After a bumpy day, I didn't eat much decent things and climbed the mountain overnight, which was a great test for my body and mind, and the group barely made a sound except for the sound of panting.

The sun was rising, and the whole red mountain was shrouded in thin clouds, and although it was the height of summer, the morning on the mountain still made me shiver in my coat.

Finally arrived at the Taoist temple that was taken away by the Taoist priest mentioned before, the door of the Taoist temple was closed, the three big characters of Qingxuguan were strong and powerful, the "guide" stepped forward and patted the door, and after a long time the door was opened a small crack, the "guide" said: "It's me", the person in the door looked at it for a long time, and then gently opened the door half a door, and then waved our hand to let us in, and then immediately closed the door and bolted it.

Only then did I see that the person who opened the door was an old Taoist priest, about seventy or eighty years old, with a little lame legs, but with long fairy wind bones, crane hair and childish face, but his demeanor was a little flustered, and he seemed to be frightened by the Japanese.

The guide said to the old man: "Don't worry, the Japanese left the night before yesterday", "What about my apprentice?" Lao Dao was a little anxious, but the guide didn't answer, and shook his head.

The old Taoist priest sighed and shook his head and said: "I knew that he was destined to commit Tai Sui this year, and it was the white tiger who entered the palace, and I was afraid that there would be a disaster of blood and light.

The "guide" took us into the Jade Emperor Palace, it turned out that this Qingxu Temple was very small, just this one main hall, there are two rooms on both sides of the main hall, which should be the place where the master and apprentice sleep and cook.

Entering the Jade Emperor Palace, the guide said: "Take a rest first, I'll go to see if there is anything to eat in the kitchen, here is less than half the distance from the fairy cave, and strive to arrive before noon today", I found out that the second master was gone, thinking that he went to the thatched house, and didn't care, in fact, I really didn't want to move, the guide had not yet left the door of the Jade Emperor Palace, and I heard someone at the door: "Sensei went, nothing, just save half a bowl of corn porridge, it hasn't been washed, there are stones, the second master I have a toothache", After speaking, the second master took a few steps into the house and sat next to me.

A few people found a comfortable place to close their eyes to recuperate, I don't know how long later, Lao Dao came back, took something in his hand, and handed it directly to Li Xiao, Li Xiao looked at Lao Dao in surprise, and we looked at Li Xiao in surprise.

Lao Dao said: "You are useful for this thing", Li Xiao took it in his hand, and Lao Dao turned his head and left.

Li Xiao looked at the old man's back, looked at the things in his hand, and then looked at us, his eyes were full of question marks, he handed the things to Zeng Weiguo beside him, Zeng Weiguo looked at them carefully, and handed them to me.

It turned out to be a knife, not long but quite pressing, longer than ordinary chopsticks, the same width as willow leaves, the knife body is black and pasty, the black seems to be wrapped in a layer of green, the handle and the blade are one, the second master looked at it, and pulled out his dagger and compared it and said: "What is this, say it's a knife, the blade is so blunt, what can it do, it's not a knife, it looks quite similar."

When the second master handed over the knife to Zeng Weiguo, our eyes also turned to Zeng Weiguo, if there was one person in this group who could know what this thing was, it would be him.

Zeng Weiguo took it and looked left and right, suddenly he put the knife on the ground paved with stones and sharpened it vigorously, and poured some water from the kettle from time to time, he was grinding here, and the second master asked Li Xiao: "Have you seen this old man?" Li Xiao shook his head, and the second master said again: "I don't know why I sent you something?" Got a crush on you? ”。

Li Xiao ignored him, but stared at the black blade in Zeng Weiguo's hand that had been partially polished off, and the green inside could be seen from the faded part: "Bronze? Li Xiao said in surprise, Zeng Weiguo nodded and said: "The black outside of this knife is blood, and it is attached to it after layers of blood have dried up over the years", after listening to it, my heart tightened, how many animals do you have to kill, this is a butcher's knife? What does Lao Dao mean by giving a butcher's knife to Li Xiao? And if the butcher's knife is too small?

was pondering, Zeng Weiguo's side, "Huh? With a sound, we all scratched our heads to look, only to see that the black on the body of a knife had been basically worn off, showing a few patterns that seemed to be words, saying that it seemed to be because I had never seen this kind of word, pattern, and I didn't know what was drawn, and these patterns were golden, as if embedded in the blade of the knife.

Zeng Weiguo said to himself: "Wrong gold? The second master asked, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? I kicked the second master, meaning to tell him not to speak, and the second master closed his mouth very knowingly.

Zeng Weiguo said: "This is a kind of gold or silver inlaid into the bronze of a process, simply in the bronze on the chisel of a very fine groove, and then the gold wire inlaid in, and then polished and smoothed, this technology was first seen in the Spring and Autumn Period, to the Han Dynasty was very prosperous, Wang Mang usurped the period of the issuance of the knife coin "a knife flat five thousand", "a knife" two words are wrong gold."

Li Xiao asked: "Are these words above", Zeng Weiguo thought about it, and then glanced at Li Xiao with a very complicated expression and said: "It is estimated that our mission is not as simple as we thought."

Zeng Weiguo continued: "It is indeed a text, but I can't distinguish it completely, this is a shamanic script, and several symbols on it represent sacrifices, so I think this is a shaman's high priest's knife."

Shamans usually gouge out the internal organs of animals by the high priest when sacrificing, this knife is estimated to be used to plane internal organs, similar to the use of our scalpel today, the blood on it should be the blood of animals, I have seen one in Beiping before, but it is an ordinary copper knife, such a high standard is the first time to see, and the wrong gold and silver technology gradually lost after the Han Dynasty, such an ancient thing appeared in this place, I feel that it should have a certain relationship with the Bohai Kingdom in the northeast during the Tang Dynasty. ”

Hearing this, the second master and I looked at each other, but Li Xiao suddenly realized, but then immediately fell into deep thought.

In fact, I also wondered, since it is a scalpel, it is absolutely understandable to give it to him, but from the time we entered the door to the present, there have been no words or actions that have revealed our identities, how can this veteran know that Li Xiao is a doctor?

Just thinking about it, Lao Dao came in again, carrying a teapot and a few tea bowls in his hand, poured a bowl for each of us, sat cross-legged on a futon on the ground and said: "There is nothing to entertain in the view, this is some herbs picked by Poor Dao on the mountain, usually making tea has some benefits for the body, you don't dislike it, there is one more thing I want to bother you, if you see the corpse of my apprentice in the fairy cave, if it is convenient, please help bring it back, Poor Dao is grateful, master and apprentice, I really don't want to see him throw the corpse into the wilderness."

After speaking, looking at Zeng Weiguo, Zeng Weiguo nodded and said, "Don't worry, if it goes well, I will definitely bring it back, but I still want to ask the Taoist about the origin of this bronze knife."

We all sat up straight and looked at Lao Dao, except for the guide, who looked like he didn't care about himself, leaning aside and napping.

Lao Dao said: "This knife has been hidden for more than 50 years, this view is the temple of descendants, there has always been a rule for hundreds of years, never allowed to enter the immortal cave, poor Dao was still a teenage little Taoist, has been curious about this regulation, asked the master, but the master avoided talking about it."

This immortal cave is located on the cliff wall of Huanglonggou, that year the poor road was collecting medicine in Huanglonggou when he heard the thunder in the cave, he really couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart, so he climbed up.

As soon as I entered the cave, I found that the wall of the cave entrance was engraved with a seismic hexagram, and I looked inside by the light outside the cave, and found that the immortal cave was not more than ten zhang deep and empty, but this sound did not come out of nowhere, and what was even more strange was that the sound disappeared as soon as the poor road entered, but when the poor road walked out of the cave and planned to return the same way, suddenly a thunderous noise sounded in the hole, and the poor road was directly shaken out of the cave and fell off the cliff.

If it weren't for the fact that Master saw me and didn't come out to look for me for a long time, I'm afraid I would have died in that Huanglong ditch a long time ago.

"You picked up this knife in the Immortal Cave?" Zeng Weiguo looked at Lao Dao.

Lao Dao nodded and shook his head and said: "It was found by my side when the master rescued me, I don't know if I kicked out of the hole unintentionally when I fell, or if it was there in the first place, but Poor Dao thought, no matter what, this thing must be related to the sound of the fairy cave, and those Japanese are probably also here for this sound."

The second master said unhappily: "These little Japanese people are making a fuss, they came all the way to listen to the movement, and they are professors, just this knowledge, it is estimated that the second master I went, and I can be a principal."

Li Xiao glanced at him, and then the guide on the side owed a bow and said: "Okay, the time is almost up, let's go", we set off again with our equipment on our backs, just out of the Taoist Temple, I suddenly remembered how the old Taoist guessed Li Xiao's identity, and when I turned around, I just looked at the old Taoist who was holding the door.

I saw Lao Dao frowning, staring at me, the expression on his face changed from doubt to surprise and fear in an instant, and then suddenly closed the door, as if he had seen a ghost, I said in my heart, what does Lao Dao mean by this? I was thinking about it when I turned back and asked, and I thought about it, anyway, I had to pass by here when I went down the mountain, and it was not too late to ask again, so I thought about it and strode towards the fairy cave, in fact, if I could expect those things in the future, I would also run in to find Lao Dao to ask for an understanding.

After noon, we came to the bottom of the cliff of the fairy cave, and when we were about to climb the equipment, the second master stared at the cave and listened for a long time and said, "There is no movement, will this make those little Japanese children break it?" ”

I said, "You think this hole is a box (semiconductor radio) that can be broken?" ”。

The second master scratched his head and wanted to refute something, Zeng Weiguo had already begun to climb first, and then we climbed up in turn, in fact, this fairy cave is not very high, but it is really difficult to climb, the bare rock wall, there is no point of borrowing, I really don't know how the old road climbed up with bare hands.

When I entered the cave, I found that this fairy cave is really not big, it is only more than 20 steps deep, about five steps wide, and a stone wall at the entrance of the cave is indeed engraved with a symbol that is all horizontal.

Zeng Weiguo touched it and said: "The trigram is the meaning of thunder, which proves that the immortal cave really has a huge sound."

My second master and I surrounded Zeng Weiguo, only to hear "Huh?" from the corner. With a sound, the three of them hurriedly turned on the flashlight to shine, only to see that Li Xiao seemed to have found something in the corner.

His position belongs to a recess in the hole, from our position, we can only see his backpack, but no one can be seen, the three of us heard the sound and walked over, only to find that the original wall here was blown out of a big hole, and Li Xiao was squatting on the ground to study something.

The second master stretched out his head to look, it's okay not to look at it, this time I listened to the second master: "Mom", I said something in my heart that can scare the bandits, and I also stretched out my head to look, only to see that in front of Li Xiao was a human arm, a fleshy and mutilated arm, Li Xiao was fiddling with a dagger.

I first felt a tingling on my scalp, and then I squatted on the side and retched for a long time, because I didn't eat for a day and just vomited some stomach acid.

Zeng Weiguo squatted next to Li Xiao and asked, "What did you find?" ”。

Li Xiao replied: "According to my inference, this arm is estimated to be the Japanese who are right, but the strange thing is that you see that the epidermis, muscles and vascular nerve bundles are obviously irregular jagged sections, and there is a penetrating wound near this position near the section, the diameter of the wound is very thick, but there are no burn marks, which proves that it is not caused by a bullet, so I suspect that this arm was directly torn off by an external force, and the force point of the tear should be this penetrating injury, the wound has an obvious life reaction, and when it was torn off, this person was still alive." ”。

Zeng Weiguo nodded and asked, "Can you see that it was ripped off by something?" ”。

Li Xiao shook his head: "This has to be dissected and tested, not here."

The second master and I were a little dumbfounded, and the second master asked me, "What can pull a person's arm off alive?" That's a lot of power."

I shook my head, I actually wanted to know more now if the thing that could pull a person's arm off was gone.

The second master walked to the hole that was blown out, wiped off a little black and put it on his nose and sniffed it, saying: "These little Japanese have two hits, using TNT, directional blasting."

Zeng Weiguo said on the side: "It seems that this Japanese inspection group does have a military background, and everyone should be more careful when dealing with them in the future."

We nodded yes, and then the second master held a flashlight and a box cannon to hit the head, and I paddled behind, and a group of four people slowly marched towards the cave.