In the 21st year of the Republic of China, Zhang Baoguo was rushing towards Jigongling, Chu Fangzheng and the people he brought with him had no news for three days, and Qiantang Village, which had become quiet, also became panicked here.

"Since those bandits didn't come to the village, why is this Chu Fang still going to trouble them?" Zhang Baoguo complained to himself, with a bald plure on his mouth, but his heart was like a well with a bucket, and there was no real bottom of the scale.

This Chu Fang is the big landlord of Qiantang Village, although his family is big and powerful, but he is a master who loves to fight and fight, and he is warm-hearted, he is known as a chivalrous here, and he is less than forty years old, and he has established a very high prestige in the village.

As soon as the bandits arrived, Chu Fangzheng found District Chief Ma and went to the county to ask for help, but who knew that the county officials did everything possible to shirk and did not send troops, saying that the troops had been requisitioned and transferred, so that they could find their own way for the time being.

Chu Fangzheng scolded angrily, "Eating imperial food, don't do anything." He went back to the village, and then quickly made arrangements to persuade the chief to form a militia and prepare to carry the bandits to the death.

Qiantang Village was already fierce in people's customs, and as soon as Chu Fang called for it, a group of young men who were newborn calves were not afraid of tigers, and they applied one after another, and within a few days, a decent militia team was formed.

Surprisingly, the bandits didn't seem to have any intention of looting the village at all, and disappeared after entering a cave in Jigongling. This is a good thing, but Chu Fangzheng doesn't think so, he can't figure out that the gang of bandits have arrived in Jigongling, and they don't forget to come to the village, the more he thinks about it, the more he mutters in his heart, and he always feels that these bandits have a greater purpose, so he found three young men in the village who are vigorous and timid as tigers to go to Jigongling overnight to investigate the movements of the bandits.

When Zhang Baoguo heard about this, Chu Fangzheng had already gone to Jigongling, and he was so angry that he couldn't stop scolding: "Reckless, this character of the dog day is still so reckless." ”

Chu Fangzheng is good at everything, but it is too easy to do things, and he is a donkey temper, so don't think about pulling back ten cows when he decides.

To say that this Zhang Baoguo is also a character, after moving from Sichuan 20 years ago, he has been living on the Taiping Mountain near Qiantang Village, calling himself a Taiping Taoist. He is idle by nature, advocating the Taoist idea of doing nothing, and likes to be a hermit, but unfortunately the outside is cold and the inside is hot. The surrounding villages choose a cemetery, look at feng shui, or encounter any evil things, they will invite Zhang Baoguo.

Especially the zombie incident that occurred in the village in the 15th year of the Republic of China, it was not Zhang Baoguo, the consequences were unimaginable, since then, he has become a local living immortal, and it was also in that incident that Zhang Baoguo and Chu Fangzheng became good friends, Zhang Baoguo was going to be ten years older, and he deserved the title of a big brother.

Whenever there was a leisure moment, Chu Fangzheng would bring a pot of wine to Taiping Mountain to drink and chat with him, chatting about the world, and the relationship between the two became closer and closer in the drunken wine. The people in the village joked, saying that Chu Fang was closer to men than to his mother-in-law.

Therefore, after no news for three consecutive days, Zhang Baoguo couldn't sit still after all, and hurriedly packed his luggage and prepared to go to Jigongling for a walk. Before leaving, he found the chief of security and instructed: "If you don't come back for two days, take the villagers to Taiping Mountain to hide for a while." ”

After receiving the promise, he went to Jigongling single-handedly.

This Jigongling is less than 20 miles away from Qiantang Village, and its shape resembles a rooster standing tall and gets its name, but its reputation in the local area is not good. During the Guangxu years, the west side of Jigongling was landslided because of heavy rain, I didn't expect to rush out of countless corpse bones, there were people, there were also a lot of animal bones, dense, all over the ground, as if entering the Asura field, in the middle of the night, the ghost fire was raging, and it was bright and bright.

It took nearly 10 days for the villagers to dig a grave and bury the bones together, and since then, strange things have happened frequently on this Jigong Ridge, and all kinds of rural rumors have spread, and gradually, except for the occasional person who chops wood, no one has gone anymore.

Zhang Baoguo finally found the cave when the sun was setting, and he didn't take the rural legends on Jigong Ridge seriously, for him, it was just an ordinary mountain.

This cave is located on the west side of the mountain, next to a huge rock shaped like a frog in the air, as if about to reach the sky, the mountain forest behind it is like a garden to wrap the cave in it, the entrance of the cave is almost completely covered by vegetation, very secret. He did not rush into the cave, but looked around, familiarized himself with the surrounding mountain terrain, and then plunged into the cave.

As soon as I entered the cave, I was shivered by the wind blowing inside, and it was like falling into an ice cave on this dog day when it was so hot that it was smoking. It took a while for Zhang Baoguo to get used to it completely, so he didn't stop any longer, and continued to walk in with a torch.

The entrance of the cave is not big, but the inside is spacious enough, and under the background of the firelight, the strange stones, stalactites, and stalagmites in the cave all appear to be shadows and shadows, strange and hideous. The walls of the cave were full of holes, some large and some small, large enough for two people to get into, and small enough to be the size of a finger. This area has a rugged landscape and many caves, but the deepest is only more than ten miles deep, and Zhang Baoguo prepared six or seven torches, which is enough to find a round trip.

He counted the distance and walked in, and after walking a few miles, he couldn't help but mutter, and there was almost no light in the depths, the torches were extinguished, the thick darkness was breathless, and in the silent space, except for his own footsteps and heavy breathing, he could no longer hear the slightest sound, and a fear of the claustrophobic environment permeated Zhang Baoguo's heart, as if the whole mountain was pressing on him.

Just when he was a little at a loss, suddenly his eyes lit up, and a shuttle gun appeared in his eyes a few steps away, which was a relatively unique weapon in the local area, using a smooth and translucent bamboo pole or branch, covered with a sharp pointed iron piece, into a shuttle-shaped spear. The appearance of the shuttle gun means that Chu Fangzheng and they have indeed entered this cave, Zhang Baoguo let out a long breath, and the haze in his heart has gone a lot, thinking that Chu Fangzheng is in this cave, Zhang Baoguo's state of mind is completely different, but this shuttle gun is thrown here, I am afraid it is not good news.

I only hope that those bandits didn't kill them, no matter what, Chu Fangzheng is the most powerful family here, and the bandits should not ask for their lives as soon as they are caught. The strange thing is that Chu Fang has been in the cave for three days, if he is caught, why are these bandits still not moving?

Could it be that Chu Fangzheng was not arrested at all, and was still dealing with them in this cave? You must know that many of the caves here are connected to each other, and Chu Fangzheng followed several fist and foot masters when he was young, and he is very skilled, so it is very likely that he has started a guerrilla war with those bandits in this cave.

Zhang Baoguo picked up the shuttle gun, but the more he thought about it, the more clueless he became, so he simply didn't bother to guess anymore, and sped up his pace to explore the depths of the cave.

After turning over a hill made of rubble, there was still no bottom in it, Zhang Baoguo was already sweating at this time, the torch in his hand was changed twice, and it was estimated that he had come in for almost ten miles. There are many branch caves along the way, and Zhang Baoguo can't find them one by one, so he has to go along the main cave.

"Holy shit, these bandits are really looking for a place." Zhang Baoguo couldn't help but scold, took a breath and planned to go in a little further.

At this moment, a gurgling sound suddenly sounded in the silent cave, and as soon as Zhang Baoguo's scalp exploded, the whole person froze in place, and a layer of cold sweat instantly broke out on his body. It was a voice he knew all too well, and a few years ago it had enveloped the entire village like a nightmare.

How could there be zombies in this!

Like the gurgling sound of boiling water continued to sound, tormenting Zhang Baoguo's ears, he took out the peachwood sword in the back basket, and moved the sword in one hand to move towards the sound step by step, and soon determined that the sound came from a hole in the wall of the cave on the right hand side.

Grunt......

Zhang Baoguo swallowed his saliva and bent down to look into the hole, but the sound stopped abruptly, the hole was dark and dark, and nothing was found in the light of the torch.

Did I hear it wrong? It's just the sound of some insects in the hole. Zhang Baoguo straightened up blankly, and when he came back to his senses, he found that the clothes inside had been soaked in cold sweat, and he couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly.

Grunt.

The voice sounded again, like thunder in Zhang Baoguo's ears, but at this moment the voice came from the top of his head, Zhang Baoguo instinctively looked towards the sound, and saw a miserable white face staring straight at him in a hole above the oblique. Rao is Zhang Baoguo, who has experienced a lot of strong winds and waves, also screamed in fright at this moment and retreated again and again.

Facing Zhang Baoguo, who reacted violently, his face was still expressionless, his eyes were staring at Zhang Baoguo, but his body jumped out of the hole like a slingshot, and landed a few meters away from Zhang Baoguo.

When he saw the appearance of the two of them, Zhang Baoguo was stunned for a moment, "Hu Erwa, Chu Guangxi, how could it be you?" ”

One of them was the son of Blacksmith Hu, and the other was Chu Fangzheng's cousin, both of whom came with Chu Fangzheng, Zhang Baoguo hurriedly glanced at the other holes on the cave wall, and no one else appeared.

Listening to Zhang Baoguo's questioning, the two did not react in the slightest, one face was empty, dead and heavy, the eyeballs were covered with a layer of gray shadow, and there was a thin white hair on the skin.

Why did they become the way they were? What about the others? Zhang Baoguo's whole body was cold, and he recalled the zombie incident a few years ago in his mind, just like the two people in front of him, his whole body was stiff and his face was expressionless. At that time, after dealing with the zombies, but the reason for the zombies has not been found, could it be that the source is this cave? In the blink of an eye, countless questions passed through his mind, and before he could think deeply, the two of them pounced on him like a wind, and every time he moved, the joints on his body sounded a crackling sound, and a strong fishy smell pierced Zhang Baoguo's nose sour.