Chapter 125: The Mountain Apricot Tree

I couldn't help but feel a little chill in my heart when I watched this scene, but I was afraid of this mysterious group of Miao Jiang people.

In the middle of the line at the entrance of the village, a mysterious man who was also wearing a mask quickly ran over, and the gray sideburns on both sides of the mask seemed to reveal his age.

I froze in place, staring at him defensively, my eyes facing each other, and a nameless fear rose in my heart.

At this moment, I took the Miao Jiang leader on my back and the bloody human head in my hand, and then the men and horses on both sides gradually surrounded the middle, until they disappeared into the fog and disappeared into thin air.

It wasn't until a dozen seconds later that the gray weather finally stopped raindropping, but you could faintly see thunder and lightning flashing in the dark clouds floating in the air.

It was as if some terrible storm was brewing.

I sat on the ground and stood up with the sharp knife that had been inserted into the dirt.

"Xiaoyue is still waiting for me, there is no time."

The familiar voice echoed in my mind, and I didn't even have time to think about it at the moment, so I desperately packed my bags and ran to the tomb of the princess of the Tang Dynasty as pointed on the map.

The burial mound is not very far from the village, to be precise, the entire village is surrounded by the ancient tombs of the dukes buried everywhere.

It's just that these mysterious Miaojiang people live a self-sufficient life, and no one plans to use their brains to make a windfall in the ancient tomb.

The scene of last night is still vivid, and as I walked along the desolate mountain road pointed out by the map, I couldn't help but recall what the leader of Miao Jiang had said to me before leaving.

The tomb of the princess of the Tang and Song dynasties is very brilliant and grand, and there are countless mechanisms laid inside it.

However, after obtaining the princess's left arm, he dug a hole in the tomb to escape.

And the entrance of the robbery cave happens to be at the top of the mountain, after more than ten years of wind and rain, what happened, whether there was a landslide is unknown.

I held a sharp knife in my hand as a crutch, and climbed to the top of the mountain step by step, until I coughed up blood at the corner of my mouth, and still didn't care.

Over the past few days, my physical condition has worsened, and at the worst of it I felt like I would faint at any moment, but the morphine and analgesics I carried with me have kept me through until now.

"Sss

After the rain, the cold wind blew across my chest, and I couldn't help but gasp, looking at the slightly puffy skin all over my body, I suddenly remembered that I had asked for an old smoking gun with copper control from the people of Miaojiang.

It's amazingly powerful, but it's a no-brainer to ease cravings.

I pinched a small cigarette out of my pocket and put it in the brass pipe, and as the white smoke rose from the mist, it seemed that even the wounds on my body did not hurt so much.

It was already noon, and with the intense sun overhead, the sun was drenched with sweat and drenched very uncomfortable.

"Bang!"

The sharp and slender Miao knife in my hand was stuck in the ground, reflecting the glow of the mountain top and reflecting a mirror-like shadow.

At the top of the hill is a plain, a low hill beside a canyon covered with wild trees and flowers.

The flocks of towering ancient trees are vigorous and powerful, and the next wonders are beautiful.

I knew that saving people was like fighting a fire, so I didn't dare to delay at all and ran desperately to the depths of the jungle on the top of the mountain, as the masked leader of Miao Jiang had told me.

More than ten years ago, after he escaped from the tomb of the princess of the Tang Dynasty, he deliberately planted a fruit tree next to the robbery cave in the original place.

Now that such a long time has passed, the tree has probably already grown into timber, but it will be slightly shorter than the nearby hundred-year-old pine.

Knowing that this was the only clue, I went into the woods and searched frantically until a red glow appeared in front of me.

It was a mountain apricot tree, and the red apricots on it were ripe and fell to the ground and were eaten by many poisonous insects.

I couldn't help but reach out and wipe the sweat drops on my forehead, thinking that Huang Tian paid off, except for some fatigue when going up the mountain, the road was still calm.

The apricots here are half the size of a fist when ripe, and it is very common to dare not eat wild fruits along the way for fear of poison.

My hands shook the branches that were slightly lower, and many large red apricots fell to the ground, and I put them in my mouth and chewed them hungrily, regardless of the holes of the insects.

Even if you do, put it in your mouth as a protein supplement.

Until I suddenly stepped on some unknown bulge under my feet, and when I looked down, I instantly felt a chill down my spine and lost my appetite.

Under the red and ripe apricots that fell to the ground, there were half-decomposed corpses, and their hollow eyes were full of black corpse fluid.

With the rain washing, it has already set into the soil.

The rhizomes of the apricot tree took root in the soil, wrapping the corpse tightly together, and for a moment a feeling of nausea and retching welled up in my heart.

"Holy..., this... No wonder it's so sweet! ”

I spat at the ground, but I was already surprised by the corpse.

However, what I didn't expect in the next second was that a gust of wind blew through the leaves under my feet, revealing more white bones.

The corpses of hundreds of people were buried around the apricot trees, some of them had already rotted, and some of them had turned into white bones and were exposed in the soil.

Just because he was too careless and excited, now he looks at this apricot tree, but he can't help but feel completely weird from the bottom of his heart.

According to Wu Laogou's words, the plants that grow in the shade must be "ghostly", but fortunately it is daytime.

If it were at night, this old apricot tree, which was nourished by hundreds of carrion corpses, might produce some terrible changes.

The more I thought about it, the more disgusting I felt, but I wondered why there were so many dead people here.

One strange event after another kept coming to mind, until I discovered a deep hole in the earth next to the almond tree.

Originally, the ripe apricots covered all the soil in the vicinity, but as I cleared the ground little by little, the rabbit nest with a gust of cold wind was revealed in front of me.

The muddy water after the rain mixed with the stench of the fishy wind made my nose sore, and I almost didn't shed tears.

Wild rabbits may seem delicate and spineless, but in fact they are not only "cunning rabbits", but they often pee around their nests to hide their smell from predators.

But the smell of urine was almost unpleasant, and I lay on the ground and almost pinched my nose off with my hands, watching the "dude" next to me poking out half of his skull head from the dirt.

I couldn't help but clasp it out with my hand and throw it aside, but the next second I couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Originally, it was just because of the diaphragm, but I never thought that this digging would bring out a broken iron shield, followed by many armors and antiques that have surfaced to the ground for thousands of years.

It seems that these things should belong to the Tang and Song dynasties, and the princess and nobles were already luxurious during their lifetimes, and they will definitely use thousands of slaves to be buried after death.

This is the feudal system since ancient times to suppress the common people, but recall that these hundreds of dry bones buried in the ground finally have an answer.

They are the peripheral burial of this mysterious princess, according to Wu Laogou's understanding, the reason why the ancients used slaves to bury them was because they fantasized about being able to continue to be luxurious in the future.

This is the same reason as Qin Shi Huang's desire to live forever after his death.

"Phew!"

"If you meet Lao Tzu today, even if you fall into blood mold, since the robbery hole is directly to the tomb, why don't you take two antiques back and sell them."

Although he doesn't have much life, he uses this money to help the poor to accumulate more yin virtues, and when he meets Lord Yama and Lao Yan after death, he can be regarded as having a good explanation.

When I thought of Lao Yan, I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart, and I always felt that I had forgotten something that had not been done well, until the originally clear sky above my head was suddenly overcast.

A thunderclap rang in my ears, and I couldn't help but scream.

"TM, I forgot about Lao Yan's daughter!"

In an instant, his chest was like a hundred claws scratching his heart, his throat was sweet and he just wanted to vomit blood, the thunder seemed to resonate with the earth, and the loose soil under his feet suddenly trembled like an earthquake.

I guessed in my heart that something was wrong, and I just wanted to escape from my feet, but I was already deep under the apricot tree and couldn't pull it out.

I watched the hare in the cave next to me flee one after another, and the rabbit nest, which was originally only thigh-thick, instantly expanded into a huge gap.

The yin wind whistling inside carried a heavy musty smell, like the earth opening its "giant mouth" and swallowing me up little by little.

It wasn't until the ground level was lower than my waist that I suddenly realized that the rabbit must have made a home by stealing holes, so that the soil around the whole apricot tree loosened.

I was stuck under the soil and was in a stalemate, and the part of my feet that had submerged in the soil was empty and there was no place to focus at all.

Just as he was thinking about how to get out, a huge thunder suddenly sounded in the sky again.

"It's broken, if it goes on like this, it will have to collapse the tomb underneath."

As I was thinking about it, the thick mountain apricot tree next to me rolled out with its rhizomes that had been rooted in the soil, and the whole old tree was crumbling as if it was about to hit me overhead.

If you are unlucky, you will stuff your teeth when you drink cold water, and I can't help but recall the cursed legend about the old stilted building at this life-or-death moment.

I thought to myself that it was really because I had spent a night there without danger, and I changed my life in the dark.

But before I could react, the crust on the top of the mountain, which had been empty and empty, was loosened again.

"Run!"

At this moment, I only had one subconscious thought in my heart, but my legs from the waist down were pinched so hard that I couldn't move.

"How to run."

"Where to run?"

In the midst of despair, I suddenly felt my body sink suddenly, followed by the wet soil and the juice of the rotting yellow apricots.

Until the whole body was finally completely submerged in the ground, the thief hole, which could have been used for people to barely crawl and escape, had been enlarged by two or three times along with the hares that had been nesting here for a long time.

The hollow beneath his feet was pitch black, and the cold wind was constantly whistling upward.

The irregular walls of the cave around him were oval-shaped, covered with a layer of dark green moss with the damp and gloomy weather and the nutrients in the soil.

What I didn't notice, however, was that the entire cavern was sloping so that I didn't react when my body came into contact with the slippery moss.

It's like a roller coaster ride into the deepest part of the earth.

It was a thrilling and terrifying feeling, and God knows if the kid had made a hole in the rock layer of the ceiling with his foot in the coffin.

If this assumption is followed, then when I come down, I will have to have a close contact with this Tang Dynasty princess who is still lifelike for more than a thousand years.

In fact, what I'm most worried about is that the moment I land, the mechanism will be triggered, and the ancient tomb chamber, as the last line of defense of the entire mausoleum, must be a three-step arrow crossbow and a five-step quicksand.

Although this description is a bit exaggerated, it truly restores the dangerous record of the five old dogs in the diary when robbing the tomb.