Shen Yifan and the others looked at the information on the bamboo slip by the light of the fire, mentioned everything they encountered, and solved many of their questions.

In order to trap the egg body of the human bird-faced monster, Zhang Wenchuan will open under the egg body and let the egg body naturally fall into the vertical cave, so that the craftsman can make it look like a palace.

Because of the lack of protection of the human body bird-faced monster, the Xichuan Kingdom, a small country in Shu, began to show a trend of decadence, and many local people blamed Zhang Wenchuan and others, and the king of Xichuan decided to exile Zhang Wenchuan and others to guard the tomb on Luoquan Mountain in order to pacify the people, and the so-called five thousand Xichuan elites were actually Zhang Wenchuan and his five thousand disciples.

Zhang Wenchuan still kept his promise to the king of Xichuan and held on to Luoquan Mountain until the last moment, until after the fall of the Xichuan Kingdom, in order to keep the secret of Luoquan Mountain, the only plank road was burned down, and a cronie was ordered to leave the cave with the secret about Luoquan Mountain.

The content of the bamboo slips does not seem to be much, but according to the explanation of gold and jade, this kind of text can represent many meanings in one word, and there are many explanations.

Shen Yifan also agrees with this explanation, ancient classical Chinese texts are like this, don't talk about ancient Chinese in small languages, that is, everyone knows classical Chinese, and there can be many interpretations of one word.

Legend has it that during the Warring States Period, the monarch of Wei invited the ministers to a banquet, and he was very interested in the banquet and let one of his concubines improvise a dance, and then the monarch said to the ministers: "The dance of the concubine" What do the Aiqing think? ”

Many ministers under the stage blindly flattered and praised the concubine's excellent dancing posture and the like, while the governor of Wei said a word "no" on the side.

The monarch of Wei asked him, "What do you mean?" ”

The Metropolitan Governor still said one word: "No".

The monarch of Wei who did this was very depressed, and after thinking about it for more than a month, he couldn't figure out whether the word 'non' meant that the dancing of the concubine was good or not?

One day, the Metropolitan Governor and the three dynasties of Wei came to ask for a meeting, the Father was the monarch's teacher, and the monarch told the matter in front of the Metropolitan Governor. Sure enough, he is a calm person. ”

The governor of the capital also talked modestly on the side, and later the monarch of Wei State learned that the word 'non' was not to evaluate the dancing posture of the concubine, but to warn the monarch that this kind of behavior is not advisable and violates the different techniques of the monarch and the minister.

The monarch of Wei was also very ashamed when he heard this, and he has been listening to the advice of the metropolitan governor.

It is conceivable that the words used by the ancients are so simple and concise, and a word 'non' can cover so much content, not to mention these few ancient characters, so Shen Yifan is convinced of the content on this bamboo slip.

But there is still one thing that Shen Yifan wants to know, that is, what is the toad that he saw on the mural with a round ball, he can be sure that it is definitely not the emerald frog they saw, because from the mural, which toad has fought with a human bird-faced monster.

Since there was no answer, he didn't bother with the answer, knowing that he couldn't get more news on the bamboo slips, so everyone packed up and continued to go deeper into the cave.

Naturally, there is no way to retreat, and the only way to get out may be in front, and the bamboo slip mentions that Zhang Wenchuan let his disciples escape from this cave, which means that this cave must have an exit. In this case, everyone settled down and went all the way to the depths of the cave.

The cave was pitch black without any light source, and everyone could only rely on the flashlight to move forward, because they didn't know how long the cave was, so Shen Yifan suggested that a strong light flashlight should be played in the front and back to illuminate the road, and other flashlights could be placed in the back.

After walking for dozens of minutes, they saw a small stream, the water came out of the ground, and the experts told them that there might be an underground river under the cave, which ran through the water vein they swam through, and this is also the place where the bones of the three cows and yaks were found.

There are also some coins used in the Ming Dynasty scattered around the skeleton, which have been corroded and rotten, and there are basically no clues to refer to, the only thing Shen Yifan noticed is that there is a goose egg-sized bead under the ribs of this skeleton, which is exactly the same as the bead that came out of the crystal coffin in the crystal cave he is, which makes Shen Yifan feel that there seems to be something strange about this goose egg-sized bead.

Shen Yifan wrapped the bead with a cloth and put it in the bag, urging everyone to continue to hurry, and looked at the time It was already more than six o'clock in the morning of the next day.

It is estimated that after walking for nearly an hour, the cave looks like it is still an endless extension, with smooth stone walls on both sides, and the overall structure of the cave becomes a cylindrical shape, with an arc-shaped cave roof on top, and the cave walls on both sides also have obvious arcs, giving people the feeling of being in the belly of a huge python.

The characteristics of the cave are very consistent with the description on the bamboo slips, and some places can clearly see the traces of artificial construction, while some places are naturally formed, which means that this long and long cave is formed by the caves.

The expert never stopped talking along the way, I don't know if it was because he was afraid or to show off his all-encompassing knowledge of geology, he told everyone that when he was in college, he had taken a course of geology in order to stay in school for a while longer, and he also worked as a teaching assistant for a professor of geology at the university at that time. The Kushan Mountain in Yubei should be a typical karst landform, so there will be a large karst cave in the mountain, and the karst cave and the karst cave are connected and all polished like a cylinder shape, this Zhang Wenchuan may belong to Virgo.

From the place where the skeleton was found, the stream has been flowing in continuously, and there is no end in sight, as if the distance of the cave is as far as the creek is.

Shen Yifan's concern is that the skeleton. If there is no danger in the cave, and this skeleton, why did Zhang Ruoshan die at the beginning of the stream? Did he die by the stream when he was wounded and entered the cave, or did he die by the stream on the way back when he was in danger in the cave? This is unknown.

Everyone didn't think about it so much, that is, all the way. After about two more hours, everyone was also tired from walking, so they wanted to rest for a while.

Shen Yifan was not sure about the journey ahead, and felt that it would be better for him to rest for a while before he went to explore the way.

After everyone arranged the camp by the stream, Shen Yifan went to the front with the stone, Sanniu, and Fang Zi to explore the way, and walked a little further along the stream, estimating that it was a cigarette, and saw a small cave next to it by the light of the flashlight, and the entrance of the cave was blocked by several boulders and could not enter.

The environment of the cave is relatively dry, so the clothes on the skeleton can still be clearly seen to be Ming Dynasty costumes, and it should also be Zhang Wenchuan's disciple or disciple, looking at a pile of bamboo slips, he just can't go in, Shen Yifan is itching, according to his experience, there must be clues in the pile of bamboo slips that they don't know.

Fang Zi said on the side: "With explosives? ”

Shen Yifan glanced at Fang Zi and said, "Let's go back first." ”

"Go back?" Fang Zi was a little puzzled when he heard it.

Shen Yifan quickened his pace, grabbed the prescription and called the stone and the three cows and walked back, everyone was a little puzzled, Shen Yifan said in a low voice: "Don't look back." ”

The four of them trotted all the way back to the temporary camp, and at this time they saw the motor fiddling with the tablet, and from the screen they could vaguely understand Gujie's image, although the sound was intermittent and there was a lot of noise, but Gujie who could contact the logistics base in the cave did have some miracle elements.

Shen Yifan was also a little curious and asked, "How did you do it?" ”

The motor shrugged and said, "I don't know either." In order to save power, my tablet is usually turned off. Turn on the machine once a day, that is, in the morning, to see if it can accept the signal. I didn't expect this tablet to turn on itself here. ”

The expert looked at the motor for a while and asked, "What did you find?" ”

Fang Zi rushed in front of Shen Yifan and told him about the cave, and everyone was a little inexplicable after hearing it, it seemed a little strange that there was such a cave in this cave.

Shen Yifan asked, "What's going on with this tablet?" ”

The expert looked at Shen Yifan and didn't seem to have a good face, and asked, "Did you find something wrong?" This face is as ugly as brushing gold dust. ”

Shen Yifan said softly: "This cave is not clean. ”

When the expert heard this, his eyes were also as wide as a copper bell and asked, "Is there a ......?" The two talked very lightly, for fear of scaring others, and the last word of the expert used the mouth shape of 'ghost'.

Shen Yifan nodded.

Shen Yifan's Dragon Hunting Club in Wuxi has always been taking on supernatural cases, not that he particularly likes supernatural things, but that he has a sense that ordinary people don't have, every time there is really something unclean, Shen Yifan will feel uncomfortable all over his body, even in the big Futian, his whole body will feel like falling into an ice cave.

The expert asked, "So what do we do next?" ”

Shen Yifan said: "The further you go in this cave, the heavier the yin qi becomes, I'm afraid that what you see next will not be acceptable to ordinary people." I think it's better to go into the cave that Fang Zi said and see if there is any information about this cave. ”

At this time, Fang Zi said on the side: "Old Shen, don't think about it. I'll put a few bundles of guns on the way later. Just blow the rocks apart. ”

The gold inlaid jade had already made the poppy, stone and yak go to the cave with the cannons, and Shen Yifan couldn't think of a better way so he could only blast the rocks at the mouth of the cave.

'Ringing cannons' is a common name, which is often called in the troops, especially the engineers, who are very taboo to hear the words "bombing" and "thunder", so they will use "firecrackers" instead.

When Shen Yifan and others came to the mouth of the cave, the stone had already placed the blast hole, and after calculating the number, the explosives brought were put in, and the skillful operation waited until the switch was pressed, only to hear a gentle 'bang', and did not see any movement in the rocks at the mouth of the cave, it seemed that the stone had completed a very successful blasting.

The so-called goods have to be thrown away, and people are more popular than people. The blasting technique of the stone is far a hundred times better than that of Fang Zi, and there was no movement at all, but as soon as he went up and pulled it with his hands, the gravel soil immediately rolled down.

The blasting of the stone was an internal cracking blast, and the huge rocks burst from the inside and became small stones, and the cave was quickly dug up by everyone's efforts.

After entering the cave, in order to save power, he lit several torches in the cave, and even lit the oil lamp on the table, which could barely illuminate the cave.

Let's take a look at the skeleton at the desk first, there is a piece of silk pressed under the skeleton, and a line of words is written on it with a brush, but when the corpse decomposes, this piece of silk is seriously polluted, so the ink on it is no longer recognizable, unless some scientific and technological means are used, but it is difficult to restore the words on it here.

At this moment, the flat plate of the motor made a noise, and then an image with some snowflakes appeared on the tablet, and the words were still very clear.

I heard Gu Jie say, "Boss! I've finally got in touch with you. What's going on there? ”

Jin Zhuyu said: "It's okay! What about you? ”

"We've left the camp. ”

"What's going on?" Jin Zhuyu asked.

Gu Jie explained the original situation.

It turned out that a few days after they entered Luoquan Mountain, the mountain began to rain heavily, and the local guide suggested leaving immediately, otherwise the flash flood would be very dangerous, and Gujie could only withdraw to Longbow County with the logistics support team considering the safety of the brigade.

At this time, Murong Wan'er's voice also appeared in the tablet, and she asked delicately: "Brother Yifan." Are you okay? ”

Shen Yifan smiled and said, "It's okay." ”

The motor hurriedly said, "We have a piece of silk here." Technical restoration is required. I'll shoot it for you. Let's see if you can restore the words there. ”

Gujie nodded, and after everything was arranged, Gujie gave the motor a string of numbers and told the motor to use this frequency to contact him, and this frequency should be able to contact them.

Ma Da and Shen Yifan and the others could only be suspicious, after all, they were in a cave first, and it was still unknown whether they could be contacted. Therefore, Shen Yifan suggested that the current call should not be cut off, and it should be maintained for as long as it can be maintained, so that the motor must maintain the current call.

Gujie immediately set about restoring the ink on the silk.

Everyone also began to look for useful clues in the cave, don't look at the cave is full of bamboo slips, in fact, all the bamboo slips are around the excavation of this cave, and the text used is the commonly used text in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, this cave was originally only half of the construction, and the other half was hastily excavated when Zhang Xianzhong entered the Sichuan and fought with the Xichuan Kingdom, in order to transport a batch of important things out of Luoquan Mountain.

Originally, the original intention of the cave excavation was to prepare for the stacking of related bamboo documents, which also belonged to the part of the burial of the Xichuan Tomb, which was originally a cave that was ready to excavate a dead end in the city, but the project was too big, so it was decided to move the documents into the cave first, and I didn't think that Zhang Xianzhong would enter Sichuan in a few years, and the war soon broke out.

Zhang Wenchuan's disciples and 5,000 apprentices were besieged on Luoquan Mountain, desperately protecting Luoquan Mountain. However, the enemy was menacing, fearing that one day would not be able to hold on, and ordered people to speed up the pace of construction, and went to revise the original plan, and decided to open the cave.

The top of the cave is not Luoquan Mountain, but a mountain range called Lingsertai. It is rumored that in ancient times, Yubei suffered from an evil dragon attack, the life was devastated, the people mourned the wilderness, and later a spirit snake appeared to defeat its evil dragon, and finally in order to protect this place, lay down into the river and turned into a mountain range, the descendants called the spirit snake platform.

The landform of the snake platform is different from the surrounding landform, the legend says that there is a spirit snake turned into, so here is the only karst landform mountain range in the bitter mountain, the karst cave in the mountain range runs through almost all the spirit snake platform, so it is more convenient to excavate.

Judging from the information, the name of this cave is "Snake Belly Cave", which seems to be used by Zhang Wenchuan to transport some valuable things, a secret passage, and the pile of bamboo slips where this passage leads is not found.

There was an incident mentioned in the information that made Shen Yifan feel a little uneasy. It says that when the cave was excavated, a cave full of skulls was dug up, and when the cave was opened, tens of thousands of skulls poured into them, burying almost all of them.

Although Zhang Wenchuan's subordinates did the puja, there were too many of them to be buried, so they sealed all of them in a cave and pasted them with charms. In the final battle, in order to cover the safety of the transport team, almost all of Zhang Wenchuan's subordinates died in the cave, and the only people left were Zhang Ruoshan and Zhang Ruohai, and Zhang Ruoshan was inexplicably seriously ill, and finally decided to return to Luoquan Mountain. And Zhang Ruohai stayed in the cave to seal himself up.

The information mentions that there is a cave full of skulls in the cave, maybe this is the root of Shen Yifan's uneasiness, and no one knows where this cave is, so there are too many unstable factors to go down.

Shen Yifan leaned on the oil lamp and lit a cigarette and thought deeply for a long time.

What's next for them? Is there really anything unclean in the snake belly cave? Where does the snake belly cave lead?