I looked at the time, it was past three o'clock in the morning, and I slept for less than 4 hours. Two of the three torches have been extinguished, one torch is reflected in the dim light of the cave, the faces of everyone look sallow and terrifying in the firelight, the whole cave, only hear the sound of spring water, the atmosphere is full of strange, helpless, miserable, people only feel suffocated.

"When did the yellow warbler disappear? When did Lao Yang go to find her? I put my backpack on my back, pinned the dagger to my waist, looked out into the darkness ahead, and yawned.

"We don't know when Huang Ying disappeared, but Lao Yang has just been gone for a few minutes." Ouyang saw that I had packed up my equipment and knew that I was about to leave, so he also sorted out the carpet and backpack, "I heard Lao Yang get up for a while, woke up and asked him what he was doing, he said that Huang Ying was gone, and then he took out a flashlight and walked forward. ”

Everyone also woke up, although they didn't sleep well, but they finally recuperated some spirits, and immediately I said: "It's still the same, you three women stand in the middle, I go to the front, Hei Biao, you go to the back, we have to keep up with Lao Yang as soon as possible!" Everybody wears a headlamp hat, and you hold this torch. After that, I lit a new torch, thought about it for a while, and immediately took out a cinnabar yellow paper brush from my backpack and drew a yin amulet for each person.

Since the ancients said that there is a "ghost" in this secret passage, I must be careful. Ghost, mostly refers to the ghosts and monsters in the mountains and wilderness, this is a kind of physical yin and evil thing, commonly known as "mountain mandrill", is a kind of mountain range of extreme yin and yin land to breed a kind of yin poisonous insects and beasts for food, can cultivate the transformation of the human form of the monster, because its physique is the extreme yin thing, can not see the sun, infinitely close to the "ghost", so it is also called this kind of monster "mountain ghost", in the world, some are located in the mountains of the yin vein of the world, and in the mountain cave of the land of the yin of the mountain. Or give birth to the mandrill, in short, it is extremely rare, the Xuanmen classics contain, in the Qinling Mountains, Zhongnan Mountain, Yinshan, Kunlun Mountains are more common. Mandrill can be used to refine "Rongyang Dan", is a treasure of Yin and Yang complementarity in Taoist cultivation, in the old days, there were often Taoists who went to the deep mountains and old forests to catch mandrills, mandrills in the Taoist view are all treasures, its cortex, blood, bones. Even internal organs have a place of use in spiritual practice or medicinal herbs. If you can catch the mandrill alive, the Taoist who has practiced can even tame this kind of ghost for its use, or alchemy and medicine for the Taoist, some extremely steep cliffs on the raw herbs, people can not reach, but the mandrill jumps and runs, the body is feminine, very like an ape. Because mandrills can also cultivate the Tao and reach the highest level. It is said that it can also ascend, and even if it can't, it can transform into a humanoid form, but usually only the first person it sees. According to Xu Shanji, a master of feng shui yin and yang in the Ming Dynasty, in his "Heavenly Humane Xuan", when the mandrill is successful in cultivation and is about to transform into a human form, it will come out of the mountain at night. When you come to the mountain road and wait for someone to pass by, you will quietly follow the first person when you see it. Then take advantage of the unpreparedness, jump forward, cover the face with both limbs, wait for a while, and then leave, and then cover their own face with the upper limbs that cover the face, you can turn into the face of this person, and the person who has covered the face of the mandrill is said to gradually die, because its face is "robbed" by the mandrill, it is also the yang energy stolen by the mandrill, so in the old days, the mountain people in the deep mountains of the Qinling Mountains, when walking the mountain road at night, will apply a layer of tung oil or vegetable oil on the face, so that the mandrill covers the face when the hands slip, and the tung oil has the power of devouring yin, can corrode the palm of the mandrill, It can also intimidate mandrills and not harm people.

The charm of the mandrill is also yin and evil, and the yin avoidance charm should be able to overcome it, but it can only be aimed at some mandrills whose cultivation is superficial, I let everyone hold it in their hands, and then our group walked towards the front hole.

Two torches can also make the cave clearly visible within five meters, the cave sheep intestines nine turns, how deep it is, I am not fully sure, the ancients Ge Xuan only described this section of the dark passage as "dangerous", but did not say how long. After walking for a few minutes, I slowly stopped and said, "Since Lao Yang has only been walking for a few minutes, he should not be far from us, why is there no light ahead?" He must have had a flashlight. ”

"Why don't we call him?" Ouyang stepped forward.

"No, you can't shout." I shook my head, "This cave is so deep, I don't know what kind of hidden weapon is in front of us, and even around us, this rock wall under our feet, no one can guarantee whether it is natural and stable, shouting loudly, in case the sound triggers the resonance of some kind of mechanism, it's not a good thing!" "I've been hit by an avalanche in the Rocky Mountains of the United States because of the shouting of people at the bottom of the mountain, and of course, all the necessary conditions need to be met, but for now, this cave is full of mysterious and strange signs, and less is better than more.

However, as soon as I finished speaking, I heard an exclamation of "ah" in the distance ahead.

"It's Lao Yang!" I immediately looked, "Let's go!" Looks like there's some danger! Immediately, the few of us spread out their legs and ran forward, listening to the distance, which should be fifty or sixty meters away.

"It's rare for the ninth master to shout like this when something happens, Mr. Fang, is there anything ......" Hei Biao, who ran at the end, became a little nervous, worried about the safety of his master.

"It's so weird in this hole, no one can tell." I replied, I naturally know how steady Yang Tiancong is, but this is a cave that no one has ever set foot in, an unknown terrifying environment, and there are many things we don't know, if something strange happens, no matter how steady and courageous a person is, he will involuntarily panic.

Just ran a few steps, and heard Yang Tiancong calling Huang Ying's name, and his voice was extremely panicked.

After running for a while, I saw a corner in front of me, and there was a light flickering, which should be Yang Tiancong. Yang Tiancong should also see the light on our side, so he heard him shout: "Mr. Fang! ”

"Lao Yang, don't shout, we're here." I responded with a low voice, ran about 30 meters, the road turned backwards, is an open land, the area of the cave here is larger than the caves on this road, and there are several pillar-shaped stones on the cave ground, like a stone bench and stone platform, as if it was placed here thousands of years ago, for people to sit and rest on this road. And Lao Yang was standing on the highest stone pillar, shining around with a miner's lamp.

"Old Yang, what happened?" I stepped forward and asked.

"I felt that Huang Ying was near here, I followed all the way, and I heard a woman talking nearby, but I didn't see anyone when I followed." Lao Yang's face was extremely uneasy, and he could see that he was extremely worried about Huang Ying. One of his loyal bodyguards had just died outside the cave, and the vanished Huang Ying was his confidante again. Naturally, he was so anxious that his eyebrows burned.

"I mean, what are you starting to 'ah'?" I asked.

Lao Yang jumped down from the stone pillar and said, "Look here! He pointed behind the pillar he had just jumped on.

We surrounded us, but naturally we were all shocked, especially Ye Jiaoyi and Daniel, who were so frightened that they leaned towards me.

Between several stone platforms, there were three corpses, but none of them had been decorated, but their faces and hands had long since dried and blackened, and their bodies seemed to have been drained. It was as if only a white skeleton remained, and Bai Sensen's teeth were exposed, like zombies. Looking at the dress of the ancients, looking at the robes, these three people are very similar to the people of the Song and Ming dynasties, and each has a sword. And he saw that there was no wound on them, and he did not know why they died. There is no doubt that in history, outsiders have stepped into this steamed cliff. Perhaps like us, we came to look for the Hanging City of the Lei Yan people of the Yang Clan, and it is estimated that most of them died in the "corpse pool" infested by the walking corpses outside this cave, and finally a few came in, but they died inexplicably by the side of this stone pillar platform.

I followed in a daze. As soon as he saw these three corpses, he suddenly thought that Huang Ying had fallen here. Lao Yang rubbed his eyes, "Damn, Qiangzi will die." I just feel that the mental pressure is too great, Huang Ying was brought here by me, if she has another three long and two short. Yang Tiancong: I really can't wash away the evil obstacles in my life! ”

"This cave is a dark passage, there are three underworld springs, there is a cave ventilation, there is this mountain yin gas watering, people die in it, it is indeed not easy to decompose, these three corpses, if not the Song Dynasty, is the Ming Dynasty, at least five or six hundred years. Let's stay away from the corpse, the corpse is not rotten, it is easy to absorb the yang energy of people, there is a risk of corpse transformation, stay away! Speaking of which, we all avoided a little, but my eyes fell on the swords of several people, "So, old Yang, how long has the yellow warbler been gone?" What anomaly did she encounter? ”

"When you were all still asleep, I was in a daze, and I saw Huang Ying get up, swaying alone, walking towards the front of the cave, I fucking thought I was dreaming, and I didn't get up in time, after all, I was too sleepy." Lao Yang slapped his face, "When I came to my senses all of a sudden, I found that Huang Ying was indeed not around, and there was no one in front of me, so I immediately got up and went to find her, I expected her to go as far as a female baby, and I could bring her back by running alone, so I didn't wake you up." As a result, I followed all the way here, and it was estimated that it was several hundred meters, and I heard a woman talking near here just now, but I didn't see anyone. ”

I nodded, my intuition told me that Huang Ying should be fine, and I had counted her birthday in the Huangfu compound a long time ago. I saw Lao Yang's face was heavy, and said, "Huang Ying will be fine, don't worry." In this way, there is no knowledge in this cave, and we don't want to be blind and fish, you can tell me some signs of her getting up and leaving, and I will see if there are any hexagrams to play. ”

Lao Yang thought for a moment and said: "If you want to talk about the signs, I was in a daze, and I didn't see it clearly, I don't know what she did when she got up, I didn't know what she did, I only saw her staggering forward, and I didn't know anything else." ”

"Wobbly?" I thought, "But so? I swayed my shoulders and took a few steps.

"Yes, that's it, it's like sleepwalking-" Lao Yang said this, his body suddenly leaned out, clapped his hands, and stared at me with round eyes, "Mr. Fang, I understand what you mean!" You mean, she's like ......"

I nodded and said, "Yes, I'm just afraid, this yellow warbler is also sleepwalking!" Just like Xiaolan earlier! ”

"yes, I didn't expect that! Huang Ying, this girl, has also been with me for a while, I really haven't seen her sleepwalking, could it be that tonight, she is really sleepwalking, sleepwalking for the first time? "Old Yang stared at me tightly, as if he had discovered a new world.

I am weird and inexplicable, I have never heard Lao Yang mention that Huang Ying has sleepwalking, but when she came to this mysterious and strange cave in the Hanging City, she actually began to sleepwalk! Was it because she was really tired and panicked today, or was it another coincidence, or maybe there was something else?

"Then I'll come to divination first, as long as there is an image of movement, I can break the hexagram." After that, I started the hexagram with easy counting, but just as I was about to break the hexagram, I heard a light footstep in front of the cave!

"Yellow Warbler!" Lao Yang immediately shouted, and saw a dark shadow stumbling in front of the cave.

"Everyone, come here!" I shouted, "Hold the Yin Amulet!" "Everyone immediately leaned towards me. Not for anything else. I suddenly felt a burst of yin energy hit me.

But as soon as the black shadow entered the range of the torch lighting, it seemed to make everyone breathe a sigh of relief—it was a yellow warbler!

"Yellow Warbler!" As soon as Lao Yang stepped forward, he was about to catch up, but I grabbed him, "Lao Yang, slow down!" Miss Huang Si doesn't seem to be awake yet, don't you see her eyes squinting? Wait until she's a little sober! Let's go ahead and see these corpses! After that, I looked at Huang Ying, pulled Yang Tiancong, who was confused by the second monk, to the three ancient corpses, and said softly: "There is a problem." Old Yang stared at me. Nodding.

I saw that Huang Ying was still standing in place staring at the two of us, so I also looked at the three corpses again, and confirmed my judgment more and more, and my palms couldn't help but break out in cold sweat. But my eyes fell on the swords on each of the three corpses again, and I kicked away one sword, but I saw that the scabbard and the sword had already rusted together, and there was a "boom" urn sound, and then I kicked the other sword, and the same was true. But when he kicked the third long sword, he suddenly saw a spark flash on the scabbard, and a clear sound of "ding" crossed it, as if drawing a knife and cutting water. Dancing with a sword and sharpening iron, I only felt a sword aura attacking, and my body involuntarily retreated backwards!

Lao Yang also retreated, staring at me with a shocked expression: "This sword ...... Good sword! ”

I drew my dagger. Cut a piece of cloth from your tunic and wrap it around your sword, and pick it up. But I felt that this sword was very heavy, at least seven or eight pounds. I saw the bronze scabbard flickering in the light and shadow of the torch with a layer of strange light, and the scabbard was engraved with two words, I looked at it for a long time, only to see that this is the big seal font, and when I saw the big seal, I instantly thought of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the big seal font is the font that was more commonly used by the vassal states before the unification of the Seven Kingdoms by Qin Shi Huang. Take a good look at it, these two big seal characters are actually "Juque"!

"Old Yang, Juque Sword!" My heart beat faster, my eyes lit up, and then I wiped my eyes again, yes, these two words are indeed "Juque", "When I looked at this sword before, I felt that its scabbard was different, and it was really not a mortal!" ”

"Juque? No way?! "Lao Yang is a cold war, "Ou Yezi, the ancestor of the sword, in his later years, the magic stroke, the history of 'seven feet away, the sword qi is vertical and horizontal', it is the treasure of King Goujian of Yue, how can it fall in this cave?" ”

I held the hilt of the sword, slowly pulled out, but saw a burst of snow, "boom", a fierce breath from the scabbard, I held the scabbard, two steps back again, before standing firm, but saw the yellow warbler in the distance, also a little back, staring at the snowy sword in my hand, the face was different.

"Juque sword, the blade is three feet long, the handle is five inches long, the blade is about two inches wide, weighs about five catties, the sword qi is vertical and horizontal when swinging, three steps away can resist the enemy, it is Ou Yezi cast a peerless sword...... "This is the allusion that my master has said to me, and I have read many classics, and I also have a little understanding of the Juque sword, Ou Yezi cast this sword for the Yue King Goujian, saying that this sword should not be "easily unsheathed", when it does not drink blood, it can be "seven feet away, the sword qi is vertical and horizontal", the legend is that when the Juque sword was first formed, the Yue King Goujian sat on the dew, Suddenly, he saw that a carriage in the palace was out of control, and he ran rampant, frightening the white deer who was serving in the palace, so Gou Jian pulled out the giant sword, pointed at the carriage in the run, and wanted the warrior to step forward to stop it, but when he drew the sword and pointed at it, the sword qi in his hand had already broken the carriage into two! Gou Jian also ordered someone to take a large iron pot, and three steps away, he stabbed the iron pot with a sword, and stabbed the iron pot out of a big gap. The sword was effortless, as easy as cutting rice cakes. Therefore, Gou Jian, the king of Yue, named this sword Juque, a rare sword that moved the world with the name of "Jian Gang's gas". Swinging, the sword qi is vertical and horizontal, can "wear the copper kettle, the iron is broken, and the Xu Zhong is as decisive as rice, so it is called Juque".

Juque sword in the history of the first for the Yue King Goujian ownership, gradually lost, the official history was later obtained by Qin Xiang Li Si, and later, passed to the Han Gaozu Liu Bang, and later said to pass to the Jin Emperor Sima Yan, in the Northern and Southern Dynasties period there is no news. But in the Tang Dynasty, it is said that it was obtained by the Tang general Guo Ziyi, and there is no way to verify the wild history, and there is no news of the whereabouts of the Juque Sword since then. However, more than 300 years later, "The Imperial Forest Idle Pen" recorded that when Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun of the Northern Song Dynasty rebelled, the sword held by Li Shun was the "Juque", and ten steps away, the sword qi could take the life of General Zhao and Song. In 994 A.D., Li Shun's uprising failed, and he was beheaded by the Song army in Shuzhong, but the wild history recorded that Li Shun broke out of his shell and led the rest of the army to flee to western Yunnan, and there has been no historical pen since then.

If this sword is really cast by Ou Yezi, the ancestor of the pre-Qin Dynasty and the ancestor of the sword, Juque, and the three corpses in front of him seem to be people from the Song Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty (there is no obvious difference in the costumes of the Song and Ming dynasties, of course, there is still a difference, but this cave is a black lacquered place, I can only take a general view, not to mention, hundreds of years of clothing have long been damaged and corrupted. Besides, the corpse is not decomposed, and I don't dare to take a closer look), could it be that one of these three corpses is Li Shun, the leader of the Northern Song Dynasty Uprising?

Could it be that Li Shun led the remnants and fled to the Kunlun Mountains in the northwest of Sichuan wearing the peerless sword "Juque", and found the location of the Hanging City, but died in this cave tunnel? And those walking corpses outside the cave, most of whom were dressed in ancient costumes, were Li Shun's subordinate soldiers?

Whether this long sword is a "giant que" in the end, no matter the official history, there is no way to verify, at least, this sword is by no means a vulgar thing, looking at the thick patina on its bronze scabbard, I think it has at least more than two thousand years of history. In particular, the other two swords had already been rusted with iron, but it was still flashing with a cold light.

I sheathed my sword, walked over again, and stared at the silent Yellow Warbler, who was staring at me with a wide range of eyes.

"Whew"!

I drew my sword out of the sheath again, pointed directly at the yellow warbler, and I heard a soft "whoosh" in the air, and a gust of wind attacked the yellow warbler from the tip of the sword, and the yellow warbler moved and flashed five steps away in the blink of an eye!

"What a sword aura! I'm afraid it's really 'Juque'! Lao Yang exclaimed.

"Oh!" Everyone shouted, they had never seen Huang Ying move so quickly!

With this glittering sword in my hand, the imperial dagger at my waist is really inferior.

"Demons and ghosts, they haven't appeared yet!" I shouted, "With this sword-casting ancestor Ou Yezi's 'Juque' in his body, he will kill demons and demons, invincible, you killed the master of the sword a thousand years ago, and a thousand years later, I will know that I can kill you with this sword!" ”

"Fang Yin!" Suddenly heard Ouyang exclaim, "Look, there are so many here!" ”

I immediately looked back, and saw many people standing behind me, but it seemed to be cloned, two Ouyang, two Yang Tiancong, two Ye Jiaoyi, two Daniel, and two Hei Biao!

No matter the shape, clothing, or demeanor, they are all exactly the same!

(To be continued.) )