Book 1: The Cave of Snow Ridge Chapter 27: The Lower Tomb (1) Fudi Dragon Ditch
After coming out of the swallow's room, I briefly told everyone about the swallow's situation, and then went straight to the point and asked Uncle Nine how to completely break the swallow's Gu.
Uncle Nine responded while packing up the tools he had just used, "Gu has been circulating for thousands of years, and it has always been shrouded in a mysterious color, and usually Gu can only be cracked by those who have done it.
According to the record in "Hundred Ghosts and Evil Arts", Gu is the art of evil witches, and those who are in the Gu can only break it if they are under the Gu, if it is not, they can only know where the Gu comes out, what Gu it is, and what worm it refines, and if you get this Gu formula, you can break it. ”
Father Yanzi seemed to understand and asked Uncle Jiu, "Master, can you say it directly, how to break the Gu on Yanzi's body?" Uncle Nine said, "Now we can only find what poisonous insect the first mother of the ghost corpse blood Gu was made of, and then find Qi Kexing's medicinal materials, we can completely break the Gu on the swallow girl, but it's a pity that we completely wiped out that heartbroken madness that night, along with the mother Gu in his body, and now it's a little difficult to know what kind of poisonous insect that Gu is made of." ”
Father Yan anxiously asked, "What should I do then?" Where can I know what the Gu is made of? Uncle Nine said, "The best place to raise that ghost corpse Gu is the tomb, if I guessed correctly, the heart-wrenching madness that we destroyed that day should be the Gu in the tomb, the ghost corpse Gu is generally not a single one once it is cultivated, and now I just don't know that it came out of that tomb." ”
As soon as I heard this, I was overjoyed and said, "The swallow is saved, I know where the tomb is." ”
Everyone looked at me at once, except for the fat man.
I took out the notebook and photos I found in the wooden house from my backpack and gave them to Uncle Zhang, and said, "Now that you have nothing to hide." ”
After Uncle Zhang took the things and looked at the diary in his notebook, he burst into tears, sighed alone and muttered, "No wonder Erzhuzi suddenly disbanded us back then." ”
Then we found a place to sit down, Uncle Zhang lit a cigarette, his eyes fell into memory, and he said slowly, "It's been almost twenty years!" I came to this Jade Dragon Snow Mountain with my master (Uncle Shangguan) and Erzhuzi, Brother Xu (fat father), looking for an ancient tomb, as for what kind of ancient tomb it is, even my master and they are not very sure.
Because of the ancient tomb and its concealment, we know that we can not find it in a day or two, so we set up a studio in the forest, that is, the wooden house you saw last night, and then we searched for more than half a month to find the tomb where it is, when the master went down to the tomb, because of the danger inside, he did not let me in, I waited for them outside for a day and a night, they came out, but empty-handed, only Brother Xu was safe and sound, Erzhuzi and my master seemed to be injured, and soon after, Erzhuzi disbanded us. ”
After hearing this, Uncle Nine asked, "Then can you still remember the location of the ancient tomb?" Uncle Zhang thought for a while and said, "I have an impression of the general direction, but I can't remember the specifics." ”
Uncle Nine said, "That's okay, I still have a little research in Feng Shui, since ancient times, the location of tombs is inseparable from Feng Shui, as long as you can remember the approximate location." Then he looked at me and the fat man, and said, "Looks like we're going to have to go down to the grave." ”
I don't know why I'm a little excited in my heart, maybe it's like my dad said, the beast will always return to the forest, and the bloody will always brave the tiger's den in Longtan. Maybe I love adventure in my bones, otherwise how could the psychedelic Gu fantasize about that day.
As for the fat man, he is also happy to bloom, since I picked up the baby yesterday, he ended up empty-handed and his heart was itchy, and he always wanted to get something treasured, and when it came to the treasure tomb, there were naturally countless of them.
But this tomb is not just a matter of going down, we need a little preparation, we have the basic equipment, just gas masks. Speaking of this gas mask is indeed a difficult matter, where to find a gas mask in this poor country? To get out of this village from this valley, it takes more than half a day to rely on the 11th bus (two legs) because there is no means of transportation.
This back and forth is a day and a half, and the fat man and I are naturally fine, but the swallow can't wait, Uncle Nine said that the medicine lasts for two to three days at most, and the specific location of the tomb is not clear, so I still can't waste time on the way to buy equipment, which is really a tricky problem.
The fat man suddenly thought of something, slapped his thigh and said, "Aren't there a few anti-gas mouths in the wardrobe on the second floor of the wooden house in the forest, I saw it with Ngawang before, although it is a little old, but it can still be used." ”
I suddenly felt that the few things that I and the fat man usually didn't even want to look at suddenly became babies.
Now that things are basically alive, I will leave tomorrow, because Uncle Zhang said that I will pass by the wooden house when I go to the ancient tomb tomorrow, so I and the fat man don't have to rush to get it, anyway, there is no one in the barren mountains and mountains, and I am not afraid of losing it.
Because the tomb is very important, I don't think you can do it blindly, at least you have to know that it is the tomb of that dynasty, the dynasty is different, the mausoleum is naturally different, and the anti-theft organs inside are naturally different.
I had seen a record of speculation about the ancient tomb of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Uncle Shangguan's diary before, so I told everyone about it, so that everyone could analyze and analyze it together.
The diary talks about three possibilities about ancient tombs, the first two are historical legends, and the last one is myths and legends, so I talked about the first two first.
In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, there were many tribes in the Erhai area, and they did not serve each other, and at that time, the lord of the Nanzhao Kingdom was looking for the mountain to worship Yue, and had given the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain as the North Mountain.
The Nanzhao Kingdom was an ancient kingdom that rose on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the eighth century, founded in 738 AD and died in 902.
In the Zhenyuan period, Tubo was in trouble, and a famous minister of the Tang Dynasty, Yue Nanzhao, attacked Tubo and drove Tubo to the west of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Tibet was established by the ancient Tibetans on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and lasted for more than 200 years.
According to legend, a general of the Southern Zhao Kingdom died in the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, and the site of the tomb was in the area of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
There is also a historical legend that in the Yuan to Shun years, a king of Yunnan and so on rebellion, Sichuan provincial soldiers to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain to defeat it, at that time the kings had a son is the commander of the army to resist the war, the result was unfortunately defeated Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, on the spot to apologize. The kings loved their sons, and the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain was considered by the locals to be a sacred mountain and was revered, so the kings ordered people to build a mausoleum for their beloved sons in the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and use a large number of gold, silver and jewelry as burial goods.
There is also a myth and legend, according to legend, there is a guardian god called "Apu Sanduo" in the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, she is the incarnation of a magical snow stone, the legend is that the three flowers are wearing white clothes and riding a white horse, often manifested, protecting the people of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain for generations, the local people also specially built a temple to worship the three flowers, so there is a three flower festival, which is very famous in the local area.
In Uncle Shangguan's notes, it is recorded that the true body of the three flowers may be in the belly of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, and it is said that there is a temple deep inside the belly of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, and the temple was formed naturally by the cracking of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain when Pangu opened the world, rather than man-made.
Legend has it that there is the true body of the mountain god Sanduo and countless gold and silver treasures, but after all, it is only a legend that no one has been able to find the entrance to the belly of the mountain, so the specific authenticity remains to be investigated.
After I told everyone these three stories, everyone look at me, I look at you, no one knows that the ancient tomb that Uncle Shangguan and they are looking for is in that story, even Uncle Zhang doesn't know.
In the end, everyone looked at Uncle Nine in unison, and Uncle Nine frowned and said, "What are you doing with me?" How do I know which story is true. ”
The fat man stood up and said, "It doesn't matter which mausoleum the hell is in the story, it's true that there are mausoleums anyway." Let's go find out tomorrow, no matter what trap it is, fat brother, I'm afraid that he is a bird, and he is still walking on the ground. Since the beginning of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, have we walked less ghost gates? No, there is not a single hair missing, I'm afraid that it's a bird, I have made up my mind about this tomb fat man. ”
After listening to the fat man's high-spirited and passionate speech, I was also somewhat infected, and it was not my style to be timid, not to enter the tiger's den, no matter which tomb, we would do the same anyway, not to mention that the swallow was still waiting for help.
Say it! We roughly discussed the plan, tomorrow Uncle Zhang will lead the way, I, Uncle Jiu and the three of them will go to the grave, and Swallow's father will stay at home to take care of Swallow, and after the discussion, they will go back to their rooms to sleep, recuperate and recharge their energy for tomorrow's dangerous journey.
The next day, when the sky was just dawning, our group of four set off, the temperature was very cold during the period when the sun had just dawned, and the temperature was even lower under the influence of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, so we shivered in the cold, in order to warm up the body, I proposed to let everyone trot up.
When we arrived at the wooden house in the forest, the sun had already peeked out half of the mountain in the east, and the sunlight broke through the morning mist, driving away the cold air, and a ray of sunlight began to warm the earth.
By me and the fat man on the wooden house to get the anti-poison mouth cover, there are just a total of three, although it is very old, but it can still be used to tinker, because it is a long time, it tastes a little bit, but it is better than inhaling corpse poison in the tomb, because the tomb has been buried deep underground for many years and there is no air, so there will be corpse poison inside.
Uncle Zhang hadn't been here for 20 years, and he often remembered the wrong way, and took us around a lot of unjust roads, and it wasn't until noon that we walked not far from the tomb.
Everyone was tired after tossing all morning, so they rested on the spot, ate some dry food prepared earlier, drank some water, and continued to set off.
To get to the location of the tomb, we need to enter a small valley, but when we get to the front of the valley, we find that the entrance to the valley has been blocked by a pile of rocks rolling down from the top of the mountain, and there is no way out.
Seeing this, Uncle Zhang told us, "It seems that we are going to take a detour, we didn't go in from this road back then, but we only found this road when we came out, but now it's blocked." ”
After tossing all morning, everyone was tired of tossing, but it turned out to be in vain, and the fat man sat on the ground with his butt "I'll go!" Before I could find this tomb, I was exhausted to death. I can't do it anymore, so I'd better rest in place. ”
Since Uncle Zhang said that it would only take an hour to enter from here, but the detour is estimated to be half a day away, so the time is tight and cannot afford to delay. The fat man reluctantly stood up again, patted his ass and continued to follow us.
We went all the way back to the place where we had set up our tent before, bypassed the meadow where the fat man and I picked the leaves of the mortar last night, and walked down the valley from a small road, until we entered the belly of the valley and saw a big jungle in front of us, the weeds on the jungle ground were overgrown, all growing between our thighs, Uncle Zhang told us that because this jungle has always been infested with wild boars, the villagers used to set up a lot of traps in this jungle to catch wild boars, and we had to be extra careful every step.
For the sake of safety, one of us found a thick branch as a guide stick, because if we accidentally caught the trap of the beast, it would directly break the bones, and the foot would basically be wasted, so we didn't dare to be sloppy at all, and used the branch to explore the road before every step.
This slowed down our journey again, and it was about four o'clock in the afternoon, and I began to worry about whether we would be able to find the tomb in the evening.
The fat man walked next to me, and while probing the way with a branch, he talked nonsense with me, saying "Ngawang! You said that if there is really a wild boar, we will make one later, and then start a fire and burn it, then you can eat roasted wild boar for dinner. ”
While carefully exploring the way, I said to the fat man, "Fat man! Can you not worry about eating all day long? Besides, wild boars don't come out during the day, they only come out at night, so you better walk seriously and don't wait to fold here. ”
I only heard a "click" while speaking, and the blind guide stick in the fat man's hand, which was as thick as an arm, was cut off by the trap in the grass, and I saw that the trap was full of wide and large sawtooth, which was slightly deviated and cut off the fat man's leg.
I patted the stunned fat man on the spot and deliberately said, "It's okay!" Wealth and danger are sought! The more dangerous it is, the greater the harvest in the tomb after a while. ”
The fat man wiped the cold sweat on his head and said, "Fuck your uncle, don't stand and talk without backache!" ”
It took us about an hour or so to get out of the jungle.
After coming out of the jungle, Uncle Zhang introduced: "The place we are now on is the edge of the Voldelong ditch, and we will arrive after a short walk in front of the Voldelong ditch." ”
"Voldedragon Gully!" This name sounds very powerful, from Uncle Zhang's mouth, I know that Voldelonggou is the only way to get to the tomb, it is a crack in the ground, from the mountain range of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the tomb is at the foot of the back of the snow mountain, and the mountain range is just from the middle to block the way into the tomb, so we can only pass through the crack.
Voldedragon ditch is named because every night, when the bright moon is in the sky, when the moonlight penetrates the crack, the shadow cast by the crack is like a black dragon lying on the ground, which is also the key to finding the tomb.
According to Uncle Zhang, Uncle Shangguan and the three of them had their own abilities, Uncle Shangguan was proficient in feng shui, Uncle Xu was proficient in assessing whether the funeral goods were worth anything, and Erzhuzi was proficient in various traps.
As he spoke, he suddenly found that there was no road ahead, only a small river, and there was a pool of water at the foot of a mountain in the upper reaches of the river, which just broke the river at the waist, but the pool of water kept blistering out of the flowing water, and the source of the river should be flowing from the other side of the mountain.
Uncle Zhang said that there was no water here back then, just a small cave running through both sides of the mountain. It seemed that I could only dive through this pool of water, so I asked Uncle Zhang, "How long is the cave?" Uncle Zhang recalled and said, "It's about 100 meters!" "The fat man and I grew up by the sea since we were children, and we know a little bit about water, and more than 100 meters is not a problem for me and the fat man.
Say it! So he and the fat man took off their clothes and wore only a pair of trousers. Before entering the water, I bit the scimitar in my mouth to protect myself from the attack of an unknown creature.
The water is not much deep, almost two meters deep, just into the water to feel the water special ice, the ice is biting, there is a cave under the pool, it is the other side of the mountain, the interruption of the tunnel is convex, the structure of the whole cave is like the word "convex". The fat man and I just looked at it for a moment, then took a breath and continued to dive to the other side of the tunnel.
After arriving on the other side of the mountain, I went separately with the fat man, the fat man went to find dry branches to prepare for a fire, warm clothes, and roast the body, and I tied a stretch slipknot with a climbing rope, and waited to pull our equipment and Uncle Nine and them, because Uncle Nine they are not good at water.
During this time, I accidentally saw some leaves that looked like taro leaves, and they were very large. I cut some of it, thinking that I could use it to wrap the equipment later, so that the equipment would not get wet.
Taro leaves, including lotus leaves, etc., have dense micron-sized waxy papillae on the surface of the leaves, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, and under the electron microscope, these papillae can be seen to be attached to the surface of each micron-sized papillae and are densely packed with nano-sized particles similar to their structure, which is what keeps the leaves from getting wet.
I found a tree at the entrance of the cave and fixed it, and then swam back. Then we packed our equipment inside and out with taro leaves, according to the method agreed in advance, the fat man pulled over there, and I pushed underwater, because of the principle of water buoyancy, so although our equipment was very heavy, we still got it quickly, and then went back to pull Uncle Nine and them over.
I was tired and cold after such a toss, but fortunately the fat man had already lit the fire in advance, and all of us roasted our bodies in front of the fire, because the equipment was used to make measures with taro leaves, so it was basically not wet, and we only needed to dry the pants and bodies we were wearing, which did not take much time, and the work of two cigarettes was done.
Voldilonggou can be divided into three sections, the first section is the green shrubs, because there is no activity here for many years, so these shrubs grow particularly vigorous, dense and dense, at first glance it looks like a green ocean, the wind blows the grass on the ground layer by layer fluctuations like green waves, the scenery is beautiful and picturesque.
As soon as you walk to the entrance of Voldedragon Gully, you can see that the fissure is in a "V" shape that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.
Before entering the ditch, the fat man saw an animal-like crouch lying motionless on the grass at the entrance of the ditch.
As we approached, the fat man and I immediately recognized it as the bobcat from last night, the bobcat's eyes were wide open and foaming at the mouth, and it looked like it was dead, but there was no wound on its body, and it didn't look like it had been killed by some beast.
Suddenly, I saw the bobcat's belly move, I thought it was too tired and dizzy, so I asked the fat man, "Did you see its belly move just now?" ”
The fat man also saw it, took out the sapper shovel and said, "I see." As he spoke, he moved the bobcat with a sapper shovel, and when he first touched it, the bobcat's whole belly immediately swelled and moved, as if something was jumping in it, and then a spider the size of a walnut came out from under the belly.
The fat man smiled and said, "It's okay! It's a spider that ends its last day on earth by stepping on it. ”
Uncle Jiu and I smiled indifferently when we saw that it was a spider, but Uncle Zhang's face changed suddenly, and he shouted, "It's not a spider, it's a tick, everyone quickly retreat." ”
As soon as Uncle Zhang finished speaking, a group of ticks poured out from under the belly of the bobcat like a spring, and then I saw clearly that it was the size of a walnut, the body was tan and faintly blood-red, with a small black pointed head, and four thin feet on each side of the bulging body.
Ticks, also known as ticks, are temporary parasites of cervical vertebrates, which can burrow into animals and humans, suck blood for food, and bring infectious diseases. There are many kinds of ticks, according to statistics, there are more than 800 species in the world, and there are more than 100 kinds in China, and they are common in wild grasses. Once in Henan there were people bitten by ticks and died, the general tick in the body is only the size of a grain of rice when not sucking blood, after sucking blood, some can be as big as soybeans, some can even be as big as human fingernails, but like the size of this walnut I still see for the first time, it is estimated that this deep mountain and old forest is relatively easy to raise, so it grows so big.
Swarms of ticks like marching ants, have rushed to us, if it is one is good to say, but the swarms are in trouble, at this time no one can care about anyone, just desperately run backwards, I ran while shouting to the fat man "Fat man!" Use fire quickly. ”
Then he said to Uncle Nine and Uncle Zhang, "Let's block it for the time being." "After saying that, I first took the shovel surface of the sapper shovel, and slapped it on the front tick with a shovel, and killed eight or nine of them directly with a shovel.
Seeing this, Uncle Nine also used the sapper shovel that Xiao Jing used before to follow me and beat it like a drum, and the fat man threw his sapper shovel to Uncle Zhang, and then ran to find a dry branch to ignite the fire, Uncle Zhang directly dropped the old-fashioned fire * gun in his hand to catch the sapper shovel thrown by the fat man, and followed me and Uncle Nine to be very lively, and they were in a hurry.
For a moment, the sound of the collision of sapper shovels and the screams of ticks echoed into the ears, like a fierce symphony. I, Uncle Jiu, and Uncle Zhang were shooting in a panic to save their lives, and we didn't know how many ticks were left.
The fat man lit a torch and ran over, and when he saw this, he said, "I'll go!" It's all already filmed, what else are you shooting? Energetic, isn't it? ”
I kept slapping and said to Uncle Nine and Uncle Zhang, "I can't stop at all, what about you?" I saw that Uncle Nine and Uncle Zhang had already stood up and stopped slapping. At this time, I found out that the tick had been eliminated by us, and the bloody corpses on the scene were in a mess, and the sapper shovels and trousers in the hands of me, Uncle Jiu and Uncle Zhang were all blood.
I was just scared stupid and forgot how many ticks can be hidden in the body of a bobcat more than one meter? All the ticks chasing us have already turned into meatloaf under the indiscriminate shovel of Uncle Zhang, Uncle Nine, and me.
We went back to the waterhole just now and then continued to set off, after such a toss the sun has returned to the west, when we reached the ditch again the last red glow dyed by the sunset also disappeared at the end of the ditch of the ditch of the Voldedragon ditch, replaced by the darkness and gloom of the ditch*.
As soon as I arrived at the mouth of the ditch, the cold hairs on my whole body stood up unconsciously, and I saw that the dragon ditch was as deep as a black hole......
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