The two of us came to the entrance of the village with the bell, and the fat man carefully inspected the car and its surroundings before getting into the car, which he said was his professional habit, because their team was good at using their hands on the vehicles to cause the death of certain targets.

After getting into the car, the fat man turned on the 360-degree surround video recorder,

"Yuanyuan, do you know why I like this car? Because it is powerful and tough off-road. ”

He called up the dynamic video record within 50 meters, and only started the car after finding that there was no abnormality.

"More than 90% of suspicious targets can be found in 50-meter video footage, and ordinary hands and feet can be found."

I can't help but admire the professionalism of the fat man, this guy seems to be arrogant, always talking or doing nonsense and funny things, but he is very reliable when it comes to real things.

When the village chief Tang saw a car coming out, he hurriedly led the four of them to stand up.

We saw them spread their canopy as if they were making lunch.

Sure enough, these villagers fulfilled their duties and brought all the belongings for eating and sleeping.

The fat man lowered the window: "Fellow, what are you cooking?" In the village I can smell the scent. ”

The eldest sister of the village woman said: "I have made a lot of Le, and the family has treated me well, and we have prepared a lot of dishes and are waiting for Le." ”

The fat man hurriedly jumped out of the car, there were indeed a lot of dishes on the table, and some were being processed on the board.

The villagers were busy talking to me, but suddenly their faces changed.

The village chief pointed at me and was speechless: "You, you,"

I didn't understand why the villagers reacted so much, I inadvertently shook the yin bell twice, and they actually hurriedly dodged a few steps!

"The big leader of the province, quickly throw that thing aside, it's unlucky, it's unlucky."

The old village chief finally gasped!

The fat man learned their accent: "Why is it such a big reaction, isn't it just a broken bell, the old locust tree unraveled Le." ”

The old village chief hurriedly said: "That's not a broken bell, but a death knell, which is used only by the dead!" ”

Seeing that they didn't dare to approach, I hurriedly put the yin clock back in the car, and these villagers gathered cautiously again.

I said to the village woman's son, "You have become a college student, and you are also superstitious? ”

He was speechless and looked to his parents for help.

The village woman came out and said: "Leader, the rules of our village for hundreds of years, whoever dies must ring this bell to send off the dead, how old you are when you die, you have to knock as many times as you want, you can't knock more, and it won't take long for this family to die again." ”

Her husband also said: "This thing is evil, a few years ago, Tang Shirui's mother died, he knocked a little more, but he was struck by lightning in a few days, and who else, yes, Tang Houxiang knocked twice, but he was only alone after his wife died, and in the end, he and the cow were both hacked to death in their own fields!" ”

The fat man hurriedly ran to me and whispered, "We've knocked more than a hundred times, and this is the end." ”

I glanced at him: ", this bell is hanging on a tree, and the wind will sound by itself, is it a dead person for no reason?" ”

The village chief hurriedly said: "Wood, wood, this bell can't be blown by the wind, unless someone knocks, it will never ring." More than ten years ago, when I was the head of the village, I was worried that someone's child would climb a tree and ring the bell, so I built a wall around the tree. ”

"How long has it been since this dead man's rule of ringing the bell and the strange thing of a dead man ringing too many times has appeared?"

The old village chief said: "It's hard to say how long the rule of ringing the bell to send the dead is going to be said, and the large grave pile in the northwest corner of the village also shows that our village has at least a few hundred years of history. ”

He continued: "The strange thing of dying if you knock too much should have appeared after the founding of the People's Republic of China, I heard my grandfather say when I was a child, this bell was first tied to the old locust tree in the grave, and the village was originally built around that tree. However, the area where thunder killed people continued to expand, and it was forced to move downward. It is said that it took a lot of work to move this death knell, but the master of the whole village who asked the villagers to do two rituals did two rituals before picking it off and replacing it with the one on the old locust tree. ”

The more the old village chief talked, the more energetic he became, and the fat man beckoned everyone to sit down and chat while eating.

It was noon, but there was wind in the shade of the tree, and they chilled their beer with cold water.

"Old village chief, just now our team went around the village, and measured that there are thunder and lightning on the grave pile and the top of the mountain, if you add the terraces, it means that there are thunder and lightning danger areas on at least three sides of our village."

"It's still the experts in the province who are powerful, our village people don't dare to go to the mountains at all, the last time I went up was to carry the corpses of those people who were engaged in power generation, in fact, there is nothing on the mountain, there are not many plants and trees, just some stones and eggs."

The fat man said, "The last time you said that there is a certain safe time after the lightning strike, how long is this safe time?" ”

"It's hard to say, our village mostly works in the terraced fields, and hardly goes to the areas near the mountains, unless it's time to sacrifice, and many of us hastily pay tribute to our ancestors in the old locust tree. I don't know when lightning strikes will come and when they will go, I will experiment with dogs and whether there is thunder or lightning! When the thunder and lightning killed the dog, we didn't dare to take the tribute and withdrew it. ”

The fat man pretended to be angry: "This is too cruel to dogs!" No wonder when the bell rings, the dog is scared to eat people! ”

The old village chief hurriedly explained: "Don't be angry with the public cadres, our village is too special, and it is not suitable to raise cattle and sheep, so we can only raise some chickens, ducks, dogs and geese." According to the older generation, dogs can psychic thunder, so I let dogs touch thunder. Probably these dogs have a long memory when they see more, but I don't have any good way, so I can only use dogs as experiments. ”

The old village chief was more talkative after a few beers, and he said that their ancestors were great generals who could fight well, and some people still had swords handed down at home.

He told us the order of genealogy: loyalty, filial piety, diligence, bravery, and martial arts take the lead, and good fortune and good fortune accompany each other. Speaking of this, the old village chief looked lonely, and he said that the government merged them into other villages, and I am afraid that the history of the Mushan Tang family will be broken. The old village chief was talking and tearful, which made the three of them quite sad.

I hurriedly said: "The province sent us here to try to solve this matter, if the thunder is solved, you can move back, now I want to know that the area in these areas has the most people who have been struck by lightning, what is their death like?" ”

Only then did the old village chief stop crying: "Except for the village and the area in front of the terraces, and then there is no part of the ancestral tomb, there are thunderstorms in other areas. ”

He hurriedly added: "The terraced fields were safe before the founding of the People's Republic of China, but in the end there was a thunderstorm. As for the appearance of the person who was hacked to death, let's not talk about it during the meal In short, it is ugly, and I can't eat for a few days after watching it! ”

Finally, I asked the village women to fry some home-cooked food for Xiyin and the others to bring and then got up to say goodbye.

The old village chief told us not to go to dangerous places, and he said that the county and the city didn't care about them, and they couldn't let anything happen to the people in the province.

The fat man held his stomach and showed a full official appearance: "Being an official for the people, if the county officials don't care about such life-threatening matters, it is a complete lazy government!" And we are different, we are heroes, heroes of battle! Let's look forward to our triumphant return! ”

After the fat man finished speaking, we saw a deep sense of gratitude in the eyes of the villagers.

As soon as we stopped the car at the entrance of the village, we heard the sound of two explosions, and the fat man and I hurriedly packed up our supply bags and went to the mass grave.

Captain Jin got a table out of nowhere, and he sat on the floor and ate at just the right height.

He told me that it took about 20 minutes from the cold wind to the lightning strike, and the number of lightning strikes was still two, and the location of the lightning strikes was not fixed, and the location of the lightning strike just now was on the mound near the ground.

I took out my binoculars and followed the direction pointed by Hua Rong to see that the branches and leaves of the bushes on the mound were being cut down by thunder, but the color of the branches and leaves did not change.

"Lightning seems to be directed only at moving objects or abrupt objects that conduct electricity, and these branches and leaves are more likely to be driven by an explosion than struck by lightning."

The fat man snatched the telescope and said, "Fly over with a drone and take a closer look, doesn't it mean that there will be a period of safety after the lightning strike?" ”

Lin Xiyin asked me, "What time do you get on the bus?" ”

I did the math and said, "It seems that the safe time is about two and a half hours each time!" ”

I recounted the information fed back by the village chief to them, and Captain Jin said: "If you are evil enough, you will die if you shoot too much, and if you get it on the battlefield, it will be better to use a heavy machine gun!" ”

"I don't think it's a death knell problem, it's a matter of the probability of people and lightning strikes, and the area of lightning strikes is expanding strangely, so what they thought was safe areas is hurting people."

I nodded at Lin Xiyin, many times the more I worry about something, the more I am worried, this is Murphy's Law, a full explanation of the inevitability in contingencies.

She continued: "Perhaps this death knell was the herald bell when the mausoleum was built, and finally became the village bell used by the mausoleum keepers as sacrifices, and then as time went on, after countless dynasties, they also forgot their original intentions, which also shows that the old village chiefs only thought that their ancestors were war generals, but they did not know what the war generals were waiting for here. ”

The fat man said, "Yes, if I were from this village, if I knew that the one who had been guarding him for generations was a faint king, I would have dug him first." ”

Hua Rong said: "The lightning strike in the terraced area began during the founding of the People's Republic of China, I don't know if the whole piece suddenly became a minefield or was it slowly covered? ”

I slapped my head, and this was a big problem. I hurriedly took out my mobile phone and called the old village chief, who said that the terraced area was covered by minefields piece by piece, and that it was the autumn harvest at that time, and the village was greedy for the harvest and worked in the fields every day, so people kept dying in the area that I thought it was safe, and this incident caused great panic at that time, and there are still many conversations.

When there were no further questions, I edited and sent them to the old gentleman for further instructions.

The fat man operated a drone to fly over this large area of graves,

"Hey, big graves, small graves, graves are connected to graves, you can see that the graves at the foot of this mountain are too small, similar to a dirt bun, eighty percent of them are lost by wind and rain."

"Oops, there are also the corpses of dead dogs, the old village chief is right, they really use dogs to measure lightning strikes."

I said, "Fly the drone over the old locust tree and take a closer look to see if there are any traces of the bell?" ”

The fat man listened to my arrangement and flew the drone to the top of the tree, and he operated the screen to close the focus.

"Far away, there really is, it seems that this tree is a minefield to the north, and it is safe to the south, you see, there are animal corpses under this tree, no! The area of this lightning strike is expanding! ”

I hurried over to see the skeletal limbs of some animals scattered around the tree, and indeed, the area of the lightning strike had expanded by more than ten meters.

Hua Rong also came to watch with the dough rolls, he was not afraid of the disgusting and miserable state of those animal bones, and his mouth was still chewing with relish.

"Do you think this lightning strike is an underground cause or a heavenly cause?"

The fat man's eyes picked: "You still want Zhu Wen to cultivate immortals underground?" Use spells to make thunder and lightning protect the tomb? ”

Hua Rong said: "Maybe Zhu Wen is really cultivating immortals underground, and he looks the same as you!" ”

The fat man just opened his mouth to attack, and I hurriedly interrupted him: "I think this place is very strange, it should be that the master used feng shui magic to trap some of the energy here that led to the generation of thunder and lightning!" ”

I continued: "Although we haven't penetrated directly yet, I can be sure that behind this large mound of graves is the entrance to the mausoleum. ”

The fat man lifted the drone, and soon the shape of the mound was revealed.

"Far away, God, it's like a big tongue sweeping around!"

"Gather qi behind the mountain, offer incense to the case, and heaven and earth absorb the spirit and the flying dragon respects the sky."

I took the drone controller from the fat man's hand and flew the drone directly over a messy boulder pile about 50 meters in diameter, and strangely there were no rocks connected to it.

I think that most of the houses in this village are built of stones, and such good stones are not mined, so there is only one explanation, that is, these dozens of tons of boulders are used to seal the tomb!

After listening to my analysis, the excitement was overflowing, and the fat man directly put on his backpack and was about to go to the boulder pile.

Hua Rong called him: "Fatty, can you move this boulder?" ”

"I can't move,"

"You can't move you to run so quickly, aren't you afraid of lightning strikes?"

"Silly, can you manage me digging a thief hole from the side? Besides, didn't the thunder and lightning come in two and a half hours, I withdrew it in advance. ”

Hua Rong was choked by the fat man and vomited blood: "It's almost two and a half hours soon." ”

The fat man hurriedly ran back and shrunk his neck: "Your grandma's, don't say it earlier!" ”

I said: "The boulder pile is too far away for the slingshot to detect whether there is a lightning strike, so it seems that we have to sacrifice a few more drones." ”

The fat man feels sorry for the drone, but he can't help it.

Lin Xiyin's eyes flickered, and she said that she could use inflatable balls to guide thunder, and everyone's eyes lit up, and they praised this idea as good.

We immediately called the old village chief to arrange for someone to buy balloons and fishing lines that could be lifted into the air, and the old village chief said that it was just a fair, and the kind of cartoon balloons that children played with were full of sets!

Taking advantage of the free time, we sorted out the supplies and equipment, which was an eye-opener for me.

Captain Kim said that at that time, they still relied on flashlights to process shovels, ropes and crowbars, but now they are powerful multi-functional equipment, and they no longer have to worry about waterproofing and running out of electricity.

The fat man put on a show: "Your antiques are old, now we use drone aerial surveying, remote sensing machines instead of human behavior, spatial multi-dimensional scanning can show the face under the dark, magnetic sensing technology can detect metal within a certain range, and the relay station can ensure intercom within 100 meters deep underground, old gold, I will ask you if you are convinced?" ”

Hua Rong said: "The rope lifting device has also been improved, and the rope that used to be difficult for a hero with a one-meter line is now stronger than the rope with the thickness of a ballpoint pen refill. There is now a kind of equipment called trace element analyzer in foreign countries, which can detect changes in trace substances in soil and air, and you can know if there is a treasure. It is said that many foreign mercenaries and expeditions now use this equipment to search for shipwrecks and buried treasures from World War I and World War II. ”

I was surprised: "This device is amazing, it sounds even more powerful than the "Shushan Universal Sutra", with this thing, the underground mausoleum has not run." ”

Lin Xiyin said: "This kind of equipment is extremely expensive, and the size is not small, it requires several people to operate, and foreign expeditions can only use helicopters." ”

Captain Jin looked at the various equipment on the ground, with a helpless expression, he suddenly found that he was useless: "I'm old, I'll give you anti-bags when I go down, I can't use these things." ”

Lin Xiyin coquettishly said to Captain Jin: "Uncle Jin, you are our Dinghai Divine Needle, and it is all up to you at a critical time!" ”

"Just you girl will coax me, just don't think I'm cumbersome then."

Hua Rong took out the multi-functional watch and sent it to everyone, this watch has altitude and humidity direction and positioning functions, excellent waterproof performance, and has a convertible luminous function.

Then I felt a cool breeze in my trouser legs, and then a cool breeze on my knees and waist.

I asked, "Hee Yin, how do you feel about this wind?" ”

The fat man replied first: "Grandma Zhente's strange, this wind is like moisture gushing out of the ground, cool and damp, I feel like I have entered a damp house with the air conditioning on for a few days." ”

"Yes, that's what it feels like, it's so cold and damp."

She pointed to the ground, which meant the ancient tomb underground.

"The lightning strike is coming, everyone is ready, the fat man continues to shoot the slingshot, Xiyin, you use the camera to record the changes around you, Hua Rong, you turn on the magnetic sensing device to observe the data, Uncle Jin, you still record the time!"

The wind was blowing upwards, the bushes and leaves on the ground rattled, and I kept my binoculars on the boulder behind the mound.

The boulder pile did not change at all, but I noticed that my vision was obstructed by a vague mist, which I thought was due to the telescope lens, but when I looked at it the other hand, the telescope did not have a moisture hanging mirror.

"Could it be that the moisture from below the earth rises and meets the hot air of the ground to induce the formation of thunder and lightning? But why are there still lightning strikes in the cold temperature in winter? ”

I kept thinking about these questions in my head, and it was clear that I didn't have reasonable answers.

"The magnetic inductance data is normal, and the surrounding metal data does not exceed the normal standard!" Hua Rong shouted at me with the device.

"Continue to probe, and be sure to record the data reaction before the lightning strike, as well as at the moment and after the lightning strike!"

Suddenly, I saw that the boulder pile seemed to shake, and a little debris of earth and debris fell, and the wind seemed to be still for a second or two, and then there was a very slight shaking, and I remembered what the couple had told about the fact that the head that had been erected before the lightning strike could fall!

I was instantly angry, with such a slight shaking, it must be difficult for my head to tilt, and if I predicted the occurrence of lightning strikes on this basis, it would be a joke of life!

At this time, Captain Jin shouted loudly!

"It's been seventeen minutes since the wind started, and lightning strikes will be generated immediately, all ready!"

A few of us scattered and stared intently ahead, while the fat man shot the slingshot unhurriedly.

"It's going to be the last minute!"

The fat man's mobile phone rang at this time, he saw that it was the phone of the old village chief, he turned on the speakerphone and kicked the mobile phone in his pocket, and the voice of the farmer's son came from the earpiece, but at this moment, the mobile phone call was cut off.

"Click!" The thunder came, and the two stones shot by the fat man were shattered!

The fat man hurriedly shot two more and there was no thunder and lightning, and there was still no more shooting.

"The camera screen went white just now!"

"The value of the magnetic detector just now suddenly rose a hundredfold, as if a metal mine was right in front of you!"

The fat man exclaimed: "Grandma's, it's similar to a moving target, but the sound is a little louder." ”

He hurriedly called back the old village chief, and it turned out that the balloon had been delivered to the car.

I put away my binoculars, and the moment the lightning struck me, I saw more subtle fog produced, and I thought it was moisture pouring from the ground.

"Fatty, you go get the balloons, let's go to the boulder pile first."

The fat man wanted Hua Rong to get the balloon, but I interrupted him: "There are a lot of collapses in this grave area, and the more you go inside, the easier it is to fall into the grave, we take the lead, and it is safer for you to follow the footprints." ”

"I said it earlier, I'm most worried about running errands!"

After he finished speaking, he seemed to think of something, only to see him take out his mobile phone and start the car.

"Grandma's, I scared this kid, and he was curious and ran to see it!"

"Yes, I'll use drones to scare the people on duty on the road, and our big things can't be disturbed!"