We stood in place with all our vigilance, ready to fight at any time, but the wind suddenly stopped inexplicably, and the three of us waited for a long time and didn't see anything abnormal, they looked at each other and looked at each other, and the second master asked in a low voice: "It's over?" ”

Yuan Mei hesitated: "Hmm", but I didn't see her put away the knife in her hand, I held the torch, looked around again, and said after making sure that there was nothing abnormal: "It is estimated that it is a gust of wind, let's not scare ourselves, let's go." ”

The two of them nodded, carried their knives with a wary expression, and continued on their way.

Although I don't believe that this wind is accidental, but at the moment this can only be the best explanation in the inexplicable, this gust of wind blowing, the three of them changed the previous state of watching the flowers, one by one their eyes were open, and they kept scanning the boundless darkness, although it was still Yuanmei to start, I and the second master were behind, but the three of them opened a certain distance, and advanced in a triangular defensive formation, the advantage of this formation is that in the case of the least number of people, take into account the most directions, and can quickly rush to the aid of any side.

I have some regret that I threw the mountain knife into the abyss at that time, although it is a "chicken rib" but it can still be strong at a critical time, and now, only this torch in my hand is really a veritable fire stick, I have no choice but to pick the thickest torch from the backpack, as a mallet, wave it up and down, it is quite smooth, the texture is also quite strong, hold it tightly in the hand, and the heart is more steady.

After walking about 100 steps, I found that the road ahead seemed to be coming to an end, and there was a strong sense of persecution from the huge mountain wall in the darkness.

"How do I feel like I'm coming to an end?" Yuan Mei said suspiciously.

"Can't it, don't you say it's a tomb?" But to be honest, how can I think it's the end? After the second master finished speaking, he coughed twice unnaturally, then shivered again, pulled the clothes on his body, and said to himself: "Why is this yin qi getting heavier and heavier?" ”

I didn't feel anything on my body, I couldn't help but wonder if he had a fever caused by inflammation and infection of the wound, and I wanted to stop and check him carefully, but I felt that this was not a place to stay for a long time.

About a cigarette of effort, there really appeared a mountain in front of me, the reason why it is called a mountain, because it rises from the ground, and does not even rely on, as if it is the mountain in the mountain that was bred by this cave alone, this mountain is cylindrical, high without the top, the path under the foot extends straight into a cave under the mountain five or six zhang high, outside the cave stands two copper lamps as high as the shoulder, I am afraid that the previous light is from here, the lamp base of this lamp is the size of a basin, the lamppost is thicker than the large sea bowl, But the lamp bowl is only a finger thicker than the lamppost, it looks very incongruous, starting from the lamp base, all the way up is full of strange patterns, this pattern looks like what kind of animal, but it is not a common dragon, phoenix, Rui beast and the like, due to the age, the copper lamp has long been rusted, and the pattern is covered in the dark green patina, which is not real.

What's more peculiar is that this mountain is like a hornet's nest, the whole body is dark, and from bottom to top, densely covered with two or three zhang deep, one or two zhang square, the cave is full of holes, dense, countless, the scalp of the people who look at it is numb, the most terrifying thing is that in every cave, there is a coffin embedded in it, whether it is the style or the method of placement, it is exactly the same as the hanging coffin of those servants outside the cave.

I don't know how big this mountain is, and I don't know how many coffins there are, only in front of the torch irradiated range, layer upon layer, I'm afraid that there are no less than a thousand, because there is no sun and rain here, these coffins are far more intact than those outside, some are illuminated by the firelight, and they also reflect a strange light, and the people who really see it are shocked.

"This formation is too spectacular, I said big sister, what kind of coffin is this?" ”

Yuanmei stared at the two bronze lamps and was distracted, I didn't hear the second master speak, I touched her lightly, and then suddenly came back to my senses, raised my head and looked up slowly, unable to speak for a long time.

I saw that she couldn't say a reason for a while, so she simply held a torch, walked to the copper lamp, squatted down, and carefully studied the patterns on the copper lamp, it turned out that it was a kind of fish, saying that it was a fish, but it had a strange human face, on the fish, the dorsal fin was towering high, extending to the back of the head, a huge scissor-like tail was nearly half a body long, and the human face was also full of facial features, and there were eyebrows, each fish was about a palm wide, two and a half palms high.

The only difference is that what looks like a beard, hanging down from the temples and around the lips, is unusually thick and has only four per fish, but on a closer look is more like a catfish or carp with fleshy whiskers than hair.

The reason why he is strange is because this person's eyes look very sad, neither as angry as ordinary tomb beasts, nor as proud as dragons and phoenixes, these fish are next to each other, all kneeling on the tail fins, eyebrows and eyes are lowered, as if there is endless pain that is indescribable, and the people who look at it feel uncomfortable.

The beliefs of this ethnic minority are different, not to mention the things that make a human face and a fish body, other people's fish are swimming, but his fish is kneeling, and he is full of lights, and I don't know what the meaning is, I am thinking nonsense, Yuan Mei stood behind me at some point and said: "This is a red pig, a kind of human-faced fish." ”

"Is there really such a fish?" I was first taken aback by her, and then asked in surprise.

"Well, the earliest is recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" that the mountain of Qingqiu, the Yingshui comes out, and the south flows into the Ze of the wings. Among them, there are many red squids, its shape is like a fish and human face, its sound is like a mandarin duck, it is not scabies to eat, Wu Renchen, a famous master of the Qing Dynasty, also wrote, there are also child fish in Cizhou, four-legged and long-tailed, the sound is like a baby's cry, and its ointment is not extinguished. I think this bronze lamp is probably the so-called red squid paste. ”

The second master didn't pay attention to this ever-bright lamp at first, and when he heard her say this, he hurried over, watched carefully in front of the lamp, and said while watching: "This is really a big forest, and there are all kinds of birds, hey, you said that this thing is long, and it is quite cautious to see it. ”

Yuanmei shook her head: "How can there still be alive?" As early as a thousand years ago, in order to get a piece of this millennium immortal red squid ointment, the nobles set up a special position in the palace to study the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and secretly sent countless people and horses to travel all over the country, just to find the so-called Qingqiu Mountain, it is said that in the Three Kingdoms period, this red squid has completely disappeared, and it can not be found, this red squid paste is also the first time I have seen it, and the black paste in the lamp bowl should be. ”

When the second master heard this, he stretched out his finger curiously, wanting to dip a little and come out to take a look, Yuanmei's hand was quick, and he grabbed him and said, "Don't move!" It is said that although this red ointment is an open fire, it is a thing of ice and fire, otherwise it will not burn for thousands of years and be exhausted, the ointment itself is cold and highly poisonous, it is good when burning, if the anointing oil is in contact with people, this person will be within seven days, gradually freeze and die of the whole body, this way of death is extremely painful, according to my grandfather back then, take this red ointment must be held with a thousand years of tortoise shell, otherwise not only can not be ignited, but also kill people invisibly. ”

"Freeze, what's the pain, we haven't been to it in the winter of northern Liaoning, that guy is cold, the dogs are frozen to death, on the street all day long, how many ears are frozen off the ears, hey, just your second master's body, not blowing with you, counting nine cold days, taking cold showers in the yard without cold." The second master felt that he was frightened by a girl, and his face was a little unbearable, so he went back to find face.

"Is it painful to watch yourself freeze to death, but you can't do anything about it?" After Yuan Mei finished coldly, she raised her head and continued to look at the hanging coffin on the mountain.

After hearing this, the second master stuck out his tongue in fright, stared at Chang Minglan and shook his head helplessly, and then walked to Yuanmei's side and said a little flatteringly: "Big sister, do you see a doorway in this formation?" ”

"It's very much like a servant's hanging coffin, but it always feels like something is wrong, you see, the stone walls of those hanging coffins outside are engraved with the sun emblem, although the pillars of the tomb also have the sun emblem, but there is no here, secondly, you look at the top layer." ”

The second master and I raised the torch above our heads, stood on tiptoe, squinted and looked up, Yuanmei's so-called top, in fact, is the top layer of the torch's lighting range, and I found that the coffin on that layer seemed to have a lot of patterns drawn with a red pen, saying that it was a pattern, and it was like a black coffin oozing red water stains, one by one, I couldn't see the rules, but the distance was too far, and I couldn't see it clearly.

"That should be a lacquered coffin, this kind of lacquer coffin in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty was dedicated to the princes and nobles, and later due to the complexity of the process, it was slowly replaced by a wooden coffin, that is to say, but the upper coffin we can see is more than 2,000 years ago, so I guess this tomb may be related to the servants, but it is estimated that it was not built by the servants, what is the specific, I am afraid to continue to move forward to know." ”

What she said was cloudy, misty, what does it mean to have something to do with servants, but it was not built by servants? This is not a dinner invitation, I invite you to eat, no need to do it, this is a mausoleum, not to mention that it was that era, but how much manpower and material resources do you have to spend until now? There's no reason to say that I built such a big tomb just to bury others.

I glanced at the second master, both shook their heads and smiled bitterly, watching Yuanmei walk past the copper lamp and walk towards the cave, we could only chase two steps and follow behind, hey, she can say whatever she wants, who makes people read more.

When passing by the lantern, I deliberately stopped to look at the black lamp oil in the lamp bowl, and vaguely smelled a faint fishy smell, and suddenly found that the smell was very familiar, as if I had smelled it somewhere.

The cave and the path are the same width, straight forward, and the stone walls in the cave are polished so smooth that you can't even see a crack in the stone.

"Hey, Xiaofeng, why do I look at the cave as if it was cut out of a whole stone, and there is no crack at all?" ”

"Second master, since we entered here, do you say that there is something that is within the scope of understanding? Come on, it's not a surprise. ”

"Hey, you say, this mountain is so dark, could it be a coal mountain?" You see, the cave is so dark that even the light of the torches has been sucked away. ”

Indeed, when I heard him say this, I realized that as I continued to move forward, the light of the torches also dimmed significantly, and the flames were still burning, but they could only shine an arm's length away, and further on, there was a very clear boundary, and after the boundary was endless darkness, as if someone had taken a huge black cloth to surround us, and this feeling of obstruction of vision was extremely uncomfortable.

And the darkness around this brings a strong sense of oppression, as if being locked in a black box, there is no wind in the cave, the air seems to be frozen, except for the footsteps of the squeo, there is no movement, the further you go, the stronger the sense of oppression, there seems to be a large piece of iron on the chest, suffocating and breathless, the three of them walked forward silently, even the second master quieted down, it seems that it is not only me who is affected.

Fortunately, when his patience was about to reach the limit, the torch light of Yuanmei in front of him suddenly lit up, and then a cold cold wind rushed straight to the door, and he was suddenly refreshed, and the second master took a deep breath and shouted: "Broken cave, what a fucking grievance!" ”

The voice kept echoing in the sky, and I was wondering where this was, when Yuanmei suddenly shouted, "Shut up!" ”

"Hey, I said big girl, this is wrong with you, Mom! What the fuck is this?! ”