Chapter 80: The Mountain Mover
The "Zagrama Mountain" in the depths of the Taklamakan Desert, under the black mountain range, there are countless secrets buried, perhaps really the same as the name of the mountain, Zagrama means "mysterious" in the ancient Wei language, and some people interpret it as "sacred mountain", in short, it is difficult for mortals living around Zagrama to find out the mystery.
In ancient times, the nameless tribe that was once born and was called the "Sage", let's call it the "Zagrama tribe", the tribe of the tribe migrated from the distant European continent, and lived in the Zagrama Mountains for many years, until people inadvertently found the bottomless "ghost cave" in the belly of the mountain, the sorcerer of the tribe told everyone that in the ancient East, there was a golden jade giant eye, which could see the truth of the ghost cave, so they imitated and built the same jade eye, It is used to worship the "ghost cave", and from that moment on, bad luck befalls this tribe.
Since then, the Zagrama tribe has been really abandoned, and the disasters have continued, and the sage who is the leader of the tribe believes that this must be related to the "ghost cave", once the door of the disaster is opened, it will be difficult to close it again, in order to avoid these terrible disasters, they have to give up their homes that have lived for many years, migrate to the far east, and gradually integrate into the civilization of the Central Plains.
What is the so-called "calamity"? From the current point of view, it seems that it can be said to be a virus, a virus that is infected with the eyes of the earth, and anyone who has seen the ghost cave with their own eyes, after a period of time, will have a red lump in the shape of an eyeball on their body, which cannot be eliminated for the rest of their lives.
After the age of 40, the iron in the blood of the body will gradually decrease, and the reason why the blood flow is red is because the blood contains iron, and if the iron in the blood slowly disappears. The blood will become sticky, the oxygen supply to the brain will decrease, it will become more and more difficult to breathe, and finally by the time of death, the blood will turn yellow.
This painful process will continue for ten years. Their descendants, although they no longer have red scars on their bodies, still suffer from iron deficiency, and in the end, like their ancestors, they will suffer in extreme pain, because they are not like the later elite people, only a few clergy have seen the cave, but most of the people in the tribe have seen the cave, so they have to leave their homeland.
After moving to the Central Plains region. After several generations of observation, they found a pattern, the farther away from the ghost cave, the later the onset of the disease, but no matter what, this symptom is always there, generation after generation, dying of miserable suffering, no words are enough to describe the pain of blood turning yellow clotted.
In order to find a solution to this pain, everyone in the tribe tried to do nothing. Many years later, in the Song Dynasty, an important clue was finally found, and a huge bronze tripod was found in the silt of the lower reaches of the Yellow River, which was a product of the middle Shang Dynasty.
This tripod has a deep belly and concave bottom, there are four legs under it, majestic and dignified, and cast with exquisite cicada patterns, tripod is an important ritual vessel in ancient times, especially in the Bronze Age, bronze mines are controlled in the hands of the government, the level of bronze smelting technology, marking a strong procedure of a country, the emperor cast tripod is used to sacrifice the ancestors of heaven and earth, and cast inscriptions on the tripod, report some important things to heaven and earth, in addition to the items used to reward the nobles and heroes, also often represented by bronze, the person who receives the reward, in order to record this great glory, When he returned, he ordered people to use the bronze they received as raw materials to build utensils to commemorate these important events at that time.
The descendants of the Yigrama tribe found such a bronze tripod that recorded a major event, when the 32nd monarch of the Shang Dynasty, Wu Ding, once obtained a jade eyeball stained with gold, it is said that this jade eyeball was found by a collapsed mountain peak, and a red robe was found at the same time.
Shang Wang Wuding thought that this ancient jade eye was left after the Yellow Emperor's immortalization, which was extremely precious, and named it "X Dust Bead", so he ordered someone to cast a tripod to commemorate, and the inscription record on the bronze tripod was limited to this, and there was no superfluous information to be maintained. (X dust beads, dust beads, red pills, is the three major Chinese sacred beads that have appeared in the history books many times since ancient times, among which the X dust beads are made of mysterious materials similar to jade, according to legend, they were obtained by the Yellow Emperor to sacrifice to the sky, and the legend was later used to accompany the burial of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the tomb was destroyed by the peasants, and its whereabouts are still unknown, and the dust beads may be the earliest radioactive substances found in the world, the beads were found in Shaanxi, China, and were found due to the vicious robbery incident, and disappeared.) Chidan is the most legendary, the legend is that the Dan comes from the Sanshen Mountain, has the miraculous effect of rebirth, has always been the palace relocation secret collection, lost in the late Northern Song Dynasty. )
The descendants of the Sograma tribe, many of them are good at dizziness, they think that this gold-soaked ancient jade eyeball is the eye of the gods, only with this ancient jade eyeball to sacrifice the ghost cave, in order to offset the previous sorcerer in the clan to make that jade eye to spy on the ghost cave secret people caused by the disaster This ancient jade that was once owned by Wu Ding changed hands several times in the war, and now it is very likely that it has been buried in the ancient cemetery palace of a royal noble, and has become a funeral object, but the scope of dizziness is limited, and the exact location cannot be known.
At this time, the Zagrama tribe has been reduced from 5,000 people when they migrated to the mainland, to more than 1,000 people, they have long been assimilated by the Han civilization, and even their surnames have been sinicized, in order to get rid of the shackles of the disease, they had to disperse to various places, looking for "x dust beads" in the ancient tombs, these people, became a branch of the four major tomb robbery systems at that time.
Since ancient times, professional tomb robbers, according to different means of action, are divided into four factions, hair hills, touch gold, move mountains, unload mountains, descendants of the Zagrama tribe, most of them learn the "moving mountains and dividing the armor", usually disguised as Taoist priests, and call themselves "mountain movers".
"Mountain movers" are very different from "touching gold school captains", it can be seen from the title, "moving mountains" takes a trumpet-type tomb robbery, which is a means of mainly using external forces to destroy, while "touching gold" pays more attention to technical links.
The "mountain movers" among the descendants of the Zagrama tribe, in the years that followed, did not know how many ancient tombs they had found, and the clues were intermittent and continuous......
In this hedge-building search, the whereabouts of the "X dust bead" are still unknown, and with the passage of the Ming Dynasty, the "mountain moving technique" is gradually declining, and the talent is withering. During the Republic of China, there was only one young "mountain movers" left in the country, who was the most famous tomb robber in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Over time, all the people forgot what his real name was, and only called him "Partridge Whistle". It will make light work, and it is the best at cracking various mechanisms in the ancient tomb. And the marksmanship is like a god, not only in the inverted fight, even in the green forest, there is a big name.
"Partridge Whistle" respects the legacy of the ancestors, according to the slightest clue that comes and goes, traces the whereabouts of the "X Dust Bead" everywhere, and finally targets a treasure cave in the Western Xia Kingdom. Legend has it that the treasure cave is not far from the ancient Xixia Heishui City of the abandoned play, it was originally a mausoleum built as a heavy minister of the Xixia Kingdom, but the Xixia Kingdom was finally slaughtered by the Mongols, at that time, the prince and minister did not have time to gather, and the important treasures in the palace were hidden in it, and it was possible that the "X dust beads" were also in it, but there was no sealed soil and other animals on the ground, and it was extremely difficult to find.
"Partridge Whistle", a "mountain mover", does not understand feng shui astrology. Technically speaking, it is impossible to find the treasure cave, and at this time, his people have not much left, and they can no longer find the "X dust bead". This ancient tribal bloodline is likely to be extinct, and seeing the strange state of his own people when they are dying, the "Partridge Whistle" has to resort to the "Captain Touching Gold" who is good at Feng Shui Jinding Cave.
But at that time, the world was in turmoil, and the four major factions of Faqiu, touching gold, moving mountains, and unloading ridges almost all broke off the incense, and they still knew the content of "moving mountains", and there may be only one person left, "Partridge Whistle", and Faqiu and Jieling did not exist long before the dynasty.
At that time, there were not many people who were "touching the gold school captain", and there were no more than ten people in the whole country, and in that era, there were more "official thieves" from the warlords who were engaged in tomb robbery activities, or "scattered thieves" from the people.
"Partridge Whistle" did everything possible to find a monk who had become a monk to touch the gold school, begging him to teach the secret art of dividing the gold and fixing the acupoint, this monk law on the "down" under the "dust", the dust elder was also a touch gold school captain, poured a lot of big fights, in his later years to see through the red dust, monks.
Master Lichen advised the "Partridge Whistle" and said: "The world is nothing to do, everyone is troubled, my Buddha is the most comfortable, just a smile, how can the donor not see it, the old monk did touch the gold school captain, although the things obtained, most of them are used for the people, but the old man meditates and thinks, the heart is really difficult to stabilize, so that those precious Ming weapons see the light of day, this world will be because of this, how many more bloody wind and rain of open and secret fighting, Ming Weapon This kind of thing, whether it is used by yourself, or sold for good, is not a good thing, in short, this inverted business, It's too deep to create evil......"
"Partridge Whistle" had no choice but to tell the truth, and Master Lichen listened to the reason, so he moved his good thoughts, and was ready to teach the "Partridge Whistle" the rules and means of "touching gold", but according to the rules, "Partridge Whistle" must first set up a letter of surrender before he can be granted the gold talisman.
Historically, the activities of the inverted bucket are carried out in the dark, no matter what the motive is, can not be exposed, so the rules are a little sloppy, the dust master told the "partridge whistle": "When I was a monk here, I once saw an ancient tomb near here, which has not been upside down by the bucket, the location is under the mountain outside the temple, ten miles northwest, there is a barren mountain range, there is a half-cut wordless stone tablet, there is an ancient tomb in the Southern Song Dynasty under it, the external characteristics are only the half of the remnant of the tablet, under the stone tablet is a tomb road, the cemetery is remote, has never been stolen, But the acupuncture points are not well chosen, and the shape is like a broken sword. According to what I said, go to the tomb tonight to take the tomb owner's set of funeral clothes, as your fate, whether you can get it back smoothly depends on whether the ancestor rewards you for this craft. ”
Then the dust master gave the "partridge whistle" a set of guys, all of which were supplies for the "Touching Gold Captain", and instructed him to remember, all the rules in the gold industry, "touching the gold" is the most technical school in the inverted bucket, and the longest origin, many of the common lip dictionary sockets in the industry, most of them are spread from the mouth of the Touching Gold Captain, for example, today's tomb robbers say that they are "inverted bucket" craftsmen, but why is the tomb robbery called "inverted bucket"? I'm afraid many people can't say it, this word was first derived from a vivid description of tomb robbery by Captain Mojin. Chinese tombs, in addition to repairing in the belly of the mountain, most of them have sealed mounds, taking Qinling as an example, the shape of the mound is just like a bucket for measuring rice, in turn buckled on the ground, the underground palace of the Ming weapon is in the bucket, the easiest way to take out the Ming weapon is to turn the bucket over and take it away, so it is called the inverted bucket.
Such allusions, as well as all kinds of taboos, "partridge whistle" has never been heard of before, and there are not so many famous mountain movers. After listening to Elder Chen's explanation, I felt a sense of enlightenment.
What Elder Lichen repeatedly told him in the end was the rules of conduct when he was upside down. To light a candle in the southeast corner of the tomb, the lamp will be turned on to open the coffin and touch the gold, if the lamp is out, it will retreat quickly, and do not take excess things, do not destroy the coffin, a tomb can only enter and exit one back and forth, and try to backfill the thief hole when leaving......
What Elder Lichen repeatedly told him in the end was the rules of conduct when he was upside down. To light a candle in the southeast corner of the tomb, the lamp will be turned on to open the coffin and touch the gold, if the lamp is out, it will retreat quickly, and do not take excess things, do not destroy the coffin, a tomb can only enter and exit one back and forth, and try to backfill the thief hole when leaving......
"Partridge Whistle" that night, alone found the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty tomb, at this time the sky is late, the sky is cloudy and floating, the moon appears and disappears in the dark clouds, the night wind blows the dead branches and leaves in the woods, like a ghost weapon this god howl.
The "Partridge Whistle" will no longer use its own "Mountain Moving and Armor Separation Technique", but follow the guidance of the Dust Mage, and use the method of touching the golden captain to make a robbery hole that goes straight to the tomb.
At that moment, he prepared an ink fountain, tied corpse ropes, pubic claws, candles, soft corpse incense, black donkey hooves and glutinous rice, ate a "red qi miaoxin pill" to avoid corpse qi, and pushed the nose of a German 20-round mirror box gun away. Insert it around your waist and cover your mouth and nose with a damp cloth.
Elder Nachen said that the situation in this tomb is chaotic, the wind is against the wind, the shape is like a broken sword, and the momentum is like a covered chamber, in this standard murder cave, maybe it will cause a corpse change, but the "Partridge Whistle" has experienced a hundred battles. No matter how dangerous the ancient tombs are, those ancient tombs of elves and ghosts, zongzi are yin, black and white, and they have killed not a hundred, but eighty in the past few years.
"Partridge Whistle" thought to himself: "This time is Elder Chen's courage and means, and he must not fall into the name of the three words of Partridge Whistle in the inverted bucket line." So he got ready, looked up at the hazy moon in the sky, took a lantern, took a deep breath, and went into the thief's hole.
"Partridge Whistle" with agile skills, not long to drill into the main tomb, the scale of this tomb is not large, the height is also very limited, it seems extraordinarily depressed, there are a lot of bright vessels piled on the ground, "Partridge Whistle" does not look at those trivial burial things, after entering, then find the southeast corner of the tomb, light a candle, turn around and look at the coffin of the tomb owner, and find that there is no coffin here, only the coffin, it is a copper gold coffin, the whole coffin is copper, in the tomb robbery of the "Partridge Whistle", this coffin is still the first time to see, I have only heard of this kind of copper-horned gold coffin in order to prevent the tomb owner from striking the corpse and specially made, the reason why such a copper-horned gold coffin is used to hold it, but it is because before the tomb owner is buried, there have been some signs of corpse transformation.
However, the "Partridge Whistle" artist is bold, and he opened the heavy coffin lid with his pubic claws, only to see that the coffin was a woman, with a face like life, and she was about thirty years old, and she was a noblewoman, with two ribs slightly bulging, which showed that she contained antiseptic beads in her mouth, and her head was full of gold and silver hand ornaments.
The body is covered with a layer of country quilt, from the upper body, the female corpse is wearing nine sets of funeral clothes, only pick up her outermost set down, go back and have an explanation, "Partridge Whistle" turned over and jumped into the coffin, took out the corpse rope, wrapped it twice around his body, tied a knot on the chest, and made a rope loop similar to hanging at the other end, covering the neck of the female corpse.
"Partridge Whistle" held his breath and lay in the coffin, face to face with the female corpse, and lit a piece of soft corpse incense in the coffin, the soft corpse incense can quickly smoke the hard corpse, and put it on the side of the face of the female corpse in the Southern Song Dynasty, sit back on the legs of the female corpse in the coffin, adjust the length of the corpse rope, raise his head and straighten his waist, due to the traction of the corpse rope around his neck, the female corpse also sat up with him at the same time.
(Captain Touching Jin used one end of the rope to tie the corpse to his chest, and the other end was made into a rope to tie the neck of the corpse, in order to make the corpse stand up, and he could free his hands to take off the clothes on the corpse, because Captain Touching Jin was riding on the corpse, after the corpse stood up, it was a piece shorter than Captain Touching Jin, so the rope was wrapped around the chest, and the other end was wrapped around the neck of the corpse, so as to keep it level.) Later, this technique flowed to the thieves, but it was not detailed, the rope used was an ordinary rope, there was no ink on the rope, and the thieves did not figure out the way to tie the corpse rope, their side was not wrapped around the chest, but also the same as the end of the corpse, put on their neck, many people because of the improper method, confused on this top. )
"Partridge Whistle" pulled up the female corpse with a rope, just about to untie the outermost clothes worn by the female corpse, suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing behind him, looked back at the candle flame in the southeast corner of the tomb, was blown by the wind, and seemed to be extinguished at any time, "Partridge Whistle" and the female corpse were tied together at this moment, seeing that the candle was about to go out, secretly said "Oops". It seems that this set of "Great Return Suits" can't be obtained, but the female corpse on the opposite side suddenly opened its mouth and fell out of its closed mouth with a black and purple bead.