I saw that I finally got out of the cave, and I wanted to cheer, but I heard the fat man say that I had a "human face" on my back, this headless and brainless sentence, like a bucket of biting ice water, splashed down on my head, my heart was half cold, and I hurriedly twisted my neck to look at my back, and then I thought that I couldn't see, so I asked the fat man: "What the hell are you talking nonsense?" What do I have a long face on my back? Where's the length? Whose face? Don't scare me, I've had a nervous breakdown lately. ”

The fat man pulled over the big gold tooth, pointed to my back and said, "What did I scare you for, you let Lao Jin see if what I said was true." ”

The big gold tooth put the smelling jade in his arms on the ground, stayed in the dark cave for a long time, and couldn't see clearly, so he reached out and rubbed his eyes, and stood behind me to look at my back: "Hmm...... Ay? Hu Ye, the two shoulder blades on your back do have the size of a palm, like a birthmark...... It's vague...... Is this a human face? It seems to be more like ...... More like an eye. ”

"What? I have an eye on my back? "My scalp exploded, and when I mentioned my eyes, the first thing that came to mind was the exquisite ancient city under the Xinjiang desert, and the nightmarish memories were comparable to those tragic memories on the battlefield, and they were generally terrible and sad. I bent my arm and touched my back, but I didn't feel anything, and asked the big gold tooth to describe what was on my back, whether it was a "human face" or an "eye".

The big gold tooth said to me: "It's a round dark red light print, you can't see it if you don't look closely, circle by circle, but it looks a bit like the level of the pupil of the eye, maybe what I said is not accurate, it should be said to be like an eyeball, not like an eye, no eyelids and eyelashes." ”

I asked the fat man again: "Chubby, didn't you say it looks like a human face just now?" Why does Jin Ye say that it looks like an eyeball? ”

The fat man said behind me: "Old Hu, just now I was thinking about the human face in the ghost mound, and suddenly I saw such a round mark on your back, so I mistakenly thought it was a face, now look closely, don't say it...... It's a bit like the kind of eyeball we've seen in the Exquisite Ancient City. ”

The more the fat man and the big gold tooth talked about it, the more panicked I became, this is definitely not a birthmark, do I have a birthmark myself, don't I know it myself? What's on your back? The most anxious thing is that there is no mirror, and I can't see my back.

At this time, the big gold tooth suddenly shouted: "Fat man, you also have a birthmark on your back that is the same as Hu Ye, you two quickly see if I have it on my back?" ”

I looked at the big gold tooth and the fat man's back again, and found that there was a round dark red mark on the fat man's left back, which was indeed like a birthmark, vague, and the lines were not clear, the size was the size of an adult's palm, a little like the shape of an eyeball, but I couldn't be sure, the dark red color like blood bruising was particularly eye-catching in the afterglow of the setting sun.

And the back of the big gold tooth is smooth, and there is nothing but the worn place.

Now I and the fat man are all dumbfounded, this is no coincidence, it seems that it was not made when I was with the big gold tooth, ten likely, it has something to do with the experience of going to the ghost cave in Xinjiang, could it be that the survivors of our expedition were cursed by the bottomless ghost cave?

I remember that two days ago, when we arrived in Gulan, we were in distress in the Yellow River, and we were soaking wet, so we went to take a hot bath together when we arrived at the guest house, and at that time, we ...... It seems that no one has found such a strange red mark on their body, which means that it just appeared in the past two days, could it be that they were infected with some kind of virus in this Longling Ancient Tomb? But why doesn't the big gold tooth appear on it? Is the Great Gold Tooth immune to the virus?

The fat man said to me: "Lao Hu, don't think about it, relax your heart, what's the big deal, it doesn't hurt and doesn't itch, when you go back to take a bath, find a person to rub it hard, maybe it's gone." We should be happy that we have a baby this time. Ay...... Where do you see this place? How do I look familiar? ”

As soon as I climbed out of the cave, I was told by the fat man that there was a strange thing on my back, and I was flustered, and I didn't care what the exit of the cave was, but I remembered that the entrance of the cave was very narrow, and it was all collapsed loess. ”

It turned out that the exit we climbed out of the Dragon Ridge was the place where I climbed the ridge to look at the nearby feng shui shape when we first arrived at the Fishbone Temple, and when I came down, I stepped on an earthen shell halfway up the mountain and almost fell into it. When the fat man and the big gold tooth heard the noise, they came and pulled me out of the crust, and the slope of the earth had collapsed into a hole. We used to look inside, thinking that it was a gap in the mountain connected to the underground cave, but now it seems that this place is actually connected with the large cave dedicated to the bronze tripod of the human face, and after going around the cave for a long time, we finally climbed out of the cave that we accidentally stepped on.

Our luggage and other things are placed in the fishbone temple not far in front, and the most important thing is to find clothes to wear, otherwise we will meet the big girl and the little daughter-in-law in this ravine, and we will have to treat the three of us as hooligans.

The sudden appearance of dark red marks on the back cast a shadow on our victory, and I felt very unhappy, and I had to find a doctor to see if I went back, although there was nothing unusual, but this was not an original thing, and I felt particularly awkward when I grew on my body.

It was very windy in the ravine, and we didn't cover our bodies, and we hurried back to the fishbone temple with the original stone of smelling jade. The thing was still intact and hidden behind the altar of the Dragon King, and the three of them each found their clothes and put them on, took out the liquor in the bag and poured a few sips, no matter what, this piece of smelling jade is in hand, and as soon as they return to Beijing, it is not a small amount.

The big gold tooth ate and drank to his heart's content, stroking the original stone of the fragrant jade, and was full of ambition for a while, and couldn't help singing: "I am not a horse and a thief, and I am not a gangster who steals the city...... What is the joker of the king, I can block a million soldiers with a sword......"

Although I also had some joy of making a fortune, when I thought of the red marks behind me, I couldn't pick up the interest, and just drank silently.

Seeing this, the big gold tooth persuaded me and said: "Master Hu, you are also an open-minded person, you don't have to take this matter to heart, go back to the hospital to check and check, really don't take action to cut off this piece of skin, fortunately, it's not very big, it doesn't look deep, there won't be much of a problem, it's best to find a Chinese medicine doctor first, maybe it will be eliminated after taking two doses of medicine." ”

The fat man said to the big gold tooth: "This is not a skin disease between the two of us, what's the use of looking for a doctor, if you find a doctor, it is better to burn it off with a cigarette butt yourself......"

I said to the fat man and the big gold tooth: "Forget it, love whatever, anyway, it's not dead today, drink first, and talk about tomorrow's business tomorrow." ”

The fat man touched me with the wine bottle, tilted his neck, and drank the remaining small half bottle of wine in one go: "We have just made a fortune, but we have to care about this life, and we still hope to enjoy it in the second half of our lives." ”

After eating and drinking, it was already dark, we went back to the village under the snake slope overnight, and spent the night in the village, and returned to Gulan the next day, ready to cross the Yellow River to the north, but were told that it had rained heavily in the upper reaches of the river in the past two days, and the water potential of this section of the Yellow River was too great, and the ferry could only go to the day after tomorrow at the earliest.

As soon as we discussed, if we were looking for a boat at another ferry, it would take a day to get there, so it would be better to stay in Gulan County for two days, take the opportunity to rest and rest, and go around the county, maybe we can pick up some leaks and collect a few bright utensils.

So we stayed in the same guest house as last time, but this time the guest house was almost full, and many people were waiting to cross the river. Gulan is a small place, there are only two or three guest houses and hotels, there is no choice, we had to live in the bunk on the first floor.

Tongpu can sleep eight people, after the three of us went, a total of five people slept, and there were three empty seats, we were not very relieved to put such a valuable thing as Wen Xiangyu on the cabinet, so we had to wrap it in three layers inside and three layers outside, and take turns to watch in the room, and hold it when we go out.

That night, the fat man and the big gold tooth looked at Wen Xiangyu in the room, and I went to take a bath in the bathroom in the backyard of the guest house, and happened to meet the old man Liu who had drunk with us.

I said hello to him, exchanged a few polite words, and asked him if there were any famous Chinese medicine practitioners in Gulan County, and whether he would see skin diseases.

Old man Liu said that there was an old Chinese medicine doctor who had a wonderful aphrodisiac to cure the disease, and he was a great treat for psoriasis, and then asked me with concern if I was sick and uncomfortable.

I was about to take a shower, but I only wore a shirt, so I unbuttoned it twice, and let Old Man Liu look at my back, saying that there was a scaby on the back and I wanted to find a doctor to take a look.

After seeing this, Old Man Liu was taken aback and said to me, "Brother, how did you get this?" I don't think it's like a skin disease, it's a red mark like a bruise, and it's very much like a word, and I've seen this word before. ”

I asked, "What?" Is this a word behind my back? What words can you tell? ”

Old man Liu said: "It was the year 80, when our county built a small school, and when we were laying the foundation, we dug up the bones of some strange animals. At that time, it was looted by the common people, and then the archaeological team came, and through the radio in Guò County, all the bones were collected. The experts of the archaeological team lived in our guest house, and when they recovered it, I saw this word on the bone armor, and more than once. ”

When I heard this, I didn't have the heart to take a bath anymore, so I pulled Lao Liu Tou to the canteen of the guest house, found a quiet corner to sit down, and asked him to tell me in detail.

The marks on my back were dark and light, and the outline and layers were very much like an eyeball, and the shape was like a jade eye that I had shattered in an exquisite ancient city. I've always been worried that this will be some kind of curse, and maybe not only me and the fat man, but also Professor Chen and Shirley Young in the United States will also have this symptom.

At this time, I heard Old Man Liu say that this is not an eyeball, but a word, how can I not be in a hurry, take out a cigarette and light one for Old Man Liu. At this time, the canteen of the guest house had been closed and he was off work, and Old Man Liu happened to be idle, so he told the story of this incident.

In fact, it happened not long ago, less than three years ago, when the experts of the archaeological team lived in this guest house in Gulan County, counting and sorting out the recovered bones. The local leaders also attached great importance to this matter, and closed the guest house, and no one was allowed to enter, except for the staff.

The old man Liu, who works in the canteen of the guest house, is a good person, usually cooks for the members of the archaeological team, and when he has nothing to do, he watches the excitement on the side, and he follows to help when people are working. The experts of the archaeological team all ate the food he cooked, and they all knew him, and knew that this old man was a warm-hearted man, and sometimes for the sake of face, he turned a blind eye to him, as long as he did not steal or make trouble, and let him see if he wanted to see it.

This archaeological work recovered a large number of tortoise shells, as well as some unknown animal bones, each of which was carved with a large number of words and symbols, but most of them were damaged, and the collected ones were incomplete, requiring a lot of labor and time to repair.

However, among the many broken bone armor, there is a huge tortoise shell that is the most complete, this tortoise shell is the size of a table of eight immortals, when the archaeologists cleaned this tortoise shell with a mixture of glacial acetic acid solution, Old Man Liu happened to see it on the side, and the symbol that appeared the most on it was a symbol like an eyeball.

Old man Liu didn't know anything else, but he felt that this symbol was very eye-catching, and he knew that it was an eyeball at a glance, so he asked the archaeological team member who was doing the sorting work if this symbol represented an eyeball, and the archaeological team member told him: "No, this is an ancient text similar to an oracle bone inscription, not an eyeball......

Before he finished speaking, he was stopped by the leader of the working group, a professor surnamed Sun, and the old man Liu clearly remembered that Professor Sun warned the archaeological team member at that time, saying that these were state secrets and must not be disclosed to anyone.

Old man Liu thought to himself, I'm a cooking fireman, what do you care about this state secret? I won't inquire anymore, but the more I think about it, the more curious I become, what kind of state secrets can these things from thousands of years ago not be said to the outside world now? Is it a bluff to blind my old man? However, since people have to abide by the confidentiality regulations, they are not welcome to inquire more, just don't ask.

But since the large tortoiseshell was recovered, our guest house has been running from the water (fire) twice for three days, and everyone has been disturbed.

A few days later, the archaeological team saw that the bone armor was almost collected, and felt that the fire hazard here was relatively large, so they packed up their things and left, packed the bone armor in a large wooden box, and loaded a large truck.

It is said that the military plane crashed on the way, and everything, including the bone armor engraved with words, was burned.

Of the entire fifteen-member archaeological team, only Professor Sun survived, and he didn't catch the plane because he forgot the workbook at the county guest house and hurried back to get his work notes.

When Professor Sun heard the news of the plane crash in Gulan County, he couldn't get up from the ground, but I took a few colleagues to send him to the health center, and I can say that I was half of his life-saver. Later, whenever Professor Sun came to work near Gulan, he would come to see me and have a drink with me, but as soon as I asked him what the words on the bone armor meant, Professor Sun avoided answering, he just persuaded me that those words were all symbols of danger and evil, and it was better not to know them, and it was best not to inquire about them in the future, because they had been destroyed anyway. And then every time he sighed and said, I wish I had never seen those words in my life. It's not that when I saw this red spot on your back today, I remembered those horrible words, and they were exactly the same. It's not some skin disease, how exactly did you do it?

When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask Old Man Liu: "Master Liu, you don't know what this word means?" ”

Old man Liu was amused, pretending to be mysterious and said to me: "Brother, I only know that this is an ancient script, and I really don't know what this word means. But somebody knows. It's better to come early than to come by chance, that Professor Sun happens to live upstairs from you now, and he has to come to Gulan to work for a period of time every year, doesn't this let you catch up. ”

As soon as I grabbed Old Man Liu's hand, I couldn't wait to say, "Master Liu, you are really a living Bodhisattva, you save people to the end and send the Buddha to the West, but you must introduce me to Professor Sun." ”

Old man Liu patted his chest and guaranteed the ticket: "It's no problem to introduce you, but the old boy surnamed Sun has a very strict mouth, whether he is willing to tell you or not, then it depends on how you tell him, this spot on your back is so special, maybe he can sue you." ”

I asked Old Man Liu to wait for me in the cafeteria for a while, and then I went with him to visit Professor Sun, who lived on the second floor of the guest house. I went back to my room and told the big gold tooth and the fat man what had happened.

The fat man stayed in the room to continue to guard the Wenxiang jade rough stone, and I asked the big gold tooth to go with me, he has been in business for many years, and he is far more experienced in words and social activities than me.

After the two of us changed our clothes, we went to the canteen of the guest house to find Old Man Liu, and I said to Old Man Liu: "Master Liu, it's a little inappropriate for us to go empty-handed, but it's not too early at this time, and ......it's not easy to buy some snacks and fruits."

Old man Liu said: "No need, look at my face." But aren't you antiques upside down? Remember, don't do this in front of Professor Sun, he has a bad temper and doesn't like to do what you do. ”

The big gold tooth and I immediately said that we would never mention this matter, so we made up a nonsense and said that we were coming to Gulan on a business trip, because there was a red spot on the back that resembled an oracle bone inscription, and I heard that Professor Sun knew oracle bone inscriptions, so we took the liberty to ask for advice to see if it was a skin disease or something else.

The three of them had already decided, so they were led by Old Man Liu to the second floor and knocked on the door of Professor Sun's room, explaining their intentions, and Professor Sun invited us into the room.

Professor Sun is nearly sixty years old, a thin old man, with dark skin and a bit of a pot on his back, which is probably related to the fact that he has been squatting in the exploration for many years to work. Professor Sun's face was full of wrinkles, his hair was bald, and there was only a circle left on the periphery, and he was reluctant to shave it, so he combed a one-sided spiral. Although he looked old, his eyes were bright, he did not wear glasses, and except for his hairstyle, he was no different from a peasant who worked in the fields all year round.

Compared with Professor Chen whom I know, although they are both professors, they are not the same type, and they are very different. Professor Chen is a typical academic, the kind of Sven professor who sits in the office; And this professor, surnamed Sun, probably belongs to the pragmatism who has been practicing on the front line for a long time.

Professor Sun listened to me tell me what had happened, and then looked at the bruises on my back for a long time, and even called it strange, I asked Professor Sun what was on my back, and whether it was life-threatening.

Professor Sun said: "This is indeed very much like a symbol, among the bone armor unearthed in Gulan two years ago, the most complete and largest tortoise shell is engraved with 112 characters, like an oracle bone inscription, but it is not an oracle bone inscription. This eyeball-like symbol is repeated seven times in those 112 characters. ”

Although I came to visit Professor Sun with Old Man Liu, but I was purely ill and went to the doctor, and I was skeptical of Old Man Liu's words, and at this time, I saw that Professor Sun also said that the shape of this red spot looked like an ancient character, so I hurriedly asked Professor Sun what kind of word this is.

Professor Sun shook his head and said, "The red marks on your skin are just like the unearthed ancient texts, but they have nothing to do with it. When the artifacts crashed two years ago, they were all destroyed. There are many coincidences in this world, and some beans can grow to resemble human heads, but there is no connection between beans and human heads, except for similarities. ”

I have said all kinds of good things with the big gold tooth, and I want to ask what the ancient texts engraved on the tortoise shell are, as long as I know the details, whether they are related or not, I have a number in my own heart.

Professor Sun just refused to say a word, and finally gave us an expulsion order: "Don't pretend to be in front of me, you two have a smell of earth, I have been working at the grassroots level all the year round, and I know what you two do with my eyes closed, there are only three kinds of people with this smell, one is a farmer, and the other two are either tomb robbers or reselling antiques." To be honest, I don't think you are peasants, and I don't have any affection for you now. I don't know where you got this word, disguised as a red spot on your body, and if you want to trick me, I advise you not to dream. I will only say one last two words to you, first, you should not be unreasonable, the information in these ancient characters is a state secret, and no ordinary person has the right to know. Second, a little advice from me to you is not to try to get close to the information in these words, this is a heavenly machine, and the heavenly machine must not be divulged, otherwise anyone who has anything to do with this writing will lead to disaster. ”