Chapter 424: Deserted Village and Old Forest
The earliest record of the blessed land of Dongtian appeared in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
As early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were ten winters, thirty-six small caves, and seventy-two blessed lands of the famous mountains of Taoist resorts.
In mythology, it is a training ground for immortals.
Among them, the Xuling Cave Heaven in the 36 small caves is in the land of Bashu, Mount Emei.
However, the Taiping monk is in trouble.
Nowadays, Mount Emei, which is one of the most famous mountains in the world, has become one of the four famous Buddhist mountains.
The Taoist dojo has become a sparsely populated place.
Even the Taoist temple, a historic site, was overturned by the Buddhist temple and became a temple dedicated only to the Buddha and Bodhisattva.
can't help but make people sigh, reminding of that old saying:
In troubled times, the Taoist priest went down the mountain to save the world, and the monk closed the door to avoid disaster.
The Taoist priest of the prosperous age retreated to the deep mountains, and the monk went out to fight for incense.
However, there are two sides to the problem, the monks come out to fight for incense, and the mountains and rivers are all over the Buddhist temples, but the more it can show that it is now a peaceful and prosperous era, and the country is rich and the people are strong.
The country is thriving.
Bashu.
Void Cave Heaven.
At this time, the atmosphere was very tense, and with the great movement of the cave sky taking the lead in opening the blessed land, it suddenly became the center of the turmoil.
It has become a place of attention for people all over the world.
At this moment, all forces, international organizations, and clouds surged, and they all turned their eyes to this Void Tomb Cave Heaven.
Xuling Cave Heaven, overnight, the world was shocked.
BASHU,
Mount Emei,
Overnight, it became the focus of countless people.
A large number of intelligence personnel began to be active here, and in the vicinity, which was originally sparsely populated, all kinds of snakes, insects, rats, ants, cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods all appeared.
The dark tide is raging.
......
Xuling Cave Heaven,
In the middle of the night, the mountains were quiet and cold, quiet, and nothing could be seen in the dark.
Only distant or near, high or low, a terrible sound from an unknown source in the mountains and forests could be heard.
Like a bird's call, it is like the faint echoing sound of a hollow valley chiseled stone......
All kinds of terrible sounds wandered, wandered, and stopped in a dark world where the scenery was invisible... One after another, they always refused to leave.
Within a radius of 100 miles from the Xuling Cave Heaven, it has not been peaceful.
These invisible, terrifying voices have always been cold.
This is a deserted village dozens of miles away, deep in the mountains.
Ten rooms and ten emptiness.
It has been abandoned for decades, vines are everywhere, ancient trees are taking root, and old houses are collapsing.
The road still retains the stone roads of the past, which are stone roads chiseled out by labor in the past, not the cement roads of the modern era.
The stone path is covered with moss.
The roots of the old trees were as thick as a baby's arm, and the heavy and hard stone bars were raised high.
The deserted village was empty, quiet, and there was no one in it.
In the darkness where you can't see your fingers, there is a dead silence, and the sky above the empty village is extraordinarily dark and extraordinarily quiet.
There is not even the sound of insects and birds chirping in this vicinity, but it really responds to the ancient poem of Liu Zongyuan in the Tang Dynasty:
Thousands of mountains and birds fly away, and thousands of people disappear.
Suddenly!
Outside the extremely quiet deserted village, there were a few soft sounds, like clothes brushing against the grass and shrubs.
Not long after, three black shadows walked into this abandoned small deserted village in the mountains.
These three black shadows seemed to be familiar with this place, and they sneaked through the deserted village with ease, and finally, a bright light appeared in front of them.
In a deserted village that has been abandoned for decades, there is actually light!
The light came from a stone house built on a hill.
Maybe it's because it's backed by a mountain, so even though this stone house has left a heavy breath of time, it is still mostly intact. It is also one of the few houses with good integrity in the deserted village.
The white light flickered in the darkness and did not appear to be the source of light from the lighting fixture.
The window of the stone house has long since disappeared, leaving only a twisted opening, and a few figures are reflected on the wall behind the window, as if someone is inside?
The three black shadows soon came to the outside of the house with the only light source, and the wooden door of the house was already half rotten, and the three black shadows entered the house directly without warning.
When the three black shadows entered the house, they saw that the so-called light source was actually a white flame, fluttering and burning in the air.
Underneath the white flames was a decaying wooden table, beside which sat a tall, burly man with a rough face.
The man wore a skull mask that covered the lower half of his face.
At this time, under the illumination of the light source, I finally saw the three black shadows clearly, and they were also three people in the same strange costumes.
At this time, there were a total of four people gathered in the house.
"The defense of the Void Tomb Cave Heaven is too strict, and we have never been able to find a chance to infiltrate. ”
One of the three people who came back spoke not Mandarin, but Western.
These people speak with a strong accent, and they are all tall and strong, as if they are from the ice and snow of Eastern Europe?
"One more thing, we were going to sneak in by water, but we ran into another group of unknown people. They entered the waterway before us. Because we didn't know the identity of the other party, in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts and increase the risk of exposure, we didn't retreat first. ”
The tall man with the white flame on his head, presumably the leader of these people, glanced up at his watch and said, "Give you an hour of rest, and after midnight, prepare Plan B." ”
Just when the three of them were resting and recuperating their strength, one of them suddenly had an urgent need to urinate and wanted to go outside to relieve his hands.
"631,824, stay with him, don't be alone. ”
"This village was abandoned a long time ago, and the whole village must have been gone, there must be some special reason. ”
Bai Yannan said to two of them.
These people only have code names, no names.
With strict organization.
The two of them were already tired after a day of running outside, and they wanted to rest and squint for a while, so when they were named, they only showed a pair of eyebrows under their masks, and frowned, as if they were a little reluctant. But they didn't refute, as if they were afraid of the majesty of the white flame man, they still got up and followed.
With a creak, the wooden door with only half of it left was pushed open by 824, who was unhappy and reluctant, impatiently.
Squeak... The dilapidated wooden door, which had lost its thrust, returned to its original position, with inertia, creaked and swayed in the empty and silent deserted village.
It's like hearing the sound of an old man sitting on a bamboo and rattan chair at night, swaying back and forth.
Time passed minute by minute,
About six or seven minutes, squeak... The dilapidated half-wooden door suddenly pushed gently into the room, making a sound like an old man's toothache,
It's like someone outside the door suddenly nudges the door.
"793, is that you?"
Bai Yannan glanced at the door, but there was silence outside the door, and no one answered.
At this moment, there was a cold wind in the night forest, pouring into the house from outside the door......
Bai Yannan frowned.
The three of them had been out for so long and had not returned, and when he realized that something was wrong, he stood up and decided to go out to find someone.