Master Liang pointed at me with his chin, with a look of contempt, I scolded in my heart, you are a eater, Lao Tzu came all the way to take care of you, I didn't expect to treat me like this, I knew that I would have killed you in the first place, so as not to leave trouble.

The fat boss took out a solid fuel wind lamp from his backpack, lit it and put it on the ground, this thing is the equipment used when climbing the altitude of the snowy mountain, which can be used for lighting and heating, and the whole cave will light up at once, and then he will take out a few compressed biscuits and throw them to me, and when he does these things, the short muzzle in his hand is always pointed at me.

I took the biscuit he threw over, and I thought it was inexplicable, and I said that this is the one that is sung? At that moment, he threw the biscuits back to him and said, "Buddies, you two put it in your hands, kill if you want to, why is there so much nonsense?" ”

Master Liang grinned, turned to the fat boss, and said, "Let me say, Qingtou is Qingtou, and I don't know the situation yet." ”

Boss Wang shook his head, threw the biscuits to me again, and said: "Hou Shengzi, come out to run the rivers and lakes, your brain should be bright, give you something to eat, I just don't plan to move you, you look like this, if you meet a bad temper, it is to die." “

Compared with this person, the temperament is completely different, the old man looks like the kind of outlaw who kills people without blinking, this fat boss is a mess, and it looks a lot more relaxed, but the kick he kicked me just now is very powerful. It's not the kind of antique boss who can kick it out, and I can't figure out what the identity is.

Boss Wang glanced at me, as if reading the doubts between my eyebrows, took a hard puff of cigarette and continued: "I am different from Lao Tai, I am a businessman, and in the business field, there are no eternal friends and no eternal enemies. ”

Master Liang said: "Boss Wang, you might as well talk to them directly, these two boys can't turn their brains, and the kid surnamed Wu is better at talking." When the sleeping boy wakes up, I'm afraid I'll have to toss a bit.

Boss Wang laughed and said to me again: "Okay, don't tell lies in front of real people, I'll be blunt, I'm a businessman, I don't like to use knives and guns, and now this situation, you have seen it yourself." It is difficult to get out even if it doesn't fall into my hands, Lao Tai is dead, and it's not interesting to deal with you, you think about it, whether you want to cooperate with me, I will keep you from suffering, and you will make money. ”

As soon as I heard this, wasn't this what I said to Master Liang at the beginning, and his mother turned to me every few hours, and it was really feng shui in turn.

Seeing that I didn't say anything, he handed over another cigarette and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't agree, I will give you some equipment and let you go by yourself, but you are alone with a sick number, how to walk this way, have you thought about it yourself?" ”

He was telling the truth, and I was a little moved to hear it, but when I thought about it, he was equipped and armed, so why did he ask me to cooperate? Isn't this the same as laying a stall for people to make money? There must be yīn schemes, they are too scheming to run the rivers and lakes, you see that Master Liang followed us all the way with a flattering face, as soon as he found an opportunity, he immediately gave him an anti-guest, we were not guarded at all, compared to them, we are really too tender, they are looking for me to cooperate, there must be something against xìng.

My logic flashed in an instant, and I already had a plan in my heart, and I had to agree to this condition of theirs first, just like Master Liang followed us at that time, and then find a way to escape in the future. Besides, as he said, to bring the old itch down safely, at least one person's help is needed, and I am alone, which is too reluctant. These two men clearly despised me, and it was the same mistake I made at the time, and I could definitely find an opportunity to turn against the customer, at least get a gun.

Thinking of this, my face softened, pretended to hesitate, and asked him: "Okay, even if what you say makes sense, I can cooperate with you, but you must let me know first, what do you need me to do?" ”

Boss Wang breathed a sigh of relief and gave Master Liang a look, who patted me and said, "The practitioner is Junjie, little Angs, since you nodded, we are still our own people, and we won't hide anything from you in the future." Naturally, I'll tell you what I know, but that's a long story, how about we talk while we eat? ”

I really wanted to strangle him when I saw him coming, but when I swept the corner of my eye, I saw the muzzle of the gun in Boss Wang's hand, still pointing in my direction, suppressed the internal fire in my heart, smiled reluctantly, and said, "Please speak." ”

Master Liang looked at the copper tree outside and said: "Speaking of this thing, it's amazing, according to the records on the "Hemu Collection", this copper tree was first discovered in the thirteenth year of Qianlong......

Before leaving, Master Liang has already carefully studied the chapter about this tomb in the "Hemu Collection", "Hemu Collection" is a notebook, written very casually, sometimes in Manchu, sometimes in Chinese, and a small part is written in Mongolian, and about a paragraph here, most of it is written in Manchu, now in the mainland, there are no more than 20 people who can read Manchu, Master Liang is just from the Chinese recorded things, find a little clue.

There are two things recorded in Chinese:

The first thing is the thirteenth year of Qianlong, roughly an official mine in the area of Taibai Mountain, a mine supervisor reported, the miners dug out a bronze ancient pillar, from the root has been digging down for four months, there is no sign of the end, I don't know the depth of the ground.

This thing is in a local uproar, as soon as it is said that this pillar is spiritual, the more you dig it, the more it grows down, and you will never be able to dig the head, and it is said that this is the axe handle used when Pangu opened the sky, and the axe can be dug out by digging again. Some feng shui masters even said that it was a nail laid by the Jade Emperor to nail the dragon veins of the Qinling Mountains, otherwise this earth dragon would fly to the sky. This copper pillar can be dug again with a steep cliff of 800 miles into the ground, and it will be unlucky for the whole of China to dig it up.

Soon, the Tietou Xiao Cavalry Battalion, where Li Pipa's ancestors were located, received a secret order to lead 3,000 death row prisoners. Let them take over the mine, close the mountain and set up camp, and continue digging.

The second thing is the eighteenth year of Qianlong. Illustrate this digging. After four years and three months of digging, three thousand death row prisoners dug up the cave where we are now, and down to the bottom of the mountain, and did not dig out the roots of the copper tree, but dug out a dragon-patterned stone box, which was hollow inside, and there was something hidden, but there was no gap, and no matter how hard it was opened, it could not be opened. They did not dare to act rashly and sent the box into the palace.

The third thing is very brief, at the end of the eighteenth year of Qianlong, it was recorded in the "Hemu Collection" that the emperor rewarded him and sealed the second-class title. Each person was rewarded with a hundred taels of gold, the bounty camp, everyone was drunk, Li Pipa's ancestor and a few familiar soldiers were delirious, and bet to climb the bronze tree.

(The article is broken here, and the following is all full text, I don't know if there is a special intention, Master Liang can't understand it, it's a pity.) ）

Master Liang told us that the other boss, Li Pipa, was able to understand these things, but when he asked him what was written below, he would never say it, mysterious and fatal, but he behaved very similarly, I don't know why.

At the end of "River and Wood Collection", there is a climbing process recorded in Chinese characters, and further up from our position, there will be a plank road around the rock wall, which was prepared by them in order to finally let the emperor come to see, but unfortunately it can't be repaired when it is near the top, and when the plank road is repaired, there are often people who fall off the cliff for no reason, and then it will be gone.

We climbed out of the low hole, Boss Wang handed me a telescope, he used a strong flashlight to illuminate me, adjusted the focus, and sure enough, not far above, there seemed to be the same section of wooden plank road stuck on the cliff wall, a few circles all the way up. Our flashlight power was weak and couldn't shine so far, so we didn't notice it at the time.

Boss Wang's meaning, if you can reach the plank road, you can save a lot of effort by climbing along it, but there will inevitably be strange things on the plank road, Master Liang is a literati, let him study the east and west, and it will not work to fight, so the road has to be walked by the two of us.

I was not as optimistic as him, I took the telescope and looked at it for a long time, and I didn't see clearly what these plank roads looked like, the light here was too dim, and the edge of the plank road seemed to be wrapped in something like some plant roots, which was very different from the kind of steel structure plank road that I climbed in the tourist area. "Hemu Collection" was written in the Qing Dynasty, and it has been passed down to the present day for a hundred years, and it is not clear whether these plank roads are complete, let alone whether they are strong or not.

Boss Wang said that when this thing was repaired, it was used for the emperor's tour, not a temporary plank road for mining, so it must be very particular about the materials and workmanship, and now many ancient buildings in the Ming and Qing dynasties are very solid, so he thinks that the problem is not big, it really can't be done, we still have a lot of ropes, with these plank roads, it is naturally more convenient to climb up.

He said very decisively, not at all to the tone of discussion, I scolded secretly, had to no longer express opinions, he and Master Liang discussed a little, decided to let me rest for another fifteen minutes, and then accompany the boss to take me up, Master Liang and Lao Itch stay here.

After sleeping just now, jīng's strength recovered a lot, and he ate something again, and Boss Wang also sat down and chatted with Master Liang in Cantonese, I didn't understand it very well, but I probably knew that what they talked about was that the fat boss said that the unicorn had something to do with it. I have always had a pimple in my heart about this matter, thinking that anyway, the relationship with them is superficially relaxed now, so I took the opportunity to ask clearly, so I asked Master Liang, what is this unicorn exhaustion? Will there be any harm?

Master Liang said: "Don't worry about this at all, I didn't tell you all the things just now, I just kept a hand for myself, in case you run away, you will leave yourself the capital to change your life, and now that we have officially formed an alliance, I will also say it, so as not to make you feel uncomfortable." ”

Qilin exhaustion is the blood clot formed by the blood of the unicorn, which is a very valuable traditional Chinese medicine, but he goes not to the blood of the real unicorn, but the juice of a plant, this plant is called the unicorn blood vine, also known as the blood snake vine, which is generally found in the southern.

The longer the unicorn is placed, the better the effect, in the early stage it only has some ordinary functions, generally used in medicine, but there is a rare use in traditional Chinese medicine, that is, it is used to smoke the corpse. In ancient times, some ethnic minorities and some mountain villages had the custom of pressing a piece of unicorn on the navel of the corpse together, which could remove the yīn qi of the corpse, and the corpse would rot, but it would not attract maggots.

As the years go by, the unicorn will gradually turn from dark red to black. The older the age, the darker it becomes, and when it reaches a certain point, the xìng quality will change, and the change will melt in the mouth, and after people eat it. Blood evil insects are not close, and even mosquitoes dare not look for you in summer. Of course, this is just a legend. Master Liang has only heard others say that he saw this situation for the first time today, and he began to believe that there is such a thing, as for whether there will be any side effects, there is no relevant record, but the toxicity of traditional Chinese medicine is generally very low, and he told me not to worry: "Instead of thinking about this, I think the most troublesome thing is those Gu worms." "Hemu Collection" records that when the excavation was excavated, no such masks were dug up, whether it was a suspicious array laid by the ancients, or the hands and feet of people who killed thousands of people outside, I am not sure, when you go up, you still have to be more careful, not careless. ”

We rested for a while, the old itch was still not awake, the fat boss took some equipment for me, I put on the tactical headlamp and the rope on my back, and continued to march towards the edge of the plank road above.

It is not far to reach the plank road according to common sense, but there is always some helplessness in reality, the visual distance is always much closer than the actual distance, we expected to reach the top in an hour, and it took half an hour to barely climb to the bottom of the plank road.

I just found out that the fat boss's statement is right, the plank road is very well preserved, not because of the plank road that the emperor wants to walk, so the solid point of repair, but the plank road has been repaired, so there is a layer of oil bamboo orange on the outside, this kind of thing is very cháo, after hundreds of years of corrosion, it is still very strong, and when you go up, you can still breathe the creak of toughness.

It should be very close to the surface, from the cliff on the edge of the hanging tree roots, like a plant around the side of the railing, some of the roots are very thick, just like the tentacles of an octopus on the plank road, the more these things go up, very difficult to walk, there are a few sections of the whole is wrapped in the root system, almost no place to stand, so you have to use a machete to open the way, or simply climb over.

Because of the invasion of the root system of the trees, the rocks here cracked, and from time to time there were stones falling, and we had to be careful with our feet while holding our heads, and we felt more tired walking than when we climbed.

We just didn't know how many laps we went up, there was a very big gap in the plank road in front, there was a distance of nearly ten meters, because the rocks on the side burst and collapsed, I compared the distance, and said to Boss Wang: "No way, I can't jump, I have to get on the rope." ”

At this time, it has been almost an hour since we set off, but looking down from the top, it seems that it has not come up far, it seems that it is impossible to reach the top of the tree in an hour, we climbed too quickly, and the physical exertion is very strong, so we have to take a break for a while, this vertical cave is very cold, and very cháo wet, it will not dry thoroughly for a while, it is easy to get sick, and we must find a way to get warm.

We found a tree root and plank road wrapped together in the root hole, Boss Wang took out the solid wind lamp, hung a dagger on a tree root, I took off my clothes and dried my underwear first, and then ate a little indiscriminately, Boss Wang's expression was very serious, while eating, he used a strong tactical flashlight to shine on the opposite copper tree, and after a while, he said to me: "Come and see, you can already see the top here, what is on it?" ”

I picked up the telescope to observe, there was only about a dozen meters above, it was already the top of the copper tree, and a lot of roots fell from the top of the hole, blocking all the area, and I could barely see that it was wrapped in a large mass of roots, and a large number of roots had been winding down the copper tree, and there was something inside, which was really not clear.

The plank road around the cave wall is much higher than the top of the copper tree, which is different from the record of the "River Wood Collection", it is possible that after years of accumulated excavation, the heavy copper tree has a tendency to sink into the rock layer again, and the height has dropped below the plank road for hundreds of years.

These roots hanging from the top of the cave may be the few banyan trees surrounded by more than a dozen people that we saw from the top of the goldfish mountain when we came, and now it seems that their roots are more beautiful than their branches and leaves, and this thing is like a pale ghost melon, twisted together like twisted flowers, like a giant hand, grabbing this copper pillar, trying to pull it out of hell. It's like a huge totem wrapped with fossils, giving people goosebumps.

I was looking at it intently, but I heard the fat boss say to me: "You see the roots of the tree grow so densely, it means that the rock crust here should be the topsoil layer, this is a natural karst cave, the ancients came to worship can not come through the mountain, there must be a hole system on it that can lead to the outside, if you can't get it, we don't have to go back the same way." ”

I listened to what he said, and my heart was also happy, if you don't have to go back the same way, it is really a beautiful thing, but the natural karst cave must not be a peaceful place, and whether you can go out at that time will have to be added up. Boss Wang pushed me and said, "This is the situation on the top of this copper tree, but you see that there is a statue in those piles, it is too far away to see clearly, let's change the place to take a closer look." ”

I looked in his direction, and saw that under the top of the column, there seemed to be two bronze carved arms in the root entanglement, which was very similar to the remains of the statue with a trace of demonic smelt that we saw in Jiazigou, but its face was blown up by tomb robbers at that time, and I had a very peculiar sixth sense at the time, and I always felt that there was something wrong with this face, and now I just took a look at what this guy looked like.