Chapter 3: Searching for the Temple

I couldn't believe my eyes, and I stepped forward and patted and knocked on Zhang Song, who had turned into a stone statue, hoping to find out the strangeness with the feeling in my hand. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The palm of the info hand touched Zhang Song's body, and it was cold, cold, and hard. There is no doubt that this is definitely not a fleshy corpse anymore.

Old Liu Tou squinted slightly at the stone statue that Zhang Song had turned into, his face was solemn, and he pulled me to a safe distance of one meter away, and said: "Xiao Wu, this Zhang Song is so strange, just when he turned into a stone statue, there was a big smell of death, and there were some strange breaths, as for what it was, I couldn't smell it for a while." ”

Speaking of which, by the way, the three of us pretended to be the national archaeological team to rob the tomb in the hinterland of Yunnan, because the shape of the ancient tomb is like an inverted bucket, so people in the industry call the tomb robbery an inverted bucket. The treasure that is poured out of the tomb is called the Immortal Vessel, also known as the Ming Vessel. If you want to trace its roots, it can be traced back to the social changes of "bad manners and happy collapse" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when the trend of thick burials arose, and tomb robbery became more and more popular. Since then, the inverted bucket industry has gradually formed its own system in the precipitation of history and gradually improved. Until now, although people's living standards have improved after the founding of the People's Republic of China, many people no longer engage in the business of the head and trouser belt, but the major sects of those inverted bucket schools still exist. When the country has a call, he is an archaeological expert, and when the country is not called, he goes out to do private work. According to regional differences, this inverted bucket can be divided into two major schools in the north and south, of which the southern school is mainly Tufuzi, relying on experience and skills, and is most famous for the four uniques of "looking", "smelling", "asking" and "cutting". The northern faction is divided into four major schools: touching gold, unloading mountains, hair hills, and moving mountains, each faction has different methods, among which it is the most famous to touch the gold of the school captain. In addition to the northern and southern factions, there are also Zhenhai monkeys who specialize in stealing tombs in the water. The ghost hand seems to be a famous Qiu Zhonglang general, and Lao Liu is a native of the southern faction, "looking", "smelling", "asking" and "cutting" are made by him to be perfect, and people give him the nickname Liu Yijue, so he can smell the smell of death. As for what exactly is a dead man's smell, I don't know. As for me, there is no door or faction, but Ghost Hand and Lao Liu have never treated me as a burden, and they were born and died together, and that kind of friendship is indescribable.

"Don't look, he did turn to stone." The ghost hand, who had been silent, spoke at this time.

"How is that possible? What the hell is going on? "I looked at Ghost Hand and hoped he would give us an answer. This guy is always a blockbuster.

But this time, the ghost hand left such a sentence and was silent. Lao Liu's eyes kept flickering, as if he was trying to think about something, and then he spoke: "I'm afraid what Lao Zhang said is true, there must be something wrong with the Wulayan Temple at the west entrance of the village." Let's come to the right place this time, the legendary tomb of the King of Dian is under this land nine times out of ten! ”

"When it's dawn, let's go to the Ulayan Temple." I say.

Lao Liu groaned and added: "This Wulayan Temple is not simple, you have to prepare for it." ”

The ghost hand on the side also hummed in agreement. Zhang Song still could not escape the doom, and the three of us helped Lao Zhang place Zhang Song's body in the lobby, pulled a few pieces of white cloth around, and arranged a simple mourning hall. Looking at the red cloth that had not been removed in the house, we felt very uncomfortable, and we didn't know how to comfort Lao Zhang and his family, so we had to say goodbye, and then go back to the room to rest.

It was already past one o'clock in the morning when I was lying in bed, and my mind, which had been a little dizzy after a day of strange events, was inexplicably sober, and I always felt that something was wrong. As for what was wrong, I couldn't say for a while. I tossed and turned in the first half of the night and couldn't sleep, and I don't know how long it took, but I finally fell asleep in a daze. That night, I had a terrible dream. I dreamed that I was in a swamp, surrounded by endless darkness, and I struggled desperately, but I sank deeper and deeper. I just wanted to call out to Ghost Hand and Lao Liu, but at this moment, I only felt a cold ankle, and suddenly a hand reached out under the swamp and grabbed my ankle, pulling me into the swamp at once! Later, I seemed to be alive and as if I was dead. In a daze, I saw an eerie temple, and there were three mounds of earth in front of the temple, which seemed very abrupt. I wondered in my heart, so I stepped forward and took a look, oh my God! What kind of mound is this, it's clearly three new graves! There are a few big red characters on the tombstone at the head of the grave, I just wanted to see what was written on the tombstone, my heart suddenly tightened, and an inexplicable fear suddenly erupted, as if from the depths of my soul! I let out a scream and woke up.

"Whew...... What a strange dream! I took a big breath and realized that my back was already wet with cold sweat. After recovering from my senses, I carefully looked around and confirmed that I was still in the courtyard of Lao Zhang's house. I don't know why I had such a dream, but the fear that seemed to come from the depths of my soul was so real that it made me feel uneasy! Look out the window, it's already three poles in the sun, it looks like it's almost noon, why don't they call me, Lao Liu? Puzzled, I lifted the quilt and was about to get up, but I suddenly caught a glimpse of a black palm print on my right foot! My heart tightened, could it be that last night was not a dream, but real! I was horrified in my heart, and hurriedly got dressed and prepared to go to find Ghost Hand and Lao Liu. Unbeknownst to me, as soon as I opened the door, an old face full of wrinkles suddenly appeared in front of me, full of pimples and unknown dark spots! The face was unkempt, with white hair, and grinning with charcoal black teeth, and a sinister smile at me: "As soon as you enter Qingshui Village!" Never turn over! Don't turn over! Hahahaha...... The King of Dian is furious! Urahan has appeared! Hey, hey, hey...... Ha ha...... You're all going to die!! ”

Without any defense, I was frightened enough by the rickety old lady, and reflexively took a few steps back: "Old lady, what are you doing here?" "As soon as I opened my mouth, I regretted it, I was full and had nothing to do to ask a crazy woman what she was doing! Sure enough, the old lady smiled stupidly: "Hehe...... Alive...... You're all paper people...... The Tomb Beast is alive! Alive! The Tomb Beast is alive! As she spoke, the old lady's emotions became more and more excited, and her face gradually became hideous, and she stared at me viciously with a pair of reddened eyes. Suddenly, she pounced on me with a strange scream and reached out to my neck!

After the fright just now, I was already prepared, and quickly dodged it. The old lady was about to pounce on me again. I was thinking quickly about how to get rid of her, but I saw a familiar figure flash out of the door, the person rushed behind the old lady as fast as lightning and thunder, and slapped it with a knife, and the old lady didn't even have time to hum and tilted her head and fainted. The man stretched out his hand to catch the old lady, and it was none other than the ghost hand Mo Bingkun.

"How's it going? Did the guy pack up? When do we leave for the Ulahan Temple? I asked.

Ghost Hand didn't answer me, he stared at the crazy old woman who had fainted, and frowned. I followed his gaze and saw that the old lady's wrist skin was wriggling with black stripes like earthworms. What's that? I exclaimed in my heart. The ghost hand grabbed the old lady's arm, pressed the blood vessels, and then took out a dagger and picked it on the wriggling black stripes, and the other hand immediately grabbed the thing, and then pulled it, only to see a small black snake slightly thinner than chopsticks being ripped out by the ghost hand! The ghost hand cut the little black snake into two pieces with a knife, and then picked out several small black snakes from the old lady one after another. I just felt a little tumbling in my stomach and a little numb in my scalp.

The ghost hand put the old lady aside and said to me, "The things are packed, but it's hard to get out now." ”

As soon as I wanted to ask what was going on, Lao Liu ran over quickly and stuffed two steamed buns into me: "Yesterday, all the people in the welcoming party turned into stone statues, and the villagers thought that all this was caused by us, saying that we were ominous people, offended Ula Ran, and brought disaster to their village, and they wanted to worship Ula Ran!" If Lao Zhang hadn't blocked us for us, the villagers would have rushed in and kidnapped us by this time! ”

I turned my gaze to the ghost hand: "What now?" ”

Ghost Hand had already handed us the packed backpack: "The things are packed, they are all in the bag." Let's go out immediately, I'll lead the villagers away, you run to the west of the village, the villagers don't dare to chase, we will turn at the gate of the Ulayan Temple. After speaking, regardless of the opposition of me and Lao Liu, he turned around and rushed out of the courtyard gate. Lao Liu and I had to keep up.

Outside the courtyard, the water that had been surrounded by the villagers was impassable, and as soon as the ghost hand appeared, the villagers were boiling. We have to admire the skill of the ghost hand, only to see that as soon as he left the courtyard gate, he flew up and kicked on an old tree, and with the help of a somersault, he simply climbed over the crowd and fell on the small stone road outside the yard. The villagers were willing to give up and chased after them with hemp rope and firewood knives. At this moment, Lao Liu and I took advantage of the chaos and went straight to the west of the village. Most of the villagers were led away by the ghost hands, only a small number of villagers chased after me and Lao Liu, as we ran to the west of the Wulahan Temple, the villagers who chased us hesitated, looked in the direction of the Wulahan Temple, their eyes were full of fear, after all, they still gritted their teeth and stopped standing in place and shouted at me and Lao Liu.

Seeing that there was no one chasing after us, we slowed down our pace and couldn't help but be a little worried. The ghost hand is good, but the two fists are difficult to beat the four hands, and he is not very familiar with the terrain here, and the strong dragon is not able to suppress the ground snake, and I don't know if he can cope with it. Lao Liu seemed to see what was on my mind, and comforted: "Xiao Wu, you can rest assured, you can't rest assured of the skills of the ghost hand?" It's okay, a few villagers in the mountains and wilderness can't do anything to him. "I thought about it, so I took out the compass from my backpack and tried to identify the lower position, but when I looked at the pointer on the compass, I was dumbfounded! I saw that the pointer on the compass was spinning around like crazy, and I couldn't tell the south, south, west, and north!

"There's a strong magnetic field here, and the compass doesn't work." I say.

"It's okay, let's go all the way west, and we'll reach the Temple of Ulahun." Lao Liu didn't react much, as if he had encountered this kind of thing more than once. I thought about it, Lao Liu is definitely not called Liu Yi in vain, how many tombs have been made by Tufuzi, and I have seen a lot of strange things.

Yunnan, the climate is complex and diverse, and now it is summer, hot and humid. We are in the deep mountains and old forests in the hinterland of Yunnan, the vegetation is dense, the road to the Wulahan Temple has been abandoned for many years, the vegetation is crazy, the sky is hidden, the outside is daylight, but the inside is a black and oppressive hazy, the surroundings are so quiet that it is frightening, not even a song of insects and birds. There was only the footsteps and heavy breathing of me and Lao Liu. The humid and stuffy environment made us drenched, and we didn't know if it was sweat or dew. The shoes are also wet, and every step you take, you will make a gurgling sound from the soles of your feet and the swelling shoes and socks, and you will be sticky and uncomfortable. The ground is also very muddy, and if you are not careful, the soles of your feet will slip and you will fall on all fours.

The damp and humid air inhales the nasal passages with an unknown floral fragrance, refreshing the heart. The further you go into the forest, the denser the vegetation becomes, the darker the light. I don't know how long I walked, my mind was a little trance, numb to control my mechanical forward. Gradually, my mind became more and more confused, and I began to have some confusion about where we were going, and I just instinctively walked forward, and my mind went blank! The fragrance of the flowers became more and more intense, and my breathing became short, and a longing arose in my heart to inhale the fragrance of the flowers into my lungs without a trace.

Something strange happened, and suddenly a path appeared in front of my eyes, and I followed it. After a while, a fork appeared ahead. Just when I couldn't get an idea to go that way, there was another fork in the road! Wrong! It's three forks in the road! Four! Five...... Still not right! Before I knew it, there were countless forks in the road in front of me, and I couldn't count them! And...... Those roads seem to be wriggling! Sky! What kind of road is that, it's clearly a bunch of big snakes! The serpents writhed in an extremely strange manner, and in the midst of them there was an old face. The wrinkled face slowly grinned and showed a row of charcoal black teeth, smiling at me in a dark way!