Wu Li's gaze made me creepy, I felt like a rat being targeted by an old cat, and it wouldn't be eaten for a while, but the old cat was basking in the sun on the side, while grinding its paws leisurely, this sense of panic was a hundred times more uncomfortable than being eaten directly.

I shuddered, and immediately found an excuse to walk away from Wu Li, everyone was busy going down the well, and I was an idler with nothing to do here, so I wouldn't be an eyesore here, just go to the well and have a look.

The general machine well is made of the hollow cylindrical cement tube, which is convenient and safe, but this well is handed down from the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the wall of the well is built up with green bricks one by one, it looks quite a sense of vicissitudes of the times, the green bricks are covered with slippery and greasy moss, I squatted down and tried to touch it, smooth and disgusting.

Damn, this well has to be said to be more than ten meters deep, and the space is narrow, if you let a claustrophobic person go down, you will die below in less than half an hour.

Thinking wildly, as soon as I looked up, Huo Ran saw a person standing behind me in the reflection under the water, his eyes still staring at the back of my head.

The hair stood upside down in an instant, I snorted, and rolled away from the well, joking, this well has a history of more than 700 years, who knows if there are any unjust souls who threw into the well below, and those ancient big families are not good at throwing women who make mistakes into the well! I've heard that if this water ghost wants to be liberated and reincarnated, he must find a substitute for the dead ghost!

When I calmed down a little and looked up, I realized that it was Hong Jinglong standing behind me!

"I said that you are sick, and you came behind people quietly, it is really, scared to death and not worth your life!" I was really frightened, and scolded him in a bit of a rage.

He didn't even look at me, and said calmly: "This well, more than seven hundred years, Boss Tang, imagine that seven hundred years ago, some Ming Dynasty people wearing robes and short fights stood in this position of you and me, and they put the green bricks on the ground one by one, watching the water slowly seeping out from the bottom of the well and cheering, what a wonderful thing, people in two time and space can stand in the same place and touch the same thing." ”

I actually didn't feel wonderful at all, but since he said so, I didn't want to spoil the scenery, and after thinking about it, I finally pulled out a half-written sentence from my mind, and said in a crepe manner: "The ancients did not see the present time and the moon, and the bright moon once shone on the ancients." ”

Hong Jinglong rarely looked up at me, but I vaguely saw a touch of disdain in his eyes, what does this mean? Dislike me for being uneducated? You're a tomb robber and you still have the face to dislike me for being uneducated? Phew!

But this disdain was fleeting, and he immediately regained his composure, and continued: "Do you know why this well is being dug in this place? In the records of the county chronicles of Bailong County in the Ming Dynasty, there was originally a village in this place, the name was very cheesy, it was called Jixiang Village, most of the people in Jixiang Village were hunters, at that time, there were many large wild animals here, and the hunters relied on hunting wild things, and brought their skins to the mountain in exchange for money, which was passed down from generation to generation, when there were wolves here, wolves all over the mountains, and at night the entire hillside was green - that was the wolf's eyes, the wolf's meat was not delicious, a little fishy and shameful, but after the wolf was skinned, After 'pulling' with cold water in the well overnight, the fishy smell and shame in the wolf meat are gone, and it is better than dog meat. ”

Hong Jinglong said vividly, but I pouted disdainfully in my heart, you kid have seen people seven hundred years ago? The mountains are full of wolf eyes, do you think the wolves are your family, and you let them open their eyes?

In order to echo him, I politely asked, "What about later?" Have the villages and people been relocated? ”

He shook his head: "Later, there was a great plague here, the people and livestock in the village were dead, the county commander at that time was afraid that this matter would affect his official position, so he simply bulldozed the village directly, and planted bamboo on it, after hundreds of years of development, the pheasant grave became like this, the legend at that time was that the hunters in Jixiang Village did not pay attention to the rules, and always hunted households, so the heavens were furious, and sent disasters to punish them, but I think it is nonsense, can make a village disappear in this world in an instant and leave no trace, Nothing else can be done by human beings alone. ”

Hong Jinglong's tone was very flat, but I shuddered, and then looked at the surrounding bamboo forests and wells, and suddenly felt eerie, as if there were thousands of unjust souls staring at my neck and whispering, wondering which piece of meat on my body was delicious.

Hong Jinglong rarely opened the conversation box and continued: "The people who live in Bailongyu are the same surname as the people in Jixiang Village, and over time, they regard themselves as the descendants of Jixiang Village, you came out of the tomb in the ground, and the tomb form in that place is very strange, right?" This is the burial tradition of Jixiang Village, the grave pits and corpses there are all preserved from that era in Jixiang Village, and the coffins in the tomb pit are guarded by the people of Bailongyu, and every few years, a new batch of them will be replaced, or they will rot long ago. ”

Hong Jinglong's words solved the doubts in my heart, I said, even if this Bailongyu is remote, it will never dare to let more than a thousand people die collectively, the feelings are their ancestors, and they have replaced them with new coffins, so it makes sense that there is nothing else in the coffin except white bones, it makes sense - in many times of transportation, those funeral goods must have been taken out by them for sale, maybe to buy a good coffin for their ancestors, maybe to improve their own lives, anyway, people are authentic descendants, It makes sense.

I hesitated for a while, but decided to ask about Hong Jinglong's blood corpse, but as soon as I spoke, Hong Jinglong glanced at me expressionlessly, shook his head and said firmly: "That's your delusion, there is a hallucinogenic herb in the canyon, and some of the raw materials in my cigarettes are collected from that crack in the ground, in fact, after you went underground, nothing happened, just your own fantasy." ”

At first glance, Hong Jinglong said it reasonably, I originally clearly remembered that my hand was bitten by a bloody corpse, but after waking up, there was no scar, but for some reason, I always felt that there was something vaguely wrong with this matter in my heart, and I couldn't say what was wrong, as if it wasn't as simple as an illusion.

Hong Jinglong diverted the topic at this time: "Okay, their preparations are almost complete, Boss Tang, I don't care why you go to the pheasant grave, I will try my best to protect you, but you must be careful, inside the pheasant grave, it is a hundred times more evil than you think, a thousand times weirder, you can't pay too much attention, remember, if something happens to me, you will hold Wu Li's thigh, he is in the pheasant grave, he will not harm you, of course, out of the ancient tomb, you have to be careful, He's a murderer after all. ”

Hong Jinglong said solemnly, I naturally nodded and kept these things in mind, he looked around the surrounding environment and then turned to leave, but when he was halfway there, he suddenly stopped, turned around and asked me: "Do you think there is a difference between archaeology and tomb robbing?" ”

What the hell is this problem?

I smiled awkwardly and tried to answer him: "There is a difference, of course there is a difference, one is legal and one is illegal." ”

He seemed disappointed by the question, but he didn't say anything, shook his head and left.

Looking at his back, I couldn't help but have a series of questions in my heart, this kid is very abnormal today, he told me why this big string is coming? Everyone can become a chatterbox, but Hong Jinglong can't.

And the difference between tomb robbery and archaeology, why did he ask me this question? Could it be that he saw that I was a tomb robber before? Then you don't have a reason to hit people, you kid was also a dirt mouse before he washed his name.

I'm afraid that these questions won't be solved in a short time, so I simply suppressed them in my heart, take a step at a time, since the pheasant tomb is so dangerous, of course I have to be vigilant, in case something happens to me I die, it doesn't matter, don't let the little demon and the fat man bury me.

The preparations before going down the well have been completed, Hong Jinglong is indeed a professional, although there are not many things in his backpack, but they are very practical, and most of them are multi-functional, one can be used for several pieces. And he took out the long strip of black cloth wrapped in black cloth from his backpack and carried it behind his back, looking at his cautious and serious appearance, I am afraid that it contains his family heirloom.

A simple tripod was placed above the well, a slender but tough wire rope hung down from the center of the tripod, and the five of us took off our coats, wrapped them in plastic bags and carried them with us, but the little demon changed into a pure black one-piece leather coat, outlining her hot and material figure with a bumpy appearance, I subconsciously swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva.

If the little demon drowns and faints underneath, I will be the first to go up and do artificial respiration!

When I thought about it, Hong Jinglong had already distributed the simple scuba to us, and at the same time calmly instructed: "The air in this can support for twenty minutes, if you feel that you can't hold it back, open this tube and take a shalt, but you must be careful when you suck it, this connection is not strong, in case of water, it will be wasted, I still have the last spare scuba here, whose scuba is broken, come to me immediately, don't delay, do you understand?" ”

"Got it!"

Except for Wu Li, the four of us replied loudly and standard like elementary school students on a spring outing, and a trace of shame flashed on Wu Li's face, as if standing with us was the most embarrassing thing for him.

"Okay, get in the water!"

Hong Jinglong took out a bag of glutinous rice from his arms, put it on his chest and whispered a few words, sprinkled the glutinous rice in the well and observed for a while, the first to hold the pulley on the wire rope, stepped on the wall of the well and slowly slid down.

After his head completely disappeared above the water, I grabbed the pulley that had been pulled up a second time, took a deep breath, and slowly descended to the bottom of the well.

It was so quiet that the light was getting dimmer and darker, and I could only hear my own breathing, and as soon as my legs entered the well water, I felt a piercing cold.

I took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the fear in my heart, and slammed myself into the water.

But when I turned around, I watched a strange and silent grin at the bottom of the well, showing its lipsless mouth at me.