Chapter 6 The Yin Soldier Borrows the Way
"If you really want to leave now, I won't stop you, of course, if you don't leave now, don't play with your children's temper in the future, crying and crying to go back, my most annoying thing is to give up halfway," Lao Zhao sat back and said tepidly, "Also, although as the saying goes, 'Don't be afraid of death, I'm afraid of death and don't fight', but I estimate that there are few people in this world who are really not afraid of death, and you are afraid that I know, but I can pat my chest and give you a packing ticket, with me, I will be able to keep you safe and sound, how about it, think about it yourself. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
I looked at Zhang, and Zhang looked at me, and after a short silence, I shrugged my shoulders and made a "please" gesture to him, which meant that he would say, I listened to him.
Xiao Zhang lowered his head, bit his lip and thought about it seriously, I have to say, this guy's appearance has reached a certain level, almost bursting, this serious appearance does not look ordinary handsome, it can even be said to be charming, under the light of the hazy moonlight, it seems a little unreal, if my appearance is one-tenth of this guy's, I still can't find a girlfriend? No wonder those women revolve around him all day long, and to be honest, even I have a bit of a control...... Forehead...... Phew.
"Dry, since you have said so, how can there be any reason not to do it," Xiao Zhang popped out a few words from between his teeth, "But Lao Zhao, look at your familiarity with the tomb of King Zhen this week, what is in it, you must be able to feel it clearly, even if those ordinary funeral goods are national treasures, you don't need to spend so much effort to prepare, you have to tell us first, what is the purpose of our trip, what is there in the tomb of King Zhou Zhou, so that so many people can rush to die one after another?" ”
"It's still your kid who is clever, but ......" Lao Zhao patted him on the shoulder, sighed and said, "It's not because I don't want to tell you, this thing is too bizarre, you will never believe it when I say it now, and you will think that I have a problem with my brain, in short, that thing is only good for you, no harm, it is useless to say anything now, you will all understand when you get to that place, we have been playing together for so long, I still can't believe it, I won't hurt you!" ”
Although this sentence sounds a bit fake, Xiao Zhang and I both know that it is an absolute truth.
"That'...... Let's go, Xiao Li, what do you think? Xiao Zhang looked at me.
"I'm fine, but ......," I bowed slightly, "it's the middle of the night, the door must be locked, how can we get out." ”
"Xiao Li, hurry up and find me two thinner wires, and I'll let you see Zhang Ye's craftsmanship today." Zhang Sanfeng said, crossed his hands, and pressed the joints to "crackle".
"You can also pick locks?" I was blown away.
"That's right, didn't that foreign Ya say it, give him a lever, he can pry the whole earth, I'm like him, if you give me two wires, I can pry open the door of the vault." Xiao Zhang rummaged around while talking nonsense.
Lao Zhao didn't speak, but opened the back window, took out the rope and tied a live buckle on the window, stepped on the waist and "rubbed" to the window sill, pulled the rope to the arm, and jumped down as soon as he turned over.
Seeing Lao Zhao beckoning to us below, I drew a gourd with Xiao Zhang in the same way, and also slipped down the rope, I didn't control the speed and strength, the friction heat burned my hands painfully, and I fell when I landed, and my eyes were full of gold stars.
Under the window is a small vegetable garden, we packed up our equipment, along a muddy dirt road around to the road in front, it is late at night, there are no pedestrians on the street, even the vehicles are scarce, the headlights illuminate our faces a little white, the night wind whistling by the side, it is a little biting cold, I took out the second pot head and poured a mouthful, only to barely suppress the chill rising from the bones.
I drove in a daze, and under the guidance of Lao Zhao, I turned around for a long time before finally leaving the town, passing through a mountain village, and coming to the mountain pass.
I drank a lot of wine, and I was already a little dizzy, and I was so sleepy that I almost fell on the steering wheel several times, but fortunately this place is remote, and there are no pedestrians on the road in the middle of the night, otherwise I would have had a car accident.
As soon as I arrived at the mountain pass, I saw a huge cylindrical thing on the side of the mountain road, which should be the stump of the thousand-year-old locust tree that the sister said.
When I passed by the stump, I glanced at it inadvertently, but I didn't think that it was this glance that almost scared me to death, and the smell of wine all over my body turned into cold sweat and flowed down, and when the wind blew, I immediately lost all my sleepiness - I saw a person sitting on the stump!
I didn't dare to look closely, but I vaguely caught a glimpse of the man sitting motionless with his back to us, dressed in a tattered coat.
An ominous premonition suddenly rose from my heart, and I hurriedly stepped on the accelerator, and the car paused, and suddenly there was a roar from the engine, and then the engine was turned off.
No, I said in my heart why do I carry it so much, the yin qi in the middle of the night is the heaviest, and the locust tree is the most capable of attracting ghosts, and many people have been hanged on it, if this is really something that is not clean, but how to be good!
I looked at Lao Zhao, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, and found that he was also looking at the "man" sitting on the stump with a serious face, and his hand was already pressed on the handle of the shotgun.
"Ah~" I couldn't help it anymore, I screamed out in my throat, and Xiao Zhang, who was still asleep in the back seat, was immediately woken up, wiped his face with his hand, looked at my sight, and suddenly opened his mouth wide in shock, unable to say a word.
Where is a person, it is clearly a skeleton in human skin!
The skeleton stood up tremblingly, and walked towards us tremblingly, the joints of my body "clicking", I closed my eyes and didn't dare to look again, desperately twisting the key, this damn broken van couldn't catch fire even if it was alive or dead.
Lao Zhao opened the car door, picked up the gun and was about to go down to give it two shots, when he heard a "whew" wind sound, a black shadow came out from the back of the car, and crashed straight into the skeleton, the skeleton was knocked backwards, I fixed my eyes and saw that the black shadow that came out turned out to be an old man with white hair holding an iron crutch.
The old man stood still, aimed at the skeleton's head is a stick, the head is like a watermelon hit by a truck, instantly bursting open, the old man took advantage of the victory to pursue, a few breaths of effort to beat the skeleton into a broken bone.
Lao Zhao threw the gun into the car, strode forward, and arched his hand at the old man, "Old man, I didn't expect you to be so old, and you are quite ruthless." ”
"That's it, people are not ruthless, they can't stand steady," the old man laughed, his voice was like a flood of bells, and I felt a "chuckle" in my heart, and sure enough, the old man's next words were beyond all of our expectations, "The old man Li Zhanwen." ”
When I heard it, I was stunned, didn't this Li Zhanwen die a long time ago? Otherwise, how could the girl say that this was the story her grandfather told her on his deathbed?
"Who should I be, it turned out to be your old man," Lao Zhao arched his hand again, "Your deeds have been told to us by my granddaughter, which is really admirable." ”
I applaud Lao Zhao's question in my heart, because it is not just a simple polite remark, but a temptation.
"My old man has never been married in his life, and there is no one to support me at all, where is my granddaughter?" Li Zhanwen's tone was steady, and there was no expression on his face, "But a few days ago, a little girl followed an old man to me and inquired about some old things from decades ago. ”
As soon as I heard this, I was blinded instantly, and then I looked at Xiao Zhang, his face changed, and I immediately understood in my heart, the three of us were deceived by that girl, I didn't expect that a little girl who looked quite young turned out to be a master of deception, and the highest level of lying is adulterated in truth like this, false in truth, true and false, false and real, difficult to distinguish, unpredictable.
It's just that how much of what she said to us before is true and how much is false? What is her motive, it shouldn't just scare us, if that's the case, it's a bit boring.
"Thank you old man for helping, then, if there is nothing to do, we will leave first, and we will go to bother another day," Lao Zhao said and got into the car, fastened his seat belt, and patted me who was still stunned, "Drive!" ”
"Wait," Li Zhanwen slammed the cane in his hand to the ground, "I know what you guys do, I guess you also know what is in this mountain, and I won't stop you, but you can think about it, it's easy to get in, but it's hard to get out." ”
"Not necessarily." Lao Zhao smiled, took out a cigarette, and handed it to the old man.
"Oh?" Li Zhanwen took it, Xiao Zhang immediately got out of the car, took out a lighter and lit it for him, Li Zhanwen took a puff, and spit out a puff of smoke with a "poof", "The old man dares to ask you, what is the purpose of a few people entering the mountain late at night?" ”
"For the sake of a period of cause and effect," Lao Zhao said, "You don't hear it, the reincarnation door is open, and the six Jiazi are six." ”
When Li Zhanwen heard this, he paused for a moment, and then laughed, "Do you know, because of this sentence, how many people have entered this mountain with the same purpose as you over the years, and now, there is no one alive, no corpse is dead, and the age of the three of you dolls combined is not as big as my old man, if you just fold it inside, it is really a pity." ”
"The old man said that, it's a little unlucky."
"I'm just here to give you a head up, nothing else, okay, that's all it takes, it's your business to listen to him or not, if you really want to leave, I won't stop you, I hope we can meet again." The old man threw the cigarette butt to the ground, stepped on it twice, then turned around, wiped his head and walked away without the slightest hesitation.
"You're in the same league as them, aren't you?!" Lao Zhao suddenly shouted, I knew he was cheating on the old man, but the old man was not frightened, but he really scared me and Xiao Zhang.
Li Zhan didn't look back, didn't shake off Lao Zhao, walked straight to the village, and soon disappeared into the night.
Lao Zhao didn't chase after him, leaned back on the seat, cocked Erlang's legs, hummed a little song leisurely, patted me and signaled me to move on, and the purpose of coming with me was to be a driver for him.
"I said Lao Zhao," Xiao Zhang teased, "Aren't you bragging all day long that you are an old man, how can you let a little girl put on a show?" It seems that the little girl and Old Man Zhou are in the same group. ”
"Not necessarily," Lao Zhao smiled coldly, "Not only did I see through their tricks, but I also deliberately let them steal a map, otherwise, who would show us the way?" He said and pointed to the marked route into the mountain on the guide chart, it seems that this guy has installed a locator on someone's body.
"Then you're not afraid that your big benefits will be taken by these people?" I asked.
"Don't worry, the one they got is fake, it's really on me," Lao Zhao smiled and took out a map from his arms, "The map they got will guide them to the closest and most dangerous tomb to the main mausoleum, if they go there, they are guaranteed to be eaten by the zongzi and there is not even a residue left, and they can only complain that they have bad intentions, self-inflicted, and cannot live." ”
Lao Zhao's eyes flashed with a touch of fierceness, and I sighed, compared to these old rivers and lakes, we are still too tender.
I didn't continue to talk and honestly drove the car.
By the trouble just now, where do I still have a little sleepiness, those winding mountain trails are not as good as the road just now, no one has repaired at all, it is simply rugged, there is no width of a car in some places, half of the wheels are going to hang in the air, and then yesterday there was a lot of rain, the car always skiddled on the muddy mountain road, accidentally fell down the valley, it must be a car crash, I just learned to drive, and I am a novice, so I dare not have a trace of slackness, worry, Cheered up the spirit of twelve, the car drove like a turtle crawling, Rao was like this, or was scared half to death, cold sweat.
Looking at Lao Zhao and Xiao Zhang, one of these two guys was humming a little song with Erlang's legs crossed, and he didn't know what he was thinking about, the corners of his mouth were almost up to the root of his ears, and the other was lying on the back seat with his head covered by his clothes and sleeping like a dead pig, so angry that I wanted to scold my mother.
I shook my head, no longer paying attention to them, but moved my attention to the front, staring intently at the very limited area in front of me illuminated by the headlights, there was no distraction in my head, but I didn't want me to be driving, Lao Zhao suddenly shouted "stop quickly", I was scared, and stepped on the brake, "squeak" a sharp sound, the car stopped abruptly, and the huge inertia almost slapped me on the front windshield.
I became angry in an instant, how could Lao Zhao be so shocked, and he didn't tell someone to drive well, you said that if I didn't step on the brake but on the accelerator, then the three of us would all have to go to see Lord Yama, and I would be a fart!
"Look at the back," I haven't been mad yet, when I hear Lao Zhao whispering these four words in my ear, my heart sank suddenly, and I immediately turned my head, and I saw behind the car, a fog that was darker than the night, like a black tide, surging towards us at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"This ...... What is this? "This thing is obviously beyond my cognition, I can only turn to Lao Zhao, the backbone of our team, this almost omniscient figure.
"Miasma," this guy spoke so succinctly for the first time, just two simple words, and there was no explanation.
"Miasma...... That's ......" I was about to ask, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and suddenly remembered, Lao Zhao told us before, this "fog miasma" is also called "ghost qi", the legend is that it is the yin qi leaking from the underworld, the color and form are different, from time to time in the deep mountains and old forests, in Yunnan, the "Lingnan miasma" recorded in the ancient books is one of them, but this black "fog miasma" is really not very common.
I was thinking about it, the fog miasma had swallowed up all of our cars, my vision was pitch black, I could only see the front lights under the fog emitting a faint bean-like light, the fog was getting darker and darker, thicker and thicker, like a pool of ink that could not be dissolved, I stretched out a hand and waved it in the air, and vaguely saw that the fog was stirred, forming a turbulent current, and I didn't know if it was real or my hallucination.
I simply closed my eyes, relaxed and leaned back on the seat, quietly feeling the passage of time, neither of us spoke, the atmosphere was a little quiet for a while, I could hear my own breathing and heartbeat, as well as the slight snoring of Xiao Zhang in the back, X, this kid hasn't woken up yet.
Suddenly, there was a soft sound of "poof", followed by the sound of Lao Zhao gasping, I opened my eyes suddenly, and instantly saw clusters of dark blue ghost fires lit up in the pitch-black mist.
My family is in the countryside, I have nothing to do at night, I often go to the field with my friends to play crazy, but I have seen a lot of ghost fires, but those ghost fires often appear alone, and they will not be as full of mountains and fields as they are now, nor will they be like a torch like now.
"Du~" The dull and long horn sound suddenly came up from the valley on our right, and those ghost fires jumped as if they had heard the order, stepping on an unhurried rhythm, automatically lined up in two rows, from the mountain wall to the valley bottom, all the way down, with no end in sight, spectacular.
Then, there was a creepy sound of metal grinding at the bottom of the valley, far and near, equally rhythmic, and then, two rows of skeletons in broken armor slowly climbed up from the deep valley.
In the middle of them, there was a group of black-haired monsters dressed in white silk and with their heads, these monsters seemed to be prisoners they were escorting, and the black iron chains with the thickness of two arms were wrapped around the feet and necks of each of them, connecting all the way down, the sound of metal rubbing was emitted by this iron chain, and what made me even more stunned was that just when I thought they were going to hit the mountain wall, these "people" actually melted in and disappeared without a trace, It was as if they were not facing a solid rock, but a gate, a gate to hell that we could not see.
I subconsciously wanted to scream, I didn't want to open my mouth, and I was covered by a pair of powerful hands, which were Lao Zhao's hands, stuck on my cheeks like iron tongs, making me almost unable to breathe.
I stretched out my hand and patted his wrist lightly twice, indicating that I had come back to my senses, and Lao Zhao let go of his hand and whispered, "In this place, how can there be a Yin soldier to borrow the Dao......"
At this time, Xiao Zhang woke up from his sleep and yawned, I turned my head to wake him up, so as not to be frightened and called out directly, but I didn't expect that just half of the turn, I suddenly bounced up from the seat, and then was strangled back by the seat belt, I have no doubt that if I didn't practice the seat belt, I would definitely put a big hole in the top of the car.
Because I saw a strange white face on the window of the car twenty centimeters away from me!