If there is an opportunity to dig up the coffin again, no matter how far or near the time of death, as long as it is buried near the bottle mountain, the body in the coffin will disappear. The coffin sealer was intact and had never been touched by outsiders, but there were only some porcelain bottles and bamboo chopsticks left in the coffin, and the murder clothes worn by the dead corpses were also placed as they were, and the buttons were not unbuttoned. But I couldn't see a single corpse.

The local people have a legend that before the Yuan soldiers came, Bottle Mountain was a forbidden place for the emperor to alchemy, in addition to the peculiar terrain here, it is a natural cave blessed land, there is also an important reason that Xiangxi Chenzhou is rich in cinnabar, and the mercury extracted from it is an indispensable raw material for alchemy.

After a long time, the rock and soil of Bottle Mountain got the medicinal gas that can dissolve the corpse and eliminate the bones, and the corpses buried in the mountain are only a stream of corpse gas, which moves with the air rotation of the leyline, and the trace is uncertain, so it is called the corpse removal place. Only the ancient corpse of the general of the Yuan Dynasty in the belly of the mountain died due to the evil art of the cave people, and the zombie was difficult to decay, and he obtained the medicinal power of the elixir in the tomb, and the shape was refined.

It is said that since the cracks in the ancient tomb were opened, every few decades in the past, people have seen zombies in armor in the mountains, and they all say that they have seen it with their own eyes, and it is not a lie. The custom of chasing corpses in Xiangxi is prevalent, and it is particularly believed that zombies are haunted, so it is rumored that there is a corpse king buried in the bottle mountain, and those who go into the mountain to rob the tomb to collect medicine are all killed by zombies and Yin soldiers, so everyone talks about the color change, which eats the bear's heart and the leopard dares to enter the ancient cemetery palace in the belly of the mountain?

Blind Chen sneered when he heard this, he was well-informed, how could he be frightened by the words of these natives. I've heard of the name of the corpse removal place, but it is only the legend of Wu Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, how can there really be a corpse removal place in the world? The Yuan tomb has always been deeply buried, and there are many techniques in the Western Regions to prevent theft, and the funeral goods are not as luxurious as the kings and grandsons of the Middle Earth, and they have never been the first choice of tomb robbers.

But the commander of the Yuan army buried in this bottle mountain is before the death array, when he exterminated the Miao people in the seventy-two caves, the looted things must be heavy, plus the treasures of the royal family in the bottle mountain, the abundance hidden in the underworld palace is not much worse than the emperor's tomb. But this ancient tomb is unique, there are fewer people but it can't be moved, and it is located in a remote area, the news is isolated, and there are fewer people who know it in modern times, otherwise they should have led the crowd to come to fight a long time ago, and how could they get it today. Now that the opportunity has arrived, it seems that it is the opportunity for the group of thieves to achieve great things.

Chen Blind thought that his group of people were foreigners, not very familiar with the local customs, it was difficult to do things without a guide, and he couldn't kill people, but he had to make this guide feel at ease first, otherwise he would leak his mouth and incite the army's morale, but it was not trivial, so he said to the familiar Miao: "It's not that Chen boasted, the people of Xiangyin all know that my shopkeeper Chen is the best at catching ghosts and chasing corpses, and he is also bold and bold, and he is willing to support good people, and now he plans to lead a group of subordinates to eliminate harm for the people, and remove the zombies in the bottle mountain, if you are willing to help, There must be no benefit to you. So saying, he gave the guide ten pieces of ocean.

Miao guide saw this Chen Da shopkeeper made a bold move, and that Luo Dashuai stared at the slaughter, if there is not from the spot will be the corpse on the spot, these two ancestors a red face and a black face, no one can afford to offend, in this soft and hard situation, want to escape and can't escape, in order to protect their own lives, they have to obey their words, even if they go up the knife mountain and go down the oil pot, they have to follow, and then dare not say a word, and then pass through this burial pit that was hollowed out by the bandits, leading the group of thieves to return to the old Xiongling Yizhuang.

After stepping on the plate and touching the game several times, Chen Blind already knew in his heart, and he only waited for the mute Kunlun Moeller to arrive with the engineer battalion, and then he could start to act. Luo Lao was so anxious that he kept asking Chen if the treasures in the blind man's dungeon could be carried; Are the Yuan soldiers and generals buried in the ancient tombs of the Yuan Dynasty all Mongolian soldiers?

Chen said that he had not visited in vain these days and learned many reasons. Although this ancient tomb has been cracked since the previous love years, but first, the terrain is treacherous, and secondly, there are many poisonous insects in it, and it is difficult for a small group of tomb robbers to get their hands on it.

In addition, the generals of the Yuan Dynasty were not all Mongols, when the Yuan army swept the Western Regions of the Northern Kingdom, the division that went south was similar to the Eight-Nation Coalition Army that entered Beijing in the year of Gengzi, all of them were the coalition forces of the Western Regions, and there were also many Han troops who surrendered and defected, so the funeral customs must be exactly the same. They built the blessed land of Bottle Mountain as a tomb, and they also tried in vain to suppress the dragon qi of the Southern Dynasty. Bottle Mountain has been a royal forbidden place since ancient times, there are many institutions to prevent drug theft ambush, after sealing into the tomb of the large collection, most of these machines have been retained, and later enter the mountain to rob the tomb, but it is necessary to guard against this section.

It was already dusk while talking, and at dusk the dumb man came with three mixed teams of men and horses, and the more than 100 thieves under Chen Blind Man, although they were improvised, most of them were familiar horses, although they were not messy, they were well practiced. The troops under the crooked command of Ke Luo are basically a rabble, and these soldiers who were selected to join the engineer digging battalion are either smoking big cigarettes, or prostitutes, or playing sieves, almost all of them are guys who want money and don't want to die, and only they dare to rob graves and dig graves, and there is no taboo.

Luo Lao Crooked is a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of several warlords nearby, he left his nest this time and went deep into the hinterland of Xiangxi to rob the tomb, he didn't dare to speak out at all, it was completely secret. He was mainly worried that other warlords would come to sneak attack, and after all, the reputation of tomb robbery was not good, and once it was spread, he would become the target of public criticism, so he didn't seem to dare to lead a large army. Every time the tomb is robbed is an engineer battalion with a pistol company, and in Xiangxi Laoxiongling tomb robbery, in order to quickly conceal the secret, after the end of the matter quickly withdraw, the night is long and dreamy, the whole process is best not more than three or five days, this is not like in their own territory, you can seal the mountain in the name of the exercise, how to toss how you want.

Seeing that the men and horses were ready, this person was big as soon as he moved, and he must not delay, and he must do his best to act, so he ordered everyone to tie his left arm with cinnabar-soaked red silk so that the three teams could identify each other, and then set up camp around Yizhuang, and rest until midnight. A team of nearly 1,000 people, under the guidance of the guide, led the mules and dragged the horses, carried a lot of baggage, and drove to the bottle mountain by the moonlight. In order to block the news, all the people he met along the way, regardless of Yi Han, were all caught, and they traveled with the army as porters. As soon as it was dawn the next day, the sapper digging battalion arrived at the gate of the Bottle Mountain Pass.

The group of thieves did not dig the tomb gate at the mountain pass, but still wanted to save some trouble, and cut directly from the cliff on the top of the mountain into the ancient cemetery palace. The mountain road is tortuous and steep, the horses can not go up the halfway up the mountainside, so they have to pick up the materials they need by the porter, and the long procession winds up the mountain along the bluestone ancient road, looking back from the head, like a yellow dragon climbing the ancient bottle and squirming upward.

In the morning of the same day, the clouds and fog in Bottle Mountain were extremely thick, and when I looked up at the high place, it seemed to be in the fog, and when I reached the high place, the clouds and mist were under my feet again. The sappers of the digging battalion also know that this is a tomb robbery on the mountain, if there is a war, everyone will inevitably retreat, but to do the thing of fighting backwards is equivalent to going to the mound to dig the dog's head gold, what a beautiful difference. In the last few months, there has been no pay, and at this time, seeing that there is finally an ancient tomb to dig, everyone is gearing up, shaking their spirits, and scrambling to follow the chief up the mountain, although the mountain road is difficult and dangerous, but there is no complaint.

In fact, the hundreds of people in the engineer battalion mainly played the role of coolies in the matter of the fight, and the real role was played by Chen Blind's subordinates. Each of the 100 thieves carried a large bamboo basket, which contained the unique secret weapon of the Jieling group of thieves -- a centipede hanging ladder. This thing is a kind of bamboo ladder that is combined according to the knots, when the group of thieves in the mountains is reversed, all the people who go up the mountain and down the stream, encounter difficulties and obstacles, can not leave this instrument.

The centipede hangs on the ladder and disassembles it, it is a bamboo tube with the thickness of a small arm, and the materials are the most resilient bamboo, which has been soaked dozens of times in the oil pot, and it will not break if it is bent into the shape of a full bow. At both ends of each section of the bamboo tube, there are buckles on both sides, and there are two round holes of the thickness of the bamboo body in the barrel body, one of them is longitudinally connected when used, it is a long bamboo pole, and then the two sides are inserted horizontally into the bamboo tube for people to step on, and the top is equipped with the claws of the hanging mountain, and it looks like a bamboo centipede from a distance.

When the cliff is difficult to climb, one person can quickly climb the dangerous cliff by using two centipedes to hang the ladder and hook it in the gap of the turquoise. And the name is "hanging mountain", also the well can only be used to climb the mountain, "mountain" and "bucket" are the synonym of the ancient tomb, the mountain refers to the mountain mausoleum, because the robbery hole or the robbery hole destroyed by explosives is narrow, it is difficult for the tomb robber to carry large equipment into the mountain, the centipede hanging ladder that can be disassembled and assembled, carried by the people, you can enter and enter freely, not limited by the terrain. Some ancient tombs are iron rope hanging coffins, in order to prevent water seepage in the underground palace, the coffins are hung high in the tomb with iron rings, supplemented by bamboo ladders, and a lot of effort is saved in the process of inverting the bucket. The prototype of this centipede hanging mountain ladder evolved from the tools used by the Red Mei Army in the Han Dynasty to attack the city, and it has been repeatedly modified and improved by dozens of generations of tempering and refining to become the style it is today.

Blind Chen led the crowd to the top of the mountain, and saw that there was still a colorful mist rising in the rift valley, but it was already much weaker by noon. The poisonous pythons and poisonous insects in the mountains are all yin-loving by nature, and they must be dormant at this time, and they can act, so they will make a move and order the porter to pour bags of lime into the deep stream. When the lime bag fell into the valley bottom, it burst open, and the lime contained in it splashed and boiled, and no matter what vicious poison it had, it could not bear this violent choke, and even if it was lucky enough not to die, it would have escaped far away.

However, in the hurry of the engineer battalion, only more than 200 bags of lime were prepared, and when they were thrown down, they were blown away by the mountain wind, and the rest wanted to cover the bottom of the valley was really a drop in the bucket, and it seemed far from enough.

Everyone saw that there was not enough lime on the top of the mountain, and they were so anxious that they stomped their feet again and again, but they should have succeeded this time, and this lime sprinkled down, it still played a great effect, and the poisonous mirage in the depths gradually disappeared, leaving only the empty white clouds. Blind Chen planned to send three or two skilled people to explore first, so he asked everyone: "Which one is willing to go?" ”

Two sturdy men immediately came out of the group of thieves, one was a monkey and the other was kicking in the ground, both of whom were good at climbing mountains and drilling forests. The two of them were interested in finding an opportunity to show their skills in front of the thieves, and at this moment they expressed their willingness to go down to find out. Blind Chen praised him for his courage and ordered the two of them to go down the stream.

The two men leaned over to receive the order, took a piece of five poison medicine cakes in their mouths, held the pigeon cage for testing the poison, pinned the box cannon and waist knife to their waists, covered their mouths and noses with black veils, and dragged two centipedes to hang on the ladder. I saw them pierce through the clouds and fog, and disappeared in an instant. The rest of the people looked down on the edge of the cliff on the top of the mountain, and sweated for them, and whether they were dead or alive depended on the creation of these two people.

Chen Blind was calm on the surface, but now the auspicious and evil were unpredictable, and he was secretly uneasy in his heart. Luo Lao Crooked took out his pocket watch impatiently to look at the time, but after waiting for a long time, everyone's necks hurt. They were greeted at a high pitch from above, but the rift was silent, and there was no movement, only an ominous cloud gathering thicker and thicker.