Wuxia Coffin Mountain Chapter 10 Coffin Gorge
The "solemn and precipitous" place I have seen in my life is not as good as here, even if there are 100,000 troops hidden in this "coffin gorge", there is absolutely no trace to be found, if the "ancient tomb of the earth immortals" is built in it, outsiders do not know the details and secrets of it, I am afraid that even the gods can not find it.
I said to everyone, if you want to "search the mountains and find the dragon, divide the gold and set the holes" in this place, I am afraid it is difficult to go to the blue sky, or to find a way to find the "Hundred Steps Bird Road" first, now it seems that the few hints left by the head of the Feng regiment have many correspondences, we are now located in the periphery of the "Coffin Gorge", and then we will go in to see the situation and then make plans, and the improvisation is.
When the fat man heard that he was probably going to go up to this "Thousand Thousand Bird Road", he was dizzy when he looked up, and dizzy when he looked down, it was too high and too dangerous, so he immediately retreated, making an excuse that Guanshan Taibao was definitely not in the "Coffin Gorge", or retreating to the Qingxi air-raid shelter to catch the monkey and lead the way, which was the best policy.
I patted the fat man's straw belly and asked him if he had become less courageous lately for pleasure. "Coffin Gorge" this place is indeed "let the heroes of the world, should also be frightened and cold" dangerous place, but if not, "Dixian Village Ancient Tomb" can not be preserved to this day has not been stolen, the tomb owner buried in it is the giant who robbed the tomb in the mountain back then, which contains so many gold, jewelry and jade, it can be said that it is countless, your Commander Wang will not go to receive it, sooner or later it will become someone else's bag.
The fat man was touched by my words, and when he heard the word "gold jewelry jade", he was even more "shining in his eyes and burning in his heart", gritted his teeth and made up his mind for a long time, and said ruthlessly: "Let you see today, I haven't retired yet, fat man, I dare to fight, dare to win, if you don't have the courage to let the wind and waves rush and sit firmly on the Diaoyu Terrace, you are not worthy of this inverted career." ”
Everyone cleaned up and down the body tightly and neatly, and saw that this place was close to the bottom of the gorge, and this desperate bird road only led to the bottom of the gorge, so they had to go down from the almost vertical cliff bird road, and walked along the road, and found that the ancient walls were full of very primitive petroglyphs, which were probably thousands of years old. We looked at several places in succession in the bird path, and we couldn't help but look at each other, and in the ancient remnants of those rock paintings that had been eroded by wind and rain, they all depicted hellish scenes.
The petroglyphs at the ancient cliff cliff, like totem like legend, the style is strange and rare, go down through the road of thousands of birds, only to see the mountains are all over, and I don't know from what age it is left to the present, the situation depicted therein, almost all of them are all kinds of terrible disasters, there are locusts covering the sun, flooding, there are also mountain fires, landslides and subsidence, human beings and beasts cannibalism......
I see it strange, why are so many catastrophes that destroy the world and the earth all greet Qingxi Coffin Gorge? It can really be described as "deep water", but I see this criss-crossing canyon, like an old dragon circling and lurking, the clouds and smoke in the mountains are ethereal, the cliffs and waterfalls are like the Milky Way falling into the sky, and it is mostly a place of "hidden and hidden immortals" in the feng shui shape shì.
Shirley Young said: "The blood of rivers, the proliferation of frogs, the swarms of lice, the plague of wild beasts, the spread of pestilence, the decay of skin, the fire of hail, the fall of locusts, the invasion of darkness, and the tragic death of the firstborn are the ten kinds of natural damnations recorded in the Bible." Although there are differences between Chinese and Western cultures, I think this place is like what the Bible mentions, it was once a lost land forgotten by the gods. ”
Professor Sun disagrees with us, he immediately pointed out: "Don't idealistic believe in any gods and gods, with my experience to speculate, these petroglyphs are older than the Warring States Period, before the pre-Qin construction of the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project, Bashan Shushui disasters were frequent, and there were mountain fires and floods every time, which is not a myth." ”
I wanted to argue with him, but the birdpath became more and more dangerous, and there was no room for distraction to talk, or to pay attention to the petroglyphs on the cliffs, and everyone had to move gradually with their backs to the wall, and the fat man was even more pale, and he did not dare to look down with his eyes closed, and the surroundings were all hazy light smoke and mist, and his body was like being in the clouds, and he could not distinguish between east and west, north and south.
Everyone walked on the chiseled bird road for a long time, and suddenly heard the sound of water rolling and thundering at their feet, and the cold rock wall was full of water droplets, thinking that it was not far from the bottom of the gorge. At this time, Shirley Yang, who was walking in the front, stopped, and the bird path was cut off, and there was no way out, but the height from here to the ground was only about three meters.
Shirley Yang said that he could settle down below, so he put down the "flying tiger claw", and let everyone grasp the stainless steel chain one by one to go down to the bottom of the valley, the bottom of the gorge is a turbulent river, there are many natural bluestone beaches on both sides, just between the dangerous shoals of "chaotic rocks through the air, stormy rapids", there are several twists and turns of the stone plank road can be passed.
The fat man was down-to-earth, and Fang Jue was steady: "Old Hu, where are we here?" The tomb museum of the earth fairy is hidden in this canyon? ”
I looked around, and the top of my head was full of mist, and at the bottom of the gorge was the water vapor splashing and rising, and as far as my eyes could see, it was mostly a mountain full of mist, and I really didn't know where I went, and I didn't know how to answer the fat man's question.
But I heard Shirley Yang say: "Look at the ...... behind" We hurriedly turned our heads to look, it turned out that the bottom of the cliff behind us was all fallen gravel, and several architectural traces similar to stone beams and stone gates were exposed in the rocks.
Shirley Yang said: "My sister said that this place is the edge of the Coffin Gorge, and the tunnel of this stone gate may be the path from outside the Coffin Gorge, and we are now at the gate of the Coffin Gorge." ”
Sun Jiuye and I both think that this is the case, but the "Coffin Gorge" terrain is steep, I don't know if there are any veins and mines, it seems that the Qingxi air-raid shelter has not been extended in, and the maps found in the town have lost their effect, although they have entered the mountain gate, but in the face of this mysterious deep mountain canyon, I really don't know where to go next.
Everyone discussed a few words on the spot, and then decided to enter the depths of the canyon according to the direction of the stone gate at the mouth of the gorge, and then enter the depths of the canyon to find out, the dry food we carry with us is sufficient, which can fully meet the short-term needs, but the "Coffin Gorge" is isolated from the outside world, and the interior is deep and desolate, I am afraid that we will encounter unexpected dangers, and the equipment is a little thin. I saw that although my sister was very brave and accustomed to crossing mountains and mountains, she lacked experience after all, so I told Shirley Yang to take care of her, not to let her go ahead, and not to fall behind.
The fat man was worried about the "gold jewelry jade" in the ancient tomb museum, so he immediately carried a crossbow in front of him to open the way, and asked Sun Jiuye as he walked: "Ninth master, you will reveal some inside information to us first, is the gold bead pure gold?" What is Baoyu and Baoyu? ”
Professor Sun heard that his words were wrong, and hurriedly said: "You fat man, why do you want to change the hexagram again, you only need Danding, the dragon bone hexagram belongs to me, and the rest is what we discovered together, and the credit must be not small, why did you come up with other ideas?" ”
The fat man said: "You nonsense, now the people are in charge, your pigtails have been caught in our hands, it's not that the fat man can do whatever he wants, how can you bargain?" Don't want that work notebook anymore? ”
Professor Sun said: "Okay, well, I just need the dragon bone hexagram and other things...... You can do whatever you like, but in the future, you must not tell others that my dragon bone hexagram was found in the ancient tomb, I am not coveting this thing, but I can't bear to bury it in the ground forever, so that I can take this opportunity to get ahead......"
The fat man said, "Sun Jiuye, don't be embarrassed, isn't it just a few pieces of tortoise shell?" Do you remember what Mr. Lu Xun said? Isn't it a book to steal a book, Jiu Ye, you drank a belly of ink, and now you go to the tomb to steal the book of heaven, what else is there to be embarrassed about? Just be cheeky, just do it generously, go back and destroy those reactionary academic authorities who look down on people, and let's touch the prestige of Captain Jin for a long time. ”
Although the fat man's words were full of banter, they all cut the pain of today's illness, and when he heard Professor Sun's face blushing and reddening, he was not embarrassed, and muttered to his heart: "Doesn't a reader steal a book a steal...... Mr. Lu Xun said? He seemed to feel depressed, and couldn't help but sigh at the sky, and suddenly pointed to the air and said to us: "Look at it, look at it, there is really a hanging coffin!" ”
We looked up, and sure enough, we saw that there were many coffins hanging on the cliffs on both sides, the distribution was high and low, the position was extremely scattered, the highest point was so small that there was only one black spot, the number was so large that it could not be counted in detail, and it was roughly estimated that there could be tens of thousands, which was simply a rare spectacle.
And the deep Grand Canyon, also since then gradually converged, look up, when the head of the cloud sky is only a line, as if we are infinitely far away from the place where we set foot, if a small stone falls on the height, it is enough to take people's lives if it hits the head, between this kind of deep mountains and steep gorges, everyone has the intention of being afraid.
Although I know that this place is called "Coffin Gorge", I am expected to see the hanging coffin hanging on the wall, but at this moment I see the hanging coffin on the opposite cliff wall is surprisingly more, I can't help but be curious, I stand still and watch for a long time, the fat man wants to talk to me to climb the cliff to see, there are things in the hanging coffin, I said: "The hanging coffin is not a burial, there is no emphasis on the earth, you see these coffins have been exposed to wind and rain for a long time in the high place, most of them are rotten, and the craftsmanship is simple, they are all the wood cut down by the natives who grow in the nearby primeval forest, and directly hollowed out the core, The bones of the deceased are hidden in it, covered with bark coffin plates, there is no valuable "Ming vessel" to accompany the burial, since ancient times, the trend of tomb robbery has prevailed, but few people are willing to steal the hanging coffin, because there is really no oil and water to fish. ”
Professor Sun said: "Not necessarily, the hanging coffin can be divided into three types: cave type, rock crevice type, and pile rock type, and the regular tomb has the same distinction between high and low, this large hanging coffin, belongs to the pile rock type, should be all the poor people's hiding bones............ Do you think it's a little strange...... Why are the hanging coffins concentrated on one side? On the other side, there was not even a single ......" Before he could finish speaking, Shirley Yang suddenly interjected: "Let's take a closer look at the outlines of those hanging coffins...... Like what? ”
At this time, we were walking to the bottom of this cliff with hanging coffins, I don't know what Shirley Yang meant by this, and immediately looked up according to her prompts, just as the clouds in the mountains opened and the fog dispersed, from this angle, only to see a hanging coffin with stars falling on the chessboard in the heights, which suddenly became dense, and the outline of the coffin concentration was vaguely outlined into a tall and majestic giant figure.
The longer you stared, the clearer the blurred outline of the large hanging coffin became, and the shape of the frontal sitting was extremely realistic. With flat shoulders and knees rubbed with both hands, two giant feet stepped on the bottom of the gorge and the water was rushing, but this human-like silhouette, although vivid, had no head, like a tall and mighty headless god, motionless embedded in the cliff, and the five of us were as small as ants on the soles of its feet.
I could see the gods, until I felt that my neck was sore and unbearable, I came back to my senses, and when I saw the surrounding Sun Jiuye and others, they were still looking at the hanging coffins all over the wall with their heads up, and they opened their mouths wide and claimed to be surprised.
These countless hanging coffins are composed of headless figures, and if they are not looked up from the soles of the colossus' feet, no matter from any other angle, they will not appear so realistically, as if the ancients deliberately arranged them in this way, so that everyone who came here looked up and worshipped.
Professor Sun was overjoyed: "The hidden shape in the mystery of the ten thousand coffins is majestic and solemn, just like an ancient king, and the outline of the head is missing, and it also responds to the words that there is no head, and the head of the martyr Feng did not lie to me......
Although I was standing at the foot of this headless god-like silhouette, I also knew that these thousands of mysterious hanging coffins were closely related to the hints left by the head of the Feng regiment, but I did not feel happy, but felt that the mystery of the "Ancient Tomb of Dixian Village" could not be solved lightly.
It is said that before the burial of the earth immortal, some people in the family did not believe in his "subtle mystery" and did not want to enter the ancient tomb to become an immortal, so as the head of the "Guanshan Taibao", the earth immortal Zhenjun left a hint to his descendants, as long as he followed this clue, he could enter the "ancient tomb of the earth immortal village" at any time to get rid of the form of the body, fly up and feather, and become a road with the same life as the sun and the moon.
Head Feng is the one who holds this secret, but how can such a mystery be easily revealed? He wanted to persuade Professor Sun to abscond with him, so he said one of the paragraphs, the content is extremely limited, only the first few sentences, since we entered Qingxi, we have seen the things corresponding to this hint one after another, there are not only "witch salt veins" in the local area, but also "black sheep stone beasts", and now we have seen a large number of hanging coffins arranged like "headless kings".
Although these clues prove from one side that the "Ancient Tomb of Dixian Village" is in Qingxi, things are not as smooth as what you see in front of you, and the most important thing is that there is no connection between the clues such as "Wu Salt Vein, Black Sheep Stone Beast, and Headless King", which makes people at a loss.
As soon as I told everyone about these worries, even Sun Jiuye couldn't be happy: "This old seal ...... I've been playing dumb riddles for more than ten years, and it's still incomprehensible, and since I entered the Coffin Gorge, things seem to have gone incredibly, but now I think about it...... None of the clues found worked. ”
I nodded, "I did make the mistake of blind optimism...... In the past, I always felt that Guanshan Taibao was a landowner, what was it worth? Now it seems that I am afraid that I really have some clever skills in hand. "My mind was a little confused, seeing that the mountains in the canyon in front of me were heavy and watery, and there were no clues to be found, I couldn't help but be a little anxious, but fortunately, there was also Shirley Yang, who understood that he could help with ideas, so I asked her opinion, according to military regulations, staff officers have three specific decisions on the commander, don't waste it.
Shirley Yang looked at the cliff and thought for a while before saying: "All assumptions and inferences must be based on the fact that the hint left by the head of the Feng regiment back then is true, I think the silhouette of the Wu Salt Vein, the Black Sheep Stone Beast, and the Headless King are all real monuments in the Qingxi area, from this point of view, it can be completely ruled out that this hint is an obscure riddle such as anagram and Tibetan poem, most of which are related to an ancient local legend, and the entrance to the ancient tomb of Dixian Village is hidden in this legend." ”
Sun Jiuye said: "What Miss Yang said is reasonable, to the point, but what kind of legend is this?" The figure of the king composed of the hanging coffin on the ancient wall must imply that the first sentence mentions the headless king of the earth, but the headless king is only the totemic remains of the ancients left by the towns, mountains and towns, or did there really have such a king in ancient times? ”
What Shirley Yang and Professor Sun just said, although there is no definite result, has inspired me to exclude the implication that the content mentioned is a riddle, but to think from the perspective of ancient legends, and these seemingly incomprehensible words may contain content that is neither a legend nor a riddle.
I asked from my heart and turned those hints in my mind a few times, "What a king, with no body and no head; If the lady does not come, the mountains will not open; Burn the wood and boil the liver and lungs; digging wells and cutting salt, asking ghosts for money; The bird road is vertical and horizontal, with nine times in one hundred steps; If you want to visit the earth immortals, first look for the black sheep......" I raised my head again and carefully looked at the countless hanging coffins on the cliff, my heart flashed, and I suddenly thought of the most important, but never able to attract attention, this hint of looking for the entrance of the "Earth Immortal Village Tomb", the mystery contained in it must be here.
I secretly scolded myself for being more and more confused, and I always ignored such an important matter, and hurriedly asked everyone: "What is the best thing about Guanshan Taibao?" ”