After hanging up the phone, I continued to lie on the bed to rest, although my body regained mobility, but the movement still could not last, just stood for a while and felt as if the muscles in my body were torn.

In the three days of hospitalization, the little nurse who got along with me the most, with a lovely appearance and a very nice voice, she was just a senior this year, and she only came to the hospital for an internship, plus the age difference between me and her was not much, and soon the two became acquainted.

After the events in Guzhen, I was very resistant to telling my name to strangers, and if the doctor and I had used our real names when we registered our names at the Guzhen Inn, the two of us would have been the same as those who died in the tour group.

So when we exchanged names, I didn't tell her my name, and I stopped her from telling me her name, and only asked her to call me a reporter. The little nurse said she didn't understand this, but she still respected my opinion and said that everyone in the hospital called her Lingzi, so let me call her Xiaoling.

Xiao Ling was very curious about why I was so seriously injured, and when there was no one in the ward, she quietly asked me if I was a Taoist priest.

I was very surprised, so I asked her why she asked, and the little girl came up to me and said mysteriously: "You were in a critical condition when you were sent to the hospital, and you must notify your family, so the hospital checked your belongings to see if you could find clues, and I was the one who checked your belongings at that time." ”

As she spoke, she gave me a sinister look, and then said, "Your clothes were all torn at the time, but there was a well-preserved travel bag, in which I found a lot of yellow charms and some strange things, and you also had a wooden sword tied to you. I felt that you were not an ordinary person at the time, and later your recovery speed also proved that you are indeed not an ordinary person, with your injuries, ordinary people will not be able to get off the ground even if they lie down for a month, but you have regained your mobility in just three days......"

Xiao Ling's words made me smile bitterly, and I said why I always felt that Xiao Ling's attitude towards me was a little wrong in the past few days, it turned out that she regarded me as a real Taoist priest.

I explained to her that I was not a Taoist priest, but a real journalist who had just graduated a year ago. She didn't believe me at all, saying that if I wasn't a master of the Tao, how could I explain the things in my backpack and the wooden sword?

I was speechless for a while, and Xiao Ling acquiesced, revealing an expression that she understood: "Hehe, it's okay if you admit it, I know that you masters are usually very low-key, and you don't want to reveal your identity, unlike those swaggering films, no matter where you go, you are afraid that others will not know that he is a Taoist, you can rest assured, I will definitely keep it secret." ”

I was stunned and asked her where she had heard all this stuff. Xiao Ling smiled mysteriously, saying that there is also an old fortune teller in her hometown village, who usually looks at the mountains and is obscene and greedy for money, but he is really an old god, and everyone in the village hates him. But a few years ago, something strange happened in the village, the village was suddenly sealed by a fog, and all the people who tried to break out died, and the death was particularly miserable.

But even so, there were still accidents in someone's family, and when Xiaoling came home from winter vacation, she was scared enough to choke on her, who never believed in ghosts and gods. After several villagers died, the old Taoist priest, who was often pointed at and scolded by the villagers, stood up and led the villagers to dig up a tomb that had just been buried, and dug out a bloody coffin from it.

When the coffin was dug up, she witnessed the fishy sticky plasma dripping out of the coffin, and the sound of slapping the coffin board came from time to time.

Later, under the auspices of the old Taoist, the coffin was dragged to the scorching sun for an afternoon, and after all the blood was drained, the villagers piled up peach branches to burn the coffin, and on the second day of burning the coffin, the fog blocking the village suddenly dissipated, and the old Taoist priest also lost his trace and did not appear in the village.

Since then, the villagers have regarded the old Taoist priest as a hidden old immortal, and the place where he lived has been renovated into a Taoist temple, and the villagers have incense and pray for blessings every day. Since the Taoist temple was built, there have been no strange things in the village, and the following years have been smooth and rainy, and the villagers have no illnesses and disasters.

The impact of this incident on Xiaoling was very huge, the atheism she had always insisted on was broken, although she still didn't believe that the old Taoist priest was the so-called immortal, but she had accepted that there were really Taoist masters in this world.

After that, she became obsessed with the occult, often inquired about where there were monks and scholars, and pulled her classmates to visit whenever she had time, but unfortunately none of those famous masters had real skills, all of them were gods and ghosts, which made Xiaoling deeply shocked, and understood that the real masters are not obvious, and if you want to meet, it all depends on fate.

I was found covered in injuries, a normal person would have died long ago after such a serious injury, but I am alive, and the healing speed is beyond common sense, plus the contents of my backpack, this is completely in line with the image of a master in Xiaoling's eyes.

I really didn't know how to explain it, so I didn't bother to explain, and hurriedly asked him where my backpack and wooden sword were?

Xiaoling told me with some regret that I was sent to the city by the armed police stationed in the mountains, and then taken to the hospital by the city's public security experts.

The officer was also present when he checked my backpack, and naturally he saw the contents of my backpack, but since he couldn't find my ID in the end, and the injuries on my body looked really unusual, my backpack was temporarily taken back by the officer.

When I heard this, I was shocked, and I thought to myself, should I be regarded as a bad person?

I was very worried about the backpack, because in addition to Yan Wudao's yellow talisman, there was also the notebook of Zhang Lingjin's notebook, and there were a lot of images I took about the secrets of the ancient town in the camera.

In addition, the black sword that saved my life in the end and the package wrapped around the black sword also made me very worried, not to mention the black sword, it was an artifact, as for the package attached to it, it must be Yan Wudao who wanted to hand it over to me, and the package that could make him give up the black sword and pass it to my hand would not be easy?

Thinking of this, I began to worry, after all, I brewed the running water overnight, and I don't know if the contents were destroyed?

The third uncle's efficiency is high, I called in the morning, and a public safety expert came to the ward in the afternoon, and the police officer who came here I had seen before, when I just woke up, he was surrounded in the ward, but I couldn't speak at the time, and he left later.

Under Xiao Li's introduction, I learned that the public safety expert in front of me, Xinglin, was the one who sent me to the hospital three days ago.

I got up from my hospital bed and shook his hand gratefully.

Compared with the last time, this time Officer Lin was much more enthusiastic, seeing me stand up and shake hands with him, he hurriedly walked over and said enthusiastically: "Eh, thank you, thank you, serve the people, this is as it should be, you are so seriously injured, lie down quickly......"

As he spoke, he hurriedly helped me back to the bed, and I probably guessed something in my heart when I saw him so polite, and at the same time I saw the travel bag and the black wood sword he was carrying behind him, and I couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Without waiting for me to speak, Officer Lin said with a smile: "Your name is Zhang Ziyi, right?" ”

I nodded, the politeness on his face became even worse, and he took off the backpack on his back along with the black sword and handed it to me: "I'm really sorry, I didn't know your identity before, this is your thing, can you see if there is anything missing?" ”

I was not hypocritical, I eagerly opened the backpack, and found that everything was there, and the package that was originally tied to the black sword was also in the bag.

"No less, no less, thank you so much!"

"Hehe, where are you, although we have different departments and different divisions of labor, we are all serving the country and the people, what are you talking about?"

Officer Lin's words made me a little confused, and I muttered in surprise: "Division of labor? What division of labor? ”

As soon as he saw my expression, Officer Lin's face immediately turned grim, and he said, "I'm sorry, look at my memory, it has been explained above, and your identity can't be disclosed, I'm really embarrassed!" ”

Now I suddenly understood that this must be the third uncle's ghost, this old guy may have lied about my identity in order to help me.

I also wanted to see what Yan Wudao handed over to me at the last moment, so I didn't keep it, and when I left, Officer Lin left me a phone number, asking me to find him if I had anything, and after I thanked him, he left.

Officer Lin just left, I hurriedly opened my backpack and turned out the package of Old Man Yan, and found that it was just a very ordinary yellow cloth bag, which was not waterproof, when I fell off the cliff, the package was tied to the black sword, if the package fell into the water with me, the contents must have been soaked.

My heart sank, and I hurriedly opened the package, and when I saw it, I couldn't help but be stunned, and in the package, it turned out to be a thick yellowed codex, which looked like it had been some years. There was also a letter on the codex, two pieces of paper, and there was no trace of a blister.

This made me very puzzled, but at this time I couldn't care so much, compared to the codex, the envelope looked relatively new, I opened the envelope first, only to find that this letter was actually written to me by Yan Wudao.

The letter was written with a brush, although the paper was very old, but the ink was very new, it had just been written, and the handwriting was also very hasty, obviously Yan Wudao was very urgent when writing this letter, I forcibly suppressed the vibration in my heart, and began to read it word by word.

The content of the letter is not long, but the letter is all in traditional Chinese, and it still seems a little difficult, and after five minutes, the whole letter has been read by me, and I understand that this is actually the last words of Old Man Yan.

In the letter, the old man explained some things that I didn't understand, partly about my grandfather, and partly about the so-called node forbidden-land.

Zhang Tianxing, my grandfather, that is, the junior in Yan Wudao's mouth, in the disaster of the Nine Lotus Divine Sect that year, Yan Wudao, who was the head of the Zhengqian Sect, together with the top masters of the other sects, raided the main altar of the Nine Lotus Divine Sect, intending to disintegrate the Nine Lotus Divine Sect from the root, but unfortunately that operation failed because of the betrayal of the traitor.

The decent masters who acted together were killed and wounded, only Yan Wudao escaped with the help of the boss of the Eight Strange People, and in the following time, Yan Wudao returned to the sect without shame, so he ran around with the boss of the Eight Strange People, and learned a shocking secret.

In fact, before the master found Yan Wudao, the boss of the Eight Strange People had already taken him to find the ancient town, at that time the ancient town had just been destroyed, and it had not yet formed a trap, and the boss of the Eight Strange People entered it to make some arrangements, and Yan Wudao also wanted to go in to help, but because of the power of the forbidden land, he was blocked.

What did the boss of the Eight Strange People do when he entered it, no one knows, Yan Wudao also found out many years later, the Boss of the Eight Strange People sneaked into the forbidden land, and it has something to do with the mysterious coffins that appeared in the Tulou later, those coffins originally did not belong to the ancient town, nor did they belong to the Tulou, but the mysterious power of the Eight Strange People Boss to catch the Tulou Square dug up from an unknown place.

A few years later, my grandfather appeared, and he didn't know how to find the boss of the Eight Strange People and Yan Wudao who were hiding in the world at that time, and the three of them returned to the ancient town and arranged the next big array, which is said to be for another more important plan.

Yan Wudao didn't know the specific content of the plan, only that the plan involved the survival of the entire human world, and the risk of the plan was extremely high, as if it was related to a lake.

Speaking of the lake, I immediately thought of the demon lake in my nightmare, and suddenly I had a feeling that the lake in the important plan that Yan Wudao mentioned might have some kind of connection with the lake in my nightmare.

After that, as Yan Wudao said to me in the ancient town, there was no big difference, the only difference was that the master had told Yan Wudao a huge secret before leaving, and this secret was closely related to the plan that the master implemented later.

In the letter, Yan Wudao didn't explain what the secret was, but I knew that the so-called important plan should refer to what the Tai Ye had gathered the top forces of the Wu Dao at that time to enter the Ghost Turning Ridge and was ready to do, and they had not heard from them since after entering the Ghost Turning Ridge, indicating that the plan was not successful.

Although Yan Wudao didn't say what the secret was, he made it clear in the letter that the secret was in the codex, and that codex was left by my grandfather Zhang Tianxing, which recorded the huge secret behind the so-called node forbidden-land.