"It's a female stork," Liang Houzai walked up to me, illuminated the words on the stone wall with a flashlight, and said, "Last night, my master told me that the female stork script and the Yelang script are almost identical, the only difference is that the vocabulary of the Yelang script is richer, and the number of words is more than that of the female stork." ”

In other words, he had no difficulty in reading the words on the stone wall.

He looked at the content word by word, and I saw him frown slowly, but didn't dare to disturb him.

After a long time, Liang Houzai said to me, "This is ...... Daredevil is also mentioned. ”

Me: "What do you mean exactly?" ”

Liang Houzai: "The language habits of female storks are very different from those of modern people, and I need to sort out the wording. ”

After that, there was silence for a while, and Liang Houzai repeatedly read the words on the stone wall several times before turning his head and saying to me: "It says that there is a cave god in the deepest part of this tomb, and it is the same as the night demon, which is also transformed by the yin qi of heaven and earth. In addition, he also talked about some of the sins that the cave god had committed, and judging from the things it had done, its destructive power was far less amazing than that of the night demon. ”

I asked Houzai, "What did it do?" ”

Liang Houzai said: "It's eating people, disturbing the court of the Xia Dynasty, or stealing women from good families, looking at the deeds it has done, I think it's just a little demon who doesn't enter the stream." But the problem is that the stone wall says that the cave god is very dangerous, and no one who is unfortunate enough to see its true face will survive. ”

I couldn't help frowning: "Cave God...... Is it the same meaning as the cave god mentioned in Xiangxi? ”

Liang Houzai's brows also frowned: "It's a meaning." And in this tomb, there are not only cave gods, but also cave girls. ”

It is said that there are three evils in Xiangxi: chasing corpses, releasing Gu, and falling into caves.

It's easy to say that the corpse and Gu art are easy to say, the so-called falling cave girl is also called the falling flower cave girl.

In some of the old tribes in the area, some beautiful women with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes will get a strange disease similar to heart loss once they are in their prime. Their faces are like peach blossoms, their eyes are as bright as stars, their voices are as pleasant as silk bamboo, and their bodies exude a sweet fragrance. These people kept wiping tables and chairs and sprinkling the hall every day, tidying up an originally dilapidated home. Entered a realm of not eating the fireworks of the world.

According to the local legend, these women have married themselves to the cave gods who do not eat the fireworks of the world but save people from fire and water, and no longer want to be tempted by secular men, but only carefully protect their beauty and grace, waiting for her god to choose an auspicious day to marry her.

When that day came, the happy women passed away with a smile, but they always maintained their beautiful faces.

The above is the explanation of "Falling Flower Cave Girl" on Baidu Encyclopedia, and such an explanation is basically in line with the truth.

The cave girls marry themselves to the cave gods, and when the cave gods marry them, their souls will be taken away by the cave gods, leaving only a sentient body.

In fact, there are some so-called cave girls who just suffer from paranoia or have been tricked, the real cave girls after losing their souls, the corpses can not decay for 10,000 years, the villagers can not dispose of their bodies at will, they must be carefully buried at the place where the rivers meet, and when the mountains collapse and the rivers dry up, their bodies will disappear with the cave gods.

Some people see the Fallen Flower Cave Girl as a symbol of chastity and beauty, but I never thought so, and I felt that if the cave god was really a good god who saved people from fire and water, he would not have made these righteous and beautiful women so miserable, let alone seduced their souls.

And judging from the words on the stone wall, the cave god hidden in the depths of the tomb is not very kind.

I asked Liang Houzai: "Have you ever seen the cave god?" ”

Liang Houzai: "I left Xiangxi at the age of ten, how can I have the opportunity to see the cave god, let alone the cave god, I haven't even seen the cave girl." ”

Me: "Is there really a cave girl?" ”

Liang Houzai: "I don't know, but since the cave god is mentioned in these texts, the cave girl should also exist." ”

I smacked my tongue: "Any other information?" ”

Liang Houzai looked at the words on the stone wall again, and said to me: "The last text does not seem to have been carved by the tomb builder, it says that as long as you go to the place where the flowers bloom on the other side, you will not be far from the cave god, and when you get there, don't look back." ”

I followed the light and saw the last text on the stone wall, but I didn't see anything different.

Liang Houzai probably saw my doubts, and then said to me: "The wording and language expression of these words are exactly the same as those of the ancient Central Plains people, just like the word 'flower on the other side', which is represented by three words, if according to the habits of the female stork people, such words are composed of two words at most, one word represents 'other side', and one word represents 'flower'." Besides, did people more than 3,000 years ago know what the other side flower is? ”

I knew what the problem was when he said this, but for me who couldn't read the ancient characters, the words on the stone walls were indistinguishable, at least on the surface.

I mean, the words are exactly the same in terms of size, the depth of the notch, and the craftsmanship of the lettering.

It seems to be a cover for the person who carved the last paragraph, who probably didn't want people to know that she had been there, and left a hint for posterity.

You don't have to guess to know that the person who carved the last text is the first ancestor nine times out of ten.

Liang Houzai said to me: "It is a long distance to go from here to the place where the flowers grow on the other side. ”

I understood what he meant, and immediately nodded: "Since the road is very long, then let's not delay and let's go." ”

As I spoke, I turned my head and glanced at Dawei and them, they had been following us about five meters behind, and when I looked at them, Senior Brother Feng waved his hand at me, as if to signal that I didn't have to worry about them.

I didn't talk nonsense anymore, I lit up the stone wall, found the stone door opened by Li Liang and the others, shrunk down and got in.

When I entered the door, I gave Liang Houzai a look, and then pointed to Senior Brother Feng and them, signaling Houzai to keep an eye on their situation at all times. Liang Houzai understood what I meant and nodded at me.

As soon as you enter the stone gate, you can immediately feel a very chaotic Qi field, Yin Qi, Yang Qi, corpse Qi, evil Qi, and Anger Qi, several Qi fields are mixed together indiscriminately, making people feel irritable.

Liang Houzai also sensed this Qi field, so he heard him say to me from behind: "If you go further, you should encounter a mechanism, be careful." ”

I nodded, didn't speak, and continued walking.

As we went deeper, serpentine reliefs appeared on the ground, and I also noticed that some of the stone bricks used to pave the floor were hollow, and when we stepped on them, there would be a very hollow sound.

Fearing that the hollow bricks were triggers for some traps, I had to carefully slow down, take out my green steel sword, and tap the ground in front of me before taking each step to make sure it was solid before I dared to step on it.

At first, there was a heavy dampness in the air, like a large number of fine droplets of water floating in the air, and when we came in, those droplets stuck to our skin.

After applying moisture to the skin, there is always a very sticky feeling, and the neck is slightly itchy.

I glanced back and saw Liu Daxi and Mao Xiaoxi rubbing the skin on their throats with the back of their hands, the light was very dim, I could only vaguely see their movements, and at the same time, I could hear Mao Xiaoxi's breathing becoming very short.

Something is not quite right with these two people.

I immediately stopped, flashed the flashlight at Liu Daxi and Mao Xiaoxi, and shouted at them: "Liu Daxi, Mao Xiaoxi, what are you two doing!" ”

When I shouted like this, the two of them immediately stopped, and Dawei and Senior Brother Feng also stopped and turned their heads to look at them.

When assigning tasks, Dawei let Liu Daxi and Mao Xiaoxi walk in the rear, once there is an emergency, the two of them must provide fire cover for the people in front of them as soon as possible, in addition, Mao Xiaoxi has to take into account the situation in the rear of the vigilance.

It was precisely because the two of them walked at the back of the two teams that apart from me, Senior Brother Feng and Dawei, who were closer to them, did not notice their abnormality.

At this time, Liu Dawei was still rubbing the skin on his neck with his arm, I was far away, only to see that the place where he had rubbed immediately became very rough, as if there was rust on the skin, Dawei quickly walked to him and grabbed his arm: "Don't rub!" ”

Liu Daxi showed a very uncomfortable expression: "Itchy, scratch your heart and scratch your liver!" ”

I also hurriedly ran to Liu Daxi, and saw a thick rash on his neck, and Mao Xiaoxi also had some small bumps on his neck, the situation was far less serious than Liu Daxi.

Just when I checked Liu Daxi's condition, Liu Daxi raised his hand again, to scratch his neck, I grabbed his arm, and leaned over his neck to take a closer look, some rashes have been scratched by him, and a small amount of blood oozes out of the hole.

I asked Liu Daxi: "Are you allergic?" ”

Liu Daxi endured the itch and nodded with difficulty: "Sort of, but the skin is prone to allergies, and nothing else is fine." ”

"Thick load, evil charm!" I turned around and shouted at Liang Houzai.

Liang Houzai immediately ran over and put a triangular folded evil charm in Liu Daxi's pocket, and Liu Shangang also came over with a small medicine bottle the thickness of a finger, and sprinkled the medicine powder in the bottle on Liu Daxi and Mao Xiaoxi's necks respectively.

I asked Mao Xiaoxi: "You shouldn't be allergic, why are you still rubbing your neck?" ”

Mao Xiaoxi said: "After I came in, I felt that my neck was so itchy as if I was pricked with a small meat needle, and I saw Daxi rubbing my neck with my hand, and I felt that I was itching too, so I also rubbed it twice." ”

Either I don't want to take these recruits on a mission, and if you're not careful, they'll do things that look like nothing, but are actually very dangerous.

I frowned helplessly and said to the two of them, "I know you itch, and my neck is itchy too, but at this time, you have to endure the itch." The evil spirit in this place is so strong, you rub the rash once, rub it twice, and the rash will break, and then rub, scratch, and scratch, and the hole in your neck will get bigger and bigger. When the time comes, the evil qi will enter the blood along your wounds, and then enter the meridians from the blood, once your meridians are polluted by the evil qi, if you are lucky, you will be disabled for life, and if you are unlucky, you will be killed on the spot, and no one will be able to save you. ”

Liu Shangang came to Mao Xiaoxi, sprinkled medicinal powder on his neck, and asked him and Liu Daxi: "It's not so itchy, right?" ”

Liu Daxi and Mao Xiaoxi nodded one after another, but did not speak.

Dawei saw that the soldiers he brought were out of business, and his face seemed to be a little unbearable, and he yelled at Liu Daxi and Mao Xiaoxi with great anger: "You two have a snack!" ”

I was too embarrassed to say anything more when he shouted like this, so I sighed and continued my journey deeper into the tomb.

When I walked past Senior Brother Feng, Senior Brother Feng smiled at me: "Your temper is much better than that of Uncle Chai back then, if this is put on Uncle Chai, these two boys will probably be slapped." ”

I smiled helplessly, shook my head, and when I came to Dawei's side, I said to Dawei again: "Dawei, you have to take care of the people you brought in." ”