Three days later.

Qin Beiyang, the tomb beast, silently recited "Mahasa" all the way, starting from Bailuyuan, bypassing the Xi'an city wall, diagonally passing through the land of Guanzhong, traveling hundreds of miles, and came to the Qianling Tomb of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Empress Wu Zetian.

Between a pair of nipple mountains, the straight Sima Road leads to the majestic Lingshan, and the headless horseman of the "Sixty-one Fan Chen Statue" stands in front of him. Qin Beiyang was wrapped all over his body and dressed as a rural craftsman, covering up his steel body and limbs, and under the scorching sun, he looked nondescript. Behind him, Ouyang Anna, Qin Jiuse, Ye Kenan, and Xiao Mu sat in a carriage and looked up at this supreme mausoleum together.

A piece of loess rose to the southeast, and hundreds of horses galloped in—most of them wearing the robes of the people from outside the country, with pistols and bows and arrows behind their backs. Detective Ye Kenan took out his pistol and told Anna and the nine-colored mother and daughter to hide, and Qin Beiyang also put the cross bow on his chest with a steel arrow.

The other party led three people and three horses, rode to Qin Beiyang, urgently grabbed the reins, and raised the horse's hooves high.

The first horse, a Mongolian robe with royal blue satin, a northerner and a southerner, is a descendant of Genghis Khan's golden family, the king of the small county of Ordostoro, and Timur.

The second ride, overalls, suspenders, a pair of glasses on the bridge of the nose, and the chest is printed with "Jianqiao Central Aviation School", the former general manager of the Mozhi Tiangong Factory, and the descendant of the Qian family in Huzhou - Qian Ke.

The third horse, a strange man in a Western knight's suit, with a graceful demeanor and bright eyes, a doctor of theoretical physics from Cambridge University, is also a descendant of Li Chunfeng of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Longsheng, the son of the royal feng shui master of the Qing Dynasty.

Behind them was a team of heavily armed Mongolian horses, which were snorting their noses after a long journey, shrouded in a mass of march.

"Qin Beiyang!"

The little county king was the first to turn over and dismount, just ran two steps before he fell, and then got up and jumped into Qin Beiyang's arms, but it seemed that he had hit an iron bump, and he actually knocked out a big bag of brains.

The little county king hugged Qin Beiyang and laughed: "Oh mom, I haven't seen you for many years, the tendons on your body are old and strong!" Or did you practice the golden bell hood iron cloth shirt? ”

Li Longsheng and Qian Ke also got off the horse and hugged Qin Beiyang, just like a primary school reunion after decades. Ye Kenan, Ouyang Anna, and Jiuse also jumped out of the carriage, either meeting on a narrow road, or heroes gathered. Only Xiao Mu is behind the carriage, trying to find a chance to slip away.

Anna asked Xiaojun Wang and Li Longsheng how they would think of coming to Qianling?

The little king looked at Ye Kenan suspiciously: "Isn't it the telegram that Inspector Ye sent me?" What happened in Qianling? ”

A few days ago, Ye Kenan, the girl Jiuse and the tomb beast Jiuse passed by Luoyang and found that the tomb robbery school in Beibi Mountain had been slaughtered and burned, and Xiaomu, the king of tomb robbers, had disappeared without a trace. Ye Ke could not guess that there would be a catastrophe in Qianling or Bailuyuan. What's more, there is news - Qi Yuanshan has become the prince of Guanzhong. Twenty years ago, Ye Kenan saw that Qi Yuanshan's heart must be different. In the end, it was a detective in the capital, and he did not alarm the local officials and the police department, but sent a telegram to Shanghai and Ordos.

Let's talk about Shanghai first, when I heard that the "77 Incident" broke out in Beiping, Li Longsheng urgently returned to Shanghai from England. He presented the results of the Cambridge Laboratory to the National Government. The fools of the Nationalist Government, who have eyes and do not know gold and jade, failed to take the big killing weapon dedicated by Li Longsheng seriously, and thought that he was making international jokes, how could such a small thing sweep away thousands of armies and even settle the battle in a war?

Li Longsheng received a telegram from Ye Kenan and wanted to take a train to Luoyang, and then turn around and ride to Xi'an, but the war in North China was tight, and the railway on the Longhai Line had been interrupted.

So, Li Longsheng remembered Qian Ke -- five years ago, after the Mozhi Tiangong was destroyed by the Japanese bombing, Qian Ke joined the Chinese Air Force to design and improve fighter jets at the Jianqiao Central Aviation School in Hangzhou. Li Longsheng rushed from Shanghai to Hangzhou to explain to Qian Ke that Qianling or Bailu were in difficulty, and the old brothers had an unshirkable responsibility.

After some hesitation, Qian Ke piloted his own modified light plane and flew to Xi'an with Li Longsheng. He said that the trip would take up to seven days, because the wind in Shanghai was very tight, and the Japanese were afraid that there would be an incident, and Chang Kaishen had already planned the battle of Songhu. Qian Ke must rush back to Jianqiao Aviation School as soon as possible to participate in the war.

The two flew thousands of miles from the air, stopped three times to replenish supplies, and landed at Xi'an Airport. Li Longsheng and Qian Ke went out of the city to Bailuyuan, and hundreds of new tombs appeared around the tomb of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty. The common people on the hill said that there was a big war recently, and the corpses of countless soldiers were left behind at dawn, and they buried them on the spot because of the spread of the immune disease. Li Longsheng looked closely at the tomb and could not see any traces of theft and excavation. He didn't know the entrance to the tomb under the big tree with a crooked neck. They judged that Bailu had already escaped, and then could it be Qianling? Li Longsheng and Qian Ke changed their horses and quickly rushed to Qianling.

Let's talk about Ordos in the Mongolian steppe. Timur had already assembled an elite Mongol cavalry and was preparing to go to the Great Wall to defend against the Japanese invaders. After receiving Ye Kenan's telegram, he first went south to Shaanxi, passed through the Loess Plateau and the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area, visited the caves under the Pagoda Mountain, passed by the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of China, and came to the greatest imperial tomb of the Tang Dynasty.

As soon as he came to the outside of Qianxian County, the little county king bumped into Li Longsheng and Qian Ke. The three brothers converged, and they were embarrassed, and rushed straight to Qianling to prepare for a big battle, never wanting to bump into Qin Beiyang.

I never thought that Qin Beiyang had become a tomb beast.

Qin Beiyang, the tomb beast, faces the majestic Qianling.

This man held his head high, surrounded by Li Longsheng, Xiaojunwang, and Qian Ke, and passed through Sima Dao in the middle of the Qianling Tomb, and came to Tang Gaozong's "Shusheng Ji Tablet" and Wu Zetian's wordless tablet.

The scorching sun shone on the wordless stele, and in an instant, everyone saw that the stele was covered with dense words, and every word was shining with golden light, Wu Zetian's favorite Wang Xi's body. But this splendor is only for a moment, and it is invisible in an instant. Seventeen-year-old Jiuse rubbed his eyes and boldly reached out to touch the stele, but he didn't even feel half a word.

What words are written on the wordless tablet? Only Qin Beiyang saw it clearly, but he would never say it.

"Is this a dream?" Li Longsheng circled around the wordless monument, "Or is it a story?" ”

"It's a story, but it's not a dream."

Qin Beiyang, the tomb beast, looked back at Weng Zhong in front of the Qianling Shinto, a stone man and a stone horse, and a military general, majestically guarding the secrets of China.

Ouyang Anna pulled Xiao Mu out, twisted his ears and said, "Guy who is not on the stage, you want to run away again?" ”

"Oops...... My Miss Anna ...... "Xiao Mu has an ageless face, and it seems that everyone is stuck in the boyhood and girlhood," I want to go back to Luoyang in a hurry to find the two brothers, Qiao Lu and Lian Fan. ”

Qin Beiyang said loudly: "Xiaomu, let me ask you a few words!" ”

"Oops...... Excuse me. ”

Seeing the tomb beast Qin Beiyang, Xiao Mu shuddered and sat cross-legged under the wordless monument.

Qin Beiyang walked to the tall and magnificent Tu Rong: "Do you know why the Qianling Tomb has never been stolen for more than a thousand years?" ”

"Because there is no tomb crossing in Qianling." Xiao Mu's eyes became cold, more like his real age, "In other words, the tomb crossing of the Qianling Tomb is extremely far away from the mausoleum itself - Bailuyuan is the tomb crossing of the Qianling Tomb." Back then, Wu Zetian's coffin was buried from the Bailuyuan Rubik's Cube Tomb, the tunnel passed through the gate of the seal, passed through the underground of Chang'an City, passed through the core area of the Guanzhong Plain and Weishui, and finally arrived at the Qianling Underground Palace. ”

The conclusions of historical archaeology, in addition to the explicit words or physical objects, often need to be reasoned according to known conditions. As the king of tomb robbers, Xiao Mu also has this ability.

Qin Beiyang nodded silently. He remembered the Tang Dynasty mirage in the underground world, what he saw and heard when he possessed the little prince Li Longqi, and made his own reasoning - according to Wu Zetian's last wish, Qin Muye, a young man from the Qin family's tombsmith clan, made the empress herself into a tomb beast. The octogenarian woman's body died, but the girl's heart remained, and she became the son of the tomb.

She still remembers the coffin of her grandson, Li Longqi, the king of Zhongnan County, which was the deepest pain point in her long life.

After the completion of the tomb of the Son of Heaven, Qin Muye and Li Chunfeng withdrew from the underground palace. Li Chunfeng left a five-pointed star seal and locked the road to the underground of Qianling.

Qin Beiyang, the tomb beast, stared at Xiao Mu's eyes - why could this immortal tomb robber open Li Chunfeng's seal? It's like he can pass through the tomb of the White Deer Original Rubik's Cube Tomb safely? That might be another long story.

"Longsheng, I'm going to ask you again?" Qin Beiyang turned his head to look at Li Longsheng, "Why do you say that the ancestors of the Chinese built huge tombs?" ”

"Death is like life?"

"The tomb is a transit point between human life and death, and the ancients believed that the tomb that goes deep underground can lead to the source of civilization."

"Like the ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramid?"

"Maybe civilization doesn't come from the ground, let alone the starry sky, but from the earth itself."

Qin Beiyang closed his eyes and remembered the underground world hidden thousands of meters deep, the last paradise of the divine beasts, the magnificent journey that Qin Beiyang and the Nine Colors had experienced, which was the most precious refuge and destination for human beings.

Cambridge Dr. Li Longsheng realized something: "Is it the theory of the hollowness of the earth?" ”

"We have come from underground, and we will return to underground."

Qin Beiyang, the tomb beast, looked directly at the scorching sun, and silently thought in his heart--When you look up at the starry sky, can you look down at your feet?

Everyone slept overnight under the wordless monument of Qianling, and the next morning, they parted ways.

Qian Ke flew the plane back alone, and he will return to the Jianqiao Central Aviation School in Hangzhou to defend the sky of Shanghai.

Xiaojunwang led the Mongolian cavalry to the east, crossed the Yellow River, went up against the Fen River, and went to Taiyuan to pay homage to Yan Xishan and assist in the defense of the Niangziguan fortress.

Li Longsheng's parting message to Qin Beiyang was "How can you say that you have no clothes, and you are in the same robe with your son." He will return to his laboratory in Cambridge, and his discoveries will surely change the history of mankind.

Xiaomu was finally able to return to Luoyang to find his two missing children. The secrets of the king of tomb robbers have not yet been solved, and his story will continue for an entire century, if not the next.

Ouyang Anna decided to cross the ocean to the United States, and she wanted to sell the assets she bought in New York and San Francisco during the "Great Depression" to buy weapons and equipment for the Chinese army.

She wanted to take her daughter with her, but Qin Jiuse refused. The girl clamored to follow Ye Kenan to Shanghai and join the upcoming Battle of Songhu. Ye Kenan also persuaded her that it was better to follow her mother to the United States and escape from the chaos of China. But Jiuse said that he was a descendant of the tombsmith clan, with 3,000 years of ancient skills, how could he leave the motherland with broken mountains and rivers?

When the mother and daughter were at a stalemate, Qin Beiyang suddenly spoke: "Jiuse, I agree that you will follow Inspector Ye to Shanghai." Just like twenty-eight years ago, Inspector Ye took me out of Tianjin to go to the underground palace in the Qing Xiling, and from that day on, I began to grow up. From this day on, you will also be a person who stands up to the heavens and the earth. ”

Qin Beiyang's words made Anna unable to refuse. These days, Jiuse has always been pestered around Ye Kenan, either joking or asking him to tell detective stories. Ouyang Anna is a person who has come over, and she has already seen through her daughter's careful thinking, and sighs that it is another bad fate! Anna had to agree, but she had to go to Shanghai with Jiuse and Ye Kenan to rest assured.

Before leaving, Ouyang Anna put the jade ring on the middle finger of her left hand to her lips, and glanced back at Qin Beiyang stupidly, as if he was still a young craftsman twenty years ago, and she was still the daughter of the daughter of the Dharma Mountain on the sea. She would love to hug this man again. It's a pity that he is no longer that "person".

The sun rises again. Everyone said goodbye and went away, leaving only the tomb beast Qin Beiyang, standing alone in front of the wordless monument, under Wu Zetian's grave.

For the rest of his life, he will spend an incomparably long cycle, walking alone to the history of China in the smoke and fire, and to the treacherous twentieth century.

Qin Beiyang began to walk endlessly, and a voice asked in his ear, "Do you know who you are?" ”

"Tomb Beast Qin Beiyang."

"Do you know where you're from?"

"I'm from the dungeon."

"Do you know where you're going?"

"I'm going until tomorrow."