One year, Xianyundu was sent by the public to the northwest of Guizhou, to preside over the local ancient construction investigation work, he happened to pass by a Miao village near Zunyi, and saw not far from the mountains, there is a stone and "cottage". Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The cottage was built on the top of a dangerous mountain, as if it were an ancient military fortress. It is surrounded by cliffs on both sides, high below zero, looking magnificent from a distance, disappearing from time to time in the hazy mountain fog unique to Guizhou, it really seems to be a paradise, and it is like the mansion of the king of Hades.

Xianyundu was curious, he immediately opened the map, but was stunned to find that the cottage was not in the label of his map at all, no matter how he searched, he couldn't find the coordinates and description of this cottage.

Driven by curiosity, Xianyundu had to ask a local guide and ask him what the cottage was and why there was only one barren mountain on the map.

The guide glanced at the cottage, and then he was stunned and told Xianyundu with a frightened face: "That is 'Heilan Bo City', not a place where people live. Can't go, can't even see. ”

After hearing this, Xianyundu became more and more curious.

He knew that "Hei Lan Bo" was pronounced in Miao language, which means "devil", and Hei Lan Bo City is also the meaning of the devil's city. The phrase 'Hei Lan Bo' is a very vicious "curse" or even curse in the Miao language, calling a place a devil or a ghost town, which is the embodiment of the deepest taboo and fear of the locals.

Why do these people have such a huge fear of a cottage? Xianyundu was puzzled.

Later, driven by curiosity, Xianyundu asked the guide about the origin of the devil's city. And hope to find some valuable archaeological clues from it.

The guide couldn't bear the friction of Xianyundu, so he told Xianyundu that the castle was guarded by the devil a long time ago, and it was a camp for the devil to train "ghost soldiers".

"Ghost soldiers?" Xianyundu was surprised, and continued to ask, "What is a ghost soldier?" ”

The guide told him that he didn't know how many generations ago, a big demon king came to the northwest of Guibei, this demon king led thousands of troops and horses, countless poisonous insects and the ancestors of Miaojiang as enemies, the ancestors had never met such a powerful enemy, and soon surrendered to his obscenity.

Later, the Demon King selected 300 eighteen-year-old beautiful girls from the ancestors of the Miao people, locked them up in the 'Black Lamb City', and let them kill each other, suffering all kinds of suffering, and those who survived were transformed into "ghost soldiers" by the Demon King. Since then, he has become an accomplice of the demon king in killing the people.

Later, there was a goddess in Miao Jiang, the goddess is said to be transformed by the white deer, she held the divine flower, led the Miao people to resist, killed the demon king, and liberated the innocent girl who was imprisoned in the city of Heilanbo.

Since then, Guibei has lived a peaceful life, everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, and the road is not left behind, and Heilambo City has also become a cursed place, and there are female ghosts who were tortured to death by the demon king during the wandering period.

After listening to this, Xianyundu was not particularly interested.

Because of his long-term work in the southwest Shaomin area, Xianyundu has heard a lot of this kind of story, most of them are the same, all of them are demon kings or gods and ghosts, and then kill a savior halfway, cure the disease and save people, and finally pat his ass and leave, there is nothing new. Therefore, he didn't take it seriously, nodded slightly, and followed the expedition team to other places.

But fate seemed to have played a joke with Xianyundu, and the cottage that he ignored finally became the biggest harvest and setback of Xianyundu's trip to Guizhou.

It turned out that after Xianyundu's investigation of the northwest of Guizhou was completed, he happened to pass by the village where the city of Nahelan Bo was located on the way back.

On that occasion, their wheels got stuck in a stream on the outskirts of the village, and in the process of rescuing the vehicle, Xianyundu was lucky to find a broken piece of black terracotta from the stream.

The sensitivity of the work of the literary and historical personnel made Xianyundu immediately pick up the terracotta, and he gazed carefully at the fragment of the ceramic in the sun, and then, excited.

Because he found that there was a circular "stamp" on the tile, which was the "Fire Swallowing and Eating Flowers" pattern of the "Su King" of the old country of Guai.

This unexpected discovery almost made Xianyundu laugh.

For a long time, in the study of the ancient kingdom of Ailao, there has been a difficult problem that has plagued Xianyundu, that is, after the collapse of the Ailao country, the question of the whereabouts of the ancient people of Ailao.

Because the Ailao people left their homeland very early, there is not much record of their future ethnic migration, and this has become a major unsolved case in Chinese cultural history.

In order to solve this unsolved case, Xianyundu immersed himself in the few historical materials and archaeological discoveries for many years, but he did not achieve anything at all.

And this time, the totem of the King of Ailao was found in the northwest of Guizhou, which undoubtedly pointed out a new direction for this problem.

So, he couldn't wait to call the guide and ask about the origin of the fragment.

The guide looked at the fragment and said: "This flower is called the goddess flower, and it is said that it is one of the magic weapons used by the goddess of Miao Jiang to help the Great Demon King when she defeated the Great Demon King, and it is said that after defeating the Great Demon King, those flowers were left near Heilan Bo City. ”

After listening to the guide's words, Xianyundu was very excited, he was a typical person with academic dominance behavior, and no one could stop him if he had a temper with two poles.

Therefore, despite the dissuasion of the guide, he immediately decided to let the investigation team stay here for one more day, and he wanted to go to the Devil's City to investigate it himself.

In order to be in a hurry, before dawn the next day, Xianyundu set off early with two "students" and a guide and walked to the mountains where the cottage was located.

Needless to say, the mountain path was difficult and treacherous, and it was not until noon that they limped to the mountain gate of the city of Helamber.

Faced with everything in front of him, Xianyundu was shocked!

Although only the ruins of those buildings remain, Xianyundu still judged that the architectural style of him was completely different from those Miao villages under the mountain. Those eaves and arches and statues of gods and ghosts are somewhat similar to those of the Wailao Kingdom, and most importantly, they are filled with a large number of patterns and carvings of "swallowing fire and eating flowers".

Obviously, it is undoubtedly the remains of the ancient people of Ailao.

Excited, Xianyundu asked students to take photos for evidence while searching for useful relics of the ancients. Faced with this great discovery, Xianyundu smiled obliviously, with the unique excitement and satisfaction of a scholar.

Finally, he collected a large number of photographs and artifact fragments. He was ready to leave this ancient village and go back for further research.

But at this time, one of his students hurriedly stopped the teacher.

The male student excitedly pointed to a big stone between the ruins, and said to Xianyundu: "Teacher! Is that the legendary fire-eating flower? ”

Hearing this, Xianyundu hurriedly turned his head and looked in the direction pointed by the student.

In an emergency, his heart suffocated!

A blood-red "Four Demon Flower" bloomed in front of Xianyundu.

The four petals had an eerie black vein, and from his vantage point, they looked like a blood-red skull, smiling at them.

That flower, it's a little weirder.

(Today is the anniversary of the July 7 incident, please observe a three-minute silence...... ）