Chapter 22: The Temple of Hades (Part II) (Revised Version)
In the crystal coffin, he closed his eyes lightly and looked serene.
Jiang Yuan stood quietly beside him, and the scene was silent for nearly a minute, and he suddenly said to me: "Boss Xiao, this is why I want you to join this operation. ”
I looked at him with a smile, "Thank you so much, otherwise I wouldn't have known there was another me in this world." ”
There was silence.
I said, "Actually, you know more or less about this entrance tomb, don't you?" ”
Jiang Yuan raised his head and took a deep breath, then looked at the person in the crystal coffin, was silent for a moment, and said, "That's the end of what I know, and the rest is up to Boss Xiao to guide you." ”
I waved my hand at him, smiled, and said, "Raise me up too much, I am a master in the ranks, where is my turn to point fingers, you have to decide this decision-making matter, I just do what I am told." You can rest assured that we have a great conscience in the industry. ”
The grasshopper also leaned over, patted his chest, and said, "My boss is right. ”
Jiang Yuan didn't speak, while Li Laosi leaned to the side, squinting his eyes and not knowing what he was thinking.
The person in the crystal coffin seems to be me in the last century, with blood stains on his navy blue coat, his hands crossed on his chest, and he is "sleeping" peacefully, if he is not lying in the coffin, I even think he is still a living person.
Regarding this person, Jiang Yuan only used four words to describe his relationship with this "me", that is, the so-called karmic meeting
Twelve years ago, the Han tomb of Canglong Mountain.
An archaeological team of 12 people was captured in the recovery of a group of cultural relics, and these people came for money, so they did not want to cause any trouble, so they escorted all the members of the archaeological team to a nearby excavated tomb and imprisoned them. During this period, the leader of the group handed over the task of taking care of these archaeological team members to a young man codenamed "Tangyuan", which is now Jiang Yuan.
At that time, Jiang Yuan was only ten years old, the youngest of the group, and his daily job was to deliver food to these imprisoned archaeological team members, for three consecutive days, nothing abnormal.
It wasn't until the fourth day that a young man named Xiao He in the archaeological team suddenly began to pay attention to this ten-year-old "tomb robber".
That day, as usual, the people in the "organization" all "went to the ground", leaving only an injured young man and Jiang Yuan to watch the house, everything was as usual, but when the villagers came to bring them food, something went wrong.
"Little ghost, why are you going?" The young man put down the dishes and chopsticks and shouted.
Jiang Yuan raised the food box in his hand and said, "When it's time, I'll go down and bring them food." ”
When the young man heard this, he grinned, he kicked the stool aside, limped towards Jiang Yuan, and said as he walked: "Serve them with good food and drink every day, I really don't know what the tiger master thinks." Let's go, I'll go down with you and have a look, and give them some color by the way. ”
Although Jiang Yuan is young, he also knows right from wrong, and he knows in his heart that these imprisoned archaeological team members are innocent, and they are wrong to put them under house arrest like this.
"Don't go. It's dirty and smelly down there. Jiang Yuan tried to stop him.
A slap came over and scolded: "Stinky boy, it's not your turn to take care of me, give me something, get out." ”
The young man snatched the food box in Jiang Yuan's hand and swaggered down the hole.
Jiang Yuan was worried about the safety of the archaeological team, so he followed the young man down, but when he arrived, the young man had already fallen to the ground, his head and neck had been separated, and there were strange scratches on his limbs and body, much like paw prints left by a big cat attack.
He was scared, standing motionless, he was not afraid of the monster who killed people, but afraid of the tiger master, he was afraid that the tiger master would blame him when they came back.
The food is still placed outside the wooden cage, and the people inside can reach it as long as they want to eat.
Xiao He silently brought in the food and ate it with relish, this action made the other archaeological team members very stunned, they condemned this young man one after another, but Xiao He didn't care, Jiang Yuan was watching the whole meal time
At night, the people who "went to the ground" came back, and they returned with a full load, everyone was smiling on their faces, and the same was true for the tiger master, who looked at his "trophies" and smiled with satisfaction, revealing a pair of tiger teeth.
One of them, a young man named Ah Hui, looked around, as if he was looking for someone, and after looking at it for a while, he whispered to Master Hu: "Master, the second son is gone." ”
As soon as the tiger master heard this, the smile on his face immediately disappeared, and he had a gloomy face, looking at Jiang Yuan with sharp eyes, and asked, "What about people?" Didn't you two stay behind?"
Jiang Yuan was still young after all, and he was so frightened by the tiger master that he forgot all the lies he had prepared.
stammered and told everything he saw, and everyone sighed after hearing it, and a few people were even more shocked.
The scene was silent for a few minutes before Hu Ye spoke, what he meant was that since the person was dead, he would send the share that should belong to him to his hometown, which could be regarded as a heart.
Master Hu's approach made Jiang Yuan feel a lot more at ease, at least even if the matter is resolved, people are dead, and they are in the ground, not to mention that they are all outlaws, they have no home or job, and no one will be held accountable if they really die.
When everything was settled, the people began to drink and celebrate, and after a few jars of rice wine, the people began to talk nonsense, lying in the courtyard like a dead corpse.
Jiang Yuan squatted in the corner holding an empty wine jar and looked at everything in front of him, he suddenly figured out something, and also thought of a person.
In the early morning, the sky was still gray, the fog in the mountains had not yet dissipated, and a white off-road vehicle was parked on the side of the road next to the Cangshan Highway, and Jiang Yuan handed the car key to Xiao He
I don't know about the conversation between them, and Jiang Yuan didn't say it, he just said that this person named Xiao He talked to him about a deal, and Jiang Yuan didn't say a word about the specific content of the deal.
Jiang Yuan released people without permission, which angered the tiger master, thinking of his youth and ignorance, and was punished for kneeling for three days and three nights.
Because of this, he met Zhang Mosheng, a ghost hand who came to talk to Tiger Master about business, and his youngest daughter Zhang Yuan.
It can be regarded as a chance meeting, Zhang Mosheng glanced at Jiang Yuan and decided that this son was a material that could be made, so he took him back to a small town in the east of Yunnan and lived in Zhang Mosheng's Zhang Mansion, everything seems to end here, Jiang Yuan has Zhang Mosheng's big backer, Hu Ye and others will never dare to touch him again, and the matter of releasing people without permission will be over
Four months ago, this Xiao He suddenly appeared at Jiang Yuan's house, and he handed Jiang Yuan a package, which contained a human skin silk book and an animal skeleton.
The human skin silk book records the layout of the mechanism of the entrance tomb, and the bones of the animal are engraved with some words, which are translated into modern Chinese as "Xinglong Izumo, Blessing the Cangsheng, Dragon Pattern Jade, Golden Scale Star Palace." ”
At that time, Jiang Yuan was dealing with a matter in his hands, and he couldn't leave him, and after several discussions, it was decided that Xiao He would lead the team, and then Jiang Yuan sent three cronies to follow, at that time, he didn't expect that Qin Wanjun's general's tomb would be so dangerous, and a few days later, he sent out three guys and suddenly came back, this person was already dying when he was sent to a private clinic, and when he was finally dying, he said a shocking news.
In the tomb, they really encountered the legendary entrance tomb, and in the case of inexperience and lack of preparation, everyone accidentally broke into the phantom light maze, in the array, three of the dozen or so people who walked with Xiao He killed each other, and the others had varying degrees of damage.
At that time, Xiao He was not affected by the phantom light because his eyes were closed, and he relied on his many years of ear recognition skills to slowly grope his way forward in the formation, and at this moment, he heard a miserable scream.
What happened later is not to be said, the result is that Xiao He was forced to open his eyes in order to save this person, and at the moment when he was about to be captivated by the phantom light, he pushed this person out of the formation.
This person who was rescued by Xiao He was the guy who came back alive from that operation, but unfortunately, he struggled in the hospital for three days, and finally failed to save his life, but from the information he learned from his mouth, Jiang Yuan had the answer in his heart, and at the same time, this person named Xiao He also began to enter his plan, a month and a half ago, when he inquired about the identity and background of Xiao He, he found my information through special channels, and after comparing the photos, he found that the two of us were strikingly similar, at the same time, He also found out some reasons why he had to come to me for this operation, but he didn't say a word about what the reasons were.