A few days passed, and I spent a lot of time in the library, but basically I stayed in Gan's office, during which Gan kept talking to me about something to try to awaken a trace of my memory, but my mind was still blank.

After breakfast on this day, we continued to go back to the library, Gan Lao said that although there is no direct evidence that my mask is a totem belonging to the minority in the past few days, there are still some wild history stories described in the record of the mask, then Gan Lao handed me a book, I looked at him curiously and looked at the cover of the book "Strange Stories of the Western Regions".

"Page 196."

I opened that page and saw a line of yellowed font, which was copied neatly in regular script, and there was a row where I saw him say this: "There is a small country in Qiuci in the neighborhood, and all the people in the country are one-eyed, and it is said that it is rare, and the yellow sand flies and appears on the soil slope, and people wear tiger faces, wander in all directions, and after the sand enters the sand, there is no trace, the name of the country is called Gumo, and it is enshrined in Qiuci." ”

"Gumo?"

"One of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, there are few records at present."

"What about Ben?"

"It's just wild history, I can't believe it, but I can only start from here."

"Okay, but I think it's worth asking an expert about this."

"I know that." Gan Lao said with a smile, "Recently, there has been a large-scale tomb robbery here, so the city has summoned cultural relics experts from various places to come. I can help you ask when I have time. ”

"You must have dug up something very valuable, right?"

"That's right, I heard that it's an ancient tomb of Yoro, or a living tomb." Gan Lao looked out the window, and his thoughts seemed to fly into the distance.

"Speaking of grave robbers, though." I held my chin and said, "Before I came to Jianhe, I accidentally found traces of an ancient tomb in a mountain, which seems to be a Tang tomb, and there are obvious traces of tomb robbery. ”

"Oh so?" Gan Lao's eyes lit up, "Tell me about the situation inside." ”

Then I told me about the time I hit something in my car to the way I entered the tomb and finally exited just by the part that was attacked, and that person was so incredible that it was as if he had been following me all along, and he definitely knew a level about the tomb, and he was the first person who could recognize me.

Who is he? Now that I think about it, I'm more eager than ever to find out.

"Acting as a pathfinder with a tamer?" Gan Lao thought for a moment and said to himself, "This is a very old technique, and without special training, it is impossible for animals to reach the level of tomb visiting." ”

"What?" I asked, pretending not to understand.

"Nothing?" Gan Lao stopped me and stopped with his hand in case I interrupted his thoughts, "Henan? Taming beasts? So? ”

"What's wrong?" I asked in a whisper. "You know that?"

"Yes. A tomb robbery sect in Henan Province uses this method of tomb robbing. ”

"Sect? Are there many types of tomb robbing? Isn't it just a matter of digging with a hoe? ”

"No, no, no." Gan Lao waved his hand: "Tomb robbery is not as simple as you think. Tomb robbery has existed since ancient times, Cao Ying in order to raise military salaries, privately set up a mound, touch the gold two positions, steal the treasures in the tomb, in order to raise soldiers, and Luoyang's "sand", Changsha's "Tufu", both are forced by life, so this decision. There is also no shortage of psychopaths, such as the king of Guangchuan - Liu Qu.

However, the tomb robbery is not the usual imagination of the hole, the cave is so simple, the tomb of the ancients has "mound", "tomb", "mound", "mausoleum" more said. The largest is called "mausoleum", which is a royal term. The tomb is divided into tomb road, corridor, main room, cloister, side room, ear room, corner room, underworld hall, and enjoyment hall.......

These places are all equipped with hidden weapons, traps, and traps to put people to death. Among them, the tomb road and the Yong road are the only roads leading to the underworld palace, and they are also the "dead roads" called by the robbers and tomb thieves. False roads are often placed here to confuse the direction, and molten iron fills the door to block the way. In addition, there are coffin chambers and ear chambers, which are the sleeping places of the dead with coffins, as well as a series of killing machines such as crossbows, flaps, and fires that burst out of the coffin. However, the "territory" of the tomb owner is very rare, and generally experienced tomb robbers will choose to dig a robbery hole to cut directly into the underground palace and the underworld. , Corner Room, Hades Temple, Enjoyment Hall ......."

"Hmm" I nodded, the matter of robbing the tomb is indeed as Gan Lao said, listening to the wind and distinguishing the air, smelling the soil and knowing the soil, looking for the dragon point, plus the skillful Luoyang shovel, probe rod, hemp rope, oil lamp, iron drill, bamboo nail, Qibao rope, and the strange things that carry the coffin rope are the products of the tomb robbery technique that has been bred for thousands of years.

For example, one of the most famous tombs in the tomb robbery world, the tomb of Liu Wu, the filial piety king of Han Liang. In this tomb, each tomb road is sealed with more than 1,000 catties of blue and white stones, and there is a large amount of water, poisonous gas to prevent heavy defense, and those who are made of secret medicine to guard the tomb of the living dead, all over the mausoleum ...... area of 1,367 cubic meters. Today's archaeologists call it "the first mausoleum in the world"

But in the end, it was still the tomb robbing corps under Cao Ying, the general of Faqiu Zhonglang, and the captain of Jin, who came and went freely in the tomb, and stole thousands of strange pearls and treasures in the tomb. If today's archaeological methods want to excavate this mausoleum, I am afraid that they are also powerless, which shows the high technology of digging tombs in ancient times.

I was thinking about the materials I had sorted out in my head. Suddenly, I found that for the "Peerless Stream" beast taming sect in Henan, the only memory I have is blank, and there is no trace of the image, so how do I know about this term?

I felt like I didn't know much about myself

For the next few days, I walked around the library without a night, and Gan Lao used his privilege to help me get a key that allowed me to enter and leave the library freely at any time.

The mask thing slowly faded over time, and I almost gave up after a week without any results, and this kind of life was almost better than what I had before, and my heart calmed down.

Let's talk about our library. Just a three-storey small building, behind is the courtyard, the yard is overgrown with weeds because no one has dealt with it for a long time, a stone carving water tank that is said to be the Ming Dynasty is quietly placed in the corner of the wall, the front of the water tank is a folk relief, a small space is fully utilized by the craftsman is very perfect to depict a picture of people's livelihood and people's interest.

When chatting, Gan Lao said that this water tank is estimated to be a product of Quyang, Hebei Province, and he doesn't know how it came here, maybe because this library was a write-off point for ancient cultural relics before.

I asked why? Gan Lao said with a smile, the previous tomb robbery activities in Guizhou were very rampant, countless cultural relics, relics and fossils were stolen and sold, although the relevant departments took over urgently, but the cultural relics were still dug up by them, and finally simply blocked the road and strictly inspected it. As he spoke, Gan Lao pointed and said, "Then they put everything in the basement of the library. ”

"So?" I frowned, there is no basement in the library in my image, how could Gan Lao suddenly have a basement.

"There's no basement, right?" Gan Lao sighed, "This water tank was dug from below, and it stands to reason that the county chronicles of Jianhe County record that the basement is located under this lot. But in the end, the leader ordered a ban on excavation, and we don't know why, but at least there was a water tank to witness the feast of tomb robbing. ”

"I understand, Quyang, Hebei."

"Then do you know why Hebei?" Gan Lao smiled, as if he was testing the results of my reading in the past few days.

"Well, there is a record in the book, Chinese stone carving is basically divided into 6 major locations, Jiaxiang in Shandong Province is the fine product of the government to the imperial court in the past dynasties, Wenling in Zhejiang Province is to make stone lions, stone screens, stone tablets, stone waist drums and other stone handicraft patterns, Fujian Province Hui'an is to do more large-scale dragon and phoenix carvings, shadow carvings, Qingtian in Zhejiang Province! Qingtian stone carving is more famous for its exquisite craftsmanship, fine carving, ingenious workmanship, in addition to Puli, Taiwan Province is very directly excluded, only this Quyang, Hebei Province remains, I remember that there was a folk song like this in Quyang at that time, "up to ninety-nine, down to just go, small hammer jingling, courtyard out of the factory, to say carving, everyone has a hand." What does this mean? It shows that the relief culture of Quyang is very popular, so such a water tank that is stored and watched by ordinary residents can be carved with such a pattern. I thought for a moment and replied.

"Hmm. Yes, I'm reading by heart. Gan Lao patted me, "Actually, I'm here to say goodbye to you today, I'm going on a business trip, and it's not a big deal." Just to help you ask the people about your mask. ”

"Are you going to the place where the tomb of Yoro was unearthed?"

"Yes! You've been living in the unit for the past few days, and this is the key to my office. Gan Lao handed me a key, then stretched out his left hand, "I'll bring the answer back to you." ”

"I'm looking forward to it." I shook his hand and laughed

Today is the third day of Gan Lao's walk, I have been staying in the unit with nothing to do, and I dare not go out half a step, I heard that a big man from Shenzhen recently is the leader of the leader, some of Gan Lao's friends have asked me to appear less in the hall so as not to have any negative impact on the unit, I know that for those old people, I am a shameful performance of the person who rubs rice every day.

It was very early after work that day, and I was bored and wandered around the street alone in my coat. The sword river was already small, and I walked very fast, so I unconsciously walked back in a circle, and coincidentally saw the postman who delivered newspapers and magazines riding a small battery car, and was thinking that there was something to read at night, and when I walked over, I wanted to say hello, only to find that the postman had changed one.

"What's the change?" I lifted the clothes off my head.

"Him." The postman spoke, but his voice stammered, like that of a retarded person, and there was a slight smirk in his voice, "He's gone to dinner." The postman turned his head and looked at me with his chin cursed.

I could see the look in the stranger's eyes for a second, the fear that seemed to be buried in the deepest part of my heart, completely manifested in front of me.

It seemed that he was indeed a person with a little problem, but in an instant, just for a moment, his eyes were completely clear, "Don't chase me, it's not me, don't pester me anymore." The fool's whole body began to tremble, and when he saw the full extent of my mask, he suddenly opened his mouth and shouted, then dropped the newspaper in his hand and sprang out like a cheetah.

And that kind of look, maybe I will never forget, if it is the first time I met this kind of look in Miao Village, I may think that this is the initial fear, but now it is different, I live in the city, in the street, people look at me with strange and incomprehensible eyes, maybe there will be this few contempt and ridicule, but there will never be fear, in the current society too many non-mainstream, they will not be afraid of you because of your only mask.

In other words, they must have known me, or rather the mask, and that I or the mask had caused them some great fear, otherwise they wouldn't have changed so much in an instant. What's more, I have seen this kind of look at the funeral in Miao Village, and I really deserve to die, because his overreaction at that time caught my attention, then everything I had was immediately in the hands of those two people.

I didn't think much about it, everything filtered through my subconscious, I looked at his back and I brushed my feet and chased after him, and after a distance I had to admit that this fool had good speed and stamina, and the unfamiliarity with the terrain I finally lost him after turning around, "Damn." I burst into a foul mouth, but I wasn't too upset, for all the confusion could be straightened out, and there were more and more clues, and I gasped and wiped the sweat from my mask on my neck, and when I turned my head, I saw a man curled up in a dilapidated room.

The house he lived in was a very inconspicuous bungalow, the roof was leaking, the door was still an old-fashioned wooden door, this was the part of the upper reaches of the Qingshui River, the construction of a bridge was being done in front of it, the sound of the machine rumbled, but at this time everything was buried by my breathing, my eyes stared at him in the corner, and then stood in the doorway, blocking the only way out.

"Don't come, don't come." He was still muttering quietly.

I tiptoed close to him, and when he turned around, he suddenly threw him to the ground, I pressed my right hand against his throat, and my left hand supported my right elbow, and kept exerting force, I saw his eyes slowly white, and only then did he loosen a little, and his strength was very strong, and he tried to overthrow me several times, causing me to have to press on him in a very twisted posture.

I looked at him, because of the years of facial nerve twitching his right cheek has changed shape, sure enough, it is a frightened person or a hard blow to the brain, I put my nose against the middle of his heavenly gate, did not speak, because I can't speak, as soon as I speak, everything will be exposed, although he is a fool but I can't take it lightly, I have to wait quietly for him to speak.

Perhaps it was because of the strength of my hand that it took him a long time to regain his normal speech function, and the first thing he said was "Don't kill me, I didn't take your stuff, don't chase me anymore." ”

"What?" I thought to myself, am I a thief? Just when I was wondering, his next sentence directly made me put my mind on the distant Gobi.

When he saw that I didn't speak, he immediately roared, "Danbi Gyaltsen, you have been dead for so many years, do you want to bury your secret until the next century?" At this time, his face was bruised and hideous.

"Danbi Gyaltsen?" I immediately thought of the legendary Black Lama, the mysterious man who fell into the grass in China's Xinjiang Province. The cause of his death, his men, his castle.

"What do you say? Have you been to the Gobi and tell me? Where is the Black Lama? Did you find anything? "As soon as I was emotional, I immediately yelled, I didn't care so much anymore, and directly lifted the fool up from the ground, why is it the Gobi, the Gobi Black Lama? His secret? My mind is getting more and more chaotic, where the hell am I coming from? I even wonder if I'm fucking human.

While I was in deep thought, the fool suddenly broke free from my hand, shook it out with a hard grasp, and finally ran out of the house under my eyelids, and disappeared without a trace, and I just stared at him blankly, and let him run out of my sight, I had no energy to care about it, and everything I wanted to know probably could not be known from the mouth of this fool.

I tidied up my clothes and looked into the distance, Miao Village, where there was definitely someone who knew everything

Back in the library, I asked for 4 days off like Gan Lao's friend, I didn't say I was going there, I just told them that I would come back, it's not that I didn't say it, it's just that I think Gan Lao is too good to me, it's a little weird, he definitely wants to dig something out of me, the mask, it should be my mask.

I can't let him know what I've learned, how far is this damn mask going to toss me?

I don't know how to go to Miao Village, but I know that Yang Shizhong and they will go to the Qingshui River every once in a while to fish, and I probably know where they fish, because Gan Lao and I have talked about it, and many people like to put a row of fishing rods in the upper reaches of the Qingshui River on weekends to fish, and he also asked me if I want to go with him, at that time I smiled and shook my head, but now I want to go to that place.

The place that brought me into this world in the first place, the place that kept me alive, the place that existed, the place that changed my life.

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