We took this col as the center, and I started the search with Li Hao in a group, Dorjee and Lao Dao in a group, and the man in black himself in a group. After all, no matter how far it is, it won't go far. It didn't take long for Li Hao and I to find a valley on the back, the mouth was very small, probably four cars side by side, and the inside was very spacious, because it was covered by vegetation, there was no trace of artificial excavation, so I felt that it was more secluded or something.

We signaled them, and it wasn't long before the three of them reached the entrance to the valley. Why am I sure it's this valley, because this valley is an important passage to the back north, it's better not to go through this valley, you have to climb the mountain, although the mountain here is not so steep, but if you climb up, it will take a lot of effort, there is a valley not to walk, do you have to climb the mountain?

If I were an ancient, I would definitely choose this place. I don't know what happened inside, but when a few of us studied the situation, the man in black started looking for something around here. I asked suspiciously, "Senior He, what are you looking for?" The man in black said while looking for it: "Here, it's not very far from the county seat, if there is anything inside, the people in the county will definitely not know, why did we ask, all of them said they didn't know?" It's either the people who have a problem, or the place has a problem. ”

Ji Yuan said with a smile: "I look, those are honest people, they will never lie, one possibility is ruled out, then there is only one possibility left, that is, there is a problem here." Sure enough, it didn't take long for the man in black to find a somewhat broken stone tablet in the grass. It is said that it is a stone stele, but it is simply a large natural stone, and it is written after being slightly polished.

There are only four characters, and the font is also very ugly, and all of them are traditional characters. It is estimated that it has been some years, and these four words are: "No danger." Li Hao looked at the words on the stone tablet, looked at the situation in the valley, and said suspiciously: "What is in it?" I watched the wind and the waves calm. Dorjee said disdainfully: "Do you think there is a fart?" Maybe there are a lot of organs inside, otherwise no one would have made a stone monument in this place to alert passers-by. ”

I touched my chin and said, "If you come, you will be safe, and if you come, let's go in and have a look." With that, he took the lead and went in. I thought to myself: "That stone tablet is to warn passers-by, after all, most of the passers-by are ordinary people, our group, not ordinary people, even if we encounter a little danger, we can solve it, after all, it is a thing hundreds of years ago, and many things are easy to break over time." ”

The man in black walked behind and said, "Be careful to sail the Ten Thousand Year Ship, don't forget those paper golems, maybe this place has already begun to be activated." Modern technology, coupled with the conditions here, it is estimated that it is definitely not a problem to make that kind of paper. I nodded and said, "Understood, let's be careful so as not to fall for the trick." Dorjee took out his Tibetan knife and said: "Come on, Lao Tzu has long had itchy hands, and this time they have fallen into trouble."

As we walked, we observed the surrounding environment, which was completely steep, not steep, and it was really difficult for ordinary people to climb up, and now it was covered by vegetation, and I couldn't see why. However, the further you go inside, the more spacious it becomes, and the road on the ground is a bit rough, but it is barely a road. We hadn't gone far before we heard the sound of the water, and I looked at Ji Yuan and the man in black, who also looked at me and exchanged glances with each other.

I said, "Looks like there's water." The man in black said cautiously, "Be careful." I nodded, and kept walking, for the sound of the water was ahead. When I turned a corner, I saw a stream flowing down the hill, and in the middle of the col sat these dilapidated houses, which were no longer called houses, but now only the skeletons remained. The most interesting thing is this stream, which flows down the valley to the back.

I thought to myself, "It can't be these broken houses, right?" Dorjee said suspiciously: "Is it really here?" Something shabby, right? Ji Yuan said: "Is this a big project, only a few people can complete the work, why do so many people do?" I nodded and said, "Let's go, let's have a look." So, we went to inspect the houses. But when I checked and checked, it was all wooden sticks that were about to collapse, and the wood was so bad that there was no valuable clue at all.

And at this time, Li Hao said: "Look, there seems to be another cave in there. I looked in the direction pointed by Li Hao, and sure enough, behind this house, there was a small cave in the place covered by those vegetation. If you don't look closely, you think it's vegetation because it's too dark. Duoji patted Li Hao's shoulder and said, "Boy, you can find out." Li Hao said with a smile: "I was about to pee, but I saw the cave, and I didn't know what was inside." ”

I was in a cold sweat and said: "In this place, there can be a cave, how obvious, we are not in a hurry, it is almost morning, we are eating and going in to see, anyway, we are in time." So, we started to make a fire and cook in this place. While eating, Li Hao asked me and said, "We haven't encountered any danger so far." Dorjee said angrily: "You have to be in danger to be happy." ”

I know what Li Hao means, he is still referring to the stone tablet in the valley to warn passers-by. I thought for a while and said: "Maybe it's because it's been a long time, and a lot of organ news has failed, maybe it's because the previous owner here didn't want to disturb his back and left it, anyway, let's be careful, so as not to fall in a pit a few times like Yanjing." Ji Yuan touched the wood on the top of the house and said: "This is abandoned, not like it was an accident above, I think Lao He is right, maybe it is the change of the environment, or the problem of materials, which has caused this kind of paper to be unable to be produced, so the technology of paper puppets has not been left." ”

Dorjee continued: "But looking at the two paper puppets we met in Yanjing one day, I don't want them to be four or five hundred years old antiques, not to mention anything else, just like his workmanship and painting, which is no different from the ordinary paper figures sold outside now." I laughed and said, "Haven't you painted like that for hundreds of years?" Is it now high-tech? The man in black said: "The current technology is all printed, and then wrapped on the skeleton that has been made, and the pieces you got back are definitely drawn by hand." ”

I said, "What about it, even if it's a few hundred years old?" Blocking Lao Tzu's way, the villa has been around for hundreds of years, and it will be killed even if it is tens of thousands of years. Ji Yuan put down the dishes and chopsticks and said: "It's better to be careful, don't be careless, we have to learn the lessons in Yanjing, even if we can't find anything, it's best that we can't go back without a door." ”

I nodded and said, "Yes, you must not go back without a door, safety first, save your life, and do great things in the future." "We ate and cleaned up briefly, preparing to leave two people outside to guard and pick up, but considering the danger here, we abandoned the plan and decided to go in together. If the people who stay outside encounter any danger, we will not have time to save them, and it is definitely not a good idea to separate now.

So, the five of us went in together. A high-intensity flashlight shines brightly on the cave. The entrance to this cave is a bit like a natural formation, and the further you go inside, the more obvious the traces of the excavation become. The entrance can only accommodate two people walking side by side, and we have walked more than thirty meters, and by this time we can already accommodate one car to pass. The inside of this cave is not round or oval, but flat. Somewhat like the shape of a shuttle, a form of two pointed ends and wide in the middle.

It's not like most of the caves in the south, it's very wet, it's very dry. The dry ones are a little too much, and when you get inside, there is a feeling of dryness and heat. Inside, it is not as flat as imagined, but very tortuous, I said more than 30 meters, is this rugged route, if it is a straight line distance, now we are more than ten meters away from the entrance of the cave.

When we have no way out, there are only steps left. The steps below are more than half a person high, and they seem to be made of large stones, and there are obvious traces of artificial excavation. If you go down like this, you will go down about seven or eight meters away, and it will still be that kind of cave. It's just that the cave here is not like a shuttle-shaped cave, but semi-circular, and in some places there is wood for support. I thought to myself, "Is this mining something out of this?" ”

Here, you are not afraid of getting lost, because there is only one way to go, and it is the way down. It's not very obvious, but the farther you go, you can feel the downward trend. As we walked, we saw a puddle of white stuff on the ground in front of us. When I got closer, I looked like a paper man, the kind that had been destroyed, and I felt that the paper on my body was very old, because the patterns painted on my body had a feeling of fading. The wood of the skeleton is also very made, and it will break if you move it slightly.

The man in black looked at the paper figure on the ground and said, "Why do you think this thing is here?" I shook my head and said, "Who knows, maybe it's left over from before, or it's for the guards." Dorjee kicked twice, completely kicked the paper man to pieces, and said: "Look at the years are not close, I think it's hundreds of years, otherwise it wouldn't be so bad." I sighed and said, "Let's go, let's move on, maybe the answer is ahead." ”

In this way, we continue to move forward, and the further we go, the larger the space, the bigger the tunnel. Looking at the form of wooden support on both sides, it was considered a big project in ancient times. I said suspiciously: "Papermaking, what are you doing with a hole in the ground?" The man in black said: "Maybe I'm looking for materials, after all, this process is special, and the materials needed may also be special, or it may be because the materials here are gone, coupled with the changes in the outside environment, which has caused the loss of this process, resulting in the loss of paper puppet technology." ”

As we walked, we saw some dried corpses lying in front of us. Yes, it's a dried corpse, after all, it's dry here, and it's relatively easy to preserve the corpse. These seven or eight corpses were lying on the ground irregularly, and their necks were all twisted into an incredible angle, and at a glance, they knew that they were caused by someone who vigorously broke their necks. Looking at their outfits, I think they are ancient people, at least now people don't have that long hair, and they don't wear mille-feuille bottoms under their feet.

If you want to drive away the corpse like this, it will definitely not be formed without a few hundred years, and they are all a little fragile. It shattered at the slightest touch, and Dorjee spat at the mouth and said, "Who the hell is this?" The man in black looked at it for a while and said, "I think it may be the craftsmen here, you see their hands, they are all so slender, they definitely rely on their hands to eat." "I looked at it, but it was much longer than the average person." Ji Yuan used a wooden stick to find something on those dried corpses, and Li Hao asked me, "The dead will not be spared." Ji Yuan snorted and said, "Maybe it's these dead people who can tell us something." "And at this moment, I heard some salsa sa sound, and I thought it was the paper rubbing. I thought to myself, "It's not going to be too quiet here, my own delusion." ”

I was wrong, they all heard this sound, and we all took a flashlight and shone it into the cave, and it didn't matter if this photo was shining, I saw two "disabled" paper puppets walking towards us. It is said that it is disabled, because these two paper figures are missing arms and legs, and none of them are complete. Maybe it's because it's been put for too long, but this thing is still made of paper, not steel and bronze, and it's nothing to put it for hundreds of years.

Dorjee looked at the two paper puppets who were slowly thinking about us and said, "There are really people who are not afraid of death." I've had itchy hands for a long time. Li Hao took a step back and said, "There are really guards." I pulled out my knife and said, "Whatever, let's get rid of them first." The man in black smiled and said, "It's really interesting, it seems that someone has already been here before us." ”

I looked at the man in black suspiciously and asked, "What is that?" The man in black said: "You don't see the broken parts of those paper golems, if they are eroded by time, the gap will definitely not be so smooth, it must be injured by some sharp weapon." "I took a picture of the paper golems that were walking towards us again, and before I could see them clearly, the paper golems sped up and rushed towards us.