Deep in the Taklamakan Desert, Mount Zagrama, under the black mountain, there are countless secrets buried, perhaps really the same as the name of the mountain——— "Zagrama" means "mysterious" in the ancient Wei language, and some people interpret it as "sacred mountain", in short, it is difficult for mortals living around Zagrama to perceive the mystery.

In ancient times, there was a nameless tribe known as the "Sages", let's just call it the "Zagrama tribe". The tribesmen migrated from the distant European continent and lived in the Zagrama Mountains for an unknown number of years, until people inadvertently discovered a bottomless ghost cave in the belly of the mountain. The sorcerers of the clan told everyone that in the ancient East, there was a golden jade eye that could see the truth of the ghost cave, so they imitated and built the same jade eyeball to worship the ghost cave, and from that moment on, bad luck befell this tribe.

Since then, the Zagrama tribe has been abandoned by the gods, and the sage who is the leader of the tribe believes that this must be related to the "ghost cave", and once the door of the disaster is opened, it will be difficult to close it again. In order to escape these terrible disasters, he had to abandon his homeland where he had lived for many years and migrated to the far east, gradually integrating into the civilization of the Central Plains.

What is the so-called "calamity"? From the current point of view, it seems that it can be said that it is a kind of radiation, and anyone who approaches the ghost cave will have an eyeball-shaped red patch on his body after a period of time, which cannot be eliminated for life.

People who develop this type of erythema will gradually reduce the amount of iron in their blood after the age of forty. The reason why human blood is red is because the blood contains iron, and if the iron in the blood slowly disappears, the blood will gradually become viscous, the oxygen supply will also decrease, and it will become more and more difficult to breathe, and finally by the time of death, the blood has turned yellow.

This painful process will continue for ten years, and their offspring, although they no longer have red spots on their bodies, will still suffer from iron deficiency and, like their ancestors, die in extreme pain, so they will have to leave their homeland. After migrating to the Central Plains, after several generations of observation, they found a pattern, the farther away from the ghost cave, the later the onset of the disease, but no matter what, this symptom always exists, generation after generation, at the time of death, the pain is unspeakable, no words are enough to describe the pain of blood turning yellow coagulated.

In order to find a solution to this pain, everyone in the tribe tried their best. Many years later, in the Song Dynasty, an important clue was finally found, and a huge bronze tripod was found in the silt of the lower reaches of the Yellow River, which was a product of the middle Shang Dynasty. This tripod has a deep belly and a concave bottom, with four legs under it, mighty and dignified, and cast with exquisite cicada patterns. Ding is an important ritual in ancient times, especially in the Bronze Age, bronze mines are controlled in the hands of the government, the level of bronze smelting technology marks the strength of a country, the emperor cast Ding used to worship the ancestors of heaven and earth, and cast inscriptions on the tripod, reporting some important events to heaven and earth. In addition, the items used to reward the meritorious heroes of the princes and nobles are often represented by bronze, and in order to record the glory of this heavy dà, the person who received the reward will order people to use the bronze received as a raw material to build utensils to commemorate these important events at that time.

The descendants of the Zagrama tribe found such a bronze tripod that recorded the events of the Da Dà, when the Shang monarch Wu Ding was given a gold-stained jade eyeball, which is said to have been found on a collapsed mountain peak, along with a red robe.

Shang King Wu Ding thought that this ancient jade eye was left by the Yellow Emperor after the immortalization, extremely precious, and named it "Yun Chenzhu", so he ordered someone to cast a tripod to commemorate, and the inscription record on the bronze tripod is limited to this, and there is no extra information.

Dust beads, dust beads, red pills, is the three major Chinese pearls that have appeared in the history books many times since ancient times, among which the dust beads are made of mysterious materials similar to jade, according to legend, they are obtained by the Yellow Emperor to sacrifice to the sky, and the legend is that they were later used to accompany the burial of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the tomb was destroyed by the peasant army, and its whereabouts are still unknown; The dust bead, which may be the first radioactive material found in the world, was discovered in Shaanxi, China, and disappeared due to a vicious looting incident at the time of discovery; Chidan is the most legendary, legend has it that the Dan comes from Sanshen Mountain, has the miraculous effect of rebirth, has always been a palace secret, lost in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

Many of the descendants of the Zagrama tribe are good at divination, and they believe that this gold-stained ancient jade eyeball is the eye of the gods, and only by using this ancient jade eyeball to sacrifice to the ghost cave can it offset the disaster caused by the previous sorcerers in the clan who made the jade eye to spy on the secrets of the ghost cave. And this ancient jade, which was once owned by Wu Ding, changed hands several times in the war, and now it is very likely that it has been buried in the ancient cemetery palace of a royal nobleman and has become a burial object, but the scope of divination is limited, and the exact location cannot be known.

At this time, the Zagrama tribe had been sharply reduced from 5,000 people when they migrated to the mainland, and they had already been assimilated by the Han civilization, and even their surnames were also sinicized. In order to get rid of the shackles of the evil disease, they had to scatter to various places to find the dust beads in the ancient tombs, and these people became a branch of the four major tomb robberies at that time.

Since ancient times, professional tomb robbers, according to different means of action, are divided into four factions, hair hills, touch gold, move mountains, unload mountains, descendants of the Zagrama tribe, most of them learn the "moving mountains and dividing the armor", usually disguised as Taoist priests, and call themselves "mountain movers".

"Mountain movers" are very different from "touching gold school captains", it can be seen from the title that "moving mountains" adopts a trumpet-style tomb robbery, which is a means of mainly using external forces to destroy; "Touching gold" pays more attention to technology and experience.

The mountain movers among the descendants of the Zagrama tribe, in the years that followed, did not know how many ancient tombs they found, and the clues were intermittent and continuous......

In this kind of hedge-building search, the dust beads are still missing, with the passage of time, the moving technique is gradually declining, the talent withered, to the Republic of China, the country only left the last young mountain movers, this person is the most famous tomb robber in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, just because of the good ventriloquism, the world is a must, so people give the nickname Partridge Whistle. Over time, all the people forgot what his real name was, and only called him Partridge Whistle. He will be able to do light skills, and he is the best at cracking various mechanisms in the ancient tombs, and his marksmanship is like a god, not only in the inverted fight, but even in the green forest, he has a great reputation.

In accordance with the instructions of his ancestors, Partridge Whistle traced the whereabouts of the dust beads everywhere according to the slightest clue that came and went, and finally landed on a treasure cave in the Western Xia Kingdom. Legend has it that the treasure cave is not far from the abandoned ancient Xixia Heishui City, it was originally a mausoleum built as an important minister of the Western Xia Kingdom, but the Western Xia Kingdom was finally slaughtered by the Mongols, when the prince and minister did not have time to gather, the important treasures in the palace were hidden in it, it is possible that the dust beads are also in it, but the ground does not have any characteristics such as sealing soil, it is extremely difficult to find.

Partridge Whistle, a mountain movers, does not understand feng shui astrology, and it is technically impossible to find a treasure cave. At this time, there were not many people left in his clan, and he could no longer find the dust beads, and this ancient tribal bloodline was likely to be extinct. Seeing the tragic situation of his own people when they were dying, Partridge Whistle had to turn to the captain who was good at Feng Shui Jinding Point.

But at that time, the world was in turmoil, and the four major factions of Faqiu, touching gold, moving mountains, and unloading ridges almost all broke off the incense, and they still knew the content of "moving mountains", so there may be only one person left, and Faqiu and Jieling did not exist long before many dynasties.

At that time, there were not many people who were the captains of the school, and there were no more than ten in the whole country, and in that era, there were more official thieves from the warlords or private thieves who were engaged in tomb robbery activities.

Partridge Whistle did everything possible to find a monk who had become a monk to touch the gold school captain, begging him to teach the secret art of dividing the gold and fixing the acupoint, this monk law on the "dust" under the "dust", the dust elder was also a touch gold school captain, poured a lot of big buckets, in his later years to see through the red dust, become a monk.

Master Lichen advised the Partridge Whistle and said, "There is nothing wrong with the world, everyone is troubled, but I am the most comfortable Buddha, just laughing." Why can't the donor see it, the old monk was a captain who touched the gold, although most of the things obtained were used for the people, but the old man sat and pondered, and it was really difficult to settle down in his heart, so that those precious Ming weapons could see the light of day again, and there would be many more bloody battles in this world. This kind of thing, whether it is used by oneself or sold for good, is not a good thing, in short, this inverted business is too deep......"

In desperation, Partridge Whistle told the truth, and Master Lichen heard the reason, so he moved his good thoughts, and was ready to teach Partridge Whistle the rules and means of touching gold, but according to the rules, Partridge Whistle must first set up a statement of surrender before he can be granted a gold talisman.

Historically, the activities of inverted buckets have been carried out in the dark, and no matter what the motive is, they cannot be exposed, so the rules of conduct are not sloppy, and Master Lichen told Sù Partridge Whistle: "When I was a monk here, I once saw an ancient tomb near here, which has not been turned upside down, and the location is ten miles northwest of the mountain outside the temple, in a barren mountain and wild mountains. There is a half-cut wordless stone tablet there, and there is an ancient tomb of the Southern Song Dynasty under it. The external features are only the half of the stele, under the stele is a tomb, the cemetery is remote, has never been stolen, but the acupuncture points are not well chosen, shaped like a broken sword. According to what I said, go to the tomb tonight to take the tomb owner's set of big clothes as your fate, whether you can get it back in accordance with the lì depends on whether the ancestor will reward you for this craft. ”

Then the dust mage gave Partridge Whistle a set of guys, all of which were supplies for the captain of the gold school, and instructed him to remember all the rules in the gold touching industry. Touching gold is a school that pays the most attention to technology in the inverted bucket, and it has the longest origin, and many of the common lip codes in the industry are mostly spread from the mouth of the captain of the gold school. For example, today's tomb robbers all say that they are craftsmen of inverted buckets, but why tomb robbers are called "inverted buckets", I am afraid that many people can't say. The word was first derived from a vivid description of tomb robbery by Captain Mojin. Chinese tombs, in addition to repairing in the belly of the mountain, most of them have sealed mounds, taking Qinling as an example, the shape of the mound is just like a bucket for measuring rice, in turn buckled on the ground, the underground palace of the Ming vessel is in the bucket, the easiest way to take out the Ming weapon is to turn the bucket over and take it away, so it is called an inverted bucket.

Such allusions, as well as all kinds of taboos, the partridge whistle has never been heard of before, and the mountain movers are not so famous.

In the end, Elder Lichen repeatedly told that the rules of the inverted bucket should be to light a candle in the southeast corner of the tomb, and when the lamp is on, the coffin will be opened and the gold will be touched, and if the lamp is extinguished, it will retreat quickly; In addition, do not take superfluous things, do not destroy the coffin, a tomb can only go in and out of one round, and try to backfill the robbery hole when leaving......

Partridge Whistle found the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty tomb alone that night, at this time it was late, the sky was cloudy, the moon appeared and disappeared in the dark clouds, and the night wind blew the dead branches and leaves in the woods, like a ghost crying wolf.

This time, Partridge Whistle no longer used his own mountain-moving and armor splitting technique, but followed the guidance of the dust mage, and made a robbery hole that went straight to the tomb by touching the golden captain.

At the moment, he prepared ink fountains, corpse ropes, pubic claws, candles, soft corpse incense, black donkey hooves, glutinous rice, etc., ate a red pill to avoid corpse qi, pushed the nose of a German 20-round mirror box gun, inserted it into his waist, and covered his mouth and nose with a damp cloth.

Elder Nachen said that this tomb is chaotic, the wind is against the wind, the shape is like a broken sword, and the momentum is like a shipwreck, and this standard murder cave may cause a corpse change, but the partridge whistle has experienced a hundred battles, and no matter how dangerous the ancient tomb is, it is no longer a problem. The elves and ghosts, zongzi and black and white fierce in those ancient tombs have been killed not a hundred in the past few years, but also eighty.

Partridge Whistle thought to himself: "This is Elder Chen's test of his courage and means, and he must not fall into the name of the three words 'Partridge Whistle' in the inverted bucket line." So he got ready, looked up at the hazy moon in the sky, took a lantern, took a deep breath, and went into the thief's hole.

With his agility, the Partridge Whistle soon entered the main burial chamber, which was small in size and very limited in height, making it extremely oppressive. There were a lot of bright utensils piled up on the ground, and the partridge whistle did not look at those trivial burial things, and after entering, he found the southeast corner of the tomb, lit a candle, turned around and looked at the coffin of the tomb owner, and found that there was no coffin here, only a coffin, which was a copper-horned gold coffin, and the whole coffin was copper. In Partridge Whistle's career of robbing tombs, this kind of coffin is still the first time, and I have only heard of this kind of copper-horned gold coffin specially made to prevent the corpse from being born, probably because there are some signs of corpse transformation before the tomb owner is buried.

However, the partridge whistle is bold, and opens the heavy coffin lid with its probing claws, only to see that there is a woman in the coffin, her face is like life, she is about thirty years old, she is a noblewoman, and her cheeks are slightly bulging, which shows that she has embalming beads in her mouth, her head is full of gold and silver jewelry, and her body is covered with a layer of embroidered quilt. Judging from the upper body, the female corpse was wearing nine sets of funeral clothes, and only the outermost set of her was picked down, and she would explain when she went back. The partridge whistle turned over and jumped into the coffin, took out the rope that bound the corpse, wrapped it around himself twice, tied a knot at the chest, and made a rope loop similar to that used for hanging at the other end, and wrapped it around the neck of the female corpse.

The partridge whistle held its breath and lay in the coffin, face to face with the female corpse, and lit a piece of soft corpse incense in the coffin and placed it on the side of the face of the female corpse in the Southern Song Dynasty. He sat back on the legs of the female corpse in the coffin, adjusted the length of the rope, raised his head and straightened his waist, and because of the traction of the rope around his neck, the female corpse also sat up with him at the same time.

Captain Touching Jin put one end of the rope on his chest, and the other end was made into a rope to tie the neck of the corpse, so that the corpse could stand up, and he could free his hands to take off the clothes on the corpse. Since Captain Touching Jin is riding on a corpse, after the corpse stands up, it is one piece shorter than Captain Touching Jin, so the rope of the corpse is wrapped around the chest, and the other end is wrapped around the neck of the corpse, so that it can be kept horizontal. Later, this technique flowed to the people and thieves, but it was not known, and the rope used was an ordinary rope, and there was no ink on the rope; Moreover, the thieves did not understand the method of tying the corpse rope, and their side was not wrapped around their chests, but also on their necks like the end of the corpse, and many people died in a daze because of improper methods.

The partridge whistle pulled the female corpse up with a rope, and was just about to untie the outermost garment worn by the female corpse, when he suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing behind him, and looked back at the candle flame in the southeast corner of the tomb, which was blown by the wind, and seemed to be extinguished at any time. The partridge whistle was tied to the female corpse at this moment, and when he saw that the candle was about to go out, he secretly said, "Oops." It seems that this set of large clothes will not be able to be obtained, but the female corpse on the opposite side suddenly opened its mouth and a black and purple bead fell out of the closed mouth.

Partridge Whistle looked at the female corpse close at hand, the female corpse's face was slowly growing a layer of extremely fine white fluff, it seemed that as long as the candle in the southeast corner of the tomb was extinguished, the corpse would become a white murderer, but even if the corpse really changed, his own bundle of corpses could restrain it.

However, according to the rules of the Captain of the Golden School, after the candle is extinguished, you can no longer take any of the bright objects in the tomb, Partridge Whistle began to be a mountain movers, twelve years of hardships and dangers, encountered many unimaginable complex scenes, at this time if you stop here, you can retreat with your whole body, but it is not his style to act.

Partridge Whistle's plan is that he can neither let the candle go out, nor give this ancient corpse a chance to transform, and the big clothes worn by the female corpse must also be taken off and brought back to Elder Chen, if not, he will not be able to show his own means.

The partridge sentry glanced at the dark purple beads that fell from the female corpse's mouth, and knew that it was probably a pill mixed with "cinnabar" and "purple jade", which was a kind of "corpse pill" secretly made in Laoshan in order to prevent the deceased from being transformed. Ancient Chinese aristocrats were rarely willing to be cremated, and if there were signs of imminent corpse transformation after death, they would ask the Taoist priest to use pills to suppress them, and still bury them in the ground, but these things were not known to the family of the deceased, and they would never confide in the outside world.

The candle flame in the southeast corner of the burial chamber, blown by the yin wind that appeared out of nowhere, flickered brightly and darkly, and it would be extinguished in the blink of an eye, and the partridge whistled on the female corpse, and with a tie of the corpse rope with her left hand, the female corpse had been smoked by the soft corpse for a long time, and her neck was pulled, and she immediately tilted her head back and opened her mouth.

Partridge Whistle immediately picked up the corpse pill that fell in the coffin with his right hand, stuffed it into the female corpse's mouth, raised his foot to support the female corpse's belly, pulled the corpse rope again, pulled the female corpse's head down, closed her mouth, and the corpse pill remained in her mouth again.

Then Partridge Sentry took out the box gun on his waist with his free right hand, and returned with a shot, "snap", knocking a tile in the burial chamber to the ground. This burial chamber is a brick and wood structure, in order to protect the wooden rafters, when the wooden rafters are built, they are covered with cylindrical tiles, the tiles are hit by bullets, a large piece falls on the ground, just near the candles, by the wind above, the candles only flash a flash, and they are not extinguished, the angle of this gun is just right, the half-cut hollow cylindrical shape of the tiles, like a windproof barrel, just cover the southeast side of the candle, the east side is the entrance to the tomb, so that the air flow blowing in from the outside is blocked, As long as the tile is not blown down, the candle will not be extinguished.

The partridge whistle did not dare to leave his left hand because he had to pull the rope to tie the corpse, and he was afraid that the candle would be extinguished at any time, so he made a dangerous move, and with his otherworldly skills, he shot down the tile to shelter the wind.

As long as the candle is not extinguished, it will not be considered as breaking the rules of touching Captain Jin, even if there is a corpse change, you must do your best to get the clothes on this Southern Song Dynasty female corpse.

At this time, it was not early, and we had to leave before the golden rooster reported dawn. There are a lot of taboo rules for touching the gold, and "the rooster does not touch the gold" is one of them, because no matter what the motive is, what is the way for the heavens, whether it is for the people to get money, or to help the poor, the tomb robber is a tomb robber after all, and the inverted bucket is a business that must not see the light, if the rules are broken, and the tomb is still in the tomb at dawn, then even the ancestor can't bless it.

At this time, although Elder Chenchen passed on the various rules and techniques of the partridge whistle, and gave him a complete set of gold-touching equipment, but did not give him the most important gold-touching talisman, if he did not wear the gold-touching talisman, and to use the means of touching the gold-touching captain to fight backwards, if he could still pour out the Ming weapon from the ancient tomb, he would be eligible to obtain the gold-touching talisman.

It has taken a lot of time to open the robbery hole and enter the tomb, and the later it will change, and the sooner you pour out the clothes, the better. Partridge Whistle estimated that there was not much time left, so he put on a posture of kicking and fighting, sat on the lap of the Southern Song Dynasty female corpse, fixed the Southern Song Dynasty female corpse in the coffin with her feet and the corpse rope on her chest, let her stay sitting, and reached out to untie the clothes covering her outermost layer.

Suddenly Partridge Whistle felt an itch on his neck, as if there was a hairy thing lying on his shoulder, Partridge Whistle was bold, and also felt that the hairs on his body stood on end, and hurriedly maintained a posture of not moving and shaking, and turned his head to see what was on his shoulder.