Chapter 13: The Cave
At the foot of Python Mountain.
Dog San ran out of breath, looked at the gloomy dense forest in front of him, didn't know where to start, and asked, "Uncle, the mountain is so big, where do we start digging?" ”
Jiang Shoushou smiled: "What's so difficult about this, didn't the Japanese say it, they are stationed on the mountain, as long as we find the traces of the garrison, we will not be far from the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb." ”
Jiang Shoushou and the others acted separately, and after about an hour, they finally had a harvest.
In a col facing south, there is a cave more than one person high, and there are obvious traces of artificial excavation on the outer edge, although it is covered with many branches, but they still found it, but no one notices that the cave is so smooth and regular.
Jiang Rensheng finished cleaning the entrance of the cave, and then observed for a while, except for the whirring wind and a sullen smell, there was no abnormality that made people fearful.
"There's no one here, you can light a torch, San'er, lead the way." Jiang Shoushou motioned for Dog San to be the first to enter the hole.
Gou San's face collapsed into a puddle of paste, and he stood on the spot trembling, looking back at Jiang Shou Shou, and shaking his head.
Jiang Renshou said angrily: "Look at your unproductive appearance, let me in." ”
Gou San was about to get angry when he saw Jiang Shoushou, so he had to bite the bullet, pausing for a few seconds at every step, causing the tall and short man behind him to "giggle" and snicker.
Jiang Shoushou couldn't stand it, pouted, and let a strong man kick the dog San's buttocks, "Oops", the dog San jumped out of several meters, and the hole suddenly opened up.
Everywhere you look, there are murals carved with ladies playing, samurai riding horses, and literati composing poems...... But these people all have more or less horizontal strip scratches on their bodies.
Except for Jiang Shoushou, everyone else is cautiously looking for hidden weapons, lest they encounter any organs, on the way, Jiang Shoushou has warned these juniors that almost all ancient tombs have zài organs, so you must pay attention to the surrounding environment in case of accidents.
From the moment he entered the cave, Jiang Shoushou was attracted by the murals on the stone wall, not admiring it, but doubting whether he had come to the right place. Remembering that the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb was in the Qin Dynasty two thousand years ago, the characters and costumes depicted on the stone wall do not conform to the era of the Qin Dynasty, and the clothes and behaviors of these characters are more like those of the Tang Dynasty. Jiang Shoushou hadn't robbed a tomb for many years, and if it weren't for the legendary thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb, he wouldn't have embarked on this journey at all, and now, the qiē in front of him made him stunned, worried about whether he would fight a wrong battle for which he was not prepared.
The rest of the journey made him even more confirmed his doubts.
The cave is getting longer and longer, as if there is no end at all, counting the time, it has been more than ten minutes, he began to get anxious, the dullness in the cave made him breathless, not only him, the dog three, tall and short, the two strong men are a little overwhelmed, the initial excitement gradually turned into a heavy panting.
"Stop......" Jiang Shoushou didn't want to continue, so he decisively stopped moving forward.
Dog San gasped, sat on the ground and beat his legs, and said, "Uncle, if you don't stop, I'm about to lie down, it's really an old woman's footwrap, stinky and long?" ”
The others echoed one after another, and it could be seen that it was not only Jiang Renshou himself who felt this way, but everyone would feel uncomfortable in this long and dark cave.
Jiang Renshou asked everyone to rest in place for a while, and began to carefully observe the murals. After walking for so long, the frescoes have accompanied them for so much time, and like the passage in the cave, there seems to be no end. Moreover, he found that the more incredible details were that none of the characters or movements were repetitive, and more importantly, the strips resembled an animal, although they were very small, but if you looked closely, you could still find a little clue, that is, a snake.
Jiang Shoushou carefully calculated, from the time he entered the cave to now, according to the amplitude of his pace, he had walked at least one mile. The distance was one of the suspicions, and the other that disturbed him was that the shape of the cave was also very sleek, almost cylindrical, and the crutches were so small that his heart fell to the bottom, and the stench brought the image of a giant snake to his mind.
"Oh no, we're fooled." Jiang Shoushou suddenly shouted, which frightened everyone else.
Dog San couldn't stand the fright, although he heard Jiang Shoushou tell the story of robbing the tomb when he was young, but the first time he robbed the tomb, he was blocked, so he couldn't wait to leave here immediately.
"Uncle, don't scare me, I'm cowardly." Dog San pleaded with Jiang Renshou.
Jiang Shoushou said his thoughts on the spot, which caused panic among the others. In order to corroborate Jiang Ren's words, the tall man deliberately brought out the rumors he heard about Python Mountain.
The tall man is a foreigner, and he usually relies on the carpentry skills of half a bucket of water to do some carpentry work in the village. Once he was drinking with a friend who was also from a foreign country, and he heard that friend talk bitterly about the experience of Python Mountain.
Python Mountain was originally a silent mountain, a few decades ago, there was a catastrophic flood in this area, and the dead people needless to say, the terrible thing is that after the flood, a large number of snakes inexplicably appeared in the nearby mountains. In order to eradicate these snakes, nearby villagers spontaneously united and went up the mountain to hunt them. But only Python Mountain has become the only blind spot, because of the location of Python Mountain and the social situation at that time, human and financial resources can not be taken into account at all, everyone thinks that Python Mountain is too far away from their village, even if there are snakes all over the mountains and wilderness, they can't bother themselves, so no one will take care of it.
Because of that negligence, Python Mountain has become a natural breeding ground, without the natural enemy of humans, snakes recklessly reproduce in Python Mountain, and this inaccessible mountain has also become what people call Python Mountain. Later, a tall friend came here to make a living, passing by Python Mountain, and found that this mountain was quiet, even in broad daylight, it was quiet and abnormal, and compared with the fatigue of the journey, this place was simply a paradise, so he went to the mountain in a ghostly way.
While he was still amazed by the natural scenery in the mountains, he had no idea that some local "friends" would gather at his feet, and these "friends" greeted him and "sizzled...... Sizzle......", when he found that the cracks in the stones, the grass, and the branches were crawling with snakes of various colors and varieties, the pores of his whole body were so wide that he could connect to the water pipe. But the most terrifying scene is yet to come, while he is still thinking about how to get rid of these snakes, a two- or three-story white python is staring at the red eyes the size of a lantern, spitting a harpoon letter waiting for the "food" in front of him to discover himself behind it.
A huge shadow enveloped him, and when he realized that the giant python behind him, his whole body was about to stiffen into stone, and at this critical moment, his luck came, the Japanese fighter plane dropped a cannonball not far away, and the loud noise not only scared away the giant python, but also saved his life.