Chapter 279: The Mystery of the Hanging Coffin

Under the leadership of Ye Jiuqing, we entered Bingzhongluo along the ancient tea horse road, and we could also see the horse gangs along the way.

The Ancient Tea Horse Road is a gap carved out of the mountain artificially, the ancient road is rugged, only enough for one person to pass, walking on one side of the mountain, without any shelter on the other side, the cliff under the foot is steep, and the Nu River is rolling.

Ye Jiuqing relied on the memory of a long time ago, and took us to the last village in Bingzhongluo into the primeval forest, Ye Jiuqing pointed to the village in the distance and told us that this village has a very pleasant name.

Peach blossom.

Because there are a lot of peach blossoms around the village, in March and April every year, the mountains are full of pink, such as picking the source of flowers, but unfortunately we came at the wrong time, but looking at it, this village is so beautiful that people are suffocating, there is a kind of tranquility and indifference away from the hustle and bustle of the world.

In the large expanse of dense green, the tall wooden buildings are lightly staggered, the roofs of the wooden buildings, the layers of stone slabs reflect the light gray light, the clouds and mist are shrouded in the early morning, and the smoke of the cooking, just like a fairyland on earth.

The villagers here are simple and hospitable, but Ye Jiuqing has repeatedly told us not to reveal our purpose, the ancient people here have a very humble awe for that inaccessible primeval forest.

We rested in the village for one night, and the next morning, we followed Ye Jiuqing into the primeval forest filled with thick fog.

There are no roads in the dense forest, even if the local ancient people with experienced knowledge will get lost in the vast forest sea if they are not careful, and the dense forest is full of fog all year round, there is no way to identify the direction.

Ye Jiuqing said that the biggest reason why the ancient people of Bingzhongluo are afraid of this primeval forest is because this dense forest symbolizes death, and the ancient people here firmly believe that this is a forbidden land belonging to the gods, and if they are good at trespassing, they will suffer annihilation.

It took Ye Jiuqing a long time to find the mark left behind, and according to the speed at which we were moving forward, I am afraid that the supplies we carried will soon be exhausted.

The climate in the dense forest is unpredictable, and the sky was clear before, and in the blink of an eye, the torrential rain is not the most troublesome thing, and every step in the forest requires a lot of energy, and it takes a lot of energy to cut the way with a machete.

After nightfall, we found a dry place, and Tian Ji took out something from his bag and planned to make a fire, but he was snuffed out by Ye Jiuqing as soon as he lit it.

"You can't make a fire." Ye Jiuqing said worriedly.

"Uncle Ye, I've checked, it's very humid around here, and the fire won't spread." Tian Ji said.

"That's not what I'm worried about." Ye Jiuqing looked at the darkness around him vigilantly.

"Uncle Ye, then what are you worried about?" The palace lord asked puzzled. "There will definitely be wild beasts in such deep mountains and old forests, and if you don't make a fire, you are afraid that you will be attacked by wild beasts at night."

Ye Jiuqing said that when they came before, they also planned to make a fire, but they were reprimanded by the local ancient clan guide, saying that in this dense forest, the most fatal thing is not a beast.

"What's that?" I was stunned.

"According to the guide, there are guards in the dense forest who protect the sacred mountain, and if they light a fire in the dense forest at night, they will be seen from a long distance, and once they are discovered by these guards, they will never want to go out of this dense forest again." Ye Jiuqing replied.

"There are still guards in this barren mountain and wilderness?" Tian Ji said with a frown. "And even if there were, what do these people eat?"

Ye Jiuqing didn't answer, just stared at the field chicken intently, I quickly reacted, dumbfounded and said, "Cannibalism?!" ”

Ye Jiuqing nodded, lowered his voice and told us: "The local ancient people said so, they regard this place as a thunder pond in their eyes, and they dare not take half a step, but Bingzhong Luo produces gold and jade, and many people have always tried to find gold and jade here, and there are countless people who enter the mountain without permission, but no one has ever come out alive." ”

We listened to the creepy hair, Ye Jiuqing told us to hurry up and finish the dry food, then felt out the rope, and pointed to the big tree behind us: "You have to sleep on the tree at night, the higher the better, first, to prevent wild beasts from attacking, and second, not to be noticed." ”

Fortunately, there is a field chicken, after eating, he quickly climbed the tree, threw the rope down, after we climbed up, each slept on the branches, the trees in the forest are towering, not to mention hundreds of years, the place is spacious, but sleeping on it is not practical, for fear of falling from the top as soon as we turn over, Ye Jiuqing taught us to tie ourselves to the branches, so half-asleep and half-awake to survive the first night after entering the dense forest.

After walking for about ten days, the deeper he went, the slower the speed became, and there was not much dry food left, Ye Jiuqing, who was at the front, found the mark he left on a tree, and suddenly showed a look of surprise, beckoning us to go over and cut down the vines to open the way.

When I lifted a branch of the tree in front of me, a towering mountain in front of me came into view, and we all looked up at the high mountain with excitement, the mountain was strange but strange, the south side of the mountain was as if it had been struck by a ghostly axe, steep and flat, like a boulder that had been polished and smooth, not even a single tree could grow on it, and the whole south side was incompatible with this dense forest, bare and invisible.

"The local ancient people called this mountain the Snake God Mountain." Ye Jiuqing said to us excitedly. "You see, this mountain is long and graceful, shaped like a snake, the towering mountain is like an upright snake head, and the vast forest sea that spreads behind it is like a snake body."

I watched it for a long time, and it was really as Ye Jiuqing described, no matter how I looked at it, it looked like a giant snake, and the people who came out of Lingshan once told the horse gang that Lingshan worships snakes as gods, and will sacrifice to the snake god once every three hundred years, and this place is also called Snake God Mountain, I don't know what the connection between the two is.

"Look, hanging coffin!" Xue Xinrou raised her hand and was excited.

With the direction of her finger, we saw that on the mountain, the caves were dotted, dotted, high or low, large or small, hundreds, and in these caves, the coffin placed inside could be vaguely and clearly seen, Xue Xinrou was very excited, and hurriedly took out the camera to take pictures.

"It's strange, these caves don't seem to be naturally formed......" I muttered after looking at it for a long time.

"Yes, these caves are big and small, but if you look closely, the distribution seems to be regular." The palace lord also nodded and said.

Tian Ji tilted his head and looked at it for a long time, changed several angles, scratched his head and said to us, "Do you have any sense of what kind of pattern these caves look like?" ”

As soon as Tian Ji said this, I also realized that these caves were strangely distributed, Ye Jiuqing seemed to think of something, and hurriedly took out a pen and paper, drew it on the paper according to the distribution and interval of the caves, and looked at it in his hand for a long time, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he connected these caves with lines.

"It seems that our previous speculation was correct, Lingshan is here." Ye Jiuqing's voice was a little excited.

I looked at the pattern in Ye Jiuqing's hand, but I still didn't react, Ye Jiuqing smiled, and took out another piece of paper from his body, which was from the pattern of rubbing from the ship coffin found in Shu, Ye Jiuqing put the two pieces of paper back together and held them up to the sun.

We were surprised to find that these caves were actually distributed according to the pattern on the coffin, and if these caves were connected by lines, they would be a huge totem engraved on the mountain.

"Yin Die said, this is the totem of Lingshan, representing two snakes that meet together, since this totem appears here, it means that Lingshan really exists." I said ecstatically.

"But I have been up to this mountain, and I have not found anything on it, let alone seen any golden city, leaving the totem of Lingshan here, it must have other meanings." Ye Jiuqing said.

"If these caves are distributed in the Lingshan totem, it means that these caves are not naturally formed, but artificially excavated." Xue Xinrou put down the camera and said seriously. "And there is a coffin in the cave, such a hanging coffin burial method, the deceased must have a very noble status during his lifetime, maybe it is a person from Lingshan, maybe you can find clues to Lingshan in the coffin."

"Xinrou is right, these caves are too high to climb, no one can go up, no one can go down, no one can enter, presumably the coffin is well preserved." The palace lord nodded and said.

"But, since no one can get in, we can't get in either." Tian Ji scratched his head and said.

"These caves were dug by man, and if you can put the coffin inside, it means that there must be a way to get in." I pointed to the top of the mountain. "It's a big deal, let's put a rope from above and hang it down."

"I have thought of these methods, first of all, these hanging coffins are more than 300 meters from the ground, and at the same time more than 200 meters from the top of the mountain, the rope we brought is not so long, it is impossible to hang from above." Ye Jiuqing shook his head and said. "Moreover, I have been to the top of the mountain, and found that there are no trees on the top of the mountain, I have specially surveyed, and there were originally them, but they were cut down, and the whole top of the mountain is bare, and there is no place to fix the rope at all."

"This shows that the people who built these hanging coffins deliberately cleared all the places on the top of the mountain that could be used in order to prevent people from hanging from the top of the mountain." I nodded thoughtfully. "But this also shows that the excavation and hanging coffins of these caves did not hang down from the top of the mountain."

Ye Jiuqing retrieved the kettle, sat on the ground, and beckoned us to rest for a while, and when we got here, it was basically half done, the excavation method of these caves, and how the hanging coffin was placed in it, puzzled Ye Jiuqing for decades.

He said that he didn't expect to be able to crack it out in a while, he hit a wall here last time, and now whether we can find Lingshan depends on whether we can crack the secret of this thousand-year-old hanging coffin.

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