Just when I had been thinking nonsense, Boss Su and Master had already entered the cave, and beckoned me not to rub in, hurry in! After entering the cave, Boss Su casually closed the wooden door and closed the latch, and the hole suddenly lost all light sources, and he couldn't see his five fingers.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, a dark green fire lit up, and it was the master who took out the ghost fire talisman and lit the light. Over there, Boss Su also lit a ghost fire talisman and picked it up with a branch. The scene in the cave was also slowly revealed under the light of the ghost fire. At first glance, it looks like a natural cave, with abrupt rocks everywhere on the cave walls and ground, and there are no man-made chisel marks.

It was still Boss Su who was exploring the way ahead, but the master pushed me to the middle and left me behind. The three of us groped our way to the cave in the green light of the ghost fire. Normal people may still feel a little weird when they first see ghost fire, but we often set up stalls in ghost markets, and we have long been accustomed to doing things under the light of ghost fire. The dim light source doesn't have much of an impact on our travel.

After walking a long way, I knew in my heart that this could not be a mine that had been mined properly. Especially when passing through a narrow passage, we still need to bend down and climb over, if it is a mine, this place should have been widened a long time ago, otherwise how can we transport ore? Could it be the private mine that Master and they discovered? What the hell is that mine? Gold mines? As soon as I thought of this, I started to get excited, if I could dig up a few pieces of dog's head gold, I would be rich in no time!

"Master, what kind of mine is this?" I couldn't help but ask.

"It's not a mine, and we're not here to mine." Master directly extinguished my illusions and whispered, "Those words on the door outside are just to prevent some boring and curious people from coming in." ”

"What's in there?"

"Shh

I was about to ask again, when I suddenly heard a beastly roar faintly coming from the depths of the cave. My master motioned for me to stop talking nonsense, and pointed to the front for me to keep walking. I hesitated for a moment, and saw that Boss Su in front of me did not stop, but accelerated his pace. Is that the voice of a bear? Could it be that we have entered the bear cave, and Master, they have come to catch wild bears and collect bear paws? But I haven't heard of bears around here. Boss Su in front of him was holding a branch in his hand, and he didn't have any weapons, and he didn't look like he was going to hunt bears at all.

I was confused again, so I had to keep my head down. Walking into the depths of the cave, there was a breeze inexplicably, and I don't know where the air convection came from. The farther you go in, the more erratic and cold the wind becomes, until it becomes a constant wind with no fixed direction. The slight sweat that had already started on my body when I climbed down all the way turned into a cold sweat by now.

After walking about a kilometer in the cave, a fork in the road began to appear in front of me. The roar rang out again, coming from the left. Boss Su didn't hesitate, and walked directly to the left fork in the road, and the master also urged me to hurry up and follow behind, as if he didn't worry about any safety problems at all, and in the end we trotted over. Two hundred meters later, Boss Su in front stopped, panting, and raised the ghost fire to observe something. The master followed from behind and pasted the ghost fire in his hand to the cave wall. I was caught in the middle and stuck my head out to see what was in front of me.

There are several red ropes on the ground, using the layout of the stones, winding into the shape of a bagua, and a small bell is hung in the middle. The red rope tripped a ghost, who was naked, skinny, hairless, with long and slender fingernails, and two sharp fangs sticking out of his mouth, and he could no longer see the original human appearance. There are two pieces of rune paper attached to it, but the rune paper is pasted haphazardly, as if it will be blown away by the wind at any moment.

"It's a ghost trap, and as long as the bell rings on the red string, I can know it even at home. Luckily, we came fast enough, if we came slowly, it might break free, and it would be a hassle to catch it again! Boss Su breathed a sigh of relief and explained to me.

My master opened his backpack, took out a new piece of rune paper, and pasted it on the ghost's body, and now it was completely powerless to resist. The ghost grinned, almost half the size of his face, and his sharp fangs were razor. It was still yelling at us weakly, its eyes full of resentment and madness, and it was clear that it had no power to resist and was not afraid of us.

Master said: "It was originally just a wild ghost, but after wandering alone in the underworld for a long time, it has lost its mind, and it is no different from a wild beast!" He took out the bag from his backpack again, opened the bag and put it forward, and the ghost "swished" in. Boss Su squatted down and re-set the somewhat messy red rope, apparently wanting this ghost trap to work again.

After dealing with the ghost, we didn't move on, but went back. Now it was my master walking in front to explore the way, and after a while, I came to a fork in the road. It was only then that I could see that it was a three-way intersection. Master asked me and Boss Su to wait at the intersection first, and then walked to the left fork in the road, but soon, it took him less than five minutes for him to come back. He said to Boss Su that the trap over there was still good, and then turned his head and walked into the fork in the middle.

Later, we passed by two more forks in the road, but Master went to check on him alone, and when he came back, he said that there was no problem. After walking about 500 meters, we finally reached a large, empty cave. There was no way to the other side of the cave, and there were hard stone walls on both sides, and in the middle of the cave was a dark vertical pit. We didn't have a searchlight, and we couldn't see how deep it was by the little light of the ghost fire. But even if there were searchlights, I don't think they would be able to see the bottom of the pit. Because when I got here, I clearly felt that the whirring wind was not blowing out of the pit, but was drilling down, as if this bottomless pit was a monster's mouth, sucking the air from the outside world all the time!

I couldn't help but have some heart palpitations as I stood by, and I was always worried that I would be sucked into the hole if I got too close. Above the entrance of the cave were countless red ropes, each of which was tied with copper coins, which kept shaking under the action of the yin wind. The red ropes had obviously been pulled many years ago, and they had faded so badly that some of them had broken. There was a formation flag on the edge of the cave entrance, and the stones were also covered with talismans, and together with the red rope, they formed a much larger and more complex formation than the ghost trap just now. I don't know what kind of perverted ghost thing is in here, so I need to take such a lot of trouble to prevent it.

Before I could ask, Master pointed to the entrance of the cave and explained, "This is a passage through the underworld. Some time ago, because the old gate outside was damaged by the rain, the wind poured in and blew away the rune paper, scraped the red rope, and some ghosts began to enter and exit through this hole. Boss Su and I have been busy replacing the new wooden door recently, and we have also patched up some broken red ropes. But during the Qingming Festival, the ghost aura was strong, and the talisman array at the entrance of this cave was rushed away again. We are afraid that some evil spirits will break into the yang world and hurt people, so we are going to reseal this cave and replace all the original red rope and rune paper with new ones. And this work can only be done at night, in case you encounter a ghost that has broken out, you have to collect it, and if you can exceed it, you can put it in a mass grave. ”

I finally knew the reason why Master was always away from home during this time, and I blamed him. I feel ashamed of the complaints and arrangements I had against him before, it turns out that my master is still a very moral person!

"Does this cave lead all the way to the Yellow Springs Underworld?" I asked as I tried to probe into the cave again.

"Yes yes, yes no yes no!" This time, it was Boss Su who replied out loud, with a wicked smile on his face.

"What do you mean?"

"The Yellow Springs Underworld is still far from here!" Boss Su said with a smile, "But there is indeed a yin vein underneath this, which is connected to the underworld all the way." Ghosts can get in, but people can't! ”

"What is the Yin Vein?"

"The yin vein is the vein of the earth with abundant yin energy, which is similar to the veins of iron ore, copper ore, and gold ore. However, the Yin veins are hidden deep underground, and people generally can't reach them, and only a few passages like this can be directly connected to the Yin veins underground. Some powerful ghosts can also flow around through the yin veins. Boss Su said.

"There are also Yin veins under the mass grave in Paitou Village and the nearby Baihualing Cemetery, which are connected to this one, but there is no such exit." My master added, "The place where there is a yin vein at the bottom is called the yin land, and the ghost can enter the yin vein from the yin land to absorb the yin qi, and rely on its own ghost qi to condense into the yin yuan, that is, the yin yuan you see Lao Tan collecting in the ghost market." ”

"What is the use of Yin Yuan? Also, Master, why do you know these things? Master's explanation not only did not clear my doubts, but made me even more confused. I think Master should start with the true identity of him and Boss Su.

Boss Su looked at my master, which seemed to mean "Do you want to tell him?" ”

My master shook his head and said, "You don't have to ask so much first, I'll tell you when it's time for you to know." We're here to work, not to gossip! With that, he put down his backpack and began to fetch tools outside. Over there, Boss Su also took out bundles of brand-new red ropes.

"Again!" I was disappointed. The two of them had just piqued my curiosity, and I didn't talk about it halfway through, which I hated the most!

Master didn't care about my protests, and immediately ordered me to do this and that. Tonight's work is mainly to repair the formation of the hole, and pulling the red rope is the most troublesome. The official name of the red rope is the ghost rope, and I will pull a long red rope along the narrow hole to the opposite side, and then tie it to the iron nails. The long iron nails were nailed to the stone before, and only a few centimeters were left outside, so it is conceivable that the initial amount of work should have been several times that of the current one. And which rope to tie to the ghost is particular about which iron nail, and none of them can be wrong. I figured out that there should be at least 400 ghost ropes in total! That alone was enough for the three of us to stay busy for a few nights.

I worked until about four o'clock in the morning, and the ghost rope was about a third of the repair, and the master said that it would be like this tonight, and the rest of the work would be left for next time. When he was resting and drinking water after work, Master also said that he and Boss Su were mainly busy looking for lonely ghosts in other forks and caves before, and they had basically cleaned up today, otherwise it wouldn't have been so smooth tonight.

I asked him if he had ever met a powerful demon. He said he did. I asked, "What if these demons can't get over?" Will they be destroyed? ”

I asked Master a similar question before, and he said at the time that he didn't know how to transcend ghosts, let alone kill ghosts, but now he must not be able to fool him. The master was silent for a while, and Boss Su replied on his behalf: "We generally don't beat the ghost until we are forced to do so." This answer can be regarded as a direct admission that my master and himself have such skills.

But no matter how much the master refuses to reveal. We packed our tools and walked out of the cave along the way we came. Boss Su carefully closed the new wooden door and locked it to make sure it was safe. Then the three of them dragged their tired bodies up the steep slope to the winding road again, and returned to the place where they had parked.

Master told Boss Su to send me home directly and let me go back to catch up on my sleep. But when I got home, my mother had already gotten up to work, and I had gobbled up two bowls of beef brisket rice and barely slept for an hour, when my father came and kicked me awake. I returned to my daily miserable days, dozing off in class, and continuing the "cold war" with Huang Lijun. And one more point: I was half tired from a busy night last night, but I didn't have a penny to earn!