I thought that what Ansari took out would be the secret order passed down by the deputy capital of Aihui City back then, but I didn't expect that when he opened it, it was a small bamboo tube sealed and the thickness of his thumb.

Ansari poured out another roll of brown paper from the bamboo tube and slowly opened it in front of me.

Lao Pan and a few people were already scratching their ears and cheeks, stretching their necks to see what was going on, but none of them were embarrassed to come over.

Ansari looked very natural, and did not take this secret decree for any reason, until the leather scroll was slowly opened, and I saw that it was not a secret order at all, but a hand-drawn map, and two lines of dense small letters written on it.

The reason why I say this is not a secret order is because the map was drawn entirely with a ballpoint pen, and the crooked writing is also a ballpoint pen.

The map is very detailed, mountains, rivers, swamps, villages, roads, there are detailed markings on it, and even the name of each village is clearly written, I only looked at it twice, and I recognized it, this is the detailed map of the 64 tun in the east of the river where we are located.

In fact, I have seen another simplified version of this map, that is, the one in Lao Pan's hand, but the detailed process of this map is simply amazing. It's just that those two lines of writing are too ugly, as if they were scribbled by preschoolers, and the age of this brown paper is obviously a little old, and the handwriting is already a little blurry, so it is even more illegible.

I glanced at it a few times, and I could barely recognize a few words, such as "double", "water", "escort", "big", these easy-to-recognize words, other words that were not recognizable at all, but there was only one more meaningful word in these words, which immediately caught my attention.

It's a three-word word, and it's very simple to draw to, so even though it's not written like it's good, I still recognize it at a glance, and these three words are, "Immortal Heaven".

Immortality? I know one thing about this, the immortal heaven should be the belief of the northern people in the sky, the supreme god of shamanism.

What is written in this secret order?

I raised my head and looked at Ansari with an inquiring gaze, he took the map with a blank face, but did not explain the contents of the secret order to me, but said to me: "The secret order of that year, after the fall of the Qing government, has been destroyed, this is my grandmother, painted twenty years ago, she is illiterate, it took a long time to draw the instructions in the secret order of that year, as well as the detailed map of Jiangdong 64 Tun, with memory." ”

"Is that what she lived here back then?" I asked, because the map was so detailed, that the person who drew the map must be very familiar with the place to do it, otherwise it would not have been possible to do so with a vague memory of the map.

Ansari nodded: "Yes, my hometown, it is on this land, the last time you first saw me, it was my hometown, and over the years, I have come here almost every year to pay tribute to those fathers and villagers who were killed." ”

"Sacrifice, where will you go? As far as I know, it seems that the victims of that year did not leave graves, but were disposed of on the spot by Tsarist Russia, and many of them were drowned in the Heilongjiang River and floated away along the river. ”

Ah Sheng suddenly said on the side, he seemed to have recovered some of his spirits, and he listened very carefully to our conversation just now, especially these few words showed that he still had some research on this history.

Ansari looked into the distance and said slowly: "That's right, in that catastrophe, there were no graves left, almost all the corpses were disposed of by the Tsarist side, in some records, it is said that they were buried after cremation, but in fact, if you stay in this land for a long time, you will hear that there is a legendary tomb of ten thousand corpses in an unknown place in the depths of the sixty-four tun in this Jiangdong. ”

"Ten Thousand Graves?" I was surprised, and gave a quick glance at Old Pan, who frowned slightly and shook his head at me, obviously, he didn't know this place.

"That's right, Ten Thousand Graves. One of the purposes of my several visits to the Black Water Demon Cave was to find this Ten Thousand Corpse Tomb, because I suspected that the Ten Thousand Corpse Tomb and those who died were probably related in some way. Over the years, my footprints have traveled all over the entire Jiangdong Sixty-four Tun area, but I have never found these 10,000 corpses. So I suspect that the Ten Thousand Corpses Tomb is probably in the Black Water Demon Cave, because that's the only place I haven't entered. ”

He paused for a moment, and then continued: "My so-called memorial is actually very casual, there is no fixed place, I think, those unyielding souls of a hundred years ago will never leave this land, so whenever I go to a village, a river, a mountain, I will pay tribute, because they are likely to be around us." ”

I was inexplicably a little chilled, and Lao Pan suddenly said: "What is going on in Shenlong Village, why did the massacre back then only miss them?" ”

Ansari shook her head and said, "I don't know very well, I just know that it is a hidden village, which I discovered by accident. And on the map of the entire Jiangdong Sixty-four Tun, there is no place at all, I have checked it many times, and their location is completely blank on the map. ”

"A blank slate? That is to say, even the people who lived in this land back then did not know the existence of this place. I asked again.

Ansari thought for a moment, then took out the map, opened it, pointed to a place on it and said to me: "Look, this is where we are now, this is the route you have taken all the way......"

This time, he beckoned Lao Pan to come together, Lao Pan hurriedly came over, we looked at it together, and sure enough, as he said, the place where he fingered, the route and the direction were good, but there was a small blank area, which was not marked with any words and pictures, but it was a few simple drawings that were zigzag, I don't know what the intention was.

"What is this?" Lao Pan frowned and asked, Ansari said: "I didn't know at first, but now I have figured it out, what the old man drew on it should be a dragon." ”

"A dragon, a dragon, a dragon?" I was surprised, since no one knew about the existence of zài here, how could Ansaari's grandmother draw such a dragon?

"It may refer to Shenlong Village, it may refer to the giant python here, of course, it may also refer to other meanings, in short, this is a place full of mysteries."

Ansari put the map away, looked up at the surroundings, and said to me, "It's almost time to rest, how is it, should we go on our way?" ”

I subconsciously glanced at Lao Pan, he also just came over, and in my eyes, I understood what he meant.

"In that case, then this one will trouble you." I took the box out of my bosom and handed it to Ansari with a smile without looking at it.

Since he is honest with each other, then we naturally have to have the sincerity of cooperation, not to mention that for me, the burial jade in this box has never brought me any good things, and I wish I could send it out as soon as possible.

He also took it very naturally, opened the box and took a look, put it in his arms, got up and said, "If everyone is rested, then let's go, the road ahead is not too far." ”

I looked at him as if nothing had happened, and asked curiously: "This piece of burial jade is a hoodoo thing, if you carry it with you, aren't you afraid of causing you trouble?" ”

He said lightly: "The man two years ago told me that this piece of jade is basically harmless to me, so he asked me to wait for you here and keep this piece of jade for you, and he also said that you are the only one in the world who can use this piece of jade." ”

I suddenly felt a bone-chilling chill all over my body, only to feel a tingling on my scalp and behind my ears, I am the only one in the world who can use this piece of jade? Isn't this too bizarre?

"What about this thing...... What exactly does it do? I asked him, holding my heart pounding.

"Well, if you don't even know about it, then I don't know about it. However, you can recall that last night, everyone fell into a deep sleep and a coma, why was it only you who had nothing to do? Also, Ah Li is already very polite to you, and she is not so easy to talk to the people who came the day before. ”

The first sentence of his words shocked my heart, but the latter sentence made me full of doubts.

Did the people who came the day before, and indeed other people, also come to this land?

I remembered the strange things I encountered along the way, and the corpse on the edge of the swamp.

"Let's go, if you don't want to get into more trouble. Also, how are your injuries? ”

He asked Ah Sheng, and Ah Sheng reluctantly smiled: "It's nothing serious, the flesh is injured, and I can still walk." ”

He said it easily, but anyone who was hit by an arrow would not be too happy, and it is estimated that he will only be able to walk at most on the rest of the road.

I saw Lao Pan's brows furrowed, at such a critical time, it is indeed a drag to carry a wounded, and Da Kui next to him hurriedly said: "Haha, no problem, Master Pan, you forgot, our wound medicine is world-class, what is it claimed...... It will scar in one day, you can eat and pull it in two days, and you can clap your hands and laugh in three days......"

Everyone couldn't help laughing, Lao Pan glared at him, ignored his nonsense, and only said: "Okay, Ah Sheng will be taken care of by you, everyone pack up and get ready to go on the road." ”

I also smiled and said to Da Kui: "It seems that if he can't laugh for three days haha, Pan Ye will make you cry and can't find a tune." ”

We laughed and packed our backpacks and prepared to go, and the tension that had always been felt eased a little.

Ansari looked into the distance, but muttered, "Three days, I'm afraid there won't be so much time for him......"