"So, you're the last person to hide in the tree?" At this point in Xiao Chen's story, I continued. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info knew that he was creating some topics to please other female colleagues after work, and I had the heart to tease him.

Hearing me say this, Xiao Chen didn't have time to answer, and the female colleagues around him were all happy with a "coax", Xiao Chen was a little anxious, waved his hand again and again, and hurriedly said with a red face: "Brother Tang, don't talk nonsense, this is a real thing, there are really people on the tree, and it is definitely not me." As soon as he finished speaking, his face was already flushed.

I saw that he was ashamed, so I was embarrassed to continue to tease, put down the brush in my hand and twisted my loose scumbag, and answered the conversation seriously, "Hmm...... There is a way that most of the tomb robbers are outlaws, this kind of people do not believe or can be said to be not afraid of karma This kind of heavenly reincarnation principle, will not be bound by secular etiquette, and there is no emphasis on human morality, so there will be no guilt, the purpose of their tomb robbery is just to satisfy their own selfish interests, so there will be no sense of desecration of the corpse, the corpse is just a tool that can make money in their eyes, but this kind of person is quite cautious about the netherworld, I also heard my third uncle and the old people around me tell this story when I was a child. As soon as the words fell, several female colleagues who were still around Xiao Chen before came to me, including Xiao Chen.

"Brother Tang, tell me about it."

"That's right, Brother Tang, you are also an authentic southerner, what you say is more reliable."

"Yes, yes."

The inflated curiosity of several female colleagues made me have to put down the work in my hand for a while, and I had no choice but to turn around and say to everyone: "You are two of you, no matter how you say it, you are also professional-level researchers in state institutions, why are you always so concerned about these things such as robbing tombs and digging graves?" You must know that these tomb robbers are our enemies. ”

When I said the word "not together", I also deliberately lengthened the tone to show alarm, and before the people around me could answer, someone suddenly spoke a few steps away from the crowd: "As the so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, one hundred battles will not be defeated, and knowing more about these craftsmen can also bring us a lot of useful information and information." ”

As soon as the words started, the people who were surrounded by three or three made way for them, and there was an old man with a crane hair and a childish face behind everyone. Although the visitor was in his twilight years, his eyebrows were full of energy, wearing a white coat similar to that worn by the doctor in the operating room, and walking towards the crowd with his hands behind his back. I followed the old man's stall, and he was squinting at me.

"Deputy Director He." Everyone saluted.

Deputy Director He waved his hand, did not blame everyone for dereliction of duty, but continued to say to me with a smile: "Xiao Tang, I also heard the story of Xiao Chen just now, what do you think?" Is it consistent with what you have in the south? ”

Deputy Director He is the leader of our city's archaeological team, just at the time of the ear, the head and temples are gray, the face is ruddy, the crane hair is very old, and it is really not casual to say, but the left side of his face has a scar that is quickly pulled from the root of the ear to the jaw, which is really frightening to look at, I heard that this is left by him when he joined the army when he was young.

As far as I don't fully understand, Deputy He joined the army as a scout when he joined the army, and he once led a small detachment to escape from the enemy's encirclement, and it is said that there are almost no soldiers who broke through with him with good arms and legs, and he alone only left such a scar on his cheek, or when he ran out of ammunition and food, he used a military stab to fight with one enemy and three enemies when he was running out of ammunition and food, and it was not a joke to exchange one scar for three lives.

Of course, these old things were all told to me privately by Uncle Wang, who arranged for me to enter the city's archaeological team, if it weren't for Uncle Wang, who was strict in everything, I wouldn't have seen that this skinny, smiling old man in front of me still had such a fierce past. But I don't know if it's because I've heard a little about He Vice's past, I always feel that there is often an imperceptible coldness in his eyes, but sometimes when I think about it, after all, he is a soldier who has been on the battlefield and picked on other people's stomachs, so I can understand it somewhat.

The rest of the people saw that the leader not only did not blame, but was willing to discuss it together, and they were even more interested and urged me to speak quickly. I'm not a thin-skinned person, unlike Xiao Chen, an intern who just came, and when I saw that everyone was in high spirits, I didn't make a fuss, and talked about this terrifying legend that everyone in the south and everyone heard of when I was a child.

According to the story, things like tomb robbing were almost extinct before the 80s of the last century, but after the liberation, there seemed to be signs of a resurgence in the early 80s. During that time, as long as you go to the countryside and the province, you can inquire casually within the four lakes and seas, and there are many of these bizarre and sensational country monsters talking about tomb robbery legends, plus a spread of ten or ten hundreds, and the passing has added a lot of evil and terrifying colors, but at that time, the concept of breaking feudal superstition is deep-rooted, and everyone has the right to talk after dinner, or to intimidate and intimidate children who cry and refuse to sleep in the middle of the night. It stands to reason that any adult will not take this kind of thing to heart, but when I was a child, I listened to it too much, and it will inevitably leave a shadow. I don't know if other people have shadows, I'm sure I don't, but I remember it more clearly.

Okay, without further ado, let's go back to the story of the tomb robbers.

I know that Yunnan Yin Valley, this mysterious valley is located in the Xishuangbanna area where my fathers settled - to be exact, it should be located in the mountains and mountains south of Daluo Town in Menghai County and west of Xiaomengla.

It is not surprising that the red soil is a unique geological and geomorphological feature south of the Yangtze River in China, but according to legend, this valley is extremely evil. The reason why it is called "Yin" by the local people is entirely because the soil in that place is a little too red, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is terrible. Anyone who has been to the valley will say that the soil is so red and purple that it seems that if you poke something, it will come out with blood. The older generation of the locals believed that it was once an ancient execution ground, and that many prisoners of war were slaughtered in the valley. Of course, there is no way to investigate this matter, it is said that the place is also a three-to-five-day walk from the nearest village in the surrounding area, and no one wants to approach the surrounding people, and the ghost place is sparsely populated during the day, and it is even more eerie at night, and even the old hunters in the village would rather go around the farther to hunt than wander around the Yin Valley. However, although the place is a little evil, the vegetation and forests are also lush and straight, and the branches and leaves are luxuriant, and it seems that it is not a big deal to grow in the blood-soaked land.

Speaking of which, I wasn't a good boy when I was a child, but my family education was quite strict: the golden combination in the general family is a loving mother and a strict father, Lao Tzu is mad and his mother protects the calf, my family is good, every time I don't agree with my parents, I will team up to clean me up, there is never room for negotiation, clean and neat, until middle age I still wonder if this is an excellent means for them to consolidate their married life. In those years when my fists were hard to beat the four hands of family affection, even if I felt itchy in my heart, I didn't dare to break into the Yin Valley that was rumored to have slaughtered millions of people without listening to the family rules. But I haven't eaten pork doesn't mean I haven't seen a pig run, it's close to that place, all kinds of rumors have been exposed to it since childhood, and the rumors of tomb robbery are even more varied, we children born in the mid-eighties have any computer information network games and other things, the only thing we have is to pull a bench and listen to the old people nag these bizarre stories.

The incident that Xiao Chen said was more widely spread in our time, and the local folk circulated it in more detail, and it was rumored that there were indeed six people, but it was not a random thief, but a professional tomb robbery gang called "mud monks" that was famous all over the world at that time. When I was a child, I heard adults say that this group of people came from the high mountains of the north, and there were as many as forty-two in total, but they were used to being in groups of six, not only organized and disciplined, but even uniform dress. They are scattered and active in various places, specializing in some grave robbery and grave digging business, and it is even rumored that this group of people not only stole the gold and silver treasures in the coffins of ancient tombs, but even dragged out the dead bodies of ancient zombies for money, which can be called ruthless and bold and morally degenerate. This professional tomb robber gang found out from nowhere to find out the news, saying that there was a huge imperial tomb hidden in Yin Valley, so they started the idea of Yin Valley.

When I was young, I heard these things as if it was because I was born when the sky was extraordinary, and I thought it must be because I was popular with many people, and I went to a random place to settle around, and there was actually the imperial tomb of the emperor of which dynasty and which generation, and every time I listened to the story, I felt proud. Later, when I grew up, I realized that folklore could be taken seriously. In other words, according to the temper of the kings of the past dynasties in ancient times who built the capital and moved the capital, and even built a large number of tombs and tombs, there are few such imperial tombs in our place, at most there are some generals, Tusi or kings with different surnames who guard the frontier - like the Duan clan and the Yang clan in Dali, the Mu clan in Lijiang and the like. At first, these people were either ordered by the emperor to escape the current situation, and they invited Ying's family to move to Yunnan, and the founding of the country changed their names, and the whole clan became Yi. If you want to rob the emperor's tomb on the border of Yunnan, it is simply boring for a cat to lick a dog's nose - as for the legendary ancient countries of Nanzhao and Ancient Yunnan, which are quite mysterious, it is even more difficult to find a shadow.

Go on.

It is rumored that this handful of criminal gangs really set off to come to us after getting this erroneous information, and their group is still stepping on the layout of our place, arranging and planning for nearly half a month before they start. Xiao Chen said that quietly touched it into that is one of them, but the paragraph of ordering three sandalwood is described in detail in almost all versions, whether it is the number of rivers and lakes, I don't know, we have always had the saying "one incense worships the gods, and three incense asks ghosts". Some say that they suddenly killed each other, and some say that the soil ridge was actually a huge ghost swallowed six people, etc., anyway, there is no one in the thousands of narratives that can make this group of poor people feel at ease and leave a whole corpse, now I think about it, it is estimated that at that time, people hated the moral corruption of digging people's ancestral graves.

In many versions, I also heard about this invisible monster when I was a child, and there are many speculations circulating in the local area, some people say that it is a beast, because of its huge size and cunning movements, this statement has some basis, the tropical rainforest is deep and dense, the climate is hot and humid, and any kind of terrifying creature can survive in this environment; Some people also say that it is the ancient tomb keeper, that is, the person who is similar to the mountain patrol general recorded in the book, because there is a version that describes in more detail that the thing wears the flying fish suit that is standard with the ancient brocade guard, but a little common sense knows that in recent years, the costume drama is chaotic and blind, misleading people's children, what is the standard of the flying fish suit, it belongs to the dress, it is only those who have been given a certain status are qualified to wear it, and this outfit is only worn when attending important occasions, and it is not worn on weekdays, how can the mausoleum keeper be qualified to wear it?

Of course, some people say that it is the "Lu" in Yin Valley.

What is Lu?

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" has a record, Lu in ancient mythology refers to actually a woman, that is, the female Lu Qingyi Qing, she was originally a heavenly girl, in the battle of the deer to resist Chiyou's water attack played a key role in turning the tide of the war, and later because of the embarrassing attribute problem of where to go to where the drought was exiled to the north of Chishui, according to the direction of the mythological record, she is likely to be the Chishui female sacrifice, but I don't know when the annotation of the descendants began to say that the female Lu is bald and hairless, not only that, but the commentary also quoted the description of the Lu in the "Divine Sutra" - "There is a man in the south who is two or three feet long, with his body and eyes on the top, walking like flying, and his name is Lu, and the country he sees is in great drought, and the land is thousands of miles away." But these two descriptions are clearly contradictory, one is a goddess and the other is an exhibitionist with long eyes on his head, and the similarities are only that they can cause droughts, and perhaps even the source of the myth is different. As for the so-called ancestor of zombies, it was passed down from Yuan Mei's "Zi Buyu" in the Qing Dynasty, and it had nothing to do with the female slur, and this concept was still quite popular at that time. This kind of historical legacy seems to be the case with a little thought, but it's a pity that this kind of speculation can't withstand any scrutiny in various historical documents and wild history books, take 10,000 steps back, after all, the zombies are lying in the coffin, and it stands to reason that only contact with the living will break out and hurt people, right, how can there be a fucking hole that hasn't been dug up and the good people haven't drilled in, and that thing will be preemptive at will? Not to mention that the coffin hasn't been lifted yet, how many lifetimes will it take to meet blood mold? Not to mention that the Yingu boundary is humid and hot all year round, not only is it not dry, but the rainfall is not to be underestimated, which is not the case at all.

To sum up, all similar versions are almost the same, and no one can say exactly what the poor tomb robbers died in their hands, anyway, they are all dead, the only difference is that in the last chapter, no matter which version I have heard, there is no such thing as a person in the woods next to it, so I couldn't help but hit Xiao Chen before.

The female colleagues around me were a little disappointed when they heard what I said, thinking that I would be a little different from Xiao Chen's wonderful episodes, but I just shrugged my shoulders and said that I really didn't.

"Don Jr., according to your opinion, if there is really such a person in the forest in this story...... What kind of person do you think it will be? ”

I really didn't think about this unwarranted existence, after all, no one even said whether the story itself was true or false, how could I know where the sacred was hidden in the tree? But since Deputy He asked, then I have to get a moth out.

"This ...... Shouldn't it be human? Just as I was scratching my ears and cheeks, He Vice smiled heartily, and after dispersing the female colleagues, he said to me in a serious tone: "You still have to work your homework, Xiao Tang." ”

I was just about to make a quibble, but he seemed to see my thoughts, ignored me, turned away, and said as he walked: "Even the miscellaneous legends of wild history have a certain value for us archaeologists...... and the man has disappeared outside the door of the temporary laboratory.

What can be done with a broken story that scares children? I continued to pick up the brush and sweep the set of colored porcelain tiles in my hand, and after muttering in my heart, I put the matter behind me. But who would have known, that day I could not have dreamed that one day in the near future, I would meet this mysterious man who sat on a tree branch and only existed in the grotesque stories of my childhood.