Chapter 129: Feathers
"It's still a while until dawn, want to know what I've been through?" Daima grinned at me, and his smile was stiff and made me curious.
I certainly agree that in this dark underground space, his experience is undoubtedly the best tool to kill time.
Dai Ma told me that it was still the Republic of China at that time, that is, not long after he first joined the Earth Walking Immortals, there was such a day in the middle of the night, a friend on the green forest road, dressed as a warlock in the rivers and lakes, came to see the Reclamation Bone Daoist, and Dai Ma, as the youngest apprentice, was left to serve by the Reclamation Bone Daoist.
During the banquet, Dai Ma inevitably added wine and handed over food, and greeted him, he saw that the Bone Reclamation Daoist and the Jianghu Warlock had a very happy conversation, and after three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, he began to talk about the topic.
Jianghu Warlock turned out to be a loose thief, known as the blind hand, who stole the government and the house, sold opium, guns and ammunition, and did not do less things in the lower nine streams, but he had a hobby, that is, gambling, and loved to gamble on pai gow, when the God of Wealth was around, he could win tens of thousands of Yuan Datou in one night, and when he was unlucky, he could even reach his pants for half a day. Not long ago, all the money was lost by blind hands, seeing that the days to come were gone, he started the idea of making a fortune from the dead, he had done everything, that is, he had not robbed the tomb, I heard that the tomb robbery came quickly, and he could get rich overnight, so he gathered a few friends in the rivers and lakes non-stop, planning to go to the tomb robbery outside the gate, I heard that many tombs outside the gate were not patronized, presumably the treasures inside can make the rest of his life worry-free.
Blind hands are impatient, they do whatever comes to mind, completely reckless of the consequences. After searching for more than half a month, after many inquiries. I learned from a local hunting account that there was an ancient tomb nearby, which was said to be the burial place of a certain king and grandson during the Warring States Period.
The group had no experience, and did not consider whether the news was true, so they followed Orion's instructions to go up the mountain to search for the grave.
Not to say that they were lucky or to go back to the word, it can be said that the blind cat met the dead mouse, but let them find an ancient tomb, thinking that the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, no matter who it is, and they have not mastered the professional tomb robbery skills, they directly clicked on a lead and blew the tomb door open with explosives. But just after opening the tomb door. Strange things happened.
They were a group of eight people, first a thief named Kidnapper, who rushed in without hesitation, and fell to the ground without running two steps. The latter thought he was posturing. After making a few jokes, he will go up and tease him. The result is the same as a crutch, seven horizontal and eight vertical fall into one.
This frightened the rest of the people, who would dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool. Turned into birds and beasts scattered, and took advantage of the night to panic and choose a way. For others, it's nothing more than a windfall, but for the blind hand, it kills him.
In desperation, he had to travel thousands of miles to ask for help from the people of the Bone Reclamation Dao.
Dai Ma could hear that the words of the people of the Bone Reclamation Dao were very interested in this business, and there was an old saying that "success is the best in the best, and wealth is in danger." It can be seen that the Ming artifacts in this ancient tomb must be rare in the world.
There is no cat in the world who is not greedy, and after the people of the Bone Reclamation Dao knocked on the side to ask for the specific location, they did not do anything, and let the blind hand do the ghost under the knife, all as if he had already died in the tomb.
Early the next morning, the Bone Reclamation Daoist gathered several of his apprentices and rushed to the outside of the pass, including Dai Ma.
Dai Ma has never really robbed the tomb, but he can be regarded as a stunned young man, and the people of the Bone Reclamation Dao took him into his hands, mainly because of his leg skills, so he became an outpost.
Daima arrived at the location of the tomb two days earlier than the others.
The location of the tomb is located in a mountain known to the locals as the "Reclining Buddha", and when you look up from a distance, you can see that it is composed of several rolling peaks, which is very interesting, especially in the evening.
Dai Ma had no faith and was not interested in these things, so he only bought some tools for tomb robbery in the local area according to the master's instructions, and opened a shortcut up the mountain in advance.
As the blind man said, after finding the ancient tomb, Daima found the corpses staggering at the entrance of the black hole, as well as the dead branches and broken roots that had been damaged by explosives around it, and the air was faintly filled with a sulfurous acid gas.
Dai Ma trembled and observed the environment around the ancient tomb, the corpse at the entrance was already unrecognizable, it should be the heavy humidity in the mountain, which accelerated the decay of the corpse, and ten steps away, you could smell the smell of rotten eggs like it was scorching in the sun.
The gravel of the tomb gate was scattered all over the ground, and the power of the explosives was obviously hundreds of times better than that of the ancients, and the entrance was blown into a large hole, so the situation inside the tomb door was more clear than before.
Daima had heard what the blind hand had said, and he did not dare to enter, but only spied closely at the clues, wondering what had killed the thieves.
The deep passage of the tomb gradually stretched into darkness, and as the perspective sank, Daima let out an exclamation, and the words on the ground were so dense that they were repeated tirelessly, and if you didn't look closely, it could easily be misinterpreted as a stone pattern.
"People and ghosts do not enter, gods and Buddhas do not live, and those who are near have no place to be buried."
Dema silently recited word by word, each word as if inserted into his lungs, making him timid.
And at the end of each sentence there is a feather motif.
"What is this?" Daema muttered to himself, his legs unconsciously stepping forward, trying to see a little more clearly. As soon as his footsteps fell, he was stopped by a sharp gravel, and when he looked up, a feather pattern appeared on this gravel.
Daima hurriedly took a few steps back, tripped over a broken branch, and fell heavily on the ground where the rubble and dirt fused, and suddenly found that all around him was a pattern of feathers, dirt, stones, leaves, broken roots...... Countless feather patterns, as if the whole world has become a canvas with only feathers.
Dai Ma, who had no experience in tomb robbing, was suddenly at a loss, feeling dizzy, churning gastric juice spit out from his burning throat, but he didn't know that a group of people behind him had already arrived here, and a pair of big hands couldn't help but pick up his neck and throw it back.
"It's still a doll!"
"Hahahaha......"
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"Don't laugh, it's not easy here!"
"Master, do these feather patterns have any meaning?"
"Totem, the totem of a certain Mongolian tribe...... At that time, Temujin unified the various Mongol tribes, one of which was a tribe with thirteen feathers as a totem, but unfortunately, in order not to be annexed by Temujin, all of them were relocated overnight, and their whereabouts have been unknown ever since. ”
"Could it be that this is one of the graves of this Mongolian tribe?"
"Possibly. It's a bit tricky! ”
"Master is thinking too much, I think it's just some senseless people who are trying to kill themselves, and if we are us, we should be at ease."
"Huh...... Listen to them all for me, each of them take the gossip mirror in their hands, and follow me into the tomb ......" (to be continued......