Chapter 75: The Eight Winds Gather
This strange insect is huge, and the adult body is not enough for it to wear on its body, just now at a glance I saw that many places on its body are covered with some flesh and blood blurred physical knowledge, and the corpse of what kind of creature is impossible to verify, plus it has been burned and gnawed by tens of thousands of mitants, and it is impossible to see a clue, but when this strange insect crashes down from the rock wall above its head, some of the corpses on its body are thrown out under the action of huge impact and inertia, and scattered on the ground around it. What I saw was clinging to the corpses. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The fat man saw me tinkering in a large pile of corpses, and he also came over curiously to help, but he came up and flipped over it, and then he was stunned and said, "Hey, damn it, this is a black blind man!" The fat man picked up a piece of fur and pointed it to me.
The black blind man is a black bear, but it is rare in southern Yunnan, and judging from the scale of the corpse parts, the size of this black blind man who was made into a corpse is also extremely terrifying.
I nodded, didn't say anything, and the scene of these monsters being killed in the forest came to mind, and the old people often said not to stray into the depths of the forest, but not to coax children. I carefully peeled away a few pieces of fur that were almost festering, and pulled something out of it, which looked like it was supposed to be this note.
What I saw as I passed by was a corner of this thing.
Looking for something and wiping it, I flipped through it casually, it was really a notebook, which was densely filled with words in block letters, and my heart sank suddenly after only a few glances - what was recorded in this book was all the information of the ancient tomb of the Shang Dynasty where we are now.
In the corpse of the black blind man, who was haunted by this brute of Ying...... How could there be such a thing? It stands to reason that the archaeological team should make this kind of information, and the tomb robbers should take notes...... Wouldn't you be stupid enough to carry it around?
The fat man asked what it was, I was upset, and I casually pulled a blind eye, saying that it was 100 ways for the black blind to be stocked daily, and the fat man was dumbfounded when he heard it, and I put the notes away carefully, and the top priority was to go out first.
The trail of the fox-faced ghost girl extended to the edge of the black water altar and disappeared, we carefully inspected it, and found that there was a plank road winding up the rock wall, and the traces of artificial repair the day after tomorrow were very obvious, it should be temporarily built by tomb robbers, I can't help but secretly admire in my heart, these folk craftsmen are compared with us official archaeologists...... That's a lot to say.
Said to be a plank road, in fact, not necessarily, Yin Valley geology is peculiar, in addition to the scarlet mud and sand grains in the soil layer, there are many rammed stone rock cracks, the winding path in front of us is to put it bluntly, that is, with countless small arm thick and short wooden stakes chiseled into the mud and stone layer one by one, no technical courage really can't go.
I vigorously broke a few wooden stake nails in front of me that had not entered the rock formation, one of them was pulled out by me without much force, I stared at the stake in my hand and said that this is fun, look up, the place where the eyes fall is dark, and the stake plank road is completely unestimated. Different from the personality of these folk thieves who take risks, the archaeologists are more rigorous, and I told the situation and Cailiu, which means whether to find other ways, if you climb halfway down the road, it will be troublesome.
The fat man proposed that the plank road stake and the mountaineering rope buckle be used together, which would be safer, Cailiu also agreed, I thought about it, and there was indeed no other way to go, so I agreed, we tied all the rope buckles to the body, the three people connected into a line, Cailiu's vision was blocked, I let her go in the middle, considering the instability of the stake, I let the fat man break, if I accidentally scratched blind, he also had the ability to turn the tide and drag me.
After some arrangements were ready, we started to climb, at first I was quite cautious, and after climbing more than 10 meters and feeling that there was no problem, our speed gradually increased a lot.
As the speed of the climb increased, the surrounding scene gradually changed, at first the edge of the black water altar with wooden stakes chiseled was still a vast rock wall, and before you knew it, the rock wall seemed to be slowly closing, and the more you went up, the more cramped it became, and after more than half an hour we were almost hanging in a circular cavern-like wall.
I'm fine with this change, as long as the diameter of the cave doesn't shrink smaller and smaller, and the higher I go, the more I find the number of these hewn stakes on the rock wall at hand, and then it simply fills the whole space, which is a bit strange, but I didn't want to dig into it, after all, it's a good thing that there are more attachments, and it's easier for us to climb.
The extra stake nails at hand made it a little difficult for the fat man, and I listened to him muttering and scolding his mother in the back, so I turned around and told him not to be distracted, and when I looked back, I chuckled in my heart.
Since we hardly have any lighting fixtures, it is not convenient to lift the fire fold in the process of climbing, but it is not wise to blind the fire in the dark, so I twisted the last two fluorescent tubes on my wrist before going to the stake, so that I can still see clearly within a radius of a few meters, and the surrounding area is gradually becoming cramped, and the surrounding scene lighting can cover almost all directions, and as soon as I turned around after talking to the fat man, I saw that there seemed to be something hanging above the rock wall a few meters away from me.
It's a big black mess.
I was full of excitement, and hurriedly kicked the stake nail with my foot, which was the code that I had said before climbing, and the two people behind me stopped when they heard me stomp my foot, and it was immediately so quiet that the needle could be heard.
I waved my hand to stop them from squeaking, and I quietly moved a few steps, staring at the large black mass of matter for a moment, but I didn't see what it was, it looked like a huge beehive.
I wondered, what's the matter with a beehive in this place? On the bright side, a hive means a vent, and if it's a hive, the stake is the right way to go. I fixed my mind and confirmed again that it should indeed be a beehive, but I couldn't see the bees around, and I couldn't hear any movement, it seemed that it should have been abandoned for a long time, I told the situation to the following two people, let them follow, just walk around the hive.
As soon as I finished saying this, the black beehive on the side of my head "swooped" and there was a strange and terrible sound, which startled me, I thought we had alarmed the bee colony, and I was busy looking at the past, and I realized that I was wrong, what kind of beehive is this thing in front of me, it is actually a carrion corpse!
The sound came from the rotting corpse itself, there were many palm-width black long insects crawling out of the carrion, squirming as if they had been frightened by something, and they all disappeared into the cracks of the rock wall in a moment.
I was stunned and my scalp was numb, and it took me a long time to come back to my senses, and I was busy looking at the carrion, the body was facing away from us on the rock wall, it was already highly decomposed, and I looked closely at the fact that it was nailed to the rock wall by a wooden stake, it should have been poisoned, and then looking at its dress, I felt a sigh in my heart, the clothes on the body of the carrion had already been eaten by insects and were in tatters, but I recognized the pair of military leather boots on the feet - I had seen the same style of boots on a certain half of the stump of the lower body.
The carrion was one of the well-armed camouflage-clad tomb robbers.
I thought that this group of people was in the same group as the mysterious woman wearing the mask, but now it seems that I am wrong, in this case, it is either Cao Xue or the masterpiece of the fox-faced ghost girl, and it is really chilling to attack it so viciously. As for those unknown insects just now, since they don't take the initiative to attack the living, then I don't want to entangle more, I see a broken bag hanging from the waist of the carrion, and I think the notes I just turned over should belong to this corpse, and it is estimated that it was shaken down in the process of shaking the world.
I briefly explained the situation, and the fat man was also speechless, and we carefully bypassed the carrion and continued to climb, and in a short time we reached the top of the rock formation.
The situation at the top of the rock formation is a bit complicated, this place is not like a patio, there is a way out when you climb to the end, on the contrary, there is nothing at the top of the rock formation, it is a sealed rammed earth stone top, the only difference is that there are eight and a half people high, neatly distributed caves on the rock wall here.
I watched it for half a minute to know what was going on. If you guess correctly, these eight caves should be the so-called wind tunnels. The ancients had many delusions about burial, especially the people with high positions and dignitaries, always wanted to be buried in the treasure land of feng shui, so as to fly up, to put it bluntly, they wanted to become immortals, these eight caves were deliberately chiseled out for this purpose, commonly known as "eight winds gathering to welcome", this thing and the yellow intestine theme belong to the same type of high-end tomb treatment, implying that after the autopsy, take the air of the eight winds to ascend to Bliss, and the exit of these wind tunnels is also very particular, must be out of the mountains and still water - what does it mean? That is to say, four of the exits of these eight caves must be opened on the cliff of a high mountain, and four must be opened in flowing living water, which can shine on the water in the sun and cover the cliff in the moon, which is very troublesome.
Although I recognize this burial method, but in this way I have a difficult time, eight caves, half of the chance, it is useless to touch out the cliffs, we have no tools and conditions for rock climbing; If you touch the water hole, it will be more troublesome, how can there be any so-called still water within a hundred miles of Yin Valley? Who knows where these four water holes lead, what if they were connected to the swamp in the primeval forest? Thinking of the tyrant leech with its mouthparts turned out, I shuddered again, this is no joke.
I was thinking about what to do, when the fat man in the darkness below called out to me, "Hey? Old Don, how come there are eight or nine dog holes here? Shall we drill or not? ā
Well? My brain trembled, and I asked the fat man, "What did you say?" ā
The fat man didn't know what I was asking, and repeated the words again, and I hurriedly interrupted him, "How many holes do you say?" ā
"Eight...... No, nine, what's wrong? ā