Chapter 12: The Place of Removal

Chen Blind saw that there was stagnant water in the bottle mountain, and couldn't help frowning secretly, worried that the underground palace was soaked in too much water, and the rain would have caused great damage to the erosion of antiquities.

A group of people around the bottle mountain to feel the row of surveys, continue to see some stone mound stone workshop, most of them are the remains of the Song and Yuan Dynasty before the building, in the Yuan Dynasty were demolished and destroyed, the Yuan tomb has no ground buildings and stone steles, but some of the subtle signs of rammed earth sealing stones, still can not escape the eyes of the thieves in the unloading ridge, these places should be burial pits, there will be no valuable licensed goods in them, Chen blind man while watching and ordering the red girl under his hand to paint the bottle mountain type on the paper for later use, there is a way is "a thousand feet to see the potential, a hundred feet to check the shape", when watching under the mountain, Due to the limited field of vision of people, they can only observe the shape and it is difficult to distinguish the situation, so it is drawn into drawings and looks more detailed.

Although the whole strange-shaped rock mountain is stripped and sinister, it still occupies the principle of yin and yang, it seems to be extraordinary, Chen Blind Man circled around the mountain, when the sun was about to fall, he did not dare to stay in the dense forest for too long, and was about to take people back to the temporary command post in Yizhuang, but halfway through, he suddenly saw an empty grave pit that was dug up in the forest, and the glands and gophers were shocked when they saw people coming, and the weeds had grown in the tomb, and it was a mess, seeing this situation, Chen Blind Man remembered one thing coldly, and grabbed the collar of the cave barbarian, whispered and asked: "Yesterday you said that there was a corpse king buried in the bottle mountain?" But what is the truth? ”

When the cave barbarian was asked about this, the expression on his face suddenly became even more ugly than that of a dead man, as if a great calamity was coming: "The leader of the Good Sect knows that there is no way to go to the belly of the mountain, and no one dares to go. ”

If there is a chance to dig up the soil and open the coffin, no matter how far or near the time of death, as long as it is buried near the bottle mountain, the body in the coffin will disappear, the coffin seal soil is intact, and no outsiders have moved, but there are only some porcelain bottles and bamboo chopsticks left in the coffin, and the murder clothes worn by the dead body are also placed as they are, and the buttons have not been unfastened, but the corpse can not see the corpse of a star.

The local people have a legend that before the Yuan soldiers came, Bottle Mountain was a forbidden place for the emperor to alchemy, in addition to the peculiar terrain here, it is a natural cave blessed land, there is also an important reason that Xiangxi Chenzhou is rich in cinnabar, and the mercury extracted from it is an indispensable raw material for alchemy.

After a long time, the rock and soil of the bottle mountain got the medicine gas that can dissolve the corpse and eliminate the bones, the corpses buried in the mountain are only a stream of corpse gas, with the air flow of the leylines to move, the trace is uncertain, so the name is "the place to move the corpse", only the ancient corpse of the general of the Yuan Dynasty in the belly of the mountain died because it was the evil art of the cave people, the zombie is difficult to decay, and the medicinal power of the elixir in the tomb is refined.

It is said that since the ancient tomb cracked, every few decades in the past, some people have seen zombies in the mountains with armor in the mountains, all say that they have seen it with their own eyes, not a lie, the custom of chasing corpses in Xiangxi is prevalent, and it is particularly believed that zombies are haunted, so it is rumored that there is a corpse king buried in the bottle mountain, and those who go into the mountain to rob the tomb to collect medicine are all killed by zombies and Yin soldiers, so everyone talks about the color change, which eats the bear's heart leopard dares to enter the ancient cemetery palace in the belly of the mountain?

Chen Blind Man sneered when he heard this, he was well-informed, how could he be frightened by the words of these natives, he had heard the name of "corpse removal place", but it was only the legend of Wu Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, how could there really be a corpse removal place in the world? The Yuan tomb has always been buried deep in the treasure, and there are many Western Regions Fanzi's skills to prevent theft, and the funeral goods are not as luxurious as the princes and grandsons of the Middle Earth, and they have never been the first choice of tomb robbers.

But the commander of the Yuan army buried in this bottle mountain is in front of the death array, when he exterminated the barbarians of the seventy-two holes, the looted things must be heavy, plus the treasures enshrined by the royal family in the bottle mountain in the past dynasties, the abundance hidden in the palace and the underworld, I am afraid that it is not much worse than the emperor's tomb, but the situation of this ancient tomb is unique, there are fewer people but can not move, and the location is remote, the news is isolated, it is to know that there are fewer people in modern times, otherwise it should have led the crowd to come to the fight, and how to wait for today, now that the opportunity has come, it seems that it is the opportunity for the group of thieves to achieve great things.

Chen Blind thought that his group of people was foreign, not very familiar with the local customs, it was difficult to do things without a guide, and he couldn't kill people, but he must first let this guide feel at ease, otherwise he said that he missed his mouth and incited the army's morale, but it was not trivial, so he said to the cave barbarian: "It's not that Chen boasts, the people of Xiangyin, all know that my Chen shopkeeper is the best at catching ghosts and chasing corpses, and I have a bold temperament, and I am willing to support good people, and now I plan to lead a group of subordinates to eliminate harm for the people, and remove the zombies in the bottle mountain, if you are willing to help, There must be no benefit to you. So saying, he gave the guide ten pieces of ocean.

The guide of the cave barbarian saw that this Chen Da shopkeeper made a bold move, and Na Luo Dashuai could kill people with his eyes, if he did not follow the scene, he would be on the spot, these two ancestors had a red face and a black face, no one could afford to offend, in this situation of both soft and hard, he wanted to escape and could not escape, in order to protect his life, he had to obey his words, even if he went up the knife mountain and went down to the oil pot, he had to follow, and he didn't dare to say a word, and then passed through this burial pit that was hollowed out by the bandits, leading the group of thieves back to the old Xiongling Yizhuang.

After repeating several times of "stepping on the plate and touching the game", Chen Blind and the others already knew in their hearts, just waiting for the dumb Kunlun Moeller to arrive with the engineer battalion, and then they could start to act, Luo Lao was so anxious that he kept asking Chen Blind if the treasures in the underground palace could be carried? Are the Yuan soldiers and generals buried in the ancient tombs of the Yuan Dynasty all Mongolian fans?

Chen Blind said that these days have not been visited in vain, and learned many reasons, although this ancient tomb has been cracked since the Qing Dynasty, but first, the terrain is treacherous, and secondly, there are many poisonous insects in the organs, and it is difficult for a small group of tomb robbers to get their hands on it, and nine out of ten in the underground palace may be a mountain of treasures, and those who are worried are just worried about the serious erosion of wind and rain.

In addition, the Yuan Dynasty generals are not all Mongolian Tartars, when the Yuan army swept the Western Regions of the Northern Kingdom, the division of the south and Gengzi year into Beijing of the Eight-Nation Alliance is almost the same, are the Western Regions of the Fan State coalition army, among which there is no lack of surrender and defection of the Han troops, so the funeral customs may not be exactly the same, they will make the Bottle Mountain this cave blessed land as a tomb, but also a vain attempt to suppress the dragon gas of the Southern Dynasty, the Bottle Mountain has been a royal forbidden place since ancient times, there are many institutions to prevent drug theft from ambushing, sealed into the tomb after the large collection, most of these machines were retained, and later entered the mountain to rob the tomb, but for this verse is to be guarded against.

It was dusk between the conversations, and the dumb man came with three mixed teams of men and horses at dusk, and the more than 100 thieves under Chen Blind Man, although they were improvised, but most of them were familiar horses, although they were not messy, but the troops under Luo Lao's crooked hands were basically a rabble, and these soldiers who were selected into the sapper digging battalion were either smoking big cigarettes, or prostitutes, or playing with sives, almost all of them were guys who wanted money and didn't want to die, and only they dared to rob tombs and dig graves, without any taboos.

Luo Lao crooked is a thorn in the eye of several warlords nearby, a thorn in the flesh, he left the nest and went deep into the hinterland of Xiangxi to rob the tomb, he didn't dare to make a noise at all, it was completely secret, he was mainly worried that other warlords would come to sneak attack, in addition to the tomb robbery after all, the reputation is not good, once it spreads, he will become the target of the public, so he does not dare to lead a large army, every time the tomb is robbed is an engineer battalion with a pistol company, and in Xiangxi Laoxiongling tomb robbery, in order to quickly conceal, after the end of the matter quickly withdraw, the night is long and dreamy, It is best not to take more than three to five days in the whole process, this is not like being on your own turf, you can seal the mountain in the name of the exercise, and you can toss it as you like.

Chen blind man saw that the people and horses were ready, this person moved a lot of movement, can not be delayed, must act as soon as possible, immediately ordered everyone to tie the left arm with cinnabar-soaked red silk, so that the three teams of people and horses can identify each other, and then camp around Yizhuang, rest until midnight and pull out separately, a team of nearly a thousand people, under the guidance of the cave barbarian guide, lead the mule and drag the horse, with a lot of baggage, by the moonlight, the mighty drive to the bottle mountain, in order to block the news, all the people encountered along the way, regardless of Yi Han, all the captured, as a porter with the army, As soon as it was dawn the next day, the sapper digging battalion arrived at the gate of the Bottle Mountain Pass.

The group of thieves did not dig the tomb gate at the mountain pass, or wanted to save some trouble, cut directly from the cliff on the top of the mountain into the ancient cemetery palace, the mountain road is tortuous and steep, the horses have been unable to go up halfway up the mountainside, so they have to pick up the materials they need by the porter, the long team winds up the mountain along the bluestone ancient road, looking back from the head, like a yellow dragon climbing the ancient bottle and squirming upward.

On the morning of the same day, the clouds and fog in the bottle mountain were extremely thick, looking up at the high place, it seemed to be in the clouds, and when they reached the high place, the clouds and mist were at the foot again, and the sappers of the digging battalion also knew that this was going up the mountain to rob the tomb. In the past few months, there has been no pay, and at this time, seeing that there is finally an ancient tomb to dig, everyone is gearing up, shaking their spirits, and rushing to follow the chief up the mountain, although the mountain road is difficult and dangerous, but there is no complaint.

In fact, the hundreds of people in the engineer battalion, in the matter of the inverted fight, mainly play the role of coolies, the real role is still Chen Blind's group of subordinates, these 100 thieves, each of them carried a big bamboo basket, which contains the unique secret weapon of the group of thieves "centipede hanging ladder", this thing is a kind of bamboo ladder combined by knots, when the group of thieves in the mountain is upside down, all the people who go up the mountain and down the stream, encounter difficulties and obstacles, are inseparable from this instrument.

"Centipede hanging ladder" disassembled, is a section of small arm thickness of the bamboo tube, the material makes the most tough thatched bamboo, wrapped dozens of times in the oil pot, bent into the shape of a full bow will not break, each section of the bamboo tube at both ends, there are buckles on both sides, the barrel body has two bamboo body thickness of the round hole, when using one of the longitudinal connections, like a long bamboo pole, both sides and then horizontally inserted into the bamboo tube for people to step on, the top is equipped with hanging mountain hundred claws, from a distance, live like a bamboo centipede.

When the cliff can not be climbed, a person takes turns to use two "centipede hanging ladders", hooked in the gap of the turquoise, you can quickly climb the dangerous cliff, and the name is "hanging mountain", it is not only used to climb the mountain, "mountain" and "bucket" are the synonyms of the ancient tomb, the mountain refers to the mountain mausoleum, because the robbery hole or the robbery hole destroyed by explosives is narrow, it is difficult for the tomb robber to carry large instruments into the hole, the "centipede hanging ladder" that can be disassembled and assembled can be disassembled into countless small sections, carried by everyone on the body, in this kind of narrow entrance on the occasion, You can enter and go freely, not limited by the terrain, some ancient tombs are iron rope hanging coffins, in order to prevent water seepage in the underground palace, the coffins are hung high in the tomb with iron rings, supplemented by bamboo ladders, in the process of inverting the bucket saves a lot of effort, the prototype of this "centipede hanging mountain ladder" is evolved from the tools used by the Red Mei Army in the Han Dynasty to attack the city, and has been repeatedly modified and improved by dozens of generations, and has become such a style today.

Chen Blind led the crowd to the top of the mountain, and saw that there was still a colorful mist rising in the rift valley, but it was already much weaker in the near noon, and the poisonous pythons and poisonous insects in the mountain were all born to like yin, and at this time they must be dormant and could act, so they made a move, and ordered the porter to pour bags of lime into the deep stream, and the lime bags broke when they fell into the valley bottom, and the lime contained in it splashed and boiled, no matter what vicious poison it had, it could not bear this burst of violent choking, even if it was lucky not to die, it would definitely escape far away.

However, in the hurry of the engineer battalion, only more than 200 bags of lime were prepared, and when they were thrown down, they were scattered by the mountain wind, and the rest wanted to cover the valley floor, which was really a drop in the bucket, and it seemed far from enough.

Everyone saw that the lime was not enough on the top of the mountain, and they were so anxious that they stomped their feet again and again, but they should also succeed this time, this lime sprinkled down, or played a great effect, the deep mirage gradually disappeared, leaving only the empty white mist, Chen Blind planned to send three or two skilled people to explore first, so he asked: "Which one is willing to go?" ”

The two of them had the intention of finding an opportunity to show their skills in front of the thieves, and at this moment they expressed their willingness to risk death to find out, and the blind man praised him for being brave enough, and ordered the two of them to go down the cliff.

These two people bowed down to receive the order, with a piece of five poison medicine cakes in their mouths, carrying a pigeon cage for testing poison, carrying a box cannon and a short knife around their waists, covering their mouths and noses with black robes, dragging two "centipedes hanging mountain ladders", only to see them use the bamboo ladder to change upside down, through the clouds and fog, and disappeared in an instant, and the rest of the people looked down on the edge of the cliff on the top of the mountain, pinched a sweat for them, whether they were dead or alive depends on the creation of these two people.