Chapter 37: The Eye-Shaped Pothole

Old man Cui said that because his grandfather used to be a businessman and used the money he saved to buy a lot of land. Therefore, during the Cultural Revolution, their family was classified as capitalists and landlord bullies, and was brutally criticized. After the Cultural Revolution, although they were rehabilitated, the shadow and trauma in Old Man Cui's heart could not be erased no matter what. He didn't know who to listen to, each dynasty has its own dragon vein. Once discovered, excavated, the dynasty will decline and eventually perish. Old man Cui thinks that this 'new dynasty' also has its own dragon vein, and in order to retaliate, he decided to find and destroy it... Old man Cui first embarked on the road of tomb robbery in order to find the 'dragon vein'...

Compared with the Central Plains, there are relatively few ancient tombs in the Sichuan and Shu regions. Old man Cui and his accomplices generally look for ancient tombs in the Minjiang River and Yangtze River basins, places with a relatively long history and culture, and make a living by selling the antique artifacts stolen and excavated. It was in the process of reselling antiques that Old Man Cui got acquainted with Old Man Yang. Because the two had similar tragic experiences when they were young, coupled with like-minded interests, they became good friends. Regarding Old Man Cui's search for the 'Dragon Vein', Old Man Yang once persuaded him, but Old Man Cui was still obsessed. The so-called 'dragon veins' are mostly hidden in the place where a dynasty arose. Therefore, the old man Cui often wandered around some revolutionary places in those years, such as Erlang Mountain, Jiajin Mountain, Dadu River and other places in western Sichuan, he had been there. As a result, the dragon vein was not found, but some large and small ancient tombs were found. In the tomb of an ancient official around Luding County, Old Man Cui found a booklet wrapped layer by layer...

In that booklet, it is a record of the official's life and various deeds in politics, as well as some experiences after returning to his hometown, among them, there is a record of Erlang Mountain's "Erlang Eye"...

Legend has it that here in western Sichuan was the ultimate place for Nuwa to mend the sky. There have always been many earthquakes and natural disasters, and the people have struggled to make a living. Not long after the official returned home, he experienced an earthquake. Seeing the tragic scene of walls collapsing everywhere and crying children calling for their mothers, the official decided to investigate and see the reasons why there were many earthquakes and natural disasters in this area. Later, in a mountain people's house in Erlang Mountain, the official learned a legend about the Eye of Erlang... It is said that the eye that Jiro God used to shock the yokai would blink every few years, and every time that eye blinked, a youkai would run out and travel around, and when the eye opened again, it would be sucked back. Although the time to come out is very short, those monsters can still make waves, causing natural disasters to occur...

In other words, we modern people will explain the causes of natural disasters such as earthquakes based on science, and scoff at such nonsense legends, believing that the ancients made up myths out of fear of the natural world. However, the people of the time in which the official lived were convinced of this legend, including the official himself... After learning of this legend, the official decided to look in Jiro Mountain to see where Jiro's Eye was located. Since then, he has been wandering in the mountains for many years, and one day a few years later, he was really found...

The specific process of him finding the Eye of Erlang, there is no record in that booklet, probably because he is afraid that future generations will run over according to the record, only a description of the location of the Eye of Erlang is recorded, which is roughly as follows, 'The fog is as thick as cotton, the eye cannot reach far, the ground is not an inch of grass, and there is rubble everywhere...', and there is his terrible encounter in the Eye of Erlang, according to the record in the booklet, he took a total of four followers at that time, walking into the depths of the fog, he sprained his foot because he kicked the stone, so he sat in place and waited, let the few followers go forward, and as a result, The men hadn't gone far before they all stopped, and he didn't know what he was looking at, and he was about to open his mouth to ask, when the men suddenly shouted loudly, shouting 'eyes, eyes'... Then, he watched as a few of them burst into flames and then vanished...

The officer escaped death and left the place. He thinks that the 'eyes' that his entourage shouted before they disappeared are the eyes of Jiro...

"Dead people don't lie." Old man Cui said, "That booklet, just like a diary, was buried with the official after his death, I think, the records in it are all true, big guys..." We can't go any further, or we're all going to die..."

Xiang Feng sneered and said, "Even if the record in that booklet is true, this is where the official went, but whether it is the eye of Erlang or not, that official is also guessing, his entourage burned and disappeared, there may be other reasons, not because of the eye of Erlang." ”

"Ah Feng is right." I said, "Those Ran Min must be hiding here, and the reason why that official's entourage disappeared may be because those Ran Min set up some kind of mechanism to prevent outsiders from breaking in." ”

"So be it." The master glanced at the fog in front of him and said, "Shujun, Old Man Yang, Brother Cui, you three, go back to the mountain crack and wait, and the three of us will go forward and explore." ”

"If Lao Cui is afraid of death, he will wait there by himself, what is his grandmother's Erlang eye, if he really has that eye, if he is looked at by it, it is good, I will ignite the fire in the future." Uncle Yang said.

"I'm not afraid," said Old Man Yang.

"It's not a question of being afraid or not." I said, "If it's really like what I said before, if there is some kind of mechanism set up by those Ran Min, the three of you don't know how to spell, and if you follow us, you will become a burden..."

"That's it..."Uncle Yang raised his brows.

"Xiao Leng is right." Old Man Yang said, "Let's not make trouble." ”

"That's it." Master said, "Leng'er, Ah Feng, let's go." ”

didn't go far, and when they looked back, the figures of Uncle Yang and the three of them were completely covered by the fog and could not be seen.

The mist drifted around us.

"Ah Feng, haven't you heard of the legend of the Eye of Erlang?" I asked.

"Nope." Xiang Feng said, "Erlang's eye, I think there must be none, this place is like a crater." ”

"Oh?" I was stunned, looked around, and then looked at my feet, "Don't say it, it really looks like a crater!" It seems that something did fall into these mountains, but it wasn't some Erlang God's eye that was cut off, but a meteorite? ”

"Whatever it is, there must be something unusual here, so be careful." Master said.

"Hmm..."

Judging from the geographical location, the place in front of you is on the 30th parallel of north latitude. It is said that there are other spaces on this line, such as the Devil's Bermuda Triangle, and the reason why many ships and planes disappear there is said to be that they have entered another dimension. …

I was thinking wildly when all of a sudden, the compass in Master's hand rang out.

The three of them were startled at the same time and stopped. Master looked around calmly and said, "Follow me." ”

Xiang Feng and I followed behind Master and walked about ten steps forward, and Master said, "Look..."

When we looked ahead, we saw a large black pit in front of us. The fog here is not very thick, vaguely distinguishable, this pit is about the size of a house yard, wide in the middle, narrow at both ends, cold and cold, very much like an eye...

"Eyes!" The first sense, made me blurt out.

"Look, there's something around this pit!" Master said.

I looked closely, and in the fog around the pit, there was something like black smoke, as if it was alive, constantly changing shapes, swimming around the pit...

"It's a mountain charm!" whispered to the wind.

"Mountain Charm?" I asked.

"This is the original form of the mountain charm before it was born, and I don't know how many there are here."

"Are you sure?"

"Sure, this must be a mountain ghost!" Xiang Feng said decisively.

I suddenly realized that the legend about Jiro's Eye was not completely groundless... Here, there is really a pit shaped like an eye, and if these 'black smoke' around the pit are mountain charms, then they are the culprits of all kinds of natural disasters, that is, the legendary 'monsters' who are suppressed by the 'eyes of Jiro'...

"Be careful!" Master said.

I came back to my senses and looked closely, and the 'black smoke' stopped moving, and its shape no longer changed. My intuition tells me that these things do have life, and at this moment, they have discovered us...

Suddenly, my eyes were dazzled, and then I saw that the 'black smoke' condensed into a thread and rushed straight towards us...

Master and Xiang Feng took out a token at the same time, one after the other, and hit the black line, which turned a corner, rubbed the first token, and then turned another and brushed the second token. 'Boom' sounded, and the two tokens burned as if they had been poured some kind of violent fuel, and before they could hit the ground, they burned out...

I even have my tongue sticking out when I see it, why is this kind of thing so powerful? … In a daze, the black line had come to a place more than two meters away from us... If you are touched by it, you will definitely die! Frightened, I took out all kinds of magic weapons on my body, including the Lonely Void Rune, and together with Master and Xiang Feng, the Heavenly Maiden scattered flowers, and hit them out...

'Boom...' there was a loud sound, and all the magic weapons were on fire. I fumbled in my pockets again, and it was empty, and there was no magic weapon to fight. All of a sudden, all thoughts in my heart were shattered, and even the Lonely Void Rune was on fire, what else could I do to deal with this ghost? …

I closed my eyes and prepared to die, but at this time, I felt a pat on my chest, and I hurriedly opened my eyes to see a life talisman attached to my chest. And that black line, stopped more than a meter away from us, what's going on? … In confusion, my eyes squinted, and I saw Xiang Feng's right arm held high, holding a black thing in his hand, which was the kind of talisman that Wanjin Mountain had exchanged for us with his life, the Yin and Yang Talisman...

So many magic weapons were sent out, including the Lonely Void Rune, all of them were on fire, and this kind of talisman alone, as soon as it was taken out, it suppressed that ghost thing!

I had just breathed a sigh of relief when suddenly, the thing took a turn, and then it circled around us.

I was covered in cold sweat, and I barely settled down, and said, "With this talisman, this ghost thing doesn't dare to attack us, but it won't let us go, Master, what are we going to do?" ”

"Otherwise, I'll give it this talisman." Xiang Feng said.

"No, if you can't hit and are dodged by it, there will be only one way to die." Master said.

Time passed little by little, and the thing was still circling around us, at such a fast speed, and I was dizzy.

"Let's give it a go." Master said.

"How?" I asked.

"I feel..."Master said, "This eye-shaped pit may be the entrance to the place where those Ran people live, Leng'er, I'll send you over, and Ah Feng and I will find a way to deal with this ghost." ”

"Okay, but—" I looked toward the pit, "so far, Master, how are you going to get me there?" ”

"Take all your clothes off."

"Undressing... Clothes? ”

"Well, it's important to reduce the body to the greatest extent, and also, so as not to have wind and resistance."

"Oh..."

I paid attention to the ghost thing on the periphery, and carefully removed the life talisman and pressed it against my chest. Then, little by little, I took off my clothes, and then I took off my shoes and socks, and I was left with only a pair of underwear.

"Are you ready?" Master asked.

"Hmm."

Master turned sideways and grabbed my waist with both hands, and I looked at the pit again, and my heart was 'plopping'.

"One... Two... Three... Rise! ”

Under the force of force, I flew up like a cloud and flew towards the pit. 'Bang', in a split second, I landed on the edge of the pit with both feet on the ground... Looking down, I can't help but gasp, this pit can't look down to the end, it's black, it's eye-catching, the heart is up, and the legs are soft...

"Leng'er be careful!"

I felt a gust of wind coming at my back, and I didn't have to look to know that something was coming... In this situation, I had no choice but to bite my teeth, close my eyes and jump down...

All of a sudden, I felt like I had fallen to the bottom, my feet seemed to be on the ground, little by little, I opened my eyes and looked at everything in front of me in an incredible way...

I don't know where I came, but in front of me, on the left and on the right, stood two wooden stakes several stories high, each with a thick snake coiled on it, and I don't know what it was made of, it looked like it was alive...

I looked barefoot, looking east and west, and came between the two wooden stakes, and looked up, and the two snakes were opening their bloody mouths, as if they were about to pounce on me, so frightened that I shrank down, and hurriedly moved my steps, and walked over...