that can allow a person to pass through at the highest point, I roughly calculated, hold on for three hours, no more than five hours at most, take turns to dig, those who don't dig can also take the opportunity to rest, it's better than going around." ”

Mu Tianjian nodded: "Agreed!" ”

Sheng Yutang said: "Okay, except for He Yuejia, everyone else is involved in digging the hole, without further ado, let's start!" ”

The four men took off their tools, walked to the blocked place, and after Yuan Zhenba had chosen a location, they began to dig.

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The downpour smashed into the camphor forest, a corner of the woods, deep in the densest forest area, Guo Hongkui, Guo Shiqi and Bai Zhongzheng were tied there by five flowers, and the ropes on the three of them were tied together, because of the relationship between the rain and the soil, these close-fitting ropes were very uncomfortable, and there was a feeling that they were seeping through the skin and strangling towards the bones.

Guo Shiji, who was the weakest in his body, had fainted, and Guo Hongkui was still struggling to support him, but the only one with the best spirit was Bai Zhongzheng, who fell to the disadvantage in the fight and was captured alive.

In the distance, the man in black who was burying something came over, took out something from his waist, and stuffed it directly into Guo Shiji's mouth.

Guo Hongkui roared: "What do you want to do!" ”

The man in black said lightly: "This is just a medicine to ward off the cold, you have no grievances with me, and you are not here to do bad things, I will not harm you, I just hope you don't hinder me, if you promise me, I will let you go, you can turn around and go back, I can let you go now, otherwise, you will ask for more blessings!" ”

Guo Hongkui shook the rain on his head: "We are just entrusted by others, we don't want to do anything here, even if you let go of us, we won't leave." ”

"Then ask for more blessings!" The man in black said, turned around and left, although the ground was muddy, but the man in black walked very steadily, and he worked hard, no, it should be said that this person's kung fu has reached a certain level, and even Guo Hongkui is not his opponent with all his strength.

Bai Zhongzheng watched the man in black disappear into the rain and mist, and asked, "Kui Ye, can you see where he came from?" ”

Guo Hongkui lowered his head with difficulty: "No, the routines he uses are too miscellaneous, and they are all proficient, not a showmanship, I don't know where to come, now you have to find a way to get the rope open, and then go and tell them about the torture, this matter is not so simple, someone is setting up an ambush in secret, me and Shi Ji have been poisoned, although it is not heavy, but if left alone, it will leave serious sequelae, I have to go back with Shi Zong, as long as Shi Zhen wakes up, he knows the way to detoxify." ”

Bai Zhongzheng nodded: "I have to hurry up, as soon as the rain stops, as soon as the sky dawns, as soon as the sun comes out and the temperature rises, this rope will become tighter and tighter, if you don't untie it now, don't think about untying it again when the time comes!" ”

Bai Zhongzheng said and began to try to dislocate his wrist, while Guo Hongkui on one side gritted his teeth and insisted on not fainting completely.

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The torturers and others who walked into the cemetery woods did not dare to hide under the trees because of the heavy rain, so they had to speed up their pace through the woods, trying to find other caves to hide, but they walked in the cemetery for a long time without coming to the end, and after wandering for more than half an hour, the torture arts found that they had been "circling in place".

"Go in circles!?" Tan Tong was surprised, "This can't be some kind of ghost hitting the wall, right?" ”

Torture shook his head: "No, where are so many ghosts!" If it's just a grave bag, we are not easy to get lost, but there are still many camphor trees, and the camphor trees in most places are of different heights, there is no unified specification, plus rain and fog, it is normal to get lost, but I think it should not be so simple, this so-called forbidden place is generally equipped with insurance measures, there is a setting similar to a maze, but it usually only works in the dark, and during the day, even if there is a fog, it is not an absolute dense fog, the possibility of a maze is very small. ”

Tan Tong looked around: "Torture, did you say that the man in black deliberately attracted us?" ”

Torture nodded: "That's for sure, but I also think that in order to find the entrance to the mountain, I should have to pass through here." ”

As he spoke, the torture technique looked at Samuchuan, and Samuchuan's face was a little ugly, and he didn't know if it was raining.

"Hades! Flares! Torture said to Yan Gang.

Yan Gang frowned: "There are not many flares, so you don't need to use them." ”

"It's a good opportunity to use it now!" Torture pointed to the northern road, "Shoot one there, because the direction of the mountain range is to the north." ”

Yan Gang had no choice but to take out the flare gun, simply clear the chamber and stuff it into the flare, and then fire one towards the north according to the torture technique.

The flare flew into the air, flew to the apex and then slowly fell, and at the moment of falling, when approaching the canopy of several tall trees in the camphor forest, the top of a boxy house appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Torture pointed there and said, "There is a house, go there first!" Fast! ”

As he spoke, Xingshu led He Chenxue and ran there, and at this time, behind a certain grave bag on one side, the masked man in a dry black diving suit appeared there, staring at the back of Xingshu and the others in the distance.

At this time, the torture technique suddenly stopped, subconsciously looked back, and the others also stopped, He Chenxue asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"I don't know." Torture shook his head, "I always feel uncomfortable in my back, as if something is leaning against it. ”

Yan Gang glanced around: "Illusion!" Come on! ”

But what the torture was thinking about at this time was where did the "Guo family" go? It stands to reason that for such a long time, Guo Hongkui, Guo Shiqi and Bai Zhongzheng should also make peace with him.

It didn't take long for the torturers and others to come to the stone house, and found that the room was big enough, like the main hall of a temple, the gate was at least four or five meters wide, and the height reached about seven meters, and even the door was made of stone, and there were rollers underneath to push it to close or open.

Coming to the open door, Xingshu saw that it was pitch black inside, nodded at Yan Gang, Yan Gang pulled out the dagger, broke the glowing rod and threw it inside, observed for a while, and then turned on the flashlight and walked in, and then said, "No one, come in." ”

The torture leader went in, and when he entered, he saw that there was nothing in the room except for a charcoal pit on the ground in the middle, and some strange stone masks hanging on the surrounding walls, and the most strange thing was that they originally looked at this stone house from the outside of the building as high as at least five floors, but in fact, the inside was open, that is to say, there was only one floor, and when you looked up, you could directly see the top of the stone house through the beams used to fix the house above.

Tan Tong threw down his backpack, took off his raincoat, rubbed the mud on his feet, and looked around: "What the hell is this place?" ”

Samuchuan immediately said: "Brother Tong, there is virtue under your mouth, and there is a god when you look up three feet." ”

Tan Tong stepped forward to help Samuchuan unload his backpack: "According to what you say, I'll just shut up." ”

The torture technique helped He Chenxue take off his raincoat, took out the food he was carrying and put it on the ground: "Gun King, you can stop for a while, there is a time when you are busy." ”

Yan Gang came to the charcoal pit at this time, stabbed it lightly with a dagger, and then took out the alcohol block and was about to throw it in, Tan Tong grabbed his wrist, and then used the dagger to provoke the charcoal pit, looked for a while, turned out a layer of black and yellow gunpowder from the charcoal ash, looked at Yan Gang and said, "It's just a little bit, your eyes are over." ”

Yan Gang frowned: "What is this?" ”

"Safety gunpowder." Yan Gang looked around, "Someone has set a trap for us." ”

He Chenxue asked on the side: "Since it is safe gunpowder, how can it hurt people?" ”

"Safety gunpowder is generally divided into two kinds, especially now, are blended, one is for industrial use, as a fuze substitute, but rarely used, there is no way to do it under the premise of this, for example, in a humid place, there is no electronic fuse, it is laid out with safety gunpowder, and then ignited, which can be moisture-proof, and the second is to be used in film and television dramas, which is used less in China and more in Hollywood, especially when it comes to large-scale explosion scenes, it is necessary to have fire, smoke, and safety. You have to make safe gunpowder. After Tan Tong finished speaking, he motioned for everyone to disperse, took a step back, squatted down, covered his face with one hand, lit a piece of paper with a lighter, and threw it into the charcoal pit.

As soon as the paper approached the pit, a flame rose from inside, and as the flame burst out of the pit, it expanded to the surrounding area, and then shrunk, turning into billowing smoke, which was pure white, but was soon dispersed by the wind blowing in the doorway.

Yan Gang was really taken aback, even if he was a soldier, he didn't understand this, the so-called interlacing like a mountain was what it meant, because he had tested it with a dagger in advance, and he decided to throw down the alcohol block when he had nothing.

Tan Tong squatted there and said, "See? In fact, even if people are close to each other, as long as they protect their eyes and other weak places, this trick can't hurt themselves, and it's scary to look at, but if the eyes are facing each other, it's over, and it's a short period of blindness, or a direct blindness, and some pyrotechnicians are like this, because there is also sawn wood noodles mixed in it. ”

Yan Gang shook his head and said he didn't understand.

"Smokecake, you know?" Tan Tong said and took out a piece from his backpack, "Some of the smoke you see in movies and TV series, and even the bathroom surrounded by fog for filming, most of the things used are sawn wood dough cakes, which are full of smoke after being lit, which is very choking, but they are all white smoke, and the black smoke used in war scenes is made from a chimney." ”

Yan Gang nodded: "I have seen it." ”

The torture technique smiled on the side: "The ability of the Cannon King is more than that. ”

Tan Tong immediately said: "Don't praise me, I took the job completely because of lack of money, you don't kill me." ”

Samuchuan sat at the door on guard, and He Chenxue slowly came over and asked, "Who set up an ambush here?" Weren't we the first to arrive? It had rained before, and if someone had come first, you would have seen footprints and water stains and so on, but there was nothing around, and there was nothing in the house, so you couldn't hide people. ”

Tan Tong got up and looked at the strange stone faces hanging around: "Otherwise, how can I say that this is a ghost place." ”

Yan Gang no longer used the charcoal pit, but lit a fire with the stove, began to brew some hot coffee, and then got up and looked around.

Xingshu looked at the flames on the stove and said, "I think maybe it's the Xu brothers." ”

"Why?" Tan Tong asked, and Samuchuan at the door also looked at him.

"When I first got the information of the Xu brothers from the police, I knew that these four people were good at using gunpowder and the like, in fact, I was more worried that they had guns, so this time I had to find the king of Hades and the king of gun, one of you is a retired soldier, and the other is a pyrotechnic props master, you are all relatively proficient in gunpowder for military and civilian purposes, and it is more than enough to deal with the four of them, but to deal with it, I am worried about this trap." ”

Tan Tong stood on tiptoe and looked at the stone face closely: "Torture, haven't you encountered similar bastards before?" ”

"That was a lot of years ago, but they are much more professional, a group of professional thieves of ancient relics." Xingshu shook his head, "If it weren't for the urgency to die and bury yourself, if those people were alive, I'm afraid that many cultural relics in the country would suffer." ”

Tan Tong turned his head: "You...... Kill them? ”

Torture shook his head: "I said, they died by themselves." ”

As he spoke, the torture technique pressed He Chenxue's hand, motioned for her to rest, and then got up and looked at the stone face on the wall closest to him, and asked, "Samuchuan, do you know what these stone faces are?" ”

Samuchuan didn't raise his head and said, "I don't know, I said, I haven't been here." ”

Xingshu looked at Shi Mian and said, "It's like a Miao Mountain God Mask, but there are too many types here, count them, how many are there." ”

Tan Tong looked up and swept around with a flashlight: "I can't count them, they are all in all directions, and they are all arranged irregularly, what is this?" ”

Tan Tong said, walked to the side, and carefully looked at the black thing hanging on the beam ten meters up, Yan Gang also took the opportunity to shine the flashlight, and then the two of them saw it clearly, and they were both startled, but no one could tell what was going on - because there was a black and obviously burned corpse hanging on the beam, and the surface of the corpse was covered with sludge.

To be precise, Yan Gang and Tan Tong's first reaction was "Xu Sheng's corpse".

Xu Sheng was killed by lightning, his whole body was pitch black, and he was still carrying the backpack, and the corpse hanging on it was exactly the same as the corpse of Xu Sheng they had seen before.

The torture technique made the two of them hold the flashlight steadily, raised the telescope and looked at it carefully, looked at it for a long time, and said: "It looks like Xu Sheng, it's too strange, how did his body come here?" Why did you get here? What does it do? Scare us? ”

The torture technique was analyzing to himself, and the others couldn't figure out what was going on, He Chenxue got up slowly, walked to the stone face, looked at it closely, smelled it, and then slowly felt it with the back of his hand, and after a long time, He Chenxue turned around to get his own set of gadgets.

Xingshu still touched his chin and looked there, holding his flashlight and looking around: "The last thing I understand is, how did the corpse hang up?" Has anyone grown wings? ”

As he spoke, Xingshu looked at Yan Gang: "Hades, can you climb up?" ”

Yan Gang shook his head: "It's not easy to climb, unless there is a rope, but to throw it up and hang the corpse, it will take at least an hour." ”

Tan Tong shook his head: "I can't climb up either, Mu Chuan, what about you?" ”

Samuchuan got up, glanced around, locked his eyes on a protruding beam closest to the ground, and then ran towards the wall, then rushed up on the wall, after walking five steps in a row on the wall, he kicked on one leg and threw himself diagonally towards the beam, and then grabbed the beam with one hand and hung there, looking at the stunned people below, and said lightly: "I can only go so far." ”

"I can only ......" the torture technique couldn't cry or laugh.

Yan Gang took a deep breath and gave a thumbs up, Tan Tong nodded and said, "You're completely showing off!" ”

Samuchuan let go of his hand and landed steadily: "If it is my master, he is afraid that he can climb up in a short time, he is the true successor of Chiyou Boxing, he has always practiced boxing with weights, and it is easy for him to climb trees and go to the house." ”

Xingshu continued to look up: "No matter what, it is impossible for Xu Sheng's charred corpse to come over by himself, and then climb up and hang himself up to scare us, right?" ”

Tan Tong held the binoculars and looked at it, and then said "Huh", and the torturer asked him what was wrong? Tan Tong just shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's nothing, maybe I'm wrong." ”

Xingshu looked at Tan Tong and nodded, but at this time, he heard He Chenxue's voice coming from the side.

"Torture! Come on! He Chenxue, who was looking at the stone surface at this time, shouted, "The material of these stone faces is not stone, but the raw material of jade, just a very ordinary texture, and it is very miscellaneous, some of the rough stones have only a small part of them, and some are almost all of them!" ”

The torture technique immediately turned around and stepped forward, and the others also came over, looking at the corner that He Chenxue pried open with a small hammer, and the corner revealed a piece of jade material, which was dark green, but there was still a layer of something similar to gold wire among the sandwich stones outside.

"Golden Silk Jade." Torture sighed, "This kind of thing really exists!" ”

He Chenxue and the torture technique mentioned "Golden Silk Jade" so surprised, but Tan Tong and Yan Gang were very puzzled, they didn't understand what it was, and Samuchuan just looked at it expressionlessly from behind.

He Chenxue explained: "Golden silk jade is a very ancient handmade jade, and the craftsmanship has long been lost, but according to records, the earliest appearance was in the Warring States Period, and it has no connection with Miaodi in any case. ”