Chapter 22: The Tomb
"There are several possibilities for what you're looking for." Baron said. "Most likely, it is a worm flute, usually made of bone or fine wood, but it is also possible that it is made of the carapace of a python or something else, which should be recognizable at a glance. Otherwise, it's other magic weapons, and that kind of thing won't be too small, so you must look for it carefully. The worst thing is the spell or some kind of herb, and if that's it, you have to pay attention to whether there are recipes and spells engraved in the tomb, or carved into bone shards, nail shards, and wood chips. ”
"Why don't you come with us?" Lu Xiaoling asked.
"I made a pact with the mountain ghosts." Baron said. "I can't enter their forbidden lands."
"What if none of these things are available?" Sun Yang asked. "What if we can't find the place you said?"
"Then you guys come back first, and we'll think of another way."
It was already completely dawn, and Ba Long beckoned Sun Yang and Lu Xiaoling to have a fairly hearty breakfast, and described the location to them repeatedly.
"On one side of the cliff and on the other are two streams that meet, and less than a mile from the peak of the mountain there is a large tree embraced by five people, and the grave of the head man is under the tree."
"Hundreds of years have passed, the cliff may have collapsed, the stream may have been diverted long ago, the tree may have fallen a long time ago, how can we find such a place?"
"That's what it's said in the ballads." Baron insisted. "The tree may not be there, but it must still be visible in that place."
Xu Hai and the others left the sheep to raise to be handed over to the mountain ghosts, and Sun Yang and Lu Xiaoling carried their own things and the tools and explosives that Ba Long gave them, and set off in the direction that Ba Long pointed out to them.
"Brother-in-law, be careful yourself!" Lu Xiaoling said to Xu Hai. "We'll be back before dark!"
Ba Long has not been to that place, but found some clues in the songs and tapestries used to record history left by Sanmiao's ancestors, although he has not been there himself, the prospecting team organized by the government and the team to fight bandits and chase down the remnants of Daomen wizards have passed by that place.
As Baron described, they followed a river valley and then began to climb along the ridge, and soon something followed them in the distance, but never showed up.
A few hours later, they saw the area that Baron had described.
But the cliffs, streams, and trees of the song are long gone, and the towering towers on the distant peaks seem to assert man's undisputed possession of the land.
"Less than a mile......" Sun Yang muttered softly, wandering around the forest with Lu Xiaoling.
It is a typical subtropical broad-leaved forest, with tall trees, but no large trees that can be hugged by five people.
After wandering around for almost an hour, Lu Xiaoling suddenly pointed to a mound and said, "Look! ”
Standing at a distance, it looks like a fallen tree overgrown with shrubs and weeds.
The two walked along the ridge and soon saw a pond with a radius of more than ten meters, which should have been the pit left by the roots of the tree when it fell.
The water was so clear that you could see small fish swimming among the dense grass roots, but you couldn't see how deep it was.
Sun Yang circled around the puddle and didn't see anything that might be related to the grave.
Do you really want to go into the water?
In the woods, insects and birds make strange calls from time to time.
Those mountain ghosts are likely to be hiding somewhere to peep at them, if Sun Yang goes into the water, will Lu Xiaoling be able to deal with their attacks alone and ensure the safety of his back road?
"I'll hold on for a few minutes!" Lu Xiaoling said.
Sun Yang quickly took off his coat, Lu Xiaoling blushed and tilted his head to the side, so he quickly stripped naked and jumped into the pond.
It was like an ice cave connected to the bottom of the pond, and it was extremely cold, but Sun Yang didn't have time to think about it, he took a deep breath, and a fierce man stabbed down.
It was deeper than he had imagined, but he soon saw an unnatural grayish-white that represented an artificial creation, and he swam towards it with his breath.
It was a tomb made entirely of triple earth, semi-circular, with a small half exposed in the water, and the other half sunken in the roots and dirt by the pond, so that it was no wonder that it could not be seen from above.
When he saw it for the first time, Sun Yang immediately remembered those ancient tombs in Heihezi.
Almost identical shape.
He floated up.
"How?" Lu Xiaoling asked.
"Over there, it should be possible to dig it out."
Sun Yang put on his clothes again, and something in the woods moved, but soon there was no sound.
Mountain ghosts?
Lu Xiaoling took the charm in both hands.
But after waiting for a few minutes, there was not the slightest sound.
"You cover me!" Sun Yang said.
His physical strength was no longer comparable to that of ordinary people, and he quickly dug the top of the tomb out of the mud, and then used a chisel to cut a hole in the surface of the triad and stuffed explosives and detonators into it.
After a loud bang, the top of the tomb cracked into several pieces, revealing a small hole barely large enough for a person to enter.
There was a sudden silence around, and all the animals seemed to be startled away by the loud noise.
"Quick!" Lu Xiaoling said.
Sun Yang glanced inside, and found no ghost or evil energy, and there didn't seem to be any mechanism or anything like that in the small tomb, so he quickly got in, and the coffin carved from a whole piece of wood had rotted into a whole black fibrous object, and the bones inside were tightly wrapped, and he could only tear them off one by one roughly.
Lu Xiaoling's roar suddenly came from outside, followed by an explosion of thunder and fire talismans, Sun Yang immediately climbed out, but saw that Lu Xiaoling had retreated to the side of the tomb, and the surroundings were full of all kinds of huge poisonous insects.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know! Not long after you go down, they come out of the woods! ”
Many poisonous insects that were supposed to fight each other turned a blind eye to each other and crawled straight towards them.
Sun Yang raised the shovel he had used to dig the soil just now and cut a giant centipede that crawled in front in half, but the spider and scorpion next to it ignored it and crawled around the shovel to this side.
"There's something in there that draws them in!" Sun Yang woke up suddenly, and he swung his shovel and slapped all the poisonous insects that were close to the tomb into meatloaf.
"I'm here to stop them!" Sun Yang shouted, and Lu Xiaoling immediately went into the tomb.
There were more and more poisonous insects that gathered, and at first Sun Yang had time to give them a fatal blow, but soon, he only had time to push them directly into the water.
"Quick!" He cried out anxiously.
"Found it!" Lu Xiaoling's excited cry came from the tomb, but she immediately screamed "ah".