Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Ancient Tomb
Wu Santong replied: "I really don't know, everyone here knows that there are a lot of snakes entrenched here, who has nothing to do and comes back here to ask for trouble." It is said that hundreds of years ago, there was a large tomb in Python Mountain, and this cave was the passage to the tomb, and these snakes were used to defend the tomb, and there may be many snakes inhabited here. But if you listen to it, this is all the talk of the villagers after tea and dinner, and you can't believe it all. ”
Chang Butong suddenly thought of something, and said to Qin Ling: "Daoist Qin, do you remember that many years ago, we were sent on a mission, which was to search for a team of Japanese soldiers who were preparing to dig up the ancient tombs of the Tang Dynasty. ”
Qin Ling pondered. "When you say that, Poor Road also has a little impression, I remember that the search took more than half a month and ran tens of thousands of kilometers, but I never found any clues, could it be here?"
Chang Butong nodded and said: "Well, the old man also heard the internal supernatural people mention that there are few ancient tombs in this area, and since the three links said, maybe there are undiscovered ancient tombs." If you look at the pattern and style of the murals here, there is a good chance that the tomb is true, and it is in this mountain. ”
Qin Ling asked: "But Poor Dao is familiar with history, I haven't heard that there is a mausoleum of the emperor of that period built here nearby, even if there are ordinary imperial relatives, big and small officials, why do the Japanese army spend time guarding here, and why do the superiors have to find it, Poor Dao feels that this matter is not simple, it seems that the superiors are hiding something from us?" ”
Chang Butong was puzzled: "This is not very clear, the old man remembers that the superior gave up the search inexplicably later, and then it was gone." ”
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Chang Butong and Dai Ma were still discussing, and Dai Ma heard the conversation between the two and remembered that when he was set up to trap Jiang Shou, he did find one thing.
Since recovering his memory, Dai Ma always wanted to seek revenge on Jiang Shoushou, but in the barren mountain village, he had many eyes and ears, and it was even more difficult to take revenge. After finally finding out that he had been yearning for many years to try to find the legendary thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb, he thought of a proper way - to introduce Python Mountain. He knew that Jiang Renshou couldn't change his old business, and it was a sure thing to be fooled, so he took this opportunity to lay out and lure him into Python Mountain, and then start again, almost unknowingly. He knew that the python mountain outside the barren mountain village was full of snakes, and the nearby villagers regarded it as a forbidden place and a good place to set traps, so he went to check it out. What surprised him was that there were dozens of unfamiliar faces in the col of Python Mountain, all of whom were not villagers from nearby villages, and they patrolled day and night, very regular, not at all like ordinary people, but like soldiers. He squatted there for a few days, and overheard that these were Japanese soldiers, and one of them could speak Chinese, so he kidnapped him and asked him for the purpose.
This person is Hao Chuan Muradou, and under Dai Ma's combination of soft and hard, Hao Chuan told the truth. It turned out that they were sent by the Japanese military to garrison the Python Mountain Ancient Tomb, but more than a month has passed, and they have not received instructions for the next move, so they have been waiting for news here. But the order did not come, the food and salary did not come, the eating and drinking of these people became a problem, the Python Mountain is inaccessible, except for snakes or snakes, in order to solve the problem of eating, these snakes have become the mouth of the Japanese soldiers. The snake meat has made them restless and unbearable, and they have to hide, they have become savages, and the most unbearable things for them are more than that.
In the process of searching for the snake, they also found a strange cave in the col, which from time to time would come from a loud roar and a foul-smelling fishy wind, and one evening they also saw a white snake head as big as a locomotive sneaking out of the cave, so frightened that they did not dare to touch the snake meat again for several days.
This unexpected gain made Dai Ma think that he could get rid of Jiang Shoushou by borrowing a knife to kill people, so he cooperated with Jiang Shoushou on the condition of releasing Hao Chuan back, and cooperated with Jiang Shou to trap him, even if the giant python could not kill him, the bullets of the Japanese soldiers would not let him go. Unexpectedly, a heavy rain led to a landslide, except for Hao Chuan, who was rescued, the rest of the Japanese soldiers were buried in Python Mountain.
Although there was something unexpected about Daima's plan, it turned out to be as expected. After that, he joined the Stranger, and after liberation, he became one of the nine generals with his leg skills.
The discovery of Python Mountain made Dai Ma unable to figure out one thing, Hao Chuan obviously said that the Japanese military sent them to garrison the Python Mountain Ancient Tomb, and later he was kidnapped by Jiang Shoushou before telling the secret of the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb (Jiang Shoushou only got the map he forged and the news that Hao Chuan came here for this purpose, and did not know the specific location). If the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb is hidden in Python Mountain, of course ordinary people can't find it, and there will be no record, so it is obvious that the Python Mountain Tomb in Hao Chuan's mouth refers to the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb. But another question arises, although the nebula map forged by Dai Ma imitates the style of the original map, this is just a trap to let Jiang Shou fall into the urn, could it be that he accidentally found the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb that many tomb robbers have been pursuing for thousands of years, but he has carefully studied the map of Hao Chuan, and it is not the same at all, what is going on?
There are two possibilities for this reason: first, the location of the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb is marked on Python Mountain, but it is impossible to determine when Hao Chuan's crumpled nebula map was made, maybe it was hundreds of years ago, maybe it was longer, due to the large time span, the location of the original mark has changed; Second, the location of the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb has nothing to do with Python Mountain, Hao Chuan's troops stationed in Python Mountain actually have another purpose, why Hao Chuan's troops did not get timely supplies is unknown, but Hao Chuan deceived everyone from the beginning, and Jiang Shoushou forced Hao Chuan to think that he had picked up a bargain, but he didn't know that Hao Chuan asked Dai Ma to avenge himself before he died.
Both explanations seem to be reasonable, but both are inappropriate, no matter what, every time Dai Ma thinks about this for seven years, he feels a splitting headache, and he thought that Jiang Renren's death could understand what he wanted, but another mystery quietly gathered in his mind. Although he followed the rules after joining the Stranger, his life as a cave walker was far away, but that adventurous heart could not be filled even if there was a rain of bullets, and if there was really an undiscovered tomb in the cave, it would be a real thing to ask for.
As the discussion between Chang Butong and Qin Ling ended, Dai Ma's thoughts returned to reality again.
"There was no result in this discussion, and the time was not early, so we continued to move forward according to the original plan." Chang Butong said hello to everyone and took the lead.
The deeper you go into the cave, the more strange you feel, the murals should be well preserved, but the murals on the left and right sides are very bad, as if they have been rubbed thousands of times, and the scratches make people's scalps numb.