When the old man heard me say this, he immediately changed his face and said angrily:

"Where did you hear this, Yong Lie Gong was counterattacked when he summoned the devil, if it wasn't for the big insect to stop him, his son would have become a devil."

I quickly apologized and said:

"Hehe, grandpa, that's what I said, don't be angry. You just said summoning devils, what kind of devil did the brave martyr summon? What was his purpose in summoning the devil? ”

The old man took a sip of wine, sighed, and said:

"Who knows! It's all those Timar ghosts, they confuse Yong Liegong and want to summon the devil, presumably as soon as the devil is summoned, the world will be in chaos, and those Timar will get benefits in the troubled times. ”

I looked at the old man with a flushed face but no drunkenness, and wondered if the old man was talking drunk.

Summoning demons, this is even more ridiculous than soul reincarnation sounding.

I asked the old man how the big worm Keyi died, and where he was buried after death.

Who knew that the old man pursed his mouth, burped and said:

"I don't know why he died, but I heard that his body was taken away by the Miao people."

As soon as the old man's words fell, Qiu Yan and I looked at Long Quan at the same time.

Long Quan was suddenly stared at by the two of us, panicked for a while, and laughed loudly:

"Mr. Qiu, Brother He, it was all hundreds of years ago, don't you think I know where the big worm is buried?"

As soon as I heard it, I was right, I can't put all the suspicions on him just because the dragon is all Miao.

I patted Long Quan on the shoulder, nodded at him, and then asked the old man:

"Grandpa, at that time, Yonglie Gong had a spear in his hand, and I heard that the spearhead was made of tiger bones, have you heard of it?"

The old man looked a little drunk at this time, and he held the empty wine glass and snorted vigorously.

"Oh, tiger bones, there is! Some! It's just that I'm so young, I can't see a tiger! ”

I smiled bitterly, it seemed that the old man was drunk, and our words were no longer correct, so I beckoned the boss to leave the table, and then went back to their rooms.

Qiu Yan asked Long Quan and I to go to her room to sit down, and I knew that Qiu Yan had other plans.

Sure enough, as soon as she sat down, Qiu Yan said directly:

"Zimu, after listening to the old man's words, do you think it is necessary to go to the rock tombs?"

I'm noncommittal, the old man said that the body of the big worm Keyi was taken away by the Miao people, if it is true, then there is really no need for us to go to the rock tombs again, but who knows if the old man's words are true or false?

Besides, after a long period of circulation, this kind of legend generally deviates a lot from the truth, otherwise, there would not be a saying that the soul is reincarnated for a while and summons the devil for a while.

Seeing that I did not speak, Long Quan opened his mouth and said:

"Mr. Qiu, when Brother He talked to the old man just now, I was embarrassed to interject, in my understanding, although our Miao and Tujia have many similarities, they are different in many details, especially in funeral customs, so I think the old man's statement that the Miao people took away the corpse of the big insect is a bit illogical.

I think, since we're here, let's just go in and have a look, if we can't find a clue, we'll have the right to travel, and what if we can find it? ”

Qiu Yan looked at me after hearing this, and I felt that Long Quan's words made sense, so she nodded and said:

"I agree, it's not a big deal to delay for two or three days anyway, and we're not in a hurry."

Qiu Yan sat down, thought for a moment, and replied:

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

......

In the next two days, as the boss said, there were more people in the scenic spot all of a sudden, and the boss's family was overwhelmed with guests, and a few guests who wanted to "carefully investigate" were also accepted during the period.

Seeing that the boss was busy, we didn't bother us, so we drove to other attractions to have a round.

At dinner in the evening, I took the old man aside and asked him some questions, but the old man still said those few words, and I could not get any more information.

However, about the tiger bone spearhead, the old man said that he had not heard of it this time, but said that the tiger is a very sacred animal for the Tujia people, especially the white tiger, and he said that it is the totem of our Tujia family.

In this way, we played in Baojing County for two days, and on Monday afternoon, the owner cleaned up the store and then led us to set off.

As I expected, the boss didn't take us down the hill, but climbed up the back hill.

After climbing for about half an hour, we came to a forest, at the end of the forest was a rock, the boss walked over and removed a few bundles of weeds in the rock, and a path down the mountain appeared.

When we crossed the rocks, we could see the Youshui River at the foot of the mountain, and after we walked to the Youshui River, the boss found a rope from the weeds.

Long Quan and I walked over to help the boss pull a few times, and then we saw a small boat sliding from a piece of water and grass next to it.

The boat was not big, only two people could sit side by side, and after we got on the boat, the boss set off with the oars.

The Youshui River, where there are no tourists, is very quiet, and I can't help but revel in the fact that I am fascinated by the sun gradually setting in the distance and the birds that fly through the air from time to time.

The good times are always fast, and before I could watch the sun set, the boss pointed ahead and said:

"Here it is, there it is!"

I followed the direction and saw that in the bend of the river ahead, holes in the cliffs were exposed.

The boss docked the boat and said to us:

"Someone will come to check at six o'clock, you must come back before six o'clock, I will wait for you here, as soon as six o'clock comes, whether you come back or not, I will leave, now it is more than four o'clock, you only have more than an hour, remember, you are not allowed to leave anything, and you are not allowed to take anything away, if I find out that you have brought things out, I will take the initiative to report the crime."

I thought to myself that more than an hour is not too short, we just came to see, it won't take much time.

So I nodded to the boss and got off the boat with Qiu Yanlong.

The group of rock tombs is indeed magnificent from a distance, but when we get closer, we find that they are just some very ordinary holes carved out of the cliffs, these holes are irregular and irregular, and there is no decoration, compared to the hanging coffins we found in the canyon, it is simply one underground and one in the sky.

We looked at several holes in succession, but we didn't find anything, these rock tombs were put directly into the corpses, neither embalmed, nor covered, hundreds of thousands of years later, those corpses are not rotten away?

At this time, I found that there were some petroglyphs in some of the larger holes, which were very rough and the strokes were very monotonous, which should be the "decorative patterns" mentioned in the manual.

At first, I didn't pay much attention to it, but then I realized that although the patterns in each cave are different, there is one pattern that is found in every cave.

I went in and took a closer look, and found that this pattern was actually a person, this man was holding a spear, and his limbs were drawn like a stickman, but his face was painted in great detail, and this face was actually all seen by us, he appeared in the hanging coffin in the canyon, on the gate in the canyon cave, and on the mask in my backpack.

It's Chiyou again, I wonder what is the relationship between this Chiyou and the Tujia family, and why I can see his ugly face everywhere.

Just when I was wondering, I suddenly felt that these petroglyphs in front of me seemed familiar, and these childish strokes seemed to be what I had seen before.

Finally, I thought about it.

I called Qiu Yan over, let her into the hole, and asked:

"Look, do these petroglyphs look like your rubbing?"

After listening to my words, Qiu Yan immediately flipped out her notebook, she took out the rubbing book that was sandwiched in the notebook, and then looked at the petroglyphs for a long time.

"It's the same!" Qiu Yan was surprised.

"But it's hard to say, after all, there were only that conditions in those days, and anyone who took a stone and painted on the wall could paint like this." Qiu Yan then said.

I shook my head and said:

"Don't just look at the surface, you have to look at the details.

You look at the spear in his hand, why do these petroglyphs appear here and Yunnan, but this person is holding a spear in his hand?

Doesn't this confirm the existence of tiger bone spearheads? ”

Qiu Yan smiled at me and said:

"Let's hope it's true!"

With that, she got out of the cave.

After Qiu Yan went out, I looked at the other petroglyphs in the cave, and just as I was fascinated by it, suddenly Long Quan shouted:

"Brother He, Mr. Qiu, come and have a look!"

Long Quan screamed excitedly, which was very inconsistent with his usual quiet personality, so I quickly climbed out and found Long Quan.

Long Quan was lying on the edge of a big hole on the cliff at this time, and when he saw me and Qiu Yan, he beckoned and said:

"Come up and take a look, it's a little weird."

I looked around and saw that the cave where Long Quan was located was the largest one, and it was also the one at the top and in the middle.

With the help of Long Quan, Qiu Yan and I climbed into the cave, and when we looked up, we saw a stone slab directly opposite, and some petroglyphs were carved on the stone slab.

These petroglyphs are obviously different from other caves in that they are concentrated on stone slabs and look more figurative.

"Look, the man in the middle!" Long Quan pointed to the middle of the petroglyphs and said to me.

When I heard this, I looked at the slate.

I saw a circle of people drawn on the stone slab, and in the middle of the people, a platform was drawn, and there were two people lying on the platform, and above the platform, there was also a person standing, this person was wearing a mask, holding a pair of tortoise shells in his hand, it seemed that he was holding some kind of ceremony, and the dragon was pointing to this person.

Needless to say, the scene on the petroglyphs is a ritual of soul reincarnation or summoning demons, and the person Long Quan refers to must be Tima who performed the ceremony.

I don't know what Long Quan was surprised about, but what surprised me was not that the content of the petroglyphs matched our investigation, but the tortoise shell that Tima was holding in his hand.

Although I wasn't sure that the tortoise shell was mine, I knew that Tima, the corpse chaser, the tortoise shell, and this mysterious ritual were all connected in this instant.

I glanced back at Long Quan, who was staring at me intently, as if trying to see some answer on my face.

"Brother He, do you see the tortoise shell in his hand, is it the same as yours?" When Long Quan saw me turn around, he asked.

I was shocked and asked:

"How do you know I have tortoiseshells?"

Long Quan smiled and said:

"Oh, when Mr. Qiu cleaned up your things, I took a look."

After I listened, I looked at Qiu Yan, who nodded at me, confirming Long Quan's statement.

"He's holding a whole tortoiseshell, and mine is two pieces, what's the same?" I hurriedly denied it.

At this time, Qiu Yan interrupted us and said:

"Okay, I've seen almost it, I don't see any clues, let's go back."

I know that Qiu Yan is not interested in tortoise shells, Chiyou or anything at all, she just wants to find the spearhead of tiger bones.

So, we crawled out of the hole and found the boss who was waiting for us.

As soon as the boss saw us, he handed over a mobile phone and said:

"When you were leaving just now, a phone call came, and I answered it, and it was an old man calling."

The mobile phone belonged to Qiu Yan, she took it and was stunned.

"It's Lao Langzhong!" Qiu Yan said after relieving herself.