Li Shuifa suddenly realized: "For a long time, you two small babies are Tu Lao Si (Mr. Yin and Yang), I mean you two inquire about this place!" ”

Li Shuifa pointed to the dirt road at the entrance of the village and said: "You two walk along the river along that road, about twelve or thirteen miles, there is a fork in the road, there is a big locust tree on the side of the fork, go straight inside for two miles, and the mountain facing you is Qixing Mountain." The two of you will take a look at the bottom of the mountain, listen to Lao Tzu's advice, don't go up the mountain! ”

Tuesday Mao hurriedly nodded: "I want it!" Fine! Thank you, big brother! ”

The old man waved his hand and emphasized again, "Don't go up the mountain." ”

**

In the early morning of the second day, we followed the direction that Li Shui pointed out to us, and from time to time we came to the foot of Qixing Mountain.

Tuesday Mao looked at Qixing Mountain and said, "Don't you see anything unusual?" It's no different from the mountain next to it. ”

I said, "The ancients chose this place as a tomb, there must be a reason for him, and we don't understand feng shui, so it looks like the mountains are not the same." Let's go up there sooner. As a result, all the subsequent experiences tell us that if you don't understand feng shui and don't have the means to find the dragon and the acupoint, you are not suitable for this at all, but as the saying goes: "Three years to find the dragon, ten years to find the acupoint." This thing still has to take a lot of time to summarize, this is a later story, not for the time being.

There are almost no roads up the Qixing Mountain, a large number of trees cover the sky and the sun, and the woods are overgrown with weeds.

Fortunately, the mountain is not too high, we reached the top of the mountain in a few hours, we looked for the entrance of the cave in the grass, and finally saw the cave mouth down at the top of the mountain, we didn't have so much equipment, so it was naturally much easier, and the climbing went down to the entrance of the cave.

It was early autumn at this time, and the cool breeze at the entrance of the cave was very comfortable. On Tuesday, Mao suddenly knelt at the entrance of the cave and kowtowed to the entrance of the cave, gurgling in his mouth and chanting words.

I asked curiously, "What are you doing here?" ”

On Tuesday, Mao explained: "Worship the land of the mountain gods, bless us with peace in and out."

I smiled and said, "Your baby goes to another house to jump (steal) things, and you want the land lord to bless you?" ”

On Tuesday, Mao hurriedly stopped me from talking, pulled me and said, "Bye, Erwa, it will be smooth sailing." ”

I picked up my backpack and laughed and said, "Let's go, buddy!" ”

Tuesday Mao hurriedly followed: "Second baby, I'm still a little nervous!" ”

I joked, "Why don't we go back?" ”

Tuesday Mao was stunned for a moment, and smiled: "Didn't that Lao Tzu worship in vain just now, go, go into the hole!" ”

When I first entered the cave, the slope was relatively flat, and I saw a cigarette case of "Hademen" on the ground. This kind of smoke was more popular outside the mountain at that time, and every time we passed the army, those officers smoked it, and we were used to smoking grass smoke and hookah, and this kind of place where no one had gone up the mountain for many years seemed to have been left by the exploration team members three years ago.

Entering the cave, the slope became steeper, and the two of them could only slowly explore the deep cave with their support. Gradually, we disappeared into the vast darkness here, walked for about two hours, a huge pit suddenly appeared in front of our eyes, we threw a stone down, it took a long time to hear the echo, this is not seven or eight feet high, all around the slippery cave wall, it is impossible to climb, is at a loss to move, suddenly Ermao shouted: "Erwa, look over there!" ”

I followed the place of his finger, and was overjoyed, it turned out to be a rope set on a huge stalactite, we pulled up the rope and looked, three years later, the rope is still the same tough, but it has been placed in the hole all the year round, and it is very slippery, we put on gloves and slide down the rope.

We had entered the depths of the mountain, and we couldn't see the top of the mountain with a flashlight, and there was a damp smell all around, so we discerned the direction and finally found a stone cave on the mountain wall that could be crawled, and at this time the two of them were basically clay figures.

On Tuesday, Mao spit out the muddy water that had been spit into his mouth, and said complainingly: "If I can't get a few things, I'm really sorry for this hard trip." ”

I opened the way in front and said with a smile: "The ground mouse career has just begun, you baby take care of it!" ”

On Tuesday, Mao smiled and said, "I hope it's worth touching a few things." ”

The two of them dragged their bags and crawled in the depressive cave, and finally the two of them finally got out of the small cave and came to a dry stone cave, we carefully checked the surroundings, there was no evidence left by the exploration team here, I only remember that my uncle's diary remembered that there was no situation on the first day, and I thought that the upper cave should be safe, and I was waiting to move forward, and on Tuesday Mao said sharply: "Erwa, is there something hanging on the top of your head." ”

I picked up the flashlight and saw a large white shadow hanging on the cave wall. When we looked closer, it turned out to be a cocoon-like thing. Good fellow, I've never seen a cocoon this big as mine. I was about to use a knife to open the cocoon, when suddenly Tuesday Mao suddenly pulled me back, startled me, and said, "What are you doing!" ”

Tuesday Mao hurriedly pulled me back and said, "That cocoon is full of bugs!" ”

I was shocked, and took a closer look with a flashlight, and sure enough, it was all a small reptile like a silkworm wriggling, which frightened us to retreat in a hurry, and we steadied ourselves, and I said, "No, there is probably a problem here, insects are afraid of fire, let's burn it and take a look." ”

We lit a piece of cloth wrapped around our waist and threw it at the cocoon, and the bugs scattered in all directions, and in the middle was a green canvas bag stained with slime. We are very surprised, I suddenly remembered the bag that Hu Gong lost on the first day in my uncle's notes, is this the bag?

This kind of canvas bag for geological exploration, mostly imported from Germany, the quality is quite excellent, we cleaned up the slime, opened the bag, sure enough, there is a geological hammer and compass of the bag, and maybe my uncle missed a very important item, a Browning pistol wrapped in oiled paper and a box of bullets, at that time the field work, many people are equipped with self-defense weapons, but maybe this Hu Gong is an engineer after all, he does not value weapons, and he does not take them directly with him, and the hole is wet, so he directly wrapped it in oiled paper and put it in the backpack. I gave the gun to Ermao, and Ermao waved his hand and said, "I've used a shotgun, how can I use this kind of turtle mouth." ”

Thinking of the strange phenomenon recorded in my uncle's journal, we took our geological hammer and pistol and moved on.

On the first day, we walked to a dry grotto and camped, and on the second day, when we continued to move forward, Zhou Mao suddenly said: "Erwa, have you noticed, the road we walked today did not go downhill, as if we had been walking on a flat road." ”

I recalled, as if it was really like this, and if I followed this way, I guess I would have already walked out of Qixing Mountain, and the caves of this karst landform are often twists and turns, and the water is dissolved and expanded along the joints or fissures of the soluble rock layer. Maybe we were still circling in the same stratum when a large section of rotting wooden stakes suddenly appeared on the ground. We were overjoyed and finally saw hope.

Sure enough, as soon as he turned the corner, he saw the traces of being chiseled by hand on the mountain wall and a broken door, and Mao said excitedly: "Oh, I finally see hope." ”

What I thought of was the inexplicable fire at that time, and I hurriedly blocked Tuesday Mao and said, "Wait a minute, my uncle's diary records that there is a place here to breathe fire, it may be a tomb mechanism, be careful." ”

We moved away from the broken door, peeped in with a flashlight, sure enough, it was the Yongdao, the ground was scattered with a large number of collapsed wooden stakes and stone walls that had been burned by fire, we carefully walked into the Yongdao, a fishy smell diffused in the entire air, making people very uncomfortable, the Yongdao was not long, we carefully checked the Yongdao and did not find any unusual places, and there was no obvious place to breathe fire, suddenly Ermao turned over a wooden stake and said: "Erwa, this!" ”

I hurriedly ran over to look, only to see a small copper pipe between the narrow stone crevices, with burnt marks. On Tuesday, Mao said: "It is estimated that this kind of mechanism can only be used once, and it will be stopped when the fuel is used up." Then he pulled down the copper pipe. Suddenly, there was a creaking sound behind the tunnel, and the wood on the ground began to shake, and I shouted, "Oh no, there's a mechanism!" At this point, the shaking became more violent.

I picked up Tuesday Mao and began to run to the opposite side of the road, only to see a rumbling sound suddenly coming out from behind, and it collapsed!

Fortunately, we reacted in time, and rushed out of the corridor with a rolling belt, and there was a burst of dust behind us, accompanied by a rumbling dull sound, coming from the exit of the corridor.

Tuesday Mao kicked and said angrily: "It's good to run fast, otherwise I would have been here today." ”

I said with palpitations: "I just started doing this business, I picked a difficult one, it seems that I can't do it, and now the back roads are blocked, so I have to find another way out." ”