In a small town on the outskirts of Xining, a small courtyard that is not as conspicuous. There are some plants in the yard such as red willow, lilac and red thorn rose, which add a little life to the northwest in autumn. A round stone table under the tree, around which several people are seated. A woman in a light blue top dress and jeans was talking about something, and three men were sitting around her, and a thin man on the left, wearing glasses, was looking at the woman who was talking. Another bearded man on the right, about fifty or sixty years old, with his chin in his right hand resting on his chin, looked down at the table. Directly across from this man sat a man with a gray beard, who looked like he was eighty years old, with his hands on the table, his hands clasped together, his eyes closed, as if thoughtful.

The woman first introduced herself: "Professor Hu, I will introduce myself first. My name is Yang Yanyu, and I am the deputy director of the Neutrino Research Group of the Department of Galaxy Cosmology of the Shanghai Branch of the National Astronomical Observatories. The person next to me is my college classmate, named Zhang Mo, and I won't tell you that he has also been engaged in these metaphysical studies for many years, but he has not made many achievements and is not very famous. We also asked Mr. Qiu to meet you because we encountered some things that we couldn't solve on our own, and I hope to get some guidance from you here. As he spoke, he glanced at the man on his right, Qiu Shisan, Qiu Shisan, looked at Yang Yanyu and hurriedly said, "Oh, yes, cousin, you really have to help us this time, this involves several lives." ”

"All evil originates from the world, and strife begins in mortal hearts. I don't care about the rivers and lakes for many years, and I am even more negligent about trivial matters, I am afraid that I will not be able to do it and delay you and other major things. ”

"The monks pay attention to the purification of sentient beings and save people from danger, and I believe that although you have lived in seclusion for many years, you will not ignore the Tao at all. Besides, your vision lies in the creatures of heaven and earth, all living beings, how can you ignore innocent lives. This time we are really very sincere, I hope you will help us resolve the fate of the grudge. ”

This old man Hu stroked his beard with his hand and suddenly smiled: "Hahaha, you are still quite good at talking, then you tell me what happened to you first, and I will listen to it first and then see if I can help." The men smiled when they heard this. Zhang Mo took over and said, "That's the case, I have a few college classmates, and the relationship is very good,...

"I just said that she listened, but I didn't say you." Lao Dao suddenly interrupted Zhang Mo's words. Zhang Mo looked at Lao Dao, although he was a little angry in his heart, but he was a very rational person after all.

"Okay, okay, come to Yanyu!" Yang Yanyu nodded, and told a series of bizarre things about how they bought a house, how Lu Yingfei disappeared, how they searched, and how Wu Fei disappeared. Then he said: "They found a canyon in Yuanling, Hunan, which emitted light similar to the aurora, and a huge stone, which was also very magical. Later, after we researched, your cousin said that it could be a 'ghost meteorite', which is not mentioned in the books, so we had to come to you for help if we could solve the mystery and rescue my classmates. We will definitely be very grateful and thank you very much. ”

When Lao Dao heard this, he opened his eyes, and at this time he found that his left eye was white and his pupils were divergent, and it turned out that this eye was blind. And his right eye, although not big, is like a torch, blazing. Looking at him like this, Yang Yanyu felt a layer of goosebumps on her body. Quickly looked away, not daring to face him.

"Ghost meteorites? Long strips of colorful stones, you have also seen this kind of stone? Hu Laodao asked with some doubts.

"Yes, it's a boulder in the shape of a long strip."

Lao Dao closed his eyes and thought for a while and said: "My old Tao has long jumped out of the world, and I have nothing to do with the world. You'd better go back. In addition, this person, let alone my cousin, our two families have drawn a line 40 years ago. ”

"Professor Hu, don't rush us away, you can take a look at this first." As she spoke, Yang Yanyu took out a few photos and put them on the table in front of Hu Laodao. Hu Laodao looked at these photos, showed some strange expressions on his face, and said: "I don't want to bring up the old things again, but if you insist on wanting to know something, I can also tell you about it." As he spoke, he stroked his beard. Then he continued: "This matter starts with the relationship between our two families. More than 50 years ago, I worked at the Astronomical Institute with Qiu Shisan's father, Qiu Lin, who was my second uncle, which was the predecessor of your current unit. Although Qiu Shisan's father and I are uncles and nephews, he is actually five years older than me. Although I was born halfway, I worked hard and studied hard. I have been working with Qiu Lin for more than 10 years, and there are many areas in which I have even made more achievements than him. At first he encouraged and praised me, but then he was cold and mean to me, and it was obvious that he was jealous of me.

Later, we were sent by the unit to the sub-station of Xining City, Qinghai Province to observe the astronomical phenomena here and train local colleagues, which is now the Xining Astronomical Observatory. At that time, there were only two people here, a man and a woman, and they were not professionals, just two local astronomy enthusiasts. Their job here is to observe and record the changes in the constellations using very simple equipment. When the two of us came, they started to learn very seriously, but when it came to real expertise, they couldn't understand anything. In desperation, we can only read the book and do things hastily. Just as we were about to report back to Beijing, on the day we left, the local leaders came to us for help. It is said that an incident happened here, when two herders in the Golmud area of Haixi Autonomous Prefecture were grazing their cattle, the cattle were blown into the Nalengrad Gorge by a strong wind. Then they chased them into the gorge, and the next day the cattle appeared safely at the mouth of the gorge, but the herdsmen did not come out. So the local ** militia organized the valley to look for it, but there was no other discovery except for the discovery of white bones. They didn't have the expertise and tools to dig deep and find the mysteries, so they wanted to ask the two of us from the big city for help. Although we didn't understand this kind of thing, and we didn't bother to care about it, they asked for it many times, and we agreed because of the situation.

The next day, the four of us took a train and followed a few militiamen they sent to Bluntai. First, they rested in their county for one night, and listened to their local stories, and they all said that this canyon was Death Valley, and there were man-eating pig demons living in it. Of course, we just laughed it off and didn't think so. After waking up in the morning, the four of us followed the militia to what they called Death Valley. When I arrived here, I found that the canyon was not as terrible as the legend suggests, but was overgrown with green grass and a stream flowing. However, after walking for a while, I found that there were really animal remains in the pasture, and there were also the remains of many people. We continued on our way, walking for about two hours, and found that there was no grass here, replaced by snow and pine forests.

Walking further, the snow was deeper, and some huge footprints appeared on the snow, and it was impossible to see what kind of animal it was, some people said that it was a pig demon. His remark immediately put everyone on alert, and the militia even loaded their bullets, pulled the bolts, and were ready to fire a shuttle of bullets at any time. At this moment, they suddenly noticed a flash of light above their heads, and everyone was so frightened that they immediately squatted down and observed no movement for a while before getting up and moving forward again. As soon as he took two steps, another light flashed, and in this way, the frequency of the flashes became more and more frequent. Everyone is no longer afraid. After about an hour, we found a huge stone monument on the hillside in front of us, which seemed to fall from the sky and plunged straight into the Kunlun mountainside. We hurriedly walked over and saw that this giant stone monument was about 30 meters wide, and the length could not be measured, and it was about 100 meters exposed alone. While we were still trying to study it closely, a large dark cloud suddenly appeared in the sky, and the day instantly turned into night, and these militiamen shouted that it was not good, and we should turn around quickly. Except for me and Qiu Lin, everyone else ran back in fright. We asked everyone to calm down, but no one listened to us, just a loud noise, a thunderbolt struck the stele, only to see the fire splashing on the stele, frightened everyone did not listen to our command, several people desperately ran back. I grabbed our female team member, who was a colleague from Xining Station, her name was Zhou Biyun. I held her in, first, because she was our revolutionary fighter of the proletariat, and second, because she was the only female compatriot among us, and I felt that it was our duty to protect her. So in the end, only the three of us were left in a hollow next to the boulder. It wasn't until an hour before the weather improved again.

When we came out of the recess, we saw that the boulder had been faintly glowing, and it was a variety of colors, so we took out a small hammer and tried to knock off a piece and take it back to study, but who knew that the stone was so strong that we couldn't knock it off no matter how we knocked it. At this time, Zhou Biyun said that when the thunder hit this boulder several times just now, there would be some broken pieces scattered. So we looked along the boulder, but no matter how we looked, we couldn't find even a small slag, and some of them were other ordinary stones, which were obviously different from this boulder. In desperation, we decided to go out of the valley first.

But at this time, Zhou Biyun suddenly said with a panicked expression: "Don't go, don't, don't go, it's so scary here, I'm scared, please help me out." And her face was pale, her eyes were red, and she looked very scary. We thought that maybe the weather had frightened and stimulated her, so we quickly comforted her and told her not to be afraid, and we will leave here now. But no matter what, she has that expression, and said that she has been here for six years, and she really can't stand it, this is hell, and that stone is the soul stone sent by the devil, and there are many unjust souls here who want to leave but are all suppressed by this soul stone and it is difficult to escape. He also said that she was lucky today to get into the body of this lesbian, and that she was one in a million people with this physique, and if we could take her out of the canyon then she could escape from here. We were stunned by this strange thing, we had heard the story of the ghost before, but we had never met before, but this time we really met, and the two of us were a little dazed. But we could not believe the truth of this view, so we both agreed to send her out of the valley, but asked her to get out of the valley as soon as she got out, and she agreed.

On the way, we kept asking her about the situation in the valley and why she died in the valley. She said that her family lives in Beijing, and six years ago she and a few companions served as Red Guards, engaging in tandem to sweep away a section of demons, ghosts, snakes and gods. They went to a lot of places and destroyed a lot of feudal superstitions. Later, in Qinghai, they heard that there was a ghost and god haunted in the valley of death in Kunlun Mountain, and they felt that the opportunity had come again, so they went there, but they never expected that three of the five of them died in the valley, and the other two escaped with serious injuries, and now they don't know whether they are dead or alive. We quickly asked her for the names and addresses of the two men, and she shook her head and said that she couldn't say these things, for fear that we would harass them. She also said that there were really ghosts in the world, and that after she died, she saw the corpse stay where it was until it was eaten and dragged away by wild beasts. We asked her what she had encountered in the valley and why she had died there, and she told us that after entering the valley for a while, the sky became dark and gloomy, with thunder and lightning. The five of them hurried out, but it was too deep into the valley to get out. There were also people who just ran out and didn't know how to avoid the thunder, two of them were directly struck by the lightning, she turned around to save the two people, but was hit by a stone falling from the mountain and fell to the ground. The other two were wounded, but she guessed they had escaped, or at least not died in the valley, where she had not seen their souls. There are hundreds of lonely souls and wild ghosts in this valley, all attracted by the soul stone, and they can't escape. However, according to common sense, once the time exceeds 49 days, the soul will be scattered, and after 81 days, the soul will be scattered. It may be precisely because of this soul stone that his soul can remain one for six years. She also told us that the soul can stay here for a maximum of 15 years, and that after 15 years, the soul will be gone. But she thought it was eerie, and she would rather go out and let her soul go than stay here forever. We asked her what the Soul Stone was, and why it was here. She shook her head and said she didn't know.

When we got out of the valley and asked her where she would go when she got out, she shook her head and said she didn't know, but she might have to go to Beijing to see her parents first. In the end, he said goodbye to us, only to see Zhou Biyun trembling all over, and she sat down on the ground at once, and we quickly helped her up. Zhou Biyun opened his eyes and asked, "Did you carry me out of the valley?" The two of us just nodded, and we didn't dare to say anything more to her and went back to the county together. When we arrived at the county, several leaders asked us about the situation overnight, and we learned at that time that none of the militiamen who went in with us had left the valley. We also told a few leaders about the situation 1510, but we didn't tell them about Zhou Biyun's ghost, because this matter was a bit strange, and we ourselves were suspicious. They looked at each other and didn't say anything.

Later, they arranged for the three of us to stay with the villagers for the time being. But the militia arrested me early the next morning, and later learned that Zhou Biyun had disappeared that night, and Qiu Lin framed me and said that I had done it, saying that I had raped and killed Zhou Biyun. Hehe, how can I tolerate such an uncle? Jealous of his ability, he was afraid that my future achievements would overshadow him, so he framed me and got rid of me! As she spoke, she glanced at Qiu 13 viciously, and Qiu 13 buried his head lower. Zhang Mo and Yang Yanyu couldn't help but lose their color, and they felt very surprised. Hu Laodao continued: "At that time, I was difficult to argue, everyone regarded Qiu Lin as an authority, and it was their own nephew who testified, if it wasn't true, how could they kill their relatives righteously!" Later, I was arrested by them and taken to the police station, and they suffered a lot, and they decided to parade me through the streets and put me on public trial. Just as I was parading through the streets, a strong wind suddenly blew the crowd around, and I took the opportunity to rush out of the crowd and run to a remote place.

The gale lasted for more than an hour, helping me to run to a hidden place, where I managed to break the rope on my body and ran all the way to Death Valley. I knew that only that place could save me, because none of them dared to enter. I had been in a secluded place in the valley for two days before I came out, and then I climbed up the hill to find something to eat and drink. Sure enough, God thought that I should not die, and I found a lot of things that kept me alive, and then I stayed in the mountains like a wild man for a few years, and occasionally went down to ask for news. Later, I learned that ** was over, and the world was amnesty. I changed my name and went down the mountain to find a place to build a thatched hut, and then I heard that Qiu Lin also did not escape the baptism of ** after returning that year, and died in prison. Although I hate him very much, after all, he has also made a lot of contributions to the country, and I am also related by blood after all, and I have been sad for a long time. In addition to being sentimental, I came into contact with Taoism by chance and discovered the way to transcend the world. So I resolutely became a monk and practiced Taoism, transcended the world, traveled all over the world, studied the mysteries of heaven and earth, and then I lived in this place that changed my life, and lived for more than 30 years. ”

Everyone was surprised and excited at the same time. I was surprised that Qiu Lin was so cautious and vicious. The excitement is that everyone thinks that they have found the right person, and finally someone knows about this kind of thing. So Yang Yanyu hurriedly asked: "Then you have studied for so many years, you should already know the secret of the boulder?" ”

"I didn't do a thorough study, but I only knew a thing or two. At that time, the female ghost said that it was called the Soul Stone, and there was nothing wrong with it, because this kind of boulder has a strong magnetic field, and it can store energy, especially energy like thunder and lightning, sunlight, and geothermal energy, which can absorb and store them. It's not like an ordinary stone, which contains a lot of ruthenium-rich enene and string nanotubes, and a similar silicon chain structure, which we can't know for the time being, because there is no molecular body of this element found on the earth yet. It is this thing that binds the calcium molecule to the other molecules, like a rope that binds all the molecules together, making it difficult for them to separate. So even being struck by lightning couldn't separate him. The longer it lives, the more energy it stores and the greater its impact on the surrounding environment. In particular, things that exist in a special energy way can lock them firmly and make it difficult to get out. ”

Everyone was amazed again, but Yang Yanyu still had a trace of doubt about what he said. First of all, I am a person who is engaged in scientific research, although I don't believe in these very mysterious things at all, but at least I feel that this old way is weird and exaggerated, especially Qiu Lin's statement makes her feel a little suspicious. Because Qiu Lin is a labor role model and moral pacesetter erected by their institute and even the country, although many years have passed, there are still some labor commendation conferences held every year, and Qiu Lin is mentioned every year. Yang Yanyu thought in her heart that no matter what, she could let this old Taoist take them to see the boulder first, and then verify other things later.

"Then how did you measure the elements inside, isn't there no way to sample this thing?"

"Well, I have my own way!"

"Then we'd like to ask you to take us inside and see how amazing this boulder is."

"There are many evil spirits in Death Valley, are you really not afraid?"

"My two friends are still uncertain, and we can't just ignore them because we're afraid, you say yes."

Lao Dao nodded: "Okay, I'll take you over early tomorrow morning." ”

"A person's appearance and expression reflect his heart and personality for a large part, and sometimes even disguised looks and expressions. 》