When the author woke up again, I don't know how many days had passed, and when he found that the monkey was gone, he sat up, and when he sat up, he saw that he was in a strange cave, and he climbed out of the cave, only to find that it was none other than the cave where his grandfather used it as a hiding place.

He dared to play in this hole for so many days, and he didn't know that he had such a neighbor, and what he didn't expect was that this neighbor actually saved him.

In this way, the author lived for a few days on the wild fruit of the big monkey, and after a few days, he cleaned up his mood, went out of the cave and collected the bones of his family, and then dug a pit, cut down trees, made simple coffins, and buried more than 20 people.

When the author was burying his family, he found something left by the gang in front of the tombstone, which was the green stone I found from the white-haired monster's nest, and he said in the book that when he got the stone, he smelled a strange smell on the stone, but he didn't find anything suspicious, because it was the enemy's thing, so he put the stone away.

After that, the author settled in the cave, and the author said that he had not been out of the mountain for all those years, and that he had survived in the cave by hunting and eating wild fruits and vegetables, and that the monkey would have liked to have such a neighbor, and that they often shared food with each other.

Later, one day, the author found this blank book in his family's belongings, which his grandfather used to record the sacrificial matters.

When I saw this, I realized that this book is not a diary, but a memoir or autobiography.

The last few pages of the book, which record the last period of the author's life, say that he found out that he was sick a year ago, but he was unable or afraid to go down the mountain to find Langzhong, and he spent a year alone in the cave.

This is the end of the author's writing, but even if he hadn't written it down, we know what happened next: he endured a year of hard work, and finally died tragically in guilt and loneliness, and he didn't even have his own tomb, and just lay in a cave like that for hundreds of years.

I remember when we left the cave, he didn't deal with the bones on the bed for fear of rotting the corpses, so he would continue to lie in the cave, maybe for decades, maybe hundreds of thousands, maybe forever!

After reading it, I silently closed the book, but my chest was like a heartache, I don't know why that family was tragically destroyed, but I can understand the loneliness and despair of the author's last time, no one should die like that, even the most vicious murderer!

Qiu Yan walked up to me at this time, put her hand on my back and said:

"He Zimu, I'm sorry!"

I don't know why Qiu Yan wants to apologize to me, the author of this book has nothing to do with me, I'm not him, I'm just like him, I just have an ancestor who was a corpse chaser.

I wiped the tears from my face, squeezed out a smile, and said:

"It's okay, I just think the author of this book is too pathetic."

"If you agree, I can arrange for someone to come over and let him be buried in peace."

"Hehe, it's just a skeleton, there's no need to waste that energy."

Qiu Yan paused, then she clasped her hands and asked:

"Do you see anything else?"

I was stunned when I heard this, I had been immersed in the emotions of the people in the book just now, and I didn't pay attention to anything else at all.

Qiu Yan saw that I didn't answer, so she prompted:

"There's some kind of ritual mentioned in the book, and the stone?"

I thought about it carefully, and I immediately thought of the strangeness.

First of all, the sacrificial activities, although it is not written in the text that Peng Yongkun and his sons went to organize the sacrificial activities, but they were frequently summoned by the Baojing Division Tusi, and they did not think it was for general things, especially when it was written later that Peng Da Worm Keyi led his troops to attack the village, which shows that something big must have happened during this period, so that Peng Da Worm, the hero of the Baojing Division, and Peng Yonglie, the Tusi of the Baojing Division, met each other.

Secondly, it is the stone, the origin of the stone is written in the text, and the origin of the white-haired monster is also written, which solves a lot of doubts for me about the white-haired monster.

However, I didn't know what connection this stone had with Qiu Yan's tiger bone spearhead, so I said to Qiu Yan:

"I see a little bit, but I don't know if it's the same as what you think, you can talk about it first."

Qiu Yan pulled a chair from behind her, then sat down next to me, and said:

"There are two clues worth investigating, one is the sacrificial activity, which is related to Peng Da Worm Keyi and Peng Yonglie, then there must be a sacrificial site for the sacrificial event, I think, if you find the sacrificial site, you may be able to find the relevant clues of the big worm Keyi."

I nodded and agreed:

"Well, I think so, and maybe I can find out why there was a dispute at the time. By the way, I remember that it was mentioned in the article that Peng Yongkun and Peng Yeyuan were often summoned by Peng Yonglie, and the two of them disappeared the night before and rushed back the next morning, which means that the place of sacrifice is not far from their home. ”

Qiu Yan smiled and said:

"I didn't expect that you saved me a big detour."

I shook my head and smiled:

"It's just that I thought of it suddenly, you go on, what do you think about the stone?"

Qiu Yan's face suddenly became solemn:

"I just have a conjecture about the stone, and there is no basis for it. Judging from the description in the book, the author fell ill after coming into contact with the stone, and you can also see that the same family, after being killed, the bones buried outside the cave are normal bones, but the bones lying on the bed in the cave are covered with corpse rotting bacteria. ”

"You mean, this stone has something to do with the corpse rotting fungus?" I interrupted Qiu Yan and asked.

"You listen to me first, you see, the legends we heard from Uncle Peng all mention the disputes between the Miao and Tujia families, and the scroll I brought out from the Tusi tomb in Wushan also mentions the catastrophe caused by Peng Yonglie, combined with some information about the author of this book, I suspect that this person died like Peng Yonglie!"

"Gu? Are you saying that it was the Miao people who killed his whole family? ”

Qiu Yan nodded and said:

"That's right, and I still suspect that those corpse rotting fungi are Miao Gu!"

I was so shocked that I couldn't do it, I had heard of this Miao Gu, and its fame was completely above that of the corpse chaser, and unlike the corpse chaser, Miao Gu was confirmed to be real.

"But didn't Xiang Wei say that corpse rotting fungi only exist in the body of Tujia Toast?" I'm still a little skeptical.

When Xiang Wei heard this, he immediately raised his hands and said with a smile:

"Hey, that's not what I said, I'm just paraphrasing what I've seen in the literature."

Qiu Yan raised her head after hearing this, and said:

"Maybe the literature is wrong!"

"If I guess correctly, maybe follow the clues of this group of Miao people, and I can also find Peng Da worm." Qiu Yan continued.

Hearing this, I was even more surprised, and asked:

"Don't you want to say that this group of Miao people was sent by Peng Da Worm Keyi, right?"

Qiu Yan shrugged and said:

"First Peng Da Worm Keyi attacked the village, and then the family began to escape, and then, the Miao people chased to Pujiling and slaughtered more than 20 people in this family, the cause and effect can be connected, what is impossible?"

"But~~ But why? It's all Tujia, why did he want to kill them all? ”

"We don't know the reason for this, maybe it's because of that sacrificial activity, maybe it's really like the legend, Peng Yonglie is performing some evil ritual, which was discovered by Peng Da Worm Keyi, and the only one who can stop the ceremony is the Miao people, so the big worm Keyi asked the Miao people to help, and the reason why he killed Peng Yongkun's family may be just to prevent future troubles forever!"

What a never-ending disaster! I thought in my heart, just by a thought, I killed more than 20 people, if this is really Peng Da Worm's order, then what kind of Tujia Tu house, and what other heroes of Baojing are too nonsense!

"Anyway, it seems that this eye-catching insect is not a good thing, even his own people will be killed, and when I find his grave, I will have to make a mess for him!" I said angrily.

Qiu Yan smiled, then stood up and said:

"If you want to stir up his tomb, you have to find a place first, we finally have a clue now, and the next step is to find the original site of the ghost head village, there is still some distance from finding the tomb of the big worm."

After listening to Qiu Yan's words, I suddenly thought of something, so I asked:

"That's not right, Peng Da Worm is also a dirt house, after he died in prison, didn't his descendants erect a monument or something for him?"

Qiu Yan nodded and replied:

"Well, I've also thought about this question, it is rumored that Peng Yonglie has a tombstone, but you have also seen that Peng Yonglie is likely to be Wushan Tusi, so his tomb may be an empty tomb.

As for the big worm, there is very little information about him, and we have only found a written record of his death in prison, as for what happened to him after his death, we still don't know. ”

"In other words, our only clue now is the ghost head village!" I added.

"That's right, but this ghost head village only appears in this book, I have consulted so much information, and I have never seen the word ghost head village, if you want to find its original location, I'm afraid it will take a lot of energy."

At this time, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I asked Qiu Yan for a map.

Map work is a compulsory subject for our scouts, and in the past, when conducting exercises, the troops often airdropped us into the barren mountains and mountains, and then gave us a compass and a map for us to find out by ourselves.

I took a pencil and calculated on Qiu Yan's scratch paper that the normal pace of an adult is about 5 kilometers per hour, and considering that there are more than 20 of them, some of them old and young, I reduced the pace to 3 to 4 kilometers per hour.

These people had to look for food while they were on the road, and they had to rest at night, so I estimated that their travel time was 6 hours a day, and the author said that they arrived at Pujiling after more than 10 days, and I put the number of days at 15 days.

In this way, they walked a total of about 315 kilometers, and taking into account the elevation of the mountains and the curvatures of the mountain roads, as well as other unstable factors, the range can be set at 200 kilometers and within plus or minus 50 kilometers.

After doing the math, I asked Qiu Yan for a rope and drew a circle on the map according to the scale of the map.

We followed the trajectory of the circle to search, and finally found a river beach in the Youshui River Basin, more than 160 kilometers away from the straight line distance of Pujiling, this river beach is less than 50 kilometers away from the mouth of the two rivers, the terrain is flat, and it is just the entrance of the car wash river into Youshui, if I choose the place, then I will definitely choose the village here.