Chapter 64: The Phantom of the Mountains
After this tomb robber turned into a dried corpse, Ling Ran and I followed the clues provided by the previous tomb robber to find the tomb in order to prevent bad things from happening again.
And this tomb is naturally in the chain mountain. At first glance, there is nothing strange about Chain Mountain, but when you really enter the mountain, you will know why Chain Mountain has always been rarely populated.
The mountainous area of Lianzi Mountain is vast, and standing on the peak of the mountain pass, you can't see the end of the mountain at all. A mountainous area is made up of one peak after another. And these hills are very close to each other, and some of them are even overlapping at all.
This also makes the ravine below the mountain not see the sun all year round, which is unusually gloomy.
And the clues provided by this tomb robber are in this chain mountain, although it is not in the deepest part of the mountain, but it is not close to the chain mountain.
The tomb is in a ravine, flanked by two mountain peaks that are close to each other. The ravine is a bit narrow, and the lack of sunlight throughout the year makes it a bit gloomy.
The location of the grave was actually not very difficult to find, and it took me and Ling Ran to find this tomb in just one day, but after all, it was in the mountains, and when we found the grave, we found that the hole dug by the tomb robbers had indeed been blown up as they said. It takes a lot of time to dig a hole.
Looking at the sky, Ling Ran and I had no choice but to stay overnight in this mountainous area. However, that same night, Ling Ran and I encountered many things that we couldn't figure out now.
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At that time, Ling Ran and I saw that it was getting late, so we decided to keep a night here. After all, if there really was anything in that tomb, no one could be sure of it at night. And it also needs to be cleared out of that thief hole, which can't be done in the middle of the night.
The temperature in the mountains varies greatly, and as soon as the sun sinks down, there is not much light in this ravine. Fortunately, Ling Ran and I wore a lot, and we could deal with it.
However, the ravine here is not sunny, and the yin qi is heavy, so it is impossible to sleep on the ground, so Ling Ran and I decided to spend the night in the trees.
Speaking of which, spending the night here, we don't know anyone in our hearts, not to mention the grave that was already problematic. Just in this mountainous area, who knows what will happen. Ling Ran and I decided to take turns keeping vigil for safety.
In the first half of the night, Ling Ran rested on the tree first, while I lit a fire under the tree, staring at the hole where he was blown up.
It had just fallen at night, and the surrounding area was unusually calm, and the ravine made it quiet and even a little scary. Time passed gradually, and finally it was the second half of the night, just when I was about to wake up Ling Ran. Suddenly, there was a rustling sound in the surrounding grass.
Hearing this sound, I was obviously startled, and turned on the flashlight to shine on the grass that made the sound, but the weeds there grew unusually high, densely packed with bushes, except for the grass shaking a little, even with the flashlight, I couldn't see what was inside.
With vigilance, I leaned towards the big tree where Ling Ran was sleeping, but at this moment, the grass that had been shaking before suddenly fell silent.
I was even more nervous, and it was good that the enemy had traces to follow, but now, the surroundings were completely still, and what had caused the commotion just now did not have the slightest intention of appearing.
So I decided, wake up Ling Ran first, just as I turned around and was about to climb the big tree where Ling Ran was staying, a fishy wind blew in my face, and a big snake head appeared in front of me with its big scarlet mouth open.
Originally, I wanted to resist, but the speed of the snake was very fast, and then there was a sudden burst of suction from the snake's open mouth, so that I couldn't help but lean towards the bloody mouth.
At that moment, the gun rang out, and the snake's head, which had its mouth wide open, shook violently, and I saw the bullet pass through the roof of the snake's head, causing the snake to crouch downward.
It was Ling Ran, in fact, Ling Ran had already woken up after hearing the movement around him, and suddenly saw a python detouring behind Hu Ze from the grass. Ling Ran didn't make a sound, and just as the python was about to attack, he shot the snake in the head.
Ling Ran didn't let go of this giant python at all, the giant python was hit in the head by Ling Ran, although it was not dead, but it was also frightened and wanted to escape. Ling Ran naturally wouldn't let it go, and hurriedly continued to fire a few shots, killing the python to the ground.
I said I was not afraid, then I definitely not, after the python died, I looked at it carefully, I didn't believe that there was a thigh-thick, more than ten meters long python, but now I did see it with my own eyes. On this day, the python was killed by Ling Ran, and the snake's blood flowed out along the wound on the head. Instantly, a foul fishy smell filled the air.
Ling Ran jumped down from the tree, and after another shot at the python, he took out a dagger and cut off the snake's head. Ling Ran's caution was not unreasonable. Snakes are psychic creatures. Even now, there is no definition of how long snakes can live. In many legends in China, there is a saying that snakes become spirits, so for the python in front of you, even if it is dead, you will never dare to take it lightly.
After that, Ling Ran and I were no longer sleepy, and after dragging the snake corpse aside, we stared around deadly. Maybe it was the bloody smell of the snake or the anger of Ling Ran and me, which attracted a group of things in this uninhabited mountainous area that I still don't know what it was, I guess it was people, but according to the situation at the time, if it was people, their behavior was a little too weird.
When they were first spotted, they were just a few black shadows, flashing through the mountains at an extremely fast speed, and then they were gone. But after a while, such shadows became more and more numerous, until they kept appearing on the hills on both sides. I probably counted at the time, and there were no less than 100 of them.
Ling Ran's scalp was also a little numb, originally facing such a thing, he didn't have the slightest certainty, but now there are so many ......
With the mentality of giving it a try, Ling Ran fired two shots into the sky, and the gunfire obviously startled these black shadows, and they did not move on the mountains on both sides.
In this way, we held on coldly to these dark shadows. Fortunately, it was almost early in the morning, and after a while, the sky gradually began to have daylight. The shadows seemed to be a little afraid of the day, or rather reluctant to show their bodies, and when the sky was a little brighter, they stopped staring at us and disappeared into the mountains on either side again.
After these black shadows disappeared, Ling Ran and I breathed a sigh of relief. What they are, I still don't know. I heard that there were bandits in the chain mountain before, and they died in this mountain, maybe they are the ghosts of those bandits.
Ling Ran and I didn't want to stay in this deep mountain for a long time after we escaped, and when it was light, we began to dig the blown up hole.