This so-called poplar forest is an obscure term for the "nine-story corpse tower" by the outside world. Anyone who has been involved in mysteries knows how dangerous this kind of place is. He is not something that ordinary "gentlemen" can build, but is built by a master with extremely high attainments in Feng Shui.

Let me first give you a brief introduction to a "nine-story corpse tower" that is currently open to the public in the archaeological community.

It was a few years ago, when two farmers were collecting firewood in the desert when they stumbled upon a two-story sand dune covered with coffins. The high platform is made of many poplar trees staggered and stacked. The tomb is covered with white bones and coffins made of poplar wood. The coffins in the tomb are bottomless and uncovered, and adult men and women are buried together, and they are buried in the way of women and men. There are also a large number of children's burials, with more than 3,000 corpses. Because the tomb robbers inadvertently damaged the internal structure of the tomb, and because the Tarim River dried up too early, the evil qi was released very early, so it did not cause harm, which is why the relevant departments were willing to open up.

And what we are going to is in the black desert of Alar City, this "nine-story corpse tower" that makes people in the "industry" frightened is one of the most ferocious tombs arranged during the prevalence of witchcraft in Khotan!

In "The Secret of Maoshan Mountain", there is also a large record of the "nine-story corpse tower" of Khotan. In short, this kind of tomb is an extremely fierce tomb born from the Absolute Immortal Array when King Wu was defeated, and then transformed according to local witchcraft.

Such tombs range from 3,000 to tens of thousands. "Industry" Of course, this industry is a monastic circle, and there is a legend. Most of the 36 countries in the Western Regions disappeared by the Tang Dynasty, the cities were buried by quicksand, and the inhabitants disappeared for no reason. Most likely, it was made into a nine-story corpse tower. For example, the ancient city of Niya, which had 30,000 or 40,000 inhabitants, disappeared overnight. The ancient city of Qule, 70,000 or 80,000 people, also disappeared overnight.

The so-called "nine-story corpse tower" is to use the evil qi of tens of thousands of people who have died horizontally to support the corpse at the top of the tower, so as to cultivate the corpse at the top of the tower into an extremely terrifying existence. The dartle is already the most terrifying ghost in the legend of the "industry", but it is said that killing a dartle is like pinching an ant to death!

This kind of tomb is not so much a tomb as a "mass grave", and the mass grave is nothing more than a rookie in front of him. The evil qi in him is several times stronger than that of the corpse cultivation ground. The most powerful jealous ghost I've ever seen, I guess it's not enough to stuff it between its teeth.

When I first watched "The Secret of Maoshan Mountain", I also knew about this kind of tomb situation, but I never imagined that I would go to this kind of place one day. The old man deceived me twice in a row, and when they went, it was not the West Lord's Tomb, but the "Nine-Story Corpse Tower"!? Otherwise, logically speaking, it is impossible for my legendary grandfather to suffer the loss of a few strange beasts. That's right, it seems that Old Man Li really fooled me again!

"Boy, why are you cowardly like this? In the summer of that year, the old man stepped on a "nine-story corpse tower" alone! This matter has caused a sensation in the "industry", how can you be worthy of being the descendant of Old Man Xia? ”

"What? My old man who does archaeology is so powerful? ”

"Dead bald strong, who asked you to say this, Old Man Li knows, but you are good-looking!" Li stared at the bald head Qiang, and was about to step forward to cover his mouth as he spoke. When the bald head heard this, he was shocked into a cold sweat! "Boy, when I didn't say anything!" I was depressed in my heart, and scolded in my heart, "Half of the talk, the whole family crematorium!" ”

Now, I finally understand what Sanmao Zhenjun said is a dead end, what is going on. The death he said was not just a small catastrophe of the ghost baby. It looks like it's the catastrophe of the "Nine-Story Corpse Tower". The shadow in my heart is even heavier at this time. In the final analysis, what Master Zu said about "there is no way to heaven and no way to enter the earth" is not exactly what he means this kind of "nine-story corpse tower"? It is not as high as the sky, and it is not as high as the ground.

We set off according to the plan, originally looking for a guide named "Anliman". When the old man heard that we were going to poplar wood, he shook his head like a rattle, and he didn't go to death. Just give me a picture, and it was sold for more than 3,000 yuan. Dong Tong bought a few camels with him and brought the drawings. We set off for the Black Desert.

We came to a small oasis, the sky was slightly dark, it was about 21 o'clock Beijing time. In June in Xinjiang, it usually gets dark at 10 p.m. This oasis is the size of two football fields, with a half-moon shaped pool. Strangely, there are traces of human habitation in the oasis, but not a single person is in sight.

In fact, this is not a real desert, twenty or thirty miles away is a "Haizi" or oasis. On the way, we often encounter migratory herders and caravans, and there are often convoys passing by. We found a house made of poplar wood, settled down, cooked some supper, and lit a campfire.

At night, we sat around the campfire, because we were all more familiar. I asked, "Miss Dong, why do we have to take a detour from Minfeng County to Alar City and then enter the poplar forest!" Dong Tong smiled, "There are people behind me, I have to make them dizzy, I can't figure out our destination!" "I just thought it was a joke and didn't pay much attention to it at the time.

After falling asleep, I carefully reflected on this sentence. I feel more and more wrong. Take the ghost baby who first appeared, who is the one who laid down the big picture in Poets' Bay to deal with me? At that time, I was so weak, a few security guards could have taken it out. Why go to such great painstaking efforts? And why did Lu Jianguo live upstairs in my rental house? The paper man carried the coffin in Damao Town, and he clearly saw a Taoist figure! It's so unnecessary to target me with all this, isn't it?

Suddenly, I shuddered, and a thought came to my mind that shocked me. Could it be that they are targeting the Xia family and the old man? Thinking about this, I became more and more frightened. Tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

At night, the moonlight was frosty and white, and it was a little cold. I put the Green Sword on my back and walked alone in the oasis. I walked to the back of the oasis and saw a large field of cantaloupe in the desert. There are hundreds of varieties of cantaloupe, and it is not surprising that they ripen at this time. However, it is the first time I have seen such a large piece of cantaloupe for me, a southerner.

Speaking of which, I'm reminded of some cantaloupe allusions.

During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Hanlin Academy editor named Hong Liangji, who had nothing to criticize the government and was assigned to Yili. 100 days later, the return of the east through Hami, bought a lot of cantaloupe, he wrote in a poem "from Hami from the bitter water shop": "Two cars and a horse are also Chinese, and then the ride is full of Dunhuang melons." The Gobi is bitter and has no food for ten years, and it is fortunate that it is worth it when it comes to melons. It is written that Dunhuang melon, these three words seem to be a clerical error, but in fact, it is not. Cantaloupe had been a tribute for more than a hundred years at that time, and there was nothing that a scholar as knowledgeable as him could not have known.

Hanshu said, "Dunhuang, known as Guazhou in ancient times, produces melons, the largest melons, and the fox can completely drill into it, and the head and tail are not exposed!" According to the record of "Taiping Guangji", "The Yin nobles of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty dreamed of eating melons and felt that the taste was very beautiful." It just so happened that at that time, Dunhuang offered a different melon, named 'Dome'". And the pronunciation of this "vault" is similar to the pronunciation of the melon called "Kuhong" by the Uyghurs today. The so-called Dunhuang melon is actually cantaloupe.

I looked around, but I didn't see a single figure and thought, "Maybe this is a wild cantaloupe, just pick one and eat it, so what's the matter?" So the cat leaned in, picked a yellow and blue cantaloupe, turned around and was about to leave.

"Stop dripping! Nashigan asks for a lot of money! "Naxigan is a variety of cantaloupe, which means melon of rock sugar. An old voice came, and I looked back at the old man. Habitually, there is a shadow under his feet, which is also my professional habit! The old man was dressed as an old Uyghur man, his beard was white, and he stood in the melon field with a cantuman. Kantuman means hoe.

So I smiled and said, "How much?" "Money, I don't want to drop! I want you to stay and watch the melon fields! "I was joking with this old man, I didn't care, I turned around and was about to leave." Boy, my melons are so sweet and greasy, you look at the melons here, you can break your stomach Yaxi! "No, no, I don't want melons!" "That's not your call!"

Quack quack!

A strange laugh came, and when I looked back, the old man was not smiling, but the sound was clearly coming from his mouth. I don't feel creepy, did I encounter something dirty again? It won't be so unlucky!

"Young man, Dunhuang melons don't need money, how about staying and being a partner with the old man?" The old man said, picked a melon, the melon was cut by him, and he actually took out several fans from it, a whirring fan! Dunhuang melon is the name of two hundred years ago, how did he know this old man, is he two or three hundred years old? The more I thought about it, the more scared I became, could this man be a mountain spirit?

Although the mountain spirit is not a ghost, he has a deep grudge, at least reaching the tenth stage of evil qi, and I am definitely not his opponent. It is estimated that Zhengyang can barely make a draw with him! When you encounter this kind of thing, you can't run away. I remember that there is a story in "The Secret of Maoshan Mountain": "According to legend, the great beauty of the Yue country, Xi Shi, once went to the Huansha under the Ramie Mountain, and it was late at night when she came back." Halfway through the road, he was robbed by the mountain spirit, and the mountain spirit wanted Xi Shi to marry him, but Xi Shi was naturally unwilling. There are countless "pomegranates" in the mountain spirits! Those pomegranates can understand human speech, and every pomegranate seed can be turned into various things. And he used a pomegranate to make Shih Tzu happy. And Shih Tzu said unto him, If thou wilt count how many pomegranate seeds thou has, I would have taken thee. So the mountain spirit counted the pomegranate seeds over and over again, for fear of counting them wrong. Xi Shi also took the opportunity to turn a pomegranate seed into a horse and slipped away quietly!

I laughed at the time, pomegranate is a fruit only in the Han Dynasty, how could Xi Shi know in the Spring and Autumn Period? But now that I think about it, maybe the story is true. The so-called celebrities of the ancients are like arrow targets, and the stories are all attributed to them. The Xi Shi we see is just a layer of descendants coming out.

I wasn't sure if he was a mountain spirit, so I followed the routine of this story and tried to ask the old man, "Can you count how many Dunhuang melons you have?" If I can figure it out, I'll stay! "Got Yaksi! I'll count the melons, you wait for me! I watched him bury his head in counting melons, and thought, "The hell is just waiting for you, it's too late for Lao Tzu to slip away!" "Throw the cantaloupe in your hand and run away!

When I ran into the poplar hut, I jumped a black shadow from the roof......

I pulled out my sword and prepared to slash through it. At that moment, the black shadow also pounced on me!