Chapter 45: The Seven Star Caves (Part II)
After listening to Takahashi Jiro's story with an expressionless face, Quan Qianzhang just sneered and said, "Takahashi-kun, do you know what retribution is?" ”
Takahashi Jiro's face became even more ugly than before when he heard this.
Quan Qianzhang said word for word: "This is retribution, the retribution that you invaders deserve." ”
Takahashi Jiro originally wanted to plead something, but looking at Quan Qianzhang's face, he had to give up.
Jiro Takahashi looked around and said, "Master, how did you survive here in the past two years?" ”
Two years? Tang Qianlin couldn't help but raise his eyes to look at Quan Qianzhang when he heard this time, and then looked at Takahashi Jiro, because when Takahashi Jiro told him before, he didn't say that two years was so long, he thought that it would be a month or two at most, but he didn't expect that Quan Qianzhang and Fu Beixue had been missing for two years.
Takahashi Jiro's question caused Li Yunfan and Jingusi to also look at Quan Qianzhang, because they also wanted to know the answer to this question, because there should be nothing to eat in this cave, except for some messy utensils, nothing else can be seen, and there is no trace of human fire cooking at all.
Quan Qianzhang seemed to be puzzled by this question, he sat there and recalled it carefully, and replied: "Have you been for two years?" I don't remember exactly. ”
Can't remember exactly? Do you remember how many years you've been here, or what you've survived on for the past two years? Jingusi and Li Yunfan couldn't help but glance at each other.
Fu Beixue stepped forward at this time and said: "The two of us all make a living by eating mice and some other small animals, and it is not too much to say that Ru Mao drinks blood." ”
Even if Ru Mao drinks blood, it should leave some traces, right? Yi Mochen looked around when he heard this, there were no animal bones or anything like that.
Yi Mochen couldn't help but ask, "Professor Fu, what did you eat last time?" ”
As soon as he finished asking, Tang Qianlin glared at Yi Mochen: "Boss Yi, pay attention to etiquette." ”
Yi Mochen shut up and didn't mention it anymore, and Fu Beixue said: "When was the last meal, we all forgot." ”
Takahashi Jiro hurriedly said, "Teacher, I have dry food and canned food here." ”
As he spoke, Jiro Takahashi took out the canned food and military rations from his backpack, opened them and put them in front of Quan Qianzhang, who frowned when he smelled it, and raised his hand to indicate that he would not eat it.
At this time, Ni Xiaowan, who was sitting next to Tang Qianlin, looked at the text on the notebook and said, "Oh, it turns out that Professor Fu, you have already answered the text above?" ”
Fu Beixue nodded and said, "That's right, it's been answered, and it can be regarded as figuring out the ins and outs of here." ”
The rest of the people immediately surrounded him, Tang Qianlin looked at the text on the notebook and said: "Judging from the words, this place is indeed built by the joint efforts of Evil Sa and the Thousand Corpses, but the person who left the words does not seem to be one of the two." ”
When Tang Qianlin said this, Fu Beixue turned his head and said: "That's right, the person who left the text claimed to belong to an organization called 'Lone Army'. ”
After Fu Beixue finished speaking, Yi Mochen was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said: "Lonely? What two words? ”
Tang Qianlin said: "It's the two words you know." ”
Yi Mochen was stunned for a moment, and seemed to understand something.
Tang Qianlin looked at the notes again and said, "This lone soldier's name is Yang Shiwen, he managed to replace the identity of one of the corpse craftsmen in the Thousand Corpses, and participated in the construction of this Seven Star Cave......"
Judging from the written records left by Yang Shiwen, he only participated in the sweeping work of the construction, and countless corpse craftsmen have come here to build this cave that they named the Seven Star Cave for hundreds of years.
The reasons why I chose to be here are as follows: first, this is where the Seven Star Cave is located where thousands of corpses have been searched for many years; Second, there is a volcano here; Third, there is a source of water; Fourth, it's sparsely populated.
Yi Mochen raised his hand and said, "I have a question, what is the Seven Star Cave?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "In Feng Shui, there are many definitions of the Seven Star Cave, but the Seven Star Cave that the Thousand Corpses believe is the place of the most yin, close to the gate of the underworld, and there is a school of shamanism that believes that the hell of the underworld is full of fire, I think this is why they are looking for volcanoes." ”
Yi Mochen nodded: "You continue." ”
Tang Qianlin looked at his notes and said, "This Yang Shiwen also said that he didn't know what the purpose of sewing a thousand corpses and evil sa was to refine the seven-star corpses, but they were too cruel, they basically used living people as guides, and used the hundred-legged heavenly dragon summoned from the underworld as a magic weapon for refining. ”
At this point, everyone remembered the rotting centipede that had attacked them earlier.
Everyone looked at each other, and Takahashi Jiro asked, "Is that thing really summoned from the underworld?" ”
"I don't think so, it's just a strange insect that lives underground, and in mythology and many religions, it is associated with the underworld and hell." Tang Qianlin turned the next page, "I have heard about the hundred-legged heavenly dragon called by sewing a thousand corpses from my friends who opened the coffin, but according to them, the maximum size is no more than a dog, and the one we met is indeed different." ”
In Yang Shiwen's account, the hundred-legged dragon, that is, the putrid centipede that devours the ceramic corpses here, feeds irregularly, and lays eggs, but the eggs laid have no way to hatch.
In order to prevent this kind of hundred-legged dragon from escaping here, sewing a thousand corpses not only set up the evil pavilion of Qisu Town, but also took great pains to get a thousand-legged mayfly from the Western Regions, and the thousand-legged dragon is the nemesis of the hundred-legged dragon, so under normal circumstances, the range of activities of the hundred-legged heavenly dragon will not exceed the coffin mountain.
When Tang Qianlin saw this, he found that there was a blank paragraph underneath, so he asked, "Professor Fu, why are there two empty pages between this paragraph and the next paragraph?" ”
Fu Beixue got up and walked to the Buddha statue and said: "Because of the text in this paragraph, I really can't answer it, it's not composed of radicals of Chinese characters, but other characters I don't know." ”
Tang Qianlin hurriedly got up, walked to the Buddha statue, and looked at the strange words on it.
After looking at it for a long time, Tang Qianlin shook his head and said, "I can't understand it either, forget it." ”
Ni Xiaowan hurriedly asked, "What else is written below?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "The following records are some daily things, nothing special, but there is one thing that is very useful to us, Yang Shiwen said in the record that the eggs of the hundred-legged dragon can restrain the thousand-legged mayfly." ”
Quan Qianzhang looked at Tang Qianlin and said, "The things I threw out to save you before are the eggs laid by that centipede. ”
Qiao Tong finally smiled: "We are saved, we can finally go out." ”
Jiro Takahashi was unwilling: "Then what should I do?" What about my soldiers? Why did you get those strange diseases? ”
Tang Qianlin handed the notebook to Jiro Takahashi: "It doesn't record what you want to know, if you don't believe it, you can read it yourself." ”
Tang Qianlin said, standing there looking at the Buddha statue, he really didn't understand what the meaning of this Buddha statue was, but he already knew the approximate location of the next location, but he couldn't say it, because Takahashi Jiro and Qiao Tong were both present, and if these two people knew about it, things would become even more troublesome.
At this time, Jin Gusi still set his eyes on Quan Qianzhang, watching Quan Qianzhang lead Qiao Tong and Yi Mochen to get the eggs of the putrid centipede.
Jinguth said to himself, "Am I wrong? ”
Takahashi Jiro was unwilling, holding the notebook while walking and reading, and unconsciously walked behind the Buddha statue, just walked behind the Buddha statue, Takahashi Jiro saw something behind the Buddha statue.
Takahashi Jiro's eyes widened, his hands holding the notebook couldn't stop shaking, he calmed down, glanced at the others, and then looked at it closely, and only after confirming it, did he set his eyes on Fu Beixue, who was sitting on the steps.
Tang Qianlin stepped forward and asked, "Have you finished reading it?" ”
Takahashi Jiro shook his head, gave him a look, and motioned him to look behind the Buddha statue, Ni Xiaowan felt strange, didn't know what it meant, and walked to the back of the Buddha statue to check it first, it didn't matter what it looked at, Ni Xiaowan was also stunned.
Tang Qianlin immediately stepped forward and walked behind the Buddha statue, and found that it was a corpse, a corpse that had long since dried up.
Jiro Takahashi and Ni Xiaowan both looked at Tang Qianlin, and then the three of them looked at Fu Beixue who was sitting there.
Tang Qianlin thought for a while, and motioned to the two of them not to make a sound, and let them go to Quan Qianzhang's side, while he sat down next to Fu Beixue and looked at Fu Beixue carefully.
Fu Beixue turned his head to look at Tang Qianlin and asked, "What are you looking at me for?" ”
Tang Qianlin shook his head and smiled, "Professor Fu, where are you from?" ”
"It seems ......," Fu Beixue recalled carefully, "I can't remember." ”
Tang Qianlin asked again: "What did you study before?" Chinese? ”
Fu Beixue shook his head: "It seems to be, it doesn't seem to be, by the way, I remembered, I studied geology." ”
Tang Qianlin nodded: "If you study geology, then you are very good at Chinese, such a complicated text code, you have even unlocked it." ”
Fu Beixue nodded: "Yes, I solved it, it was easy to unravel, my teacher, Professor Quan, didn't untie it, I solved it all." ”
Tang Qianlin asked again: "Then do you remember, how did you come to Feibi Mountain?" ”
Fu Beixue looked sad: "I just can't remember clearly, some impressions, but it's very vague, I only remember that I fell into this hole, I remember that I know the Japanese, I don't know the rest, by the way, who are you?" ”
Tang Qianlin didn't answer, just sat there thinking, and involuntarily turned around and glanced at the back of the Buddha statue.
How could such a thing happen? Tang Qianlin thought it was incredible.
Although Jiro Takahashi and Ni Xiaowan were standing beside Quan Qianzhang and the others in the distance, their eyes kept falling on Fu Beixue.
After Quan Qianzhang led everyone to collect some eggs of the Hundred-Legged Heavenly Dragon, he asked everyone to carefully carry them in their pockets and backpacks, and turned around and walked back to Tang Qianlin and Fu Beixue.
Quan Qianzhang said: "Let's go." ”
Fu Beixue raised his eyes and looked at Quan Qianzhang, but said in surprise: "Where are you going?" ”
Quan Qianzhang was very strange: "Leave here, haven't we always wanted to leave here?" Now they're here and can help us get out of here. ”
Fu Beixue shook his head: "I don't want to leave here, teacher, I'm so tired." ”
At this time, Tang Qianlin, who was behind Fu Beixue, suddenly said: "Professor Fu, do you know that there is a corpse behind the Buddha statue?" ”
After Tang Qianlin asked, except for Ni Xiaowan and Takahashi Jiro, everyone else, including Quan Qianzhang, was stunned.