After getting the equipment funded by Boss Jin, Qiye and I rushed back to the antique store non-stop, and after resting for two days, we called Shanghuzi and Wang Chuyi to go to Changbai Mountain according to the records of the ancient tomb map.

Nothing special happened along the way, and soon we entered the eastern part of Jilin Province, and we had reached the edge of the handover with North Korea, although we kept searching for information about the ancient tomb along the way, but this time we really couldn't collect any information, so we could only rely on this ancient tomb map in our hands all the way here.

But the map of this ancient tomb is very vague, and does not indicate the specific location, this Changbai Mountain is both a mountain, and a mountain range, from the northeast to the southwest, from the east to the end of the Wanda Mountain on the bank of the Ussuri River, west to the Yellow Sea coast of Dalian Lushun, stretching more than 2,000 kilometers, an area of more than 300,000 square kilometers, during the period the mountains are continuous, there are thousands of large and small peaks, the dense forest is deep and secluded, the snow-capped peaks, countless, want to find an ancient tomb accurately in such a huge Changbai Mountain Range, that is basically a fantasy, Fortunately, the map of this tomb gives us a general direction to look for.

In this way, a group of four of us searched all the way along the Changbai Mountains, from northeast to southwest, avoiding cities and open areas, specially picking out the kind of remote small villages, inquiring in many ways, all the way south, and on the fourteenth day, we finally found out the news in a small village at the foot of the mountain.

There are only a dozen households in this village, every household lives in a pure wooden structure of the house, it looks like some years, the villagers are very simple, almost not affected by the outside world, there is a private school in the middle of the village, which can teach people to learn Chinese characters, the village has no electricity, and the draft is by a mountain stream that flows continuously all year round.

A few of us stayed here for more than ten days, and later found some utensils from the Qing Dynasty in an old man's house, especially the bowls used in the old man's home! It is all porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, just take one out, can be sold for a good price, at the beginning of the Huzi moved his crooked eyes, want to use money to buy the old man's bowl, but the old man does not recognize money at all, and because the people in this village almost do not have contact with the outside world, so their living utensils are more important, Huzi wants to use money to collect the bowl in the end or failed.

After the discovery of Qing Dynasty objects in this old man's house, we can almost conclude that the people in this village are the descendants of the group of tomb supervisors back then.

It's just that it's been too long ago now, and I don't know if they still remember the previous events.

So after a day of rest with the seventh master, I came to the old man's house with wine and food.

At this time, it was already ten in the evening, and the old man raised a pile of firewood in the courtyard, and the three of us set up a table next to the firewood and ate around it.

During the meal, through talking with this old man, we learned that in the deep mountains about ten kilometers away from this village, there is actually an ancient city, and it is said that there are still people living in that ancient city.

Speaking of which, the seventh master and I proposed to go to the ancient city to have a look, but as soon as the words came out, the old man who was originally drinking changed his face, and then slowly put down the wine cup.

I see his expression, there must be some difficulty, is it possible that he wants to take us there? Or is it that the ancient city is not allowed to enter at all? These two conjectures came to me almost instantly.

As long as you are willing to offer a high price, someone will naturally act as a guide and take you over, but the old man in front of him has no concept of money at all, if he is really unwilling to take us there, then there is really no good way.

At this time, the seventh master spoke: "What? The old gentleman won't take us there? ”

After hearing this, the old man waved his hand and said, "It's not that I don't want to take you there, it's that the ancient city is too evil, it appears and disappears from time to time, and it is not visible when you go, and the city is built evil, people can get in, but they can't get out, the children in the village were naughty before, they went into the ancient city, and they haven't come back until now, and it's been decades." ”

Listening to what the old man said so mysteriously, I became more curious about this ancient city. Is there a go or no return? This kind of word is undoubtedly a huge temptation for us people who are fighting backwards, thinking that there must be some mechanism in this kind of ancient city, otherwise how can it be impossible to get in and out?

Under our repeated questioning, the old gentleman confided the truth, it turned out that in this ancient city, every half a month, someone will come out to go to the distant villages and towns to purchase materials, which is also the only way for the ancient city to contact the outside world, but the people who purchase are very strange, they are not willing to contact others on weekdays, and their village is the only way to enter the ancient city, that person will pass by every time he buys, and the villagers will also ask him to bring some food back. will be rejected by words.

In the mountains, isolated from the world, the people of the village seem to have great respect for the people in the ancient city, as if the people of those ancient cities are born to be nobler than them, and they will be very respectful when they see them, these decades, the people who came out of the ancient city to purchase have changed three, the previous two are because of their age, can not carry out this kind of physical work of procurement, now this is not very old, but after the old gentleman sees him, he will still bow respectfully, for hundreds of years, this village has been this tradition, It's as if the village was the gatekeeper of the ancient city.

As time went by, after three rounds of wine and five flavors, the old man was a little drunk, and he wanted to go back to the room to rest when he stood up, and Huzi and I hurriedly supported him and sent him to the room.

When we got back to our room, Huzi immediately suggested that we take our gear and set off early tomorrow morning to find the ancient city by ourselves.

But as soon as this news came out, it was immediately denied by the Seventh Master, this kind of deep mountains and dense forests, without knowing the specific location, rashly entered, very dangerous, the probability of finding the ancient city is less than one percent, it is a waste of time to go, and it will also cause unnecessary equipment loss, it is really the best way, the best way is to ask the old gentleman's opinion, see if you can meet the purchaser of the ancient city, and then find a way to get in.

In this way, after two or three days, the negotiation with the old gentleman has not had any results, the old man said that he did not agree to help us introduce the ancient city purchaser, every time this matter was mentioned, the old man always made excuses to shirk, came and went, and there was no progress in the matter, until finally, the old gentleman simply closed the door, we had a closed door several times, and when we were at a loss, one night, a young man, came to the room where we stayed.

This guy's surname is Liu, a single name is a distant character, and he is also a resident of the village, I heard that we have been looking for the ancient city, saying that he knows the way, so he came to find us.

When Huzi heard this, he immediately came to his senses, and hurriedly asked him, "Have you been to that ancient city?" ”

The young man shook his head and said, "I have only seen it from afar, but I have not entered it, and the people in the village say that the ancient city can enter but cannot get out, and even if we see it, we dare not enter." ”

After listening to the young man's words, I was happy, and said that there is a play, as long as I have seen the ancient city, then we can roughly estimate the location of the ancient city, with the approximate direction, we use the current technology and equipment, it will not be too difficult to find the entrance to the ancient city.

But when we asked the young man to be our guide and lead us there, he shook his head.

At this time, I glanced at the seventh master, frowned, and said in my heart that since this young man came to the door in person, saying that he had seen the ancient city, he should be willing to take us over to come, and it could be seen that he was also full of curiosity about the ancient city between the words, but why did he refuse when we asked him to be a guide?

At last we talked for a while, and then we learned that the young man's family was too old to work, and he wanted a ploughing ox, and if we would provide it, he would take it with us.

In fact, for us, a cow is not expensive, the money is still spent, but the cow is too big, and it is a mountain road here, even if it is bought, it is not easy to transport it inside, and there are some worries.

The young man saw that we were a little hesitant, so he hurriedly said, "That place, only I can take you there, you need to find a spider man, and you have to know the environment of the spider man, there are only two in our village, last year two dogs went up the mountain and broke their legs, and I was the only one left in the village." ”

The young man seemed very anxious, and between the words was afraid that we would not agree and find someone else, but later we learned that this spider-man was actually a person who had mastered superb climbing skills, and could climb hundreds of meters of cliffs with his bare hands, and was very familiar with the surrounding environment, otherwise even if he could climb with his bare hands, he would not know which path could climb up.

After a period of discussion, we agreed to the young man's conditions, but the cow could not buy an adult strong cow, because the size was too big, it was difficult to get in, so we replaced it with two calves, so that they could also raise it themselves, and if they were lucky, they could have another cow baby next year.

The young man nodded happily and promised to take us off as soon as the oxen arrived.

So Huzi and Wang Chuyi went out of the mountains and into the city to buy cattle, while Qiye and I stayed to learn about the situation in the mountains with this young man.

The young man named Liu Yuan told us that he was also very interested in the ancient city, and wanted to go in many times, but he couldn't find the way in, and the old people in the village repeatedly warned that the ancient city had no way out, so scared that he didn't dare to look for it again, just looked at it from a distance, but even so, a look from afar, it also needed to go through some twists and turns, first through the Tongtian River, then into the fairy cave, and finally through the ghost cave, in order to reach the destination, only to get there, In order to have a glimpse of the ancient city from afar.