Chapter 568: The Pretender (I)
I glanced at Liang Houzai, who frowned and made a lip shape to me: "Funeral Sect." ”
I took a deep breath and pointed in the direction of the hill to move on.
After that, I led them around to the back of the mobile house, bending over and moving forward cautiously.
Leaving the three rows of houses, we straightened up and quickened our pace towards the top of the hill, if it was really the people from the Burial Sect who had entered, they might have already obtained the Yin Jade.
Halfway up the mountain, we slowed down again, avoiding the trail opened up by the construction team, and cautiously navigating the trees.
When I was about to reach the top of the mountain, I smelled the smell of gunpowder, it seems that someone did use explosives here not long ago, if the people who went up the mountain were really archaeological teams, it was unlikely that they would use this kind of thing, and using explosives to blow up the tomb, I'm afraid that only the mercenaries of the burial sect could do it.
The mountain is not high, we soon came to the top of the mountain, from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, there are a lot of steel frames for construction, but on the top of the mountain only dug a huge round pit, but there is not much building materials.
I could feel that there was a faint yin qi floating around the big pit, although the amount of qi was very small, but it was extremely pure, and that yin qi was emanating from the yin jade.
Liang Houzai whispered to me: "The so-called archaeological team should have left. ”
Actually, I don't need to say that I know that we are late.
The yin qi near the big pit is left behind by the yin jade, which means that someone has left the tomb with the yin jade, these people are in a hurry, and they didn't even have time to encapsulate the yin jade before leaving, could it be that they got the news in advance and knew that we were coming?
I got up and walked away from the bushes, walked to the pit, and looked inside.
At the bottom of the crater, there is indeed a hole with a diameter of about three meters, but part of the rock formation around the hole has been blown apart.
Senior Brother Geng first leaned over to take a look, then turned around and looked towards several other hills not far away, and after a while, I heard him suddenly exclaim, "It's broken!" ”
I asked Senior Brother Geng, "What's wrong?" ”
Senior Brother Geng pointed to the mountain in the distance and said to me, "This mountain was originally used to ward off evil, but now that the mountain has been opened with such a big hole, the feng shui has been broken. Those villages are close to these mountains, and without the screens that block them, evil spirits will soon accumulate. When the time comes, all the villagers will suffer! ”
I don't understand Feng Shui, but listening to Senior Brother Geng's tone, the destruction of the mountain seems to be a very serious matter. I asked him, "Can it be remedied?" ”
Senior Brother Geng sighed and said, "The remedy can be remedied, but the good feng shui of thousands of years has been ruined like this, and no matter how much it is remedied, it will not be able to return to its original state." The fortunes of the locals are also coming to an end. Alas, re-replenishing Feng Shui is a big project that takes at least half a year, and during this time, those who are unlucky may be subjected to bloodbath. ”
The blood catastrophe, to put it in layman's terms, means that someone will die in the local area, unless all the villagers move to other places, otherwise, this kind of thing cannot be avoided at all.
But if the villagers are allowed to leave their hometowns where they have lived for decades for no reason, it will cause even more chaos.
I took out a flashlight from my backpack and said to Liang Houzai and Senior Brother Geng, "You guys are waiting here, I'll go down and take a look." ”
Liang Houzai looked a little worried: "Can you do it alone, there may be powerful evil things in the tomb." ”
I smiled: "It's not a big problem, I can't sense other evil qi here, and it is estimated that the evil things in the tomb should also be cleaned up by the Burial Sect." ”
With that, I slid down the steep slope on the periphery of the big pit.
I don't know much about construction, but I've been to construction sites before, and I've seen the foundations dug out of the construction site, and those foundations are dug in all directions, with straight walls on all sides, but the foundation here presents a regular "bowl shape".
Sliding all the way to the entrance of the cave, I also found a few pieces of rune paper in the blasted rock, with half a rune drawn in cinnabar.
It seems that some of the people who went to the tomb before were also my companions.
I lay down next to the entrance of the cave and looked inside, the hole was not deep, and I could see it at a glance by the moonlight, although the entrance of the cave had been blown up, but there were far fewer rockfalls in the cave than outside the hole. I hit a trekking peg on the ground, put a rope on it, and slid along the rope to the bottom of the cave.
Connected to the entrance was a long natural tunnel, which was gradually widened from east to west, and I shone my flashlight on the east side of the tunnel, and at the end of the beam, the tunnel was too narrow for people to walk, and the tomb should be due west of the tunnel.
I tried to sense the Qi field in the west, and there was no other evil qi except for the small amount of yin qi left over from the yin jade.
At this time, I heard Liang Houzai shouting at the entrance of the cave: "Brother Dao, I'll go down to help you, right?" ”
Before I could respond, he came down the rope, and I looked towards the entrance of the cave and asked him, "Why did you come down, Senior Brother Geng?" ”
"He's out there." As he spoke, he took out his flashlight and shone it at both ends of the tunnel.
I said, "Go deeper, take a look." He walked towards the west end of the tunnel.
It didn't take long to go west before the width of the tunnel was expanded to more than five meters, after which the width of the tunnel did not change, and the smell of blood was faintly visible in the air.
As Liang Houzai and I continued to advance, the smell of blood became more and more pungent, and such a smell reminded me of the blood pool in the old Huang family's underground palace again.
At the end of the tunnel there are traces of bombing, and in a hollow blown out by gunpowder, there is a deeper passage.
Liang Houzai and I each held up a flashlight and entered the passage on the stone wall, which was a boxy tomb road, whether it was the top, the ground, or the walls on both sides, all of which were built with large stone slabs of the whole block, and on these stone slabs there were statues of Zhu Huai.
Liang Houzai shook a flashlight on the stone wall and said to me: "The things suppressed in this tomb are also Zhuhuai? ”
I nodded, "I should." Before, I thought that the evil things in each tomb were different. ”
Liang Houzai: "Maybe this tomb has some kind of connection with the bronze tomb we went down before." ”
I said, "Who knows, this tomb has been destroyed, and even if it is related, it will be cut off now." Go further. ”
As I spoke, I moved the beam of the flashlight to the front and continued with the load.
At the corner of this cemetery, a huge body filled with a strong smell of blood blocked our way, and I suddenly became nervous, but when I took a flashlight, I realized that it was a dead Zhuhuai.
Its head had been cut off entirely, blood and grease dripping down the incision in its neck, and although it was dead, its headless body still stood stiff, and the burrs on its body were broken extensively.
We've fought Zhu Huai before, and its flesh is as hard as steel, and its recovery ability is so strong that even armor-piercing bullets can't do substantial damage to it. But the Zhuhuai in front of me was actually decapitated, I carefully examined the wound on its neck, the outer edge of the wound was very flat, and the sections of the bones and muscles were straight, indicating that it was beheaded in an instant, and it may not have had time to resist.
At this time, Liang Houzai patted me on the shoulder, and he used a flashlight to shine a picture behind Zhu Huai, and said to me, "Brother Dao, look." ”
I looked over along the beam of the flashlight, and saw that Zhu Huai's huge head had fallen not far away, all three eyes had been gouged out, and there were only three huge blood holes left in the eye sockets and forehead, and on the left cheek, there was also a spirit rune.
Liang Houzai and I avoided Zhuhuai's body and walked over to the head. I looked at the spirit rune, and the spirit rhyme on it had been exhausted, and the cinnabar used to draw the rune had fallen off a lot and became incomplete.
Liang Houzai asked me: "The anger on Zhuhuai's body has been dispelled, right?" ”
I nodded: "It has been completely dispersed, and there is only a little yin qi left in the tomb, and the other Qi fields have all dispersed." ”
As I spoke, I used my flashlight to shine a light on the graveyard deeper, where a large number of corpses were entrenched, and in addition, I found a dead mercenary on the ground, who seemed to have been violently impacted at the last moment of his life, and his whole body was severely deformed, and there was an equally dead corpse on his back.
The corpse was supposed to want to get into his back, but it was dispersed at the moment when it was about to get in.
This time, the Funeral Sect not only sent mercenaries, but also masters, and this person is much more clever than me in terms of cultivation and means.
And I vaguely feel that this person's Taoism is very likely to be above my master and uncle.
Liang Houzai probably had the same idea, and he said on the side: "Hey, there is a way on the left, you say...... The Funeral Sect wouldn't be inviting those old monsters of the Hermit Sect out, would it? ”
I looked into the depths of the graveyard and didn't respond.
Then Liang Houzai said to himself: "Now that the Burial Sect is already the public enemy of the entire industry, even if it is a person from the Hermit Sect, he should not dare to go out of the mountain for them." Could it be that the master who went down to the tomb was himself a person in the burial sect? ”
Speaking of this, Liang Houzai suddenly turned his head and asked me, "It can't be that the sect leader of the Burial Sect is here in person, right?" ”
I still didn't respond, and quietly pulled out the green steel sword from its scabbard little by little, and "Liang Houzai" continued: "Your master can sit on the third chair of the Burial Sect, although it is only honorable, but it also shows that in the entire Burial Sect, his cultivation is also one of the best, but the master of the tomb in front of him is obviously more ...... than your uncle."
I stood up and interrupted him: "How did you know about my master?" ”
Hearing me say this, "Liang Houzai" suddenly closed his mouth, and the green steel sword on my side was already out of its sheath.
In the next instant, "Liang Houzai" felt something from his waist, judging by the outline, it should be a pistol, and I didn't talk nonsense, and slashed at his wrist with a sword.
This sword did hit, but I felt a very heavy resistance, and the moment the green steel sword touched it, it turned dull!
I reacted on the spot, although this person pretended to be Liang Houzai, he was his own.
At that time, a name immediately appeared in my mind: Luo Youfang.
After being "hit" by the Qinggang sword, "Liang Houzai" pulled away from me with a dodge, and his speed was very fast, and it was impossible for me to catch up with him.
Ten meters away from me, he stopped and said to me, "Luo Youfang, let me remind you and let you pay attention to the shape of his mouth." ”
Isn't this person Luo Youfang?
I didn't understand what he meant and asked, "What do you mean?" ”
"Liang Houzai" smiled: "I don't know what it means, Luo Youfang just asked you to pay attention to his mouth shape." Also, he asked me to give this thing to you. ”
As he spoke, he threw the object in his hand on the ground.