Chapter 6 The Cemetery in the Pit

Stepping into this very mysterious old forest again, my mood is still uneasy, this time stepping into this land, I have a lot of heavily armed search and rescue elites around me, as well as Master and Uncle Luo, who are very excellent in kung fu and knowledge, and they are prepared, and they will avoid danger as much as possible. Even if you encounter a monster attack like a grimace monkey again, the weapon in your hand will be solved lightly, and it can be said that compared to the last experience, the safety factor is not a little bit higher, so you shouldn't worry too much.

However, as soon as our feet set foot on the land, due to negligence, a member of the search and rescue team was killed, and the team lost all the advanced equipment. It can be seen that the concept of "power from the barrel of a gun" should also be combined with the actual situation, and it cannot be justified everywhere, especially in the face of supernatural forces like the gray vortex in the stone room, how can it be a problem that can be solved with a shuttle bullet.

With a heavy and complicated heart, I stepped into the woods in front of me. As soon as the foreigners of the search and rescue team stepped into the woods, they were like a trained army, fanning and marching forward in the woods. Master led the way at the front of the line, while I, the key protected object, was placed in the safest middle of the line. My heart has always been uneasy, and in order to drive away this boredom, I began to consciously and silently calculate in my mind the probability of success of this search and rescue operation. I first estimated if the fat man would be able to find Yue'er before we arrived? And Yue'er, who is in the treacherous underground, what are the chances of survival now? And can we, the search and rescue team, safely go down to the underground palace to find Yue'er's whereabouts and successfully rescue her? I silently estimated in my mind until the end, and as a result, there was only one answer to the whole question, that is, "unknown".

There are too many unimaginable and unpredictable situations in the mysterious old forest, so the future is just an imaginary unknown, and there is no way to estimate it. It is clear that there is only one not-so-good situation, that is, the current situation in all aspects is not very optimistic. Thinking of this, I can only comfort myself in my heart and say: I must firmly believe that Jiren has his own natural appearance, and God will not take away such a good girl as Yue'er.

The search and rescue team walked silently in the forest, the trees in the forest were very dense, although there was no snow in the early spring, but the ground was not soft, it was still cold and very hard. Most of the jungles in the northeast are hardy pine and cypress, which are evergreen trees in all seasons. The pine tree can be regarded as a "treasure tree", the seed is called "pine nut", it is particularly delicious and can also be squeezed for oil, the wood of pine is very suitable for making a fire, igniting the fire, because it contains a lot of oil, which is commonly known as "pine oil", and "amber" is formed by the resin of pine and cypress, dripping. We were in the old woods, where there were elms and willows, and it was early spring, and there were only occasional green shoots compared to the leafy branches of the south.

When the forest is bigger, there are more birds, and from time to time birds spread their wings and fly overhead, and a few sparrows stand on the branches, chirping and singing happily. The sparrow is the most common bird in the Northeast, it has a small body, long wings, a short and thick beak, eats fruit seeds and insects, and especially likes to call, so it can be said to be the noisiest bird. Sparrows are not migratory birds, so in winter, many of them starve to death and freeze to death on the haystacks. When I was young with the fat man, I often climbed the haystack, picked up the frozen sparrows and roasted them back to eat, although there was no meat, but for the green and yellow era, roasted sparrows were a very good food to satisfy hunger.

I remember when I was a child, I played with the fat man and my friends in the village, and I liked to play with sparrows the most. We used wooden sticks on the ground to make a dustpan (a tool made of bamboo strips and wicker, which was used to pick up garbage and chaff). Then sprinkle a few grains of rice under the dustpan, and then pull the rope tied to the wooden stick, hide far away, and when the sparrow flies to eat the rice grains, it quickly pulls the rope, and the wooden stick supporting the dustpan will be torn down, and then the sparrow will be caught by the dustpan. Sometimes we can catch several sparrows at the same time, but this is a game that requires a lot of patience, and we often play on the side because of the long wait, and by the time we come to our senses, the sparrows have swept away the rice grains on the ground. But occasionally there will be lucky things, that is, the sparrow itself is concentrating on pecking at the rice grains on the ground, and accidentally touches the fallen stick, and then is detained in the dustpan, we will all be very happy to point to the buckled sparrow and smile and say, "Hahaha, silly sparrow." ”

Walking in the woods, I smelled the trees, listened to the birds singing, and reminisced about my wonderful childhood. Only living in the countryside of that era can you have so many opportunities to get close to nature, enjoy the fun without spending a dime, and leave that precious memory.

However, when I think of the fat man who has been with me in my good memories, I can't help but feel a burst of worry in my heart, and I can't help but sigh for a long time. Now that I think about it, after the fat man and I wake up every day and open our eyes, the first thing we see is each other, we have almost never been separated for a long time since we were young, and we live carefree every day, and we have never worried about each other's safety at all. This time he was not with me, and I was very worried that his personality would not get along well with others. Fat man, his personality is upright and stubborn, a typical tough guy. However, he is not afraid of death, he is afraid of hunger, and when he is hungry, he loses his temper, and usually only I can suppress the evil fire when he is hungry, and I don't know that the smoke man and their gang can't stand the temper of the fat man.

Stepping on the broken branches and dead grass of the trees on the ground, I walked through the woods one foot deep and one foot shallow, but my heart sighed again and again, worried about this and worried about that, my brain became a pot of porridge, and I felt that the top of my head was about to burn and smoke. And our search and rescue team has been walking through the woods for more than two hours unconsciously, the sun is already in the middle of the day, and the stomach is full of hunger, but I found that the foreigner search and rescue team has no intention of stopping and resting. Only then did I remember that before entering the mountain, the female translator once said that the search and rescue should make full use of the time saved, because the search and rescue work must be carried out uninterruptedly in the morning and evening, so the sleeping time is only two hours, and only two meals are eaten, and the meal time is when you get up early and at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Thinking of this, I could only endure hunger, and continued to walk forward for about an hour and a half, until finally it was time to rest and eat. However, all we had to eat was compressed biscuits and jerky, and we hastily settled a decent meal, then rested for ten minutes before moving on again.

The search and rescue team kept walking north through the woods, and before I knew it, it was already dark, and my legs were already wooden, and I felt as if it was not my own feet. At this time, the leader of the team suddenly shouted "I found", and the people at the back of the team heard it, and immediately ran towards the front excitedly.

I didn't go far, I quickly passed through the woods, came to the outside of the woods, and saw the members of the search and rescue team standing in a row in front of me, I squeezed in front of them, and when I saw the scene in front of me, I was stunned and speechless for a while.

The members of the search and rescue team stood in a row more than a dozen steps outside the woods, and everyone couldn't believe their eyes when they looked at the scene in front of them, and their hearts let out bursts of exclamation, "It's incredible!"

Not far from the woods, there is a deep and vast pit, standing on the edge of the pit, the bottom is not visible under the feet, and the edge is not visible in front of you. Due to the limited light of the moonlight and flashlight, we can only vaguely see that there is a tall mound in the deep pit, and on the outside of the sealed earth, surrounded by two rammed earth walls. Although you can't see the whole picture of the cemetery, you can feel its majesty from a distance.

The members of the foreigner search and rescue team admired the miraculous and great Chinese ancient burial culture in amazement, and when I pushed through the crowd and walked to the master, I saw that his brows were slightly furrowed, his eyes were staring at the cemetery in the deep pit, and he was holding the goatee on his chin with his hand, with a thoughtful expression.

I stood beside Master and waited silently for a long time, and when I saw that he had stopped brushing his beard, I asked, "Master, looking at your expression, do you think there is anything wrong here?" ”

Master pondered for a moment, then asked me, "What do you think is wrong here?" ”

I stared at the cemetery in the deep pit, and I didn't dare to answer with great certainty: "I think that the cemetery in this deep pit deviates from the rules of the layout of the Tang Tombs in some places, and I don't know if my idea is right?" ”

After I finished saying this, I saw the bearded Luo next to the master looking at me with a smile, which made me a little overwhelmed, for fear that I would say the wrong thing and embarrass the master, so I swallowed the thoughts in my stomach, and hesitated and did not continue.

Seeing that I was not going to elaborate, Master smiled and encouraged me, saying, "You can speak boldly and see what you think, there are no outsiders here, and there is no shame in making mistakes." After saying that, Master and Luo Dabeard looked at me quietly, waiting for me to speak.

After listening to Master's words, I said in my heart: Master, my skin is thicker than the city wall, and the last thing I am afraid of is being embarrassed. Since Master asked me to share my thoughts, then I have nothing to scruple about. So, I expressed the doubts in my stomach, "What I saw with the fat man underground before should be a Tangling underground palace. The underground palace of the imperial tomb of the Tang Dynasty is generally built in the area rich in loess in the northeast, and the characteristics of thick soil, strong viscosity, uniform texture and low precipitation are used to dig underground and make a soil cave earth palace. There are usually some exquisite carvings and murals painted in the underground palace, but we have not seen the entire underground palace, so we have not found any murals, and perhaps the painted murals are only painted in the mausoleum tomb that we have not yet discovered. However, we saw the tunnel connected to the underground palace, and there are also patios and niches in the tunnel, which is enough to prove that Lao Linzi does have a large tomb of the Tang Dynasty emperor. Therefore, based on the above inference, although it cannot be 100% certain, it is generally believed that the result of speculation is that the mausoleum here should be the imperial mausoleum of the Tang Dynasty is not wrong. Since it can be determined that it is Tang Ling, then I will talk about my understanding of Tang Ling. ”

As we all know, the imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty, except for a few "soil for tombs", most of them were "based on the mountains for the tombs", using the hills as the tombs of the tombs, and digging mountains to build. Take the mountain peak as the center, build the inner city that the plane is square or rectangular, open a gate on each side, the south is the red bird, the north is the Xuanwu, the east is the green dragon, the west is the white tiger, the stone statue terracotta figurines of various people or animals are placed outside the door, the red bird gate is the main gate, and the entrance is the dedication hall. There is an outer city wall built outside the inner city, divided into one or two inner and outer city walls, the door of the inner city wall is paved to the Suzaku Gate, two or three thousand meters long blue brick "Shinto", on both sides there are rare birds and beasts, the stone statues of Wenchen military generals, the tree has "Shu Shengstele" or "no word tablet", this is the general appearance of the mausoleum on the ground in the Tang Dynasty.

After listening to my statement about Tang Ling, Uncle Luo and the master nodded in agreement, and when they agreed with what I said, I continued: "Although I have not entered the underground mausoleum and do not know the specific structure of the tomb, but the underground palace I have seen underground alone cannot be related to the cemetery presented in the deep pit. Moreover, what is even more strange is that I have never heard of which dynasty and which generation's mausoleum was built in an earthen pit, in addition to feng shui, the geographical environment is also a big problem. Although there is little rain in the north, a small amount of stagnant water will also severely damage and destroy the earthen buildings of the garden. Look at this deep pit again, it is not at all like it was formed because of the collapse, no matter how this huge pit was formed, someone must have deliberately built the cemetery directly in this deep pit, and the cemetery in this deep pit is weird, and it is clearly a trap waiting for the king to enter the urn. "I talked about a lot of theories, and I came to one conclusion, and that is that there is something strange about this big dirt pit.

Master and Luo Dabeard agreed with me very much, and they both frowned and looked solemn, although we knew that the cemetery in the deep pit was not really the Tang Tomb we were looking for. However, we are faced with a huge dilemma, that is, what to do next?

If we choose not to pass through the deep pit at our feet, we will have to return to the forest from the new and make a big circle to reach the Tangling. However, this will undoubtedly waste a lot of time, and traveling in dense and difficult woods is not necessarily a completely safe route to march, so we are now in a dilemma.

This kind of painstaking decision was discussed by Master and Uncle Luo, and after I finished expounding my opinion, I looked into the pit again with nothing to do. Now, the sky is completely dark, and the search and rescue team not far away has set up a strong searchlight on the ground, although there are three lights that are strongly shining into the deep pit, but because the pit is too large and deep, the visual distance is really limited, and the distant mausoleum in the deep pit looks like a low mountain without a soul and lifeless, and its specific appearance can no longer be seen clearly.

Staring at the swarthy cemetery in the distance inside the pit, it was like a sleepy beast, sleeping because of the coming of night. If anyone dared to disturb its dreams, it would wake up with a roar and devour all that disturbed it.

The more I looked at the vague cemetery in the deep pit, the more cautious I felt, and I couldn't help but have a cold war, and said in my heart: Master, the final result of their discussion, don't choose to pass through this extremely weird and terrifying deep pit!