On that day, many vehicles coming and going to National Highway 104 were told that the road ahead was being repaired and asked for a detour. The soldiers, dressed in camouflage and armed with live ammunition, took three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and surrounded the five kilometers before and after the dark collar.

Ten years ago, an old driver with a good memory also encountered this scene, and in the same place, there was a three-month road closure near Youling, for unknown reasons.

A crack team of about twenty people drove into the small mountain village on the west side of the Youling Ridge overnight, and the old man in charge of guarding the tomb saw that the country was really coming, so he grabbed Director Leng's hand and thanked him repeatedly. For ordinary people, the military is the only one who can give them a sense of security and trust.

These people had never been seen by the mountain, and he was taken into a compound by the car at noon that day. He described the situation in a conference room of only four people, and then he was ushered into a break room. In the afternoon, Director Leng told him to take people back, and it was this group of people who followed.

Youling, a secret that has been dormant for ten years is finally about to be reopened. Ten years ago, too many people didn't want to talk about it, including the general's soldier in the conference room, it was a one-sided massacre, a completely unjustified death and disappearance. He was still just a colonel, and dozens of his brothers had not made it out of the mountain, and afterwards he mobilized two wagons of explosives and threatened to blow up the Ridge, but a letter from above made the operation stop.

According to later statistics, there were 74 people who went down to the pit, of whom 55 were missing or killed on the spot, including Wang Jun and three interns in the archaeological team, and a total of 19 people came out alive.

Of these nineteen people, there are nine people who are still alive, and in the past ten years, one person has died in each year, and the way of death is different, but none of them died of disease, all of them died of unexpectedly. Among the people who came out alive that year were Director Leng and this major general, and Lao Wang was also one of the nineteen people that year, and he had died in Kunlun a few years ago.

Nine of the 19 surviving members of the 20-strong mixed team used to be soldiers, some of whom had been discharged, some had changed careers, and some were officers. There is only one person who does archaeological work like Director Leng, his name is Qin Hai, he is Wang Jun's senior brother, and he is also Chaozi's senior brother, one of He Lao's closed disciples. After that Youling accident, Qin Hai withdrew from the archaeological field and went to Hong Kong to do antique appraisal for those wealthy people, and has been frequently active in some major international antique auctions over the years, and has specially purchased bronze, the oldest utensil.

Originally, the Hidden Ridge was supposed to be a secret to be buried forever, but Cha Wenbin accidentally discovered a new entrance from the west side, and this secret will be restarted again. For ten years, although the archives of Youling have been sealed in dust, or even deliberately ignored, the research on it has not stopped for a moment, and everyone is waiting, waiting for the only way to get into it to be found. Because, ten years ago, the person in the organization had said that the only way to enter the Youling was to find a way to live, and he, the spiritual leader of the organization at that time, failed to do so.

Rather than digging the Youling Tunnel for the sake of opening to traffic, it is better to find clues, in order to cover people's eyes and ears, in the name of road construction, this Youling Ridge, which was once buried in the mountains, was pierced through the middle position. However, it was all in vain, and it was still the Order's eternal sad hill.

No one knew what it was, no one knew what it was from, everything that man did was a secret. A group of top players at that time gathered here, including the tomb robber who was sentenced to life from prison, and a master who was said to be a descendant of Jurong Maoshan, if it weren't for him, I'm afraid those nineteen people would not have been able to get out.

Cha Wenbin, whose name has been written into the roster of the organization, has a long history of grievances and grievances between them, and now he is trapped in the demon cave of ten years ago, and he is burdened with another more important secret: the Book of Ruyi, an ancient book that is regarded as the code of life and death. Whether it's for him, for himself, or for the organization, this time, it must be all out.

Therefore, whether it was Qin Hai or other people scattered all over the place, they had gathered in the provincial capital a day ago, and no one knew who would be the next person to die this year, and everyone wanted to get rid of this lingering shadow and controlled fate. Whatever their identity was yesterday, today they are destined to become comrades-in-arms who have stepped into hell again. Youling, a mountain that has been sleeping for many years, is destined to usher in this reopening in ten years.

At the entrance, Director Leng carefully scraped a layer of soil with a clay knife and put it under his nose to sniff, and after a while, he said to the soldier: "There are four people in total, and one person comes out, it should be a little girl." The hole is drilled from the inside out, this northwest geological stability, here is a ridge, at least more than 3,000 years. ”

The soldier closed his eyes and nodded, "Dig." ”

The men who came, all over thirty years old, were all dressed in civilian clothes, but their equipment was extremely professional. From firearms and explosives to lighting, from medical procedures to instruments, the contents alone contained five large boxes.

Dashan was anxious, and also joined the excavation team, and in less than a cigarette, a pit with an opening of half a meter was cleared. Standing here, the soldier took off his coat, revealing the solid muscles and dark skin inside, and he pointed to the entrance and said, "Here, some people have been here with me, and some have slept here forever. Today, I came again, I didn't think I would be able to go out again, rather than die a year, it is better to die together. After speaking, his sharp gaze turned to the row of people standing behind him and continued: "You can choose to go now, or you can choose not to go, those who go may not return, I am a soldier, I can't believe in gods and ghosts, but it doesn't mean that there are no gods and ghosts in this world." So, I took off this uniform, because our enemies may not be human at all, and those who have ideas now can stay. ”

"Live and die together!" A uniform shout resounded through the valley, and those resolute faces were written fearless forward, loyalty to the Order, they were warriors from hell, and they had a very special code name: Demon Punishment. This detachment is the trump card in the organization, it is the strongest existence, they not only have super military quality, they also have to be proficient in metaphysics, Taoism, Buddhism and even witchcraft and Gu arts, they are specially sent to investigate some evil incidents and study supernatural phenomena. In other words, they are the modern version of the ancient priests and national teachers, and in the magical land of China, the ancient culture has never disappeared and has always been respected by those in power.

Before leaving, Director Leng went to the hospital to ask Leng Yiran, she didn't know anything about what happened after the fall, so from a certain point of view, no one knew exactly what was going on here. One after another, the warriors rushed in, and Dashan took the lead, his brother Wen Bin had been missing for more than thirty hours at this time, and without any supplies, everyone knew that it was a lot of bad luck.

And at this moment, where is Cha Wenbin? What about Zhuo Xiong and Chaozi?

Cha Wenbin was with Zhuo Xiong at this time, and after he entered, he followed the footprints on the ground along the tunnel, and soon encountered the first fork. What makes Cha Wenbin feel strange is that there are footprints at the two forks and they are the same person, here, he is in a dilemma, because each fork he walked less than a hundred meters into the new fork and then there are new forks, and then there are also footprints, Cha Wenbin knows that he is in a labyrinth, his mind is still calm at this moment, and it is undoubtedly self-defeating to rush into it without any supplies.

He first thought about waiting, waiting for Chaozi to come out, but he didn't expect to wait until Zhuo Xiong, who was indeed found from outside.

When Zhuo Xiong saw Cha Wenbin sitting on the ground, he was so excited that he was about to cry, and grabbed Cha Wenbin's hand and said, "Brother Wenbin, I have found you." ”

Cha Wenbin looked back and saw that it was Zhuo Xiong, so he was puzzled: "Why are you here, didn't you send Miss Leng down the mountain?" ”

Zhuo Xiong wiped the sweat on his head and said: "I have rushed back from the provincial capital, my God, you and Chaozi have been missing for a whole day!" Hey, what about others? ”

"What?" Cha Wenbin frowned: "What did you say, a whole day?" ”

"That's right!" Zhuo Xiong pulled up his sleeves, revealing his watch, and said, "Look, it's already half past five in the afternoon, but you went in in the morning, and you're about to drive us crazy." ”

Cha Wenbin leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, the time showed that it was already afternoon, and Cha Wenbin's head instantly "buzzed" and said: "How do I feel that it is just a stick of incense when I come in." ”

Zhuo Xiong pointed to his watch and said, "What a stick of incense, it's already dark outside, where is Chaozi?" ”

Cha Wenbin's mind quickly thought about the process of pouring himself down here, he could clearly remember every step he took, and he didn't figure out what went wrong, there was really only such a short moment in his mind, otherwise he would have gone back to inform Dashan with his personality: "I don't know, I'm also looking for it, I just found a fork in the road here, and I'm not sure how to go." ”

Zhuo Xiong didn't know if he heard Cha Wenbin's answer, but lowered his head and said, "Hey, Brother Wenbin, it seems that something is wrong." ”

Cha Wenbin immediately became alert and said, "What do you say? ”

"My watch is down!" Zhuo Xiong took off the fully automatic imported mechanical watch that he had worn for fifteen years and said: "When I came down, I specially checked that the time was 5:25 in the afternoon, and I came in a hurry, and the road was crawling and running, and this watch stopped five minutes after I came down." ”

Cha Wenbin comforted: "It's normal for the watch to be broken. ”

Zhuo Xiong adjusted the clockwork, but the watch still didn't move, he said: "No, I have worn this watch for fifteen years, and the error every day is no more than three seconds, and it has always been very good, and there has never been a problem." After thinking about it, he added, "There is one thing that I don't know whether to say or not. ”

Cha Wenbin raised his head and looked at Zhuo Xiong, and in his eyes, Cha Wenbin found a trace of fear: "You say." ”

"Soon after I came down, I seemed to see a man in the cave."

"Who!"

"My father."