Taiping Evil Cloud Chapter 41 Swimming against the current
"How can you still run into this line of ...... here?" Seeing that the target of his reckless actions turned out to be the legendary eternal evil array "Red Flow Array", Lao Liu's sweat beads also came down, although he didn't say it, but his demeanor revealed an obvious fear, "Find!" Keep looking! There must still be! ”。
"Looking for what? What else? Zhuang Ning was a little confused.
"That's it!" Zhang Guozhong pointed to the small stone pile dug out of the ground, and began to look for it with Lao Liu, not long after, he also found a similar stone pile in the mirror position on the other side of the stone pile, according to the ratio of the position of these two stone piles and the stone pile, the four of them found the third stone pile in the center of the creek not far away, it seems that the layout of the so-called "Red Flow Array" is that the three stone piles are arranged in an equilateral triangle, and the iron drill with the stump is surrounded in the middle. I don't know.
"I understand why Brother Tong returned empty-handed......" Looking at the three small stone piles in front of him, Zhang Guozhong thought thoughtfully, "It is very likely that this thing is the formation to protect the treasure, and he will not break it, so he went back......"
"I don't think it's ......" Lao Liu's face sank like water, and he said with a heavy heart, "Although this formation is a forbidden formation, after all, it is his Zhengyi's formation, how can I say that the old boy has also studied with Yuan Shaoyi for more than ten years, I can break the formation, can he break it?" I think there is something else strange about this, Guozhong, it seems that this matter is ...... We've got to think long-term! ”
"But senior brother, you're crooked! You broke the Gu technique, and after you broke it, you found out that it wasn't a Gu technique! Zhang Guozhong said, "Told you in advance that this is the Red Stream Array, do you dare to set up the Cauldron Array?" ”
"Zhang Zhangjiao. Can you tell me, what is this array for? Compared with the formation in front of him, what made Qin Ge more curious seemed to be the change in Lao Liutou's attitude, before breaking the formation, he was not afraid of the sky and the earth. Why is there no energy when the formation is broken now?
"What exactly...... I don't know! Zhang Guozhong shook his head, "According to legend, the only time this array appeared was in the Tang Dynasty, and legend has it that there was an official in the Tang Dynasty, and more than 30 members of the family were wiped out overnight, as if it was because of this array, many people's heads were pulled out of their bodies alive." This kind of power is obviously not done by ordinary people, but I don't know what it is! ”
"Destroy the door?" Qin Ge's expression was mune, as if he was contemplating, "Zhang Zhangjiao." Is there any mention of a motive for committing the crime in the legend? ”
"Motivation?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned for a moment, "What other motives do you need for those things in the palace, does this have anything to do with the purpose of our trip?" ”
"Zhang Zhangjiao, have you forgotten that Zhao Le 1?" Qin Ge smiled, "I was ordered by the emperor to crack the 'Chisel Dragon Array', but then because of collusion with the Han King Zhu Gaoxu to rebel, Zhu Di ordered to destroy the door." If the official of the Tang Dynasty was really destroyed by someone else for this reason, then this array might not be the crown of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at all, but something from the Tang Dynasty. This also explains why Mr. Tong returned empty-handed! Because he found that the treasure was not what he was looking for at all! ”
"I said Shangxian, you were sent by Lenovo Group, right?" Upon hearing that Qin Ge suspected that it was something from the Tang Dynasty, Lao Liu Tou looked disdainful, "I'll tell you what the motive is!" This case is called the "Decapitation Case", which is sporadically recorded in the "Biography of Di Renjie" in the "Old Tang Book", and the official who was destroyed at that time was called Lu Sitong. was unusually promoted to Xiao Sima at the age of thirty, and it was clear that he was taken by Wu Zetian. Di Renjie found out to the end, and found Zhang Changzong 2. The motive for committing the crime was because Zhang Changzong was worried that Wu Zetian would throw himself off, so he spent a lot of money to find a capable person from the rivers and lakes to steal the formation, and wanted to use this kind of evil formation to kill Lu Sitong unconsciously, but he didn't expect to make such a big move, including Zhang Changzong and the people who stole the formation, no one expected this formation to be so powerful! Although the case was solved afterwards, Wu Zetian personally came out to intercede with Di Renjie, and the case was over. Are you thinking that Wu Zetian will bury some treasures in Yunnan because of this incident? ”
"Mr. Liu, please don't use the topic to play." Qin Ge said expressionlessly.
"Mr. Zhang, I want you to ask you to tell me, what is the purpose of the national tiger's trip?" At this moment, Zhuang Ning finally couldn't hold back, it seems that the purpose of the old man's trip is by no means a simple hiking camp, "What are we doing now?" ”
"I ...... Didn't I tell you everything? Zhang Guozhong was also a little confused, this woman's comprehension ability doesn't seem to be weak, the night before he spat and said hoarse in order to explain the evil things on Tong Guohu, why did he still ask?
"But you just said that there seems to be a ghost on the body of the national tiger, and his soul is lost!" Zhuang Ning said, "But ...... But what is the purpose of his coming to such a place? I don't think he's just camping! ”
"Of course it's not just camping!" Zhang Guozhong sighed, "Actually, he was looking for something that could deal with the ghosts on him!" My son once talked to him once, and according to his own words, the ghosts in his body caused his family to suffer misfortune, and the deaths of his parents and grandparents seemed to be related to the things in him, so he almost did anything to get rid of the things on his body! ”
"You mean...... Will his family have misfortune because of what he has on him? Zhuang Ning thoughtfully, "So, he rejected me because of this?" ”
"Huh? Theoretically...... It should be like this...... "Listening to Zhuang Ning say this, Zhang Guozhong also suddenly realized, it seems that this is really the case, it seems that he is really old, and he is slow to respond to things such as feelings and human nature, and his mind is full of firewood, rice, oil and salt all day long, and the whole person is too realistic and numb, at first I misunderstood that the old brother of the family picked the fat and thin, and put such a righteous girl and pretended that the grandson did not want, it was another motive for other motives, in fact, people are simply noble personalities, afraid of affecting the innocent, How can such a simple truth be complicated by one's own thoughts?
"That'...... The explosion just now, is it also helping the national tiger wake up? ”
"Theoretically, it should be helpful to Mr. Tong, but it is difficult to say how much it can play a role...... "For Zhuang Ning's question." Zhang Guozhong really doesn't know what to say, the girl is holding this hot pot, you can't say that we don't actually know anything, and we're blind, right? "At present, we are not sure whether Mr. Tong's condition is directly related to this thing! …… But whether they have a relationship or not, this thing is not a good thing here. It doesn't hurt to break it......" Until the end, Zhang Guozhong was still excusing Lao Liutou's reckless actions.
"I understand......" After listening to Zhang Guozhong, Zhuang Ning pursed his lips and nodded, without saying a word.
Because it was getting late, the few people simply camped on the meadow, preparing to set off early the next morning to find the other five coordinates. After dinner. Lao Liu Tou and Zhang Guozhong washed the small stone piles used in the Chiliu Array in the stream and wrote down the "Chiliu Mantra" on it, and found that even if the spells on the three stone piles were all put together, it did not seem to be a complete spell, because the spells were incomplete, so they could not see why. It is impossible to judge the principle of action of this array, it seems that if the coordinate points on the GPS are all stone piles with red current arrays, you need to dig out all the stone piles of those stone piles, so that it is possible to piece together a complete spell, so as to judge how this array takes effect and how to completely crack it.
The next day, under the leadership of Zhuang Ning, several people quickly found the second stone pile, which was beyond everyone's expectations. On the compass, this stone pile does not have the phenomenon of high-frequency needle skipping like the first stone pile, and even if you open your eyes, you can't observe any resentment. It appears to have been broken, but the pile itself shows no signs of being destroyed, and there is no sign of spell casting or formation around it. After removing the stones, several people found that the stone pile was no longer a hand bone, but a human head.
"It's unheard of...... "Staring at the human head in the dirt pit. Zhang Guozhong also inevitably felt a little creepy, I really don't know why this evil thing has existed in Zhengyi for so long. The Tang Dynasty made such a big fuss, why not say that it was burned down to prevent future troubles. "Senior brother, do you think this stone pile was broken by Tong Guohu, or was it broken by the burning kettle array yesterday?"
"It's not like the old boy's broken ......" Lao Liu Tou was also a little weak, "There are no traces around here, if it is really the old boy's broken, in this kind of barren mountains and mountains, there is no need to clean up the scene so clean......"
"Could it be that such an evil thing really broke the cauldron array?" To be honest, Zhang Guozhong always felt that things were not so simple, how could an old man be able to break such an unobtrusive formation with such an unobtrusive formation as the Cauldron Formation unscathed? But it's not broken, the second stone pile is really nothing, and yesterday's earth-shattering "Sky Breaking" is definitely not an auditory hallucination, according to the theory of Taoism, but if you hear the sound of "Sky Breaking", it must be broken by something, and it can make such a big movement, which means that this array is indeed not simple, but the sound should be broken and there will be no fake......
"Forget it...... Guozhong, don't think about it! Let's take a look at the other stone piles first...... "Lao Liu Tou didn't do anything, he simply pulled out the folded production and opened the weeds and began to look for the stone pile, and after a while, several people found the same small stone pile around the stone pile as before, and there was also a stone pile buried in the center of the stream.
"Senior brother, I found one thing...... "Taking out the stone pile from the stream, Zhang Guozhong frowned, "The two stone piles are on the edge of the stream, and there is also a stone pile buried in the water. ”
"Quite possibly!" Lao Liu Tou has washed the remaining two stone piles at this time, after the spell and yesterday's copy, it can be connected, the two spells are put together, although it is still incomplete, but it can already be seen some eyebrows, the so-called red flow spell at the spell level and Maoshan used "Dingmen Array 3", the basic principle of the Dingmen array is to use magic weapons and spells to artificially create a closed environment, trap the grievances in it, and prevent the grievances from "out of the circle" in a short period of time, but in the Maoshan technique, The Dingmen Array only exists as a preventive primary formation, and its effect on the resentment of the climate is relatively limited, and at present, although this Chiliu Spell is similar to the spell of the Dingmen Array in terms of spells, the structure of the spell is much more complicated, and the actual effect is more than an order of magnitude stronger than that of the Dingmen Array judging by experience. "These three stone stakes, the function should be to trap the things inside, the incantation gathers yang, but another stone stake is buried in the water, and the water is yin. That is to say, among the three stone piles, the yang energy buried in the water is the weakest, and if the things trapped in the stone pile are forced to rush and the dog jumps over the wall and wants to run out...... Definitely from the water...... Walk out of the water. Where can I go? Standing on the edge of the stream, Lao Liu Tou looked upstream along the stream, only to see that the mountains were stacked with snow peaks, and the streams in the mountains were nothing more than melted snow, and the source was likely to be above the snow line. Is it true that you have to climb to the top of the mountain to find out?
On Tong Guohu's GPS, the six coordinate points are arranged in a serpentine shape, and judging by the formation of the Chiliu Array, these six coordinates are the location of the six Chiliu Array stone piles. It should be evenly distributed along the upstream and downstream of the stream, in order to avoid the snow line as much as possible to avoid directly climbing the mountain, Zhuang Ning planned a low-altitude route, and the curve formed by these six coordinates is exactly in a T-shaped arrangement, that is, the first red stream array found yesterday is actually the fourth coordinate in the GPS instead of the first.
After finding the pile of rocks nailed to the human head, there were no more coordinates further downstream. The men then turned their heads upstream, and in about five or six hours found the remaining four stone piles, the bones of the hips, collarbones, feet, and spine nailed with iron hammers. It seems that in order to set up this evil array, at least one buddy must be dismantled. Like the second one, the other four appear to have been broken, and there is no sign of practice around them.
"Are there any other coordinates?" After finding the last stone pile that seemed to have been broken, Zhang Guozhong was a little confused, and the six coordinates on the GPS were all red stream arrays. There is no such thing as a treasure cave, what is this Tong Guohu doing in the mountains? Find six Red Stream Formations. If you don't break it or destroy it, watch it and it's over? It's obviously illogical.
"No......" Qin Ge ticked the GPS locator. All recent positioning records on this instrument have only these six coordinates, and the previous record is half a year ago, and it is not the latitude and longitude of the Northern Hemisphere. ”
"Blame...... Then why did he come to the mountains? Zhang Guozhong had a question mark in his head,
"Strange indeed!" Qin Ge said with a gloomy face, "I had a suspicion at the beginning, there is a gap of one or two days between the positioning time between each coordinate, and our travel speed is not fast, but it only took one day to find all six coordinates!" It seems that it is probably not as Mr. Liu said, he spent the past two days looking for coordinates, and these stone piles can be found along the stream, so there is no need to deliberately look for them. ”
"Shangxian, we have to talk about this, at the door of the supermarket for a while, the girl suggested going back, it was you old boy who said that if you come, you will be safe, you have to come up and take a look!" Lao Liu Tou looked unconvinced.
"Mr. Liu, I don't blame you......" Qin Ge said disapprerovingly, "The most terrible thing in the world is not to make mistakes, but to shirk responsibility. ”
"Damn it, even if you are too high-ranking and descending, I have to fight with you......" Lao Liu Tou is about to do it......
"Why don't we look for it any further!" Zhang Guozhong didn't bother to look at the two old and indecent fights, "I think this Chiliu Array is definitely not just a stone pile, there must be something on it!" ”
"If you come, you will be safe, since you are here, you might as well continue to look for it!" Old Liu Tou said in Qin Ge's tone.
In the evening, several people found a cliff along the stream, although it is not steep, but if you want to climb up, you have to use a rope, and the stream water flows out of a cave on the cliff, about 30 meters from the ground, depending on the size of the hole, it is not a problem for a normal person to enter and exit in and out of a half-squat.
"Could it be...... Tired of being in a cave? Zhang Guozhong looked up at the cave and then at his watch, "Why don't we camp here first, and then go in early tomorrow morning......
"Okay...... old Liu Tou put down his backpack with a sigh, took out bread and ham sausages and ate it in a big bite......
——————
1 Zhao Le: A bachelor of the Hanlin Academy during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, he was ordered to crack the dragon array of Bashan to protect the treasures of the Later Jin Dynasty, and was later ordered by Zhu Di to kill the nine clans for colluding with the Han King Zhu Gaoxu to rebel, see "The Inheritance of the National Treasure Seal of the Descendants of Maoshan for details".
2 Zhang Changzong: A native of Dingzhou Yifeng (now Anguo, Hebei), he was born heroic, and he is one of the most trusted male pets in Zetian.
3 Dingmen Array: For details, see Chapter 7 of "The Skull of the Tomb Robber" in the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection of the Descendants of Maoshan. (To be continued)